Ron DeSantis announces his campaign for the presidency, and the reaction in the media and on social media is... interesting... and... not. Also, Elon Musk is launching his own campaign, and it's going to be a weird one... and we're talking about it on this episode of HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHO CARES! Subscribe to our new podcast, CRITIQUE, where we break down the biggest stories in politics, pop culture, and pop culture. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code POWER10 for 10% off your first pack! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcasting friends! Timestamps: 1:00 - What's going on with Trump and the 2020 Republican primary race? 4:30 - Is this a two-man race or a three-horse race 6:00 What's the best thing going on in the 2020 primary 7:30 Is this really a two man race ? 8:15 - Is Deantis running for president a serious contender 9:00 | Who's the most likely to beat Trump in 2020 11:15 12:15 | What's next for Trump? 13:30 | What s going to happen in 2020? 14:00 Is this an opportunity for Deantis? 15: What s the best chance for Trump and Marco Rubio? 16:40 | Is this guy going to run against Deantisantis running against Trump in the other guy? 17: Is this the real deal? 18:00 Can Deantis a real chance? 19:00 Should Trump have a shot at winning in 2020 at the 2020 election? 21:00 Does this guy have a chance to win in 2020 or is this guy really have a serious chance at a chance at the nomination? 22:10 | Is he really a serious shot at it? 26:40 27:40 - Is he running for the real chance of winning the nomination in 2020?? 25:00 Do you like it or not? 29:10 32:00 Who s running for President? 35: Does he have the chance to run for the White House? 36:00 What s he really have an actual chance of a chance?
00:00:12.000He is ranked second to Donald Trump in virtually all the polls.
00:00:15.000In the national polling, Trump has a very solid lead over DeSantis.
00:00:18.000In the state polling, things are a little bit more dicey.
00:00:20.000For Donald Trump, this race has not yet begun.
00:00:22.000For people who are suggesting the race is preliminarily over, let me remind everybody that back in 2008, the two nominees for the Republican and the Democratic Party respectively at this point in the race were supposed to be Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton.
00:00:36.000Obviously, Trump has the upper hand going in considering that he's the former president of the United States of the hammerlock on 25 to 30 percent of the Republican base.
00:00:43.000But that does not mean that he is not a vulnerable incumbent candidate.
00:00:46.000He is a candidate who lost in 2020 and 2021 and 2022.
00:00:51.000He is a person who's going to have to run at Ron DeSantis from the left, not from the right.
00:00:56.000he really has never faced a candidate quite as determined and I think methodical as DeSantis in a Republican primary.
00:01:05.000In the last Republican primary in 2016, of course, all the other Republicans bumper card each other,
00:01:10.000leaving a wide open lane for Donald Trump to run straight up the middle.
00:01:13.000Rubio and Cruz, they went after each other.
00:01:15.000Chris Christie performed a political murder suicide during a New Hampshire primary debate with Marco Rubio.
00:01:21.000You had a bunch of candidates who kind of stayed in too long, splitting the vote a bunch of different ways.
00:01:24.000and Trump was able to run right up the middle in that race.
00:01:27.000This race appears that it's going to break down probably into a two-man race at this point, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance between DeSantis and Trump.
00:01:35.000That is a very clear alternative if you are somebody who believes in sort of conservative governance and solid ability to actually Get your agenda through.
00:01:44.000Then DeSantis is your guy for looking for colorful.
00:01:46.000If you're looking for provocative, then Donald Trump is probably your guy, right?
00:01:50.000Those are sort of how the factors break down here.
00:01:53.000There's a lot of personal loyalty, obviously, for a lot of Republicans for Trump because they think that he was a good president.
00:01:57.000I think that the first three years of his presidency were quite good as well.
00:02:00.000I think the last year was kind of a disaster area with his handling of COVID and the riots.
00:02:04.000But with all of that said, This is essentially a two-person race.
00:02:07.000Now, the way that Ron DeSantis is about to launch his campaign is quite fascinating.
00:02:12.000And you can see everybody who's upset about it.
00:02:15.000People in the media are upset about it.
00:02:16.000Trump's team, obviously, upset about it.
00:02:18.000Because he's doing something different and, frankly, somewhat creative.
00:02:21.000There's an attempt to pigeonhole DeSantis as, quote-unquote, too online, which is a weird rip on somebody who won a swing state by 20 points in the last gubernatorial election cycle and somebody who bucked all the conventional wisdom with regard to COVID and somehow emerged stronger for all of that.
00:02:36.000The way that DeSantis is launching his campaign is not with a traditional rally in the manner of Tim Scott or Nikki Haley or something.
00:02:42.000The way that he is launching his campaign is not with a campaign video like Joe Biden from his basement.
00:02:47.000Instead, Ron DeSantis is going to announce his campaign for the presidency on Twitter.
00:02:52.000Now, there are a lot of people who are freaking out about this in the media because, frankly, it is a full-scale rejection of legacy media.
00:02:57.000One thing DeSantis is doing here that no other Republican really has done is he's just ignoring the legacy media.
00:03:03.000So Donald Trump actually had a lot of interactions, if you recall, back in 2016 with the legacy media.
00:03:07.000He was very friendly with Joe and Mika over on MSNBC.
00:03:10.000He would appear on pretty much any show.
00:03:11.000He was going everywhere and he got a ton of earned media from that.
00:03:14.000DeSantis Who knows that he's being targeted by the legacy media.
00:03:18.000He just doesn't do interviews with them because he knows that they are going to ask him ridiculous questions or edit him out of context.
00:03:24.000And so instead, what he has done is interviews with media who are not going to ask him ridiculous questions.
00:03:28.000And then he will answer questions from legacy media members during press conferences.
00:03:32.000And he tends to face plant a lot of these reporters during the press conferences because, again, it's live and they can't actually edit it.
00:04:53.000Now, of course, Trump's team is immediately claiming that this is a way for him to avoid people, but that's a strange thing, because how is it avoiding people?
00:05:02.000If you did a rally, it's not as though when you do a rally you're actually interacting with tons of people.
00:05:53.000They're terrible at their jobs, they lie for a habit, and there is no reason why you should give them ratings and you should give them the credibility of pretending that they actually are not biased intermediaries in the middle of this campaign.
00:06:06.000A formal campaign kickoff event will likely take place sometime after this week's gathering of top donors and bundlers.
00:06:10.000No details have yet been shared by the campaign.
00:06:14.000Now, again, doing it on Twitter is an active slap at the media.
00:06:17.000It's something that really is good for Elon Musk's Twitter.
00:06:25.000Again, we here at Daily Wire fully realize the potential that exists in the new Twitter under Elon Musk, which is why all of our shows, all of those things are going to be available on Twitter because it's a free speech medium that is not going to shut us down the way that, say, YouTube shut down Matt Walsh.
00:06:40.000And so Twitter is going to be a new place that threatens the media, threatens a lot of the old guard, even tech media.
00:06:47.000And DeSantis is jumping right in the middle of that.
00:06:49.000I think it's actually quite a smart move, because if he did it in sort of traditional fashion, the rip would be he's doing a traditional rally.
00:09:00.000Or Vanity Fair, which put out a report titled, quote, Report, Ron DeSantis will formally announce his 2024 bid with Elon Musk because apparently David Duke wasn't available.
00:09:09.000That's an actual headline from Vanity Fair.
00:09:10.000Again, the idea is that if you're in favor of free speech and you wish to let a thousand flowers bloom with regard to free speech, then you are akin to David Duke.
00:09:18.000Famously a pro-free speech person, David Duke.
00:09:20.000So the media are fighting mad about this.
00:09:22.000Even Fox & Friends is laughing about this.
00:09:23.000And I understand why Fox & Friends would.
00:09:25.000Again, Fox & Friends is a network media outlet, right?
00:09:57.000We've heard that they want to do some streaming and some podcasts and that kind of thing.
00:10:01.000I think it's fascinating that they're using social media as a way to announce a presidency.
00:10:08.000Okay, honestly, people on Fox & Friends, and we don't know what Twitter Space is on, is of little relevance to the fact that the number of eyeballs that DeSantis is going to... I mean, it's not like Fox & Friends isn't going to cover DeSantis' announcement on Twitter Spaces.
00:11:55.000Right or wrong, Democrats have the perception that Donald Trump is easier to run against.
00:12:00.000Which is why, presumably, they're all going after Ron DeSantis, tooth and nail.
00:12:03.000I haven't seen them going after Nikki Haley this way.
00:12:05.000They're not going after Tim Scott this way.
00:12:07.000They're only going after one candidate in the Republican primaries this way, and it is not Donald Trump!
00:12:11.000Donald Trump, they already have their rip on, but you're starting to see a strange new respect emerge for Donald Trump from some of the weirdest people in the online space.
00:12:20.000So, for example, Bill Kristol, who hates Donald Trump, left the Republican Party, basically became a Democrat over all of this.
00:12:24.000Bill Kristol, he put out a statement today, quote, I tend perhaps foolishly to discount the alpha beta male stuff, but DeSantis was always on Fox when Rupert was for him.
00:12:33.000Now he announces on Twitter when Elon's for him.
00:12:46.000Nina Turner, who is a left-wing activist at Race Power Policy, and she is on The Young Turks as well, she tweeted out, Ron DeSantis couldn't beat Donald Duck.
00:12:57.000How the hell does he think he's gonna fare against Donald Trump?
00:12:58.000Again, the level of left-wing hatred for DeSantis is actually stronger in some ways than the hatred for Trump.
00:13:10.000Obviously they hate both Republicans, but they would like to see Donald Trump actually... I think there are a lot of Democrats who would like to see him actually plot.
00:13:18.000But, in terms of who they'd like to see win the nomination, I don't think there's any question about this, which is why Hillary Clinton yesterday was targeting Ron DeSantis.
00:13:24.000So Hillary put out a ridiculous tweet yesterday, as is her want, So first of all, this is like the perfect Hillary Clinton tweet.
00:13:31.000Let me just point out that her coalition is extraordinarily rich corporations and people of color and gay people.
00:13:36.000Hillary Clinton tweet. Let me just point out that her coalition is extraordinarily
00:13:40.000rich corporations and people of color and gay people. That is her... those are...
00:13:45.000it's a weird coalition, I will grant you that. But this is Hillary Clinton going
00:13:50.000after DeSantis, suggesting that Florida isn't safe for people of color.
00:13:53.000I mean, first of all, can we just point out that Florida is largely people of color?
00:13:57.000Florida is actually 52.7% white alone.
00:13:59.000Okay, so just barely a majority white, 26.8% Hispanic or Latino, and 17% black.
00:14:20.000This notion that Florida is like an overwhelmingly white rural state is absurd.
00:14:25.000And Ron DeSantis has won all those places, but that's what Hillary Clinton is angry about.
00:14:28.000Meanwhile, Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's White House press secretary, she's doing the same thing, attacking DeSantis over this bizarre and stupid NAACP travel warning.
00:14:36.000The NAACP put out some statements suggesting that it was unsafe for black people to travel to Florida, which is weird since literally every spring break, Miami Beach is filled with black Americans who are traveling to Florida to party it up.
00:14:48.000What do you say to what the NAACP has done?
00:14:51.000I mean, they're following behind other groups, be it groups on race or LGBTQ+, but they're making a bold statement.
00:14:59.000So, I'm not going to comment on travel advisories specifically, but I'll say this more broadly, and where we have been as an administration, as a White House, we've been outspoken about the impact of misguided policies advanced by Florida lawmakers.
00:15:16.000Republicans in Florida have attacked diversity, they've attacked inclusion efforts, they've limited the teaching of black history, and they've launched attacks on the LGBT youth.
00:15:32.000But you can see their hatred for DeSantis because, again, they don't want DeSantis to get the nomination.
00:15:37.000They hate Trump more, but they're also less afraid of Trump.
00:15:39.000Both of those things can be true simultaneously.
00:15:42.000Again, just one second, we'll get to the Trump team's response to all of this.
00:15:45.000First, let's talk about the fact that right now, the U.S.
00:15:49.000dollar, it's solid compared to a lot of other places, but there is a reason the price of gold has been going up lately.
00:15:54.000And the reason for that is because we are watching as global inflation has kicked in over the course of the last couple of years.
00:15:59.000Gold is, in fact, your safe haven against financial uncertainty, inflation.
00:16:05.000When you have central banks that are basically Ramping up and ramping down the value of the dollar at any point, you need to have some form of diversification.
00:16:55.000I should point out here that there is a preview video that was put up by Casey DeSantis, who is a real asset to DeSantis' campaign.
00:17:03.000The media have been going after Casey in a way that they really have not gone after a political wife.
00:17:06.000Remember, the rules in the media are that if you say that Dr. Jill Biden is not, in fact, a doctor because she can't help anyone with a heart attack, she's a doctorate of education, which is ridiculous.
00:18:25.000And then he put out another couple of statements via Truth Social.
00:18:28.000Now, again, what's kind of amazing about this is that Trump has relegated himself to Truth Social, even though Musk readmitted him to Twitter.
00:18:34.000So originally, he was kicked off of Twitter, which was unconscionable and ridiculous.
00:18:39.000Now, Trump, he could have been back on Twitter, but he started this Truth Social business, and so he is putting his own business interests at Truth Social ahead of his political interests.
00:18:48.000The man has 87 million followers on Twitter.
00:18:50.000Why he's not back on Twitter is absolutely beyond me in the middle of a presidential campaign.
00:18:54.000But he put out a couple of statements, quote, look, Rob DeSanctimonious, Rob, Rob DeSanctimonious came to me asking for help.
00:19:01.000He was losing badly by 31 points to popular agricultural commissioner, Adam Putnam, who's getting ready to drop out of the race, ran a terrible campaign.
00:19:09.000Ron told me he had one last chance, my support and endorsement, which Putnam and everyone else wanted also.
00:19:14.000I gave it to Ron and the race was over.
00:19:16.000In one day, he went from losing badly to winning by a lot.
00:19:18.000With three large Trump rallies, he won the general in an upset.
00:19:23.000Are you going to vote for a Republican candidate for president based on loyalty to Trump?
00:19:26.000If so, you have only one candidate to vote for.
00:19:28.000There's only one person who's loyal to Trump.
00:19:30.000To the extent that Trump wants that loyalty, and that is Donald Trump.
00:19:33.000Donald Trump is not loyal to anyone else around him.
00:19:34.000All those people are losers and haters, but Donald Trump is very loyal to Donald Trump.
00:19:38.000So if you want somebody who's super loyal to Trump, I recommend you vote for Trump.
00:19:41.000If, however, you would like a candidate who is not going to be judged based on a loyalty test to Donald Trump, You might want to look elsewhere.
00:19:49.000Trump also put out a statement running directly at DeSantis from the left.
00:19:53.000So in two separate truths, he calls him Rob DeSanctimonious and Ron DeSanctus, which I don't even know what that means.
00:20:00.000He said he can't win the general election or even get the nomination because he voted to obliterate Social Security, even wanting to raise the minimum age to 70 or more, voted to badly wound Medicare and fought hard and voted for a 23% tax on everything sales tax.
00:20:11.000As opposed to, by the way, like that would be a one.
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00:21:54.000Okay, so, again, Trump's response is basically that DeSantis is disloyal and too right-wing, which is not a great Republican primary campaign.
00:22:02.000Listen, the reason that people love Trump is because they love Trump.
00:22:04.000But is that a great campaign against DeSantis?
00:22:08.000They're also trying to claim, of course, that he's launching on Twitter because he has no personality.
00:22:12.000Again, if this is about personality and what is toxic in a general election, it is hard to think of a candidate who has been more toxic in a general election than Donald Trump, who drove a dead man, Joe Biden, to 81 million votes.
00:22:24.000Whenever people ask me, you know, you say that Trump lost the 2020 election.
00:22:34.000The answer is that Donald Trump gets out to vote for his side, and he really, really, really gets out to vote for the other side.
00:22:40.000The other side, again, they don't fear him as much in this election, because they think he'll lose, as they do DeSantis, but they certainly hate him the most of any human being on earth.
00:22:48.000As I said before, like, many of them would be very happy for him to just keel over tomorrow.
00:22:53.000But it is interesting to watch some of the responses from Team Trump.
00:22:57.000So they trotted out Carrie Lake, who desperately, desperately wants to be Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate should he win the nomination.
00:23:03.000So after losing a race to a wet dishrag in Katie Hobbs, I mean, honestly, Katie Hobbs is not, I would call her AI, but she's not even AI.
00:23:40.000But it's hard to make that case when you're the person who lost to Katie Hobbs.
00:23:45.000When you pick a fight with Disney, you need to play to win.
00:23:49.000And so far, Governor DeSantis has been outworked and outmaneuvered by Disney.
00:23:53.000As far as I know, Reedy Creek still exists.
00:23:56.000They're still hosting trans events at their park.
00:23:59.000This indoctrination is continuing, and they're actually rubbing it in the faces of American families.
00:24:04.000You know, if you can't beat Donald Duck, how are you going to beat Donald Trump?
00:24:10.000I think that's the question we have to ask when it comes to Governor DeSantis.
00:24:15.000I have to point out here that Carrie Lake has issued no plan for actually stopping Disney from doing these things, and Donald Trump has taken the side of Disney in the battle with Ron DeSantis.
00:24:25.000Now again, none of this is to suggest that DeSantis is the frontrunner.
00:24:29.000It is to suggest that when all the guns from all sides seem to be trained on one of the candidates, perhaps you should ask yourself why.
00:24:34.000Why is it that all the Republican candidates in the race so far have attacked DeSantis and very few of them have attacked Trump in any serious way?
00:24:39.000Why is it that Trump is not attacking any of the other Republican candidates, but he's training all of his fire on Ron DeSantis?
00:24:45.000Why is it that the legacy media, who have expressed their hatred for Trump to the extent that they say that he is a fascist threat to the United States, that the only difference between Trump and Hitler is the mustache?
00:25:01.000Could it be because they actually fear him getting the nomination?
00:25:04.000Again, that's not a guarantee he'd win the general, but certainly the media think he has a better shot of winning the general.
00:25:08.000Donald Trump thinks that DeSantis is his greatest threat.
00:25:10.000Not Mike Pence, not Nikki Haley, not Vivek, not Tim Scott, none of them.
00:25:15.000When everybody is lining up against one guy, and it's not Trump, and you have to start asking yourself why that could be.
00:25:21.000By the way, the media have an ulterior motive here as well, which is Donald Trump means ratings.
00:25:25.000In the same way that the NBA was really rooting hard for a Celtics-Lakers final, and they're going to be very disappointed that it's Miami Heat-Denver Nuggets, in the same way, the media are rooting super hard for Donald Trump to win the nomination because that dude means ratings.
00:25:37.000Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, is a disciplined politician who won't give them the time of day.
00:25:42.000Literally will not do interviews with them.
00:25:44.000So of course they're rooting for Donald Trump in this particular race.
00:25:48.000OK, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to.
00:25:51.000Just be clown himself on a regular basis.
00:25:54.000So I noticed last night about two o'clock in the morning.
00:25:56.000So for those of you who have very small babies, I have a very small baby.
00:26:01.000And when you change a male baby's diaper, very often they tend to pee on themselves.
00:26:05.000And at that point, while this was happening, I have to admit, I thought of Joe Biden because that is an 80 year old man who pees himself on the regular.
00:26:14.000And he has done so spectacularly in this debt ceiling fight.
00:26:29.000could be unable to pay all of its bills as soon as June 1st if Biden and congressional Republicans can't reach a deal, and every path forward carries political risks for Biden.
00:26:36.000A government default could tip the economy into recession and potentially unleash global financial chaos in the middle of a reelect.
00:26:41.000Untried methods to pay the nation's bill without Congress could also carry economic costs and could require Biden to make painful political choices about who gets paid first.
00:26:49.000Holding spending talks with Republicans over the issue is courting backlash from progressive lawmakers.
00:27:00.000And so he started off this entire process about negotiation over the debt ceiling by saying that he would not negotiate over the debt ceiling.
00:27:24.000He started off with the position, I'm not even going to negotiate on the debt ceiling, which meant when McCarthy passed a bill, it said, sure, we just raised the debt ceiling.
00:27:30.000All you have to do is go back to 2022 spending levels.
00:27:33.000He looks like a moderate and Biden looks like a nutcase because guess what?
00:27:36.000That's a nutty position for you to say you're not going to negotiate with a co-equal branch of government over budgetary issues is totally crazy.
00:27:43.000And that is what Biden led off with because he got out over his skis.
00:27:47.000They tend to feel the wind in their sails and then they get a little bit too confident about their agenda items.
00:27:53.000And then reality slaps them in the face.
00:27:54.000That's exactly what's happening with Biden here.
00:27:56.000Remember, that was the exact same time that Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, was saying that the GOP had to raise the debt ceiling without preconditions.
00:28:04.000There would be no negotiations, no preconditions.
00:28:07.000We should not have House Republicans manufacturing a crisis on something that has been done 78 times since 1960.
00:28:17.000That's what the president's going to make very clear with the leaders tomorrow.
00:28:22.000Congress must avoid default without conditions, without conditions, as they did three times before in the last administration.
00:28:30.000Democrats joined Republicans, put their politics aside, Democrats did, and made sure that that occurred, that happened.
00:28:38.000Well, as it turns out, they were lying, because now they've been negotiating with McCarthy, because it turns out that McCarthy actually did pass a bill already to raise the debt ceiling, and they don't know how to deal with it.
00:28:47.000So Corinne Jean-Pierre, again, world's most untalented press secretary, she says, oh yeah, actually, we were always clear that we were negotiating.
00:28:53.000Well, that's weird, because I noticed that you weren't.
00:28:56.000I noticed that it was one month ago when you were saying you would not negotiate over the debt ceiling, and now you are saying that you've been absolutely clear that you're negotiating.
00:30:54.000I don't have any meetings or calls to announce, but obviously the staff is going to continue to have this conversation.
00:31:00.000They just wrapped up a conversation moments ago, and the President will speak to the Speaker when it's necessary.
00:31:07.000I just don't have anything to share at this time.
00:31:10.000Okay, now, the reason that they've had to flip is because it turns out that the polling shows that people hate their position on this.
00:31:15.000See, the art of politics is to make it very, very hard to vote for your opponent and very easy to vote for you, which means taking 80-20 positions.
00:31:21.000Taking 80-20 positions is really, really helpful.
00:31:27.000Democrats have fringed themselves out on a wide variety of issues, which is why you see the media attempting to spin away from their own positions on the issues.
00:31:34.000We'll get to the polling on the debt ceiling debate in just one second.
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00:33:24.000So again, the vast majority of Americans want the debt ceiling increased.
00:33:27.000But again, the vast majority of Americans believe that it's imperative that we start cutting our spending.
00:33:32.000And so Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place because Joe Biden made it clear he was not going to negotiate over cutting and spending.
00:33:46.000He is spending record amounts of money.
00:33:48.000If by reducing the deficit, he means that he spent less money than he did last year while still running up the deficit, that's true, but that's only because 2021 and 2022 and 2020 were the biggest spending years in American history.
00:34:00.000So that means that in 2022, he spent slightly less than in 2021 and still made it one of the biggest spending years in American history.
00:35:23.000Joe Biden's been outplayed by McCarthy.
00:35:24.000I know this is an unthinkable outcome for the media and for some people on the right who are suggesting that we should just let the ceiling be hit and let's let the whole thing melt down.
00:35:41.000Pramila Jayapal of the left, she's like, there's going to be backlash in the streets against Joe Biden if he actually cuts the spending.
00:35:48.000I think there would be a huge backlash from our entire House Democratic, you know, caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets.
00:35:56.000You know, I mean, I think that this is it's important that we don't take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over the last two years.
00:36:17.000When Kevin McCarthy sounds like the rational and reasonable one that Democrats are losing.
00:36:22.000Challenges on certain points that we have differences in.
00:36:26.000But I believe we can find the common ground there.
00:36:28.000Does the White House understand that you need 72 hours?
00:36:34.000Yes, I've been very clear from day one.
00:36:38.000Okay, so again, he sounds like the moderate.
00:36:40.000Meanwhile, Democrats are going off their rockers by declaring that maybe Joe Biden will just invoke the 14th Amendment and unilaterally increase the debt ceiling.
00:36:46.000James Clyburn, who was Biden's early backer in South Carolina, who boosted him to the nomination, he says that that's what they should do.
00:36:53.000They should just use the 14th Amendment, which is clearly not meant to increase the debt ceiling to increase the debt ceiling.
00:36:58.000Do you think that it took too long for the White House to reach out to the Speaker and start at least that negotiation sooner?
00:37:06.000And I'm just thinking, what is it going to take for Democrats and Republicans in the House to try and get something?
00:37:13.000Well, I don't know how long it's going to take, but I think that we all recognize that Janet Yellen made it very clear to us that something needs to be done by June 1st, and I think it will get done.
00:37:25.000The President has made it very clear that he would like to have a bipartisan resolution of this.
00:37:32.000He says that, knowing full well as I do, that the 14th Amendment is still there, and as President of the United States, he has some authority to use it, but he would rather not.
00:37:44.000He would rather have a bipartisan resolution as it has always been.
00:37:51.000Okay, so the 14th Amendment is what's going to happen here.
00:37:53.000Again, Biden's played himself, he's going to end up making a deal, and then the Democrats are going to rip him up for it, and he well deserves it.
00:37:58.000Meanwhile, speaking of 60-40 issues, it is amazing to watch as the media and Democrats rush to defend woke corporations pushing some of the most egregious garbage on children I have ever seen.
00:38:08.000So target is the corporation of the day.
00:38:12.000Now, as we approach the holy month of pride, June, as this happens, we see more and more corporations coming out of the woodwork to demonstrate their fealty to the great religion of our republic.
00:39:12.000But that doesn't mean it is not worth the boycott, because now they've been pushing,
00:39:16.000as we mentioned on the show, trans propaganda to children.
00:39:19.000They actually pushed a swimming suit that has tuck abilities, you know, for boys who want to pretend they're girls.
00:39:25.000They can shove their penis and balls back underneath them so they appear more like girls.
00:39:30.000And these are available for people of all ages and all sizes.
00:39:33.000Not specifically children, say the fact-checkers, but available for all genders and for people of various sizes and ages.
00:39:39.000And of course, Target had plastered their stores with a bunch of LGBTQ propaganda all the way down to, like, LGBTQ onesies for small babies because there's nothing that says tolerance and diversity quite like shoving an LGBTQ agenda down on a small baby.
00:39:55.000According to Fox News, some Southern Target stores were forced by the corporation to move LGBTQ Pride merchandise away from the front of their locations after customer outrage to avoid a Bud Light situation.
00:40:04.000Many Target locations across the country feature massive June Pride Month displays on an annual basis, with items this year ranging from tuck-friendly bathing suits for transgender people to mugs that say gender fluid.
00:40:14.000But the retail juggernaut has been criticized by some conservatives for the displays with children's items particularly irking many customers.
00:40:19.000Well, it shouldn't just be children's items.
00:40:21.000I'm not aware of any other ideological campaign that takes place on a yearly basis at these major corporations other than Black History Month that gets this kind of attention.
00:41:36.000They should be terrified of a Bud Light situation because they have made their bed and now they ought to lie in it.
00:41:41.000And again, this is not just Target that is promoting this garbage to kids.
00:41:46.000The Dodgers, as we pointed out, the Los Angeles Dodgers have now re-invited quote-unquote queer nuns.
00:41:51.000The ridiculous idiocies of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
00:41:55.000They call them life-saving, life-saving groups.
00:41:58.000Like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who every year hold events in which they have queer people dress up as Jesus and Mary and mock the Christian story and mock Catholicism.
00:42:12.000If you're a Christian, if you're a person who believes in Judeo-Christian values, you should not go to a Dodgers game based on their decisions to do this sort of stuff.
00:42:19.000We went very quickly from live and let live to you will celebrate this flag or you will be deemed a traitor to the state religion.
00:42:35.000By corporate America combined with the government, you will be forced to participate in the celebration of alternative sexual lifestyles that completely undermine the fundamental bases of Judeo-Christian morality and traditional society.
00:42:49.000Here is North Face promoting this kind of nonsense.
00:42:52.000Hi, it's me Patagonia, a real-life homosexual, and today I'm here with the North Face.
00:42:58.000We are here to invite you to come out in nature with us!
00:43:37.000They know that most Americans are not in favor of this stuff being shoved in the faces of children, that most Americans, you know, who still do go to church on a fairly regular basis, a huge number of Americans still go to church.
00:43:47.000They're not real fond of like these sisters of perpetual indulgence, but they're going to push this crap anyway.
00:44:00.000Alright, so it turns out that most Americans are not in favor of transing the kids or pushing pride progress flags in kindergarten classrooms or any of the rest of this sort of nonsense.
00:44:07.000And despite the best efforts of the media to pretend otherwise, that is just the simple fact.
00:44:11.000Every time they tried to claim that the quote-unquote don't say gay law in Florida, which by the way, people say gay all the time here in Florida.
00:44:32.000That actually is a really popular proposition across the country.
00:44:35.000Parents don't want that garbage being taught to their kids.
00:44:38.000If they want to teach their kids that stuff themselves, that is their problem.
00:44:40.000But this notion that you are obligated to turn your kid over to a state employee to be taught the state religion of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign is absurd.
00:44:51.000So the left has to come up with what they think are 60-40 propositions the other way in order to run against the conservatives, right?
00:44:58.000If conservatives are now winning when it comes to the economy, which they are, if they're winning on social issues, Which they largely are.
00:45:03.000Well then, Democrats have to come up with some response.
00:45:06.000So, they have some 60-40 issues they think they're gonna win.
00:45:17.000Most Americans are not into those sorts of abortion bans.
00:45:20.000And nationally speaking, that may well be correct.
00:45:22.000Nationally speaking, most Americans are somewhere between 10 and 12 weeks.
00:45:25.000And where do they think abortion should be banned?
00:45:26.000But that's very... That may be true nationally, it's not state-specific.
00:45:30.000So they can exploit the gap between how people feel in Florida and how people feel nationally in order to go after people like Ron DeSantis or Brian Kemp in Georgia, for example, or Mike DeWine in Ohio.
00:45:40.000However, when it comes to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign agenda, they run into some real issues.
00:45:47.000Because as it turns out, people are not real fond of an agenda that suggests that all sexual behavior is morally equivalent, or that we have built ourselves a freer and better society when 21% of all young people are now identifying as members of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pride progress flag minority.
00:46:18.000And the latest lie that's being promoted by the mainstream media, the legacy media, is this lie that in Florida, Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb is now restricted to, is now being banned in schools.
00:47:04.000Her poetry, it may be bad, but at the very least, it's not for kids in 3rd grade.
00:47:09.000The notions that she pushes in her poetry about systemic racism and white privilege and all this kind of stuff, not appropriate for 3rd graders.
00:47:17.000Maybe appropriate for middle schoolers, right?
00:47:19.000If you read her poetry, it's not even reading level for 3rd graders.
00:47:25.000If you say that, if you say, we're not banning the book, we're just saying it's only appropriate for kids who are in like 5th, 6th, 7th grade.
00:47:55.000Times says Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem is the latest in book bans.
00:47:59.000The Guardian says Amanda Gorman gutted after Florida school bans Biden inauguration month.
00:48:03.000So one school, someplace in Florida, moved the hill we climb, not even out of classes, out of an elementary library at a Miami-Dade school.
00:48:13.000And this is an international news story.
00:48:14.000It's covered by the BBC, USA Today, NBC News, Axios.
00:48:30.000According to one of the parents, she claimed that the Hill We Climb and a few other books contained references to critical race theory, gender ideology, indirect hate messages, and indoctrination, especially of socialism.
00:48:43.000And the school agreed to restrict the title to middle school students.
00:49:01.000Or maybe they're going to focus in on the notion that Texas is going to reinstate its evil practice of displaying the Ten Commandments publicly.
00:49:20.000What we must have, however, is Black Lives Matter flags and Pride Progress flags.
00:49:24.000Because again, the state religion of the United States is America systemically racist and screwing whoever you please is a fundamental human value that is of equal moral Equal moral merit.
00:49:37.000That's what America stands for, after all.
00:49:42.000But it's not establishment of religion to put forward this pagan religion and force it down the throats of every school kid in America.
00:49:48.000So according to the Washington Post, quote, Texas lawmakers had been scheduled to vote Tuesday on
00:49:51.000whether to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom in the state,
00:49:54.000part of a newly energized national effort to insert religion into public life.
00:49:57.000Again, this is one of the great lies that the left purveys.
00:50:01.000The lie is, number one, that you are forcing religion when you display any text that has the word God in it in a classroom, but you are not promoting any religious or civilizational point of view when you promote wild left secularism that argues that boys can be girls and girls can be boys in those pagan fashions.
00:50:19.000One value system is going to have to triumph, and one value system is going to have to lose.
00:50:21.000There is no neutrality in this particular battle.
00:50:24.000As we have seen, we've tried to do neutral.
00:50:34.000And by claiming that neutrality, the left has basically suggested that you're a religious bigot if you object.
00:50:38.000Well, again, they're trying to play this as a 60-40 game, that if you want to put 10 commandments in the classroom, 60% of Americans don't support it.
00:50:43.000But here is the... That may well be true.
00:51:42.000It was suspected that a mother had shot her kids, and then her parents, and then herself, and then it turns out that the person convicted for it was actually not the mom.
00:52:12.000Now, I'm not sure exactly why they think that it's harming children and adolescents, considering that the chief messages being purveyed on social media are left-wing messages about sexual fluidity, about promiscuity, about doing that which is taboo, about the centrality of progressive identity.
00:52:28.000That's kind of the stuff that gets pushed on social media that's really damaging to kids.
00:52:31.000And ain't kids studying the Bible on social media that's damaging to kids?
00:52:34.000In other words, what social media really does is it weaponizes the worst in human beings and then makes it go viral.
00:52:39.000And the worst in human beings tends to have very, very heavy overlap with social progressivism, with the transgressive nature of the social morality that the left likes to push.
00:52:47.000So it's interesting to watch the left come around to the message that social media is bad for kids.
00:52:50.000It is, but not because of the social media.
00:52:52.000It's because of the actual material contained in the social media.
00:52:55.000There's no question that social media has now incentivized some of the worst behavior in America.
00:53:00.000So, for example, Kellyanne Conway's teenage daughter, Claudia, has now launched a new career as a Playboy Bunny, creating racy content for the defunct magazine's website, according to the Daily Mail.
00:53:10.000The pretty blonde has been operating a subscription page on Playboy.com since the end of April, six months after she turned 18, and has so far uploaded 11 posts, most of which show her in a revealing selection of bikinis.
00:53:20.000For those who want to splash out, raunchier pictures like cleavage close-ups are available from as little as $5.
00:53:24.000The most expensive photo on offer costs $99.
00:53:26.000Now, Claudia, obviously, her home life has been kind of a mess, considering the fairly open battle between her parents, who are now getting divorced.
00:53:34.000But the fact is that this particular young woman has been in the social media limelight since she was like 16 years old, featured by the media as somebody who is siding with dad against mom, who thinks that Donald Trump is really, really bad.
00:53:45.000And that leads you down some pretty perverse pathways.
00:53:48.000This does not seem like the Pathway toward fulfilling life is probably not posing provocatively for playboy.com.
00:53:54.000This is not actually an aspect of women's empowerment.
00:53:56.000I always find it highly amusing and ironic when women who claim that they should be valued for more than their body believe that it is also feminism to show as much of their body as humanly possible in order so that men will pay them for it.
00:54:08.000Prostitution is the highest form of feminism, is a very weird thing, which is why feminists tend to cross, like real feminists, tend to cross streams with evangelical Christians and religious Jews on the idea that women are more than their body parts.
00:54:20.000But this is what social media tends to do.
00:54:23.000Social media also tends to incentivize some of the worst behavior imaginable.
00:54:27.000So there is a live streamer who has gone viral in Great Britain.
00:54:32.000For doing some of the worst things humanly possible.
00:54:34.000And this person was basically just sort of walking around and performing crimes until people noticed.
00:54:43.000And then claimed that he was being targeted because everybody was racist to him.
00:54:48.000This person's name is apparently Mizzy, is what he called himself.
00:54:52.000He is a teenager named Bakari Bronze Ogaro 18, known on TikTok as Mizzy.
00:54:57.000And he has now been charged with failing to comply with the community protection notice.
00:55:00.000But that's after months of performing criminal activity randomly on the internet.
00:55:05.000So, for example, here he was walking into a library and just ripping up books.
00:55:11.000Excuse me, what can I, um, get a book here?
00:55:19.000Walking into the library and just ripping the pages out of books.
00:57:36.000Now again, the reason I point this out is because this sort of stuff is replete on social media.
00:57:39.000Social media is just a viral system for making the sins of mankind more and more popular.
00:57:44.000And the sins of mankind all tend to fit a particular pattern.
00:57:47.000That is the part that I find rather puzzling about Vivek Murthy's I totally agree with him, but that's because I think that the value system being promoted by social media is garbage.
00:57:57.000I want an explanation for why the progressive left thinks the value system being promoted by social media is garbage.
00:58:01.000I need that explanation because again, it ain't TikTok teaching math in China that is a problem for kids.
00:58:05.000It ain't TikTok teaching kids Bible that is a problem for kids.
00:58:08.000It is a particular type of activity that is a problem for kids.
00:58:11.000Blaming social media for the underlying activity.