In the wake of the mass shooting at a Christian school in Uvalde, Texas, a new narrative is emerging about the motives of the shooter. Is it the fault of society, or is it the shooter's fault? and what role does the media play in this new version of the "victimology" that has emerged from the media and other anti-Christian "activists"? And is it possible that the shooter was under mental health care, but was still able to get her guns legally and was able to kill at least 7 people in the first place. Or was this a mass shooting committed by someone who was mentally ill, but not mentally ill enough to be eligible for mental health treatment, but still be able to buy weapons legally? And if so, what role did the police play in stopping this mass shooting, and why did they fail to stop it, and how did they cover up for the shooter, a transgender woman, who killed at least 8 people, including at least 3 children, in a school in Nashville, Tennessee? What is the role the media's role in all of this, and who is responsible for this mass murder, and what did they do to prevent this from happening in the First Amendment right-to-bear fruit and gun control laws? and why should there be a red flag law that would prevent mass shootings like this in the future? . Today's episode is all about intersectional victimhood and the victimhood hierarchy, and the role of the left in creating a victim-centered victimhood narrative. Join us as weaves through the new victimhood theory, and we discuss the new narrative that has been created by the media, and its impact on our society and the anti-victimhood hierarchy. and its implications for the left's response to mass shootings, and our response to these mass shootings and the reaction to the latest mass shootings in the media coverage of mass shootings. We'll talk about how this new narrative and the response to the shooting in response to this mass shootings by the right-wing media and its effect on our culture, and their response to them. in this episode of 'The New York Times article by CNN's Peter Bergenius, John Rocha, Jr. and the New York Post's Opinioed, and much, much more. The New York Magazine's new book, "Transphobia: Transphobia in the 21st Century."
00:00:00.000So, the intersectional victimhood hierarchy, it actually has some very real consequences.
00:00:04.000As it turns out, the logic of the left is now that if you are a trans person who murders a bunch of Christian school kids, this is the fault of a society that refused to accept you for who you truly are.
00:00:15.000This is the new narrative that has just dropped.
00:00:17.000It was only a matter of time, literally the minute.
00:00:20.000That it became clear that a trans person had murdered a bunch of Christian school kids in Nashville.
00:00:24.000It was obvious that the media were going to turn to the narrative that it was society's fault at large.
00:00:30.000If you refuse to accept that a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy, then if a person who is a woman who says she is a man murders a bunch of school kids, it's because of your lack of acceptance.
00:00:38.000If only you had been more accepting, then this would have stopped shootings like this one.
00:00:43.000If only you had shifted the entire realistic worldview that Men and women are a sexual dichotomy.
00:00:49.000If only you had understood that that's a lie, then this wouldn't have happened.
00:00:53.000All those school kids would still be alive.
00:00:54.000And probably since this was a Christian school, they maybe a little deserved it because it's a Christian school and they probably were teaching kids that boys are boys and girls are girls and they weren't agreeing with this generalized worldview.
00:01:04.000So if a trans person shoots up a Christian school, well, it is sort of an act of resistance.
00:01:08.000This is the narrative the media are settling on right now.
00:01:11.000So there are new details that are now emerging in this horrific shooting at a Nashville school.
00:01:16.000Let's start with At least one act of bravery and heroism here.
00:01:22.000So the police officers in Nashville did not act like the police officers in Uvalde, Texas.
00:01:29.000They actually did what they were supposed to do.
00:01:39.000They get out of that car, they run into the building, they run directly toward the sound of the gunshots, and they take out this mass shooter.
00:01:45.000Here's a little bit of what that looked like.
00:02:59.000Again, they can only react to something that's already happening.
00:03:03.000So, some damage had already been done, but certainly more damage and more murder was prevented by these brave and heroic police officers.
00:03:10.000Now, we are learning more about the shooter, and it's predictably precisely what you would expect.
00:03:13.000The shooter was under psychiatric care, according to the Nashville Police Chief.
00:03:17.000This person was still able to buy some seven firearms and was able to obtain firearms legally.
00:03:22.000This has led to calls for red flag laws.
00:03:24.000Now, the next question that should be asked is whether the left would really be okay with a red flag law that said that because a person was under emotional care that they would be denied the ability to purchase a gun, particularly if that emotional care involved transgenderism.
00:03:36.000Because according to the left, again, it is perfectly normal to believe that you're a member of the opposite sex.
00:03:40.000There's nothing Mentally disordered about that whatsoever.
00:03:43.000So using even that as a red flag, the left presumably would object to that.
00:03:46.000Here is the National Police Chief announcing the obvious.
00:03:50.000We've interviewed the parents of Audrey Hale and we've determined that Audrey bought seven firearms from five different local gun stores here legally.
00:04:06.000Three of those weapons were used yesterday during this horrific tragedy that happened.
00:04:15.000We know that they felt that she had one weapon and that she sold it.
00:04:22.000She was under care, doctor's care, for an emotional disorder.
00:04:27.000Law enforcement knew nothing about the treatment she was receiving.
00:04:31.000The Nashville Police Chief also announced that the school shooter wrote about several other locations in a manifesto.
00:04:35.000Now, it is worthwhile noting here that the Nashville Police have not released the manifesto of this particular shooter.
00:04:40.000We've seen the manifesto of nearly every other shooter, many because they are posted online beforehand.
00:04:44.000But should the manifesto be released in this case?
00:04:47.000Well, I mean, absolutely, given the fact that there are now a bunch of rumors swirling about the school, there's a bunch of speculation about motive.
00:04:53.000A great way to clear all of that up is to actually release what is necessary about this person's manifesto, not to glorify what they are doing, but because it has now become an issue of public concern as to what drove the shooter, what the motivation actually was.
00:05:07.000Here's the Nashville police chief announcing that there were several other locations in the manifesto, which again demonstrates the heroism of the cops, because presumably if the cops hadn't been there, this person would have gone building to building shooting kids.
00:05:19.000So in the manifesto, there's several different writings about other locations.
00:05:25.000There were locations, there was talks about the school, there was a map of the school, a drawing of how potentially she would enter and the assaults that would take place.
00:05:40.000That is the Nashville Chief of Police, John Drake, who again also announced that they have a manifesto, but they are not going to be releasing that manifesto.
00:05:47.000Again, to put a lot of rumors to bed, releasing at least enough of the manifesto so people understand the motive would probably be worthwhile at this point.
00:05:54.000All right, we'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:06:59.000Okay, so again, new details emerging about the shooter.
00:07:03.000Apparently, the shooter had sent final messages to a friend before going and murdering a bunch of school kids.
00:07:10.000The shooter texted to a friend, basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note.
00:07:14.000I'm planning to die today. This is not a joke. You'll probably hear about me on the news after I die.
00:07:18.000This is my last goodbye. I love you. See you again in another life.
00:07:22.000And the friend wrote back, you have so much more life to live. I pray God keeps and covers you.
00:07:26.000And this person writes back, I know, but I don't want to live. I'm so sorry. I'm not trying to upset you or get attention. I just need to die. I wanted to tell you first because you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen and known all my life.
00:07:34.000My family doesn't know what I'm about to do.
00:07:36.000One day this will make more sense, but I've left more than enough evidence behind.
00:07:49.000So there just wasn't time for the cops to respond and stop this thing preemptively.
00:07:54.000But the narrative is already beginning to form here from the media.
00:07:58.000And the narrative is, because again, The media separates all of the human populations into victims and victimizers.
00:08:05.000Not based on their actions, based on their identities.
00:08:08.000So if you're a member of a victim class, you cannot by necessity be a victimizer in the same way that the left has redefined racism to mean racism plus power, which means that if you're a black person who hates white people, you can't be a racist because you're a member of a victimized class.
00:08:21.000In that exact same way, if you're a trans person who shoots up a Christian school, you're a member of a victim class.
00:08:25.000The Christian school kids are not members of a victim class.
00:08:28.000Therefore, we must find a narrative that allows you to maintain your victimhood status.
00:08:32.000And that's precisely what the media have attempted to do today.
00:08:35.000The real victim here is not the school kids who were gunned down for their Christian beliefs.
00:08:39.000And by the way, this is, in fact, a hate crime.
00:08:42.000When a trans person goes to a Christian school and shoots up the school, that is no different than when a white supremacist goes to a Jewish synagogue and murders the constituents.
00:08:51.000That is an ideologically motivated murder of innocent people.
00:08:54.000And that's exactly what apparently happened here.
00:08:56.000And so the media have immediately shifted into What some people online are calling Hamas mode.
00:09:01.000Hamas mode is where a terrorist group shoots a bunch of missiles into an innocent Jewish area and the media have sympathy for the people shooting the missiles.
00:09:07.000So they turn it into a cycle of violence.
00:09:09.000It must be because they're motivated to do this thing.
00:09:11.000Society has driven them to this extremism.
00:09:14.000And they've moved into that mode almost immediately.
00:09:18.000So, for example, the UK Daily Mail is now reporting Twisted School Shooter was at odds with her devout Christian parents because they couldn't accept she was gay and transgender.
00:09:27.000Daily Mail can exclusively reveal Church Coordinator Norma, 61, her husband Ronald, 64, refused to let their daughter, who had recently adopted a male name and used he-him pronouns, dress as a man in their home.
00:09:38.000The 28-year-old loner would instead wait until she left their $700,000 national property to change outfits, according to a well-placed source.
00:09:44.000She was a woman at home, but when she left the house, she changed clothes.
00:09:49.000Neighbors in the tree-lined suburban street where the family lived for three decades said they were clueless about the apparent transition and remembered her as a skater tomboy type.
00:09:57.000She introduced herself about a year and a half ago by a female name, said one.
00:10:01.000She seemed artistic, quiet, and well-mannered.
00:10:04.000Police now say, apparently, that more attacks were on board.
00:10:08.000Now, again, the hijacking of a person's life by an ideology that is a lie, a lie that you can become a member of the opposite sex, That is not the problem, according to the media.
00:10:19.000When people have their minds perverted and twisted by a lie, that's not the problem.
00:10:22.000The problem is that you refuse to accept the lie as a general standard in society.
00:10:26.000And so, now the left is split along two separate courses.
00:10:30.000One is to pretend that we can't identify the motive.
00:10:33.000It's all a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
00:10:35.000In the same way that the Fort Hood shooting was a mystery wrapped, we had no idea what the motive was.
00:10:39.000It was clear that the person, a Muslim who had murdered a bunch of American service members, that that person was doing so because that person had terrorist motives.
00:10:47.000We pretended for literally years, going back to the Bush administration, we pretended that that had nothing to do with Islamic motivation, radical Islamic motivation whatsoever.
00:10:54.000Because again, when you're a member of the quote-unquote victimized class, we have to pretend to weigh the motive.
00:10:59.000Or, alternatively, we have to use some sort of jujitsu to determine that your motive was actually created by the intolerance of an evil society, an evil decadent society around you, a society that refuses to accept you as you are.
00:11:12.000And so you can see that split emerging on the left. On the one side, you have the people who are going to pretend that there is no motive. On the other side, they're going to say there is a motive, but the motive is really driven by those evil Christian people. It's really because the Christians are mean and nasty that all of this is happening.
00:11:24.000And so the big takeaway here from Christian school kids being murdered by a trans person is that Christians need to change.
00:11:31.000That's going to be the big takeaway right here.
00:12:56.000Why isn't this being investigated as a hate crime?
00:12:58.000I mean, normally, again, you know if the situation were reversed, it not only would be addressed as a hate crime by Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland was literally trying to identify school parents who were being mean to school board members using the FBI.
00:13:10.000But apparently Merrick Garland has no clue.
00:13:14.000There's no reason to suspect the motive in this particular case.
00:13:17.000Again, if the situation were reversed, let's say that there were a straight white male who went to a progressive school in Santa Monica where there are a bunch of quote-unquote trans kids and started murdering the trans kids.
00:13:25.000Not only would the DOJ be investigating, it would be a two-year long media news cycle about the intolerance of American society towards trans people.
00:13:33.000It would become the key issue in the 2024 presidential race.
00:13:36.000But if you're Merrick Garland, the head of the DOJ right now, you just can't tell.
00:13:41.000Do you plan on opening a hate crime investigation for the targeting of Christians?
00:13:49.000The FBI and ATF are both on the scene working with the local police.
00:13:56.000As of now, motive hasn't been identified and the police chief said at his last press conference that they don't yet have reached a conclusion with respect to motive.
00:14:06.000We are certainly working full-time with them to try and determine what the motive is and of course motive is what determines whether it's a hate crime or not.
00:14:15.000Oh, well, I mean, I guess you do have to be very careful, careful like Joe Biden.
00:14:19.000So the President of the United States, he was asked yesterday about the motivation in this particular case, and he sort of let the cat out of the bag.
00:14:27.000He kind of admitted that the narrative that he decides upon is essentially driven by reactionary politics, that if the right says that this is a hate crime against Christians, he will immediately shift into it's not a hate crime against Christians.
00:14:37.000Here is the President of the United States, our befuddled and bemused elderly gentleman.
00:14:42.000Do you believe that Christians were targeted in the pastoral school shootings?
00:15:30.000By the way, this is the second straight day that he has done this.
00:15:32.000You'll recall that yesterday, Joe Biden, when he was talking about this, he came down and made jokes about ice cream to open his presser on this particular issue.
00:15:40.000There is no other... The victims have something to do with this.
00:15:44.000Again, the narrative rules all, and for the left, number one move here is just pretend they don't know the motive, and number two move is going to be blaming Christians and conservatives for a trans person murdering Christian conservative children, presumably.
00:15:59.000On the we have no idea what happened side of the ledger, or we must obscure what happened side of the ledger, you have Reuters.
00:16:04.000So Reuters put out a tweet yesterday that says, quote, former Christian school student kills three children, three staff in national shooting.
00:17:04.000If you're a member of a protected identity class and somebody from your identity class does something bad, that person didn't do something bad, you maintain your victimhood status and that must be maintained above all.
00:17:14.000So why, by the way, does the left insist?
00:17:16.000Why do progressives insist on this division between the victims and the victimizers based on identity, not based on action?
00:17:21.000Because if you admit That individuals should be judged based on their actions.
00:17:25.000That you are either a victim or a victimizer based on what you do.
00:17:30.000Their entire worldview is predicated on the idea that the system is dominated by victimizers.
00:17:34.000People who are successful are victimizers.
00:17:36.000People who are marginalized or unsuccessful, those people are victims of the society.
00:17:40.000And they are going to create a coalition of the victimized in order to take on the victimizers and recapture the center of all morality in American politics.
00:18:06.000Oh, trans people are fearing for their lives.
00:18:07.000You know who was actually fearing for their lives?
00:18:10.000Would have been the Christian school children who were murdered.
00:18:12.000That would be the people who were fearing for their lives.
00:18:14.000Legitimately, since three of them are dead, plus our three adults, at this Christian school.
00:18:18.000But according to NBC News, the real threat, the real victims here are members of the trans community.
00:18:23.000Quote, shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian National Elementary School, police said the suspect was transgender.
00:18:29.000This detail, according to trans people in the state, has poured fuel on an already combustive environment that has led many of them to fear for their safety.
00:18:36.000Well, I mean, that's clearly the real victims.
00:18:40.000Now, we've spent zero time on the actual victims here.
00:18:43.000The media spent zero time on, you know, the targeting of Christians.
00:18:46.000If you wanted to tie this into a broader narrative about the victimized in American society, and you're talking about the murder of Christians, perhaps you should talk about You know, the widespread vandalism of churches that's been happening in the aftermath of Roe vs. Wade, for example.
00:18:56.000The widespread vandalism against pro-life centers that's been happening.
00:18:59.000The DOJ refuses to investigate any of those sorts.
00:19:28.000Denise Sadler, according to NBC News, a drag performer who is transgender, said she had already hired four armed guards before Monday's shooting to secure a drag show she is hosting at a gay bar in Nashville this weekend.
00:19:37.000Following the anti-trans rhetoric spawned by the shooting, Sadler says she is now planning to hire eight.
00:19:41.000So again, we have to focus on the people who really are suffering.
00:19:43.000density is going to trigger a community of people who already hated us to come and try to shoot us to prove a point," said Sadler.
00:19:47.000At the end of the day, there's a lot of hurt going on, there's a lot of anger going on, there's a lot of confusion going on.
00:19:52.000So again, we have to focus on the people who really are suffering.
00:19:56.000The trans people, not the members of the community.
00:19:58.000That's one radical group said this out loud.
00:20:02.000The Trans Resistance Network, a far-left transgender collective, they put out a statement on Monday calling the mass murder a dual tragedy.
00:20:09.000The group said that the first tragedy was the death of the kids and the adults, but there's a second and more complex tragedy, and that is the tragedy of the shooter, who felt she had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and by consequences, himself.
00:20:27.000The Trans Radical Network wrote, they do not claim to know the individual or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings, but they do know that life for transgender people is very difficult and made more difficult in the preceding months by a virtual avalanche of anti-trans legislation and public call-outs by right-wing personalities and political figures for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society.
00:20:45.000Is it possible that radicalization toward violence takes place because you keep claiming that if we, in the rational community, forget conservative leftists, the rational community who believe that there are men and there are women and men can't become women, Is it possible that when you say that we are genociding you, that this leads to radicalization?
00:21:01.000That that is a radicalizing worldview?
00:21:04.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:22:02.000Okay, so the folks on the TikToks, they've been promoting the same ideology.
00:22:14.000The ideology is, of course, that the real victim here is the trans shooter.
00:22:17.000So here's one TikToker saying that the Nashville shooting victims would be alive today if it were not for the quote-unquote anti-trans bills in the Tennessee legislature.
00:22:25.000I wonder if the parents of the victims of the Nashville shooting today would still have their children if these trans bills in Tennessee were never a thing.
00:22:40.000I'm not a parent, but if I were, I'd be real, real mad at the government.
00:22:45.000I'd be real, real mad at the government.
00:22:47.000Oh, well, you're mad at the government now.
00:22:52.000Yes, clearly the problem is discrimination against the trans community by the Tennessee legislature, which of course means that apparently trans people get to shoot Christian school kids.
00:23:02.000Here's another TikToker who's going even further, suggesting that it's time for trans people to—this is after the shooting—trans people must violently resist the predations of the surrounding society.
00:23:11.000Those predations include the idea that men cannot be women.
00:23:15.000Trans people in Tennessee, it's time to f***ing fight.
00:23:18.000Trans allies in Tennessee, it's time to f***ing fight.
00:23:21.000Trans women, if they lock you up for identifying as a woman, fight.
00:23:34.000If they put their hands on you, beat them.
00:23:36.000I don't even know what to say about that.
00:23:41.000Again, the call to actual violence by some folks is now considered perfectly within boundaries because, after all, American society is filled with bigotry.
00:23:52.000By the way, it's not just random TikTokers.
00:23:53.000The press secretary for the governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, put out a totally insane tweet.
00:24:09.000It's a picture of a woman with two guns pointing off camera and it says, us when we see transphobes.
00:24:17.000So literally in the aftermath of the murder of kids by a trans person, the press secretary to Katie Hobbs put up a tweet saying, us when we see transphobes with guns pointing.
00:24:32.000But again, all of this is well within boundaries, apparently.
00:24:35.000Because all that matters, really, is that the narrative be preserved.
00:24:39.000Oliver Willis of the ex-Gerbil Media Matters, he tweeted out, quote, Anyway, here is the front page of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post today.
00:24:54.000All the New York Post said was, transgender killer targets Christian school, which is exactly what happened.
00:25:12.000And this has become quasi-mainstream, apparently.
00:25:15.000I mean, this is Apparently the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan was caught wearing a shirt that says Protect Trans Kids with a knife on it.
00:25:28.000I'd say, like, again, imagine the situation being reversed, and you know exactly what everybody would be saying.
00:25:34.000You know exactly what everybody... Cenk Uygur, he tweeted out, And it's your fault.
00:25:37.000seems to celebrate that Nashville Shooter was trans as if that vindicates them.
00:25:49.000And then there's line number three, which is of course the traditional gun control line from the left.
00:25:54.000Now the most irritating form of this line is coming courtesy of people like Jon Stewart, but now being repeated across the media as though it's a smart point, even though it is a ridiculously stupid point.
00:26:03.000You remember that Jon Stewart had on a state legislature, I believe it was from Oklahoma, talking about some bills that were attempting to restrict trans indoctrination of kids.
00:26:11.000And he was like, well, you know, guns kill kids, and now it's you banning guns, which of course is a complete non sequitur.
00:26:17.000What you are trying to prevent is the indoctrination of children into a gender cult that screws with their brains.
00:26:23.000On the other, you're talking about the complexity of a Second Amendment right.
00:26:26.000There are already laws against people shooting kids.
00:26:30.000There are already laws against, for example, people bringing guns into schools in most of these places, particularly if you're not licensed.
00:26:37.000This is Obviously true, but it doesn't matter.
00:26:41.000Jon Stewart said it, so we have to pretend it's intelligent, and then we have to repeat it over and over and over.
00:26:45.000So CNN's Brian Kayyem was doing this routine yesterday saying, pronouns don't kill kids, guns do.
00:26:50.000Well, as it turns out, the ideology that promotes the idea that men can be women and women can be men, and that if society refuses to accept you, then society is to blame.
00:26:58.000And perhaps, perhaps, Violent activity against that society is justified.
00:27:02.000Maybe that ideology is, in fact, quite radical.
00:27:06.000But, again, the idea here is we have to ignore this one issue.
00:27:09.000Stop paying attention to this issue over here that's really disturbing and messed up.
00:27:14.000We can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:27:17.000It is amazing how, for the left, the inanimate object suddenly becomes the root of all evil the minute that the person wielding the inanimate object seems to be on their own ideological side.
00:27:26.000This is where we have to now focus on an important part of an agenda, which includes mental health, protecting our kids, fortifying schools, but also the connectivity, which is a certain kind of gun.
00:27:43.000People with guns kill children, and it's going to be a distraction in our coverage and keep us from what we now know, which is each of these cases has a similarity more than any difference.
00:28:00.000This is Joy Reid, again, suggesting that we must ignore all of the gender ideology issues surrounding this particular case and focus in on gun control.
00:28:09.000But you have this in the state of Tennessee, which, you know, ironically is the Scopes Monkey Trial state, right, where they used to have a law against teaching evolution in public high schools, in public schools.
00:28:20.000They now are racing to enact these First Amendment limiting laws to limit things like drag shows.
00:29:12.000If there had been somebody on premises with a gun, it turns out it took a person with a gun to stop the evil person with the gun.
00:29:19.000In this case, as in nearly all other cases, it took an actual human with a gun to stop the bad person who was carrying a gun.
00:29:25.000There wasn't a school resource officer on campus, anywhere on campus, at this time.
00:29:30.000We'll get to more on the gun control push in just one second.
00:29:33.000First, let's talk about the fact your business has gone through a rough time over the past few years, whether you are talking about COVID, when your business had to shut down because the government made you shut down, whether you're talking about Biden inflation, whether you're now talking about economic stagnation.
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00:29:49.000It turns out a lot of people overpaid to the federal government during COVID because there was, in fact, something called the Employee Retention Credit that was available to you during COVID.
00:29:58.000If you didn't take advantage of it, then you lost out.
00:30:39.000Also, One of the biggest differences between Christianity and Judaism is the way in which topics like loss and adultery are approached.
00:30:45.000In episode 12 of Jordan Peterson's series on the Book of Exodus, Dennis Prager addressed this topic head-on.
00:30:50.000In addition to Dennis, I joined Jordan alongside a group of esteemed scholars, theologians, and artists to discuss one of the most seminal books in the Bible.
00:30:58.000I am less interested in the interior person, morally speaking, than you are, than probably any of you are.
00:31:04.000And it's largely, I do believe, because I come from a behaviorist, law-based religion.
00:32:36.000And whatever your political feelings are, we should not be celebrating the cult of the gun.
00:32:43.000And the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts.
00:33:31.000When they say that they want gun control, what they really mean is that they don't trust a huge percentage of Americans with guns.
00:33:37.000And they never explain exactly who they want to remove the guns from.
00:33:39.000In fact, Joe Biden will go out of his way to say, no, no, no, no, I don't mean like normal American citizen, but he does mean normal American citizen, obviously.
00:33:45.000So our doddering president yesterday decided to speak about all of this.
00:33:49.000First of all, I just, I wish to note here that, you know, it's beating a dead horse almost literally.
00:33:54.000Because the President of the United States is not with us.
00:36:36.000Meanwhile, you have the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, saying we need gun control.
00:36:41.000You want to talk about people who have no leg to stand on on any moral grounds.
00:36:44.000Randi Weingarten, who forcibly shut down schools for kids for like two years, and who's presided over the destruction of the American public school system, she has thoughts on gun control.
00:36:54.000Today, we renew our call for common sense gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault weapons.
00:37:08.000It's an epidemic that our great nation must solve.
00:37:13.000And how many lives will be shattered Before we have the courage to do what Scotland did, what Australia did, what New Zealand did, what other great democracies do.
00:37:31.000I'm looking forward to all Democrats embracing the idea that we need a massive gun confiscation plan.
00:37:34.000Let's see how that goes over electorally.
00:37:37.000The reason Democrats keep spitting into the wind here is specifically because they know it's going nowhere.
00:37:42.000Meanwhile, the media have jumped into this and they're going to try to use corporate pressure now to cudgel all of the corporations into pushing gun control.
00:37:51.000So the Washington Post yesterday decided to run a graphic showing the damage done from a bullet fired by an AR-15.
00:37:57.000I mean, as though a bullet fired from a handgun wouldn't be damaging enough to kill somebody, despite the fact that the vast majority of killings in the United States occur using a handgun.
00:38:06.000So, here's a little bit of their graphic display.
00:39:15.000But the entire point that's being made by the corporations is, well, what if we just ban this?
00:39:20.000So CNN is already tweeting out, in the aftermath of the latest mass shooting at a school in Nashville, most companies declined to speak out.
00:39:26.000Much of corporate America has grown silent on guns.
00:39:32.000So we now have a new list of people to blame.
00:39:33.000So the people to blame for a trans shooter murdering Christian kids are, in order, the parents of the trans shooter for not being accepting enough of trans identity.
00:39:43.000Christians generally for not being accepting enough of trans identity, Republicans for not being in favor of gun control, and corporations for not sounding off on gun control.
00:39:52.000You know who I noticed is missing that list?
00:39:54.000That's the person who I noticed is missing from your list.
00:39:57.000You seem damned eager to make sure that that person is never blamed because that might tie into broader ideological concerns that you would like to avoid.
00:40:06.000And this, of course, was the approach.
00:40:09.000The only reason to watch The View is because it is the dumbed-down version of every pseudo-sophisticated argument that is made on the left.
00:40:15.000So Whoopi Goldberg yesterday, the repository of all morality on the left, she says, I'm tired of your 75 guns.
00:40:29.000But apparently it's your 75 guns that Whoopi is deeply worried about.
00:40:32.000You know, guarded by armed guards over at the local affiliate studios.
00:40:37.000He said, OK, if we can't move an assault weapons ban, I would be willing to say, why don't we put in place trainings, background checks, mental health screenings to be able to have one?
00:41:44.000Again, if the situation were reversed, if this had been a straight white man shooting up quote-unquote trans kids at a progressive school in Santa Monica, we all know what the subject would be.
00:41:54.000But for the left, it's gun control and the cruelties of American society to trans people.
00:43:02.000I'm going to assume that she doesn't actually believe any of the things she says.
00:43:04.000It's because her advertisers want her to keep saying that stuff.
00:43:07.000If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
00:43:09.000Or maybe Marsha Blackburn believes, like a huge majority of Americans, that there are gun rights under the Second Amendment, and that my ownership of a gun is not responsible for a trans person shooting up a bunch of Christian school kids.
00:43:27.000When school kids get shot in Parkland, then we have a vast display from CNN where we drag Marco Rubio before the 15 Minutes hate crowd and we shout at him in front of a crowd about how he hasn't done enough on gun control.
00:43:40.000When a trans person shoots Christian kids, we're like, oh, well, you know, we're not going to talk about the Christian school being victimized.
00:44:17.000Meanwhile, over in France, apparently democracy is not under threat in France.
00:44:21.000It is amazing how the media have decided where democracy is under threat and where democracy is not under threat.
00:44:26.000So right now in France, there's an actual attempt at seizure of power that does not belong to the executive branch by Emmanuel Macron.
00:44:31.000He's attempting to ram through an unpopular retirement reform under which he's going to raise France's legal retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote.
00:44:40.000He's going to ram it through Parliament without a vote.
00:44:42.000And hundreds of thousands of people are protesting.
00:44:45.000Apparently, according to the Interior Ministry of France, there have been 740,000 protesters.
00:44:51.000That is down from more than a million five days ago, but there's hundreds of thousands of people in the street over there.
00:44:56.000It's only a threat to democracy when it's a right-wing government and it's being protested by left-wingers.
00:45:01.000Then the right-wing government is a threat to democracy.
00:45:02.000Even what they're pushing for is more democracy, right?
00:45:04.000Over in Israel, if there are people blocking freeways and shutting down airports illegally, if they're doing all of that in the name of preserving judicial authoritarianism, They're just trying to stop the threat to democracy.
00:45:14.000If in France there are massive protests against Emmanuel Macron, who's not a person of the right, Macron is not threatening democracy, obviously.
00:46:12.000We're going to have to reshift all the social security and welfare structures because, again, they were pay-it-forward structures that were not input-defined.
00:46:21.000They were defined benefits plan, not defined contribution plans.
00:46:24.000And so now we're going to be forced to take austerity measures.
00:46:27.000But the problem is that when you make people promises, then they want those promises to be kept, even if it's not possible.
00:46:33.000So you have a new day of action in France.
00:46:35.000The day of action is the 10th since protests began in mid-January against the law, which includes raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, according to France 24.
00:46:45.000The Interior Minister said 13,000 members of the security forces would be deployed on Tuesday, 5,500 in Paris alone.
00:46:51.000So people are taking to the barricades because they're really, really pissed that their lives are going to get slightly harder and that they will have to work into, you know, late middle age.
00:46:59.000They might have to work until they are 64.
00:47:01.000Now the French way of life, which is essentially 35 hour work week and retire when you're 62 so that you can paint On the send.
00:47:12.000That's under threat if you'd have to work for a couple extra years.
00:47:14.000The West has yet to come to grips with the fact that it signed a bunch of really bad contracts in order to gain votes.
00:47:21.000And so a lot of people have now got it in their heads that these are entitlements owed to them.
00:47:27.000It was a privilege, not an entitlement.
00:47:30.000But the simple fact that there's so many people who have taken it now as an entitlement means that anytime you attempt to revise that bargain, People are going to lose their minds.
00:47:38.000The same thing is going to happen here in the United States as well.
00:47:40.000If you think that it's not going to happen, you're totally wrong.
00:47:43.000It's why both parties right now are kicking the can down the road on entitlement reform, which everyone acknowledges.
00:48:03.000Meanwhile, I have to say, it is quite amazing how the media cover immigration.
00:48:09.000So, if Donald Trump were president right now?
00:48:12.000Then he would be the one being blamed for the death of 38 people in a blaze at a Mexican detention facility.
00:48:17.000According to the New York Times, Catiusca Marquez said she was begging for money on the streets of Ciudad Juarez on Monday afternoon when Mexican migration officers took her and her family to a migration detention facility just across the border from El Paso.
00:48:29.000Hours later, the 23-year-old Venezuelan was released along with her two young kids and husband.
00:48:32.000She said the authorities wouldn't release her older brother, Orlando Maldonado.
00:48:36.000One of the last things her brother told her, she said, was, don't let me die.
00:48:38.000That night, a fire broke out inside the facility.
00:48:41.000Killing at least 38 people, injuring 28 others.
00:48:44.00068 men from Central and South America were being detained at the facility, according to the Mexican government.
00:48:49.000The site of the fire is, like, we're talking, like, right next to the US-Mexico border.
00:48:53.000This is a detention facility that is directly across the border from El Paso.
00:48:58.000One of the reasons that this detention facility exists is because this massive crush of migrants at the border and then the held-in-Mexico policy has created an extraordinary surge of people being held in really cramped and crowded conditions across the border.
00:49:10.000If Donald Trump were the president right now, the media would be blaming his evil and vile immigration policy for the deaths in Chutar Juarez.
00:50:39.000Well, you're and President Biden's Chief of the Border Patrol in a sworn deposition in July of 2022 when asked, Would you agree, Chief Ortiz, that the southern border is currently in crisis?
00:51:45.000Apparently, a court has now reinstated Adnan Syed's murder conviction in that serial case.
00:51:49.000You remember that there is a man named Adnan Syed.
00:51:52.000He was convicted of murder of his former high school girlfriend way back when.
00:51:57.000And then there was a podcast called Serial, became the most popular podcast in America, and it called into question whether Adnan Syed had actually committed the murder.
00:52:03.000The suggestion was, of course, that it was some sort of systemic bigotry that led to the arrest and conviction of Adnan Syed.
00:52:09.000Well, now the appellate court of Maryland has ruled that a trial court had violated the right of Young Lee, the brother of Hy Min Lee, the victim, to have been notified of and to attend the hearing in September where a judge vacated Syed's conviction.
00:52:19.000Now, the reason that the judge vacated Syed's conviction was not because the evidence actually demonstrated that he was innocent, per se.
00:52:26.000The reason that the judge vacated the conviction is because Marilyn Mosby, the district attorney in Baltimore, decided that she wanted to make some headlines, and so Adnan Syed should be released.
00:52:36.000Well now, in a two-to-one decision, the appeals court ordered the trial court to hold a new hearing on the motion to vacate Syed's conviction that would give Lee enough notice to attend in person, unlike the previous hearing, which he joined via Zoom.
00:52:45.000That doesn't mean that Syed has to immediately go back to prison.
00:52:50.000Sanford applauded the appeals court for agreeing with Lee that the trial court had violated his right to be given adequate notice of the hearing in September and to be physically present at the hearing.
00:52:58.000The decision, according to Doug Colbert, a law professor over at University of Maryland, said it was stunning and surprising.
00:53:05.000Now, one of the things that happens to be true about this particular case is that there is very good evidence that Anand Sayan actually murdered the victim in this particular case.
00:53:14.000I understand that we can build now crime podcasts in which podcasters pour over the old files and look at the defense case and they try to prove that the defense case was actually plausible.
00:53:23.000But the reality is that you had an accomplice who testified at the trial that he helped Syed bury the victim's body in a public park.
00:53:30.000There was cell phone evidence, like cell tower evidence, showing Syed's phone in the park on the night in question.
00:53:37.000The witness said there's nothing that's going to change the fact this guy drove up in front of my grandmother's house, popped the trunk and had his dead girlfriend in the trunk.
00:53:43.000Anything that's going to make him innocent doesn't involve me.
00:53:46.000Like, there are a bunch of questions this serial tried to raise, suggesting that this particular witness doesn't remember the exact time when Syed first showed him the body, but nothing has actually fully undermined the case against Adnan Syed.
00:53:58.000So it'll be interesting to see whether this is just kind of a procedural snafu, or whether they're going to look at the evidence again and maybe question whether Marilyn Mosby, a really headline-seeking DA, is just attempting to seek another headline.
00:54:11.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:54:17.000So I gotta say, I'm so tired of celebrities apologizing for literally nothing.
00:54:22.000So Guy Pearce, he's a really good actor, Guy Pearce, one of the great underrated actors of our generation.
00:54:28.000And Guy Pearce put out a full-on apology letter today.
00:54:32.000The apology was for a tweet in which he said, quote, if trans actors are the only ones allowed to play trans roles, are we also suggesting trans actors are therefore only allowed to play trans characters?
00:54:42.000Okay, this seems like a perfectly logical question.
00:54:44.000If the basic idea is that you are only allowed to play a character who shares your identity characteristics, then trans actors should only be allowed to play trans characters.
00:55:00.000No, the rule is that a black person is allowed to play a historically white person, but a white person is not allowed to play a historically black person.
00:55:07.000The rule is that a trans person can play a biological woman, but a biological woman like Scarlett Johansson definitely cannot play a trans woman.
00:55:13.000Like, these are things that we can't have happening.
00:55:16.000Again, if you're a member of a victimized group, you can do whatever the hell you want.
00:55:19.000If you're a member of the victimizers group, or at least you are higher on the intersectional hierarchy of power, if you're higher on that, then you certainly cannot take advantage of that position.
00:55:47.000I acknowledge it has only stirred up and inflamed attitudes and made us all dig our heels in.
00:55:51.000I take responsibility for that and again, apologize for starting a fire.
00:55:54.000This is a subject that needs to be discussed face to face, person to person over a good amount of time and where we are all heard and understood.
00:55:59.000No it isn't! This is a very, very simple subject.
00:56:01.000People should be able to play whoever the hell they want.
00:56:03.000That's it. If you're the best person for the part, you should win the part.
00:56:05.000I mean, does it require a face-to-face conversation to say, you, a man, should not play a woman because you're a man?
00:56:11.000I mean, and again, if all you're saying is there's a set of rules, and the set of rules is members of identity groups can only play members of those identity groups, then that means that members of every identity group can only play members of that identity group.
00:56:33.000His cowardice is going to have no impact on Guy Pearce, but it has impact on every other actor in Hollywood who now is not as powerful as Guy Pearce and can't say the thing.
00:56:41.000When powerful people apologize before the mob, it's not just that they're doing something wrong.
00:57:08.000He says, I want to take this opportunity to say it is very clear to me that in many areas of life discrimination, which should have no place in a modern society, unfortunately still thrives.
00:57:16.000Indeed, members of my own family have been subjected to different but every bit as pernicious prejudice.
00:57:20.000I understand how my question, asking if trans actors are the only ones allowed to play trans roles, then are we also suggesting trans actors are therefore only allowed to play trans characters, is insensitive.
00:57:55.000That inherently violates the definition of justice.
00:57:58.000When you say something like, I'm not allowed to, I have a full house of privilege, so I can't speak to, a generalized principle, what you're really saying is the only people who get to speak on matters of public concern are members of the victimized groups.