Dave Smith argues libertarians must engage in cultural debates regarding family structures and state education to avoid appearing inauthentic, while critiquing Don Lemon's condescending CNN clip that inadvertently fuels populist narratives. He highlights how social media exposes elite hypocrisy, noting the viral reach of Lemon's mockery compared to his show's viewership, and predicts Donald Trump will leverage corruption allegations against Biden's family during the Iowa caucuses. Smith outlines three disastrous scenarios for Democrats, including a contested convention or Sanders' alienation of the base, concluding that Biden's elitist behavior and declining polls signal a severe threat to the establishment amidst an intensifying culture war. [Automatically generated summary]
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Rolling Back The Big State00:14:09
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Here's your host, Dave Smith.
What is up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am the most consistent motherfucker you know, Dave Smith.
I am flying solo for this episode.
I know I told you guys that today we had Brett from the School Sucks podcast coming on.
My fault.
I messed up the details on that.
He'll be on next week, next Wednesday.
So this episode will be solo.
Rob Bernstein is out.
It's not AIDS-related.
It is, in fact, the coronavirus has hit Rob.
He's come down with a mild case of Corona.
He'll be just fine.
Kid loves his sandwiches and bat soup.
What can I say?
You know, what am I going to do?
Get in the way of him and his passion?
That wouldn't be very libertarian of me.
Would it?
All right.
Bunch of things to talk about today.
Some really fun, entertaining, and truly revealing things that I wanted to go over with you good people.
But I wanted to start with a message to libertarians.
And it has to do with the reaction that I got from just a few people, not like a whole bunch.
It was just like three, maybe four people, to something that I said either last podcast or a couple podcasts ago.
I can't really remember.
They all kind of blend together.
I just, I black out when I get in this studio and just fucking rant.
And, you know, eventually Brian throws some cold water on me and he's like, show's over, Dave.
And I'm like, wait, what happened?
I don't know.
So anyway, it was one of these, one of these shows.
It was one of the last couple shows.
And I said something about parents not raising their children in our country.
And I said that so often libertarians, you know, I don't want to go through the whole thing again, but I basically said, so often libertarians talk about all of these transformations in our society, going, you know, from a gold standard to a fiat-based currency model or going from a republic to an empire, going, you know, the rise of the whatever, you know, the national security state, things like this.
There's probably 15 others that you can rattle off in your head right now.
I said, but one of the things that very rarely gets brought up by libertarians is that we transitioned from a society where families raise their children to one where it's outsourced and parents really don't raise their children anymore.
And to me, I was like, this is like the most profound, most bottom-up change.
Not that it came from a bottom-up direction, but you understand what I'm saying?
Like it affects the bottom all the way up.
And that I think this is something libertarians should talk about.
And, you know, if you think you're going to have a libertarian social order.
And when I say that, I mean, obviously, libertarianism is a legal order, but human beings are human beings.
And if you think you're going to have a social order that supports a libertarian legal order when children aren't being raised by their families, I think you've got another thing coming.
And that's not going to work out very well.
And I was, there were a few people, three or four, maybe five people, libertarians who responded to me because this clip got posted by the part of the problem clips Twitter page.
And a few people responded and they said basically that libertarians shouldn't be talking about this because libertarians don't have any opinion on the matter.
Like libertarians say you should be free to organize your family however you want to.
If you want to leave your kid with a nanny or in daycare or something like that, that's your choice.
There should be no law against that.
And that's that.
It's the libertarians basically have nothing to say about this.
And I really couldn't help but think to myself, I go, this is why libertarianism is seen as a joke by so many people.
This is the exact reason why people write us off.
And if people are taking that attitude, I got to say, particularly as somebody who's father, I get it.
I get why they would write you off if that's your attitude.
If you can't state a preference between a child being raised by their parents or a child being basically just dumped in daycare, if you can't state a preference between the two of those things, why should anybody take you seriously as a person?
Now, fair enough, I'm not even arguing with the technical claim.
I mean, yes, I'm not suggesting there should be laws against putting your kids in daycare.
I'm not suggesting there should be laws against leaving your kid with a nanny, but I also have a right to state my opinion and to talk about cultural issues that matter, that are very, very important.
This is one of the things I've been stressing for years now, probably three, maybe even four years now, where I've been talking about how I've kind of learned my cultural lesson.
And I think it's something that libertarians really need to learn.
Look, man, we've got, don't get me wrong, a lot of other people need to learn some lessons from us.
You know, the populist right and the populist left could really use to learn an economic lesson from libertarians, like very, very badly.
It would do them some good.
They're scattered and all over the place.
I mean, it's like a fucking joke.
It's hilarious when you watch Donald Trump talk about how this is the greatest economy that's ever existed, even though he said that the Obama economy was all smoke and mirrors and it's the same fucking economy, just a little better.
And or, you know, maybe just the bubble inflated a little bit more.
But then he also complains that interest rates aren't held at 0% still.
Like, you know, these guys have no, they need to learn their economic lesson.
They need to learn their lesson about what the role of government ought to be and all of those things.
But libertarians need to learn their cultural lesson or this whole movement is going to be in serious, serious trouble.
It's going to be a big problem.
And particularly because we do have so much to offer in the kind of economic lessons and legal lessons in general.
But, you know, first of all, I would say it like this.
Just pitching this to libertarians in terms of libertarianism, okay?
It's not as if the government is not involved in this dynamic.
It's not like the, you know, that families just decided they don't want to raise their children anymore.
And that was just some type of like, you know, organic market decision.
They just went, oh, you know, we, you know, in our like individualist pursuit of happiness, we would rather not raise our children anymore.
It's not what happened.
What happened was that, you know, well, first off, you had this kind of like women into the workforce, women into the workforce second wave feminist movement that was largely funded by government.
I mean, straight up CIA funded in many cases.
And of course, there's lots of incentives for the government to do this.
It's not just that they wanted to break up the family unit.
That's part of it.
But there's just, you know, blatant economic incentives.
Like, if you get women into the workforce, you get to tax the labor of women.
If women are at home taking care of kids, there's nothing to tax there.
And then if you're hiring a nanny, you can tax her too.
You get a lot more tax revenue if you break up the family unit.
That's, you know, that's just the reality of the situation.
The government was very incentivized to get into this.
And of course, you see this all over the place.
And libertarians should be hip to this: that the government comes in and they always give you some moral reasoning for their justification for something.
But then you realize that all of their economic incentives line up for it too.
So it's not, you know, like, are you really doing this just for, you know, like, like, are Democrats really for open borders because they think diversity is our strength?
Or are they importing voters?
Let's take a wild guess.
Let's be a little bit cynical with it.
So anyway, it's not as if this is something that just happened without government intervention.
Of course, like, you know, the price of, you know, housing and college and all of these things are greatly inflated due to government intervention.
So there's there, it's not as if there's something libertarians, just by strict autistic libertarian philosophy, shouldn't have something to say about this.
But, you know, in addition to that, it's like in many cases, perhaps the majority of cases, the person who is or the group who is raising the children is the state.
I mean, that's like, like, it straight up is public schools raising children or public daycares raising children.
So what, do libertarians not have anything to say about that?
I mean, what do you think?
The fucking government raising and educating your kids may result in a pro-government bias?
Is that possible?
It's like if you were an abolitionist and you're like, well, I'm just against slavery.
That's all I care about.
And you were like, well, who should raise the kids?
And you're like, abolitionists have nothing to say about who should raise the kids.
We just say that we should abolish slavery.
And I was like, okay, but the slave masters are raising the kids.
Now, do you maybe have something to say about that?
Because, oh my God, all of these kids seem to have a bias towards slavery.
So maybe if you're an abolitionist, it might be somewhat effective to say, you know, I think maybe we'd want abolitionists raising children, or at least people who are neutral on the issue.
But definitely not like adamantly pro-slavery people raising them.
So that's, you know, like, you got to understand what's going on here.
You know, it's like our kids are literally pledging allegiance to the state.
Like, I'm not like, not in some abstract way, like quite literally raising their hands and pledging allegiance to the state every morning.
That may not be the best thing if you're against the state.
More importantly, even than any of that stuff, though, is that, look, man, libertarians have to learn their cultural lesson.
And you have to realize that where we are in 2020, if you're going to take the attitude that I don't have anything to say about culture, because the libertarian answer is people should be free to do whatever they want to do and let the chips fall where they may.
Now, by the way, technically, that is true.
I'm not trying to enforce my cultural preferences on anybody.
And that's great.
And libertarians should stress that.
However, in the year 2020, recognize that we are in the middle of a culture war.
That's what's going on here.
And if people don't, you know, like the vast majority of people are not sitting around reading philosophy.
It's like most people don't reject either the left or the right because they're like, well, I've really, you know, it's not like people reject the Republicans because they're like, I'm really steeped in all of this Noam Chomsky literature.
And he's, you know, proven to me why, you know, Republicanism is like bad or something like that.
It's not that at all.
It's just a cultural preference.
And same with the Republicans and the right in response to the left.
It's just a response.
It's not like they're sitting there like, oh, I've fucking just polished off all this Adam Smith or something like that.
And that's why I don't like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It has nothing to do with that.
What they care about is cultural issues.
And if you're just going to say, well, I'm agnostic, I have nothing to say on this, you're not going to be able to speak to anybody.
People will write you off.
And if you can't, if you just as a human being don't have an opinion about some of these things, and you can separate it from the libertarian legal order or whatever, I mean, I'm not against that, but you can't.
It's like if I were to say to you, like, you're a libertarian, and I go, well, how do you feel about, you know, drag queen storytime hour for eight-year-olds?
And you go, well, libertarians don't have an opinion on that where, you know, people should be free to do whatever they want to or something like that.
It's like, okay, now you just don't sound like a human being.
And if nothing, and also it's a losing strategy.
It's a really, really bad strategy.
Because let me tell you something.
That whole, you can do whatever you want there.
It's not going to win you any favor with the pro-drag queen storytime people because they are, you got to be lockstep with them if you want to be in their club.
As soon as you go, well, people are free to do that, but people are also free to kick the tranny out if they want to do that.
That's too far for them.
Me just saying tranny right now, that's too far for that.
It doesn't matter.
You're done.
You're basically a Nazi.
You're either on board with the program or you're a Nazi.
That's how they look at things.
Okay.
And then the people who are appalled rightfully, like any normal human being should be, fucking appalled by drag queen story hour.
They're like, well, you're not willing to fight this fight.
And I got to say, I think a whole lot of libertarians just aren't willing to fight this fight.
You know, I remember back in the day with Ann Coulter when she was calling libertarians pussies.
And I see so much of it now with like the reactionary right wing calling libertarians pussies.
But I, and I always wanted to defend libertarians.
And I still do because there's so many of them that are just, you know, great people and are right about everything.
Fighting The Fascist Narrative00:06:35
But I got to say, I think there is some truth to that.
And I think a lot of people are just a little bit afraid to get into this arena to talk about cultural issues that obviously matter, that obviously every human being has an opinion on one way or the other.
You cannot convince me that you have no thoughts on drag queens coming into fucking kindergartens.
Like you, you can't actually convince me that you don't have any thoughts on that.
I mean, maybe some people, but most of you don't.
But maybe the fear is just that it's like, yeah, you're going to be labeled a fascist or you're going to be labeled a Nazi or something like that.
Listen, I've had that label thrown at me a whole bunch.
I literally just tweeted out.
It's fucking hilarious, by the way.
And there's something libertarians should really, even for all the fucking left libertarians.
And I know a bunch of you guys still listen to this show and you probably fucking hate listening to it for a good portion of it.
But you know what?
How about this?
While you're sitting there going like, oh, oh, Dave's a, you know, I'm a fascist sympathizer because like I fucking, you know, go on Stefan Molyneux's show or something, or I have Nick Fuentes on my show or something like that.
You know, like I'm a real fascist sympathizer.
Here, new CNBC headline.
Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading disinformation online.
That's what we're actually up against.
But now all these people who fucking call me a fascist sympathizer, like, how about that?
How about legitimate fascism being proposed by the third, you know, most likely person to win the Democratic nomination?
Straight up.
Disinformation will be criminalized.
That is actually out of the fascist playbook.
Okay.
There's Obama writing into law that you can detain American citizens indefinitely without charges, without a trial.
That's some fucking fascist shit.
That's the worst of the fascists.
Well, I mean, you know, maybe not quite the worst, but it's, you know, some of the worst stuff.
So, what are you going to do?
You're scared of these people calling you a fucking fascist.
The actual fascists are going to call you a fascist.
Maybe you just have to deal with that.
Maybe we just have to learn to live with that.
But understand on every issue.
Number one, and here's the two points that I'm really trying to drive home.
Okay.
Number one, these are not just aesthetic issues that don't matter.
These issues matter.
It's not that everybody's wrong to think that these issues matter.
They really, really matter.
The culture is important.
Okay.
Like if you think that culture has nothing to do with fucking the likelihood of establishing and maintaining a libertarian legal order, do you think culture has nothing to do with that?
Why do you think it is that like different countries rank so differently on the economic freedom index?
It's not just government policy.
There's a lot bigger than that.
It's the culture.
That's what fucking matters.
What creates the culture?
You know, I really don't know, to be honest.
I'm not like, as I've said before, I'm somewhat agnostic on, well, it's genetics or it's environment or something like that.
It's like, personally, I kind of think it's a mix of both is the most likely answer, but I don't really know.
But it's definitely real.
It definitely turns into something that actually matters.
And I got to say, if you don't, if you believe in a libertarian legal order, well, what you're going to need is right, like you can't just have a vacuum where everybody's going to want the state to fill it.
So if you have strong families, strong churches, strong communities, you're going to be much more likely to be able to convince people of a libertarian legal order because they'll have other support systems in place.
And if you have none of those things, like it's not a coincidence that the biggest statist politicians amongst us all want to tear all those things down.
Like, I mean, think of the best example is the communists, right?
Like the communists, the biggest statists ever, the people who are arguing that the state should run everything, were like religion is banned, like fucking no religion.
You can't have any of that.
You're not allowed to because that's a it's it's competition to the state.
And if libertarians can find any, you know, things like that, like cultural institutions like the family, like religion, like customs, all of this stuff that is rooted in non-aggression, it's not like the state.
It's not robbing from people.
Then we should give serious thought to maybe supporting those institutions.
At least challenging the people who are trying to tear it down by force.
Okay.
So that's number one.
This really matters.
And number two, even if it didn't really matter, this is what really matters to people.
And that's fucking important.
Okay.
Like this is what really matters to people.
This is why people supported Donald Trump.
This is why people hate Donald Trump.
It has nothing to do with them fucking, you know, like, oh, I read his new trade agreement and I think it's flawed.
That has nothing to do with why your friend loves Donald Trump or why your friend hates Donald Trump.
Nothing.
It's strictly a culture war.
That's what's actually going on right now.
And libertarians can't just sit here and say, we're not going to address that.
We have no opinion on the culture war.
Now, I'm not saying you have to full force jump on one side or the other, but you better have something to say about the most important issues in the culture war, or we're going to be in big, big trouble.
And if we can't muster up the courage or the authenticity, the human authenticity to say, hey, I think it's better when parents raise their children than when the state does it, or even when a private nanny or someone like that does it.
If you can't say, oh, I think that's better.
I have a preference here.
I just don't know what hope there is for us.
And I'm not somebody who's ready to give up hope on the most brilliant. political philosophy that's ever been devised by man.
So I'm going to keep hope going for that.
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Hey, speaking of the culture war, what an unbelievable clip that came out from CNN the other day on the Don Lemon show.
Don Lemon is somebody who we've talked about a few times on this show.
I've met Don Lemon several times back when I was working over at Le Man, Don LeMond.
I met him several times when I was working over at Turner.
And, you know, he is, look, I don't want to be hyperbolic here.
He is the dumbest person in cable news, which is really saying something.
There's a lot of really dumb people in cable news, but he is, he is the dumbest of all of them.
And this clip, you know, I love moments like this.
Of course, this is, you probably know what I'm talking about already because it's gone mega viral, just probably tens of millions of views.
It's probably going to be the most viewed CNN clip of the year.
And this is already early in the year.
I mean, it's just because it was perfect.
And as you guys who listen to this show know, my favorite thing are the moments of some degree of honesty in the corporate press when they have something where they actually show you who they are.
And not that this was a moment of honesty, but it was a moment of a truly revealing moment.
And this just sums it all up.
It sums it all up.
Everything.
Everything.
Like every question is like, why is Donald Trump president?
Why is CNN so hated?
What is CNN's problem with Donald Trump?
What does the left actually think of Trump supporters?
This is, it's all just plainly revealed for you in this short little clip.
So without further ado, let's play the clip and then we'll discuss.
Obviously, it's false.
And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.
He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world.
And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's a smart one and they're all y'all elitist for them.
You elitist with your geography and your maps and your spelling, even though my...
My math and you're reading.
Yeah, you're reading, you know, your geography, knowing other countries, sipping your latte, all those lines on the map.
Only them elitists know where Ukraine is.
Sorry, I apologize.
Oh, my God.
But you know what?
It was Rick's fault.
I blame Rick.
But in all honesty, why not?
Sorry, hold on.
Wait, wait.
Can I tell you?
Hold on, hold on.
Hold on.
That was good.
Sorry.
Rick, that was a good one.
I needed that.
Okay, so listen.
All right, so there's your clip right there.
Now, by the way, there's several things that I want to point out on this, but a lot of them I have heard other people pointing out.
And I've seen a lot of commentary on this.
And maybe this is one that this is something I haven't seen anybody else say.
Not that no one else has, but I haven't seen anybody else make this point.
So I wanted to make sure I start with this, and then we can get into the layers of fucking what's going on here and how just incredible of a moment that was.
Okay.
But first thing, and maybe the reason I see this is because, you know, I am a professional stand-up comedian, been doing it for about 13 years and pretty good at it.
And I know, like, I know this stuff.
I've been the business of making people laugh.
And this is something that's really interesting here about this: is that Don Lemon is pretending to laugh.
That is not an authentic laugh.
There was nothing said that would make anybody double over in laughter uncontrollably for like a straight minute and a half.
That just didn't happen.
Donald Trump wouldn't know Ukraine unless there was a U and an actual crane next to it.
And then he's just, what he's doing there is a, it's a performance of pretending to laugh.
It's, you know, like when a fourth grader is trying to bully somebody and they go and they're like, aha, your, you know, sneakers suck.
And they go, ah, ah, ha, ha, ha.
It's not a genuine laugh.
It's a laugh to get a reaction out of you.
It's a laugh to shame you if you don't also get on this side and pretend you think all of these people are really dumb.
Like that's that is not an authentic laugh.
And I just think that's worth pointing out.
That is a performance.
And he actually, so like in his mind, this is going to shame people out of, you know, even flirting with the idea of supporting Trump because look how stupid you'd have to be.
Look how much we're laughing at you if you were to not realize they're dumb.
This is the it's a bully move that would get an insecure, not very intelligent person to go, oh, yeah, yeah, no, I know they're dumb.
I know they're dumb because I'm smart and move over to this side.
That's the idea of this.
Okay, so just wanted to say that up front.
So this is the perception from CNN of Donald Trump supporters.
This is not some marginal figure at CNN.
This is like their guy.
I believe he hosts their primetime 8 p.m. hour.
This is like one of their biggest anchors.
And this is what he finds to be so funny and so true is the idea that Trump supporters are so fucking stupid, they don't even know where Ukraine is on a map.
As if that's some real, you know, important measure of intelligence.
Now, for all of this, it's so funny because you see all of these different corporate press pieces about why people would support Donald Trump.
You know, oh, it's because of the fake news or it's because of the Russians or it's because they're racists or it's because this and that.
This is it.
This is it.
You don't need anything more than what you just saw right there.
This is why they support Donald Trump because you fucking hate them.
You hate them and have zero respect for them.
That's why.
And he's not you.
And he gives you the fucking finger.
And that's why they like that guy because he fought against you.
He said, how about this?
I'm with you guys and fuck CNN.
And they went, yep, that's our guy.
That's our guy.
Back to my point before about libertarians.
Had nothing to do with like his policy papers.
I mean, by the way, they liked his major three policies.
It was pretty straightforward.
It was like, you know, let's not get overrun by illegal immigrants.
Let's not fight a million stupid wars and let's not get ripped off on trade.
But, you know, aside from that, this was the fucking issue.
This, that you look so down your fucking noses.
Imagine these three people are just three incredibly unimpressive human beings.
I mean, Don Lemon is the stupidest person on cable news.
He is the guy who out loud wondered whether that missing airline had been sucked up by a black hole.
He actually said this on his panel.
Like this was a real conversation that he had and asked an expert, is it possible that the black hole took down this airline?
And the expert had to go like, are you asking me if there's a black hole in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
No, that is not possible.
Very much not possible.
And this is the guy who's going to look down his fucking nose at how stupid these fucking rubes are.
How stupid all of these fucking backward people are.
Now, let me just say, to be completely fair and honest about the situation, there are some stupid people who voted for Donald Trump.
There's some stupid people in the middle of the country, in the South, places like that.
Sure, absolutely.
There's lots of stupid people.
Guess what?
There's also lots of stupid people on the coasts.
What do you fucking think?
What do you think?
We're immune to it?
You think we don't have our fair share of dummies?
I mean, think about the amount of, you know, like, like the amount of black support that the Democratic Party gets.
And imagine some Republican, imagine some Sean Hannity, you know, cable news anchor going, oh yeah, they get all the people in fucking the hood.
Oh yeah, who are those fucking people?
And then started doing an impression like this, like that hillbilly accent of some fucking, you know, like hood black dude and talking about how stupid all of them are for voting for the Democratic Party.
Now, that would be the national story of the fucking year if anyone did that, because that you're not allowed to do.
But, you know, like there, not to say there's not a kernel of truth to both of them.
There are stupid people who come out and vote.
That's why democracy sucks.
Okay.
But by the way, they don't even realize they're making a kind of anti-democratic argument in the midst of all this.
But, you know, do you really just like, how fucking condescending and fucking like shitty of a person do you have to be to look down your nose at people in classes lower than you with this type of fucking attitude?
Like, by the way, what, and I'm, maybe it's just like the person I am or something like this.
And I'm sure I've had my moments of being like condescending and shit like that.
But do you really, like, have some fucking respect, man?
Have some fucking respect.
Let me tell you something.
You're a lot better off going through life treating people that you meet like you could learn something from them than treating people like you know everything and they know nothing.
It's much better.
Just forget any of this shit, any politics or any of this stuff.
Just much better.
First off, you're a better person.
It'll make you a better human being.
You'll be happier.
You'll have more friends.
You'll have more connections.
And you will learn more that way.
Like you will improve yourself if you treat other people like there's something you could learn from them.
And the truth is, there almost always is.
There almost always is something you can learn from other people.
But you know, you think about these people who like the miners and truck drivers and roofers and all of these fucking people who probably, every field that I just named probably went, you know, predominantly for Donald Trump.
And then you have somebody who works at CNN just looking down their nose at them.
Like you fucking, you know, you fucking idiots, you rubes, you don't know anything.
And it's like, okay, well, the trucker is making sure that there's food at your grocery store.
The miner is keeping that fucking heat going in the CNN building through the winter.
And you have absolutely no fucking respect for them.
No respect for them.
Now, maybe, by the way, maybe some of them can't find Ukraine on a map.
Like, okay, why is that the end-all be-all?
Who the fuck cares?
Who cares?
What do you know, Don Lemon, about fucking coal mining?
What do you know about that?
I mean, like, like, so if you sit around in a fucking air-conditioned building or a heated building, you know, with a fucking, like, you know, all the technology, all the advancements that are necessary to sustain this, to support this,
and your job is you study foreign policy, and then you're going to sit there and fucking like look down your nose at fucking, you know, the guy who's making all of this possible or making a whole lot of it possible because he doesn't know as much about geography as you do.
Like, go fuck yourself.
Go fuck yourself.
It's just outrageous.
Who cares about geography?
Why is that so goddamn important?
I just like, anyway, this is this, look, man, this is the fucking thing.
This is the thing that is, I think, like the nugget at the center of Trump, of the new right, of the whole populist right-wing movement that's, that's been rising up in America for the last few years.
It's this.
It's just this.
It's like, why is it that like white people in the middle of the country in the south are the only target where you can just take your gloves off, shit on them, mock them, laugh at them as much as you want to.
If you did this to any other group, you would be crucified for it.
Crucified.
But that's the one group that you're just allowed to do an impression of their voice.
Why Nobody Likes Mocking Elites00:09:39
Oh, I don't know.
I mean, gee, I guess my President Trump is going to be, oh, you know, I don't know where Ukraine is.
Just make fucking fun of them.
Oh, you elites with your fucking reading and your writing and your geography.
It's no, it's no, that's not it at all.
It's you.
It's this.
It's you fucking elites who look down your fucking nose at us.
And that's exactly what you're doing.
You're actually proving their point without realizing it because you actually are too fucking stupid.
You're too fucking stupid to realize that you're proving their point.
And by the way, you guys aren't even good at your job.
You know, you look down at some coal miner who doesn't know anything about Ukraine and you guys don't even know shit about Ukraine.
You guys, you guys specialize in politics and you don't know shit about politics.
I'm some fucking idiot comedian.
I know more about politics than all three of those guys.
I guarantee it.
I guarantee Don Lemon hasn't fucking read a fraction of the shit that I've fucking read about politics.
He doesn't fucking know any of this shit.
Doesn't know anything.
He doesn't even know what his own philosophy is.
He just fucking stays right in the middle of the herd and fucking repeats what all the people around him say.
That's all he is.
You're not even good at that.
At least some fucking plumber in fucking Pennsylvania might really fucking know how to be a good plumber.
That's better.
He's already probably doing better than you are in his respective field.
Maybe not financially, but like in terms of fucking like nobility for sure.
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Anyway, it's, but this is it, right?
It's like, so Donald Trump says, you know, I don't think Mexico is really sending their best.
A lot of them are criminals and rapists.
I'm sure some are good people, but really, you know, like we're not getting a great deal from the Mexicans coming over.
Outrage.
Everybody's furious and up in arms about that.
That's like the worst thing you can do.
You're not allowed.
You're not allowed to say that.
You cannot insult the Mexican people who illegally migrate over our border.
Those people you're not allowed to, you know, insult.
Say anything about women.
If Bernie Sanders were to question, I don't really know.
Like even if he did say it, he goes, I don't really know if a woman's like the best position to beat Donald Trump.
Oh, you're sexist.
You can't say that.
You can't say that at all.
But you want to talk about white working class people.
Go for it.
Go to town.
Do a fucking impression.
Call them idiots.
Live on CNN on national television.
Just fucking ridicule them.
Well, don't be surprised if that group of people sees these rules and goes, fuck that.
We don't want to play by those rules.
It was really something.
And on top of everything else, these guys are so, and this is what's a beautiful, what's beautiful about the moment we're living in, right?
And this is all around us, but it's really, really on display in the Democratic Party and in the corporate press, but I repeat myself.
But the order is just collapsing.
They can't figure out how to reel this thing back in.
Like, they can't figure out how to rule effectively anymore.
And there's something beautiful about that.
There's something just, it's incredibly entertaining to watch.
And it's, as long as, you know, it doesn't devolve into some type of violent disaster.
It's a very positive thing for humanity.
But Don Lemon and these fucking idiots on his show are too fucking stupid to even realize that they just cut Donald Trump's best campaign ad for 2020.
I saw Donald Trump Jr.
Let me see if I because I don't want to misremember this because I saw it this morning after I right after I woke up, but I'm pretty sure Don Trump Jr. here on Twitter.
Hold on.
Why isn't he coming up?
Well, he tweeted out a thing.
There was like a video of that, like a campaign ad already, which is what's so beautiful now is that they just fucking, oh, is this the Donald Trump Jr. thing?
Here, just scroll up to the top real quick of his tweet.
Donald Macino, left-wing elites aren't even hiding their hatred.
Yeah, Don Lemon and CNN and the rest of the left-wing elites aren't even hiding their hatred they have for Donald Trump.
Here, let's play the video.
Play it from the beginning.
Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.
He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world.
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
And so that's partly him playing to their base.
Anyone who supported this president is at best looking the other way on racism.
You know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's a smart one and they're all y'all elitist for him.
Trump always loves the low information guy.
You elitist with your geography and your maps of racism across the country because that's just a math and you're reading.
Yeah, you're reading, you know, but your geography, no other country.
And then it reads across the screen, they think you're a joke.
Prove them wrong in November.
I mean, that's the most effective campaign ad I've seen for Donald Trump so far.
So that's what CNN ended up doing with all of that because they are so fucking stupid while they're making fun of the low intelligence of Trump supporters.
All right.
I mean, maybe there's probably some, you know, there's some dumb Trump supporters out there.
There's some really, really smart Trump supporters.
Not a whole lot in the middle.
But a lot of them just tend to realize that this one, you know, essential, you know, kind of little, little bit of understanding.
And they're absolutely right on this.
And what they realize is they're getting fucking ripped off.
They're getting ripped off by the system, by the elites, and they also are being laughed at by these same people who have nothing but contempt for them.
And they're fucking right about that.
So they're smart enough to pick that up.
It's so funny that they don't even, like I said before, it's this theme that they just can't, their order is dying and they're freaking out about it.
You know, it's like it's like Hillary Clinton coming out and saying, nobody likes Bernie Sanders.
You know, like, how fucking stupid.
How stupid.
It's like Hillary Clinton, of all things, she's at least supposed to be a savvy politician and a good strategist.
You know what I mean?
I mean, no one's going to accuse her of being charming or honest or human, but she's at least supposed to like know how to do this by now.
How stupid is it to come out and fucking attack Bernie Sanders as a sexist and a bad guy and a trickster and all of the things that she said either explicitly or implicitly about him.
How stupid is that?
Because now, look, here's the deal, right?
You want Bernie Sanders to lose.
Well, okay.
The truth is there's a decent shot that he's going to.
Probably, you know, probably the odds are slightly against Bernie Sanders.
He's already got the whole DNC to contend with.
But now, if Bernie Sanders loses Iowa or New Hampshire or both, okay, what did you just do?
You just handed all of Bernie Sanders supporters this obvious fall guy or fall woman in this case where they can just say, oh, well, you know why he lost?
Checking Privilege In Politics00:09:26
Because last year's nominee or last cycle's nominee came out and called him a sexist and said nobody likes him.
And Elizabeth Warren called him a sexist and that's why he lost because you guys fucking stabbed him in the back.
Now, how likely are those people to go support the Democratic nominee?
If it's Joe Biden or whoever, right?
So they don't even like that, they're not even, they're so desperate because they're losing power that they're not even like thinking straight.
It's really something.
It's really something to watch.
Okay.
Now I did want to play because I thought this, so this has gone so viral.
It's just blown up all over Twitter that, because normally they would just ignore something like this.
But Don Lemon actually had to address it on his following show, which was yesterday.
So last night, Don Lemon addressed this.
So we're going to play that clip.
And one final note that I have for you, because this is personally important to me to address this, okay?
Anyone, ask anyone who knows me, they'll tell you.
I don't believe in belittling people, belittling anyone for who they are, for what they believe, or where they're from.
During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh.
And while in the moment, I found that joke humorous.
And I didn't catch everything that was said.
Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.
And one final note there.
Because this is.
So this is, I mean, you certainly can't call it an apology, can you?
This is what I love about these fucking, these dummies, right?
People like Don Lemon and all of their ilk, they're just so used to being able to control the narrative that they can't adjust to the fact that the narrative is out of their hands.
It's now blown up across social media.
Like I said, way, way more people have watched this clip than watch Don Lemon's show.
I mean, by a magnitude of order, like, you know, tens of millions of people have watched that clip.
And Don Lemon probably gets a few hundred thousand people who watch his show every night.
And most of them are in airports.
So the narrative is not in your hands anymore, Don Lemon.
You don't get to just decide how people are going to perceive this, but it's not that long ago that they would, right?
Like all of this stuff, social media and all of this shit and CNN's ratings being low, this is all pretty new.
Like it's not just 5, 10, definitely 15, no question about it years ago, where there was no such thing as social media.
And CNN was pulling in millions of viewers a night.
And the only way someone would see this clip was from watching CNN.
And then you get to present it the way you want to and you get to frame it the way you want to and you control the narrative.
That's how these things typically work or typically worked.
But it's different now.
The narrative isn't in your hands.
But so they know this game where they're like, so he's just going to come out and try to tell you.
Imagine starting that, right?
Addressing that other clip and go, I don't belittle people.
Ask anybody.
I don't do that.
And I didn't do that.
Really?
You didn't do that.
Just all you have to do, right?
This isn't hard.
All you have to do is make the group being discussed, rather than Trump supporters, make it black Obama supporters.
It's that simple.
Just imagine that somebody came out and, you know, Sean Hannity and a couple other, you know, Republican Fox News types.
And they were like, oh, Obama just plays to these fucking low intelligence, low IQ people who are like, yo, son, Obama gonna get me that cell phone.
You know, whatever.
You pick the dumbest, pick the dumbest of the Obama supporters, which by the way, that was a real Obama supporter, right?
He gonna get me that phone.
But it would be fucking dishonest and shitty to just pretend that that was all of Obama's supporters.
I mean, he got like close to 70 million votes, right?
So that's not, that's not everybody who supported him.
And same with Donald Trump.
He got 63, 64 million votes.
So yeah, no, like, I'm sorry.
That doesn't describe all of them.
And, but imagine, right?
Fox News, Hannity, and they're like, just, yo, he gonna get me this phone.
Yo, I don't know nothing about geography.
I'm just saying, I got blah.
And do that whole thing.
And then the next day you go, I would never disrespect a group of people.
And I didn't.
What are you talking about?
That never happened.
No, I laughed at a joke.
And then I didn't really hear everything that was said.
No fucking apology.
No, like, eh, you know, like, we probably shouldn't have been laughing at people.
I mean, we, we, like, our fucking role is kind of to be a service to those people too.
So maybe we shouldn't have demonstrated how much contempt we have for them, you know?
But again, just put any other group, put any other group, make it women, make it black people, make it Hispanics, whoever you want to.
This would be like a fucking outrage.
And now that they can't control that narrative, a lot of people are going, hey, you know what?
No, fuck this.
And truthfully speaking, anybody who's fair-minded and open-minded enough is basically having that reaction.
Because feel however you feel about Sean Hannity.
Like, I'm not a fucking fan of Sean Hannity.
I just, I find the show kind of dumb.
And I think I could pretty much do his show any night.
Like, I could just tell you what Sean Hannity is going to say tonight.
I could just do the show and be like, you know, the liberal socialist radicals are out to destroy you and your country.
And here's what they did.
Their cabal of blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like, it's just easy.
And you know what he's going to say.
And there's nothing that thought-provoking.
You know, say what you will about him.
And he was downright terrible through the George W. Bush years and defended every awful thing that George W. Bush did and smeared all the people who were like on the right side.
But he ain't doing shit like this.
You won't catch that on his fucking show.
And if you did, boy, he would be fucking boycotted and protested and probably be off the air.
But fucking, you know, but Don Lemon can just do this and then go, oh, no, I don't do that.
I don't.
Well, guess what, Don Lemon?
We all saw it.
We're all having our own conversation about it.
And you can't just pretend it doesn't exist.
Because the whole fucking playing field is different now.
And maybe if you weren't so stupid, you would realize that.
God damn.
That shit does fucking piss me off.
And I'm not like, you know, it's a funny thing because I'm not like, oh, well, I'm, you know, like, he's not talking about me.
I'm a fucking coastal, you know, Jew.
Like, I'm not that fucking guy who he's shitting on.
But I just don't, I don't think that's right.
I don't think it's right.
I don't think it's right to fucking live in a country and just have like, just be so condescending and shitty toward, you know, what is in many ways the backbone of the country.
Like, I know New York and LA get like so high on themselves because what, like, we have like the fucking finance in New York and they have Hollywood in LA or something like that.
And it's like, that's, that's nice.
That's nice that like you guys gamble in this fucking Federal Reserve casino.
Like, okay.
And that's nice that you guys play make-believe on real expensive fucking sets with nice cameras.
But guess who like actually fucking, you know, I don't know, like mines our fucking coal.
Guess who actually like, you know, provides the energy, fights the wars, paves the roads, like does all of the fucking work that it takes so you can sit around and just fucking have that cushy life.
It's disproportionately the fucking people you're making fun of right now.
Okay.
Those people are in many ways the backbone of the country.
And so you can sit there and fucking have your cushy little CNN gig.
And then you're the one, Don Lemon, who's going to lecture other people about privilege.
You know, you need to check your privilege.
Why?
Because I'm black and gay.
That's why.
It doesn't matter that I'm a fucking multi-millionaire and I'm fucking making fun of some of the, you know, like the working class and poor communities in our society.
But I'm a black gay millionaire.
So you got to check your privilege while I mock you.
And oh, by the way, I wasn't mocking you.
I was just keeling over pretending to laugh at a horrible joke.
And I fucking, I recognize good jokes wherever good jokes exist.
I don't fucking care what your political fucking motive is.
Like I'm a fucking gun rights absolutist.
I think there should be no infringement on people's right to own guns.
That Jim Jeffries bit about gun control was fucking hilarious.
Coming at it from a purely we should have gun control perspective, but it was a funny fucking joke because funny jokes are funny jokes.
That was just not that it wasn't even a joke.
It was literally like second grade level humor.
You were pretending to laugh to insult and mock people.
That's what you were doing.
Biden Polls And DNC Corruption00:15:57
It's a fact.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Sometimes I get worked up about these silly things.
But like I was saying before at the beginning of the show, man, it's like this is this is actually what's motivating people.
And if you do care about like, like even for the purest libertarians out there, it's like if you fucking care about convincing people to embrace liberty, to actually seeing liberty in real life in real people's lives, then you got to somehow, you know, deal with this force because this is what people actually care about.
And I can, and you can't even blame them.
You can't even fucking blame them.
Like, of course, if there's a fucking group that's like hell-bent on your destruction, you're going to support whatever opposes that.
That's just like common sense.
That's common like survival instincts.
Anyway.
Iowa, Iowa caucuses are coming up only a few days away.
Only a few days away.
We're going to find out whether Bernie Sanders wins this thing or Joe Biden wins this thing.
Like I was kind of getting at in the last podcast, as things are coming up more and more.
Man, is it looking better and better for Donald Trump?
It's so funny.
It's so perfect, you know, 2020 is that Donald Trump is in the middle of an impeachment.
His approval ratings are around 45%.
And yet things couldn't be looking better for him.
So there were some new polls out.
Now, these are just national polls, and they don't mean too much, but there's something that you could take away from the trend.
Donald Trump has closed the gap on the Democrats, like when they do the projection of like each Democrat running head to head against Donald Trump in the national polls.
He's closed the gap a lot.
Like Joe Biden was like 20 points up like three, four months ago, and now Joe Biden's like three points up.
Like he closed the gap a lot.
It's a pretty substantial move in the polls.
He closed the gap with Bernie Sanders and now he's beating, I think, just about all the rest of them.
And this is before we've even gotten into the general election where the gloves really come off.
And if you know the way Donald Trump campaigns, I mean, oof, the gloves are going to come off.
I mean, if Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, he's going to, I mean, the corruption of Biden and the Biden families is going to be all he talks about every day, every day.
And there's all sorts of things.
There was just another article out recently about Joe Biden's family corruption.
There are all types of corruption in their family, and he's going to hit him on this constantly.
And you could say, oh, well, there's some corruption in the Trump family too, and the way they make their money or whatever.
But that's not Donald Trump's brand.
Donald Trump's brand is like, I'm a winner.
You know, Joe Biden's brand is the soul of America has to be saved.
We have to go back.
We have to leave this corrupt president and go back to the time of non-corruption.
And it'll be so easy for Trump to at least make that a wash, at least go, yeah, you're just as fucking corrupt as anybody.
This is why, and Donald Trump is great at that.
He's got a really brilliant instinct at doing that.
That's why right after he fucking said, when he got caught on the grab him by the pussy tape, when that leaked, and Donald Trump, and that's like one of the only times Donald Trump's ever apologized, but he did actually apologize.
He goes, you know, I'm sorry.
That's not a representation of me.
I shouldn't have said that.
But look, it was locker room talk.
And I've been around Bill Clinton at parties.
And let me tell you, the Clintons acting like they're outraged over someone talking like this.
This is just bullshit.
And then everyone just kind of went, oh yeah, I'm sure Bill Clinton talks like that too.
And now it's a wash.
Now it's like, eh, you're just as bad.
And then he even said, and what Bill Clinton did was actions, not just words.
And then it's like, boom, you're right back.
Everyone thought that was going to be the death of Donald Trump, but it was like, just like that, was able to make it a wash.
Eh, you're kind of in on this too.
Just like that.
This will be easy for him to do it with Biden.
And none of that has started yet.
None of it.
And the other thing Trump does is he makes you have to talk about it.
So you have to talk about it.
Because if Donald Trump, so like nobody, I don't know if people even remember this because really social media is such a new fucking thing.
And even just two years ago, it wasn't the same thing as it is now.
And five years ago, it really wasn't the same.
And 10 years ago, it didn't exist.
Like it's so new.
And Donald Trump, when he was really using Twitter, people didn't know what to make of that because it was like no presidential candidate had ever really commanded Twitter in this way.
But there were before 2016, the fact that Bill Clinton has been credibly accused of rape by multiple women was never really put into the mainstream.
This was something that Alex Jones talked about.
This was something that the far corners of the internet discussed, but it was never in the mainstream.
Once Trump started talking about it constantly, then everybody had to talk about it because you can't, even the mainstream corporate press can't ignore the fact that the fucking Republican nominee is saying that the former Democratic president is a rapist.
You know what I mean?
So then they would have to report it like Andrea Mitchell would have to go the discredited, you know, allegations that Bill Clinton's a rapist.
But then anyone who's interested can look it up and go, well, there's really nothing that's been discredited about this.
I mean, it's, and then you can go, oh, wait, so this is MSNBC now?
Women are discredited for accusing someone of, you know, it's like all this stuff.
Donald Trump's going to do the same thing with Biden's corruption.
So that that hasn't come out yet.
If it's Bernie Sanders, they're going to dig up every fucking thing that all the Democrats don't want to fucking really go hard against Bernie Sanders' praise for authoritarian socialist regimes because they want Bernie Sanders enthusiastic young people to vote for them if they're to win the nomination.
So they don't want to take him down that hard.
But Donald Trump will have no problem doing that.
So take those poll numbers and close the gap even more.
You know, like throw it another at least five to 10 points in Donald Trump's favor once we get into a general election.
But even that is not the really big story.
And this is kind of what I touched on on the last podcast.
But the really big story is this.
Look, this is how it's shaking out right now.
Here's what you have in the fucking the Democratic Party.
You've got basically at this point, it's down to, it looks like in the polls, pretty much a two-person race.
I mean, it just doesn't seem likely at all that Elizabeth Warren, who's just been tanking in the polls, is going to be able to pull anything off.
And Mayor Pete just never got it together.
He has no black support.
He's just not going to be able, there's no minority support.
He's just not going to be able to get this thing done.
So you've got Biden and Bernie, okay?
And it's very close with the two of them right now.
It's very, very close.
Now, Bernie Sanders is in position right now.
He is leading in the polls in the first three primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
If he pulls off all three, it is next to impossible from stopping him from getting the nomination.
If he pulls off all three, this is just, he's off to the races.
And I think it's going to be very hard for Joe Biden to catch him because it's not just about catching his delegates.
It's about catching the momentum of the guy who's won.
Once you've won three in a row and the other guy's lost three in a row, everyone has to start talking about him as being the presumptive nominee.
So that's one possibility.
Bernie takes off.
The other possibility is Bernie Sanders loses Iowa or New Hampshire or both.
If he does that, he's dead in the water.
And it's Joe Biden's nomination.
Okay.
So those are your two possibilities.
And then a third, a distinct third possibility is that some mix of the two of those, neither of them can get enough delegates and it goes to a contested convention.
All three of these scenarios are disasters for the Democratic Party.
There's not one of them that isn't a fucking disaster.
Okay.
And here's why.
If Bernie Sanders wins, right?
Well, now Bernie Sanders, after winning the nomination, he's got to turn around and he's got to consolidate the Democratic base, right?
This is how it works from a primary to a general election.
In the primary, people battle it out, take shots at each other.
Then in the general, you got to consolidate everybody and go, hey, hey, hey, we had our differences, but now you all have to vote for me.
Okay.
Now, Bernie Sanders, if he's trying to do this, here's the problem.
It's already been very obvious that he is unacceptable to the establishment, to the DNC, to the corporate press, to all of these other people.
They are not going to be easy to consolidate around him.
And then, and that doesn't even matter as much because Trump had trouble with that too, but Trump was able to win the people.
The problem is that now you have, look, feel however you feel about Hillary Clinton.
She did get like 65 million people to vote for her.
Some small fraction of that were actually, for whatever reason, enthusiastic about voting for Hillary Clinton.
Elizabeth Warren does have like a strong 10% of the field who are enthusiastic about supporting her.
And both of them have called Bernie Sanders a sexist.
Both of them have basically said, I know you haven't seen it, but he's a sexist.
He gives rise to a culture of sexism.
And then if Bernie Sanders is the nominee, Bernie Sanders is the reason why you're not going to have your first female president.
He's the reason Hillary didn't win.
And now he's the reason Warren didn't win.
Because if he had gotten out, she would have just owned all that progressive space.
And she would have, you know, she probably would have won this whole thing, which probably is true.
So how enthusiastic are those people going to be?
Are women who majority of women vote Democratic, are they really going to enthusiastically come out to support Bernie Sanders?
Seems like a pretty big question mark.
At the very least, a pretty big question mark.
And then the other scenario is what I kind of touched on before, is that Bernie Sanders doesn't win and Joe Biden wins.
Well, in that case, if Bernie Sanders loses, think about the average Bernie supporter.
And they're pretty much all enthusiastic.
Bernie Sanders supporters are enthusiastically Bernie or bust.
So now they're going to have to go, wait a minute.
So you fucking cheated us out of this in 2016.
Then Bernie turns around and endorses Hillary Clinton, supports her, campaigns for her.
Then Hillary Clinton stabs him in the back right before Iowa, a couple weeks before Iowa.
Elizabeth Warren stabs him in the back a couple weeks before Iowa.
The whole mainstream media is working against him.
You stole this from us.
By the way, just to add more to this whole situation, fucking John Podesta and Barney Frank were just appointed to the national DNC.
So two Hillary Clinton people have just been put into the DNC.
I mean, the narrative writes itself if Bernie Sanders doesn't win.
It's like, you guys screwed us.
You stole this from us again.
And they're kind of right.
Like, they're not wrong for sure.
So how enthusiastic are those Bernie bros going to come out for Joe Biden?
Doesn't seem good.
Doesn't seem like a great scenario for the Dems.
And then, of course, the third scenario goes to a contested convention.
And if it goes all the way to a contested convention, if Bernie Sanders is that close and they won't give it to him at a contested convention, who do they give it to?
They give it to Biden.
None of Bernie's people are coming out.
You know, they give it to, what is it, Michael Bloomberg?
Is he just going to buy his way into this?
Is that going to get an enthusiastic Democratic base to turn out that some fucking billionaire who didn't participate in one of the debates, never argued in front of the American people, just strictly bought his way into the thing?
He's just going to buy the presidency.
So once you start playing out the real life, like how this actually is going to work out in reality, this is not looking good for the Dems.
Short of an economic recession in the next year, I really don't see how Trump doesn't get reelected at this point.
Him or Jacob Hornberger.
Jacob Hornberger probably is going to come in and steal this thing at the end.
You should support him, though.
He's the best guy by far.
The other thing is that, you know, Joe Biden is just really, really bad at this.
That's the other thing.
And he can't stop.
He just can't stop.
So, this was the latest Joe Biden interaction with an Iowa voter.
Truly something to behold.
Let's play.
But what are we going to do about climate change?
No, you say you're against pipelines, but then you want to replace these gas lines.
That's not going to work.
We got to stop building and replacing pipelines.
You got to go vote for something new.
All right.
Thanks so much.
We're going to have you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to vote you in the general heat treatment.
You're asking a picture of me.
You're coming up and tell me you don't support me.
Thanks.
Yeah, you did.
You said I said I would support you in the general.
In a general, I'm running for a primary.
We're having to get over.
That's what I'm looking for.
I don't believe that Burger can do something by 2020.
I'm actually supporting Tom Style.
That's good.
He's the guy that thinks that's a good idea.
Thanks so much, sir.
We have a long line right here.
We have a long line.
The entire country will be active.
You know, this is the type of thing.
Joe Biden is such a fucking elitist.
He's such a fucking like...
And, you know, something that was kind of revealing there to me, too, is that this thing where he touches everybody, it's a fucking alpha move.
Like, he's like, that's fucking...
That was intimidation, disrespect, like, all that shit.
I'm surprised, by the way, I'm surprised that Joe Biden hasn't run into like one real man doing that shit.
Because there are, look, man, there are a lot of people.
Like, you just know, there's different types of men in the world.
But there is certainly one type of man.
And I don't care if he's fucking surrounded by Secret Service or some shit like that.
There's a type of man that you start like poking him in the fucking chest like that.
And they'll be like, dude, get your fucking hands off me or I'm going to knock you out.
Like that, I'm sorry.
You're not going to fucking start poking me in the fucking chest on a camera.
You know what I mean?
No less.
I'm surprised he hasn't run into that yet.
But even just this situation, these are the type of videos that look, Iowa and New Hampshire has this really distinct culture that has kind of been built around the fact that they're early voting states and they've been that way for a while.
And they are very used to the fact they're kind of like smaller states, but every politician has to come to them.
And they kind of have this thing of like, yeah, you got to come here and talk to the people and you got to convince us because our votes really fucking matter in these primaries.
And this video has the potential.
I mean, something like this, or this one particularly, going around, going viral could really easily cost him five, six points in the polls.
I mean, very easy for somebody to go like, hey, you know, I kind of like Joe Biden, but how dismissive and condescending toward a voter who asked a completely legitimate question.
I mean, you know, it's all this dumb climate change shit, but still, it's a legitimate question to ask.
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And he just goes right away then, I don't want you.
You don't get a picture.
I don't want your vote.
And this starts fucking touching his jacket and poking him in the chest.
Anyway, the other thing, right?
So this is the reason I was playing this is to get to the other thing is that if Joe Biden does end up securing this nomination, how many more moments like this before November are we going to get?
It's going to be one after another, after another.
Look, let's get real.
Everybody knows this.
Joe Biden is, he's in decline.
And now he's going to enter an even higher stress, more demanding stretch of the campaign.
It's just going to get more and more exposed.
The shit isn't going to get better.
It's going to get worse and worse and worse.
So, I don't know.
You tell me how does this work out?
What's the scenario where you go, oh, yeah, we got a strong Democratic nominee at the end of all of this?
What are we waiting for?
We're waiting for Hillary Clinton to come running in.
Hillary Clinton already shot herself in the fucking foot.
She shot herself in the foot by taking those shots at Bernie Sanders after he fucking endorsed her and campaigned for her, and she went and lost to Donald Trump.
What's she going to try to come back now?
She'll never get a Bernie supporter.
Like, it's just not going to happen.
So, yeah, they're in fucking trouble.
The Dems are in trouble.
There's no scenario that seems good for them.
And Don Lemon, that fucking doofus, just cut Donald Trump his best campaign out of the season.
So, yeah.
There we go.
There we go.
All right.
We're going to wrap up the show there.
Sorry, guys.
I ran late to the podcast today.
It's got caught on a stuck train, and I got a babysitter at home.
So I got to go.
Back Friday with a brand new episode.
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Make sure you come on out to see us.
And then on top of that, also, I'm going to be moderating the next Soho Forum debate, which I'm very excited to do.
I've never, I moderated, you know, like a debate on the podcast once, if you remember, between Gene Epstein and Ben Burgess, which was an interesting experience.
But I've never moderated at the Soho Forum, and I'm going to do that because Gene Epstein is stepping into the ring to debate Stephen Moore.
And the resolution is President Trump's trade-related initiatives against China deserve broad public support.
Of course, Stephen Moore will be arguing for the affirmative and the great Gene Epstein will be taking the negative.
If you don't know Stephen Moore is, he worked in the Ronald Reagan administration and he's been all over TV for years.
And so this is going to be a great thing.
I'm really excited.
I'm going to be doing stand-up before the debate and moderating.
I will do my best to be impartial and neutral.
But anyway, so that should be a lot of fun.
Make sure you come out to that.
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