25-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on Monday morning, killing 5 and injuring 8 others. Gunman had been fired from his job and was under the watchful eye of his supervisor when he went into the building and opened fire, live streaming the entire thing on social media, to the delight of all the world s worst people on the internet, and to the horror of those closest to him and the people around him, including the governor, the mayor, and the other prominent people in the area. President Joe Biden and other politicians are quick to jump into the gun control debate and blame the other party, the Democrats. Meanwhile, David Hogg, a Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor, takes to social media and accuses the Republicans in Congress of being complicit in the mass shooting, calling them "complicit" and "complacent" in the latest mass shooting in the United States. Now, by the way, it doesn't matter if a mass shooting is in Kentucky or California. It does not matter. Anytime there's a mass shooter, the Republicans get blamed as a reason why Democrats are the only ones to talk about gun control, because they are the ones who are actually responsible for mass shootings. It does NOT matter if it's in Kentucky, California, or in Florida, it's the Democrats who are the problem, not the guns. This is an awful mass shooting and we should be talking about it, not guns, but the politicians who are complicit in mass shootings, right? and it doesn t matter because they're not even when it comes to gun control. . . . except when it does matter, it matters when it's actually about guns, and it's about guns? . And it's not about the guns, it s about politics, not their guns, right or not their background ? or their background check background check, not our guns not our background checks, but our background check it s all about our safety is the only thing we need to be worried about what we should we be doing to prevent mass shootings in the first place , not our mental health why we need more guns and why we don't have them in America should we have more guns in our schools how we need them in schools, not more guns at our schools, and so on and so much more
00:00:00.000So, another awful mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday has left five dead and nine others injured.
00:00:05.000According to CNN, a 25-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on Monday morning.
00:00:11.000He live-streamed the attack once more on social media, doing a favor to all the world's worst people.
00:00:16.000The attack left five dead and eight others injured.
00:00:19.000Authorities initially said that nine were injured in the attack.
00:00:22.000Five of those injured had gunshot wounds, a hospital spokesperson said.
00:00:25.000And again, originally it said four dead, later it became five dead.
00:00:28.000The mass shooting began at Old National Bank on East Main Street just after 8.30 a.m.
00:00:32.000according to police, about 30 minutes before the bank opened for the public.
00:00:36.000There were some prominent people who were murdered in this particular mass shooting.
00:00:41.000Apparently the gunman had said that he was going to be fired, and then he proceeded to go online and post a bunch of very weird stuff just before he went in and shot everybody up.
00:00:50.000The media coverage is focused in on the fact that this guy was some sort of varsity athlete back in college, but they are ignoring what he actually posted That morning, and again, I don't mention the name of mass shooters on this show, but the things that he posted the day of the shooting, he posted three memes.
00:01:07.000One was a meme from Star Wars The Last Jedi of Adam Driver saying, I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it.
00:01:16.000And then the next one was from Office Space, which said, I could burn this whole place down.
00:02:09.000I hope that they will all reach out and get the help that they need.
00:02:13.000There are a lot of people that are hurting today.
00:02:16.000And if we have a place to focus our energy, I hope it is to surround them with the love And the compassion that we have been so good at showing one another.
00:02:28.000That is certainly the proper response from the governor of Kentucky.
00:02:31.000Meanwhile, the improper response came courtesy of our usual political actors.
00:02:34.000President Biden immediately swiveled into gun control talk.
00:02:37.000He said, once again, our nation mourns after a senseless act of gun violence.
00:02:41.000Jill and I pray for the lives lost and impacted by today's shooting.
00:02:43.000Too many Americans are paying for the price of inaction with their lives.
00:02:46.000When will Republicans in Congress act to protect our communities?
00:02:49.000Which is weird because he controlled Congress until about five minutes ago.
00:02:53.000He had full control of the Senate, he had full control of the House of Representatives, and he passed something very close to nothing.
00:02:59.000Meanwhile, David Hogg, who is famous as a Parkland shooting survivor, he was several buildings away, but he was on the Parkland campus when the shooting happened.
00:03:08.000He went after the senator from Florida, Rick Scott.
00:03:10.000Rick Scott apparently also had a friend, same guy, Tommy Elliott.
00:03:14.000He said, my friend Tommy Elliott was killed today in Louisville.
00:03:17.000This news is very shocking and sad for Ann and me.
00:03:19.000He did so much in the Louisville community.
00:03:20.000We pray for his family during this awful time.
00:03:22.000And David Hogg, being a not very smart or a good person, immediately tweeted out, must be tough knowing you're complicit, which is just a vile thing to tweet.
00:03:31.000Now, by the way, it doesn't matter that it's in Kentucky or a mass shooting in California.
00:03:42.000Anytime there's a mass shooter, the Republicans get blamed.
00:03:46.000And as we'll see, there's a reason why Democrats like talking about mass shootings, but they don't actually like talking about, you know, the actual overall problem of gun violence, because things get real uncomfortable when you start talking about why there's been an uptick in overall gun violence in the United States.
00:04:15.000We know that the majority of the American people support this.
00:04:19.000Instead, we've watched Republican official after Republican official after Republican official double down on dangerous bills that make our schools, that makes our places of worship, that makes our communities less safe.
00:04:32.000While too many Americans are paying with their lives.
00:04:36.000So again, we need to act and we need Republicans to show some courage.
00:04:50.000And it all derives from the same lie that they've been telling for decades, which is that if you do not agree with them that gun control is the proper solution to things like mass shootings, then this must be because you're insufficiently motivated to stop murder.
00:05:02.000Which is insane, coming from the party that legitimately tried to defund the police a couple of years ago.
00:05:07.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:06:13.000Okay, so all this raises the question and there's a lot of focus in the media always on mass shootings.
00:06:19.000Mass shootings represent a fraction of the homicides with guns that happen in this nation.
00:06:24.000And whenever you see statistics about how there have been like 200, 300 mass shootings a year in the United States, that is a definitional question.
00:06:30.000So what they mean by this is any shooting that includes two or more people, they'll now classify as a mass shooting.
00:06:35.000But that's not what they're trying to do is play a semantic game with you.
00:06:38.000When you think of a mass shooting, you think of like something that just happened in Louisville, or you think of the trans man who shot up a bunch of Christian school kids at a school near Nashville, Tennessee.
00:06:47.000That's what you think when you think mass shooting.
00:06:49.000Then they say there are like 300 of these a year.
00:06:51.000You're like, whoa, I didn't even realize there are that many.
00:06:55.000The sort of spectacular six, seven, eight victim mass shootings and more that you see, there's maybe six or seven of those a year, like at sort of top of the funnel.
00:07:06.000Now, again, every one of those is an act of evil, and we should do what we can to prevent those things.
00:07:10.000But when they say that there's like 200, 300 a year, what they mean by that is basically gang violence.
00:07:15.000They are looking at gang members who are shooting each other, and then they are reclassifying those as mass shootings for purposes of driving the notion that the thing we have to do is crack down on shootings like the one that happened in Louisville or Nashville more than the overall problem of gun homicide.
00:07:29.000Because if they focus in on the overall problem of gun homicide, you find very quickly exactly where this is happening.
00:07:53.000And that's an uncomfortable conversation that nobody on the left wants to have.
00:07:56.000Because if you point out that Vermont has lots of guns and virtually no gun crime, and that Chicago has lots of guns and tons of gun crime, it might suggest that the problem actually is not either race or guns.
00:08:07.000The problem is the societal structures that incentivize crime in these various areas.
00:08:12.000And that might implicate, you know, some of the actual governance in these areas.
00:08:16.000If you focus in on Chicago or you focus in Washington, D.C., if you focus in on the Baltimore's of the world, then that might require very different solutions because you look at those places, those places have been governed by Democrats for pretty much all of time.
00:08:28.000And I've noticed a problem there, which is that virtually all of the murder in the United States is happening in cities like those ones.
00:08:36.000So Pew Research came out with a study just last week.
00:08:39.000In which they pointed out that the number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021.
00:08:47.000By 50%, the number of kids and teens killed by gunfire.
00:08:51.000Now, the Biden administration, the media, their take on that is that's because Republicans are evil and want kids to die in mass school shootings.
00:09:34.000Well, number one, you can see where the spike occurred.
00:09:36.000The spike occurred immediately during the Black Lives Matter protests.
00:09:39.000So as soon as Black Lives Matter happened and all the cops were removed from the high crime areas in the United States, all the gun homicides went up.
00:09:48.000It also turns out that gun deaths are much more common among some groups of children and teens, according to Pew.
00:09:55.000So number one, homicide is the leading type of gun death for 2021 for, not suicide, for all kids under the age of 18.
00:10:05.000But suicides account for a significant share of gun deaths among those aged 12 to 17.
00:10:09.000Accidents account for a sizable share of gun deaths among those five and under.
00:10:13.000Racial and ethnic differences, this is Pew, So if you have a problem with the racial breakdown I'm about to do, argue with Pew.
00:10:18.000Racial and ethnic differences in gun deaths among kids are stark.
00:10:21.000In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved black victims.
00:10:28.000Only 14% of the United States under 18 population that year was black.
00:10:32.000Much smaller shares of gun deaths among children and teens in 2021 involved white, 32%, Hispanic, 17%, and Asian, 1% victims.
00:10:39.000So, in other words, the only share of the population where the gun deaths are approximately equivalent to the percentage of the population overall is Hispanic.
00:10:48.000The white population is about 60-70% of the country, 32% of the gun deaths.
00:10:53.000Black Americans, 14% of the under-18 population, 46% of all gun deaths.
00:10:59.000Black kids are about five times as likely as white kids to die from gunfire.
00:11:16.000So if you actually wanted to stop the death of children, if you actually wanted to stop gun homicide generally, you might have to think about some different things than ban all the guns.
00:11:26.000But this is why, again, the media focus in on the mass shootings so they don't have to talk about the actual problem of gun homicide, which might implicate their own policies.
00:11:34.000So instead, what they do is they misdirect to Republicans want guns on the streets.
00:11:38.000Republicans are the real problem here.
00:11:40.000And you know what the real problem is?
00:11:41.000The real problem is they're insufficiently committed to stopping death.
00:11:43.000And in fact, they are so little committed to stopping death and destruction that they would rather spend their time expelling heroic members of the Tennessee state legislature.
00:11:53.000So the media decided to cover as heroes yesterday, the so-called Tennessee three.
00:11:59.000I gotta say, these folks are some of the most grandstanding political actors I have ever seen.
00:12:40.000This is a picture for those who can't see of the three of them smiling broadly and giving particular hand gestures to the camera.
00:12:48.000And behind them is a sign that says, good morning, America.
00:12:52.000These people look really broken up about the mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:12:55.000That was what sourced all this, right?
00:12:57.000The reason that they had this protest that turned into a quasi-riot in which they invaded the state capitol building was, of course, because they cared so much about the victims in Tennessee.
00:13:06.000Do these people look to you like people who deeply care about victims, or do they look super-duper happy to be on the TVs?
00:13:11.000They're super-duper happy to be on the TVs.
00:13:14.000Again, imagine a Republican was going on TV to talk about a mass shooting, and his expression was, Everybody in the media will be like, that's creepy and weird.
00:13:22.000But you're a Democrat, which means that you are a hero.
00:13:24.000And again, this is all grandstanding crap to avoid the actual real conversation.
00:13:28.000We'll get to more of this grandstanding garbage in just one second.
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00:14:34.000Okay, so these grand standards, Amazing stuff.
00:14:37.000So the media, again, they've decided they're not going to focus on the actual real story here of real gun violence and where that is happening.
00:14:43.000Instead, they're going to talk about the supposed victimization of these three heroes.
00:14:48.000And by three heroes, I really mean two heroes and a white lady and a Karen.
00:14:51.000So according to the Washington Post, Nashville expulsions, two steps forward, one back for black residents.
00:14:57.000Ah, the black residents of Nashville are the real victims in all of this.
00:15:01.000Sure, it was just a bunch of Christian school kids who got murdered, but the real victims here, so this is the second round.
00:15:07.000The first round was the real victims are members of the trans community when a trans man murders a bunch of Christian school kids.
00:15:31.000You can see why it does not fit the bill.
00:15:34.000But according to the Washington Post, last week's decision by the Tennessee House of Representatives to kick out the black man who represents this area, reinforced to Tijuana Nation, that this is still a state where white men wield the true power, a persistent legacy ingrained here for centuries.
00:15:50.000She said, quote, it's always like we go two steps forward and one step back.
00:15:52.000It's never like, just keep going forward.
00:15:55.000Across Southeastern Nashville and surrounding Davidson County, the expulsion of former State Representative Justin Jones, who represented this area until Republicans booted him, and a Memphis-based legislator on Thursday has roiled the emotions of residents who are trying to make sense of what it means for their own futures here.
00:16:09.000Okay, so let's talk about this cosplaying revolution nonsense.
00:16:12.000So, number one, this Representative Justin Jones, one of the two, one of the Tennessee two, it's not Tennessee three, again, the white lady didn't get expelled.
00:16:19.000This is a declaration that's being prepared.
00:17:20.000Now, when I say cosplaying the revolution, let me just point out that the two people who are at the center of this, namely Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, They have a long history of cosplaying the revolution.
00:17:31.000So back in 2019, Justin Jones was 23, and he was arrested and charged by the Tennessee Highway Patrol after throwing a cup of coffee into an elevator of lawmakers, allegedly, at the state capitol.
00:17:46.000So this is a person who had great respect for the state capitol building all the way back in 2019, when he apparently was going to elevators and throwing cups of coffee at state legislators.
00:17:54.000At the time, The Tennessee Highway Patrol reported that when then-Speaker Glenn Cassata left a meeting to get on an elevator, Jones attempted to push past troopers and get on the elevator.
00:18:03.000When he wasn't allowed on the elevator, apparently, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Jones started yelling at the Speaker, calling him a racist, and then threw a cup with an unknown liquid, believed to be coffee, at the Speaker.
00:18:13.000Now this person is sitting in the Tennessee State Legislature.
00:18:16.000So, heroism comes in so many shapes and sizes.
00:18:19.000By the way, I would like to point out at this point that no one apparently had any problem whatsoever when the Republicans When a Republican in the Oregon House was expelled from the Oregon State House in December of 2020.
00:18:36.000In June of 2021, lawmakers in Oregon ejected one of their own colleagues from office, 59 to 1.
00:19:38.000I think there's no coincidence that the two youngest black lawmakers—I'm 27, Representative Pearson's 28—were kicked out by an almost entirely white 75-member caucus on strictly partisan lines.
00:19:48.000It was an attempt to make a spectacle, an example out of us, to say, how dare you think you are equal?
00:19:52.000And what they're doing, which is the most egregious part, it's not about us, but it's about the 78,000 people each of us represent, predominantly black and brown constituents who have no voice on Capitol Hill right now, no one to do their constituent relations, no one to speak for them.
00:20:07.000We'll get to the other hero of the day, Justin Pearson, in just one second, because when you talk about people who are... let's say they've changed their public profile.
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00:21:45.000How many of you, you know who didn't know they were breaking a rule, by the same token?
00:21:49.000All the people who were trespassing on January 6th that day, they were wandering through, they were just standing between the rope lines, you know, it was just a tour, it was a normal tour.
00:21:55.000Everybody in Lesley, no, those are rioters, those are evil, terrible rioters, throw them in prison, forever.
00:22:00.000Not the ones who are violent, all of them, throw everyone in prison, for the rest of their lives, because obviously they're alive.
00:22:05.000Justin Pearson, Who led a crowd to breach the Capitol building and then is standing on video in the middle of the Capitol building with a bullhorn.
00:22:12.000It's like, because that's the way normally you do business, right?
00:22:30.000You say you knew it would be violating decorum rules, but did you have any idea that the backlash would be like this from your colleagues?
00:22:38.000No, we had no idea that what we were doing would break a rule that could lead to our possible expulsion or our actual expulsions.
00:22:46.000What we were doing was listening to voters who said that we need to listen to the people who want to have gun safety laws, we need to stop the epidemic of gun violence, and we need to stop the proliferation of weapons in our communities in addition to our schools.
00:23:00.000This was a tragedy that happened at the Covenant School in Nashville, but instead of addressing the tragedy, the Republican supermajority in Tennessee decided that using our First Amendment right to listen to the thousands of protesters deserved expulsion.
00:23:14.000Well, that wasn't actually your First Amendment right, is to break into the Capitol building and then seize the rostrum and start shouting from a bullhorn, as it turns out.
00:23:20.000Also, again, what's amazing about so much of this media coverage is they're pretending the Tennessee legislature did nothing.
00:23:26.000The Tennessee legislature literally passed a bill to increase the amount of security at schools.
00:23:30.000But Justin Pearson, he doesn't like that solution.
00:23:32.000Because that solution doesn't serve his political purposes.
00:23:35.000So he says more security officers is not a solution, which is weird because literally every single mass shooting is stopped by the presence of security officers eventually.
00:23:42.000The only question is whether it's sooner or whether it is later.
00:23:45.000We walked to the floor of the well because we were being silenced by the speaker and by people in positions of power who weren't listening to the thousands of people who showed up to the Capitol saying to do something.
00:23:57.000We walked to the wall of the floor in a peaceful protest because we know that there is a way to end and to prevent gun violence from happening.
00:24:04.000And the Republican Party in Tennessee would rather try to put more guns and security officers in schools than solutions.
00:24:12.000And right now what we are seeing is the erosion of our democracy.
00:24:34.000I'm so glad to be in the house of the Lord with you this morning.
00:24:40.000Would you mind going ahead and praying with me now?
00:24:42.000Mother God, Creator God, Loving God, Holy God, take this your servant made from dust.
00:24:48.000and connected with the raw materials of stardust to speak in this moment, to say something that brings forward the word you've placed into my heart.
00:24:55.000I accept my unworthiness for such a task as bold as this, and I seek your guidance as you use me and speak through me. To the ancestor preachers who made sermons from hymns, moans, and groans, and spirituals from the bondage of slavery, speak now through this your descendant.
00:25:14.000Okay, the reason I'm laughing is because I also have a clip of Justin Pearson from 2016 when he was in college running for student president and And he did not sound anything remotely like that.
00:25:43.000How can we represent all voices in a conversation?
00:25:46.000I wanted to do this by partnering with organizations from the Voting Democrats, Okay, okay, so you can hear the difference.
00:25:55.000This is how the game of politics is played in a cosplaying idiocy era.
00:25:59.000By the way, all of the policies that Democrats actually pursue in the big cities that maximize gun homicide, it turns out they maximize gun homicide, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:26:09.000He was just, so they got rid of Lori Lightfoot and they decided to put in mail Lori Lightfoot, who is Brandon Johnson.
00:26:14.000And he immediately declared that his first priority is to make large corporations pay more tax.
00:26:21.000He said, quote, 70% of large corporations in the state of Illinois did not pay a corporate tax.
00:26:25.000It's that kind of restraint on our budget that has caused the type of disinvestment that has led to poverty that of course has led to violence.
00:26:30.000So it's not lack of cops on the streets.
00:26:33.000It is not fortifying the violent crime It is the fact that corporations need higher taxes, so it'll be fun to watch Chicago turn completely into Detroit as we ignore all the real problems in our society in favor of the fame and fortune to be won through political cosplaying.
00:26:50.000And meanwhile, when we speak of crime, it is amazing that for literally decades, we have been told that marijuana was going to be just a normal part of American life, and that it's completely non-addictive, and that it has no real impact on people.
00:27:03.000And now we are starting to see that people are just now recognizing that people were lying for a very, very long time.
00:27:09.000According to the New York Times, which was a big proponent of the idea that weed was totally fine, apparently nearly 6% of all American teens and adults have cannabis use disorder.
00:27:19.000Remember that time that people said that weed was non-addictive, which always seemed a little sketch?
00:27:24.000And if you know anybody, in your circle of friends, there are certainly people who are addicted to weed.
00:27:28.000There's a huge percentage of people in this country, particularly young people, who are in fact addicted to weed.
00:27:33.000And if you're looking at why the underperformance of the millennials, it's not all of it, but part of it is definitely people who are addicted to weed and are underperforming in their lives because of that.
00:27:41.000According to the New York Times, despite the common misconception, people can become addicted to cannabis just as they can with other drugs like alcohol or cocaine.
00:27:48.000As more states either decriminalize or legalize cannabis, more people are using it than ever before.
00:27:52.000According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2021, approximately 19% of Americans 12 and older used cannabis.
00:27:59.000Nearly 6% of teens and adults qualified as having cannabis use disorder.
00:28:02.000That would be the clinical name for addiction.
00:28:05.000For comparison, about 11% of Americans over the age of 11 are alcoholics.
00:28:10.000So, by the way, it is worth pointing out here that the marijuana that people are using today is significantly more potent than the marijuana that people were using when we were growing up.
00:28:22.000When people were growing up, when I grew up, the type of marijuana that was being shipped over the border largely from Mexico, that type of marijuana was simply less powerful than the kind of marijuana that the kids are now smoking and using.
00:28:36.000And this is why you get stories like the one from National Review about marijuana-induced psychosis, which is becoming ever more common as well.
00:28:44.000According to National Review, Cat Mayberry grabbed her backpack and ran out the door with no jacket, had her gloves.
00:28:50.000She ran through snow flurries on a cold Minnesota day.
00:28:52.000She ran down the street, down the hill.
00:28:53.000She ran down the nature trail near her family's home in Eden Prairie, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis.
00:28:57.000Trent Mayberry, Cat's dad, ran after his 20-year-old daughter.
00:29:00.000He caught up to her, grabbed her by the backpack, stopping her.
00:29:02.000They sat together on the frozen ground.
00:29:08.000Trent guided his daughter home, holding the straps of her backpack, using it to direct her like a joystick.
00:29:12.000How could this girl, walking like a zombie, be the same girl who just a few years earlier had been a sunny honor student and varsity athlete with the world at her fingertips?
00:29:18.000Sure, she'd been using marijuana, but to Trent, it was just pot.
00:29:31.000So yes, it turns out that heavy use of marijuana can exacerbate the problem of psychosis.
00:29:39.000We've been told lies by media about marijuana for a very long time because, again, so much of our country is built around the idea that it's fuddy-duddy and uncool to point out real dangers to children.
00:29:48.000And then it turns out that the real danger is actually materialized, like, ah, how could this have happened?
00:30:37.000They're in desperate need of life's basic needs like food and water.
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00:31:34.000Also, if you're looking for something interesting to watch, Check out our brand new series, What We Saw, hosted by storyteller Bill Whittle.
00:31:41.000Right now, for a limited time, all four of those episodes are available for free on YouTube.
00:31:45.000Meanwhile, at DailyWirePlus, Season 2 of What We Saw is in full swing.
00:31:48.000This time, Bill sets his sights on the Cold War and the tension between two superpowers that lasted for almost half a century.
00:31:54.000Meanwhile, our babbling idiot of a president has now announced that he wants to run for re-election in 2024.
00:31:57.000inaugurated President Eisenhower has just taken office with knives out for succession in the USSR.
00:32:01.000Eisenhower sees this moment as a very brief window of opportunity to reset the conflict.
00:32:05.000Bill makes you feel like you're there witnessing history.
00:32:07.000It's a tremendous series. New episodes of Cold War come out every single week. You have to be a member to see it. Go to dailywire.com slash cold war to start watching today. Okay, meanwhile, our babbling idiot of a president has now announced that he wants to run for re-election in 2024. Meanwhile, World War III is actually drawing ever closer. Not just because Donald Trump literally just put put out on Food Social, a giant statement that just said, But also because World War III is actually drawing ever closer.
00:33:47.000Well, he has a strategy come 2024, according to Axios, Joe Biden's actual strategy.
00:33:52.000He's going to lean on social media influencers.
00:33:54.000So get ready for all of your favorite makeup artists and Dylan Mulvaney to put out inspiring videos about how Joe Biden must be re-elected President of the United States.
00:34:04.000According to Jen O'Malley Dillon, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, we're trying to reach young people, but also moms who use different platforms to get information and climate activists and people whose main way of getting information is digital.
00:34:14.000So who exactly is being given access to the Biden White House?
00:34:16.000This includes Harry Sisson, a 20-year-old NYU student who breaks down the news on TikTok, Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson, who has a widely read sub stack and huge Twitter following, and Vivian Tu, a former trader who discusses financial topics in short clips on TikTok and Instagram.
00:34:30.000Yeah, they're definitely going to shut down TikTok, probably, while they use TikTok in order to foster Joe Biden's re-elect efforts.
00:34:35.000I'm sure China would be very, very happy with Joe Biden's re-elect efforts, given the strength that Joe Biden has now given to China.
00:34:41.000So China is growing ever more aggressive.
00:34:43.000They actually put out a video the other day of what it would look like when they take the war to Taiwan.
00:35:25.000According to the Associated Press, China's military declared on Monday it is quote-unquote ready to fight.
00:35:29.000After completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president's trip to the United States last week, the combat readiness patrols, named Joint Sword, were meant as a warning to self-governing Taiwan, which China claims is its own, according to the Chinese military.
00:35:45.000They said, quote, Those exercises were similar to the ones conducted by China last August.
00:35:47.000any time to resolutely smash any form of Taiwan independence and foreign interference attempts.
00:35:52.000Those exercises were similar to the ones conducted by China last August.
00:35:56.000That is when they launched a few missiles around Taiwan to yell at basically Nancy Pelosi visiting.
00:36:02.000These are a little bit smaller and less disruptive, apparently, but that's not actually the big move by China right here.
00:36:07.000The big move by China is that they are drawing ever closer to Europe.
00:36:10.000So you'll recall that Joe Biden, during the war in Ukraine, he's been given credit by the entire media for unifying Europe.
00:36:20.000Joe Biden You'll recall I actually gave a press conference in which he said that Russia could gobble up at least part of Ukraine with no repercussions.
00:36:28.000And say the whole of Ukraine is like part of Ukraine.
00:36:29.000If we go into certain parts, I don't know if that'll be war, but they'll probably take this part.
00:36:33.000And it turns out that Russia was like, okay, we'll just eat the whole thing.
00:36:36.000And then, he has slow-walked aid to Ukraine this entire way.
00:36:39.000Despite people on the right suggesting that he's given open-ended aid to Ukraine, that actually isn't true.
00:36:43.000The reality is that Joe Biden has actually slow-walked aid to Ukraine, which is one of the reasons why, according to leaked documents about the U.S.
00:36:50.000war effort in Ukraine, Ukraine is now running short on missile defense systems, which is a real problem for them.
00:36:57.000But Europe was the one that was actually leading.
00:37:00.000And then Joe Biden was sort of filling in the gaps.
00:37:03.000It was, believe it or not, Britain and France who were actually more aggressive at the beginning.
00:37:08.000And yet Joe Biden was out there taking all the credit.
00:37:09.000And he was saying, listen, we're drawing closer to you because now that Russia is at war in Ukraine, that is alienating you from their oil supplies.
00:37:15.000You are now more reliant on the United States.
00:37:17.000Look at this, look at the strategic opportunity.
00:37:19.000Well, you would imagine then that if the president of France visited with Xi Jinping over in China, That it would be kind of a cool reception, right?
00:37:26.000It would be kind of like a little bit standoffish.
00:37:29.000You wouldn't expect them to be best friends or anything.
00:37:30.000After all, Joe Biden has suggested that China is an opponent of the United States.
00:37:34.000China is working with Russia in Ukraine, pretty clearly.
00:37:37.000China has aggressive intent with regard to Taiwan.
00:37:40.000And Joe Biden is apparently, you know, the center of European foreign policy.
00:37:44.000He's a guy who's unified the entire West, according to our beloved media.
00:37:48.000Well, that's not what came out from that Emmanuel Macron visit.
00:37:51.000So first, Emmanuel Macron himself put out an extraordinarily warm video about going to China.
00:37:57.000And he basically looks like a tourist.
00:38:00.000I mean, he's just grinning ear to ear as he meets with Chinese officials.
00:38:03.000And this is just a Chinese propaganda video on behalf of the French government.
00:38:08.000For those who can't see, he's now hugging Chinese officials.
00:38:13.000and then like very fast clips of him visiting through China.
00:38:15.000And here he is meeting with various people in China and talking with them and being best friends.
00:38:50.000And then it turns out that that was just the first step, because Macron actually then came out publicly, and he said that Europe must reduce its dependency not on China, not on Russia, on the United States, and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the United States over Taiwan.
00:39:03.000Speaking with Politico and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Xi Jinping, Macron emphasized his pet theory of strategic autonomy for Europe, presumably led by France to become a third superpower.
00:39:13.000He said the great risk Europe faces, it gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy.
00:39:20.000He says, the paradox would be that overcome with panic, we believe we are just America's followers.
00:39:23.000The question Europeans need to answer is, is it in our interest to accelerate a crisis on Taiwan?
00:39:28.000No, the worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction.
00:39:36.000Just hours after his flight left, Huang Zhao headed back to Paris, China launched large-scale military exercises.
00:39:42.000Because as it turns out, one of the things that China desperately wants is flexibility from the Europeans.
00:39:46.000Right, so Joe Biden couldn't... In order to dissuade China from invading Taiwan, you need to show a united front.
00:39:52.000This has been the entire premise of the war in Ukraine.
00:39:54.000You want to stop China from invading Taiwan?
00:40:14.000And China immediately goes, okay, fine.
00:40:15.000Let's ramp up those military exercises because obviously we've got some wiggle room here between Europe and the United States.
00:40:20.000So excellent diplomacy in here by the president of the United States, who has somehow achieved the signal feed of alienating the very allies he was supposed to unify.
00:40:27.000Plus, As it turns out, the allies of the United States are also being alienated by these leaks that came out.
00:40:34.000So there are a bunch of leaks that came out over the course of the last week with regard to American foreign policy in Ukraine.
00:40:40.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon and Justice Department began an investigation last week into document leaks when some purported U.S.
00:40:46.000DOD presentations were posted by Russian propagandists on Telegram on Thursday.
00:40:50.000The Wall Street Journal hasn't been able to independently verify their authenticity, but Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Sunday the U.S.
00:40:55.000continued to assess the validity of the documents that appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material.
00:41:01.000Well, some of that material suggests that Ukraine may run out of air defenses sometime in the very near future, which means Russia is going to escalate everything that is going on, and American allies are freaking out about it.
00:41:17.000officials are racing to placate frustrated and confused allies from Europe to the Middle East to Kiev, following a leak of highly classified information about the war in Ukraine and other global issues.
00:41:26.000After news of the leak broke last week, senior intelligence, State Department, and Pentagon officials reached out to their counterparts to quell worries about the publishing of the intel, according to four officials familiar with those conversations.
00:41:35.000One said that members of the Five Eyes, that's the intelligence consortium between the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, have asked for briefings from Washington, but they've never received a substantive response.
00:41:44.000Meanwhile, officials in London, Brussels, Berlin, Dubai, and Kyiv questioned Washington about how the information ended up online in the first place, who was responsible for the leak, what exactly was going to happen to stop all of this.
00:41:55.000So more crisis from this administration with regard to foreign policy.
00:42:13.000And what it does mean is that the aggregate power of those countries, and that would mainly be Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Korea sort of brings up the rear there, that the possibility of providing a counterweight to Western power, especially a fragmented Western power, is quite real, which is why you've seen so many nations in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, and even allies like Israel, starting to look at China and be like, do we have to triangulate here?
00:42:37.000What exactly are we supposed to do here?
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00:44:44.000When Americans decide that they are motivated to stop the woke corporate nonsense, it turns out that their purchasing power has real impact.
00:44:52.000So, this is my favorite story of the day.
00:44:53.000Apparently, Bud Light is just getting absolutely crushed in terms of its sales over the course of the last week and a half.
00:44:59.000It turns out that when you decide that your chief marketing effort needs to be led by a man pretending to be a woman, Who is also pretending not to know what March Madness is, and that this is the way that you're gonna go.
00:45:10.000You're going to diversify your audience away from essentially low-income white people, and toward instead, you know, like, trans women.
00:45:21.000According to Fox Business, Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.
00:45:24.000Consumers nationwide revolted against the nation's top-selling beer brand after it stepped recklessly into the culture wars last week with its new spokesperson, Dylan Mulvaney, according to bar owners and beer industry experts around the country.
00:45:34.000Jeff Fitter, owner of Case & Bucks, a restaurant and sports bar in Barnhart, Missouri, said, I think society flexes its muscles sometimes.
00:45:40.000He said in Bud Light's efforts to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else, including their traditional audience.
00:45:45.000Fitter's Bar witnessed a catastrophic decrease in sales of the Hometown Suds among loyal and local customers this week.
00:45:51.000Sales of Anheuser-Busch bottled products dropped 30% over the past week.
00:46:00.000Bud Light normally outsells rival products like Miller Lite and Coors Light 25 to 1 at Braintree Brewhouse in Massachusetts, that is a sports bar outside of Boston.
00:46:08.00080% of Bud Light drinkers ordered something else this week, according to the brewhouse owner.
00:46:12.000The 20% who did order Bud Light weren't on social media and hadn't even heard about the transgender person pitch yet.
00:46:18.000One pub in Hell's Kitchen, a New York City neighborhood known for its large and vocal gay community, reported Bud Light draft sales dropped 58% this week.
00:47:03.000According to some of the other owners, quote, it's kind of mind boggling they stepped into this realm.
00:47:08.000You're marketing to an audience that represents a fraction of 1% of consumers while alienating a much larger base of your consumers.
00:47:14.000Apparently Bud Light sales have been declining for years and the brand is likely to be overtaken soon by Corona or Modela as the nation's top selling beer brand according to industry observers in the competition for which is the worst beer.
00:47:26.000I guess Bud Light is now coming in first.
00:47:34.000You might imagine, you might imagine for just a fraction of one second That the executive who's responsible for all of this would get fired.
00:47:54.000She's the person who suggested, as we played on yesterday's show, that they need to diversify their audience.
00:47:58.000The best way to diversify your audience is to find a man who pretends that he is a little girl and then have him hold up a Bud Light can with a picture of himself on it as a woman.
00:48:08.000That person will never be fired ever for the rest of her life.
00:48:11.000She has just ensured job security for herself forever.
00:48:35.000And you're like, oh man, you did a crap job.
00:48:37.000I thought that you were in charge of selling more beer, not less beer.
00:48:39.000They're like, yes, but the beer, the people who are selling beer too are better people.
00:48:43.000And if you don't appreciate the moral quality of the people who now buy Bud Light, sure, it's like two of them, but they are the best people.
00:48:49.000They are transgender, half Native American, half black, half Hispanic, three halves, little people.
00:48:58.000And if you don't appreciate that and you fire me, I will sue you.
00:49:02.000I will sue you for discrimination against me, against the trans community.
00:49:05.000All I was doing was trying to make the world a better place.
00:49:08.000This is what happens when companies decide that they're not in the business of catering to their audience, they're in the business of making the world a better place.
00:51:08.000Straight after that, the Dalai Lama then asked for a kiss on the mouth.
00:51:12.000He pulled the boy's chin in and gave him a kiss on the mouth.
00:51:17.000Now, moments later, then, the Dalai Lama said, and I'm going to quote him here, and suck my tongue.
00:51:22.000Now, this Clip has gone viral across social media.
00:51:26.000Sections of people on social media have called this outrageous.
00:51:30.000His Holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family as well as his many friends across the world for the hurt his words may have caused.
00:51:38.000What's interesting here is, Christine, they're not talking about his actions but the words.
00:51:44.000Yeah, that would be the weird thing about that.
00:51:48.000Now, you can say at this point that maybe the Dalai Lama has lost it, and he's 87 years old.
00:51:53.000That raises uncomfortable questions about the current president of the United States, who has a penchant for smelling the hair of other human beings, and happens to also be 80 years old.
00:52:01.000But, you know, you can say that he's lost it.
00:52:04.000The way that people very often lose it is not in super unpredictable ways.
00:52:10.000It's like the barriers sort of come down.