Ralph Yarrow, an 84-year-old white man, shot and killed a black teen through his front door. His grandson, Andrew Lester, is on CNN, ranting about his grandfather and calling him a racist. The media are all in on it, and so is the public. But what is the truth about what happened to the teen? And why does it matter to the media and the rest of the world so much? And what does it say about race in the United States and the role race has played in the past and in the future of race in this country? All that and much more on this episode of the podcast by Norma Elsberry. Music: Fair Weather Fans by The Baseball Project, Recorded live at WFMU and produced by Riley Bray. Art: Mackenzie Moore Music: Hayden Coplenz Editor: Will Witwer Editor: Mike Alessandrini Audio Engineer: Mike McLendon Recording Location: Baltimore, MD Special Thanks to: John Rocha, Jr. Music for the intro and outro music by Zapsplat, Jeff Perla Background Music: "Space Junk" by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 44, 45 & 45, 48, 50, 51, 56, 57, 58, Theme Song: "The White House" by The Weakerthans (feat. , , Theme Music: , 5, , 6, 5, 5 & 6, 5 , 6, 6 , 5 , 6 7, 6 , 7 , 8, 6 & 7, 7 9, 8, 8 , 8 , 9, 8 & 9, 9 , & 9 ) "The Facts" by SONG: "Thank You" by Fergie (Music: "Outtro: "A Good Morning America" by Robert Esteban (Solo & 8, 6)
00:00:00.000Well, folks, the media has been watching, drooling over this horrible case in which an 84-year-old white man shot a black teen through his front door.
00:00:08.000All the circumstances of that case have really yet to enter the public view.
00:00:12.000All we've been told at this point is that Ralph Yarrow, the 16-year-old black kid, did not actually enter The home, presumably the defense, is going to present some sort of contrary viewpoint, since I assume that this guy isn't going to plead guilty to what would presumably be manslaughter or murder, or attempted murder, attempted manslaughter.
00:00:28.000There is a story that I think is sort of fascinating because it grants a window into the generation gap that has now emerged in the West.
00:00:35.000It is a story about the grandson of the 84-year-old Judas, a person named Andrew Lester.
00:00:41.000This person, the grandson, is ripping on his grandfather and calling him a racist.
00:00:47.000And the way that he's calling him a racist, presumably the media are very into this, of course, because the suggestion from the media is that this 84-year-old white man shot the black kid because he was a vicious racist and he was a vicious racist, maybe because he was a conservative who watched Fox News.
00:01:01.000That is the nerve the media are looking to run with.
00:01:03.000That's the reason why Ralph Yarle is going to go to the White House.
00:01:05.000That is the entire narrative that the media wishes to pursue.
00:01:08.000Well, the grandson of this shooter is a person named Clint Ludwig.
00:01:16.000And Clint, again, the grandson, is obviously a left-wing social justice warrior activist.
00:01:23.000So he's on CNN to rip his grandfather for being a racist.
00:01:27.000And his evidence that his grandfather is a racist is pretty scanty.
00:01:32.000Do you believe your grandfather is racist?
00:01:46.000He's just a stock American Christian male.
00:01:49.000It's the older, you know, that's just how they are.
00:01:52.000It's the conspiracies and weird random racist things they say, you know, and it doesn't make sense, but they're just scared.
00:02:03.000He's a stock American Christian male who's scared of change around him.
00:02:08.000Now, the grandson went on to say, in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we've lost touch.
00:02:12.000This is after he said that he used to be very close with his grandfather.
00:02:15.000I've gotten older and gained my own political views, says the grandson, and he's become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the elections-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News OAN kind of line.
00:02:26.000I feel like it's really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.
00:02:30.000And then he suggested that his grandfather had been immersed in a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.
00:02:35.000When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn't disbelieve that it was true.
00:02:39.000The second I heard it, I was like, yeah, I could see him doing that.
00:02:42.000Again, he says, it's stock Fox News, conservative American stuff.
00:02:46.000It's anybody who gets an abortion is a murderer.
00:02:48.000And fatherless black families are the reason why crime exists in this country.
00:02:50.000It's stuff everybody's heard at Thanksgiving table every year.
00:02:53.000This is what he told the Kansas City Star.
00:02:55.000He said, I hesitate he got more extreme because all this stuff has been extreme.
00:02:58.000And it's been the same story for decades and decades and generation to generation of people believing the same things.
00:03:02.000It's just nowadays people are acting on it a little bit more.
00:03:05.000Now, the grandfather is a former military veteran, and apparently he would come to his school for grandpa lunches and he would spend time in the summer with his grandson and all the rest of this.
00:03:17.000The thing is that Clint has an older brother.
00:03:19.000Clint Ludwig is the one that you're watching on CNN right there.
00:03:21.000His older brother is a guy named Daniel Ludwig, his older brother.
00:03:50.000Now, the reason that I'm pointing out what the grandson said here is because it does reveal a massive shift in how generations think about one another in the United States.
00:03:58.000I don't know all the facts about Andrew Lester.
00:03:59.000You don't know all the facts about Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man.
00:04:06.000And if what we know so far ends up being the whole story, namely a black kid knocked on a door and Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old, just blasted a gun through the door, he will go to jail for the rest of his life.
00:04:16.000And we will find out, presumably, whether he had racist motives.
00:04:21.000All of that will come out in due course.
00:04:23.000The point that I'm making is that the grandson is not actually saying that he's privy to special information on his grandfather and race.
00:04:31.000He is just saying that his grandfather must be a racist because he is a white American conservative who's in his 80s.
00:04:37.000And this is, unfortunately, the way that younger generations now view their elders.
00:04:44.000What Andrew Lester did doesn't deserve any respect, but when younger generations view their elders just by the mere dint of the fact that they disagree politically and happen to be older, as racist, bigots, terrible people, This is a culture that has decided that the young will lead it.
00:04:59.000Cultures that decide that the young will lead them are typically cultures that fall apart very, very quickly.
00:05:04.000And even cultures like ours, in which very old people are leading us, right?
00:05:17.000Joe Biden is not doing this because he represents some sort of storied wisdom that some data of the past has been brought forward to today.
00:05:23.000And that he's an old, older man who's presenting the truths of the past to new generations, which is typically how wisdom actually gets passed down.
00:05:30.000No, he's an old man doing the work of the 10 year olds.
00:05:32.000He's an old man doing the work of the 13 year olds.
00:05:35.000This intergenerational conflict means that the civilization is in serious trouble, because the way that a functional civilization works is that young people get older, they learn things, they have kids, they become grandparents, and then their job in society is to pass down age-old wisdom.
00:05:50.000Well, when we don't respect our elders, I mean, this is a traditional thing in most cultures, to respect your elders doesn't mean you take everything they say at face value, doesn't mean you can't have bad people who are your elders, but when you simply say, by dint of the fact that somebody is older and disagrees with you politically, that this means that they are bad, and you are, you found your own politics now, and this means that you are the virtuous person.
00:06:10.000What you are doing is discarding all of the realities and wisdom of the past in favor of a certain sort of narcissistic egotism that is likely to break down because your newfound rationales really do not stand up to the test of time.
00:06:24.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:07:29.000So, again, one of the things that is happening in our culture is that we have simply decided, as a culture, that young people have all the answers.
00:07:37.000Now, we don't actually believe young people have all the answers.
00:07:39.000What we do believe is that young people are going to rebel against the old answers.
00:07:42.000And so they ought to be granted additional measures of respect.
00:07:45.000And people who are older should simply be disrespected.
00:07:48.000They should be treated as though they are bigots and fools, even though what they have to say might be rooted in accepted wisdom that has actually been tried and true.
00:07:56.000So there was a clip, it's about three years old, that was flying around the internet yesterday.
00:08:00.000And it was fascinating to see the sort of Rorschach test this clip represented.
00:08:04.000It was a clip from a YouTube channel called Participant, in which a bunch of drag queens were asked to pose and dance with elderly men.
00:08:14.000And the reaction of one of these elderly men, who happens to be black, is pretty indicative of how a lot of older Americans think about the idea of men gallivanting around dressed up as women.
00:08:57.000So the left was like, look at this awful, evil, old bigot.
00:09:00.000This man who doesn't want to pose with men dressed up as women and gallivanting around as women.
00:09:04.000And some people on the right are like, well, there's nothing wrong with, in fact, there's something very right about the idea that men should not dress up as women.
00:09:10.000There's a reason there are biblical prescriptions against men dressing as women, because it turns out that gender and sex roles are deeply important to a functioning society.
00:09:18.000The fact that this is an elderly gentleman who's sort of being mocked for this position is, again, indicative of a culture that is in decline.
00:09:25.000Cultures that are in decline look at the wisdom that has been passed down traditionally, and not only do they ignore it, they decide that it must be overthrown, and simply, again, not because the elderly people necessarily did something that is terrible, as in the case of presumably this 84-year-old shooter, but just generally.
00:09:40.000And this is the general trend line across Western society is that the youth have the answers.
00:09:50.000Youth movements historically across history have been incredibly negative.
00:09:53.000There's a reason why fascism was a youth movement.
00:09:56.000There's a reason why communism was a youth movement.
00:09:58.000Virtually all youth movements are very, very bad because they rely on the idea that people who have not tested their ideas through time and across space somehow have the advantage of prophetic knowledge.
00:10:10.000It's the reason why it's almost a pagan belief in like the child leaders that it's the same sort of thing that you get with Greta Thunberg.
00:10:17.000So Greta Thunberg, she's been making the rounds again.
00:10:20.000She did an event in which she was given some sort of award in Europe and she started ripping the soccer players and the celebrities getting attention, which is hilarious because Greta Thunberg is literally famous worldwide for being a child who doesn't know anything about climate change, gallivanting around and talking about how her elders are really, really terrible.
00:10:37.000Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
00:10:46.000Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for the environment and for climate justice because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world.
00:11:10.000There's a reason that Greta Thunberg...
00:11:12.000was propped up for years as sort of the face of the young prophetic movement with regard to climate change.
00:11:17.000There's a reason why the left is now focusing in on child transitions.
00:11:22.000There's a reason why that's happening.
00:11:24.000And the reason that's happening is because the idea is that young people have some sort of special knowledge.
00:12:26.000And younger generations ought to have a baseline level of respect for their elders.
00:12:31.000There's something wrong with a grandson who goes and starts jabbering about his grandfather to the media because he has woke principles at stake.
00:12:38.000Even if his grandfather is, in fact, a bad person.
00:12:44.000A society that refuses to acknowledge that there is a baseline level of respect that is owed to the elderly is a society that is doomed to actually collapse in on itself.
00:12:58.000Again, this is why you're seeing, for example, the incoming mayor of Chicago suggesting after a bunch of young people ransacked the loop in Chicago, that it's all of that we have to prevent the demonization of children.
00:13:08.000Again, it's both things. The children have special access to knowledge and also the children are perfectly innocent and must never be punished. And he's talking about 17 year old, 18 year old kids here, right? People who actually have the ability to think at this point. Here's the incoming mayor of Chicago who is protecting against charges of criminality by suggesting that children are being demonized. Demonizing children is wrong.
00:14:16.000And the reason you want it both ways is because the thing you're really saying is not about young people.
00:14:18.000The real thing that you are saying is about older generations.
00:14:21.000You are saying that those people have nothing to bring to the table other than the facade of gravitas that is pasted on the youth movement.
00:14:29.000Which is what the Democratic Party now represents.
00:14:31.000Again, this is why Democrats have fully signed into the cult of the quote-unquote trans youth.
00:14:36.000It's why Ayanna Pressley is out there promoting the idea that children have special knowledge when it comes to gender and sexual identity, which is absurd.
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00:17:39.000Okay, so all of this is, again, tied into things like the trans movement, as you see there, from Ayanna Pressley.
00:17:45.000So yesterday, the House Republicans voted for what seems to be a fairly inarguable bill saying that men should not compete with women in women's sports.
00:17:53.000According to the Washington Post, House Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would amend a landmark federal civil rights law to bar transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports.
00:18:02.000It was a two-page bill proposed by Rep.
00:18:13.000Title IX was not designed, it's literally designed to preserve women's sports.
00:18:17.000And then because of the foolishness of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court has now decided that the Civil Rights Act somehow was meant to encompass Idiocies like the idea that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man.
00:18:29.000And so that meant the title line was basically obsolete because now men who identify as women can now compete as women is basically the idea.
00:18:48.000Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the proposition that women playing sports should be protected from men masquerading as women in sports.
00:19:11.000But there's a reason why Title IX was created.
00:19:12.000Again, the idea here is that the youth movement and the social contagion that is transness right now is a youth movement that is going to overthrow all the institutions of society.
00:19:25.000Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, he says, listen, there's a reason there are men's and women's sports.
00:19:45.000And if there's one final fiber of America, it's about giving people an opportunity.
00:19:51.000Okay, well, the Democrats tried to defend against the bill by suggesting it's an issue that doesn't exist.
00:19:57.000So, again, their favorite game here is it's not happening, and it's good that it is.
00:20:01.000This is the favorite game of Democrats in the media.
00:20:03.000It's not happening, but it's good that it is.
00:20:04.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, who's pushing this.
00:20:08.000And the extreme right Republicans are trying to sensationalize an issue that doesn't really exist in the way that they are falsely portraying.
00:20:26.000They suggested, of course, this is the going lie that if you are a that if you are backing a bill like this, this means that you want kids to commit suicide.
00:20:35.000Again, absurdity at the highest order.
00:20:38.000Republicans today also passed a transgender sports ban for schools.
00:20:42.000Now, this is red meat for the base, but it's going to be vetoed, you know, if it got through the Senate.
00:20:48.000Meanwhile, they're not doing anything about guns or a lot of other issues.
00:20:53.000They point you to what happened and how gay people were villainized.
00:20:57.000for years by elements of the Republican Party, and that this is another layer of that, right?
00:21:02.000And this was a concern that folks had after same-sex marriage came through and went through, and now that everyone's kind of used to it, that what is the next thing?
00:21:11.000And when you talk to these advocates, this is what they were worried about.
00:21:14.000And most importantly, they were worried about the numbers, the vast numbers, disproportionate numbers of younger trans people who either kill themselves or feel scared living in this country, where you have folks trying to pass bills like this.
00:21:30.000The youngest among us get to decide their own gender and then they get to decide for everyone else how sex and gender work.
00:21:36.000And if you don't agree with any of that, then it's obviously because you want trans kids to commit suicide.
00:21:41.000And the line between, you know, the sort of straight line logic between I oppose the idea that a boy can become a girl and people are committing suicide has yet to be clearly drawn in any of the data, but that is going to be promoted by our intrepid media.
00:21:53.000And we'll get to more on the destruction of societal standards in the name of new societal standards, and using the youth as sort of a prop for that momentarily.
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00:23:06.000The Biden administration, meanwhile, continues to push forward the lie that if you support traditional social structures, this means that you are a bigot.
00:23:15.000The latest lies come courtesy of the world's worst press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre.
00:23:19.000So over in Florida, they recently passed a bill Signed into law that essentially says that you're not allowed to sexually indoctrinate children in the public schools.
00:23:27.000And the Florida Department of Education extended that from K all the way through 12.
00:23:39.000But, you know, the truth has never stopped Corinne Jean-Pierre.
00:23:43.000Teachers in Florida have already faced the devastating consequences of the existing law.
00:23:49.000Under threat of having their licenses revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictures of their spouses from their desks and censor their classroom materials.
00:24:00.000Censoring our classes is not how public education is supposed to work in a free country.
00:24:27.000Kareem Jean-Pierre went on to, of course, slam the quote-unquote violence and vitriol surrounding Bud Light and their decision to hire a man masquerading as a woman.
00:24:35.000Dylan Mulvaney has been the target of a barrage of attacks from anti-trans individuals online after she did an ad with Bud Light a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:47.000She's someone who has been here to the White House.
00:24:48.000She interviewed the President last year.
00:24:53.000So I don't have any calls to review at this time, and I don't have anything to say specifically about this report, but what I can say, when a transgender American posts a video about a brand of beer they enjoy, and it leads to bomb threats, it's clear that that level of violence and vitriol against Transgender American has to stop.
00:25:19.000And the president has been very clear.
00:25:21.000the administration has a is going to do everything that they can to protect LGBTQ plus people who are under attack.
00:25:28.000It keeps it keeps going with a LGBTQ plus minus divided by time. Again, the whole goal here is the traditional institutions have to be exploded, they will be they will do this from the highest levels of government. And then they will, you know, trot an old man around like a skin suit in order to promote the idea that this is actually traditional American values. None of this is traditional American values. All of it is a newfangled youth movement that is completely disconnected from history from reality from science and from and from decency.
00:25:55.000Now you'd imagine that our news industry might actually be interested as the Democratic Party moves ever leftward, but of course they aren't.
00:26:00.000They're actually just adjuncts to the Democratic Party.
00:26:03.000How much are they adjuncts to the Democratic Party?
00:26:05.000So much so that much of the media has now remained silent when a Democrat named Stacey Plaskett, who is the Democrat from the U.S.
00:26:14.000Virgin Islands, she actually, you will recall, suggested that journalist Matt Taibbi, who was one of the people who revealed the Twitter files, Elon Musk gave him access to all the old files of Twitter, and Taibbi released a lot of those online, and then he testified before Congress.
00:26:29.000She suggested he wasn't a true journalist.
00:26:30.000Now, she's threatening to prosecute Matt Taibbi.
00:26:34.000The reason that she's threatening to prosecute Matt Taibbi is because, supposedly, on Twitter, he mixed up two acronyms, CISA And another one that is a different organization called CIS.
00:26:47.000So apparently he screwed up acronyms on Twitter.
00:26:51.000And so she's now threatening to prosecute him.
00:26:53.000And apparently most of the media are pretty silent about this because they don't care.
00:26:56.000Matt Taibbi is not doing the work of the Democratic Party.
00:27:00.000We have two separate stories today demonstrating the close and unbelievably close ties between the Democratic Party and the mainstream legacy media apparatus.
00:27:14.000Ben Smith, who was one of the co-founders of BuzzFeed and he was the editor of BuzzFeed when they released the so-called Steele dossier.
00:27:21.000The Steele dossier was a compendium of absolute garbage trotted out by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:27:25.000They hired a firm called Fusion GPS that then went to an ex-spy named Christopher Steele to compile basically a bunch of crap rumors about Donald Trump being peed on by Russian prostitutes and such.
00:27:35.000And then they took all of that and they funneled it through to the FBI in an attempt to launch an investigation into Donald Trump.
00:27:41.000It served as the predicate for the investigation of the Russia investigation into Donald Trump that was launched in the middle of the 2016 campaign.
00:27:49.000The Steele dossier only made its way into full public view in January of 2017, right as Trump was about to take office, BuzzFeed released the full dossier into full public view without vetting any of the claims.
00:27:59.000So Ben Smith, he has a new book coming out.
00:28:01.000And in this book, he talks specifically about why they decided to release the Steele dossier.
00:28:07.000Well, one of the details here, is that the way that they got a hold of the Steele dossier is that it was trotted out by a person named David Brock.
00:28:13.000David Brock, of course, was one of the founders of Media Matters.
00:28:19.000I heard about the report again over lunch in Brooklyn, when a peculiar character in Hillary Clinton's orbit passed through town.
00:28:24.000David Brock had been an anti-Clinton journalist in the 1990s.
00:28:27.000Now, he was Hillary's fiercest ally, a genius at raising money for Democratic groups.
00:28:30.000He showed up at a cafe a couple of days before Christmas, wearing a coat with a lavish fur collar and stashed full shopping bags beside the table.
00:28:38.000Brock was consumed with the mission of stopping Trump manic.
00:28:40.000He was headed, it turned out, for a heart attack that lands him in the hospital.
00:28:43.000He wanted to spread the word about a dossier of allegations involving Trump's ties to Russia.
00:28:46.000Brock didn't have the document, he said, but he knew the Washington Post did, and so did the New York Times.
00:28:50.000Politicians had it too, he told me, and spies.
00:28:52.000As far as I could figure out, so did everyone except the reading public.
00:29:18.000And then there is media story number two, which is even more damning.
00:29:22.000So that's the 2016 election when the media were basically just doing the whims of the Hillary Clinton campaign and getting out the Steele dossier in order to presumably harm Donald Trump.
00:29:35.000So, according to the Washington Examiner, a former top CIA official who helped write and sign the infamous October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter, baselessly claiming Russian involvement, has testified a phone call with now Secretary of State Antony Blinken triggered its creation.
00:29:52.000So you'll recall that in October 2020, the Hunter Biden laptop story broke in the New York Post.
00:29:56.000And then there was a letter from Politico that was signed by dozens and dozens and dozens of intelligence specialists.
00:30:03.000And it suggested that this was a clear act of Russian disinformation.
00:30:08.000It was created, that letter, by Mike Morrell, former acting CIA director under Barack Obama.
00:30:13.000Well, in a recently transcribed interview with congressional investigators, he testified that before his October 17th phone call with Blinken, with Tony Blinken, he had no intention to write the October 19th Hunter Lab top ladder.
00:30:25.000He testified, yes and absolutely, if the call with Blinken, who's then a top advisor to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, was what triggered that intent in you.
00:30:32.000In other words, Antony Blinken Close advisor to Joe Biden and now Secretary of State called up Mike Morrell, former CIA director under Barack Obama, and said, I want you to put together a letter claiming from all the intelligence specialists that the Hunter Biden laptop story is a scam and a phony and was created by the Russians.
00:30:52.000Morrell testified one of the two reasons he helped put the letter together was to help Joe Biden defeat former President Trump.
00:30:56.000So it wasn't an honest assessment of the fact.
00:30:59.000It instead was an attempt to get Trump prompted by the Democratic Party.
00:31:03.000And dutifully trotted out in Politico.
00:31:06.000These revelations came in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner that was sent to Blinken on Thursday by Representative Jim Jordan.
00:31:12.000The news comes one day after an IRS agent alleged that the DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden has been infected by politics and preferential treatment.
00:31:20.000Jordan and Turner told Blinken that Morrell revealed the Secretary of State had played a role in the inception of the statement while serving as a Biden campaign advisor, and that according to Morrell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morrell's reaction to the New York Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.
00:31:35.000Apparently, the same day of that Blinken-Morrell call, Blinken also emailed Morrell an article published in USA Today that alleged the FBI was examining whether the Biden laptop was part of a disinformation campaign.
00:31:46.000Apparently, Blinken has been told that the very bottom of the email you sent to Morel included a signature block of Andrew Bates, then Director of Rapid Response for the Biden campaign.
00:31:53.000He's now Deputy Press Secretary in the Biden White House.
00:31:56.000So in other words, the Biden campaign simply laundered into public view via quote-unquote intelligence specialists the view that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.
00:32:04.000On the basis of that, a bunch of social media companies took down the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:32:08.000That is how tight the media are with the Democratic Party.
00:32:10.000They just do the bidding of the Democratic Party.
00:32:15.000All you have to do is find out what the Democratic agenda is and then you link it with a couple of supposed Democratic officials with highfalutin titles like Mike Morrell.
00:32:23.000And then you go to the media and you say, listen, we have a letter we'd like to publish.
00:32:34.000Again, this is one of the reasons why legacy media are having real problems right now.
00:32:37.000It's one of the reasons why more and more people are going to other outlets for their news, places like Daily Wire and Daily Wire Plus, and shows like this one.
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00:35:37.000So, SpaceX was actually pretty happy with this test flight, because again, this is how you learn things.
00:35:43.000According to Reuters, the flight test was the first for a Starship mounted atop the company's new super-heavy rocket.
00:35:48.000It's the first launch ever for that lower-stage booster.
00:35:50.000SpaceX has touted it as the most powerful launch vehicle on the planet.
00:35:53.000Even though the two-stage rocket ship made it less than halfway to the edge of space, climbing to just under 25 miles, the flight achieved the primary objective of getting the new vehicle off the ground at liftoff, despite some of the engines actually failing.
00:36:04.000The mission did fall short of reaching several objectives.
00:36:06.000The plan was for the Starship to soar into space at least some 90 miles above Earth before it'd re-enter the atmosphere and then plunge into the Pacific near Hawaii, so it wasn't as though they expected to actually just, like, re-land the thing or something.
00:36:15.000But apparently, the spacecraft experienced multiple engines out during its ascent and then lost altitude and started to tumble before the flight termination system was commanded on both the booster and the ship.
00:36:25.000Musk had already suggested back in February the real goal is not to blow up the launch pad.
00:36:30.000Now it's funny to watch all these kind of career losers on Twitter who are like, oh my God, you know, he blew that test.
00:36:47.000It is, it is always amusing to watch people who have never built a thing, criticize people like Elon Musk, who are actually doing extraordinary things, like trying to take a 40 story building off the ground.
00:36:56.000And again, we have a society that is filled with people who are critics, but not builders, and we need more builders and fewer critics.
00:37:04.000So we should actually be celebrating the test.
00:37:07.000It's what, listen, SpaceX is, it's super cool.
00:37:10.000I mean, what Musk does between Tesla and space, it's very, very cool stuff.
00:37:13.000Okay, speaking of people who are more interested in not doing cool stuff, the Biden administration continues to make the case that we should draw closer to China.
00:37:20.000I don't understand what they're doing here.
00:37:23.000So they still seem to be operating under assumptions from like 1994, which is that if you are warm and embracing toward China, maybe they'll be nice to you.
00:37:31.000I have yet to see the evidence for this as Xi Jinping grows ever more aggressive.
00:37:34.000So Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury, who's done just a superb job in generating 40-year highs in inflation and stagnant economic growth, she says, we need a healthier economic relationship with China.
00:37:46.000We seek a healthy economic relationship with China, one that fosters growth and innovation in both countries.
00:37:55.000A growing China that plays by international rules is good for the United States and the world.
00:38:02.000Both countries can benefit from healthy competition in the economic sphere.
00:38:07.000Some see the relationship between the U.S.
00:38:10.000and China through the frame of great power conflict.
00:38:11.000because this administration continues to undermine America's economic health as well as our military readiness. She then continued by saying that we believe China can share global prosperity which is weird since up they're not doing it now. Some see the relationship between the US and China through the frame of great power conflict. A zero-sum bilateral contest where one must fall for the other to rise.
00:38:36.000President Biden and I don't see it that way.
00:38:39.000We believe that the world is big enough for both of us.
00:38:43.000China and the United States can and need to find a way to live together and share in global prosperity.
00:38:56.000The Chinese have no interest in sharing global prosperity with the United States.
00:38:59.000They prefer to start an era of great power competition, which normally would be a call for the United States to strengthen its own position.
00:39:06.000The other agenda is that we have to spend endless amounts of money in order to presumably achieve equity or something.
00:39:12.000So, to that end, the Biden administration continues to promote the idea that they are not going to cut a single damned thing in order to achieve an increase in the debt ceiling.
00:39:21.000Even some House Democrats are like, maybe Biden should call Kevin McCarthy at this point.
00:39:24.000According to Politico, President Biden immediately rejected Kevin McCarthy's opening debt limit proposal, but it prompted movement elsewhere.
00:39:29.000A growing number of House Democrats would like party leaders to restart negotiations.
00:39:32.000The party's still firmly behind Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, but a growing contingent of Democrats are acknowledging that Biden's blanket refusal to engage with McCarthy may need to change, especially if House Republicans manage to pass their bill as planned next week.
00:39:45.000If McCarthy does that, several House Democrats said this week Biden would probably need to meet with the Speaker.
00:39:49.000Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan, she says they've got to do it soon.
00:39:53.000She believes that there will be a clean debt ceiling increase, but the administration can't keep waiting.
00:39:56.000I don't think there's any harm in the two of them sitting down to talks as first term representative Greg Lansman of Ohio.
00:40:01.000The idea we're even coming this close to a potential default is insane.
00:40:04.000But again, Joe Biden believes that he's able to get away with pretty much anything because so far he's been able to get away with pretty much anything.
00:40:11.000So home prices in March actually posted the biggest annual decline in 11 years.
00:40:15.000That is the result of Joe Biden's increasingly inflationary and stagnation based economy.
00:40:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, home sales fell across the United States in March, a sluggish start to the crucial spring selling season as higher mortgage rates squashed momentum from the prior month.
00:40:29.000The good news is that Joe Biden still has the media in his corner.
00:40:32.000So this means it's time to start happy talking, bad things happening.
00:40:35.000This is one of my favorite brands of media coverage of Democrats.
00:40:38.000is something bad happens because of a Democrat.
00:40:41.000And so it's all that we have to shift our mindset.
00:40:43.000It's like meat is unavailable because of meat shortages generated by supply chains breaking under Joe Biden.
00:40:48.000And suddenly you have a spate of articles about how meat is really bad for you and actually should probably eat bugs.
00:40:54.000So, it turns out that nobody can actually afford to buy a house right now because the mortgage rates are so unbelievably high.
00:41:00.000And the real estate rates are still elevated.
00:41:01.000The real estate prices are still elevated by the amount of inflation in the economy.
00:41:04.000So, it's kind of a Bermuda Triangle in terms of people who are trying to buy new houses.
00:41:09.000So, the Washington Post has a piece today titled, Rethinking Single Family Living.
00:41:13.000Roommates pay bills, create community, Yeah, so you should stop thinking about, you know, getting married, having kids, that white picket fence, the home.
00:41:22.000Instead, you should be like Leanne Doe.
00:41:25.000Doe, 38, has shared her Seattle home with a rotating cast of 11 roommates since she and her husband, Nathan Friend, 37, bought it in 2012.
00:41:33.000During that time, they've had three children, now seven, four, and one.
00:41:35.000Having renters provides a meaningful source of income for Doe and Friend.
00:41:38.000Both of them hold part-time jobs in the education and nonprofit sectors, allowing them to work fewer paid hours and devote more time to caregiving.
00:41:45.000Joe says the decision is more than about savings.
00:41:54.000Many families' budgets are squeezed amid ongoing inflation.
00:41:57.000Meanwhile, an affordability crisis in the U.S.
00:41:58.000housing market has put buying a home out of reach for many.
00:42:01.000According to a recent report from Redfin, only about one in five U.S.
00:42:04.000homes for sale in 2022 was affordable for a typical household.
00:42:07.000Bringing in roommates can help everyone involved navigate these challenges.
00:42:12.000This is a new movement toward multi-generational living, says Joyce Cerrito, Associate Professor at the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.
00:42:22.000Now we're going to get a bunch of articles about how tiny homes are good.
00:42:34.000In just a second, we'll get to the implications of all of this for the 2024 race, where the unspoken, the silent primary is heating up first.
00:42:41.000This year marks the 75th anniversary of Israel's independence.
00:42:44.000Yom Ha'atzmaut is going to be celebrated next week.
00:42:46.000Coincidentally, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is also celebrating 40 years of ministry.
00:42:51.000Today, thousands of Jews both in Israel and in war-torn Ukraine struggle to survive life-threatening crises including extreme poverty, hunger, and violence in the form of conflict, anti-Semitism, and terrorism.
00:43:00.000Among these vulnerable people are tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and elderly Jews who are not going to survive without basic needs.
00:43:06.000A lot of these folks are absolutely incredible.
00:43:08.000When I was younger, I actually helped ghostwrite the memoir of a Holocaust survivor.
00:43:13.000Many Holocaust survivors in Ukraine have gone through not just the Holocaust, but then they've gone through Soviet occupation, and now they're going through the Russians actually attacking their homes.
00:43:22.000Helping them out is a really good thing to do.
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00:43:49.000So Joe Biden not doing a good job as people know, not a fan.
00:43:53.000This would mean that, um, maybe Republicans should think about nominating someone who can beat Donald, who can beat Joe Biden.
00:44:00.000Maybe that should be our top priority, in fact, is who actually can beat Joe Biden.
00:44:05.000Well, there's a new poll out from the Wall Street Journal.
00:44:06.000What it shows is that a plurality of Republicans, 41 to 31, think that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a better shot of beating Biden than Donald Trump does.
00:44:14.000That same poll shows 51% of Republicans to 38 backing Trump against DeSantis in a primary.
00:44:20.000I'm going to need an explainer on this one.
00:44:22.000I'm going to need an explanation for the 20 point gap between people who believe in the Republican Party that Donald Trump can win 31% and people in the Republican Party who want to vote for him in a primary 51%.
00:44:45.000If you do care about winning or do not care about winning because apparently 40% of the people who are going to vote for Donald Trump in a primary believe he is less likely to win against Joe Biden than is Ron DeSantis.
00:44:58.000So you want to vote for him in a primary so that he will lose?
00:49:34.00042% say that Trump has an impressive record versus 24% who say DeSantis.
00:49:38.00022% say undecided, which means that whenever people say they're undecided between Trump and DeSantis, that's really a lot of people saying they like DeSantis, but they don't actually want to say Trump.
00:49:46.000Trump is a person you just say you love him or you don't.
00:49:48.000Like if somebody says undecided on Trump, this means they are not a fan.
00:49:51.000There are not a lot of people who tell pollsters that they are undecided and they're actually like super big fans of Trump.
00:50:20.000Again, if you are, if you're a person who is a conservative wishes to see your values upheld, if you wish to win, maybe you should, you ought to think about this before.
00:50:31.000Also, one thing you might want to think about is the people that Donald Trump surrounds himself with.
00:50:33.000I'm not sure how many more times I can read a statement from Donald Trump about a person he hired, about how terrible that person is.
00:50:38.000Well, at a certain point, if everyone you hire is terrible, maybe you're bad at hiring.
00:50:43.000The latest example of this, of course, is he went after Mick Mulvaney, who was originally, he was his chief of staff, and then he put out a whole truth social about how terrible Mick Mulvaney is.
00:50:53.000Mike Lindell, who's still showing up to every Donald Trump event, like in the front row, the MyPillow guy, his firm has now been told to pay $5 million in the Prove Mike Wrong election fraud challenge.
00:51:04.000He made a bold offer in August 2021 in South Dakota.
00:51:06.000He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year's U.S.
00:51:14.000Then, actually, a computer forensics expert and a 63-year-old Trump voter named Robert Zeidman actually proved it and was entitled to the $5 million payout.
00:53:09.000There's a clip that is going around of Representative Rosa DeLauro, and she is praising Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, who is so bad at his job that you know his name.
00:53:18.000Typically, you're not supposed to know the name of the Secretary of Transportation.
00:53:21.000So, Rosa DeLauro, who is a representative from Connecticut, who has purple hair. She was praising him for the crash.
00:53:29.000Apparently, a big accomplishment is that he wants to put female crash test dummies in the cars when they're testing these cars, because women's bodies react differently than men's bodies. Here she was explaining.
00:53:38.000You also plan to make important investments to address the roadway safety crisis, including the critical funding that would accelerate the development. And this is an area I've written to you about of the use of female dummies in crash testing. This will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle safety and crash victims.
00:54:35.000So I have a book recommendation for you.
00:54:36.000There's a reissue of a book by George Gilder coming out called Men and Marriage.
00:54:41.000This book was written all the way back in like the early 1980s.
00:54:44.000And it's a really fascinating take on the sort of death of roles in American society and what marriage was originally designed to do.
00:54:53.000And one of the great lies of feminism is that marriage is a patriarchal institution.
00:54:57.000What George Gilder points out is that it absolutely is not.
00:55:00.000That basically what men are in a vacuum, men have a genetic drive to go and procreate with as many women as possible, not to settle down, to go and hunt, to do all of these things, that aggressive testosterone driven male.
00:55:13.000And then a man is forced by women and nature to actually settle down and subject his drives to the living patterns of a woman.
00:55:23.000And women's drives are not nearly as peripatetic.
00:55:25.000Women's drives are largely rooted in not only procreate, but then you actually have a commitment that goes along with the procreation.
00:55:33.000And this allows men also to start planning for the future.
00:55:35.000Because if you live a peripatetic lifestyle, then you're not actually going to plan for the future.
00:55:38.000You just move from woman to woman, from place to place, all the rest of this.
00:55:41.000But if you settle down with a woman who is bearing your child, you now have to take all that aggressive energy and channel it towards civilization and the future.
00:55:49.000George Gilder correctly points out that marriage is not simply a ratification of an existing love.
00:55:54.000It is the conversion of that love into a biological and social continuity.
00:55:58.000Regardless of what reasons particular couples may give for getting married, the deeper evolutionary and sexual propensities explain the persistence of the institution.
00:56:05.000All sorts of superficial variations, from homosexual marriage to companionate partnership, may be played on the primal themes of human life, but the themes remain.
00:56:12.000The natural fulfillment of love is a child.
00:56:14.000The fantasies and projects of the childless couple may well be considered as surrogate children.
00:56:19.000In other words, it's the thing that you're building together that makes marriage worthwhile and also takes the aggressive and terrible toxic instincts of men and captures them and channels them in a proper direction.
00:56:27.000This is one of the reasons why, by the way, the average married man will earn a lot more money than the average single man, despite the fact that he has fewer costs, right?
00:56:36.000And again, in order to understand this, you have to understand the basic difference between the male and female drives.
00:56:42.000George Gilder says this, In a world where women do not say no, a man is never forced to settle down and make serious choices.
00:56:47.000His sex drive, the most powerful compulsion in his life, is never used to make him part of civilization as the supporter of a family.
00:56:52.000If a woman does not force him to make a long-term commitment to marry, in general, he won't.
00:56:56.000It is maternity that requires commitment.
00:56:58.000His sex drive only demands conquest, driving him from body to body in an unsettling hunt for variety and excitement, in which much of the thrill is the chase itself.
00:57:45.000Okay, so Warner Brothers, Warner Brothers, has decided to celebrate their 100th anniversary by doing something special.
00:57:53.000According to their website, the Warner Brothers Discovery Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team, yay, DEI, all they do is produce garbage and then they slap an approved by the woke label on it.
00:58:02.000Today, they unveiled plans for a short film series that reimagines the studio's iconic films through a diverse and inclusive lens.
00:58:09.000Six filmmakers have been selected to develop and shoot 20-minute short film adaptations, bringing a modern lens to classic Warner Bros.
00:58:17.000A Star is Born, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Calamity Jane, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Prince and the Pauper, and Rebel Without a Cause, with representative casting, storytelling, and narrative.
00:58:27.000Have you ever wanted to see Rebel Without a Cause, except instead of the movie starring Natalie Wood and James Dean, it stars like two gay dudes?
00:58:36.000Have you ever really wanted to see that?
00:58:37.000You want to see Rebel Without a Cause, but it's about young boys coming out of the closet story?
00:58:42.000How about The Adventures of Robin Hood, but starring a disabled little person who happens to be pansexual?
00:58:59.000Not like the remake of A Star is Born that, you know, is similar but worse.
00:59:02.000Like a remake of the one with James Mason and Judy Garland.
00:59:06.000Except this time, it will presumably be about a couple of Woke gay people who have decided they need to trans themselves but that's going to undermine their career and one of them commits suicide because of the meanness of American society.
00:59:24.000This is about as bad an idea as you can have.
00:59:26.000Mainly because what it's going to show is that old movies are really great, and the new movies suck.
00:59:31.000I'm sorry to break it to you, but the new movies are garbage compared to this kind of stuff.
00:59:34.000When you're talking about like The Adventures of Robin Hood, like 1939, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, this is maybe the greatest adventure film ever made.
00:59:59.000Or, how about you do what Hollywood used to do, which is you pay homage to the great old movies without, you know, putting a warning thing on the screen.
01:00:05.000It's gonna be Calamity Jane, but Calamity Jane is a lesbian, of course.
01:00:12.000We're absolutely thrilled to work with WBD's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team to expand opportunities for a broader range of talent to realize their dreams at Warner Brothers, said Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdee, co-chairs and CEOs, Warner Brothers Pictures Group.
01:00:23.000By the way, I'm hearing from people in Hollywood.
01:00:25.000They literally, on these sets, are hiring people who are minority to just sit in the room so that they can tell people that they have diversity, equity, and inclusion.
01:00:32.000Like, they can't find enough qualified people of particular specified intersectional checkmarks, so they just, like, hire people and they put them in the room so that they can say that they're doing this thing.
01:00:41.000I've also heard from people I know who have done script reading in Hollywood that you are supposed to actually give extra benefit to scripts that come from particular minority authors.
01:00:51.000The featured filmmakers were selected by DEI industry veterans, including WB's Senior Vice President of DEI in North American, Karen Horn, in collaboration with Warner Pictures executives.
01:01:07.000Again, the Monica Moore Surayash Adventures of Robin Hood, not like the Michael Curtis one, but the lady who directed Netflix's Fear Street.
01:01:17.000Cannot wait to see her version of the Adventures of Robin Hood.
01:01:19.000That's literally who's doing this, by the way.
01:01:24.000The Asiq Sadiq, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer of Warner Bros. said, quote, The impact of Warner Bros. films over the last century has been tremendous.
01:01:32.000They've shaped our culture and our understanding of the world around us.
01:01:34.000In celebration of the studio's 100th anniversary, we are thrilled to empower these talented filmmakers to create modern and diverse reimaginings of these iconic productions.