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March 11, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 509 - Bye Bye Bernie

Joe Biden ended Bernie’s campaign last night with massive victories in Missouri, Mississippi, and Michigan. We will examine how Bernie fell apart. But troubles remain ahead for Sleepy Joe. Then, “eat the rich” YouTube socialist Carlos Maza gets exposed as a rich guy, revealing a key generational difference between Old Left socialists like Sanders and Millennial socialists like Maza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Joe Biden ended Bernie Sanders' campaign last night with massive victories in Missouri, Mississippi, and Michigan.
We will examine how Bernie fell apart and what troubles remain ahead for Sleepy Joe.
Then, eat-the-rich YouTube socialist Carlos Maza gets exposed as a rich guy, revealing a key generational difference between old-left socialists like Sanders and millennial socialists like Maza.
All that and so much more.
I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.
Poor Bernie Sanders.
Never thought I would say that, but the guy got blown out of the water last night.
So last night we had little Super Tuesday, or Super Tuesday 2.0.
We had the real Super Tuesday last week.
Was it last week or two weeks ago?
Everything is like blurring together now.
This campaign has changed so quickly.
You know, if you'd asked me two, three weeks ago who's going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party, Just looking at the numbers, you'd have to say Bernie Sanders.
Now, the guy got blown out of the water.
Last night, we heard from voters in Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, and Michigan.
How did they do?
Bernie didn't get completely blown out.
I mean, it's not like he lost every single state.
He won Washington.
He won North Dakota.
But the big states of the night all went to Joe Biden.
Biden got Missouri.
That's worth 68 delegates.
They're going to have proportional delegates, but just to give you a sense of the size of these states.
Missouri, Mississippi, worth 36 delegates.
And then the big prize of the night, Michigan, worth 125 delegates, went to Joe Biden.
So, for all intents and purposes, Bernie Sanders is out of the race.
His campaign has said that they're not going to concede right away.
We'll maybe take a look at why that is.
But already, President Trump is turning all of his attention to Joe Biden.
The Trump campaign released a video last night just immediately dunking on sleepy Joe and implying that he's too senile to become president.
Obama warned Biden's aides to make sure Biden didn't embarrass himself.
My name is Joe Biden.
I'm a Democratic candidate to the United States Senate.
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
All men and women created by the...
Go, you know the...
You know the thing.
I know Biden's Obama, Democrat.
Tomorrow is Superstar Tuesday.
150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers.
This is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband.
Oh no, Valerie switched on me.
This is my wife, this is my sister.
They switched on me.
My other three granddaughters are down in Dubuque with my wife, Jill.
And so, and Des Moines.
I'm in Dubuque.
All right, Chuck.
Thank you very much.
All right.
It's Chris, but anyway.
Play the radio.
Make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.
Text Joe23.
Excuse me, I gotta get this right.
I'm in 1976.
And I'm in the wrong way.
I'm in the wrong way.
You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
I want to be clear.
I'm not going nuts.
Is that clear?
I don't think that's clear.
It's really awful when you watch all of that together.
And just consider for a moment that of all the 320 million Americans, this is the best the Democrats could pick.
You know, how big was that field?
27 people at one point.
And the actual best candidate that they could field...
I said yesterday on the show that we need to have a new segment, which is called What Jumbled Nonsense Came Out of Joe Biden's Mouth Today, because every day there's more, and every day we've got to cover it.
Well, guess what?
Yesterday didn't disappoint.
Joe Biden was in Detroit.
He was talking to some auto workers there, and one of them challenged him on his anti-Second Amendment policies, and the...
Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, told the guy he was full of SHIT, threatened to take him outside and then started rambling on about the mythical AR 14 assault rifle. threatened to take him outside and then started rambling on Hold on.
Let's pause it right there for a second.
He goes on.
But imagine just for a moment if President Trump or if any other Republican politician ever shushed a female campaign aide on camera.
Because that's what's happening.
This guy is talking to Joe Biden.
He says, hey, you've got some pretty anti-Second Amendment policies.
You're full of SHIT. And then the female aide goes, okay, we're done here.
Let's see you.
And she goes, no, shush.
Shush, doll face.
Hey, come on, you pony soldier.
Wouldn't go over very well.
Then Joe Biden gets to the meat of what he's saying, and it doesn't go terribly well.
We'll get to that in a second.
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Okay.
So, he shushes the female campaign aide.
Now, it's worth pointing out Joe Biden has a pretty bad record on the Second Amendment.
He has said that he's going to take away people's guns.
Here he is.
Support the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment, just like right now, if you yell fire, that's not free speech.
To the grand beginning, I have a shotgun, I have a 20-gauge, 12-gauge, my son's hunt.
Guess what?
You're not allowed to own any weapons.
I'm not taking your gun away at all.
You need 100 rounds of gun.
I did not say that.
That's not true.
I did not say that.
It's a viral video.
It's a viral video like the other ones are putting out that they're saying they're lying.
So he's denying it, right?
No, I never said I would take your guns away.
I never said I would take your guns away.
Roll the tape.
To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they're going to come for my guns.
Bingo.
You're right if you have an assault weapon.
Bingo.
Bingo, bango.
Look at that.
So...
He does this all the time, Joe Biden.
Maybe it's because he genuinely doesn't remember having said these things.
But he'll just...
Actually, it's been going on so long in his career.
I think it's just a feature, not a bug of his character.
He can lie effortlessly.
So he can just look you in the face and say, I never said I would take away your guns.
I never said that.
And the auto worker is saying, I saw it on tape.
I saw you.
He goes, yeah, there's a lot of tape.
It's all selectively edited.
It's all manipulated.
I don't believe what you see on TV, kid.
Well, look, we can look at the interview of Joe Biden talking to Anderson Cooper.
He says, bingo, I'm going to take away your guns.
And then Joe Biden, really to put the cherry on top of the sundae, gets to the heart of our gun problem.
It's the scourge of the mythical AR 14.
Are you able to own a machine gun?
I said, are you able to own one?
That's right!
Celebration of 15 is illegal.
How is that in a machine gun?
No, it's not.
Do you need 100 rounds?
Do you need 100 rounds?
That's in America with handguns, and there are what you call assault rifles.
Why are you advocating for a assault rifle when people are trying to handguns?
This is so embarrassing for Joe Biden.
Some of Joe Biden's defenders are trying to spin this as, yeah, he stood up to this guy.
First of all, no, he didn't.
He eventually just walked away.
The guy was perfectly polite and Joe Biden threatens to take him outside.
By the way, I really hope for Joe's sake that no one ever takes him up on this offer.
How many times has Joe Biden said, I'll challenge you to push-ups.
You wanna go take this outside?
I'll punch you.
You wanna...
Joe Biden is a 77-year-old man who can't remember his own name.
If he actually goes outside with somebody, not going to end very well for him.
Then he obviously just walks away.
So he's standing up to these people and saying, well, I'm just going to take away your AR-15s.
AR-14, rather.
AR-14, not the gun he's talking about.
AR-14, a product of Joe's imagination.
AR-15 is the actual gun, but he's wrong about the AR-15.
He says to the guy, you shouldn't be able to have an AR-15.
The guy says, why not?
He says, well, because it's, what, are you allowed to have a machine gun?
The guy very reasonably says...
AR-15s are not machine guns.
They're just semi-automatic rifles like every other rifle.
You pull the trigger once, one round comes out.
Yeah, yeah, you're allowed to have a hundred rounds?
Well, look around.
Most states here, you can't even have a hundred round magazine.
This is pathetic for a few reasons.
One, because Joe Biden's slipping.
But there are a lot of anti-gun politicians who would have given this exact same answer, and that's really pathetic.
This Detroit auto worker, his job is not to regulate gun policy.
His job is not to know about this issue, and yet he does, because it would appear he's a responsible citizen.
Joe Biden's job for 50 years was to deal in these issues of policy, and he knows nothing about it.
He's made guns a big plank of his campaign.
He doesn't know anything about them.
He doesn't know what the name of the gun is.
He doesn't know what the type of the gun is.
He doesn't know what the gun does.
He doesn't know anything about it, and I'm not even...
I'm going after him on a political or ideological level.
I'm going after him on a base knowledge level.
He's simply ignorant of the thing that he is not only talking about, but trying to regulate.
Very embarrassing interaction.
And he just looks like an angry, angry old man.
I mean, the first thing I thought of when he used AR-14 was not even the gun angle.
It was the losing his marbles angle.
It's like if somebody who's very, very old says, you kids and your Game Boy computers and your doo-wop cassette records and it's like they're just using terms that don't really make sense together.
That's what Joe Biden was doing because he's really checked out.
And yet, this guy who is half comatose Barely knows where he is.
He's running away with the nomination.
So, what other people in the Democratic Party want when they see videos like this is they want to cancel the rest of the primary.
This is not my conspiracy theory.
Major Democrats are now publicly voicing this opinion.
So, Jim Clyburn.
A Democratic representative from South Carolina.
He said yesterday, And we'll say something that he,
quote, cannot overcome if this goes on.
So you gotta end it now.
Not just Jim Clyburn.
Legendary Democratic political consultant James Carville said pretty much the exact same thing.
Our mission as a party is to defeat Donald Trump.
According to 538, there's a 99 to 1 chance that Vice President Biden is going to be the nominee.
Let's shut this puppy down and let's move on and worry about November.
This thing is decided.
There's no reason to keep it going, but not even a day longer.
In many ways, they're both right.
They're right that Joe Biden's gonna get himself into trouble, that he's pretty much locked up the nomination, that there's no reason in terms of the selection process to keep this thing going.
However, they're wrong in that you don't win by not campaigning.
Okay?
If you are so...
Terrified that your presumptive nominee is going to say something stupid that you think you're going to win by locking him away for six months, you don't have a great candidate.
You cannot win in politics by not doing something or by avoiding.
That's exactly what they want to do, and it's not just them.
There are a number of very prominent Democrats who are not ready fully to endorse Joe Biden.
You know, we heard yesterday from Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, but there are others too, and they're making exactly the same point.
By the way, I want to remind you that if you want to ask any questions from, you know, if you're listening on the Daily Wire chat box, the app, the website, send them in and we'll try to get to some.
From A, Michael, what would you say to the liberals who are likely accusing us of making a medical diagnosis of Joe Biden's mental state without having met him or having the proper medical training?
There is a difference here.
So we're not making a medical diagnosis.
I'm not saying Joe Biden has Alzheimer's disease.
Joe Biden has Parkinson's disease.
I'm not actually making a medical diagnosis in the way that the left does with Donald Trump.
They do this with Donald Trump all the time.
He's a sociopath.
He's a narcissist.
They accuse him of having incest fantasies.
I mean, they accuse him of all sorts of really creepy and specific psychological problems.
Thank you.
What we're accusing Joe Biden of having is old age.
You don't need a medical degree to accuse somebody of being old because the evidence is right there for you.
The evidence is he's forgetting everybody's name.
He is saying things that don't make any sense.
He's garbling his sentences.
You know, I always say pull back on the psychobabble.
Do not start diagnosing people out of the DSM if you're sitting watching a TV, even if you are a medical doctor.
But If you've ever been around somebody who's over the age that Joe is currently at, you don't need a medical degree to point out that someone is a little long in the tooth.
Maxine Waters right now, major Democrat in Congress.
She, too, is not ready to settle on Biden.
I'm just asking members about the primary, big primaries tonight.
Are you backing Biden or Bernie?
I have not endorsed anybody.
Who do you like most compared to Biden and Bernie?
It's not about who you like.
It's about now watching and understanding who can beat Trump.
Do you think Biden has what it takes to beat Trump?
I don't know, but we'll see.
I don't know, but we'll see.
You know, Maxine Waters occasionally says something honest, and that's right.
If I were a Democrat, I would not be sure that Biden has what it takes to beat Trump.
And really, even the people defending him, like James Carville, saying, he's got this wrapped up.
Let's go.
Let's put this away now.
Let's get this little puppy back in the shed now.
Even those guys are saying it because they're not certain that Joe Biden has what it takes.
We'll get to this all in just a second.
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And not just Maxine Waters, Jill Stein.
You remember her?
She was the Green Party politician last time.
She's run a number of times.
Jill Stein is tweeting out, quote, Biden's lies and record are bad enough, but the biggest risk is his obvious cognitive decline.
He said he's running for Senate, confused wife and sister, forgot Obama's name, etc.
This isn't going away.
If Dems close their eyes and keep pushing Joe, it'll be an agonizing eight months ahead.
And then the piece, I agree with her, I never thought I'd agree with Jill Stein.
The piece de resistance is Bill de Blasio, the Bolshevik mayor of New York, who points out that Joe Biden has not been vetted this time around.
This thing's not over, and I tell you something else.
Our candidate needs to be vetted, Joe.
I am deeply concerned.
Bernie started to get vetted quite a bit, and that's important for getting ready for the general election.
Joe Biden hasn't been vetted.
He was in a perfect position, early frontrunner, then everyone thought he wasn't going to make it, turned their attention to Bloomberg, Bernie, even Warren for a while.
Joe Biden has a lot of issues he needs to speak to.
If we don't deal with it now in the family and have that blunt discussion, Donald Trump will.
So, Morning Joe over here starts laughing when Bill de Blasio says this, because he says, basically, Joe Biden has been in politics every day for 50 years.
What do you mean he hasn't been vetted?
He's been vetted as much as anybody.
He's now run for president three times.
He was the vice president.
What are you talking about?
He hasn't been vetted.
Circumstances change.
This is not the Joe Biden of 1974, okay?
This is a very different Joe Biden.
And he has not been vetted.
First of all, even if you just look at his positions, his positions have changed.
So on the purely ideological level, we really don't know who this guy is because he doesn't believe in very much, so he's willing to say a whole lot of things.
For instance, for his whole career, he defended the Hyde Amendment, which theoretically protected taxpayers from paying for abortions.
Now, he's ready to let taxpayers pay for abortions.
Just one easy example.
Also, there's the cognitive decline aspect.
Joe Biden didn't used to forget people's names and forget where he was.
And then there's the corruption aspect.
That's the third one.
That to me is probably going to be more important in the long run.
So obviously there are going to be a lot of attacks from actually some people on the left probably too, but obviously from president Trump on how Joe Biden is losing his marbles.
That's why he called him sleepy Joe early on in the campaign.
You remember the big attack on Biden was that he was giving people shoulder massages and they were trying to meet to him basically.
And Donald Trump didn't go for that.
If Trump had gone for that, he would have called him creepy Joe, creepy Joe with the shoulder massages, smelling the hair.
He didn't go for creepy Joe.
He went for a rhyme, which was sleepy Joe, sleepy Joe, because if you see him for any period of time, you realize Joe Biden is not as energetic as he once was.
His mind is not moving as quickly.
So, a lot of attacks for that.
However, there will also be attacks on Joe Biden's corruption.
And this is something that very few people have talked about at length in Joe Biden's career.
It's only really come up recently with some of the Hunter Biden revelations.
But it's a weird thing.
It's a weird thing that during Joe Biden's 50 years in government, For some reason, coincidentally, everybody with the last name Biden has gotten a lot richer.
Isn't that weird?
You're not supposed to make a whole lot of money in politics.
And you're definitely not supposed to make money just because your family is in politics, right?
Why on earth would someone pay you money for that?
And yet, over Joe Biden's half century at the top of our politics...
His family has gotten really, really rich.
And it's not just Hunter Biden.
Everyone knows about Hunter Biden.
Don't forget about Joe's brother, James Biden.
James Biden has a long trail of corruption.
So, just one quick example.
Recently, James Biden used his political ties to convince the executives at AmeriCorps Health, which is a healthcare firm out in the country, to loan him $650,000.
Why?
Why would he get that loan?
He convinced them to give him that loan because he said that he would be able to secure larger investments from Middle Eastern contacts thanks to the Biden name.
So he was getting into healthcare investing and he told these partners like AmeriCorps that Joe Biden...
Not James.
James is the guy asking for the money that his brother Joe was very excited about the public policy implications of this new venture.
And, you know, really, they could probably use that Biden name to get some money out of the Middle East.
That's according to Politico.
Politico released that just two days ago.
Now, I'm not even saying Joe Biden was necessarily complicit in this.
Though you'd think if this pattern goes on long enough, he might have told his brother, stop trading my name for money.
Stop doing this.
But it's gone on longer.
It wasn't just a one-time event.
There's a track record here.
And then, of course, it goes to Hunter Biden.
We'll get to that in a second.
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So, it's not just the loan that he got trading on his brother's name.
James Biden during the Obama administration received over $1.5 billion in government-backed contracts.
While his brother was vice president.
Now we're seeing a real pattern, right?
Because the Hunter Biden corruption happened while Joe was vice president too.
In 2010, James Biden joined Hillstone International as executive vice president.
This is a firm working on construction and tech projects, particularly overseas.
You say, why is James Biden joining as the executive vice president of that firm?
James Biden's not like slinging a hammer.
He's not some well-known construction genius.
No, he had no experience, but he did have the last name Biden, and this helped him get contracts in Iraq to the tune of $1.5 billion.
Pretty clear corruption to me.
Then you get to Hunter.
The update on Hunter Biden right now, by the way, in case you haven't been paying attention to the tabloids.
He's currently living in a very, very expensive house in Hollywood Hills, right here where I live.
I don't live in as ritzy a neighborhood as Hunter Biden is, of course, because my last name is now Biden.
He's got a Porsche sitting in the garage, and he's just painting all day.
He converted a pool house into an art studio and while he's doing that, he's refusing to show up to court hearings for child support payments on the child that he sired out of wedlock with a stripper while he was cheating on his late brother's widow.
And this was after he left his first wife.
That's just the personal scandal.
That one actually doesn't even matter that much.
The only reason I bring it up is the left has made it so personal now in the Trump administration.
So the left has started going off after Trump's kids.
Remember during the whole Russiagate hoax, they were trying to throw Don Jr.
in jail.
They're constantly attacking the Trump family, the Trump children.
They're accusing Trump of having incestuous desires.
I mean, they're really sick stuff, right?
So...
The only reason I say that is because it means that Hunter on a personal level is going to be an issue on this campaign.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The bigger scandal is the corruption.
So Hunter Biden paid much, much more money to sit on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company than he would have been paid on the board of ExxonMobil.
Hunter Biden has no expertise in Ukraine or in energy.
He's got a lot of expertise in sitting on boards because those are the corrupt jobs that he's gotten by virtue of his last name.
That's going to be a big issue.
How's Joe going to answer that?
Not quite sure.
And then the question is, what happens to Bernie?
We'll get to that in a second.
First, let's take a question from BB. Hey, Knowles.
I really can't seem to figure out why the DNC chose to sideline Tulsi.
She may not be the best friend of the establishment, but she is clearly the best candidate.
What do you think?
No, I don't think she's the best candidate, first of all.
I think that her views are too heterodox.
That's why she's making some common cause with people on the right.
I mean, she checks the boxes superficially that the left wants, right?
They say they want a woman.
They say they want an ethnic minority.
They say they want a young person.
Tulsi Gabbard checks all of those boxes.
But, you know, they don't usually end up going that way, right?
They've been, Democrats have been saying that for so long.
They really want minorities and women and yeah, okay.
They're nominating Joe Biden.
It looks like this time.
Last time they nominated a white woman.
So at least she was a woman by their account, but you know, she's still white.
Then before that, yeah, I guess they had Barack Obama.
Then they had John Kerry, just a boring old white guy.
I'd Then they had Al Gore, just a boring old white guy.
Then they had Bill Clinton.
At the time, he was a boring, slightly younger white guy.
And part of his presidency wasn't that boring.
But you see my point.
They talk a much better game on this kind of intersectional issue than they actually play.
And Tulsi Gabbard would not maintain the liberal establishment.
So that's their big issue with her, particularly in foreign policy.
She's too much of an independent thinker, and what the Democrats and what the left want to do most urgently is to defend that liberal establishment.
She won't do it, so people are not going to say her name.
She's the candidate who must not be named, and soon that's going to happen to Bernie Sanders, too.
So what happens to him now?
Bernie Sanders predicted that he would win in Michigan, but He said that he wouldn't drop out either way.
He told Chris Wallace just the other day, he said, I certainly would not consider dropping out.
We're also seeing now that his campaign is saying he's not going to drop out immediately.
Bernie Sanders is doubling down now on his praise of Fidel Castro.
He's going to go out on his shield, okay?
Bernie Sanders is not going to go out with a whimper.
He's going to go out with a bang.
Here's Bernie just recently doubling down on Castro.
There are a few moments in races that seem like turning points, and many experts looked at that moment on 60 Minutes when you talked about Fidel Castro's literacy program as a turning point in this race.
Do you regret at all saying what you said at that time in this race?
No.
Look, I have spent my entire life fighting for working people and fighting for democracy.
No, I don't regret it.
I mean, what he's just said, I've fought for working people and democracy, is just clearly untrue.
He's defending in the same breath Fidel Castro, okay, who has been nothing but a devil and a plague for the working people of Cuba and who certainly is not a Democrat, lowercase d.
He honeymooned in the Soviet Union, not great for working people, certainly not a democracy.
He's defended the worst regimes on earth.
But the reason I point this out is, Bernie Sanders is not going to try to moderate a little bit to win the nomination.
He sees the writing on the wall, and he is going to go down swinging.
So it's the end of the road in many ways.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if he ran again in four years, but if he were to run again in four years, it would be like a Mike Gravel kind of candidacy.
Mike Revell was that very, very old left-winger who kind of nominally ran this time just to get his ideas out there, but not in any way making a serious play, certainly not like he did in 2020.
This is it.
This is the end of the road for Bernie.
He's not going to compromise on what he wants, not going to compromise on his values, especially now.
Bernie is so much better in opposition, right?
Bernie's not really good when he's the frontrunner.
He doesn't know how to play the frontrunner.
He's not very good when he's in power.
He doesn't actually accomplish anything when he's in the Senate.
But he's really good from the outside.
He's really good at attacking the establishment.
That's where he's been most effective.
And so I think, if anything, you're going to see a little fresh boost of energy into the campaign now that it's completely lost.
We've got to get to another generation of socialists, another generation of Leftist hypocrisy in the form of Carlos Maza, because Carlos Maza, that YouTube guy who tries to get all the conservatives kicked off the internet, Carlos has a little secret.
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As one socialist leaves the political world, another socialist enters it.
So, Bernie Sanders is on his way out.
Carlos Maza is picking up the mantle for the working man.
This guy is not just a, I want to sort of raise your taxes, rich people socialist.
He is a full-on overthrow capitalism and eat the rich socialist.
Here he is, in case you forgot.
The long dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity.
The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic realities can have a disproportionately great effect.
The tiniest event can tear a hole in the gray curtain of reaction which has marked the horizon of possibility.
From a situation in which nothing can happen, Suddenly, anything is possible.
Wow.
Okay.
And if you were just listening to that, if you couldn't see that, Carlos Maz is there wearing a wife-beater tank top and holding, like, a sledgehammer over his shoulder.
Like, he's got a bandana around his neck.
Like, workers of the world unite.
Now, it's very hard for me to take seriously the idea that someone who talks for a living is, like, out there in the field.
You know, the proletariat.
Socialist hacks for all of human history have tried to give that impression, and they never do it.
Terribly credibly.
But Carlos Maza certainly plays the part, right?
He puts on the costume and he says all the lines.
He says he hates the rich and he hates capitalism.
Here are just a few tweets from Maza.
Just found out James Carville, who spends his time lecturing Democrats for being too far left, lives in an absolutely obscene four-story mansion.
Dear God, can we stop taking political advice from the ultra-wealthy?
You really have to respect this guy's grift, constantly dressing in normal clothes on TV to feign relatability while living like this.
Masterful con artist.
Pay attention to that.
Let's come back in a little bit.
He's attacking James Carville for wearing silly proletariat clothing, while actually he's very rich, and he's saying that's hypocritical.
Okay, just wait for it for a moment.
He's got other tweets.
He says, we should treat gay people the same way we treat straight people.
Eating them when they get too rich.
Got to eat the rich.
So it turns out, here's the punchline.
Are you ready?
Could you expect it?
Carlos Maza is very rich.
I know.
Couldn't have seen that one coming.
Carlos Maza is not just like...
Like his grandpa left him a nice inheritance, Rich.
Okay, Carlos Maza is not just like the stocks are doing well this year, Rich.
Carlos Maza...
Didn't just win, you know, a scratcher ticket and got like five grand or something.
Carlos Maza is super duper rich.
He's connected to multiple giant mansions in Florida.
He's connected to a $7.1 million apartment on the Upper West Side, which was purchased under an LLC, which is a thing rich people do.
They buy apartments under company names for privacy and tax benefits.
And he's connected to a yacht made by the luxury boatmaker Donzi.
Public records show that his mother, Vivian, and his family, his stepfather, they're registered to vote at a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom waterfront palace in Boca Raton, Florida.
The property sold a couple years ago for $10.8 million.
Also, it turns out that he's connected to a four-bedroom, four-bath home in Weston, Florida, which sold for almost $2 million in 2015.
And his mother, Vivian, currently lives full-time in a $4.5 million two-bedroom, three-bathroom luxury condo in Fort Lauderdale.
It's a lot of property.
That's a lot of money.
He's attacking Carville.
You really have to respect this guy's grift, constantly dressing in normal clothes on TV to feign relatability while living like this.
Masterful con artist.
It was right under our nose the whole time.
The real masterful con artist, Carlos Maza.
Look, I don't want to psychobabble, as I said earlier in the show, so I don't want to speculate as to any unresolved family issues here that would make him play the socialist on TV. But I want to make a broader point about the left and about socialists, because we're seeing a big generational divide here.
So, you got the old socialist type, that's Bernie, and you got the young millennial socialist type, Carlos Maza.
And there are two kinds of characters for socialists.
The ones motivated primarily by envy, and the ones motivated by self-hatred.
Again, I don't want to get into psychobabble.
I want to get into politicobabble.
And I think you see these characteristics expressed in the ideologies themselves.
So the old left, the old hardened socialist left, of which Bernie is the last remaining representative, I think, they are motivated by envy.
That ideology is motivated by envy.
It's the rich have too much, we're going to take it from them.
You even hear a little bit of this in the phrases Carlos Mazi uses.
Eat the rich, right?
That's an old phrase.
So they're motivated by taking material goods from other people.
They're motivated by a sort of materialist Marxist ideology.
They hate that they don't have as much money as those other guys.
Bernie Sanders, the millionaires and the billionaires are the worst people on earth.
We've got to take their money.
Then Bernie becomes a millionaire and all of a sudden the millionaires are okay.
Now it's only the billionaires.
We've got to take their money.
But that's what motivates that ideology, envy.
For the new left, they're not motivated primarily by envy.
What animates that philosophy and ideology is self-hatred.
So in the new left, really starting from the 60s and 70s, it's no longer about you're rich, we're going to take your money.
There's still traces of that.
It's really about We hate our civilization.
We're so bad.
We're awful.
America has been so evil in the world.
White people have been so evil.
Men have been so evil.
Western civilization has been so evil.
Everything that...
Straight people have been so evil, right?
It's just all about you.
And so you hate that so much that you want to get rid of it.
You see this espoused in the millennial counterparts on the left today.
It's a great discomfort with who they are.
Men who talk about how terrible men are.
Straight people who talk about how terrible straight people are.
And most especially, those of us who were born and raised and educated in the West talking about how Western civilization has destroyed the world.
It's pretty pathetic.
Frankly, if you gave me the choice of the two, I would go for the old left.
At least it's understandable.
At least it's a clear calculation, right?
You say, oh yeah, you have that, I want that.
That's the oldest impulse in the world.
But this self-hatred is really sickening.
And it's when the sort of cultural revolutionaries took Marxism from the realm purely of economics into the realm of culture that you really started to see this.
And Carlos is the The latest in a long stream of exponents of that culture.
And it's no less pathetic when it's him, and it's no less hilarious.
By the way, before we content ourselves that Joe Biden is going to win the nomination and Trump can eat him for lunch in November, don't forget there's someone still lurking in the sidelines.
There are a lot of people who say, we're not ready for Joe.
I don't know if Joe's going to make it even to the convention.
I don't know if he's going to make it until November.
Hillary Clinton is pulling the knives out again.
She's not just saying, you know, that she still wants to participate.
She's not just saying she's not going to endorse yet.
She's also unapologizing for what she did in 2016.
So, you remember Hillary Clinton put her emails on a private server so that people couldn't request those records, so that people couldn't read the corruption that she regularly engaged in.
And then when it became dangerous, you know, when it looked like people were going to start to get into that server, she completely wiped it.
And then she joked about how she wiped it And she had no explanation for this other than trying to hide her own crookedness.
So back then, she said, That was a mistake.
I'm sorry about that.
I take responsibility.
That's what Hillary said to ABC News in September 2015.
Now, she says, At the time, what she was thinking is, we'll just say what you did was a mistake.
It was dumb, it's over, and that will end it.
I wasn't convinced of that, but I understood the frustration of my campaign.
So against my better judgment, I said, okay, fine.
It turned out to be a mistake, because look at all the oxygen it was sucking out of my campaign, but it didn't end it.
It didn't end it at all, and it never ended.
It never ended.
She's admitting that she lied when she apologized.
This is a bad look for a politician.
I think the reason she's doing it is she's extremely bitter because the White House was owed to her.
That belonged to her, and Trump took that away.
Because it was supposed to go to Hillary and the Democrats, and then it didn't.
And she's really upset about it.
It just shows, though, the duplicity of the left here.
I mean, Carlos Mazza, right?
He's assailing people for wearing street clothes while they're living in a mansion and not eating the rich.
He's doing exactly the same thing.
Hillary Clinton apologizes and then she admits, oh no, I didn't really mean my apology.
I was just saying it to get one over on all you rube, deplorable, irredeemable, idiot voters, right?
This race is not totally over yet.
There's a lot of room here for hypocrisy to come out.
Joe Biden launches his campaign, basically saying he's going to bring dignity back to the White House.
Joe Biden's got a lot of corruption that he's going to have to account for.
He's got a lot of drama.
He's got a lot of flip-flopping.
He's got a lot of hypocrisy that he's going to have to account for.
I think the Democrats today are happy that they dodged a bullet.
Bernie Sanders is almost certainly not going to be the nominee.
They've got their milquetoast choice who doesn't believe anything and wouldn't even remember if he did believe anything.
But this is not over.
This is only the beginning.
Can't wait to see the rest of the show.
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