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00:00:21.000Well, we begin today with an actual piece of good news, which I know is kind of rare these days because there's a lot of bad news from the world of culture and the world of media and the world of legislation.
00:00:29.000And don't worry, we'll get to all the bad news.
00:00:31.000But there was one piece of news yesterday that really stood out to me.
00:00:33.000To understand why this is a piece of good news, what you first have to understand is what Joe Biden was actually elected to do and then what he thinks he has been elected to do.
00:00:40.000So what Joe Biden was actually elected to do was be, as I have termed him, President Houseplant.
00:00:43.000His entire job was to be barely animate.
00:00:49.000constructed his entire campaign around the notion that he was going to be a warm body, a barely above room temperature body, as Rush Limbaugh might say.
00:00:57.000That was going to be the entire thing, right?
00:01:02.000Most Americans thought that that was Joe Biden's pitch.
00:01:04.000He was a moderate old gentleman who wasn't going to push forward any sort of radical ideas.
00:01:08.000But Joe Biden, because he's a politician and an arrogant politician at that, he actually thinks that his mandate was to be transformational in some way.
00:02:01.000And Joe Biden, it's like what he's qualified for.
00:02:03.000He was never any sort of great shakes mentally, but now, given the fact that he is in some pretty obvious decline, the American people saw that as an asset.
00:02:11.000They saw that as a feature, not a bug, of Joe Biden.
00:02:15.000And so Joe Biden being barely there has never impacted his popularity ratings.
00:02:20.000People on the right are sort of frustrated by this, the fact that Joe Biden is clearly not what he once was.
00:02:25.000And again, he was never at a wonderful level to begin with, but he's clearly not what he once was.
00:02:30.000Why aren't more people turning on him because of that?
00:02:32.000And the answer is he was elected to be this.
00:02:33.000When Joe Biden loses his lines in the middle of press conferences, it's disquieting on a sort of human level to watch a man who's clearly starting to lose it be the most powerful man in the free world.
00:02:44.000But, on another level, it's sort of comforting to know that that person, theoretically, is not going to wield outsized power to do radical things.
00:02:50.000So, for example, yesterday, Joe Biden just lost his lines.
00:02:52.000He was talking about the COVID pandemic, and once again, there is a certain level of trepidation, just as a human being, you get watching Joe Biden.
00:02:58.000Again, it's like watching Nick Wallenda walk over a volcano.
00:03:01.000Like, any moment here, things could go real bad.
00:03:05.000It's why people have suggested that we ought to cut away every time Joe Biden goes up or down the stairs of Air Force One, because we could be watching history in real time.
00:03:12.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday losing his lines.
00:03:14.000Until this vaccine is available to the world, and we're beating back the vaccine, the virus in other countries, we're not really completely safe.
00:03:32.000I'm still looking forward to the prospect that we keep the pace we're on, and we listen to one another, take the precautions I talked about, and you'll be able to have Okay, so again, the guy's not all there.
00:04:00.000They've pushed really hard on the legislative front.
00:04:02.000They are pushing forward a $2 trillion supposed infrastructure bill.
00:04:05.000It has nothing to do with infrastructure.
00:04:06.000Only 5% of that bill is roads and bridges.
00:04:09.000Even if you include things like broadband internet, Or plumbing, because they want to replace some pipes.
00:04:14.000Even if you do that, only about one-third of the bill is dedicated to what could actually be termed infrastructure.
00:04:18.000They're just expanding the term infrastructure to now include everything on planet Earth.
00:04:22.000They've already pushed forward a $2 trillion quote-unquote COVID relief package that radically restructures the nature of the relationship between the individual and the American government.
00:04:30.000It passes out checks for basically being alive under certain circumstances.
00:04:34.000And now they're pushing forward on a bunch of other radical proposals.
00:04:38.000They are now pushing forward, for example, on this Iran deal.
00:04:41.000This is an incredibly radical thing to do, given the fact that Iran has basically been marginalized by the world community.
00:04:48.000Iran has had to draw back within its own borders and pursue less terrorism because of the economic sanctions placed on them by the Trump administration.
00:04:54.000Meanwhile, peace has broken out in the Middle East in historic fashion with the Abraham Accords, Israel making peace with the UAE, Israel making peace with Morocco, Israel making peace with Bahrain, Israel in already a sort of cold peace with Egypt, And a slightly warmer peace now with Saudi Arabia.
00:05:11.000The Biden administration is diving in headfirst to try and break all of that up by handing some sort of concessions to the Iranian terrorist government.
00:05:16.000According to the Washington Post, U.S.
00:05:18.000and Iranian officials said Tuesday, an initial day of talks in Vienna on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal were, quote unquote, constructive.
00:05:24.000But the Biden administration cautioned no immediate breakthroughs were anticipated on one of the new president's top foreign policy goals.
00:05:31.000The European-led diplomatic effort featured mediators shuttling between Iranian and American envoys.
00:05:36.000That wasn't the face-to-face discussions being held, but this is all kabuki theater.
00:05:39.000Eventually, Biden will sign some sort of incredibly sycophantic deal with the Iranians.
00:05:44.000He'll just hand over the store to the Iranians because that's exactly what Barack Obama did.
00:05:48.000Meanwhile, on the legislative front, they're going to move in a radical direction with regard to this $2.3 trillion quote-unquote infrastructure plan.
00:05:56.000According to the New York Times, a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian means Democrats may be able to push through that Biden $2.3 trillion quote-unquote infrastructure plan without any Republican support whatsoever.
00:06:08.000According to the New York Times, Democrats might not have to have the votes to gut the filibuster, but they were just handed the procedural keys to a backdoor assault on the Senate's quote-unquote famous obstruction tactic.
00:06:18.000It's funny how this becomes a famous obstruction tactic when used by Republicans.
00:06:21.000When it's used by Democrats, it's the Senate's important procedures to protect bipartisanship.
00:06:26.000With a ruling on Monday that Democrats can reuse this year's budget blueprint at least once to employ fast-track reconciliation, Democrats can now conceivably advance multiple spending and tax packages this year without a single Republican vote as long as they hold their 50 members together.
00:06:40.000It is a means of weakening the filibuster without having to take the politically charged vote to do so.
00:06:43.000So the parliamentarian basically just gave them exactly what they want.
00:06:49.000Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, said it's always good to have a series of insurance policies.
00:06:52.000He said this about the possibility that Democrats could just redo the party-line passage of the $2 trillion virus relief legislation that passed last month.
00:07:01.000Whatever strategy they employ, it's clear that the decision by the Senate parliamentarian to agree with Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the Majority Leader, that a 47-year-old budget provision could be used more than once in a fiscal year, widens Biden's path to enacting his infrastructure plan by shielding it from filibuster.
00:07:18.000The ruling means that if stymied by Republicans on plans they can protect under reconciliation, that applies to measures that directly affect federal spending and revenues, Democrats will have more opportunities to move ahead on their own if they so choose.
00:07:29.000So this is a twisting of the process, of course, and they are going to continue to push forward these world-beating proposals.
00:07:34.000But here is the encouraging news, right?
00:07:46.000Thelma and Louise are already off the cliff.
00:07:48.000They are just realizing that they are in midair right now.
00:07:50.000It's like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon where they've run directly off the cliff.
00:07:53.000They look down and in that split second before you get the Wiley looks directly into the camera and realizes that he is no longer on solid land.
00:08:04.000That's what's about to happen to the Democratic Party and they're realizing it.
00:08:06.000The realization is coming into their eyes.
00:08:17.000That's one thing that hasn't changed these days.
00:08:19.000In my house, I've been getting groceries and food deliveries and friends stopping by and my kids are constantly running around our property.
00:10:13.000Well, apparently what it means is that the Biden administration is now secretly having to reinstall all of the old Trump administration policies.
00:10:23.000The discriminatory policies against people south of the border were so terrible, fascistic, Nazi-esque.
00:10:28.000According to the UK Independent, construction on Donald Trump's border wall may continue under Joe Biden's administration.
00:10:35.000Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told department employees he might be greenlighting work on the wall to plug gaps in the current wall.
00:10:43.000New York has reportedly said it's not a single answer to a single question.
00:10:46.000There are different projects the chief of Border Patrol has presented and the acting commissioner of CBP presented to me.
00:10:52.000The president has communicated quite clearly his decision that the emergency that triggered the devotion of DOD funds to the construction of the border wall has ended.
00:10:58.000But that does leave room to make decisions as the administration, as part of the administration, in particular areas of the wall that need renovation, particular projects that need to be finished.
00:11:07.000So in other words, he's just going to do what Trump did, but he's going to call it something different.
00:11:10.000Here's Jen Psaki acknowledging that some of the construction has already been funded.
00:11:13.000And yeah, probably we're going to be doing some of that evil Trump wall.
00:11:18.000Wall construction remains paused to the extent permitted by law.
00:11:21.000So some has already been funded through congressional authorization and funding allocation.
00:11:28.000But as agencies develop for a plan, it's paused while agencies are developing a plan for the president on the management of the federal funds.
00:12:38.000So he keeps repeating that over and over.
00:12:39.000Here was Jen Psaki saying that Georgia had made it harder to vote despite the fact that in most counties had expanded voting hours, despite the fact that they added drop boxes over the last election cycle before the pandemic.
00:12:51.000There are a bunch of emergency drop boxes put in place for the pandemic.
00:12:54.000Despite the fact that in most counties, more people will be voting in the future?
00:12:58.000Doesn't matter, Jen Psaki's just gonna put out this lie.
00:13:01.000The Georgia legislation is built on a lie.
00:13:06.000There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
00:13:09.000Georgia's top Republican election officials have acknowledged that repeatedly in interviews.
00:13:15.000And what there was, however, was record-setting turnout, especially by voters of color.
00:13:19.000So instead, what we're seeing here is for politicians who didn't like the outcome, they're not changing their policies to win more votes.
00:13:27.000They're changing the rules to exclude more voters.
00:13:30.000And we certainly see the circumstances.
00:13:58.000And again, just like with the border, the Biden administration is beginning to realize that their policies are not all that popular, that Biden was elected to be not alive.
00:14:05.000He was not elected to be particularly animate.
00:14:08.000He was not elected to be a mover and a shaker.
00:14:09.000He was elected to stand there if he can.
00:14:14.000Okay, so, if they realize they're out over their skis with regard to the border policy, they're also beginning to realize that they are out over their skis with regard to how far they went with this Georgia law.
00:14:24.000There's a brand new poll out from Morning Consult.
00:14:26.000It shows that a plurality of Americans actually support Georgia's new election law.
00:14:30.00042% of Americans say that they support Georgia's election law, compared to 36% who say that they don't support Georgia's election law.
00:14:37.000And if you look at the actual stats with regard to independents, for example, self-described independents, what you see is that some 38% of self-described independents say they like the law compared to only 29% who say that they don't like the law.
00:14:51.000It's only among Democrats that people say that they are not a fan of the law.
00:14:56.000So Democrats are losing this argument despite all of their political propaganda.
00:14:59.000And you know what's even more unpopular?
00:15:02.000It shows Americans do not like the Biden administration bullying MLB into moving the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver based on lies about the Georgia law.
00:15:11.000And you can tell that this is starting to hit home.
00:15:13.000Again, there's that Wile E. Coyote look in Joe Biden's eyes as he realizes that that Acme rocket just ran out of fuel and he's over the cliff.
00:15:22.000He's being asked about moving sporting events from Georgia because it turns out the Masters is being held now.
00:15:27.000Okay, and the Masters takes place every year at Augusta National.
00:15:30.000Augusta National, one of the great sporting places in America, one of the great golf courses on planet Earth.
00:15:36.000And so Joe Biden was asked a very simple question.
00:15:38.000You were in favor of MLB moving the All-Star game.
00:15:40.000Are you in favor of canceling the Masters because Georgia passed a law that you don't like and that you've been lying about?
00:15:45.000And here is Joe Biden trying slowly to hobble away from his own position on whether corporations should boycott states that do things Democrats don't like.
00:15:54.000It is reassuring to see that for profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are.
00:16:30.000Well, you know what would have been nice is if you had said that up front as opposed to just going on ESPN and saying it's great that MLB is considering moving the All-Star Game.
00:16:36.000So basically, he's acknowledging now that what he did is wrong.
00:16:39.000He's acknowledging now that pushing corporations to move their businesses outside of states has some pretty solid unintended consequences, particularly for populations that may have voted Democrat.
00:16:47.000Cobb County, Atlanta, is a Democratic area.
00:16:50.000So he hurt his friends, and now he's upset that he hurt his friends.
00:16:53.000By the way, this also works the other way.
00:16:55.000It turns out that if you decide that you're going to politicize every corporation, then people are simply going to take the other side of that, and they are going to oppose those corporations.
00:17:03.000You can also sense the Biden administration feels that it has been trapped here, because if you are encouraging corporations to stop doing business with places like Georgia, what do you do with places like China?
00:17:13.000Because it turns out America does an awful lot of business with China.
00:17:16.000It turns out that the Biden administration policy toward China has been extremely, extremely friendly compared to the Trump administration policy.
00:17:23.000And so Biden has been asked repeatedly, so has Jen Psaki, about moving the Olympics.
00:17:27.000And their first response was, well, you know, that's really the U.S.
00:17:55.000Well, it is something that we certainly wish to discuss and that it is certainly something that we understand that a coordinated approach Okay, so that is them attempting to kick the can down the road.
00:18:21.000They all understand that they've been trapped into this.
00:18:23.000The same administration that is currently pushing to give money to the Iranian terrorist government is saying that corporations shouldn't do business in Georgia.
00:18:30.000But, oh by the way, maybe they should actually do business in Georgia.
00:18:52.000In 2022, it's not going to be a good year for Democrats.
00:18:55.000Okay, and the same thing holds true for the media.
00:18:57.000The media, whatever level of baseline respect people were willing to give to the media, was rooted in the idea that they were going to actually cover the news, not manufacture the news.
00:19:06.000But, they don't want to cover the news.
00:19:09.000This is what they would like to do with their lives.
00:19:11.000If you talk to journalists, they see themselves as, quote-unquote, making the world a better place, not by reporting the news, by crafting the narrative.
00:19:17.000Well, the problem is that this leads them into dead ends where they don't actually report the news.
00:19:23.000The most obvious example over the past little while being 60 Minutes, completely manufacturing out of whole cloth, the story that Ron DeSantis allowed Publix to distribute the COVID vaccine because he was bribed by the Publix people, which is utterly crazy.
00:19:37.000I mean, so crazy that the mayor of Palm Beach County, who is a Democrat, the mayor of Palm Beach was like, no, that's not true.
00:19:45.000And he said, I told you guys that it was BS, and you guys ignored it?
00:19:49.000Well, we'll get to that in just one second, because the blowback is beginning against the media too.
00:19:54.000Again, the story here is that the blowback is coming.
00:19:56.000Democrats are overshooting the mark, and we are only a few months in.
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00:21:23.000Okay, so, as I say, 60 Minutes just lied about Rhonda Santas.
00:21:28.000What they said, which is that for a $100,000 donation to a Super PAC, that Ron DeSantis decided to allow, you know, the most...
00:21:35.000The most prevalent grocery chain in the state to hand out the vaccines.
00:21:40.000That it was the bribe that did it, not, you know, local officials saying, you know, it'd be great if our grocery store pharmacies could actually give out the vaccine.
00:22:42.000You see, if they ever admit that they got this one wrong, just like if they ever admit that they got any of these stories wrong, the Kavanaugh story, the Covington Catholic story, if they ever admit that they just blew it, then they have to admit who they really are.
00:22:51.000It's not that the journalists are bad at their job.
00:22:53.000It's that they're very good at their job.
00:22:54.000It's just their job is not journalisming.
00:23:15.000People also are not liking what the media are all about, but they can't admit that what they're doing is not journalism.
00:23:20.000Otherwise, people might notice that what they're doing is not journalism.
00:23:22.000So, instead, 60 Minutes put out this statement, quote, I wonder why.
00:23:25.000I wonder why he declined an interview with you.
00:23:26.000were vaccinated at a much lower rate than their wealthier neighbors, 60 Minutes reported the facts surrounding the vaccine's rollout, which is controlled by the governor.
00:23:32.000We requested and conducted interviews with dozens of sources and authorities involved.
00:23:35.000We requested an interview with Governor DeSantis.
00:24:36.000I think some of the politicians realize because politicians tend to have their finger in the window anyway.
00:24:40.000So when the wind changes, they can feel it.
00:24:42.000And those in the media also can follow what's going on in Twitter, so they understand when the wind changes.
00:24:46.000They're not going to do anything about it, but they at least understand when the wind changes.
00:24:49.000Corporate America are a bunch of people in suits who just want to make money, and those people in suits sitting in corporate boardrooms generally do not have their finger in the wind, which is why you can have a garbage organization like Media Matters get 10 of its friends to call a company, and then the company, thinking that that is the wind, not understanding that's not even a breeze, they will immediately shift course.
00:25:08.000They are oversensitive on the one hand and slow to move on the other.
00:25:12.000But when they do move, they're usually late and unpopular.
00:25:15.000Because Americans are predisposed not to particularly like big corporations, especially when they start throwing their weight around in areas that are not within their purview.
00:25:23.000It turns out that corporations engaging in ultra-crepidarianism, which is where they're engaged in stuff that is not within their purview, that's becoming more and more common at the behest of the Democratic Party.
00:25:32.000And they are doing so because one of the great lies in America is that corporations are free market institutions.
00:26:07.000One is don't get punished by the Democrats.
00:26:09.000And two is capture the regulatory heights so that you can change the regulations and the regulatory structures so that they impact you and they hurt you some, but they hurt everybody at the bottom of the scale way more.
00:26:21.000The goal of big corporations is not just to succeed in their space, in a free market space.
00:26:24.000Their goal is to kill their competition, and if they can use government to do that, they will do it.
00:26:29.000If the question is, we take no hit, our competition takes no hit, and our competition taking no hit means they might compete with us, or...
00:26:36.000We promote regulations that harm us a little bit, but harm our opponents a lot.
00:27:09.000The incentive structure right now for corporations is to go woke because they believe that Democrats will leave them alone and eat them last or will work hand-in-glove with them if they do everything the Democrats say.
00:27:42.000He's also the head of the Washington Post, or he owns the Washington Post.
00:27:46.000That's not a surprise in any way, shape or form.
00:27:48.000He says we support the Biden administration's focus on making bold investments in American infrastructure.
00:27:53.000Both Democrats and Republicans have supported infrastructure in the past.
00:27:55.000It's the right time to work together to make this happen.
00:27:58.000We recognize this investment will require concessions from all sides, both on the specifics of what's included, as well as how it gets paid for.
00:28:04.000We're supportive of a rise in the corporate tax rate.
00:28:06.000We look forward to Congress and the administration coming together to find the right, balanced solution that maintains or enhances U.S.
00:28:32.000You think the American people are going to react to these giant corporations getting in bed with the Democrats by somehow swinging behind democratic policy?
00:29:19.000And then they will be sitting there on the side of the road crying to themselves, why oh why is it that these Democrats that we trusted have decided that they want to force us to unionize, and they want to increase the minimum wage on us, and they want to take us apart piecemeal.
00:29:31.000Yeah, it may have hurt your competitors in the short term, but here's the thing.
00:29:33.000Free market financial structures are the ones that you became rich under.
00:29:37.000If you decide to dismantle those, don't be surprised when you find yourself in the crosshairs.
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00:30:59.000The backlash is gonna be tremendous on all this stuff.
00:31:02.000As we return from Easter and Passover, it's important to reflect on the impact these holidays have on our faith, the impact Judeo-Christian values have on our culture.
00:31:10.000More and more, the left wants to erase these values, replace them with their own pseudo-morality?
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00:32:28.000United Airlines put out a video suggesting that they are going to ensure That half of their pilots are going to be women or people of color.
00:32:40.000It is crazy because if there is one job in America, there are many jobs in America where skills should be the sole qualification, qualifying detail.
00:32:49.000In fact, every job in America, I believe, skills should be the only qualifying detail.
00:32:52.000I don't think that race or sex or sexual, none of that should matter.
00:32:54.000Can you do the job is the only question I want answered in every job scenario.
00:32:58.000But if you're going to pick jobs where skill is the only thing that matters, this would be one of them.
00:33:04.000Personal life experience does not matter.
00:33:06.000When you're talking about, can you land a plane safely?
00:33:30.000By 2030, we plan to train 5,000 pilots.
00:33:31.000looking at the plate everything checks good we're gonna just nab it out then airplane set up for us actually flight navigation all the way up from the hour now by 2030 we plan to train 5,000 pilots we plan for 50% of admitted students to be women or people of color partner organizations will help identify and recruit top talent And now they've been trying this in Silicon Valley for years.
00:33:52.000The reason it's a giant fail is because people are either qualified or unqualified to be engineers.
00:33:56.000And people are either qualified or unqualified to be pilots.
00:33:59.000If you are changing the qualifications from can you fly a plane to what color is your skin and do you have a vagina?
00:34:05.000Although I understand that that is not even a qualification to be a woman anymore.
00:34:08.000So do you self-identify as a woman or Are you a person with more melanin in your skin?
00:34:13.000If those are your qualifications for your pilot, number one, you're going to be subjected to a discrimination lawsuit like nothing you've ever seen.
00:34:19.000And number two, I am never flying your airline.
00:35:07.000They are going to feel the backlash in a serious way.
00:35:10.000Not just because people stop flying their airlines, but because competitors will arise who don't follow this garbage.
00:35:15.000Also because, again, your protectors on the corporate side should be neutral rules that foster free markets.
00:35:23.000That, of course, is where you succeeded in the first place.
00:35:25.000If you decide to undermine those neutral rules of free marketplaces by going for the corporatist The corporatist, crony, capitalist dollars that the Democrats are offering you?
00:35:59.000And don't be intimidated by the left into taking up causes that put you right in the middle of one of America's greatest political debates.
00:36:11.000So that's my admonition, and Delta and the other Coca-Cola and the other companies that basically Okay, and that, of course, is a paraphrase of a line that Michael Jordan once used in the 1990s that Republicans buy sneakers to.
00:36:28.000Okay, and that of course is a paraphrase of a line that Michael Jordan once used in the 1990s that Republicans buy sneakers to.
00:36:35.000And I am not in favor of boycotts as a general rule.
00:36:38.000I think it's better if we were able to just patronize whichever businesses we think make the best products.
00:36:41.000But so long as they're going to spit in our face, well, there are going to be a lot of Republicans who say, nope, we're not doing that anymore.
00:36:46.000If Harry's Razor decides that it's going to withdraw advertising from some of our shows, well, get ready.
00:36:51.000We'll launch our Razor brand, and then we'll go right after the same audience that you advertised in order to gain access to.
00:37:00.000The backlash is coming, by the way, with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement's propaganda about police.
00:37:06.000The backlash is coming because it turns out that crime rates have been rising dramatically around the United States.
00:37:10.000The U.S., according to CNN, saw a significant crime rise across major cities in 2020.
00:37:15.000According to CNN, major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicide last year, Okay, that is because of the attempt to absolutely hamstring the cops and make it impossible for them to do their jobs.
00:37:29.000You think people are gonna go along to get along on these particular issues?
00:37:32.000Tom Cotton is getting dragged through the mud, the senator from Arkansas, because he tweeted out, we have a major under-incarceration problem in America and it's getting worse.
00:37:38.000And people are like, well, yeah, we already incarcerate a lot of people.
00:37:40.000The question isn't how many people we incarcerate.
00:37:42.000The question is how many of those people are innocent.
00:39:00.000As I've been pointing out this whole time, and I think most people who have a brain are noticing, is that this Chauvin case is not clear-cut.
00:39:08.000Not only is it not clear-cut, yesterday happened to be a particularly bad day for the prosecution in the Derek Chauvin murder case with regard to George Floyd.
00:39:16.000There were a bunch of witnesses who were interviewed yesterday, and it did not turn out well for the prosecution.
00:39:20.000In fact, it turned out so not well for the prosecution, that one of the witnesses the prosecution called, the defense announced they wanted to recall the witness as a defense witness.
00:39:29.000That's how badly it went for the prosecution.
00:39:31.000You know the prosecution is doing a crappy job when they call a witness, and the defense cross-examines the guy.
00:39:40.000The state called a Minneapolis Police Department lieutenant named Johnny Mercil, who's a use-of-force trainer.
00:39:46.000And the prosecution asked him a bunch of questions about whether Chauvin was using approved use-of-force procedures.
00:39:52.000But then, Eric Nelson, who is the defense attorney, began asking questions related to Mersel's time as a street cop.
00:39:57.000This is according to LegalInsurrection.com, who's been doing a good job analyzing this on a day-to-day level.
00:40:03.000Nelson asked questions related to Mersel's time as a street cop, with a particular emphasis on the tendencies of suspects being subject to arrest to come up with all kinds of nonsense about why they shouldn't be arrested that day.
00:40:24.000Indeed, when asked if he himself had ever disbelieved a suspect's claim of a medical emergency in an apparent effort to avoid arrest, Mersel answered, he had personally done so.
00:40:33.000All of this undercuts the part of the prosecution narrative that is relying on Floyd's purported pleas and excuses about claustrophobia and anxiety and crying out for his mother.
00:40:40.000Perhaps that's real, but a reasonable officer has to consider maybe it's an effort to avoid arrest.
00:40:46.000Nelson also, once again, put the use of pressure and body weight techniques in a favorable light.
00:40:51.000The state wants to present Chauvin's knee in a negative light, as deadly mechanical asphyxiation or as a blood choke, as attested to by this other witness, Derek Williams.
00:41:00.000In fact, however, the use of pressure and body weight to restrain a suspect was adopted by the MPD because it was a less intense use of force than prior practice of using strikes, either barehanded or with batons or even with weighted gloves, to compel compliance.
00:41:14.000The take-home message for the jury is that Chauvin's knee, far from being a public execution in a public street, was a lesser force than would otherwise have been required.
00:41:24.000So, bottom line is this prosecution is not particularly going well for the prosecution.
00:41:29.000Nelson explored with Mersell whether there were circumstances in which it would be appropriate for an officer to maintain a neck restraint for a substantial period of time.
00:41:37.000Sometimes to maintain the neck restraint for however long it took EMS to arrive, asked Nelson.
00:41:41.000Mersell answered that he personally had maintained restraint on suspects for the duration required for EMS to arrive.
00:41:48.000The state's own use-of-force expert testified on cross he personally had engaged in the exact same activity that Shalvin is currently being demonized for.
00:41:56.000That is not a good day for the state, as Legal Insurrection points out.
00:42:01.000So again, it was just a very, very bad day for the prosecution.
00:42:05.000The reason that I'm pointing this out is because what you're hearing from the media is that if Chauvin doesn't get convicted, it's a referendum on American racism, cops are all bad, fewer cops on the street.
00:42:15.000You think this isn't going to backfire?
00:42:34.000MPD officer Nicole McKenzie, who's the medical support coordinator.
00:42:39.000According to legal insurrection, McKenzie did really poorly.
00:42:44.000On direct, the prosecutor had McKenzie testify about how officers had a duty of care to suspects, that Chauvin had CPR and other training that would qualify him to provide emergency care, and that such care must be provided by the officer, even if an ambulance had already been called.
00:42:57.000Isn't it true, Nelson then asked McKenzie, that you train officers to consider not just the suspect, but the totality of the scene?
00:43:03.000Isn't it true that police officers have a competing duty of safety to themselves, partners, bystanders, paramedics, to the point that if the scene is unsafe, if the officers haven't already announced a code for all safe, EMTs will stage a distance away until they are told safety has been achieved?
00:43:20.000Okay, and by the way, The mob was there shouting at, I mean, that's why we have tape, shouting at Chauvin the entire time, which prevents the MTs from getting it.
00:43:30.000All of this generates at least a picture of reasonable doubt.
00:43:34.000All of this pictures at least the possibility of reasonable doubt.
00:43:37.000So it's, you know, none of this is going particularly well for the state.
00:43:42.000And if this results in more riots, if this results in more calls for the end of policing in America, it ain't going to go well for the left either.
00:43:49.000The left is overreaching on every area in American life right now.
00:43:53.000And the backlash is going to be extremely strong.
00:43:56.000So it's not just the areas of the White House, or the media, or corporate America, or even the law, where the left feels its oath, they feel ascendant, but the backlash is coming.
00:44:06.000They're going way, way too far in the culture.
00:44:09.000So, for example, Marvel, for some ungodly reason, for some reason that no one can comprehend, decided that it would be a wonderful idea to have Ta-Nehisi Coates Write Captain America comics.
00:44:38.000America is a deeply racist country plagued by By structural injustices, America's rooted in evil and racism and cruelty.
00:44:47.000So to have somebody write Captain America, you might want to pick somebody who actually likes the country.
00:44:51.000Who likes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
00:44:53.000Somebody who doesn't think America is evil from its inception.
00:44:57.000You know, somebody who doesn't think, like the 1619 Project.
00:44:59.000But no, Marvel decided it was not good enough to have Ta-Nehisi Coates write the Black Panther comics.
00:45:05.000He had to also write the Captain America comics, which is nuts.
00:45:08.000Okay, Ta-Nehisi Coates is a person who said in an interview with the New Yorker, I believe, he said that on 9-11, he sat on the top of his Brooklyn apartment building, slightly stoned, watched 9-11 happen, watched the planes go into the buildings and people throwing themselves from the 80th story of the World Trade Center down to their deaths, watched the towers collapse and felt nothing.
00:45:29.000That's how much he hates the country, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:45:32.000That is something he has said openly, and that was considered okay, because after all, there's been racial evil in America.
00:45:38.000And Ta-Nehisi Coates, who's gotten extraordinarily wealthy and extraordinarily famous by talking about how terrible America is, he should write the Captain America comic.
00:45:45.000So, on its face, this is an absurdity.
00:45:47.000It's like having Noam Chomsky write Superman.
00:46:20.000And when you start mainstreaming complete and utter nasty and slanderous bull crap about not only the country, but about anybody who disagrees with you into discourse that is meant mainly for teenagers, You know what you get?
00:47:06.000Could that possibly be Jordan Peterson?
00:47:07.000Just to reiterate the point, just to make sure that you know it's supposed to be Jordan Peterson, it then says in the corner, chaos and order.
00:47:14.000Because of course, Jordan's books are all about leading a, finding order within the chaos, Right?
00:47:22.000These are terms that Jordan frequently uses.
00:47:28.000So you're supposed to know that this is, in fact, Jordan Peterson.
00:47:35.000And not only that, he then has a reference to Karl Luger, who of course is a deeply famous anti-Semite, viewed as sort of a model for Nazism in the pre-Nazi era, who's sort of the proto-Nazi.
00:48:40.000So if you tell young men that they have a purpose in the world, if you try to tell young men not to pity themselves and be losers, if you tell them to make their bed, this makes you a Nazi, like Red Skull.
00:48:51.000Ta-Nehisi Coates writing that in a comic book.
00:48:54.000Our culture, the wokeness in comics, by the way, has been going on for a long time.
00:48:59.000DC tried to make Superman into an anti-police figure.
00:49:03.000They had a Batman comic in which Batman was railing against the cops, not just the corrupt Gotham City cops, but like cops generally and about racial injustice and all this kind of stuff.
00:49:11.000Marvel has now trotted out a gay teen Captain America.
00:49:15.000This is not a surprise, but to have Ta-Nehisi Coates mainlining all of this crap into like the Captain America comic does tell you something about where our culture is.
00:49:25.000And our entire cultural infrastructure has been taken over by people who are completely removed from the everyday lives of the people with whom they are supposed to be talking.
00:49:31.000Because your typical comic consumer is not somebody who believes that Jordan Peterson is the Red Skull.
00:49:37.000Just like your typical consumer of television is not somebody who believes that we should be spending our days fretting over how to turn girls into boys and boys into girls when they are young people.
00:50:00.000Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas, comes to mind.
00:50:02.000He was thoroughly shellacked by Tucker Carlson last night on his show, as he should have been, because he decided that he was going to veto a bill, which was then overridden by the Arkansas legislature.
00:50:11.000The bill prohibited the use of transgender Medicine on children below the age of 17, I believe.
00:50:20.000And he said, well, you know, we shouldn't be getting government involved in these areas.
00:50:23.000Oh, you mean protecting children from the destruction of their bodies by pseudo-medical professionals who don't know the first thing about what they're talking about and are simply following woke precepts with regard to gender?
00:50:34.000In any case, our culture has been promoting that.
00:50:36.000That's why we ended up in this situation.
00:50:38.000So you have Sophia Bush, who says that, you know, we are, that if you don't allow Sophia Bush tweeted out, voting rights are under attack.
00:50:51.000The GOP has launched over 250 voter suppression bills.
00:50:58.000Put that to the side because the left is always promoting the lie that Republicans are engaged in voter suppression, even though that is obviously not true.
00:51:05.000Then she tweeted out, hashtag trans kids are under attack across the country.
00:51:09.000AR just banned them from accessing healthcare.
00:51:32.000You know what it would make me if I said, okay, you're a robot?
00:51:34.000It would make me a deeply irresponsible and moronic parent.
00:51:37.000It is your job to civilize your child.
00:51:39.000It is not your child's job to proclaim their authentic self to you at four and for you to take everything that they say super seriously because that's idiotic.
00:51:47.000You are smarter than a four-year-old, and if you're not, you shouldn't be a parent.
00:51:55.000Arkansas banned trans— Arkansas banned all children from being experimented on by doctors using hormone therapies to block puberty and mutilate their bodies.
00:52:08.000But don't worry, if you watch our culture, this is not just a position, this is the position.
00:52:12.000It's a position that is parroted by the entire mainstream media, which uses the exact same phraseology with regard to the Arkansas bill.
00:52:17.000The idea is that if you as a state don't allow doctors to practice medical chicanery on children, that if you don't allow doctors to mutilate children with hormone therapy, again, you don't know the long-term costs of using puberty blockers on an eight-year-old, that if you do this, then this somehow makes you a murderer.
00:52:37.000Whereas presumably you're a better person if you say, a seven-year-old is gender confused because we keep preaching to them in public school that they might be a member of the opposite sex and they don't know what that means because it doesn't make any internal sense.
00:52:47.000And also, they don't know what it means because they are children.
00:52:49.000So number one, if you're an adult, you shouldn't know what it means because it makes no sense.
00:52:52.000If you're a child, you certainly shouldn't know what it means because you're stupid and it makes no sense.
00:52:55.000And yet the idea here, from our entire media and from our entire cultural sphere, is that if you stand in the way of this, that you are somehow the bad guy.
00:53:02.000The backlash to this is going to happen.
00:53:16.000And then, when you notice that they're pushing the boundaries, when you notice that they're doing things just for shock value, then they say, why are you even offended?
00:53:33.000Forgive me if I don't want that being promoted to children, as Lil Nas X has been doing.
00:53:37.000So Lil Nas X, this musical star for no obvious reason to me.
00:53:43.000Lil Nas X, Who is now openly gay, and came out with a big, big story, because obviously we have to treat it as a huge story whenever any pop star comes out as gay.
00:53:52.000That's like 70% of pop stars at this point coming out as some form of gender fluid.
00:53:56.000But in any case, Lil Nas X came out as gay, and then he put out this ridiculous song, Montero, Call Me By Your Name.
00:54:06.000But the entire music video is about him literally having sex with Satan, who is male, of course, having sex with Satan, And then taking Satan's crown and...
00:54:18.000It's almost tired because people have been doing this anti-religious crap since Madonna was writhing around as a faux Catholic back in the 1980s and proclaiming that she was like a virgin touch for the very first time and all of this.
00:54:35.000And it really isn't all that transgressive.
00:55:07.000Okay, here is the number one song in the country.
00:55:12.000It is Lil Nas X dressed up as a stripper Swiveling down a stripper pole into hell where he proceeds to engage in anal sex with Satan This is First of all the song is just crap.
00:55:30.000I mean like if this is an unmemorable It is a ripoff obviously of the title of the movie.
00:55:35.000Call me by your name Like okay, he's stripping down into hell Swiveling down and like all right.
00:55:43.000This is what you want from your culture This is what you're gonna get from your culture And now he's about to enter the palace of Satan.
00:55:51.000And, uh, he is, uh, then going to engage in various unspeakable acts with Satan.
00:55:57.000And give Satan a lap dance, then have sex with Satan, and, uh, and then he's going to take Satan's crown at the end, because obviously this is what we should all aspire to, uh, is to become Satan, which is the end of this video.
00:56:09.000Now, again, free country, do what you want, but if you think that the height of our culture is WAP, And this?
00:56:20.000And you think that Americans are just going to be like, yeah, it's all good.
00:56:23.000Keep marketing this crap to our kids, please.
00:56:25.000Please keep telling us how deeply important all of this is and how empowering all of it is and how it's going to make for a wonderful, fulfilling life for children.
00:56:32.000Man, you guys keep pushing this way in the culture, you keep pushing this way on the left.
00:56:36.000By the way, just a note here that the sort of take here, which is that you can act like garbage so long as you are of a sexual orientation minority, is ridiculous.
00:56:48.000You know how many gay people there are who don't act like this in music videos?
00:57:25.000And I'm very much looking forward to the backlash.
00:57:27.000I'm looking forward to people stopping their monetary patronization of these various corporations.
00:57:33.000I'm looking forward to people turning off MTV and not listening to songs like this in the future.
00:57:39.000I'm looking forward to alternatives cropping up.
00:57:41.000And if we have to have two separate cultures and two separate Ways of raising our children.
00:57:47.000And if we have to go our separate ways, maybe that's one solution.
00:57:49.000The other possibility here is that the American people are not going to be as enthusiastic about all of this stuff as everybody on the left is.
00:57:56.000And then when the backlash comes, it's going to come in a lot of political ways that people on the left aren't particularly fond of.