On today's show, Geraldine and Vanessa talk about the baby formula shortage, the new crime statistics from the CDC, and why the Democratic Party needs to listen to the black community. Gerald and Vanessa also discuss why it's a good idea to have a black presidential candidate on the show.
00:01:49.000That's why we're hearing that instead of a sip.
00:01:52.000Look, I just, it's been a very stressful, uh, it's been a very stressful year and, uh, well, uh, look, I, I haven't introduced him yet, but I blame Dave.
00:02:49.000No one's talking about this, the new crime stats that were released and the CDC presented it.
00:02:53.000With the preface that it's because of systemic racism, because of systemic oppression, that's why you're going to see the statistics that you see.
00:03:39.000It's a really valuable opportunity right now.
00:03:40.000A lot of, and this is because, and I know, not everyone, I know if you're watching, you watching right now, the woman watching this, the lady watching this, you're engaged.
00:03:48.000But you also have to understand that you're an anomaly.
00:03:51.000Typically, statistically, women, white suburban women, are not engaged in politics and vote because they tend to be more agreeable.
00:04:35.000It just is predicated on the idea of, if you talk with people and let them assert, just let them explain their position, you'll realize they often don't have one, and they go, what do you think about it?
00:06:33.000You've heard him, you love him, and we're in Tulsa this weekend, that's sold out, but we do have shows together in, oh yeah, Colorado Springs, June 18th.
00:06:41.000There still are some tickets available for the early show.
00:07:37.000And by the way, hey guys, look, we don't know what's going to be happening here.
00:07:40.000YouTube is now making some changes that we can't fully... but if we don't let you know that we're not doing a show, you can always go over to Rumble, right?
00:07:50.000We do an extra full 45 minutes, sometimes an hour of show.
00:07:53.000Today is Chat Thursday, which is always a lot of fun where we take as many chats as we possibly can as opposed to, you know, playing a game or segment.
00:08:22.000I'm sorry, Gerald's wife, for watching.
00:08:23.000This is not, I don't mean it in any type of, uh, uh, obviously not disparaging, uh, and I don't want to say, you know, uh, wonderful breasts, but I just, you know what, let's go to the set up.
00:11:00.000This is what happens is when you keep breeding the racial division and telling people they can steal, you have people who are not racist, whether they're white, whether they're Asian, and they say, All right, that's enough!
00:11:10.000You get rooftop Koreans, you get the Detroit violence where there was the rebound effect after the riots where then it became, it wasn't entirely a race war before that, that's actually what sparked what ended up being more of the racial tensions in Detroit.
00:11:22.000It wasn't, it wasn't the culmination to the race riots in Detroit.
00:11:27.000And when you allow people to commit crimes and you go, and I'm not saying that all black people are committing crimes, let's be very clear, what I'm saying is that the leftist party, the democratic party, decides to go out and say, Well, these people need to be able to, let's be empathetic to it.
00:11:41.000I'll read you the CDC stats later where they say, well, crime has gone up, specifically only in one demographic, but it's clearly due to racism.
00:11:48.000When you do that, the people who are the victims of crimes decide that they've had enough.
00:11:53.000And you run the risk of when you label the criminals exclusively by race, but saying it's their race, but it's not their fault because of the race, it's your fault because of their race.
00:12:06.000Yes and also well usually when you walk out casually you can get away with it or if an alarm goes off ever like CVS they're just like hey I'm like I'm white and they're like that's fine yeah they honestly they don't care.
00:12:17.000When I get pulled over by a police officer I have tinted windows highly illegal and I just roll it down and go And they're like, oh, sorry, sir.
00:12:43.000Anytime I got caught really shoplifting was I was stealing a bong that was three feet long and I just casually put it into a springtime jacket.
00:12:52.000I'm sure the locale from which you were stealing the bong, they probably weren't on top of it to realize.
00:12:57.000No, no, the security guard did though, and I walked out and it was a giant mall, and they were like, uh, excuse me, you have a graphics bong with a clown on it hanging out of your coat, and I was like, what?
00:14:11.000He, along with some other protesters, glued themselves to a New York Starbucks counter over, and here's the thing, it's an animal rights thing, but see if you can spot the privilege.
00:14:25.000When will you stop charging us more for vegan milk?
00:14:29.000When will you stop raking in huge profits?
00:14:32.000It's not about the animal rights, it's about the premium.
00:14:36.000When will you stop penalizing people for their ethnicity or their role?
00:17:54.000It has nothing to do with women's health.
00:17:57.000Let me let Manchin, and by the way, I don't agree with Senator Manchin a whole lot, but it's funny that he's persona non grata to the Democratic Party because I will say, even among all politicians, just from the standpoint of not appearing like a crazy Satanist, he speaks normally.
00:18:16.000As far as his personality goes, here he is explaining why he refused to support the Women's Health Protection Act, and the explanation matters!
00:18:24.000The bill we have today to vote on, the Women's Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support, but make no mistake, it is not Roe v. Wade codification, it's an expansion.
00:18:35.000It wipes 500, 500 state laws off the books.
00:19:14.000There's something wrong going on there.
00:19:16.000Southern charm, though, goes a long way.
00:19:18.000So, before you bring up the picture that I referenced, let me just reference the bill here, so you know.
00:19:23.000The Women's Health Protection Act, you've heard me talk about.
00:19:26.000How the left, and if you watched yesterday's installment on the street, actual leftists, about 50% of the Democratic Party, they believe in abortion all the way up until and including birth on demand, period.
00:19:35.000And if they would have their way, it would be subsidized.
00:19:36.000You know, just like your basket weaving degree.
00:19:40.000So the bill would have, and I'm reading a quote here, among other things, it would have banned a prohibition.
00:19:46.000So it would have banned a prohibition.
00:19:47.000So it would have banned a ban, just to be clear.
00:19:50.000It would have disallowed a prohibition on abortion after fetal viability when, in the good faith medical judgment of the treating healthcare provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient's life or health.
00:20:01.000So really quickly, that means that this Women's Protection Act would allow abortions of babies like that.
00:22:42.000The Democrats wanted to ban, if they would have their way at a federal level, they would ban any limitations for any reason on abortion all the way up until nine months period.
00:22:59.000So if you don't believe People say, you know, you don't want to be a single issue voter.
00:23:04.000If you don't believe that 7, 8, 9 month babies should be aborted, or at least if you don't believe that no state should be able to place a restriction on the killing of a 7, 8 month baby, you are precluded from ever pulling the lever for someone with a D next to their name.
00:23:26.000So Elizabeth Warren is so upset about the Constitution standing in the way of killing these seven- and eight-month babies that she decided to do what Elizabeth Warren does, which means, you know, ramble, cackle.
00:24:50.000Did it predate our segment by, like, nine decades?
00:24:55.000I think she's like, well look, I get that the majority of people elected to vote on this voted this way, but if you take a poll of people, they, you know, especially if you focus on California and New York, they say, yeah, that's totally fine.
00:25:05.000That's part of my language if you have kids.
00:25:08.000I just need to, just, I'm, you know, and also those cigarettes are getting to me.
00:25:13.000It's complete horseshit when they try and say the majority of Americans know.
00:25:16.000When you ask the majority of Americans, what do you think about Roe v. Wade, I think it's a 60-something percent where they say, well, we don't think it should be overturned.
00:25:22.000Then the vast majority of Americans believe that abortion should be impermissible after the first trimester.
00:25:27.000If you actually discuss with Americans what happens within that first trimester, like a heartbeat, like development, like fingers and toes, guess what?
00:29:34.000This is something that a lot of you know about, and this is something that affects families across the country, myself included, and is a real opportunity, like we just talked about the abortion issue, to discuss this, particularly with mothers of new children.
00:29:45.000It just starts with the question, why?
00:29:49.000Invariably someone's bitching about it, right?
00:29:51.000Like, I can't believe this food shortage, I can't believe this formula shortage.
00:29:56.000And to be fair, there are quite a few reasons as to why, but the overall reason is, of course, an inept government and red tape, and there's a problem that can... a problem can be created by a business or business, and then the government can make it worse.
00:30:13.000Well, and it's never been extremely cost-effective or abundant, ever, really.
00:31:43.000It just begs these questions, and of course the media can't do that, just like the media can't go out for an hour and a half and talk with people on the street, because that's not what they do.
00:33:01.000One of our producers here went to, so I've been looking online and stopping by stores, but our producer, and he happened to film it, which really I should have been thinking about that, he went to six stores looking for formula.
00:33:12.000He went to Target, he went to Kroger, he went to Tom Thumb, he went to Walmart, he went to CVS, he went to Bye Bye Baby.
00:33:16.000I don't even know they sold formula at Bye Bye Baby.
00:38:43.000They claimed that it was contaminated with, I believe, a bacteria.
00:38:46.000When they searched the facility, they only found it in a place where nothing that actually would be shipped out would have had contact with it.
00:38:53.000Regardless, Abbott voluntarily recalled a bunch of its product, including a lot of Similac formulas.
00:38:59.000That's a very popular formula for mothers out there.
00:39:49.000It is a problem because, and this is what you see with big banks, you see it with airline companies, you see it with health insurance companies, the baby formula industry is dominated by a handful of companies.
00:40:39.000And if you select it, you see it with big banks, you see it with airlines, you see it with health insurance companies, you see it with big tech, you see it here.
00:40:44.000These are industries, the one commonality, that are incredibly heavily regulated.
00:40:50.000Now, to be clear, I know it sounds good.
00:41:43.000Well, so the FDA is kind of doing the job that they're supposed to be doing in that case, but in other cases... What if your family has a history of, like, hemochromatosis?
00:42:43.000Now, what about easing tariffs on these other Formulas.
00:42:48.000And by the way, a lot of baby formulas coming over from Europe.
00:42:50.000I don't know if we have this necessarily on the show, Matt, but there was a bunch of formula that was coming in from Europe, Germany, and it didn't meet labeling laws.
00:42:56.000Specific FDA labeling laws, which by the way, you want to know how useless the FDA labeling laws are?
00:43:20.000So in Europe they can get access to this, but here in the United States you can't.
00:43:24.000So we have tariffs, we want to ease it on China.
00:43:26.000Right now when we need the formula, we don't allow Americans to make choices.
00:43:30.000And we put tariffs on the formula that would come in from Europe where it's perfectly acceptable and probably better than what we're getting from Abbott Laboratories.
00:43:36.000The point is when you eliminate choice and you create all this red tape, it makes the barrier to entry impossible and so there is less competition.
00:44:14.000So the point is this, the FDA doesn't... Look, look.
00:44:18.000I don't think it's a legitimate role for the government to say that you can't take something, let's say an experimental drug, if you're willing to accept the risk.
00:44:25.000I do think it's a legitimate role of the government to make sure that you know the risk of something you are consuming from a company or making sure that the company isn't lying to you about what is in there.
00:44:36.000For example, if they say, hey, we don't put lead paint chips in our baby formula.
00:44:41.000They have it in giant, bright, loud letters with singing whistles.
00:44:47.000Just have to make sure that you don't actually have lead paint chips in your formula.
00:44:51.000That's the FDA's job, and they don't do it!
00:44:54.000Right, and they actually had a whistleblower for that plant that you mentioned earlier, the Sturgis Michigan plant.
00:44:59.000They had a whistleblower, I believe, in October that came forward.
00:45:01.000They didn't investigate or contact the whistleblower until December, and I don't think they actually went and looked at the plant until a couple of months after that, and that's the issue that we had.
00:45:09.000Now, their response, just like with gas prices right now, just like with any of the other inflation, is corporations bad.
00:45:16.000That's the left's response every single time.
00:46:11.000Doesn't it seem like it's over or under, though?
00:46:13.000It feels like it's like Ace Rothstein in Casino, where if you have enough money, they just keep putting the application at the bottom of the pile.
00:46:20.000That's kind of the point that I was getting to.
00:46:23.000Yes, the FDA and the government has way too many regulations.
00:46:27.000The barriers to entry prevent smaller firms from breaking through.
00:46:31.000But I also feel like, as conservatives, sometimes we automatically have the kind of reactionary response and say, oh, well, government bad, corporations good.
00:46:39.000Right, that shouldn't be the case either.
00:46:40.000In this case, I think they're both incompetent, as all get out.
00:46:44.000Because how did these five companies get this market share?
00:46:48.000By running the better business than everybody?
00:48:08.000When people say, oh, big corporations, look at the most powerful corporations that have ever existed, why do you think YouTube, right, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, this is all under Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, why do you think they entirely support Democrats?
00:48:26.000You believe that Susan Wojcicki, that Jeff Bezos, that Tim Cook, that Mark Zuckerberg are looking out for you?
00:48:33.000Do you actually believe that all of them somehow woke up and said, you know, this is what's best for the American people and not what's best for my company or shareholders?
00:48:51.000anything that can be done at this point. Yeah, well stores aren't going to get a lot more product,
00:48:55.000Abbott said, until July. They're ramping up production as fast as they can, but that's
00:48:58.000two months. You know what the government solution also is, Stephen? Like, oh, what did we do during
00:49:02.000World War II? Let's put it under the Defense Production Act so that the government can now
00:49:05.000control it, or let's add it to the strategic stockpile, like the masks and stuff we didn't
00:49:09.000have, right, in this. And it's like, oh, government's stepping in and doing more of a bad job.
00:49:14.000Do you understand how this is going to go?
00:49:16.000Well, it's just like, look, this is just like the FBI.
00:49:18.000The FBI is, okay, you're busy prosecuting people who are wearing, you're not going after the pedophiles and actual domestic terrorists, you're going after people who are on the Capitol, along with funny hats!
00:50:14.000Uh, no, by the way, I'm not sponsored by Prilosec, just to be clear, okay?
00:50:17.000I'm not Stephen Colbert sponsored by a big pharma company.
00:50:20.000But what I'm saying is, if you're a mom, right, and you have a baby with some kind of an ailment, some kind of a disorder, some kind of special need, guess what?
00:50:28.000We often don't understand that time is a currency, and you can't spend that time addressing other problems.
00:50:33.000If the FDA is busy grandstanding and right now virtue signaling, they can't do their actual job, and their actual job should be just ensuring that what they claim is on the label is on the label.
00:50:44.000Not making up new labels, not shutting down companies, not forcing people to take experimental medicine.
00:50:54.000Hey, the CDC should actually be compiling statistics more accurately.
00:50:59.000Instead, they're lobbying the government to make sure that you have to take a vaccine.
00:51:05.000And so we see, as the FDA grows in scope and grows in power, they're not doing the job that they were basically designed to do, which is ensure that consumers can make decisions with accurate information.
00:51:18.000So I am pretty libertarian, I believe, in limited government, but I also don't believe that corporations should simply be able to go out and lie.
00:51:48.000And Lane, like, what you're talking about with Like, let's say somebody does get the ingredients they need by some miracle or whatever, and they're allowed to have production and make baby formula.
00:52:30.000Something is coming, we can jump into this game.
00:52:32.000If you're in that kind of world already making food products, you might be able to transfer over and go after it, but you can't if there's too much government red tape.
00:52:40.000If it's going to take you a year to get into the approval process and get your product to the market, you can't do it.
00:52:46.000And this is what I want to be really clear, because it's easy to go, Corporations, evil government, good when you say red tape.
00:52:53.000When we say red tape, we don't mean making sure that the companies are providing a safe product for you.
00:53:02.000What we mean is red tape with your paper sitting on a stack.
00:53:04.000Red tape with, well, this label doesn't have the right font size, or you know what, sorry, you can't use Comic Sans, whatever the hell it is.
00:54:18.000And working with the industry right now to optimize their supply lines, product sizes to increase capacity, and prioritizing product lines that are of greatest need.
00:54:57.000She's like, we're working with them to make sure that they understand that there's a demand for a product that they make and that if they make more of it, they'll sell more of it and get more money.
00:55:03.000I'm like, did you really need to call them for that?
00:55:13.000We called them and we told them that people need, we called the baby formula company and told them that there are people who want to purchase baby formula and we'll let you know what they come back with.
00:55:22.000Yeah, we're gonna use a bunch of words you don't understand.
00:55:24.000The whole thing, and I guess my last point on this, is it's just kind of a sick, incestuous relationship between, like, left-wing politics and these big business people, the cronies.
00:56:54.000Well, that was, by the way, Pittsburgh, the steel shut down long before we stopped needing steel.
00:57:00.000It was too expensive, and the quality was lower because you have unions who elect Democrats, and then the Democrats say, we'll give you kickbacks, and eventually it ends up killing the industry because no one wants to go to them for raw material.
00:57:10.000So it would be great, kind of like you're saying, it's a reactionary sort of response for conservatives to say, Oh, corporations good, government bad, which of course none of us agree with.
00:57:20.000It's also a little bit of a reactionary response where you have people who are like, you should buy American!
00:57:25.000You have people like, you're driving a jet car, you should buy American!
00:57:36.000I guess the only thing that I would add on to that is a lot of these companies that could produce these things in America, outside of like the union regulations, do it for cost effectiveness.
00:57:47.000So you don't have a minimum wage in China, you can have Uighur Muslims make whatever you want for free because, you know, they're not people according to the Chinese government.
00:57:58.000And instead of preparing for a strong economy that can respond well to Black Swan events like COVID, they went for, we need to make every single penny we can by cutting costs everywhere we can, offshore jobs, offshore production.
00:58:14.000And unfortunately, that's also exacerbated by the government taxes and by making, you know, profit margins are very, very slim for a lot of companies.
00:59:01.000Well, there's just too many people that want to look at corporations and wag their finger, but they're getting the campaign funds from them and say, all we have to do is tax these windfall profits.
00:59:09.000That's what Robert Reich, that moron, keeps saying.
00:59:11.000And I'm just like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:59:13.000That's not what's driving our problem.
00:59:14.000The problem is this administration doesn't have a clue on how to handle inflation and reopening an economy.
00:59:24.000They're great at making inflation work for them.
00:59:26.000But the economy, it was obvious that it was coming back.
00:59:29.000Anyone who was trying to get into politics at that time and be a leader at any level should have known this thing's about to open wide and we need to be ready for it.
00:59:38.000And yet you put the mayor of a small town in Indiana in the position as secretary of transportation and it's like, oh good.
00:59:46.000He's going to know a whole lot about how to handle this.
01:00:24.000Let me distill this for you, okay, really quickly, because people try and make this very... and I agree with a lot of the points that you're making, and I think there's a big difference between crony capitalism and corporatism, who, by the way, this is why the biggest, most powerful companies in the world, and also the big banks, favor Democrats.
01:01:00.000Do you think that all of the entire shortage of baby formula that affects all of you right now and children, which is probably why Republicans, Conservatives are more concerned with it, you know, because they want them to live.
01:01:14.000Do you think that it's affected because of one company, Abbott Laboratories, had a contamination, you know, to a small degree, or do you think that there's a shortage With formula, for perhaps the same reason that there's been a shortage in inflation of everything!
01:01:37.000Now, this is more severe, but remember, when there were empty shelves, not long ago, the media said, no, no, no, it's not happening, it's not true.
01:01:44.000Everybody who's been doing grocery shopping, and this is why I say talk with moms, guess what?
01:01:49.000If the moms are doing the grocery shopping in the house, they've seen the shelves, they've gone to, where we go, Kroger, Tom Thumb, Target, Walmart, CVS, I've made those runs, we've seen them for ourselves, the media can only for so long say, don't believe your lying eyes and lying ears, they just never saw the formula shelves.
01:02:06.000So, is it just because of one company and, ooh, corporation bad and they should be the target of our ire, or is it just a more severe version of what we've been seeing for months?
01:02:15.000This, the commonality across the board, Is what?
01:06:25.000So look, we have a segment here, I think we're gonna, I want to get into it a little bit more, so we'll do this a little bit next week, because everyone gets mad if we don't do enough chats on Chat Thursday.
01:06:33.000However, the CDC, I think it was May 10th, Put out stats on crime.
01:06:41.000And they tried to say it was systemic racism and inequities caused by COVID.
01:06:45.000Look, I'll just give you a spoiler alert.
01:06:47.000No, if you add it up racially, those who would be systemically oppressed, they make up 76% of the homicides, which is a staggeringly low rate.
01:07:12.000So white people are committing suicide, but black and brown people, to a rate of 75-78%, are committing the homicides, and it's because they're oppressed.
01:07:20.000But they're not committing the suicides.
01:07:21.000Which, by the way, that's a good thing!
01:07:22.000We should look into if there's some kind of genetic, genetically, if there's a protective gene for African Americans against the suicide.
01:07:30.000Well, wouldn't they be killing the oppressors if they were being oppressed?
01:07:32.000You would think so, but that's far too sensible.
01:07:34.000We'll discuss this more in a way that we could never discuss on YouTube because race, and you know what?
01:07:39.000We'll also talk about women with penises, too, because we can't talk about it on YouTube because it's immutable.
01:07:46.000So right now, I'm going to hit the... smash the like button, share, comment.