In this episode, I discuss why corporate America celebrates Pride Month, and why it's a terrible thing to be a hypocrite in the 21st century, especially when it comes to freedom of speech. I also talk about why Elon Musk is the best thing that has happened to social media in a very long time, and what it means for the future of free speech on social media platforms and other platforms that allow people to express their views without fear of losing their ad revenue. And, of course, I talk about the new CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, and how he's going to deal with the growing threat to free speech from the radical gender ideology that he's trying to implement at Tesla and the rest of the tech companies that are trying to control your ability to speak your mind on controversial social issues. Tweet me and let me know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Why I don't celebrate Pride Month 6:30 - Why Elon Musk bought Tesla 7:00 - What's next for Tesla? 8:00- What would you look for in a CEO 9:40 - Who's the best CEO in the world? 11:30- How much money would you like to make? 12:00 | Elon Musk? 13:30 14:30 | Who would you pay for a free speech platform? 15:40 | What's your ideal CEO? 16: How would you want to be committed to standing up for free speech? 17: What are you looking for in the most? 18:40 19:15 - What do you want? 21: What kind of CEO do you're looking for? 22:00 -- How do you need to have? 25:30 -- What is your view on the future? 26:40 -- Is there a new CEO you're willing to stand up for you? 27:00-- Is it possible to have more freedom? 29:10 -- Will you be willing to speak freely? 30:00 Is it worth it? 31: Is it a good thing? 32:00 Should I be a good person? 35:00 Does it cost me to be more than $1,000, or do I have the same thing I want to have that? 36:00 // 33:00 Do you have a problem?
00:00:00.000Well, folks, first of all, happy normal month, in which we celebrate traditional virtue, recognize biological sex differences, go to church and synagogue, and take care of our wives and kids.
00:00:25.000Corporate America celebrates Pride Month.
00:00:26.000That is a month in which you celebrate your narcissistic view of your own sexual orientation and why it's the most important thing about human life and why everyone else must celebrate it along with you.
00:00:34.000But that's not the month that I celebrate.
00:00:36.000I celebrate like, you know, like every day by trying to be a good person who does moral things.
00:00:44.000But corporate America is celebrating Pride Month.
00:00:46.000And as we discussed yesterday, there's a reason why corporate America celebrates Pride Month.
00:00:50.000And it is because many of their biggest funders, not you, the actual market, but many of the people who actually buy their stock, Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, they dump.
00:01:00.000Literally trillions of dollars into various corporations around planet Earth just so that they can control their ESG, their environmental social governance.
00:01:50.000You can have your kids taken away from you in Canada.
00:01:53.000If you suggest that a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl under the inappropriate circumstances.
00:01:57.000In the United States, however, the government is really not supposed to involve itself in that sort of stuff.
00:02:01.000And so instead, they just work in cahoots with major corporations in order to leverage down a socially fascistic movement on you.
00:02:11.000And if you speak out on social media, you will be silenced.
00:02:13.000If you say anything at your place of work, you could be fired.
00:02:17.000All of this has been crammed down on you.
00:02:19.000Well, we've seen it on a bunch of different social media platforms.
00:02:21.000Obviously, there have been a lot of complaints about platforms ranging from YouTube to Twitter in the pre-Elon Musk era.
00:02:28.000But when Elon Musk bought Twitter, one of the suggestions is that Twitter was going to be the free speech platform.
00:02:34.000In fact, that has been the ongoing assumption of people on the right since Elon bought Twitter because he said it at the time.
00:02:40.000He said it was going to be a free speech platform.
00:02:42.000He said, in fact, that's why he bought it.
00:02:43.000One of the things that drove him to buy Twitter in the first place and expend probably three times what the company is worth, like $44 billion in order to buy Twitter.
00:02:51.000One of the things that led him to do that was the banning of the Babylon Bee for the great sin of saying that a man is not a woman.
00:02:58.000And then he bought it and he reinstated them.
00:03:00.000He did the same thing with Jordan Peterson, right?
00:03:01.000Jordan had tweeted that Elliot Page, who was Ellen Page, is a woman.
00:03:13.000And Elon Musk was asked by the founder of the Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon, my friend Seth, he was asked by Seth about whether the implementation of a new ad regime at Twitter was going to change the way that Twitter viewed free speech.
00:03:26.000Were they still going to allow the free expression of opposition to radical gender ideology?
00:03:35.000You've got a new CEO coming in who's going to be taking over, and you want everybody else to have that same freedom to be able to say what they want, even if it costs them something personally in their lives or whatever, to have that freedom.
00:03:48.000It would seem to me that the number one thing you'd be looking for is someone who's going to come in and be as committed to free speech as you are.
00:03:56.000That trumps even advertising revenue, in your view, if you're willing to lose money to be able to personally speak freely.
00:04:03.000Yeah, we've also lost advertising money because some advertisers got community noted.
00:04:10.000We're not going to make all advertisers happy, but I think we'll make most of them happy.
00:04:14.000There'd be enough that are happy to support this platform.
00:04:22.000But we're not going to compromise on free speech.
00:04:27.000We're not going to compromise on free speech, right?
00:04:30.000They weren't going to compromise on free speech.
00:04:32.000The reason I bring that up today is because we are now seeing Twitter compromise on free speech.
00:04:37.000So here is the story, and it implicates our company directly, and it implicates my friend Matt Walsh and his documentary, What Is A Woman?, the single best documentary and most impactful documentary of the last decade in the United States, bar none.
00:04:48.000So, Jeremy Boring, co-founder of Daily Wire, my best friend, he tweeted out, And I've, of course, been privy to these negotiations, quote, Twitter canceled a deal with Daily Wire to premiere What Is A Woman for free on the platform because of two instances of misgendering.
00:05:04.000So What Is A Woman, we were going to premiere it for free on Twitter today.
00:05:08.000And to initiate the one year anniversary of What Is A Woman and also because, of course, it's Pride Month, the most prideful month of all the year.
00:05:15.000And so we were going to allow people to see for free.
00:05:18.000We are going to allow people to see for free What Is A Woman.
00:05:22.000So Jeremy says, one year ago today we released What is a Woman.
00:05:25.000To celebrate the occasion and expand the movie's already enormous impact, we decided to give it away for free for 24 hours on Twitter.
00:05:31.000With Twitter's recent commitments to free speech, we thought it would be the perfect place to distribute the film and drive the conversation forward on one of the most important topics of our day.
00:05:38.000Twitter responded with enthusiasm and offered us the opportunity to buy a package to host the movie on a dedicated event page and to promote the event to every Twitter user over the first 10 hours.
00:05:48.000After we signed, Twitter asked to see the film to better understand what parts may trigger users so they could better prepare their response.
00:05:54.000They said they were still all hands on deck for a launch, so we sent them a screener.
00:05:58.000After reviewing the film, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support, and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it hateful conduct because of misgendering.
00:06:08.000Specifically, in the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as her, and a store owner uses the wrong pronoun in a confrontation with a trans person.
00:06:16.000We reminded Twitter they removed misgendering from their policy, and that the term misgendering itself is misleading, and that enforcing such a policy places them on the side of the most radical elements in society, the side most opposed to their commitment to free speech.
00:06:28.000Twitter clarified they only removed misgendering from their policy because they didn't need to be that specific, but they still consider misgendering abuse and harassment.
00:06:35.000Then they gave us the opportunity to edit the film to comply.
00:06:39.000So Twitter actually came to us and they said, we want you to remove these sections from the film and then we'll allow you to air it maybe.
00:06:45.000When we asked how much they would limit the visibility if we posted the film anyway, Twitter replied, our own followers would not be able to see it in their feeds.
00:06:52.000This, they said, is part of their speech not reach policy.
00:06:54.000So in other words, if Matt Walsh personally posted what is a woman as an entire movie on his Twitter feed, his own followers would not be able to see it.
00:07:02.000That's how much Twitter would throttle this thing.
00:07:04.000Of course, saying you have a right to speak, says Jeremy, but we'll make sure no one hears you is a bit like saying you have a right to vote, but we'll make sure it isn't counted.
00:07:12.000We brought all of our shows to Twitter Tuesday because we believed Twitter was committed to free speech, especially on this issue.
00:07:16.000After all, the Babylon Bee was silenced on Twitter over this very issue, and that in part prompted Elon to purchase the platform.
00:07:22.000The other tech platforms have already decided where they stand in the trans debate, and they demonetize and deprioritize all those who disagree.
00:07:28.000Now Twitter has joined the ranks of other tech superpowers in ensuring one side of the debate is suppressed.
00:07:32.000Elon Musk is not beholden to conservatives.
00:07:34.000He has the right to run his business as he sees fit.
00:07:36.000But if Twitter is going to throttle one side of the most important debates facing society, it can't claim to champion free speech.
00:07:43.000Jeremy says, I hope Elon will reconsider this awful policy.
00:07:46.000If we can't debate these issues on Twitter, where can we debate them?
00:07:48.000If conservatives aren't welcome on Twitter, where are they welcome?
00:07:51.000It's unlikely another centibillionaire will come along to offer an alternative.
00:07:54.000We plan to post the movie anyway tonight at 8 p.m.
00:08:07.000This film has been seen by millions of people already.
00:08:10.000Exposing it to millions more people via Twitter was the great promise of Twitter.
00:08:14.000It is the reason why there is so much hope on the center and center right.
00:08:18.000And when Twitter was taken over by Elon Musk, there would finally be a free speech platform worth its salt.
00:08:24.000So we'll see tonight whether Elon Musk lives up to that commitment.
00:08:27.000But the fact that they actually pre-committed, Twitter did, Twitter corporate, they pre-committed to doing a deal where we could promote the movie, where it would appear, and then they went from that to, if you put it on Matt Walsh's account, we'll throttle it.
00:08:40.000It demonstrates full-scale how the middle management of these companies, at the very least, has control over the levers of power.
00:11:34.000That is down a significant percentage, like $12 billion in market cap since the beginning of the boycott against Target, initiated by the fact that they were promoting Pride Progress garbage to small children.
00:11:47.000In fact, hilariously, the number one song, the number one song on the charts right now, on the iTunes charts, is an anti-Target boycott song.
00:16:17.000Why is that appropriate for a 5-, 6-, or 7-year-old?
00:16:18.000I don't think it's appropriate in public school at all.
00:16:20.000I think that you should be taught about this stuff by your parents, not by some state-sponsored apparatchik who is going to indoctrinate your children into gender stupidity.
00:16:29.000I think that your parents somehow figured out how to have you, so they should be able to explain to you how that happened.
00:16:34.000I don't really feel this is that tough.
00:16:36.000In fact, pretty much everybody I know who is in a religious community of one sort or another believes this.
00:16:40.000And so does everybody above the age of 50.
00:16:41.000It is only in the last several decades that we have decided that you must be a state-sponsored single teacher with a cat at home in order to teach kids about how sex works.
00:16:54.000And not only how sex works, but how all forms of sex work.
00:16:57.000Because the way that you used to be taught about sex in schools was, here's how sex produces babies, right?
00:17:48.000The school has been the focus of a group of parents who are objecting to an upcoming Pride Day assembly on Friday, June 2nd, at which the school plans to teach children about LGBTQ plus identities during a book reading.
00:18:18.000The hate crime is still significant, but it is a misdemeanor.
00:18:21.000The blackened planter and burn flag were discovered by school personnel Monday, May 22nd at 6.30 a.m.
00:18:26.000He did not know when the planter and flag were burned.
00:18:28.000This says the police and there are no suspects.
00:18:31.000Now they're preemptively blaming all of the conservative parents.
00:18:35.000Anna, a parent in the group who asked that her name not be published in the interest of her family's safety, said she doesn't believe any member of her group is responsible for the possible hate crime.
00:18:49.000Very often in cases like this where there is a, hey, somebody hung a noose.
00:18:53.000It turns out that the person who hung a noose was some sort of activist who wanted to bring attention to a thing.
00:18:57.000It's quite possible that this is a person at the school who was in favor of the Pride Progress flag being shown to three-year-olds and decided, what if I burn this flag and then nobody knows who did it and then they blame the conservatives and then I get to act like a victim?
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00:21:29.000First of all, there are obvious symptomatic reasons why this matters.
00:21:32.000So, for example, Pride Month now celebrates the idea that men can be women and women can be men.
00:21:37.000This has some pretty dramatic ramifications for particular people's lives, up to and including women just getting the crap kicked out of them.
00:21:44.000So, there is apparently a trans activist named Riley Dennis.
00:21:48.000Riley Dennis likes to play soccer and injure women.
00:22:23.000So, you know, there are obviously a lot of specific instances like this in the sporting world.
00:22:28.000It's obviously true that when you have people like Dylan Mulvaney cosplaying as women, it isn't making a mockery of women, that you are erasing women.
00:22:34.000It is female erasure to pretend that a man can be a woman.
00:22:38.000But it also has sort of deeper, malign problems.
00:22:42.000Okay, so one of those malign problems, obviously, is the transing of the children.
00:22:45.000The idea that a boy can become a girl or a girl can become a boy is the height of perversion.
00:22:49.000There is no scientific evidence to back this.
00:22:50.000In fact, all science suggests precisely the opposite.
00:22:53.000And so the generation of vast numbers of kids who are now going to be sucked into sexual fluidity and gender ideology, those numbers are extraordinary.
00:23:04.000We are seeing thousands of percentage point increases in quote-unquote trans identity.
00:23:08.000We are seeing 21% of people who are born between 1998 and 2004 now identifying as LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.
00:23:18.000Is any of that good for human fulfillment?
00:23:19.000Is any of that good for human society?
00:23:20.000Is that good for the progeneration of society in general?
00:23:44.000Okay, that transformation, which really began, as I've mentioned before, in the early 19th century with the Romantic Movement, with Shelley and his compatriots, this idea that the true you is what lay on the inside, and it really was your sexual desire, and any imposition on that sexual desire was an imposition on the true you and threatened your authenticity.
00:24:03.000That's really broken out into the open in Western society since the 1960s.
00:24:07.000You combine that feeling, which has to be, again, rooted in a narcissistic belief that there is nothing outside of you, And that itself is rooted in a secular atheistic perspective on the world.
00:24:17.000These things are deeply connected on a philosophical level.
00:24:20.000People who tend to believe that there is no higher meaning that can be discerned in the world.
00:24:29.000That basically the only thing that exists in the world is what you make of it.
00:24:32.000And that the most important part of you is your sexual desire.
00:24:35.000That perspective has deep and abiding societal consequences.
00:24:38.000As I mentioned before, that perspective sort of existed under the surface in Western civilization throughout the 19th century and for most of the 20th century, but it really broke out into the open in the 60s.
00:24:47.000The reason that it broke out into the open in the 60s particularly is because the consequences of that ideology were pretty grave for most of human history.
00:24:54.000If you're a person who believed that the only thing that mattered was sexual pleasure up until like 1960, chances were you were gonna have babies out of wedlock, you were gonna get a sexual disease, right?
00:25:03.000There were a lot of actual real-world consequences to that.
00:25:06.000Then in the 1960s, with the rise of birth control pills, with the rise of medical care and all the rest of this, with the rise of a welfare system that took care of your problems for you, what you ended up with was a society where the consequence of your own actions were now attenuated from your behavior.
00:25:19.000And so now you literally could say, okay, I will lead my happiest life because there'll be no real-world consequences for my behavior.
00:25:26.000And everybody will be forced to accept me.
00:25:28.000The reification of the individualistic, animistic individualistic identity rooted in sex was finally able to conquer all.
00:25:50.000Why would that possibly be a matter of indifference?
00:25:53.000Literally, the purpose of a human being is to progenerate the species.
00:25:57.000Even from, put aside religion, from an evolutionary biological perspective, the purpose of being a human is to have more humans.
00:26:04.000It is to progenerate, from a religious perspective and from any decent perspective, good values down to a next generation to transform the world in a better way on behalf of your children.
00:26:14.000That is the intergenerational link is what makes you a better person.
00:26:17.000A person living on a desert island in complete atomistic isolation can't be good.
00:26:22.000There's no standard of good or bad living on a desert island by yourself.
00:26:26.000The standard for good or bad really begins to apply in societies.
00:26:30.000And you really only have the ability to carry out your fulfillment as a human being when you start thinking about generations beyond yourself, like beyond when you die.
00:26:38.000But in the United States, we no longer think like that.
00:26:41.000According to the Wall Street Journal today, about 3.66 million babies were born in the United States in 2022.
00:26:45.000That's essentially unchanged from 2021 and 15% below the peak hit in 2007.
00:26:51.000The provisional total is 3,000 below 2021's final count.
00:26:56.000We are now seeing the number of deaths in the United States approaching the number of births in the United States overall, which would obviously mark a decline in population.
00:27:05.000Total fertility is well below replacement levels.
00:27:08.000You need a fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman.
00:27:11.000That's the replacement rate for human beings if your population is growing.
00:27:16.0001.665 means that the population is shrinking, which means that you have to rely on immigration in order to fill in that gap.
00:27:21.000In fact, the only fertility rates that are increasing in the country right now are fertility rates for Asian Americans and fertility rates for Hispanic Americans.
00:27:29.000Those are the only ones that are increased in the country right now.
00:27:32.000Since 2016, The fertility rate for white Americans has dropped from 58 or so live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, all the way down to 52.
00:27:44.000In the black families, it's significantly larger.
00:27:48.000Birth rates continue to decline among young people.
00:27:51.000And again, this is because when you start thinking of yourself as basically a machine for sexual hedonism, you don't tend to care too much about having babies or building family units, which are the predicate for having a functional society.
00:28:03.000Fascinating article by Mary Harrington over at UnHerd called Why Gen Z Prefers Dogs to Babies.
00:28:09.000And she talks about the fact that people have decided that they are not going to have kids anymore.
00:28:15.000In San Francisco, there are now more pets than there are children.
00:28:18.000So she's actually writing about London.
00:28:20.000She's not even writing about the United States.
00:28:23.000Pets at Home CEO, Lisa McGowan, thinks some of these young people have redirected their caring urges toward pets.
00:28:28.000They're taking all that time and energy and attention and putting it into fur babies, especially in urban areas.
00:28:32.000McGowan speculates this is happening because the classic milestones of adult life, like getting your own place, seem increasingly out of reach to many thanks to scarce housing, rising costs, and stagnant wages.
00:28:41.000This feels plausible, but is that all there is to it?
00:28:44.000Prospects for Gen Z are not as optimistic as for their boomer grandparents, but in absolute terms, human societies have lived through greater turbulence and gone on having kids.
00:28:51.000Liberal feminist Jill Filipovich argues if more women are opting to have fewer or no kids, it isn't so much about the financial pinch.
00:28:57.000Certainly among dog walker acquaintances locally, I can think of several childless younger millennial heterosexual couples who seem pretty sorted.
00:29:12.000I mean, the reason that that's happening is because we as a society have declined to have children.
00:29:16.000We do not think that the most important thing is building for the future anymore.
00:29:20.000We don't think family structure is all that important anymore.
00:29:25.000She says, imagine you've grown up with a set of messages that suggest that sex is just a fun leisure activity and that all forms of sexual intimacy are morally equivalent.
00:29:37.000A worldview that presents embodiment, sexuality, desire, and intimacy as coruscating, infinitely varied expressive options in which what anyone does should be limited only by individual preference and mutual consent.
00:29:47.000Imagine you've grown up with that set of messages.
00:29:49.000Now imagine you're detecting yourself a buried hankering to be a mother or father.
00:29:54.000Because it runs directly up against the individualistic sexual hedonism notion for you to have babies because now you actually have to think about values and think about a family structure and think about hemming in your sexual urges and desires and think about something beyond your genitals or your general orientation or urges.
00:30:26.000But, if you're looking at ideologies overall, an atheistic, individualistic ideology that suggests that all fulfillment is to be found in pleasure and pain, and that pleasure and pain is most choice when it comes to sexual activity, That is a society that is very, very unlikely to be durable.
00:30:40.000A society that's not gonna generate kids, it's not gonna generate family units, it's not gonna have a future orientation, it's gonna be a society that falls apart.
00:30:47.000And so, from that perspective, this really isn't even about Pride Month, per se.
00:30:50.000It's just that Pride Month is the final sort of manifestation, it's the form of the destroyer, in the sense that if civilization is predicated on future orientation, commitment to the family unit, generation of children in a father-mother household, and you have an entire month celebrated by corporate America and government rejecting all of those things, Or at the very least pretending that that isn't a question of apathy to the institutions that be.
00:31:13.000That there is moral apathy that really any of these choices are fine.
00:31:17.000You decide you want to live in a polyamorous polycule in the Bahamas with no kids or you decide that you are going to get married to a woman and have four kids and live inside a religious community and it's a matter of complete social apathy.
00:31:30.000In fact, we should be proud of the first choice.
00:31:32.000The first choice, you should be prouder of it because to be a member of the indoctrinated class, to be a person who has given in to societal systems and institutions means that you have betrayed your authentic self.
00:31:44.000Which is, of course, why you should be proud of being a member of the second group.
00:31:47.000You have to have a pride month for the first group.
00:31:51.000This is how civilizations fall apart, obviously, and that has nothing to do with With whether people are gay or straight, it has to do with societal orientations towards future, towards family, towards family unit, towards the difference between male and female.
00:32:07.000And so, as I say, Pride Month is less a cause than a symptom of a deep-rooted philosophy that has taken hold in the West, a post-Enlightenment philosophy, a romantic philosophy that rejects societal associations and institutions that actually create a durable humanity in favor of individualistic sexual excess.
00:32:24.000That is what we are celebrating this month, and it does have real societal consequences, as the West is about to find out, and find out hard.
00:32:30.000In just one second, the House of Representatives did indeed pass that debt ceiling increase.
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00:34:14.000Okay, meanwhile, you know, as we've been talking about with regard to Pride Month, the media have portrayed it as though Florida is an absolute hellhole for gay people, right?
00:34:28.000Either you accept wholesale the left-wing Pride Month agenda, or you must be Uganda, and you want to like just go after gay people and prosecute them and put them in jail.
00:34:36.000Or alternatively, none of that's true and we just don't want indoctrination of the children.
00:34:40.000Well, remember that time the entire media said about the state of Florida that you couldn't say gay in the state of Florida, which is weird because I live in the state of Florida and I have many gay friends who live in the state of Florida and they all seem fine to me.
00:34:51.000Like Dave Rubin and his husband, they're fine.
00:35:36.000Governor DeSantis is going to arrive with the fascist Central Florida Police Force and just round everybody up.
00:35:42.000Or alternatively, none of that was true in the first place.
00:35:44.000But you can always trust the media to make sure that they are lying.
00:35:48.000Okay, meanwhile, the House of Representatives did in fact pass a debt ceiling deal.
00:35:53.000That deal was struck by Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy.
00:35:56.000I've made clear that I frankly don't care all that much about the debt ceiling deal.
00:36:00.000The reason I don't care that much about the debt ceiling deal is because the kind of cuts that McCarthy achieved from Biden are more than I think people expected, certainly, people expected that Joe Biden was going to run roughshod over McCarthy and that he was going to be able to just increase the debt ceiling with literally no concessions to McCarthy.
00:36:17.000Instead, McCarthy was able to cap spending at 20-22 levels.
00:36:22.000The only part of the spending that is not capped inside the non-mandatory spending is defense spending.
00:36:29.000Which means that a lot of the discretionary spending actually will decline in future years.
00:36:34.000It's not what I would want in an ideal world.
00:36:36.000The reason I say I don't care all that much about it is because if you actually want to take on the systemic debt and spending problem in the United States, you have to touch the mandatory spending.
00:36:42.000The mandatory spending represents 62% of federal spending every single year.
00:36:47.000Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all these other benefits.
00:36:50.000That stuff represents two-thirds of American spending.
00:36:52.000Another 10% is in the net interest category.
00:37:13.000I think that he actually showed power over his own coalition, which, by the way, is not a bad thing.
00:37:17.000I know there's this belief inside the conservative movement and the Republican Party that you can never allow leadership to have sort of a whip hand with its own caucus.
00:37:25.000You want to know why Democrats get things done?
00:37:28.000That is the reason why they get things done.
00:37:30.000Nancy Pelosi ran that thing like a machine.
00:37:33.000And even Chuck Schumer, who's not very good at it, He tends to run things, kind of like a machine.
00:37:38.000He's got a problem with mansion and cinema, but everybody else votes in lockstep unison.
00:37:41.000Republicans were a fractious crew, but the reality is that if you want to get something done inside the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House, if you're a Republican, does actually have to have the power to do the thing.
00:37:52.000Now, that doesn't mean you can't put pressure on him.
00:37:53.000I'm glad Chip Roy was sounding off on this stuff in the same way that I'm glad that Chip Roy exacted concessions from Kevin McCarthy when McCarthy was trying to become Speaker of the House.
00:38:01.000But the sort of outsized wailing and gnashing of teeth?
00:38:35.000Democrats are pretty upset about this.
00:38:36.000They voted in larger numbers than Republicans did for the bill.
00:38:39.000Mainly because, again, once Democratic leadership says a thing, Democrats just do it.
00:38:43.000It's just a testament to the power of the Democratic caucus when it comes to their leadership contingent.
00:38:47.000Their leadership contingent is very strong.
00:38:50.000This thing passed by a 314 to 117 vote.
00:38:52.000It relied on support from both Republicans and Democrats.
00:38:56.000As a percentage, more Democrats than Republicans voted in favor of the deal.
00:39:01.000Chip Roy said, my beef is you cut a deal that shouldn't have been cut.
00:39:05.000Some Senate Republicans have threatened to slow the passage.
00:39:08.000They have agreed to cut through procedural hurdles if they're granted amendment votes, but unlikely they're going to get the amendment votes, considering that, again, Democrats have control of the Senate.
00:39:17.000So they're going to be able to ram this thing through.
00:39:50.000Again, the reason I'm not putting significant focus on it is because the more that we want is not going to be solved by a debt ceiling fight.
00:39:58.000For his part, Mitch McConnell congratulated McCarthy on getting the deal through.
00:40:03.000I think Speaker McCarthy should be congratulated on capturing a number of priorities.
00:40:12.000And the best way to look at the difference, two years ago, we were in the process of spending 1.9 trillion dollars And then last year, another $750 billion.
00:40:31.000So we've gone from one party spending $2.7 trillion in two years to a discussion about actually reducing government spending.
00:40:46.000So I think the American people's decision to change the House has already yielded benefits for our country.
00:40:54.000You can hate Mitch McConnell, that's who's a manipulator, par excellence, and what he's saying there is not wrong.
00:41:01.000The Republicans did vote in majority for the bill.
00:41:05.000So there used to be a rule, it was called the Hastert Rule, and the basic idea was that if you couldn't get a majority of your own party on board, you shouldn't put a bill up for a vote.
00:41:11.000McCarthy didn't just have a majority of his own party, he had like two to one inside his own party voting for the bill.
00:41:46.000Here's James Clyburn saying, I wish we could just get rid of the debt ceiling entirely.
00:41:51.000I don't think a lot of people understand that if we allowed the country to go into default, the people at the bottom of the economic ladder would have been in a catastrophic place.
00:42:03.000These are people who have given their all and we ought to be taking care of them.
00:42:08.000And so, no, we should not allow them to be jeopardized with their quality of life while we argue over political stuff.
00:42:21.000I don't think we ought to have that at all.
00:42:23.000I've done the study on this, I understand Denmark may be the only other country, uh, democracy that's got one.
00:42:29.000And even if, their debt limit is three times above what their budget is.
00:42:35.000So, I don't know why we have this debt limit.
00:42:37.000I wish we'd just get this thing behind us, pass this bill tonight, and let's, next week, start working on getting rid of the debt limit altogether.
00:42:49.000Okay, again, that's what Democrats would have preferred.
00:42:51.000McCarthy not only did not give them that, he actually exacted concessions from a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President.
00:42:58.000So, that is where things currently stand.
00:43:01.000Is that something the Republicans should look—should they look at that in the mouth and be upset about that?
00:43:31.000But Mike Pence wants to jump into the race.
00:43:33.000He's going to do a kickoff speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
00:43:37.000It's going to be very difficult for him because, again, Trump has basically destroyed his reputation among the Republican base for no reason.
00:43:42.000I mean, he was a good soldier during the entirety of the administration.
00:43:45.000He just refused to, you know, overturn an election that he had no legal power to overturn.
00:44:26.000He is a former close Trump ally who calls the former president a coward and a puppet of Putin.
00:44:30.000But that's only after he, you know, ran around fetching him coffee for like a couple of years and after he performed the most famous political murder-suicide of my lifetime where he took out Marco Rubio in the New Hampshire primaries and simultaneously took himself out.
00:45:11.000And the real question is, whose interests is he going to serve?
00:45:13.000Is he going to be like some of the other candidates who are already in the race and spend all of his fire on DeSantis?
00:45:18.000Are we going to get a repeat of 2016 where Trump doesn't have more than 40% of the vote, but he ends up winning the primaries anyway just because everybody else is like a crab pot?
00:45:25.000Everybody's just clawing each other down into the pot?
00:45:30.000And meanwhile, the conflict between DeSantis and Trump is escalating.
00:45:33.000And again, the contrast between how Trump goes after DeSantis and how DeSantis goes after Trump is quite a thing to see.
00:45:40.000So, Trump went after DeSantis recently by saying that Andrew Cuomo did a better job in New York than DeSantis did in Florida, which is absurd.
00:45:49.000DeSantis responded by speaking to policy.
00:45:53.000Here is how DeSantis responded to that.
00:45:56.000So you talked about changing your tone a little bit with former President Trump.
00:46:00.000I don't believe you mentioned him here by name tonight, but does this mean you're going to be a bit more aggressive with campaigning against him?
00:46:07.000So look, I'm going to respond to attacks.
00:46:12.000I mean, if you say Cuomo did a better job with COVID than Florida did, first of all, that's not what he used to say.
00:46:45.000He's like, uh, dude, your entire family moved down here, and you were praising me until five seconds ago about COVID, and now I'm running against you, and suddenly I'm worse than Andrew Cuomo.
00:46:55.000So that's how DeSantis responds to attack.
00:46:56.000Here is how Donald Trump responds to Ron DeSantis.
00:47:00.000He posted this on, this is a press release, an official press release from the Donald Trump campaign, the Trump Make America Great Again 2024 campaign.
00:47:10.000In case you missed it, truth from President Donald J. Trump.
00:47:49.000If this is the sort of thing you think is going to win a presidential election against Joe Biden, I urge you to vote for this.
00:47:54.000If you think, however, that perhaps the best lines of attack are not calling a person named Ron, Rob, and then suggesting that it is a matter of public concern whether his name is pronounced DeSantis versus DeSantis, I don't know.
00:48:08.000I have doubts on that campaign strategy.
00:48:17.000John Cleese, who has become increasingly conservative over the years, not because he's super conservative, but just because he has not gone along with the woke left, and he happens to be a person who does comedy for a living.
00:48:28.000He's become very annoyed with the realities of the left in which jokes that are certainly funny have become un-woke and therefore verboten.
00:48:37.000To remove a scene from Life of Brian, in which one of the characters declares that he wants to become a woman because he wishes to become pregnant, and everyone makes fun of him because it's absurd.
00:49:58.000Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans, but that he can have the right to have babies.
00:50:34.000So you watch that scene and you're like, that's the actual argument we're having now.
00:50:37.000So the left, of course, is very angry at this because it was in a comedy, one of the funniest comedies ever made, Life of Brian.
00:50:42.000And so Cleese went on Twitter and he said, a few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London.
00:50:47.000I told them I was adapting Life of Brian so we could do it as a stage show, not a musical.
00:50:51.000I said we'd had a table reading of the latest draft in New York City a year ago and that all the actors, several of them Tony winners, had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene.
00:50:58.000I have, of course, no intention of doing so.
00:51:01.000So there's been a lot of talk in the media about the possibility of him cutting the scene.
00:51:09.000We would not get away with doing a scene in New York.
00:51:11.000I asked him, are Python fans not going to come because we're doing a scene they've been laughing at for 40 years?
00:51:16.000And then he said, producers tend to be scaredy cats.
00:51:17.000They don't remember that the protest in New York City when Brian was released meant we never needed to do publicity.
00:51:23.000Well, good for John Cleese, and unfortunately that is the reality in which we now live.
00:51:27.000People are so scared of performing like old comedy, and people have said this about Blazing Saddles and pretty much all the Mel Brooks movies from the 60s and 70s, that you could not make any of those today?
00:51:37.000That is a funny scene, and the reason it is funny is because it is an absurdity for a man to claim that he has the right to have a baby, or that he is a woman, or that he has a womb, or any of the rest of this.
00:51:47.000Everyone knows it's a war with reality.
00:51:48.000But you're not allowed to say that anymore, because to laugh at the thing is what destroys the thing.
00:51:53.000This is the thing the left really knows.
00:51:54.000We are forced to take seriously their most absurd contentions.
00:51:58.000And the minute you take it seriously, now you're playing their game.
00:52:02.000Because the burden of proof shifts from you, from them, to you.
00:52:06.000They used to have to explain why violation of reality and embrace of absolute absurdity was a good idea.
00:52:12.000But the minute that you start engaging in the conversation now, the burden of proof shifts to you to explain why your way of life is superior, why your logic is superior.
00:52:21.000Well, the proper response to completely absurd things is to laugh at them.
00:52:25.000And when you take laughter off the table, it takes away a giant weapon, which is why the left is trying to take it off the table in the first place.
00:54:01.000So I've talked to you at this point almost ad nauseum about what I've called face tattoo syndrome, right?
00:54:06.000This is the issue where you go to the Starbucks and the guy behind the counter has a giant face tattoo and you stare at him because he put a giant tattoo on his face.
00:54:15.000And you shouldn't have a giant tattoo on your face because it looks weird.
00:54:18.000And so you stare at him and he's like, What are you staring at?
00:54:21.000Like, the giant tattoo on your face that is meant to draw attention to you.
00:54:24.000You could also call it blue hair syndrome.
00:54:26.000Or some chick gets her hair dyed blue, and then you're looking at her and you're like, that's a weird color.
00:54:30.000And she's like, why are you looking at my hair?
00:54:37.000So, Lizzo, the rotund musical star, the round man of Rebound.
00:54:42.000So, I'm allowed to make fun of her weight, and the reason I'm allowed to make fun of her weight is because she has decided that quote-unquote fat is beautiful, right?
00:54:49.000She is the one who made an issue of her body.
00:54:59.000She was free to, you know, dress modestly and not make an issue out of her body and to not run entire ad campaigns centered on the idea that she is within the definitions of traditional beauty.
00:55:13.000She decided not to do that, and now she's upset that people are making fun of her.
00:55:16.000Well, according to page 6, Lizzo is not trying to change her body.
00:55:19.000She's trying to scroll social media without seeing disparaging comments about it.
00:55:23.000So, I mean, first rule of social media, if you're a celebrity, I know because I am one, don't scroll social media.