The Iowa caucuses turn into a total cluster bleep.

Every Democrat declares victory, and President Trump prepares for the state of the union.

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expressvpn.com slash ben so let us begin with the best Iowa caucuses ever these were amazing so

the party that wants to handle your health care that wants to run the economy that wants to run

every aspect of your life and they promise promise you, government is supremely competent.

And they are supremely competent. They can handle everything. Okay, don't you worry, don't you worry, there won't be any death panels, there won't be any rationing of care. They can make sure that all the payments hit the providers exactly when they are supposed to. Everything will be hunky-dory that couldn't handle an Iowa caucus last night. Now, I will be honest with you, yes, because that's what we do here on the show.

Yesterday, I was in a really bad mood leading up to the Iowa caucuses. The reason I was in a really bad mood is because the horse race of Democrats is really off-putting to me because I think, frankly, that most of these Democrats are awful. I think they're awful. I think there are a couple that are sort of palatable, and then I think most of them are just garbage. So Joe Biden is somewhat palatable in the sense that he's a corpse, and he's not going to do too much damage to the country if he's president, not the sort of damage that you'd see from some of the radicals in his own party, mainly because, again, he's not an alive person. And then there's Amy Klobuchar, and Amy Klobuchar wouldn't do tremendous damage to the country in the same way that some of the more radical members of her own party would.

But the big winners last night were expected to be the people who exactly would do that kind of damage. So Bernie Sanders, who's basically a communist. I mean, he says he has not changed his views since 1963. Well, in 1963, dude was a communist. So I'm pretty certain that he still commie, considering that he has never actually backtracked on any of his old views from the

1960s and the 1970s. I pointed this out on Twitter yesterday. The entire left went insane.

I pointed out that thanks to Andrew Kaczynski at CNN, he uncovered a quote from Bernie

Sanders in 1976 when he was 35 years old. Okay, for contrast, I am 36. Okay, so Bernie Sanders was my age, and he was talking about nationalizing every major industry in the United States, including banking and the energy sector, all of it. Okay, and I pointed out that Bernie Sanders had never been asked a serious question about this,

that one person had asked him about it one time, and his campaign had then said, well, Bernie's been incredibly consistent. And then Chris Cuomo asked him about it. And then he said, well, I didn't lend me of that as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. And the answer is, right, because as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, what were you going to do, municipalize a national institution? Like you don't have the power as a mayor of a city

To nationalize anything.

Also, you have to explain on an ideological level why you were for nationalization then, but you are not for nationalization now. Okay, fine. So Bernie was widely perceived to be the frontrunner going into Iowa. And then there was Elizabeth Warren who had a great ground game in Iowa. She'd been fading. But Elizabeth Warren is a damned liar who spends her entire life lying about her old positions and then lying

about her new positions. The kind of person who goes out on the campaign trail and explains why

her next secretary of education will have to be approved by a random trans child. Literally a thing that

she said. Literally a thing that she said and that she wants to regulate misinformation online and prosecute people for distributing misinformation online from the lady who claimed that she was a Native American for three decades. And then you had Pete Buttigieg, who pretended initially to be a moderate, and then came out as a non-moderate and suggested that everybody who voted for Donald Trump was actually a brutal, vicious racist, and suggested that everybody who was a Christian who didn't agree with Pete Buttigieg's take on same-sex marriage was somehow a bad Christian, which sort of flies in the face of, you know, the entire Old and New Testament. So in any case, this was a bevy of not wonderful people who were going to win the Iowa caucuses last night. And one of them was going to end up with a big boost in momentum.

Now, the way that the Iowa caucuses work is that there'd be a boost in momentum only if he can make a big speech that night. So the best case example of this is Barack Obama in 2008 wins the Iowa caucuses. John Edwards comes in second. Hillary Clinton comes in third. And Barack Obama gets up and he makes a very famous speech. This is the speech where he says that this is the moment when all the seas began to recede.

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