Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect the Democratic presidential debate as a "shit show," criticizing candidates like Elizabeth Warren for dismissing economists and Pete Buttigieg for hypocrisy regarding wealth. They argue modern policy prioritizes government-driven consumerism over production, mocking Biden's age and virtue signaling while defending Harris's elimination as a result of lackluster substance rather than racism. Ultimately, the hosts contend that identity politics distracts from essential economic unity and foreign policy, leaving America without a viable leader to address billionaire oligarchy. [Automatically generated summary]
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Here's your host, Dave Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
Of course, I'm Dave Smith.
Of course, he is Robbie the Fire Bernstein, the king of the cocks.
How are you, Your Royal Highness?
Oh, I'm doing swell.
How are you?
Very good.
Very good.
Great to get back work days for Davey Smith.
That's right.
That's right.
It's hurting my frail Jewish bones, but I'm back for another one.
And we luckily the political gods gave us some awfulness to talk about for today's episode.
Of course, there was another debate last night, and there was a lot to discuss in it.
A few moments that I thought were really something.
I don't know what else to say about it.
It was really something.
It's been freezing here in New York City.
Today's a little bit more getting nippy.
Oh, yeah.
Yesterday was like, it was fucking 18 degrees, 17 degrees, something like that.
That's when you feel it.
That's when you really know the difference.
Nothing, and today's like 31 degrees.
Nothing makes you appreciate 31 degrees, like 18 degrees.
You're like, oh, all right.
I still like, it doesn't feel like my face is falling off of my body.
This is, this is, we're doing pretty good here.
It was, it was not as cold in the Democratic debate, I'd imagine they were out in California, but that doesn't mean that the ice-cold heart of Elizabeth Warren wasn't still on full display.
It was, it was really, it was a shit show.
I don't know how else to put it.
It's, you know, I, as I've talked about many times, the state of the presidential race is more or less like I look at Donald Trump and you go, man, this guy has not come through on a lot of his campaign promises.
You know, he was really, you know, voted, he was voted into office on basically three core issues.
It was immigration.
We're going to stop this flow of illegal immigrants.
We're going to build a wall.
Mexico's going to pay for it.
We're going to deport them all.
You know, all this stuff.
None of that's happened.
More illegal immigrants coming in.
The wall hasn't been built.
Mexico is certainly not paying for shit.
But we got great trade deals.
Well, then it was great trade deals.
Basically, it's been this.
He went out and he won for us.
Yeah, right.
He said he was going to renegotiate.
He was going to be so smart that he'll basically get NAFTA 2.0 and get the same fucking bullshit trade deals done.
And then it was that we were going to end all the wars.
The wars are all still raging on and some of them worse than ever.
And so you go, well, I really didn't, really didn't shake up the system.
Really didn't drain the swamp.
Hard to say you're draining the swamp with people like McMasters and Pompeo and Bolton and all these people who he's had in his, you know, all his appointments.
Bless you.
And, you know, then you look at the fact that his approval ratings have never been really great.
He's just hated by the press, hated by the establishments of both parties, hated by all of Hollywood.
He was under a special counsel investigation, really stalled his agenda for the first two years, and now he is the third president.
It looks like if Nancy Pelosi ever sends it over to the Senate to be impeached.
And you look at Donald Trump and you go, you know, there's some weakness here.
He's in a little bit of a rough spot.
And then you watch a Democratic presidential primary debate and you're like, I think Trump's going to be just fine.
I think he'll be just fine if this is what he's up against.
Well, I don't know.
Let me ask you.
You watched the debate or you didn't finish it, right?
But you watched it.
There's a couple of fun moments that I think you missed.
But what was your takeaway from?
Well, firstly, I'm surprised that they'll even go to California.
I mean, you got to be concerned with everything that's going on with the climate and how quickly it's.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, this is a national action.
They'll be underwater by the end of the debate.
Yeah, you got to really be concerned.
I mean, I guess it's good for them to be willing to show their support to people living on the coast that they'll go out there for the debate.
It's about time that liberal Democrats started paying attention to people on the coasts.
Yeah.
They've always been way too focused on the heartland.
No, I actually thought that the questions at this debate were a little bit better.
They were kind of...
Well, it was PBS.
And, you know, far be it from me to ever support anything public, but PBS is a little bit more serious and adult, typically speaking, than MSNBC or CNN or something.
Yes, he had tougher questions in terms of budgeting, how people are going to actually pay for things, questions like global warming versus using nuclear power.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right about that.
There were a few questions that you were like, okay, that was actually a pretty reasonable question and an interesting place to take the debate to.
We'll go through all those.
We'll kind of go through the different points, like the different topics that came up in the debate.
And then I have a few clips that I wanted to play that I thought were fun.
But still, kind of like the last debate.
So they've cleared a little bit of the playing field, so it's not as bad, but it's still a bit of a snooze fest.
You don't actually get any debating because they just ask, you know, the field is so big, they just ask one or two questions and move on.
So when you have blunders such as Elizabeth Warren saying, and I'm sure you're going to get to this later, that the economics are just lying.
So no one holds her feet to the fire.
They just, you're allowed to just say that and move on from it.
Yes.
Which makes the whole platform just kind of when, like, in other words, you finally get to the point where there's some action.
Well, I got to say, I mean, and this is something, by the way, that I even thought, you know, I remember when I did the Oxford-style debate against Nick Sarwalk at the Soho Forum and then had him on the podcast afterward.
And I felt like, I mean, maybe, you know, you guys, the listeners know better than me, but I felt like I exposed him a lot more on the podcast than in the debate.
And there are benefits to a structured debate.
Of course, an Oxford-style Soho Forum debate is way more serious, you know, intellectually than a presidential debate.
But it is tough in those situations when you can just say something and you're not immediately challenged.
Whereas like on the podcast, he could say something and I could challenge him right away on that and like kind of force him to elaborate or force him to confront the contradiction.
And you just don't get that here.
And these things where there's eight people, I think it was eight, seven or eight people on the stage, still less than the 10 that they've been doing, but it's just not right.
Like you say something outrageous like that, which we will play that clip later.
And right, there's nobody really like jumps on you and goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's really something like that.
That's insane.
You can't just dismiss the question like that and then move on to your talking points.
And then Yang and Pete sound reasonable.
Everyone else is like, they seem unelectable.
Like at least Pete and Yang, not that I like them.
They seem somewhat electable.
The other guys just all seem like buffoons.
And then where was Bloomberg?
Has he not formally announced?
He's not high enough in the polls to be at the debate.
He's not formally in, but he's like done everything to indicate that he's going to be in.
So I don't know.
Like he, he got to.
Yeah, yeah.
Just be in or out, buddy.
Make up your mind.
Well, I don't know.
Well, perhaps I'll run for president, but I don't know.
Maybe I'll just catch a movie.
So let's just go through the list.
I mean, you know, honestly, if I take a step back from it, it's very hard for me at certain points in analyzing these things to remove my views from trying to just look at things like objectively, politically, who's winning and losing, you know, in this.
But I try my best.
So going top to bottom, I guess, Biden, I thought, had one of his better performances.
There were some fuck ups.
We'll get into a hilarious one later.
But overall, he was better than he's been.
I think he was more scripted and he was less like, I was going to say he didn't stutter quite as much, but this is a little bit of foreshadowing.
He did stutter at one point in the debate.
But he wasn't like the last debate, I thought he was totally bumbling like the whole time.
This time he seemed a little bit more prepared.
And I think some people on his team were like, dude, this like winging it thing, like you're not good at it.
You know, they probably didn't say it quite like that, but they were like, Mr. Vice President, the market research indicates that more preparedness seems to be viewed positively by our voting demographics or whatever.
But he did a better job, but there's still just, he just comes off like Joe Biden.
He's just, the problem with Joe Biden is that he's not a very serious person.
And he's running on being the serious person.
And I, you know, so it's just, yeah, you know, he's, he probably, he did enough that like his campaign, I don't think his numbers are going to tank after that.
He'll probably maintain where he's at in the polls and in the front.
I thought Bernie Sanders had a good night.
Again, I'm not judging whether I liked the people or not.
I thought Bernie Sanders did what Bernie Sanders does and he showed up and had his Bernie Sanders energy.
I personally, again, it's hard for me to remove how I feel to what, you know, to try to gauge what a democratic base is feeling when they look at this.
I just think Bernie Sanders, it's starting to just get so boring.
He's just so repetitive and says the exact same things.
And it's never anything interesting.
Like Bernie Sanders, one of the problems he's starting to have is that I can tell you exactly what Bernie Sanders is going to say before he says it.
And there's something about that that just doesn't make for a good performance.
Forget the fact that he's wrong about just about all the stuff he's saying.
Not all of it.
I mean, he has some, you know.
We need an economy that's going to start working for everybody.
Yeah.
You know, it's like, we need, you know, whatever.
It's like, the only major country that doesn't guarantee health care is a human right, which is why we need Medicare for all.
We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
You know, it's just anyway.
I thought Elizabeth Warren was terrible.
Oh, man.
I thought she was just terrible.
I mean, like a really, really bad performance.
And again, I don't know if maybe it's just me or something, but she just, she can't answer a difficult question.
She's a scold.
She's a total scold.
Like she's scolding the moderators.
She's just kind of got this like shitty personality and shitty energy.
And also does what Bernie does, where she repeats the same thing over and over.
How many times I have here, two cents, just two cents and blah, blah, blah.
My daddy and my mommy.
Yeah, it's really, I remember that part stick out to me too.
But I just thought she had a terrible, a terrible night.
I thought that Buddha Judge did what he does.
And he, you know, again, I think he's terrible personally.
But he is positioning himself as the one who sounds presidential and looks kind of good and is pretty quick on his feet and presents very professionally.
Again, I just think that the problem that Buddhajedge has in terms of what he's trying to do is being the one who can come in and be like, hey, let's go with this one so we're not, we don't come off as crazy because Joe Biden literally comes off as crazy.
And Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders proposals come off a little bit crazy.
And I don't think I'm being a dick.
I mean, Elizabeth Warren is talking about, you know, like adding $30 trillion in new spending.
She rolled back her $52 trillion health care plan.
I think she's cut it down to just, you know, 25 that performs.
But the economists that think that that will slow growth are lying.
Oh, they're wrong.
Well, they're wrong.
That's the response.
But she's, and she's just terrible.
And, you know, Bernie Sanders is, you know, the guy saying, you know, the Boston bomber should vote and stuff like that.
You know, he's got some policies that are rough.
And then Buddha Judge just goes, well, look, I'm just going to be your regular politician.
Oh, and I'm good at politics.
So how about me?
You know, and then that's kind of his pitch.
The problem he has, I think, is that he's a teeny gay guy who is the mayor of a not that big town in Indiana.
It's like, just like, that's not, I don't know, that doesn't scream presidential to people.
You're not like, you're not that guy, you know?
I mean, Barack Obama didn't have a lot of, you know, experience.
You know, he was a community organizer not that long before he was president of the United States, which is definitely lower in the totem pole of like running shit than being a mayor.
But Barack Obama got into the Senate.
So he checked that off the box, Senator.
You're now calling me Senator Obama.
So you already have a little bit of gravitas, like a little bit of like, okay, here's my credentials.
I'm Senator Obama.
And then Obama was the greatest public speaker of all fucking time and like the incredibly charismatic guy.
Buddha Judge might be decent and passable, but he ain't skilled like that.
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So I just don't, I don't see it happening.
Klobuchar is, I'm just not sure she's human.
She's cold-hearted, awful, awful person.
You can tell.
By the way, you know, there's been lots of people who worked for her who like said she's like the worst human being in the world.
They were like, she's like terrible, snaps on her staff.
And you can see it.
You can see it in it.
People reveal who they are.
Like you, you can tell that, you know, she's just terrible.
Terrible person.
She kept referencing someone I never heard of.
Who?
She kept referencing some other person.
Like, well, when it comes to global warming, you know what?
Pete or whatever.
I was like, I don't know who that is.
That's not a reference.
She was just, I just thought, awful.
I couldn't believe she's still there.
How's that even possible?
I don't know.
I guess she's doing good enough in the polls to keep her in it.
Then there's Andrew Yang.
Well, let's do it.
I'll get to Andrew.
Andrew Yang, who I actually think was the winner of the night.
And I'm not a big fan of Andrew Yang.
I wish he would actually be more interesting.
He said a couple things that were almost bordering on interesting to me.
But I thought Andrew Yang was the winner.
Maybe as we go through the segments, I'll get into what I thought he did.
But he now, now there starts to be a real benefit.
There were only a few candidates in the whole thing.
Like when there were like 20 people, there were only a few candidates who were really The could position themselves as the outsider, as the different candidate.
You know, there was obviously Tulsi Gabbard, who wasn't in this debate tonight.
There was that Marion Williamson lady who's no matter what room she's in, she is an outsider.
That lady is different.
And there's Yang.
He's just a different guy.
He doesn't wear suits and ties.
He doesn't speak like a politician.
He doesn't have political experience.
He's a business guy.
He's just a different type of guy who's running on a very different platform than politicians typically run on.
So, but if you can survive down to just being there with a few other people, it presents more of a contrast where it's not just like, well, of course there's someone different because there's 40 of them.
It's like, oh, this guy's saying something different.
And he had some interesting moments.
I thought he had a very good night.
If he ditched the UBI thing, I think he would actually have to do what he's.
I know, but he sounds like so much more, he sounds well-reasoned on every other topic versus the field.
And then that's the only one where you're like, oh, yeah, but you're crazy.
I mean, on every other issue that they talked about, he was somewhat reasonable.
Like when he said nuclear, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, he was, you're right, he was.
He was.
But it's the UBI is, that's his centerpiece.
That's what he's running on.
That's his reason for being is he wants to give everyone $1,000 a month.
That's his thing.
He ain't ditching that anytime soon.
Then there was, am I Tom Steyer?
Was I missing anyone else?
That's it.
Tom Steyer, the rich dude, who just I thought was terrible and there was like no point in him being there.
You know what I did think?
What's even rich from?
Like, you should at least walk away with this story.
You know, I don't know, but I know he's, he's worth, I think, close to $2 billion.
Peanuts.
Which is, yeah, you know, it's a, but you know what?
I was thinking for whatever reason, I don't know why this just entered my mind.
Maybe this is just me being a little, you know, silly.
But the thing I was thinking that I was like, you know what he could do that would like immediately put him in contention is give his money away.
Like, it's so funny because he sits there talking about, I don't understand how, and this does not resonate.
I've talked to left-wingers about this many times.
This does not resonate with them at all.
But like the criticism of Bernie Sanders, where you'd be like, Bernie Sanders is advocating the millionaires and billionaires pay these high taxes, and yet he maximizes his deductions to pay as little as possible, has like two or three multi-million dollar homes.
And you know what I mean?
And like, doesn't even give that much to charity.
He gives away like less than 20% of his income total.
Shouldn't he start?
Like if income inequality is such a horrible thing, well, you can make a real difference in some people's lives, you know, like, but all that this guy talks about is, yeah, billionaires should be taxed more and corporations should be taxed more and income inequality and all of this and blah, blah, blah.
It's like, okay, well, you got $2 billion.
How do you, how is it possible that you can go, yeah, no, no, no, I'm going to keep my $2 billion.
But I do think, you know, in a perfect world, everyone else would pay.
It's just, it's the hypocrisy is insane.
But just imagine, I mean, if you were, if he were to say, I'm going to keep $10 million and I'm giving the rest away.
I'm giving away, you know, whatever, a billion, nine hundred million dollars.
I mean, I don't know his exact net net worth.
It might be like 1.7, 1.8, 2.1.
But you get the point I'm making.
Keep $10 million.
Go, I'm living better than just about everyone.
Like I'm in the top 01%.
I'm fucking in the course of human history.
I'm like, you know, in the top 00001%.
I'm going to keep $10 million.
I'm still going to have a multi-million dollar home.
I'm still going to live a really great life, but I'm giving away fucking, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars.
And I'm going to give, I'm just going to go around and cut checks to poor people, right?
I mean, hey, we believe in taxing the rich and giving to those less fortunate.
I'm actually putting my money where my mouth is.
who else do you know doing this?
Like if he was willing to do that, I think he would all of a sudden be like one of the guys you have to talk about in the race.
But of course, the obvious reason why he's not going to do that is because he wants the 2 billion.
Who the fuck wants 10 million when you got 2 billion?
But it's just crazy to me that like you can, you can be a billionaire running in the Democratic primary when all they're doing is bashing billionaires the whole time.
It's all pretty funny.
I mean, all of them, they're all fucking rich.
That comes up.
So we'll talk about that later.
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All right, let's get into the debate, how it opened.
Okay, so the debate opened with talk of Trump's impeachment, which was not a surprise.
And they go down the line to everybody.
And they all, oh my God, was it now?
I will say, to back up the point that you made before, Rob, they asked the question in a good way.
And you can't, look, you can't blame PBS or any debate moderator for opening talking about impeachment.
I mean, it's the third time in American history a president's been impeached.
That is, by definition, newsworthy in a presidential, you know, primary debate.
So of course they're going to ask about that.
But I gave a little bit of credit to PBS because the way they phrased the question was somewhat interesting.
So the question they asked more or less was, they said, look, the majority of Americans don't support this impeachment.
What, you know, it was passed strictly on partisan lines.
Why do you think it is that Democrats haven't been able to convince Independents and Republicans that Donald Trump should be impeached?
Which was a thoughtful way to ask the question.
Like, if this is so terrible, what he's done, and we've had these public hearings, how come only you guys seem to think this is so obvious?
And pretty much the other half of the country is like, yeah, we don't, we're not on board.
We don't see this as like a big deal, anything worthy of removing a president.
And they go down the line and nobody, almost nobody addresses the question.
They're just like, Donald Trump's terrible.
That's it.
Bernie Sanders responds.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar and he's the most dangerous president in modern American history and he must be removed.
You're like, oh, okay.
But that kind of really plays into Trump's whole point, which is that you just hate Trump so much that you want him impeached.
You're not actually, nobody even took on the argument of why this instance with Ukraine is so bad that he needs to be impeached or what that no one spoke in a way that could convince the other side.
They were all just how terrible President Trump is.
And then Tom Steyer, without even realizing that he's making the other side's argument for them, he goes, I was the one who began leading the charge for impeachment two years ago.
So I started a Impeach Trump Now campaign two years ago.
So of course I'm for the impeachment.
And it's like, do you not even get how you're proving the other side's point right now?
That's the whole point.
You're like, yeah, way before anything happened with Ukraine, I was for impeachment.
So of course I'm for impeaching him over Ukraine.
It's like, well, think that through for a second.
So what you're saying is just we hate Trump.
So he should be impeached.
I've wanted to impeach him from the beginning for other things.
But that's not an argument that he should be impeached for this.
I mean, this is like bananas.
So yeah, that's the whole point.
You guys wanted to impeach him from the very beginning, and this is just the thing you happen to go with.
This was like, I guess this is the best we can do.
So it has absolutely nothing to do really with military aid to Ukraine or anything like that.
Andrew Yang was the only one who said something thoughtful.
But I got to say, so what he said, it just seemed like so obvious that it put everyone else to shame, at least in my mind.
I'm sure not everybody watching felt this way.
But to me, it just put everybody else to shame that you're like, how is he the only one who said this?
But Andrew Yang said, you know, I think the truth is that, well, first off, he said, which I think was somewhat undeniably accurate, is he goes, well, you know, people, the reason why other people aren't convinced is because everybody's in their own echo chamber and everyone gets their news from their own source and people don't really trust Congress.
People don't really trust the mainstream media.
So just because Congress is telling you something or the mainstream media is telling you something, that doesn't make people believe it.
And he's, and then he said, he said the issue is, and this is something we've been talking about on the show for a long time.
Of course, we don't come to the same conclusions as Andrew Yang, but he goes, you know, the problem is that if you turn on the mainstream media, everybody thinks the reason Donald Trump was elected was some type of mix of racism, Russia, and emails.
And really, that has nothing to do with it.
Like, really, it's these underlying problems that we never address.
We never talk about why Donald Trump was elected to begin with.
And then he goes into like all the jobs that have been lost and the manufacturing jobs that left the country.
Now, I don't know if I necessarily agree with, in fact, I don't agree with his like economic analysis, but it's so crazy that if Andrew Yang wasn't there, nobody makes this point.
This like such, it's so obvious.
It's the most basic, the first point you would come to.
Like if any of you, if you were a journalist who's being a moderator, if you were anyone running for president, if you were anyone working on any of the campaign staffs for any of the people running for president, the first thing, day one, you're like, well, what happened?
Why is Trump being elected?
Let's look at the underlying issues that led to Donald Trump being president and see if we can't address those underlying issues to cut him off and deal with people's concerns.
I mean, it's like, how is this even, how is this only one guy who's saying this?
So he made that point.
And I did think to me that was like, it was just, it was kind of, you know, incredible to see that just somebody said it.
Somebody said like, yeah, if your analysis of Donald Trump getting elected is racism in Russia, yeah, you're probably not going to get why people are rallying around him.
And so that, to me, it seemed like Andrew Yang was the only thing, the only one approaching adulthood in the room on that first, on the first question.
So then after that, they moved on.
The next topic was climate change, which of course, you know, has to come up.
We're all going to die.
So let's talk about it.
You know, obviously, it's fairly important.
If we're all going to die in about a decade, you know, that's the second most important thing that we have to talk about.
Forget the decade, the forest fires that are happening now, and already the hurricanes that are happening now are a direct result of climate change.
Oh, and also don't forget that climate change is racist.
That's the other thing that's really important to remember.
Climate, the climate is not only changing, but it's changing into like a Klansman.
The climate hates blacks.
It hates blacks and the trans.
I've seen clouds prying hoods over their heads.
I've seen it.
You know what?
I mean, sometimes if a cloud shaped the right way, it really could look like a clanhood.
That's the eye of the storm.
You know, it goes around and it comes to a little TP hat.
No one's ever talking about that except Robbie the Fire, king of the cocks.
So anyway, the climate, climate change is coming and it's coming for transgender children.
And so we got to protect them from the climate.
Now, again, I give PBS some credit because all these topics were going to come up, but the way they formulated the question was somewhat interesting.
So what they asked was, and I thought this was very revealing of like everybody on stage.
So what they asked was, they go, well, look, according to all these projections that you guys use to talk about the disasters of climate change, they say, even if America cuts down to zero carbon emissions, it doesn't change the projections.
Doesn't change it.
And of course, that's because, you know, America is, you know, it's like if China and India and Russia and all these other countries keep producing emissions the way they are, this is a global problem.
It's not, so he's saying, even if we cut down to zero emissions, which seems crazy and very unlikely that we could ever get there, that still wouldn't do anything.
So even with like, even with a like, if we had a more, you know, drastic, bold plan than the AOC plan of the world, it still doesn't do anything to stop these projections.
So, I mean, this is my phrasing of it, not theirs, but they go, so since cutting down to zero carbon emissions still wouldn't do anything to stop the problem, is it time that we start seeking higher ground?
As Andrew Yang says, is it time that we start subsidizing moving people out of these coastal cities, right?
We're saying these cities are going to be underwater anyway, so we might as well start now because we only got, you know, so much time, 10, 20 years, they're going to be underwater, right?
So let's start moving them out now to save all these people's lives.
I think what they said was that mass starvation and that putting an end to economic prosperity in this country is a worthwhile goal in order that we can be an inspiration to the rest of the world of what they too can do with their economy.
I think this is the argument, right?
Which is like the idea that we're going to inspire China to go, you know, when you look at China, what they've done over the last 40 years, 30 years or so, you know, where they go from being like this.
They can't even breathe outside and they don't give a shit.
Well, if you went from, you know, making a dollar a day to making, you know, $10 a day, I think you'd be okay with some, you know, bad breathing too.
$10 a day may sound shitty, but it's a lot better than a dollar a day.
And there were like a billion people who were pulled out of extreme poverty over the last 30 years in China, China and India.
And yeah, they're not going back.
And you're not going to convince them by us tightening our belt to go back.
But what was interesting about this question was that they were going like, okay, so the best way I've found oftentimes to defeat someone's argument is to own it, to like treat their argument seriously, own it, and then work within their parameters.
And then if you can find contradictions within that, it's very exposing.
But so they say to him, okay, so you guys are right.
So these cities are going to be underwater.
So let's start acting on that.
I mean, if these cities are going to be underwater, let's start helping people get out of these cities now.
I mean, what the hell are we doing?
Isn't it pretty crazy, right?
By the global warming believer, the climate change believers mindset that we're still building new buildings in coastal cities.
Like as we speak all over the place, new buildings are being built near, you know, the water in these coastal cities.
What the hell are we doing?
You're all going to be underwater.
What the hell is the point of this?
So all of them, with the exception of Andrew Yang, all of them are like, no, no, that's not right.
You know, Bernie Sanders goes, no, he said, your question is flawed.
The climate change is the, you know, an existential crisis and we need to defeat it.
And we need to win that.
We need to blah, blah, blah, blah, and go.
And everybody's just like, and it just became so obvious to me.
I mean, go watch the segment if you haven't seen it.
It just became so obvious to me that it was like, oh, you guys aren't actually interested in solving this problem.
You're not true believers in the same sense that when they talk about anything else, they prove that they don't really believe in climate change.
Because if you really believed, as Elizabeth Warren said, that every living thing was threatened in the next 10 years, that would be all you would talk about, you know?
But you obviously don't genuinely believe that.
But this proved it again, too, because if you genuinely believed that, it'd be like, okay, well, let's start fucking going nuts.
Like we're almost ready to panic then because we clearly can't stop this thing.
So let's fight.
But it's like, no, we don't want that.
We don't want to actually start talking about solving the problem or moving people out of these coastal cities.
It's like, no, we want this to usher in socialism.
That's the idea is to use this to fucking get all these new government programs.
So they were like, it's just everybody except Andrew Yang, who was like, yeah, yeah, I think that's what we should do.
Seek higher ground.
Get these people out of there.
And it just, I don't know.
I thought it was very revealing.
Very revealing to see all the other guys on stage just be like, oh, what?
I don't know.
That question kind of offends me.
No.
What we need is bold action.
You know, like, okay.
Well, if this bold action still isn't going to do anything, then what's the point?
And no one took that argument on, by the way.
Or no one said, oh, here's the plan to get all these other countries on board.
Like no one had anything.
It was just, no, we don't, we don't like that question.
We're not going to do that.
Not going to do that.
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Anyway, so then this was a moment which you, of course, already alluded to, and it's hard not to.
It was one of my big takeaways from the debate.
One of just, to me, what was the most, you know, just outrageous moments.
And this is the Elizabeth Warren question.
So let's play the first video that we have up.
Senator Warren, I have a question for you.
Every candidate on the stage has proposed tax increases on the wealthy.
But you have especially ambitious plans that apart from health care would hike taxes an additional $8 trillion over the decade, the biggest tax increase since World War II.
How do you answer top economists who say taxes of this magnitude would stifle growth and investment?
Oh, they're just wrong.
I spoke to my dad.
I have a screen.
Let's start with a wealth tax.
The idea of a two-cent tax on the great fortunes in this country, $50 million and above.
For two cents, what can we do?
We can invest in the rest of America.
We can provide universal child care, early childhood education for every baby in this country aged zero to five.
Universal pre-K for every three-year-old and four-year-old, and raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher.
We can do even more for our public schools, for college graduates.
We can cancel student loan debt.
But think about the economic impact of that.
You leave two cents with the billionaires.
They're not eating more pizzas.
They're not buying more cars.
We invest that 2% in early childhood education and childcare.
That means those babies get top-notch care.
It means their mamas can finish their education.
It means their mamas and their daddies can take on real jobs, harder jobs, longer hours.
And we can increase productivity in this country and we can start building this economy from the ground up.
That's how we build it in small towns.
That's how we build it in rural America.
And that's how we build it in urban America.
An economy that works brief answers.
Wall Street, but that works from there.
Brief responses from Mr. Stocker and Mr. Budajak.
All right.
So that was the first clip that we wanted to play.
That's Elizabeth Warren.
That's her in a nutshell.
That to me just summed up Elizabeth Warren's entire existence, her entire campaign.
That's who she is.
So the question is, okay, you're proposing $8 trillion in new taxes.
By the way, that's not, she's not proposing $8 trillion in new spending.
She's proposing tens of trillions of dollars in new spending.
She has no way to pay for it, but she is proposing to pay for $8 trillion of it over the next 10 years.
And they say this would be the biggest tax increase since World War II.
Well, actually, nominally, it would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country.
They're just saying like as a percentage of GDP or something like that.
But so this is the plan.
Now, economists are saying this is going to stifle the economy.
Okay.
What's your response?
Two words.
They're wrong.
That's it.
They're wrong.
No argument, no economic argument.
I mean, then she starts going into her.
There's a vague economic argument in there, but nothing to respond to the fucking, like, wouldn't taking $8 trillion away from people kind of stifle the economy?
No, they're wrong.
Those economists are wrong.
And it's the same thing as when she gets asked.
Did she listen to the windblow?
Yeah, that's right.
Listen to the windblow.
But it's like the same thing as when she gets asked about, you know, will taxes go up.
It's like, she's just, I'm not going to answer that.
I'm sorry.
That's a Republican talking point question or something.
I guess PBS is full of a bunch of Republican talking points.
But it's, you know, that's it.
And then I, as she goes, and then she just goes right into her stump speech, like right into her talking points of two pennies.
This fucking bullshit.
I don't know how much longer I'm going to have to talk about this, but it's so, it's so fucking condescending.
Like, how stupid do you think your audience is that you can just call a 2% tax two pennies?
Like, you know, it's like, oh, I, you know, all I pay in taxes is 50 cents.
It's like, oh, I'm sorry, 50% of my income.
Oh, that's a little bit different than paying 50 cents.
I probably wouldn't be doing this podcast or complaining so much if it was 50 cents, you know?
But so, yeah, so that's back into, oh, we can invest in early childhood.
You know, the government can take your kids when they're four or whatever.
Isn't that great?
And we can pay the people who do it a good amount of money.
But there was something in there that she said that was, in addition to that, the dismissiveness and the refusal to respond to legitimate criticism.
But there was something that she said in there that I thought was revealing as well, which is that she said, what did she say?
She said, if you leave that two cents with the billionaires, they're not going to be buying pizzas.
They got enough pizzas.
They got enough cars.
What are they going to do at their city?
That's what she said, right?
Pizzas and cars, right?
Now, isn't that, now, her point seems to be that that would actually be helping the economy, but that they're not going to be buying stuff.
Right?
So I guess the implication is like they're just hoarding their money or something like that.
You know, they're Scrooge McDuck just going and like swimming in a fucking big, you know, fucking safe full of gold coins or something like that.
It's like, well, right.
I mean, if they're not consuming with the money, I mean, they're probably saving it in a financial institution somewhere.
It's being lent into the economy.
I mean, it's not anyway.
But there is something that's really interesting.
And this is, this gets right to the heart of the flawed, Keynesian, bipartisan consensus on economics that is what we're living under.
And we've been really living under it since Bretton Woods and really in the collapse of Bretton Woods when we went off the gold standard in the early 70s.
But the idea that it would be helping an economy if they were buying pizzas and cars.
So if they were buying stuff with this money, then this would be helping the economy.
Now, you'll hear this a lot, this argument a lot from left-leaning people, that they go, well, the reason why giving money to poor and middle-class people helps the economy is because they spend it.
They spend that money right away.
And which is, which is true, right?
Like rich people have more money, so they're already consuming what they want to consume.
If you give them more money, they're not necessarily just going to consume more.
They're just, they're going to invest it or save it or something like that.
Or Scrooge McDucket.
But so the idea is that consumerism is really what drives the economy, that consuming things.
And this is so fucking backward.
This is just flat out wrong.
And it's part of the reason why we have the mess that we have is because everyone's bought into this.
And this is a bipartisan consensus.
I mean, when after 9-11, remember what George W. Bush's message to the American people was.
He was go shopping.
Like straight up, that's what he said.
Like, oh, you want to make sure that the terrorists don't win?
Go back to the malls.
Go back shopping.
It's Christmas season coming up.
We got to keep this GDP up.
We got to keep the consumerism going.
And this is why we have an entire economy that's built around consumerism.
And by the way, this gets laid at the feet of the free market, which just drives me fucking crazy.
Here's a rule of thumb, okay?
If it's something that's being pushed by every politician, if it's something that's being pushed by Democrats and Republicans, then it ain't the free market.
This ain't capitalism.
This is a government policy.
And this is what like explicitly what the government policy is directed at to keep Americans consuming because we have an economy that's built on consumerism.
But all you need to do to think this through, it's just, it's common sense.
Like this shit is all basic logic.
That's why I hate when people, like a lot of times, and I know probably a lot of people even who listen to this show, a lot of people I know in my life, I was like this too, feel like economics is like this daunting.
Feel that you're like well, I don't really understand that shit.
That's like difficult math and equations and all this shit.
But really so much of it is fucking common sense.
And they try to make it more and more complicated so you feel that way and you just leave it to the experts, like let the technocrats fucking run everything.
And this is what I love about Mises and Rothbard and guys like that because they just explain economics in common sense terms.
And then you're like, oh no, okay, this is so just literally just think about it on a smaller example.
Just think about like if you're like desert island economics, right?
Like if all of us, everybody here at Gas Digital, we get stranded on a desert island and we're like, okay, fuck, we gotta, um, we gotta start, you know, figuring out how we're gonna survive.
So it's like some people.
Who rapes Alex first?
Alex was raped to death way before we started figuring out how we were gonna survive.
Shannon, Shannon.
We're dividing resources.
Shannon floated on her tits back to safety.
She's fine.
But so, you know, you go like, okay, well, some people are going to go fish.
Some people are going to go pick fruit.
Some people are going to build a fire.
Some people are going to start, you know, so they're collecting firewood and we're building like shelter or whatever, right?
So we have a little mini economy going here.
Well, how would you measure the strength of this economy?
Like how much?
Let's say that, you know, we picked like a certain amount of fruit and had a certain amount of fish.
And we go, we had enough for like three days.
And we went, we ate all of it day one.
Would you go, oh, that's great.
That's great.
You guys are consuming so much.
What a solid economy because you're consuming so much.
Or would the strength of the economy be how much we're producing?
Meaning we're producing what we caught more fish.
We picked more fruit.
We found more firewood.
We built more homes.
Like all of, obviously, it's the production that makes you wealthy.
Consuming is a luxury that you get after you've produced.
That's the strength of an economy.
This is the reason why you produce in order to consume.
But one leads the other, not the other way around.
Buying pizzas and cars doesn't make you rich.
Fucking making pizzas and cars makes you rich.
The consuming part is easy.
Anyone can do that.
There's nothing to that.
It's your productive capacity.
That's what makes you wealthy.
And it's so backward.
And it's so backward to think that like this is how you should, what you should be driven by is this like keep consuming mindset.
And then like, you know, so many people, like I see this on the left and the right, where so many people blame the consumerism culture.
And don't get me wrong, there is something about it that is like, whew, just really disturbing.
I mean, if you're, you know, you ever watch like one of those Black Friday videos where people are like stomping over each other at Walmart to get their hands on a discount TV and stuff.
And it really does make you like, I mean, I've literally watched things like that.
And I'd be like, if we were like, if this was a story in the Bible, this would be about the time where God's like, yeah, I think I'm going to drown all of you.
Like, this is insane.
That, like, what the fuck are you doing?
Like, you, you should all be smited.
Can you say smited in the past?
I think smitten.
Smitten?
Smitten.
Smitten?
That sounds like that you're in love.
Okay, anyway.
Maybe you're right.
Anyway, God would smite you in the Bible.
But so, you know what I mean?
It's like, but the idea that people lay this at the foot of the feet of capitalism.
Well, this is what happens when you have private ownership of the means of production or something.
Like, no, this is, this is a government policy.
This is government consumerism.
This is fiat currency.
This is like, you know, all of the policies that are smoked.
These are all of the policies that are driven and explicitly driven to create this consumerist culture.
And it's not just the economics of it that are terrible.
I mean, it's like the cultural impact of it is really the societal impact is just awful.
But if you realize that your productive capacity is what makes you wealthy and that if you produce a lot, then you will be able to consume more in the future because it was produced.
That's a very different thing than thinking that like your consumption is going to drive an economy.
But if you look at things that way and you go, oh, so rich people, they're not just going out and buying pizzas and burgers.
In addition to that, with the money that they keep, they're going to invest this money, you know, like put it into producing something else.
You realize, oh, that's actually a lot better for the economy than just having more people eating cheeseburgers.
It's like, we don't really have a problem in America that enough people aren't having pizza.
There's plenty of that.
I always knew Dave was anti-cheeseburgers.
No, I'm pro-cheeseburger after we produce cheeseburgers.
Also, in the worst case scenario, you continue.
I derailed you with my dumb cheeseburger comment.
No, no, no, no.
Go ahead.
Okay.
So I mean, what you're basically saying is that we're better off with them having the money to produce something.
But the other side of that also is let's say they just hoard it.
Let's say Bill Gates just took all of his money to decide.
Didn't invest it, didn't put it in the bank.
I'm going to put this in my basement.
I'm just going to let it sit in my basement and rot.
So I think we've said this on the show before, but that would be deflationary.
That would make all of our money worth more.
Yes.
So the concept that wealthy people are, that somehow the economy is losing because wealthy people are hoarding their wealth is just not the way money works.
And if you don't believe me, you literally have no option other than to help.
Right.
And then understand the problem with counterfeiting is that if you start creating fake currency, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all currency goes down in value.
So the inverse of that is if you start just removing currency, everyone else's money is going to go up in value.
Well, that's right.
Rotting Money in Basements00:14:33
So why is it, why is it that if somebody had a counterfeiting machine in their home and just started printing hundreds, why is it that that's number one, illegal?
And number two, why do you think that's unfair or wrong?
Well, there's two answers to that.
Okay.
Number one, they're freeloading, right?
They're cheating the system.
They didn't actually do anything to earn that money and now they're just getting this money.
And number two, they're devaluing the currency of everybody else.
Now they're putting their money into circulation that wasn't like earned, right?
But if your point is spot on, but if that's wrong, well, then the opposite of that would have to be right.
I mean, if that's bad for the economy, the opposite of it would have to be good for the economy.
So no, of course, just if even if they did just hoard their money, they're actually just making your dollars stronger.
It's not hurting anybody unless they stole the money from someone like, you know, Elizabeth Warren is running on doing.
So, but, and, and then, like, the, the argument that'll be made a lot, and this I always find like so just silly, is that they'll say, well, what it's about is, is velocity, right?
So this is like the Keynesian argument, is that it's about how quickly the money moves through the economy.
So if you'll have, if, if, um, if somebody buys a hamburger, that money gets paid to the guy who, who's flipping the hamburger, that money then gets paid for him to buy sneakers to his kid, right?
The money's moving around.
So it stimulates more economic growth the quicker it moves around.
Of course, the problem with that, and you can obviously just reducto ad absurdum this stuff, is like, so, okay, so go back to our, our, uh, desert island analogy, and we're sitting there, and let's say we all have different jobs, and um, we, we have some form, you know, we have some form of currency that we create, you know, like let's say we're using seashells or something like that, right?
There's like a certain amount of seashells.
We find them.
And you'll trade the fish that you went fishing for for Brian picked some fruit.
And you guys will trade, you know, he'll buy some with seashells and then he'll go buy some firewood from me with them and we're just trading back these seashells.
And then it's like, if I were to come in and go, hey, guys, guys, guess what?
All of our problems are better.
We are way richer now because I just found a thousand more seashells.
And I just dump them in front of us and we go, we're rich.
We're rich now.
Now we don't have to worry about hunting or fishing or picking fruit, right?
Like, don't you see in that example how we haven't been made richer at all?
And it doesn't matter how quickly we trade the seashells back and forth.
The seashells are fucking meaningless.
They're just represent something.
It's not anything.
The only thing that matters in an economy is what you're producing.
That's it.
All right.
So that's Elizabeth Warren's response to how raising taxes by $8 trillion, how it would affect the economy.
Well, these economists seem to say it'll have a bad effect.
Well, they're wrong.
I've never, I guess now that you mentioned velocity, I kind of velocity, I kind of remember the economic models with like the V1 and V2, but I haven't thought about that for a long time.
But even so, that goes against the idea of that we benefit by people saving and being able to make future investments.
So if you're making an assumption that the velocity of cash basically, I guess really what they're saying, I'm guessing that increases the money supply because it's moving quicker.
So the money supply expands faster.
Is that the idea?
I don't.
Well, I think the idea is that it stimulates more economic activity.
Because it's moving.
More things are happening.
Right.
So more things are happening.
But the problem is that.
But then doesn't that overlook saving and investment?
Of course.
And who could look at America today?
If you were to look at going into 2020 in America, like if you were to say, because here, don't get me wrong, right?
Let me put it this way.
I throw out the example for that.
It's like if, you know, every single day we all got pizza money and then one kid all of high school, he just decides I'm not going to eat lunch.
And then he gets out of high school and he opens up a whole pizza store.
Like you're looking at it from the fact like, no, no, he should have been eating slice of pizza every day because then there would be more pizza.
It's like, no, no, the fact that he saved that money every day, he was able to open up a whole store and make it.
Future productivity.
Yes, that's time preference right there, right?
So it's like the sacrificing of present consumption allows for future productivity.
I don't live my life that way at all.
No.
But the point is that.
But you understand those people are better than you.
Rob borrowed money to get more pizza every day at lunch.
He's in the hole.
But so I would just say like theoretically, right?
You could have, say, like an economy theoretically, I don't know.
I don't think this has ever existed, but you could have an economy that's say like producing a ton and nobody's consuming it.
And you're just like letting, you know, consumer goods stack up at stores and nobody's buying.
And then there's, it could be a certain point where you're like, hey, I think like we can start consuming now.
Like we've been saving.
Like these crops are going to go bad if we don't start like eating them.
You know what I'm saying?
But you have two things that would hit first.
One is prices would come down drastically.
Yes.
Where then people would go, oh, okay, I'll consume it at that price.
Well, this is how a market works, right?
So this is how the pricing system works.
So, right.
So because there's such a high supply and demand isn't so high, you would have a drastic drop in prices, which would increase demand organically and naturally.
But that could, you could argue in some theoretical model, maybe that's the situation.
But would anybody look at America in 2020 and go, you know, the problem in America is that on a government level, on a business level, on an individual level, we just don't have enough spending.
We don't have enough consuming.
We just have way too much saving, savings and investment.
That's the problem in America.
You know, it's not debt or spending.
It's just so much savings.
We have such a high savings rate that we're just not consuming enough.
We don't need to worry about the future so much.
We need to start consuming in the present because we're just saving so much.
I mean, come on.
It's just so like, obviously, the problem with the American economy is that it's all built off debt, spending, and consuming.
You can't run an economy long term this way.
And this is why so this is a big part of the reason why Trump is in there because we've been running an economy like this for 40 years.
And this is when, you know, even like the people like Bernie Sanders will be like, you know, the in real wages adjusted for inflation, the middle class hasn't had a raise since the 70s, you know?
And like, I don't know that those numbers are exactly correct.
I've heard people argue them, but it's like, okay, well, what happened in the 70s?
What was it?
Everybody seems to agree like something changed.
Well, yeah, we went off the gold standard.
This is when we started embarking on this crazy fiat currency world.
So yeah, exactly.
But the idea that you're like, you can't have an economy built on spending and consuming.
A much sounder economy is built off savings and production.
And that's what true free market capitalism tends toward because it rewards those people.
Anyway, so that's that's Elizabeth Warren.
That's economics by Elizabeth Warren.
All right.
Let's go to the next clip, which is where things, I believe this is where things get a little bit fiery between Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete Butstuff.
People whose voices just so often get shoved out.
And for me, the best way to understand that is look at how people are running their campaigns in 2020.
You know, I made the decision when I decided to run not to do business as usual.
And now I'm crowding in on 100,000 selfies.
That's 100,000 hugs and handshakes and stories.
Stories from people who are struggling with student loan debt.
Stories from people who can't pay their medical bills.
Stories from people who can't find child care.
Now, most of the people on this stage run a traditional.
Pause for one second.
I cannot say this.
I might not have a plan, but I hugged a lot of people.
Yeah, that's her platform.
And I also, I can't stand because everyone does, like, where they have to tie it into some local thing.
Like, blank happens in the economy, which is like, why this toothless guy next to me doesn't have his teeth.
Like, it drives me nuts.
Yeah, I can't believe people aren't over this shit by now.
Let's keep playing.
And that means going back and forth from coast to coast to rich people and people who can put up 5,000 bucks or more in order to have a picture taken, in order to have a conversation, and in order maybe to be considered to be an ambassador.
Thank you, Senator Warren.
Those selfies, no, I want to finish this.
Those selfies.
Pause it.
There was so much of that, of her like scolding the moderators.
It was just, you know, all right, let's keep going.
Nobody, anything.
And I get it.
In a democracy, we all have a lot of different points of view and everybody gets one vote.
But here's the thing.
People who can put down $5,000 to have a picture taken don't have the same priorities as people who are struggling with student loan debt or are struggling to pay off medical debt.
I want, I'm running a campaign where people whose voices get heard.
We can't have people who can't have people who can put down $5,000 for a check, drown out the voices of everyone else.
Thank you, Senator.
They don't in my campaign, and they don't have so she's only hugging rich people.
You better keep the poor people away from her.
She's not going to hug a poor person.
Well, no, gross.
I mean, talk, she's a lucrative horse.
Five grand for a hug.
Not bad, Elizabeth Warren.
No, she's saying she doesn't do that.
Here, let's.
Oh, I thought she was saying the only people donate.
Oh, she's hugging the pair.
She's hugging the pores.
My favorite judge, you had your hand raised.
Can't help but feel that might have been directed at me.
And here's the thing.
We're in the fight of our lives right now.
Donald Trump and his allies have made it abundantly clear that they will stop at nothing, not even foreign interference to hold on to power.
They've already put together more than $300 million.
This is our chance.
This is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump.
And we shouldn't try to do it with one hand tied behind our back.
The way we're going to win is to bring everybody to our side in this fight.
If that means that you're a grad student digging deep to go online to Pete4America.com and chip in 10 bucks, that's great.
And if you can drop $1,000 without blinking, that's great too.
We need everybody's help.
I just paused it already.
He's such a politician.
It's like so full of shit.
I mean, he presents well enough.
Like he's not like, you know, his plans aren't as crazy as Bernie's and Warren's, and he's not a bumbling idiot like Joe Biden's or, you know, but it's just so funny.
He's like, hey, if you give me $10, that's great.
If you give me $1,000, that's also great.
Like, yeah, I'm sure you don't prefer one of those to the other.
I'm sure you're just as happy when $10 comes in as $1,000 comes in.
It's like, okay, yes, obviously.
But anyway, let's keep playing.
I'm not going to turn away anyone who wants to help us defeat Donald Trump.
We need Democrats who've been with us all along, yes, but we also need independents worried about the direction of the country.
If you were a Republican, disgusted with what's going on in your own party, we're not going to agree on everything, but we need you in this fight, and I will welcome you to our side.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Senator Warren, 45 seconds to respond.
So the mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine.
Think about who comes to that.
He had promised that every fundraiser he would do would be open door, but this one was closed door.
We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States.
Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.
Mr. Mayor, your response.
You know, according to Forrest Magazine, I am literally the only person on this stage who's not a millionaire or a billionaire.
So if this is important, this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.
If I pledged never to be in the company of a progressive Democratic donor, I couldn't be up here.
Senator, your net worth is 100 times mine.
Now, supposing that you went home feeling the holiday spirit, I know this isn't likely, but stay with me, and decided to go on to Pete4America.com and give the maximum allowable by law, $2,800.
Would that pollute my campaign because it came from a wealthy person?
No, I would be glad to have that support.
We need the support from everybody who is committed to helping us defeat Donald Trump.
We would like to bring in everyone, but obviously, Senator Warren, I'd like to give you a chance to respond.
I do not sell access to my time.
I don't do call time with millionaires and billionaires.
Sorry, as a matter of fact.
I don't meet behind closed doors with big dollar donors.
And look, I've taken one that ought to be an easy step for everyone here.
I've said to anyone who wants to donate to me, if you want to donate to me, that's fine.
But don't come around later expecting to be named ambassador because that's what goes on in these high-dollar fundraisers.
I've said no, and I asked everybody on this stage to join me.
This ought to be an easy step.
And here's the problem.
If you can't stand up and take the steps that are relatively easy, can't stand up to the wealthy and well-connected when it's relatively easy when you're a candidate, then how can the American people believe you're going to stand up to the wealthy and well-connected when you're president and it's really hard.
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Judy.
Senator, senator, I've got to respond.
Mr. Mayor, we're going to give you one more.
If you're saying no to a donor, then you have no business running for office in the first place.
But also, Senator, your presidential campaign right now, as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big ticket fundraisers you now denounce.
Did it corrupt you, Senator?
Of course not.
So to denounce the same kind of fundraising guidelines that President Obama went by, that Speaker Pelosi goes by, that you yourself went by until not long ago in order to build the Democratic Party and build a campaign ready for the fight of our lives.
These purity tests shrink the stakes of the most important election.
Judy.
We'd like to bring everyone in.
We'd like to bring everyone in.
I did not have a body to get this.
I did not come here to listen to this argument.
I came here to make a case for progress.
And I have never eaten this.
So let's pause it here.
By the way, Penguin Lady.
Dude, this is just classic Democratic politics because literally everyone's wrong.
They're all wrong.
They're all wrong for different reasons.
But that was an interesting moment between Buttigedge and Elizabeth Warren.
That was, to me, I think, aside from Tulsi Kamala Harris, the snippiest part of the whole primary election season so far between Democrats.
But every single one of them is wrong.
And then, of course, Amy Klobuchar at the end, she's wrong too.
She comes in.
I didn't come here to be in this type of a fight.
You're like, you didn't come here for a debate?
Well, that's what the rest of us came here for.
I came here to talk about progressive ideas.
I don't want to debate each other.
Like, all right, you fucking weirdo.
Well, that's what they're doing.
Now, it is, okay, so Elizabeth Warren, and this is why I did enjoy Mayor Pete calling her out on this, because it's just so, it's so fucking outrageous that these people, all of them, it's like, look, if you go to Ivy League schools, you're a senator, and you're now running for president of the United States.
Okay, fine.
But to do that and then also denounce the elite, like as if you're, oh my God.
So she comes off with this thing like they had crystal glasses with expensive wine in this room.
Who does that?
Who lives like that?
Like, who are you talking to?
It's just like, it's so fucking patronizing and condescending that she speaks this way.
Oh, my God.
These wealthy people.
Okay, listen, according to Forbes magazine, Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of $12 million.
Nice.
Okay.
Now, isn't it interesting that $50 million, that's where her wealth tax comes in.
$12 million, that's no problem, right?
Like that's just, that's just a modest little nest egg.
Well, she didn't defend.
She didn't make it defending corporations for going bankrupt and not paying out claims to individuals or, you know, private individuals that they borrowed money from.
Well, right, right.
Exactly.
Now, Elizabeth Warren, on top of a $12 million net worth, has she owns two homes, a $3 million Victorian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an $800,000 condo in Washington, D.C.
So, you know, it's just so funny and so fucking arbitrary where these people get to draw the line to denounce rich people.
You know what I mean?
It's like, hey, average trucker who's married to a waitress.
Isn't it crazy what these rich people do?
I only have a $4 million home.
Oh, and then I also have an $800,000 condo.
You know, you can't always stay at your $4 million Victorian home.
Sometimes you got to be in your condo.
Like, oh, okay.
Like, where do you get off?
You know, like, like, talking about, oh, he's meeting me in these crystal glasses with expensive wine.
And then, you know, Mayor Pete was fair in pointing out, he's like, look at your fucking net worth.
Who are you?
I'm way poorer than you.
Like, he's the only one in the race who's not wealthy.
You know, and so he's like, what the fuck are you talking lecturing me for about this?
Okay.
Now, where Mayor Pete is full of shit is that he's like, it's like, well, look, Mayor Pete, let me make a wild prediction.
By the time you're Elizabeth Warren's age, you're going to have the same fucking thing.
Okay.
The only thing is that you're young and just starting your political career and she's older.
I mean, all of them used to do this.
Fucking, you know, as Hillary Clinton said, you know, they were dead broke when they left the White House.
I mean, they were worth like $4 million, I think, something like that, four or five million dollars.
Plus they had all the furniture and silverware they stole from the White House.
Well, they did.
So they had, they had something to get themselves on their feet.
But you know what I'm saying?
So they had a few million dollars.
That's a real thing.
I don't know.
I've heard it before.
I don't actually know if it's real or not, but I have heard that.
But they were real dicks during the transition is what the rumor is to George W. Bush.
Anyway, but so they had like a few million dollars when they left the White House.
Well, now they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
And that's, you know, it's like you cash in later off all the favors you've done for people.
And this is typical.
Joe Biden, the same thing, made a lot of money after he left the White House.
And his family, obviously, you know, son and stuff like that, made money off him being in there.
Elizabeth Warren, right?
So she's got her $12 million.
She'll probably make more over the next few years.
And Buddha Judge is young and he's just starting off.
So he doesn't have that money yet.
So he can come.
But, you know, so it's kind of bullshit for him to call her out on this, although she's full of shit.
But then it's also kind of full of shit for him, you know, to just be like, yeah, so I take money from these billionaires.
What?
Is that corrupting me?
What do you think they want something for that money?
It's like, well, yeah, of course it is.
Of course that's what this whole game is.
Everybody knows that.
And this is where even though Elizabeth Warren comes off looking bad, I don't think you're really going to fool the Democrats.
I mean, look, they have all the wrong like recommendations.
They have all the wrong answers to this, but they at least get, it's like, which everybody gets.
It's like, yeah, okay, the fact that billionaires fund political campaigns, it's like, obviously, they're fucking looking for something.
They're not just doing it out of the goodness of their heart.
If they were all doing it out of the goodness of their heart, why do you guys need to tax all these billionaires so much?
I mean, they all seem to be such wonderful people.
Maybe they'll just do the right thing, right?
Like it's obviously they want, they're buying power.
Now, the libertarian answer to all of this is cut down on the power so there's nothing to buy rather than this idiotic fucking left Democrat thing, which is like, well, we got to increase the power, but then write rules so that the power can't be bought.
This is ridiculous.
But it's like, no.
And then, of course, he has to invoke.
He's like, well, Obama did it and Nancy Pelosi does it.
So I mean, could it be corrupt?
It's like, well, yes.
Yes, actually, it could.
Yes.
You just named two incredibly corrupt politicians.
So sure, absolutely.
That's a problem.
But he, you know, it's smart politics because he knows Elizabeth Warren can't criticize their leaders.
But anyway, I just, you know, Elizabeth Warren just, oof.
What, I mean, really, that I thought was a terrible moment for her.
She's just really not good at this.
She's not good.
She's good at going off and off about her plans and how only two pennies will, you know, put everybody, you know, through fucking kindergarten or whatever.
But she is terrible at being challenged.
And then she starts, you call it the thing where she starts, you know, scolding the moderators again.
My name was invoked.
My name was invoked.
Why $15 Minimum Wage Fails00:03:06
I get to respond.
And you're like, yeah, look, I know, but it's a debate with eight people there.
And you guys have gone back and forth like seven times.
So obviously at some point, the moderators are going to be like, we're bringing somebody else in.
But anyway, things definitely got fiery there.
It was interesting that, you know, Pete Buttigieg has to, you know, he's in a situation where he has to fight a little bit more because he's in fourth place.
So those three are ahead of him.
And it's like, if you want to actually start making moves now, you got to start taking some of them on.
And, you know, that was he went for it there.
So anyway, he also hit a really good line earlier in the debate that I agreed with.
I only remember half of it, but he was criticizing Elizabeth Warren and said it's foolish to measure the boldness of an initiative off of how much money it's going to add to the debt.
Yeah.
That was only half of it.
But like he really kind of summed up.
No, it was a fair.
That was a fair point.
So someone, somebody needed to say it.
Well, it's hard to not, right?
Isn't it?
Like, by the way, when you do the reducto absurdum, and like these points of like, you know, when you say something like, because I've heard people respond to this before, the point isn't to disprove the argument, right?
It's not.
So if I say something like, if they go, well, you know, we support a $15 minimum wage, and I was like, well, why not 20?
I mean, why not 100?
Why not $100,000 an hour minimum wage, right?
Your point isn't that, it's not to say that that disproves a $15 an hour minimum wage is a bad idea because $100,000 minimum wage is a bad idea.
The point is that you get, you move the conversation by taking this principle to its logical, to its extreme, you realize that, okay, it fails at this extreme.
And then you go, well, what failed about it?
And where exactly does that start?
Like, why, what would the problem with $100,000 an hour minimum wage be?
Okay, why does that problem not?
Because obviously someone could say, like, I don't know, if you eat a little bit of salt or something like that, it might just make your food a little tastier.
But if you ate a certain amount of salt, it could kill you, right?
So not everything because it's taken to extreme means you shouldn't have a little bit of it.
But it's still the thing with these Democrats is you start to go, like, once Elizabeth Warren's proposing $8 trillion in new taxes, you know, $30 trillion in new spending or whatever it is with her latest plans.
And it's, and then they go, well, the economists worry this could be a problem.
And she's like, they're wrong.
It's like, oh, okay.
Well, then why not $10 trillion in new taxes?
I mean, we could buy more stuff, right?
Like all that stuff that you want for these people.
It's a little bit more penny.
Well, exactly.
Like, why not?
Why not 10 pennies?
I mean, it's only 10 pennies.
It's a dime, a couple of nickels.
I won't even stop to pick up a dime.
I mean, like, it'd be interesting to make, because at a certain point, they'd have to admit what the problem is.
The White Male Privilege Trap00:14:28
Like, right?
At a certain point, you'd have to admit you're destroying the economy, right?
So I just wonder where that point is exactly and how you think $30 trillion is not way over it.
99 pennies is just a lot of pennies.
I don't even care about pennies.
Yeah, it's just pennies, whatever.
So, oh my God.
So that last penny, just throw in.
Take the dollar.
And that last penny, you would just leave in that little take a penny, leave a penny thing anyway.
All right.
Okay, let's move on to the next moment in the debate.
I think this is, if I'm correct, this was the moment that I actually found the most infuriating in the debate, but it was funny as well.
So there's some funny parts to it.
So let's play the next clip.
Vice President Biden.
I think everyone up here in this stage, and those who are not on the stage who've run, we owe them, because they're all there's.
There was one before this, one Politico.
Now let's turn to the next question from Tim.
Thank you, Judy candidates, let's make things interesting.
Former president Obama said this week, when asked who should be running countries, that if women were in charge, you'd see a significant improvement on just about everything.
So just pause that already, right there, doesn't it?
Doesn't it just make you vomit in your mouth a little bit?
Don't ask me, just ask my wife.
I mean, she's really the smart one in here.
Then why here?
You know, like I, i've always I used to, I always hated it when um, there's there'd be like a bunch of stand-up comics who i've seen do that before.
I remember when I first started comedy, it was like you know, I don't know, it's like 13 years ago or something like that, but where i'd watch like comics who do that a lot and be like i'm the idiot.
My wife is really smart, like my wife's, so interesting, but i'm just a big dummy.
I remember my reaction is always like, okay, can we hear from her?
Then why am I listening to you?
You know, I think the world would be a lot better if women ran it.
It's like, okay, so why are we even taking a quote from you?
What does your wife think?
Since you're such a fucking retard, where's she?
I hate this.
This, it's just so.
It's such virtue signal, pandering bullshit.
Oh yeah, because women are just perfect.
And then the the pop from the crowd which is half men clapping too, by the way just to like, look over to the chicks in the in the room like oh, you see how hard i'm clapping.
Yeah, look at that.
Oh god, it's just the fucking worst, just the worst.
Yeah, you're right, we wouldn't have any problems with fucking if women were leaders.
That's why fucking.
You know that Hillary Clinton was such a good secretary of state.
Right, give me a fucking break.
What bullshit is that?
And it's also it's like you know what's great about that theory that they go like white men.
They're the problem, and every bad thing has ever come from white men.
That's just because they were the only ones who were making decisions in the past.
As every other group of people come to power, you're just going to find that people are people.
You know, like that uh, you had that lady who uh, got thrown out of Congress.
She had the swastika tattoo by her badge and she was like cheating with the like yeah, oh yeah, that chick yeah, but oh, wouldn't the world be so much better if bitches like that were running everything.
You had that great.
Um uh, there was a female ceo maybe Brian can look this up but she was like BIG Pharma and it turned out she was just running a giant scam and they were oh yeah yeah, that was great documentary, by the way, I think it was on HBO.
Oh fantastic, she had like the mini blood.
Uh, fucking thing.
Yeah, it was fucking crazy.
She went out to Silicon Valley and started this company.
She got everyone on board, like got like all these and they're all excited like look, there's this female entrepreneur running the scene and she turned out to be a lying scumbag.
Oh yeah yeah, defrauded a whole bunch of people out of money.
Uh, it's like yeah right, like just the idea that women are above it all or something.
No, it's just people are people.
As you have more female ceos no, and maybe there's differences.
But maybe there's differences between men and women, but women aren't perfect.
They have their own problems too and, like I, I don't know.
Yes, when it comes to leadership, women are just fucking so much better than men.
Of course, there's so much empirical evidence to back that up.
Um anyway, so this was the uh the quote.
But okay, so let's.
And he just says not only that women would be better leader, but that the problem is that there's these old men and they need to step out of the way.
So let's uh play the rest quote.
If you look at the world and look at the problems, it's usually old people, usually old men not getting out of the way.
Senator Sanders, you are the oldest candidate on stage to say white as well.
That was the funniest moment of the debate.
It just flops.
He just know your audience.
Burn dog know your audience.
They were not ready to hear that.
I don't even try and tan.
That's how white I am, white all the time.
Uh, by the way Bernie, as i've uh personally found out myself, you know a lot of the people who really love white people don't consider you that white.
Just saying for the record, um look, it's so funny because what Bernie did there and he covers for himself, you know, and moves back into his talking points, but what Bernie did there was for first off.
He tried to be funny and it flopped, because the audience he's in front of is not allowed to laugh at jokes like that.
But Bernie revealed a little something there right, didn't he?
Didn't he reveal?
Like what did Bernie Sanders really just say right there, when he goes, yeah and i'm white, he said, how retarded is all this shit.
That's what Bernie Sanders just told you.
How fucking stupid is this.
And of course he's right, because Bernie Sanders, for as as terrible as his economics are, Bernie Sanders, you know, he's not 20, he's 80.
Okay, he was around at a time before all of this fucking retarded, like next level retarded identity politics stuff started where he'd go.
You know, the real problem is that there's just a bunch of men and there's not a bunch of women, because women are so great and men are responsible for all the evil in the world and and like he's, he literally just let it out.
He just had a moment where it all came out.
He goes, yeah, and i'm white too, right?
So white men ooh oogie, boogie.
Really bad, right.
White men, the worst people in the world.
How fucking stupid is this that?
That all came out of Bernie in one instant and it was glorious to watch him deliver that.
I watched the audience go, no Bernie no, you don't joke about being a white man.
That's a real problem.
You were born of the wrong gender and skin.
What you tell them is, uh listen, I understand where you're coming from, so before i'm elected into office, i'm gonna get a vagina put in and turn my skin black.
Yes, that's right.
There you go.
That's.
I now identify as an uh Latino, uh woman, who's 25, by the way.
So stop asking me about age.
It's not a problem.
Uh, it's anyway.
It's just it.
It's really something to even see a question or a statement like this come up.
Um, and this is again one of the things it reminds you.
If you want to add another little you know element into why Donald Trump is elected here's, here's one more little part for you.
It was like this, constant bullshit um, fucking pandering virtue, signaling social justice crap that Obama throws out all the time.
People didn't like their...
Look, Obama said, and this is a big part of the story, right?
That Democrats won't look at at all.
And, you know, no one, it's just like, well, everyone's a racist and that's what happened.
I mean, I remember Van Jones saying that when Donald Trump got elected, this was a white lash, you know?
It's like this was the white people were angry about a black president.
That's it.
It was, they were just angry about a black president, even though so many of them voted for that black president and supported him in the beginning.
Barack Obama had a very high approval rating in the beginning before he, you know, crammed the healthcare takeover down everyone's throat.
But Barack Obama ran on not much, really, in 2008.
I mean, there was like, we're going to end the wars and stop torturing people and, you know, all the stuff that he didn't do.
But really, Barack Obama's central message was like, fluff.
It was hope and change and yes, we can.
But what Obama said, which really did play to people's, I think, Desires or their longings was, he said, there's no such thing as a red America and a blue America.
There's only the United States of America, and I'm going to be a unifier, not a divider.
That was like really central to his campaign.
And then eight years of Obama were the most divisive eight years of my lifetime, really the last four.
I mean, obviously, it's worse under Trump now, so it's almost like people forget that.
The country, there's a reason why Trump was able to rise up in the aftermath of Obama's presidency.
This is an incredibly divided country.
And so, Obama, it's like, you know, he ran on being this uniter, and then he just is always saying this shit, you know, always saying stuff like this, always.
You know, it just pissed people off on top of a lot of other issues, but it really pissed people off a lot.
Anyway, it's an interesting, the other element of it that's so interesting, right, is that it's like the people in the audience are clapping, right?
Like thunderous applause.
But you guys get to choose.
I mean, it's like, okay, it's time for old white men to step aside.
Well, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are in first and second place because of you.
Like, it's you guys.
You guys are doing this.
So if it's time for like a young woman of color, then I don't know.
By the way, there's a pretty good one who's running, Tulsi Gabbard.
So, okay, I'll go support her.
But you don't.
You support these old white guys.
So what do you want me to say?
And Elizabeth Warren, who's, you know, an old Cherokee lady.
So what do you want me to say?
All right, let's keep playing.
I got a lot of respect for Barack Obama.
I think I disagree with him on this one.
Maybe a little self-serving, but I do disagree.
Here is the issue: the issue is where power resides in America.
And it's not white or black or male or female.
We are living in a nation increasingly becoming an oligarchy where you have a handful of billionaires who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and politicians.
You have more income and wealth inequality today than at any time since the 1920s.
We are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care for all people, which is why we need Medicare for all.
We are facing an existential crisis of climate change.
The issue is not old or young, male or female.
The issue is working people standing up, taking on the billionaire class, and creating a government and economy that works for all, not just the 1%.
Thank you, Senator Sanders.
Vice President Biden, I'm going to guess that President Obama did not clear that remark through your campaign ahead of time.
What I'm going to guess.
I'm going to guess he wasn't talking about me either.
Okay.
Number one.
Look, I'm running.
I'm running because I've been around.
My experience.
With experience, hopefully, comes judgment and a little bit of wisdom.
The fact is that we're in a position now, the next president of the United States is going to inherit two things: economy that is out of kilter and a domestic policy that needs to be, we have to unite America.
And a foreign policy that requires somebody to be able on day one stand up, look out, the entire world, know who that person is, know what they stand for, and know they know them.
And that's the reason I'm running.
I have more experience in doing that than anybody on this stage.
Just to follow up, Vice President Biden: if elected, if elected, you would turn 82 at the end of your first term.
You'd be the oldest president in American history.
Are you willing?
Are you willing to commit American history?
American history.
Yes.
Are you joking?
That was a joke.
Okay.
I appreciate it.
Pause it.
No, you weren't, Joe.
No, you weren't.
But nice cover.
Nice cover.
All right.
Anyway, that was more or less the statement.
I don't know.
It just drives me crazy.
They go to Elizabeth Warren at one point and they go, well, you, you know, your age.
And she goes, I'd be the youngest woman president ever elected.
So it's like, you know, basically like, I have a vagina.
Yeah.
And anyone forget?
I swear there's one down there.
It's gross, but it's there.
There was also one point in the debate where they asked Andrew Yang how he felt about being the only person of color.
Oh, yeah, that was fucking, dude, that was crazy.
And he goes, I'm honored, but also, you know, disappointed that there's not more people of color.
And all this stuff is just so.
And then he goes, by the way, how weird is this one?
He goes, I just wonder Asian treated as people as people of color.
They're the most successful people in the country, but still they get the status.
So, okay, so people of color just means not white people.
It's all just an attack on white people.
That's all it is.
But so the so he goes, well, Kamala Harris, I'm sad to see Kamala Harris gone.
And I think Corey Booker will be back.
Like he didn't qualify for this debate, but I think he'll be back.
And it's like, oh, by the way, Tulsi Gabbard is also.
He hasn't mentioned her.
But I guess if you're anti-war, you lose your person of color status because you're not going along with the program.
But it's just all so...
Look, man, Kamala Harris is out because people didn't like her, because she stood for nothing, because she was a fucking cop.
I don't know.
That's why Kamala Harris is out.
And the idea that it's like, oh, this proves somehow, like this is evidence of some type of racism or something like that.
It's like, first of all, this is where people, you have it so fucking backward.
I remember it's the same thing with Barack Obama.
Eventually, you're just like, what world are you living in?
And I don't know if there's any way to like quantifiably prove this, but what world are you living in?
Where people would go, you know, Obama had it really hard because he was black.
And you're like, Obama would never have been president unless he was black.
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Let's get real.
If Obama was just some white guy, they would have made him wait longer.
The fact that it was historic was all because he was the first black president.
That like played completely in his favor.
And Kamala Harris was there because she was a woman of color.
That was the wind at her back.
The wind at her front was that she was terrible and voters didn't like her.
And this stuff about women, man, it's like, look, how much do you want to bitch about there not being a female fucking president?
Here, by the way, your problem is with women.
I'm sorry.
Women are a majority of the population.
Okay?
They're a majority of the population and a majority of the voting age population.
So if you don't think like that women could do this all by themselves, run for office and vote for the woman and you'll get a woman president.
Women can vote in this country, unfortunately.
Okay?
So fucking run one.
But you're condemning the voters that you're supposed to be up there championing and representing and you're condemning them for all being bigots.
I don't know.
Life is complicated.
Maybe there's a reason why men tend to take on leadership roles.
Maybe there's a reason why men are more driven to go after these leadership roles.
But god damn it.
And to come from a man who was president is just disgusting.
All right.
So before, let's go to the final clip.
Just to set this up, I will say I was thinking in my mind that Joe Biden was doing better than he's done at one of these debates before.
And I was kind of noticing that he hadn't been stuttering as much throughout the debate.
I swear to God, that was what was going through my head.
That Joe Biden is a little bit smoother.
He's not stuttering as much as he was in the last couple of debates.
And then Joe Biden had this moment.
Vice President Biden.
I think everyone up here in this stage, and those who are not on the stage who've run, we owe them because they're all pushing for the same exact thing.
You're not the only one that does selfies, Senator.
I've done thousands of them, thousands of them.
And the crew that follows me can tell you, there's not one line I go through that I don't have at least a half a dozen people come up and hug me and say, Can you help me?
I just lost my daughter 10 days ago.
Can you help me?
Tell me I'm going to be okay.
Can you help me?
I just lost.
And they go and lay out their problems.
My wife and I have a call list of somewhere between 20 and 100 people that we call at least every week or every month.
Just pause a second.
I'm here.
Okay.
I haven't.
Well, by the way, okay, let me just say if we're going to pause it here, Joe Biden says, at least a dozen people come up and hug me.
Let's get real.
Who initiated that hug, Joe?
Who started hugging who first?
Yeah.
And I can't tell you every time.
Every time I get in a line of people, I just end up hugging them and they come up and hug me.
I mean, sure, they look uncomfortable and they lean away as I sniff their neck.
We have a call list between 20 and 100 people we call weekly.
That's a drastically different number, which makes me think you don't have any call list.
You really just pulled that one out of your ass.
Well, here, hold on, let's play because this is the fun part coming up.
I give them my private phone number.
They keep in touch with me.
A little kid who says, I can't talk.
What do I do?
I have scores of these young women and men who I keep in contact with.
Joe Biden.
Oh, that's it.
Let's pause it.
So Joe Biden almost, by the way, this is like the last 10 minutes of the debate.
He almost got through the debate without having a Joe Biden moment where you're just like, dude, what the fuck are you doing?
And then he just starts doing an impression of a stuttering kid.
It's like, Joe, he's so bad at this.
He's so weird.
It's like, Joe, you can just explain it.
You could just be like, a kid with a stutter came up to me and started talking.
He didn't know what to do about his stutter.
You know, like, you don't have to actually go.
And, and then this fucking, this tard came up to me and was like, the vice president didn't bite it.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
And then, by the way, all the media is defending Joe Biden because I guess he had a stutter as a kid.
So like, you can't attack him for stuttering.
You're like, what?
He's still doing an impression of a kid stuttering.
That wasn't him stuttering.
That was him doing a kid with a stutter.
So weird.
And by the way, this is the best part about Joe Biden as a candidate is that there's already been like seven articles explaining why it's completely okay for him to do a kid stuttering, which by the way, I don't have a problem with it.
I just find it fucking weird as shit.
I don't care.
Do whatever you want.
But what do you think they would do if there was a Republican who just started doing an impression of a kid stuttering?
All those same articles would be about how insensitive he is.
Anyway, we got out of here.
He spends too much time hugging kids to possibly confuse and think he doesn't like them.
Oh, no, he likes them way too much.
Anyway, that was the debate.
One more shit show, the last one of 2019.
I guess there'll be more.
I don't even know.
I haven't even looked at the schedule, but there you go.