Fox News is celebrating Pride by encouraging employees to support a group that gives sterilizing hormones to homeless youth, and deploys woke troops to the streets to fight for the rights of LGBTQ youth, according to leaked documents obtained by a former Fox employee. The company is also encouraging its own employees to donate to the Trevor Project, a group dedicated to helping LGBTQ young people, but it also hosts a sexually explicit chat room that connects young adults as young as 13 years old with LGBT adults. The chat room is a place where Fox employees are encouraged to give to a group called GLAAD, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to LGBTQ youth. The group has a mission to help LGBTQ youth identify and transition from male to female and vice-versa. This group is run by conservative media giant Fox News, which has been a long-time ally of right-wing media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and The Weekly Standard, and many other conservative media outlets for decades. The network has long been a haven for conservative news and opinion, and has a deep-rooted presence on Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio, where conservative talk shows are broadcast across the country, including Fox's flagship station, Fox News. Today's guest is 14-year-old Ryland Whittington, who identifies as transgender and identifies as genderqueer, but is proud of his identity as a girl, despite being raised by a family with a conservative mother and father. . The Whittingtons, a transgender teen from Southern California, is also a proud member of the LGBTQ family, and is raising money to support the LGBTQ community through a program called "Trans Pride." and is doing so in support for LGBTQ youth in Los Angeles, California, and in support of transphobia and other transphobic programs, and so much more. Subscribe to our new show, "Transphobia in America." Subscribe today using our new podcast, Transphobia is the New York Times bestselling book, Transparent: The Story of a Transphobic Parenting Guide, out now on Amazon Prime Video, and much more! Subscribe on Podchaser and subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and other platforms? Connect with us on social media platforms like TikTok? We'll be giving you a chance to rate and review our podcast recommendations and subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast on the podcast, The Root is listening to us on the pod?
00:00:00.000Well, since I was a very young person, like an actual child, Fox News has been the place for conservatives to get their news from television, right?
00:00:06.000It was news with a conservative slant.
00:00:08.000It was the only place, had a monopoly on cable when it came to conservatism being represented because obviously MSNBC was to the far left, CNN was a left-wing organization as well.
00:00:18.000And so conservatives have relied and trusted Fox News for literally decades.
00:00:22.000Well now, I gotta say, when it comes to issues of pride, Fox News has been in a problematic state for a very long time, and it has all burst out into the foreground now thanks to Matt Walsh, our friend here at Daily Wire.
00:00:36.000He has now obtained internal documents from Fox News employees who leaked those documents to us because they were so upset at what Fox Corporate is doing.
00:00:43.000So Fox News is owned by Fox Corporation.
00:00:45.000Fox Corporation is, of course, a publicly traded company.
00:00:48.000And they've ingested all of the ESG DEI nonsense.
00:00:51.000All the rest of the publicly traded corporations apparently have ingested and they've crammed it down on their own employees.
00:00:57.000Now, people in the know have known this for a very long time.
00:01:00.000This is actually not something new at Fox.
00:01:02.000If you go all the way back You'll recall that at the same exact time that many members of the Fox staff were out there complaining about Joe Biden's vax mandates and COVID mandates and mask mandates, Fox corporate was actually cramming that stuff down on their own employees, while we here at DailyWare were not only refusing
00:01:19.000To enforce any sort of voluntary mandate on our own employees.
00:01:22.000We're actually suing the federal government to stop the federal government from implementing that on any employees.
00:01:27.000I mean, we literally spent millions of dollars to do that.
00:01:29.000Fox News is just going right along with the program.
00:01:31.000I mean, this is from the Associated Press back in 2021 pointing out.
00:01:35.000that Kevin Lord, Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Fox parent company,
00:01:39.000Fox Corporation, said in a memo the company would require all unvaccinated employees to
00:01:43.000be tested every day, not just once a week, in order to work in company facilities.
00:01:47.000That policy was first reported by CNN. Fox last month required its own employees to report
00:01:53.000evidence of their own status and 90% of full-time employees had been fully vaccinated over at Fox.
00:02:36.00014-year-old Ryland Whittington is a typical Southern California teenager.
00:02:42.000And the Whittingtons, along with mom Hillary, dad Jeff, and sister Brinley, are a typical family.
00:02:48.000The only difference, though, in Ryland's eyes, is what this family can mean to the tens of thousands of kids under 18 who identify as transgender.
00:02:58.000We put our story out there so people could see that there's another family out there that is going
00:03:06.000through what we're going through or there's another family who's proud of who they are.
00:03:09.000Before Ryland could even speak, he managed to tell his parents the key.
00:03:11.000This is not on MSNBC. This is not on CNN. This is on Fox News. It's all on Fox News in June of 2022.
00:03:18.000So all the indicators were there. Well, it turns out that behind the scenes, Fox News has been
00:03:22.000promoting to its own employees this stuff because Fox Corporation has been mandating this stuff to
00:03:27.000So Matt tweeted last night, we've obtained internal documents from Fox News employees.
00:03:31.000Fox Corporation is celebrating pride by encouraging employees to read about glory holes, supporting a group that gives sterilizing hormones to homeless youth, and deployed woke AI to monitor everyone.
00:03:43.000Those documents were then put on the employee portal for Fox News employees.
00:03:46.000So, for example, under the heading Support One Another, Fox encouraged employees to donate to the Trevor Project, the Ali Forney Center, and the LA LGBT Center.
00:03:55.000Fox says it was devoted to helping LGBTQ young people, but it hosts a sexually explicit chat room that connects children as young as 13 years old with LGBT adults.
00:04:03.000The Ali Forney Center, which again Fox praises for rescuing homeless LGBT youth, appears to admit, as Matt says on Twitter and its website, that it injects these homeless young people with cross-sex hormones, which are known to cause sterilization.
00:04:14.000And the LA LGBT Center, which Fox calls unstoppable, posted a video of a mother surprising her quote-unquote trans daughter with the child's first dose of hormones.
00:04:23.000YouTube ended up removing the footage for terms of service violation.
00:04:28.000That's only the beginning of the kind of material that Fox News employees are expected to be subjugated to by the Fox Corporation upper-level staff.
00:04:35.000And so the question is, why do the Fox News brass allow this?
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00:06:11.000When you take a look at the rest of the materials that Fox is presenting to its own employees, pretty egregious.
00:06:17.000Matt says employees are also encouraged to expand their perspective by reading books by trans activists, including a memoir titled, Fairest, about a precocious boy who would grow up to be a woman.
00:06:26.000The book contains information that's obviously important for Fox employees.
00:06:29.000For example, an early scene explains what a glory hole is.
00:06:33.000A glory hole for those who are not in the know on Urban Dictionary is a hole that is cut into bathroom stalls so people can have anonymous sex through the hole with one another.
00:06:41.000That Fox endorsed book also details the author's graphic description of oral sex.
00:06:46.000Another book that Fox leadership encourages its employees read called Red, White, and Royal Blue is about a fictional gay relationship between the Prince of Wales and the President's son, including dialogue calling America a genocidal empire.
00:06:57.000And of course includes a bit of gay erotica.
00:07:01.000This is what Fox corporate is recommending to its own employees.
00:07:05.000Fox leadership doesn't just pick out books for its adult employees.
00:07:07.000They also suggested a pride rainbow filled kids book with a character who comes out as a unicorn, presumably symbolizing coming out of the closet as LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign.
00:07:16.000And Fox recommends that people listen to podcasts like Query and watch various TED talks about LGBT life.
00:07:22.000Here's an excerpt from one of the TED talks recommended by Fox corporate to Fox News employees.
00:07:28.000But it's this type of structuring that has to be reframed in order to let love in.
00:07:33.000My body never betrayed me, and my body was never wrong.
00:07:37.000It's this restrictive binary thinking on gender that said that I didn't exist.
00:07:42.000But when we met, she loved me for exactly how I showed up.
00:07:46.000She would trace her fingers along the numb, keloid scars left by my top surgery.
00:07:50.000Scars that run from the middle of my chest all the way out to my outer torso.
00:07:55.000She said that these were reminders of my strength and everything that I went through and nothing for me to be ashamed of, so sprinting towards her hand in marriage was the queerest thing that I could do.
00:08:08.000Well, what magic Fox News employees are forced to be exposed to.
00:08:13.000Elsewhere on the Fox employee portal, workers are encouraged to attend a Ben & Jerry's-powered Pride event at the New York headquarters of Fox News.
00:08:19.000Now, it turns out that a lot of people at Fox News are not really happy with this, as you would imagine.
00:08:23.000A lot of employees over at Fox News are not particular fans of this radical gender ideology, which presumably is why Fox experimented with a solution to monitor employee commitment to DEI.
00:08:32.000It's an AI platform called Escalera, which tracks employees' commitment to the cult of DEI.
00:08:38.000Fox leadership told employees to sign up for Escalera so the AI could help them engage in activities deepening their understanding of identity and exploring more nuanced D&I topics.
00:08:48.000Escalera says that it pulls in data from various sources, including the email and payroll systems.
00:08:52.000It generates a peer comfort index and a diversity index based in part on how employees practice micro-affirmations.
00:08:58.000Wow, so they're monitoring how often you micro-affirm your compatriots.
00:09:02.000One of the key functions of this AI is to influence decisions involving personnel.
00:09:06.000AI can even calculate nutrition costs that different divisions suffer if they fail to promote DEI.
00:09:13.000There's many Fox News employees who obviously despise the audience, as Matt points out.
00:09:18.000The Instagram page of one employee with pronouns in bio, who's influential over Fox News' actual content, frequently posts about his work at Fox News and lashes out at the Fox News audience by calling them hicks, for example.
00:09:32.000That Fox News employee also came out in support of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
00:09:36.000So, what exactly is happening over at the Fox News leadership?
00:09:39.000Well, you have to imagine that some of this has to do with the fact that some of the big shareholders in Fox are, of course, wait for it, BlackRock Vanguard.
00:09:46.000BlackRock and Vanguard are these massive, massive funds that cram down DEI and ESG on all of the companies with which they engage.
00:09:55.000And so you want the money, you're going to get the DEI, and it's going to go down to Fox News as well.
00:10:00.000It turns out the top institutional holders in Fox Corporation are Vanguard, which is 7% owner of Fox, and BlackRock, which is a 4.6% owner in Fox.
00:10:14.000And obviously, this is going to have some impact on what exactly hits the air, as we mentioned during Pride Month last year.
00:10:21.000It's going to have some impact on the kinds of policies that are enacted with regard to COVID, for example.
00:10:27.000And it's gonna have some impact on who gets hired and who gets fired over at Fox News.
00:10:30.000Big scandal broke out yesterday when the Fox News producer behind a controversial chyron calling President Joe Biden a wannabe dictator was fired.
00:10:38.000So you'll recall that just a couple of nights ago, there was a big controversy because there was a chyron that went up in the middle of, I believe it was Sean Hannity's show, calling Joe Biden a wannabe dictator who tried to have his political rival arrested.
00:10:54.000And this created all sorts of heartburn over at Fox.
00:10:59.000It was up for less than 30 seconds and then it was removed.
00:11:02.000How could you say that Joe Biden is a wannabe dictator?
00:11:03.000Well, first of all, it was on an opinion show.
00:11:05.000Second of all, the idea that Joe Biden is a wannabe dictator, I mean, he did use executive orders to illegally relieve student loan debt.
00:11:12.000He has attempted to use, he has suggested he has the power to basically raise the debt ceiling unilaterally.
00:11:18.000He pulled out of Afghanistan without any real congressional approval or oversight.
00:11:24.000He has engaged in a wide variety of unconstitutional seizures of power, up to and including using OSHA itself in order to cram down a VAX mandate on private industries across the country.
00:11:34.000So is that an arguable opinion that he's a wannabe dictator?
00:11:38.000I think that's an arguable opinion at the very least but Fox fired the producer who put that up as revealed by Tucker Carlson last night.
00:11:44.000He claimed in his latest Tucker on Twitter video that the women who run the network panicked and then scolded the producer who put the banner on screen and then he resigned.
00:11:53.000Apparently this producer had been at Fox for more than a decade.
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00:13:42.000Again, so much of the LGBTQ pride movement is rooted in the idea that traditional Judeo-Christian values are evil and must be overturned.
00:13:49.000And Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are, again, just a sort of symptom of that.
00:13:53.000They're just an imagistic Crystallization of all of that.
00:13:57.000Well now, Archbishop Jose Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is fighting back.
00:14:02.000He is inviting all area Catholics to a mass, kicking off a day of prayer on the solemnity of the most sacred heart of Jesus planned for Friday.
00:14:09.000They're doing this in light of the decision by the Dodgers to honor a group that mocks Catholic religious sisters and stages lewd and profane performances aimed at ridiculing Jesus and the Catholic mass, among other provocations.
00:14:19.000Here's the LA Archbishop torching the Dodgers.
00:14:22.000Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez expressing disappointment, dismay, and pain as the Dodgers prepare to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during the team's LGBTQ plus Pride Night celebration this Friday.
00:14:34.000In a statement, the Archbishop called on all Catholics to stand together in prayer and said the church will dedicate a mass that day following the Dodgers' decision to honor a group that he says, quote, intentionally denigrates and profanes the Christian faith.
00:14:48.000Friday is also the day the church celebrates the Feast of Jesus' Sacred Heart.
00:14:52.000The Dodgers said they have no comment on the Archdiocese's statement.
00:14:56.000Of course, the Dodgers don't have a comment on it, but you know what?
00:14:58.000The American people are going to have a comment on a lot of this stuff.
00:15:01.000It turns out that the American people are not hot on this sort of stuff.
00:15:04.000In fact, there is a new report out from Axios showing that the cost to pry backlash, the American people not enjoying this sort of stuff and deciding not to shop at places that have decided to propagate this nonsense, is about $28 billion in the stock market.
00:15:44.000has also been barred by the mainstream media and the legacy media from virtually any appearances, largely because he says things that the left doesn't like.
00:16:08.000goes on shows like Rogan, or goes on shows like Tucker's, presumably, at some point, or goes on with Elon Musk on Twitter spaces, that those numbers actually dwarf what he would normally get by going on MSNBC or CNN.
00:16:23.000Robert F. Kennedy is currently topping both Joe Biden and Donald Trump in a new favorability poll.
00:16:28.000In fact, he's viewed favorably by 49% of respondents and unfavorably by just 30%, leaving him with a net rating of 19 points higher than any of the other candidates in the poll.
00:16:37.000Joe Biden, meanwhile, has a negative 9% favorability rating.
00:17:31.000But what do you think happens when you get into office?
00:17:35.000Like, if you're talking about your uncle who was assassinated and you believe the intelligence agencies were part of that, what happens to you?
00:18:22.000You know, it's sort of fascinating to see how much success he's gotten.
00:18:27.000And the success is largely not because of him.
00:18:29.000It's because everyone in the Democratic Party is uneasy about Joe Biden.
00:18:33.000Which means that were there a more serious progressive challenger to Joe Biden, a Bernie Sanders type, that person would probably draw 30% from Biden.
00:18:41.000Biden could easily lose like Iowa and New Hampshire, which is presumably why the DNC rejiggered all of the numbers.
00:18:48.000The DNC actually leads now with South Carolina to prevent exactly from happening in 2020.
00:18:55.000They don't want that to happen again in 2024.
00:18:56.000They don't want somebody like Bernie Sanders coming in and winning a couple primaries and humiliating the sitting president of the United States.
00:19:02.000Sitting presidents of the United States don't typically lose primaries.
00:19:04.000Joe Biden could easily lose a primary in Iowa or New Hampshire, which is kind of an amazing statement.
00:19:11.000But again, that's because Joe Biden is falling apart.
00:21:08.000And it turns out that it's not actually all that heartwarming to even Democrats.
00:21:11.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:22:17.000Yesterday, Joe Biden was asked by a reporter about his affiliation with Ukrainian oligarchs and the fact that there are emails that exist in which he is referred to apparently as the big guy.
00:22:27.000These would be emails detailing money changing hands.
00:23:18.000And meanwhile, the media, again, they're in defense mode for Biden.
00:23:22.000And this means that you are not allowed to criticize him, even on his insane weirdnesses.
00:23:26.000So Joe Biden is very handsy with people.
00:23:28.000Just as a general rule, he's very handsy with people.
00:23:30.000So for example, yesterday he got very handsy with Eva Longoria.
00:23:33.000Eva Longoria was visiting the White House and he made a weird statement about how he's known her for a long time, since she was 17 and he was 40.
00:23:39.000And then he got a little awkward around the boob area.
00:23:43.000So he put his hands on her, Uh, in a, in a strange way, and, um, she literally has to take his hands and remove them from her body.
00:23:55.000Uh, when I say I, I, this has never happened to me ever, I mean it has never happened to me ever, not once, because I don't touch women in weird ways.
00:24:04.000That's, that's a, that's a strange thing to do.
00:24:30.000The entire Biden campaign and media got very, very angry because the White House had put out a video suggesting that your kids are his kids.
00:24:37.000They put an LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pride video in which they suggested that they're all of our kids, by which they mean your kids belong to them now.
00:24:46.000And the DeSantis campaign then put out an ad saying, no, they are not your kids.
00:24:51.000Including a bunch of pictures of Joe Biden sniffing the hair of small children.
00:24:56.000And again, Joe Biden is a weirdo, okay?
00:26:54.000The governor of California keeps running against DeSantis, and a little bit against Trump, hoping that Joe Biden just slumps over in his chair one day.
00:27:02.000Like, he's running ads in Florida, and you're like, what are you doing, dude?
00:27:18.000Like, if you won't take on the old man, then what's your problem?
00:27:22.000I mean, you see it in San Francisco, you see it in LA, you see it in the people fleeing.
00:27:28.000California, from its inception, gained population every single year until he became governor.
00:27:35.000But if you're leaving, like, Southern California to move to, like, Jacksonville, which is a great place, You're not doing it because of the weather, because they probably have the best weather in the country.
00:27:45.000You're doing it because the place is so mismanaged and ill-governed that you just can't take it anymore.
00:27:52.000And yet, with all those problems, he has a real serious fixation on the state of Florida.
00:27:58.000I mean, I think it's just bizarre that he does that.
00:28:01.000But what I would tell him is, you know what?
00:28:16.000Or are you just going to sit on the sidelines and chirp?
00:28:21.000And the answer is he's going to sit on the sidelines and chirp because Democrats are stuck with this guy.
00:28:25.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:29:47.000Biden basically just wants to get out of the Middle East entirely, which sounds great until you realize that the moment that that happens, the chances of war in the Middle East go up dramatically and places like Saudi Arabia go nuclear.
00:29:57.000And war breaks out and then the United States is sucked back in.
00:30:00.000Isolationism always sounds amazing until precisely the moment at which isolation results in catastrophic war, which is usually what ends up happening.
00:30:06.000In any case, the mullahs want their money and Joe Biden wants to give them money.
00:30:11.000And so the Biden administration has been negotiating with Iran to limit Tehran's nuclear program and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries.
00:30:18.000So what exactly would the United States get out of this?
00:30:20.000Well, you'll recall that The mullahs have been claiming they don't want to build a nuclear weapon, but they've been enriching nuclear material from like 20% to 60% since 2015.
00:30:29.000Now they are claiming they're going to stop.
00:30:53.000The media, of course, are over the moon about all of this.
00:30:55.000The reality is this radically increases the chances of war in the Middle East, because if the United States takes the clamps off money flowing to Iran, Saudi Arabia is going to have to arm up.
00:31:04.000Saudi Arabia is going to make common cause with China.
00:31:08.000Israel is going to look at striking Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:31:12.000And everybody knows this is how it's going to go.
00:31:15.000But the Biden administration doesn't care because, again, this is the worst foreign policy administration since at least the last democratic foreign policy administration.
00:31:21.000Meanwhile, speaking of bad Democrats, Bill de Blasio apparently owes the city of New York $475,000.
00:31:28.000De Blasio, the former communist mayor of New York City, Now has to reimburse the city nearly 320 grand and pay a $155,000 fine because he brought his security detail on trips during his failed presidential campaign.
00:31:42.000It was like five minutes long and no one cared because he's a weirdo six foot nine Frankenstein looking dude who almost killed a groundhog.
00:31:47.000Actually he did kill the groundhog as it turns out.
00:31:52.000Both the highest penalty and largest amount the board said it has ever issued may be the most lasting impact to date of de Blasio's doomed run for the presidency.
00:31:59.000Apparently, the city spent $320,000 in travel-related costs for members of de Blasio's security detail to accompany either him or his wife, Charlene McRae, on 31 out-of-state trips related to the campaign.
00:32:09.000The expenses included airfare, car rentals, overnight lodging, meals, and other incidentals.
00:32:14.000Shortly before de Blasio launched his campaign, the board told de Blasio the city could pay for salary and overtime for his security detail, but it advised him that paying for officers' travel costs would be a misuse of city resources.
00:32:23.000De Blasio went ahead and did it anyway.
00:32:35.000If you're a Republican, then Alvin Bragg will drag you up in court for originally paying Stormy Daniels money to be quiet about the fact that you shtooped her at a club one time.
00:32:44.000That's the way it works in the city of New York.
00:32:46.000Law and order over in the city of New York.
00:32:49.000Well, over in New York City, they've now made it criminal to defend yourself.
00:32:52.000So it's not just the case of Jordan Neely, where apparently if a person threatens a bunch of people, including women and children, on a subway, and then someone stops him, and then he ends up dying in that procedure, then the person who stopped you has to be dragged up on charges.
00:33:04.000That, of course, we talked about yesterday with regard to Daniel Penny.
00:33:08.000Al Sharpton, who is one of the great race baiters and grifters of our time.
00:33:13.000It is a source of never-ending shock to me that Al Sharpton, a person who is involved in not one but two race riots in the city of New York, who has repeatedly uttered antisemitic nonsense, who is one of the most egregiously terrible people in American public life, who literally slandered a D.A.
00:33:32.000and claimed that he had committed a false rape.
00:33:34.000This guy has a show on MSNBC, but here he is pretending that he is a legitimate news source while claiming Jordan Neely was not threatening anyone, which is a weird thing for him to say, considering that everybody recognized that he was threatening people.
00:33:45.000By the family's own admission, he nearly had mental health issues that we need to deal with people in the streets that cause nearly was having a meltdown on the train.
00:34:01.000So we've got to deal with the mental health issue.
00:34:05.000Oh, so he was dealing with a mental health issue.
00:34:08.000Okay, so that means you have to prosecute the person who stopped him on the train.
00:34:10.000But that's not the only story like this.
00:34:12.000According to the New York Post, the man accused of fatally stabbing an ex-con who punched his girlfriend on a J train this week was released without bail Thursday after his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
00:34:21.000Assistant District Attorney David Engel had asked the judge to impose a $100,000 cash bail on Jordan Williams.
00:34:26.000He's a 20-year-old from Hollis, Queens, who allegedly knifed DeVictor O'Drago on Tuesday during a subway struggle.
00:34:33.000Mimes refused, instead electing to cut Williams loose.
00:34:36.000He said, I don't think you're a flight risk.
00:34:39.000Jason Goldman, Williams' attorney, said in court, the client works at FedEx to help pay the family bills.
00:34:44.000Apparently, his client was put in the precarious position where you either sit there and get assaulted, and let all the people get assaulted, or you eventually stand up for yourself and you get arrested.
00:34:53.000Because basically what happened is allegedly that the person who was stabbed was harassing commuters aboard the train as it approached Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg on Tuesday evening.
00:35:04.000And then he apparently punched this guy's girlfriend in the face.
00:35:08.000He approached Williams' girlfriend and asked, want to F?
00:35:11.000Williams told the man to get away from them, but O'Drago kept harassing his girlfriend, so Williams pushed him away and told him not to come closer.
00:35:17.000During the clash, O'Drago also punched Williams' girlfriend in the face, according to Goldman and police sources.
00:35:22.000The deceased took one step to the defendant and punched the defendant one or two times.
00:35:25.000He removed a folding knife and then stabbed the deceased in the chest.
00:35:27.000The deceased got off the train at Marcy Avenue and then collapsed on the platform.
00:35:32.000A cop responding to 911 call found him about 8 p.m.
00:35:34.000and rushed him to the hospital where he died.
00:35:36.000So apparently self-defense is now illegal in the city of New York.
00:35:40.000And this is all because the city of New York has decided that basically they're going to make policing illegal, which is something that the Biden administration certainly would like to do all over the country.
00:35:50.000The Biden administration has been cramming down consent decrees on every single police department it can find, claiming systemic discrimination, and all of the rest.
00:35:59.000Today, they are scheduled to share results of a police department probe in Minneapolis, which presumably will end with some sort of consent decree making it impossible to police in Minneapolis as well.
00:36:07.000Meanwhile, in San Francisco, all of this is going amazing.
00:36:10.000Westfield is actually surrendering its mall in San Francisco.
00:36:13.000Quote, Nordstrom, Old Navy, Anthropologie, H&M, Crate & Barrel.
00:36:17.000San Francisco's downturn, according to the New York Times, has seen a mass exodus of retailers in recent months.
00:36:21.000This week, a mall owner decided to walk away from a prominent property.
00:36:24.000Perhaps more troubling, market analysts say the city still has a ways to go before the hemorrhaging stops.
00:36:28.000The city now has the highest office vacancy rate of any large American city.
00:36:32.000Asking rents for retail spaces have dropped 21% since before the pandemic.
00:36:36.000Even as tourists are visiting San Francisco again, the amount of money they spent on the city is 23% less than it was in 2019.
00:36:43.000The mall owner Westfield said it was handing Westfield's San Francisco Center back to its lender, who will decide who will operate the property going forward.
00:36:49.000So they're literally just walking away from their mall location and giving it back to the lender.
00:36:53.000You've decided to make this a criminal center.
00:36:56.000Meanwhile, San Francisco's death spiral is continuing, according to Breitbart, with Cinemark closing its downtown movie theater.
00:37:04.000This week, Shopping Center Westfield announced they would close.
00:37:06.000Cinemark made its own announcement and told customers it will be shuttering its theater in the mall, with its last showings happening on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Standard.
00:37:14.000Again, more than 20 major retail chains have closed their doors since 2020 in this area, thanks to the pathetic take on crime by the Democratic Party.
00:37:22.000Meanwhile, you continue to get all sorts of excuses for the crime.
00:37:26.000Fascinating and idiotic op-ed over in the Los Angeles Times on this topic is by a person named Sikifu Hutchinson
00:37:34.000called Violence Against Black Women and Girls is Underreported, here's how we can address it.
00:37:37.000And the whole thing is about how violence against black girls and women
00:37:41.000is a longstanding national epidemic that has been overlooked.
00:37:44.000They make up less than 5% of LA's population, but black women are far more likely to experience
00:37:48.000multiple forms of violence and trauma than other groups.
00:37:50.000Apparently, black women from 2011 to 2022 made up one third of female homicides,
00:37:56.000nearly one third of all missing women.
00:37:58.000There were nearly one-quarter of all female rape victims.
00:38:01.000In comparison to non-black women, black women are three times more likely to be killed by an intimate partner.
00:38:07.000The report was commissioned by the LA City Council as part of a January 2022 motion.
00:38:11.000So the question becomes, well, why is there not more focus on this?
00:38:14.000And the answer is, there is not more focus on this, not because the media are racist in the way that the left would like to believe the media are racist, as in they don't care so much about black people.
00:38:23.000It's because they are afraid that if they actually report that black women are being victimized, generally by black men, then this might lead to more black men being jailed.
00:38:33.000The diktat from the left-wing media is you do not cover the race of a perpetrator if the perpetrator is a black person.
00:38:38.000And the reason you don't do this is it might create stereotypical presumptions about black people in general.
00:38:42.000We can't trust our audience with basic information.
00:38:45.000And we want to lie and we want to suggest that black men are generally in prison because they didn't commit crimes but because the American system is racist.
00:38:53.000So this foolish column suggests that the real issue here is generalized American racism.
00:39:01.000Murders of black trans women aren't adequately captured in L.A.
00:39:03.000City data because law enforcement and reporting agencies haven't been trained to capture multiple protected class identities.
00:39:10.000It's not a problem of actual crime, it's a problem of reporting.
00:39:13.000Or alternatively, it's a problem of actual crime and it requires actual police officers to stop all of this.
00:39:18.000All right, time for a thing I like and then some things that I hate.
00:39:21.000So, thing I like today, Starbucks is now admitting that they are under serious scrutiny over their removal of Pride decorations.
00:39:27.000They've been caught in the middle, as well they should be.
00:39:29.000Starbucks has been a woke company for a very long time.
00:39:31.000A union, according to the New York Times, representing hundreds of Starbucks stores, said this week, workers in 21 states were told by their managers not to decorate for Pride Month, the annual LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign holy month, a claim the company said represented outlier decisions by local leaders that did not reflect corporate policies.
00:39:46.000But even in New York City, Neighborhoods that are almost synonymous with Pride.
00:39:49.000The traditional rainbow displays were more muted, if visible at all, than in years past.
00:39:53.000In Manhattan, no Pride decorations could be seen at several Starbucks stores in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, including the one just a block from the Stonewall Inn.
00:40:00.000Starbucks workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Virginia said in interviews arranged through their union that store and district managers have been asked to take down existing decorations like flags or streamers and told they would not be allowed to decorate stores for Pride Month unlike in previous years.
00:40:13.000The American people are saying, we are not interested in being propagandized to about your alternative set of sexual values while we get our coffee.
00:40:21.000And I imagine that at a certain point, the population of India might object to this.
00:40:25.000Starbucks put out a bizarre commercial that we've talked about in India about a trans woman, meaning an Indian man, introducing himself to his parents as a woman at Starbucks.
00:40:36.000At a certain point, it turns out people don't like this stuff very much and the blowback has now arrived.
00:40:40.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:40:45.000Well, generalized American ignorance when it comes to matters of biblical and Judeo-Christian is now extraordinary.
00:40:51.000There is a bizarre situation over on Jeopardy where a question was issued that even I, a Jew, knew the answer to.
00:41:00.000Okay, so the Jeopardy contestants were asked to fill in this blank.
00:41:03.000Quote, There were three contestants, not even one guest.
00:41:50.000The reason is there used to be just a natural backdrop in the United States of particularly Christian values that everybody sort of understood.
00:41:56.000In fact, there's an old story about a couple of rabbis, very prominent rabbis in the Jewish community, and they ended up in the back of a taxi together.
00:42:04.000And they were in the back of the taxi, And they're talking about their educational background.
00:42:08.000One says, you know, I went to public school.
00:42:18.000And so there they are in the back of the taxi, these two rabbis singing Silent Night to each other because they went to public school.
00:42:24.000Now, the part of that story that used to be funny was rabbis singing Silent Night.
00:42:28.000Now the part of that story that's funny is the idea that you would learn Silent Night in a public school.
00:42:32.000The part that's weird is the idea that, like, when I was going to public school, when I was a young child, I remember I was in the Christmas play.
00:42:54.000The reason it was good is because the inculcation of Christian values in the body politic generally does not mean that Jews have to be Christian or anything like that.
00:43:02.000Obviously, I'd have a stake in that particular battle.
00:43:04.000What it does mean is that there is a common set of values shared by Jews and Christians and Muslims, actually.
00:43:09.000And that set of values Actually, it makes a difference in American public life.
00:43:14.000It's why the notion that we should be posting Pride progress flags in classrooms but not the Ten Commandments is so absurd on its face.
00:43:20.000We have supplanted one religion for another religion, and the new religion is bad.
00:43:24.000It is a cultish religion that requires not just acceptance and tolerance, but destruction of the traditional forms of morality that used to undergird all of Western civilization.