In this episode, I discuss the new standard set by the media and the public regarding the behavior of public figures, including Russell Brand, Howard Stern, and Joe Biden, and how they are treated in the eyes of the media, the public, and the general public. I also talk about the new standards that are being set, and why they are not evenly applied to public figures like Howard Stern and Russell Brand. And, of course, I talk about how Howard Stern is a disgusting human being, and what we should do about it. I also discuss why it s so important to be careful about what you say and what you do not say in public, especially when it comes to sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations, which Howard has been accused of perpetrating by a number of women, including four women who claim that he sexually assaulted them. And, yes, I do make fun of Howard's breasts, which is not a bad thing, by the way. I mean, really, they are incredible. I don t know what else to do with them, but let's just talk about it, shall we? I don't even bother to try to make sense of it? I'll tell you why it's a good thing that it's not okay to have them in the public eye, and it's okay to be a little bit dirty, but it's also OK to be dirty, right? or and to have a little in public . if you like it of course but not too dirty, let's all the time we're not not , right so ? that's not normal can you do , let's talk about this right , do that n s y a m l o b c d (that's right, right ? I'm not ? How do you like them? can they're not normal? , I they're are they you're not really no just have a nice stomachs ? I can you p ; should they (not h don't they have them what th etc g oh
00:00:00.000So, the rule is, in our media and in our international politics, as it turns out, that if you mirror the priorities of the left, then you can pretty much do whatever you want so long as you're not caught on camera doing it.
00:00:12.000Any other thing, you're pretty much okay.
00:00:14.000The reason I say this is because if you look at the disparate consequences for public figures, ranging from, say, Russell Brand on the one hand, to somebody like Howard Stern on the other, the public consequences are
00:00:27.000I'll use Russell Brand as an example here for just a second.
00:00:30.000So I've talked about Russell Brand at length this week. Russell, of course, has
00:00:33.000been accused now by four separate women of actions ranging from sexual assault to rape to
00:00:38.000sexual harassment. And whether those allegations are true or not, I don't know.
00:00:43.000One thing I do know is that at this moment, they are just allegations.
00:00:46.000There has been no actual criminal indictment brought against him.
00:00:50.000He's certainly not been convicted of anything, but YouTube has now suspended Russell Brand for making any money on the platform on Tuesday, days after that report broke from Channel 4 and BBC.
00:01:01.000And these are outlets that used to pay Russell Brand while he was in the midst of his most flagrantly vile behavior.
00:01:06.000And as I pointed out the other day, there is some irony to the fact, or something curious to the fact, that Russell Brand, when he was at his most vile, was being paid by all the same media outlets that are now investigating him when he's married and has a couple kids and is preaching heterodox political opinions.
00:01:20.000When it comes to YouTube, Brand's channel with 6.6 million subscribers, according to Daily Wire, has now been suspended for monetization following serious allegations against the creator, according to YouTube.
00:01:29.000Again, this is a very strange standard that YouTube is now purveying.
00:01:32.000So if there are serious allegations made against you of any sort, I suppose now all of your videos just immediately get demonetized, which is going to be very bad news for half the rappers on the block, as well as a significant number of actors.
00:01:45.000I mean, seriously, there are these allegations out there about an enormous number of public figures.
00:01:50.000If the new standard is an allegation is tantamount to a conviction in the court of public opinion, and an allegation alone is sufficient to have your ability to monetize your videos removed from you by YouTube, that is a horrible standard.
00:02:03.000You have now created a massive incentive structure for people to make allegations against people, true or false, in order to destroy their careers.
00:02:10.000Now again, I'm not saying that the women who are coming out and saying this stuff about Brand are lying.
00:02:16.000What I do know at this point is that YouTube, I don't know how they could possibly uphold such a standard.
00:02:22.000That a public allegation comes out that's ugly about somebody, and they immediately demonetize everything having to do with Russell Brand.
00:02:27.000Now, does that have something to do with the fact that Russell Brand is, again, a heterodox political thinker?
00:02:33.000Somebody who says things about, for example, COVID that YouTube doesn't like very much?
00:02:38.000Somebody who says stuff about Joe Biden that YouTube might not like very much?
00:02:42.000These sorts of standards are certainly not going to be evenly applied.
00:02:46.000Obviously, they're not going to be evenly applied.
00:02:49.000And this is what brings me to Howard Stern.
00:02:50.000So Howard Stern has been making headlines the last couple of days by pushing very loudly to the left.
00:02:56.000Now, Howard Stern spent pretty much my entire life, from the time I was a teenager on, being one of the most famous people in America, being an absolute deviant, a degraded person beyond all measure.
00:03:08.000Just to remind you who Howard Stern is, the kinds of behavior that Howard Stern has regularly engaged in publicly throughout his career, are disgusting.
00:03:16.000I mean, they are disreputable, they are vile toward women, and all the rest.
00:03:20.000Just to remind you, here's a compilation of Howard Stern's randomly disgusting comments to just female guests on his show.
00:04:08.000This is some of the milder stuff that Howard Stern said on his show for years and years and years and years.
00:04:12.000I mean, this is a person who literally had women into his studio to sit on vibrators so that he could record their reactions and blast it out to millions of people in his audience.
00:04:21.000He's one of the most vile people in public life for decades on end.
00:04:24.000But now, Howard Stern is apparently one of our moral exemplars.
00:04:29.000So, over the last couple of days, for example, he has ripped into Lauren Boebert.
00:04:33.000Now, Lauren Boebert engaged in what I think is disgusting behavior.
00:04:38.000We talked about it and I made fun of her on the program because it's just insane to go with your boyfriend to a showing of Beetlejuice And then get handsy with your boyfriend while vaping and then to yell at people who do you know who I am when you're when you're removed from the venue is really gross behavior.
00:04:55.000But you know who doesn't have a leg to stand on talking about gross public behavior is Howard Stern.
00:04:58.000But Howard Stern apparently has no, he has no compunction about doing any of this now.
00:05:03.000He didn't have the same reaction when it was Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, you know.
00:05:06.000Receiving favors from Monica Lewinsky, I remember.
00:05:09.000But here is Howard Stern getting very upset about Lauren Boebert.
00:05:12.000Suddenly he is on my side of the aisle when it comes to apparent prudery.
00:05:17.000Lauren Boebert is a disgrace to this country.
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00:07:20.000Again, Howard Stern has discovered the magic elixir that wipes away all of your past and present sins, and that is be far enough to the left.
00:07:29.000So Howard Stern, in the last couple of months, he's getting more and more to the left.
00:07:33.000Here he was just a little while ago, a couple months ago, going after Kid Rock and Travis Tritt, claiming that they are transphobic for pointing out that, for example, Dylan Mulvaney is not a woman.
00:07:43.000I wish I could call Kid Rock and have him come on the show and just tell me, what is it?
00:08:00.000Now again, remember that because Howard Stern is the kind of person who pays homage to our secular religious priesthood, this means that he can get away with pretty much anything.
00:08:08.000I mean, here he is committing sacrifices to the secular religious priesthood, the great sacrifice of all, which is to suggest that you should get as many booster shots as humanly possible.
00:08:16.000Here is Howard Stern literally yesterday talking about how he is now woke.
00:08:58.000Because when you have an immunized class of people, a class of people who are immunized by their association with certain left-wing clauses, first of all, it incentivizes bad behavior by those people, but second of all, It also creates this massive double standard where if you are heterodox, you can expect to be targeted.
00:09:13.000But if you are orthodox in your practice of leftism, well then you can expect that you're going to be given an enormous amount of breathing room.
00:09:21.000That the secular left priesthood that now prevails in the media, in Hollywood, when it comes to our government, that secular left priesthood gets to decide who are the favored and who are the disfavored.
00:09:34.000So, to take this to the international level, there's something sort of fascinating happening with the Ukraine war.
00:09:39.000And I'm not talking about the actual on-the-ground fighting.
00:09:41.000I'm talking about the perception of Ukraine in the Ukraine war.
00:09:44.000So one of the things that started pretty early in the Ukraine vs. Russia war is this bizarre left-right Split.
00:09:49.000That didn't seem to mirror reality at the beginning.
00:09:51.000At the very beginning, there was a lot of talk on the right about how Russia was in a religious state where Ukraine was irreligious.
00:09:56.000Well, by all available polling, the opposite was true.
00:09:58.000Far more people in Ukraine go to church, on average, than people in Russia.
00:10:02.000They go to church far more frequently.
00:10:04.000Ukraine is a far more socially conservative country than Russia in a lot of ways, despite Vladimir Putin's attempts to be more socially conservative from the top down.
00:10:11.000It's a far more secular, atheistic state is Russia than Ukraine.
00:10:14.000But the presumption on the part of Americans was the opposite.
00:10:19.000For a lot of Americans, Ukraine, because it was immediately adopted by the Democratic Party and because Joe Biden decided to make it his sort of cause on the international stage, immediately the assumption was on the left that Ukraine had to be some sort of San Francisco on the Volga.
00:11:11.000So here's Zelensky's original pitch, which is that it's really all about Russia and the battle between Russia and Ukraine for territorial integrity and the rest.
00:11:21.000Terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons.
00:11:28.000But truly, not the nukes are the scariest now.
00:11:32.000While nukes remain in place, the mass destruction is gaining its momentum.
00:11:39.000The aggressor is weaponizing many other things, and those things are used not only against our country, but against all of yours as well.
00:11:50.000Okay, so, you can agree with this case, you can disagree with this case, but Zelensky then spent enormous amounts of his speech not talking.
00:11:58.000about the war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine.
00:12:02.000Instead, he spends an enormous amount of his speech talking about climate change.
00:12:22.000Because if you talk about climate change, then this gives you, this is like the golden ticket to left-wing money.
00:12:28.000It's what earns you support from the left.
00:12:31.000If you talk about their favorite topics, the same way that Howard Stern buys a dispensation, a left-wing papal dispensation, by talking left-wing talk, Vladimir Zelensky has realized that he can do the exact same thing.
00:12:45.000That the bizarre split between right and left over the assumed politics of Russia versus Ukraine, if he actually plays into that, he can get Joe Biden to sign him more cash, he can get the left-wing media to support him in a higher order.
00:12:58.000This presumably is why Zelensky is talking about climate change.
00:13:00.000Here is Zelensky lecturing the world about climate change, which again is super weird.
00:13:05.000Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes.
00:13:21.000What in the world is he jabbering about?
00:14:14.000The simple fact of the matter is that it is a culturally right-wing country.
00:14:19.000In a 2010 European study, for example, only 28% of Ukrainians polled believe that LGBTQ individuals should live freely and however they like.
00:14:26.000That was the lowest number of all European countries polled, except for Russia.
00:14:30.000Russia is the only other one that has lower numbers.
00:14:34.000The notion that this is like a wildly left-wing place is ridiculous.
00:14:38.000It is not a wildly left-wing place by any stretch of the imagination.
00:14:42.000But they understand that if they want buy-in from the left, they're going to have to pretend that they're a left-wing place.
00:14:47.000Presumably, this is why they are currently trotting out Sarah Ashton Cirillo, a trans woman from Nevada who came to Ukraine in March 2022 and has now become a spokesperson for the country's territorial defense force.
00:15:01.000Last week, according to France24, Russian television showed an hour-long special calling Ashton Sirilla a terrible disgrace to the Ukrainian people and a monster.
00:15:10.00019 months in, she's a junior sergeant and hosts live YouTube shows, says France24, from her studio called Ukraine in the Know and Russia Hates the Truth.
00:15:17.000Ashton Sirilla does not even speak Ukrainian.
00:15:21.000Her role includes monitoring international media.
00:15:23.000By the way, these are obviously France24's pronouns.
00:15:25.000In August, she announced a boycott of CNN after they called foreign fighters in Ukraine mercenaries.
00:15:31.000Okay, so this is what Ukraine is doing.
00:15:32.000Ukraine, as a propaganda ploy, is playing to the left, which is what they have to do, because the United States has now established a baseline standard, which is mirror the priorities of the left, or you will be excised, or at least you'll be at risk of being excised.
00:15:45.000Get to more on this momentarily first.
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00:17:58.000Here was Joe Biden stumping for LGBTQIA plus divided by minus sign rights in a room with a bunch of countries that do not believe anything remotely like what Joe Biden believes.
00:18:09.000We have to continue working to ensure that women and girls enjoy equal rights and equal participation in their societies.
00:18:16.000That indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, minorities, people with disabilities do not have the potential stifled by systemic discrimination.
00:18:28.000That the LGBTQI plus people are not prosecuted or targeted with violence because of who they are.
00:18:37.000These rights are part of our shared humanity.
00:18:41.000When they're absent anywhere, their loss is felt everywhere.
00:18:46.000Okay, so you wonder why Zelensky is appealing to Joe Biden's favorite priors?
00:18:54.000And a standard has been set up, and if you fulfill the standard, you have access to the cash, and if you don't, you don't.
00:19:00.000You're tapped on the shoulder by the angel of leftism, and it gives you blanket immunity for pretty much anything, culturally, internationally.
00:19:08.000That's just the way that it works these days.
00:19:10.000By the way, how radical is this administration when it comes to climate change?
00:19:14.000Kamala Harris is now mirroring the most insane lessons of the climate change movements.
00:19:17.000She suggests that it's reasonable to not want to have kids because of climate change, which is totally wild.
00:19:23.000You know, I've heard young leaders talk with me about a term they've coined called climate anxiety.
00:19:31.000Which is fear of the future and the unknown, of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home, because what will this climate be?
00:19:46.000And those are the priorities you're expected to mirror if you wish to be welcomed into polite company in the international meetings.
00:19:52.000Get some more on all of this momentarily.
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00:21:06.000Meanwhile, just speaking of the value system over at the UN, one other piece of the value system we should add is that if you do not mirror the left-wing prescriptions, they'll censor you.
00:21:15.000Just as we've mentioned with Russell Brand, this is part of the goal.
00:21:19.000So Jacinda Ardern, who had to leave her job as the Prime Minister of New Zealand after basically turning it into a fascist island where everybody was forced into lockdown, and then nobody got vaccinated, as it turns out, which turned out to be a really, really bad policy, and who pursued censorship with tremendous enthusiasm.
00:21:36.000Well, she was over at the UN bragging about how we need more censorship because free speech is a weapon of war.
00:21:44.000How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
00:21:48.000How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
00:21:57.000The weapons may be different, but the goals of those who perpetuate them is often the same.
00:22:03.000To cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves.
00:22:10.000To collapse the collective strength of countries who work together.
00:22:14.000But we have an opportunity here to ensure that these particular weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare.
00:22:23.000I mean, this is crazy talk, what she's talking about, but it is part and parcel of what so many governments are now pushing for.
00:22:28.000And part of the necessary platform for the left is to censor all the voices they don't like, which presumably is why the UK is now about to pass the so-called online safety bill.
00:22:40.000According to the government of the UK, the online safety bill has now passed its final parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law.
00:22:49.000Well, it takes a quote-unquote zero-tolerance approach to protecting children and makes sure social media platforms are held responsible for the content they host.
00:22:56.000If they do not act rapidly to prevent and remove illegal content and stop children seeing material that is harmful to them, such as bullying, they will face significant fines that could reach billions of pounds.
00:23:05.000In some cases, their bosses may even face prison.
00:23:13.000This goes to things like bullying, which is pretty vaguely defined, or inappropriate content, pretty vaguely defined.
00:23:23.000And making social media platforms responsible for all that obviously puts them in danger of bankruptcy.
00:23:29.000It's setting standards for platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok.
00:23:34.000Technology Secretary Michelle Donilon said the bill was a, quote, game-changing piece of legislation.
00:23:39.000She said the UK will be the safest place in the world to be online.
00:23:43.000Well, why do I have a feeling that the government setting these standards is going to be very interested in what sort of material is now considered too disinformation laden to be allowed to cross your screen?
00:23:57.000Yeah, no one is in favor of quote unquote harmful social media content.
00:24:01.000The question is what constitutes harmful?
00:24:05.000Platforms have to show they are committed to removing illegal content, which, again, I hear.
00:24:10.000But, apparently, they also want to extend this into the realm of, for example, hate speech, which is really, really dangerous stuff.
00:24:21.000There's a reason why the monopoly on informational dissemination has to be maintained, and that is, again, just another way to create a barrier to entry for anyone who disagrees with a generalized agenda.
00:24:32.000Well all this is going to create a backlash.
00:24:34.000It's going to create a backlash internationally and it's going to create a backlash right here in the United States.
00:24:38.000You wonder why Donald Trump is pulling so well?
00:24:40.000A lot of it is because if the agenda of the United States supposedly is climate change and transgender rights and censorship on the back of those two things, That's not something most Americans are for.
00:24:50.000If you want to make the Ukraine war a proxy for cultural issues, it will become a proxy for cultural issues.
00:24:55.000This is one of the reasons why Republican enthusiasm for the Ukrainian war and for backing Ukraine in that war has waned tremendously.
00:25:02.000The minute it became a partisan issue, the enthusiasm began to decline markedly.
00:25:06.000Representative Byron Donalds in Florida, he says, listen, on the House level, we are not interested in providing more funding for Ukraine at this point.
00:25:14.000What is your message to Zelensky when he comes to the Capitol on Thursday?
00:25:44.000You can feel how you want to feel about it.
00:25:46.000I'm here to tell you what's right and what's real.
00:25:48.000Okay, he happens to be correct about the fact that we are spending a boatload of money, but more importantly, it seems as though the leadership class in this country, particularly on the left, but I think overall, just doesn't have any connection to the things that people actually care about in the country.
00:26:03.000At the same time that they're driving the economy into a brick wall, they are simultaneously pursuing mass illegal immigration, for example.
00:26:11.000So on the one hand, you have the economy that is driving into a brick wall.
00:26:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Fed is about to face $100 oil An almost uninterrupted rise in oil prices has now pushed benchmark Brent crude close to $100 a barrel, posing a new challenge for central banks in their battle against inflation.
00:26:26.000The rise is a victory for Saudi Arabia, which sought to bolster prices to fund a planned transformation of its oil-dependent economy.
00:26:40.000Obviously, the unfriendly attitude of this administration toward more drilling and refining.
00:26:45.000That obviously has been a major problem.
00:26:48.000Meanwhile, the administration continues to back unions like the UAW, as the UAW puts the car industry in America on very, very tentative footing.
00:26:59.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, the United Auto Workers strike is going on day five.
00:27:03.000President Sean Fain has rejected the latest offer from Stellantis of a 21% pay raise over four years.
00:27:08.000He keeps suggesting that corporate greed is the issue, yet it was telling this weekend when he refused to discuss the union's impact on future job creation.
00:27:16.000Asked on CBS's Face the Nation how he would make the case to Detroit automakers to invest in more expensive union shops rather than moving to right-to-work states, Fain ducked.
00:27:24.000He said that UAW worker pay shouldn't be compared to how pitiful Tesla pays their workers and other companies pay those workers.
00:27:29.000He added, most of these workers and those companies are scraping to get by, so greedy CEOs and greedy people like Elon Musk can build more rocket ships and shoot herself into outer space.
00:27:38.000Mr. Fain can criticize Musk all he wants, says the Wall Street Journal, but Tesla is the chief competitor to the Detroit automakers in the government-mandated electric vehicle race.
00:27:46.000According to the SEC, the median worker at Tesla earned $34,000 last year in total compensation, compared to $80,000 at GM and $75,000 at Ford.
00:27:54.000Stellantis said its average worker is earning $68,000.
00:27:57.000These internal calculations include non-production-level workers as well as employees located in other countries.
00:28:40.000Look at what's happening in both the entertainment industry and look what's happening in the auto industry, look at what's happening in terms of AI.
00:28:51.000Every industrial revolution, sorry I'm a social studies teacher, every industrial revolution that has happened not only in the country but the world, There are winners and there are losers.
00:29:02.000And the workers always seem to be the losers in every one of these transitions.
00:29:06.000So I would actually root for the people in America to have a better life, to have this new industrial policy.
00:29:19.000So let's actually invest in the workers who have actually made these companies more profitable.
00:29:26.000Okay, they've not made these companies more profitable.
00:29:28.000Union contracts make the companies less profitable.
00:29:31.000The only thing that made the companies more profitable over the last couple of years was massive supply chain defects.
00:29:35.000I mean, which is why the prices are coming down and why, in the end, the Biden push for electric vehicles is going to make these companies far less profitable.
00:29:43.000So how is the Biden administration responding to all of this?
00:29:46.000To an ongoing strike in one of America's chief industries?
00:29:50.000Well, they're sticking their DOJ on Elon Musk.
00:29:53.000So if they can't make a deal between the UAW and the Big Three, instead they're going to go after Tesla, the competitors of the UAW, at this point.
00:30:01.000According to the Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors are scrutinizing personal benefits Tesla may have provided Elon Musk since 2017 as part of a criminal investigation examining issues including a proposed house for the chief executive.
00:30:12.000Now, if you think this has nothing to do with Elon Musk's politics, and nothing to do with the fact that Tesla is the chief competitor to the Detroit Three, you got another thing coming.
00:30:22.000The reason the DOJ is going after Elon Musk on this, the reason they went after him on SpaceX, remember, they're right now, the Civil Rights Division, is suing Elon Musk for not hiring enough refugees over at SpaceX, despite the fact that, as Musk says, you have to have security requirements fulfilled in order to work at SpaceX because it's a federal contractor with access to classified material.
00:30:43.000The reason they're coming after Musk is eminently political.
00:30:47.000Cross them, and this is what you face down.
00:30:51.000Meanwhile, the same administration that is pressing forward with a stagnating economy with inflation, that's prioritizing climate change, that's prioritizing LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign issues over the baseline kitchen table issues of everyday Americans.
00:31:08.000Meanwhile, they're facilitating illegal immigration at record levels.
00:32:25.000There's never been a better time to stop giving your cash to woke corporations that hate your guts.
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00:32:32.000Okay, meanwhile, as the elites in our country decide that the big issues you care about are things like climate change, they're just allowing illegal immigrants to flow unimpeded into the country.
00:32:40.000According to Griff Jenkins, a national correspondent for Fox News, in the past four days, Friday through Monday, total migrant encounters at the southwestern border exceeded 35,000 at an average of nearly 9,000 per day, according to the Border Patrol.
00:32:55.000The exact count is 35,573 encounters, nearly 9,000 daily average.
00:33:07.000And as it turns out, the illegal immigration problem is becoming a permanent feature of American life.
00:33:12.000According to a fascinating report by Spencer Lindquist over at the Daily Wire, There's a community called Colony Ridge in Texas.
00:33:20.000And apparently it has become basically a giant settlement spot for illegal immigrants.
00:33:25.000Spencer tweeted, Have you heard about America's largest illegal immigrant settlement that's said to be a hub of cartel activity?
00:33:30.000I visited Colony Ridge for Daily Wire to learn about a development that's home to 40,000 to 75,000 people and is in the midst of a rapid expansion.
00:33:48.000House is being built, and all the rest.
00:33:52.000Well, according to Spencer, a Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for the cartels.
00:34:07.000Apparently, it sprawls across nearly 60 square miles about the size of Washington, D.C.
00:34:38.000Located in Liberty County, Texas, near the small town of Plum Grove, the Colony Ridge Development is a sprawling community that, based on an analysis of publicly available information, is growing.
00:34:47.000It's estimated to be anywhere between 50,000 to 75,000 people.
00:34:51.000Because of a plan targeted at Texas' Hispanic population.
00:34:54.000The Daily Wire surveyed the development by helicopter to assess the true extent of its growth.
00:34:59.000Houses on the ground fly the flags of foreign countries.
00:35:02.000Many homes display their addresses on spray-painted pieces of plywood.
00:35:05.000Many structures, many of which are not hooked up to running water, were under construction.
00:35:08.000Others were unfinished but didn't appear to be actively getting worked on.
00:35:11.000At least one plot of land didn't have any structures at all, just a tent in the corner nestled between the shrubs.
00:35:16.000Despite what appeared to be poor living conditions throughout much of the development, Colony Ridge is exploding.
00:35:20.000The view from the sky revealed a sprawling labyrinth of roundabouts and endless rows of sidewalkless streets with empty plots waiting to be developed.
00:35:28.000Apparently, according to Daily Wire, Colony Ridge, owned and operated by a developer named William Trey Harris, is rapidly expanding, at least in part, to a financing arrangement that makes it possible for illegal aliens to buy land deep in the heart of Texas.
00:35:40.000While traditional financing methods require credit ratings and proof of income, Todd Bensman, a National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Daily Wire that buyers at Colony Ridge are able to circumvent the usual requirements, even dodging the need to provide a social security number.
00:35:54.000Benzmann said because of the traditional bank loan you have to show you have a credit rating and proof of income.
00:35:59.000He says that now loans are being created where all you need is a few hundred dollars down as a down payment.
00:36:06.000The loan is directly from the developer bypassing traditional mortgages.
00:36:10.000The buyer might pay high interest rates near 15% but that's a great deal for somebody who has no other option to buy land at all.
00:36:17.000They encourage potential buyers to reach out via WhatsApp.
00:36:21.000The plots of land come with nothing on them at an affordable price.
00:36:23.000The current offer is two adjacent plots of land for $65,000.
00:36:25.000Ben's been told the daily where Collin Ridge is in the midst of maybe its greatest boom ever.
00:36:32.000So, again, we are just creating, apparently, massive cities filled with illegal immigrants, thanks to Joe Biden.
00:36:49.000Unfortunately, as we've been talking about a lot lately, the Republicans have an unfortunate habit of jumping with both feet onto every rake in sight.
00:36:57.000So now, apparently, the GOP is headed directly for a government shutdown.
00:37:03.000Matt Gaetz is saying openly he wants some sort of government shutdown.
00:37:08.000We can't blame Joe Biden and the Democrats for why the Republican-controlled House of Representatives hasn't passed single-subject spending bills.
00:37:21.000Or, alternatively, you have to deal with the reality on the ground, which is a Democratic Senate and, you know, a Democrat as the President of the United States.
00:37:28.000According to Politico, House GOP hardliners blocked debate on their own party's defense spending bill on Tuesday, making Pentagon funding the latest casualty of a civil war between McCarthy and his conservative critics.
00:37:37.000Republican rebels blocked the annual defense appropriations bill in a procedural vote, delivering their stunning loss to McCarthy and Hawks, who sought to break an impasse over federal spending that forced leaders to yank the legislation last week.
00:37:48.000Many conservatives withheld their vote on the Pentagon bill to force Republican leaders to take a harder line on a stopgap in order to keep the lights on.
00:37:55.000Ultimately, the procedural vote failed on the $826 billion defense spending bill, known as a rule, and it failed in a 212 to 214 vote on Tuesday.
00:38:04.000Five Republicans defected on the procedural vote, which almost always falls along party lines.
00:39:03.000And on the other, the House, the whatever they call themselves, Team America or whatever they call themselves, I just like, hey, I just like, bring your vote.
00:39:12.000You know, otherwise, you know, they need to go hump a different leg.
00:39:15.000Go hump a different leg, says Jon Fetterman.
00:39:17.000So yeah, I mean, that guy is not fully functional, and now we're setting up actual Senate rules to accommodate the fact that he wants to wear gym shorts, even though I'm not sure that he has ever worked out in his life by the look of him.
00:39:28.000When John Fetterman is making fun of you and succeeding, that's not exactly a win for Republicans.
00:39:33.000And meanwhile, again, there are tons of things for Republicans to talk about in this election cycle, ranging from Joe Biden's incompetence to his corruption.
00:39:40.000All that stuff is on the table to talk about.
00:39:43.000So what are Republicans talking about?
00:39:44.000Well, whatever is the latest revelation in the Donald Trump cases, of course.
00:39:48.000And again, that's not up to Trump now because he ceded that ground when he took activities, particularly with regard to classified documents that put him directly in the crosshairs.
00:39:58.000If you are a person who has the biggest target in human history on your back, which is probably the case of Donald Trump in terms of media hating you, why would you put yourself squarely in the crowd?
00:40:08.000Why would you make that target gigantic?
00:40:10.000We're now learning, according to particular sources, that one of Donald Trump's aides, a woman named Molly Michael, she apparently has told authorities that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice or suborn perjury.
00:40:27.000According to ABC News, sources said Michael told federal investigators that last year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled a recurring request from the National Archives for the return of all government documents being kept in boxes at Mar-a-Lago.
00:40:37.000She felt Trump's claims about it at the time would be easy to disprove, according to the sources.
00:40:41.000Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, he said, quote, you don't know anything about the boxes.
00:40:47.000It's unclear what exactly he meant by that, but this is leading a lot of people to suggest that he knew that she knew about the boxes and therefore He was basically telling her to fib to the FBI.
00:40:58.000Again, none of this stuff is particularly good for Donald Trump.
00:41:27.000And because he was never charged, the suspicion was, on the part of a lot of people on the right, that he must have been some sort of government plant.
00:41:33.000Well, now apparently the DOJ is charging him, but they are charging him with one misdemeanor count of disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds.
00:41:42.000Now, a lot of people on the right are going to say, why does he get charged with pretty much nothing when there are other people who did not all that much on January 6th, like wandered around the building and spent months or years in jail?
00:41:55.000He's going to claim, law enforcement is going to claim it's because he cooperated, that when he saw his name on TV, he called up law enforcement.
00:42:01.000Apparently he's going to plead guilty to the charge.
00:42:04.000But slap-on-the-wrist charges, post facto, don't look much like justice to the vast majority of people who watch this stuff play out.
00:42:10.000Meanwhile, over in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania, is promoting Pennsylvania's brand new program for automatic voter registration.
00:42:19.000It's pretty much like California's motor voter law.
00:42:21.000There are apparently half a dozen states or a dozen states that already have this on the books.
00:42:25.000You're automatically registered to vote.
00:42:27.000When you get a driver's license, here's Josh Shapiro championing this in Pennsylvania.
00:42:31.000I am proud to announce that for the first time ever, Pennsylvania is an automatic voter registration state.
00:42:38.000From now on, when you get or renew your driver's license or an ID card at the DMV, you'll be registered to vote unless you choose not to.
00:42:46.000I made a commitment when I was campaigning for this office that we would bring automatic voter registration to Pennsylvania and break down the barriers for legal eligible voters.
00:42:56.000This is a key step to make our elections more secure.
00:43:00.000Adding important levels of verification to the voter registration process.
00:43:04.000And by expanding voter registration at our DMVs, we'll save taxpayers time and money, reduce the number of costly paper registrations, So I'm wondering how it actually adds voter security to have people simultaneously register to vote automatically.
00:43:18.000But okay, let's assume that's all the case.
00:43:21.000This makes Pennsylvania the 24th state to actually roll out this sort of automatic voter registration process.
00:43:27.000Now, I understand why there are a lot of people on the right who are very exercised over this.
00:43:30.000A lot of people think that You know, this paves the way for, for example, ballot harvesting.
00:43:35.000And the fact is that according to RealClearPennsylvania.com, Athen Koutsiorombis writing, He says, prior to the pandemic, Pennsylvania had passed an election reform law enabling mail-in voting.
00:43:50.000Unlike in-person voting, which requires no voter ID, Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot process requires the applicant to provide ID, either a driver's license or a social security number.
00:43:59.000County boards of elections are required to verify the information or a ballot can't be cast.
00:44:02.000Pennsylvania's mail-in voting has more fail-safes than traditional in-person voting.
00:44:06.000For fraud to occur with mail-in balloting at a scale that can affect a statewide election, it has to happen in two points.
00:44:11.000Harvesters illegally obtaining lists of driver's licenses or social security numbers to complete applications and then cast ballots without voters' knowledge.
00:44:17.000Or, Board of Elections workers conspiring to invalidate applications.
00:44:22.000So, is there a lot of ballot harvesting?
00:44:24.000Well, yeah, there's tons of ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania's suburbs.
00:44:30.000So is that going to be exacerbated ballots?
00:44:33.000I mean, the more eligible voters there are, the more you're going to have people who are basically paid by the parties to go pick up the votes.
00:44:38.000But Republicans have a couple of choices here.
00:44:49.000And one of the things I cannot stand is when Republicans complain about the playing rules with no plan to change them, while simultaneously ignoring, you know, actually being able to win with these rules.
00:44:59.000The reality is that in Florida, a lot of these rules are already obtained.
00:45:06.000I mean, the fact is that if you look at a list of the states that have automatic voter registration, that list is not all left-wing states.
00:45:15.000Some of the states that already have automatic voter registration, those include, for example, West Virginia, Michigan.
00:45:34.000You can make excuses or you can go out and you can win.
00:45:36.000And it seems to me that Republicans need to stop making excuses and go out and do whatever they can to do in order to win these elections.
00:45:42.000By the way, they are doing some of the right things in Pennsylvania.
00:45:44.000I am impressed with the fact that Doug Mastroianno, who is apparently considering a A senatorial run against Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania has decided not to do so.
00:45:54.000He has instead endorsed McCormick in his potential Senate run.
00:45:57.000McCormick was an excellent candidate who probably should have been the nominee last time against John Fetterman.
00:46:01.000He probably would run stronger than Mehmet Oz.
00:46:04.000So him running again, I think is a very good move.
00:46:07.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like and then a thing that I hate.
00:46:13.000You gotta give credit where credit is due.
00:46:15.000The ladies of The View occasionally are correct.
00:46:17.000And apparently, they're now saying that it's dumb for the Senate to change its dress code just because John Fetterman likes to wear gym shorts.
00:47:55.000It's a partisan breakdown question, and the reason it's a partisan breakdown question has less to do with Israel and more to do with the left's view of what American values are.
00:48:01.000So, according to this poll, about 4 in 10 Americans said Israel is a partner the U.S.
00:48:05.000should cooperate with, but doesn't share the U.S.' 's interests and values.
00:48:08.000Those results revealed a partisan split.
00:48:10.000More than half of Democrats said Israel is a partner that does not share American values and interests, but should be cooperated with, compared with 32% of Republicans who said the same.
00:48:20.000Because it turns out that Republicans overall believe that Israel does share values with the United States.
00:48:24.000Because Israel's values generally include things like patriotism and Judeo-Christian values.
00:48:29.000In the Judeo part of Judeo-Christian, Judaic values, like religious values, some sort of communal These are things the left forcibly dislikes.
00:48:42.000And so when they look at a country like Israel, they don't like that very much.
00:48:46.000They don't like that Israel is a nationalistic country, despite the fact that America has historically been a very nationalistic and patriotic country.
00:48:54.000The fact that this is a partisan breakdown, it's pretty clear what's happening here and has less to do with the redefinition of Israel and much more to do with the redefinition of America along hard left lines.
00:49:03.000Joe Biden, for his part here, has really helped to fracture relations between the state of Israel and the United States.
00:49:10.000That's because he has been effectively intervening in Israeli politics, in domestic politics, in a way that is rather unprecedented.
00:49:18.000I mean, Israel, as far as I'm aware, has never really sounded off on, for example, how the Supreme Court adjudicates Roe versus Wade.
00:49:24.000But that's basically what Joe Biden has done with regard to judicial reform in the state of Israel.
00:49:28.000And that's because he believes, I suppose, that he can get an ally on the left to be the prime minister of Israel if he pushes hard enough.
00:49:36.000But, you know, again, I'll say it again.
00:49:40.000That is much more a reflection, this poll, of how the left thinks about America and American values than it is a reflection of Israel changing in any significant way.