A fascinating piece by Ryan Burge, a scholar on religion and marriage, examines the fact that the kind of key identifiers of success in the world generally exist among the religious population in the U.S., and they are declining among everybody else. The reason that this is the case is because as education increases, religious belief also increases to a certain extent, which is sort of the reverse of what we ve been told. Those who are most likely to attend services weekly are those with a graduate degree; those who are least likely to go are those who have a high school diploma or less. And one of the other things that correlates with that is income. The more educated you are, the more likely you are to attend church on a regular basis. But when you identify that with marital status, what you find is that married people go to religious services weekly at a far higher rate than people of any other marital status. And that means that the people who are at your local church are probably the most educated, in your community, the best educated, and the more educated among us who never go to church. And the more you have a higher income you have, the better you are likely to be a Christian. But if you check all those boxes, the likelihood of you regularly attending weekly religious services is about double the rate of folks who don t go. This is hard to ignore and should sound some major alarms for any person of faith concerned about the large state of American society. and should be a major concern for any one of faith . . . and especially if you re concerned about what s going on in your local churches and your community. . . The church needs to do more to reach out to people who aren t involved in the social institutions that are not involved in social justice in any way . or in any other social institution including your local community or your community . in order to make sure they re involved in your social life . and not just in church the church is doing their fair share of the social justice work of social justice, to do their part to promote social justice and access to social opportunities so that they can be a good neighbor , not just good enough, but good enough if they re good enough for you to be good enough . to be good enough and good enough? is the key to the good ol for you
00:00:00.000Well, folks, the federal government and our media and our society at large have decided that it is very, very important that we promote fatness and stupidity and laziness.
00:00:07.000There's a fascinating piece out by Ryan Burge, who's a scholar on religion and marriage, over at his substack or his blog, graphsaboutreligion.com, in which he examines the fact that the kind of key identifiers of success in the world generally exist among the religious population in the United States, and they are declining among everybody else.
00:00:26.000And this is sort of a fascinating phenomenon to look at.
00:00:29.000There are a bunch of charts that he puts up to show this.
00:00:31.000So, for example, he puts up a chart showing that as education increases, religious practice or religious belief also increases to a certain extent, which is sort of the reverse of what we've been told.
00:00:43.000The reason that this is the case is because he's talking about not just people who identify as atheist or agnostic, he's talking about people who identify as none of the above.
00:00:51.000So when you look at people who are not religious in any way, or people who just are disassociated from religion, what you find is that people with some high school education, 32% of them believe in none, right, in these polls.
00:01:05.00028% of high school graduates are a none.
00:01:10.00026% of people went to trade school, but by the time you get to a master's degree, only 20% of people who have a master's are nuns, right?
00:01:17.000The nuns are people who suggest, of course, that they have no belief in religion or they're just unassociated with religion entirely.
00:01:23.000Not just atheists and agnostics, but people who say none.
00:01:26.000So as Ryan Burge points out, the trend is unmistakable.
00:01:29.000Those who are most likely to attend services weekly are those with a graduate degree.
00:01:33.000Those least likely to attend are those with a high school diploma or less.
00:01:37.000And one of the other things that that correlates with is income.
00:01:40.000So what you will see is that the share of people who attend weekly by education and income level, the more educated you are, the more income you have, the more likely you are to attend church.
00:01:50.000On a regular basis, which is precisely the reverse of what society tells you, what the media tell you.
00:01:53.000What the media tell you is that it's the most educated among us who never go to church, and it's the least educated among us who always go to church, and that actually is not true.
00:02:01.000When you identify that with marital status, what you find is that married people go to religious services weekly at a far higher rate than people of any other marital status.
00:02:10.000So what that means is that the people who are at your local church are probably, in your community, the best educated, the most likely to be married, and the most likely to be parents as well.
00:02:19.000Because what you find is that the share of people who attend weekly religious services based on marital and parental status, by far, people who are married and parents attend religious services far more clearly.
00:02:31.000So here's the thing, take religion out of the mix for a second.
00:02:33.000The identifiers of success in American life, married, kids, high income, education, those are now correlating extremely highly with religious practice.
00:02:43.000This is the point that Ryan Burge is making and he's right.
00:02:46.000He says the results are hard to ignore and should sound some major alarms for any person of faith concerned about the large state of American society.
00:02:52.000Increasingly, religion has become the enclave for those who have lived a quote-unquote proper life.
00:02:56.000College degree, middle class income, married with children.
00:02:58.000If you check all those boxes, the likelihood of you regularly attending church is about double the rate of folks who don't.
00:03:04.000So Ryan reads that as a critique of the church.
00:03:06.000The church needs to be more welcoming and it needs to find ways to reach out to people who are not married, people who don't have middle class income, people who are not college educated.
00:03:13.000But there's a way to read this in reverse and that is that the rules that the elite of our society, marital elite, the parental elite, the income elite, The educational elite have applied to themselves are very different than the rules they've promulgated to the rest of society.
00:03:26.000And you see this very clearly in the social science data.
00:03:28.000Charles Murray wrote a phenomenal book called Coming Apart, probably a decade and a half ago, in which he examined differences among white communities because he's been ripped up and down for talking about racial disparities.
00:03:38.000So he decided to do a book talking about sociological differences within white communities.
00:03:42.000And he segregated out two separate white communities.
00:03:46.000One, I believe it's called Newtown, one is called Fishtown.
00:03:48.000Newtown was like the high-income group.
00:03:49.000The high-income group had people generally who were married, generally people who had kids.
00:03:54.000Generally, people who are involved in social institutions and people who are low income are the opposite.
00:03:59.000Now, if you look at the media or if you look at the way the government treats this, it's precisely the opposite.
00:04:03.000They pretend that the people who are most likely to be successful in our society are single female Berkeley graduates with no children who hate God and hate the church.
00:04:11.000Those are the people who are most likely to be successful if you watch TV.
00:04:15.000But those in real life are not the people who are actually successful.
00:04:17.000In other words, the message that society is promulgating is precisely the opposite.
00:04:22.000And that has real-world consequences, because it bleeds down to the people who are aspiring to be at the top of the hierarchy in American society.
00:04:31.000It's a point that you can see throughout American history.
00:04:34.000There was always sort of a group of people that everyone aspired to be.
00:04:37.000If you go back to the 1930s, for example, I've used this example before, if you look at pictures from the Great Depression of people who are waiting in line at food distribution centers, at charity services, there are people who are wearing suits.
00:04:49.000If you look at today's billionaires, they dress like schlobs.
00:04:52.000The aspirational has now become an aspiration to kind of be the lowest common denominator, as opposed to the aspiration is to be the highest.
00:05:07.000Successful marriage, successful raising of children, successful in your community, successful in terms of income, successful in terms of education.
00:05:15.000We as a society have decided that because we don't like the results of that, we're going to pretend that the measuring stick doesn't exist.
00:05:20.000But the measuring stick does exist, and we all know about the measuring stick.
00:05:23.000And so innately, we look to the people who are successful by all those measures in our society.
00:05:27.000And those people used to be loud and proud about what it was that they did in their personal lives, what it was they believed.
00:05:32.000But now they've decided that the measure of true virtue is to do precisely the opposite.
00:05:36.000The measure of true virtue is to say, sure, I live that way.
00:05:39.000Sure, you know, I don't send my kid to a public school.
00:05:52.000Because I'm an elite, I'm going to promulgate a new morality that includes you.
00:05:56.000Now, the dirty secret about this is that what that really is is it's a form of ugly paternalism in which people at the top are saying that people at the bottom are incapable of rising, and that's not true.
00:06:05.000The same things that got people at the top to the top are the things that can take anyone to the top.
00:06:11.000But we have a society that's now dedicated to the opposite proposition, that there is some sort of injustice in the measuring stick itself.
00:06:17.000And thus, we are no longer even going to shoot for the things that we all know to be good and true.
00:06:26.000You end up with just turmoil and chaos and unsuccess because you are subsidizing lack of success by removing the measuring stick for success.
00:06:41.000We've known about these rules for at least a couple of hundred years.
00:06:45.000There's nothing new in terms of a mobile American society from unsuccess to success.
00:06:50.000But we have decided at the elite levels of American government and American media to obliterate All of those rules, and pretend that we have done somebody some good, and it's precisely the opposite.
00:06:58.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:08:14.000The precise opposite of the things that bring success are the things that our society promotes.
00:08:20.000So to take a stupid example, our culture promotes people like Cardi B. Cardi B, I've ripped on her before because I think that she is a perfect example of virtually everything wrong with our society.
00:08:31.000She is a rapper who used to be a stripper who bragged on tape about drugging and robbing men.
00:08:37.000And she also happens to be a person who is deemed by our society as the height of sex appeal.
00:08:42.000That sexual satisfaction is supposed to be attained by acting like Cardi B, or by imitating Cardi B. But the reality is that if Cardi B lives Cardi B's values, she ends up very unhappy.
00:08:54.000So Cardi B is married to a person named Offset.
00:09:06.000And then these two lovebirds married one another, And they've had a rather fraught relationship.
00:09:13.000And this is the model, by the way, for literally millions of people in the United States.
00:09:18.000The thing that we used to model in the United States was, you know, a solid marriage that lasted for an entire lifetime in which you were dedicated to the upraising of your children.
00:09:25.000But Cardi B's marriage has now splashed across page six.
00:09:29.000So the latest claim within the beautiful marriage that Cardi B has presented, and again, she's the height of sex appeal.
00:09:33.000She can't keep her husband dining in, but she's the height of sex appeal.
00:09:36.000She took to Twitter Spaces Monday to address her husband Offset's claim that she effed another man.
00:09:41.000So apparently, he put up an Instagram post, which is really just a delight.
00:10:44.000Can't be no regular regular regular because they don't tell the world.
00:10:50.000I don't even know how to translate that.
00:10:53.000In any case, this is what is presented by the upper echelons of our culture as high culture.
00:10:59.000We have to stop pretending that this is quote-unquote low culture in the United States because it's not.
00:11:03.000This sort of stuff is promoted by every major media outlet in the United States.
00:11:06.000It is promoted by every single major streaming service in the United States.
00:11:10.000It is promoted as the height of American culture.
00:11:12.000You are literally not supposed to say things like, this stuff is ugly and bad and her music sucks.
00:11:17.000You're not allowed to say that sort of stuff without people going crazy on you.
00:11:20.000That the message is promulgated by people like Cardi B or, for that matter, Nicki Minaj.
00:11:23.000That this music is garbage and that it actually is promoting harmful messages.
00:11:27.000Instead, we are supposed to pretend that it's a form of female empowerment and that people who follow its TikToks are likely to lead happier lives.
00:11:33.000Cardi B is not leading a particularly happy marital life.
00:11:36.000The people who are leading happy marital lives are boring fuddy-duddies.
00:11:39.000The people who are being promoted by our society as the models of marriage are people like Cardi B. Obviously, these are the things that actually matter.
00:11:48.000It's a society that promotes stupidity.
00:11:51.000It's a society that promotes failed marriages or not getting married at all.
00:11:54.000I mean, I'll give it to Cardi B. At least she actually got married.
00:11:58.00070% of kids who are born in the black community today are born out of wedlock.
00:12:00.00040% of kids in the white community, by the way, are born out of wedlock today.
00:12:05.000Now, as we'll discuss in a moment, none of that happens in a vacuum.
00:12:07.000You actually have to have a supporting governmental structure to promote all of that.
00:12:11.000But that's not the only thing that we're promoting.
00:12:12.000So we're promoting stupidity in relationships.
00:12:15.000And we're also promoting fatness, right?
00:12:17.000Because we have decided that we're going to obliterate all the measuring sticks.
00:12:20.000Again, we all know innately what success looks like.
00:12:22.000Success, when it comes to marriage, looks like you marry a person, you love that person, you stay with them until you die, you bring up kids with that person, your relationship deepens over time.
00:13:08.000Most people get their values from either the local institutions in which they participate, which would normally be a church, or if they don't get it from the church, they're getting it from their surrounding milieu, which is usually social media.
00:13:18.000And yes, culture, like Cardi B, has many, many, many more fans and followers than I will ever have because she is in the cultural realm.
00:13:28.000And so when you have an entire media infrastructure dedicated to the proposition that being extremely overweight is actually a sign of health and beauty, What do you think you're going to get?
00:13:36.000You're incentivizing people to participate in that sort of behavior.
00:13:39.000We'll get to more of that momentarily.
00:13:41.000First, if you run a small business, important to plan ahead.
00:14:46.000There is a piece by Daniel Pinnock, an actress, writer, and comedian, and star of the CBS sitcom Ghosts, and the creator of the one-woman show Body Slash Courage.
00:14:54.000Oh man, will it be more stunning or will it be more brave?
00:14:57.000She has a piece over at the Washington Post titled, What the Fat Shamers Don't Get About Lizzo.
00:15:04.000I understand why Lizzo took a beat from Twitter.
00:15:06.000Last month, the Emmy and Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate artist, a classically trained flute-playing rapper, singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion mogul was under attack again from internet trolls bombarding her with vicious messages about her weight.
00:15:17.000This time it got so bad she locked down her Twitter account writing,
00:15:19.000y'all don't know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting.
00:15:23.000I don't think that that was phrased in sort of the Shakespearean, the sort of old English.
00:16:40.000Quote, she lives freely and unapologetically.
00:16:42.000Ah, this sort of language makes me just want to vomit.
00:16:44.000Freely and unapologetically, as opposed to living in chains apologetically, whether twerking on the beach with her besties or modeling stylish crop tops from her shapewear brand, Yitti.
00:16:54.000But for years, Lizzo has faced backlash from people made uncomfortable by her unabashed acceptance of herself, who'd rather see her concealed in oversized cardigans and potato sacks.
00:17:04.000I love that the alternatives here are potato sacks or thongs.
00:17:09.000I feel like there's a whole wide range, a magical range of clothing that fits between potato sacks and thongs.
00:17:20.000There's a difference between endorsing obesity and practicing self-love.
00:17:26.000Well, not when her self-love involves promoting obesity.
00:17:30.000There's a fairly high crossover right there.
00:17:32.000When most people think of obesity, says this columnist, perhaps they think of skyrocketing BMIs, or overweight people with chronic diseases, or TV shows such as My 600-lb Life, or The Biggest Loser.
00:18:00.000Is it a recipe for your success to imitate Lizzo's actions?
00:18:06.000I love that this lady tries to turn Lizzo into a sort of fitness guru.
00:18:10.000She got me back in the gym, says this columnist, seeing someone who looks like me not ashamed or hating her body while exercising changed my entire perspective on fitness.
00:18:36.000And then you wonder why there's a backlash that comes in the form of some of the stupidest presidential campaigning in human history and people resonating to it.
00:18:44.000He's going to run about 20% in the primary polls versus Joe Biden.
00:18:49.000And the reason for that is because Joe Biden is a doddering elderly gentleman who looks like he is going to literally keel over and die in front of us.
00:18:57.000is a person who has expressed a number of wild theories, and then also does a campaign where he takes off his shirt at the age of 70, pretty clearly on testosterone replacement therapy, for whatever it's worth, and looks pretty ripped, and then does some push-ups, and people were like fawning over this yesterday.
00:19:46.000Let's go. There is a seven-year-old dude doing push-ups and honestly for a
00:19:53.000seven-year-old dude this is this is pretty impressive. Now it is his final
00:19:56.000set so he said he had to tweet out that this was actually his last set because he
00:20:00.000only got like eight push-ups there but it doesn't matter This went viral, and the reason this went viral is, number one, he's a seven-year-old dude in really good shape, and also because it is a backlash to a society that says that it is actively good to ignore your weight, that it is actively good to ignore standards.
00:20:17.000Now, none of this could be promoted in any sort of scenario where the government didn't support it, because it would turn out that unsuccess would lead to, for example, lack of income.
00:20:27.000Lack of success in these various bad decision-making would have consequences, but we've constructed an entire utopian world in which bad activities, stupid decisions actually end up being rewarded by the government because we're supposed to treat bad decisions with sympathy the same way that we would some sort of medical condition.
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00:21:41.000Okay, all of this brings us to the collapse of the institutions that were supposed to prevent this sort of thing.
00:21:49.000And also to the building up of institutions that support the destruction of decent measures.
00:21:54.000So I have to say that I'm a non-Catholic, but I'm a member of Western civilization, which means that I have a pretty strong stake in the papacy.
00:22:04.000The Pope happens to have dominion over a billion people.
00:22:08.000What he says matters an awful lot, and Pope Francis has been doing an absolutely horrendous job, actually, of guarding the values that he is supposed to be guarding as the Pope.
00:22:17.000As a religious person, I would prefer to see Judeo-Christian religion flourish, because I think that Judeo-Christian religion has been the single greatest force undergirding a system of morality that allows for the values that create success.
00:22:29.000Well, apparently, according to Fortune magazine, Pope Francis praised artists on Friday as true visionaries who can see, dream, and invent, as he welcomed 200 artists, filmmakers, and writers into the Sistine Chapel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Museum's Contemporary Art Collection.
00:22:43.000Francis acknowledged that some in the crowd, there was Andres Serrano of Piss Christ fame, sometimes used confrontation to make people think, but he said their aim was to find harmony and beauty.
00:22:52.000You want to reveal reality also in its contradictions, and in those things that it is more comfortable and convenient to keep hidden, Francis said.
00:22:58.000Like the biblical prophets, you confront things that at times are uncomfortable.
00:23:01.000You criticize today's false myths and new idols, its empty talks, the ploys of consumerism, the schemes of power.
00:23:07.000So, that is presumably why you invite a person who literally put a crucifix in a jar of urine and called it art.
00:23:19.000It's hard to think of anything more self-defeating than that.
00:23:23.000And many of our chief religious institutions have been doing sort of the same thing.
00:23:26.000They've been mirroring the desires of the elites instead of mirroring the values that allow elites to become elites in the first place and give access to that elite status to literally everyone.
00:23:37.000They're helping the elites destroy the ladder of success that got them where they are by following the values of modernity that are a complete fail.
00:23:45.000Meanwhile, as I say, all of that has to be subsidized by some government, and that is what Joe Biden is doing.
00:23:50.000So Joe Biden is now trotting out a new thing.
00:23:56.000Apparently, Bidenomics is we just spray money at pretty much everything.
00:24:00.000Bidenomics is all about ensuring that people who make bad decisions are subsidized.
00:24:05.000And that's true in the economics sphere.
00:24:07.000If you get into an industry that's failing, then presumably the Biden administration is going to hold you up.
00:24:11.000If you are a person who is on food stamps and you don't want to work, the Biden administration tries to hold you up.
00:24:17.000These are all very important things for Bidenomics to push.
00:24:21.000According to Politico, this is a pivot into a new campaign message censored on Bidenomics shorthand for the administration's economic strategy of, quote, boosting the middle class through government investments rather than stimulative tax cuts focusing on the wealthy.
00:24:33.000So here's the difference, by the way, between a government investment rather than a stimulative tax cut.
00:24:37.000A tax cut is where you pay less taxes, and then you are rewarded or punished accordingly for your good or bad decision-making.
00:24:43.000Because what you do with your money is now your fault.
00:24:46.000What I do with my money, if I make a bad investment, I pay the price for that.
00:24:48.000If the government takes my money and invests it in something bad, Then, presumably, I still pay the price for it, but you don't pay the price for it in some way.
00:24:57.000And if you are at the bottom end of the scale and you're not paying taxes, then you really don't pay the price for it.
00:25:00.000Instead, you're just taking money out of somebody else's pocket.
00:25:20.000Bidenomics, again, is redistribution of income through various governmental means and subsidization of political allies.
00:25:28.000That's the story of the American federal government really since the FDR days, but more importantly, since the War on Poverty, which has utterly restructured American society along the lines of promoting fat, stupid, and lazy.
00:25:40.000You now get paid by the federal government to make bad decisions.
00:25:44.000Here is Corinne Jean-Pierre promoting the phrase Bidenomics.
00:25:46.000This apparently is their new... Again, I'm not sure how they think that makes it more popular since Joe Biden is a very unpopular president.
00:25:53.000I wanted to ask you about this new Bidenomics messaging push.
00:25:56.000Can you just give me a sense first of, you know, how did you guys coin that phrase or why did you decide to go with that branding going forward?
00:26:09.000Look, it makes good sense, Bidenomics, right?
00:26:14.000It kind of flows off the tongue really well.
00:26:16.000But in all seriousness, look, what you're going to hear from the president, I don't want to get ahead of him.
00:26:21.000I think we've kind of laid out a little bit of what we are thinking, what we think the president's going to lay out, what he is going to lay out.
00:26:51.000Equity is the idea that no matter what bad decisions you make, if there is a disparity, it is a result of American discrimination and the evils of our system.
00:26:57.000So the system itself must be restructured.
00:27:00.000Again, we've been talking about this in terms of marital morality.
00:27:02.000We've been talking about it in terms of weight, and it's certainly true in terms of income and education level as well.
00:27:06.000And then you wonder why the education system is failing.
00:27:08.000It's because of precisely this mentality.
00:27:10.000Again, the difference between the elites of today and the elites of yesterday in the United States is the elites of yesterday used to say, here's a series of rules that we followed and that everyone should follow.
00:27:19.000These are good rules and we should promulgate them.
00:27:21.000The elites of today say, here are a series of rules that we followed.
00:27:23.000You don't have to follow those rules because we are better than you are.
00:27:26.000We are innately, More meritorious than you are.
00:27:30.000And so we could have actually bucked those rules.
00:27:31.000We could have ignored all of those rules, and we still would have been successful.
00:27:34.000Which means you really don't have a shot.
00:27:36.000Even if you follow those rules, you won't be successful.
00:27:37.000So we're going to restructure all of American society around the assumption that the people at the bottom rungs of the ladder, they're going to stay at the bottom rungs of the ladder, no matter what decisions they make.
00:27:44.000So they may as well make really crappy decisions that make their lives worse.
00:28:01.000He was doing a White House presser with Modi from India.
00:28:07.000And he somehow dropped a joke about selling state secrets, which is where we are now.
00:28:11.000Now we have not just presidents who may have committed crimes, presidents who openly joke about maybe committing crimes.
00:28:19.000Honestly, if the best crop of candidates that our country has to offer is Joe Biden on the Democratic side, Donald Trump on the Republican side, and RFK Jr.
00:28:29.000as the independent candidate, I don't even know what to say about that.
00:28:34.000Here is Joe Biden, a mentally defunct human being with a long history of apparent corruption.
00:28:41.000I was just thinking, anyway, I started off without you.
00:28:50.000And I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.
00:28:57.000And he says, all joking aside, I sold a lot of state secrets while you were out of the room.
00:29:02.000Can you imagine if Donald Trump joked about, you know, selling state secrets while he was president of the United States?
00:29:09.000Joe Biden is so confident that the media will never ever actually investigate this sort of stuff, that he just says this kind of stuff.
00:29:15.000Now, we have Hunter Biden's attorney admitting that the WhatsApp text in which Hunter claims that Joe Biden is sitting next to him while they shake down a Chinese business person, who was a front person for the Chinese government, The attorney in Hunter Biden's case admits that that text is real.
00:29:31.000And yet apparently there are no consequences to this whatsoever.
00:29:36.000Which is why Joe Biden is joking about it fairly openly at this time.
00:29:41.000Now, what's truly amazing is that the lawyer's statement, according to Breitbart, came on the same day that Breitbart News reported the Biden family received $5.1 million within 10 days of Hunter Biden's message to a CCP-linked businessman who worked with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy, according to a 2020 Senate report on the Biden family.
00:29:59.000The IRS whistleblower testimony revealed on Thursday that FBI investigators wanted to obtain the location data to confirm Joe Biden was in the room, but there's no confidence the FBI actually obtained that data.
00:30:10.000So again, Joe Biden is openly joking about the corruption scandal that is now engulfing him in the full confidence that he will be covered up for by the media.
00:30:19.000Ana Navarro, the supposed Republican on The View, is out there repeating the talking point that what this whole story is about is what an amazing parent Joe Biden is.
00:30:27.000I can't tell you how much his life has been marked by losing not one child, but two children.
00:30:34.000And once you've lost a child, I think you are absolutely determined, it's even more urgent, it's even a bigger issue that you will not lose another one.
00:31:08.000It's not like Hunter was sitting at Merrick Garland's lap.
00:31:12.000It was a bunch of people, and I think part of the reason that Hunter Biden has been able to get out of addiction is because Joe Biden embraced him entirely the entire time.
00:31:25.000When he was vice president, when he was candidate, when he was out of office, and now as president.
00:31:30.000I mean, of course Joe Biden thinks he can get away with it.
00:31:33.000He's got the entire media parroting this garbage.
00:31:35.000The real story here is not whether Hunter Biden was a cutout for his dad making money.
00:31:40.000The real story here is that Joe Biden is an amazing, amazing parent.
00:31:43.000Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, he's threatening impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland if the whistleblower allegations are true that Merrick Garland shut down all indictments of Hunter Biden on felony charges in various jurisdictions.
00:31:56.000Miranda Devine says that Joe Biden met with his business partners 12 times.
00:32:03.00012 different times and 12 different deals, perhaps.
00:32:05.000So it's called, you know, Rob Walker, who was in on all this stuff.
00:32:12.000So will this prompt you to do a impeachment inquiry?
00:32:15.000Well, You apparently don't follow me on Twitter, because yesterday I laid out very clearly, by July 6th, because of the allegations from the IRS, because of the whistleblowers, and the DOJ are garland, what he is saying and what David Weiss are saying privately are two different things.
00:32:34.000And if it comes true what the IRS whistleblower is saying, we're going to start impeachment inquiries on the Attorney General.
00:32:40.000Because as a matter of fact, it shows that.
00:32:46.000But we'll see if there's any follow-up on that.
00:32:48.000Now, meanwhile, you might be thinking to yourself, well, maybe Republicans should work on, you know, winning the presidency away from Joe Biden.
00:32:54.000Well, I have some unfortunate news for you on that score.
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00:35:34.000But in the swing states, it shows DeSantis up 53-42.
00:35:38.000And if we've learned anything, it's that most states in the union, they don't really matter when it comes to the presidential election because they're going to break 60-40 or 55-45.
00:35:46.000There are a few states that really, really matter.
00:35:56.000It's a very, very small list of states that is going to decide the election.
00:35:59.000So the real question is not how the candidates would do nationally, because by popular vote, Donald Trump lost both the elections in which he was involved.
00:36:06.000The real question is how they are going to do on the statewide level because, of course, Donald Trump won in 2016 and then lost those states in 2020.
00:36:16.000If you wish to defeat Joe Biden, perhaps it would be good if your candidate was not embroiled in a bunch of ongoing legal dramas that involve him mainly doing dumb things.
00:36:26.000Okay, so, as I've said before, two things can be true at once.
00:36:29.000There is no way that if Donald Trump were a Democrat, he would currently be prosecuted for his classified documents treatment.
00:36:43.000Donald Trump did a bunch of things that were incredibly stupid, and he did them on tape.
00:36:47.000So just one of the charges in this documents case that is now going to be tried over in Fort Pierce, which by the way is pretty good for Trump because Fort Pierce is a pretty conservative area.
00:36:55.000So you assume the jury pool is going to be more kind to Trump.
00:36:59.000But one of the allegations is that Donald Trump not only had classified material after he left the White House, which is true of like a thousand different presidents and vice presidents and various officials, but that he kept it after he was told by the Department of Justice and the National Archives to turn it back over.
00:37:14.000And then he had his lawyers go out there and attest to the FBI and the National Archives and the DOJ that he had turned over all the documents.
00:37:20.000Meanwhile, he was hiding classified documents from his own lawyers so that he could essentially play with them for no reason.
00:37:26.000And again, the left went nuts on this.
00:37:28.000He had Jen Psaki suggesting that Trump's theory here was that he wanted to give documents to dictators.
00:37:33.000Here is Jen Psaki over on MSNBC suggesting just that.
00:37:36.000As you just alluded to, I mean, reading the itemized list of 31 documents and the clearance levels, as a former ranking member on the Intel Committee, there were five I's classifications there.
00:37:50.000There were some of the highest level classifications.
00:37:54.000And knowing what you know about former President Donald Trump, we know he has an affection for dictators.
00:38:00.000Do you have concern, without us knowing at this point, of what he may have wanted to do with those documents?
00:38:19.000And even Donald Trump kind of knows that, which is why in his interview with Brett Baier, he actually did what he very often does in these circumstances, and he fibbed.
00:38:27.000So he said to Brett Baier, there's a tape of him.
00:38:30.000And the transcript of that tape appeared in the indictment.
00:38:34.000The tape was of him speaking to a group of women, some of whom are journalists apparently.
00:38:40.000And it sounds like he's taking out classified documents and saying directly to them, these are classified documents.
00:38:46.000I could have declassified them when I was the president, but I did not do so.
00:38:49.000Which is kind of game set match as far as the actual legality of his actions.
00:38:53.000If you say, I know these are classified documents, then you also know you shouldn't be holding them.
00:38:58.000And if you say, I have no power to declassify them now, which he actually says on the tape, then you know you shouldn't have them.
00:39:04.000So, for the thousandth time, it could be true that the prosecution is political in the sense that if he were a Democrat, it wouldn't be happening to him.
00:39:10.000Also, why would he put a target squarely on his back this way?
00:39:14.000In any case, here was Trump telling Bret Baier that the documents he's talking about in that tape are actually just newspapers.
00:39:21.000When I said that I couldn't declassify it now, that's because I wasn't president.
00:41:59.000I believe that Florida is a two-party consent state, which means that, with very few exceptions, virtually all conversations that take place that are taped in the state of Florida, and he was at Mar-a-Lago at the time, have to have the consent of both parties to the taping.
00:42:10.000So he knew a tape recorder was on, and he is so arrogant that he thought that he could say into the tape recorder, here are a bunch of classified documents that I have right here.
00:42:19.000And I could have declassified them, but I didn't.
00:42:22.000And then he went on national TV and said that he was waving around newspapers, which pretty obviously is not in that recording.
00:42:34.000If he's going to be the nominee, I want to see him win.
00:42:36.000I want Joe Biden not to be president anymore.
00:42:37.000That is my top political priority come 2024, is I do not want Joe Biden to be president of the United States come January 2025.
00:42:44.000He's a terrible president who is doing terrible things routinely, which means that if Trump is going to be the nominee, I would like to see Trump win.
00:42:50.000Is this the sort of behavior that leads one to believe that victory is insight, that victory is inevitability?
00:42:56.000Does it heighten your chances or lower your chances when you do this sort of stuff and you do it routinely?
00:43:18.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:43:19.000First, there's a lot of leftist propaganda out there.
00:43:21.000Endless pronouns, critical race theory, sexually explicit books, and more, all easily accessible to minors, virtually all via our public education system.
00:43:28.000There are literal fights taking place in public schools right now so that school boards can make sure that your child is indoctrinated with pornography, essentially.
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00:44:35.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then some things that I hate.
00:44:42.000It is called The Spy Among Friends, and it is about the British spy, Kim Philby, and the ferreting out of the so-called Cambridge Five, which is a series of communist spies in the British government who were essentially getting hundreds, if not thousands, of anti-Soviet dissidents murdered in Eastern Europe and inside Russia from the 30s to the 60s.