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00:00:06.000Well, we were told by the Biden administration that all the pain was basically over, that now that they bailed out the depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, all would be well.
00:00:14.000The problem, as we discussed over the last couple of days, is that none of that is true.
00:00:19.000You've just redistributed the risk for the moment, but that risk will Eventually, re-coalesce, and there will be more bank failures, and there will be more bank runs, and there will be more economic uncertainty, if not outright depression.
00:00:29.000And the reason for that is because you have created systemic problems.
00:00:32.000The world's stupidest people are running the world's biggest institutions with the world's most power, and that is a serious, serious issue.
00:00:39.000We saw this during the COVID pandemic, where people who are basically single-factor analysts We're in charge of all global policy.
00:00:45.000The single factor they cared about was the spread of COVID.
00:00:47.000They did not care about the impact of COVID.
00:00:49.000They didn't care about the impact of the shutdowns.
00:01:21.000The problem is very often those two things are in conflict.
00:01:24.000And it really should be our elected officials who are making economic policy.
00:01:27.000It should not be central bank officials who are manipulating the currency here and there in order to achieve political purposes.
00:01:33.000Because again, they are using single factor analysis and they are really not answerable to the general public at large.
00:01:39.000But that's exactly what is happening country after country after country.
00:01:42.000They've created a set of perverse incentives and then everybody else in the universe is supposed to operate under this set of perverse incentives.
00:01:49.000And so what that meant with Silicon Valley Bank is that because of wild inflation of the currency, because of extraordinary amounts of liquidity pushed into the system between 2020 and 2022, they took all of that money and they stuffed it back into government bonds in the assumption that these magical government actors, these experts, would never allow those bonds to basically go belly up.
00:02:10.000And now we are seeing that this is not just a United States problem, this is a global problem.
00:02:14.000According to the New York Times, fear about the unseen risks to the financial system rippled across the globe on Wednesday, breaking the brief calm that had settled over markets and deepening worries that a banking crisis could threaten the economy.
00:02:24.000The turmoil was set off by a panic over the health of Credit Suisse, the 166-year-old Swiss bank that has been reeling from years of mismanagement and poor risk control, and that warned this week about problems in its own accounting practices.
00:02:34.000The Swiss bank's difficulties differ from the woes of the American banks that have collapsed in recent days.
00:02:37.000Concern about Credit Suisse added to a sense of dread about the economy in general.
00:02:41.000In an attempt to calm investors' nerves, Switzerland's central bank, the Swiss National Bank, said late in the day it would step in if necessary to keep Credit Suisse afloat.
00:02:48.000Several hours later, the troubled lender said it would borrow up to 50 billion Swiss francs, that's about $54 billion, from the central bank to ward off concerns about its financial health.
00:02:57.000So once again, the central bank's stepping in to save failing institutions.
00:03:00.000And the problem is, of course, that when you step in to save failing institutions, you're incentivizing failure.
00:03:05.000You're telling people they should take riskier strategies with other people's money.
00:03:09.000After all, the government's simply going to fill in the gap.
00:03:11.000Now, the government does not have money of its own.
00:03:13.000The government can only print money or it can tax money.
00:03:16.000The government does not have any other method of making money.
00:03:19.000Other than old-style imperialism and capture of other countries' money.
00:03:22.000But that's not something that I think is really on the table.
00:03:25.000At this point, Credit Suisse itself is in some pretty serious trouble.
00:03:29.000Whenever you're having to take out $54 billion from the Swiss National Bank as sort of a backstop, you've got a real problem.
00:03:35.000According to CNBC, Shares of Credit Suisse on Wednesday plunged to a fresh all-time low for the second consecutive day after a top investor in the embattled Swiss bank said it would not be able to provide any more cash due to regulatory restrictions.
00:03:45.000Trading in the bank's plummeting stock was halted several times throughout the morning as it fell below $2.17 for the very first time.
00:03:52.000Swiss listed Credit Suisse shares ended the session down 24%.
00:03:57.000Part of the problem is that the biggest investor in Credit Suisse, the Saudi National Bank, said it would not provide the Swiss bank with any further financial assistance, according to a Reuters report sparking the latest leg lower.
00:04:07.000Saudi National Bank chairman said, we can't go below, we can't go above 10% because it's a regulatory issue.
00:04:13.000He said, S&B is happy with Credit Suisse's transformational plan.
00:04:16.000They suggested that the bank is probably fine.
00:04:18.000But when your biggest investor is saying, because of regulation, we can't inject more money into your company, that's a pretty serious problem.
00:04:25.000And all of this is the result of centralizing so much power at the central banks and then all of the other actors in the economy reacting to that centralized power.
00:04:34.000And then according to the Wall Street Journal, you have liquidity in general is rising up.
00:04:37.000So at the same time that you have the central banks trying to inject liquidity into the economy to backstop all of these institutions that had bet on further liquidity injections, at the same time, they're trying to tamp down inflation.
00:04:47.000And so you have these two forces that are now at odds inside virtually every major central bank in the West.
00:04:54.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the markets for the world's safest and most liquid assets, the government bonds issued by the U.S.
00:04:58.000and other rich countries, came under immense stress on Wednesday following a week of worries about the health of global banks.
00:05:04.000Liquidity, the capacity to trade quickly at quoted prices, has fallen sharply in two of the keystone markets, those for U.S.
00:05:09.000treasuries and German bunds, according to traders.
00:05:11.000Difficulties including wider price spreads and slower executions are now spreading to many other markets, they said, including those for derivatives, that firms and traders use to lock in prices and hedge risks weeks and months ahead of time, like options, futures, and swaps.
00:05:22.000Liquidity Means also the ability, as the article suggests, to trade quickly.
00:05:28.000It means that if you have a piece of stock, how fast can you sell that stock?
00:05:33.000Is there a big spread between what you're asking and what somebody is willing to pay?
00:05:36.000All of that means that all of your assets are not nearly as quote-unquote liquid as they otherwise would be.
00:05:42.000Traders said that the turmoil, driven in part by fear that an economic reversal might be ahead, was rippling into stocks and helping fuel a decline of more than 700 points in the Dow Industrials at its session lows on Wednesday.
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00:07:21.000It turns out that the Biden administration basically has now set us up for a giant fail, largely because the other option that was on the table with regard to Silicon Valley Bank, namely allowing another financial institution to buy it so that taxpayers were not actually on the hook.
00:07:34.000Well, all those other banks that could have bought Silicon Valley Bank were basically barred from bidding on it by the FDIC and by the Biden administration.
00:07:42.000According to Semaphore, the largest U.S.
00:07:44.000banks didn't even submit a bid for Silicon Valley Bank over the weekend, largely because they were initially excluded from the sales process by the FDIC, and then they ran out of time as a result, which is a huge botchery.
00:07:53.000So now you have the federal government saying it's going to backstop.
00:07:56.000All unsecured deposits across the United States economy.
00:08:00.000You know what would have been a better solution?
00:08:01.000Allow one of the big banks to buy up the failing Silicon Valley bank, fill in all of the unsecured, unsecured creditors, essentially, and then move on with our lives.
00:08:11.000But apparently the Biden administration didn't want to let that happen.
00:08:14.000The agency is led by FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, who has been publicly critical of consolidation in the industry and eventually allowed the biggest global banks into the auction.
00:08:30.000lenders, JPMorgan Chase Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, are already big enough they would need a regulatory waiver to buy another deposit-taking bank.
00:08:36.000The FDIC is now still trying to find some sort of buyer for for the SVP.
00:08:42.000But again, the fact that it was not sold is now due to the FDIC because they were skeptical of even allowing it to be sold in the first place.
00:08:49.000Unsurprisingly, the economy is slowing as a result of literally all of the things.
00:08:53.000What we are watching is a slow building perfect storm is being created.
00:08:56.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a drop in retail sales and easing price pressures in February offer preliminary signs of a cooling economy as the spread of financial turmoil on Wall Street called into question whether the Federal Reserve would continue to raise those interest rates.
00:09:07.000So now you have the markets, I think, betting the wrong way that the Federal Reserve is not going to raise interest rates that in the interest of preserving liquidity in the banks.
00:09:14.000They're not going to raise those interest rates again.
00:09:39.000It's also the story of what's happening in San Francisco.
00:09:41.000So first of all, San Francisco deserves whatever comes to it.
00:09:44.000San Francisco is a city that has basically decided to obliterate itself in every sense.
00:09:48.000They've decided to obliterate themselves demographically.
00:09:50.000There are more pets than children in San Francisco.
00:09:52.000They've decided to obliterate themselves in terms of class structure.
00:09:54.000You are either very rich or very poor in San Francisco.
00:09:57.000They've decided to obliterate themselves in terms of the tech industry.
00:10:00.000There is no one in their right mind who would found a company in San Francisco right now, given the state and local regulations and taxes.
00:10:06.000In San Francisco, and now they're going to obliterate themselves by apparently giving each eligible black resident of the city of San Francisco $5 million.
00:10:17.000Also, a city-appointed panel, according to the BBC, suggests guaranteed annual incomes of $97,000.
00:10:22.000of $97,000, $97,000 for qualifying recipients and homes in San Francisco for $1 a family.
00:10:30.000Now, I will just remind you that slavery was never legal in the state of California.
00:10:35.000The state of California was admitted to the Union as a non-slavery state.
00:10:41.000The city's Board of Supervisors has begun considering the recommendations.
00:10:44.000Supporters say it would be just compensation to Black Americans for the legacy of slavery and racism.
00:10:49.000The San Francisco Board enthusiastically welcomed the proposal at Tuesday's first hearing, according to the AP.
00:10:54.000The committee's draft proposal, first released in December, outlines more than 100 suggestions.
00:10:59.000According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Reparations Committee Chairman Eric McDonald said, So Californians, again, were never slave owners.
00:11:03.000the systems and practices have been managed to exclude and steal, if you will, the opportunity for financial mobility, families are hurting and have been for decades, if not longer.
00:11:13.000Financial repair is time sensitive. This is not one that can or should wait. So Californians, again, were never slave owners. California, in fact, was one of the chief places that residents of of the southern part of the United States who are black attempted to move to to get away from the worst aspects of segregation in the United States.
00:11:32.000Not to say that California never had racial discrimination.
00:11:34.000Of course it did, but it wasn't nearly to the extent that the American South had racial discrimination, for example, which is why it was one of the chief sources of inflow of black in migration throughout the 20th century.
00:11:49.000And it follows a pattern of a bunch of left-wing cities now attempting this sort of stuff.
00:11:53.000In 2021, Evanston, Illinois approved reparations for some residents, including money for home repairs, down payments, and interest or late penalties due on property.
00:12:00.000Now, they don't really know in San Francisco how to qualify people.
00:12:03.000There are about 50,000 black people living in San Francisco.
00:12:06.000It is not clear how many would be eligible.
00:12:08.000Qualifying criteria include that a person would need to be at least 18 and have identified as black or African American in public documents for at least a decade.
00:12:15.000So what they're afraid of is Rachel Dolezal.
00:12:16.000They're afraid of people who are going to show up and be like, oh yeah, by the way, I'm black.
00:12:22.000It is not clear how long you'd have to live in San Francisco in order to attain that $5 million.
00:12:28.000It'll be fascinating to see if they put migration restrictions on black Americans to keep them from taking advantage of the program.
00:12:35.000They'll be like, you have to have lived here for three years and be black in order for you to... Actually, not for like two decades, not for your grandparents, not your great-grandparents.
00:12:43.000You can have been born in 2010, essentially.
00:12:48.000You have to be 18, so I suppose you have to be born in 2005, black in San Francisco, and we will now give you $5 million, a $97,000 universal basic income, and a home for a buck.
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00:13:33.000So God forbid you're hit by a train, at least you know where your assets are going to be disposed of.
00:13:38.000And presumably they will not go to the San Francisco City government to redistribute a $5 million a person.
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00:14:29.000So San Francisco is now looking at the possibility of a $5 million payout per black resident and a $97,000 annual base income and $1 houses for everyone.
00:14:40.000Where all of this will come from, no one knows.
00:14:42.000So this means San Francisco isn't actually going to do it.
00:16:06.000It's essentially just redistributionist nonsense.
00:16:10.000And because it's redistributionist nonsense, what that means is that group equity will be achieved.
00:16:14.000That is the goal of the woke movement.
00:16:16.000The goal of the woke movement, if you had to define wokeness, wokeness makes a couple of key claims.
00:16:20.000It suggests that all the institutions of society are designed to preserve discrimination.
00:16:26.000They're designed by the powerful to preserve discrimination.
00:16:28.000And all group disparities are the result of said discrimination.
00:16:31.000So when you see any differential between black income and, say, white income in the city of San Francisco, that must be because the systems have been designed to the detriment of black Americans in San Francisco.
00:16:42.000Again, does not explain why Asians are doing so well across the board in the United States.
00:16:46.000Does not explain why Latinos have seen tremendous income mobility in the United States.
00:16:50.000Much better income mobility, actually, in the United States than, for example, American descendants of slaves.
00:16:56.000It does not explain why black Americans who are not ADOS, who actually came later, and Nigerian-Americans, or Bahamanian-Americans, why so many of them are doing great.
00:17:06.000In fact, Nigerian-Americans may be the highest educated group in America, by some survey data.
00:17:11.000It doesn't explain any of that, but it doesn't have to explain, because it makes a claim about the universe, and that claim about the universe is incredibly compelling to people who believe that all evils and disparities in the universe can be explained by the malice of others.
00:17:24.000Well, it's that precise view that leads to things like riots at a Charlie Kirk event at UC Davis.
00:17:32.000I mean, again, we are using state taxpayer dollars.
00:17:36.000Dumbest people making the dumbest policy.
00:17:37.000We're using state taxpayer dollars to fund a bunch of baby idiots to smash windows when a person they disagree with speaks.
00:17:47.000According to Mediaite, a TPUSA event with Charlie Kirk at UC Davis plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when protesters, including Black Klan Antifa members, clashed outside the venue in a fracas that resulted in two arrests.
00:18:00.000Kirk's appearance at the campus was already causing anxiety before the event.
00:18:04.000There was an opinion piece published in the Sacramento Bee the morning of the event in which the opinion assistant, Hannah Holzer, called Kirk a fascist and claimed that he called for the lynching of trans people, which of course is a lie, and the piece had to be corrected because it was a lie.
00:18:16.000The Bee then updated its piece, essentially adding Charlie Kirk's denial that he was calling for lynching.
00:18:23.000The video itself is rather astonishing.
00:18:25.000Charlie tweeted out, Violent left-wing agitators just smashed through windows outside of the event venue here at UC Davis.
00:18:30.000Reports are that some of this group made their way into the building before police successfully removed them.
00:18:33.000Pray for peace and safety for all involved.
00:18:36.000Hundreds of protesters were on the campus ahead of the event, including a large group of law enforcement officers.
00:18:40.000The two groups clashed as objects were thrown, including eggs, while glass window panes were broken.
00:19:22.000After the event, UC Davis released a statement saying one police officer was injured in the clash, while one officer sustained an injury when he was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground.
00:19:31.000Protesters also blocked the walking path toward the event space, having been at the center of some of these fracases before.
00:19:37.000I can tell you that the Wokies are perfectly happy to engage in violence when it serves their purpose.
00:19:42.000And of course, they will be treated with kid gloves by the administration because the left is very fond of the Wokies.
00:19:47.000They believe that they are essentially the shock troops for liberal social policy, even if they engage in policies that many on the left would say are a little over the top.
00:19:55.000The problem is they're just too passionate.
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00:21:09.000So meanwhile, while the wokes are breaking windows and dictating policy in San Francisco, they're pretending that the the word woke doesn't actually exist.
00:21:17.000So yesterday, there was a clip that went viral.
00:21:19.000I understand that anytime someone freezes on TV, it goes viral.
00:21:22.000But this was going viral as evidence that the right doesn't know what wokeness is, which is unbelievably stupid.
00:21:27.000The right does know, in fact, what wokeness is.
00:21:29.000So for many people who don't spend their lives in this wokeness, it's sort of Like Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography, you know it when you see it.
00:21:38.000But I think the way that it bleeds down to most people is essentially weaponized political correctness.
00:21:42.000It's political correctness with a new equity guise.
00:21:45.000Well, Bethany Mantel, who is the author of a new book called Stolen Youth with DW Books, it is now a national bestseller.
00:21:51.000She was on a show called Rising with Breonna Joy Gray.
00:21:55.000The lead up to this particular clip, and I called Bethany to ask her about it, the lead up to this particular clip apparently was that off the air, Breonna Joy Gray, was saying on a hot mic that Bethany could hear about how much she really does not like parents and thinks that parents have kids as an act of narcissism and stuff.
00:22:11.000Bethany happens to be a mother of seven, including a mother of six, including a newborn.
00:22:17.000But this clip went viral, not not just because it's always, you know, good TV when someone freezes up or has a bad moment on TV, but because the left used this as evidence that the right has been using wokeness as sort of a catch all term that means nothing in order to rip on people, which is not true.
00:22:40.000Because it's come up a couple of times and I just want to make sure we're on the same page.
00:22:44.000So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, um, I, this is going to be one of those moments I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define and we've spent an entire chapter defining it.
00:23:05.000It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.
00:23:18.000Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15 second soundbite.
00:23:23.000Okay, so the left said, oh my gosh, she couldn't explain it in a 15 second soundbite.
00:23:27.000So later, Bethany tweeted out her definition of wokeness, which again, there is a real definition of wokeness.
00:23:34.000Bethany tweeted out, quote, a radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination.
00:23:41.000It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint enforced by an angry mob.
00:23:50.000So again, there are a bunch of definitions of wokeness, but they all share these same common features, right?
00:23:55.000It is the equity claim of the Biden administration that anytime you see an imbalance in life that is due to evils in the system that must be destroyed because the systems are actually systems of oppression and power.
00:24:06.000But the left started trotting this thing around in order to claim that wokeness doesn't actually exist.
00:24:10.000And this is just high-level gaslighting.
00:24:12.000The notion that the right has no idea what wokeness is, is just a way for them to Avoid the consequences of their own crap woke policies.
00:24:21.000So for example, there's a piece by Philip Bum, wildly dishonest columnist for the Washington Post titled, A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of woke as an attack.
00:24:31.000Mandela had been asked a seemingly simple question by Gray.
00:24:33.000She was on the show to promote a book she wrote with another conservative writer, Carol Markowitz, a book that purports to demonstrate how radicals are indoctrinating young people in America.
00:24:42.000And then he says, we might rephrase that slightly.
00:24:44.000Woke, as often deployed by the right, refers to something emanating from or related to cultural issues that you understand as or want to portray as bad.
00:24:50.000Right, so vagueness of woke is a pejorative, has come into relief in recent days, etc.
00:25:19.000It doesn't really matter all that much.
00:25:20.000The fact of the matter is that your ideology boils down to bad policy, and that bad policy has consequences.
00:25:28.000And those consequences are evident for everyone to see.
00:25:30.000And we are seeing people right now vote with their feet, vote with their money.
00:25:33.000It's going to have dramatic ramifications for the future of the United States.
00:25:36.000The fact that this ideology has pervaded into the highest echelons of the Democratic Party and down to the lowest echelons of American society in terms of income, in terms of socioeconomic status, and all of the rest.
00:25:48.000To pretend that wokeness doesn't exist while you guys actively promote it is pretty incredible.
00:25:53.000Now, speaking of wokeness, There is a New York Attorney General, Letitia James, who essentially got Andrew Cuomo thrown out of office on the basis of a report that wasn't big enough to actually prosecute, but did allow her to essentially open a pathway to herself to run for the nomination for governor in New York.
00:26:14.000She has now decided that she's going to hold a Drag Story Hour event open to children.
00:26:19.000So if you want to talk about, you know, wokeness in society, this is one aspect of wokeness.
00:26:22.000All the mechanisms of society are designed to oppress not only Black Americans, as San Francisco claims, but also LGBTQ Americans.
00:26:30.000And thus, we must fight back against the system by indoctrinating the youngest members of our society to hate the institutions and believe that all rules, roles, and responsibilities are wrong.
00:26:39.000So now, New York Attorney General Letitia James is holding a drag queen event for children, along with a number of other elected officials.
00:27:08.000It's all a figment of your imagination.
00:27:10.000It's always a figment of your imagination.
00:27:12.000This is the stupid game that they play.
00:27:13.000It's always a figment of your imagination.
00:27:15.000And if you protest against it, well, probably you're protesting against it because you're a bigot.
00:27:20.000Or because you just have a very lively imagination.
00:27:23.000When you notice that there is an active attempt to recruit into a woke ideology, and you can define woke, well that's probably because, you know, you're just exaggerating or you're just crazy.
00:27:36.000And so if this comes down to a battle between the wokes and the not-wokes, and among the wokes you also have to include all the people who are gaslighting on behalf of wokeness, The not-wokes are going to win.
00:27:47.000There are just many, many more of them.
00:27:48.000If this comes down to a cultural battle between Letitia James sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hour for children and Ron DeSantis and his ideology in Florida, which is now making good on his promise to stop sexually oriented events directed at children, DeSantis is going to win.
00:28:04.000So as Breitbart is now reporting, Governor DeSantis' administration in Florida is now making good on its promise to target facilities allowing children to attend sexually explicit drag shows.
00:28:12.000It's seeking to revoke the alcohol license of the Hyatt Regency in Miami over a drag show that took place in December, which allowed kids to be in attendance.
00:28:19.000According to the administrative complaint, the event in question was a Drag Queen Christmas, which occurred at the James L. Knight Center connected to the hotel giant December 27th.
00:28:27.000Part of the complaint, Respondent promoted the show using targeted, Christmas-themed promotional materials that did not provide notice as to the sexually explicit nature of the show's performances or other content.
00:28:36.000Rather than call attention to the show's sexually explicit content or acknowledge it might not be appropriate for children, Respondent's promotional materials unequivocally stated, quote, all ages welcome.
00:28:45.000Apparently, during the show and in the presence of a person less than 16 years of age, performers appeared on stage wearing sexually suggestive clothing and prosthetic female genitalia.
00:28:53.000Apparently, the performance also featured numerous segments where performers engaged in acts of sexual conduct, sexual activity, and lewd, vulgar, and indecent displays, including performers forcibly penetrating or rubbing their exposed prosthetic female crests against the faces or oral cavities of audience members, as well as simulating masturbation through performers digitally penetrating prosthetic female genitalia.
00:29:14.000It also noted the sexually explicit nature of the show's Christmas songs, which included Screwed Off the Red-Nippled Reindeer, Salad stuff there from these folks.
00:29:35.000And you guys are cruising for a bruising.
00:29:38.000I understand that you're going to put up unthreatening old man Joe Biden in order to rebut accusations that you're radical, but it ain't going to stop.
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00:31:07.000I'm, of course, referring to the Bible.
00:31:09.000I know it's unpopular to say that these days.
00:31:11.000You know who else has had an influence on my friend Jordan Peterson.
00:31:14.000So he has his Exodus series, but he also has a documentary called Logos and Literacy, where he traces the Bible through history and shows you the impact it had on the Western world.
00:31:52.000Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg.
00:31:55.000Science and religion are opposing forces in the world, but historically that has not been the case.
00:32:03.000Now the book is available to everyone.
00:32:05.000From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine and science to civilization itself.
00:32:14.000It is the most influential book in all of history and hopefully people can walk away with at least a sense of that.
00:32:22.000Logos and Literacy, it's amazing stuff.
00:32:24.000This is the part where normally I tell you Logos and Literacy is only available for our DailyWirePlus members.
00:32:28.000However, we are making it available for free for everyone at DailyWirePlus.com right now, only for a limited time.
00:32:34.000So, watch Jordan Peterson's Logos and Literacy today at DailyWirePlus.com.
00:32:38.000Now again, one of the things that the left is doing in order to prevent people from seeing the consequences of their own radical Nature and many of the things that they are doing that are radical is they're trotting out a person who appears unthreatening.
00:32:51.000I said since 2016, believe it or not, the best nominee for the Democrats would be Joe Biden.
00:32:56.000I said that specifically because he appears old and unthreatening.
00:32:59.000That's the best thing you can do if you're a Democrat and you have a very threatening program.
00:33:02.000The best thing you can do is trot out somebody who appears elderly and infirm and unthreatening.
00:33:07.000Makes it very difficult to attack the guy is radical because, of course, no matter how radical he is, he also appears as though he is on the verge of death.
00:33:13.000Joe Biden, increasingly these days, looks as though he is a warmed over corpse.
00:33:17.000Well, that does grant you the ability to claim that he's not radical.
00:33:19.000After all, dead people aren't all that radical.
00:34:17.000Apparently, there's a thing he does a lot.
00:34:18.000There are people who are in a balcony watching him, and he told them not to jump, which apparently is, as we'll discuss in a moment, a thing he does quite frequently.
00:34:26.000Does the current president of the United States here?
00:34:49.000So maybe they were thinking apparently there's a thing he does all the time.
00:34:52.000Here is just a short montage of Joe Biden randomly telling people not to jump from from higher from higher vantage points. I don't know if he is just channeling random cop on Golden Gate Bridge and what's happening here, but this is he's such a weird old dude. I'm sorry. He's a weird guy.
00:35:08.000Democrats for a long time that they kept saying Donald Trump was weird. Okay, fine. Gotcha.
00:35:13.000Also, this guy's weird. I'm sorry. Joe Biden's a weirdo.
00:36:02.000Well, I mean, I guess that is one way to put an elderly and unthreatening face on an insanely nutty legal regimen that you are seeking to pursue here.
00:36:14.000Well, this does, of course, once again, raise the question as to whether the Republicans are going to run somebody who is capable of beating this doddering elderly gentleman.
00:36:24.000And right now, I'll say it again, this seems to be, effectively speaking, a two-man race at this point.
00:36:30.000I think that all of the talk about other candidates who are getting into the race so far, unless Ron DeSantis falls down on the job, this is basically a race between Trump and DeSantis.
00:36:39.000That is what all the polls are showing right now.
00:36:41.000There are some polls that are showing Trump up.
00:36:42.000There are other polls that are showing DeSantis narrowly up.
00:36:45.000It seems like the momentum right now is with DeSantis.
00:36:47.000The way that you can tell is by the sort of desperate gambit that Trump has been pulling.
00:36:52.000As of recently yesterday, Chip Roy preemptively endorsed Ron DeSantis.
00:36:56.000He characterized him as a, quote, vibrant and energetic leader with the faith, vision, and courage to chart a new course.
00:37:00.000That would, of course, be the same Chip Roy who tried to lead a rebellion against Kevin McCarthy as speaker and actually was able to claw away from McCarthy a bunch of concessions to the Freedom Caucus.
00:37:09.000Chip Roy said his style of no-nonsense government and fearless rejection of woke conventional wisdom has demonstrated an appeal to all of us based on our shared values as Americans.
00:37:16.000Governor DeSantis makes clear he would lead our nation as commander-in-chief with the kind of resolve and sober strength that has produced peace through strength, That's two kind of side swipes at Trump right there.
00:37:25.000been built upon and defined by the sacrifices of one generation for the next.
00:37:28.000When Republicans choose our 2024 presidential nominee, who I intend to support against Joe Biden or any other Democrat, I believe it's time for a new generation of leadership.
00:37:35.000It's time for younger but proven leadership to offer America eight solid years of transformational change.
00:37:39.000That's two kind of side swipes at Trump right there.
00:38:16.000If he weren't running, I'd say he's great, but he's running so he's terrible.
00:38:18.000Like Trump just says the quiet part out loud, which is one of the hilarious things about him.
00:38:21.000Well, now that the beautiful thing about a He's effectively having no centralizing principles to say you can attack candidates from any side of any issue.
00:38:30.000So now, believe it or not, Donald Trump's allies are trying to file legal complaints against Ron DeSantis, formally accusing him of violating state ethics and election laws with his shadow presidential campaign.
00:38:40.000So the president of the United States who claims that state election laws have been geared against him and that he is being unfairly targeted by a wide variety of election officials ranging from New York to Georgia, he's now trying to use the same election laws to target Ron DeSantis, man.
00:38:55.000That is a person with enormous amounts of intestinal fortitude and very little capacity for shame.
00:39:02.000is filing a 15-page complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics, a draft of which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.
00:39:07.000So not only are they doing this, they're now leaking it to the same mainstream media legacy outlets that Donald Trump hates.
00:39:13.000This forum asked the commission to probe whether DeSantis' super PACs, his personally lucrative book tour, and a continued wave of state-level campaign contributions are unlawful because they serve his personal political objectives.
00:39:27.000Every candidate who's currently sitting in federal office who's considering a presidential run is doing many of these same things.
00:39:32.000Meanwhile, Trump is preparing an extensive op-o-file on Randa Sanctimonious, according to Politico.
00:39:38.000Again, the fact that Trump's team uses the legacy media outlets as his sources of leaks, like DeSantis' team, they don't even talk to the legacy media.
00:39:44.000So the great consternation and rage of the legacy media, right?
00:39:47.000They're constantly putting out stories about how team DeSantis is leak-free.
00:39:56.000He was on the phone half of his presidency with Maggie Haberman of the New York Times while simultaneously decrying Maggie Haberman of the New York Times.
00:40:02.000According to Politico, Trump's team and his allied pack are preparing an expansive OPPO research file by pouring over DeSantis' record as prosecutor, member of Congress, and Florida governor.
00:40:11.000Among the items a Trump allied group has drilled into is DeSantis' record while serving as an assistant U.S.
00:40:15.000attorney before running for congressional office with plans to accuse him of being an extremely lenient prosecutor.
00:40:21.000In cases involving, among other things, child pornography.
00:40:41.000Well, we'll see how this fight inside the Republican Party plays out over time.
00:40:46.000Obviously, we're keeping an eye on it.
00:40:48.000The most absurd sight of the day yesterday came courtesy of Dylan Mulvaney.
00:40:53.000Now, you will recognize Dylan Mulvaney from such wonderful videos as, that time I got the President of the United States to talk about how I was a woman even though I'm a man.
00:41:02.000Or, alternatively, how I got the President of the United States to endorse transing the children.
00:41:06.000Well, Dylan Mulvaney had a one-year anniversary party.
00:41:15.000It was a cabaret show at the iconic Rainbow Room in New York.
00:41:19.000And Dylan Mulvaney dressed up as a woman, put his hair up as though he was Audrey Hepburn, and wore a sort of classic looking gown, and then proceeded to do a bunch of musical cabaret numbers, and concluded with this particular number, in which many of the Daily Wire voices and hosts are featured, pointing out that Dylan Mulvaney is, in fact, a dude masquerading as a woman, and doing so to the great applause and acclaim of a crowd, and making money off of this, and doing great by it, by pushing the lie that boys can become girls, girls can become boys,
00:41:49.000So Dylan Mulvaney, to rebut the accusation that Dylan Mulvaney is actually an attention-seeking narcissist who desperately wants everybody to give him money for being a fake girl for a year.
00:42:00.000Which, by the way, is precisely what's happening.
00:42:03.000This was to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney's one year as a girl.
00:42:07.000You know what my daughters did on their one year as a girl anniversary?
00:42:19.000I mean, the whole point here is to, is to, this is ultimate face tattoo syndrome.
00:42:23.000What if you act as though you're a girl?
00:42:26.000What if you masquerade using all of the stereotypical ideas about women?
00:42:31.000You play, you play act being a girl for a year and then you get all sorts of contracts from, from mascara companies and you go meet with the president of the United States and you're a better woman than all of the women and you're a hero.
00:42:40.000You're a hero of the, of the Republic.
00:42:43.000But you're not doing it for personal benefit at all.
00:42:45.000Personal benefit has nothing to do with it, and it's not about attention-seeking at all.
00:42:47.000It's just about how you feel on the inside, which is why you would do a cabaret show, like full-on with orchestration and everything, at the Rainbow Room, and apparently, actually charge ticket prices, is what I've learned, apparently, that was reported, to things like this.
00:43:04.000Here is a Dylan Mulvaney's act yesterday.
00:43:22.000Dillon Mulvaney is intentionally degrading women every time he does this woman face minstrel show routine.
00:43:28.000That one can say he's a woman and become one of the most influential women in America in just six months of wearing dresses and ironing his hair.
00:44:24.000I'm gonna say something that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable.
00:44:29.000Um, I'm trying really hard to maintain a relationship with God.
00:44:34.000And I don't think that he made a mistake with me.
00:44:38.000And that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans.
00:44:44.000That this isn't some curse, but it's just a different path to the same destination.
00:44:51.000Okay, this is all pre-scripted, guys, obviously.
00:44:55.000Like, literally the music stops when Dylan Mulvaney wants to have his little chat about his relationship with God, which has not come up, as far as I'm aware, in any of his other public sort of appearances, but now it's so personal.
00:45:14.000And if you don't believe that this has to do with earning money at all for Dylan Mulvaney, it is just purely Dylan Mulvaney being Dylan Mulvaney.
00:45:23.000Why is this person getting ad deals for being a man masquerading as a woman?
00:45:27.000Also, at the end of the show, Mulvaney joyfully, this is according to Variety, at the end of the show, Mulvaney joyfully declared that she is ready to start her journey of womanhood.
00:45:35.000She recently told Variety's Mark Malkin part of her new chapter will be scaling back from TikTok and exploring new artistic endeavors.
00:45:41.000She hinted that one possibility could be creating a musical series in the vein of in the vein of Smash.
00:45:46.000You mean that this person is going to make an entire career out of pretending to be?
00:46:05.000If you ever remember the show Smash, I totally could see myself doing sort of a TV show with singing where I play myself, said Mulvaney on the red carpet.
00:46:22.000And again, the whole point for the left is you personalize the political and then insist that nobody say a damn thing because it might be offensive.
00:46:30.000So you take a political statement like, a man can be a woman, and every child should be taught that a boy can be a girl.
00:46:35.000And every child should be treated as essentially non-binary or you're forcing cisgenderism upon them.
00:46:40.000You take that extraordinarily radical position and then you telescope it down into the life of a person like a Dylan Mulvaney.
00:46:45.000And then if you critique this by saying Dylan Mulvaney is in fact a man masquerading as a woman and making lots of money for doing so, then this is be- You're mean.
00:46:57.000And when you are charging $5 a pop to watch Dylan Mulvaney sing a scripted show about how tearful and cryy Dylan Mulvaney is over videos of me and Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, I don't believe you.
00:47:15.000And number three, you're making a broader political point that has the impact on anyone else.
00:47:19.000As I've said before, how you treat people in your day-to-day life is a different question from serious political questions that are impacted By very famous people saying things that have inherently political... You were sitting with the president of the United States and promoting a particular agenda.
00:47:34.000Stop pretending that what you do has no impact on anyone else.
00:47:44.000So, the wokes are on the warpath against a wide variety of institutions, but it is good when occasionally an institution has enough of a sense of self-preservation not to surrender to it.
00:47:52.000So, one of those institutions is the National Audubon Society.
00:47:55.000So, when you think about the National Audubon Society, you probably think of birds, right?
00:47:58.000That's probably what you think of, because that's what the National Audubon Society does.
00:48:02.000They're a conservation group about birds.
00:48:11.000Because if you actually know anything about the Audubon Society, you spend most of your time looking at very nice pictures of birds.
00:48:16.000But apparently the Wokes were very upset because James Audubon was a slaveholder.
00:48:19.000And so what they now want to do is take his name off of the Audubon Society that he founded.
00:48:27.000And the National Audubon Society, to its great credit, said, no, we're not going to do that.
00:48:30.000According to the Washington Post, the move comes as about half a dozen of the organization's regional chapters have pledged to scrub his name from their titles, part of a broader reckoning.
00:48:49.000environmental movement's history of entrenched racism.
00:48:53.000The National Audubon Society's 26-person board of directors voted to retain its current name during a Zoom meeting on Monday after more than a year of deliberating and gathering feedback from both members and outsiders.
00:49:01.000Susan Bell, chair of the board, declined to provide a breakdown of the final vote.
00:49:05.000The name has come to represent not just one person, but broader love of birds and nature, said Bell.
00:49:09.000Okay, I mean, you can put up a plaque saying that this guy also had a lot of real problems, and this guy thought a lot of real bad things, but can we stop pretending that people who do bad things don't also do good things?
00:49:23.000Or that the first pure people who have ever lived have lived in our generation?
00:49:27.000In a sign of internal strife, three board members resigned after the organization chose to retain the name.
00:49:33.000Activists in and outside of the organization have called upon the group to jettison Autobahn's names.
00:49:37.000After months of conducting listening sessions and surveying people in both camps, the National Organization's Board of Directors decided that the moniker is nearly synonymous with the avian conservation movement and should not be abandoned.
00:49:48.000I mean, of course, that happens to be true.
00:49:51.000It was his pictures of things like the ivory-billed woodpecker that made people even aware of the presence of these birds.
00:49:59.000But apparently, now they're saying that because he was an unrepentant enslaver, an opponent of the abolitionist movement, that means it's time to take his name off this thing.
00:50:47.000It made about $140 million at the box office.
00:50:51.000And so they decided, because it was kind of this cult classic, that they were going to Release a series of it on Disney plus, but in order to make it modern, so Disney has the ability to make things, you know, update things instead of updating plots and writing new plots for old beloved characters.
00:51:06.000What Disney has basically decided is the best way to update every story.
00:51:10.000is to re-racialize characters or make them gay.
00:51:13.000This is the best way to update a story.
00:51:15.000You don't actually have to change any of the underlying beats or patterns.
00:51:18.000You don't actually have to think of new and interesting stories for the characters that people knew and loved.
00:51:22.000Instead, what you do is you just make them black or gay.
00:51:25.000And if you do that, then magically people will love it.
00:51:28.000Now, I've yet to see this strategy actually work for Disney.
00:51:30.000I'm confused as to why they think that this is a great strategy.
00:51:33.000And obviously, it only works one way, right?
00:51:34.000You're not going to have Princess Tiana suddenly be cast as white in a live-action Princess and the Frog.
00:51:39.000You'll have Ariel cast as black in the new Little Mermaid.
00:51:42.000And again, all Disney's prerogative doesn't make a large scale difference.
00:51:46.000No, it doesn't make a large scale difference, but it's obviously a move to to garner attention.
00:51:51.000It also is sort of a weird marketing move because every single small girl who has a picture in her head of what Ariel looks like from The Little Mermaid sees a white girl with red hair, right?
00:52:32.000So Willow has now been canceled, which is why this isn't things I like.
00:52:35.000It did not meet the company's threshold in terms of buzz.
00:52:39.000And, uh, and now Willow has been put on the chopping block.
00:52:41.000Of course, Willow was originally designed as a, as a show for like young teens.
00:52:48.000According to Empire Online, it caught up with the title character years after the original movie and saw him drawn into a new quest to face a resurgent threat.
00:52:56.000Now, again, my impression of the movie Willow is that Willow was not exactly directed at 25-year-olds.
00:54:36.000According to Breitbart, the current season followed Jazz's severe weight gain and adventures in dating and romance.
00:54:40.000Now 22 years old and a student at Harvard, the reality TV star has tried dating men, but revealed he was attracted to a woman in the latest episode, which would technically make him a man.
00:54:48.000A straight man is what this would technically make him.
00:54:51.000But good news, his parents completely effed him up.
00:54:55.000So here is Jazz Jennings expressing pain and suffering because, again, you know it's a really, really bad recipe?
00:55:03.000Honoring the wishes of five-year-old children who don't know what the hell they are talking about and then immediately shoveling them in front of cameras for your own sick and perverse glorification.
00:55:12.000And then shoveling them full of hormones and getting them surgery.
00:55:15.000It turns out that's a really, really bad idea.
00:55:47.000I feel kind of all over the place and like my mind is very cluttered and not clear and I really want to have that clarity.
00:55:54.000I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want and it's just very challenging and I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity.
00:56:29.000Put that next to the fact that this kid was experiencing apparently gender confusion at a young age, and then the parents decided to feature this kid on national television, and then to transition this kid over the course of years on national television.
00:56:39.000Are you, are you exactly shocked that Jazz Jennings has serious personal crises?
00:56:47.000As a person who has extraordinary weight gains, who is sexually confused, who is binge eating, he gained nearly a hundred pounds, And has had multiple surgeries, including after a gender reassignment surgery.
00:57:02.000Complications that required another follow-up procedure.
00:57:04.000Again, these are surgeries that construct fake genitalia.
00:57:08.000But don't worry, it's all about mental health, guys.
00:57:10.000It's all about what's best for the kids, clearly.
00:57:12.000This is apparently what the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan believes.
00:57:16.000So she came out yesterday and she said that the most important thing as a parent is to apparently greenlight anything your dumb child wants.
00:57:24.000This is life-affirming and life-saving healthcare.
00:57:31.000When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.
00:57:42.000That's what it means to be a good parent.
00:57:47.000No, that is 100% not what it means to be a good parent.
00:57:51.000That is factually speaking not what it means to be a good parent, is to listen to your child when they tell you who they are and believe them and then facilitate them?
00:57:59.000That's the stupidest garbage I ever heard.
00:58:02.000As a parent of three, soon to be four, that's nonsense.
00:58:06.000My three-year-old daughter for a year dressed up as Skye from Paw Patrol.
00:58:11.000Did that mean that I should like throw her off a roof in a helicopter to see if she was going to fly?
00:58:22.000It is not your job to facilitate their every whim.
00:58:25.000This makes you, definitionally, a bad parent.
00:58:29.000But again, this is part and parcel of the broader left-wing attempt to substitute A sort of tabula rasa version of life for civilization itself.
00:58:41.000And the purpose of parents used to be to civilize kids.
00:58:42.000Now I guess the purpose of parents is to simply continue to green light whatever kids want to do so long as it fosters a left-wing social agenda.