 So, there is a very specific reason why right-wing political commentators are able to attract so many billionaires who are willing to invest and fund, you know, their effort to spread right-wing propaganda. It's because they help to prop up the system. There's a very significant reason why, you know, billionaires like Robert Mercer are not donating to the rational, national or secular talk or the humanist report. It's because we challenge the system and right-wingers are fundamentally opposed to any challenge of the system. They are about propping up the status quo. If you're a conservative, that's kind of something that is baked into the ideology, right? You don't want change. You want to make sure that things continue on the way that they are. And billionaires really need that. They need people like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder, who are bootlickers, by the way, to legitimize the system, to where whenever things get tough and we start to kind of look at capitalism and look at the root causes and talk about, you know, oligarchy and greed and the real sources of problems in this country, they need people like Ben Shapiro to tell you to look away. They need people like Steven Crowder to tell you that it's actually transgender people. They need people like Ann Coulter to tell you that it's not the capitalist. It's the immigrants from Latin America. They need that because so long as there are people there to prop up the system, then that helps to cultivate legitimacy for a system that is illegitimate, that is not working out for normal people, that is exploitative. Now, they oftentimes are called hacks by me, rightfully so, I think, because they do engage in a lot of team politics, you know, Republican versus Democrat. But at the end of the day, they will always serve their role as the bootlickers that they are of propping up the system. And there's evidence of that because lately we've been talking a lot about the wealth tax and billionaires because Michael Bloomberg just entered the race. Now Michael Bloomberg is, he's more of a centrist, but you know, generally speaking, he is identified as a left-wing billionaire because he is a Democrat and used to be a Republican, but he's a Democrat now. So once we start talking about billionaires, can you guess who's there to defend these billionaires even if they are incorrectly believed to be part of the left? Right-wingers. So I've got two clips I want to play for you that demonstrate that. So the first is from Stuart Varney, who scolds liberals and progressives who aren't too happy about the idea of Michael Bloomberg entering the 2020 race. Michael Bloomberg entered the 2020 race Friday. By Saturday morning, the Democrat civil war was in full swing. Bloomberg has widened the chasm between the socialists who now run the party and just about everyone else. The left is outraged at this. Billionaires? Screwing up an election that was supposed to put the workers front and centre? Oh. Bernie Sanders, well, Bernie is just plain angry. Watch this. What we need is a dynamic democracy, a democracy where all of us play a role in shaping public policy, not just a billionaire who decides that he wants to run for president of the United States because he's a billionaire. Let's be clear. Bernie's always angry. He would abolish billionaires. Now, now, he's got a $52 billion man coming right at him. Senator Warren, well, she responded to Bloomberg's run with, I'm going to call it theatrics. Watch this. And boy, there are some billionaires who don't like this. Ooh. I think I hurt someone's feelings. Mm. Yeah. You know, this is, this is sad. This is sad. So there are people who are saying, oh, that I'm just mean to the billionaires. Mean. Oh. Oh. I know. I know. I don't know how that plays with middle America, but clearly the party is split. One side demonises the rich. The other side says, leave them alone. You'll hurt the economy. The split gets worse. Bloomberg will not contest the early primaries. That means the other candidates will be forced to spend millions in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere while Bloomberg sits on his billions. And then there's the debates. The next one is November the 20th. It is highly unlikely that Bloomberg will qualify to be on the stage. He'll be watching the other candidates tear each other apart from the sidelines. OK, Boomer. Stuart Barney, he is the most elitist person ever. He can just talk about something that's completely benign. He could talk about fucking call of duty. And I would think that he sounds elitist because it's just like the smug way that he says things. He's kind of like the right wing version of Bill Maher. Actually, Bill Maher is the right wing version of Bill Maher. But nonetheless, you know, he's just smug and arrogant and it's so off-putting. And what he did there was act outraged at the fact that the left isn't too happy about a billionaire like Michael Bloomberg jumping in the 2020 race. Now, why would we be happy? We believe in democracy, right? Does Stuart Barney believe in democracy? So why is it that someone who is wealthy is literally able to buy their way into a race just because they're wealthy? Like there's no qualification that makes Michael Bloomberg so special that he could enter at this late stage of the race and think that he has a shot. It's money. Nobody was thinking that Howard Schultz, you know, was so qualified because of the way that he built up Starbucks. Nobody gives a shit about coffee and his expertise there. Howard Schultz was taken seriously because he's a billionaire. That's what people on the left are speaking out against. The mere fact that billionaires exist in and of itself is an issue. But when they start running for government, running to assume even more power, because remember in a capitalist system, wealth equals power, well, people calling that out, they're logical. They realize that if you truly want to live in a democracy, we can't have billionaires running. That really diminishes the value of our democracy. And furthermore, if you're just cutting out the middleman and you're not buying politicians any longer, you're just running yourself. That shows us how much further we have devolved into oligarchy in this country. So the fact that we're speaking out against that is rational, logical, and necessary. But Stuart Barney isn't the only one because Ben Shapiro over the Daily Wire also decided to scold us for speaking out against billionaires like Michael Bloomberg. Take a look. The Bernie Sanders attack on billionaires and the Elizabeth Warren attack on billionaires is cynical and disgusting. And it really is disgusting. It is. I'm sorry. Elizabeth Warren is worth 12 million dollars. And there she's like, these rich people, these rich people, they must be stopped. And then he got Bernie Sanders, who is basically a giant welfare queen living off the government for the last 30, what is he now? He's 78 years old, living off the government for 50 years of his life. And he's like, oh, well, you know, we can't let any of these people who actually underwhelth run on anything, they shouldn't run for office. Only I should. I've been useless my entire life. So useless, I was kicked off a commune. So he got Bernie ripping into billionaires. And then he got Michael Tomaske over at New York Times saying, Bill Gates, I implore you to connect some dots. He says, the billionaire class has begun unloading on Elizabeth Warren. You see, it's a class now. It's a class. Now, just to recognize the fact, Bill Gates is basically a lifelong Democrat. Warren Buffett is a lifelong Democrat. A lot of these quote unquote billionaire class members are lifelong Democrats, people who have given tons of money to left leaning causes, but they're a class now. You see, this is pure Marxist speak, where you are judged by the basis of your income, by the basis of your wealth, not by what you think or what you do or how you vote or any of that sort of stuff. Like George Soros is a billionaire. George Soros gives a lot of money to exactly the kinds of people that Jamie Diamond doesn't like. So treating everybody as a class based on their income is really. You know, when a normal person gets angry when they're talking, they simply raise their voice. But when a robot like Ben Shapiro gets angry, he increases the tempo. He speaks faster, which is so weird. So what he said there, it was so stupid and nonsensical. So to criticize billionaires, according to him, that is disgusting. Why is that disgusting? You see, what is disgusting, I think, is the fact that billionaires exist because to become a billionaire not only means that you have to exploit the labor of your workers, but on top of that, you have to hoard so much wealth that you can't possibly spend that much money in a lifetime. So to become a billionaire that really speaks to the moral character of any individual human being, you're just the bad person. You're a piece of shit if you're a billionaire. So the fact that there are people sleeping on the streets and struggling to put food on the table while billionaires exist, that's what I find disgusting. But, you know, Ben Shapiro, he's an elitist and he's doing exactly what he's paid to do. There's a reason why billionaires pay the daily wire. It's because they need propagandists like him to prop up this failing capitalistic system. But you can only prop it up so long before it crashes you. People are waking up to the fact that capitalism is exploitative and it's not working. Now, apparently, Bernie Sanders is a welfare queen because he's been in public office and gets paid by the government. Like, I don't know why he thinks Bernie Sanders is a welfare queen. But if you work for the government, if you're a US senator, if you're a member of the House of Representatives, yes, you take a salary from the government. Why does that make him a welfare queen? And the irony here is that capitalists are the true welfare queens. I mean, Walmart pays their workers such low wages that those wages literally have to be subsidized by the government. We bailed out the big banks after they crashed the economy. The real welfare queens are the capitalists. Ben Shapiro won't tell you that. Ben Shapiro won't tell you about how the capitalists will privatize the profits but socialize the losses. That's our system. We have a system of capitalism where we pump billions of dollars into specific industries just so they won't collapse. I mean, look at our health care industry. The Affordable Care Act was premised on the idea that you have to buy private insurance and the government pumps billions of dollars into these private plants to make sure that they're cheaper because otherwise they would be too expensive. I mean, our entire system is corporate socialism. Ben Shapiro won't tell you that because Ben Shapiro is either dumb or disingenuous. So what Ben Shapiro needs to do is be honest. He doesn't hate socialism. He loves socialism, but socialism for the rich. Socialism for large multinational corporations, not socialism for normal people. He also says Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are lifelong Democrats. And we don't discriminate. We love them just as much. And yes, we want to confiscate their wealth, excuse me, our wealth that they stole just as much as we want to take away Robert Mercer's Mercer's wealth or the Koch brothers wealth or the Koch brother wealth because one of them is dead now. So I mean, this doesn't persuade people like he thinks that he can somehow rope us in and bring us to his side by saying, look, there are left wing billionaires who donate to political causes that benefit you, right? Right. But that's a problem. Money and politics should not be what facilitates change. It should be what people want. But that's not the way our system operates, because a 2014 Princeton University study by Drs. Gillens and Page found that political outcomes are not determined by normal people. We have a statistically insignificant impact on policy outcomes, whereas special interests and elites, they actually do influence policy. So we don't care if a billionaire is supposedly left wing or right wing. This isn't about politics. This is about class and class solidarity. There's certainly class solidarity among the wealthy. So it's time that normal people recognize their class and have a little bit of class consciousness, you know, in spite of efforts by propagandists like Ben Shapiro to dissuade you from realizing the reality of class warfare in this country. He also says treating everyone as a class based on their income is really stupid. That is the whole point of class. You moron. I mean, the fact that people take him seriously, it just it's puzzling to me. This is someone who doesn't really know what he's talking about. People take him seriously because he is ostensibly intelligent because he talks fast and is confident, doesn't make you smart, doesn't make you smart at all. Confidence and arrogance does not mean that he actually knows what he's talking about or that he knows about political philosophy. Ben Shapiro, like Stuart Varney, these are paid propagandists. One is ostensibly independent. And the other is working for Fox News, which is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Look, the point is bootlickers like Stuart Varney and Ben Shapiro are showing their cards. This isn't so much about Democrats versus Republicans to them in spite of what they say. This is about protecting elites. They don't want you to question the system. They don't want you to look to billionaires and their hoarding of wealth and the way that they've rigged the economy and shifted the tax burden away from them and onto you and I. They don't want you to look at that. They don't want you to think it's the billionaires. Again, they want you to think it's not enough deregulation or it's immigrants. Whatever the scapegoat is, they don't want you to look at what really is the issue in America. It's capitalism. That's the root cause of every issue in this country. It is the lowest common denominator, that desire to increase shareholder value and maximize profits that corrupts every industry you could think of education. Look at what charter schools have done. Healthcare, look at what the for-profit insurance companies have done. Hell, even democracy has become a money making venture. It's capitalism, stupid. They don't want you to acknowledge that. But unfortunately for them, people are waking up and now 70 percent of millennials are socialists. So bad news for them. A new generation will soon assume power and we're not going to be in favor of the status quo as the right wing bootlickers are now. We are actually going to change the system because we don't have a choice. The system doesn't work. I would say it's broken, but it's functioning exactly as you'd expect a capitalist system to function. And now we are in late stage capitalism. So people are becoming privy to the fact that capitalism doesn't work. So we can do better.