Satanism and its philosophical offshoots have now embedded themselves all over American society. In this episode, we discuss the rise of the Satanists and the role that religion has played in their rise, and why religion is a symptom of a larger problem, which is that we don't have an objective morality. We have a subjective morality, and we tend to justify our own cruel and cruel behavior by reason. This is the hallmark of enlightenment thinking, post- enlightenment thinking. It's all about compassion and reason. The 7 fundamental tenets of the Satanic Temple are, "One should act in accordance with the principles of the 7 Basic tenets of The Satanic Temple. Reason is the only thing that can replace religion." - The 7 Basic Beliefs of The Satanist Temple. This episode is brought to you by LaCie and produced by VaynerSpeakers, a production of Native Creative Podcasts. Logo by Native Creative. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Used w/ permission. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating and review in the comments section below. Thank you for your support and share the podcast on your social media platforms! if you re a fan of this podcast, please consider leaving us a review and/or sharing your thoughts on the podcast with a friend. , and please tell us what you think of the podcast! we re listening to this podcast and sharing it on your podcast! :) in the next episode will be featured on the next week on our next episode. on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, review, and subscribe on iTunes, and tag us on Insta, and share it on Instar, and so we can spread the word about this podcast everywhere else! and so on and so the next one can be heard by other people can help spread it everywhere else get the word out there about it everywhere they get a chance to the rest of the world and we can be a little bit more like that! thank you! Thanks for listening to the podcast? more of this stuff! - Tom Bell, Tom Bell Tom Bells and all that szn=1_ . Thank You can do more like it. Tom is a fellow & so on, Tom is And more Thanks, Tom, too, Tom - The Reverend
00:00:00.000Well, folks, the rise of the Satanists is kind of fascinating.
00:00:02.000Now, I'm not saying there are Satanists around every corner, that the Satanists are hiding under your bed, anything like that.
00:00:07.000But one of the things that has happened in our post-God culture is that Satanism and its sort of weird philosophical offshoots have now embedded themselves all over American society.
00:00:17.000I don't mean people who literally worship Satan.
00:00:19.000I just mean that the political positions and the philosophical positions that are taken by Satanists, like sort of the modern-day Satanists, They're now kind of just, they've embedded themselves everywhere.
00:00:31.000The reason that this comes to mind is because there was a clip that was floating around the internet yesterday from Boston SatanCon.
00:00:37.000So first of all, I should mention at this point, The satanists allegedly have the satanic temples.
00:00:43.000They're a bunch of different satanic little institutions.
00:00:46.000And the satanic temple, the one that was holding Satan gone, apparently has about 700,000 members at this point.
00:00:55.000According to statistics published by the Pew Research Center, this new membership milestone ranks the satanic temple ahead of worldwide numbers of Rastafari and just under Unitarian Universalism in total worldwide adherence.
00:01:05.000So there's a video going around from SatanCon 2023 of a young woman who's ripping pages out of the Bible and throwing them on the ground.
00:01:17.000She's just shouting as she rips pages out of the Bible and cast them on the ground.
00:01:24.000She said before doing this quote, we stand here today in defiance of their siege and destroy their symbols of oppression.
00:01:30.000She also ripped up a thin blue line flag representing the police.
00:01:35.000A male leader joined her in tearing that thin blue line flag into.
00:01:38.000They tossed that on the floor while the crowd cheered.
00:01:40.000And then Satanist apparently picked up the ripped pages off the floor and posed with them for pictures.
00:01:45.000The male leader apparently said, we must build true community outside the virtual.
00:01:48.000Rebelling comes in many forms to each and their own within their own capabilities and their own situation.
00:01:52.000For some of us, merely existing one more day is victory.
00:01:55.000For those of us who can, we must stand up to those who cannot.
00:01:58.000So the temple, the satanic temple, the temple of Satanism or whatever this ridiculous organization is, it claims to be non-theistic.
00:02:05.000They say that they don't actually believe in a personal Satan, like the supernatural being that would be Satan, in sort of traditional Christian theology.
00:02:12.000And as you will note, the crossover between the fundamental tenets of the satanic temple and the fundamental tenets of sort of left-wing liberalism at this point are almost indistinguishable.
00:02:23.000Which is why the SatanCon 2023 schedule featured, and I'm now reading you the names of some of the events at SatanCon 2023.
00:02:33.000Deconstructing your religious upbringing with Judas Marduk.
00:02:46.000Because, obviously, Satan is a big fan of the trans, according to the Satanic Temple.
00:02:52.000Sins of the Flesh, Satanism, and Self-Pleasure, from Dr. Eric Sprenkle.
00:02:57.000Reimagining Lilith as an Archetype for Reproductive Justice, according to Amanda Barton.
00:03:01.000And Satanism and the BIPOC Experience, from Sit Lally and Panel.
00:03:06.000So just to check off those boxes, that would be why religion is terrible, that would be transgenderism, that would be hedonism and masturbation, abortion, And racial intersectionality.
00:03:21.000Those are the things that are being reviewed at SatanCon 2023.
00:03:27.000Here are the seven fundamental tenets of the Satanic Temple.
00:03:29.000And the reason again that I'm bringing this up, not just because this clip is floating around the internet, but because once you recognize that so much of today's politics, so much of today's value system is built around opposition to traditional morality, You can actually spot where the problem may lie in the destruction of our civil society.
00:03:46.000The seven fundamental tenets of the Satanic Temple are, one should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
00:04:01.000All that exists is what's in your mind.
00:04:03.000And it's all about compassion and reason.
00:04:05.000This is the hallmark of sort of enlightenment thinking, post-enlightenment thinking.
00:04:09.000It goes absolutely nowhere, because as it turns out, when you leave people to their own devices in terms of reason and compassion, they tend to have compassion for themselves and their friends, and they tend to utilize their reason to justify their own cruel and bad behavior.
00:04:21.000Another of the seven fundamental tenets.
00:04:23.000The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions, right?
00:04:28.000All of tradition should be worn down and destroyed because we have these higher ideals of justice that we can't actually explain, but it means that everything that is old should just be bashed down.
00:04:38.000One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
00:04:41.000Because all you are is your body and your subjective sense of pleasure.
00:04:45.000The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.
00:04:47.000To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forego one's own.
00:04:52.000Well, the satanic temple presumably does not believe totally in the freedoms of others because they're obviously very much pro-abortion, they're in favor of the transing of the children, and all the rest.
00:05:01.000Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world.
00:05:03.000One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's belief.
00:05:07.000Says, once again, the satanic temple that is called the satanic temple.
00:05:11.000And also is a backer of abortion and transgenderism among children.
00:05:17.000If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
00:05:21.000And every tenant is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought.
00:05:25.000The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
00:05:30.000So again, it's this sort of Gnostic spirit prevails over action, spirit prevails over word, spirit prevails over law.
00:05:39.000It's feelings, but it's also science, but it's also Satanism.
00:05:42.000And now the reason, again, that I'm bringing this up is because the perspectives that are being mirrored by the Satanic temple, the secular culture is not taking itself from Satanism.
00:05:50.000Satanism, in this particular iteration, is taking itself from just general secular values.
00:05:55.000And so when you see the identity of the two, That should tell you something about where we stand morally in Western society today.
00:06:02.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:07:02.000Alrighty, so, the coincidence between sort of secular morality and Satanism is very clear, at least according to the Satanic Temple.
00:07:12.000They said they do not subscribe to supernaturalism, so in that way, we do not believe that Satan is a deity, being, or person.
00:07:17.000As an organized religion, we actively provide outreach and participate in public affairs where the issues might benefit from rational, satanic insight.
00:07:41.000We believe religion can and should be divorced from superstition as such.
00:07:43.000We do not believe in either God or the devil as supernatural forces.
00:07:46.000We bow to no gods or gods or celebrate our outsider status and celebrate our outsider status.
00:07:51.000To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions.
00:07:57.000The Satanist should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable inquiry in all things.
00:08:01.000Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world, never the reverse.
00:08:08.000So they say that they differ only in secular philosophies in a couple of ways.
00:08:12.000Quote, a unifying attribute of all Satanists is our embrace of our outsider status.
00:08:15.000Satanists adhere to the principles of individual sovereignty and the rejection of tyrannical authority.
00:08:19.000Additionally, Satanism is deeply rooted in a rich historical tradition which spans thousands of years in cultures across the globe.
00:08:25.000We embrace our literary and philosophic roots as part of our religion.
00:08:27.000These histories and concerns are of paramount importance to us, but are not fundamental components of humanism or other secular philosophies.
00:08:33.000So basically they are just secularism, but they like to hook that up with Satanism.
00:08:37.000Now again, these two things are not in direct opposition.
00:08:40.000Remember that Satan as a, you know, sort of quasi-biblical concept, you know, it's a verse from Judaism to Christianity, but historically speaking, Satan was the opposite of God.
00:08:49.000Well, secularism also considers itself in many ways the opposite of God.
00:08:52.000So there is an identity between the two, which is why you see the values of Satan-Con being mirrored in so much of our society.
00:08:58.000Like the same classes being taught at Satan-Con are now taught in third grade at public schools across the nation.
00:09:14.000All of these things that are being taught in the widespread culture are being mirrored by the satanic temple and vice versa.
00:09:20.000Because when you realize that secularism defines itself in opposition to traditional religious values, you understand the necessity of transgressing all the rules, breaking down all the rules, breaking down all the boundaries.
00:09:32.000And so when I say that Satanism is now diffused through the... Again, I don't mean that people worship Satan.
00:09:36.000I mean that in the original, original sense, if you read the Bible, like the original Hebrew Bible, when it talks about Satan, it's talking about the adversary.
00:09:42.000The adversary, in Jewish philosophy, is supposed to be a messenger of God who sort of plays almost prosecuting attorney against man.
00:09:50.000But the idea of being adversarial toward religion has now been taken up by all of our society, which is how you get to the cultural predations that we currently see, in which all traditional ideas Have to be torn down.
00:10:01.000I will mention the cowardice of the people over at the Satanic Temple.
00:10:04.000I noticed one thing they were not doing is ripping the pages out of Quran.
00:10:08.000They're very fond of ripping pages out of Bibles because they know that Christians are going to be totally fine with it and don't care and are annoyed but let it go.
00:10:15.000Rip the pages out of a Quran and see how it goes for you over at SatanCon 2023.
00:10:20.000Now again, this has spread itself particularly culturally throughout American society.
00:10:25.000Secularism forms itself into religion.
00:10:28.000The barrier between secularism and religious practice is actually really, really low.
00:10:32.000Secularism originally saw itself as the hard-headed, rationalistic, scientific opposite of supernatural-based religion.
00:10:38.000And this was always a lie, because supernatural-based religion Which is basically the idea that there is a God who is the creator of the universe and who designed natural systems in which we all live.
00:10:47.000It actually allows for scientific progress because it means one, an understandable universe the human mind is capable of grasping.
00:10:53.000Two, a predictable universe in which rules actually apply.
00:10:56.000And three, an imperative for you to know God and therefore to know the universe.
00:10:59.000These are all inventions of monotheism.
00:11:02.000With that said, the secular world basically rejects all of that and they say, no, no, no.
00:11:08.000We're going to get rid of objective moral standards.
00:11:09.000We're going to use what's in your own head as the moral guidepost and as the scientific guidepost.
00:11:13.000The problem is the human being, the human brain requires religious belief.
00:11:17.000And so secularism has now formed itself into a religion.
00:11:20.000It doesn't call itself satanic, but it is in fact a religion, complete with saints and devils, complete with religious iconography, complete with bizarre spectacle and supernatural type interventions.
00:11:32.000Secularism has become its own religion.
00:11:35.000At least the Satanic Temple is saying what it is out loud.
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00:13:13.000Alright, so this brings us to the Met Gala.
00:13:15.000The Met Gala every year is sort of a mix between SatanCon 2023 and a bizarre event from the capital of the Hunger Games.
00:13:25.000So, the Met Gala this year features a bunch of people who obviously believe in the secular religion and who dress up in garishly bizarre fashion in order to violate taboos and slay the lukes.
00:13:41.000And in doing so, the goal is to shock.
00:13:45.000Because if you shock, the shock effect of what people wear at the Met Gala, it's all about violating the prescribed rules.
00:13:51.000Now, very often, prescribed fashion rules, I mean, in a certain sense, a lot of fashion rules are arbitrary, right?
00:13:57.000Never wore white after Labor Day, right?
00:13:59.000These are sort of just things that people have done culturally speaking, and there may not be a great reason for it.
00:14:04.000Maybe there is a good reason for it, but nobody knows them.
00:14:06.000But, there are a lot of rules that get violated at the Met Gala, like traditional rules about beauty, or traditional rules about modesty, or traditional rules about gender.
00:14:13.000And they are all violated, and the more you violate them, the more the press adores you.
00:14:19.000This is why, over at the Met Gala, some of the most treasured people are the people who speak to the press outside and then talk about their violations of sort of traditional morals and norms.
00:14:29.000A couple of the guests over at the Met Gala were Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union.
00:14:32.000One of the things that they have decided to do is to trans their child.
00:14:36.000They have a teenage boy, who they say is a girl, and they've gotten him hormone therapy and all the rest.
00:14:41.000And they started this when the kid was like 11, 12 years old.
00:14:45.000So here's Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union talking about their trans kid and leaving the state of Florida.
00:14:50.000These are the heroes at places like the Met Gala.
00:14:55.000I don't know him, but I do know men lie, women lie, but numbers don't.
00:15:00.000I do know that when our children feel accepted, that 43% of our children that feels accepted from their parents, from the world, it lowers the death rate, suicide, It's high in the trans community.
00:15:49.000And as you may notice, mirroring sort of principle one of the satanic temple there, one should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason, and not in accordance with morality, not in accordance with objective decency, in accordance with whatever you think today.
00:16:03.000Here's Gabrielle Union, who is, I believe, the stepmother, not the biological mother, of the trans child in question.
00:16:11.000You just talked to your husband about moving from Florida.
00:16:13.000One of the reasons is safety for your family.
00:17:41.000Now, if you are what you wear, then it's sort of fascinating to see
00:17:45.000how people are about violating the rules and how the media have decided to violate all the rules.
00:17:49.000The reason this looks like the Capitol in The Hunger Games is because the whole purpose of the Capitol in The Hunger Games, and that's the imagery that obviously springs to mind for everyone who watches the Met Gala.
00:17:57.000The reason that that springs to mind is because The Hunger Games is about a group of elites who live at the expense of everybody else while violating all of the rules that they impose on everyone else.
00:18:06.000Because they are the elites and they get to do that.
00:18:09.000And so here, let's go through some of these looks.
00:18:11.000Because again, it's all about transgressivism.
00:18:13.000It's all about the cult of personal identity and the belief that your feelings are sufficient to guide the rest of mankind.
00:18:21.000And that the only value system is what you hold internally.
00:18:26.000It's not about your tolerance of others.
00:18:27.000It's about everybody else tolerating you.
00:18:28.000It's about shifting all of society's rules and mores in order to please yourself.
00:18:34.000And the media cheer this kind of crap on because if you're talking about the high priesthood, of the secular religion that is now taking over our society.
00:18:44.000And then these sort of town criers for the regime are the members of the press who all buy into this exact same moral system, this secular moral system that rejects the notion of an objective morality with actual rules and traditions that are worthy of respect.
00:18:57.000We'll get to the actual looks over at the Met Gala in one second.
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00:20:40.000And, um, this means that he is a hero.
00:20:44.000He's obviously a hero because he's dressing up in women's clothing, violating the taboo.
00:20:49.000And this is a person who has tremendous cultural power.
00:20:51.000I mean, running five of the biggest theaters on Broadway gives you the ability to basically say what enters public culture and what does not.
00:21:03.000I mean, one of his recent videos was literally a video of him being stooped by Satan, like giving a lap dance to Satan.
00:21:11.000Because, obviously, Lil Nas X came out as gay, and not only did he come out as gay, he came out as, like, the most gay.
00:21:16.000In fact, he came out as so gay that there was a picture that emerged, I believe, a few weeks ago of him making out with a woman, and he had to put out a statement saying that he was not straight.
00:21:24.000Because that's how far we have come in our culture.
00:21:26.000It used to be that gay men would masquerade as straight in order to get roles and not be quote-unquote cancelled.
00:21:33.000Now Lil Nas X has to make sure that nobody should think this guy's straight.
00:21:36.000So he shows up to the Met Gala wearing silver body paint studded with rhinestones all over his body wearing basically a thong and platform heels.
00:23:09.000The notion of, in Hebrew, kadosh, holiness, is that it distinguishes between that which is not holy and that which is holy.
00:23:17.000The entire book of Leviticus is about the pure and the impure.
00:23:19.000The whole goal of religion is to separate off that which is bad for mankind from that which is good for mankind in both action and even, for those of us who are Jewish, in food.
00:23:27.000This is what the kosher system is about.
00:23:40.000And again, the idea is the more that you genderbend, the better you are.
00:23:43.000So Florence Pugh has now shaved her head.
00:23:45.000No one really understands why, and apparently she killed a peacock and has now taken all the feathers off the back of the peacock and stacked them upon her head.
00:24:58.000One is, uh, I don't even know what this is supposed to be.
00:25:01.000She showed up as a black and white Christmas tree.
00:25:04.000Um, she is wearing, for those who cannot see, A hoop skirt that is papered over with a giant coat, apparently sewn from like one of my daughter's knitting kits.
00:25:16.000And then she stacked her hair all the way up on her head in the form of a bizarre tower.
00:25:22.000I don't know what, she's a piece of furniture now.
00:25:24.000They just put her in the corner and leave her there.
00:25:33.000True fashion is you show up wearing ridiculous boots, A bra and high-riding panties and a completely transparent hoop skirt dress that goes all the way up above your breasts and all the way down to your shoes, but you can see directly through it because it's actually just transparent nylon.
00:25:52.000This is because this is true beauty, guys.
00:26:06.000The reason that I point this out is because if the value of your culture is to shock, if the value of your culture is to break the taboos and there are no more taboos to break, you have to keep finding new taboos to break when you are in a culture that is in search of taboos to break.
00:26:18.000Because again, it's the opposition to whatever is the status quo that defines you as a rebel,
00:26:50.000And now, the next push is going to be the idea that if you're a youth-attracted person, meaning a pedophile, that this is just another form of sexual orientation.
00:26:58.000Every taboo must be violated in the name of reason and compassion.
00:27:01.000Every taboo must be violated because once you obliterate the moral standard, there's nobody left to prevent, and there's nothing left, to prevent the expansion of your own rationale to pretty much anything.
00:27:12.000I mean, this is a point that Nietzsche made 150 years ago.
00:27:15.000When Nietzsche talks about the death of God, and he suggested that there was nothing left to replace God, that it would essentially be nothing but an issue of will, he wasn't wrong.
00:27:56.000Fashion is just another form of human activity.
00:27:59.000And if the leaders of fashion are no longer into providing the beautiful and they're no longer into providing the feminine for women and the masculine for men, and instead it's just all about mashing all of it up and violating all taboos.
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00:29:57.000Okay, meanwhile, the illegal immigration crisis is about to explode down at our southern border.
00:30:02.000Joe Biden has presided over the worst illegal immigration problem in the nation's history.
00:30:06.000Yesterday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the world's most untalented press secretary, she went out there and told what is probably the biggest lie that this administration has ever told.
00:30:13.000She suggested that Joe Biden has done an amazing job on the border.
00:30:15.000And in fact, border crossings, illegal border crossings are down like 90% or some such nonsense.
00:30:21.000He has tools that he's used to make sure that we do this.
00:30:25.000We actually deal with the immigration system in a humane way, in a way that actually deals with what we're seeing at the border.
00:30:36.000And that's why you've seen the parolee program be so successful.
00:30:42.000When it comes to illegal migration, you've seen it come down by more than 90%.
00:30:48.000And that's because of the actions that this president has taken.
00:30:51.000Uh, that is, I'm sorry, that is just crazy crap.
00:30:54.000Okay, in 2022, we had the highest number of crossings ever recorded.
00:31:18.000According to townhall.com, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leaser, a Democrat, implemented the state of emergency starting on Monday.
00:31:23.000If there's no emergency, why do you need a state of one?
00:31:25.000Democrats have been saying there's no emergency at the border, it's totally fine, all is under control.
00:31:29.000Meanwhile, a Democratic mayor in El Paso is like, yeah, no, we got a problem.
00:31:32.000The city has already been experiencing a new wave of illegal immigrants even before Title 42 is officially gone, resulting in more processed migrants being on the city streets after they were released by Border Patrol.
00:31:41.000Laredo also declared a state of emergency on Sunday that's going to last for seven days.
00:31:47.000All the way down in Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley, the city has seen a significant increase in illegal crossings recently.
00:31:53.000Brownsville will also declare an illegal immigration emergency, presumably in the coming days.
00:31:58.000Up to 10,000 illegal immigrants a day will probably be crossing our southern border once Title 42 is no longer in effect.
00:32:06.000Hey, Bill Malugan, who does a really good job covering this sort of stuff for Fox News, he tweeted out yesterday, over 22,000 border patrol apprehensions in the last 72 hours, an average of over 7,000 per day, putting us right back into peak numbers we were seeing last year.
00:32:17.000We're now 10 days away from the lifting of Title 42, an expected major surge.
00:32:22.000Well, yeah, it's gonna get really, really bad really, really quickly because it turns out that when you offer pretty much open entry to everyone, when you say, show up, we'll process you and release you into the interior, or don't show up and just cross the border and we'll leave you alone, tons and tons of people try to cross the border.
00:32:38.000Meanwhile, the White House just lies about the consequences of illegal immigration.
00:32:43.000So, for example, horrific story we mentioned yesterday, an illegal immigrant named Francisco Oropesa shot five people in Texas, On Friday evening, a nine-year-old child was murdered along with four others in yet another shocking, horrific act of gun violence in America, this time in Cleveland, Texas.
00:33:25.000In all, five people were murdered by an individual armed with a powerful AR-15-style rifle.
00:33:32.000As the manhunt for the suspected assailant continues, we urge the public to heed all guidance from law enforcement officials and stay safe.
00:33:43.000I noticed that you left out all of the relevant information.
00:33:45.000Oropes, who's a Mexican national, allegedly committed the execution-style murders last Friday after a family member of the victims complained about him firing a rifle in the middle of the night.
00:33:53.000He then went into the neighbor's house with the rifle and fired at the individuals inside.
00:33:56.000Five of the ten people living in the home were murdered.
00:33:58.000Apparently, this entire area in Texas is basically run by the drug cartels.
00:34:02.000So, excellent job, once again, Biden administration.
00:34:06.000How bad is the illegal immigration crisis?
00:34:09.000Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, is now begging the state of Texas to stop sending illegal immigrants up to Chicago.
00:34:13.000Because it's all fun and games until illegal immigrants actually hit Democratic areas in the North.
00:34:18.000Chicago's outgoing mayor, Lori Lightfoot, who you just heard from, is now urging Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop sending busloads of migrants to her city of Chicago.
00:34:27.000Lightfoot yesterday wrote in a letter to him saying quote your lack of consideration or coordination
00:34:31.000in an attempt to cause chaos and score political points has resulted in a critical tipping point
00:34:36.000in our ability to receive individuals and families in a safe orderly and dignified way.
00:34:41.000Have you heard anything? No we have not heard anything back.
00:34:43.000And frankly, I didn't expect to hear anything back.
00:34:46.000But I felt like it was important to once again try to engage the governor, but also let him know what his policies and practices are doing in cities like Chicago.
00:35:56.000I'm pleased to say that the regulators have taken action to facilitate the sale of First Republic Bank and ensure that all depositors are protected and the taxpayers are not on the hook.
00:36:12.000Oh, the taxpayers are not on the hook.
00:36:32.000JPMorgan used its huge balance sheet to beat out smaller banks for First Republic, which was seized early Monday by the FDIC.
00:36:38.000First Republic collapsed after losing $100 billion in deposits in a March run that followed the implosion of fellow Bay Area lender Silicon Valley Bank.
00:36:44.000Now again, remember what happened to Silicon Valley Bank is that basically they bought up a bunch of government bonds from Joe Biden's government on the belief that there would not be a tremendous rise in the interest rates, devaluing their bonds.
00:36:55.000Eventually the bonds would come due, they'd be fine, they'd get their money, except that people started pulling their money out of Silicon Valley Bank because they needed their money to pay their bills.
00:37:03.000And then it turned out that Silicon Valley Bank didn't have that money because they didn't have the asset base that they could liquidate in order to fill back in the depositor gap.
00:37:11.000So then First Republic started seeing depositor withdrawals from them because it turns out they had a lot of unsecured credit holders, unsecured depositors rather.
00:37:18.000And those people were like, I don't want my money disappearing like it did for some people at Silicon Valley Bank.
00:37:23.000So I'm just going to take my money out.
00:37:24.000And so First Republic was on the verge of collapse.
00:37:25.000Now, JP Morgan is going to assume all of First Republic's $92 billion in deposits.
00:37:30.000It's buying most of the bank's assets, including about $173 billion in loans and $30 billion in securities.
00:37:35.000At the end of the first quarter, JP Morgan had $3.7 trillion in assets and $2.4 trillion in deposits.
00:38:01.000They didn't want a replay of March in which they and other government officials agreed to invoke a special legal provision allowing them to back uninsured deposits at SVP and Signature.
00:38:08.000They took that step for the two banks because they worried that if they didn't, uninsured depositors at other banks would also run.
00:38:13.000And that did happen at First Republic.
00:38:16.000The FDIC expects you to take a $13 billion loss to its deposit insurance fund, financed by fees from banks.
00:38:21.000So when they say it's not coming from you, that's wrong.
00:38:23.000Because the fees from the banks, where are those coming from?
00:38:49.000According to the Wall Street Journal, officials are likely to keep their options open as they finesse carefully calibrated signals in their post-meeting statement and remarks by Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a news conference after the meeting ends on Wednesday.
00:38:59.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is cruising for a bruising with regard to this possible default.
00:39:03.000So the Republicans in the House have passed a debt ceiling bill that is eminently reasonable.
00:39:07.000It puts the spending back at 2022 levels.
00:39:10.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is like, I'm not even gonna negotiate over this.
00:39:12.000Because when you have the backing of the press, what do you need to actually be good at the job of governing for?
00:39:18.000The most important thing we have to do in that regard is to make sure the threat by the Speaker of the House to default on the national debt is off the table.
00:39:28.000For over 200 years, America has never, ever, ever failed to pay its debt.
00:39:34.000To put in the capital and colloquial terms, America is not a deadbeat nation.
00:39:40.000We have never, ever failed to meet the debt.
00:39:44.000And as a result, we're one of the most respected nations in the world.
00:39:48.000We pay our bills, and we should do so without reckless hostage-taking from some of the mega-Republicans in Congress.
00:39:57.000First of all, this MAGA Republican crap has to stop.
00:40:00.000Saying that we should spend a little bit less money does not make you a quote-unquote extremist MAGA, super MAGA, ultra-duper MAGA Republican.
00:40:06.000If you're talking about paying your bills, one thing that you might do to pay your bills is to spend less money.
00:40:10.000That's the whole point of this particular exercise.
00:40:13.000Now, apparently, Joe Biden is seeking a debt meeting with Hill leaders.
00:40:16.000According to Politico, he invited Congress's top four leaders in both parties to a May 9th meeting after the Treasury Department delivered a stark warning on Monday that the nation could hit the existing debt ceiling as soon as June 1st.
00:40:26.000The Secretary's letter was sent after the markets closed on Wall Street.
00:40:29.000The prediction landed hard on the Hill.
00:40:30.000Lawmakers had hoped they'd have months to maneuver past the impasse between Biden and McCarthy.
00:40:34.000On Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer teed up two pieces of legislation.
00:40:38.000The debt limit bill House Republicans passed last week that includes significant spending cuts and one that would suspend the debt limit through the 2024 election with no strings attached.
00:40:46.000The Schumer spokesperson says that this process is designed to ensure that basically the Republican House bill goes down to flaming defeat and all you're left with is a clean debt ceiling increase.
00:40:54.000Joe Biden should be negotiating over this stuff, but he doesn't care.
00:40:57.000He would much rather play politics with the debt ceiling by never cutting anything than he would actually come to some sort of rational agreement.
00:41:04.000And this is why the last decent Democratic president, believe it or not, was Bill Clinton, who actually negotiated over these sorts of topics.
00:41:10.000Now, speaking of Joe Biden and his incompetence, again, I'll keep repeating it over and over.
00:41:13.000Joe Biden is an extremely weak candidate, like a very, very weak.
00:41:21.000So here's Joe Biden yesterday, randomly talking, taking a phone call, like in the middle of a presser almost, and saying his wife is waiting for him.
00:42:21.000Meanwhile, the smartest person Joe Biden knows, Hunter, continues to be just a garbage bag of a human being.
00:42:26.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, Hunter Biden's lawyers painted him as financially strapped in his first appearance in an Arkansas court on Monday as he sought to get child support payments to his former mistress and their four-year-old daughter reduced.
00:43:09.000Apparently, Lowell said that Biden has paid Roberts at least $750,000 over the past few years.
00:43:12.000This would be to care for the four-year-old child that Joe Biden refuses to acknowledge as his grandchild.
00:43:16.000The hearing came days after the Arkansas Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer ordered Biden and his child's mother, Robert, to appear for all future court dates, arguing their absences are needlessly delaying the case.
00:43:27.000Biden's lawyers, objected to attempts by Robert, seem to frame him as privileged and wealthy, arguing he's only traveled on Air Force One one time and stayed on a cot in his dad's room in Dublin during their recent Ireland visit.
00:43:50.000During the hearing, Biden's lawyer said his only income is a percentage of his art sales from a New York gallery, and Biden is unable to provide a list of who has bought his paintings and how much they are worth.
00:43:57.000Lowell said Biden doesn't know the names of any of the buyers under an agreement with the gallery, which is intended to avoid political influence peddling.
00:44:03.000Which, of course, doesn't avoid political influence peddling in any way, shape, or form.
00:44:09.000The fact that the media are so wildly incurious about Hunter Biden, given his continued close association with his father in the White House, is quite astonishing.
00:46:47.000According to Politico, he's going to participate in a town hall event with CNN.
00:46:51.000The event takes place at New Hampshire's St.
00:46:53.000Anselm College next week, and it marks a major moment in the intersection of politics and the media in this still early primary, because again, Ron DeSantis isn't even in the race yet.
00:47:27.000Fox News is bad, but CNN is totally fine.
00:47:31.000I think the thing that frustrates a lot of conservatives about Donald Trump, namely his lack of fealty to sort of conservative principles and or outlets, may be the same thing.
00:47:40.000That a lot of people in the Republican Party actually like about Trump, which is that he's utterly unpredictable and will do pretty much anything.
00:47:48.000What the latest polls show, by the way, is that Donald Trump is currently losing in every single swing state.
00:47:52.000He's down one in Georgia to Biden, four in Pennsylvania to Biden, four in Wisconsin to Biden, three in North Carolina to Biden, two in Arizona to Biden, three in Michigan to Biden.
00:48:01.000And those polls could all be wrong, but when you are Looking up at the possibility of losing pretty much every swing state.
00:48:35.000Jimmy Kimmel, all those shows are going to be off the air tonight because it turns out that somebody actually writes those jokes, which is kind of a shock to me because they're all really, really bad.
00:48:42.000But now, for the first time in 15 years, Hollywood writers are going out on strike.
00:48:46.000The Guild announced a work stoppage beginning Tuesday afternoon after negotiations with the labor group representing studios and streamers faltered on Monday night.
00:48:53.000In a statement Wednesday night, the WGA said its negotiating committee began this process intent on making a fair deal.
00:48:57.000The studio's responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing.
00:49:46.000The folks at Anheuser-Busch may want to look away.
00:49:48.000According to Beer Business Daily, Bud Light's off-premise sales volume, the amount of beer sold outside of restaurants and bars, was down 26% from a year earlier in the week ending April 22nd.
00:49:57.000That's even worse than the 21% decrease from the week prior, while Bud Light numbers are now down 8% this year.
00:50:02.000That includes figures at grocery stores, convenience stores, and liquor stores.
00:50:06.000Beer Business Daily wrote, quote, the shocking deterioration of Bud Light Blue's market share continued to pace through the third week of April and actually somehow worsened.
00:50:13.000We've never seen such a dramatic shift in national share in so short a period of time.
00:50:19.000Well, yeah, it turns out that when you completely patronize your audience and you make them feel ridiculous, those people don't want to buy your beer.
00:50:28.000So good for all of you for not buying Bud Light and keep it up.
00:51:05.000Apparently, Arnold LeBel himself is a gay man.
00:51:08.000There's nothing in the actual books that suggests that they are gay.
00:51:10.000They are animals who are unlike one another, but are friends.
00:51:14.000This falls into the gay subculture Bert and Ernie are schtupping category.
00:51:21.000Basically, any two characters of the same sex who live in close proximity to one another in children's cartoons end up being picked up by gay subculture and then treated as though they are actually a gay couple who are jackhammering in the back room.
00:51:52.000Not like they want to have sex with kids, like they want those kids to believe the same things that they believe about the world and sexual orientation and sexual identity and all the rest of that kind of stuff.
00:51:59.000And so anytime they can insert that in children's programming, they wish to do so.
00:52:02.000This is the exact reason why we here at DailyWare are going to spend a hundred million dollars on children's content over the course of the next couple of years.
00:52:08.000So they don't have to worry about all of this.
00:52:11.000However, the fact that the Daily Beast is now reporting That they're going to keep the gay subtext is pretty astonishing.
00:52:25.000The title, again, from the Daily Beast is, Isn't that wonderful?
00:52:32.000Because, again, imperative that children's TV be made more gay.
00:52:44.000Who says 007 has to be white, British, and male?
00:52:46.000Oh, you mean aside from the author of the entire James Bond series?
00:52:50.000Again, it only works in one direction.
00:52:52.000Nobody's ever like, what if we made Shaft a white female?
00:52:55.000Nobody ever does that because it's stupid.
00:52:57.000It turns out the characters have characteristics.
00:52:59.000And those characteristics go to character.
00:53:02.000The same people who will tell you that race is an innate identity will tell you that it doesn't matter if you take a white character and make him black and it'll make no difference whatsoever.
00:53:10.000Now again, I have no problem with the idea of a black male bond.
00:53:12.000The real distinction would be between male and female because it turns out that men and women are wildly different.
00:53:20.000And as I've said before, the idea of a woman who is able to bed down with good-looking men, that's just called a woman.
00:53:26.000The whole point of James Bond is that James Bond is a man who is able to get beautiful women, which is a male fantasy.
00:53:32.000And again, a whole different set of obstacles in doing that if you're a man than if you're a woman, as everyone with half a brain knows.
00:53:38.000But this entire piece by a person named Anna Petoniak says that the latest novel from the James Bond franchise gives us the heroine we've been waiting for.
00:53:45.000I don't know who this we is, but apparently this is what we need.
00:53:49.000The MI6 agents in question, a young black woman named Nomi, identifies herself to Bond as 007, not any 007 agent.
00:53:58.000You probably thought they'd retire it.
00:53:59.000This, of course, is a quote from the last movie.
00:54:02.000Bond says, Anna Petoniak, if the bond of our imagination is really just a series of gestures, the martinis, the gunfights, the sex, it opens up a much wider array of possibilities.