WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.600 Josh, I want to throw this image up. This is from the New York Magazine. It's kind of 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:12.180 personal for me, actually. Throw up 94, image 94. The Cruel Kids Table is the way the headline 00:00:12.180 --> 00:00:19.520 reads. This is a cover piece for New York Magazine by Brock Collier, who is a transjournalist 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:26.060 from the New York Magazine. I know this because Brock also applied for press credentials at 00:00:28.020 --> 00:00:33.860 ball, our inaugural Eve ball and was there on the red carpet. There's pictures of our ball 00:00:33.860 --> 00:00:39.860 at in this story. But the pushback is hilarious about this piece, but I think it's an interesting 00:00:39.860 --> 00:00:44.700 and even the journalist in this piece, Josh, admits that we're winning. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.080 that we are culturally ascendant, that we are now dominating realms of culture that 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:53.320 would have been hard to fathom just a few years ago. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.500 And I believe that they've cropped this picture to make it look more racist, like it's only 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:00.600 white kids or something. 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:05.580 There's a whole bunch of that going on here, but it's like, Josh, take this picture as 00:01:05.580 --> 00:01:06.240 just one instance. 00:01:10.090 --> 00:01:17.270 at a trendy cocktail party. And I guess if that's cruel, celebrating the dawn of a new 00:01:17.270 --> 00:01:24.330 administration, a new America, I guess cry harder libs as my instant reaction. 00:01:24.690 --> 00:01:27.250 What do you make of this? And what does this tell us? 00:01:28.730 --> 00:01:32.850 Well, first of all, Andrew, I'm pretty sure they did do exactly that, which you said they 00:01:32.850 --> 00:01:37.350 did, which is that they cropped out this photo they edited it, they photoshopped it to make 00:01:37.350 --> 00:01:39.830 it look just more monolithically white than it is there. 00:01:40.170 --> 00:01:45.570 But I think a normal American looks at this photo, whether it's been photoshopped or cropped 00:01:45.570 --> 00:01:49.650 or edited or not, and says, wow, these are a bunch of like pretty- 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:54.420 good looking young people having a great time. They're dressed nicely there, they're clanking 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:58.520 their glasses, they're saying cheers there. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing anything wrong with this 00:01:58.520 --> 00:02:03.240 picture, Andrew. I'm simply just not seeing anything. And I think the broader point is 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:06.780 getting at here. This is a point that I've made actually for a few years now. 00:02:07.310 --> 00:02:12.690 I think this is part of the left's war on fun. I actually literally call the war on fun. 00:02:13.130 --> 00:02:18.650 Whether it's trying to call you a scold for driving in a gas guzzling pickup truck or an SUV, 00:02:19.050 --> 00:02:22.350 whether they're calling you a bad person for wanting to have numerous kids, 00:02:22.850 --> 00:02:25.830 that whole be fruitful and multiply thing right there from the book of Genesis. 00:02:26.030 --> 00:02:30.230 God forbid you actually take God at his word and have three, four, five, 00:02:30.410 --> 00:02:34.830 God knows how many children who are gonna consume oxygen and spit out carbon dioxide. 00:02:36.750 --> 00:02:41.850 person, they definitely hate that, Andrew. God forbid you actually teach your children 00:02:41.850 --> 00:02:45.530 about religion, about the Bible, about the things that actually built this country, 00:02:45.590 --> 00:02:47.870 about the founding fathers, about the Constitutional Convention. 00:02:48.250 --> 00:02:51.370 You can't have any of that either there. I mean, the left has become just 00:02:51.370 --> 00:02:57.710 these pearl clutching bunch of overtly faux moralistic prima donnas. That's basically what 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:00.470 they become there. And they hate looking at anyone. 00:03:00.910 --> 00:03:04.850 who is more successful than them. That obviously gets back to the roots of socialism and Marxism 00:03:04.850 --> 00:03:09.530 is this whole idea of envy and class envy and individual envy. That's definitely part of this 00:03:09.530 --> 00:03:15.010 as well there. But they're just fundamentally just a bunch of red tag. And frankly, Andrew, 00:03:15.110 --> 00:03:19.330 if I'm just being very blunt for a second here, I was looking at this at this rally on the eve 00:03:19.330 --> 00:03:23.690 of the inauguration, the left wing rally there with kind of those pink hats, whatever the women's 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:28.360 bunch of ugly people. I mean, I'm probably gonna get in trouble for saying that there, 00:03:28.420 --> 00:03:32.900 but these are just typically their exceptions, but a bunch of very ugly people, honestly. 00:03:33.820 --> 00:03:39.920 Josh, I mean, think about it. And I think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter. We like Matt a 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:47.920 lot, and he had a great role to play in just his film and so many other things. But what reads 00:03:54.770 --> 00:04:00.930 many obese or at least overweight, young people screaming about some injustice that they've 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:02.870 invented in a college laboratory. 00:04:03.410 --> 00:04:10.190 I mean, literally, if young kids having fun, if young kids wearing a flannel in the country, 00:04:10.770 --> 00:04:14.770 listening to country music, whatever, I mean, we are the fun movement. 00:04:14.930 --> 00:04:18.470 And it's a very fascinating point, Josh, and we'll throw it back to you for 30 seconds 00:04:20.640 --> 00:04:22.060 It seemed like in 2008 this 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:23.420 cultural ascendancy of the left 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:25.240 promised all of these things, but 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:26.040 failed to deliver. 00:04:26.180 --> 00:04:27.440 Instead, it delivered this 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.430 dystopian puritanical scolding 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:34.640 from the left about these invented 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:35.520 injustices. 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.080 And this movement, I believe, can 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:40.540 actually deliver on the promise of 00:04:40.540 --> 00:04:43.000 lifting everybody and having fun. 00:04:43.420 --> 00:04:44.780 Final reaction, Josh Hammer. 00:04:45.410 --> 00:04:53.970 Well, you're totally right to take it back to 2008 and that's where I started in my cold civil wars over op-ed too because it does go back to Barack Obama in his 2008 campaign. 00:04:54.170 --> 00:04:59.570 Andrew, if the left is going to have any chance of recovering and thank God it's not my problem, I'm a man of the right, obviously. 00:05:00.050 --> 00:05:07.250 But if the left is going to have any chance of recovering here, Andrew, they have to disavow the entirety of the Barack Obama legacy and his post presidential legacy. 00:05:07.370 --> 00:05:14.610 They need to go back to the old Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and his predecessors who, whatever their flaws were, they were focused on bread and butter. 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:15.700 issues, not this woke rep.