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00:01:31.000Apparently, the Trump administration policy with regard to separating children from parents, which is mandated by law, if you're going to arrest people criminally for crossing the border, you cannot keep their kids in custody.
00:01:40.000We discussed this at length over the last several days.
00:01:42.000There is a court ruling from 2016 in which the court declared that you cannot keep kids together with their parents.
00:01:48.000In fact, the Obama administration used to keep kids together with their parents in detention proceedings, and then they were sued.
00:01:55.000They were sued on the basis that this was being used as a deterrent to illegal immigration, because how dare you keep children in prisons?
00:02:02.000Why would you keep them with their parents in prison?
00:02:04.000Okay, so, the left sort of wants it both ways.
00:02:06.000They don't want you to be able to keep the kids in prison with the parents, but they also don't want you to separate the parents from the kids, which leaves only one solution, of course, which is to release the parents, which is really what they want out of this entire thing.
00:02:16.000Now, how do I know that this is what they want from the entire spiel here?
00:02:20.000Well, the Democrats are out there saying Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi about all of this policy.
00:02:25.000And let's be real, I did not see that coming.
00:02:27.000While they're saying all of this about Nazi policy from the right, the right is actually attempting to solve this.
00:02:33.000So Republicans came forward yesterday.
00:02:34.000Ted Cruz came forward yesterday with a bill that would fix all of this and say that children can stay with their parents in detention centers until all of the proceedings have gone forward.
00:02:42.000So what did Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer do?
00:02:45.000He dismissed the legislative proposal.
00:02:47.000He said, And then asked if that meant Democrats would not support a bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep immigrant families together while seeking asylum on the U.S.
00:03:02.000border, Schumer said they want to keep the focus on Trump.
00:03:07.000Unacceptable additions have bogged down every piece of legislation we've done.
00:03:10.000So in other words, it's Nazi policy, but if the Republicans try to fix it, they're also Nazis.
00:03:14.000Which is pretty convenient for the Democrats.
00:03:16.000And as I said, the media coverage of this particular issue has led Democrats to believe that the issue doesn't need to be solved, it instead should be used as a club to wield against everybody that you don't like.
00:03:26.000This is the plan by people like Chuck Schumer on the left.
00:03:30.000Either the policy is straight from Japanese internment camps in Nazi Germany, in which case you should be for anything that would alleviate the policy, or the policy is not that bad, in which case maybe we should argue over the policy.
00:03:41.000But the Democrats want to say that the policy is awful, it's evil, it's Nazi-esque, it's Japanese internment in 1942.
00:04:05.000But I also think that keeping kids interned with parents is not a great policy either.
00:04:09.000There is no great policy when it comes to illegal immigration.
00:04:12.000In the end, as with war games, the only winning move is not to play.
00:04:16.000If you don't want illegal immigrants separated from their families or, alternatively, kept with their families in detention, don't illegally immigrate.
00:04:22.000You're going to have to deter illegal immigration.
00:04:24.000That is the only solution because, again, you can't say that you want kids to stay with the families, but you also want kids released.
00:04:40.000Every time there's a mass shooting, the left decides that it's necessary to have these vast displays of emotion, these vast displays of empathy, and then they don't actually get anything done.
00:04:48.000Because the policies they call for have nothing to do with actually stopping the crime at issue.
00:04:52.000Well, the same thing is happening here.
00:04:54.000The Republicans have proposed a legislative fix.
00:04:56.000The Democrats are running away from that legislative fix.
00:04:58.000Now they're urging President Trump to go ahead and make an executive decision to simply overrule the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Flores and keep the kids together with their parents.
00:05:07.000How long do you think it will take for another lawsuit to be filed saying that it's unconstitutional for the kids to remain together with their parents or that it's a violation of the 1997 Flores Agreement with the federal government?
00:05:17.000It'll take exactly five seconds because we just had those lawsuits.
00:05:21.000Again, the Obama administration kept children with parents.
00:05:29.000Not only did they change their policy, they had said that they were keeping the kids together with their parents as a deterrent.
00:05:34.000And the court said you're not allowed to do that.
00:05:36.000And now they're saying you can't release the kids.
00:05:38.000So you can't keep the kids and you can't release the kids because all the left really wants is everyone released.
00:05:43.000Well, all the emotion that's coming out from this is, you know, on one level understandable, on another level irritating if you're not going to propose any solution.
00:05:52.000So Rachel Maddow last night on MSNBC, she broke down on air talking about migrant babies being detained.
00:05:57.000Now look, nobody is happy with the idea of 12-month-old babies.
00:06:01.000No one likes the idea of a 2-year-old being removed from their parents and crying for mommy and daddy.
00:06:05.000Nobody likes this, which is why I've been saying legislative fix from literally the first day that this controversy broke onto the scene.
00:06:11.000But I will just point out that Rachel Maddow has no such sympathy for the hundreds of thousands of babies who are killed in the womb every year.
00:06:17.000She has no such sympathy for kids who are removed from their parents when parents are arrested for domestic crimes.
00:06:22.000Rachel Maddow seems to me to be using emotion as a sort of baton in order to try and drive a particular narrative.
00:06:30.000And that narrative, by the way, is not creating solutions.
00:06:32.000Again, that narrative is designed to let Democrats prevent solutions.
00:06:36.000That narrative is designed to allow Democrats to emotionally manipulate the American public without working to fix the problem in the first place.
00:06:42.000Here's Rachel Maddow slash Michael Molls last night.
00:06:45.000Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children to at least three three tender age shelters in South Texas.
00:07:23.000But all of us who are in the television business, all of us who are on camera on a regular basis, I would suggest that it is not a good look for us to get so emotional about issues that we can't discuss them rationally.
00:07:35.000Emotional investment in issues actually prevents rational discussion of those issues.
00:07:40.000But I think the emotional investment is the entire point at this point.
00:07:42.000I think it's become all about feelings and very little about policy.
00:08:06.000And that follows that, and it's a very horrible thing to make these comparisons, but if you think about the level of dehumanization where we have arrived, where children are being taken,
00:08:41.000If you really believe that Nazi policy was to have a process of law whereby people who were illegally attempting to enter Nazi Germany were temporarily separated from their children for the protection of the children because we didn't want to hold the children in incarcerated custody, and then they were reunited with those children when people were deported, if you really think that was Nazi policy, it's because you're a moron.
00:08:59.000As far as the notion of dehumanization, it is not dehumanizing.
00:09:01.000The whole point here is that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal court in America, held that it is a better policy to force parents and children to be separated than to leave children with parents in custody in the first place.
00:09:12.000Again, this was not Trump coming up with, you know what would be a nefarious evil idea if we took those kids away from those parents.
00:10:21.000We're not saying that these people should be taken out and gassed.
00:10:23.000We're not saying that these people should be taken out and shot.
00:10:26.000I'm not happy with the treatment here.
00:10:27.000But to suggest that there is anything remotely resembling Nazi policy happening here is insulting to Americans, it's insulting to the Trump administration, it's insulting to the people who carry it out.
00:10:36.000It really is insulting to the ICE agents, I'd like to point out, because we've been brought up on the notion that you don't get to follow a bad order, you don't get to follow an evil order, that if somebody tells you to go out in public and shoot some innocent bystander, that you have to refuse that order, right?
00:10:49.000Or the Nuremberg defense, I was only following orders, doesn't apply morally.
00:10:53.000Are we really now suggesting that ICE agents are the equivalent of Nazis?
00:10:56.000That the ICE agents who are carrying out these orders to separate the kids, as per policy promulgated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that those people are exactly the same as the Brownshirts or the Auschwitz guards?
00:11:06.000Is that really what we are saying here now?
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00:12:23.000Okay, so Soledad O'Brien tweets out that this is just like Nazi Germany.
00:12:32.000She tweets out that Nazi Germany could happen here.
00:12:35.000Now, I've always believed that the rise of fascism in Germany is an inexplicable phenomenon.
00:12:42.000People tend to treat it as though the entire country just went crazy all of a sudden.
00:12:45.000The entire country just suddenly decided that they were going to start exterminating Jews and going to war with all the surrounding countries.
00:12:50.000And when you actually spend a fair bit of time studying the rise of Nazi Germany, as I have, then what you will see is that there was an organic process by which the Nazis ended up taking over Germany.
00:12:59.000And actually, the dictatorship pre-existed the Nazis.
00:13:02.000The existence of a dictatorial power in the center of German government pre-existed the Nazis.
00:13:06.000It began about 1930, culminated in 1932.
00:13:09.000It was essentially a non-elected government, or at least if it was elected, it was running not along the basis of a legislature for a long time in Germany before the Nazis even took power.
00:13:18.000I've always believed that human beings can slide into evil a lot more easily than we like to think that we could.
00:13:24.000But what Soledad O'Brien is saying, which is that we are now like Nazi Germany or becoming like Nazi Germany when we separate kids from parents at the border,
00:13:37.000But the Democrats don't want any sort of policy that will fix this, which demonstrates full scale that all of this is really just emotional manipulation by the left.
00:13:45.000If you're not going to solve the problem, if you're not going to propose any solution other than yelling at Trump,
00:13:49.000And then suggesting that he release everybody en masse or not criminally prosecute illegal immigration?
00:13:53.000Then you're not contributing to a solution to the problem, you're just using this as a political club to wield.
00:13:58.000And you can see the extent to which the media have gone overboard.
00:14:01.000So for example, the New Yorker decided that they were going to target a particular ICE agent.
00:14:05.000So they showed a picture of an ICE agent, and they said, this man has a Nazi tattoo.
00:14:11.000So the New Yorker put out a picture of a Marine veteran accusing him of having a Nazi tattoo because he works for ICE.
00:14:21.000And the picture shows a guy with a series of tattoos on his arm, like a lot of guys who are military or ex-military.
00:14:26.000Well, now it turns out that all of that is nonsense.
00:14:29.000Okay, the guy who she took a picture of, this particular reporter, she tweeted about a guy named Justin Gertner.
00:14:37.000And Gertner is a combat-wounded veteran and ICE forensic analyst.
00:14:42.000And she said they had a Nazi iron cross inked on his elbow.
00:14:45.000But it turns out that it's a Maltese cross, a symbol associated with firefighters.
00:14:48.000The tattoo, according to Gertner, is actually a Titan II symbol for his platoon when he served in Afghanistan.
00:14:53.000According to ICE, the writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed, which is about protecting family and children.
00:14:57.000Anyone attempting to advance their personal political opinions by baselessly slandering an American hero should be issuing public apologies to Mr. Gertner and the retractions.
00:15:04.000This includes Levin and the New Yorker.
00:15:06.000Well, in just a second, I want to talk about how the Trump administration is responding to all of this, plus some more of the fallout from the left.
00:15:12.000So, it's not just members of the government, members of the press who are doing this.
00:15:15.000It's also virtue signaling on the part of people in Hollywood.
00:15:32.000So now, there's been a lot of talk in Hollywood about various members of Fox television studios disassociating from Fox generally because they don't like Fox News' coverage.
00:15:41.000So Steve Levitan, who's the co-creator of Modern Family, he says,
00:15:52.000I have no problem with fact-based conservatism, such as the Wall Street Journal, but Fox News' 23-hour-a-day support of the NRA, conspiracy theories, and Trump lies get harder to swallow every day as I drive onto that lot to make a show about inclusion.
00:16:03.000I look forward to seeing Modern Family through to the end and then, sale or no sale, setting up shop elsewhere.
00:16:07.000Well, first of all, important to note, 21st Century Fox is made up of several key assets.
00:16:11.000Fox Television Studios has nothing to do with Fox News.
00:16:14.000They are completely separate branches of Fox.
00:16:16.000And in fact, after Fox is sold, there's a good likelihood that Fox News doesn't even end up going along with the rest of Fox being sold to Disney.
00:16:24.000So it's possible it ends up as a completely separate company.
00:16:26.000But all of this virtue signaling makes perfect sense.
00:16:53.000But if you truly believe that you're going to impact the coverage of Fox News by leaving a Fox television studio,
00:17:14.000It's one of the things that toxifies politics.
00:17:16.000That we can't have free and open discussion about politics without people threatening to boycott one another is not the world's best element.
00:17:28.000So, Christian Nielsen, who is the Secretary for Homeland Security, she was eating dinner at a Mexican restaurant, and activists decided that it would be worthwhile to get her thrown out of the restaurant, that they would protest and chant until they ruined her dinner.
00:17:42.000How dare you spend your evening here eating dinner as you're complicit in the separation and deportation of over 10,000 children separated from their parents?
00:17:52.000How can you enjoy a Mexican dinner as you're deporting and imprisoning tens of thousands of people who come here seeking asylum in the United States?
00:18:04.000We call on you to end family separation!
00:18:13.000Okay, so great to mess up everybody's dinner over the policy.
00:18:18.000I understand you don't like the policy.
00:18:19.000But this sort of, this sort of young fascist mentality that you're going to go into restaurants and ruin people's lives because you have disagreements over policy.
00:18:27.000If you don't like the policy, vote for people who are going to change the policy.
00:18:30.000If you don't like the policy, go file a lawsuit.
00:18:33.000If you don't like the policy, harassing other Americans and trying to destroy their personal time seems to me ridiculous.
00:18:39.000And I understand that you think that she's complicit in a bad policy, but how would the left have treated it if people on the right had gone and ruined Obama administration's officials' dinner over Obamacare?
00:18:54.000And then Anna Navarro, who's just completely lost her mind, she tweeted out, Wow, just, you know, how dare she eat Mexican food while also having a particular policy that prevents illegal immigration?
00:19:24.000I understand President Trump responding with ire to all of the media coverage, which, as I have said for the last week, I think is completely uncalled for.
00:19:30.000I think it is not only undignified, I think it is inaccurate.
00:19:33.000And it is promulgating policies that are not actually good for the country.
00:19:36.000It's preventing the creation of policy that will actually fix all of this.
00:19:40.000But I'm not sure that the media care about all that.
00:19:43.000I don't think Hollywood cares about any of this stuff.
00:19:46.000With all of that said, the reaction by some people on the right has been reactionary in the extreme as well.
00:19:52.000So you've got the left reacting to what is a controversial policy by suggesting that this is now Nazi Germany, and then you have the right responding to that with some of the worst rhetoric that I've seen on the right in quite a while.
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00:22:25.000That President Trump would like to solve this, right?
00:22:28.000President Trump is interested in doing something about this.
00:22:31.000The problem, of course, is that the minute that he issues an executive order saying that kids can stay with their families, the left sues and says the kids can't be held in jail.
00:22:39.000The problem is that the Trump administration has handled this about as badly as you can handle the rollout of anything.
00:22:44.000It's the worst rollout for a major policy initiative for the Trump administration since the travel ban happened at the very beginning of the administration, when they were going out there suggesting that they were going to prevent
00:22:54.000Again, I don't think the policy is inexcusable.
00:22:56.000I don't think it's unjustifiable on a legal level.
00:23:51.000What he should say is, my personal opinion is that this law should be changed to make it better, but that is not the responsibility of the executive branch.
00:23:59.000If you're asking me what's more humane, keeping kids with their parents in prison or not keeping their kids with their parents in prison, well, then I'm not sure of the answer to that.
00:24:06.000But I also think that it is inhumane to release vast bevies of illegal immigrants into the interior of the country without any capacity to get them back.
00:24:28.000He was on Fox News last night and he was confronted by an illegal immigrant advocate, an advocate for illegal immigration.
00:24:37.000And this advocate for illegal immigration talks about a really terrible case of a kid with Down syndrome separated from the kid's parents who had crossed at the border illegally.
00:24:47.000And Corey Lewandowski responds to this with all the compassion of a potato.
00:25:23.000You can do this policy and still look compassionate.
00:25:26.000You can do this policy and still say, I want to change the state of the law, because we have to both enforce our borders and we have to ensure that kids are taken care of.
00:25:36.000But Corey Lewandowski is such an idiot that he goes on TV and makes it sound like he doesn't care what happens to Down Syndrome children who are 10 years old and removed from their parents.
00:25:44.000And listen, anybody with any iota of sympathy feels terrible for these kids.
00:25:47.000You remember when you were left at summer camp?
00:25:48.000Imagine that, except that you were forcibly removed to summer camp and your parents didn't know where you were going, okay?
00:25:53.000The policy itself is deeply flawed, but again, this is not on the Trump administration.
00:25:56.000This is on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the fact that this was never solved at the legislative level for the last 20-odd years.
00:26:03.000But to just go out there and say womp womp when you're talking about some of these heartbreaking stories.
00:26:33.000It's bad for the president to have representatives like Corey Lewandowski going womp womp when people are talking about the suffering of children.
00:26:40.000It'd be the equivalent of after Parkland, somebody goes on TV and they're talking about the horrors that happened at Parkland, and instead of people saying, yes, that was indeed horrifying and terrible, we need to find a way to stop that.
00:26:49.000One of the ways to stop that is not gun control, but better school security.
00:26:52.000It'd be like Corey Lewandowski going on TV and somebody's talking about somebody shot to death in a school, and Corey Lewandowski goes womp womp.
00:27:15.000This is a bill, right, which is supposed to be brought up, I guess, today in the House of Representatives, right, with the help of Speaker Ryan.
00:27:22.000The House is going to vote on a bill that unites illegal immigrant families at the border, and Democrats are expected to vote against the bill.
00:27:27.000They're getting a clean, standalone bill to formally prevent child separation, and they're going to vote no en masse, says Guy Benson.
00:27:34.000Demonstrating, once again, the bad faith that Democrats have on this entire issue.
00:27:37.000Now Republicans have a win if they look compassionate.
00:27:40.000But that means you can't send out people who are cretins to represent you on television.
00:29:02.000When you come here without permission, you are an immigrant.
00:29:05.000Okay, now this is obviously good for America, this sort of political conversation where a guy says invaders and then someone screams for five minutes, just at the top of our lungs.
00:29:16.000You can't have articulate people on from both sides to actually, you know, act as experts on what applies here.
00:29:21.000Instead, you have people, one guy come on to shout invaders so that the base gets all riled up and they're really excited because we're stopping the invasion.
00:29:38.000I can't imagine why the politics in America is so degraded.
00:29:40.000Maybe it's because we're busy calling each other Nazis, invading each other's dinners, and then yelling at each other about invasions and womp womp and all the rest of it.
00:29:48.000The level of discourse in this country has become so intensely stupid, I'm not sure they can ever be put back together again.
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00:31:01.000Hi, I'm Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports 1.
00:31:04.000Tune in this Sunday to the Ben Shapiro Sunday Special.
00:31:08.000I'll be talking about my faith in God, the NFL National Anthem controversy, Donald Trump, and a bunch of other stuff.
00:31:48.000Instead, we're going to listen to people like Peter Fonda, who hasn't been relevant in several decades, who's tweeting out, quote, Sounds great.
00:31:54.000We don't have to take the agents' kids.
00:31:56.000We only need to surround their schools and scare the bleep out of them and worry the F out of the agents from CBE, ICE, and regular Border Patrol agents.
00:33:02.000You want the other side to become more reactionary?
00:33:04.000This is the area where I say that when Soledad O'Brien says we could become like Nazi Germany, then she points to the border policy, I say that's idiotic.
00:33:11.000But I'll tell you, one of the things that did lead to the rise of the Nazis was reactionary politics.
00:33:15.000Because by the time the Nazis were elected in 1933, and they were elected in 1933, by the time they were elected and Hitler became Chancellor of Germany,
00:33:22.000The only two rising forces in the country were the communists and the Nazis.
00:33:26.000The Social Democrats were sort of the center party.
00:33:29.000They were sort of holding the country together.
00:33:30.000They were the governing party for most of the Weimar Republic.
00:33:33.000They had failed to clamp down on the violence between the communists and the Nazis.
00:33:37.000And what that had led to was this reactionary politics where the communists were reacting against the Nazis, the Nazis were reacting against the communists, and people felt they had a binary choice between the Nazis and the communists in Germany.
00:33:48.000And most people chose the communists, I mean, chose the Nazis, or at least the plurality chose the Nazis.
00:33:52.000Well, the more we alienate each other, the more we treat each other not as brothers but as enemies, the more we don't have decent conversations and instead leap to call each other the worst scourges of the earth, the more obvious it's going to become that we can't live together.
00:34:04.000And then you're going to get more reactionary politicians on both sides.
00:34:06.000It's going to turn into every election is going to turn into Corey Lewandowski shouting womp womp and Peter Fonda shouting that CPB agents should be should have their houses surrounded by illegal immigrant activists.
00:34:17.000If you want the country to fray at the edges, this is how you do it.
00:34:20.000This is lack of a common culture, it's lack of a civil culture, it's lack of a belief that we are united as Americans in any serious way.
00:34:26.000Now, how much of the country really is into this?
00:34:29.000I don't think it's as large a percentage as everybody else does, but it doesn't have to be a large percentage in order to destroy our politics.
00:34:35.000The most extreme can pull everybody else along.
00:34:38.000I've talked on the show before about the phenomenon of renormalization.
00:34:41.000Renormalization is the idea that people who exist on the fringes of politics can pull other people along with them.
00:34:47.000The example that I've used in, you know, kind of everyday life is an example given by Nicholas Nassim Tlaib, the author of Black Swan, and the book Skin in the Game.
00:34:57.000He talks about how it is that you can have an entire party that ends up
00:35:18.000And then that family decides to go to a party.
00:35:21.000And they go to this party and they say, listen, we're doing vegetarian because we're trying to keep up with our daughter here, Lisa Simpson.
00:35:28.000We're trying to be vegetarian just like Lisa.
00:36:38.000This is an actual legitimate function of government.
00:36:41.000Unlike a lot of the social safety net that's been created over the last 150 years in this country, there is no reason why we should not be funding actual border enforcement in a proper way.
00:37:01.000Meanwhile, there's been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks about the Department of Justice Inspector General report in which FBI agent Peter Strzok, you remember him, he was leading the Hillary investigation and the Russia investigation, and he was also stripping a fellow FBI agent, it turns out.
00:37:13.000Well, he was texting her in the middle of the election cycle that he was going to stop President Trump.
00:37:18.000Well, yesterday, Peter Strzok was actually thrown out of the FBI building.
00:37:21.000He was escorted from the FBI building.
00:37:23.000According to Mediaite, FBI agent Peter Strzok was revealed to have sent texts showing animosity toward President Trump's campaign.
00:37:29.000According to a recent investigator general report,
00:37:32.000CNN reporter Laura Jarrett tweeted the news Tuesday, noting that Strzok had not been fired, but has been kept in human resources following his dismissal from Robert Mueller's investigative team.
00:37:43.000I'm kind of shocked, of course, that Peter Strzok has not been fired.
00:37:45.000In a statement tweeted by CBS's Paula Reed, Strzok's lawyer, Eitan Goldman, said his client has steadfastly played by the rules and respected the process, but continues to be the target of unfounded personal attacks, political games, and inappropriate information leaks.
00:37:58.000The inspector general said that this sort of bias was some of the worst that he had ever seen at the FBI.
00:38:03.000So it's about time for Peter Strzok to lose his job.
00:38:05.000It's long past time for Peter Strzok to lose his job, of course.
00:38:09.000Now, in actual good news today, Nikki Haley, along with Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, they've announced that the United States is going to withdraw funding from the UN Human Rights Council.
00:38:17.000This is a good thing, because the Human Rights Council is filled with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
00:38:21.000There's no reason we should be funding that agency.
00:38:23.000The Bush administration also, by the way, pulled out of the Human Rights Council.
00:38:26.000It was only the Obama administration, because they wanted to kowtow to the world's worst countries, that decided to refund the HRC.
00:38:32.000Well, Nikki Haley, who is indeed my spirit animal at the UN, she announced the United States is pulling out of the HRC.
00:38:38.000Regrettably, it is now clear that our call for reform was not heeded.
00:38:43.000Human rights abusers continue to serve on and be elected to the Council.
00:38:48.000The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape scrutiny.
00:38:53.000And the Council continues politicizing and scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in their ranks.
00:39:05.000Therefore, as we said we would do a year ago, if we did not see any progress, the United States is officially withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.
00:39:18.000Literally half of all UN resolutions at the Human Rights Council criticizing a country have not been directed in North Korea or Iran or Saudi Arabia or Egypt or China or Venezuela or Cuba.
00:39:26.000Virtually half of them have been directed against Israel.
00:39:30.000According to UN Watch, there were 135 critical resolutions from 2006 to 2016.
00:39:35.00068 of them, 50% were directed at Israel.
00:39:37.000The whole thing has just become a sham and a debacle.
00:39:38.000There is no reason the United States should be spending taxpayer dollars funding a garbage institution like the UN as a whole.
00:39:44.000Let alone the UN Human Rights Council.
00:39:52.000So Starbucks, which has been focused... I don't know where the homeless are gonna go now.
00:39:55.000I'm not sure where people are gonna pee now.
00:39:56.000We've heard that the only place that people are allowed to pee and hang out is Starbucks.
00:40:00.000But apparently, the head of Starbucks, Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson, has given news to investors, and he said that the company's recent not-acceptable performance is going to cause it to streamline to improve innovation agility and re-accelerate growth.
00:40:14.000This means that the company revealed a disappointing 1% sales increase globally in the current quarter, about a third of the expected 3% growth projected by analysts.
00:40:23.000Bloomberg explained that some of the streamlining Johnson referred to will come in the form of shutting down about 150 company-operated stores intensely penetrating U.S.
00:40:29.000markets next fiscal year, which leaves a serious question.
00:40:55.000We don't know the answers to these vital and crucial questions.
00:40:58.000This is what happens when you run your company like a social justice warrior idiot center, as opposed to running it like an actual coffee company.
00:41:04.000So, Starbucks' abroad growth has been quite strong, but in the United States, it's having some serious problems.
00:41:08.000With about 14,000 stores domestically, according to Bloomberg, Starbucks is now pumping the brakes on licensed and company-operated locations with a renewed focus on rural and suburban areas, not over-caffeinated urban neighborhoods where locals already joke the next Starbucks will open inside an existing store, which is basically right.
00:41:24.000Every Starbucks is located across the street from another Starbucks because they figure you're too lazy to walk across the street.
00:41:29.000Well, they've saturated the markets, but they've also alienated a lot of customers with a lot of the nonsense they've been pursuing for the last little while.
00:41:35.000And I can't say I'm completely displeased with Starbucks' poor performance given their politics over the last couple of years.
00:43:44.000Well, they're now doing the same thing with Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.
00:43:47.000So apparently there was a scene where there's a star named Daniella Panetta, and a line of dialogue was cut from the film that would have revealed that her character, Zia Rodriguez, was a lesbian.
00:44:45.000But just randomly suggesting that somebody is gay or lesbian and that this somehow magically changes the entire fabric of the movie is really stupid.
00:45:09.000So, virtually every film, virtually every TV show is pre-screened for GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, so that GLAAD can vet it first.
00:45:17.000Which is a little bit Orwellian, right?
00:45:19.000We don't have that among conservatives, right?
00:45:20.000We don't get to actually pre-screen all the movies to say, hey, that's really insulting to Christians.
00:45:24.000If we did, then half the movies that exist would not actually be able to come out in their current form.
00:45:28.000But GLAAD does these long reports about exactly what percentage of studio films include LGBTQ characters.
00:45:37.000So they say that 12.8% of studio films from last year included LGBTQ characters, the lowest percentage since the organization began keeping tabs in 2012.
00:45:46.000The organization's report notes that this year, films such as Gay Teen Romance, Love, Simon and Deadpool 2, which featured a lesbian X-Men couple, have raised the bar for representation, but other projects that have drawn upon source material featuring LGBTQ characters opted not to depict them on screen in that way.
00:45:59.000Tessa Thompson noted that her Thor Ragnarok character, Valkyrie, is bisexual in the comics, and though that isn't addressed in the film, the actress was faithful to that in her depiction.
00:46:06.000It's very important that we make sure that there are bisexual characters in all of our comic book movies.
00:46:11.000You wouldn't want to alienate gays and lesbians who wouldn't otherwise watch a comic book movie if there's not a gay, fake, fictional character living in an off-world scenario.
00:46:20.000But I'd just like to point one thing out.
00:46:23.000If 12.8% of studio films included LGBTQ characters, which presumably means that a major percentage of these films...
00:46:31.000About 2% of the American population is actually LGBTQ, like openly identifies as LGBTQ.
00:46:41.000But if only about 2% of the American population identifies as openly LGBTQ, that means that very few people are actually associating in many places in the country with people who are LGBTQ.
00:46:50.000So if you're just representing stories, then not all of those stories are going to include gay characters.
00:46:55.000Right, not everybody has a gay friend or a gay person who is integral to the plot of their character, integral to the plot of their life, and even if they are gay, what does that have to do with most movies?
00:47:03.000Most movies don't reveal the sexuality of random characters.
00:47:06.000So it's all very weird, it's all very useless, but again, it is designed to appease a particular social justice crowd in film.
00:47:13.000You want to put gay characters in film?
00:47:14.000Go for it, so long as it's actually relevant to the plot and the character.
00:47:17.000But the suggestion that every character has to have their sexual orientation revealed, because even in the most oblique way it's relevant to character, is really stupid.
00:47:25.000There are a lot of gay people, a lot of straight people, who don't identify their sexual orientation as the key component of their life, what makes them a good or bad person, or relevant to any particular story.
00:47:34.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest news.
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