A civilization in which women are incentivized to prostitute themselves on camera also tends to be a civilization in decline. And when you make the highest ideal of any society, the sexual impulse, what you end up with is a society in moral decline. A society where women are prostituting themselves for pay, and treating this as some form of magical empowerment, and men are indulging their baser instincts, under these circumstances, the result is a massive decline in the U.S. birth rate. In 2007, the births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 dropped from about 68 all the way down to today, just over 55. That's a massive decrease. According to Econofactorg, the Great Recession disrupted a stable period of birth rates for the almost three decades between 1980 and 2007. But something changed around the time of the recession. The birth rate has not only continued a precipitous decline since 2007, but it has been rapidly declining since then. That cannot be readily explained by the changing composition of the population. The decline in births since 2007 is almost 20 percent from the rate of 69 births in 2007. That is a decline that cannot be easily explained by changing demographics, by any means. It s a symptom of a society that is in decline, and it s not going to get any better, not any faster than it s already in a state of decline. It s time to ask the question: Is there a reason for the decline? And if so, what is the cause? What is the culprit, and why is it happening? What can we do to fix it? How can we fix it, and what can we stop it? And what is it being done to stop the problem, and can it be done, and how can we prevent it, etc., etc. And what s going to be the solution, etc.. and what will it all be done to help us stop it in the near and long term? - This episode is part 1 of a two-part series on the next part of the series? (Part 2 of this episode will be out next week, part 2 of the second part of this podcast? ) - Part 3 of this series is out on the podcast, coming soon, part 3 of the book, coming out soon, part 3, and much more is out now, part I hope you get a chance to hear more of it
00:00:00.000Alrighty folks, there are certain indicators, leading-edge indicators, as to a society's decline.
00:00:05.000Some are statistical, and some are moral, and typically they tend to cross streams.
00:00:09.000There's a story yesterday that caught my attention.
00:00:11.000It flew across the Twitters, and it was a story about the CEO of OnlyFans.
00:00:16.000So OnlyFans is essentially an amateur porn site.
00:00:19.000It is where people unclothe for money.
00:00:22.000It is visual prostitution, in essence.
00:00:25.000And according to Business Insider, the number of creators, they're not calling them creators, even though it's just women taking off their clothes on a camera, signed up to OnlyFans surged by about 40% last year, bringing the total to more than 3 million for the subscription platform that mostly features adult content.
00:00:40.000CEO Amigad told the Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro last week, we've noticed a huge uptick in creators as well as fans joining the platform.
00:00:46.000We attribute that to OnlyFans is very much a global business.
00:01:17.000Well, as it turns out, a civilization in which women are incentivized to prostitute themselves on camera also tends to be a civilization in decline.
00:01:26.000So, there's a biblical idea that women are holier than men.
00:01:29.000And for all the talk about the Bible being sexist, there is a deep-rooted biblical idea that women are holier than men.
00:01:33.000So, for example, in the book of Exodus, when it comes to the sin of the golden calf, the idea is that the men participated, but the women did not.
00:01:40.000And the notion that women are the guardians of a society's holiness makes some sense.
00:01:45.000Because obviously, men, when left to their own devices, are not oriented toward children.
00:01:51.000There's no biological imperative for a man to stick around to raise his child in the same way that there is a connection between a woman and a child when you sever.
00:01:58.000Connections between women and children.
00:01:59.000And when you make the highest ideal of any society, the sexual impulse, what you end up with is a society in moral decline in which women are prostituting themselves on camera for pay and treating this as some form of magical empowerment.
00:02:11.000And men are indulging their baser instincts at Under these circumstances.
00:02:18.000And the result is, unsurprisingly, a massive decline in the American birth rate.
00:02:21.000So there's a chart that jumped out at me yesterday.
00:02:23.000It's from the University of Maryland and Wesley College.
00:02:26.000And there's a piece over at econofact.org called The Mystery of the Declining U.S.
00:03:58.000births since 2007 has been driven by declining births among many demographic groups rather than by changes in population composition.
00:04:04.000Births have fallen among women in their early 20s, late 20s, and teens as well.
00:04:08.000And there's no obvious policy or economic factor that can explain much of that decline.
00:04:13.000The onset of the Great Recession played a role in the early stages of the decline.
00:04:16.000But beyond that, it's difficult to identify any policy or economic factor that can statistically account for the continued decline.
00:04:22.000Successive generations of women are having fewer children at every single age.
00:04:25.000So generation on generation, women are having fewer and fewer kids.
00:04:30.000Shifting priorities, they say, could be the primary driver for the decline in the birth rate since 2007.
00:04:36.000I'm going to suggest that what has actually happened is that since 2007, there's been a bit of a confound.
00:04:40.000Everybody is saying it's 2007-2008 economic recession, but as that study points out, the real problem here is not actually The economy 2007-2008 because again, according to pretty much everyone, the economy got better after 2007-2008.
00:04:53.000It improved pretty dramatically since Donald Trump took office from 2016 to 2019.
00:04:58.000And then it dropped off a cliff in 2020 and then it's been recovering since then.
00:05:02.000But you haven't seen the birth rates going up and down to match all that.
00:05:09.000I'll explain what happened in just one second because that has a lot of relevance to how you live your life and what you allow your children to see and all the rest of it.
00:05:14.000First, President Trump recently suggested from Mar-a-Lago that the dollar is now under fire as the global currency.
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00:06:33.000What happened is that the morality, the prevailing morality of the internet, the internet has a very Libertarian morality.
00:06:39.000Which is to say, it's a bunch of atomistic individuals who are forming alliances of convenience and who are able to access pretty much anything at any time.
00:06:49.000The convenience of the internet skyrocketed in this era, particularly in 2007.
00:07:03.000But you still have to access your computer in order to go on Facebook.
00:07:05.000So the idea that Facebook communities were going to take the place of, for example, your church community?
00:07:10.000Not really, because you still have to be on your computer.
00:07:12.000You have to be tethered to a desk somewhere in order for you to access your friends.
00:07:16.000Whereas that's not the case when you're living in a community.
00:07:18.000You're moving in and out of your social situations, you're seeing people at restaurants, you're seeing people at church, and all of the rest.
00:07:29.000It's a place you can get lots of information, get shows like this one, but it also happens to be a place that atomizes you because you sit in front of a screen all day.
00:07:36.000Again, as long as you're talking about a stationary device that is on your wall, Or that is on your desk.
00:07:42.000Basically, we're just talking about the threat of TV.
00:07:43.000I mean, YouTube in 2005 was just really a TV thing.
00:07:46.000Because, again, the screen that was on your desk, I mean, your computer, was effectively a TV when you were watching YouTube.
00:07:53.000By the way, ironically, it now has turned into a TV thing again.
00:07:55.000People are using their TVs to watch YouTube.
00:07:57.000But, the real change here, and Pornhub launches in 2007, And of course there have been pornography sites that have dominated the internet since the advent of the internet.
00:08:07.000What really happened in 2007 was the launch of the iPhone.
00:08:10.000So when the iPhone launched, which was the first truly effective, globally marketed smartphone, right?
00:08:17.000Something where you could access the internet easily and you could get all the pictures you wanted and all the connections you wanted on your phone at all times.
00:08:25.000People started to be absorbed by the glowing screen in front of them, and they ditched all of the social connections that reinforced all of the societal rules that made life better.
00:08:34.000You actually need in-person contacts, and you need people who hold you to a particular standard in your local community in order for you to live that particular standard.
00:08:43.000When people ask, why is pornography, for example, immoral?
00:08:48.000And there are a bunch of rational answers as to why pornography is immoral.
00:08:51.000One reason is because, of course, it teaches you to view women solely as sex objects.
00:08:55.000Two is, it teaches you that women want things that very often women actually don't want.
00:08:58.000And the reason I'm speaking to men here is because the vast majority of consumers of pornography are men, contra what the media would like you to believe.
00:09:05.000There are some women who consume porn.
00:09:06.000It's a much, much lower number than men.
00:09:08.000Virtually all porn, or at least a huge percentage of it, is consumed by men.
00:09:11.000So I'm talking here about why pornography is bad, and I'm going to speak to men, because they're the consumers.
00:09:16.000It's really bad for the women who practice it.
00:09:19.000It takes the most intimate activity that two people can perform, and it turns it into a commodity, which is really, really quite awful.
00:09:25.000It degrades women by treating them as an assemblage of body parts, which of course is a perception that women have to fight anyway because of man's natural visual biology.
00:09:34.000And not only that, it degrades man's sexual instinct because instead of taking that sexual instinct and channeling it toward the creative, which is what family creation is about, it's about taking this wild sexual instinct and then channeling it toward one woman, love for that person, and production of children.
00:09:47.000And it takes what can be one of the most destructive and diffuse instincts that human beings have and channels it toward the most creative, most beautiful thing you can do, which is the creation of a family unit.
00:09:57.000And instead it dissipates it in a literally masturbatory series of actions that destroy your capacity
00:10:37.000Now there's a, one of my rabbis over here in Florida, he gave me, Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg, he gave me a really good, what we call the Dvar Torah, right?
00:10:46.000This is a word of sort of biblical exposition.
00:10:50.000He says that the word in Hebrew for taste is the same as the word for reason, right?
00:11:06.000It's good to have the pepper, but that's actually not what makes the action good.
00:11:09.000What makes the action good is that you're abiding by a good social standard that is good for you.
00:11:12.000That's why the word for reason and for taste is the same.
00:11:16.000Great additional elements of why you do the good thing, but not really why you do the good thing.
00:11:21.000But the whole point here is that when you have a societal standard that people don't look at pornography, that you're expected to channel your sexual instinct toward marriage and toward the production and rearing of children, This is how communities are formed, right?
00:11:33.000The original unit of society is not, in fact, according to the vast majority of societies across all time and space, the original unit of society is not the individual.
00:11:41.000Because the individual in a state of nature dies.
00:11:44.000The original unit of society is the family, and all of society is oriented toward the family.
00:11:49.000What the internet does, it makes the individual the locus of society.
00:11:52.000It is sort of the final human iteration of the enlightenment value of pure individualism.
00:11:57.000Individualism is great when it is placed up against the overweening tyranny of harsh collectivism.
00:12:06.000What makes the Enlightenment good is the idea that we do have individual spirits and that we can be creative with those spirits, but that was all supposed to be channeled toward protecting your family.
00:12:15.000It really was that the family was the unit of society and then within the boundaries of family, you as an individual are supposed to go out and flourish, which is why, by the way, it works by the way.
00:12:22.000Married men earn more than single men because they feel a necessity to go out and protect and defend their families.
00:12:27.000This is the way society used to be oriented.
00:12:28.000It was a balance between enlightenment individualism and traditionalist family units.
00:12:32.000And then that balance has been completely upset by the rise of the internet because that glowing screen makes you, that glowing screen is a narcissistic mirror.
00:12:40.000You think you're looking on the internet, you're not.
00:12:41.000You're looking at things that please you.
00:12:44.000It's feeding you the things that please you.
00:12:52.000Also, the subjugation of all societal bonds in favor of, again, alliances of convenience, tenuous connections that form at a moment's notice, the lack of social structure and stability, has been horrible for society.
00:13:06.000And you can see it in the declining birth rate.
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00:14:18.000As you may have noticed, there are a couple of forces that I'm talking about coming together here.
00:14:22.000One is the force of absolute atomistic individualism that is made possible and reified by the rise of personal electronic devices like the iPhone.
00:14:32.000Because it takes YouTube, it takes Pornhub, and it puts these things in your pocket available to you at all times.
00:14:37.000In fact, a huge amount of pornography is viewed on mobile devices, right?
00:14:40.000Not just on your desktop computer or something.
00:14:43.000Okay, but you can also see the decline in religiosity in the United States falling at precisely the same point.
00:14:49.000So, this is an overlay As you can see, of those declining birth rates, and this is an overlay of church membership among American adults.
00:15:00.000So you can see that the decline in church membership among American adults is fairly, basically it's steady from 1975 all the way up to about the year 2000.
00:15:08.000The internet boom starts and it starts to decline.
00:15:12.000In 2007, it seems like it really picks up pace.
00:15:15.000So you go from about 65% in 2005, 64, 65% in 2005, 60% All the way down to 47% in 2020.
00:15:24.000So you have a 15% drop-off in religious observance in the United States.
00:15:54.000Because again, people are mistaking those tenuous connections that they make on their cell phone for the real connections of life.
00:15:59.000They've been taken out of the realm of the real world, and they've been taken into this, like, Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg has talked about the creation of a metaverse in which we live full-time in the internet, but we're already living half-time in the internet, minimum.
00:16:12.000If you ever walk around in public these days, what you will notice, if you go to the mall, what you'll notice is at least half the people at the mall have their head buried in their cell phone.
00:16:20.000This is why, by the way, everyone needs a Sabbath.
00:16:24.000There's a lot of Bible talk in this episode because, again, I think the only actual solution to what we're talking about here is biblical living.
00:16:30.000You actually do need a 25-hour period every week in which you are forbidden to use your cell phone, your computer, or any other connected device.
00:16:38.000You need to connect with the people around you on a physical level.
00:16:40.000This is why blue laws used to exist in the United States, and it was a good thing.
00:16:44.000The idea that there was a day reserved for going to church and interacting with your community was actually an active good.
00:16:51.000The orientation of society around the individual's subjective needs has led to moral decline, and it's led to the most predictable results imaginable, which is the endpoint of all of this.
00:17:01.000The endpoint of all of this is, again, the victory of subjective individualism that you can see in pretty much everything.
00:17:09.000People living their lives to please that screen.
00:17:12.000And everybody else, the only thing that matters is you.
00:17:17.000Your needs are the things that matter more than anybody else's needs.
00:17:20.000The rest of society is supposed to adjust to you.
00:17:22.000And this takes the form of some of the most absurd Sort of symptoms.
00:17:27.000One absurd symptom is the symptom that you see of people dressing in incredibly provocative ways, for example, at the gym and then being like, why are you looking at me?
00:17:55.000Well, first of all, I think you're lying because you're filming this.
00:17:57.000But second of all, this does fit in large part with the idea that I can do whatever I want for my own subjective self-pleasure.
00:18:03.000And if you call me on it, or if you suggest there are externalities to my personal behavior in public, Then this means that you have violated my sense of self because reality is me and the cell phone mirror that I live in.
00:18:14.000Here's a little bit of this TikTok video.
00:18:19.000It says girls that dress like this at the gym just want male attention.
00:18:23.000And then it's her wearing extremely tight shorts.
00:18:28.000And then it's, uh, gym girls, the men who stare.
00:18:30.000And it's just a guy, like, wearing regular clothing, and then a woman staring at him.
00:18:33.000So the idea is that men, how could men stare at this?
00:18:36.000Okay, first of all, I think you're lying.
00:18:37.000I think that you're doing this for attention.
00:18:38.000I doubt that you dress this way in the privacy of your own home.
00:18:43.000Let's assume that you believe that you can do whatever you want in public, and it's everybody else's job to avert their eyes.
00:18:47.000Again, this is just symptomatic of the idea that the only thing that matters is what you feel about the world.
00:18:52.000It also means that all of the social institutions have to be destroyed and remade in the image that you wish to see.
00:18:58.000Basically, marriage now becomes a Facebook institution to the extent that you can form a group of Facebook friends and call it a marriage.
00:19:04.000The New York Times has an entire article about that today, quote, interested in polyamory, check out these places.
00:19:09.000Now, what's amazing about this is this is just what we used to call pagan orgies.
00:19:14.000I mean, this this notion that you have just a group of people who live together and all married to each other is an absurdity.
00:19:20.000It's ridiculous, and it doesn't work in the real world at small scale, let alone large scale.
00:19:24.000But again, the idea is whatever floats your boat, because whatever floats your boat, the individual subjectivity is what is necessary.
00:19:31.000According to the New York Times, Jason Knight had heard about Somerville, Massachusetts, while working on a PhD at the University of Alabama in 2020.
00:19:36.000The small city had recently passed a law granting domestic partnership rights, like the ability to receive employment benefits or make hospital visits, to people in polyamorous relationships.
00:19:45.000Mix Knight, M-X, period, Knight, who is non-binary and has been non-monogamous since 2014, was impressed.
00:19:52.000In late March, Somerville passed two more laws extending the rights of non-monogamous residents, this time banning discrimination on the basis of family or relationship structure.
00:19:59.000In city employment and policing, society has no interest whatsoever in the basic family structure anymore.
00:20:03.000Around the same time these new laws passed, Mix Knight, 38, now a PhD in Applied Mathematics, moved from Alabama to a house in Somerville with their two partners, and a partner of one of those partners.
00:20:13.000The city's attitude toward non-monogamy was a big factor in the group's decision to move there.
00:20:17.000You want to talk about the sterilization of society in the name of sexual profligacy?
00:20:25.000We simultaneously have the most sexually profligate society in human history and the most sterile society in human history, which is not a great recipe for civilizational victory.
00:20:34.000Somerville is close to Harvard and Massachusetts Institution of Technology and claims to have more artists per capita than any city besides New York.
00:20:39.000Oh wait, ooh, they said the quiet part out loud.
00:20:41.000Ooh, sexual profligacy is related to alternative sexual orientations.
00:20:45.000Oh no, we're not supposed to say that.
00:20:46.000We're supposed to pretend that they're all monogamous families.
00:20:48.000trans and pansexual and those who practice non-monogamy according to multiple studies.
00:20:51.000Oh wait, oh, they said the quiet part out loud. Oh, sexual profligacy is related to
00:20:56.000alternative sexual orientations. Oh no, we're not supposed to say that. We're supposed to
00:20:59.000pretend that they're all monogamous families. Oh, well, at least there's now saying the quiet
00:21:03.000part out loud, which is part again of the generalized decline in morality in our society.
00:21:17.000These are the things that make for a successful society.
00:21:19.000You need to get your nose out of the phone that tells you you're the only important person on planet Earth.
00:21:24.000Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the fallout from the Durham report, which, again, I think may be A revelation of the greatest political scandal in American history.
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00:22:35.000Alrighty, so, as we talked about at length yesterday, the John Durham report, the special counsel's report on Operation Crossfire Hurricane and its origins is absolutely damning.
00:22:43.000It's damning of the Clinton campaign, it's damning of the FBI, it's damning of the Obama administration.
00:22:47.000Just to give you the brief recap of what is in the report, it now seems that basically the Clinton campaign trafficked via the FBI a bunch of BS allegations about Donald Trump and Trump-Russia collusion.
00:22:59.000The FBI ingested that with alacrity, and then they started pumping it up to full-scale investigative capacity.
00:23:05.000And the White House knew about all of this, and at no point did they say to the FBI, guys, you might be over your skis on this one.
00:23:11.000At no point did they say, it might look a little dirty if you guys are just taking Clinton-Apple research and laundering that into a full-scale investigation that's going to last not only for the 2016 campaign, but also well into the Trump years.
00:23:22.000The story began, just for the recap, in late July 2016.
00:23:25.000That is when Australia provided information to the U.S.
00:23:28.000Embassy in London surrounding conversations between Australian diplomats and a low-level foreign policy Trump advisor named George Papadopoulos.
00:23:35.000In those conversations, Papadopoulos had allegedly suggested that the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist in releasing information about Hillary Clinton.
00:23:43.000That information alone was used as the predicate for launching the full-blown Trump-Russia investigation, despite the fact that FBI officials knew that this was incredibly flimsy and basically there was nothing there.
00:23:54.000Top FBI officials greenlit that investigation.
00:23:56.000That included Peter Strzok, of course, who was one of the top officials over there.
00:24:00.000He was the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence and a devoted Trump hater.
00:24:03.000He and his lover, Lisa Page, were texting each other about how much they hated Trump throughout.
00:24:08.000According to John Durham, the investigation was launched before any dialogue with Australia or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself.
00:24:18.000So what could have prompted that eagerness?
00:24:19.000Well, the FBI, as Durham already acknowledges, already had the so-called Steele dossier, that was the compendium of lies and innuendo created by Fusion GPS at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
00:24:28.000The FBI had also been approached by a second source working with Fusion GPS in July of 2016.
00:24:32.000So there are a couple of different sources, all stemming from Fusion GPS, which is the Clinton campaign, feeding this crap to the FBI.
00:24:41.000The FBI's assistant legal attache in London knew the Papadopoulos information was thin, but told the OIG, that's the Office of the Inspector General, that FBI management was, quote, pushing the matter so hard there was no stopping the train, making it his job to, quote, unquote, grease the skids.
00:24:55.000By the way, at the same exact time, it's not as though they didn't know that the Clinton campaign was pushing this stuff, they did.
00:24:59.000In July 2016, according to this report, U.S.
00:25:01.000intel agencies found out about Russian intelligence suggesting that Hillary had approved a campaign plan to gin up allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.
00:25:09.000In fact, on August 3rd, this is like one week after the investigation was launched, CIA Director John Brennan, quote, met with the President, Vice President, and other senior administration officials, including but not limited to the Attorney General and the FBI Director, and briefed them on the so-called Clinton plan.
00:25:23.000Nobody decided, hey guys, maybe we'll put a, let's put a hold on this Trump-Russia stuff until we find out if it's just Clinton-Apple research.
00:25:28.000Because by the way, with like three phone calls, they could have found out that it was Clinton-Apple research.
00:25:34.000Top officials at the White House and at the FBI, they were aware that Hillary Clinton had a plan to disseminate information falsely claiming Trump-Russia collusion.
00:25:41.000They knew that they had really, really, really, like, thread-thin information on Trump and Russia.
00:25:49.000And they launched a full-scale investigation anyway.
00:25:51.000And it ate up not only the election cycle, but pretty much the entirety of Trump's presidency.
00:25:57.000Okay, so this should be incredibly damning.
00:26:00.000Because what it means is that Hillary Clinton was in fact colluding with the FBI and with the Obama administration, for which she had worked, in order to essentially twist the election narrative in her own favor.
00:26:31.000Okay, so now the reaction has come out.
00:26:33.000And it's led by Barack Obama, who of course was informed on August 3rd of the Clinton plan and was like, I don't know, well, you know, it's Hillary's plan.
00:26:45.000So yesterday, he did an interview with the former president of the United States, and he said he's deeply worried about the divided country, which is all... It's hard to imagine.
00:26:53.000Everyone talks about Trump being divisive.
00:26:55.000Barack Obama was a way more divisive president than Donald Trump.
00:26:58.000The reason I say that is because no one expected Donald Trump to be unifying.
00:27:01.000If you expected Trump in 2016 to be a unifier, I don't know what you were smoking.
00:27:05.000You're high on, you were like snorting Parmesan cheese off the carpet like Hunter Biden,
00:27:09.000if you'd expected Trump to be a great unifier in 2016.
00:27:11.000But in 2008, everybody thought that Obama was going to be a great unifier,
00:27:15.000and then he turned out to be massively divisive.
00:27:16.000So the delta between expected unification on Obama and delivered unification was just Pacific Ocean wide.
00:27:24.000So here is Barack Obama explaining that he's very upset about our divided countries
00:27:29.000as one of the most divisive people in American history.
00:27:32.000I'm an optimistic man, but I find myself falling into this space where I have concern about
00:27:39.000the country that they will inherit once I'm gone.
00:27:43.000Post-presidency, what about this country keeps you up at night?
00:27:47.000The thing that I'm most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation.
00:28:00.000In part because we have a divided media.
00:28:03.000Oh, so what he would like, again, is a propagandistic media that always repeats his talking points.
00:28:08.000And the Durham Report is just a perfect example of this.
00:28:10.000Again, the media still claim that this guy, his only scandal is a tan suit.
00:28:14.000Never mind the IRS scandal in which his head of IRS was targeting conservative institutions.
00:28:19.000Never mind the fact that he apparently was personally briefed on the Clinton plan and said nothing while the FBI launched a spurious investigation into Donald Trump.
00:28:28.000Never mind the fact that Barack Obama presided over foreign policy collapse and was shipping pallets of cash to the Iranians.
00:28:36.000None of those things were scandals, according to the media.
00:28:37.000So of course he would love the media to go back to its propagandistic monopoly.
00:29:56.000It's a big bowl of nothing with some nothing whipped cream on top with some nothing sprinkles.
00:30:00.000Or, alternatively, it's the greatest American scandal involving the so-called Deep State I've ever seen, certainly in my lifetime, by a long margin.
00:30:09.000I mean, this is way worse than Watergate.
00:30:10.000Watergate was Richard Nixon deploying a couple of dullards over to the Watergate Hotel in an attempt to bug his political opponent.
00:30:17.000Which, by the way, had actually happened during LBG's campaign against Barry Goldwater.
00:30:26.000Here you have the weaponization of the most powerful domestic law enforcement institution in the United States at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration, and it's nothing because no one wants to jail.
00:30:34.000Okay, so, by the way, I've never seen that sort of standard applied to Donald Trump.
00:30:55.000But again, this is why Barack Obama wants his monopolistic media back, because they will defend anything the Democrats do, anything they do.
00:31:21.000Describing Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's receptivity to Russian outreach as a, quote, grave counterintelligence threat that made the campaign susceptible to, quote, Malign Russian influence.
00:31:36.000This was Marco Rubio and other members of the Republican Senate Committee, the Intel Committee, saying this.
00:31:44.000And yet the conclusions that are drawn here, again, they really seem to, it's just seems to be a complete dud.
00:31:52.000Once again, another dud by John Durham.
00:32:06.000And that they knew full well that Hillary Clinton was literally wandering this information through them.
00:32:10.000Apparently, that is a big nothing burger.
00:32:12.000It's a nothing burger with nothing ketchup and nothing pickles.
00:32:15.000The New York Times' Michael Schmidt tried to do the exact same thing.
00:32:18.000Again, this is why the left loves their monopolistic media, because they all repeat the same talking points.
00:32:23.000So at the end of the day, for people watching who are trying to remember everything that got us here over the last, what, seven years or something like that, what is the takeaway?
00:32:33.000What is the end result of all of this?
00:32:35.000What do we know about collusion or alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians?
00:32:43.000I think what we know is that the Trump campaign invited this help from the Russians.
00:32:49.000We know from our own eyes and from watching that Donald Trump asked Russia to help him.
00:32:56.000He did that very publicly and in doing so brought a lot of these questions on himself.
00:33:05.000It was Trump's fault for bringing the questions on himself, you see.
00:33:09.000It wasn't a Clinton dirty trick that was absolutely participated in by the FBI and the Obama administration.
00:33:14.000The New York Times, by the way, calls this a conspiracy theory now.
00:33:17.000Quote, The Durham report offered few conclusions.
00:33:21.000Conservative, this is Jonathan Weisman, one of the worst reporters of the New York Times.
00:33:23.000Conservative leaders and right-wing outlets say the special counsel report, which produced no startling revolutions, lends credence to their conspiracy theories about the FBI.
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00:35:56.000Also, it means that you're not giving your money to the corporations that think that you should give your daughter, like, a razor set to shave her face.
00:36:05.000Well, Donald Trump is reacting to the Durham report, and suffice it to say, he is significantly less sanguine about the Durham report than Democrats seem to be.
00:36:14.000So here was Donald Trump's reaction yesterday.
00:36:17.000Well, after looking at the report and after seeing, and don't forget, I did a hashtag.
00:36:21.000I fired a lot of people, but the deep state goes deep.
00:36:24.000Hey, firing Comey was not, you know, that was, and I fired him very early.
00:36:28.000You know, a lot of people said, why did you wait so long?
00:36:44.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are responding by essentially saying that nothing happened.
00:36:47.000Adam Schiff, who is one of the great liars of our time, spent years with a pup tent actually erected directly outside the Green Room at CNN so that he could run in every five minutes and tell us that we were on the verge of the overthrow of the country thanks to Vladimir Putin's collusion with Donald Trump.
00:37:02.000Well, now he is suggesting that nothing happened on MSNBC.
00:39:07.000I mean, you should believe in your law enforcement institutions.
00:39:09.000According to the New York Post, the IRS on Monday removed the entire investigative team from its long-running tax fraud probe of the first son, Hunter Biden, in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, according to the New York Post.
00:39:22.000The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department.
00:39:29.000The whistleblower's attorneys informed congressional leaders in a letter.
00:39:32.000The lawyers wrote, quote, today, the IRS criminal supervisory special agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our clients sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress.
00:39:46.000He was informed the changes at the request of the DOJ.
00:39:48.000So the DOJ is basically in an attempt to prevent information from getting out about what exactly Hunter Biden is being investigated over.
00:39:55.000The DOJ canned the IRS team that included the whistleblower.
00:39:59.000Remember, whistleblowers are good if they're Democrats.
00:40:01.000Whistleblowers are very, very, very bad if they might damage Democrats.
00:40:05.000OK, meanwhile, the debt ceiling debate continues.
00:40:08.000And Joe Biden's main strategy seems to be yelling at the wind.
00:40:11.000He was out there again yesterday suggesting we just can't default.
00:41:01.000Apparently, Joe Biden is about to negotiate because he has to.
00:41:06.000And Janet Yellen, again, just yelling it at people and suggesting that if the debt ceiling is hit that it's the end of the world is not an actual negotiation strategy.
00:41:11.000Here is Janet Yellen, the garbage Secretary of the Treasury.
00:41:14.000on our debt would produce an economic and financial catastrophe.
00:41:20.000Household payments on mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards would rise, and American businesses would see credit markets deteriorate.
00:41:30.000And on top of that, it's unlikely that the federal government would be able to issue payments to millions of Americans, including our military families and seniors who rely on Social Security.
00:41:43.000This economic catastrophe is entirely preventable.
00:41:59.000I mean, sure, we have a $31 trillion national debt, but the answer to that national debt, according to the Biden administration, is to raise the debt ceiling without any sort of reining in of the spending.
00:42:08.000That's literally what Corinne Jean-Pierre said yesterday.
00:42:10.000She said, we have to raise the debt ceiling because the national debt is too high, which makes no sense at all.
00:42:15.000This is like saying, listen, I have to take out a second credit card because I'm spending too much money.
00:42:20.000I'm spending too much money, so I have to take out a second credit card.
00:43:07.000Now, the good news here is that Joe Biden is likely to cave.
00:43:09.000According to the Washington Post, Biden and top congressional leaders expressed optimism about urgent negotiations over the debt ceiling after a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, as the administration's liberal allies worry that talks with House Republicans over the budget risk rewarding the GOP's hardline stance.
00:43:23.000House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sounded confident an agreement could be reached ahead of the June 1st deadline.
00:43:26.000Now, again, Joe Biden has to do this because if not, he's going to get a recession.
00:43:30.000He can try to blame the Republicans for that, but the reality is the president gets blamed when there's a recession.
00:43:35.000And so the likelihood that Republicans get something out of this is actually quite good, which is showing a certain durability to Speaker McCarthy that I think a lot of people didn't think he had.
00:43:44.000There's a lot of talk about how Speaker McCarthy couldn't even get the speakership originally and he had to go through several votes.
00:43:49.000He's proved that he can actually move some legislation forward, which is a lot more than can be said for Joe Biden's agenda with the Republican Congress thus far.
00:43:56.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to Congress blaming not the federal government for its own failings, but blaming the banks for relying on the federal government.
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00:45:10.000I mean, one of the things that absolutely drives me nuts is that Joe Biden's economic policy has been an absolute disaster area.
00:45:15.000And then people who relied on Joe Biden are the ones who end up taking it in the teeth.
00:45:19.000So yesterday, the heads of Silicon Valley Bank did a hearing in front of Senate and Democratic senators called them forward to rip on them.
00:45:27.000How dare Silicon Valley Bank experience financial hardship?
00:45:46.000Is that they expected that Joe Biden was not then going to have a 40-year inflationary run, requiring the Federal Reserve to jack up the interest rates, therefore making their bonds worthless.
00:45:55.000So their big mistake, Silicon Valley Bank, is that they relied on Joe Biden not to crap the bet on the economy.
00:46:01.000And then he crapped the bet on the economy.
00:46:03.000And so the predictable result is that Silicon Valley Bank had a run on its assets, and when the run on its assets happened, they couldn't actually liquidate all of their bond holdings because their bond holdings were effectively worthless.
00:46:12.000So senators called in Silicon Valley Bank, and instead of calling in, like, you know, Jay Powell for his garbage Federal Reserve policy, or calling in Jenny Yellen for her bad Secretary of the Treasury policy, or calling up anybody in the Biden administration, instead they called up Silicon Valley Bank to yell at them.
00:46:26.000So Elizabeth Warren suggested that, um, Silicon Valley Bank was really the problem.
00:46:30.000Again, she is the person who would be the first to suggest that you should be investing in the government bonds because she actually believes the government should basically take over the banking system entirely.
00:46:39.000That you should be completely reliant on the government.
00:46:42.000Silicon Valley Bank's problem is that it relied on the government too much.
00:46:45.000Her solution is that the government should own the banks.
00:46:47.000But she's very angry at Silicon Valley Bank.
00:47:34.000Again, I'm not a big defender of Silicon Valley Bank.
00:47:36.000My only point here is that if you're going to blame somebody, blame the federal government for completely botching the policy so badly that this bank, which is exactly what... I mean, Elizabeth Warren is a proponent of modern monetary theory.
00:47:45.000Modern monetary theory suggests that you can spend as much money as humanly possible if you're the government and never have an inflationary spiral.
00:47:52.000Which is precisely what Silicon Valley Bank apparently banked on, and then they failed, and then she's yelling at them.
00:47:59.000Well, those hearings were absurd in and of themselves.
00:48:01.000They got even more absurd when John Fetterman tried to ask a question.
00:48:03.000So again, we now have not one, but two Democratic senators who are not mentally capable of holding the position.
00:48:08.000I'm not just talking about in political terms, I mean physically incapable on a brain level of holding the position.
00:48:13.000You have Dianne Feinstein, who is fully senile at this point, but still in the Senate, and John Fetterman, who's brain damaged from a stroke, Trying to ask questions at Senate hearings and it's actually painful to watch.
00:48:34.000That's like if you have I mean like and they also realize is that that that now they have it's in the guaranteed A guaranteed way to be saved by no matter how.
00:49:26.000We only send the best to the United States.
00:49:28.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden held an event yesterday in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.
00:49:35.000And he, along with Doug Emhoff, who is our official Jewish emissary in the White House, we the Jews, Doug Emhoff, who is a very, very observant Jew.
00:49:44.000I'm being extraordinarily sarcastic right now.
00:49:47.000These are the people who are going to talk about anti-Semitism and the necessity to fight it.
00:49:52.000So Joe Biden suggested that he has a plan to fight anti-Semitism.
00:49:55.000Now, mind you, that plan will have nothing to do with chiding Bernie Sanders for actually participating in full anti-Semitism with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
00:50:03.000Again, it'll have nothing to do with Joe Biden actually saying to members of his own congressional party, guys, maybe you shouldn't hold a day declaring Israel's existence a disaster.
00:50:24.000Under my presidency, we're going to continue to condemn and combat anti-Semitism at every turn.
00:50:29.000That's why I signed the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to help enforce better and help enforce law enforcement better address these hate crimes.
00:50:39.000Appointed America's first ambassador level special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
00:50:43.000General, excuse me, Deborah, is Deborah here?
00:50:50.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden has nothing to say about actual anti-Semitism from his own party.
00:50:54.000This is the same administration that restored hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, which has been actively fomenting terrorism against Jews, culminating in vast waves of terror attacks.
00:51:06.000Again, he's actually spending your taxpayer money on this guy.
00:51:09.000This is Mahmoud Abbas, who is the leader of the Palestinian Authority.
00:51:12.000The last election that was held in which Mahmoud Abbas won an election was 2006.
00:51:17.000So he is currently in the 17th year of a four-year term as Mahmoud Abbas and we are sending hundreds of millions of dollars to him because of Joe Biden.
00:51:24.000Well, here he was and Joe Biden really wants to fight anti-Semitism.
00:51:26.000Here is Mahmoud Abbas over the weekend essentially declaring that the Jewish state should not exist and that it's a colonial outpost and all the rest of this anti-Semitic nonsense.
00:51:35.000It says Israel has been digging underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque for 30 years in an attempt to find anything that would prove its past existence, but did not find anything.
00:52:42.000Again, the left also likes to fight anti-Semitism by defending George Soros, who spends every waking moment attempting to undermine law and order in the United States.
00:52:48.000And also, by the way, to undermine the Jewish state.
00:53:19.000Bernie Sanders is an anti-Israel fanatic who hates religion, generally speaking, and is a socialist who has fomented the worst members of his anti-Semitic party.
00:53:37.000The left is focused, laser focused on anti-Semitism.
00:53:39.000Hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, being nice to the Iranians, making sure that Rashida Tlaib has Nakba Day over in the Congress.
00:53:46.000No condemnation from the White House for any of that stuff.
00:53:48.000But Elon Musk, you know, he tweeted badly about George Soros.
00:53:56.000Well, apparently he said, so Brian Krasenstein said, fun fact, Magneto's experiences during the Holocaust As a survivor shaped his perspective as well as his depth and empathy.
00:54:06.000Soros, also a Holocaust survivor, gets attacked nonstop for his good intentions, which some Americans think are bad, merely because they disagree with his political affiliations.
00:54:13.000And Musk had the temerity to say, you assume they are good intentions.
00:54:21.000Okay, now, you can think that's true about Soros.
00:54:23.000You can think it's not true about Soros.
00:54:24.000I certainly think that George Soros has taken inordinately terrible action in America's major cities and that his international agenda is really scurrilous.
00:54:33.000With that said, what does that have to do with Soros being ethnically Jewish?
00:54:37.000Soros himself holds no truck with Judaism.
00:54:40.000Again, the rule for the left is that they become very, very specific about ethnic Judaism Only in order to defend Jews who really stand contra most of Judaism, Jewish philosophy, Jewish practice, the state of Israel.
00:54:55.000Then all of a sudden they become very, the word in Hebrew is makhbe, they become incredibly specific about what constitutes a Jew.
00:55:20.000Meanwhile, Elon Musk, in sort of an astonishing exchange on CNBC that has now gone viral, he was asked about the fact that he says controversial things on Twitter, and here was his answer.
00:55:29.000You know, do your tweets hurt the company?
00:55:32.000Are there Tesla owners who say, I don't agree with his political position because, and I know it because he shares so much of it.
00:55:38.000Or there are advertisers on Twitter that Linda Iaccarino will come and say, you gotta stop, man.
00:55:42.000Or, you know, I can't get these ads because of some of the things you tweet.
00:55:46.000He really thinks about it for 12 seconds.
00:56:56.000It's Brett Cooper from the comments section with Brett Cooper.
00:56:59.000And for those of you who say that we have never been in the same place at the same time, either our green screening is fabulous or we are not the same person.
00:58:00.000So I pulled some TikToks because they're not just saying, like, it's not just like, oh, I'm committing to myself and, like, I'm gonna work on myself.
00:58:06.000No, they're having wedding ceremonies, which is what I wanted you to look at.
00:58:10.000I wanted to be a real-life Ben Shapiro reaction.
01:00:35.000You just sit there and you're forced to talk.
01:00:38.000I think it's... Because whenever I go on a date with my wife, she's like, why aren't we talking more?
01:00:41.000So, like, I feel like a Zoom date is, because normally on a date, like, you just spend time with each other and you're, like, sitting there and the silence is okay.
01:01:04.000Maybe it was just a symptom of the traditional Zoom burnout, because it was just online anyway, and they weren't being held enough apparently.
01:01:12.000But that one that we just watched, the comments were actually positive.
01:01:19.000Not about her, but people were calling her out on it, and she spent so much time debating these people.
01:01:26.000The Bible says that in the last days, people would be lovers of self.
01:02:04.000I wanted to do a video with him so he could teach me how to be undercover so I could go do things like this because I think it would be really good content.
01:02:10.000But I don't think I could go in all seriousness.
01:02:42.000Because women are marrying themselves.
01:02:44.000Okay, the other thing I wanted to talk to you about... By the way, if they then have sex with somebody else or marry somebody else, are they cheating on themselves?
01:02:56.000No, I'm sure that they will... In Massachusetts, very soon.
01:02:59.000There's, in the article, in the articles that are about, you know, this self-marriage and all that stuff, they all say, well, of course, you can't have tax breaks yet.
01:04:48.000Okay, passport bros are men that are so fed up with Western women, because we're all apparently so woke and so terrible, and Western women don't want to be wives, that they are now going to other countries to find wives.
01:05:16.000Well, actually, I mean, you can go to these countries and they're usually cheaper.
01:05:19.000And so a lot of these men get remote jobs.
01:05:21.000And so they go there and they live in these countries and then they meet these women.
01:05:25.000And then women in the Western world, specifically the United States, are so pissed off about it, and they're like, you're going to all these countries where these women don't even know how to speak English, they can't even read, they're so uneducated.
01:05:34.000And then the men, like, film themselves with these women, and like, show themselves on dates, and the women are so elegant, and they're so well-spoken, and they're so traditional, and they're like, look at these women!
01:05:43.000Like, they're so respectful and kind, and the Western women are, you know, sitting on their, you know, Fresh and Fit podcast, or whatever podcast, losing their mind over this.