Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL Quarterback and current San Francisco 49ers Quarterback, decided to take matters into his own hands and publicly criticize his white adoptive parents for perpetuating racism in America. This is an act of insensitve disrespect for the people who brought you into the world, who made you successful, who gave you an opportunity to thrive, flourish, and who were instrumental in helping you become who you are today. And now, he s decided to turn on them, because they re racist, racist, white supremacist, bigoted, and bigoted. This is a direct attack on the very people who helped him become who he is today, and the ones who brought him to where he is now, and how he is able to do so in the first place. Colin Kaepernick is a symptom of a larger problem, which is that people that do not honor their ancestors are also people who have a future. And that's why people that don t honor their parents, as a traditional matter, tend not to have any future at all, and that is particularly true when you ve been given pretty much everything you ve ever been given by your adoptive parents. This comes after his recent appearance on CBS Chicago talking about how he had a problematic household, an upcoming novel he has written, and why he won t be picking someone like me up because he doesn t have a good enough to be considered a hero. Here s the link to the book I mentioned in this episode: by Ava DuVernay's new novel, The Game by Anna Duvernay, and the trailer for her new film, Change is out now on Netflix's The Handmaids of the Game. by Alyssa Mila Mays about her novel written about her new novel . is out in theaters now, and it's out on Amazon Prime Video and on Vimeo, and is out on Audible and Audible. and is available in Kindle, Audible, too. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of This American Idiot, and I hope you enjoy it! if you do! Tweet Meghan Markle and Meghan s tweet me or text me your thoughts on this episode on Insta? in the comments section, and tell me what you think of it. Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you think about this episode? 5:30 - What are your thoughts? 6:15 - Why do you agree with it? 7:50 - Why does it matter? 8:40 - Is it a good or bad?
00:00:10.000And then he decided, after being benched, that America was a terrible racist place.
00:00:13.000And he started kneeling on the sidelines in order to protest supposed police brutality.
00:00:17.000And he became a cause celeb because he couldn't latch on with any other team, despite the NFL doing its very best to try and force another team to take him.
00:00:24.000And then he ended up on the cover of Multiple Sports Illustrated, and he ended up with a giant deal from Nike talking about how you have to kneel for something so that you'll stand for something, and all the rest of this stuff.
00:00:33.000And he made millions of dollars off of being a racial protester.
00:00:36.000Well, now Colin Kaepernick has gone one step further, and it is emblematic of where we are in American society, what Colin Kaepernick has now done.
00:00:43.000Essentially, all victimology turns into, at a certain point, being Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
00:00:51.000It turns into disrespect for your parents, disrespect for the past, an attempt to separate off from your parents, from the past, to rip everyone who came before you, to make yourself the only pure human being.
00:01:02.000So the reason this is relevant is because yesterday Colin Kaepernick decided that he was going to just start crapping publicly on his white adoptive parents.
00:01:09.000To understand how perverse this is, you have to understand that Colin Kaepernick was, again, adopted.
00:01:15.000He was born of apparently a black American whose identity remains unknown to this day, that is his birth father, and a 19-year-old white woman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin named Heidi Russo.
00:01:29.000And his mom, to her great credit, had the baby.
00:01:32.000And then, also to her credit, put the baby up for adoption.
00:01:35.000And he was adopted, was Colin Kaepernick, by a white couple named Rick and Teresa Kaepernick.
00:01:41.000And the couple already had a couple of biological children.
00:01:43.000And the reason they decided to adopt Colin is because they'd lost two other sons to heart defects, apparently.
00:01:49.000And his parents guided him through youth.
00:01:51.000He had a pretty nice background, pretty privileged background, economically speaking.
00:01:55.000He ended up playing sports and, of course, all the rest.
00:01:58.000Well, now Colin Kaepernick has decided that his parents are perpetuating racism.
00:02:03.000The utter ingratitude and soul sickness that has to be attended on you, the child of an adoptive couple who made you successful, who gave you opportunity, who brought you into a new world where you were able to thrive, flourish, become an NFL player.
00:02:19.000Which is, by the way, not an inexpensive thing.
00:02:22.000To actually end up playing in the NFL, that usually requires that you go out and become part of a league.
00:02:28.000It requires that your parents travel for you.
00:02:30.000It requires all sorts of sacrifices that your parents made aside from the normal parenting sacrifices.
00:02:34.000Which again, adoptive parents make heroic sacrifices to even take someone else's child and raise that child as their own.
00:02:41.000Adoption is an act of tremendous charity.
00:02:44.000To then turn around and crap on your own parents.
00:02:49.000On CBS is one of the great acts of ingratitude, honestly, I've seen.
00:02:54.000Except that it's mirrored by so many people in our society who basically say that all of the traditions of the past are bad, all of the wisdom of their grandparents, their parents are stupid, their grandparents are stupid, all of society is stupid, and they are the only good ones.
00:03:05.000Which is an ungrateful, spoiled, rather disgusting generation that looks to its own parents and violates one of the fundamental bases of, I think, all human civilization, honor your father and mother.
00:03:18.000The Ten Commandments says honor your father and mother for a very good reason.
00:03:20.000Because peoples that tend to honor their ancestors are also people who have a future.
00:03:25.000Peoples that do not honor their ancestors, as a traditional matter, tend not to have a future at all.
00:03:31.000And that's particularly true, again, when you've been given pretty much everything by your adoptive parents.
00:03:37.000So here is Colin Kaepernick, who's been out of the headlines for a while.
00:03:40.000You remember that he was asked by the NFL to do a workout for a bunch of other teams and and he didn't even show up to the workout.
00:03:47.000And then every so often he releases a video of himself throwing a football.
00:03:49.000He's like, why won't someone pick me up?
00:03:51.000Here he was on CBS Chicago talking about how he had a problematic household.
00:03:56.000He has an upcoming graphic novel titled Change the Game.
00:03:59.000This comes after his pathetic Anna DuVernay directed or produced documentary on Netflix in which he likened going to the NFL combine to an actual slave auction.
00:04:10.000Because as we all know, during a slave auction, the slaves ended up being employed to the tune of millions of dollars and made international heroes, the slaves, right?
00:04:30.000The most graceless, non-victimized victim of all time, except again for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who are an actual prince and princess claiming victimhood.
00:04:39.000So, he went on CBS Mornings to promote his crappy new graphic novel, and here's what he said.
00:04:46.000Growing up I was a, I think still am a pretty introverted person.
00:04:51.000I hope it's true to form and that's just kind of how I navigate the world.
00:04:55.000It's his true high school coming of age story.
00:04:57.000His journey embracing his blackness despite resistance from many including his white adoptive parents.
00:05:04.000I know my parents loved me but there were still very problematic things that I went through.
00:05:10.000I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home, and how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated.
00:05:20.000He's getting what roles, his mom asked?
00:05:30.000And those become spaces where it's like, OK, how do I navigate this situation now?
00:05:35.000But it also has informed why I have my hair long today.
00:05:41.000So, his mother is apparently a terrible person because she told him that he shouldn't wear his hair like Allen Iverson in the impression that people might have a bad impression of him.
00:05:51.000So he's now writing graphic novels about how terrible his own parents are, and then he's going on national television to publicize how terrible his parents are.
00:05:58.000Colin Kaepernick is a stand-in for an entire generation of people who think this way about their parents.
00:06:02.000An entire ideology that suggests that this is really what we should do, is we should dissociate from our own parents and we should rip our own parents publicly.
00:06:08.000It's not unique to Colin Kaepernick, as we'll get to in a second.
00:06:10.000It also happens to be an absolutely obvious profit-seeking move from Colin Kaepernick, as per usual arrangement.
00:06:15.000It's social justice in the name of bucks for Colin Kaepernick.
00:07:22.000Again, to understand what Colin Kaepernick is doing, I think what you first have to understand is that Colin Kaepernick's adoptive parents have basically stood behind him every step of the way, even when they disagreed with him.
00:07:30.000So, there's pretty good evidence that his parents were not big on the kneeling protest.
00:07:34.000But, it doesn't matter, because apparently, Teresa and Rick, his adoptive parents, wrote the following regarding the quarterback.
00:07:42.000Quote, Colin is carrying a heavy load.
00:07:43.000He's following a difficult path he truly believes in.
00:07:45.000He's putting his entire future and possibly his life on the line for those beliefs.
00:07:49.000As his parents, it pains us to read articles and tweets saying his family does not support him.
00:07:52.000This could not be further from the truth.
00:07:53.000We want people to know we are very proud of our son and admire his strength and courage in kneeling for the rights of others.
00:07:59.000That's what they had to say when he was kneeling, even though there's fairly good evidence from sort of the inside that they were not in agreement with his generalized message.
00:08:06.000Of course, they stood by their son because he is, in fact, their son.
00:08:10.000And of course, here is Colin Kaepernick with his mom circa 2016, being very warm toward his mother.
00:08:16.000You don't see this sort of stuff anymore very often.
00:08:19.000You have a family that you love, but you know you don't look like.
00:08:23.000And at a young age, you don't... I understood that was different.
00:08:33.000So, as I got older, it was something that developed in as My identity developed and my place in society and my understanding of that developed.
00:08:46.000My parents and my family had to develop as well.
00:08:50.000And I think that's just been a constant journey for us.
00:08:53.000But it's been one that we've worked through and we've always been very loving in the process.
00:09:00.000And, you know, I wouldn't do it with anybody else.
00:09:05.000Okay, those last few lines are the key, right?
00:09:07.000Every teenager, every young adult experiences gaps with their parents.
00:09:11.000This is a normal part of aging into adulthood.
00:09:14.000But do you navigate that with love and with understanding?
00:09:16.000Or do you write a graphic novel about how terrible your parents were because they once said something that you didn't like when you were 13 years old?
00:09:23.000By the way, again, there's a far cry from Colin Kaepernick circa 2013 when he was putting out Instagram messages congratulating his parents and actually saying quite nice things about them.
00:09:30.000That's when Colin Kaepernick was a good person.
00:09:31.000That is before the activists took over Colin Kaepernick's life.
00:09:35.000I didn't ask the Lord for a perfect example, but he gave it to me anyways.
00:09:37.000I love you both with all my heart." That's when Colin Kaepernick was a good person.
00:09:41.000That is before the activists took over Colin Kaepernick's life.
00:09:44.000And again, there is something to this that is broader and deeper.
00:09:47.000You'll recall when Barack Obama, when he was running for president in 2008, the Jeremiah Wright scandal came out.
00:09:53.000The fact that the president of the United States, then senator from Illinois, that he sat in the pews of an overt racist and anti-Semite for literally 20 years and then names his book The Audacity of Hope after a speech given by Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
00:10:05.000Jeremiah Wright is a kook and a nut and a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.
00:10:09.000And Barack Obama sat in his pews for literally two decades and apparently never noticed.
00:10:13.000It was just it was all a surprise to him.
00:10:14.000And then he had to give a major speech, you recall, talking about why he had sat in the pews.
00:10:19.000And making some excuses quasi for Jeremiah, right?
00:10:22.000And there was one part of the speech where he went out of his way to slap the people who raised him.
00:10:26.000Because if you remember Barack Obama's story, it's quasi similar to Colin Kaepernick's in the sense that he had a father who did not raise him, black father did not raise him, and he had a white mother.
00:10:35.000And then the people actually raised him were his maternal grandparents.
00:10:40.000And you'll recall going all the way back to 2008 and 2008 race, Barack Obama made a statement in his speech where he said, I can no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I can my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in the world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her on the street and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
00:11:01.000And this basic notion that I am perfect and my parents are terrible and that's an excuse for me to have made the overt choice as an adult to sit in the pews of Jeremiah Wright is because my white grandmother, who spent all this time and effort on me, She actually, you know, she had some bad things about her.
00:11:16.000Now that kind of makes her the same as me as an adult making bad decisions to opt into sitting in the pews of an overt racist and anti-Semite.
00:11:27.000It is Colin Kaepernick deciding that he has a thing to push.
00:11:30.000And the thing he has to push means that he can run roughshod over his parents.
00:11:34.000There is something really disgustingly perverse, again, about a culture that urges people to throw their parents under the bus.
00:11:41.000And when I say urges, I mean that this is like a real thing.
00:11:43.000If you go on TikTok these days, if you go on the TikToks with the youths, what you will find on TikTok is a bunch of videos, for example, of LGBTQ educators telling small children, we will be your parents.
00:12:25.000Any movement that tells you that overt disrespect for your parents as your parents, not disagreement.
00:12:30.000You're allowed to disagree with your parents, but overt disrespect attempts to humiliate your parents unless they are full on abusive.
00:12:37.000That any attempts to do that are good, and that you have sort of an added credibility in doing that.
00:12:43.000That is a bad movement that is essentially a cult.
00:12:46.000We've become a very cultic country, and a very cultic civilization, in which you are taken away from your father and mother by perverse ideologies, and you are morphed into a widget on behalf of those new ideologies, and it really is a sickness.
00:12:58.000And it is a great evil that has descended upon civilization when people take into their hearts the idea that your job as a human, part of your job, is to not only define yourself in contradistinction to your parents without taking any of their wisdom, but to overtly then attack the people who raised you.
00:13:16.000In just a second, we'll get to a fantastic hearing on the Hill, in which Democrats kind of showed that democracy dies in darkness and all of that.
00:13:23.000First, let's talk about spiritual values.
00:13:26.000The fact is that, as I've been saying, I think that the West has lost a lot of the spirituality that made us great.
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00:13:58.000I'm not somebody who obviously partakes in Lent, but it's a powerful spiritual time for a lot of Christians to abstain from luxuries and more deeply embrace their faith.
00:14:04.000I've always encouraged Christians to more deeply engage with their faith.
00:14:08.000I think that a faith-based society is going to be a lot more robust and healthy than a non-faith-based society.
00:14:13.000I think you as a person are going to be a lot happier and more fulfilled if you engage with your faith.
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00:14:28.000Meanwhile, Democrats on the Hill have decided that they are now going to attack the free press in order to get Elon Musk.
00:14:36.000So the Republicans who just took over the House, they launched what was called a weaponization of the federal government subcommittee.
00:14:43.000It was a House Judiciary Subcommittee, and the subcommittee is designed and aimed at uncovering the perversions that were pursued in the first years of the Biden administration, and also in the last years of the Trump administration, actually, by big tech being pressured by, for example, the FBI in order to shut down particular messages.
00:15:00.000And we know about a lot of that stuff from the Twitter files, where it was very obvious that there was hand-in-glove movement between the FBI and places like Twitter.
00:15:07.000We already know that the FBI was putting pressure on places like Facebook to take down particular material, including the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020.
00:15:16.000So, Republicans hosted, as a couple of the witnesses, Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger.
00:15:21.000Both of them have been guests on the program.
00:15:23.000They're also the journalists who revealed some of the trenches of the Twitter files.
00:15:26.000Representative Jim Jordan led off by charging that the government built a cozy relationship with Big Tech, and of course talked about the Hunter Biden story.
00:15:34.000And this led the Democrats not to suggest in bipartisan fashion, well, yeah, we probably shouldn't have the militarization of Big Tech on behalf of the government.
00:15:44.000Which is what you would have expected to hear from the left during, for example, the Patriot Act era.
00:15:48.000If this hearing happens in 2006, probably the roles are reversed.
00:15:51.000But here, you have the Democrats overtly attempting to violate basic rules of journalism, attack the journalists as enemies of the people.
00:16:01.000So, for example, you had Texas Democrat Representative Sylvia Garcia demanding, demanding that these journalists, Haibi and Schellenberger, expose that it was Elon Musk as the direct source for the Twitter files.
00:16:11.000Now, listen, obviously, Elon Musk had to be invested in revealing these tranches of files to these journalists because they got the files.
00:16:20.000They're from Twitter, somebody from Musk's team or somebody around Musk.
00:16:23.000But the idea here is that when they for the Democrats that if Elon Musk gave the files, as we will see, this is the line they pursue.
00:16:30.000If Elon Musk made these files public, then Elon Musk is the villain. Now, this falls very much in line with the idea that Kevin McCarthy is the villain for revealing 41,000 hours of footage of January 6th to Tucker Carlson. The problem isn't the coverage. The problem isn't the lack of transparency in the first place. The problem is the revelation. So here you have Sylvia Garcia attempting to cudgel these journalists into revealing their sources. What was the first time that Mr. Musk approached you about writing the Twitter files?
00:16:57.000Again, Congresswoman, that would be... I just need a date, sir.
00:17:03.000But I can't give it to you, unfortunately, because this is a question of sourcing, and I don't give a... I'm a journalist, I don't reveal my source.
00:17:09.000It's not a question of source, it's a question of chronology.
00:17:12.000So you're not going to tell us when Musk first approached you?
00:17:17.000Again, Congresswoman, you're asking a journalist to reveal a source... So then you consider Mr. Musk to be the direct source of all this?
00:17:25.000No, now you're trying to get me to say that he is the source.
00:17:57.000Representative Stacey Plaskett, who's a ranking member there from, I believe, the Virgin Islands, referring to Taibbi and Schellenberger as quote unquote, so-called journalists, because real journalists are people who work for the Democrats, obviously.
00:18:08.000This isn't just a matter of what data was given to these so-called Again, so-called journalists.
00:18:23.000So, eventually, Taibbi had a chance to fire back.
00:18:26.000One of the things that's amazing about watching congressional hearings is watching how obnoxious and gross so many of our elected officials are.
00:18:33.000As we'll see when we get to Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a second.
00:18:36.000One of their favorite games is they say, I reclaim my time.
00:18:38.000So they won't ask the witness a question.
00:18:46.000Here is Taibia for being called a so-called journalist.
00:18:50.000Ranking member Plaskett, I'm not a so-called journalist.
00:18:54.000I've won the National Magazine Award, the IF Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I've written ten books, including four New York Times bestsellers.
00:19:05.000And there she is, busily talking to her aide, of course.
00:19:08.000Then, of course, Plaskett didn't stop there.
00:19:10.000She accused these journalists of facilitating murder.
00:19:15.000And following the Daily Mail's decision to publish where I live, ultimately I had to leave my home and sell it.
00:19:22.000Those are the consequences for this type of online harassment and speech.
00:19:26.000Mr. Chairman, I'm not exaggerating when I say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them.
00:19:37.000It's funny when people have to go through that.
00:19:44.000I don't know if a lot of other people are.
00:19:46.000But just as it was unacceptable for Kevin McCarthy to provide 41,000 hours of sensitive security footage to a biased talking head in an effort to rewrite what happened on January 6th.
00:19:59.000This is a new Republican playbook, apparently.
00:20:02.000Risk American safety and security to score political points.
00:20:08.000Yeah, so apparently the New Republican playbook or conservative playbook is reveal things.
00:20:14.000It's amazing how angry they are that a thing was revealed.
00:20:32.000We're not talking about your privacy as an individual citizen.
00:20:34.000We're not talking about somebody revealing your phone calls.
00:20:36.000We're not talking about somebody reading your diary.
00:20:38.000We're not talking about somebody going into your business files.
00:20:40.000We are talking about actual governmental influence on how these things work.
00:20:45.000And you, as a governmental member, are saying that the revelation to the public of Of information they are owed.
00:20:50.000You're not owed the information about your neighbor.
00:20:51.000You're not owed the information about your neighbor's business.
00:20:54.000What you are owed is transparency into the things that you pay for.
00:20:57.000If you tax me using the power of the federal government and then use that federal government taxpayer money in order to cram down a particular vision of the universe via big tech.
00:22:11.000I like the post office too, but I'm not going to stand for hours in line at the post office or schlep all the boxes the Daily Wire has to send to the post office.
00:23:23.000This is just Wasserman Schultz trying to throw mud at a couple of journalists she doesn't like.
00:23:28.000Elon Musk spoon-fed you his cherry-picked information, which you must have suspected promotes a slanted viewpoint or at the very least generates another right-wing conspiracy theory.
00:23:39.000You violated your own standard and you appear to have benefited from it.
00:23:44.000Before the release of the emails in August of last year, You had 661,000 Twitter followers.
00:23:51.000After the Twitter files, your followers doubled, and now it's three times what it was last August.
00:23:57.000I imagine your substack readership, which is a subscription, increased significantly because of the work that you did for Elon Musk.
00:24:03.000Now, I'm not asking you to put a dollar figure on it, but it's quite obvious that you've profited from the Twitter files.
00:24:09.000You hit the jackpot on that Vegas slot machine to which you referred.
00:24:16.000So in other words, the New York Times, which won Pulitzer Prizes on the basis of a bunch of reports about a Russian collusion scandal that did not exist.
00:24:24.000You think they gained subscribers based on that?
00:24:44.000Bob Woodward has made an entire living off of one story that ran in the 1970s.
00:24:48.000Does that make him a bad journalist because he made money off of that story?
00:24:52.000It turns out that when people want to pay you to do things, that's typically a reminder that the story is kind of important, actually.
00:24:58.000It's a pretty good gauge of the market's interest in the things that you have to say.
00:25:02.000But according to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, if Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger are more famous now than they were before they revealed the story, this makes them bad, which is weird because it's been true of literally every journalist for literally all of human history.
00:25:12.000That you make more prominent splashes when you break bigger stories.
00:25:39.000I mean, one of my favorite things here is the fact that not only are the Democrats on this particular subcommittee really venal and attempting to attack the press in ways that, again, if Republicans did it, would be seen as full-scale attacks on the press.
00:25:51.000They also just happen to be unbelievably ignorant.
00:25:53.000So Sylvia Garcia, who we saw a moment ago being foolish.
00:25:56.000Well, she is, um, her foolishness really knows very few bounds.
00:25:59.000My favorite part, I'm not sure which clip I like better here.
00:26:01.000We're gonna play two and then we're gonna decide which one we like better.
00:26:03.000So the first one is where she is talking about how Matt Taibbi has a substack.
00:26:09.000Now, for those who are not informed, a substack is basically like a paid newsletter that you can access online.
00:26:13.000So if I have a substack, I write a piece, you pay for a subscription, and I can read the piece.
00:26:49.000You know, honestly, this next, this next one's the best.
00:26:52.000This is where she implies, uh, that Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger, and Barry Weiss, who is a lesbian married woman, uh, are in a threesome.
00:28:11.000who apparently should be trusted on policy. The Podesta family continues to rake it in from the Chinese. It is the corrupt relationship between the Biden administration and China continues to pace. So Hunter Biden obviously was picking up bags of Chinese cash while his vice president father was squiring him around on Air Force Two and all the rest.
00:28:33.000We're supposed to ignore the 10% for the big guy emails.
00:28:34.000We're supposed to pretend none of that existed.
00:28:36.000None of that implicates Joe in any way.
00:28:38.000We're supposed to pretend that it means nothing, that the Penn-Biden Center for Chinese Grift was taking in a lot of money, as it turns out, from the Chinese government, allegedly.
00:28:46.000Well, now we're supposed to ignore the fact that TikTok, which is a Chinese front organization, TikTok is an organization that is pretty obviously run by the Chinese government via a bunch of proxies, and they are gathering information on you, and every time they try to show they're not doing that, they tend to show that they are doing that.
00:29:03.000Well, now, according to Politico, they have hired top Biden-connected consulting firm, SKDK, as it faces increasing scrutiny in Washington, according to two people, including one with direct knowledge of the hire.
00:29:14.000The public affairs and political consulting firm is providing communications support to the company, which has come under government scrutiny, with senators recently introducing a bipartisan bill empowering Biden to restrict or potentially ban the service.
00:29:25.000SKDK is seen as the most well-connected Democratic firm in Washington, with former top employees in senior and mid-level roles in the Biden administration.
00:29:33.000So, for example, Anita Dunn is a founding partner.
00:29:35.000She returned to the White House last May.
00:29:37.000She is a senior advisor after a stint in the early part of the Biden administration.
00:29:40.000Other former SKDK employees in the Biden administration include Deputy White House Communications Directors Kate Berner and Herbie Zeskind, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh, Interior Department Press Secretary Tyler Cherry.
00:29:53.000I wonder why TikTok would be hiring people with deep-seated Democratic connections.
00:29:58.000SKDK happens to be one of the most obviously Democratic lobbying firms in America.
00:30:02.000That really shouldn't be a surprise, given the fact that, for example, it was Huawei that paid Tony Podesta, John Podesta's brother.
00:30:10.000John Podesta served in the early days of the Biden administration as sort of their helicopter money guy on green projects.
00:30:18.000Tony was paid half a million dollars to lobby the White House on behalf of Huawei, which is the Chinese tech giant that is on the U.S.
00:30:24.000trade blacklist because they've been stealing American technology for the development of the next stage of the Internet, like Internet 3.0 or whatever it is.
00:30:32.000So yeah, the Chinese connections to the Democratic Party and its most favored players runs incredibly, incredibly deep.
00:30:39.000In just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's newest budget proposal, speaking of spending money on things that are just absurd.
00:30:44.000First, let's talk about how you can make your home look better.
00:32:17.000And then you can worry about exceptions, vacations and so forth, adventures and all that, but man, you want to get what iterates right.
00:32:24.000That stabilizes you and that's so helpful.
00:32:27.000And you can really do it by concentrating.
00:32:30.000You can say, well, you can go, go into your room, your bedroom and look, just sit on your bed and look around and you think, okay, what bugs me about this room?
00:32:41.000And then you think, oh well, there's a pile of socks over there, and oh god, I haven't looked at those pieces of paper on that desk for like a year, and I don't know what's wrong with that corner, but there's spiderwebs everywhere.
00:32:52.000No one's paid any attention to whatever the hell's over there for quite a while.
00:32:57.000You know, there's some stain on the ceiling and the wallpaper's peeling there.
00:33:09.000It's like, that's your life, man, right there in your room.
00:33:12.000It's like, well, fix one of those things.
00:33:15.000And then you can ask yourself, well, if I had to leave this room, having fixed one of those things in some micro manner, what could I do that I would do?
00:34:53.000It'll also be available in full over at Daily Wire Plus.
00:34:56.000There's always a special member section of the Sunday special, so make sure that you become a Daily Wire Plus member so you can actually see that as well.
00:35:13.000He says, by the way, that it's going to reduce the deficit.
00:35:16.000The way he says it's going to reduce the deficit is he's going to radically increase taxes.
00:35:19.000He would make The tax rate on wealthy Americans, the highest since the 1980s.
00:35:25.000It raised the overall tax rate to about 44% on the people who earn the most income in the United States, which is an extraordinary amount of money, especially if you are living in a place like California or New York that also has a high state tax.
00:35:37.000In California, the highest rate of state tax, which is 12, I think it's 12% now.
00:35:42.000Add that on top and you could be theoretically paying 56% of your incremental income to the federal government.
00:35:48.000Which for California and the federal government might mean any dollar you make over $400,000 in a place like California, that means that you make 44 cents on every one of those.
00:36:06.000Genius level stuff here from the Biden administration.
00:36:09.000So what exactly is in this budget blueprint?
00:36:12.000Well, again, the budget outline calls for Congress to approve $1.7 trillion in discretionary federal spending next year, including $885 billion for defense and $809 billion for non-defense and veterans health programs.
00:36:24.000The overall budget would cost $6.9 trillion as an increase over the roughly $6.4 trillion the administration expects the federal government to spend in 2023.
00:36:33.000Then they say, don't worry because we're going to cut deficits by three trillion dollars over the next decade.
00:36:36.000Now, understand when they say cut deficits, they don't mean cut the debt.
00:36:39.000What they mean is that future growth of deficits will be slightly lower than it overall would be.
00:36:45.000So, for example, this is a chart from the Washington Post showing what the budget deficit would look like under the current projection by the Biden administration and what it would look like with the president's budget.
00:36:57.000As you will note, the budget deficit, this is year-on-year budget deficit, is still extraordinary with the president's budget.
00:37:04.000So again, if you can't see this chart, what it shows you is year-on-year what the deficit would be.
00:37:10.000And essentially, with the president's budget, it means that until 2033 or 2034, according to this particular outline, even including Joe Biden's budget, because he's just going to keep spending until the end of time, right?
00:37:25.000The suggestion is that we are going to have a budget deficit of at least $1.5 trillion every year from now all the way until 2034, by which point the budget deficit will actually be $2 trillion.
00:37:37.000And he's saying that that's reducing the deficit because the projected deficit before the president's budget would be like slightly higher.
00:37:45.000Like somewhat slightly, a few hundred billion dollars higher per year.
00:37:48.000But the president is going to tax the living crap out of all of you and spend unlimited amounts of money.
00:37:52.000And then he's going to claim that he's a deficit reducer.
00:37:54.000It's just the biggest lie in American politics.
00:37:56.000This guy gives a damn about bringing together the amount of money we are spending and the amount of money that we are bringing into the federal government.
00:38:02.000Nobody wants to balance the budget, not on the right, no one on the left.
00:38:06.000The difference is that the left wants to spend unlimited and copious amounts of money while siphoning an incredible amount of money out of the American economy in order to pay for their Idiotic schemes, which is really what this is.
00:38:20.000The White House says the budget will outline a plan requiring insurance companies that run Medicaid-managed care programs pay back Medicaid if the companies charge more than the cost of patient care, which, of course, undermines the actual way that the healthcare system runs.
00:38:32.000They're just trying to grab money out of that and pretend that that has no impact On anything, which of course is not how any of these programs actually work.
00:38:39.000Also, Biden wants to empower Medicare to negotiate how much it pays for certain high-priced prescription drugs, which means that either R&D stops in the United States, or it means that everybody stops taking Medicare, or it means that the entire private industry now has to bear the burden of the high cost, which then is used by the federal government as an excuse for more government regulation.
00:39:01.000Make things more expensive and more difficult.
00:39:02.000And then the federal government says, now that we've made things more expensive and more difficult, we need to come in and fix the problem.
00:39:20.000Republicans are not going to sign up for raising taxes.
00:39:23.000His budget would reprise a series of tax increases the administration couldn't get through the last Congress, which was controlled by Democrats.
00:39:31.000So, you'll notice that he didn't propose a lot of these things when Democrats were actually in charge, because that would have meant that Democrats rejected it.
00:39:36.000So he's putting this up there so Republicans will knock it down, and then he can claim that they're doing tax cuts for the wealthy, or whatever his nonsense pitch is.
00:40:23.000So it shows that he was lying about that in the first place.
00:40:26.000He also wants to raise existing taxes on wages, self-employment income, and investments to 5% from 3.8% and then expand those taxes to cover active business income.
00:40:36.000And he wants a 15% budget increase to the IRS.
00:40:41.000Okay, none of this stuff is going to pass.
00:40:42.000And none of this is going to solve any of the underlying problems with the massive social spending that we have been doing, these huge mandatory spending programs that we've put in place and that will bankrupt the country.
00:40:52.000He's not actually going to be able to get any of this through.
00:40:57.000That he is capable of providing you everything in the middle of a massive inflationary cycle that's about to collapse into a stagnation, an economic stagnation cycle.
00:41:05.000Joe Biden yesterday talked about increasing his budget.
00:41:08.000And the world's getting a hell of a lot more complicated.
00:41:10.000Getting a hell of a lot more complicated.
00:42:36.000I refuse to provide funding that's going to keep communities safe and secure.
00:42:42.000So now Republicans are the ones who are into defunding the police, which is weird because your DOJ literally is cramming consent decrees down on major American city police departments everywhere.
00:42:50.000And you yourself had to allow the federal government to re-seize control over crime policy in the District of Columbia, which is run by Democrats.
00:42:58.000Joe Biden is insanely vulnerable right now.
00:43:01.000If you look at Joe Biden's approval ratings, his approval ratings remain absolutely stagnant.
00:43:05.000They are not for all the talk about Joe Biden being just amazing and people loving Joe Biden.
00:43:32.000This is not a dude who is riding particularly high and it's going to get a lot worse for him as time goes on because the economic consequences of his own bad policies have not yet come home to roost.
00:43:42.000Which raises the question of what's going to happen on the other side of the aisle.
00:43:45.000So, we move over to the 2024 Republican candidates.
00:43:48.000The big story that Democrats are glomming onto today.
00:43:51.000Is this notion that Donald Trump is about to be criminally charged in Manhattan?
00:43:57.000According to the New York Times, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office recently signaled to Trump's lawyers he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels, the strongest indication yet that prosecutors are nearing an indictment of the former president, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
00:44:09.000Now, again, all of this sounds like Lucy with the football.
00:44:13.000How many times have we heard before that they're just they're on the verge of getting Trump.
00:44:28.000According to The New York Times, the prosecutors offered Trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case.
00:44:34.000Such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close.
00:44:38.000In New York, potential defendants have the right to answer questions in the grand jury before indictment.
00:44:43.000So, apparently, this particular case is about a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump.
00:44:51.000The payment was made in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign by Michael Cohen, who is Trump's former fixer, who was later reimbursed by Trump from the White House.
00:45:00.000Cohen, who has long said that Trump directed him to pay Daniels to keep her quiet, is expected to testify.
00:45:04.000The basic idea here is that he violated campaign finance law.
00:45:25.000And every time you suggest that you've got the guy, not even close, it turns out.
00:45:28.000It turns out that you're fabricating stuff or you're exaggerating stuff or you're pretending that he's a grand threat to national security when he's not.
00:45:34.000All of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents.
00:45:36.000And then it turns out that Joe Biden has a bunch in his basement and his garage.
00:45:40.000The media love this sort of stuff because it allows them to sell newspapers, but it ain't real until it's real.
00:45:46.000Okay, meanwhile, other Republican candidates.
00:45:48.000So there's a lot of talk about Ron DeSantis jumping in.
00:45:50.000Well, until he jumps in, he hasn't jumped in.
00:45:52.000He is, in fact, visiting Iowa right now.
00:45:54.000I think that the generalized assumption is that he probably will jump in sometime in June.
00:45:59.000The latest legislative session in Florida ends in May.
00:46:04.000DeSantis' latest book, his new kind of memoir slash political manifesto, that thing has outsold both Obama's and Trump's in terms of their book right before they ran for president.
00:46:29.000Now, of course, DeSantis isn't allowed by law to actually coordinate with the PAC, so it's urging him to run.
00:46:34.000But again, I think the generalized assumption that DeSantis is going to run is probably correct.
00:46:37.000I'd be shocked if Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, does not run at this point.
00:46:41.000And he's widely perceived to be the chief threat to Donald Trump for the Republican nomination.
00:46:44.000One other candidate who has been discussed is Glenn Youngkin.
00:46:47.000Glenn Youngkin is the man who won a surprise gubernatorial victory.
00:46:51.000Over Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the DNC and former governor of Virginia.
00:46:55.000That was a race that was very much affected by arguments over critical race theory and transgender bathrooms and the culture war issues the Democrats had basically decided to declare.
00:47:04.000Terry McAuliffe famously dropped one of the worst gaffes in human history in the middle of that campaign when he said that parents should not have the right to control their children's education.
00:47:11.000That was about the experts in the teachers unions doing it.
00:48:04.000Can you just tell us Do you make the sun shine or does it shine all by itself just with those rays upon your face?
00:48:10.000That's usually how CNN treats a Democrat.
00:48:12.000The way they treat Republicans is like, when did you last beat your wife?
00:48:15.000So, more fool Glenn Youngkin for even bothering to go on a CNN town hall.
00:48:19.000I've never seen a CNN town hall that did not end with the moderator of the CNN town hall basically attempting to stomp all over the Republican candidate that goes all the way back to the Parkland massacre when CNN did an egregious town hall accusing Republican politicians of being responsible for the Parkland massacre culminating in students from Parkland yelling at sitting United States senators on stage.
00:48:40.000So, CNN, again, Fact, for Republican candidates, do not go to places that are designed to destroy you.
00:48:48.000Don't do it unless you have an active plan as to how you're going to fight back.
00:48:53.000And Republicans keep assuming that the media are going to act in good faith, and they aren't.
00:48:56.000They're not interested in acting in good faith.
00:48:58.000So here, for example, was Glenn Youngkin being asked about schools and education.
00:49:04.000This is a chance to make sure that we're not pitting our children against one another based on race or religion or their sex, but teaching all history the good and the bad.
00:49:12.000So let me just ask you one more follow-up on that, which is, what do you say to a teacher who wants to teach Anyone of any number of scholars who say that the condition of black Americans today can be traced all the way back to Fort Monroe in 1619.
00:49:30.000That it's not as if every generation is just brought forth new.
00:49:37.000That there were hundreds of years of slavery, a hundred years of Jim Crow, and today is part of that.
00:49:44.000Yeah, well, first of all, we must step back and teach all of that.
00:49:49.000And then we have to recognize where we are today.
00:49:53.000Okay, so again, that question is straight from the mouth of Nicole Hannon-Hannon-Jones.
00:49:59.000And it's also a conflation of two arguments, right?
00:50:02.000It's a conflation of one argument, which is that the past has consequences, which is obviously true, with critical race theory, which teaches that the systems of the United States today are inherently perverse because they are rooted in exploitation and slavery.
00:50:13.000That's the actual argument of the 1619 Project, is that the center of American history lies around exploitation.
00:50:20.000Glenn Youngkin didn't know how to answer that question because he hadn't prepped for that question in an appropriate way.
00:50:24.000And the way the question was asked was incredibly biased.
00:50:26.000And making that distinction is really important, but he couldn't do it because again, I think he was expecting sort of a good faith conversation that didn't, that never happens on, on CNN.
00:50:33.000Here was Jake Tapper, who's promoting gun control with Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.
00:50:38.000Think about individuals who say, there are laws that could help law enforcement keep guns out of the hands of people who would use them for harm.
00:50:48.000You could strengthen the red flag laws in Virginia.
00:50:52.000You could require, by law, parents to lock their guns, either in safes or with trigger locks, and that would keep a six-year-old from being able, much less two six-year-olds, from being able to get guns to bring them to school.
00:51:06.000Would you ever contemplate anything like that?
00:51:09.000As I said, Virginia has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, and we have red flag laws, and we have requirements that parents keep guns out of the hands of young children.
00:51:19.000You know, again, every question is designed to elicit a particular Democrat response because these are questions that are oriented from the left.
00:51:25.000And I like Jake Tapper very often, but not here.
00:51:28.000I mean, I think that the questions here are quite biased.
00:51:31.000And then, of course, CNN, that's what they always do.
00:51:33.000And who's in the crowd but a trans-ute, a trans person, which is, in this particular case, a trans man, meaning a woman, I believe she's a man, saying that This person should be able to use the bathroom of their choosing and why are you so mean, Glenn Youngkin?
00:51:52.000Uh, Governor Youngkin, your transgender model policies require that students play on the sports teams and use the restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
00:52:05.000Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?
00:52:10.000Do I think the girls in my high school... So the idea is that now you care about the girls in your high school sharing a restroom?
00:52:15.000Is that going to be the adjudicatory standard?
00:52:17.000Seriously, is the adjudicatory standard going to be what the other people in the restroom are comfortable doing?
00:52:22.000Because then every single trans woman is going to be banned from the female restroom.
00:52:27.000Again, there's no logic to this, but the entire idea of the CNN town halls is, what if we confront you with a victim of your evil policies if you're a Republican?
00:52:35.000And then if you're a Democrat, what if we confront you with a victim of Republicans' evil policies if you're a Democrat?
00:53:05.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, scientists now say they've produced the first commercially accessible material that eliminates the loss of energy as electricity moves along a wire.
00:53:14.000It could mean longer lasting batteries, more efficient power grids and improved high speed trains.
00:53:18.000Materials that conduct electric currents without any loss, these are superconductors, have been wildly impractical because they need to be really, really cooled to around 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:53:26.000And then subjected to extreme pressure to work because typically as electricity goes across the line, it loses some of its power.
00:53:31.000A group of researchers at the University of Rochester report they have created a new superconductor that can operate at room temperature and much lower pressure than previously discovered superconducting materials.
00:53:42.000The breakthrough has the potential to create lossless electrical grids, better and cheaper magnets for use in future nuclear fusion reactors, among other things.
00:53:50.000Which is going to be, like, an amazingly powerful thing.
00:53:54.000If you have better superconductors, it's going to make virtually all technologies more efficient.
00:54:00.000Including, by the way, how much power has to be generated in order to go through the grid, because if it doesn't lose electricity going through the grid, then obviously you don't have to generate as much up front.
00:54:07.000It's going to have environmental impact.
00:54:09.000If you wish to make the environment better, what you need is more innovation.
00:54:13.000Innovation is going to be the solution to virtually all human problems in terms of material lack.
00:54:18.000The solution is not going to be government mandates and redistributionism.
00:54:22.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:54:23.000And so, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez yesterday, she had a hell of a quote.
00:54:33.000So she was upset because the Republicans have been focusing in on the problem of wokeness.
00:54:39.000And so she decided to play Face Tattoo Syndrome.
00:54:41.000Ah, one of our favorite games, Face Tattoo Syndrome.
00:54:43.000This is where a person who advocates for a policy that is deliberately provocative provokes attention.
00:54:48.000And then the minute you pay attention to them, they're like, this face tattoo?
00:56:55.000It's probably important to talk about it.
00:56:56.000She said, quote, There's no definition of what WOKE is.
00:56:58.000But on paper, what's actually being criticized in this hearing is that the so-called WOKE policies are remote work for federal workers, especially those who live in rural areas and those who have disabilities.
00:57:07.000Paying interns to the critical opportunities don't just go to privileged kids whose parents can afford to pay for their rent while they go on a free internship.
00:57:14.000That is what the other side is calling WOKE here.
00:57:16.000No, that is not what the other side is calling WOKE.
00:57:17.000What the other side is calling WOKE is the attempt to inject equity provisions Okay, meanwhile, one other thing that I hate.
00:57:21.000federal government including employment via the office of personnel management.
00:57:25.000That is what the other side is calling woke. But if you mischaracterize it and you lie about it, and then you say we should focus on trains, then maybe everybody will just be distracted for long enough. Okay, meanwhile, one other thing that I hate. So RuPaul, world's most important human, has now spoken out against legislation in states like Tennessee that ban drag shows for children.
00:57:45.000Now, you might ask yourself, why is it important for children to see drag shows?
00:57:48.000You might ask yourself that question because it's a good question.
00:57:51.000Why is it important to see, for small children, to see men gallivanting around in skimpy outfits pretending to be women in the most stereotypically disgusting ways?
00:58:42.000Drag queens are the marines of the queer movement.
00:58:45.000Don't get it twisted and don't be distracted.
00:58:48.000Register to vote so we can get these stunt queens out of office and put some smart people with real solutions into government.
00:58:57.000Okay, so first of all, the bizarrely hypnotic quality of this video in which the American flag shrinks in the background and goes like that's what the entire video is.
00:59:04.000If you can't actually see right now, RuPaul is sitting in front of an American flag that is bizarrely zooming in and out behind him.
00:59:29.000It's a classic distraction to pay attention that you're sending the queer marines to the kids.
00:59:34.000If you pay attention to us sending the, quote, marines of the queer movement to the small children, if you pay attention to that, well, that's a classic distraction technique, says RuPaul.