What is a Woman? is the most watched documentary on Planet Earth, and it s also the No. 1 documentary on planet earth for the second Pride Month in a row. And it s all because it says it s OK to speak a baseline truth. What is the truth we can all all agree on? And what is the thing we all can all share? And why is it that the idea of heteronormativity is holding the entire system of society together? In this episode of the podcast, we discuss why this is a problem, and why it s so important that we all try to find a way to speak the truth in order to make the world a kinder place. And we talk about why we should all be fighting for the truth, and not just for the things that make us feel good. We re all in this together, and we re all fighting for something that matters, and that s the truth. This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Vox Media. The opinions expressed in this podcast are our own, not those of our employers, and do not necessarily reflective of those of any other media outlets. If you like what you read here, please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you re listening to this podcast, and share it on your social media platforms. Thank you so much for all the love, support, support and support. and share this podcast with your fellow podcasters! and tweet me if you re a friend, a podcaster. or you re tired of this podcast and you re sick of the truth? in any of the things you like it s a good one, and want to share it with a friend and/or you re sharing it on Insta: or maybe you re just as good as we re a good friend of it, or you can help us spread it around the word about it? or share it everywhere you re watching this podcast? <3 - Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What is a woman? 2: 3:30 - The truth? 4: What is A Woman? 5:40 - Pride Month? 6:15 - Pride month? 7: The truth is a solar system? 8:30 9:00 11:30 | Pride Month is a thing? 13:00 | What s a woman ?
00:00:48.000It predicates, it prioritizes the feelings of a person above the realities of life, and insists that all of society reflect the feelings of the person, which may shift moment to moment, as opposed to a truth that we all can share and then debate.
00:01:02.000Well, we obviously fought back against that, and Elon Musk, to his great credit, decided to take off the clamps.
00:01:08.000And now, the statistics on how many people have seen what is a woman are absolutely astounding.
00:01:12.000So I wanted to bring you the updated statistics on how many people have seen what is a woman at this point.
00:01:18.000The number of video impressions on What Is Woman, that tweet, the tweet that we put out there, that Elon Musk then tweeted himself and then pinned at the top of his account, 171 million impressions on that tweet.
00:01:30.000171 million impressions, which means, at the very least, tens and tens of millions of people have seen the actual documentary, making it, by any metric, perhaps the most watched documentary in the history of humanity.
00:01:42.000It is also the number one documentary on planet Earth for the second Pride Month in a row over on Rotten Tomatoes, which, again, pretty impressive stuff.
00:01:50.000And the reason people are engaging with the film, the reason that people love What Is A Woman is not just because it's super funny and because it's super interesting, but also because it says it is OK to speak a baseline truth.
00:01:59.000Here's some quick stats on how the viewership for What Is A Woman compares to the viewership of other online events, for example.
00:02:06.000So this this video, this documentary has more views than Anderson Cooper's show all week combined.
00:02:13.000Then the 2023 Oscars, then Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address, then Lizzo's most recent music video special, which is four months old.
00:02:20.000And that's over the course of like 48 hours, 72 hours over the weekend.
00:02:24.000More viewers in the Game of Thrones finale.
00:02:25.000These are huge numbers because people want to engage with the truth.
00:02:31.000These are bigger numbers than the numbers on massive documentaries like Making a Murderer from Netflix, which had 19 million views over the course of five weeks.
00:02:40.000It's over the course of like 72 hours.
00:02:54.000They are sick of being told that somebody's sense of subjective individual identity is more important than, again, all of our shared concept of the truth.
00:03:03.000And this goes to a broader question that has now arisen in Western civilization.
00:03:43.000They're not part of the truth, but they're certainly at least accepting the presence of the central gravitational force that is holding the entire system together.
00:03:52.000So take, for example, the idea of quote-unquote heteronormativity.
00:03:55.000And so during Pride Month, there's a lot of talk about heteronormativity, exploding the myth of heteronormativity.
00:04:19.000The notion that man, woman, and child, we ought to be apathetic as to the choices that people make and the behaviors in which people engage that actually progenerate the species and allow civilizations to survive is absurd.
00:04:32.000Now, we in the West, because that was sort of the background noise, because that was something that we all assumed, we all just assumed it was in the air and in the water, that a fish doesn't understand that it's swimming in water, it's just what is around it.
00:04:43.000For most of human history, people didn't think about, you know, the air that surrounded them, it's just what you lived in.
00:04:48.000In the same way, most of the norms that support how we live are things we don't think about at all.
00:04:52.000Nobody ever thought, for virtually all of human history until the last five minutes, nobody ever thought about, like, you know what's a fundamental norm?
00:04:59.000That we all rely on man, woman, child.
00:05:01.000That would have been an absurd thing to even think about, because of course that's the norm.
00:05:32.000And then people in the 1960s and earlier, I mean, the 1960s is the culmination of it, but beginning in the early 19th century with the Romantic movement, there was a challenge to the norm itself.
00:05:47.000Heteronormativity has to be destroyed because what the left has pointed out really since the 1960s in America and across Europe, what the left has pointed out is that that is an assumption.
00:06:59.000This is the great challenge that the West is going to have to face right now.
00:07:03.000It is the challenge between the norms that are good and alternative forms of living that insist not on being a marginalized but accepted part of the community and being the new norm.
00:07:18.000A lot of people have made over the course of time, the course of my lifetime, the distinction between tolerance and acceptance and celebration completely be obliterated.
00:07:26.000The notion that you would tolerate behavior that deviates from the norm has now been turned into, well, it's not enough to tolerate, you have to accept as completely moral.
00:07:36.000We went very fast in American society from people should be allowed to do what they want to do behind the closed doors of their bedroom to we have to have entire months, pride months, in which we celebrate the violation of the norm.
00:07:47.000Once you celebrate the violation of the norm, what you're really saying is that the norm is bad.
00:07:50.000Think of another area of life in which there is a rule and we celebrate the violation of the rule.
00:07:55.000We have a full-scale month celebrating the violation of what we think of as the societal norm.
00:07:59.000You can't think of another example of this behaviorally.
00:08:03.000Any other example of, here's a societal norm, a thing that we all think of as good, and then we have a full month celebrating the violation of that norm.
00:08:14.000And when you say the norm is bad, that is not a neutral position.
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00:09:22.000Okay, so the reason that this comes up is because to pretend that we are not actually in a battle between truth, meaning good, durable, valuable norms, and an alternative system of morality is to deny reality.
00:09:39.000The set of norms that existed was not a neutral set of norms.
00:09:42.000And I think it was neutral in the sense that it reflected reality a lot better than the new set of nonsensical norms in which men and women don't exist, in which all forms of sexual activity are equally valuable to society.
00:09:52.000It's obviously not in consonance with reality.
00:09:55.000But they are right to say that there was a set of norms, and that we assumed they weren't norms, we just assumed it was reality, but they were norms, and that those norms can be destroyed.
00:10:03.000And what the left has argued is that the norms should be destroyed.
00:10:06.000And so this is how they now make the affirmative case for performing drag shows in front of small children.
00:10:11.000Make the affirmative case for pride parades involving assless chaps in front of small people.
00:10:56.000When you have not only, by the way, a full Pride Month, you have something like 144 days on the calendar that are celebrated now in America as International Lesbian Visibility Day, International Queer Awareness Day, International Two-Spirit Native American Little Person Day.
00:11:11.000When you have that, that is an overt attempt to change the norm.
00:11:14.000And it's not like the ball is being hidden here.
00:11:16.000It's not a conspiracy theory when people just say it right out in the open.
00:11:19.000The idea is that heteronormativity is bad.
00:11:21.000Heteronormativity is somehow a restriction on the true you.
00:11:27.000And after all, what's more important in life than the true you?
00:11:31.000And I can see this really come into conflict over the course of this weekend.
00:11:35.000There's been an overt attempt on the part of some states to protect children from the violation of these norms, because many societies in the United States properly and in good faith believe, because it's true, that children should be taught the norm of man, woman, child.
00:11:54.000That that should be the thing that children are indeed inculcated with from the time they are very young, because all of human society relies on exactly this norm.
00:12:03.000And so, in order to prevent kids from having their little brains exposed to toxic societal idiocy, there have been a series of laws that have been passed in a wide variety of jurisdictions that ban, for example, overt sexual material from being placed before children.
00:12:19.000And that's now been extended in some states, like Tennessee, to include men gallivanting around dressed as women and thrusting their pelvises in graphic ways near kids.
00:12:30.000That's what Tennessee passed a law to do.
00:12:32.000Well now, that law has been struck down in Tennessee because the government is supposed to be quote-unquote neutral on this matter.
00:12:38.000But the point the left made a long time ago is there is no neutrality.
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00:13:58.000Okay, so there's this case in Tennessee.
00:14:01.000A federal judge who's actually appointed by President Trump has decided that a law that placed strict limits on drag shows was unconstitutional.
00:14:09.000According to the judge, the law was, quote, unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad and encouraged discriminatory enforcement.
00:14:16.000The judge named Thomas Parker and he wrote, there's no question that obscenity is not protected by the
00:14:20.000First Amendment, but there's a difference between material that is, quote,
00:14:22.000obscene in the vernacular and material that is obscene under the law.
00:14:26.000Simply put, no majority of the Supreme Court has held that sexually explicit,
00:14:29.000but not obscene speech receives less protection than political, artistic, or scientific speech.
00:14:34.000Now, you can put the blame on Parker for this decision, this judge.
00:14:38.000I don't think the blame is actually on Parker.
00:14:39.000I think the blame here is on what the Supreme Court has done with the First Amendment since really the 1960s with regard to obscenity generally.
00:14:46.000So it used to be widely accepted in the United States that obscenity law could go pretty far on the local level.
00:14:51.000The First Amendment, first of all, was never designed to apply to the states, and it certainly was not designed to apply to localities.
00:14:56.000The original language of the First Amendment to the Constitution simply says the Congress shall establish no law Inhibiting freedom of speech.
00:15:04.000Congress is the actor in question in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
00:15:08.000It is not the state legislature and it is certainly not a municipal body.
00:15:11.000Now there are a lot of states that have also put in place their form of the First Amendment.
00:15:15.000But there is no reading of the First Amendment, the original First Amendment, that includes anything like sexually explicit material.
00:15:21.000Or material that protects cross-dressing.
00:15:24.000Hey, that was never... To pretend that that was in the history of the First Amendment, that America has a long history of protecting cross-dressing as a First Amendment activity, is ridiculous.
00:15:33.000And cross-dressing in front of kids as a First Amendment activity?
00:15:39.000But again, the idea here is that government is supposed to now be neutral, and that neutrality is going to be crammed down by the federal government.
00:15:46.000My point is that that's not neutrality.
00:15:48.000When the federal government says that you, as a local community, cannot ban drag shows in front of five-year-olds, that is not a neutral position.
00:15:55.000That is a very, very strong position held by the federal government to prohibit you from protecting your kids in your community and setting up a centralizing norm.
00:16:04.000Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose.
00:16:06.000And the government, in the form of the federal government here, is deciding that you, your local community, cannot do this thing to establish a norm.
00:16:14.000That, for example, kids should be taught that boys and girls dress differently as a general rule because masculinity and femininity are distinct.
00:16:21.000Again, that doesn't mean there aren't exceptions to the rule, but those are the rule, and it is good that boys learn masculinity, and it is good that girls learn femininity.
00:16:28.000The fact that this has become Some sort of controversial proposition that boys ought to learn to be men and that girls ought to learn to be women and that men and women are distinct categories with the areas of crossover, but they are largely distinct.
00:16:41.000The fact that that is a controversial proposition is one of the reasons why you are seeing a decline in masculinity and a decline in femininity and a decline in childbearing and childrearing and complete breakdown of relations between the sexes.
00:16:51.000When the sexes are no longer distinct, it's hard to have relations between them, is it not?
00:17:12.000The planets are going to spin off into the emptiness, into the void.
00:17:18.000That's what happens in terms of norms.
00:17:20.000Once that sun is wrecked, either there's a new center of gravity, There's a black hole that is going to act as the new center of gravity, or there is no center of gravity and everything spins off.
00:17:31.000And that's what you're watching right now.
00:17:33.000And again, you can see the battle over the norm.
00:17:37.000The battle over the norm right now involves, as I say, the destruction of the norm.
00:17:57.000Neutrality is that if you don't want a seven-year-old having access to Genderqueer, a book in which little boys are taught about gay sex, Through pictures, through cartoons.
00:18:08.000If you don't want that available to a seven or an eight or a nine-year-old, then that kid also should not be exposed to the Bible.
00:18:13.000That is the quote-unquote position of neutrality.
00:18:18.000But we're not a society that traditionally has equated biblical morality, which says that you ought to be responsible in the use of your genitalia, with an entire worldview that says that all forms of sexual activity ought to be promoted to children.
00:18:30.000The Bible is not quite saying the same thing as genderqueer, or even the converse of the thing.
00:18:36.000To equate the two things is a perversion, and everyone knows that it's perversion, which is precisely why the left is pursuing it.
00:18:41.000According to the Associated Press, the Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent, frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools, convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
00:18:52.000Now again, the teaching of the Bible used to be a rigorous prerequisite to going to school in the United States, including in most public schools across the United States.
00:19:01.000Most public school kids knew the Bible.
00:19:03.000At the end of the 19th century, in the early 20th century, most kids were familiar with the Bible, if not from school, then certainly from church.
00:19:09.000Most of them went to parochial school.
00:19:12.000But now we are a society that equates the two.
00:19:16.000And it's the easy, lazy person's position.
00:19:18.000The easy, lazy person's position is to say, there are no norms.
00:19:51.000Pick any norm and the same thing applies on the moral level.
00:19:55.000And that is why you are seeing, again, it is not a neutral proposition to ban the Bible from Utah school districts while also banning genderqueer.
00:20:03.000That is an anti-biblical position, and everybody knows that it's an anti-biblical position.
00:20:07.000When judges are striking down laws prohibiting drag queens from gallivanting in front of children, that is not a neutral position for the government to take.
00:20:13.000That is a very pro-drag queen position, which is why drag queens were celebrating yesterday in Tennessee as they got to flaunt their wares in front of eight-year-old children.
00:20:21.000Corporate America is not neutral on this question.
00:20:23.000When they pretend neutrality, they are not neutral.
00:20:26.000They're very much in favor of the new norms and the new standards.
00:20:46.000There is a material that has spent all of human history, essentially, Mitigating against the power of central government to manipulate your worth.
00:21:48.000Remember watching Bugs Bunny cartoons when you were a kid?
00:21:50.000And you'd get up on Saturday morning, or for me, Sunday morning, and Bugs Bunny would be on the telly, and you'd turn on the TV, and you'd watch Bugs Bunny.
00:21:56.000Okay, well, there are a bunch of jokes in which Bugs Bunny dresses in drag because it's funny.
00:24:35.000Everybody keeps wondering, why is this all directed at the kids?
00:24:37.000Why are they trying to trans the kids?
00:24:38.000Why are they trying to teach genderqueer to eight-year-olds?
00:24:41.000Because the whole point is to inculcate a new set of norms so that they themselves feel better about the set of norms that they are living by.
00:24:48.000They are trying, the advocates for the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, new norm, are trying to change the norm.
00:24:54.000The way that you change the norm is by recruiting the children.
00:24:57.000That's why I've suggested before, it's not about sexually grooming children, it's about ideologically grooming children.
00:25:01.000Now if those kids become confused and sexually oriented in various directions, so much the better for this movement.
00:25:07.000I mean, I don't see anybody making the argument on that side of the aisle that something has gone wildly wrong when there's a 1300% increase in trans identification inside of a couple of years.
00:25:19.000That's all just to the, that's to the good.
00:25:21.000And it's just more expressive sexual behavior.
00:25:25.000The goal is change all of society's views about the norm, substitute the new norm for the old norm, and then everyone will live better, happier lives.
00:25:32.000This is why, in the end, this is a battle against biblical morality and traditional morality.
00:25:37.000Now, Taylor Swift, her silence was deafening.
00:25:40.000You remember that time that Taylor Swift used to just be like a person who sang songs and without autotune didn't sound amazing?
00:25:45.000Well, now, she has decided that she's a political leader of sorts, so she was doing a concert And one of the things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching you interact with each other, being so loving and so thoughtful and so caring.
00:26:09.000And so being with you during Pride Month, getting to sing the words to you need to calm down where
00:26:15.000there are lyrics like, can you just not step on his gown or shade never made anybody else gay and you guys are
00:26:58.000Or does that sound like an actual religious movement that is seeking to substitute one set of morals for another?
00:27:03.000That's seeking to supplant truth about human relations and about progeneration and about the decency of certain sexual activity.
00:27:12.000Or the utilitarianism of certain sexual activity, if you wish to remove morality from the equation, and replace that with subjectivist pride.
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00:30:21.000If you sign up today, you get 25% off your membership when you use code WOMAN Meanwhile, speaking of the battle between truth and wokeness, and pride, of course, is just one aspect of the woke mind virus, which suggests that how you would wish reality to be ought to supplant what actually is, right?
00:30:40.000Truth has to be discarded in favor of stupid utopianism.
00:30:44.000Well, this is now what is happening in Chicago at Walgreens.
00:30:49.000So apparently, Walgreens has been experiencing so much theft In Chicago they have now locked up the entire store like the entirety of the store.
00:30:59.000There are two aisles in the entire Walgreens where customers can shop for themselves.
00:31:03.000The rest is locked up and you need to order from a kiosk.
00:31:07.000Because too many people are just the rates of breakage, as they call it in the industry, are just too high.
00:31:12.000People are running in and they are robbing the store so often that Walgreens had two choices.
00:31:15.000Either they shut down the store entirely or they literally lock everything.
00:31:20.000And then in order for you to order, you can like go to a kiosk and order everything.
00:31:24.000According to the UK Daily Mail, a Chicago branch of Walgreens has been redesigned with just two aisles where customers may shop for themselves.
00:31:32.000The new anti-theft store at 2 East Roosevelt in downtown Chicago will trust shoppers to pick up essentials for themselves in the two free aisles.
00:31:38.000Everything else must be ordered and picked up via a counter.
00:31:41.000The store took weeks to construct and it opened to mixed reviews on Tuesday.
00:31:46.000One shopper told WBBM News Radio their experience was positive.
00:31:49.000Quote, it's nice that for the essentials, you no longer have to call security to get them to open the glass case.
00:31:53.000So I guess that the default before that is that even for the essentials, you had to ask somebody to unlock.
00:31:57.000It's been a long time thing that when you go to a grocery store, there are certain items that are probably high theft
00:32:01.000items like razors, for example, where you actually have to have the store employees unlock it for you.
00:32:06.000You go to the local CVS and there's the stuff they keep behind the counter because that stuff was like very high
00:32:21.000Well, I mean, if people weren't stealing everything, probably that'd be, that'd probably be better.
00:32:26.000The move comes after Walgreen's chief financial officer told investors on an earnings call this year executives may have overstated the effects of organized shoplifting.
00:32:35.000He said that the company had probably mischaracterized how much theft took place in the chain stores and may have spent too much introducing security measures.
00:32:42.000Well, or alternatively, you guys don't have the actual stones to go up against municipal governments that have failed to arrest criminals.
00:32:49.000When I say truth versus wokeness, this would be the example.
00:32:52.000We live in a society in which high rates of criminality, if they happen to be, Congregated, in particular racial sectors of the population, have to be ignored.
00:33:04.000So instead of saying, say a disproportionate number of people who are shoplifting in downtown Chicago are black, but that has nothing to do with them being black.
00:33:10.000It has to do with you need to arrest people who are shoplifting.
00:33:13.000Instead of just saying that, they're like, it means too many black people are being arrested.
00:33:16.000If we ask for people to be arrested, we're going to look like racists.
00:33:19.000And that means that the best possible solution is we lock up the entire store.
00:33:23.000Our solution is not to stump for criminals to go to jail, which, by the way, would make life better for all the non-criminals in Chicago, including mainly, by the way, people living in low-income communities that are disproportional and minority.
00:33:34.000No, instead, what we're going to do is we'll make everybody suffer so we can continue along with the myth that if a disproportionate number of black men are going to prison, it's because America is racist rather than a disproportionate number of black men are committing certain types of crime.
00:33:49.000Every element of our media and our corporate infrastructure has been suffused with this stupidity.
00:33:55.000Instead of looking at individuals in America and their performance and then deciding whether or not they hit the metrics, we have decided that if the metrics are disproportionately hit by certain groups but not hit by other groups, that must be some reflection of underlying racial animus.
00:34:08.000That's how you end up with this story in the New York Times about Stoyvesant High School.
00:34:11.000Quote, Stuyvesant High School admitted 762 new students.
00:34:16.000Okay, so just from that headline, it makes it sound like the people who are leading Stuyvesant are just, they must be the worst racists ever.
00:34:22.000I mean, 762 new students and only seven are black?
00:34:24.000Do they hate black people or something?
00:34:34.000They're not equally apportioned by race.
00:34:37.000The numbers, which have remained stubbornly low for years since the New York Times, placed a fresh spotlight on racial and ethnic disparities in the nation's largest school system.
00:34:44.000Now again, a disparity does not mean discrimination.
00:34:59.000At Stuyvesant High Schools in Manhattan, the most selective of the city's so-called specialized schools, 7 of the 762 offers made went to Black students, down from 11 last year and 8 in 2021.
00:35:08.00020 Latino students were offered spots at Stuyvesant.
00:35:12.000So obviously, this is white supremacy, right?
00:35:15.000Except that only 158 of those slots went to white students.
00:35:36.000I can't believe the Asian supremacy that is happening is stoicisant.
00:35:40.000Or maybe there are some differences in how Asian students study, and family and parental structure, and the kind of time they spend on homework.
00:35:50.000Instead, we are going to yell at Stoyvesant High School.
00:35:53.000You remember that Mayor Bill de Blasio actually, because he wanted to reject reality so much, actually proposed replacing the entire entrance exam, which would have raised the share of Black and Latino students accepted to more than 40%.
00:36:03.000That would have involved, of course, just exploding all the standards in the first place.
00:36:08.000And this has now suffused so much of what's happening across our society.
00:36:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, assaults in school have ratcheted up since the return to in-person learning, adding to broader concerns about safety in school.
00:36:23.000Across the United States, violence against teachers has ratcheted up since the widespread return to in-person learning in 2021.
00:36:28.000In some areas, the problem is worse than it was pre-pandemic.
00:36:30.000The data are limited because many states don't specifically track teacher assaults or use the same methodology to make data comparable.
00:36:35.000From September through May of the current school year, the number of assault-related workers' comp claims filed at some 2,000 schools in different regions of the United States topped 1,350, a five-year high.
00:36:46.000So why exactly is all of that happening?
00:36:47.0001,350 workers across the United States, that'd be mainly teachers you'd imagine at these schools,
00:37:50.000There's been a big bugaboo of the left for a long time.
00:37:51.000It's the idea that if you put law enforcement officers in schools, if you put support officers in schools to prevent this sort of stuff, they might arrest kids and those kids might end up in jail.
00:38:03.000So just like Walgreens, what we'll do is we'll pretend that the problem isn't happening.
00:38:06.000Quote, Over the past decade, many U.S.
00:38:08.000school districts have begun relying less on out-of-school suspensions in favor of so-called restorative practices, which can include group-based social skills training sessions and conferences, where those affected by an incident jointly discuss how to resolve the situation, said Anne Gregory, professor in Rutgers University's school psychology program.
00:38:23.000Out-of-school suspensions raise a student's odds of dropping out and being arrested, she said, and disproportionately affect black students.
00:38:29.000Oh, they disproportionately affect black students, do they?
00:38:34.000Are you suggesting that a disproportionate number of black students are committing assaults against teachers?
00:38:38.000And if so, what does that have to do with their race?
00:38:40.000And if so, like, if a black student beats up a teacher, why should that student... Why should we redesign the entire system so that student isn't punished because of the color of the student?
00:38:50.000And ignoring reality, ignoring truth, in favor of comforting lies happens to be the way things are done.
00:38:56.000And the way that that is done on a general societal level is by elite cram downs.
00:39:00.000Because normal citizens don't like this crap.
00:39:03.000Normal citizens are not up for every corporation in America mirroring Pride Month.
00:39:07.000The common man in America is not up for a full month of corporate cram downs about why your child needs to learn that all forms of sexual behavior are morally equivalent.
00:39:15.000The normal American citizen is not up for locking up entire Walgreens just so people won't get arrested.
00:39:22.000That's not what normal people... They would like to be able to go to a Walgreens and then shop there and then for people who are criminals to be arrested.
00:39:27.000The normal American citizen is not up for the idea that teachers just have to accept a certain amount of assault in the schools in favor of racial and ethnic disparities being wiped away by not paying attention to the stats.
00:39:40.000But the elites are very much in favor of this because, for them, they want to create a new system.
00:39:45.000And elite consensus is created really easily.
00:39:48.000There's this idea out there that the way that elite consensus is created is people in a room getting together and then they conspiratorially talk things over and they come to a conclusion.
00:39:55.000They are aiming at a thing and they decide to hit the thing.
00:40:07.000And it's indicative, again, of how policy gets done in the West these days.
00:40:11.000The brand new CDC director, a person named Mandy Cohen, who is the North Carolina health director and was selected for this job by President Biden.
00:40:20.000A clip has now emerged of Mandy Cohen talking about how common standards were set between North Carolina and Massachusetts during lockdowns.
00:40:29.000Listen to how casual she is about elite cram downs of policy that affects tens of millions of people based on we had a conversation, me and my friends thought so.
00:40:38.000So I would call, probably the person I called most was the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts.
00:41:24.000They can do anything based on just this elite consensus that is created by them getting on the phone with their friends and then being risk averse because there is safety in corporate numbers.
00:41:41.000The answer to all of this, by the way, is actual localism.
00:41:43.000The answer to all of this is to stop allowing elites at the governmental and corporate level to control everything that we do and hear and see.
00:41:51.000Because when we actually have the option to opt for truth, when we have the options to establish societal norms from our local communities, everybody is happier.
00:41:59.000You want to establish your weird norm in San Francisco?
00:42:02.000You want to establish green hair norm in San Francisco?
00:42:05.000Well, you know, I'm not morally indifferent about that, but you're the one living in San Francisco.
00:42:10.000But what we've done as a society is we've said that moral neutrality involves implementing San Francisco values all over the country in every way, from criminality to Pride Month, To COVID.
00:42:23.000The elite consensus that exists on the coast is now being crammed down on America via corporate power, via governmental power, and we can all feel it and we can all see it.
00:42:32.000This is why the norms are disintegrating in real time.
00:42:34.000And meanwhile, remember that time that Joe Biden fell down real hard on a stage and we were all supposed to ignore it, pretend it never happened?
00:42:41.000Well, you know, I'd have more faith in the authorities telling us that there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden if I didn't see him falling downstairs every five seconds or falling upstairs every five seconds.
00:42:49.000And also, We have a long history in this country of people falling and hurting themselves and then the media pretending it never happened.
00:42:56.000Remember that time near the end of the 2016 campaign that Hillary Clinton collapsed into a van?
00:43:45.000He's fit as a fiddle and ready for love.
00:43:49.000Just to make sure we clear the record here, he tripped over a sandbag on the stage and briefly he tripped and got up and he got right back up and continued what he was there to do.
00:44:05.000There was no need for the doctor to see him as it was related to the fall and he's doing fine.
00:44:11.000Some of you saw him last night when he returned getting off Marine One on the South Lawn.
00:44:44.000I mean, there never was with Joe Biden, but there's even less going on upstairs now than there was 10 years ago.
00:44:49.000But listen to how the New York Times reports this, quote, The portrait that emerges from months of interviews with dozens of current and former officials and others who have spent time with him lies somewhere between the partisan cartoon of an addled and easily manipulated fogey promoted by Republicans and the image spread by his staff of a president in aviator shades commanding the world stage and governing with vigor.
00:45:07.000It is one of a man who has slowed with age in ways that are more pronounced than just the graying hair common to most recent presidents during their time in office.
00:45:13.000Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.
00:45:18.000Yet, people who deal with him regularly, including some of his adversaries, say he remains sharp and commanding in private meetings.
00:45:25.000Diplomats share stories of trips to places like Ukraine, Japan, Egypt, Cambodia, and Indonesia, in which he often outlasts younger colleagues.
00:45:31.000Democratic lawmakers point to a long list of accomplishments as proof he still gets the job done.
00:45:37.000And then they go on and quote a bunch of his aides who talk about what a virile man he is.
00:45:44.000Quote, like many of his age, Mr. Biden repeats phrases and retells the same hoary, often fact-challenged stories again and again.
00:45:50.000When children visit, he may randomly pull a book of William Butler Yeats off his desk and start reading Irish poetry to them.
00:45:55.000At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week, and does not drink.
00:45:59.000He has at times exhibited striking stamina, such as when he flew to Poland, then boarded a nine-hour train ride to make a secret visit to Kyiv, spending hours on the ground, then endured another nine-hour train ride and a flight to Warsaw.
00:46:10.000Oh my God, he sat on a seat for long periods of time?
00:46:18.000I mean, you mean he sat on a plane and then he sat on a train and then he stood upright for a bit and then he and then he sat back down again.
00:48:42.000How desperate are the Democrats at this point?
00:48:44.000Hilarious piece over in The Messenger, positing that perhaps Joe Biden will throw a 2024 Hail Mary by kicking Kamala Harris off the ticket and adding to the ticket, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
00:49:01.000Wait until you hear the justification for adding Barack Obama, a two-term president, as VP.
00:49:07.000At first blush, the 22nd amendment might be thought to preclude Obama from being on the 2024 ticket.
00:49:11.000That amendment provides no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.
00:49:15.000While Obama is precluded from ever running again for election as president, the amendment does not prohibit him from running for any other office, including vice president.
00:49:22.000Nor does the last sentence of the 12th amendment disqualify him.
00:49:25.000It stipulates that no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to the office of vice president of the United States.
00:49:31.000For several reasons, this requirement does not expand Obama's inability under the 22nd Amendment to run for election as president.
00:49:39.000So I guess the idea here is that you can be a two-term president and then run for vice president because you're not being elected as president.
00:49:46.000And then if you assume the office after the president dies, you can serve a third term.
00:49:51.000Which seems like, by the way, an amazing way of just ending around the Constitution.
00:49:54.000Because by this very same logic, you could just run as VP on a ticket, put some empty Placeholder at the top of the ticket.
00:50:00.000That person can retire day one and you're the president again in perpetuity.
00:50:04.000Exciting stuff they've discovered in the Constitution of the United States.
00:50:30.000It's worth pointing out right now that the measure that I typically use to determine whether the stock market as a whole is overvalued is price to earnings ratio for the entire S&P.
00:50:37.000So typically, the sort of rule of thumb used by investment guru Ben Graham, that rule of thumb Was that if it's trading, if the price to earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is above 20, it's probably overvalued.
00:50:53.000Like significantly over 20, it's overvalued.
00:50:56.000So that means that it's overvalued right now.
00:50:59.000It's probably going to go up because again, the earnings are going to come in short and people are still investing in the stock market hedge against inflation, which means that the stock market is probably overvalued a little bit right now.
00:51:09.000The Wall Street Journal points out that we are now in what they call a full employment recession.
00:51:13.000And there's been a historic drop in productivity.
00:51:15.000So what does that mean, that there's been a drop in labor productivity?
00:51:18.000It means that employers right now are hesitant to fire people, even if they don't have enough work for them, because it's been so hard to get them to come back to work after we inflated a bunch of money into their pockets.
00:51:27.000So there's all of this kind of weird disconnect between the market and employment rates right now, which suggests that if we enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation, which is very likely to happen over the course of the next few years, then the employment rates will in fact drop.
00:51:43.000Look, Joe Biden has done a terrible job, which is why he's vulnerable, and that is why they're speculating about the possibility of somebody like Barack Obama being his VP candidate, which, of course, is silly in the extreme.
00:51:52.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:51:55.000So, speaking of things that I like, I just mentioned Benjamin Graham.
00:51:58.000Benjamin Graham is the investment guru who taught Warren Buffett.
00:52:03.000He has an excellent book if you are interested in investing on your own.
00:52:07.000He invests using a strategy called value investing.
00:52:10.000I am a big advocate of value investing.
00:52:11.000The basic proposition of value investing is that when you invest in an asset, The underlying value of the asset is what you are investing in.
00:52:20.000And basically, when you buy a piece of stock, instead of thinking of a piece of stock as a thing that goes up and down in market value based on the vagaries of the stock market, you should look at the actual company and think about you are owning a piece of that company.
00:52:32.000Is that a company that you wish to own a piece of?
00:52:34.000Do you think that is a successful and well-managed company?
00:52:37.000His book is called The Intelligent Investor.
00:53:00.000Remember that guy who was in charge of our nuclear waste?
00:53:02.000Well, it turns out that he himself is a bag of nuclear waste.
00:53:05.000He is now being charged again with grand larceny in a third airport baggage theft case.
00:53:11.000So that dude has a weird fetish for stealing luggage to the point that he is now being arrested a third time for stealing other people's bags.
00:53:21.000According to county records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Brinton was taken into custody in Rockville.
00:53:26.000A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said the arrest was related to theft of airport luggage, the third such criminal case involving Brinton.
00:53:35.000Brinton, of course, has made a habit of not only being a generalized weirdo, but also stealing people's luggage and then wearing it around.