On this week's episode of Ladder With Crowder, the boys are back after a brief hiatus, and they're back with a vengeance. They're joined by Gerald A. in the studio by special guest Thomas Finnegan to discuss everything that's been going on in the office and the studio since we've been on hiatus.
00:02:52.000The CliffsNotes That's four years in a row.
00:02:54.000A lot of developments here at Ladder with Crowder.
00:02:58.000Actually, tomorrow we'll have Thomas Finnegan show you what's been going on in the office and the studios and what we've been rebuilding.
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00:03:21.000So, today we'll be talking about the recession.
00:03:26.000And Britain arresting a veteran, by the way, for causing anxiety on social media, and drag queen stories that are, well, stories, drag queen shows that are happening in churches.
00:03:37.000Particularly the Episcopal Church, or as I call it, Not-a-Church.
00:07:28.000I'm gonna still need this for my nine kids.
00:07:32.000They'll be mad if the slip and slide is gone.
00:07:33.000Just, you know what the best thing is, if you guys are watching, because we have a multi-faceted viewership, put that slip and slide on the third rail.
00:09:30.000But I think we're all on the same page with the exception of this administration and CNN.
00:09:37.000Like, when I bought Chips Ahoy, because it has my catchphrase on it, I noticed that they're half the size as they once were, because it's a save session, or whatever word they came up with to pretend we're not.
00:09:48.000Well, Chunks Ahoy is now Chips Ahoy, and Chips Ahoy is nothing.
00:10:46.000You tried to buy beef lately, but come on man, the economy is still pretty, it's pretty damn banging, according to former Vice President Biden.
00:10:56.000There's gonna be a lot of chatter today on Wall Street and among pundits about whether we are in a recession.
00:12:05.000Technically, Oxford Languages defines it as a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced and then specifically generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
00:12:57.000If we all understand a recession to be two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in a row and then you have White House officials come up here to say, no, no, no, that's not what a recession is.
00:13:38.000Because I was going by the literal definition.
00:13:42.000But he is making clear that it is not the technical definition, Brian Deese, Biden's economic advisor, is saying now.
00:13:49.000Let's go back to then, in 2008, Hoppenard DeLorean, Deese, said this exactly, I quote, Which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
00:14:05.000Two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession.
00:14:10.000It's not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on.
00:14:17.000But then I have in 2008 this quote, economists have a technical definition of recession which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
00:16:29.000This was the accepted definition of recession for...
00:16:34.000Always, up until last week, just to be clear.
00:16:37.000And what they want, this is gaslighting of the American people.
00:16:40.000And not just the American people, by the way, you need to understand that business owners, and you know this, Gerald, and so do I as a small business owner, we rely on these metrics and these definitions to anticipate when we need to invest, when we need to pull back, when we need to save money, when we need to maybe take on some more inventory, when we need to prepare for lean times.
00:16:57.000So if we're looking at a recession, We need to know.
00:17:01.000We need to know what this is, and they want to gaslight not only you paying more at the pump, paying more at the grocery store, but business owners who are saying, ah, hold on a second, I think we're in a recession.
00:17:09.000They're saying, no, no, no, no, don't believe the mom-and-pop businesses, by the way, while they hand our tax dollars over to big corporations.
00:17:51.000And you remember what they got onto Donald Trump for during COVID, saying that he wasn't being honest with the American people about the threat that we were facing?
00:17:59.000I understand that he was trying to be like, hey, don't shut the world down.
00:18:01.000This is going to be really bad if you do that, right, economically.
00:18:04.000Right now, they should come out and say, hey guys, we have negative growth for two quarters.
00:18:07.000Historically, that's what this has meant.
00:20:33.000Now, on top of the figures that we have, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates, of course, by 0.75 basis points for the second time in two months.
00:23:04.000Many Americans who didn't even like Donald Trump had to acknowledge the contrast after eight years of Obama, and now we have another three years of Joe Biden.
00:23:11.000And you look at the RCP average, his polling is not going well.
00:25:53.000So, look, we're going to move on from this to talk about also a free speech issue, which a lot of you don't appreciate that it only exists here in the United States.
00:25:59.000For that, it's a live show, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:26:03.000Speaking of free speech, we have no idea how long we'll be on YouTube, so you can watch us on Rumble if you don't want to watch on YouTube.
00:28:52.000I'm rooting, tootling, going to Disney World.
00:28:57.000All right, so here's something else, too.
00:28:59.000Look, I've talked about... I think that the most important issues are... Yes, the economy is important.
00:29:03.000What's more important than the economy is the fact that this administration is lying about the economy and the media is largely carrying their water.
00:29:10.000More important to me than issues of taxes, and they are important, are issues of your ability to speak freely, particularly in this new landscape of social media, new media, right?
00:29:35.000So I believe that all of it needs to be addressed.
00:29:38.000But if you notice, we focus more on how the media is handling, how the media is responding to these lies, what the media relationship is with this administration.
00:29:46.000And it paints a very terrifying picture.
00:29:48.000So let's go now to our friends over there in the UK across the pond.
00:29:56.000And I don't know if you know this, if you've watched The Change My Mind, you know that freedom of speech doesn't exist anywhere outside of the United States, right?
00:30:04.000Comment below if you didn't know that.
00:30:05.000If you think it exists anywhere outside of the United States, meaning absolute, outside of committing a crime, show me a country where it actually exists that way, where there is a complete safeguard against the government infringing upon it whatsoever.
00:30:20.000It does, and it's enshrined into your constitutional rights, meaning the government does not grant them, the government recognizes them.
00:31:36.000It was something, Milligrim, Midegrim Experiments, where they had someone who was, they would have a subject who was allowed to electroshock another subject who was in on it to see if they would actually just sort of carry out the orders of authority, and the results were shocking.
00:31:53.000If you think it can't happen here, of course it can happen here.
00:31:55.000Those cops should defy those orders before they even leave the station.
00:35:10.000Let me give you some responses here from the government in the UK.
00:35:13.000Carolyn Russell, or Caroline Russell, don't know, don't care.
00:35:16.000A Green Party representative, she's a London Assembly member, condemned the post and wrote this on Twitter.
00:35:21.000As a London Assembly member and a member of the Police and Crime Committee, I hope the Met Police will look into Lawrence Fox using pride flags to create Nazi imagery and posting the images on a public platform.
00:35:48.000The whole reason for calling something a hate crime or starting with hate speech is to simply give the government more authority to label speech to be a crime.
00:35:58.000And they've tried this here in the United States.
00:36:35.000The references are available at loudmouthcutter.com if you want to read the entire thing.
00:36:38.000It says, Any person who sends to another person any article or electronic communication which is of an indecent or grossly offensive nature is guilty of an offence if his purpose or one of his purposes in sending it is that it should cause distress or anxiety to the recipient or to any other person to whom he intends that it or its contents or nature should be communicated.
00:38:38.000Lawrence responded to the Assembly member, Russell, the Green Party member, saying, This is the UK, not China.
00:38:44.000Good to know you would like to see your political opponents prosecuted for hate, locked up, and probably worse, so thanks for proving my point here.
00:39:51.000Arrested for an anti-lockdown Facebook post.
00:39:54.000This is the kind of stuff that happens across the globe on a regular basis, outside of the United States, and you have to put it this way.
00:40:02.000When people say, oh, the left and the right, and they take it on an issue-by-issue basis, look, believe me, we call Republicans to the mat when they are phonies, and they absolutely deserve to be.
00:40:13.000But if you value freedom of speech, you are precluded Precluded from voting for the Democrat Party today.
00:40:19.000You absolutely, positively cannot, if the Democrats had their way.
00:40:25.000Let's go down the list just for people in line for the presidency.
00:40:28.000You would have former Vice President Joe Biden, President Kamala Harris, you would have, I believe Nancy Pelosi would be number three, President Pro Tempore would be number four, I'm trying to remember the name there.
00:40:38.000Anyway, if the right amount of planes go down because they happen to be flying over Taiwan with an escort, You might end up with someone else.
00:40:46.000But let's go through every single one of them.
00:40:55.000None of them support freedom of speech.
00:40:56.000They all believe that big tech should have more power.
00:40:59.000If they had their way, completely unfettered, if there were no Republicans, if there were no Conservatives standing in their way, it would be just like Australia.
00:44:10.000Dease If you can't speak out about the same- I want to say same-sex- the Gay Pride Month, the LGBTQIA- by the way, I haven't even seen gay guys at the Gay Pride Month.
00:44:18.000I've just seen a bunch of drag queens and angry fat lesbians with shirts from Bass Pro, so I'm sorry, gay guys.
00:44:29.000I think that they just made a bunch of, like, rainbow Robin Williams suspenders in the 70s they thought would take off and didn't, and they're just still selling those.
00:44:52.000Well, then nobody buys off of him, which is why he's broke.
00:44:55.000But let's move on to this, because we wouldn't be allowed to discuss this in the UK, so here in the United States, we can take a Steaming, self-relieving exercise all over it.
00:45:05.000Drag everything right now is permeating everything in America, and it's a horrible thing.
00:45:10.000Now, I remember when transvestites used to be the Hoovers of the world and the head of the FBI.
00:45:14.000People who just, you know, they sort of did it for fun.
00:49:33.000I mean, it's saw a ring, not my fingers.
00:49:36.000Brita Filter also wrote, Visibility matters and I'm so honored to have had the chance to talk to you about my work as an LGBTQ plus drag queen activist and hell followed with it.
00:53:01.000Statistically, it's been largely white women, not black women, not Latino women, largely white suburban women who have supported this transgender movement to be nice.
00:53:11.000Is if you were to say, you know, statistically, men actually have a problem with insert X, Y, we would go, man, we better get a handle on this.
00:53:16.000And I said to her, you need to start fighting.
00:53:20.000Right now, if you don't want to lose this.
00:53:22.000She said, well, what am I, you know, I want to have, I don't want to alienate my friends.
00:54:02.000You disproportionately are in positions of board members and churches.
00:54:06.000A lot of people think because the pastors are largely men.
00:54:09.000The truth is, the churches right now, if you look at people in positions of authority, largely board members, people who are involved with running small groups, mostly women.
00:55:13.000You need to fight them every single step of the way so that your demographics don't change the way that male demographics haven't changed to that degree.
00:55:44.000It's going to happen one way or the other.
00:55:46.000Let's just do it now when you can actually have a civil conversation with most people who just don't have really much of an opinion on this and go, oh, I never knew that.
00:56:20.000When the government says, we can lock you down indefinitely, that affects everybody.
00:56:24.000When you say, well you know what, actually, there's no difference between men and women, and the most important thing you can do, former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden said, the most important thing you can do is affirm your child's gender.
00:56:46.000We'll talk about that later this week.
00:56:48.000It seems that, you know, one of the beauties of life is actually sunshine and nature and the farther we get away from going outside and being part of nature, the less natural we're becoming.
00:56:59.000Well, yeah, I would love to go out in nature.
00:57:01.000Unfortunately, the drag queens have rubbed their oily asses all over every bark.
00:59:40.000Now, I know what you're saying, this is one of those things, you're just going off half-cocked, you don't have the information, but I want you to be ready to hit the like button.
00:59:46.000By that I mean hit the like button right now and leave your comment, uh, because all references are available at lightofthecarder.com.
00:59:51.000We did our due diligence. I throw up in my mouth a little a spokesman for the base
00:59:54.000verified that the installation commander signed off on the event and
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