Ron DeSantis has the power to suspend certain public officials for failing to do their job, and yesterday he did just that for the second time in a year. He suspended the top state prosecutor in Orlando, Florida, and accused her of incompetence and neglect of duty for what he characterized as lenience against violent criminals. She is a George Soros-backed prosecutor who is somebody who is in favor of decriminalizing crime. And here was the governor announcing her suspension yesterday. Well, what exactly happened here? Well, the governor has the ability to suspend a public official for not doing their job. And guess what? They do not prosecute crime. They don t prosecute crimes. And they don t try to solve crimes. So why is this happening? Is this a political hit job? Or is this just another example of the governor abusing executive power to go after an opposing political party? And why is it so bad? And why does the media think this is a good thing? Well, we'll tell you why it's a bad thing, and why you should be mad at the governor for firing a prosecutor who doesn't do her job. And we'll talk about why you shouldn't be mad about it, and how it's just as bad as it is, and what he should do about it and why it should be better than what he's actually doing, not what you should do, and not what the media should be doing, right now. You're going to get a lesson in how to do, right here in Washington, D.C., right in the middle of the streets of New York City, New York! - Tom Cotton Cotton and the New York Times oped by Tom Cotton's oped on crime, and more! Tom Cotton, Tom Cotton of Arkansas's Oped by the NY Times' Oped Editor, and much, much, and a lot more. And much, more. ...and much more! -- -- Tom Cotton is a writer who writes about crime and the National Guard in the Washington Post's Opinions, and writes a piece about it. -- -- and it's hilarious, and he's not even better than that! -- but he's funny, right? -- and he also has a piece on it, so you should listen to it, too! -- and you should read it, right in The Hill's own oped about it on the podcast, too.
00:00:00.000Well, there are some politicians who say they're going to do the thing, and then there are some politicians who actually do the thing.
00:00:04.000Well, Ron DeSantis continues to do the thing, at least where he has the ability to, in the state of Florida.
00:00:10.000In yet another headline that is going to make the New York Times go nuts, the headline today, DeSantis suspends second elected prosecutor in Florida.
00:00:17.000Well, the governor has the ability to suspend certain public officials for failing to do their job.
00:00:23.000And yesterday, Governor DeSantis suspended the top state prosecutor in Orlando He accused her of incompetence and neglect of duty for what he characterized as lenience against violent criminals.
00:00:31.000There's a 40-page report from the governor's office demonstrating her lack of prosecuting crime.
00:00:36.000She, of course, is a George Soros-backed prosecutor.
00:00:38.000She is somebody who is in favor of essentially decriminalizing crime.
00:00:42.000And here was the governor announcing her suspension yesterday.
00:00:46.000Monique Worrell's administration of criminal justice in the Ninth Circuit has been clearly and fundamentally derelict so as to constitute both neglect of duty and incompetence.
00:00:57.000Policies or practices listed in our executive order suspending her, that constitutes the grounds of suspension, are as follows.
00:01:06.000One, a pattern or practice to avoid minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes.
00:01:12.000Pattern or practice to avoid minimum mandatory sentences for drug trafficking offenses.
00:01:18.000Pattern or practice allowing juvenile offenders to avoid serious charges and incarceration altogether.
00:01:25.000Pattern or practice to avoid valid and applicable sentencing enhancements.
00:01:30.000Pattern or practice limiting charges for child pornography.
00:01:34.000Pattern or practice for seeking withholding of adjudication in situations not permitted.
00:01:40.000under Florida law. Now, super boring, right? Except this is the stuff that actually moves
00:01:44.000the ball forward in terms of making people's lives better in places like Orlando, because
00:01:48.000the fact is that the place where she presided, which would be the Ninth Circuit in Florida,
00:01:53.000had a percentage dropped of cases, like non-prosecution cases. 42% of the referrals
00:02:01.000that were made to her office were then dropped by her office.
00:02:11.000Now, the way the media play this is, of course, that it's a partisan hit job.
00:02:14.000Quote, the move was the governor's latest aggressive use of executive power against local officials of the opposing political party.
00:02:19.000So just to be clear, it's really bad when Governor DeSantis decides to fire a prosecutor in Orlando for failing to prosecute crime.
00:02:26.000That's a misuse of executive power to go after an opposing political official.
00:02:30.000When you are the President of the United States and your Department of Justice goes after the person who is currently leading the primaries in the opposing party over crimes that, when done by members of your own party, were completely exonerated and whitewashed, when that happens, that's just good law enforcement.
00:02:46.000So when Merrick Garland goes after Donald Trump, good law enforcement.
00:02:49.000When Ron DeSantis fires a prosecutor for not doing her job, political hit job, according to our wonderful media.
00:02:53.000DeSantis suspended Monique Worrell, the elected state attorney of Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit, which includes Orange and Osceola counties, and cited as reasons for handling of three cases and a low overall incarceration rate, among other things.
00:03:06.000This is the second time in a year that DeSantis has done this.
00:03:08.000But to be fair, this also happens to be a period in which a bunch of prosecutors got put in place who don't prosecute.
00:03:16.000In fact, things have gotten so bad on crime.
00:03:25.000Which is hilarious because you'll remember that Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote an op-ed in the middle of Riot Summer 2020, suggesting that maybe the National Guard needed to be called in to quell riots.
00:03:34.000And this ended with the firing of the op-ed editor of the New York Times for even daring to run a piece suggesting that thing.
00:03:46.000DeSantis said that they had charged cases in this particular district in ways that would avoid all of the mandatory minimum sentences for both gun and drug trafficking crimes.
00:03:54.000They allowed juveniles to avoid serious charges or incarceration.
00:03:57.000He said prosecutors have a certain amount of discretion about which cases to bring and which not to bring.
00:04:00.000This state attorney has abused that discretion and has effectively nullified certain laws in the state of Florida.
00:04:05.000The governor then appointed Andrew Bain, a judge from the same judicial circuit, to take Worrell's place.
00:04:10.000Worrell can appeal her suspension to the Republican-controlled State Senate or go to the Florida Supreme Court.
00:04:15.000Unlikely that she is going to win that case.
00:04:18.000She will be the new MSNBC Hero of the Day, because that is the way that this works.
00:04:22.000If you do not perform your job, or if you disrupt the system, like a Tennessee state legislator who just decides to lead a quasi-riot into the middle of the Tennessee state legislature, then MSNBC will make you a hero if then you are stripped of certain legislative privileges.
00:04:38.000Here was the Orlando state attorney deposed, suggesting that the big problem here is that the cops gave DeSantis the info.
00:04:45.000The cops are the problem because the cops actually went to the governor's office and like, you know, we're referring all these crimes and none of them are getting prosecuted.
00:04:52.000See, where normal people come from, the cops are the good guys and the criminals are the bad guys.
00:04:57.000I also want to point out that law enforcement has played a big role in giving the governor the information that he is tasked for to support a suspension.
00:05:13.000Because when I ran, I promised law enforcement accountability.
00:05:18.000And since I have become state attorney, we prosecuted Jonathan Mills, a serial terrorist on the paramour community.
00:05:26.000And he went to jail under my administration, and the Florida Order of Police was pissed about it.
00:05:34.000Okay, the chorus of mm-hmms in the background, I can only assume, are her political allies.
00:05:38.000It is worth noting here that she let out of jail people who went on to commit violent crimes.
00:05:42.000One was Dayton Veal, a 28-year-old man killed by Orlando police officers Saturday after he had shot and critically injured two other officers on Friday night.
00:05:49.000Veal had posted bond earlier this year after being charged with sexual battery of a 14-year-old girl.
00:05:53.000This is the kind of person that Worrell was letting out of prison.
00:05:55.000The other cases involved a man who shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend after having been released while facing charges including carrying a concealed firearm on school property and a man who's convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 51 weeks in jail as a youthful offender.
00:06:07.000Warrell then went on in this press conference to talk about how Ron DeSantis was destroying democracy because democracy is where you get elected to a prosecution position and then refuse to prosecute.
00:06:17.000He needed to get back in the media in some positive way that would be red meat for his base, and he will have accomplished that today.
00:06:26.000He will be in the news nationally and internationally for the individual who has single-handedly destroyed democracy in the state of Florida.
00:06:38.000Okay, and then she continued by suggesting, of course, that DeSantis is what she called a weak dictator, which is weird since he just fired... So either he's a strong dictator who just fired you, or he's a weak guy who didn't fire you.
00:06:49.000It's kind of weird to be a weak dictator.
00:06:51.000By the way, she finished this press conference by putting up her fist, like Antifa Power, which is just a great way for a prosecutor to go.
00:07:00.000I am your duly elected state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit.
00:07:05.000And nothing done by a weak dictator can change that.
00:07:18.000So, again, Ron DeSantis doing the things in Florida that are necessary for people in Florida to live a better life.
00:07:22.000This is the part of the DeSantis campaign that has been so far kind of lacking, is the fact that DeSantis is actually very good at, like, the basics of governing in the state of Florida.
00:07:31.000Meaning when a bridge gets taken out by a hurricane, that thing is back up within days.
00:07:38.000The police are able to do their jobs here.
00:07:40.000When a prosecutor fails to do her job, she gets fired in the state of Florida.
00:07:43.000And that bread and butter kind of stuff is the reason that DeSantis is very popular in the state of Florida.
00:07:47.000All of the fighting of wokeness, all of the sort of controversial policy positions that DeSantis has taken on top of that, That's sort of the icing on the cake.
00:07:56.000But the cake is that DeSantis is actually very good at governing.
00:07:57.000And this is something that Republican voters ought to think about going forward when it comes time to vote in primaries.
00:08:03.000Is Donald Trump going to learn the lessons of his first presidency?
00:08:08.000And is he then going to be good at the bread and butter kind of stuff?
00:08:10.000Or is it just going to be a repeat of the first presidency in which he actually didn't do any of the bread and butter kind of stuff?
00:08:14.000It was kind of the people around him doing all of that.
00:08:17.000Because if you actually wish to see the left lose, the thing that you actually need is for the right to be good at the actual business of governing.
00:08:25.000Know how to wield power in effective ways.
00:08:27.000DeSantis is doing that in the state of Florida.
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00:10:10.000Okay, meanwhile, Disney is taking it directly in the teeth.
00:10:13.000The New York Times, of course, is attributing this to larger market forces, but the reality is that Disney has completely blown out a large segment of its user base.
00:10:20.000I can tell you that Disney has lost thousands of dollars from my family alone.
00:10:23.000And normally, in a given year, I would take my family to Disneyland over here at Disney World over here in Florida.
00:10:29.000I would take them there at least three times, probably, over the course of the year.
00:10:32.000And I have a fairly large family with, like, cousins and everything.
00:10:35.000So we're talking, like, thousands of dollars that Disney has lost just for my family.
00:10:38.000And obviously, they're a massive, multi-billion-dollar corporation.
00:10:42.000But there are a lot of people who are like me.
00:10:44.000There are a lot of people who are not subscribing to Disney+, even though I otherwise would just to watch the Star Wars content, because Disney has decided to spit in the eye of its consumer base.
00:10:54.000And obviously that was highlighted by their conflict for no reason whatsoever with the state of Florida over the question of sexual indoctrination of children.
00:11:01.000Well now, the New York Times is reporting that Robert Iger's urgent need to overhaul Disney came into sharp relief on Wednesday.
00:11:08.000Disney's streaming operation lost $512 million in the most recent quarter, bringing total streaming losses since 2019, when Disney Plus was introduced, to more than $11 billion.
00:11:18.000Disney Plus lost roughly 11.7 million subscribers worldwide in the three months that ended July 1st, for a new total of 146.1 million.
00:11:27.000All the decline came from a low-priced version of Disney Plus in India.
00:11:29.000So they basically inflated their numbers by getting a bunch of people to sign up for, you know, the Star Package in India, and then everybody Basically dropped off because Disney lost a bid to renew the expensive rights to Indian Premier League cricket matches, excluding India.
00:11:43.000Disney Plus gained 800,000 subscribers, primarily overseas, but that rate of growth is not going to make up for the kind of costs that they have been experiencing due to streaming.
00:11:52.000So IGOR is now shifting the focus of Disney Plus away from brisk subscriber growth, which requires those big marketing campaigns.
00:11:57.000Instead, Disney has been trying to make more money from Disney Plus subscribers it already has by increasing the price.
00:12:02.000Another hefty price increase is on the way.
00:12:04.000Starting on October 12th, the ad-free version will cost $14.
00:12:07.000Hulu, which is controlled by Disney, will begin charging $18 for ad-free access.
00:12:11.000As an incentive, Disney will begin selling a new streaming package, ad-free access to both Disney+, and Hulu, for $20 a month, starting on September 6th.
00:12:18.000Now, again, one of the things that's happening here is that a lot of prospective customers, people like me, have been dropping off.
00:12:25.000So it's really lowering their growth curve.
00:12:30.000An 11% increase in profitability at Disney's theme park divisions, despite weakness at Walt Disney World in Florida, allowed the company to salvage the quarter to a degree, but they're really getting clocked.
00:12:39.000And other theme park operators in Florida have seen attendance declines.
00:12:43.000Historically, when budgets get tight, families cut back on expensive trips to Disney World, but it's not just that.
00:12:47.000Again, there is a political aspect to this.
00:12:58.000The profit margins, particularly in the media business, can be extremely slim.
00:13:02.000And so, if you ding the profit margin by a certain percentage, if you alienate a certain percentage of your core customer base, that has really outsized ramifications for the broader market.
00:13:13.000Because remember, valuation, when it comes to public markets, is always a multiple of the actual cash flow or the actual EBITDA of the company.
00:13:21.000What that means is that if a company, say, has a gross income, the gross that they take in is a billion dollars a year, that company's not valued at a billion dollars on the public market, it's gonna get valued at like 10 billion, 15 billion dollars on the public markets depending on what industry and sector the company is in.
00:13:37.000So that means that if you ding that company, And I say $50 million.
00:13:41.000And it goes down from a billion to $950 million.
00:13:44.000If you do that, then the multiple, let's say it's at a 10 level, is going to go down concomitantly.
00:13:50.000That $50 million is going to end up looking more like $500 million when it comes to the actual market cap of the company.
00:13:56.000So you can actually seriously ding a company in the public markets simply by alienating a certain segment of your customer base.
00:14:02.000And that's exactly what Disney has done by getting into this bleep fight with Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida, and more broadly, parents across the country.
00:14:09.000And they're only gonna get worse, by the way.
00:14:10.000I mean, the fact that they are now doing, like, Woke Snow White is so absurd.
00:14:15.000I don't know what they're thinking over there or why they think that this is a growth area.
00:14:20.000Seriously, are they catering to the Chinese market?
00:14:21.000It used to be that Disney's, the big rap against Disney is that they were catering to the Chinese market by filming, like, Mulan in Shenzhen and ignoring the slave labor of Muslims.
00:14:30.000And at least you could make the case on a market level that they were trying to appeal to, you know, the giant Chinese market.
00:14:35.000But when they're deciding to make Woke Snow White, With like non-dwarves as the dwarves?
00:14:46.000And the answer is that they have been victims of institutional capture by their own people.
00:14:51.000And I assume that as the market starts to decline, we'll talk about the economy momentarily, that as the market starts to decline, Disney's gonna have to do what every other company is doing and they're gonna have to get rid of their loss leaders.
00:15:02.000We're gonna get to more on this in just one second.
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00:16:07.000Okay, meanwhile, again, the economic lights here are blinking red.
00:16:11.000Things are not going to be, everyone is very sanguine about the state of the economy.
00:16:14.000I'm significantly less sanguine about the state of the economy.
00:16:16.000I know too many investors who are holding their money in abeyance, knowing that the economy is on razor's edge.
00:16:21.000Everyone I talk to, right, in investment circles, and I do a fair share of investing, Everyone I'm talking to is holding their money out of the market right now, because they don't know which way it's going to go.
00:16:31.000Well, today, the Consumer Price Index came out again, and it showed that prices rose 3.2% in July from a year ago.
00:16:39.000So June, you'll recall, was down to 3%, which is still 50% higher than the Fed seeks, right?
00:16:43.000The Fed wants a 2% rate of increase year on year.
00:16:47.000That is sort of the Milton Friedman Chicago School idea that if you constantly inflate the currency and deflate value, that if you do that it's going to spur a certain level of consumer spending and this is going to keep the wheels churning and all the rest of this.
00:16:59.000I'm sort of a Vienna School guy in the sense that I don't actually believe in 2% inflation rate sought by the Fed.
00:17:04.000I think we should seek a 0% inflation rate from the Fed and money should be worth what money was worth 10 years ago or 20 years ago and we should stop inflating away people's savings.
00:17:11.000But, call me a classicist, the fact is that 2% is what we have aimed at for years and years and years.
00:17:17.000Last month, year on year, I came in at 3%.
00:17:19.000Yeah, that is 50, that is a full 50% higher.
00:17:22.000Now I know that our minds have now been warped by the fact that we had like 10% inflation for a while there, thanks to supply chain, thanks to COVID, and thanks to Joe Biden's inflationary monetary and fiscal policies.
00:17:38.000That was last month, and we were told that was awesome.
00:17:40.000Well now, it's 3.2% year on year, which means that the rate of increase continues to be too high.
00:17:46.000Okay, now they're bringing down the rate of increase from 9%, but it's still at 3.2%, which by my calculation is still more than 50% too high.
00:17:56.000On a monthly basis, prices ticked up 0.2% between June and July.
00:17:59.000Economists say that the bump is linked to temporary factors, including rebounding airline, hotel, and energy prices that are not likely to erode longer-term progress.
00:18:08.000Like, we're not going to jump back up to 7%, but are we getting back down to 2%?
00:18:12.000The overall number was also higher because prices are being compared at the rates of increase last July, the first month when inflation began to fall after a long climb.
00:18:18.000But again, that is still a price increase.
00:18:20.000Again, if the curve looks sort of like this, That doesn't mean that here is somehow lower than here.
00:18:28.000And for those who can't see what I'm doing with my hand here, essentially I'm drawing a curve that at the very beginning looks very steep and then starts to shallow out but is still increasing.
00:18:35.000We are now at the shallowed out but still increasing rate of inflation in the United States.
00:19:29.000You're seeing those rates of interest on new mortgages go way, way, way up.
00:19:33.000And eventually, eventually, when people start losing jobs because the money dries up, that's going to be a lot of people who start defaulting on debts.
00:19:40.000And when they start defaulting on debts, banks are going to take the hit.
00:19:42.000And when those banks are invested in bonds, that's going to have some pretty significant bleed-over effects for the broader economy.
00:19:47.000If Silicon Valley Bank invested too heavily in government bonds at low interest-bearing rates, and then they got blown out because of the higher interest rates that the federal government was offering on its new bonds, but that's because the margins, in terms of bonds, they just had too many bonds in their portfolio.
00:20:03.000Well, as banks actually start to experience significant default, then those bonds that they have in their portfolio are going to look worse and worse.
00:20:11.000We'll see how that works out for them.
00:20:13.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is out there still touting Bidenomics as though it's a big win, despite the fact the American people really, really hate Bidenomics.
00:20:19.000We'll get to more on that in a second.
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00:21:24.000Joe Biden continues to be out there pushing Bidenomics.
00:21:27.000Bidenomics is another name for failure.
00:21:30.000So here was Joe Biden trying to push it yesterday.
00:21:32.000It is just, it remains incredible to me that this person, who as Matt Taibbi says, cannot be trusted not to walk into an airplane propeller or carry a child into a forest, is President of the United States.
00:21:44.000The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal have started to call my plan Bidenomics.
00:21:50.000Initially, I don't think they meant it with a great deal of respect.
00:21:55.000With all due respect to them, our plan is working.
00:22:31.000It means wasting money on a bunch of pie-in-the-sky nonsense, including, for example, pushing to block drilling in the United States.
00:22:37.000So you have an economy where he's constantly talking about blue-collar workers taking it on the chin.
00:22:41.000And here he is basically saying, what if I put all the oil workers out of business on behalf of the climate while Russia, China, India are not cooperating?
00:22:48.000By the way, China is by far the world's largest producer of carbon emissions.
00:23:39.000When asked, by the way, about concerns that the electric vehicle push that he is making right now will actually kill jobs in sort of the traditional car industry or in the oil industry, he says, don't worry.
00:23:49.000Out of everything bad comes something good, which is cold comfort to people who lose their jobs because he's pushing economically inefficient policies.
00:23:57.000Labor has been always opposed to environmental changes.
00:24:00.000He's holding the card with the questions on it.
00:24:18.000They're not even trying to hide the fact that he's senile.
00:24:19.000I mean, he literally holds cards with, like, little tips on them, going into easy press conferences with friendly reporters.
00:24:27.000There's a reason why this guy is failing in the polls.
00:24:28.000By the way, I know that there are a lot of people who are like, you know, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are running even, which shows Donald Trump's strength.
00:24:41.000It should scare Republicans on a generalized level that there is no poll showing a generic Republican up on this tendentious, senile old fool.
00:25:09.000They can't find anybody who will beat this guy regularly in polls.
00:25:13.000That's kind of amazing to me and shows the state of dissatisfaction inside the country for both Republicans and for Joe Biden personally.
00:25:20.000Karine Jean-Pierre, by the way, is now forced to trot out there and pretend that polls don't count anymore, so I love this.
00:25:25.000Here's Karine Jean-Pierre pretending that everybody actually likes Joe Biden's economic plan, despite the fact that, um, on the economy, 37% of voters actually approve of Joe Biden's handling of the economy.
00:25:35.000From the White House perspective, why is there a disparity between the good story, the narrative you think you have to tell, and how it's received by the American people?
00:25:46.000Look, as we know, polls don't show everything.
00:25:49.000They don't tell the full story, as you just stated.
00:25:52.000And we have to remember, if you look at where we were back in the fall of 2022, during the midterm elections, when the president delivered a historic midterms for Democrats when we think about how as a
00:26:07.000Democratic president he delivered a victory that we hadn't seen in decades, right? And he led that
00:26:12.000messaging throughout those months going into November. Okay, so here is the thing.
00:26:18.000Nobody likes Joe Biden, and the corruption problems surrounding Joe Biden are going to get significantly worse.
00:26:23.000Okay, so yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released a memo showing how much money the Biden family cleared while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States.
00:26:33.000The answer, grand total answer, $20 million.
00:26:44.000$8.1 million of those dollars came from China.
00:26:47.000According to the New York Post summing up the memo, State Energy HK is affiliated with Chinese state-linked CEFC China Energy, which partnered with first son Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden.
00:26:56.000Big guy Joe Biden was supposed to get a 10% cut of the venture.
00:26:59.000In a July 2017 WhatsApp message, Hunter threatened a Chinese associate with his dad's wrath if the deal was aborted.
00:27:04.000Within 10 days, CEFC transferred 100 grand and then 5 million bucks to Biden-linked accounts.
00:27:09.000According to a 2020 report by Senate committees, the CEFC relationship is still believed to have started in 2015 when Joe Biden was VP.
00:27:16.000That $3 million from State Energy HK was then divided three ways, between Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Beau Biden's widow, Haley Biden, receiving a combined $1 million.
00:27:24.000The remainder went to Hunter's business partners, Rob Walker and James Gillier.
00:27:28.000The latter $5.1 million passed mostly into Hunter's own entity called AWOSCO, according to the 2020 Senate report.
00:27:34.000It hasn't yet been documented in bank records obtained by the house.
00:27:37.000We have no idea where exactly that money went.
00:27:38.000Plus, Hunter got a 3.16 carat diamond from the CEFC founder, Ye Jin Ming, in 2017.
00:27:47.000Joe Biden visited Ukraine six times as VP, five of them after Hunter joined Burisma's board in April 2014.
00:27:52.000He publicly claimed credit for using a billion dollars in USAID to get the prosecutor Victor Shokin fired.
00:27:58.000Joe Biden met with Burisma officials at dinners.
00:28:00.000He participated in a phone call with them, according to Hunter Biden's business partner, Devin Archer, and bank records document $3.3 million transferred from Burisma to Hunter Biden and Devin Archer from April 14, 2014 to October 2015.
00:28:11.000IRS whistleblowers testified Hunter and Archer earned $6.5 million total from Burisma through 2019.
00:28:18.000Russia passed $3.5 million to the Biden family.
00:28:22.000Then-VP Biden allegedly met a First Lady of Moscow named Yelena Baturina at a D.C.
00:28:28.000restaurant in spring 2014 and April 2015, while Hunter Biden and Archer were helping her invest in American real estate.
00:28:34.000On March 11, 2014, three-quarters of a million dollars was transferred to Archer.
00:28:39.000The rest was transferred to a joint account held by Archer and Hunter Biden.
00:28:42.000Unclear exactly where that money went.
00:29:32.000There's this testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them, talking business.
00:29:41.000Is that what... I've never talked business with anyone.
00:30:07.000Because we have testimony from Hunter Biden's business partner that it is true.
00:30:10.000And we know that you are squaring around Hunter Biden.
00:30:12.000By the way, this whole lie that Joe Biden does this sort of stuff because he loves his son so all-fired much, I'm just wondering why, if you're a father who loves his drug-addled son who's addicted to crack cocaine and whores, you're giving him access to millions of dollars.
00:30:28.000Literally, rule number one of having a crack-addicted son would be, don't give him access to the credit card, because he's addicted to crack.
00:30:35.000I know this is really complex, but it doesn't seem all that complex, actually.
00:30:40.000It's absolutely insane to me that Joe Biden gets away with the, it's all about the family routine, when pretty clearly, dude benefited.
00:30:48.000And I'm just wondering how he didn't benefit at this point.
00:30:53.000According to the New York Post's Jonathan Turley, he points out that of course Joe Biden benefited from all of Hunter's foreign business dealings.
00:31:04.000He says, the president's denial of any knowledge of his son's foreign business dealings have finally been exposed as a total lie.
00:31:09.000The final line of defense is now that Hunter Biden was selling access to Joe, but it was an illusion.
00:31:13.000But there's nothing illusory about tens of millions moving to Hunter and other family members.
00:31:18.000Also, all of these claims ignore emails discussing the fact that Hunter and his father used joint accounts to pay for expenses, including how one account was used to pay Joe's taxes.
00:31:26.000There's Hunter's complaint that he was using half his earnings to support Dad.
00:31:29.000One trusted FBI informant said, in planning a bribe, one foreign figure was told to avoid direct payments to Joe.
00:31:35.000Today, that is as amateurish as an envelope of cash, and the Bidens have been in the business of influence peddling for decades.
00:31:41.000So, apparently, if Hunter gets luxury cars and millions of dollars and $20 million goes into the entire family bank account, Joe didn't benefit or receive a bribe.
00:31:50.000So, apparently, only if the money went directly into his bank account would that actually amount to- That's actually the White House's defense at this point, believe it or not.
00:31:58.000Now, we also know that Joe Biden is apparently worth an estimated $8 million at this point, and that he earned $17.3 million over the four years he was out of office.
00:32:09.000So how is enriching all of your family members not a form of bribery?
00:32:16.000If somebody came to me and they're like, I want to pay you to say untruth, like truly untrue things on your show that you don't actually believe.
00:33:01.000He was taking Hunter, his drug addled derelict of a son, one of the most immoral people in American public life, on a plane with him to China to close deals.
00:33:06.000Biden. Well, but I mean, there is. He was on the phone calls. He was taking Hunter, his drug-addled
00:33:15.000derelict of a son, one of the most immoral people in American public life, on a plane with him to
00:33:20.000China to close deals. What the hell? Says the White House.
00:33:24.000House Republicans can't prove President Biden did anything wrong, but they are proving every day
00:33:28.000they have no vision, no agenda to actually help the American people. OK, all of this is tiresome
00:33:34.000Everyone knows it, and it is not going to play in this election cycle.
00:33:38.000It's just not going to play in this election cycle, especially given the fact the American people don't actually believe that Joe Biden is a kindly old gentleman of great character.
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00:35:56.000Well, if Joe Biden's entire re-elect campaign is going to be run on the same basis as his election campaign in 2020, which is his high character and great level of care for the American people, he's just a man who cares about you.
00:36:04.000Remember, this was the big pitch in 2020.
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00:36:08.000Okay, meanwhile, well, if Joe Biden's entire re-elect campaign is going to be run on the
00:36:12.000same basis as his election campaign in 2020, which is his high character and great level
00:36:16.000of care for the American people, he's just a man who cares about you.
00:36:19.000Remember, this was the big pitch in 2020.
00:36:22.000And because he's experienced pain in his life, he understands your pain.
00:36:25.000It was a really weak Bill Clinton type pitch, but it won because, again, Donald Trump is not somebody who tends to feel pain, at least not on his surface.
00:36:32.000The truth is that Trump, when it comes to sort of the common man, actually does feel a lot more for those people than Joe Biden does, like without a doubt.
00:36:40.000That all disappeared with Afghanistan.
00:36:41.000Yesterday, the State Department continued to double down on the idea that Joe Biden had done a stellar job in Afghanistan.
00:36:45.000Here was the State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, saying that actually it was a phenomenal choice to leave Afghanistan in the way we did.
00:36:52.000With respect to the decision making that went into the withdrawal from Afghanistan, that's something that we've spoken to a number of times.
00:36:58.000But what about, do you still believe that this was a success?
00:37:02.000Because they have a real hard time when the administration calls this withdrawal a success.
00:37:06.000Do you still believe it was a success?
00:37:08.000We believe it was the correct policy choice.
00:37:10.000We believe it was the correct policy choice, but again, I would never want to quibble with a family member who has suffered such an enormous tragedy.
00:37:17.000But I think it's, I think that word is...
00:37:19.000I'm gonna move, I'm gonna move on to someone else.
00:37:21.000Oh, I'm not gonna quibble with the family member.
00:37:22.000Don't want to hear about the family anymore.
00:38:03.000You know, I want to talk for a second about transparency and about the fact that no one trusts the government right now because not only is the government not transparent with you, but the media, who are supposed to be the watchdog, are not transparent with you so long as the Democrat is in the Oval Office.
00:38:16.000If a Democrat is in the Oval Office, they're not transparent with you.
00:38:19.000If a Republican is in the Oval Office, not only are they not transparent with you about the Republican, they're fully non-transparent about all investigations into the Republican.
00:38:29.000It's impossible to think that there was not a ground shift in the way Americans think about their institutions that was coincident with the rise of Barack Obama.
00:38:35.000I've talked about this a little bit over the course of the past week.
00:38:38.000There's a massively important interview over at Tablet Magazine, which is a great website that's worth a read.
00:38:43.000They did an interview with a historian named David Garrow, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King.
00:38:48.000And then in 2017, he had a biography of Barack Obama in his early years, and it was called Rising Stars.
00:38:54.000By all rights, it should have been like a massive hit, this book, because it actually uncovered a bunch of stuff about Obama that the media never would have covered.
00:39:01.000Like, for example, the fact that in Dreams for My Father, which is almost entirely fictionalized, apparently, according to David Garrow, that when Barack Obama wrote his first memoir, Dreams for My Father, he has an incident where he broke up with a white girlfriend supposedly because she couldn't understand why he wanted to get in touch with his black identity.
00:39:17.000And what actually happened is that she broke up with him because he was covering for raving black anti-Semites.
00:39:26.000They never dug into anything remotely related to Barack Obama.
00:39:29.000By the way, other revelations included in this book were actual handwritten letters from Barack Obama to one of his girlfriends talking about his, and this is a direct quote, repeatedly fantasizing about making love to men.
00:39:41.000I mean, that's pretty bombshell kind of stuff, no?
00:39:51.000And the answer is because the media, when Barack Obama rose to the presidency, and as he made that rise, the media decided that they were now the actual Praetorian Guard.
00:39:58.000They were always biased to the left, but there's certainly a level of baseline honesty that required them to still report on things.
00:40:06.000And then Barack Obama rose to the level of the presidency, and every institution was weaponized on behalf of this man personally.
00:40:38.000And our public institutions also started reflecting everything with regard to Obama.
00:40:42.000David Samuels of Tablet, who's interviewing Gerald, he said, Rising Star highlights a remarkable lack of curiosity on
00:40:47.000the part of mainstream reporters and institutions about a man who almost instantaneously was
00:40:50.000treated less like a politician and more like the idol of an inter-elite cult.
00:40:54.000And it's true, like the entire tech world revolved around Barack Obama.
00:40:58.000He became like the center of the political universe.
00:41:00.000Everybody thinks the center of the political universe is Donald Trump, but that's not actually right.
00:41:04.000The center of the political universe since 2008 has been Barack Obama.
00:41:07.000Donald Trump is a reaction to Barack Obama.
00:41:10.000Joe Biden is a reaction to Donald Trump and happens to be the third term of Barack Obama since every person in position of major staffing power is a Barack Obama acolyte.
00:41:18.000Barack Obama, by the way, still resides most of the year in Washington, D.C., and it's amazing to me that nobody's actually attempted to track down how much does Barack Obama actually talk with all the people who used to work with him and shape policy inside the Biden administration.
00:41:32.000And again, the corruption of all of our institutions On the back of Barack Obama's personal self-obsession is truly an amazing thing.
00:41:41.000So David Garrow, this biographer of Obama, he says in this interview,
00:41:43.000he has no interest in building the Democratic Party as an institution.
00:41:47.000I don't think he had any truly deep, meaningful policy commitments
00:41:49.000other than the need to feel and to be perceived as victorious, as triumphant.
00:41:52.000But because all the institutions went into defend Obama mode,
00:41:57.000that has carried forward to Joe Biden.
00:42:00.000And here's the thing, they could get away with it when it actually was Barack Obama, because Barack Obama had this sort of messianic quality to him.
00:42:09.000He was actually a really good speaker.
00:42:14.000And so as that mask has stripped away, and as the media have just been demonstrably proved to be members of that inter-elite cult, Of course faith in them has absolutely plummeted, and of course the country has polarized, because the institutions that at least used to have sort of a baseline goal and purpose they had to fulfill, even if there was political bias involved, everyone distrusts those institutions now, and for absolutely good reason.
00:42:36.000And what that also means is it's very easy when an institution fails to immediately attribute it to this sort of inter-elite cult status.
00:42:46.000I've said many times that I try to attribute as much as I can to stupidity rather than malice, but the problem is when malice has been pursued over and over and over again against a particular point of view, at a certain point you start to see that maybe it's not stupidity, maybe it is malice.
00:43:00.000It doesn't mean all of it's malice, but it means it's easy to over-attribute to malice rather than to stupidity, which leads to further political polarization.
00:43:08.000And that seems to be what's been happening all over the place, institutionally speaking, in the United States.
00:43:45.000Donald Trump is the coroner who stumbled on the body and declared it dead.
00:43:49.000Okay, meanwhile, we are still experiencing fallout from this Ohio vote.
00:43:53.000So there is a vote in Ohio to essentially change the state constitution to enshrine amendments in the state constitution to require more than a 60% approval to change the state constitution.
00:44:02.000That was meant to prevent a sort of walk back with regard to abortion law on behalf of those who are pro-abortion in the state of Ohio.
00:44:12.000And once again, this demonstrates that Republicans have to pursue victory incrementally very often.
00:44:19.000There's this tendency to feel like you just got to go for broke all the time.
00:44:22.000Going for broke is probably not going to be a successful tactic.
00:44:27.000What's hilarious is the Democrats, of course, are about to blow it.
00:44:30.000So Democrats have decided that actually this is a model for trans issues.
00:44:33.000There are a bunch of articles today suggesting that Democrats look at what happened in Ohio, which was the rejection of what effectively was sort of a pro-life ballot initiative.
00:44:42.000They look at that and they say, well, this means that suddenly the people of Ohio are socially left-wing.
00:44:46.000No, it means there's a status quo bias.
00:44:48.000And it means that whenever there is a muscular attempt to enshrine in state law via referendum more pro-life positions, people don't like it because their status quo biased.
00:44:57.000And if you're going to do it, you have to do it gradually.
00:45:02.000But both sides, because of that polarization, they're no longer seeking gradual.
00:45:05.000So you either have New York, which is seeking to legalize abortion until you're 85 years old, or you have people on the right who are seeking to ban all abortion in the state.
00:45:12.000Now, obviously, I have a lot of sympathy for that second position.
00:46:36.000I'm tired of this nonsense where we have to pretend sensitivity for people who are stealing product and walking out of stores with trash bags filled with stolen product.
00:46:45.000And this store clerk who gives him a beating?
00:46:48.000A few more beatings like this and there will be a lot less thievery in places like Stockton.
00:46:53.000The pathetic fact of course is that now it's now it's seen as so normalized to steal that like it used to be when I was a kid that if somebody's gonna shoplift it was like a pack of gum in your pocket and now they're just walking with giant trash bags and filling them up with things and walking out like it's the price is right or something.
00:47:17.000I'm going to say that Joe Biden is doing a correct thing now.
00:47:20.000So for those who say I never say that Joe Biden has done a correct thing, Joe Biden is doing a correct thing.
00:47:24.000Here's the thing that Joe Biden is doing that is correct.
00:47:25.000He signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at curbing the flow of American investment and management know-how into a limited range of Chinese firms the administration fears could fuel Beijing's military ambitions.
00:47:36.000It's an initial step that will not take effect until next year, but it is a signal to China's
00:47:39.000leadership that Washington is going to continue to impose restrictions on Beijing's access to
00:47:43.000critical technology that is in fact necessary. China is building up its military. They are
00:47:48.000seeking more and more sophisticated microchips and superconductors in order to build up that
00:47:52.000military for a possible takeover of Taiwan. Chinese officials are mad, which is always a
00:47:56.000good indicator that actually we're doing something right.
00:47:58.000The U.S. habitually politicizes tech and trade issues and uses them as a tool and weapon in the name
00:48:01.000of national security, said Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu in a statement to
00:48:06.000But, China hawks on both sides of the aisle, um, are, um, they, they're, they're, they're
00:48:10.000They say the proposal, while good, does not go far enough.
00:48:12.000So the praise is qualified in the sense that I agree with this.
00:48:15.000Obviously, it's a very, very limited step by the Biden administration, but it is a step in the right direction.
00:48:19.000Mike McCaul, Republican of Texas, says the administration scaling back at a time when aggressive action is needed more than ever continues the trend of appeasing industry at the cost of national security.
00:48:28.000But again, the fact that Biden is doing anything at all is better than nothing, I suppose.
00:48:32.000So you can see it is glass half full, glass half empty.
00:48:35.000So I choose at this point to see at least this as somewhat glass quarter full.
00:49:38.000There are a bunch of links to places that you can go to help people who have been affected by the wildfires ranging from the American Red Cross to the Maui Relief Fund.
00:49:47.000So, people should go and give generously because that is a terrible situation.
00:50:40.000So, that's definitely a way to name yourself, is after one of your cats, whose apparently name was Cat, and also your favorite strain of marijuana.
00:50:56.000So, Doja Cat has now Put out a song titled Paint the Town Red.
00:51:03.000So the left in culture has gone so far now that there's literally no place left to go except to just get directly in bed with Satan.
00:51:09.000And this has become kind of the common meme these days.
00:51:12.000So it used to be a little more subtle.
00:51:14.000Honestly, when you're talking about Madonna in the early 80s as subtle, that's how far we've come.
00:51:18.000Madonna in the early 80s writhing around wearing Catholic imagery, doing the kind of saint-sinner routine, that was considered brazen then.
00:51:29.000Now it's the height of subtlety because you now have Lil Nas X having sex with Satan, having gay sex with Satan in his videos.
00:51:36.000Or you have Sam Smith dressing up as fat, ugly Satan while doing a routine with a man who says that he is a woman.
00:51:46.000And now we have Doja Cat who has jumped in on this.
00:52:40.000I let all that get to my head. I said what I said, I'd rather be famous than stay.
00:52:46.000I let all that get to my head. I don't care, I paint the town red.
00:52:51.000I let all that get to my head. I don't care, I paint the town red.
00:52:57.000I don't know what is supposed to be happening here other than it's kind of horrifying and terrible.
00:53:02.000The lyrics for this, which I will now read for purposes of media matters, they can clip it out of context and then claim that I'm trying to rap the song as opposed to cynically reading the song.
00:53:12.000So now I'm going to read the lyrics to this piece of crap and I'm going to point out how bad this is by juxtaposing it with one of the great pieces of music ever written so that you can tell kind of how we have declined here.
00:53:28.000But then again, I don't understand the tastes of the American people, obviously.
00:53:31.000Because, I mean, who wouldn't love a song featuring a woman dressed in nothing but body paint, bald, wearing devil horns, and cutting the umbilical cord of an alien creature?
00:54:55.000And even Beethoven, who is much more of a secularist in his religious outlook, wrote with an eye toward sort of a secular humanist version of a higher morality.
00:55:04.000That's what the Ode to Joy is at the end of the Ninth Symphony.
00:55:09.000Brahms, whose music I love, was essentially a secular humanist, but very religiously tolerant.
00:55:16.000None of them would have said, you know who's great?
00:55:19.000It turns out when you worship the devil and when you worship the pagan, the place you end up is here.
00:55:25.000Now when satanists start creating actual art that beautifies the world and makes the world a better place, maybe they'll start taking their philosophy a little seriously.
00:55:34.000Because it turns out that the products of a philosophy very often are tied to the philosophy itself.
00:55:38.000But it makes my argument super easy that our satanic pagan current pop culture is garbage when what they produce is actual sh**.
00:55:47.000Like that's, it makes my argument super, so I appreciate you doing that.
00:55:50.000I appreciate you making the argument super easy for me.
00:55:51.000I don't even have to make the argument anymore.
00:55:52.000All I have to do is just show clips of Doja Cat, a person who named herself once again, after a cat and a marijuana strain, dressed up as Satan and wrapping that garbage.