Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill homeless man, was on a subway train in New York City when he started yelling at and harassing other passengers. He was subdued by a white Marine, who put him in a choke hold, but he was unable to be revived and later died. The media and the general public have been quick to point the finger at the race of the person involved in the incident. Is this a case of race or mental illness? What happened to make this a murder, and why is it being treated as such a big deal? What role does race play in this case, and who is responsible for the actions of the other person involved, and what is the role of race in the death of this person, and how did it affect the media coverage of the case? If this were a Black Marine who subdued a black man, or a White Marine who subdue a Black man, then we would have stories about the heroism of protecting the surrounding population from people who have a history of violence, and the story would be much different than what happened in the case of a mentally ill man with a criminal record. In this episode, we will talk about what happened to Jordan Neely and how the media are treating this case and the reaction to it, and which people are being paid the most for their bravery, and whether or not this is a murder or a brave act of heroism, or if it was just a tragic accident, or is it a tragic mistake, or an accident, and if it should be treated as an accident or a good or bad one, and not a good one, etc etc etc. etc. This is a case that will have a tragic outcome, etc, etc., etc etc.. . Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, folks! we really appreciate your support. -Jon Sorrentino and your continued support of this podcast. Jon - Jon's new book, "The Devil Next Door" is out! Jon s new book is out now. is available on Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray and also rental on Vimeo, so be sure to check out Jon's newest album "The Dark Side of the Sun" if you listen to Jon's podcast on the podcast on SoundCloud and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and subscribe to Jon s Insta-site Subscribe on Podchaser, too!
00:00:19.000He's a 30-year-old psychotic black homeless man living in New York with an arrest record as long as your arm, 44 prior arrests.
00:00:28.000Why is Jordan Neely at the center of the news?
00:00:30.000Well, the reason is because he is dead.
00:00:32.000The reason that he is dead is because he was apparently on a subway car and he started screaming at and harassing the various passengers on the subway car.
00:00:40.000According to Alberto Vasquez, Juan Alberto Vasquez, who's a freelance journalist, he said he started screaming in an aggressive manner.
00:01:44.000So, this video, which you're about to see, it's hard to watch because it's a person who's being subdued.
00:01:47.000What you will notice in this video, however, is a couple of things.
00:01:50.000One, you will see that throughout the video, Jordan Neely continues to be incredibly agitated.
00:01:55.000Again, this is a person who was arrested multiple times for drug problems.
00:01:58.000He's apparently schizophrenic, psychotic, etc.
00:02:01.000He's being subdued by this 24-year-old white Marine, and there's another person who's attempting to subdue him.
00:02:08.000The other person who's not been mentioned in virtually any of the media reports is a black man who's attempting to subdue Jordan Neely.
00:02:14.000And the minute that Jordan Neely becomes unresponsive, the minute that he stops struggling, somebody says he's not struggling anymore, and the Marine lets him go.
00:02:21.000It doesn't matter because the media treat this as though this is a case of murder, as we'll get to in just one second.
00:02:25.000Again, that is largely based on the race of the people involved.
00:02:28.000If this were a black Marine who had subdued a black man, Or if this were a Black Marine who had subdued a psychotic white man screaming at people with an arrest record as long as you're armed on a subway, then presumably we'd have stories about the heroism of protecting the surrounding population from people who have a history of violence.
00:02:42.000I mean, Jordan Neely does have a history of violence.
00:02:44.000This is a person who has an outstanding arrest warrant right now, like today, for assaulting a 67-year-old woman in New York City.
00:03:14.000They're trying to subdue him because apparently he's threatening.
00:03:16.000And then he's on the floor and he's non-responsive.
00:03:21.000The train was stopped, the doors opened at the Broadway-Lafayette-Street-Bleecker-Street station, where Vasquez said the conductor had called 911.
00:03:28.000Apparently he lost consciousness after being put in the chokehold.
00:03:30.000EMS workers at the station were unable to revive him.
00:03:34.000The person who was subduing him, again, a Marine veteran, was taken into custody, later released without charges.
00:03:39.000Now, the investigation is ongoing, so they may try to bring charges against him.
00:03:43.000So, again, attempting to subdue somebody who is getting violent with the passengers may be a chargeable offense in New York City.
00:03:48.000Being actually violent with the passengers?
00:03:50.000Like, apparently, there are a bunch of people online claiming that this same person, Jordan Neely, had attempted to push them onto subway tracks before.
00:03:58.000That, you just are let out on the streets willy-nilly in New York City.
00:04:01.000Unless you actually push somebody on the tracks and they get hit by a train, at which point we arrest you.
00:04:05.000In New York City, if you violate the law dozens and dozens of times, you will just be out on the street, released in the general public.
00:04:11.000And by the way, this is the general rule.
00:04:12.000The general rule is, if you, as a society, decide that you're not going to police crime, you know who could have done something about this?
00:04:20.000And it's not as though this person hadn't had interactions with cops.
00:04:23.000The person is dead because the system decided that it was not worthwhile protecting either the public from Jordan Ely or protecting Jordan Ely from himself.
00:04:31.000Or protecting Jordan Ely from the public, because it turns out that leaving people who are psychotic on the streets to threaten others generally ends with somebody else who is not a cop stepping in to do something about it.
00:04:41.000Your choices in a society are to either outsource the legitimate use of force to the cops and then allow the cops to actually use force in order to subdue people who are violently threatening others, or you're going to get the predictable ramifications of not doing that, which is others will step in to defend themselves and others.
00:04:57.000There is no third choice where psychotically violent people just run around being psychotically violent with no repercussions whatsoever.
00:05:04.000According to the New York Post, as soon as people start expressing worry about Neely's well-being, The other people just let him go.
00:05:14.000The two people who are subduing him there, they let Neely go after a few seconds, leaving him lying on his side on the ground, presumably.
00:05:21.000Vasquez, who's filming it, said he had mixed feelings about the fatal encounter, particularly since he and Neely had not physically attacked anyone on the train before being taken down.
00:05:29.000He said, I think in one sense it's fine citizens want to jump in and help, but I think as heroes we have to use moderation.
00:05:33.000He said, this would never have happened if the police had shown up within five minutes.
00:05:37.000Then we would be talking about a true hero.
00:05:41.000So the medical examiner has ruled that the subway rider choked Neely to death.
00:05:47.000Or at least it's been ruled a homicide, which generally speaking, when a medical examiner rules a homicide, it just means that it wasn't a suicide and it wasn't natural causes.
00:06:00.000According to the medical examiner, Neely was homeless, had been screaming at passengers.
00:06:05.000Medical examiner says that they're going to go through the full investigation.
00:06:09.000The incident comes, according to the New York Times, as the city grapples with how to reduce both crime and the number of people with mental illness living on the streets while also respecting the rights of its most vulnerable residents.
00:06:17.000Now again, the race component here cannot be ignored.
00:06:22.000First, let's talk about a simple fact.
00:06:24.000There's no such thing as vacation when you have a full-time job.
00:06:28.000Even when you go on vacation, you need access to your phone to make sure that everything at the office is still going well, everything is fine.
00:07:26.000There are multiple people online who are claiming that Jordan Neely attempted to push them on the subway tracks, for example.
00:07:32.000One Twitter account said, I'm pretty sure I had a run-in with this guy a few weeks ago on the F. He was throwing around a city bike and yelling about how he was going to kill people.
00:07:38.000Most left the car, but this poor Asian lady got stuck by him, so a few of us couldn't leave her alone with him.
00:07:42.000If it's the same guy, yeah, he was either going to hurt somebody or get murked by a cop or a bystander sooner or later.
00:07:48.000Another person said, this man jumped on me, grabbed my shoulders, pushed me toward the tracks Sunday night at this very station.
00:07:52.000I was able to run away, but he got physical and chased other people standing on the platform before getting on an uptown train.
00:08:12.000A huge narrative for the media is that America is a systemically racist society.
00:08:16.000New York City is a really, really bad place to pretend that that is the case, because the vast majority of violent crime in New York City is committed by people of minority status.
00:08:25.000An extraordinary percentage, a very, very high percentage of all violent crime in New York City is committed by people who are either black or Hispanic.
00:08:34.000Most of the victims are also black or Hispanic.
00:08:36.000Pretending that New York City is like the center of white-on-black violence or white-on-Hispanic violence or any of the rest of this is just garbage.
00:09:14.000Three of the victims are in critical condition.
00:09:15.000But again, this is not going to be a national news story because the shooter in this particular case is a person who is a minority and we're not allowed to pay national attention to that because if we paid national attention to this, then this presumably increases racism.
00:09:27.000But the way to really decrease racism in American society is to focus in on this case of Jordan Neely.
00:09:33.000And you can see the entire left responded.
00:09:35.000Like the entire left went into action.
00:09:39.000Now again, the George Floyd case is controversial in its details.
00:09:43.000I am of the belief that George Floyd pretty obviously died of a heart attack.
00:09:48.000That George Floyd was struggling to breathe according to the tape itself in the car before he was even put on the ground and he asked to be taken out of the car.
00:09:58.000The evidence tended to show no damage to the neck, no damage to the trachea.
00:10:01.000So I'm of the opinion that the officer in that case is actually in prison wrongfully on a murder charge.
00:10:08.000You could say excessive force, but on a murder charge is wrong.
00:10:11.000But even put that aside, the media ran with the narrative in the George Floyd case that this is Evidence of white-on-black violence.
00:10:19.000That white-on-black violence is still the predominant issue in the United States.
00:10:22.000And so this is going to be the new George Floyd story.
00:10:25.000Is a white Marine took down a homeless black man.
00:10:28.000And that homeless black man was, of course, totally innocent.
00:10:33.000This was just a white-on-black crime, right?
00:10:34.000That's the way the media are going to play this.
00:10:36.000And you can already see the narrative starting to form in real time because the media are not spending an enormous amount of time reporting on the arrest record and activities of Jordan Neely.
00:10:44.000Instead, what you are seeing is left-wing activists trotting out video of him impersonating Michael Jackson on the subway.
00:10:49.000So, for example, the Working Family Party of New York, which is a far-left group in New York, they were putting out videos of Jordan Neely dancing As Michael Jackson on the subway.
00:11:00.000Well, if you were dancing as Michael Jackson on the subway, nobody would have been choking him out, obviously.
00:11:04.000It's that he was threatening people on the subway, and acting more and more psychotic on the subway.
00:11:08.000That is the reason that he was put in a submission hold in the first place.
00:11:11.000But that's not what you're gonna be told.
00:11:17.000Okay, here he is doing a Michael Jackson routine.
00:11:22.000And the New York Working Families Party tweeted out, Jordan Neely loved to dance and perform.
00:11:26.000On Tuesday, while suffering a mental health crisis, he was choked to death while people watched and cheered.
00:11:39.000As New Yorkers, you are citizens of a city that will not protect you, which necessitates that civilians step in and actually do the protection.
00:11:47.000And again, the entire left wing activated.
00:11:50.000I mean, it was left wing power rangers to activate here.
00:11:53.000So, for example, you had Toure, who literally at one point, I believe earlier in his career, called Broccoli racist.
00:11:59.000He tweeted out, a homeless man yelling on the New York City subway is normal.
00:12:12.000First of all, I do love the notion that in New York City, it is perfectly normal for homeless people to just yell at you on the subway.
00:12:19.000If you're a citizen of New York, you should just take it for granted that you're going to be assaulted on the subway.
00:12:24.000There's an amazing statement about New York City.
00:12:27.000Tariq Nasheed, who again, is a group of people who are looking for some some riots here.
00:12:30.000An innocent black man with a history of mental illness named Jordan Neely was brutally choked and murdered by a suspected white supremacist who the police refused to charge and the white media is protecting.
00:12:39.000Question, any evidence that this is a person who is a white supremacist at all?
00:12:47.000This culture of anti-black racism where suspected white supremacists are allowed to live out their Bernhard Goetz, Charles Bronson, death wish fantasies of murdering black people with impunity will not be tolerated.
00:12:56.000And it's not just, you know, professional racist agitators like Ture or Tariq Nasheed who are saying this sort of stuff.
00:13:03.000It's the inestimably stupid and vitriolic AOC.
00:13:06.000So, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who again, is a congressperson from this area, sounds it off as well.
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00:14:34.000I'm not sure that Alex— I think that she's both stupid and malicious, which is a hard combination to do.
00:14:39.000I very often say when it comes to politics that I try to attribute most things to stupidity rather than malice, but she's both stupid and malicious.
00:14:46.000So she tweeted out, Jordan Neely was murdered.
00:14:48.000But because Jordan was houseless— houseless is the new euphemism.
00:14:51.000New euphemism just dropped, houseless.
00:14:53.000So we went from hobo to homeless to houseless.
00:14:58.000And crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor.
00:15:04.000The murderer gets protected with passive headlines plus no charges.
00:15:09.000Can I point out that New York has been entirely democratic governed for the last decade?
00:15:14.000That Alexandre Ocasio-Cortez is a congressperson in this area?
00:15:18.000By the way, there are plenty of resources available for people who need a meal.
00:15:21.000There are homeless shelters in the city of New York.
00:15:23.000There's a person who is apparently a longtime drug addict, a person who is psychotically living on the streets, and it's New York government that has decided to allow this to happen.
00:15:30.000Why do you think the subway ridership has remained wildly down even after COVID?
00:15:34.000Mainly it's because people are afraid of being hit with a samurai sword or pushed onto the tracks by people like Jordan Neely.
00:15:38.000That is the reason why people are not riding the subways in New York City anymore.
00:15:41.000I know, I have lots of friends in New York City.
00:15:46.000So, AOC sounded off, of course, because, again, they have to have the George Floyd narrative.
00:15:50.000The George Floyd narrative allows for them to play this inside-outside game with the federal government and with the state government, where they protest from the outside.
00:15:57.000They find friendly legislators to then drop very Progressive policies in the name of racial equity.
00:16:05.000That's the inside-outside protest game that gets played here.
00:16:29.000So, the black guy who's holding down his arms, is he also involved in the lynching?
00:16:32.000And also, do any of the other citizens of New York City have rights, or is it their obligation to be physically assaulted, abused, screamed at, on the subways, without any intervention?
00:16:44.000Because, by the way, I will point out here that if the cops had done the exact same thing, it's not as though Ayanna Pressley and AOC would sound off any differently.
00:17:04.000He tweeted out, New York City is not Gotham.
00:17:07.000We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence or where the killer is justified and cheered.
00:17:54.000Oh, is the yelling about the injustice is why not the threatening of the fellow passengers,
00:17:58.000not the not the fact that this person was again, psychotically violent and had an outstanding
00:18:03.000arrest warrant that had not been filled because there are not enough cops in New York City,
00:18:06.000and they haven't been given the actual ability to do their jobs.
00:18:08.000They're going to use the language of lynching.
00:18:09.000They're going to pretend that this is the exact same thing as like Emmett Till.
00:18:13.000Because they need the narrative, the narrative is necessary because they can't run based on their governance, their governance in New York.
00:18:19.000They're the ones in charge of the system.
00:18:22.000And so now they're gonna try to morph this into Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama, 1965.
00:18:30.000It just demonstrates, once again, the facts do not matter to a group of people who actively wish for there to be protests, who actively wish for there to be race riots, who actively wish to make race relations in the United States worse.
00:19:24.000They don't want people to be able to be committed.
00:19:25.000They think it's a right to live on the street and threaten to push people on the subway.
00:19:28.000And if someone protests, And if somebody stands up and stops somebody from threatening others in the subway system, then apparently that person is the vigilante.
00:19:47.000The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the cause of death for Jordan Neely was determined to be compression of neck or chokehold.
00:19:52.000His performances on the subway didn't go unnoticed by the New York City community.
00:20:16.000Number two, you allow the cops to do their job in making sure these people are not psychotically threatening themselves and others on the streets.
00:20:22.000The left doesn't want to do any of those things.
00:20:24.000So instead, the predictable consequence is people defend themselves and others.
00:20:27.000And when it goes wrong, when something bad happens, then we prosecute the person who actually attempted to protect others on the subway system.
00:20:35.000Meanwhile, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, says, don't worry guys, the city's safe.
00:20:38.000We're going to continue making the city safe.
00:20:43.000It's not right for dangerous people to stay on our streets longer, but it's also not right for others to languish behind bars as the criminal justice process drags on.
00:20:55.000I'm confident today, broken together, we are going to move in the direction as the Governor stated.
00:21:02.000We're not spiking the ball, but we know we are moving towards the goal line.
00:21:07.000And we will be successful in making and continuing to have the city and state to be the safest state in America.
00:21:18.000Eric Adams was literally bragging about how safe New York City was yesterday when this person was choked down on the subway system.
00:21:24.000The slow clap for the geniuses in blue city governance who have decided to disinvest from the police to hamstring them and prevent them from enforcing the law and that it's a right for people to live on the streets.
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00:23:36.000New York has become the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings.
00:23:42.000A move that could help reshape how Americans heat and cook in their homes in the coming decades.
00:23:46.000Late Tuesday, the New York Legislature approved a $229 billion state budget that will prohibit natural gas hookups and other fossil fuels in most new homes and other construction, a major victory for climate activists.
00:23:56.000The move, which will likely face a court challenge from the fossil fuel industry, will serve as a test of states' power to ban fossil fuels outright, rather than simply encouraging developers to build low-carbon buildings.
00:24:06.000Well, it requires all electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven stories by 2026 and in 2029 for taller buildings.
00:24:12.000It allows exemptions for manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hospitals, and car washes, but the measure doesn't do what some climate activists had feared, give cities and counties license to override the bans.
00:24:21.000That means that your local restaurant might still be able to use, you know, flame cooking, but you won't be able to.
00:24:26.000All so that the environmentalists can feel super good about themselves.
00:24:28.000By the way, the notion that this is going to radically reduce carbon emissions and therefore adjust the global temperature is insane.
00:24:34.000The amount of carbon emissions that are saved by shifting to electric stoves from gas stoves are not measurable.
00:24:40.000Compared to sort of world output of carbon emissions.
00:25:28.000In fact, the New York Times reported last month that migrant children are being put to work across the country.
00:25:33.000So we now have the Biden administration presiding over a vast wave of illegal immigration that is ending with Dickensian street urchins working in the factories.
00:25:54.000According to the New York Times, In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio that had been converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children.
00:26:03.000Thousands of boys were sleeping on cots as the Biden administration grappled with a record number of minors crossing into the United States without their parents.
00:26:09.000Because the Biden administration has refused to do the thing that the Trump administration did and keep families together.
00:26:15.000So instead, they decided to just release a bunch of minors into the interior with no actual guardians.
00:26:44.000A few days later, her building access was revoked during her lunch break, and she was never told why she had been fired.
00:26:49.000Over the past two years, according to the New York Times, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States.
00:26:56.000Thousands of those kids have ended up in punishing jobs across the country, working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories, all in violation of child labor laws, according to a recent Times investigation.
00:27:08.000All along there were signs of this explosive growth in the labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, according to the New York Times.
00:27:14.000How Xavier Becerra, head of Health and Human Services, has retained his job is beyond me because, quote-unquote, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told HHS, including in reports that reached Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk.
00:27:25.000The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor.
00:27:28.000Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, like clusters of migrant kids who'd been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.
00:27:35.000So they're taking, like, 14-year-old kids who were crossing the border illegally, and then they were shipping them off to guardians who ended up being You know, contractors with acid.
00:27:46.000As the administration scrambled to clear shelters that were strained beyond capacity, children were released with little support to sponsors who expected them to take on grueling, dangerous jobs.
00:28:24.000He sent troops to the border to try to crack down on the illegal immigration crisis.
00:28:27.000And she said it was inappropriate at the time.
00:28:31.000Thank the men and women who serve our military and serve in the United States Marine Corps.
00:28:38.000I also believe that the administration made a decision to deploy them based on a political agenda.
00:28:48.000And I believe that it is inappropriate to require the limited resources of the United States military to be used in such a way.
00:29:03.000Again, now they're sending 1,500 troops to the border.
00:29:06.000By the way, Corinne Jean-Pierre says, don't worry, it's all humane.
00:29:08.000She says, we'll deal with lifting Title 42 in a humane manner, says the least talented White House press secretary of all time.
00:29:14.000You mentioned that the administration is preparing for what is to come or what will occur after Title 42 lifts.
00:29:20.000Can you describe or provide some detail as to what the White House is anticipating when this COVID-era border restriction expires?
00:29:30.000We know, and I've said this, we have tools that are in front of us that the president's going to use to deal with what we are seeing at the border.
00:29:39.000And this is something that the president has taken initiative on since the beginning of this administration.
00:29:45.000And we want to do this in a safe, orderly, and humane way.
00:29:50.000This administration is just a rolling series of crises.
00:29:52.000Speaking of which, remember those regional bank crises?
00:29:58.000We'll get to the latest possibly failing regional bank in just one second.
00:30:00.000First, you remember that President Trump recently issued a warning from Mar-a-Lago.
00:30:06.000Well, as we saw with First Republic Bank, you never know when your bank can go under.
00:30:12.000It's one reason why people are pulling their money out of regional banks and they are putting it into things like gold because they just don't trust the system.
00:30:58.000Also, We have a great new book out over at DW Books and it's really important right now when you watch what's happening with the Jordan Neely case and the quote-unquote systemically racist American system.
00:31:10.000There's one book that debunks all of this crap and that is Heather McDonald's brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit.
00:31:16.000Heather MacDonald is shutting down the malignant ideology of anti-racism in that book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.
00:31:26.000Heather's book exposes how BLM-fueled equity obsession is tearing down Western civilization, destroying meritocratic standards of achievement, because those standards apparently have a disparate impact on certain minorities.
00:31:36.000We're not enforcing criminal law because of all of that.
00:31:38.000The predictable result is stuff like Jordan Neely.
00:31:40.000Lowering standards, as Heather McDonald points out, jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, poisons the appreciation of art and culture.
00:31:46.000Go check out When Race Trumps Merit by Heather McDonald.
00:31:49.000It is a brave book and it is a book that you are going to need to read.
00:31:52.000It's a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the country and worried for our future.
00:31:55.000It's available right now, When Race Trumps Merit, available at Amazon or wherever books are sold already, a national bestseller.
00:32:00.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden's fiscal crisis is not over, not by a long shot.
00:32:04.000So the Federal Reserve yesterday raised rates again by 25 basic points.
00:32:08.000Then they hinted at the possibility that they would pause the rate hikes.
00:32:11.000But we will see how long that lasts for because inflation continues to be embedded in the American economy.
00:32:18.000Powell said yesterday, Jay Powell, the Fed chair who has been a giant failure so far, that the economy is still likely to avoid recession.
00:32:49.000The biggest issue is that we have systemic debt problems in this country that will come to fruition at some point in the future.
00:32:55.000Small cuts to prevent the debt ceiling from being hit is a pretty solid deal that McCarthy is currently offering Joe Biden.
00:33:02.000But again, the reality is that no one thinks this current economic crisis is over.
00:33:07.000Here's Jay Powell talking about the debt ceiling.
00:33:09.000I'm wondering if you can talk about the account of possible effects of a debt limit standoff.
00:33:15.000You've said repeatedly that the ceiling must be raised, but do you see any economics effects of even getting close to a default, and what type of situation would that look like?
00:33:26.000So I wouldn't want to speculate specifically, but I will say this.
00:33:29.000These are fiscal policy matters, for starters, and they're for Congress and the administration for the elected parts of the government to deal with and They're really consigned to them.
00:33:40.000From our standpoint, I would just say this.
00:33:43.000It's essential that the debt ceiling be raised in a timely way so that the U.S.
00:33:47.000government can pay all of its bills when they're due.
00:33:50.000A failure to do that would be unprecedented.
00:33:54.000Maybe Powell should talk to Joe Biden about all of that.
00:33:56.000As far as the increases in the interest rate, he said a decision on a pause was not made today, but he said that there was a noticeable change in Fed guidance.
00:34:04.000Now, all of this did not stop the stock market from plunging yesterday.
00:34:07.000So you would have expected that after the Fed raised the rates, but then said, maybe we'll pause it, that people would have been kind of optimistic.
00:34:13.000Stock futures declined on Thursday, the day after the Federal Reserve hiked rates by another 25 basis points.
00:34:18.000One reason is because of fears of contagion returning to regional banks.
00:34:23.000Over at Zero Hedge, they write earlier today when Jerome Powell openly lied to the American people during their press conference stating without a hint of irony that the US banking system is sound and resilient, we balked.
00:34:33.000How could this former lawyer lie so brazenly to the American people when in just the past few weeks we've seen over half a trillion in bank failures, making the current bank failure episode even worse than the global financial crisis?
00:34:43.000Well, the next regional bank collapse is already on its way.
00:34:45.000Shortly after close, Bloomberg reported that another regional California-based bank, PacWest Bank Corp., was weighing a range of strategic options, including a sale.
00:35:03.000Well, there was effectively a run on the bank.
00:35:04.000It turns out that a lot of people who are seeing the coming economic crisis, they're pulling their money from the banks because they don't believe that those banks are going to be able to Guarantee depositors.
00:35:13.000If you're a mid-sized regional bank with high levels of tech investment, for example, tech investors are pulling their money.
00:35:20.000They want it out before that bank collapses and they don't want to have to deal with the FDICs.
00:35:23.000They're just pulling out their money right now.
00:35:25.000This means that a lot of those banks who have over-invested in faith in the government, that's what bonds are, faith in the government, they got screwed because of those increased interest rates.
00:35:34.000And now a lot of those banks are Really on the edge.
00:35:37.000And you're going to see the large get larger.
00:35:39.000JPMorgan or something is going to eat up PacWest.
00:35:41.000On Tuesday, PacWest doubled 28% as investors retreated from regional bank stocks following JPMorgan's deal on Monday for First Republic Bank that did nothing to ease concerns about regional bank viability.
00:35:52.000Now again, there's a case to be made that the FDIC should have just stepped in if they wanted to maintain the existence of regional banks.
00:35:59.000I mean, they're subsidizing the deal anyway.
00:36:01.000Having a giant bank eat up a regional bank means, like I, as an investor, why would I leave my money at a regional bank?
00:36:06.000I would just pull it and I'd put it in the giant bank.
00:36:08.000I know the giant bank ain't gonna go under.
00:36:10.000The federal government won't allow it to go under.
00:36:12.000And then I don't have to worry about my cash or I'm going to take my money out and I'm going to put it in some other sort of fund.
00:36:17.000I'll put it in like a money market account.
00:36:21.000So all these regional banks, there are a lot of regional banks that are in serious trouble.
00:36:26.000If you think that this thing is over, it is not remotely over at this point.
00:36:30.000So essentially this leaves the Fed with not a lot of choices.
00:36:35.000Either they're going to have to cut the rates in order to maintain the asset base of a lot of these regional banks, injecting liquidity, or they're going to see a lot more regional banks fail.
00:36:44.000So we're not remotely at the end of this thing yet.
00:36:47.000Meanwhile, there are new details that are now emerging about Joe Biden.
00:36:53.000Amazing story from the New York Post today.
00:36:56.000Quote, a whistleblower tip about a document allegedly putting President Biden at the center of a bribery scheme triggered a guessing game across Washington Wednesday as journalists and politicians poured over Biden's extensive history of interactions with his family's overseas business associates.
00:37:08.000Biden, 80, regularly met with son Hunter and brother James' international connections during and after his eight-year vice presidency, including citizens of China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine.
00:37:18.000However, the tip pertains to alleged wrongdoing by President Biden, meaning it may not necessarily involve figures linked to his relatives.
00:37:25.000So it's unclear exactly what is being alleged.
00:37:28.000All we know is that a whistleblower turned over a document that suggests bribery of Joe Biden himself.
00:37:32.000House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa revealed the whistleblower information on Wednesday.
00:37:38.000They said the tip involves an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
00:37:45.000Grassley said if it's as explosive as what we've heard, we expect it to be very difficult to get.
00:37:54.000Comer set the FBI a deadline of May 10th to produce the document, leaving at least a week for speculation to mount about the dealings and countries involved.
00:38:01.000So all we know I mean, it's very vague.
00:38:03.000All we know is a whistleblower has said there is a document that links Joe Biden to bribery.
00:38:06.000It involves a foreign national and it involves American policy.
00:38:09.000So there are a few areas where this could come up.
00:38:13.000Obviously, we've seen before the accusations that Hunter Biden was being paid by Burisma to basically make connections with Daddy, who was then vice president of the United States.
00:38:21.000And we also know that Joe Biden was flexing his power in Ukraine.
00:38:39.000Biden allegedly met with one of his son's Russian associates, billionaire Yelena Baturina, and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, at the same April 2015 D.C.
00:38:48.000dinner that was attended by another Russian national.
00:38:52.000Bazzarino allegedly wired $3.5 million to a firm associated with Hunter more than a year prior, on February 14, 2014, and apparently met with Hunter and his associates Evan Archer that April in Lake Como, Italy.
00:39:12.000Now, when it comes to charging people criminally, obviously, if there's smoke, there's fire doesn't apply, but we are not in a criminal court right now.
00:39:19.000I mean, Hunter Biden was going to half a dozen countries and picking up like sacks of actual cash from foreign countries that are almost entirely dictatorships or corrupt oligarchies and using his daddy's name.
00:39:30.000And then his daddy was meeting with these people.
00:39:32.000So that doesn't look like the least corrupt thing you have ever seen.
00:39:36.000But don't worry, the media are focused in, like full bore, they're focused in on Clarence Thomas.
00:39:43.000So the latest accusation about Clarence Thomas?
00:39:46.000We know that Clarence Thomas is very close with a billionaire named Harlan Crow.
00:40:12.000So the latest accusation is that in 2008, Supreme Court Justice Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia.
00:40:22.000He had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
00:40:24.000for years because Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was six and said that he was raising him as a son, which seems like a very nice thing to do, right?
00:40:35.000A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows that the company of Harlan Crowe paid the tuition.
00:40:43.000The payments extended beyond that month.
00:40:44.000Apparently, Crowe paid Martin's tuition the entire time he was a student there.
00:40:48.000Now, what's the accusation of corruption here?
00:40:50.000Is the accusation that Harlan Crowe somehow bought some sort of judgment from Clarence Thomas?
00:41:44.000They agreed to take in this young child, much as Justice Thomas' grandparents had done for him and his brother in 1955.
00:41:50.000Justice Thomas and his wife made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce of their lives and hearts into giving their great-nephew a chance to succeed.
00:41:57.000In the summer of 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great-nephew.
00:42:01.000In discussing these challenges with their dear friends, Harlan and Kathy Crowe, Harlan recommended the Thomases consider one more option, sending their great-nephew to Randolph-Macon Academy.
00:42:10.000He thought the school would be a good fit.
00:42:11.000Harlan had financially supported Randolph-Macon since the 1980s.
00:42:14.000He had funded scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
00:42:17.000Harlan offered to pay the first year of Justice Thomas's great-nephew tuition in 2006.
00:42:21.000That payment went directly to the school.
00:42:23.000Harlan Crowe's office confirmed he did not pay the great-nephew's tuition for any other year at Randolph-Macon.
00:42:28.000After some time, Randolph-Macon recommended the great-nephew attend a boarding school in Georgia for a year.
00:42:32.000Harlan offered to pay the first year of tuition for their great-nephew at the Georgia school, and those tuition payments went directly to the school.
00:42:37.000By the next year, Thomas' great nephew returned to Randolph-Macon.
00:42:40.000He moved back to Savannah after he turned 18.
00:42:42.000The story is another attempt to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas.
00:43:05.000And again, there's been no allegation that either Justice Thomas violated his legal strictures in terms of reporting requirements, or two, that Harlan Crowe ever asked anything from Justice Thomas in the legal field.
00:43:20.000It's so absurd that we have a parallel case that the media just don't care about.
00:43:24.000According to Luke Rosiak over at Daily Wire, Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving Penguin Random House, despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, according to records.
00:43:40.000ProPublica doesn't care about that, apparently.
00:43:42.000So, Sonia Sotomayor literally took, like, $3 million in advances from Penguin Random House, and then she didn't recuse herself from a bunch of cases involving Penguin Random House.
00:43:57.000In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate.
00:44:01.000In 2012, she reported receiving two advance payments totaling $1.9 million.
00:44:05.000In 2013, she voted in a decision for whether the court should hear a case against the publisher called Aaron Greenspan v. Random House, despite then-fellow justice Stephen Breyer recusing after also receiving money from the publisher.
00:44:16.000Greenspan was a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's who wrote a book about the founding of Facebook and contended that Random House rejected his book proposal and awarded the deal to another author who copied the book and turned it into the social network.
00:44:26.000So, just as Breyer accused himself, Sotomayor did not.
00:45:13.000History and Civics scores since the start of the pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, showed a decline in student knowledge that reversed all gains made since the 1990s.
00:45:23.000According to the data, 13% of 8th graders met proficiency standards for U.S.
00:46:21.000There's really solid stuff right there.
00:46:25.000And of course, there are racial disparities in the statistics.
00:46:29.000The fact that the federal government has focused in on wokeism in the schools, if the schools were open at all, has not helped matters whatsoever.
00:46:38.000This is why, by the way, it is fun to watch everybody who's involved in shutting down the schools now running headlong from their own positions.
00:46:44.000So Anthony Fauci yesterday had the temerity to suggest that we have to stop playing the blame game about shutting down the schools.
00:46:48.000Dude, I see why you want to escape the blame game.
00:46:52.000I have some feelings as to why you wish to escape the blame game.
00:46:54.000Some of us were saying schools should be open as of like the summer of 2020.
00:48:02.000You're working at the behest of Randy Weingarten, whose main job was to make sure that teachers stayed home and got paid for doing nothing.
00:48:11.000Look, as you just said, kids have lost so much in the pandemic.
00:48:15.000This is why when the president walked in, he made that he made a priority to open schools.
00:48:21.000One of the things that was important to make sure that our kids who have lost so much were able to go back in person school if they choose, have the resources that they needed that to really succeed and move forward in their education.
00:48:35.000And we saw that unfortunately, the pandemic had Liar.
00:48:52.000The CDC was openly changing its standards on how to reopen schools based on the advice of non-scientist, non-epidemiologist Randy Weingarten who does not give a crap about the nation's kids.
00:49:03.000You want to know why the educational attainment has gone down in the United States?
00:49:06.000Because these people have taken over the entire educational system, and their insistence is that they be able to shut down when they want, and open when they want, and not only shut down and open when they want, also teach the kids books like Genderqueer.
00:49:26.000That's why, if you listen to the left these days about education, what is their chief priority?
00:49:31.000Fighting school choice and making sure that states do not pass laws barring critical race theory and teaching of sexual orientation in schools.
00:49:38.000This is the thing they care most about.
00:49:39.000This is why you have Kamala Harris again, World's Worst Vice President, suggesting that the great risk to kids right now is the banning of books.
00:49:45.000Now, what she never mentions is that what we are talking about when we say banning books is not providing pornography to children in school libraries.
00:49:57.000And they can't read because you guys don't care about whether the kids read.
00:50:01.000These are factories for ignorance promoted by the federal government at the expense of billions of dollars.
00:50:11.000And when we think about where we've been in the last few years in terms of everything from anti-Asian hate crime to what we are looking at in terms of attacks on fundamental freedoms like those That of a woman to make decisions and a person to make decisions about their body.
00:50:30.000To the attacks we're seeing on voting rights.
00:50:33.000To the attacks we're seeing on LGBTQ and trans folks.
00:50:41.000The attacks we're seeing where there are literally, can you imagine in this year of our Lord 2023, book bans?
00:53:39.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:53:45.000Okay, so first thing that I hate today, it is amazing.
00:53:48.000So Dave Portnoy, this is the problem with, you know, being corporately funded.
00:53:52.000So Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had to announce on Wednesday that one of their popular hosts, a guy named Ben Mintz, was fired from the company after he said a racial slur accidentally while reading rap lyrics on a live stream earlier this week.
00:54:03.000So he made the mistake of, he was reading, he was on a live stream, and he was reading the rap lyrics.
00:54:07.000And as he went through the rap lyrics, I believe he used the N-word.
00:54:49.000More abject apologies in American culture for somebody accidentally saying the N-word while reading rap lyrics than we do from actual murderers and rapists in our society.
00:55:00.000Penn acquired 36% of Barstool Sports from the churning group for $163 million in early 2020, and they bought the remainder of the company for an additional $388 million this past February.
00:55:09.000Portnoy said that the parent company made the call to fire Mintz over concern the incident could jeopardize regulatory gambling licenses across the country.
00:57:45.000I love my presentation. I don't need your validation from it. I do not receive this.
00:57:50.000And I would really caution you about policing other people's gender expressions
00:57:54.000because it's just not your f***ing business. If you look at me and you see a man,
00:57:59.000that's your transphobia that you are projecting onto people like me,
00:58:02.000and you're just making the world less safe.
00:58:06.000So, Harry or Dylan Mulvaney just dropped. If this dude says that if you look at him
00:58:13.000and you see a man, it's because you're a transphobe.
00:58:18.000So gentlemen, if you do not wish to have sex with this very obvious male who has full facial hair, body hair, penis, and balls, you're gay.
00:58:46.000We'll be talking with Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews about the 75th anniversary of Israel's birth and also the great work that the IFCJ is doing.