Rep. Greg Kasar of Texas took a break from his campaign to protest a Texas law that makes it illegal to drink water on the steps of the Capitol for 8 hours. Meanwhile, the Biden plea deal appears to have fallen apart. Judge Marylin Noriega refuses to accept the plea deal, and the DOJ is back at it again. Plus, a look at the Tisha B'Av fast that's taking place on Tzedakah, and why it might not be as bad as you think it is. Guests: Rep. Greg Casar, Texas Democrat; Rep. Joe Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden's former lawyer; and Rep. Hunter Biden's lawyer, Jill Harthorne. Thanks to caller for the call in at the end of the show, and thanks to Rep. Kasar for being a hero of the Republic! Thank you, Greg, for doing the right thing, and for standing up for what's right. And thank you, too, for being brave, and brave enough to take a break, and stay hydrated and hydrated throughout the long day of protest. Thanks also, Greg. You're a hero. Also, thanks you, Joe Biden. and Hunter Biden, for not taking a plea deal? Thanks, Hunter Biden. Thank you for not accepting the deal, too. Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Moon and Happy Cleaning Day, everyone. . Tom and Happy New Beginnings, from P.S. (and Happy New Morning! . . . and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! - Tom Cochrane ( ) , and Cheers, Caitie, and Good Morning Joe, and Thank You, Sarah, and Molly, and Joe and Sarah, - and Good Luck, and Much Love, and Blessings, Cheers. - Yours Truly, - EJ, Amy, Amy and Joe, Sarah, Caitlyn, and Sarah and Jonah, EJ and Jordan, and JUICY, and Yvonne, and SOTW. -- - P. ( ) - Caitie ( ) and JOSHA ( ) AND JOSH ( ) & JOSCHEY ( ) . , JACOB ( ), and JOSH MILLER ( ) , and JILL ( ), & KAREN ( )
00:00:55.000Apparently he was protesting a Texas law, House Bill 2127, that essentially gets rid of a bunch of local ordinances that are unnecessary.
00:01:04.000Okay, like the OSHA rules in Texas already make it so that you have to be able to take water breaks, you know, when it's really hot outside and such, but it doesn't matter.
00:01:12.000We have performative politics is the essence of this.
00:01:14.000And I felt I must comment on this today because I'm just going to point out that while this doofus is rewarding himself for taking an eight hour water break, like a break of eight hours between water and food and all of that, every observant Jew on the planet today is doing a 25 hour no water, no food fast.
00:02:08.000Speaking of only the best, The Hunter Biden plea deal has apparently fallen apart, and it's pretty fascinating to see what happened here because it basically reveals what a sweetheart deal this was in the first place.
00:02:15.000Now, we were told that there was nothing wrong with the sweetheart deal.
00:02:19.000We were told that Hunter Biden being given a diversion for gun charges, not even probation, and then being given probation on tax charges, tax evasion.
00:02:32.000And anyone who protested it, it was just because we had a problem with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden as people.
00:02:36.000Not because we were looking at this and saying, this dude seems really, really corrupt.
00:02:40.000And a lot of us were fearing that this plea deal basically immunizes Hunter Biden from further charges.
00:02:46.000Now, there were some gaps that had emerged already, pretty publicly, between Hunter Biden and his lawyers and the DOJ on the other hand.
00:02:54.000The DOJ had sort of implied that maybe further charges might still be in the offing, but Hunter Biden's lawyers seemed very clear on the idea there would be no further charges in the offing.
00:03:02.000And that is precisely where the judge in this particular case Put pressure.
00:03:06.000She said, what is this plea deal exactly?
00:03:10.000According to the New York Times, Judge Marylin Noriega kicked off Wednesday's hearing on Hunter Biden's proposed plea deal with the Justice Department by telling lawyers they did not need to keep popping up and down every time she asked them a question.
00:03:20.000This was not a reflection of informality.
00:03:23.000It was a signal that she was about to subject them to three plus hours of relentless interrogation over elements of an agreement she described variously as not standard, not what I normally see, possibly unconstitutional, without legal precedent, and potentially not worth the paper it was printed on.
00:03:37.000So the judge was like, I've never seen anything like this.
00:03:39.000Judge Noriega stunned the participants with her scouring skepticism, which led her to refuse to greenlight the deal until she received more information from both parties.
00:03:47.000An exhausted Mr. Biden trudged out of the federal district court in Wilmington, Delaware looking a bit stunned as his lawyers puzzled over what to do next.
00:03:53.000You're all saying just rubber stamp the agreement, said the judge.
00:03:55.000I'm not in a position to accept or reject it.
00:03:58.000Judge Noriega quickly zeroed in on a central component of the deal, a paragraph offering Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity for a range of matters scrutinized by the DOJ during its five-year investigation.
00:04:09.000The judge appointed by President Trump in 2017 questioned why prosecutors had written it in a way that gave her no legal authority to reject it.
00:04:15.000Then, in just 10 minutes of incisive questioning, she exposed serious differences between the two sides on what exactly the paragraph meant.
00:04:22.000Chris Clark, Biden's lead lawyer, said and indemnified his client not merely for taxing gun offenses uncovered during the inquiry, but for other possible offenses stemming from his lucrative consulting deals with companies in Ukraine, China, and Romania.
00:04:33.000Prosecutors, however, had a far narrower definition.
00:04:35.000They saw Hunter Biden's immunity as limited to the offenses uncovered during their probe of the tax returns dating back to 2014 and his illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018 when he was a heavy drug user, they said.
00:04:45.000When the judge asked Leo Weiss, a lead prosecutor in the case, if the investigation was still ongoing, he answered, yes.
00:04:50.000When she asked him hypothetically if the deal would preclude an investigation into possible violation of laws regulating foreign lobbying by Biden connected with his consulting and legal work, he then replied no.
00:05:00.000Hunter Biden then told the judge he could not agree to any deal that did not offer him broad immunity and Clark popped up angrily to declare the deal was now null and void.
00:05:09.000So apparently the defense and prosecution first separated into two packs and they merged into a circle to hash out a new compromise and official recess was declared Clark agreed to the narrower terms and declared his previous statements quote-unquote inartful, but Judge Noriega was now unconvinced.
00:05:23.000She thinks that there is some secret deal that's being cut.
00:05:25.000She turned her attention to the fine print of the deal that had been struck on the gun offense, requiring Biden to participate in a two-year diversion program prohibiting him from using drugs or owning a firearm.
00:05:33.000She objected strenuously to how a violation of its terms would be handled.
00:05:36.000Typically, the DOJ could independently verify such a breach and bring charges, but Biden's team successfully lobbied to give that power to Judge Noriega herself, arguing she would be a more neutral arbiter.
00:05:46.000But she suggested an arrangement could be unconstitutional because that would give her prosecutorial powers.
00:06:05.000Attorney's team told the court that there was no deal, and one of the lead attorneys for Hunter Biden, Chris Clark, said as far as he was concerned, quote, the plea deal was null and void.
00:06:17.000It was an extremely complex legal discussion over the last couple of hours, but I would boil it down to this.
00:06:25.000It does appear that the two parties have been talking past each other for months.
00:06:33.000Attorney's Office says there's an ongoing investigation and there could be criminal charges in the future.
00:06:40.000So this gap between the prosecution and the defense, is it real or is it fake?
00:06:45.000So there's some pretty good indicators that actually the the People who are fibbing here are the members of the DOJ.
00:06:53.000Once this deal was exposed to public light, and once the judge put pressure on them to actually say what it was that they were excusing Hunter Biden from, they freaked out and they realized that this would be seen by everyone as a sweetheart deal.
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00:08:04.000Okay, so what exactly went on in that courtroom?
00:08:10.000Well, it appears that there was, in fact, a corrupt bargain between the DOJ and Hunter Biden's legal team.
00:08:14.000And when it got exposed to public light, the DOJ freaked out.
00:08:17.000And then after the DOJ freaked out, then so did Hunter Biden's team, because they're like, wait, are you reneging on the deal?
00:08:22.000So Will Scharf, who is a former federal prosecutor, he has a good rundown on what he believes happened inside the courtroom.
00:08:29.000And Annie McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who writes for National Review, among others, he agrees with this.
00:08:34.000Here's what Scharf says, quote, Based on conversations with people who are in the courtroom today and my experience as a former federal prosecutor, I think I know the full story of what happened with the Hunter Biden plea agreement blow-up this morning.
00:08:44.000Bear with me, it's a little complicated.
00:08:46.000Typically, if the government is offering to a defendant that it will either drop charges or decline to bring new charges in return for a defendant's guilty plea, that plea is structured under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11C1A.
00:08:56.000An agreement not to prosecute Hunter for FARA violations or other crimes in return for his pleading guilty to the tax misdemeanors, for example, would usually be C1A pleas.
00:09:04.000This is open, transparent, subject to judicial approval, etc.
00:09:07.000In Hunter's case, however, Hunter's plea was structured under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11C1B.
00:09:13.000which is usually just a plea in return for a joint sentencing recommendation only, and contain no information on its face about other potential charges, and contain no clear agreement by DOJ to forego prosecution of other charges.
00:09:23.000Instead, DOJ and Hunter's lawyers effectively hid that part of the agreement in what was publicly described as a pretrial diversion agreement relating to a gun charge against Hunter for being a drug user in possession of a firearm.
00:09:33.000So in other words, the plea deal on the tax charges normally, that would include all the different charges from which Hunter was immunized, but that's not what it said in the document.
00:09:40.000Instead, they hid the immunity stuff in the gun charges. The pretrial diversion agreement as
00:09:45.000written was actually much broader than the gun charge. If Hunter were to complete probation,
00:09:49.000the pretrial diversion agreement prevented DOJ from ever bringing charges against Hunter for
00:09:53.000any crimes relating to the offense conduct, the offense conduct discussed in the plea
00:09:57.000agreement, which was purposefully written to include his foreign influence peddling operations in
00:10:02.000So in other words, the pre-trial diversion agreement about the gun charge said that if he completes this, he will then be immunized from any charge that's mentioned in the other charges, in the tax charges, which includes FARA violations.
00:10:13.000So they're trying to hide the ball here so that it wasn't publicly available.
00:10:17.000They put the facts in the plea agreement, but they put their non-prosecution agreement in the pre-trial diversion agreement, effectively hiding the full scope of what DOJ was offering and Hunter was obtaining through these proceedings.
00:10:26.000Hunter's upside from the deal was vast immunity from further prosecution if he finished a couple years of probation.
00:10:31.000The public wouldn't be any the wiser because none of this was clearly stated on the face of the plea agreement as would normally be the case.
00:10:37.000She understood the lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball.
00:10:40.000Instead, she backed DOJ and Hunter's lawyers into a corner by pulling all the details out into the open and then indicating she wasn't going to approve a deal as broad as what she had discovered.
00:11:42.000Why wasn't there a special prosecutor who was appointed on the Hunter Biden matters?
00:11:46.000Why instead was this delegated to somebody who's directly answerable to the current attorney general who is directly answerable to the father of the perp in this particular case?
00:11:56.000So the White House yesterday was trying to downplay all of this.
00:11:59.000Corinne Jean-Pierre Wuerl's Roast Press Secretary, she read a statement about this yesterday.
00:12:03.000Now, I know many people have been following the news in Delaware today and we're going to have a lot of questions.
00:12:10.000And so here's what I'll say at the top before I turn it over to my colleague, the Admiral.
00:12:15.000Hunter Biden is a private citizen, and this was a personal matter for him.
00:12:20.000As we have said, the President, the First Lady, they love their son, and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life.
00:12:28.000This case was handled independently, as all of you know, by the Justice Department under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former President, President Trump.
00:12:38.000So for anything further, as you know, and we've been very consistent from here, I'd refer you to the Department of Justice Okay, I want to point out here, Hunter is not a private citizen.
00:12:54.000He lives in the White House with his father.
00:12:57.000He was given a big security escort to the courthouse, where he pled not guilty.
00:13:00.000Hunter Biden's questionable connections with his father on business are the entire matter here.
00:13:05.000And as far as the love his parents have for him, the President and the First Lady, What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
00:13:12.000What does that have to do with anything?
00:13:14.000The question here is whether Hunter Biden was engaged in deep and abiding corruption with his father.
00:13:18.000And again, I'm just going to point out that they think you are a moron.
00:14:55.000So we talked yesterday about this breaking report that one of the people who bought some of Hunter's garbage art for hundreds of thousands of dollars then received a seat on a presidential commission.
00:15:05.000This happened to be a very wealthy Democratic donor.
00:15:08.000Unclear whether she received the seat before or after she bought the paintings, but The real question is why she bought the paintings in the first place, and the only possible answer is to get closer to the Bidens, right?
00:15:18.000I mean, it's an influence-peddling operation, obviously.
00:15:20.000Well, Corinne Jean-Pierre was asked about all of this, and she was like, well, I don't see how this is a big deal.
00:15:53.000Who knows why somebody would buy garbage finger painting from Hunter Biden for hundreds of thousands of dollars and then receive a presidential commission.
00:16:01.000I don't know if we're going to be able to solve this one, ever.
00:16:03.000It's just going to remain a dark mystery for the rest of time.
00:16:06.000Meanwhile, Corinne Chompere was asked specifically about the fact that Joe Biden is very fond of cracking down on gun owners who are law-abiding.
00:16:48.000This is up for the Department of Justice.
00:16:50.000Even with the question that you're asking me, it's up to, uh, it's up to, it's a, it's one of those legal criminal matters, and it's up to that process, that legal process.
00:16:59.000I'm just not going to speak to it here.
00:17:04.000Joe Biden routinely talks about prosecuting people to the full extent of the law for tax evasion.
00:17:08.000He's constantly talking about people who are not paying their fair share.
00:17:10.000Meanwhile, his son is having all of his tax bills paid by Joe Biden's friends.
00:17:16.000And by the way, the White House has pretty overtly shifted its messaging on the Hunter Biden, Joe Biden matters.
00:17:21.000As Philip Wegman points out over RealClearPolitics, the language is undeniably different.
00:17:25.000Yet White House officials said four different times on Wednesday, nothing has changed concerning President Biden's longstanding denial he was ever involved in the foreign business dealings of his son, Hunter.
00:17:34.000Biden told Fox News on the campaign trail in September 2020, I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
00:17:40.000And then he repeated that later the next month, said I don't discuss business with my son.
00:17:44.000But the verbiage shifted in June when Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office, told the Washington Examiner, as we have said many times before, the president was not in business with his son.
00:17:54.000Asked by RealClearPolitics at the Daily White House briefing on Wednesday why the language had shifted and if both statements were simultaneously true, Corine Jean-Pierre then replied, But of course, those are two very different statements.
00:18:08.000The president has never spoken with his son about overseas business dealings.
00:18:11.000It's not the same thing as the president is not in business with his son.
00:18:14.000As I pointed out the other day, in business is a very vague term.
00:18:29.000It's pretty incredible that the White House thinks they're going to get away with this.
00:18:32.000But again, with the compliant media, they think they can get away with pretty much anything.
00:18:35.000That is why it's left to the Washington Examiner and Tim Carney to report on Joe and Hunter Biden's coziness with the Delaware Bank years and years and years ago, according to Tim Carney.
00:18:45.000As Hunter goes to trial on all sorts of federal charges, and as the White House swears the president has not had anything to do with Hunter's corrupt businesses, it's worth turning back the clock and recalling how tightly interwoven Hunter's and Joe's undertakings have been.
00:18:55.000Let's start in 1996, when Joe Biden easily won re-election to the Senate.
00:18:58.000During that campaign, he sold his home to an executive at the Delaware-based credit card company MBNA for asking price.
00:19:04.000And the bank reimbursed the buyer for $330,000 of moving expenses.
00:19:08.000That's a bit shady, but Biden pointed out the House appraised for what it sold for.
00:19:12.000However, here's where the Joe-MB&A-Hunter connection gets harder to deny.
00:19:15.000Senator Biden was the champion at the time of a bankruptcy reform that financial institutions like MB&A loved.
00:19:21.000MB&A was Senator Biden's largest source of campaign funds in that re-election.
00:19:24.000According to Byron York, according to FEC records, MB&A became, by far, Joe Biden's biggest single source of contributions.
00:19:30.000Company officials gave him $62,000 in the 1996 cycle.
00:19:34.000Senator Biden and MBNA formed very tight ties.
00:19:36.000It's clear then, right after the election, Hunter was roped in.
00:19:38.000Hunter graduated law school in May 1996.
00:19:41.000Within just a few months, he landed a job at MBNA.
00:19:44.000Less than two years after graduating law school at age 28, Hunter was a senior vice president at MBNA, which was his father's largest donor.
00:19:53.000Then Hunter passed through the revolving door to work at Bill Clinton's Commerce Department.
00:19:56.000After Clinton left office, Hunter cashed out and he went back to MBNA.
00:20:01.000In the years Hunter was a consultant for MBNA, MBNA was Senator Biden's largest source of campaign funds, easily.
00:20:08.000Employees and executives at MBNA gave Biden more than 94 grand.
00:20:12.000So, yes, the corruption is endemic here.
00:20:16.000By the way, no one becomes a partner at a law firm after two years.
00:20:19.000I went to Harvard Law School and then I worked at Goodwin Procter, which is a major national law firm.
00:20:25.000You know how long it takes to become a senior associate at a major law firm?
00:20:29.000It will take you four, five, six years to become a senior associate.
00:20:33.000To become a partner, you're talking like 15 years.
00:20:35.000Two years to become a partner at MBNA, a major corporation?
00:20:41.000Yeah, there's something fishy going on here, and there always has been, of course.
00:20:45.000But of course, as we will see in just a second, the media will rush to Joe Biden's defense because they have to.
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00:21:52.000Okay, so leave it to the adults over at The View to make the case that the real problem here is that everybody is so mean to Hunter and his daddy.
00:22:22.000That's right, you don't want the wrong thing to get out.
00:22:25.000But I mean, what is really happening here?
00:22:29.000How much punishment does Biden need because he won and they lost?
00:22:34.000How much punishment is Biden getting because he won and they lost?
00:22:36.000Yeah, he's leading a real rough life out there, Joe Biden, completely free of all criticism from the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, despite the fact that he is no longer functional and the fact that he's pretty obviously corrupt and has been corrupt for years with his son Hunter.
00:22:50.000And I just want to hear Whoopi Goldberg explain why Hunter texted his own daughter in 2019 saying he paid dad's bills.
00:24:20.000I mean obviously something is happening now Naturally, we're not going to get the full truth about what is happening because you never get the full truth on these matters.
00:24:28.000Senate Minority Leader McConnell stopped speaking abruptly during the opening remarks of his weekly press conference on Wednesday.
00:24:34.000McConnell later said the 81-year-old felt lightheaded for a moment.
00:24:37.000That doesn't look like lightheaded, by the way.
00:24:39.000And noted he came back to participate in the question and answer section of the press conference.
00:24:42.000The incident startled fellow lawmakers and brought into the open lingering concerns regarding his injury and how long he plans to remain as the Republicans' Senate leader.
00:24:50.000McConnell, again, is currently 81 years old.
00:24:52.000Nancy Pelosi is currently 82 years old.
00:25:28.000And she, not only is she not functional, everyone knows she's not functional, and she's still sitting and voting in the United States Senate.
00:25:33.000John Fetterman had a massive stroke during the last campaign, and he cannot string sentences together.
00:25:39.000And the entire press is pretending that this is somehow A story about bravery rather than a story about people taking advantage of a person who does not have functional brain power.
00:25:50.000What's amazing about the Fetterman story is that he has a Democratic governor in his state who will simply appoint his replacement if he steps down.
00:25:56.000The same thing is true of Dianne Feinstein.
00:25:57.000And yet, the status quo is so ingrained that people will not even tell people to step down, even if there's a governor of the same party.
00:26:04.000Now, what's weird about the state of Kentucky is that in the state of Kentucky, the governor is Andy Beshear.
00:26:10.000So if McConnell were to step down for whatever reason, He would be replaced, presumably, by a Democrat, right?
00:26:15.000Which would actually have a massive impact on the state of the current constituency in the Senate.
00:26:22.000So you can see for political reasons why Republicans would keep McConnell in place even if McConnell were unhealthy.
00:26:26.000You can't really see it with Feinstein or Fetterman.
00:26:29.000But it is, again, an indicator of just how bad our leadership situation is.
00:26:36.000That everybody in a leadership position in both parties now is really, really aged.
00:26:42.000Now, what was amazing with the media coverage of this, so CNN's Sanjay Gupta, he immediately said, he needs to go get checked out quickly.
00:26:48.000Now again, Joe Biden's frozen up a thousand times, and I've never heard anything remotely like this from Sanjay Gupta.
00:26:53.000When you looked at the length of time that the senator seemed to sort of be unable to speak, freezing, as Mani described it, it was concerning.
00:27:03.000We actually looked at that tape very closely, and I'm hoping that he will get checked out and his doctors will look at this as well, a petite mall or a mini seizure or a mini stroke.
00:27:13.000Those types of things can cause brief symptoms like that as well.
00:27:17.000But bottom line is, he should get checked out and should get checked out quickly
00:27:20.000because for some of those things, timing really does make a difference.
00:27:24.000Okay, I mean, that may very well be true, but I've never heard Sanjay Gupta say anything
00:27:29.000like that about Joe Biden, who frequently loses trains of thought in the middle of his
00:27:33.000of his speeches, who seems to wander off into walls.
00:27:37.000Meanwhile, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace, she went even further, should there be impeachment proceedings if Biden froze like that?
00:28:06.000Our collective best wishes and prayers are for Mitch McConnell's health.
00:28:10.000It does raise the question that Republicans like to raise about Joe Biden, which is one of age.
00:28:15.000And I think, importantly, at least where I sit, I think we have to shut down questions of age in our body politic and focus instead on personal fitness.
00:28:44.000The economy apparently grew at 2.4 percent, according to The Wall Street Journal.
00:28:49.000The GDP's growth at 2.4% in the second quarter, which picked up slightly from 2% growth in the first three months of the year, means that consumer spending grew this spring at a slower pace for both goods and services.
00:29:00.000Business investment also strengthened from April through June, with companies spending solidly on buildings and equipment.
00:29:05.000The economy remains resilient, spending remains very high.
00:29:07.000Again, what we are seeing is the aftermath of Joe Biden blowing so much money into the economy.
00:29:11.000There's still tons of money in the American economy.
00:29:14.000Economists, however, are dialing back the recession expectations.
00:29:17.000After many had projected that a downturn would start in the middle of the year in response to Federal Reserve policy, the Fed did act to raise its benchmark interest rate to a 22-year high.
00:29:25.000On Wednesday, and Chair Jerome Powell did not rule out another increase.
00:29:29.000Here was Jerome Powell yesterday announcing yet another rate hike.
00:29:33.000Since early last year, the FOMC has significantly tightened the stance of monetary policy.
00:29:38.000Today, we took another step by raising our policy interest rate a quarter percentage point, and we are continuing to reduce our securities holdings at a brisk pace.
00:29:49.000We've covered a lot of ground, and the full effects of our tightening have yet to be felt.
00:29:54.000Looking ahead, we will continue to take a data-dependent approach in determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate.
00:30:03.000Well, all of this appears to be sort of up in the air, and it feels like the economy is defying gravity right now a little bit, because we had inflation rates that were up in the, like, 10% range for a brief moment there, and now the inflation rates are still at, like, 3-point-something percent on the annualized basis.
00:30:20.000The Federal Reserve keeps raising the interest rates, the economy keeps chugging along, and that speaks to both the fact that the economy was pretty healthy before COVID, And it also speaks to the fact that we've blown so much money into the system that's still in people's pockets that eventually things are going to hit the skids.
00:30:51.000Now, the Federal Reserve does have tools to jack up spending again, right?
00:30:54.000If the interest rates are the highest they've been in 22 years, this means they can lower the interest rates and they can jack up consumer spending if they actively believe that the interest rates have put inflation under control.
00:31:06.000But do I think that we're out of the woods here with regard to the economy?
00:31:10.000I have some serious doubts that we are out of the woods as an economy.
00:31:13.000It feels like there's some weird kind of countervailing forces that are having an effect.
00:31:16.000So for example, the real estate market, you would expect when the mortgage rates go up as much as they have, the real estate market would dump.
00:31:28.000So there's nothing on the market and there's nobody looking to buy and so the prices just remain exactly what they were before.
00:31:34.000Meaning that because there's so little inventory, the prices are still really high even though the mortgage rates are really high.
00:31:40.000It just means the entire market has gotten a lot smaller.
00:31:43.000The amount of turnover in the housing market has shrunk dramatically.
00:31:46.000So where is that money that's not being spent on real estate going?
00:31:48.000Presumably into other consumer products.
00:31:51.000But it does feel like at some point here, people are going to run out of money.
00:31:54.000And when they run out of money, when the bills have to be paid, then they are going to have to start putting their houses on the market, even if that means they're going to take a loss on them.
00:32:03.000So again, I feel like there are other shoes to drop on the economy.
00:32:05.000I think a lot of other investors feel the same way.
00:32:08.000There are a lot of investors, apparently, who are saying they can read the Fed's poker face, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:32:13.000They're suggesting that the Federal Reserve will have no reason to increase rates again, but they have no reason to say that now.
00:32:20.000So they feel as though the Federal Reserve has basically done all it's going to do on interest rates.
00:32:24.000And so people are kind of optimistic right now.
00:32:27.000If you look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the course of the last couple of days, it has been very positive since the beginning of the week.
00:32:36.000Again, I think that's because people are getting a little more optimistic about the possibility of avoiding a recession.
00:32:41.000I remain a little bit more skeptical of that.
00:32:43.000It's possible, but I remain skeptical that you can blow that much money into the economy with no actual effective consequence after devaluing people's savings the way that you basically have.
00:32:52.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the situation on the border, plus UFO hearings in Congress first.
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00:35:07.000So, I have friends like Matt Walsh who suggest that this is all evidence that yes, the aliens are real and they are here.
00:35:14.000According to the New York Times, even by the extraordinary standards of contemporary political theater, Wednesday's House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on UFOs stood out.
00:35:21.000There, in a somber chamber of the Rayburn House Office Building, a former national intelligence official told elected representatives, the U.S.
00:35:27.000government is sheltering alien spacecraft.
00:35:30.000After a succession of lawmakers rebuked what they characterized as decades of unnecessary secrecy in government programs that studied unexplained phenomena, Representative Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, lamented a cover-up he said stretched far beyond partisan politics.
00:35:55.000And do you also recall that when Donald Trump was president of the United States, he said a lot of stuff?
00:35:59.000Do you think that if Donald Trump actively knew that there were aliens and UFOs in the possession of the United States government, he wouldn't have just tweeted that within five seconds?
00:36:09.000Do you think the government is this amazing at secrecy?
00:36:11.000Like they're this good at secrecy for 70 years?
00:36:15.000Or is it that maybe they're hiding a bunch of other stuff like their own military incompetence or the fact that there are spacecraft or aircraft out there from other countries that they don't know about and they're not very good at handling?
00:36:26.000I have to acknowledge that it's a great way for Congress people to grandstand.
00:36:31.000So you had Representative Jared Moskowitz yesterday.
00:36:34.000He's a Democrat of Florida, saying it's long past time for us to know everything there is to know about unmanned space vehicles and such.
00:36:42.000For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained, and it's long past time that they got some answers.
00:36:50.000The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.
00:37:00.000Those are not the words of a UFO Twitter account.
00:37:03.000That is a direct quote from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:37:07.000That the American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.
00:37:19.000Okay, I understand that you all want to play the lead in the next, like, Tom Cruise sci-fi movie, but you have nothing.
00:37:29.000And the evidence that's been provided so far amounts to people witnessing things with human eyes that they can't explain, which is like half of things that happen on a daily basis for many people, and also people claiming that they have seen documents that they say say things that they haven't actually seen.
00:37:46.000So to take the former example, Matt Gaetz, Republican congressperson, he says that he saw an orb beyond human capability.
00:37:56.000Was it the one that Donald Trump was like with the Saudis with?
00:38:13.000They were out on a test mission that day over the Gulf of Mexico, and when you're on a test mission, you're supposed to have clear airspace, not supposed to be anything that shows up.
00:38:23.000and they saw a sequence of four craft in a clear diamond formation for which there is
00:38:31.000a radar sequence that I and I alone have observed in the United States Congress.
00:38:38.000One of the pilots goes to check out that diamond formation and sees a large floating, what
00:38:43.000I can only describe as an orb, again, like I said, not of any human capability that I'm
00:39:40.000It's a great way of not having to actually legislate or investigate things that actually have consequences for the American people.
00:39:46.000But again, it makes everybody feel kind of spicy inside, I suppose.
00:39:51.000So one of the witnesses, the retired major, David Grush, And he told Representative Nancy Mays of South Carolina that actually he has evidence that non-human bodies were discovered at a crash site.
00:40:02.000Non-human bodies discovered at a crash site.
00:40:04.000So he finally found those burned Barbie dolls that we used the other day.
00:40:25.000Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
00:40:29.000Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program.
00:40:36.000Again, like, maybe Grush is telling the truth about what he says he has seen, but also if he has seen a document in which another person testified about something that he thought he had seen from a third source, like... I just... I'm just gonna go no.
00:40:54.000I don't see the evidence for it, and I think all of this is a giant waste of time.
00:40:57.000Apparently, pressed by Burchard about whether people have been murdered as part of a government effort to hide UFOs, Grush said he could not talk about it in a public session.
00:41:06.000There's more evidence that Hillary Clinton is murdering everyone around her than that government agents are going around killing people to cover up UFOs.
00:41:26.000Okay, meanwhile, in a hearing that actually made somewhat of a difference yesterday, that should have actually been of much more concern, Alejandro Mayorkas was called in front of Congress again, and he would not answer simple questions about whether there was a limit to illegal entries into the United States, for example.
00:42:10.000Congressman, last year we expelled or removed approximately 1.4 million people who did not have a legal basis to remain in the United States, the largest number in recent history.
00:42:24.000The answer is there is not one, right?
00:42:28.000And as Bill Malugan, who covers this stuff, has said, the situation at the border has gotten worse during Mayorkas' time in office by every single metric.
00:42:34.000Back-to-back years of highest migrant deaths in history.
00:42:36.000Back-to-back years of highest recorded illegal crossings in history.
00:43:21.000There's an amazing opinion piece by a person named Blythe Roberson over at the Washington Post.
00:43:27.000And it is called, I was immersed in hookup culture until COVID forced me into intimacy.
00:43:31.000And this person, Blythe Robertson, talks about how she is a person who gets around, shall we say.
00:43:40.000Quote, I never would have consented to having a boyfriend if COVID hadn't forced me.
00:43:43.000More precisely, I would have had a boyfriend for about three months and then bailed,
00:43:46.000which is what I was about to do in March 2020.
00:43:48.000I was 29 and had been dating in New York City for my entire adult life,
00:43:51.000which had meant, in the best case scenario, going to a man's house once a week,
00:43:54.000having sex, maybe ordering food and then going home.
00:43:56.000It wasn't just that I was particularly attracted to men incapable of emotional intimacy, though duh, it was also that I and all the young people I knew were immersed in hookup culture, a phrase I hate but that is also sadly accurate.
00:44:07.000Before COVID-19, we dated a lot of people at once and took our time before picking just one and settling down.
00:44:11.000It's what biological anthropologist Helen Fisher describes as slow love.
00:44:15.000Though in my case, I'd never reached the love part.
00:44:17.000After years of dating this way, I was becoming a guy incapable of emotional intimacy.
00:44:22.000In my late 20s, I decided I should at least try to call someone my boyfriend, so I picked a guy, and right away, I found the experience mortifying.
00:44:29.000Who was this person who seemed so hot and fun on the surface, but also made baffling decisions?
00:44:33.000Who took so long to get ready to go anywhere?
00:44:34.000Who was, inconveniently, an entire human being?
00:44:39.000But in March 2020, I decided I didn't like being so tied to a person outside of me, especially when there were so many other options, so I flew to see him.
00:44:48.000And apparently, this, uh, this person enjoyed, you know, actual relationships.
00:44:53.000And then ended up moving on, of course, because, of course.
00:44:56.000So, this person writes, Dating long distance.
00:44:58.000We'd basically live together anytime we were in the same state, but living together for three days is very different from living together with no endpoint in the middle of a historic period whose defining feature is you can legally hang out only with your housemates.
00:45:07.000Before my boyfriend, I'd spent the night at a man's home almost exclusively in the case of an unforeseen major weather event.
00:45:17.000With my boyfriend, I learned the joys of cuddling without a clock ticking in the back of my mind.
00:45:20.000I learned how nice it is to spend a morning thinking you're falling for someone even if those feelings are just the reflected glow of the fact you're eating breakfast, objectively, the best meal of the day.
00:45:28.000During COVID, I learned that even if I was not constantly thrilling, even if my boyfriend and I were genuinely different in all the ways that it originally mortified me, at the end of the day, I just liked spending time with him.
00:45:38.000And then this person says, I was in two more long-distance things after that.
00:45:42.000The first during the Delta variant wave, the second with the guy I messaged on Hinge, day eight or nine of Omicron.
00:45:48.000Those relationships are now over, although I still wear a mask on the subway and wash my hand, like now, instead of touching every gross thing in the city, and then immediately eating a sandwich.
00:45:56.000COVID feels over too, but I'm grateful for how quickly I built intimacy with those men.
00:46:00.000Without the pandemic restrictions, I don't think I would know that after my sweetheart cooks us food, I love doing all his dishes.
00:46:13.000So you constructed an entire sexual revolution around the idea that people would be happier if they hopped in and out of the sack with randos.
00:46:18.000And then it turns out that women in particular are not particularly happy with that.
00:46:21.000And when they are forced into isolation with a dude, by COVID, they actually quite like it.
00:46:26.000But because they've been so trained that marriage is bad, and that long-term commitment, longer than a few months, is bad, they break up again.
00:46:32.000And you end up telling three dudes you love them, as opposed to, you know, settling down with one dude.
00:46:36.000But it is incredible how the sexual revolution is a failure on every single level, and yet the people who promulgated the sexual revolution are totally incapable of seeing it.
00:46:45.000There are a bunch of Straussian readings that have come up about the Barbie movie, for example, and I'm actually kind of into them.
00:46:49.000Many of the Straussian readings basically make the argument that the Barbie movie is an argument against feminism because the feminist world presented by Barbie is really quite garbage.
00:46:58.000The women are actually happier for a brief moment in Kendam than they are in Barbieland.
00:47:08.000Instead of having a balanced life, it's told them to put off the most important parts of their life, namely marriage and childbearing, in favor of the least important parts of their life, namely making partner at a major law firm.
00:47:18.000And now that women are kind of waking up to it, it's going to take a while for many women to wake up to it because they've so been inculcated in the idea that this is virtue now.
00:47:25.000The new virtue is rejecting the patriarchy, not actively seeking consonance with the natural law.
00:47:34.000But what they're finding, women, is that what women authentically want is not what they were told by the feminist movement women authentically want.
00:47:41.000And sooner or later, it's going to dawn on a large number of women that that happens to be the case.
00:47:57.000So now, because Hollywood has no ideas, Hollywood has decided that the success of the Barbie movie means it is time for a Lena Dunham movie directing Polly Pocket.
00:48:08.000So we've now done, I mean, we're seeing this all over the place, right?
00:48:10.000We had the Blackberry movie, we had the Tetris movie, we had the Hot Cheetos movie.
00:48:15.000We've had a bunch of movies about 80s products.
00:48:20.000Now we are getting the Polly Pocket movie that is going to be directed by Lena Dunham, who is a trash person.
00:48:28.000I mean, Lena Dunham's, her book, in which she talks about effectively sexually abusing her small sister, Um, it's not great, Bob.
00:48:39.000Aside from being a promulgator of precisely the worst kinds of, um, of morality that the sexual revolution has to offer in series like Girls, now they're going to have, they're now taking What you can say at its most sort of anodyne is that these are adult directors.
00:48:56.000Lena Dunham is not a director of children's film.
00:48:59.000She became famous for the extraordinarily sexually graphic HBO show Girls.
00:49:04.000And so they're taking her and they are saying, why don't you do the Polly Pocket movie?
00:49:08.000So, I suppose they say that they're almost ready to go on this, apparently.
00:49:14.000The Mattel execs say that there's already a great script.
00:49:20.000I doubt that because they certainly did not have a great script for Barbie.
00:49:24.000So they're also going to put into development Thomas and Friends, American Girl, and Barney.
00:49:28.000I assume that American Girl will actually be turned into a feminist icon who scorns America and believes that America was founded in 1619.
00:49:37.000Thomas and Friends will be about a gay train or something.
00:49:41.000And Barney will be about a purple dinosaur railing against global climate change, which is putting his friends and family in danger because people drive cars.
00:49:51.000I can only imagine this is where they're going with all of this.
00:49:54.000The Hot Wheels movie, they're doing a Hot Wheels movie that is going to be produced by J.J.
00:50:56.000Everybody's buying it, and it's not April Fool's, so I'm super concerned that either everyone is really gullible or it's real and I can't tell the difference.
00:51:04.000And I'll be honest with you, I literally can't tell the difference.
00:51:08.000Okay, I'm just going to let it go because I have no clue.