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IMPEACH OR GO HOME Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep602
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Coming up, I'll show why impeachment is a necessity if the Republican House wants to expose Biden's bribery schemes to the American people.
Debbie's going to join me for our Friday roundup.
We'll discuss the second Trump indictment, a new proposal to choose the president by popular vote, how Gavin Newsom is posing as the white Obama, and why comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is stirring the ire of the left.
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I want to talk about why impeachment of Joe Biden is the only way not to remove Biden from office, because that's going to be really tough to do.
Why? Because impeachment would go to the Senate.
The Democrats have a narrow majority in the Senate and an effective majority.
And so getting rid of Biden that way, you need 60 votes in the Senate.
We're not going to have 60 votes.
So getting rid of Biden, forget it.
That's not really not going to happen.
Now, what you can do is get the knowledge of the corruption of Biden and the whole administration's operating like a mafia to protect Biden and the media going to bat for Biden.
How do you overcome that?
How do you break through the efforts on the part of the police agencies of government to encircle Biden?
Nothing to see here, guys.
The media doesn't want to report on it.
So, The House, which is investigating this matter, now has a problem.
And the House is operating in what I would call traditional Republican psychology.
Traditional Republican psychology is very different from, in fact, it's the opposite of Democratic psychology.
Democratic psychology is indict first, investigate later.
Democratic psychology is, if we don't have a crime, let's make one up.
Democratic psychology is, if there was no precedent for this, that's okay.
Let's create a precedent.
Let's do something unprecedented.
No president has previously been indicted for hanging on to papers that he took from the White House.
That's okay. Let's make Trump the first one to go to jail for that.
No president has been impeached for making a phone call referring to corruption that turns out to be real corruption being conducted by Biden.
No one denies that Burisma was paying Hunter Biden $83,000 a month.
So all that Trump says is, let's look into it.
Oh, let's impeach him for that.
Why? Because the assumption there was that there's no corruption and Trump is basically trying to get a foreign leader to intervene against his rival, namely Joe Biden.
So this is how Democrats operate.
Republicans operate in saying, look, we have this evidence.
Yeah, there obviously was a bribe.
Yeah, the Bidens obviously have enriched themselves through collecting money from foreign entities and foreign governments.
Yeah, that's how their net worth went up to tens of millions of dollars.
But guess what? We haven't been able to cross every T and dot every I. We haven't been able to show that this money went to this bank account and that bank account.
So let's wait. Let's keep digging.
Let's keep investigating.
And once we've completed the investigation, then we will basically ask, what is now to be done?
We'll probably think about, maybe we should do a referral to the DOJ. A referral to the DOJ. Well, what's the point of that?
I'm not saying don't do it, but I'm saying don't do it in the naive hope that Merrick Garland is going to go against his own boss.
No, Merrick Garland is kind of like the consigliere in the Corleone family.
His job is to protect his boss.
And so he's going to ignore it.
He might, if he sets up even a special counsel, he's going to pick somebody that he likes who kind of it's wink wink, listen, you pretend to investigate and so on.
Nothing will come of it.
Biden's term will be over.
Then whatever you find is fine because basically it's not going to matter once Biden is out of the White House anyway.
So the point here is that Republicans need a strategy to circumvent the no coverage policy of the media and to circumvent the ability of the police agencies of government to obstruct their inquiries.
And there's a simple way to do it.
It's called impeachment. Why?
Because if you have an impeachment of Joe Biden, there's going to be impeachment hearings in the House and then there's going to be a massively televised trial in the Senate.
So whatever the outcome of the trial, you can put all the evidence in front of the American people and what?
Is the New York Times going to go, we're not going to cover the impeachment trial?
They have to. We're not going to cover the impeachment proceedings.
They have to. CBS has to cover it.
NPR has to cover it.
Everybody on the left has to cover it.
So this is an automatic guarantee that the information you have, and guess what?
The House, upon voting for an impeachment, will have the right to appoint impeachment managers.
Remember the Trump impeachment? You had Democratic managers making their case.
And they'll be able to do that in the Senate.
And they'll be able to do that with non-stop coverage from the media and with the full attention of the American people.
So this is something I think that is a no-brainer.
And think of it, what's the reason not to do it?
The only reason not to do it is Republicans go, well, we're Republicans.
We don't do things this way.
Well, guess what? Start.
Start doing things this way.
The situation is different than in the past.
This is no longer kind of a gentleman's argument.
We're not two debating societies in this country.
We're basically fighting for not just our reputation, not just our presence on social media, We're good to go.
For them, to take a man in his late 70s and put him away for 20 years would be like a triumph, a great political victory.
So this is who we're dealing with.
And so Republicans, to act as if this is business as usual, not only reflects a kind of astonishing stupidity and naivete, but I think provokes the aggression of the other side.
The aggression of the other side is provoked by the namby-pamby-ness of our side.
So my message here to Republicans is...
Sit down with Kevin McCarthy, tie him up if you have to, but certainly prevail on him to open up impeachment proceedings.
They should have begun yesterday, but I'll take tomorrow if you guys get on it.
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And it's pretty funny because once a week we get on the scales.
This is not something I've done in the past, but we record our weights.
It's our weigh-in, almost like a boxer.
And for the last three weeks...
We've been pretty much the same.
I should be the same because I'm in effect on maintenance.
So my goal now is not to lose more weight.
I mean, I came down from 195, which I admit is a ridiculous amount for someone my height, 5'9".
I should be around 168 and I am...
168, so I'm actually the weight I ought to be, and I'm just trying to hold.
But you're trying to drop a couple...
I don't think you need to. You know, that's just it, is that I think that at my age, I'm 57 and very proud of it, I didn't think I would ever be in the low 100 teens.
Like, I never thought I would get below 114.
And so right now, I'm right at 114.3, trying to get below that.
And so, but it's been a little more difficult.
And it's really funny because Dinesh is really taking full advantage of the maintenance.
And I'm very, I'm still very much...
What she means is that I'm allowed to eat a bunch of stuff that I couldn't eat in the weight loss phase.
And so, you know, we weren't allowed to eat like unlimited avocado or even olives in a salad.
Or tomatoes. Eat more protein than I did before.
Yeah, yeah. And some dessert, not any dessert, but apparently berries are a lot better for you than tropical fruits.
Berries are better than your banana. And certainly chocolates.
Oh my gosh, I used to call you banana man because that's all you wanted to eat is just three bananas a day, maybe four, and that had to stop.
So anyway, so you're looking great and you're feeling great and, you know, same here.
And we're just very happy that we did this.
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Your last segment about the impeach or go home.
Yeah, yeah. You know, so let's kind of go back to that because I feel like, again, Trump was impeached for doing absolutely nothing.
Twice. Twice.
The first time he was impeached, he was looking into this whole Biden thing.
Right. Was he not? And he was right.
And he was correct about it.
Yeah. He was correct. And he got impeached for that.
So I just feel like we just need to stop being wusses.
I mean, you know? We need to toughen up.
Toughen up. And we're toughening it up not because we're naturally aggressive.
You're toughening up with the same defensive toughness where...
If someone were to tell you, listen, there's predators in your neighborhood and they're after your kids, what would you do?
You'd fortify so your kids are protected.
That's what we're talking about. We're talking about us upping the ante to respond to this increasing aggression coming from the other side.
Now, with January 6th, they've been relying, I would say, on show trials in Washington, D.C. I mean, I think that not only these judges, but even these juries need to be ashamed of themselves because they just go in there to convict.
Oh, absolutely. It's not a jury of your peers.
And they do not hesitate to give people sentences of years of their lives.
For what? Getting into the Capitol, non-violent, walking between the ropes, staying there for 10 minutes.
And what? You're in prison for a year before trial, and then you're sentenced to three years after that?
I mean, this is outrageous.
Now, the point that Trump has in his favor with this indictment is, unlike the New York indictment, this is an indictment that apparently goes before a South Florida jury.
In Miami. Yeah, he's got a lot of fans in Miami.
A lot. Not just Cuban and Venezuelan, but, you know, just your regular old blue-collar worker in, you know, cab driver or whatever, love him.
They love him. And so they're going to have a little bit of a hard time finding 12 jurors that think that this is...
It seems to me the only way they can get a conviction is they essentially have an entire jury of people who hate Trump.
So if you can get TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, on the entire jury, you're going to get a conviction no matter what.
But on the other hand, if you have a truly mixed jury, a jury...
I'm not saying everybody has to be a Trump fan, but if you have a mixed jury, I don't think they're going to get a conviction.
Yeah, yeah, and it's just not gonna happen.
And you know, just looking at social media, I was telling you this morning that there are people that are like, I'm done, I'm done with Trump, I just can't, you know, if he cannot keep his personal life or his business out of the public eye and get indicted in here and there and everywhere, I just don't like this circus anymore, I'm out of here.
This is more traditional Republican psychology, which is basically what the Democrats want.
They want us to be dispirited and go, oh man.
And yeah, you know what, this guy's just so much legal trouble.
So they create the legal trouble to get you to think that.
And the point is, again, not to say that we shouldn't carefully consider who our best candidate is.
I think we should. I think we should think about who has the best chance to win the general election.
These are legitimate factors.
But just ask yourself, isn't it the case that, I mean, what did Trump really do that is so wrong here?
And does it justify the kind of attack that's being mounted against him?
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for itself what constituted classified documents. In other words, she wanted a special master independent of the DOJ to review the documents, to separate out the classified from the non-classified ones.
She was eventually overturned on appeal because the DOJ appealed to the appellate court.
But the point is, I think you're dealing with a judge who's going to try to give Trump a fair trial, which is why there are leftists who are saying she should recuse herself.
And there's even some talk about the government trying to move the venue to New Jersey because Trump lives in Bedminster.
But this is the left again.
And the very fact that the left is sort of shopping for a favorable venue here shows you that they know that in a jury of Trump's peers...
It is very unlikely that they'll get a conviction.
And this is like a referee trying to change the rules of the game after it's already been started, right?
It's like, oh wait, those guys are winning.
You know what? You know that touchdown?
Well, it was interference. You can't actually win the game.
So they love to do that.
They love to do that. Which brings me to...
A news article that I found.
Well, this article can be described as seeking a structural remedy to the Trump type of problem.
And I'll just read the headline and you can take it up from there.
Movement to decide presidency by popular vote gains states momentum but also faces challenges.
This is from John Solomon's Just the News.
Yeah, so a compact to change the Electoral College to electing a president by national popular vote is only 65 electoral votes away from taking effect.
And you know that this is all about Trump and about the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016.
And they want this to continue.
They want leftist presidents to So when the left thinks about elections, the way they think about it is they don't think about that there is democracy.
There's an obvious definition of democracy.
The founders set it up this way.
The left thinks about it this way.
How can we alter the rules of the game in advance to give us the best chance of winning at the end?
So think about the way they use COVID-19.
They're like, how about if we change the rules with a lot of early voting and then we pitch for early Democratic votes?
These foolish Republicans are going to want to all vote on Election Day.
We'll let them, but we'll bank a whole bunch of votes before that.
How about if we create these mail-in drop boxes in inner cities to make it easier for our side to vote?
We won't worry about the mail-in drop boxes in rural areas because we don't care if those people vote or not.
So the Democrats are constantly figuring out, how do I manipulate the rules of the game?
And that's what we're talking about here.
America was set up not to have a popular vote for a reason.
What is that reason? It may seem obvious that we have a country, we have 300 million people, we have people who are eligible to vote, why don't we just let them vote and whoever gets the most votes wins?
The reason for it is we have a big country, and it's a pretty diverse country, and it's got a lot of states in it.
And these states joined the union on the condition that, hey, listen, we want to have some representation.
We're Wyoming, we're Nebraska, we're Iowa.
We're not the biggest states in the country, but are you basically saying that people who don't live in our state should have a 100% say in how the country is ruled, and we have no say at all because they outnumber us?
Okay, well, if that's the case, you go your way, we'll go our way.
So the whole idea of drawing these states in with We'll have a certain amount of representation.
And that's why the electoral system was set up to give representation, not just to heavily concentrated population centers.
And so this is what the left is trying to overturn.
And it's not because they have a new understanding of citizenship.
They think that, well, listen, people in Iowa can easily be represented by people in California.
No, their basic idea is who cares about any of that?
Who cares about the underlying reasoning of the system?
Let's just go for a rule...
By which we win the game.
Yeah, so it says supporters say they don't want to abolish the Electoral College, just change how electors are picked.
So by national popular vote, not by whether the Democrat or Republican presidential nominee wins the state's popular vote.
Right, but see, that is a radical change.
It is. Because what happens now is, let's just say if a candidate wins Pennsylvania, then that candidate gets Pennsylvania's electoral votes, right?
And those then are channeled that way.
Whereas if you won the national popular vote, let's say 60 to 40, then 60% of the electors would be Biden electors and 40 would be Trump electors.
Right. It would be an automatic win.
Yeah, so the electors then just become a channel for a new way of counting.
Yes. So, in any event, this is not something we actually want to support.
Yeah, but it's taking off.
Well, you know what it is, honey.
It's the Democratic states that are signing on to it.
It is. It is. But, you know, what really makes me...
What I'm furious is that, you know, they want to do this, right?
And so I say, I mean, let's just say that they get to do this, right?
And every time that we have an election, the popular candidate, which we know who the popular candidate is always going to be, wins.
I think it's time to secede from the union, right?
Well, I mean, you know, I actually don't reject the idea of Republicans being competitive at the popular vote.
Let me give a simple example.
The midterm election. In the midterm election, we won the popular vote.
So it's not like we can't win the popular vote.
A lot of my objections to the popular vote are the massive amounts of cheating that occur in cities like Philadelphia and in states like California.
And social media. You know, the social media push.
Social media repressing.
Yeah, yeah. And push towards that candidate, you know?
Exactly. So, not fair.
Not fair. The debt ceiling crisis has come to a head.
This administration is doing its best to force more government spending.
They've reached a settlement to get this deal done.
But for now, our national debt continues to skyrocket.
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We want to talk a little bit about the issue of Pride Month.
And I'm going to have Debbie start because usually I uncork the kind of joke that causes Debbie to jump up and stop the podcast and basically go censored.
So there's a little bit of censorship that occurs even on the podcast.
I think people should know about this.
And I will stop it right now if you get out of hand, mister.
So, no, so we actually, the other night, we started talking.
I go to something called Pure Bar.
I love it. In fact, Juliana, my daughter, has started teaching Pure Bar, so it's a lot of fun because I get to take her classes.
Well, it's kind of an exercise class.
It's an exercise class, and it's a little bit like yoga and maybe ballet and, I don't know.
Stretching. Stretching, that kind of thing.
So, anyway... But they always take up a cause, right?
And of course, this month, the cause is Pride Month.
And so they're like, wear the color of the rainbow every day.
So where one day you wear orange, the next day you wear red, and so on.
So, yesterday, or a couple days ago, I was at a bar, and I noticed that a lot of the ladies had either rainbow shirts or they were wearing the color of the rainbow.
And I thought to myself, now are these ladies actually gay?
Do they partake in that lifestyle?
And I thought about it.
Or are they aggressive missionaries or advocates of the gay lifestyle?
And we thought to ourselves, no, that's not the case.
So then you have to ask yourself the psychology, why are they doing it?
Why does this lady who's a mom and she's got two kids and she's got a husband and she lives in the suburbs, why would she want to put on a rainbow outfit?
What's the motivation there and what do you think it is?
I think it's that she wants to signal that she is tolerant of everyone and loves everyone.
I don't hate anybody. I don't hate anybody.
I love everyone and I'm going to support that lifestyle.
Okay, so now we have an interesting gap or distinction between this position of tolerance and And I would say the extreme intolerance of the gay movement itself.
Because the gay movement, you know, you made the point, we were chatting the other day, that tolerance goes both ways.
Right. You want to have tolerance for your lifestyle.
But I also want to have tolerance for, if I have moral objections, I don't want to be part of your lifestyle.
I don't want to have to wear your outfits.
I don't want to have to carry around your paraphernalia.
I don't want to be saluting your flag.
But on the other hand, you want to make me.
You, in other words, want to have propaganda on our kids.
You want to ideologize the issue.
You want to have the White House be draped in rainbow symbols.
You want public symbols to be used as a battering ram against those of us who want to opt out.
And you won't let us opt out.
Yeah, I mean, I look, and I've told you this before because I was in the arts, both dancing and singing.
I have a lot of gay friends.
A lot. And I love them.
And I think they're great people.
But where I have a problem is when the group makes me want to celebrate their lifestyle.
And any more than I want them to celebrate my lifestyle, right?
And that doesn't happen.
Like, look at our calendar.
Look at our iCalendar.
It has all of the holidays, but it even has Gay Pride Month, right?
Now, do I celebrate it?
No, I'm not gay. I don't celebrate it, right?
But I can't get it off my calendar.
I cannot take it off.
If I take that off, everything else goes off.
Because it's considered a national holiday.
And again, notice how this is treated differently than anything else.
Because with any other holiday, it's optional, right?
You celebrate Ramadan, fine.
You celebrate Hanukkah or Christian holidays.
It is up to you.
But here, you've got this effort and the corporations are recruited, digital media.
Think about it. Think about the implications, okay, of let's say Pure Bar during Christmas time that everyone needs to celebrate Jesus and you need to have like a Jesus shirt or something religious.
They would never do that. You know, Kelly Shackelford was on the other day and said that that is okay to do now.
Yeah. Well, the point is, let's just say that you did that, that you had a pure bar group that did that, and all the ladies voluntarily had a Jesus shirt.
There would still be people who would object.
Because they'd be like, well, what if somebody feels pressure to go along?
Well, this exact point can be applied here.
In fact, I would say that the left is trying to create pressure to go along.
So there's a great deal of intimidation that's involved here.
It is intimidation. It really is.
It makes you, because if you don't want to do it, like let's just say, like that day that everybody's wearing orange, I want to wear black.
People will look at me like, gosh, you're such a bigot.
Well, and I bet you that even, like, you know, you obviously know the woman who runs this.
She may not even be on board with all of this, but she's a little afraid that if she doesn't sort of sign on, not only would, like, the central corporation, the kind of head office, maybe call her to account, but it could also be that some local journalist will get a hold of this, and then suddenly she'll be a hater.
Exactly. And so there's a combination here of the desires.
She doesn't want to lose her business.
She doesn't. And you know how these people are.
They will try to ruin your...
Look at the Colorado Christian Baker.
Exactly. Exactly. I think the point of that litigation was to basically create an example so that you could intimidate people across the society and people at least would make a mental note.
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You'll feel the difference. Recently, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, sat down with Sean Hannity and they had a kind of a mini sparring match in which they talked about various issues.
And I watched only a couple of snippets of it, but you watched more of it.
And you also have an article that goes in depth into what the substance of the exchange is.
The one thing I got out of it was that Gavin Newsom is one suave character.
I mean, to me, he's odious, and his views are he's an extreme leftist, but he camouflages that with a kind of very dapper style.
He's a good-looking guy, and he's also articulate.
He knows how to make his case.
You know, one interesting thing about Gavin Newsom is that he may be the only prominent leftist on Truth Social.
He posts on Truth Social.
Yeah. And he said he wants to be there because he wants to hear what the right is saying.
He wants to hear what Trump is saying.
And so he sometimes comes up in my feed on Truth Social.
And I'm like, wow, he just stands out because he's kind of the only guy there.
We call him White Obama.
Yeah, White Obama. Because I think he's striving.
But remember, Obama is White Obama.
That is true. He's part white.
Obama is part white. So maybe, is Gavin Newsom part black?
No. No, I don't think so.
Maybe Gavin Newsom's nickname should be all white Obama.
Yeah, I don't know. Because he's all white, whereas actual Obama is half white.
Yeah. So anyway, but it's really, really funny because I think Sean Hannity actually likes him.
I think he finds him kind of intriguing and likes him.
And he's like, yeah, you know, we could have a conversation.
We could have a couple of beers.
And I understand you.
You understand me. It's all great.
And then he asked him about Biden.
And he said, you know, he goes, The problem is your president can't have a conversation like what we're having.
He's not capable of it.
He goes, now my question to you, Gavin, is Joe Biden up for the job of being president?
To which Newsom replies, I don't think he's capable.
I know he's capable.
I see the results.
I see a master class in results the last few years, and I'm thinking to myself, what?
What? Orbit?
Are you living in?
Well, no, no. I think I know which orbit he's living in.
See, from the extreme left's point of view, Biden has governed far to the left.
So when we think of things like crime, we think, oh, that's horrible, right?
And we assume that everybody in the country wants less crime, and so that's a failure because these cities are...
But let's just put our assumption aside for a moment.
Let's assume that for whatever reason, these cities want more crime.
They're getting amazing results.
That's true. Let's say you don't want public schools to teach anybody anything, but you just want to funnel money to unions through the teachers.
Amazing. You're getting fantastic results.
So what if the kids can't read?
That's not the point of school.
Yeah, parents send them to school for that, but that's not what the schools exist to do.
Let's say for example you're trying to dismantle American foreign influence around the world.
The Afghan evacuation, you want to humiliate America, let's have another Vietnam, let's have some people falling out of planes, let's leave a bunch of Americans behind.
If your goal is to weaken American foreign policy, you're doing amazing.
Yeah, check work.
And actually, to be honest, I don't think that the left wants America to be out of a debt crisis or inflation to be down or whatever.
I think they like it because they create more dependence.
It's a mechanism for It's so right.
You know, we need to educate him.
Let's give him a course in free market economics.
No, he understands. The reason he's going after the energy companies is that the energy companies have been a political ally of the Republican side.
So if he can destroy them, weaken them, bankrupt them, he doesn't care about...
I mean, to him, that's how he looks at it.
He doesn't look at it as whether the United States needs energy, whether or not price is the ordinary American going to pay at the pump.
Who cares? So when you're driven ideologically, your perspective is different.
We have to learn to put on their glasses so we can see the world through their eyes.
So I don't think he's lying when he says we have fantastic results.
I guess not. Because what he means is that America is being delivered into the hands of the left.
And guess who he thinks is responsible for the immigration problem?
Trump. Yeah, the right.
The right. Yeah, we call it the immigration problem.
Governor DeSantis. Like, you know, they talked about Governor DeSantis.
And basically, you know, he has posters in Florida, Gavin Newsom does, saying what a disgrace DeSantis is with the border crisis or whatever, and why he's sending people, you know, via plane to California.
To California. Yeah, he was like, he goes, I've talked to...
Oh, he accused them.
He accused him of kidnapping.
Well, this is what I find funny. Newsom says he talked to every single one of the migrants and he believes they came to California under false pretenses.
Let's dissect this for a minute.
What he's basically saying is, California sucks.
The migrants would be better off being in Florida, but the people in Florida are lying to them and telling them, go to California.
It's really nice in California. So even Newsom recognizes that his state is a disaster and that the migrants are not better off in California.
That's why he's saying that they're being sent here.
Otherwise, he would say, listen, send them all over here because we have a great state, lots of opportunity, unlimited numbers of jobs, land of milk and honey, just like it was in the 19th century.
The reason he doesn't say those things is he knows they aren't true.
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So take advantage. Call 800-876-DINESH. One of the striking things about American comedy is that although you have comedians who span the spectrum, There's a little part of just about every comedian, or most of them anyway, that is anti-woke.
They are against this, but they certainly are against the censorship.
That's offensive, you can't say that, because that kills comedy.
They all know that. We're not going to watch it because...
We're going to go watch him live in Las Vegas.
And so we planned a whole weekend in Vegas.
We did some other stuff. In fact, we also saw the comedian John Lovitz, who was also really good.
But we went to Vegas, basically, to see Maniscalco.
And it's partly because this guy is...
He's got a very interesting...
Right-wing brand of humor.
And what I mean is he's not explicitly political.
He doesn't mention the word right.
He doesn't mention the word left.
Once in a while, he'll talk about the veterans and the salute to veterans.
So you get an idea of where he's coming from.
But I want to talk in a moment, but I want you to weigh in on this, is...
The peculiar way in which he imports politics is by contrasting the old world with the new.
In other words, the old Italian world that he grew up in, the way his father thinks, his grandfather, his cousins, versus the new generation.
And by contrasting the old and the new, you can tell he's on the side of the old.
He approaches the new as if a lot of the things that are new are just downright weird.
And then he goes on to say why they're weird, and he has you laughing by the end of it.
Oh, yeah. And the thing about it is he said his dad was extremely strict, and so he wants to be strict, right?
He feels like that is the way that you build character, and just, you know, the person that he is today is because his father was so strict, right?
Well, what I like about it is, you know, some people, when they look at the past, they mythologize the past.
And they, whereas what this guy does is he approaches the past with a kind of realistic irony.
So he was talking, for example, about Christmas.
And obviously, you know, he says when he was a kid, he didn't know his dad was Santa Claus.
And so he would say things like, Dad, I'm going to put out some milk and cookies for Santa Claus.
And he goes, his dad would say like, No, son, don't do that.
Santa Claus doesn't like milk and cookies.
Why don't you put out some meatballs and some Chianti?
Yeah. So, in other words, here's Maniscalco, and he knows that the people in the old world that he's talking about, they were grumpy, some of them were unreasonable, some of them were so set in their ways that they wouldn't change.
But he goes, for all that...
Mm-hmm.
Which it seems that the younger generation is missing in many ways.
In many ways, yeah. No, I agree.
So his comedy routine was super funny until the end.
I wasn't a fan of his first sexual encounter.
I really didn't want to hear about that.
Yeah, all these guys tend to go into this a little bit more than they need to, to be honest.
And by and large, this is a guy who does clean-cut humor.
He doesn't actually use...
I mean, he might occasionally use the F-word.
He kind of did at the end there.
And I was like, I was a little put off by that.
But other than that, Sebastian, you were great.
But even that routine, just to wait on his behalf, had good elements.
I mean, he starts off by talking about that.
And this is, again, Italian-American.
He's like, listen, you know, he goes, first of all, before you go on a date, he goes, the most important thing to him was...
His car. He had to clean his car inside and outside.
And spray cologne in his car. Then he goes, it's not enough for him to douse his whole body with cologne.
The car has to be doused with cologne.
But how do you go about that?
An armor-all. Well, it turns out what he does is he takes the whole cologne bottle and he pours it into a bowl.
Then he douses the bowl with all kinds of sponges.
and then he goes into the car and he squeezes the cologne into the tailpipe and into the various vents of the car so that when his date is like, man, you smell really good, he goes, yeah, of course I do.
She goes, well, your car smells really good.
He goes, yeah, your car smells like you.
So anyway, I think all of this is actually, this is a little bit John Travolta-ish from Greece.
Yeah, no, I know, I get it.
So he's playing a little bit on stereotypes.
So tell me, so what happened?
Why is he being attacked? So the left is kind of getting on to him.
And here's an article in Slate.
It calls the hottest comic in America is also a reactionary hack.
And they're trying to attack him because they claim that he stands for reactionary values.
And of course, sure enough, once you go into it, you realize that what they're really upset about is that he's making fun of people at Starbucks.
He's making fun of the trans, you know.
He's talking about this woman at Starbucks who's eating a scone straight out of the bag.
Right? And Sebastian is like, get a plate!
Right? But then they go, get a plate, he exclaims, as he embodies her voracity, hunching over and shoving invisible crumbs into his mouth like a greedy hobbit.
So that's the cool thing with Maniscalco.
He acts out his routines.
Yes, he does. He's actually very good at doing that.
So anyway, we recommend that you check this guy out.
Check out his new...
In fact, we heard that his new Netflix special, which we haven't seen yet, is not the same as the show that we saw in Vegas.
So we're home this weekend and probably...
This might be a... Good thing for us to do.
Yeah, I think we will. If we can spare some time.
We're also editing our movies, so we need to focus on that.
But we might be catching some Maniscalco this weekend.
I'm continuing my discussion of the uniqueness of Christianity, drawing on my book, What's So Great About Christianity?
And we're in the penultimate chapter of the book.
It's called Jesus Among Other Gods.
And I talked yesterday about how, if you think of the chasm between the divine level, the level of perfection, and the human level, which is our level, Most of the religions of the world try to cross this chasm by building ladders,
and these ladders can be summarized as various codes and commandments, do this, don't do that, and if you follow this list of instructions or orders, then this will draw you closer to God.
And then I write as follows, And if we accept Christ's sacrifice on the basis of faith,
we will inherit God's gift of salvation.
So, think about it.
That's it. That is the essence of Christianity.
To some people, it may seem, what?
This is, like, ridiculously simple.
But in the simplicity, there is a lot of depth and richness.
And so, what I want to do is to take the kernel, the essence of Christianity, and put it kind of into slow motion so we can examine each of the central tenets a little more closely.
So, the first tenet is simply this.
The propensity to sin is in man's nature.
So, what this means is that you got all this stuff, selfishness, acquisitiveness, lust, greed.
This is part of who we are as humans.
And I think that this is obvious to everybody.
I mean, Darwin would have agreed with this.
In fact, the Darwinian portrait of man is a remarkable corroboration of the Christian idea of original sin.
Why? Because Darwin says that basically man's goal is to look out for himself, to look out for his own genes.
In other words, to focus really on nothing more than survival and reproduction and everything else as kind of a means to that end.
This was also, by the way, the theme of Richard Dawkins' book called The Selfish Gene.
So I think that Darwin's understanding of human nature here is much better than, say, Rousseau's understanding.
Rousseau's view is that man is born good and is made bad by society.
It is a societal influence on us, which really begins from the time we come out of the womb, that corrupts us and draws us, if you will, away from this original perfection of our nature.
But Darwin understood that it's not like that.
That actually man is closer to the beasts than to the angels.
And in some way man is worse than animals because they simply do what comes naturally, while man sins willfully and deliberately.
So that's the first premise, the propensity to sin.
Let's go to the second premise.
And that is that man must pay the wages of sin, and the wages of sin is...
Death. Now, here I'm literally quoting from the Bible, but this is the second premise of Christianity.
The Bible equates death in the biological realm with sin in the moral realm.
And some people may go, well, that's a little harsh, Dinesh, but I want to show that it's not unduly harsh.
In fact, it is, well, duly harsh.
Why? Because what sin does is it structures our personalities.
It determines or defines our thoughts and behavior.
It's ultimately built into our habits so that we sin kind of routinely, almost unthinkingly.
It's not that sin is peripheral to humans or something like we occasionally do, we lapse into, like unwillingly or unthinkingly.
No. It's very intrinsic to the way our personalities and our identities are structured.
So, then the question becomes, does sin deserve a heavenly reward?
Is sin something that you should be proud of, that you should be congratulated for, that you should be given all kinds of eternal benefits because, after all, you are a sinner?
No, obviously not. Why should God, who is eternally just and holy, compromise that justice and holiness and offer us salvation despite our hatred for Him and our desecration of His laws on a regular basis?
It seems only fair that we who sin both against God and man, our fellow man, should pay for these sins.
And this means, obviously, that sinners should not be able to enter the The Kingdom of God.
And then the question becomes, if sinners can't enter the Kingdom of God, isn't Heaven totally empty?
How then can we have salvation?
And now we come forward to the third point about Christianity, and this is where Christianity is really different.
For most religions, man has to take the active role.
So, Hinduism and Buddhism offer solutions that are kind of similar, and that is, you meditate, you confront your selfish desires, you recognize that your self is the core of the problem, you strive in various ways to eliminate this self and achieve truly the extinction of the self, if that is even possible. In effect, we seek to become nothing.
Notice I'm not advocating this, I'm simply describing what Hinduism and Buddhism say.
We advance to the goal, not just through meditation, but discipline, self-renunciation, renunciation of possessions, renunciation of sensual pleasure, and so on.
This is a supremely difficult project, and only...
I mean, when you think about the Buddhists, only the Buddhist monks who live this kind of reclusive life can even claim to approach nirvana inside of that framework.
I believe the awareness of the chasm separating holiness from human weakness has produced In the Hindu and Buddhist cultures, their distinctive fatalism, one of the reasons Hindus believe that, look, you know, if I don't do very well in this life, I may end up as a cow or a dog or a flea in the next life.
So when we come back on Monday, I'm now going to pick up and talk about the sort of Jewish and Islamic solutions, which have something very important in common, and then highlight what makes the Christian solution unique.
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