📚 3 Books mentioned in "Hillary Clinton, the Democrats, and Trump | Dinesh D'Souza | POLITICS | Rubin Report" of The Rubin Report

because that's really what this book and the movie are about it's called Hillary's America and by the way the picture that you have of here she looks very like uh empor Palpatine from Star Wars was that intentional always wears those outfits that make her look like Emperor Palpatine my take on her was that she looks very aaish remember the a there's a picture in the book yeah yeah there's a picture of aita and you know the aid the Peron Foundation the Clinton Foundation this sort of notion of reigning Imperial over a country third world ising it a little bit um you know here's a a good kickoff point for this whole thing because Reagan once said I didn't leave the Democratic party it left me and the hidden implication of that is or not so hidden the Democrats have been good guys it's only recently let's say with the 60s of McGovern that they went off the tracks so I'm actually with this book and this movie Hillary I'm sort of breaking with Reagan I'm saying you know what no there actually is a very sorted history in the Democratic party that goes back 150 years these were never really the good guys they they sounded like the good guys and they always understood the importance of justifying Very Bad Things by appealing to something Noble even during slavery they try to do that but but if you strip away that kind of veneer you realize that there's a lot of bad stuff going on and so that is laid out rather um uncompromisingly in the book and the movie yeah so I want to I want to get into some of that

The host introduces Dinesh D'Souza's book and movie, mentioning the title 'Hillary's America' and its premise about the history of the Democratic party.

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so I would argue that the if you were to look at three books anyone that took any you know the big three monotheistic books uh that anyone that took any of these books literally there is a tremendous amount of violence in all of them but you have to look at the ideology because only one of those big three religions right now is acting out on it so I don't mind what the books say because most people think they're metaphors or allegories or whatever but if one per one group is looking you know one subset of one group just to be to be fair uh is use is acting on stuff literally then that's the inherent problem so I don't mind the books as much as the people that act on them well as I mentioned so Sher and I got to debate the Bible right so right away he's going to come out and start reading passages in the Old Testament Stone your kids you know and this sort of thing and all this sort of stuff um adultery is punishable by death and so on okay number one I don't think we have good evidence that even the ancient Hebrews stoned their kids right you know uh second there was a debate in early Christianity between the apostles on one side many of them and Paul on the other about whether the Christian should follow any of that stuff and Paul won that debate and the Christians decided no we don't have to follow the Jewish dietary laws we don't have to follow their codes now we follow the Ten Commandments but we don't have to follow all those other rules and so this is not some 19 or 20th century Innovation from the very beginning Christianity goes we're not doing that right so there it is in the book and it is incorporated into the Bible but on the other hand it's not read as a code it's read as an indication of how the people then lived under those code so I think a certain and I I assume certain amount of sophistication has to be applied to the Quran as well

Dinesh D'Souza mentions debating atheists who cite passages from the Bible and discusses its interpretation.

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so I think a certain and I I assume certain amount of sophistication has to be applied to the Quran as well there are the passages from Mecca the passages from Medina Muhammad said one thing when he was winning another thing when he's losing and so different Muslims read those passages differently and also in the in the world I mean by and large I would not feels unsafe if I walked Walked on the the Muslim streets of Indonesia the Indonesian Muslims are by and large not blowing people up I would feel a lot less safe if I were today walking let's say for example in um in Iran yeah uh they're Muslims in both countries but their their historical um their history is different right and that's where everyone gets so confused on

Dinesh D'Souza discusses the interpretation of the Quran and its passages in the context of violence and different Muslim communities.

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