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00:00:00.000Stocks continue to crumble as the Dow drops below 30,000 for the first time since before the pandemic.
00:00:05.000America is in the midst of a great moral disintegration, and the Audubon Society wants you to listen to a man dressed as a woman dressed as a bird for Pride Month.
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00:01:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:01:37.000stocks tumbled on Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average below 30,000 for the first time since January 2021, as volatility continued to rock the market.
00:01:47.000Major indices have notched big declines in 2022 as high inflation, rising interest rates, growing concerns about corporate profits and economic growth, dents investors' appetite for risk.
00:01:55.000The blue chips are down 18 percent this year.
00:02:07.000Stocks declined across the market as investors reassessed the risks ahead.
00:02:11.000Again, these are really, really poor numbers, and they're reflective of underlying economic uncertainty driven by the simple fact that the Biden administration not only has no plan, all of their plans are bad.
00:02:21.000We are in the middle of Joe Biden's recession, because the fact is that this was not supposed to happen.
00:02:27.000I said when Joe Biden took office that he was the luckiest son of a gun ever to take the office, not only because of the wonderful surprise it must be to him every morning to realize that he's president anew, but also because he was inheriting this awful situation that we were already coming out of.
00:02:42.000Basically, the patient had been put into an artificial coma, and now the patient was coming out of it and was on the road to recovery.
00:02:49.000And the new doctor, all the new doctor had to do was just stand there and then smile and give a good prognosis.
00:02:54.000And instead, the new doctor came in and started putting leeches all over the patient and then was surprised when the bloodletting actually was bad for the patient.
00:03:22.000By the way, the new Omicron variant was actually quite good in the sense that it actually gave widespread immunity with very low risk of death to a huge swath of the population, even faster and more durable than the vaccine did for a lot of people.
00:03:36.000So he was given the vaccine, a less viral variant, a more viral but less deadly variant in Omicron.
00:03:44.000He was given an economy in the full state of recovery.
00:03:48.000The economy was ready and rip-roaring and ready to go.
00:03:51.000And all he had to do was stand, and he couldn't do it.
00:04:20.000economy is starting to slow under the combined weight of soaring inflation and climbing interest rates, including the highest mortgage rates since 2008.
00:04:26.000Recent reports show sharp declines in key sectors, raising the prospects of a stalled economic recovery and possibly a recession.
00:04:33.000Home construction across the United States fell sharply in May, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
00:04:37.000Factories in the Mid-Atlantic region reduced activity for the first time in two years this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said, and Americans broadly cut spending at retailers for the first time this year in May, the Commerce Department said earlier this week.
00:04:49.000Economists have slashed their productions for second quarter output growth in recent days.
00:04:54.000When closely watched forecasts, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GPN Now tracker estimates the gross domestic product is on track to remain unchanged at an annual rate over the three months through June 30th.
00:05:04.000Output fell at 1.5% annual rate in the first quarter.
00:05:06.000We were told that when it fell, that was sort of an artificial decline in the first quarter.
00:05:11.000But as it turns out, now it looks like negative growth in one quarter, zero growth in a second quarter.
00:05:17.000If that's not a recession, it is right on the verge of a recession.
00:05:19.000And given the fact that the Federal Reserve is about to kick in these higher interest rates and to increase them rather dramatically over the rest of the course of the year, you can bet your bottom dollar, and this is what most people are doing, that a recession is just around the corner.
00:05:32.000According to the Wall Street Journal, those figures suggested that persistent supply shortages, a 40-year high in inflation, and the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to tame price pressures by raising interest rates are cooling the world's largest economy.
00:05:42.000The Fed on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points.
00:05:46.000That's the biggest increase since 1994.
00:05:49.000The moves have helped push up borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, meaning that not only are prices for goods and services rising, so is the cost of loans that are used to buy houses, cars, and other items.
00:05:57.000Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage soared to 5.78% this week.
00:06:21.000That is devastating to a lot of folks.
00:06:23.000The higher cost of an interest rate over the course of a 30 year loan is really, really significant.
00:06:27.000If you're talking about the difference between a 3% rate and a 6% rate on a mortgage, which is what we are talking about in terms of changing on the mortgage rate over the course of the last three, four months alone.
00:06:39.000If you're talking about like a $250,000 home, according to the Washington Post, over the course of the loan, you will pay an additional $128,000 on that loan just because of that 3% interest rate increase.
00:06:49.000If you're talking about a $500,000 home, you're talking about paying, over the course of the life of the loan, $256,000 more.
00:06:53.000And if you're talking about a $750,000 home, you're talking about $384,000 more.
00:06:56.000I mean, these are big, big numbers for people.
00:06:57.000$38,000 home, you're talking about $384,000 more.
00:07:00.000And these are big, big numbers for people.
00:07:03.000And again, you can't blame that on Ukraine.
00:07:28.000It makes us all feel a little bit insecure.
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00:09:41.000Meanwhile, the price of gas continues to skyrocket, and the preferred solution of this administration, which is that we not drill, is starting to look real bad.
00:09:51.000So Karine Jean-Pierre continues to double down on this.
00:10:21.000What we need them to do is, with the oil that's out there, we need them to refine that oil so that prices, so that the capacity could go up, and then prices would go down, inherently go down.
00:10:32.000And so, you know, the President once said that he was going to end fossil fuel.
00:10:55.000That sort of conflicting message is probably not going to result in more production.
00:10:59.000Again, if I have a dollar to invest today, am I going to invest it in the oil industry knowing it's going to take a while for that dollar to actually turn out a benefit?
00:11:08.000Knowing that five years from now, the chances are that this administration, or an administration like it, are going to crack down on the ability of the industry that I invested in to actually produce?
00:11:19.000When you invest a dollar in an oil company, it's not because that dollar is now going to produce oil tomorrow, it's because that dollar is going to produce oil a couple of years from now, three, four, five years from now.
00:11:29.000But if you have no faith that the government is going to allow for that to happen three, four, five years from now, why are you going to invest right now?
00:11:35.000A future possibility of supply affects price today.
00:11:39.000But this administration likes to pretend that that's not happening.
00:11:41.000Meanwhile, they've been sending all of their idiot spokespeople out there to claim that we should just buy more fuel-efficient vehicles.
00:12:02.000It probably ain't gonna arrive till August, September at best, given what's going on in the world economy right now.
00:12:07.000The Wall Street Journal is pointing out that car shoppers looking for more fuel-efficient vehicles, they literally cannot buy them.
00:12:14.000Quote, with gasoline prices topping $5 a gallon, fuel economy is suddenly top of mind again for car shoppers, reinvigorating interest in the small car sedans and hybrids that have fallen out of favor in recent years.
00:12:23.000Those are among the vehicles in the shortest supply.
00:12:25.000In recent months, the average price of gasoline in the United States has soared to new records, pushing up fuel costs for drivers and prompting many Americans to seek out smaller, more economical rides, dealers and executives say.
00:12:36.000The shift is sending yet another shockwave through the car business, which has spent much of the past decade giving priority to pricey, fuel-thirsty pickups and SUVs that drive big profits.
00:12:44.000Supply chain disruptions have further complicated the market, leaving dealership lots sparse of any type of vehicle, both new and used, and automakers are scrambling to restock.
00:12:53.000Right now, if you wish to buy a compact car or a hybrid, you're waiting, on average, just for the supply.
00:13:01.00015 right now, the hybrid, they only have 22 days worth of hybrids in stock.
00:13:09.000These are not numbers that are going to help you cure your high gasoline prices by bringing new green energy on the market.
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00:14:05.000So, soak up all that summer has to offer.
00:14:28.000Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs is out there saying, yeah, you know, we probably should have invested a little bit more in, you know, the oil industry.
00:14:33.000Instead of trying to green the oil industry, maybe we should have let them do what they actually do.
00:14:37.000According to Wendell Gusebo, who's reporting for Breitbart, American energy is suffering from a lack of long-term investment, which temporary fixes cannot alleviate.
00:14:45.000Global head of commodities at Goldman Sachs, Jeff Curry, said on Thursday.
00:14:48.000Downplaying the Ukrainian war's impact on oil prices, Curry said soaring energy prices are due to a lack of U.S.
00:14:54.000investments in the fossil fuel sector.
00:14:56.000The global slowdown, let's say it's Fed-induced.
00:14:58.000Curry said about the Federal Reserve increasing rates to combat inflation.
00:15:02.000It may create a pullback in oil prices, but it is not a long-term fix.
00:15:05.000I want to emphasize demand destruction or demand slowdown is not a fix to this problem.
00:15:11.000But if nobody's investing because everybody believes there's going to be a crackdown, that's a problem.
00:15:16.000What are the reasons for the lack of capital investment, Curry asked?
00:15:18.000He named ESG, Environmental Social Corporate Governance.
00:15:22.000Curry says, too much focus on left-wing investment strategies is one of the main reasons the U.S.
00:15:26.000is unprepared for energy price shocks produced by a variety of factors.
00:15:28.000In other words, it looks a lot like the European energy policy, which was, we are going to crack down on these oil companies.
00:15:33.000We need to stop them from producing the oil.
00:15:35.000And then quietly, sotto voce, to Vladimir Putin, if you can keep shipping in the oil, that would be great because we have to keep our economy running.
00:15:42.000And this is all the reflection of really crappy policy.
00:15:46.000And the oil companies have pointed out that while Joe Biden is telling them that they need to increase production, he's preventing them from increasing production.
00:15:55.000ExxonMobil responded by saying they've been in regular contact with the administration to remind them of the extraordinary efforts the company has made in investing in energy production.
00:16:02.000They say that's more than any other company.
00:16:04.000The company said in the short term, the U.S.
00:16:06.000government could enact measures often used in emergencies following hurricanes or other supply disruptions, such as waivers of Jones Act provisions and some fuel specifications to increase supplies.
00:16:14.000Longer term, government can promote investment through clear and consistent policy that supports U.S.
00:16:19.000resource development, such as regular and predictable lease sales, as well as streamlined regulatory approval and support for infrastructure such as pipelines.
00:16:25.000Again, this is all just common sense stuff.
00:16:29.000The simple fact is, if you make business easier to do, you will get more supply.
00:16:33.000This will bring down the prices, because demand is relatively stable right now.
00:16:38.000And when you do that, inflation will be crushed.
00:16:41.000Instead, you have not only been hit with an exogenous bottleneck in the supply chain, you've exacerbated that bottleneck with bad regulatory policy and proposals for new taxes and global taxes on corporations.
00:16:54.000And then you are shocked when the supply continues to decrease?
00:16:57.000You're shocked when the economic coma that these companies went through in 2020-2021 is exacerbated?
00:17:35.000They're increasing the pressures on businesses.
00:17:39.000Well, even some Democrats are starting to get very worried about this because now they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:17:44.000As I mentioned just a couple of days ago, the fact is that Democrats are looking down the road at 2024 and they're figuring, OK, well, we are screwed.
00:17:51.000And the reason we are screwed is not just because we have a dead man for president, but also because we now have a choice.
00:17:56.000Our choice is we tamp down the inflation by killing the economy or we allow the economy to continue to sort of bubble along at mid-range pace and we allow the inflation to soar out of control.
00:18:07.000None of those are really good options.
00:18:09.000According to the New York Times, a recession would hurt Democrats.
00:18:12.000Some warn it would also hurt democracy.
00:18:14.000Some warn, typical New York Times, what they really mean by this is, God forbid people recognize the Democratic policy sucks, a Republican could win in 2024.
00:18:21.000Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, made the understatement of the year on Wednesday when he noted offhandedly to reporters, Quote, clearly people do not like inflation.
00:18:32.000According to Fox News latest national poll, 41% of registered voters said inflation and higher prices represented the most important issue influencing their ballot decision in November.
00:18:40.000Just 12% of voters called guns their top priority, the second place issue.
00:18:43.00071% disapproved of the job President Biden is doing on inflation.
00:18:47.000That's a lot of Democrats and Independents who do not like Joe Biden's policies on inflation.
00:18:53.000The Fed might be Joe Biden's best hope.
00:18:55.000After the Federal Open Market Committee announced Wednesday it would raise short-term interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point, Powell said the Fed's goal is to bring inflation closer to its 2% target while keeping the labor market strong.
00:19:05.000He hastened to add, we're not trying to induce a recession.
00:19:08.000But some commentators like David Frum of The Atlantic, who's become a big Democrat, have begun to fret that in trying to tame inflation, the Fed will do exactly that, start a recession just in time to doom Biden or whomever Democrats nominate in his stead in 2024.
00:19:21.000From noted the historically tight link between economic growth and a president's chances of re-election, citing the possibility that an unrepented Donald Trump will run again, he argued a downturn this year or next could result in a democracy wrecking election the next year.
00:19:32.000And so the basic idea here is that Maybe we have to keep inflation high to prevent a recession so as to prevent Donald Trump from sweeping back into office.
00:19:42.000Or, theoretically, you could pursue, you know, good economic policy.
00:19:45.000The reason people disapprove of Joe Biden is because they can see statistics in front of their face.
00:19:50.000The inflation rate under Joe Biden has climbed virtually every month since he became President of the United States.
00:19:55.000The only downtick was very mild and it was a couple of months ago.
00:20:27.000But here's Karine Jean-Pierre, who keeps Kind of suggesting that if she says the word transition over and it's not just her, it's Brian Deese.
00:20:34.000It's the entire economic team over there.
00:20:37.000Like everyone, Jared Bernstein, they're all saying the same thing.
00:20:48.000Here is Kareem Jean-Pierre trying to explain that the economy is just, we're in the midst of a big transition, you know, toward green energy.
00:20:54.000We're in the midst of a booming economy.
00:20:59.000We believe that we are in a transition right now coming out of a economic recovery, a historic economic recovery, because of the work that the president has done this past year and a half.
00:21:11.000And so we believe that we'll be in that transition.
00:21:14.000We're going into that transition of stable and steady growth.
00:21:18.000And we're going to continue to do the work that the president has laid out to lower inflation.
00:21:27.000This is why his approval ratings are awful.
00:21:29.000Harry Anton of CNN, he says we're going to look at a Republican wave year this year because of Joe Biden's economic policies.
00:21:36.000He points out that there's never been a president with this kind of approval rating who didn't just get absolutely shellacked in the midterms.
00:21:41.000And again, when Joe Biden says recession is not inevitable, that's not what CEOs are saying.
00:21:45.000According to the Wall Street Journal, most top executives say they think a recession is looming or already here, according to a new survey.
00:21:50.000More than 60% of CEOs expect a recession in their geographic region in the next 12 to 18 months, according to a survey of 750 CEOs and other C-suite executives released Friday by the conference board, a business research firm.
00:22:01.000An additional 15% think the region of the world where their company operates is already in a recession.
00:22:06.000Because here's the thing, you only find out when you're in a recession after you're in a recession.
00:22:09.000Because the way that we typically measure a recession is two straight quarters of negative growth.
00:22:13.000But if you're in the midst of that second quarter of negative growth, you're not going to find out that you're already in a recession until we release the stats at the end of quarter two.
00:22:20.000But the simple fact is everybody already perceives that there is a drawback in spending.
00:22:24.000We can see the home prices are climbing.
00:22:25.000Homes are homes are sitting on the market for longer.
00:22:42.000That data was collected in May before the Federal Reserve approved its largest interest rate increase since 1994.
00:22:48.000We need to be prepared for tougher times, said Ilham Khadri, CEO of Solvay S.A., a Brussels-based chemical maker who added that rising inflation could hurt demand for products.
00:22:58.000Joe Biden can try to blame this on everybody else, but again, he's the President of the United States and he's the one who is going to pay the price as well he should, because a lot of this was preventable.
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00:24:21.000And meanwhile, all of this is being exacerbated by a sense that America is coming apart at the seams morally.
00:24:28.000And you can see this on every available front.
00:24:30.000It feels as though there are two very different visions for what America should look like morally, and they are in complete contradiction with one another.
00:24:48.000Now, the 50% of Americans who rate U.S.
00:24:51.000moral values as poor, that actually is bipartisan.
00:24:54.000Because there are a bunch of Republicans who think it, and there are a bunch of Democrats who think it, but for completely different reasons.
00:24:59.000There are two very different moral visions for the country.
00:25:01.000This is particularly true with regard to children.
00:25:03.000On the left, there's a generalized perception that the great risk to children is Judeo-Christian values, traditional roles, Moral rules?
00:25:11.000These things are a threat to your child's development, according to the left.
00:25:14.000Your child needs to be left free to explore their own identity, to find their gender fluidity, to find their inner peace through your facilitation of hormone treatment.
00:25:24.000They have to be, at the same time, trained that they might be a little racist and that they need to understand the historic injustices of the United States that have now been Instantiated in them as human beings.
00:25:35.000And if you teach them Judeo-Christian, if you take them to church, that is an imposition of an external morality that is bad for kids.
00:25:41.000This is the view of large swaths of the left, which is why you're starting to see all the talk about Drag Queen Story Hour in public schools and why it's so important.
00:25:48.000And why you have the Biden administration openly attempting to trans the kids.
00:25:51.000Because the idea is that all of these impositions on children are dangerous for them.
00:25:54.000The right's view is precisely the opposite.
00:25:56.000that kids need inculcation of moral rules, that traditional Judeo-Christian ideas are good for kids, that kids need boundaries, they need to be taught about civilizational roles, and that it is good to act in accordance with both evolutionary biology and the inherited wisdom of the ages when it comes to enacting the way that you live your life.
00:26:14.000These are in complete contradistinction to one another.
00:26:18.000And you can see that this moral conflict is now becoming incredibly acute.
00:26:21.000Because as the left moves ever to the left, as they feel their oaths, as they believe that the wave of history is with them, they've pushed so far so fast that the right, which has been asleep at the wheel for literally my entire lifetime culturally, has decided we're done with this.
00:26:35.000And a lot of people in the middle are looking and looking at what the left has done to kids.
00:26:38.000And they're saying, we're not interested in this.
00:26:41.000You can see the conflict in this poll from Gallup.
00:26:52.000Just 1% think the state of moral values is excellent and 12% good.
00:26:56.000But when you break this down, what you see is two very different reasons why people believe that the moral values of the United States are bad.
00:27:03.000The right believes the moral values of the left are bad, and the left believes the moral values of the right are bad.
00:27:07.000So the only thing they have in common is they believe the moral values of the United States are bad.
00:27:11.000It's just that the left believes that the right is in control, and the right believes the left is in control.
00:27:14.000These findings from Gallup's May 2nd through 22nd Values and Beliefs Poll are generally in line with perceptions since 2017.
00:27:24.000adults have rated moral values in the United States as poor, 38% as fair, 18% as excellent or good.
00:27:30.000Republicans' increasingly negative assessment of the state of moral values is largely responsible for the record high overall poor rating.
00:27:36.000At 72%, Republicans' poor rating of moral values is at the highest point since the inception of the trend and up sharply since Donald Trump left office.
00:27:43.000At the same time, 36% of Democrats say the state of moral values is poor.
00:27:47.000Only a 48% plurality rate it as only fair, 15% as excellent or good.
00:27:52.000So why exactly do people believe that the moral values of the United States are bad?
00:27:58.000Republicans are more negative than Democrats about the deteriorating state of moral values.
00:28:03.000The 93% of Republicans who think moral values are getting worse is the highest measured for the group.
00:28:07.000By one point, it comes after a sharp uptick in 2021 when Joe Biden became president.
00:28:12.000Meanwhile, only 68% of Democrats now say moral values are getting worse.
00:28:16.000Again, because Democrats control all of the institutions of our society, ranging from the actual government to, at the federal level at least, to the educational system, to the entertainment system, to the media.
00:28:27.000And so when they look at all of the institutions reflecting their moral values, naturally, fewer of them think that the morality of the country is getting worse.
00:28:35.000So what exactly do Americans think is the top problem?
00:28:38.000So, according to the polling data, 18% of Americans, and this is very consistent, think consideration of others is the top problem.
00:28:45.000Now, again, that's very vague, and people break that down very differently.
00:28:49.000I think consideration for others means, for example, that you respect my religious freedom.
00:28:53.000People on the left believe consideration for others means that they get to invade my religious freedom and declare that Yeshiva University has to have a pride club.
00:29:00.000In terms of racism and discrimination, 8% of Americans now believe that this is the top problem with the state of moral values.
00:29:25.000Lack of family structure, that worry has declined as well.
00:29:28.000So what you've seen is that the left has basically given up on sort of the mainstream view that people should go to church, that people should have traditional family structure, and they've decided to pour all of their moral ire into the racism issue.
00:29:43.000Among Republicans, about 11% name a lack of faith or religion as the most important moral problem.
00:29:48.000Democrats are at least twice as likely as Republicans to mention racism as a top moral problem.
00:29:52.000So we have a massive gap that has emerged in our culture.
00:29:56.000And so as the economy declines, and as the sort of materialism of a very rich society starts to run up on the shoals of bad democratic policy, all of the moral conflicts that are boiling under the surface are going to start to break through.
00:30:09.000Because materialism and material comfort can mask a lot of things, like the fatty layer on your body.
00:30:15.000But as that fat starts to decline, and whatever is underneath starts to show through, things are going to get really, really ugly really fast.
00:30:21.000And this is becoming, again, most clear when it comes to the treatment of children.
00:30:26.000The treatment of children in religion is the biggest one.
00:30:28.000According to the Washington Post, caught in the culture wars, teachers are being forced from their jobs.
00:30:33.000And so the right would say, okay, well, if you're teaching my kid gender orientation, sexual theory, then yeah, you should lose your job.
00:30:40.000If you're teaching my kid America's inherently bad, you should lose your job.
00:30:42.000The left says, if you teach prayer in the classroom, you should lose your job.
00:30:46.000These are two incompatible visions of what it means to raise children in the United States, which is, of course, what we're all fighting about all the time.
00:30:52.000Because if we're not fighting about just our pocketbooks, we have to be thinking about what the moral future of the United States looks like.
00:30:58.000The Washington Post, of course, is on the side of the left.
00:31:01.000A Florida teacher lost her job for hanging a Black Lives Matter flag over her classroom door and rewarding student activism.
00:31:06.000A Massachusetts teacher was fired for posting a video denouncing critical race theory.
00:31:10.000A teacher in Missouri got the axe for signing a worksheet about privilege.
00:31:12.000And still another in California was fired for criticizing mask mandates on her Facebook page.
00:31:16.000They're among the more than 160 educators who were either fired or resigned from their jobs in the past two academic years due to the culture wars that are roiling many of the nation's schools.
00:31:25.000And the reason, by the way, that this is boiling down to schools is because there's a baseline libertarianism that Americans have when it comes to adults, which is adults sort of like, as long as you're not hurting anybody else, do whatever you want.
00:31:34.000That's sort of the baseline libertarian ideal in America.
00:31:37.000But when it comes to kids, libertarianism does not apply.
00:31:40.000Because kids do not have the power of consent.
00:31:44.000There's no such thing as a sort of classical liberal moral standard to be applied to children.
00:31:49.000Because somebody's going to have to teach children.
00:31:51.000Somebody's going to have to determine what standards they ought to be inculcated with.
00:31:54.000And that's why all of this is really boiling down to the question of how we raise our kids.
00:32:00.000And you're starting to see this in real ways, breaking out everywhere in the culture, everywhere from the schooling system to your entertainment culture.
00:32:10.000Again, I think it's very important to just mention that the wild difference between how the left sees raising kids and how the right sees raising kids is very, very important.
00:32:22.000So for example, Chris Evans is now saying that you are a terrible person and very bad if you don't wish to take your kids to see Lightyear.
00:32:45.000You should all take note how important this is.
00:32:47.000And then you say, okay, I agree that it's important because you're trying to inculcate a system whereby you claim that a certain sexual morality and lifestyle is equivalent to another sexual morality and lifestyle.
00:32:59.000Where you claim that female-female couples are entirely morally equivalent to male-female couples producing children.
00:33:44.000The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and this doesn't have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is.
00:33:51.000Okay, now, statistically, evolutionarily speaking, male-male-female-female couples are not the norm.
00:33:57.000That's just the simple fact of the matter.
00:33:59.000All of human biology, all of human reproduction relies on this not being the norm, in fact.
00:34:05.000That's not to make the case against tolerance.
00:34:07.000That's not even to make the case against same-sex marriage.
00:34:09.000That's just to make the case that to teach small children that the norm is male-male or female-female is statistically and morally incorrect.
00:34:17.000And yet, that is exactly what is being pushed.
00:34:20.000And if you object, this makes you a bigot.
00:34:21.000Okay, well, that sort of stuff is going to boil to the surface when you have a country that is so divided along these lines.
00:34:27.000There's an article in the Orlando Sentinel that just came out that I think underscores all of this.
00:34:32.000The Orlando Sentinel put out an editorial called GOP loves parental choice unless parents choose drag queens.
00:34:44.000We think there are things that you can do to your child that are damaging to your child, and bringing them to strip clubs where they view men dressed as women, dance around twerking, seems like damaging stuff to children.
00:34:57.000Again, these conflicting visions of the world are going to divide the country.
00:35:01.000They're going to continue to divide the country in the middle, particularly, of a Joe session.
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00:37:52.000So the moral conflict between right and left and this great moral conflict in our country, it's now infected every institution.
00:38:05.000And things that used to be considered relatively uncontroversial, it just demonstrates the actual cultural imperialism of the left.
00:38:13.000They attempt to infiltrate institutions that have historically rejected their values, and then they get angry when those institutions say no.
00:38:31.000Your institution is now a secular university that must abide by our standard of morality.
00:38:36.000Also, apparently it is very controversial that a Catholic church says that you're not allowed to fly at Catholic institutions the BLM flag or the Pride flag.
00:38:46.000Why this is controversial is absolutely beyond me, but apparently it's wildly controversial in the same way that the media declared it controversial every five minutes when the Pope says that he's against same-sex marriage.
00:38:55.000The doctrine has not changed in any way, shape, or form, but it was like, oh my God, well, the Pope, yes, the Pope.
00:39:00.000The pope, why are we even having this discussion?
00:39:03.000But the answer is because the left wishes to take over all of the traditional institutions of society and wreck them from within.
00:39:08.000According to the Washington Post, quote, the stark dual colored letters of the Black Lives Matter flag and the bright rainbow stripes of the pride flag had flown above the Massachusetts Catholic school for more than a year before the local bishop registered his opposition.
00:39:20.000The Black Lives Matter flag, Bishop Robert McManus said in April, has been co-opted by some factions, which also instill broad-brush distrust of police.
00:39:26.000And the LGBTQ flag could be used to contrast church teaching, that marriage is between a man and a woman, he added.
00:39:43.000When Nativity School of Worcester didn't budge, McManus issued a severe ruling.
00:39:47.000The tuition-free middle school, which serves boys facing economic hardship, can no longer identify itself as Catholic because the flags are inconsistent with Catholic teaching.
00:39:54.000He said the flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing, and scandalous message to the public about the church's stance on these important moral and social issues.
00:40:02.000Despite my insistence, the school administration removed these flags because of the confusion and the properly theological scandal that they do and can't promote.
00:41:02.000This school is not reflecting the beliefs.
00:41:04.000The Washington Post is featuring that story.
00:41:05.000Because again, the idea is cultural imperialism from the left.
00:41:09.000What the left really wants is to be able to take all of these traditional institutions and turn them inside out and then pretend that they are representative of the institutions.
00:41:17.000They want a Hannibal Lecter-like, rip-off-the-face-of-the-institutions-and-wear-it-around-as-a-skin-mask.
00:41:30.000A woman has a right to choose, to live up to her responsibility, it's up to her, her doctor, her family, her husband, her significant other, and her God.
00:41:43.000This talk of politicizing all of this, I think It's something uniquely American and not right.
00:41:51.000Other countries, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, have had legislative initiatives to expand a woman's right to choose.
00:43:14.000They're all about drag over at the Audubon Society now.
00:43:17.000So, they tweeted out, this Pride Month, Audubon partnered with drag queen and intersectional environmentalist, Patti Gonia, to bring you, birds tell us, the song of the meadowlark.
00:43:27.000A message of hope for the future of the planet as we face climate change, if we choose to listen.
00:43:31.000First of all, I'm never going to listen to a person who's dressed like this.
00:43:35.000Because I feel like they've made poor life decisions.
00:43:39.000I know, call it judgmental, but if you are in an Audubon Society video, as a man, dressed up as a woman, dressed up as a bird, I'm just not taking you seriously.
00:43:50.000If anybody walked into a meeting at my company dressed like that, I wouldn't take them seriously.
00:43:53.000If I had a plumber who came to my house and was trying to just unclog the shower dressed like that, I wouldn't take them particularly.
00:44:01.000This is inherently unserious, but this is how far we have come.
00:44:05.000Every single institution in American society must not only be forced to kneel before the Zod of LGBTQ plus minus spiral emoji, they must also now Actually, purvey it.
00:44:18.000You have to become a loud megaphone for it by putting up the most ridiculous videos I have ever seen in my entire life.
00:44:27.000This is what Audubon Society— Audubon Society!
00:44:29.000Man, I can't wait for the Natural Museum of History to put out the gay dinosaurs.
00:44:34.000I mean, this is really, really fascinating stuff.
00:45:24.000You know the kind of moral shape we are in?
00:45:26.000We're in the kind of moral shape where the Miss Universe contest is now insisting that not all women who menstruate are, not all people who menstruate are women.
00:45:33.000Which comes as a shock to, you know, all of mammalian biology.
00:45:40.000Miss Universe, of all places, is claiming that not all people who menstruate are women, and shared inclusive language guidelines to its Twitter account on Tuesday, instructing the public to say people have periods, not women.
00:45:49.000According to Breitbart, inclusive language is important, especially when speaking about periods, Miss Universe tweeted on Tuesday.
00:45:55.000In honor of this, Miss Universe needs to stop being so heteronormative by having a bunch of beautiful, actual biological women walking around in their underthings on stage.
00:46:06.000Instead, what they need is a bunch of big, fat, hairy dudes who identify as women to walk around.
00:46:11.000And one of them needs to win Miss Universe because we are in a brave new universe where you get to pick, man.
00:46:27.000You must accept that the Autobahn Society is now the purveyor of drag queens doing bad poetry while dressed up as a Tim Burton character dressed up as a bird.
00:46:37.000And you have to accept that Catholic institutions are going to fly the LGBTQ pride flag.
00:46:41.000And if you do not, then you are intolerant.
00:46:43.000You must, by force of law, you must take your child to see Lightyear.
00:47:35.000There are people on the left, including the BBC, I believe, which now refers to breastfeeding as chest feeding, as though a normal male chest produces milk, which it does not.
00:49:14.000Trans activist Parker Malloy replied to the original tweet saying, Dwight freaking Schrute over here, sputtering nonsense straight up Breitbart.
00:49:21.000Nobody is telling anyone they have to say chest feeding.
00:49:30.000Malloy went on to mock the idea of chest feeding being a mainstream word, claiming no organizations were trying to make the general public use the term and place a precedent.
00:49:37.000So this is where we get into the hole.
00:49:39.000It's not happening, and it's good if it is, and you must do it or you're a bigot.
00:49:44.000Because every time the left says, don't, don't, we're not going to make you say chest feeding.
00:49:47.000Two minutes from now, this will be the typical term used by the entire mainstream media.
00:49:51.000And if you refuse to use it, they will call you a bigot and then ban you from social media.
00:49:53.000And it doesn't matter how powerful you are in our society.
00:49:57.000If you cross these people, they will destroy you.
00:49:59.000So for example, let's say that you are a 75 year old writer who has written more than 300 books and sold more than 500 million copies and is worth $800 million like James Patterson.
00:50:11.000And let's say that you point out what is perfectly obvious from the entire publishing industry these days, which is that intersectional credentials win you publication.
00:50:17.000And if you're a white male, you're at a severe disadvantage in terms of getting published.
00:50:23.000It's so true that you have people who are now masquerading as minorities in order to publish books, and then when they're found out, then it's a big scandal.
00:50:29.000And it's actually happened with a book written by a woman all about illegal migration from Central and Latin America into the United States, and it turned out that she was not Latin American, and this means that she was cancelled because of this.
00:50:42.000The simple fact of the matter is that back in like 1850, you had to have women masquerading as men to get published.
00:50:46.000Today, you have to masquerade as a member of a sexual, racial, or gender quote-unquote minority in order to be published.
00:50:54.000Those are like extra points on your SAT scores at Harvard these days.
00:51:37.000And then they cite a bunch of surveys done by publishers trying to determine how many of their contributors were white, black, and Hispanic.
00:51:48.000They say that the New York Times did one of these things in 2020, saying 11% of books written in 2018 were by authors of color.
00:51:54.000But that's not what Patterson's talking about.
00:51:56.000He's talking about the authors that are most prized by the publishers.
00:52:00.000If you write a fiction book and you submit it to a publishing company, it is harder to get that book published.
00:53:12.000When the moral gap in the country is growing wider by the day, that is not going to come back together.
00:53:18.000It's not going to come back together, which means that the divides in the country are going to be exacerbated more and more often, unless we get some localism in here real, real damn fast.
00:53:28.000Joe Biden, however, is not in favor of localism.
00:53:29.000So at the same time that he's wrecking the economy, he's also in favor of nationalizing most issues, which is why even as we approach the possibility of Roe versus Wade being overturned, the White House is now talking about cramming down national policy by executive order.
00:53:43.000That is going to prevent states from legislating how they wish on abortion.
00:53:46.000According to the New York Times, President Biden's top aides are weighing whether he can or should take a series of executive actions to help women in Republican-controlled states obtain abortions if the Supreme Court eliminates a woman's right to end her pregnancy, according to senior administration officials.
00:53:59.000First of all, you really have to love the language of the New York Times.
00:54:26.000Readying the Justice Department to fight any attempt by states to criminalize travel for the purpose of obtaining an abortion and asserting that FDA regulations granting approval to abortion medications preempt any state bans, the official said.
00:54:37.000Well, I'm not sure how that's going to work.
00:54:39.000So the idea here is that if the FDA says that you can use a drug and the state says you can't use a drug, that magically the state law is now trumped.
00:54:46.000And he's going to do this via executive order, right?
00:54:47.000He's not going to do this via the legislature.
00:54:50.000According to Maria Torres, Senior Director of Policy Development and Strategy at Planned Parenthood, we're in a crisis moment for abortion access in this country.
00:54:56.000Officials at all levels of government must respond, including the executive branch.
00:55:01.000But Biden and his team, they're talking about legal and policy vetting of potential executive actions.
00:55:08.000They're attempting to trump all state law via the White House.
00:55:12.000But don't worry, guys, they're very much in favor of democracy.
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