What would you do if one of your co-stars decided they were a member of the opposite sex? And how would you deal with it? This week on the show, we're talking about YouTube's Mr. Beast and his new co-star Chris Tyson, who has decided to transition from male to female, and how does that affect the dynamic of the show and how it's presented to the viewers? We're also talking about The Umbrella Academy, where Ellen Page is playing a lesbian character, and Ellen Page's character Elliot Page is a man. And what does that mean for the rest of the world of entertainment? And what do you do when someone decides to make a radical life change that cuts directly against the entire dynamic of a TV show or a movie? And how do you handle that situation? This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Vevolution. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art: Mackenzie Moore Music: Hayden Coplen Editor: Will Witwer Additional Compositions by Ian Dorsch Editing: Matthew Boll Art Direction: Patrick Muldowney Mixing: Jeff Kaale and Christian Bladt Logo by Haley Shaw Cover art by Ian McKellen Thank you to David Fincher for the cover art by Bobby Lord for the theme song by Jeffree Starretta - Our theme song is by Suneaters - The Good Lady - Weezer - The Badass Lady - Our Lady - The Good Life is Good - We'll Figure Outtrope - Our Song is Outtro: The Good, The Bad Girl Bad Girl - The Righteous - We Don't Know Us - by The Good Morning - by Squeen - by Ferg - by & The Good Girl - by the Good Girl Bad Boy - by Mr. Smith by ? and The Good Vibes . is out on SoundCloud - Our Music is by , in the Bad Girl, Bad Girl Girl by Sweeny Girl, The Good Lord - by The Bad Lady? and (featuring the Good Lady , The Bad Queen ? and The Bad Little Girl is a cover band - by Ms. & The Bad Bad Girl on the Bad Lady by the Bad Boy by Missy Elliott
00:00:00.000Well, many people who are sort of outside the YouTube sphere have no idea who MrBeast is, but MrBeast is the single most popular YouTuber on YouTube, meaning he has tens of millions of followers.
00:00:10.000A huge number of people follow his videos.
00:00:13.000Even if you're not sort of a routine YouTuber, you've probably seen some of his videos.
00:00:16.000He very famously a couple of years ago, for example, Did a remake of Squid Game in which he actually hired a bunch of people or offered a bunch of people to take part in Squid Game.
00:00:23.000They were then shot with paintball guns.
00:00:34.000His actual name is Jimmy Donaldson and the entire sort of drive of his show is that he does these incredibly creative videos, very clickable videos, and very often he does things for charity in his videos as well.
00:00:44.000We've talked about him on the show before helping to donate money so that people who are Going blind can actually have surgery or making sure that people in Africa have shoes.
00:00:53.000There's some really cool stuff on his YouTube channel.
00:00:55.000The entire sort of vibe of his show is that he and some of his friends, sort of the bros, they're constantly going and they are doing things together.
00:01:38.000If you are somebody who watches Mr. Beast regularly and suddenly a bunch of bros are interrupted by one guy who is pretending to be or believes that he is a woman, it changes the dynamic in rather stark ways, especially given the fact that Chris Tyson has in the past made sort of transgender jokes, jokes about transgenderism.
00:01:57.000A little while ago, a few months ago, he decided that he was going to begin hormone replacement therapy, and he started looking significantly less masculine on camera and significantly more feminine on camera.
00:02:04.000Now, listen, if you were running a TV show, which is essentially what Mr. Beast is doing, if you're running a piece of entertainment, then typically what you do is you cast for roles.
00:02:13.000And now on YouTube, because it's all about authenticity, very often they're just sort of your friends.
00:02:17.000But the reality is the dynamic created is a dynamic that is for the cameras.
00:02:22.000And so typically speaking, let's say that you are running a show, you know, other than the Umbrella Academy and one of your stars decided they were a member of the opposite sex.
00:02:30.000Well, you'd probably just say, well, you don't get to be in the show anymore because the dynamic of the show has changed.
00:02:34.000And that has nothing to do with bigotry.
00:02:36.000That has to do with the dynamic and success of the show.
00:02:38.000Not only that, if you were actually friends with somebody, if one of my close friends were on camera with me and they decided to make a radical life shift, they wouldn't expect me to continue to put the success of my career On hold or at risk because they were making a personal life decision.
00:02:52.000In other words, it's not my job to make room for you on this particular show because you've decided to make a life decision that now cuts directly against the entire dynamic of the show.
00:03:02.000Now, I mentioned the Umbrella Academy a moment ago on Netflix.
00:03:04.000They were in serious trouble because the Umbrella Academy started off with Ellen Page, a woman, playing a girl on the show, like a straight woman.
00:03:27.000I mean, it's ridiculous and it's silly.
00:03:28.000But that's exactly what is sort of now expected in the entertainment world, is that everyone who casts these shows, they have to treat people who completely change their entire identity As completely unfireable, like absolutely unfireable.
00:03:41.000So all this began again when Chris Tyson started to change his appearance on the show to appear more feminine and started tweeting out publicly about the benefits and wonders of gender affirming healthcare.
00:03:52.000So Chris Tyson tweeted out, and again, he's changed his entire Twitter profile.
00:03:55.000So now he has sort of an illustration of himself looking like a woman, although he doesn't look anything like that in real life.
00:04:02.000He looks like a dude who's wearing some makeup and has some long hair.
00:04:04.000He says, informed consent, HRT, that'd be hormone replacement therapy, saved me and many others lives.
00:04:11.000The hurdles GNC people, gender non-conforming people, have to jump through to get life-saving gender affirming healthcare in a first world country is wild to me.
00:04:18.000Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.
00:04:22.000And people started pointing out, well, Chris, you know, when you make life decisions, it actually has impact on other people.
00:04:28.000See, this is the magnificent narcissism of modern society, is that we decide that the personal life decisions that make us feel better in the cockles of our heart.
00:04:36.000These are the things that really matter in life, not our relationships with other people, not, in Chris Tyson's case, the relationship that he has with his wife and his kid.
00:05:12.000That is you ignoring the actual priorities in your own life.
00:05:14.000Life is about what are you going to sacrifice on behalf of the people who mean the most to you.
00:05:18.000It is not about you feeling the best you can feel on the interior of you, especially because that's a really subjective feeling and it turns out it's incredibly transitory.
00:05:26.000Not only is it transitory, when you're telling lies to yourself, it's incredibly damaging.
00:05:29.000When you're telling yourself a lie that you're a member of the opposite sex, and meanwhile, completely destroying presumably your relationship with your wife, and also completely confusing your own child, that actually is a bad thing to do.
00:05:41.000This should not be a controversial statement, because again, this is true for everyone.
00:05:44.000Gay, straight, Gender nonconformity, whatever you are, your top priority is providing for your child a level of stability and understandability to the world.
00:05:55.000And to your spouse, your highest commitment is to being the best husband or the best wife to your spouse that you can be.
00:06:00.000This does not involve you seeking yourself.
00:06:02.000You seeking yourself is a 1960s, 1970s garbage construct in which your own personal priorities take priority.
00:06:09.000In any case, some people pointed out that, you know, this changes the dynamic of Mr. Beast's show.
00:06:13.000That this actually is a problem for Mr. Beast's show.
00:06:15.000So Mr. Beast was now caught between a rock and a hard place.
00:06:17.000Because what our woke society has now created is a rock and a hard place.
00:06:20.000Not for Chris Tyson, whose choice this was in the first place.
00:06:23.000Whatever he chooses to do with his own family, he is free to do, although I am also free to morally criticize that thing.
00:06:28.000Because again, anybody who places their own priorities above those of their family is doing the wrong thing.
00:06:33.000But Mr. Beast was then caught between a rock and a hard place that our insanely left-wing society has created for him.
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00:07:44.000Okay, so, Now, Mr. Beast is caught between a rock and a hard place because his friend, a person he has cast on the show and who is now making presumably millions of dollars because he is friends with Mr. Beast and was a cast member of the show, has decided to completely change his character.
00:07:56.000Now he's no longer just a dude bro who's with him on the show.
00:07:58.000Now he is a man who pretends that he's a woman.
00:08:00.000By the way, this actually has real ramifications for the way that the show feels, the way the show looks.
00:08:05.000And there's a recent video from Mr. Beast in which this dude, Chris Tyson, who believes that he is a woman, they're interacting and making all the interactions that used to be kind of normal are now extremely, extremely awkward.
00:08:18.000OK, but Mr. Beast is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:08:20.000Because if he says to Chris, listen, Chris, you're screwing up the dynamic of the show.
00:08:43.000Our society says that he must actually sacrifice his business for the sake of his supposed friend who's willing to put him in this position in the first place.
00:08:51.000Because if he doesn't put this guy on the air and destroy the dynamic of a show, or at least harm the dynamic of a show, then that means that he's a transphobe.
00:08:58.000But if he leaves the guy in the air, it completely messes up the dynamic of the show and fewer people are going to watch it.
00:09:02.000You can see that in the number of dislikes that have been racking up on Mr. Beast's YouTube page.
00:09:39.000Well, I do not feel as though my kids should be exposed to a man who believes that he is a woman on the YouTubes until they are of age to understand exactly what is going on.
00:09:49.000A lot of other parents are going to have that same exact question.
00:09:53.000And that's not the fault of Mr. Beast.
00:10:41.000I'm leaving because I have to leave my wife and I have to leave my child because after all, if I stayed, just the dynamic... I'm really leaving for this younger model.
00:10:51.000The happiest version of me is the one that my child ought to see.
00:10:53.000No, that is not how any of this works.
00:10:56.000Again, as a father of three, soon to be four, gotta tell you, you're constantly sacrificing your personal authenticity and happiness on behalf of your children.
00:11:03.000It's just a thing you do all the time.
00:11:22.000It is the perfect tale of narcissists.
00:11:24.000We are now stuck looking in the mirror at ourselves constantly.
00:11:27.000And if we don't like what we see, then we insist that we get a new mirror and that everyone around us mirror back to us what it is that we are.
00:11:34.000By the way, if there's any data that contradicts this, we then go after the authors of the data.
00:11:38.000So, there is a brand new study out from Northwestern University, psychology professor Michael Bailey.
00:11:44.000According to Daily Wire, he analyzed survey data from 1,655 parents of youth and young adult children who identified as the opposite sex or non-binary.
00:11:51.000The survey data was compiled by the anonymous support group, Parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Kids, an organization that collects horror stories from parents whose children struggled with gender dysphoria.
00:12:00.000The data collected came from families of kids who began to identify as trans between the ages of 11 and 21.
00:12:06.000Bailey's study found gender dysphoria impacted girls much more often than boys.
00:12:09.00075% of gender dysphoric children were biological females.
00:12:15.000This is why you don't let your kids watch this crap on YouTube.
00:12:17.000Because if they do, it creates social contagion.
00:12:20.000Girls who feel insecure in their bodies or uncomfortable in their bodies, namely nearly every teenage girl, Start to think, well, maybe the reason I'm feeling uncomfortable is because I'm actually a member of the opposite sex.
00:12:54.000According to what was happening at Tavistock Gender Clinic, they're basically preying on kids who suffered from pre-existing autism.
00:13:00.000We'll get to more on this study in just one moment, because again, the cultural mores require that you bow before the lie, not before the data.
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00:14:11.000Okay, so this study from a Northwestern University researcher found pre-existing mental health issues were common.
00:14:17.000used with these issues were more likely than those without them to have socially and medically transitioned.
00:14:21.000Parents reported they had often felt pressured by clinicians to affirm their child's new gender and support their transition.
00:14:28.000According to the parents, children's mental health deteriorated considerably after social transition, which of course is not a shock at all.
00:14:35.000Suicidal ideation, depression, these rates are sky high for kids who identify as members of the opposite sex or gender non-binary.
00:14:43.000And when you usher kids into this world, and when you socially transition them, you're not making them healthier, you're making them significantly less durable, less able to face life challenges, and more bought into a lie that inevitably is going to shatter on the rocks of reality.
00:14:54.000Parents of ROGD kids, again that's Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria kids, say the study backs up its assertions that one of the prime causes of gender dysphoria and transgender identification in young people is social contagion.
00:15:04.000Girls are especially susceptible to suggestion and groupthink influenced by their social circles, the group said.
00:15:09.000The more people you can get to identify as transgender or gender non-conforming, and this is the push on social media, this is the push among left-wing politicians, the more you can say it's a real phenomenon.
00:15:18.000If it turns out that it's a very fringe thing, a fringe phenomenon, well, then you can say, well, this is fringe.
00:15:24.000A lot of this is being driven by social contagion.
00:15:26.000But the more people who do it, the more it reifies itself.
00:15:29.000And then you can say, no, no, no, it's a real thing.
00:15:31.000It's a thing that's really happening out there.
00:15:32.000And not only is it happening, it's absolutely real.
00:15:35.000The group said in a press release quote these youth are most likely using gender dysphoria to describe general feelings of dysphoria they have no other name for and do not understand.
00:15:43.000It can only cause irreversible harm and make things much much worse.
00:15:47.000In a footnote to its release the parents of ROGD kids also knocked the Washington Post.
00:15:50.000They published an article earlier on last month suggesting trans treatment led to happier outcomes from people who identify as transgender.
00:16:01.000As this group points out, on every question relating to mental health and social functioning, the group rated themselves as worse off than the total population surveyed.
00:16:11.000And this is all about society shutting down the discussion.
00:16:13.000You're not even supposed to have the discussion in public.
00:16:16.000We have to take great care on social media not to be banned, which is why we very often will refer people over to Daily Wire Plus if you want to hear the uncensored version of the show.
00:16:25.000Same thing that many people on the onlines do.
00:16:28.000Our show Morning Wire, by the way, has covered this particular study in depth.
00:16:31.000You should go check that out over on their podcast feed.
00:16:38.000The theme is that if you mention this sort of stuff, then you are supposed to be shut up.
00:16:43.000And you have to go along with it, or it means that you're a transphobe, like if Mr. Beast had said to Chris Dyson, listen, dude, take some time off, figure out your stuff, and then we'll talk later about your career.
00:16:53.000Just as Jamie Reid, who is a whistleblower on a gender clinic over in Missouri, says that she was on the Triggernometry podcast.
00:17:03.000She's a left-wing lesbian, is my understanding.
00:17:06.000And she said, we weren't even able to say that we have concerns about patients.
00:17:09.000We were just supposed to immediately greenlight whatever they wanted.
00:17:15.000Pretty much putting anybody on testosterone at 13 and a half if that's what they wanted.
00:17:20.000It was getting to the point where we were harming more patients that we were helping just by the numbers.
00:17:27.000What I am not in agreement with is this push to rapid medicalization of children.
00:17:34.000And it got to the point in the center where there was an actual directive That we were no longer allowed to use the phrase, I have concerns about a patient.
00:18:05.000And when you see People who are outside this game, who buy into it, or fulminate the game, you actually have to take your business away from them.
00:18:14.000Whether it's not watching a Mr. B's video, or whether it's ceasing to drink Bud Light.
00:18:20.000I don't know why you want to drink it in the first place.
00:18:21.000So Bud Light, as we all know, over the last couple weeks came under severe fire because they decided that it would be an amazingly smart marketing move to hire Dylan Mulvaney, a dude who pretends that he is a lady, in order to market its beer for poor white people.
00:18:36.000Which is what Bud Light is, because if you can afford anything better, you definitely afford something better than Bud Light.
00:18:40.000So Bud Light is now trying to walk this one back, as they should, because it turns out that they lost like a lot of market value almost immediately following the Dylan Mulvaney debacle.
00:18:50.000Now their stock has recovered somewhat, because again, people don't tend to hold boycotts for very long, but this is why it's important to actually hold the line.
00:18:57.000So Einheiser-Busch put out a ridiculously weak statement.
00:19:00.000They said, quote, our responsibility to America, this is from The head of Anheuser-Busch, the CEO, a guy named Whitworth, quote, As the CEO of a company founded in America's heartland more than 165 years ago, I'm responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew.
00:19:16.000We're honored to be part of the fabric of this community.
00:19:18.000Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people, and our independent distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues.
00:19:24.000We have thousands of partners, millions of fans, a proud history supporting communities, military first responders, sports fans, and hardworking Americans everywhere.
00:19:30.000We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people.
00:19:32.000We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.
00:19:35.000My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded.
00:19:39.000Freedom, hard work, respect for one another.
00:19:41.000As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I'm focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage.
00:19:45.000I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands, our partners.
00:19:48.000I spent much of my time traveling across America, listening to, learning from our customers, distributors, and others.
00:19:53.000Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation.
00:19:57.000That is an absolutely meaningless statement.
00:20:00.000An absolutely meaningless statement that doesn't actually back off of advertising with Dylan Mulvaney.
00:20:05.000Apparently made the left fighting angry, but it shows that Anheuser-Busch is actually on the retreat a little bit.
00:20:10.000They don't want this fight in the same way that Disney has been on the retreat socially since people decided they don't wish to invest in their product.
00:20:16.000We'll see if Disney continues to double down.
00:20:19.000The great suspicion is that in Frozen 4, they'll make Elsa a lesbian.
00:20:21.000If they, by the way, if they do that, it is the end of Disney as a company.
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00:21:38.000Okay, so Anheuser-Busch was trying to walk this one back.
00:21:41.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Budweiser has released a patriotic new ad featuring its iconic Clydesdale horses just two weeks after the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light deal sparked huge backlash.
00:21:51.000The one-minute spot was released on social media Friday, featured shots of the iconic Clydesdales galloping across the country in open fields past landmarks including the Lincoln Memorial and the New York City skyline.
00:22:00.000And then a narrator says Budweiser is a story bigger than beer, right?
00:22:03.000They're trying to It better be bigger than beer because the beer isn't very good.
00:22:06.000The ad for the beer is obviously a pivot to return to sort of the values that originally Bud Light was identified with.
00:22:14.000This is in stark difference, says the UK Daily Mail, to Bud Light's doomed partnership with trans influencer Mulvaney, which ended in a lukewarm apology from the film's CEO.
00:22:20.000Now, I didn't really apologize, obviously, but it was a movement away from all of that, which is why it's important to actually pressure corporations that do this.
00:22:29.000Which is kind of why it's unbelievable to me, like truly unbelievable, the pusillanimity, the cowardice, like the pure cowardice of the RNC and Donald Trump Jr.
00:22:59.000The memes have been so good, I'm sitting there chomping.
00:23:03.000But when I actually look into it, I'm not going to blame the whole company for the inaction or the stupidity of someone in a marketing campaign that got woke as hell.
00:23:11.000The company itself doesn't participate in the same leftist nonsense as the other big conglomerates.
00:23:18.000Frankly, they don't participate in the same woke garbage that other people in the beer industry actually do, who are significantly worse offenders when I looked into it.
00:23:32.000So first of all, this notion that you shouldn't pressure corporations, especially if those corporations give to Republicans, unlike other corporations, is ridiculous.
00:23:39.000Those are exactly the people you should pressure.
00:23:41.000Why would a left-wing corporation that gets all of its money from the left wing ever listen to you?
00:23:47.000If you can't keep the corporations that actually are fairly balanced in line, what are you going to do with the far-left corporations that don't give a bleep about your priorities?
00:24:09.000I mean, the reality is that for those of us who don't believe in the transgender agenda, The very idea that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man is absurd on its face.
00:24:19.000It's significantly worse for children because anything that you do that is bad is worse when you do it to kids.
00:24:23.000But if you're a 30-year-old man and you say that you are a woman and some doctor decides to do mutilating surgery on you, I think there are values, like truth, that are actually higher than consent.
00:24:34.000If you consent to chop off your arm and a doctor does it for you, that doesn't make it okay.
00:24:42.000The basic sort of notion that you're supposed to leave alone Bud Light or Budweiser because Budweiser is not quite as lefty as other companies.
00:24:51.000It makes no sense at all on just a pure leverage level.
00:24:55.000Meanwhile, the RNC is doing the same exact thing.
00:24:58.000So the RNC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, they actually quietly backed off of attacking Bud Light.
00:25:27.000All of the organizations, the RNC, the DNC, the NRCC, the DNCC, or the DCCC, rather, All of those organizations are repositories for money grabs.
00:25:50.000It's not that the NRCC is using its leverage against corporations.
00:25:53.000The corporations are using their leverage on the NRCC, which is why it's important for you as the consumer to exert your leverage on the companies, because otherwise they are going to shape from the inside the agenda of the NRCC.
00:26:03.000You want to know why a bunch of Republican senators voted in favor of enshrining same-sex marriage?
00:26:07.000It's because voters didn't do their job.
00:26:09.000It is because the Republican Party, over and over again on social issues, has been eaten from the inside out by a donor class that does not actually share the values of the base of the Republican Party.
00:26:19.000This, by the way, is one of the reasons why, for example, There's a major donor, supposedly, who is now going anti-DeSantis in the wake of his six-week abortion ban that was passed and signed into law here in Florida.
00:26:29.000This donor happens to be a major Trump donor, by the way.
00:26:32.000This donor was featured by Maggie Haberman, who is, of course, very tight with Donald Trump on a personal level.
00:26:44.000Because DeSantis is too socially conservative.
00:26:46.000One thing you have to understand about the GOP donor class, by and large, they're significantly more socially liberal than the general population of the United States and way more left wing when it comes to social policy than the base of the Republican Party.
00:26:56.000This is the thing that everyone in these sort of chattering classes doesn't understand about Trump's campaign in 2016.
00:27:03.000Trump's campaign in 2016 was not about trade.
00:27:05.000Trump's campaign in 2016 was not about racism.
00:27:08.000Trump's campaign in 2016 was there's a left-wing assault on your social values, and you should not allow that to happen.
00:27:13.000The big gap between the middle of the country and the coast is not on economics.
00:27:17.000The big gap between the middle of the country, red state areas and blue state areas is actually on the social issues.
00:27:23.000Those issues matter to an awful lot of people, especially a lot of people who happen to go to church.
00:27:27.000But the donor class doesn't believe that stuff. This is why if you actually go inside the Republican donor class, and I've been in a lot of rooms with these people, the Republican donor class is disproportionately libertarian. They're people who are so, this is how they get along with all their left-wing friends in major coastal areas because coastal Republican donors give an outsized share of Republican donations. Those coastal Republican donors are people who go to their friends and they're like, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm not so comfortable with this pro-life I'm pretty on board with same-sex marriage, even trans stuff.
00:27:52.000Like, yeah, you know, it's fine with me.
00:28:25.000You know, in the sort of Reagan three-legged stool that always described the conservative movement, the Republican Party, that Reagan three-legged stool was hawkish on foreign policy, laissez-faire on economics, and socially conservative.
00:28:36.000The piece that was always uncomfortable for the elite was not the first two, it was the third.
00:28:40.000It was all those kind of weird, weird, creepy Christians who like believe in the Bible and like Judeo-Christian morale.
00:29:41.000You don't have the basis to actually build a thing.
00:29:44.000So the fact that you have, you know, Donald Trump Jr.
00:29:46.000saying, don't go after Anheuser-Busch or the RNC saying that, if Anheuser-Busch wants to get back in the good graces of the people who consume its product, maybe they ought to actually say, we apologize for buying into the lie that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man.
00:29:58.000We should not have stepped into this social battle in the first place.
00:30:02.000What is amazing about all of this, of course, is how the media lie about it.
00:31:03.000Head on over to stamps.com, click that mic at the top of the page, enter promo code Shapiro.
00:31:07.000Also, hard to believe it's been less than a year since Matt Walsh released the most important documentary of the last 10 years, What is a Woman?
00:31:41.000Okay, meanwhile, the New York Times is doing what it can do to try to pretend that what conservatives are saying about the trans issue, it's actually an offensive culture war.
00:31:48.000This is the thing that the left loves to do, is they provoke a culture war.
00:31:52.000And then when there's a response from the right, they're like, how dare you start this culture war?
00:31:55.000So there's an entire article in the New York Times titled, How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives.
00:32:01.000Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.
00:32:05.000The campaign that followed has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.
00:32:08.000Well, no, actually, what happened is that after same-sex marriage, everyone thought this was done.
00:32:12.000After same-sex marriage, everyone, right, left, and center, was like, well, the left has achieved its utmost goal, which is to pretend that a male-male dyad is the same thing as a male-female dyad.
00:32:19.000Now we can all move on with our lives.
00:32:21.000And then the left is like, well, what if we actually use that in order to cram down on religious institutions our views of men and women?
00:32:26.000And then what if we suggest that because male-male dyads are the same as male-female dyads, that male and female are actually interchangeable, and that men can become women, and women can become men, and that your children can be taught this?
00:32:36.000Basically, the left went in search of a new civil rights issue.
00:33:15.000That's what you, you declared the war.
00:33:17.000And then when we respond, because it is offensive and terrible when it comes to, you know, transing the kids, then you say, well, you guys started the fight.
00:33:24.000So the New York Times has an entire, the entire article is just a gaslighting example par excellence quote.
00:33:30.000When the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage nearly eight years ago, social conservatives were set adrift.
00:33:35.000The ruling stripped them of an issue they had used to galvanize rank-and-file supporters and big donors.
00:33:38.000It left them searching for a cause that, like opposing gay marriage, would rally the base and raise the movement's profile on the national stage.
00:33:44.000We knew we needed to find an issue candidates were comfortable talking about, said Terry Schilling, president of American Principals Project.
00:33:50.000What has stuck somewhat unexpectedly is the issue of transgender identity, particularly among young people.
00:33:55.000The campaign since has been both organic and deliberate, has even gained speed since Trump, an ideological ally, left the White House.
00:34:02.000Since then, at least 20 states, all controlled by Republicans, have enacted laws that reach well beyond the initial debates over access to bathrooms and into medical treatments, participation in sports policies on discussing gender in schools.
00:34:13.000It's a strange world to live in, said Ari Drennan, LGBTQ program director for Media Matters, a liberal media monitoring group that tracks legislation.
00:34:19.000As a transgender woman, she said, she feels unwelcome in whole swaths of the country where states have attacked her right just to exist.
00:34:25.000I love that they are now going as experts to Media Matters, a left-wing propaganda group.
00:34:30.000But this is what the media do on a constant basis.
00:34:47.000So according to ABC7 in Chicago, 15 people were arrested after large groups gathered downtown and two teenagers were shot near Millennium Park on Saturday night.
00:35:10.000According to Chicago PD, they said officers responded to several large groups of juveniles and young adults who were, quote, engaging in reckless and disruptive behavior and putting themselves and the public at risk for harm.
00:35:18.000But the officers were completely overwhelmed.
00:35:19.000We're talking about hundreds and hundreds of people who are engaging in looting and vandalism.
00:35:25.000Officers arrested nine adults and six juveniles only.
00:35:29.000We have some video from the actual from the actual ransacking that happened over the weekend on the loop.
00:35:36.000Large numbers of young people crowding the area of The Loop from Michigan Avenue to Clark Street and could be seen jumping on parked cars and smashing windows.
00:35:44.000Two times, groups of teens were also seen punching, kicking, and stomping on someone on the ground.
00:35:49.000In the midst of it all, shots were fired just after nine, leaving two teens injured.
00:35:53.000A 17-year-old boy was hit in the leg and a 16-year-old boy was shot in the arm.
00:35:59.000Okay, well, that is just one piece of the video.
00:36:01.000There's tons of video that has now emerged of this craziness on the loop.
00:36:26.000And all this is happening, and it's just a disaster area in the middle of downtown Chicago.
00:36:29.000And by the way, the craziness in Chicago is not relegated to the incident on the loop.
00:36:34.000Then shots get fired, people are running away.
00:36:39.000Obviously, things are well under control.
00:36:41.000Mayor Lori Lightfoot has done a spectacular job.
00:36:42.000And there you have it, like two police officers for hundreds of young people who are going around and committing acts of vandalism, getting violent with people, jumping on top of cars, and all the rest.
00:36:52.000There's no way to control the city when you don't have enough cops on the streets.
00:36:55.000And again, it's not just in downtown Chicago.
00:36:56.000Over the weekend, video emerged from the border between Forest Park and Oak Park, which is a neighborhood in Chicago.
00:37:03.000I mean, this is happening in broad daylight in Chicago.
00:37:54.000So do the local leaders in Chicago decide that they are going to come together to try to bring down the crime rate by, for example, encouraging fathers to stay in the home?
00:38:03.000Restructuring welfare so that welfare does not benefit single mothers above married mothers?
00:38:07.000Take measures that might actually encourage people to form the basic family units that actually enshrine behavior in children.
00:38:40.000Well, they showed up demanding that the store remain open two days after corporate officials announced they would close the store this weekend.
00:39:36.000These stores should appear and they should run a loss because parents aren't watching their kids or teaching them not to steal things from the stores.
00:39:49.000But apparently, it's corporate America that is to blame.
00:39:51.000Lori Lightfoot, the outgoing mayor of Chicago, she issued a statement saying in part, quote, Meanwhile, the incoming mayor, and again, this is just a perfect example of the H.L.
00:40:03.000Mencken line, that democracy is the theory that the average voter knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.
00:40:57.000What I'm saying is you can't condone the looting that corporations continue to do every single day when they take tax dollars from black, brown, white folks all over the city of Chicago so that they can turn a profit.
00:41:10.000That is three separate times the incoming mayor of Chicago refused to condemn looting.
00:41:14.000Three separate times saying that they're doing it out of desperation.
00:41:58.000However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.
00:42:04.000Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly under adult guidance and supervision to ensure that every part of our city remains welcome for both residents and visitors.
00:42:13.000This is one aspect of my comprehensive approach to improve public safety and make Chicago livable forever.
00:43:45.000So again, the rule on the left is that if you actually pay attention to an issue, then they call you a racist.
00:43:50.000That's the way all of this works, because to actually pay attention to the issue gets into uncomfortable conversations about what people ought to do, for example, in order to prevent crime.
00:43:58.000So, it is amazing how the media will pay attention to certain types of shooting, but not other types of shooting.
00:44:02.000So, whenever there is a mass shooting that involves white people, whether it's a white shooter and minority victims, or whether it is white victims and a white shooter, Typically, that gets major media coverage.
00:44:15.000There is almost no media coverage when there is a mass shooting involving black shooters and black victims.
00:44:51.000On the right, we tend toward solutions that bear toward, you know, individual decision-making and incentive structures for individuals that usually involves rebuilding social fabric, rebuilding family structure, looking at what are the economic incentives that make people do the things that they do or incentivize them to do bad things.
00:45:09.000Okay, so today's example comes courtesy of the Daily Mail.
00:45:13.000Apparently, a high school football standout was among four killed in a mass shooting in a small-town Alabama area where more than 20 people were shot at a Sweet 16 celebration for the victim's sister.
00:45:23.000Philstavius Dowdell, a senior set to graduate in a matter of weeks, had been celebrating his sister Alexis' birthday Saturday night at Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in Dadeville when the first shots rang out following what cops suspect was a fight.
00:45:33.000The team was awarded a full scholarship to Jacksonville State back this past February and is the first victim to be formally identified.
00:45:40.000Earlier in the day, state investigators probing the shooting confirmed in a statement there have been four fatalities.
00:45:47.000Apparently, again, more than 20 injured.
00:45:50.000This is not receiving the sort of national media coverage as most of the mass shootings.
00:45:53.000And the reason it's not receiving the sort of media coverage of most of these mass shootings is because The unfortunate problem with the murder rate in the United States and the gun homicide rate in the United States is that it is largely happening inside the black community.
00:46:08.000It is largely happening because black people are shooting other black people.
00:46:16.000That has nothing to do with the inherent quality of race, as I've said 1,000 times before.
00:46:20.000It has to do with the conjunction of socioeconomic factors that range from lack of fathers in the home, to lack of educational opportunities, to lack of cops on the streets in these areas, specifically because the left keeps yelling at having too many cops in black areas because the cops are racist or something, which is why I've seen a huge spike in the homicide rate in virtually every major American city since 2014 and the Ferguson riots.
00:46:42.000Okay, so here is a stat, and the stat should shock you, because we're constantly talking in the United States about homicide deaths in the United States and how terrible the homicide death rate is in the United States.
00:46:51.000It's so high, it's so crazy, it's so awful.
00:46:55.000When you stride the homicide deaths per 100,000 population by race in the United States, the differences are stark and shocking.
00:47:02.000So FiveThirtyEight did an analysis of homicide deaths per 100,000 population from 2010 to 2012, and there's no reason to think that these numbers have changed in any major way over the course of the ensuing decade.
00:47:12.000Probably they've gotten worse considering the increased amount of crime from 2014 and up that seems to be relegated largely to America's major cities, which are disproportionately black.
00:47:21.000So according to this chart, again, this is 538.
00:47:25.000If the black United States were its own country, it would have a homicide death rate of 19.4 per 100,000 population.
00:48:05.000It means that if we were to look at solutions for the gun homicide rate, we would actually have to look at systemic failure inside major American cities that disproportionately affect black people.
00:48:15.000That's what we'd have to actually look at.
00:48:18.000But the media have an aversion to looking at those sorts of things because we have declared that all life choices are equivalent and that all family structures are equivalent.
00:48:25.000A single mom with a kid on welfare is totally equivalent to married mom and dad with three kids not on welfare.
00:48:34.000The only time, in fact, that the left will mention the issue of race is when there is a law of general applicability that they think is bad.
00:48:44.000Then all of a sudden they start mentioning race.
00:48:45.000So, for example, did MSNBC have anything to say about this major shooting in Alabama over the weekend?
00:48:50.000Did they have anything to say really about the loop over the weekend?
00:48:52.000This huge violence that was, if you look at the video, it appears to be virtually all young black teenagers who are running through the loop and committing acts of violence, which is why you saw the incoming mayor basically poo-poo it.
00:49:03.000Have serious doubts that if there were an all-white teenage audience running through Lupin ransacking stores, you'd be like, ah, this is systemic poverty.
00:49:09.000In any case, what do they focus on when it comes to race?
00:49:12.000They focus on abortion law in Florida.
00:49:15.000So here's MSNBC's Katie Fang, and a guest, talking about how black women are going to die in Florida because of lack of quote-unquote abortion access.
00:49:22.000Now, nobody ever seems to point out on the left that a disproportionate number of black babies are killed in utero in the United States, that more black babies are killed than born in utero every single year in New York City.
00:50:08.000That is State Senator Chevron Jones saying that black women are going to die.
00:50:11.000He obviously doesn't care very much about the, you know, unborn black kids who do die every year in mass numbers.
00:50:15.000First of all, black people are not even being born thanks to abortion in extraordinary numbers in the United States.
00:50:21.000And young black men are actually being born to die because the gun homicide rate among young black men is extraordinarily high.
00:50:25.000But nobody's going to focus in on that.
00:50:27.000As you focus in on that, you might have to have uncomfortable systemic conversations about how these cities are being run and what the incentive structures are.
00:50:33.000Instead, we're going to pretend that unless you agree with the left, you're some sort of racist, which is exactly what they're doing in Tennessee.
00:50:38.000So Tennessee passes a law to actually shore up security at a bunch of schools.
00:50:41.000And Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson has been cosplaying the revolution.
00:50:45.000He says, we're living in a gun violence epidemic.
00:50:47.000Well, um, why are you using as an example of the gun?
00:50:50.000Why is the example the best example like the apex example of gun violence is shooting at a Nashville church when the disproportionate number of black of gun homicides in the United States are affecting young black men who are being shot by other young black men?
00:51:04.000The reason is because then you get to claim that the solution is taking guns away from everybody, which, of course, is not the solution.
00:51:10.000The reality is we have a Republican Party that is much more concerned about how they can take control over people's lives and preservation of the NRA's ability to write our legislation than actually doing anything to protect our communities and make them safer.
00:51:25.000In Tennessee, what we have seen even in the wake of the shooting at the Nashville Covenant School where three children lost their lives who were nine years old and three administrators Where folks went to a bank in Louisville, Kentucky and lost their lives due to assault rifles and weapons being way too easily accessible.
00:51:40.000We are living in a gun violence epidemic because we have a preponderance of legislation that refuses to deal with the proliferation of weapons that are in our communities.
00:51:50.000So first of all, I don't enjoy this version of Justin Pearson nearly as much as crazed, scream, shouting, you know, crazy arms, Justin Pearson.
00:51:59.000But again, avoid the central issue because if you don't avoid the central issue, you might have to talk about uncomfortable things and consider the possibility that all of your solutions are destined for failure.
00:52:07.000Now, meanwhile, leading up to 2024, the left has decided on its theme.
00:52:11.000The theme for 2024 is going to be abortion.
00:52:12.000It's going to be abortion all the time.
00:52:14.000Now you can see why the left is focusing on this theme.
00:52:16.000The reason the left is focusing on the theme for 2024 is they can't point to the wonderful performance of Joe Biden.
00:52:30.000So they've decided they're going to focus in on abortion.
00:52:31.000The reason they're doing this is because if they look at states like Michigan, Where there was basically an abortion ban on the table or an enshrinement of abortion law in the Constitution on the table.
00:52:40.000It really helped Democrats in the same way that in 2004.
00:52:44.000Actually, rather in the same way that is in 2008.
00:52:49.000Probably won primaries based on the fact that there was also on the ballot in a pro-traditional marriage amendment that black Americans disproportionately voted for in the state of California.
00:53:02.000In the same way, Democrats would love to get on the ballot abortion, like in every state.
00:53:06.000They'd love to make the next election all about abortion because the media does their heavy work here.
00:53:12.000And so they are now trotting out the person who would be the likely presumed nominee were Joe Biden to stumble and fall or continue to be as vegetable-like as he has recently been.
00:53:21.000Kamala Harris, she's out there talking about abortion.
00:53:22.000She says that sometimes she meets women to speak with them.
00:53:26.000You know, in traveling around the world, I often, in fact, almost every time when I go to a new country, I'll meet with women to talk with them about how they're doing.
00:53:45.000He says that it's beyond comprehension to restrict abortion.
00:53:48.000He says this to a news anchor, Jen Psaki.
00:53:50.000It's amazing how she shifted seamlessly from being a propagandist for the Biden administration on MSNBC, like as the press secretary, to a propagandist for the Biden administration on MSNBC as an anchor.
00:54:06.000Should courts have the ability to rule to take a drug away from millions of people like this but also others?
00:54:14.000Look, this is a continuation of a fundamental attack on women's rights.
00:54:19.000It is beyond comprehension that in the year 2023, you have people who think that it should not be women who control their own bodies, but government.
00:54:28.000And this is just another example of that.
00:54:31.000And we have got to fight as hard as we can to make sure that women are the people who determine their lives and not somebody, some right-wing politician.
00:55:59.000If you believe that you don't want people to have abortion rights, but you live in America, which constitutionally says that you can't impose a state religious belief on everybody else, but you do it, That's actually Sharia.
00:56:12.000That's actually what everybody else is complaining about what Sharia is.
00:56:15.000You've taken the good book and you have made that the law book.
00:56:20.000Okay, so first of all, protecting human life does not require you to be a Bible believer.
00:56:24.000There are many, many people who are not Bible believers who believe that you should protect unborn human lives.
00:56:40.000That is the only way to stop all of this.
00:56:43.000And this is why, again, I urge everyone who's about to vote in Republican primary over the course of the next year or so, why not think about who can win?
00:56:51.000Why not think about, like, shouldn't this be a consideration?
00:56:54.000The reason I bring this up is because there is new polling data out.
00:56:56.000Shockingly, that shows that Ron DeSantis actually leaves Joe Biden in states like Arizona and Pennsylvania, states that Republicans must win.
00:57:50.000Which is why, of course, the media are focusing all of their fire these days on Ron DeSantis and not on Donald Trump.
00:57:55.000It's why Maggie Haberman, who, again, is Donald Trump's very favorite source in the entire universe, is now trotting out stories like, quote, top Republican donor, Salers, on Florida governor's stance on social issues.
00:58:04.000You see, Governor DeSantis is too socially conservative.
00:58:07.000He signed into law a six-week abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.
00:58:12.000And that's bad, according to this top Republican donor.
00:58:14.000Who does it turn out this top Republican donor is?
00:58:16.000The next-door neighbor of Donald Trump and one of his best friends who donated a lot of money to him.
00:58:20.000Slow clap on the reporting side right there.
00:58:32.000Katie Porter has been trotted out, this congresswoman from California, as sort of the new wave of Democrats.
00:58:38.000And that's because she does hearings where she brings out a whiteboard and then she says nonsensical things but she draws them on the whiteboard so we have to pretend that they're sensical.
00:58:44.000I mean, look, look, she can use a whiteboard.
01:00:46.000Gavin Newsom is the governor of the state.
01:00:49.000Every Democrat in the country lives in California.
01:00:53.000There's been a lot of talk in the last several years about her awareness, her cognitive abilities.
01:00:57.000Here's Kirsten Gillibrand and a bunch of other Democrats being like, yeah, I don't know. Here's Kirsten Gillibrand saying, I don't know if we should get rid of her.
01:01:48.000I mean, I don't even know what the drive here is, but apparently Democrats are going to go with it.
01:01:51.000OK, time for a couple of things that I hate.
01:01:57.000Can we just point out that Joe Biden is awful at his job, like legitimately awful, that he's completely destroying the global order, destroying it.
01:02:03.000So remember, when we jumped into supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia, the basic idea was we were going to solidify Europe on our side.
01:02:09.000This is the easiest move in the entire world.
01:02:13.000On the cheap, we were basically being able to degrade the Russian military.
01:02:16.000We're able to support a democratic ally in Ukraine.
01:02:20.000We're able to unify the entirety of Europe against Russia and China by extension because Russia was cutting off its own oil to Europe as leverage, which made them more dependent on our oil.
01:02:32.000And we were able to send a signal to China that shouldn't invade Taiwan.
01:02:35.000Somehow Joe Biden has botched this to the point.
01:02:37.000He's like so completely botched this because it's dragging on in Ukraine and because there's no end in Ukraine because Joe Biden won't even articulate an end point in Ukraine.
01:02:44.000And also because Joe Biden has not built up the United States military and because Joe Biden has decided to withdraw from Middle East.
01:02:52.000Everyone in the international sphere is now figuring it's a multipolar world and we are going to hedge our bets, which is presumably why the French President Emmanuel Macron went to China and started making kissy face with Winnie-the-Pooh Xi Jinping.
01:03:04.000According to the UK Guardian, it is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is now in the middle of another big international row.
01:03:10.000France's president likes to stir things up, but it's his penchant, his trademark foible.
01:03:14.000Re-elected in 2020 despite a disappointing first term, he has four years left to make a difference.
01:03:19.000But, Macron has now gained a reputation for tossing political hand grenades intentionally or by accident.
01:03:25.000In 2019, he famously declared that NATO was experiencing brain death, and the latest explosion was ignited by an interview Macron gave after a visit last week to Beijing.
01:03:33.000On China policy, European countries were too subservient to the United States, he said.
01:03:36.000Quote, being an ally does not mean being a vassal, or mean we don't have the right to think for ourselves.
01:03:40.000He also implied that defending Taiwan from a Ukraine-type Chinese invasion was not Europe's business.
01:03:47.000He also lauded the idea of Europe as a separate geopolitical pull, a third superpower on footing with China and the United States.
01:03:57.000China's looking at this and they're like, ah, we found the, we found the breathing room between France and the United States, between Europe and the United States, which means that maybe we ought to go for it.
01:04:06.000Meanwhile, the Middle East is being completely upended as well because of the Biden administration's signal stupidity in alienating both the Saudis and the Israelis.
01:04:16.000They've gone out of their way to alienate the Israelis by basically intervening in their domestic politics over and over.
01:04:21.000And they went out of their way, before Biden even took office, to yell at Mohammed bin Salman, the dictator of Saudi Arabia.
01:04:28.000Yell at him for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
01:04:31.000Because, as we all know, if there's one thing that dictators in the Middle East are famous for, it is their care for human rights.
01:04:37.000And when the United States makes foreign policy in the Middle East, we all understand this, right?
01:04:40.000Dirty hands are just a part of foreign policy.
01:05:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, senior Saudi officials were planning to meet with leaders of Hamas on Sunday to discuss renewing diplomatic ties, which have been cool since 2007.
01:05:18.000Re-establishing ties between Hamas, which is a U.S.-designated terror group, and the Saudi kingdom would mark a setback for efforts by both the United States and Israel to establish a military alliance between Israel and the other Sunni-majority countries against Iran and its allies.
01:05:30.000They also complicate Benjamin Netanyahu's goal of normalizing relations with Riyadh with opposition to Iran as their primary shared interest.
01:05:37.000Hamas was invited to the kingdom by the Saudi leaders.
01:05:39.000Hamas is an overt terrorist group that wishes to destroy the state of Israel and wipe every Jew off the map.
01:05:44.000They are a genocidal terrorist organization now meeting with the Saudis.
01:05:47.000This does not happen without Joe Biden pulling out of the Middle East, opening a gap for China to fill.
01:05:51.000China and Russia have absolutely filled that gap.
01:05:54.000And so the United States in a state of retreat and it's making the world a significantly less tenable place.
01:06:00.000Because Israel was relying on the idea that they would create some sort of detente, or at least a mutually assured destruction with Iran, with the help of the Saudis, the UAE, and other allies in the region.
01:06:10.000China has now upended that, isolating Israel once again from possible Arab allies attempting to do that, meaning that it's more likely that Israel will have to take military action against an increasingly militant Iran.
01:06:21.000Apparently, Mahmoud Abbas, who is 88, is planning to visit Jeddah this week and will meet the Crown Prince on his trip, according to Saudi and Palestinian officials.
01:06:29.000Saudi Arabia is once a strong backer of the PA.
01:06:31.000The PA is the supposed moderates, but Mahmoud Abbas is going to die.