Joe Biden has finally decided to run for re-election, and he s going to announce it on Tuesday, according to a report from the Washington Post. Joe Biden is an 80-year-old former vice president who is in a state of cognitive decline, and the media are willing to go to any lengths to prop him up, because they think he s a bad candidate, and therefore we need a dead person to run against Donald Trump. The only reason he could run in the first place is because the media decided that Donald Trump was the worst thing in the history of mankind, and that therefore we needed someone who could run against him. And therefore, we needed a person who can run against Trump. And that person is Joe Biden. Joe Biden has never been a good candidate. He s been a bad presidential candidate. But that s not the issue here. The issue is that he s running against Trump, and no one seems to care about that, because he s not capable of doing anything other than sucking up attention and sucking up the attention of other human beings. And so they want him to jump in as fast as possible, because it s good for him to finally be definitive about it, and so they can finally be a part of the 2020 Democratic primary field, and see if he s actually going to make a run against President Trump in 2020. And if he doesn t, then they re going to have a shot at him. something to get in the primary field. And they re gonna love him of course. The problem is, Joe Biden s not going to be able to do it at all the time, right? or not because he can t seem to get his act together but he s just not that good at it, right ? right and so he s gonna run well, he s too old, right ? not good enough not . he s , right or just too old can he good enough? or isn t ? And isn t he ? Well, so what s the problem here is he s he s old enough , is he ? or is he not enough or does he just not ? Or enough ? or not old enough ? and so does he have a problem? ?
00:00:00.000Alrighty, so we have reached the week.
00:00:02.000There's a lot of trepidation about whether Joe Biden would in fact announce his candidacy or in fact just sort of, you know, make sound out of his face.
00:00:10.000But apparently we have finally reached the point.
00:00:14.000The president of the United States is supposed to announce his reelect bid.
00:00:17.000On Tuesday, tomorrow, according to the Washington Post, by the time Air Force One returned from Ireland in the pre-dawn hours of April 15th, President Biden's plans to announce his re-election campaign were already in motion.
00:00:27.000A videographer soon met him in Rehove Beach, Delaware, where Biden spent the weekend after arriving in Dover at 2.26am with his sister Valerie and his son Hunter.
00:00:35.000Again, Joe Biden has been squiring his son Hunter around.
00:00:38.000And no one seems to care about the fact that Hunter Biden is one of the world's biggest derelicts.
00:01:25.000The real story of Joe Biden is not Joe Biden.
00:01:27.000Joe Biden was a bad candidate when he first ran in 1988.
00:01:29.000He was a bad candidate when he ran again against Barack Obama in 2008.
00:01:33.000He's been a bad candidate a thousand times.
00:01:36.000But his bad candidacy is not the issue here.
00:01:38.000The issue here is what the media are willing to do, to what lengths they are willing to go in order to prop him up.
00:01:43.000According to the Washington Post, Once Biden returned to the White House, he and First Lady Jill Biden met with senior aides to finalize the details of his re-elect launch.
00:01:51.000After Biden signed off on the plans, the officials ramped up their final preparations.
00:01:54.000Top fundraising officials at the DNC scrambled to make dozens of phone calls, frequently ending up in voicemails, inviting top donors for a hastily arranged summit with the president to plan events.
00:02:03.000Again, the idea here is that he is going to announce on Tuesday.
00:02:06.000He'll probably do so not with a giant rally, but with a video.
00:02:10.000That is not a shock, because again, a giant rally in which he announces his re-elect bid is probably going to fall absolutely flat.
00:02:16.000Aides are instead looking to pre-tape a video announcing his re-elect bid.
00:02:20.000This is not a person who's capable of getting up and inspiring a giant crowd.
00:02:23.000A man can't inspire a bowl of oatmeal.
00:02:28.000According to the Washington Post, Biden and his team are preparing to announce his re-elect campaign this week, and they've targeted Tuesday for the release of the video to coincide with the four-year anniversary of this 2020 campaign launch.
00:02:39.000They keep saying that it might be delayed, and maybe it will be, but again, they're going to have to get in at some point here just to prevent anybody else from ramping up and starting to suck money out of the system.
00:02:49.000As Politico points out, a lot of people care when Joe Biden actually announces.
00:02:55.000One camp argues there's no reason to push because obviously once he jumps in, he clears the field.
00:02:59.000But there are some other Democrats who are upset about the possibility that there are going to be other people who get in the field and start sucking up attention.
00:03:07.000And so they want him to jump in as fast as humanly possible.
00:03:11.000Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh, he says it's just good for the party to finally be definitive about it.
00:03:16.000Well, I mean, the reason, presumably, that Joe Biden is being more definitive about it is because he's looking at the polls and he's said this for a long time.
00:03:22.000The big issue for Joe Biden is who he's going to run against.
00:03:23.000If he thought he was going to run against anybody but Trump, he might think twice.
00:03:26.000If he thinks it's going to be Trump, he is very enthusiastic to run against President Trump because, of course, Trump lost to him last time around.
00:03:33.000Now, as I say, he relies almost entirely on the goodwill of the media.
00:03:37.000He relies on the media to never report a damned thing about him.
00:03:40.000That's how he can go out and say stuff like he said over the weekend.
00:03:43.000He was giving a speech and he suggested that basically he is the world's least controversial politician.
00:03:48.000That doesn't matter that his entire career he has been plagued by accusations of corruption, going all the way back to his time as senator in Delaware when he was receiving sweetheart real estate deals from credit card companies.
00:03:59.000But He now says that he's really only known for Ray Bans and Ice Cream, and this is just a replay of Barack Obama.
00:04:05.000You remember during Obama's second term, there were a myriad of scandals that hit the Obama administration, from HHS to the IRS.
00:04:13.000Literally every area of his administration was plagued with problems of one sort or another, but we were told that Barack Obama, the only scandal he ever had was the tan suit, because one day he showed up in a tan suit, and it was an ugly suit, and people made fun of the tan suit.
00:04:26.000And so that was the only scandal we ever had.
00:04:27.000Well, now Joe Biden is trying to do the same thing.
00:04:29.000Apparently, according to Joe Biden, he is an absolutely scot-free, clean-as-the-driven-snow politician.
00:04:34.000There's no reason why you wouldn't love Joe Biden.
00:04:36.000He's known as the guy who wears Ray-Bans and licks ice cream cones.
00:04:40.000As I've told my distinguished friend from Massachusetts, a good friend, Senator Markey, that it's really very, very dull when after all these years in public life, you're known for two things, Ray-Ban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream.
00:04:55.000That is not what he is known for, actually.
00:04:58.000He is known for many things, including, once again, aside from sniffing the hair of young girls inappropriately, the President of the United States is known for not being with it.
00:05:08.000He is known also for his son, Hunter, who, yes, that is an issue for him.
00:05:12.000I mean, just last week, it was reported that his campaign helped trot out The lie that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually Russian disinformation.
00:05:20.000It turns out that Antony Blinken was actually shopping that story around to people like Mike Morrell, the former CIA director for Barack Obama, in order to launder into the media the story that Hunter Biden's laptop was a fake and a phony so that it would be banned from social media.
00:05:33.000And Mike Morrell then put out a letter with a bunch of other intel officials who suggested, of course, that it was Russian disinformation.
00:05:39.000You'll remember that back in October 2020, Biden actually said that.
00:05:41.000He suggested that his son's laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:06:37.000This president of the United States has presided over a 40-year high in inflation, he has presided over a stagnating economy, and he has presided over a collapse in foreign policy, which we'll get to in just a moment.
00:06:47.000Because, once again, this is a president who's presided over not one, But two, Saigon-like incidents in foreign countries in which we have to pull people off the roofs of our embassies.
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00:08:01.000Well, as Joe Biden prepares to announce his reelect bid, you may have noticed that over the weekend, the president of the United States announced that the U.S.
00:08:09.000military is now going to be evacuating and already has evacuated American government personnel from Khartoum, which is in Sudan.
00:08:16.000The president tweeted out today on my orders the United States military conducted an operation to extract US government personnel from Khartoum in response to the situation in Sudan.
00:08:24.000I'm grateful for the commitment of our embassy staff and the skill of our service members who brought them to safety.
00:08:27.000I'm receiving regular reports from my team on their ongoing work to assist Americans in Sudan to the extent possible.
00:08:32.000We're also working closely with our allies and partners in this effort.
00:08:35.000The tragic violence in Sudan has already cost the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.
00:09:49.000Battles between two rival Sudanese commanders had forced the closing of the main international airport and left roads out of the country in control of armed fighters.
00:09:55.000Skirmishes have already killed more than 400 people.
00:09:58.000About 100 US troops in three MH-47 helicopters carried out the operation.
00:10:01.000They airlifted all of the roughly 70 remaining American employees from a landing zone at the embassy and moved to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia.
00:10:10.000Biden then said that he was proud of the extraordinary commitment of our embassy staff who performed their duties with courage and professionalism and embodied America's friendship and connection with the people of Sudan.
00:10:21.000So, no, everybody is just stuck there.
00:10:24.000This is all a result, apparently, of a power struggle between the head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, General Mohamed Hamdoum Dagolo.
00:10:34.000And apparently, basically, this has led to full-out civil war in the country.
00:10:39.000Not a big shock, Sudan has been a disaster before.
00:10:42.000But the amazing nature of this, the fact that the Biden administration is once again pulling, without any plan whatsoever, out of a foreign nation that is filled with terrorists and leaving American citizens behind, it's a reminder that this president not only has no plan, he has failed signally when it comes to foreign policy.
00:11:01.000Like everywhere, he has failed when it comes to foreign policy.
00:11:05.000In fact, as it turns out, One of the players who's having an outsized impact on the breakdown in Africa right now is the so-called Wagner Group.
00:11:15.000Apparently, the Wagner Group is a set of Russian mercenaries that is fomenting instability while using their paramilitary and disinformation capabilities to bolster Moscow allies.
00:11:27.000The rapid expansion of Russia's influence in Africa has been a source of growing alarm to U.S.
00:11:30.000intelligence and military officials, according to the Washington Post, prompting a push over the past year to find ways to hit Wagner's network of bases and business fronts with strikes, sanctions, and cyber operations, according to the document.
00:11:41.000So, while the United States has been funding the war in Ukraine, Russia has been expanding its footprint elsewhere.
00:11:48.000The Washington Post says, at a time when Wagner leader Yevgeny Progozhin has been preoccupied with Kremlin infighting over the paramilitary group's deepening involvement in the war in Ukraine, U.S.
00:11:56.000officials depict Wagner's expanding global footprint as a potential vulnerability.
00:12:00.000So, once again, the President of the United States, while he says that he is succeeding, he actually is failing.
00:12:06.000Because as it turns out, France is talking with China now about the possibility that China may invade Taiwan and France might do nothing.
00:12:12.000The Russians were supposed to be tied down in Ukraine.
00:12:15.000Yeah, I mean, it's definitely hampered the Russian military in Ukraine, but they're making trouble in Africa as well, and thousands of Americans have now been left behind too.
00:12:24.000According to WCVB.com, there is growing concern for thousands of Americans in Sudan, including a Massachusetts woman and her young daughter, as the bloody fighting that has engulfed the African nation enters its second week.
00:12:36.000Trillian Clifford of Ashland moved to Sudan less than a year ago to teach at a school in the capital, Khartoum.
00:12:40.000Clifford and her daughter Alma are currently sheltering in place in Khartoum.
00:12:43.000They've contacted government officials for help.
00:12:46.000The family believes the United States should be doing more to bring her and other Americans back home.
00:12:51.000The White House, however, says, you know, you're on your own.
00:12:54.000Apparently they've said that Americans who do not work for the embassy should not rely on the military to help them leave the country.
00:12:59.000We've been clear eyed about how American citizens should not travel to Sudan for months now.
00:13:03.000We've communicated to American citizens in the country about safety and security measures and precautions they can take, said Vendant Patel, spokesperson for the U.S.
00:13:13.00016,000 Americans are being left behind in Sudan.
00:13:17.000So once again, slow clap for the Biden administration doing an excellent job.
00:13:21.000Speaking of which, remember that time when we pulled out of Afghanistan ignominiously and we left behind billions of dollars in military equipment?
00:13:28.000We let the Taliban, an 8th century group of barbarians, simply take over the country and blow up some 13 American soldiers in the process?
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00:14:43.000Okay, so, meanwhile, remember that time that this wonderful, amazing president who's running for re-election at the grand old age of 80?
00:14:49.000Remember that time that the President of the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and left the state in a complete state of absolute anarchy and collapse and just handed it over to the Taliban?
00:15:00.000Well now, it turns out, according to the Washington Post, less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S.
00:15:05.000personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State.
00:15:09.000As the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia and conducts aspirational plotting against the United States.
00:15:14.000That is not according to right-wing sources.
00:15:16.000That is according to a classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.
00:15:22.000The attack planning, which is detailed in U.S.
00:15:24.000intelligence findings, leaked on those Discord leaks.
00:15:28.000It revealed specific efforts to target embassies, churches, business centers, and the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which drew more than 2 million spectators last summer in Qatar.
00:15:35.000Pentagon officials were aware in December of nine such plots coordinated by ISIS leaders in Afghanistan.
00:15:40.000The number rose to 15 by February, according to the assessment.
00:15:42.000The assessment says, quote, ISIS has been developing a cost-effective model for external
00:15:46.000operations that relies on resources from outside Afghanistan, operatives in target countries,
00:16:11.000Back in April of 2021, you know, we're running up on the four-year anniversary of the President of the United States announcing that he was going to run for president.
00:16:19.000We're also running up on the two-year anniversary of the President of the United States, we actually just passed it, saying that we're pulling out from Afghanistan.
00:16:26.000Which led to the death of 13 American soldiers, presumably thousands of American allies, people dropping off wheel wells of planes, and hundreds of Americans left behind.
00:16:33.000Here was Joe Biden, April 14, 2021, saying, don't worry, guys, we're going to bring our soldiers home and everything will be fine.
00:16:38.000We've ended the threat of terrorism, as it turns out.
00:16:41.000We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan.
00:16:51.000After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the Vice President, as well as with Mr. Ghani and many others around the world, I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war.
00:17:10.000It's time for American troops to come home.
00:17:13.000And then if you fast forward all the way to September, it was fairly obvious at this point that ISIS-K was taking over along with the Taliban.
00:17:29.000And I think any effort to unwind that, any effort to bring our troops out, any effort to end our military presence in Afghanistan was going to be filled with heartbreaking scenes and difficulties.
00:17:40.000And I think the Biden administration has managed that as well as it could be managed under the circumstances we were placed in.
00:18:13.000My thoughts have been with the brave Americans Who stood up to serve after Al Qaeda attacked us on September 11, 2001.
00:18:24.000And my heart is with their families and loved ones and with our friends and allies and with our fellow citizens whose lives were lost or changed forever.
00:18:39.000Now we have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in American history.
00:18:49.000They did an amazing job, according to them, and this president is going to run for re-election on the basis of things like that.
00:18:57.000So glad that we can do it again over in Sudan, leaving 16,000 Americans behind.
00:19:01.000According to Nathan Sales, State Department coordinator for counterterrorism during the Trump administration, quote, ISIS-K has enjoyed safe haven in Afghanistan since the administration withdrew 20 months ago.
00:19:10.000The group has the ambition to attack American interests in the region, ultimately the U.S.
00:19:31.000So here's what the polls show right now with regard to Joe Biden.
00:19:34.000Well, number one, nobody actually wants Joe Biden to run.
00:19:38.000Something like 70% of Americans currently say that they do not want Joe Biden to run for president.
00:19:42.000Only 26% of Americans say that they want Joe Biden to run for president.
00:19:46.000That's according to a new NBC News poll.
00:19:49.000Only 38% of Americans have positive feelings toward the current president of the United States.
00:19:54.000His job performance rating currently is 41%, according again to that NBC News poll, which means that this old dullard is unbelievably vulnerable.
00:20:03.000But are Republicans going to take advantage of that, or are they going to continue to run headlong at a brick wall?
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00:21:45.000There's a survey, again from Yahoo News at YouGov, And I found that 38% of Americans chose exhaustion after being shown a list of eight feelings and asked to select all that comes to mind when considering another Biden versus Trump campaign.
00:21:57.000And among registered voters, that number is even higher.
00:22:07.000anger 23%, excitement 16%, pride 8%, or gratitude 7%?
00:22:12.000Yes, Americans are very positive about another Trump-Biden matchup.
00:22:15.000It's what the people want. They demand it.
00:22:17.000And this is one of the big problems that you have with the weakening of parties counterintuitively.
00:22:21.000The weakening of both the Republican and the Democratic parties means that basically the basis of both parties and the more involved basis of both parties tend to have an outsized influence compared to the rest of the American population, which means very often that candidates who are not wildly popular with the American public end up being the nominees of their parties.
00:22:38.000Trump, for what it's worth, is currently wrapping up a bunch of congressional endorsements.
00:22:42.000Now, you would imagine, listen, he's the former president of the United States.
00:22:53.000But Trump is racking up endorsements, particularly in Florida.
00:22:57.000Again, not a major shock, also because if you are a state Or a congressional politician.
00:23:02.000What you don't want is Trump attacking you.
00:23:04.000If Trump asks you for an endorsement, the safest thing to do is give it to him because if you don't endorse DeSantis, DeSantis isn't going to attack you.
00:23:26.000With us now, Congressman Carlos Gimenez, who was kind enough to take time to let us know where he's going and where he's heading and who he's supporting.
00:23:46.000He has a solid track record as president and yesterday at the dinner he laid out a solid plan for the future and where we need to go.
00:23:57.000Okay, so this idea that Trump gives Republicans the best chance of winning is belied by pretty much all of the polls at this point, as well as the fact that he already ran an election campaign against Joe Biden, and it didn't go amazing.
00:24:08.000He's not the President of the United States right now.
00:24:10.000Trump's team is focused in on Ron DeSantis like a laser beam.
00:24:15.000According to Rolling Stone, a Trump advisor says, quote, Now, the problem for Trump is that the angle that he's taking with regard to DeSantis is one that does not make the base particularly enthusiastic.
00:24:31.000He is currently attacking DeSantis with alacrity from the left, almost entirely from the left, because it's impossible to get to DeSantis' right.
00:24:37.000So instead, he's attacking him from the left.
00:24:40.000So over the weekend, Trump did a speech in which he ripped on DeSantis repeatedly.
00:24:45.000The important thing here is really not the attacks.
00:24:47.000The important thing is the crowd reaction.
00:25:15.000And there was like a rocket ship after I gave it, otherwise right now you'd have a lawyer someplace looking for business.
00:25:20.000Okay, and the crowd is pretty much silent there.
00:25:24.000Because the reality is that the base, unlike when Trump was attacking everybody back in 2016 when nobody actually liked any of the other candidates, this is the dirty secret, nobody liked anybody else who was running in 2016.
00:25:33.000And so Trump had a bunch of baked-in advantages.
00:25:35.000People actually like Ron DeSantis' record of governance.
00:25:37.000And so Trump has been relegated to attacking DeSantis from the left.
00:25:41.000He put out a statement, a lengthy statement, over the weekend, in which he said that Florida has now become among the worst states to live, or to find economic opportunity, or to work, or to retire, or to raise a family.
00:26:22.000It's a real problem for Donald Trump, actually, that it does not hunt if the issues matter at all.
00:26:27.000So DeSantis, for his part, he is finally starting to open up the guns on Trump, and he has a pretty good angle here.
00:26:34.000His angle here is that Trump blew it on COVID.
00:26:37.000That Trump was too weak on COVID, that Anthony Fauci is only a household name because Donald Trump appointed him and then left him in place and didn't actually have any control over his own policy because he didn't know what to do.
00:26:47.000So here is Ron DeSantis over the weekend saying, listen, when it came to COVID, I took control because that's what leaders do.
00:26:53.000And to me, leadership is having the courage to make difficult decisions in the teeth of opposition and criticism.
00:27:01.000A leader must have the confidence to stand all alone if need be.
00:27:05.000And so for us, as I got into office, COVID presented that situation for us because we were in a situation, the third largest state in the country, one of the highest percentage of elderly, economy based on tourism, which we needed travel to continue.
00:27:21.000So this situation was an existential threat to our state.
00:27:25.000But I made the judgment, leaders take the bull by the horns and make the decisions for themselves.
00:27:32.000They don't subcontract out their leadership to health bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci.
00:27:39.000That is going to be a very rich vein for attack from DeSantis toward Trump.
00:27:44.000Because he doesn't have to actually say anything about Trump.
00:27:46.000He can just say, listen, when it comes to actually formulating policy and being a leader, I was right on COVID, and you're attacking me from the left.
00:27:53.000And that is a fact, because Donald Trump was two DeSantis' left throughout the pandemic.
00:27:58.000In fact, here is Donald Trump attacking Governor Brian Kemp, not DeSantis, in April 2020 for reopening the state of Georgia.
00:28:06.000You'll remember, if you have the memory, that Donald Trump actually was very angry at Brian Kemp for reopening the state.
00:28:15.000I told the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, that I disagree strongly.
00:28:21.000With his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines.
00:28:27.000I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go.
00:29:05.000In fact, in the middle of the 2020 election, Donald Trump actually put out a campaign ad featuring Anthony Fauci, talking actually to Mark Levin in this particular interview.
00:29:34.000I never, in the multiple times that I've done that, where I said, for scientific reasons,
00:29:40.000we really should do this, that he hasn't said, let's do it.
00:29:43.000The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a, quote, shutdown.
00:29:56.000The president listened to the recommendation.
00:29:59.000Okay, I mean, that was an actual Trump-Pence ad in 2020.
00:30:03.000DeSantis should just replay that ad, except it said, donate to DeSantis button.
00:30:07.000I mean, I'm not sure what to do about the fact that Donald Trump was doing this in the middle of the pandemic.
00:30:21.000In fact, in the middle of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Trump talked about how he was a genius for the policies he'd taken, including shutting down the country.
00:31:00.000His own Surgeon General was out there suggesting that until there was a vaccine, they were going to have to basically socially distance.
00:31:06.000And DeSantis had him kicked out of the room.
00:31:08.000He's like, nope, we're not going to do that.
00:31:09.000And you're not the one who gets to make that decision.
00:31:13.000So as long as we're going to have COVID in the environment, and this is a tough virus, we're going to have to practice these measures so that we are all protected.
00:31:23.000Based upon what has been reported, probably a year, if not longer, is what some individuals have talked about.
00:31:36.000He's being told to leave by one of DeSantis' assistants.
00:31:43.000He's saying it's time for you to leave the room.
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00:33:22.000Also, When leftists tell you that America is systematically racist and systemically racist, they are lying.
00:33:27.000All evidence points to precisely the opposite.
00:33:29.000Every attempt to fix this non-existent problem in the name of equity is making the country worse by leagues and measures.
00:33:35.000Heather MacDonald is shutting down that malignant ideology of anti-racism in her brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.
00:33:44.000Heather MacDonald's When Race Trumps Merit exposes how the BLM-fueled equity obsession is destroying Western civilization, or tearing down meritocracy, or tearing down Anything approaching actual equality?
00:33:54.000We no longer enforce criminal law because if we do so it might have a quote-unquote disparate impact on minority criminals.
00:33:59.000Lowering standards, as Heather explains, jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, and poisons the appreciation of art and culture.
00:34:05.000When race trumps merit is eye-opening, but That's what the truth does.
00:34:08.000McDonald's is unafraid to break taboos about academic achievement and crime.
00:34:11.000She provides the data and the life stories showing the damage done to the country in real time in the name of equity.
00:34:32.000I mean, it's very clear that the mainstream media would love Trump to be the nominee, mainly because they think, again, that he's easily defeatable, which is why the new going line about DeSantis is that he's mean.
00:34:43.000Typically, Democrats have, like, three lines on Republicans.
00:34:51.000They can't say that DeSantis is corrupt because he's not.
00:34:54.000They can't say that he is stupid because he clearly is not.
00:34:57.000And so they've decided to go with he's mean.
00:34:59.000So Jennifer Rubin, one of the least charming people on planet Earth, she says that Ron DeSantis is a jerk, and that is the thing that's really going to harm him, as opposed to Joe Biden, who's a really, really nice guy who just leaves, you know, hundreds of Americans behind enemy lines to die.
00:35:12.000But other than that, other than being, you know, a bloviating, blowhard jackass, he's the best.
00:35:21.000There are all sorts of people who, in theory, are running against Donald Trump, but he has a remarkable ability to pick people off one at a time.
00:35:46.000And I think the Disney episode is going to look like the little Marco episode in retrospect, making him seem small and petty and rather silly, frankly.
00:35:57.000Oh, it's gonna make him look small and petty and rather silly to take one of the biggest corporations in American history and force them to back off of their insane politicking with regard to the indoctrination of small children, is it?
00:36:17.000She quotes David Axelrod, the former Obama advisor, who said that the Florida governor is coming across, quote, like the high school quarterback who throws the geek against the lockers to get a laugh from the cheerleaders.
00:36:27.000Oh, as opposed to, you know, President Trump, who they all love, who's apparently, according to them, incredibly charming.
00:36:33.000According to Maureen Dowd, even in a world made crueler by social media and Donald Trump, DeSantis seems mean, punching out at Mickey Mouse, immigrants, gays, and women, pushing through an expansion of his proposal to ban school discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity to include all grades, as well as a draconian ban on abortion after six weeks.
00:36:48.000He even admonished some high school kids during the pandemic for wearing masks.
00:38:03.000There's only one person who they've been pretty much leaving alone at this point in so far as his candidacy.
00:38:08.000They'll go after him with regard to his election behavior and they'll go after him with regard to his taxes and everything else and his Michael Cohen.
00:38:15.000But when it comes to his actual election behavior, the media basically decided it is hands off with President Trump.
00:38:23.000Bud Light has begun the climb down, at least publicly.
00:38:25.000They're now attempting to sort of buy off everybody who's angry at them and no longer will shop and buy Bud Light by putting on sort of unnamed suspension the marketing executive who originally put together the partnership between Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.
00:38:39.000According to the Associated Press, Alyssa Heinerschneid, Bud Light's VP of Marketing, will be replaced by Todd Allen, the most recent Global Vice President to Budweiser, according to reports from Beer Business Daily and Ad Age.
00:38:49.000A spokesperson for Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, on Saturday did not directly confirm the leave of absence, but said that Allen, as VP of Bud Light, will report directly to the U.S.
00:39:23.000But aside from that, It is fairly obvious at this point that when people on the right and people in the middle say we're not interested in the thing, it turns out the companies actually do answer to that, at least in small part.
00:39:34.000So, you know, what does that tell you?
00:39:36.000What it does tell you is that companies respond to pressure campaigns.
00:39:39.000Now, hilariously, there's a piece by Brian Broome over at the Washington Post blaming the Bud Light controversy not on stupid marketing ideas, wherein a beer largely marketed at poor white people is going to be best Best marketed by a man pretending to be a woman.
00:39:54.000No, the real problem is you wait, wait, wait for it.
00:40:00.000Dylan Mulvaney, a trans influencer with more than 10 million followers, documented her transition over the course of a year.
00:40:05.000To celebrate Day 365 of her journey, Bud Light sent her some personalized cans of beer.
00:40:10.000This attempt on Bud Light's part to be forward-thinking about how its customers live and love has been met with backlash by one group of people who seem to believe that another group of people should not exist.
00:40:19.000For some, trans people represent just the latest bad-a-bad-a-babadook, a complex fear they cannot tolerate.
00:40:25.000A note to those folks who are upset that Anheuser-Busch relied on a trans woman as a quasi-spokesperson.
00:40:29.000Whether you like it or not, queer people have been drinking your beer for decades.
00:40:32.000In fact, as long as there's been beer, queer people have been drinking it.
00:40:37.000Mulvaney's celebration for some reason threatened the very existence of a whole bunch of guys who aren't ready for that reality.
00:40:42.000This will surprise no one who has ever been a small boy.
00:40:44.000Everyone knows the sting of being called a sissy.
00:40:47.000Yes, it's toxic masculinity because if a man doesn't believe that a man can be a woman, that's toxic masculinity.
00:40:52.000So the best way, obviously, to demonstrate solidarity with women who are, in fact, being lied about and mocked when a man pretends to be a woman and the entire society pretends that the man is a woman, when men say, no, we're not going to go along with that, that apparently is an aspect of toxic masculinity.
00:41:08.000So we have now redefined toxic masculinity to mean men defending women from other men pretending to be women.
00:41:15.000The attempt to destroy masculinity as a very concept is absurd.
00:41:19.000The reality is that if women want to be protected, you know what they need?
00:41:22.000They need masculine men protecting them.
00:41:23.000I give you another example that comes to mind here.
00:41:26.000So, one of the stupidest things I have ever seen is happening now in Canada.
00:41:31.000Apparently, Canadian politicians, male politicians, decided that they had to wear women's pink high heels To raise awareness about violence against women.
00:41:43.000The event was hosted by Halton Women's Place and was part of their Hope in High Heels campaign.
00:41:50.000And one of the members of the Canadian Parliament tweeted, violence against women is still prevalent in our society.
00:41:55.000Hope in Heels, an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution.
00:42:00.000We award their signature pink heels in support of this important cause.
00:42:51.000The only way that men can defend women is if they don high heels or if they allow other men to gallivant around pretending to be women and mocking women in the process.
00:43:00.000That is the height, apparently, of the new masculinity is to be as effeminate as humanly possible.
00:43:04.000And somehow this is going to stop bad men from doing bad things.
00:43:07.000Which, of course, is absolute silliness at every level.
00:43:12.000Alrighty, meanwhile, this year marks the 75th anniversary of Israel's independence.
00:43:15.000Coincidentally, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is also celebrating 40 years of ministry.
00:43:20.000Today, thousands of Jews, both in Israel and in war-torn Ukraine, struggle to survive the life-threatening crises, including extreme poverty, hunger, and violence in the form of conflict, anti-Semitism, and terrorism.
00:43:29.000Among these vulnerable people are tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and elderly Jews who aren't going to survive without basic needs.
00:43:36.000If you've ever met Holocaust survivors, I mean, they're some of the most amazing people on the planet.
00:43:40.000They've gone through some of the worst hardships.
00:43:41.000If you're a Holocaust survivor and you live in Ukraine, there's a good shot that you not only lived through the Holocaust, but then you were made subject to the predations of the Stalin government and the Soviet Union.
00:43:51.000So your life has been pretty rough already.
00:43:53.000Now, you might not even be able to get food.
00:43:55.000Well, with just 40 bucks, you can provide one person with an emergency food box and hot meals.
00:44:57.000According to the Wall Street Journal NORC poll, the 12% was the smallest share of very happy people ever recorded in this poll, dating all the way back to 1972.
00:45:06.000Well, some 67% of these people say marriage is very important to them, regardless of their own marital status, compared with only 43% of respondents overall.
00:45:17.000These people tend to say that God is important.
00:45:20.000Two-thirds describe themselves as very or moderately religious, compared to less than half of adults overall.
00:45:26.000Community involvement rates as more important among the very happy than among those who report lower levels of happiness.
00:45:31.000Well, many of the very happy are satisfied with their personal finances.
00:45:34.000As a group, they don't attach high importance to money.
00:45:39.000So here's the description of the very happy person in America.
00:45:43.000A person who is married or believes in the value of marriage, who is involved in the community or believes that it is very important to be involved in the community, and a person who believes in God.
00:45:56.000And those are precisely the people we are apparently determined, bound and determined as a society to essentially push out of the population.
00:47:05.000So there are the militant folks in our society who have decided religion is just bad, it's evil, it needs to be wiped away.
00:47:10.000And then there's a softer version of this.
00:47:12.000The softer version of this is where we substitute faith in a quote-unquote higher power or in the universe or in something for God and religion and tradition.
00:47:22.000Faith in a thing is effectively the same as faith in nothing.
00:47:26.000You actually have to specify what the thing you have faith in is.
00:47:29.000And when people say that they believe in a higher source of spirituality, in a spiritual path, they're not religious, they're spiritual.
00:47:36.000What they're really saying is they have no idea.
00:47:39.000They understand there's a mystery in the universe, but they have no interest or idea of what that mystery could be or how exactly to penetrate it.
00:47:44.000And so they're going to live with the boundaries of secular humanism as their morality.
00:47:49.000It doesn't connect them with a higher guide for morality.
00:47:51.000It doesn't connect them to a community because there is no secular humanist community.
00:47:55.000In fact, secular humanism tends to lead to individualistic atomism.
00:48:00.000That is what we have been doing as a society.
00:48:01.000So there's an article, again from the Wall Street Journal today.
00:48:04.000A greater share of young adults say they believe in a higher power or God.
00:48:09.000So, the Wall Street Journal found this puzzling because it said that a higher share of people are now saying that they believe in God or a higher power.
00:48:17.000But, there's a big difference between saying that you believe in a higher power and saying you believe in a God.
00:48:22.000When you say you believe in God, everyone understands obligations and duties now attend to you.
00:48:39.000Unless you have a belief in God that is embedded in your life and that winds up binding you to a community and to a set of values, a belief in a higher power does not do you much good.
00:48:51.000And in fact, it ends up being directed in very, very weird directions.
00:48:54.000It ends up being pushed toward a pagan atheistic direction, which is why you end up with people making the case that Earth Day should actually be a religious holiday.
00:49:03.000There's a piece in Time Magazine today by Paul Greenberg and Carl Safina.
00:49:07.000Greenberg teaches at NYU's Animal Studies program.
00:49:10.000Safina holds the Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.
00:49:14.000And they say, for the two of us environmentalists, one of us nominally Jewish, the other a recovering Catholic,
00:49:20.000we find the ill-defined nature of the only day honoring a place that makes life itself possible
00:49:45.000Perhaps the first step might be unearthing the nature-centered origins of our existing religious holidays.
00:49:50.000Most of us know in the back of our minds that Christmas and Hanukkah fall around the time of the winter solstice, that Easter and Passover are celebrated in tandem with the arrival of spring, that Sukkot and Diwali mark harvest in summer's last warmth, and Eid follows the path of the moon.
00:50:01.000These holidays have origins in gratitude.
00:50:03.000Gratitude for the sun returning, gratitude for the harvest.
00:50:13.000What if we were to come to celebrate these benchmarks for what they are biologically?
00:50:17.000Birth, that ecstatic co-joining of atoms and molecules, resulting in sentience, might prompt a ritual of truthfully and factually recounting how inanimate objects become animate.
00:50:26.000Well, that sounds, like, absolutely incredible.
00:50:28.000You're just gonna do, like, atheistic materialist projections of how lifeless form could become life form.
00:50:35.000Instead of, or in addition to, bar and bat mitzvahs, would it be too much to expect our children to go beyond the average 20 daily minutes most American kids spend outdoors and commit to memory the names and descriptions of local plants and animals?
00:50:44.000I mean, we're just going right back here to paganism.
00:50:57.000Now, if you find yourself believing that a community can be built on this, or a lifestyle can be built, or this will make you happy, I have another thing coming for you.
00:51:20.000The notion that you are going to worship the inanimate powers of nature, and that this is somehow going to make you feel better about life, or that you're going to jettison religion entirely and fall back on a pure subjectivist view of what humanity is and truth is, such that you end up like the amazing atheist talking about girl d**k. If this is the way you approach the world, you are likely to end up less happy.
00:51:43.000Great piece by Leo Leibovitz over at Commentary Magazine, titled The Return of Paganism, on exactly this topic.
00:51:50.000He says, how to make sense of statements in which people say that they are men who have vaginas.
00:51:58.000He says, appealing to reason hardly helps.
00:52:01.000Instead, anyone wishing to find his way through the thicket of American public discourse these days should start by embracing one simple and terrifying idea.
00:52:09.000Everywhere you turn these days, pagans are afoot, busily hacking away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of American life and replacing them with a cosmology that would have been absolutely coherent to followers of, say, Baltumna, the Etruscan earth god, or to those who worship the Celt tribal protector Teutatus.
00:52:24.000If you think the above paragraphs a little overblown, consider the numbers.
00:52:27.000In 1990, scholars from Trinity College set out to learn just how many of their fellow Americans practice some form of pagan religion.
00:52:33.000The numbers were unsurprisingly small, about 8,000 or enough to pack your average journey reunion concert.
00:52:38.000But the researchers asked again in 2008.
00:52:41.000This time, 340,000 Americans said yes to paganism.
00:52:45.000A decade later, the Pew survey posed the same question.
00:52:47.000There are now 1.5 million Americans professing an array of pagan persuasions from Wicca to Viking lore.
00:52:54.000So this is now one of the fastest growing religious persuasions in the country.
00:52:58.000It turns out that paganism has also now been embedded into a huge variety of the ways that we live today.
00:53:06.000And that means that people are likely to start worshipping at the altar of untruth.
00:53:11.000See, the key to paganism is to understand that what pagans believed is that we lived in a chaotic and violent universe in which everything was nearly un-understandable.
00:53:18.000And because of that, you tried to propitiate the gods with various aspects of sacrifice, human and non-human.
00:53:26.000And then monotheistic religion came around.
00:53:27.000They said there's one God who stands behind all of this.
00:53:31.000And we can't understand everything about him, but we can understand some things about him.
00:53:33.000And he has communed with human beings to the extent that he has given us a moral code to live by.
00:53:37.000And it presents traditional wisdom in a way that we can understand and act out.
00:53:42.000And as that poll from the Wall Street Journal shows, Once again, these tend to be the things that make human beings actually live fulfilled lives.
00:53:49.000But paganism has taken the place of all of that, and the result is really, really ugly.
00:53:54.000Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:54:07.000According to Local 10, officials in a Florida city have cancelled a gay pride parade and restricted other pride events to people 21 years and older, in anticipation of Governor Ron DeSantis signing a bill meant to keep children out of drag shows.
00:54:17.000The Pride Alliance for the Treasure Coast posted Wednesday on Facebook the decision to change this Saturday's Pridefest events was made, after multiple conversations with Port St.
00:54:40.000And the gay pride parade, instead of being like, okay, we'll fly our rainbow flags and we will celebrate gay marriage, they're like, nope, we're gonna pull the parade.
00:54:50.000But it seems like you're kind of, like, is that the pur- if the purpose of the Gay Pride Parade is the assless chaps and, uh, and the simulated sex act in front of kids, and so you have to cancel it to the extent that, like, a law that says you can't sexually indoctrinate kids affects the parade?
00:55:04.000What does that say about your parade, really?
00:55:06.000I mean, meanwhile, other things that I like.
00:55:09.000The trans movement, obviously, is going to have some radical ramifications for a lot of other things in American life.
00:55:14.000One of those things, obviously, is going to be the question of age.
00:55:16.000So, you'll recall that a few years back, a very, very famous exchange between me and a college student, in which this college student took the position that men can be women, women can be men, and I asked this college student her age.
00:55:29.000And she told me her age, she said she was 20 or something, 21, and I said, why aren't you 60?
00:55:36.000And this, of course, went viral, because I was saying, like, you can't change your age, and you can't change your sex.
00:56:11.000Age is significantly less important than gender.
00:56:14.000Well now, I guess we've hit the end of parody because now we have 60-year-old men identifying as 6-year-old girls.
00:56:20.000This is a clip that was going viral on the Twitters of a 60-year-old man in Great Britain claiming that he is in fact a 6-year-old girl.
00:56:25.000Now what's hilarious about this, and the reason why I put it in things I like rather than things I hate, is I think it does quite well expose the trans agenda.
00:56:31.000If this were a man claiming that he is in day 365 of girlhood, he would be getting all sorts of ad deals from Maybelline, and Tampax, and Bud Light, But since he claims that he's a 60-year-old man who's a six-year-old girl, it's the age that really is upsetting people.
00:56:46.000It's the age that's troubling, not the fact that this is a dude claiming that he is a female.
00:56:53.000Today is my first day of having my living room as my playroom.
00:57:01.000And my koto is here with me, but I didn't have any friends over for the playdate because it's COVID time.
00:57:10.000But I'm having fun with Makoto, my cat, and with Franny.
00:57:49.000Again, day 365 of girlhood means that you're getting calls from the President of the United States.
00:57:54.000So when is the Prime Minister of Britain, not Rishi Sunak, who actually has his head screwed down straight on this, maybe some of the former Prime Ministers, why don't they call up this guy and congratulate him on becoming a 6-year-old girl?
00:58:05.000I mean, the good news is that, according to the left, this means that he is basically immortal.
00:58:08.000Because he can just keep identifying as a younger and younger person.
00:58:30.000But, Jules Hoffman says that she is a they.
00:58:34.000According to Jules, the reason this is of relevance is because Jules Hoffman is one of the stars of a wildly popular YouTube channel for babies and toddlers called Songs for Littles.
00:58:45.000The host of this is apparently a person named Miss Rachel.
00:58:47.000Now, I've never watched this, nor did I expose my children to a woman who says that she is a they.
00:59:46.000And, um, that's, I'm sure, very exciting for your tiny child who doesn't understand what the hell is going on.
00:59:51.000And yes, distinctions matter to small children and to everyone else in life.
00:59:55.000But now we have an entire piece in the Washington Post saying that you must expose your child to this or you're a bad parent.
01:00:01.000Quote, Hoffman is one of the stars of Songs for Littles.
01:00:03.000Using their niece and nephews, which they refer to as nibblings, as inspiration, Hoffman belts out tunes on Pizza, Dinosaurs, and the Hokey Pokey.
01:00:10.000The channel's most popular video has been viewed more than 290 million times.
01:00:14.000But the channel has come under fire recently after some parents took issue with Hoffman's identity, asserting falsely the show introduced the concept of they-them pronouns to their young audience.
01:00:22.000A video on TikTok criticizing the show has been viewed more than 400,000 times.
01:00:26.000Hoffman said the backlash was a surprise and sent them on a rollercoaster of emotion as they waded through hundreds of TikToks and commenters, some critical and others supportive.
01:00:36.000Apparently, the show's star, Rachel Griffin-Acurso, educator and songwriter, announced she was taking a break from social media to address her own mental health after the fallout.
01:00:44.000Hurtful videos and comments, no matter how much attention they get, will not bring you what you want.
01:00:55.000You should be screening pretty much everything your kid watches.
01:00:57.000The fact that there are people who wish to present themselves to your child in a guise that is deliberately confusing to your child, the fact that that exists means that you just have to police it harder.
01:01:06.000And parents who refuse to police this material for their kids should not be surprised when their kids become very confused about these things because they are inherently confusing.
01:01:23.000We'll be getting into the director of Queen Cleopatra, who is very upset that people are bothered by the idea of Black Cleopatra, because Cleopatra was, you know, like, Greek.
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