Els for Autism<\/a> tournament.\u00a0 And my guest said, “Look, we gotta turn on CNN and watch this presidential town hall.”<\/p>\nI said, “No.\u00a0 If you want to watch that, go over to the house you\u2019re staying in and you watch.”<\/p>\n
“No, no.\u00a0 You gotta watch it with me.\u00a0 You gotta watch this.”<\/p>\n
I said, “I don\u2019t want to watch… Why do I want to watch two hours of CNN, period, much less a couple of people that are never gonna be elected president, never gonna get the nomination?”<\/p>\n
“‘Cause I have to and I\u2019m your guest.”<\/p>\n
“Well, if you put it that way, you\u2019re right. The guest gets what they want.”<\/p>\n
So we settled in, turned on CNN, and it was two hours of this town hall at the South by Southwest arts and crafts fair, whatever the hell it is.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bunch of leftists showing up doing arts and crafts and complaining and whining and comparing their latest tech.\u00a0 So I watched this, and the first hour was Tulsi Gabbard, who is a member of Congress from Hawaii.\u00a0 And the second hour is Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg. They spent five minutes on the pronouncing of his name, by the way, on this town hall, from South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s 37 years old, openly gay, very popular among people on the left — dark horse, very articulate kind of guy.\u00a0 So we settled in to watch this, and I don\u2019t know what I expected, but I\u2019m glad that I did.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad that I did. You know, because I sit here every day, and I know who the left is.\u00a0 I know who they are.\u00a0 And I know their psychology better than they do, and I understand what it is that drives them. I understand liberalism better than they do.\u00a0 But it was worthwhile to actually see this.<\/p>\n
Remember, now, this is a legitimate presidential campaign event.\u00a0 Yeah, there are 16 or 20 Democrats that want the nomination, and every one of them is being given a lot of opportunity on cable news networks to be discovered.\u00a0 I had heard about Mayor Pete, but I had never seen him, and I knew of Tulsi Gabbard.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen her.\u00a0 I\u2019ve listened to her.\u00a0 But, man, what an experience.\u00a0 Tulsi Gabbard, for example, had one theme — and my buddy and I, we were not doing the drinking game.\u00a0 We were smoking cigars, so we had a puff game.<\/p>\n
Every time she said something, we puffed on the cigar.\u00a0 The word was “service.”\u00a0 “I want to serve.\u00a0 I\u2019m here for the service.”\u00a0 We began… Every sentence, she mentioned service or serving or something — and she had this pained smile on her face. She was trying to smile but conveying at (sobbing) “the same time that she was just in such pain over all the suffering, over all the suffering that\u2019s going on in America. The struggle!”\u00a0 It reminded me every time I saw Michelle (My Belle) Obama make a speech in the first two to three years of the Obama administration. Every speech, the theme was overcoming “the struggle.”<\/p>\n
Every audience she addressed, it was “the struggle,” whatever it is. The struggle is to survive in this godforsaken country run by a bunch of Republicans.\u00a0 Then they got to the audience Q&A, and this is when I had it confirmed that they are in a different world.\u00a0 They live in a different country; they want a different country. Their existence, their day-to-day existence has nothing in common with you and me, these people that are gonna vote for the Democrat nominee.<\/p>\n
I was prepared to come here and recite from memory the various questions that I remembered these people asking.\u00a0 So Cookie went out and put together a montage of some of the questions that both of these candidates got.\u00a0 We\u2019ll do Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s first.\u00a0 Again, Sunday night, March 10th, CNN Special Presidential Town Hall Event with Representative Tulsi Gabbard.\u00a0 I think Jake Tapper… Yeah, Jake Tapper moderated one of these, and Dana Bash did the other.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not gonna have any of the candidates here, just the questions from the attendees, potential Democrat voters.<\/p>\n
BETH:\u00a0 I\u2019m troubled by the increase in both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.\u00a0 What can you do in terms of policy and position to combat racism and bigotry?<\/p>\n
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SETH:\u00a0 Can you convince me that your prior positions on gay rights have truly changed?\u00a0 I\u2019m especially concerned about your previous support of conversion therapy, which I find really, really repulsive.<\/p>\n
JOY:\u00a0 I\u2019d like to know what you would like to do to stop sexual assault in the military.<\/p>\n
PAUL:\u00a0 We will suffer catastrophic consequences of accelerating global warming.\u00a0 With what urgency will you address it?<\/p>\n
TAYLOR:\u00a0 What do you believe has been the biggest policy mistake of the United States since creation?<\/p>\n
LIANA:\u00a0 I\u2019m wondering if you end the War on Drugs by decriminalizing all drugs?<\/p>\n
JOHN:\u00a0 Can you beat Donald Trump?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I wish, folks, that you could see these people and their facial expressions — the pain, the fear. But more than that, it is what they expect out of a president and what they expect out of the government. (sobbing) “What can you do in terms of policy to combat racism and bigotry? Oh, my God, what can you do?” (interruption) Well, The Ponytail Guy set the stage for all this, you know, in the debate between Clinton and Perot and Bush 41. You know, “You guys are our father. You\u2019re gonna take care of us! Which one of you is gonna do the best job?<\/p>\n
This was that.\u00a0 This was The Ponytail Guy on steroids.\u00a0 “Can you convince me your prior positions on gay rights have changed?\u00a0 I\u2019m especially concerned about your previous support of conversion therapy…”\u00a0 This was for Tulsi Gabbard.\u00a0 Her face turned ashen. Her smile turned into a very serious, pained frown, and she begged for forgiveness for ever having thought anything like conversion therapy was possible (clapping) and they erupted in applause.<\/p>\n
Every one of these questions is rooted in personal fear.\u00a0 These people are walking around literally frightened every day.\u00a0 They\u2019re frightened of being alive.\u00a0 They\u2019re frightened of all the external events that you encounter in life, and they\u2019re asking these presidential candidates (sobbing) “to make it all good!\u00a0 Please, can you make it safe? Please, can you stop making us feel scared? Can you do the things that will make us feel safe? Can you make mean people stop being mean?”<\/p>\n
Just the kind of things that nowhere in our world would we ever want a politician to take control of and deal with.\u00a0 These are all things that happen in life, and you deal with them with your own group — your families, your support group, whatever.\u00a0 You deal with it with your own command of life and overcoming adversity, but these people have no concept of any.\u00a0 They want everything done for them!\u00a0 They want to live in a bubble where no uncomfortable words, situations, even exist!\u00a0 (sobbing) “I can\u2019t deal with it!”<\/p>\n
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