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Producer Joe, how are you today?
I'm doing well, Dan.
I'm doing well.
Thanks.
Yeah, man.
Listen, what the hell happened last night at the Emmy Awards?
What is the deal with these people?
You know, folks, for those of you who missed it, so the Emmy Awards, I don't care so little about Hollywood.
I mean, you have the Oscars, the Tonys.
I guess the Emmys are non-cinema awards, like TV and HBO series or stuff.
I don't know.
I really don't care.
It doesn't matter.
But they had the awards last night.
They were on TV as Stephen Colbert hosted.
I did not watch this at all.
I'm just commenting off what I'm seeing or hot takes on Twitter.
Me either.
Right, who cares?
But the Emmy Awards last night turned into a complete loser fest with Hollywood losers, total degenerates, sitting there ripping on Trump the entire time.
You know, I don't get it.
So in today's show notes, right, I'm going to put two pieces up there.
One from the Washington Times about the Emmys where Cobail just loses his mind the minute he gets up on the stage.
Just destroying Trump.
You get celebrities going.
There's one specifically I want to focus on.
So I'm going to put an article up in the show notes today at Bongino.com and on my email list if you choose to subscribe at Bongino.com I'll send you the articles of the Washington Times about the bash fest that became the Emmys because I'm sure most of you didn't watch it because the viewership is down 50%.
I'm going to put a Times piece and I'm going to put a Newsweek piece, which Newsweek is no, again, bastion of conservative values, Joseph.
And in the Newsweek piece, I want you to read it, even though we're giving him clicks, because it's important.
The Emmys, Joe, since 2013 are down by 50% in viewership.
50 percent.
Now read the Newsweek, it's short, but read the explanations that Newsweek has.
You want the explanation?
Americans who have conservative values don't want their, don't want the crap bashed out of them on TV.
They're not going to watch.
Why is this hard to figure out?
Is this really that complicated?
I mean, guys, ladies, what kind of a business model is this?
Let's, okay, let's play the game for me.
So Trump lost the popular vote, nobody cares, he wasn't running for governor of California, New York, but Trump lost the popular vote, but he got millions upon millions of votes, probably has the support right now of, let's lowball it, just to be nice to Democrats, let's say he has the support of, you know, 40% of registered voters, say 30%.
This still means, Joe, tens of millions of people, a large consumer base, right?
Whose bright idea was it to go on the Emmys and tell Colbert that it was okay to do a three-hour bash fest on Trump?
I'm sorry I had to jump right into this, but I'm just... It's so beyond frustrating because...
It's just a bad business model, and you're just idiots.
So, a couple of things I want to hit on this.
Number one, viewership's down 15% since 2013, so you're winning.
Thank you for not tuning in.
I appreciate that very much.
But I remember being in the Secret Service, and especially during the Clinton years, when you're running around with these people, these celebrities, pseudo-celebrities, and the intelligentsia, and academics, and everything, and the political type, especially on the liberal side.
And I remember the bubble talk.
They're all in a bubble.
And you have to understand, folks, you and I are probably normal, average, everyday, hardworking Americans.
We're sitting here listening to this podcast going, yeah, I don't get it.
These celebrities, can you be this dumb?
But you have to understand that in their bubble, this is the only accepted form of groupthink.
It's not considered dumb at all.
It's considered the standard operating position because, folks, they've never met anyone like you.
They've left that world, they're insulated in a world now completely surrounded by liberal group think Trump is bad, Trump's a racist, Trump's a xenophobe, Trump hates everybody.
That's the only accepted method of thinking over there.
They don't consider this unusual at all.
Another point to this.
Business is suffering, but if you read the Newsweek piece, and this is critical, this is why I wanted to put that in there.
The attribution, the reasons they give for the failure for Hollywood box office receipts down, the Emmy Awards down 50%, this Jennifer Lawrence movie, Mother, Joe.
Remember Jennifer Lawrence a couple weeks ago?
She insinuated that Trump was the cause of these hurricanes and all this.
They didn't say it directly, to be fair, but it was more than enough of an indirect insinuation for Americans to get the hint.
So she's basically bashing Trump right as she's doing promotion for her movie, her new movie, Mother.
The movie's an abysmal failure.
There's a big piece on Drudge about it today.
It's the mother of all failures.
The mother of all failures.
MOA, like the Moab, the mother of all failures.
Again, in some circles we would call that a clue.
I have another article up at the show notes today.
NFL viewership down dramatically.
Down 14%.
This is from CBS News.
This is not from conservative-leaning outlets like Conservative Review and Breitbart.
We don't hide our affiliation.
This is from CBS News saying the NFL is down.
Again, listen to the reasons.
Oh, it's a slower game and too many penalties.
Folks, When you actually ask people, something like 17% of people say they're not watching anymore because they're tired of the anti-American protests.
Again, in some limited circles, we would call that a clue.
But before I move on, one thing I wanted to hit on here because it was so outrageous was there was an actor who, I don't know this guy, some guy, Donny Glover, he gets up on stage last night at the Emmys and said something so outrageous That this guy should be exempted from polite political conversation from this point on.
He gets up on stage and he goes, I want to thank Donald Trump for making black people the most, number one on the most oppressed political class list or something.
You know, just a quick question for you in the audience who are reasonable thinkers, right?
Because this is a reasonable show.
We try to give, you know, we try to use facts and data to make reasonable arguments.
How?
How exactly is Trump oppressing you?
This is a, I'm assuming a guy who makes millions of dollars to play make-believe for a living.
This guy, he's not coal mining, he's not laying sheetrock, he's not a steam fitter, he's not knocking tin out there, he's not a plumber.
This is a guy who gets paid millions of dollars to play make-believe for a living, who is sitting on a stage and senses no irony in this show at all.
He happens to be black, by the way, and he says Trump has made now black people the most oppressed people in the United States or something.
I mean, how ridiculous and absurd.
I mean, and he doesn't see that normal, everyday, average Americans, probably across all the racial divides, are probably looking at this going, hmm, really?
Folks, you know, liberalism has jumped the shark completely.
You know another story I saw this week you might have talked about like depressing this one you read it you're like I tweeted out if liberals finally reach peak stupid and I keep doing this all the time because they keep surpassing their prior peak stupid with with dumber and dumber efforts to create a new victim class did you see this story Joe about the hobby lobby a woman who complained oh my gosh is this thing the most absurd thing All right, before I get, let me just get the sponsor because this is just, this is so bad.
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So this Hobby Lobby story, a woman named Danielle Ryder went into a Hobby Lobby, and inside the Hobby Lobby they were selling Artistic displays using cotton, like cotton on the, you know, picked cotton.
Raw cotton.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Raw cotton, exactly.
So the lady lost her mind and said that this thing was offensive on so many levels.
And folks, you know, again, I don't want to hammer this story too much because I don't want you to lose IQ points, but I want the point I want you to take away from this.
Is that, this is a woman, this Danielle Ryder or whoever, I never met her, but who put this up on Facebook, who if she brought this up in a conversation of normal average working Americans would probably be summarily laughed at.
You know, mockery, as Saul Alinsky pointed out, rules for radicals, is a powerful weapon.
It's not a particularly good weapon, I don't think, it's definitely not a Christian values weapon, and I'll be honest, I'm guilty of it all the time.
It's not, but it is a powerful one, and denying that is a strategic mistake.
Folks, if someone were to bring this up anywhere else, again, you would be laughed at.
She walked in and it looks like a raw cotton in a vase, and she said because there was a history, we have a history of slavery in this country, and there are people who have There were black Americans forced to, by forced labor, pick cotton, which is not a mystery to anyone.
Nobody denies that.
But this is really, I mean, really, I mean, what's next?
Like cotton t-shirts?
I mean, this is where, because you understand that the left, and that this is what they've, when you imbue in people, Joe, a mentality that you are a victim of a larger oppressive effort by a white patriarchal power structure, which is the whole idea of critical theory.
That the white patriarchal power structure has to be destroyed at every opportunity, and you imbue in people an idea that this is real, then they go and look for excuses all the time to find reasons that they're being somehow offended.
And this is the logical end result of it.
It's really kind of scary.
I saw the story.
I'll put it in the show notes.
Read it.
And it's frightening because, folks, I don't see this ending anywhere.
There's no logical endgame to this.
I mean, again, are cotton t-shirts next?
I mean, folks, nobody, no sane person would, you know, would defend the country's, you know, listen, we have, we've made mistakes.
We're a country of human beings.
I get that.
But what's next, Joe?
I mean, if you see farm equipment, I mean, is that going to be offensive?
I mean, when you're looking for a reason to be offended, you will always find one.
Sure.
And this is the logical endpoint of liberalism.
And this is what critical theories imbued in them.
Again, critical theories, this idea that The white male power structure makes the rules, and therefore the rules are always meant to reinforce their power.
And that if you are one of these oppressed groups, that you are to fight back by any means necessary.
It's the genesis of Antifa, it's the genesis of speech suppression on campus.
I mean, really, when the ends justify the means, you can do anything.
And these are the excuses they use to do that.
These things like, well, look at that.
I mean, look at these white patriarchal power structures showing cotton in a hobby lobby.
Ah!
Everybody freak out!
No, everybody don't.
Let's be rational about this and have an honest conversation.
All right, I read a good piece in the Wall Street Journal today.
I really hope you give it a look because it's a good one.
It's called The Coalition of the Descendant.
It's a James Freeman piece.
He does some really good work over there.
And I think we've kind of touched on this before, but the piece is about the strategic miscalculation by the Democrats that has led to just a rout at both the local, state, and now federal level.
They are losing, well, they've already lost the presidency.
They are now beginning to lose the court system through appointments.
They have lost the legislative branch as Republicans took over the House.
They have lost the Senate as Republicans took over the Senate.
They've lost governorships.
They only have 16 Democrat governors out of 50 now.
Or Barack Obama, math 57.
They have 16, that's it.
Only 16.
Now keep in mind, there are even Republican governors in deep blue states like Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts.
The Democrats are in big trouble.
And in this piece, Coalition of the Descendants, he points to two reasons.
And they're fascinating, and I'm going to add to it a little bit, a couple things he didn't discuss.
One of them is, Democrats always felt that demography was destiny, Joe.
What do I mean by that?
They've relied on illegal immigration and a solidification of the minority vote in the belief that what they're losing amongst middle-class working white men and women Remember, this is their identity politics game, Joe, that they're losing that vote.
They think they can make it up through unfettered illegal immigration with basically a boost in Hispanic votes.
So just to simplify what I just said, they think if you're Hispanic, you're their future and the growing number of Hispanics in the United States means that they're going to win forever.
That didn't happen.
Matter of fact, you're losing and you're losing badly.
So they're basically two takeaways.
They're relying on minorities to continue voting Democrat, and an increasing number of minorities.
Make sense, Joe?
Yep.
Not complicated at all.
They think that minority groups are going to vote Democrat, and these groups are increasing in number, therefore we're going to continue to win in the future.
But that's not happening!
What happened?
What happened?
Well, Freeman touches on one part of this, and I'm going to add to it.
And he's right.
Folks, there's a big problem here with that theory.
And I'm living proof of it.
My wife is Hispanic.
So is her mom.
So point number one that minorities are going to continue to vote Democrat in the same numbers they think black Americans are going to, upwards of 90%, is just not right!
Governor Greg Abbott in Texas won a large swath of the Hispanic vote, Joe.
Marco Rubio in Florida.
I don't know if you like or can't stand these guys.
It doesn't matter.
I'm just giving you the facts.
Marco Rubio won a large swath of the Hispanic vote.
Texas Hispanic voters, a lot of them vote Republican in rather large numbers.
I think Governor Greg Abbott in Texas got something like 40% of the Hispanic vote.
Yeah.
In other words, you're not getting the, so point number one is just a dumb one.
If you could do simple, man, we don't even need Jay's abacus for this one or Steve's dictionary.
We don't need them.
This is common sense.
Well, minorities are going to continue to vote Democrat.
Yeah, but they're not, they're not going to.
My wife is Hispanic.
She is a Republican.
My mother-in-law is Hispanic.
She is a Republican.
My kids are more Hispanic than anything.
They are, trust me, going to be Republicans.
Your math is just not right.
So Freeman hits on that point that their over-reliance on this silly theory that minorities were going to continue to vote Democrat in perpetuity is nonsense.
And Joe, this pattern has repeated itself over and over throughout American history.
When the Irish, when the Italians came over to Ellis Island in New York, a lot of them largely voted Democrat.
You're not seeing that anymore.
You're seeing enormous numbers of Irish-Americans that even consider themselves Irish-Americans, not just Americans, that vote Republican.
Especially Catholic ones.
Italians, the same thing.
This is a silly, ridiculous strategy.
Now, let's dismantle point number two.
So point number one was that minorities will continue to vote Democrat when the pattern's just not showing.
Matter of fact, decreasing numbers as we go on.
Donald Trump did better amongst Hispanics than Mitt Romney did.
And black voters too, by the way.
But secondly, Joe, here's the kicker.
If you are going to make skin color a delineation point between victimhood and not, I want to be, this is an important point, I want to be very clear on this.
Joe, if I lose you, please stop me, okay?
You know I will.
If you're a Democrat, and you are going to make one of your signature issues victimhood based strictly on skin color, in other words, you're black, And therefore you are not white, and white people can't stand you, and they're in power, and you should fight them at every opportunity.
So skin color, matter of fact, regardless if you're successful or not.
So if you're Donnie Glover, and you're up on stage at the Emmys, and you're a millionaire actor, and America's clearly been better to you than it's been to just about 99.99999% of the population, you're still a victim because you're black!
Right?
That's what Donnie Glover's point was, Joe.
Defying common sense.
He's up on stage as a multi-millionaire actor telling you he's a victim.
And everybody eats it up!
So if your premise, Donnie Glover, and the left, is that skin color makes you a victim, well what happens with Hispanic voters when Hispanic voters marry people who are, quote, white?
Their kids, Joe, and most, a lot of Hispanic, uh, remember, um, George Zimmerman, the white Hispanic?
Remember that?
The guy, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and they described him as the white Hispanic.
So they're inventing new classes of people.
When you delineate victims versus non-victims and you abuse victimhood to get votes, but then you tell people it's based on skin color, right?
And then that skin color doesn't marry up.
Because my kids have white skin.
They don't have an elevated level of melanin in their skin.
Then over time, that allegiance to minority groups based on your own ideology fades away.
Do you see what I'm saying, Joe?
Skin color degliniates victimhood.
Well, my skin color doesn't match.
You said that black people and Hispanics are victims, but my father's white, my skin's white.
Eventually, they stop identifying as the victim group you want to claim as a victim.
You think I'm making this up?
Read the Freeman piece, I'm begging you, it's in the show notes today.
In the Freeman piece he talks about how, the Wall Street Journal piece by James Freeman, he talks about how this strategy can't possibly work because as Hispanic Americans marry Italian Americans, like in my case, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, eventually the allegiance to the victim group, allegedly victimized Hispanics by Trump, they don't associate themselves with that anymore.
Increasingly generations of kids in in in whatever mixed culture marriages uh what you call identify themselves Joe as white.
So this is not gonna guys I'm not giving the Democrats advice because I get emails like I'm telling you that they can't they cannot separate from identity politics.
Their critical theory has been embedded in them through Hollywood In other words, the white patriarchal power structure is the problem and it needs to be dismantled through Hollywood, academia, and the media.
There is no escaping it.
They are married to this.
They're married to this.
There's no way they can separate from it because their entire ideology falls apart because they have nothing else to sell you.
They have so told people for so long that Republicans hate you.
Conservatives hate you, and here's why.
Because you are X. Black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, whatever it may be.
There's no going back and saying now, okay, they really don't hate you, but let me just offer another solution.
We're going to hike your taxes and take away your health care.
They can't do it.
This is all they have.
This is a losing strategy.
So two points.
Your reliance on the fact that minorities are going to continue to vote Republican doesn't bear out in the data.
And secondly, point two, your reliance on a growing class of minorities insists on the fact that generations of people will continue to classify themselves as minorities and they don't.
You can't win this way.
This is a loser for you.
It is a loser on steroids.
Now, one more point I wanted to make on this.
A couple years back, when I was running for office, I'm sorry I'm a little wired, I always get excited about the Monday shows.
Take the weekend off, I want to like, boom, I want to just, I'm ready to rock and roll on Monday.
Because sometimes my wife tells me when I come back, she's like, man, you were talking so fast.
It's usually when I get excited for these shows.
I was at a speech a couple of years ago, Queen Anne's County, Maryland or something like that, and Grover Norquist came out.
And Norquist, it was an interesting speech.
You know, I disagree with a lot of what Grover says, but his take on taxes is always pretty good.
And he gave a speech and it was fascinating.
It was about this demographics, this destiny strategy, identity politics by the left.
And he brought up an interesting point, and forgive me, I don't remember the exact date, this was three or four years ago, but the point's salient nonetheless, and this is where I want to, this is not in Freeman's piece, it's just an addition I want to bring up.
He said that regardless of your, however you classify yourself, a black American, a Hispanic American, Asian American, white American, regardless of who your parents are.
Like I'm pretty sure my kids would classify themselves right now as white.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, they're more Hispanic than anything, but people classify themselves in all kinds of ways, right?
But he brought up an interesting piece.
He said that as people's, Well, net wealth and stock ownership and ownership in a 401k.
As their net wealth grows, regardless of racial self-classification, Joe, and people decide to classify themselves all kind of ways.
That as your net wealth goes up, you are more likely to vote conservative over time.
His point is a simple one.
That as the economy recovers, this is why you saw overwhelming landslides in the Reagan years, people generally vote their own economic condition and their own financial and economic welfare first, regardless of category.
Meaning you may not get 51% of the black vote if you're a Republican, but if you are a Republican who presides over legitimate Republican policy show, tax cuts, patient-centered health care, Patient-centric health care.
The, you know, smaller government.
Things Reagan... Well, it wasn't so much smaller government, but at least tax cuts.
Things Reagan did, you're gonna get a greater percentage of the black vote than people did before you.
So economic growth, folks, hurts the Democrats too.
So not only is the identity politics a loser on that front, a loser on the front that most people aren't going to identify themselves as minorities, just going to identify themselves Americans or white as they wind up over time, as these, these categories start to dilute themselves.
But you're also going to find if economic growth picks up that the Democrats lose on both fronts.
So I just wanted to bring that up because they've so married themselves to this identity politics thing that there's no escaping folks.
This is all they have.
They have nothing else.
This is it.
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This was fascinating.
Ben Shapiro, I was watching these clips of hot takes of Ben Shapiro's speech at Berkeley last week.
Ben Shapiro is a pretty famous conservative commentator, has a podcast that does very well.
And it was interesting, he went to Berkeley and thankfully, unlike last time where they tried to burn the campus down, Antifa and the liberals, Berkeley spent $600,000 or I think close to a million dollars on security now to protect Shapiro against Antifa.
And it's fascinating, liberals blame Shapiro.
Shapiro cost the university one million dollars.
No he didn't!
Antifa cost the university a million dollars.
Nobody, that's like saying Donald Trump cost the secret service a billion dollars.
No, terrorist threats cost the secret service a billion dollars.
Not the president, you dopes.
So Shapiro gives his speech and there was a Q&A at the end and there's a lot of great, he's a very very skilled debater.
I have uh No problem whatsoever throwing Major League shoutouts to people who have really good debating skills, and Shapiro's very, very good.
There's one on abortion, but that one's gone kind of viral.
I'm going to pass on that one for a minute.
I'm going to go to another one.
A kid gets up, one of these students, and he's a real smartass, which most of them are, and he challenges Ben Shapiro, who's, by the way, a brilliant guy, Harvard Law grad.
I mean, no reasonable person questions Shapiro's intellectual bona fides, right, Joe?
I mean, you may not like his positions, but he's a smart guy.
You may not like his presentation style, that's up to you.
But Shapiro's a brilliant guy.
Questioning his intellectual capabilities is just plain dumb, but that's what liberals do.
So, the liberal kid gets up.
And he said, he asked Superior, he goes, well, you're commenting on all these issues, you know, LGBTQ, A, B, C, D, E, F, G issues.
You're commenting on all these social issues, but do you have a degree in sociology?
And I'm like, oh, now I'm not knocking.
Ben's response was classic.
Like he was like, well, I've read the research.
Like I'm allowed to have an opinion.
But I thought to myself, Wait, I gotta, this was the greatest moment ever, I think, in the history of liberals exposing themselves as really dopey and not picking up on it at all.
So let me get this straight.
You see the premise I'm setting up, right, Joe?
The guy, the commentator, the liberal kid gets up, excuse me, gets up, speaks to Shapiro, he's the conservative commentator, and he asks him, why he feels like he should be commenting on these all these social issues uh gay rights whatever it may be transgender bathroom usage whatever it may be if he doesn't have a phd in sociology because apparently he's not smart enough now no sir i'm not messing with i'm not putting this but do you have any idea where i'm going with this if you're let me give you a hint because i'm gonna see if you can if you're a liberal yeah what is your take on who should control health care joe
People or the government?
Oh, the government, yeah.
Okay.
If you're a liberal, what is your take on who should control cash flows, money, taxes?
The government or individuals?
Oh, the government.
Okay.
If you're a liberal, what is your take on the public education system?
That the education system should be controlled by parents or should be controlled by education bureaucrats?
Bureaucrats.
Okay.
You get where I'm going with this?
Yes, I do.
So let me get this straight.
Liberal student kid.
Hey, we asked Shapiro this question.
I wish Shapiro would have punched him in the gut on this one.
I mean, rhetorically.
We don't recommend violence unlike the left, right?
Guys, you just refuted liberalism!
Your whole premise is that a Harvard Law grad can't comment on anything because he's not smart enough, but yet your political religion is that government should determine your health care, should spend your money, should tell you where your kids go to school, should regulate your business, should regulate the financial industry, should tell you how to use your land, should tell you how to sell your farm, Should tell you how to use your farm.
Should regulate water usage.
Should determine if food is safe.
Should determine if drugs are safe.
Should determine if a doctor's license.
Should determine if a hair braider is licensed.
Should determine if a teacher is licensed.
Are you insane?
This entire line.
I want that.
I don't know if Ben Shapiro listens to my, or if anybody who's associated with Shapiro does, but Ben, I'm begging you to go back on your show.
I will highlight clips from your show on my show, and please address that kid.
I know it's ex post facto, I get it now, but that was a beautiful, he did a great job by the way Shapiro, he really did.
I mean, you know, I had time to think about it, so it's not fair.
You know, he had it on the spot.
But Joe, do you see how this kid's entire question just annihilates liberalism completely?
So a Harvard lawyer whose entire life is studying policy, this is what Ben Shapiro does.
He's not qualified to comment on any issues of transgenderism or homosexuality.
He's not qualified.
But the government is qualified to do absolutely everything and make every decision about you for your life.
I mean, it is just staggering in its stupidity.
You may say, why aren't you playing the cut?
Folks, I hunted endlessly for this thing this morning, and I get up early.
I mean, well, I should say I'm probably insulting the hard-working people of America.
I get up about 6.15.
You're probably like, early?
I get up and the show gets up at like two o'clock in the morning.
But I try to put a solid three plus hours into the show.
And I'm telling you, after 20 or 30 minutes, I couldn't find it.
I mean, I went to Twitter and I don't remember where I saw it.
I will try to dig up this clip after the show and play it tomorrow.
If not, I'll cover it on LaVinna Wednesday.
But it is just a perfect summation of just how silly liberals are.
Again, I mean, I, you know, sometimes I've watched this and I'm like, they don't and they don't even get it.
There's no sense of shame at all.
Okay, a couple more stories here I wanted to hit before we break for the day.
Joe, you have that Bernie cut ready to go?
Yeah, Dan, I have it.
Just quickly, Bernie Sanders again selling this single-payer nonsense.
Here's a cut of Bernie Sanders absolutely, totally lying to you about what single-payer is, and notice!
Before you play the cut, I want you to pay very, it's a very short one, what is it, about 50 seconds?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, it's very short.
I want you to notice something before we play it.
I want you to notice themes that were similar in the Obamacare debate that, don't worry, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
Remember the famous Obama line, pre-Obamacare?
Don't worry, it's not going to change.
In other words, Joe, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
What's the gist of that?
Nothing's going to change, right?
That's how Obama BS'd you during the Obamacare debate.
Keep that in your head as you listen to this cut.
Play the cut.
Gallup does a lot of polling on this issue.
And what they find out is that the most popular health insurance program in this country is Medicare.
People, seniors feel really good.
Veterans administration ranks very high.
In fact, private insurance company is not all that popular.
What we have to tell the average worker, the only thing that is changing in this program, this is not quote unquote a government takeover.
The only thing that's changing is the color of your insurance card from a Blue Cross Blue Shield card, a UnitedHealth card to a Medicare for all card.
You're still going to go to the doctor you want.
It's the same structure.
Dude, you know, Armacost sent me the clip this morning and I wasn't gonna use it and then I listened again and I'm like, this is the Ben Shapiro thing again.
This is a liberal saying something just like the liberal question of Shapiro who doesn't realize he dismantled the entire premise of his argument within the actual question or statement.
Bernie doesn't realize it at all.
He opens up the clip, Joe, right?
Remember, you're on podcast, you can rewind.
Listen again if you think I'm making this up.
By telling you that private insurance, which is not private, it's just free market insurance.
It's not private, it's not like an exclusive club.
Anybody can go buy insurance.
Anyone.
He opens the clip, right, Joe?
Telling you how it doesn't poll well.
Meanwhile, Joe, most Americans have free market insurance, and then he goes on to end his argument by saying, but don't worry, your free market insurance won't change.
At all.
Which is an absolute lie.
It is a government takeover.
It will make private insurance, in some respects, unfeasible.
You will have to be on government-run healthcare.
So let me get this straight.
In your premise, it's that nobody likes free market insurance, but don't worry, your free market insurance won't change.
And he says it with a straight face!
And it's like, You wonder if these interviewers catch this stuff or if the interviewers themselves are so baked into liberal ideology they see nothing wrong with it?
But when Joe sent me that clip like I said the first time I was like ah it's just crazy Bernie being Bernie and then like a light bulb went off and I'm like this is beautiful this is the Shapiro thing all over again.
A guy, a liberal, makes a statement intending to insult conservatism.
What he really does is the entire premise of his statement breaks down liberalism.
You're not smart enough to comment on social issues, but we're smart enough to run your whole life as liberals.
And then it's Bernie.
Hey, free market insurance really sucks, but have no fear.
Have no fear.
Your free market insurance won't change at all, which is an absolute lie.
He is just 100% making that up.
All right.
Good clip, by the way, Joe.
I always appreciate what you say.
Oh, thank you, Daniel.
And one last story and we'll rock and roll here for the day.
By the way, my book comes out tomorrow.
It's available on Amazon now, Protecting the President.
If you want to pick it up.
Thank you to everyone who did.
I really appreciate it.
I'm not going to beat you to death with the book on the show, but it means a lot, put a lot of work into it.
So thank you.
Barack Obama, you know, liberal hypocrisy.
Folks, it gets so easy.
Every day it's just so easy.
Really, this is not a hard job.
I love my job.
It's mentally painful sometimes having to read about liberal hypocrisy all the time.
This is not a hard job at all.
But it is so easy.
Zero Hedge has an email list.
It's pretty good.
And this morning, I was going through the blast.
That's where I pick up a lot of my financial stuff from.
And there's an article about Barack Obama who just took another $400,000 payday, Joe, to give a speech at a Northern Trust Corp, you know, financial industry, and also apparently took a big chunk of change to speak at the Carlyle Group and then has a $60 million book deal with his wife.
Now, folks, I want to be crystal clear on this.
I am not alleging in any way that this is corrupt, not even remotely.
I'm not alleging it's illegal.
I'm not even alleging it's wrong.
The point I want to make to you is that it's hypocritical.
And I really mean this to liberals listening.
I know we get them, because I got a nice email from a guy the other day who said, I was a converted liberal.
He's like, I searched all over for a podcast.
I'm not kidding.
And he's like, I found yours.
And you know who wrote it.
Thank you for writing that.
It meant a lot to me.
All right.
But if you're a liberal listening to this, I'm just really, I'm seriously asking you, try to put aside emotions for a minute.
For me, it's hard.
I get it.
It is hard for me.
So maybe I'm being a little bit hypocritical here, too.
But I'm just asking you to think rationally for a moment.
I'm not saying anything Obama did is wrong, taking these huge paydays for a book or for his speaking.
But here's a quote here that I want you to challenge yourself with, if you would be so kind.
This is a quote from a guy named Tom Nedes, N-I-D-E-S, who was a Deputy Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton in the Obama administration, so he's probably a big lip, talking about these big paydays.
He says, I love Barack Obama, and if someone's willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless America, said Tom.
Now you may say, oh okay, well what's the problem then?
There's a word in there that should really strike you.
Willing.
In other words, this guy, whether he knows it or not, is sanctioning the idea that people should be able to make free market interactions.
Freely!
They should be able to buy insurance at a price they want.
Or they don't want.
They should be able to choose to buy insurance or not because they're willing.
People should be able to pay Barack Obama $400,000.
But do you understand that that's not the premise of your liberal religion?
The premise of your liberal religion is that smart people in the government, just like the liberal kid who questioned Ben Shapiro, should be making these decisions for you whether you're willing or not.
That was the whole purpose of the individual mandate in Obamacare.
That whether you are willing to pay $400,000 to Barack Obama or not, that's too much and that it shouldn't be allowed to happen.
That was the individual mandate.
That if insurance companies were going to charge you this much for insurance, you were going to have to buy it no matter whether you were willing or not.
That's... Do you get my point, Joe?
That this one simple little sentence... I love Barack Obama.
Someone's willing to pay him to give a speech.
Yes!
We agree, Tom!
But it's amazing how you're such a hypocrite.
How you support government policies that don't take into account at all what people are willing to do and use the monopoly force government has to force people under penalty of fine or jail to do things they aren't willing to do.
People aren't willing to turn over more of their money, but you want higher taxes.
People aren't willing to buy inflated healthcare insurance plans, but you penalize them if they don't.
People aren't willing to send their crappy kids to crappy schools, but you don't want school choice.
There is nothing about willing you will unless it personally profits you or your cronies like Barack Obama.
