The Trump Biden Debate is a Crisis For America

0:00 I've been able to do with the uh with with with the co excuse me with um dealing with everything we have to do with uh look if we finally beat Medicare I've never seen anything like this none of us have I will leave you with one thought that will be controversial but it's true the do's decision reversed Row versus Wade returned this impossibly contentious subject to the states and I

0:30 believe the solution The Only Way Forward is to dos the hell out of every single issue hi there friends fans and foes of dead Saves America I'm probably feeling like a lot of you which is to say a little jittery today having watched this uh presidential debate last night and I'm going to try my best to explore what's happened and what's going on for lots of different reasons I think there was a reaction captured the moment I I

1:01 want to just uh play a little bit of it and and talk about it that was painful uh I love Joe Biden I work for Joe Biden um he didn't do well at all uh he he did not do well at all and he looked you know I'll give you the analysis you know you kind of have the old man versus the con man uh I can walk you through how I'm supposed to see it and say it but I'm just want to speak

1:25 from my heart um I love that guy that's a good man he loves his country uh he's doing the best that he can I don't love Joe Biden I don't think he's a particularly good person I don't think that he's a honest person but the the kind of on the verge of tears that is going on with Van Jones in this moment I I think it's complex it's more complex than him just loving Joe Biden and having known him

1:52 personally because he worked in the Obama White House I don't see how you can love this country or want this country to be a good place for all of us and be a stable functional Place run by adults and not be shaking last night everything about last night is frakin weird first of all it's really weird to have a presidential debate in June before the parties have selected their nominee that's really weird that's really weird the fact that Donald Trump

2:26 was just being himself which would be historically pretty weird and that's like taken as a baseline given in 2024 that's also really weird and not good it's not good you know there's lots of ways you can think about that from a political economy perspective and so I want to lay out a couple paths for how to think about the weirdness of our moment so one way to look at this is that this is all a giant screw job let

2:51 it all burn you find that kind of almost gleeful sort of Joker like nihilism on the left and the right it's all corrupt it's all broken it's all big Pharma and the military-industrial complex and and the Elite Class running the show and screwing all of us to line their pockets let it all burn there's a part of me that kind of feels that way the problem is maybe this is just my age history is not great on that score the let it all

3:17 burn strategy is most likely a path to all of us literally burning it's the path to the Jacobin and then to Napoleon to Lenin and then to Stalin you don't have Nazi Germany without the viar Republic that's a problem if you're in let it all burn and if you're like me and have a family and have a child or children you shouldn't be in that position and you probably aren't you probably want the world to get better

3:43 for your kids that's what that's the only thing I want that's why this channel is called Dad Saves America because I'm a dad and I want this country and this world to be better for my son next in line is a slightly more sophisticated version one that I'm probably even more sympathetic to frankly which is to say that government itself is a a leviathan it is the Monopoly of force and force and violence are evil so it is the Monopoly of evil

4:10 this is the sort of anarco libertarian anaros syndicalist view you can have it on the right or you can have it on the left you can be Murray rothbard or you can be gome Chomsky this view says having Crooks and clowns and and lunatics and a Cadre of criminals surrounding them is inherent in the the nature of government and and we don't want the society to burn but we do want government to go away and this is

4:34 probably the only path that is likely to lead us down that road which is essentially a kind of crackup where the legitimacy of government becomes so impossible for anyone with brain cells to recognize that something changes and we end up in a post-government world if that's possible and isn't a path to the guillotine that would be great and philosophically I think it's actually fairly coherent ultimately kind of utopian position to occupy then you have the middle I think most of most people

5:06 are which is I'm mostly not worried about politics most of the time I'm mostly trying to live my life and when I encounter things that are difficult struggles that seem like despite my best efforts I can't overcome I hope there's some way for that to get improved and maybe politicians can help they don't seem to be very good at that but I want them to try that's the pragmatic middle of the road the center and the reality

5:32 is is I think the problem we are facing is that government as it is constituted at the national scale in America and elsewhere doesn't deliver for us we're being lied to systematically and we can all see it and that's coming from both sides but then you've got this other piece with that frankly I'm more and more concerned might be what's really going on and that is that people like van Jones are putting on a show this was

5:57 all a scam that there is a crookedness that is very very profound and structural and part of the Divergence between our cognitive Elite as Charles Murray likes to call it and everybody else what do I mean by that I think the best way to think about this is to watch the the clip that is probably getting the most play right now he had the largest national debt of any president foury year period number one number two

6:22 he that $2 trillion tax C benefited the very wealthy I what I'm going to do is fix the tax system for example we have a thousand trillionaires in America Thousand trillionaires that'd be interesting what would that be if we have a thousand trillionaires um a th000 trillion dollars that that'd be quite a bit larger than the GDP of planet Earth but let's keep going I mean billionaires in America and what's happening they're in a situation where they in fact pay 88.2%

6:53 in taxes if they just paid 24% or 25% either one of those numbers we made rais $500 million in some ways stopping to like back check this is like silly and stupid because you could do it for the whole thing and no one's talking about that because none of it really matters but none of this is really true actually like we can't tax our way to a balanced budget we're in a lot of fiscal trouble which barely got talked about last night

7:21 this is one of the things that below the surface is is what's so brightening off the rails none of the things that really matter got really delved into at all and that's weird we'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do Child Care Elder Care making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care System making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able

7:49 to do with and here it comes here comes the uh oh with with with the co excuse me with um dealing with everything we have to do with uh look if we finally beat Medicare thank you President Biden president Trump he right he did beat Medicare he beat it to death there's nothing surprising about this moment right there's nothing surprising at all this is exactly like Joe Biden's been for the past three years he was doing this stuff in 2020

8:19 and everybody knows it everybody knows it so what does that mean what that means is the panels across all the news outlets last night that were suddenly shocked like what are we going to do what are we going to do what are we going to do they knew what they were going to do of course they knew what they were going to do why do you think we have this completely weird debate that's taking place in June a debate

8:46 that the Biden Administration asked for we have to really ask ourselves seriously what is going on who's running the show and I watch this thing with my son and it's a giant joke and that leads me to the only other clip I want to look at which again is the one everybody's going to be talking about we knock on wood wherever we may have wood that I'm in very good health I just won two Club championships not even senior two

9:11 regular Club championships to do that you have to be quite smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way and I do it he doesn't do it he can't hit a ball 50 yards he challenged me to a golf match he can't hit a ball 50 yards uh I think I'm in very good shape I feel that I'm as in good a shape as I was 25 30 years ago actually I'm

9:29 probably a little bit lighter but I'm in as good a shape as I was uh years ago I feel very good I feel the same but I took I was willing to take a cognitive test and you know what if I didn't do well I aced him Dr Ronnie Jackson who's a great guy when he was White House doctor and then I took another one a similar one and both one of them said they'd never seen anybody Ace them thank

9:51 you thank you I'm just going to say Richard Nixon as a president was pretty darn awful but he's one of the more brilliant like just I Q history knowledge capability the notion that Donald Trump had a cognitive test that no one's ever seen before in the white house I mean it's just part for the course it's like you couldn't just be like no I'm fit it's got to be I'm the smartest person anyone's everever seen like come come

10:15 on President Biden you can see he is 6'5 and only 223 lb or 235 PBS well you said 6'4 200 well anyway that's your anyway just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is look I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him the re I got my handicap which when I was vice president down to a six and and but by the way I told you before I'm happy to play golf

10:44 with if you carry your own bag you think you can do it that's the biggest lie that he's a six handicap of all okay welcome to the octogenarian America where we spend minutes watching our presidential candidates debate their handicap but below the surface here I'm not excited about any of this the reason is is because I actually love this country um I want us to

11:19 succeed and uh and I've never seen anything like this none of us have this is the best we can do there's no world in which that's true but there's something about the structure of our system of of parties and the way things work and there's something about our moment almost at the anthropological scale that

11:50 has delivered this to us and Trump won by not being on the verge of death and after 10 minutes if he was truly a leader he should have realized that he had the Baseline in the bag and that the rest of this time should have been devoted to trying to cast a positive vision for the next four years the closest he got was to say you know my retribution is going to be success but we all heard that for what it was

12:19 personal success winning the election that's not the success we should care about we should care that the country gets better we say that's what we want but we don't have a lot of skin in the game in politics and so what politics mostly is for most people is a kind of entertainment it's a kind of football game we put on our paint for our team and we say rah rah go go go I'm sure that that can never change but at some

12:49 fundamental level there should be some kind of guard rails in which we do say well yeah but I do want the country to be better and maybe they get better in ways that I disagree with but I do want tomorrow to be better than today I want the world that my kids inherit to be Freer more prosperous in which fewer people suffer and more people succeed and that is why my hands are shaking because there wasn't even an echo of

13:16 that last night and I'm not really sure honestly what to do about that I think my advice to you is try now to take a deep breath and think about the future for our kids think about what is it that makes America America and you're not all going to come to the same conclusion but we shouldn't want it to end and I will leave you with one thought that will be controversial but it's true I think

13:46 there is an answer and that answer lies in one of the most contentious issues of Our Moment the do's decision the do's decision which reversed Row versus Wade returned this impossibly contentious subject to the states I'm here in Texas Texas is now a very restricted place if you want to abort your child I like that I think abortion is murder and I understand that you might think I'm a right-wing Catholic crazy person for

14:18 saying that but that's the facts I moved here in part so that I could be living within governance that was more aligned with my values and the ACC idental Miracle of America is that you don't have to just vote for president you can vote with your feet so if you don't like the new regime in Texas if you have daughters and you feel that this represents a deep threat to their bodily

14:49 autonomy and their ability to make a decision however painful and horrible it might be but might be necessary in your eyes you can move to California or Illinois or New York you can do that and you're still an American so I can go visit California and Californians if they hear me talk can be like that guy's a right-wing crazy I can't wait till he goes back to Texas and it's kind of like when a neighbor comes over for dinner

15:15 and you don't love them but they get to go back to their house so we accidentally solved for this problem by being these United States this is the way this country used to talk about itself United States and the reason for that if I can put on my Civics education hat for a moment in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War there was a deep fundamental moral quandry one that's like the abortion debate and that was slavery the northern states had already

15:48 coalesced by and large around abolitionism in fact Americans in the north LED this planet in abolitionism to such an extent in fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to end it in a civil war but at the birth of the nation that war would have ended the country stillborn and so a compromise was made to allow the slaveholding states to be part of the union and to empower states rights yes

16:19 states rights was about allowing slavery to persist federalism was born out of the desire to preserve the Union in the face of this profound disagreement about slavery and one school of thought says that's why states rights is evil and why it codes for racism and they have a little bit of a point historically but we now face the reality that that accident was a lucky accident because we have a mechanism to hold together as a nation despite our profound differences

16:52 on really important subjects like abortion we have to denationalize our politics we have to have the Dos decision for everything that is the only path I see to preserving the notion of America as a singular unit and we should really want that because America's got a lot going for it we are a contiguous political body with oceans on both side and no serious enemies to the North or South you know we take for granted our

17:23 peace and security but we shouldn't we are blessed in this country and we shouldn't want it to come to an end and I believe the solution The Only Way Forward is to dos the hell out of every single issue and so that is where I am left after watching this catastrophe unfold but I want to know what you have to say I'm looking forward to the comments I hope this was helpful I hope you have a good weekend

17:53 despite the way it's starting I'm sorry that this had to happen a week before we celebrate the birth of the nation have a great weekend