This week on This Week in Feminism: Clara joins us to talk about equal pay for women in the workplace, Joe Biden's trip to Ukraine, and more. Plus, we're joined by comedian and podcaster Adam Caplan to discuss all things culture. This week's episode is brought to you by RUMBLE PODCAST.
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00:02:59.000You saw that at the UFC. You see it in the NFL. And you see it with Canada now feeling as though they have the right to say, okay, all right.
00:03:09.000And let me ask you, what's the biggest change that you've noticed since Donald Trump won the presidency?
00:03:13.000Is it a weight lifted off your shoulders?
00:03:15.000Is it you feel more free to discuss issues that maybe you had to be quiet about before?
00:03:20.000And since we're not going to be quiet, that means at some point today, you very likely, if you're watching on YouTube still, I don't know why, may see this.
00:04:30.000Decided to Monday morning quarterback this thing and give advice to Kamala Harris as to what she should have done regarding the trans athlete issue.
00:04:37.000Now, before we get into this, I want you to understand something.
00:04:40.000The left is absolutely trying to gaslight you right now and say, you know, you're turning this into an issue.
00:05:16.000As we've discussed before, there are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere, even if there were more trans Pros.
00:05:25.000So, you're talking about this in high school, and we don't have the figures on that completely, but as of 2024, you have about 900 medals globally from 600 female athletes.
00:05:34.000If you look at international sports, you see records set by biological males in sports like weightlifting, running, swimming, cycling.
00:06:11.000There may be no effect on safety or fairness, and it's weird that you're making this into a big issue.
00:06:15.000Well, the reason that we're making it into a big issue is because the fact that over 900 medals have been stripped from women, or sorry, I should say, stolen from women.
00:06:49.000Fallon Fox, the MMA fighter who fractured the skull of a female opponent.
00:06:52.000And, not to be outdone by any of these, there's this famous clip where volleyball player Peyton McNabb was partially paralyzed on the right side of her body after this spiked ball.
00:07:02.000Guess John Oliver doesn't care about that person while they try to virtue signal.
00:07:13.000Let's just wrap up and play the rest of his clip as though he has anything valid to say.
00:07:17.000He's concerned for most girls who play high school sports.
00:07:20.000You'd be less worried about this and more about the creepy assistant volleyball coach who keeps liking their posts on Instagram.
00:07:36.000And really, we should fight to preserve the kind of American culture that you denigrate as flyover country while you live in Hollywood, the one place where rape culture actually exists, and many people attended pedophile island.
00:07:58.000like the ghost of Macho Man Randy Savage.
00:08:00.000Vice President Kamala Harris's recent statements concerning biological men competing in women's sports has gained a lot of attention with some people in the sports team.
00:08:17.000I got one thing wrong there, Firestein.
00:08:20.000It's not a recent statement from Kamala Harris.
00:08:23.000She's been supporting for a, don't interrupt macho man, biological males competing in women's sports for a long time.
00:08:34.000Yeah, that's not the kind of ball we want here in America, because biological men have advantages, despite your woke agenda, from bone density, muscle, hormonal profiles, and they're beating the hell out of women.
00:08:45.000What happened to Title IX? People said they supported Title IX. How many titles do you have?
00:08:51.000There's only one person who supports Title IX. And it's the Donald who's going to knock this out of the park November 5th.
00:09:32.000Yes, it's nonsensical and childish, but back to John Oliver, because I forgot this point and I'm bothered enough by it.
00:09:46.000No discernible advantages aside from the hormonal profile, bone density, red blood cell count, hemoglobin, lung capacity, wingspan, overall leverages, strength, explosivity, reaction, time, fast twitch muscle fibers.
00:11:04.000Well, he comes from the country where you actually go to jail if you scare a burglar with a fake gun because you're the one committing the crime.
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00:12:54.000On Sunday, she would be leaving the world of election polling.
00:12:57.000She said, over a year ago, I advised the register I would not renew when my 2024 contract expired with the latest election poll as I transitioned to other ventures and opportunities.
00:13:07.000Yeah, well, I can imagine that the reason for that is because your poll was cited everywhere and it was off by 16 points.
00:13:56.000But in case they try to tell you that this wasn't a big deal, let's take you back to the week before the election where everyone went nuts and told you this was a sign of the shifting landscape in the election. let's take you back to the week before the election Sorry, wrong Seltzer.
00:14:26.000In which there are good polls, and particularly where in some states there is a gold standard pollster.
00:14:34.000I mean the pollster Ann Seltzer has a great record, that poll has a great record.
00:14:38.000And the reason those individual pollsters get the gold standard designation is both because of their proven sound methodology, but also because of their track record over time in that particular jurisdiction.
00:14:50.000But over the weekend, the most prominent pollster in Iowa, Ann Seltzer, released the Des Moines Register poll, which showed Harris has taken a shocking three-point lead in Iowa, which Trump easily won in 2016 and 2020.
00:15:39.000Maybe it was a case of senioritis, because it seemed, again from her quote, that she was going to leave anyway after a year, and she just thought, you know what?
00:16:00.000Well, remember, we didn't know the methodology.
00:16:02.000And here is, just to be clear, as the man with the toupee and the sneakers noted, Frank Luntz, polls like this had the ability, and this was the intent, to influence actual voting patterns.
00:16:39.000It is monsooning here where we are, so if you hear that, we apologize.
00:16:42.000Second point is, the media, I love how they were like, oh my gosh, this fits our narrative, so finally we have something to put out there.
00:16:48.000They acted like this person was the best pollster that you've never heard of.
00:16:52.000That this person knew Iowa and knew polling, and then they started to extrapolate this to the rest of the country, and it's like, it's It's going to be a landslide!
00:16:58.000I mean, it's going to be like Mondale!
00:17:39.000Conservative programming started doing better because what happens is conservatives, those on the right, because you're used to a work ethic.
00:17:44.000You're used to being an underdog, right?
00:17:46.000If you watch anything in Hollywood, you listen to any mainstream music, mainstream media, if you go to a college, you're used to having to defend your views, and so you dig your heels in.
00:17:55.000The right, when they lose, they get mad and they get mobilized.
00:18:05.000Because they perpetually excuse themselves as lifelong victims rather than examining themselves and saying, okay, what can we do differently?
00:18:12.000We saw a huge increase in activity in subscribers when the election was allegedly lost in 2020.
00:18:20.000I think now pretty much everyone knows there was foul play.
00:18:22.000The left saw the exact opposite, and they've abandoned their own platform in droves.
00:19:24.000Thank you to the great people of Iowa for giving me such a record-breaking vote despite possible election fraud by Ann Seltzer and the now discredited newspaper for which she works.
00:21:44.000because it's funny so let me set this up for you trudeau released a video on his social let's talk canada oh geez about how immigration is now a problem uh and you're seeing this shift take a guess comment below have you noticed that it's okay now to discuss this problem where you don't have to bring it up and people go actually undocumented persons you can just say look we have a problem with illegal immigration illegal aliens people go yeah okay and you can now at least discuss how we deal with it uh Trudeau is even doing that now.
00:22:12.000Same guy who accused Donald Trump of being racist not that long ago, laying out his new policy.
00:25:49.000And not only that, you were actually touting this policy as loudly and as frequently as you could, which brings us to then and now.
00:25:58.000Okay, so it shouldn't be a problem, right, if corporations are at fault anyway, because back then, Prime Minister Trudeau said that immigrants, regardless, were the foundation Prime Minister Trudeau said that immigrants, regardless, were the foundation of Canada.
00:27:06.000- Fuck you, fucking you, fucking you, bloody! - Fuck you, bloody! - That was the first. - That was the first. - Number one country They sent this in.
00:27:20.000I'm not sure why you're bringing over a lot of Afghanis.
00:27:23.000Well, they worked with the Canadians in Kandahar quite extensively.
00:27:27.000Okay, but, you know, that's like, you know, you send a postcard.
00:27:30.000Well, I think a big reason is because there were bans on countries that were hotbeds of terrorism, and the United States at one point in time said, hey, you know what, we have to be careful in Canada.
00:27:36.000I said, you're the foundation of our country.
00:28:06.000Let's go back to then, because it's not just policy, but it's policy that was predicated on, again, the culture, right?
00:28:13.000I don't know if you remember this, but Donald Trump back in 2016, and we've seen a shift, when he said they're, you know, these people are, what is it, not sending their best, when he was talking about Mexico.
00:30:13.000And this is what I'm most excited about with this election.
00:30:15.000Sure, we're going to see an economy that should improve significantly, but we're seeing culturally the shift where now people don't have to be ashamed to have these conversations.
00:30:22.000Because right now, you see most Americans supporting deportation.
00:30:53.000Do you believe that the problem became, this is a genuine question, the problem became so large in scope that people said, okay, this is enough, we have to do something?
00:31:01.000Or do you believe that this is something people believed before and they felt they couldn't say because they were accused of being a racist?
00:31:25.000And I think, honestly, it comes down to when Texas and Florida started bussing migrants.
00:31:30.000It was one of the turning points for people to be like, okay.
00:31:33.000In Blue Cities, people going, alright, this is ridiculous.
00:31:35.000Like, Martha's Vineyard kept them for what, like, five hours or something like that before they bust them onto their next location and think they can all get out of there?
00:31:54.000You're not doing it about face because you wanted to.
00:31:56.000You're doing it because your citizens are about to throw you out on the front lawn with pit forks and Well, I also think something, you know, people are not just saying, hey, illegal immigration is a problem.
00:32:04.000I think people now feel free to say, you know what?
00:32:07.000You just looked at that list in Canada.
00:32:14.000A lot of people are going, hey, look, people want to come, but you know what?
00:32:17.000We're not even talking about illegal immigration at this point.
00:32:19.000A bunch of people coming from India, if they're coming here from India and they're not actually being absorbed into the culture and they're just sending money back to families there and they change these neighborhoods, you know, they don't put up decorations for Halloween, they don't take part in Christmas, they're not friendly with their neighbors, you know what?
00:32:32.000I don't really think that you should be benefiting from the system here.
00:32:40.000Not just no more illegal immigration, but we're tired of you bitching about how the United States, or in this case Canada, what an awful Western patriarchal civilization it is, while reaping the benefits.
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00:38:18.000If you look at that, just that cast, when you're looking at the Shake It On Baby, the twist and shout sequence, yeah, white, you got black, you got Asian.
00:38:25.000It represents all of Chicago, and people weren't thinking about it.
00:38:27.000Okay, you have some black people in the film, you have some white people, but it's not BET. It's not only black.
00:38:33.000It's not only black and white and fragmented.
00:38:47.000You just talk to people like they're people.
00:38:49.000The identity politics have fractured us so much, and you can really thank Barack Obama for that.
00:38:53.000Joe Rogan said, he even said, at one point, I thought that guy was smart.
00:38:56.000And I remember being on his show one of the four times, him saying that at least Barack Obama, you know, was far more intelligent than George W. Bush.
00:39:10.000There's no better example than, again, we went from secret Trump voter.
00:39:15.000Secret Trump voter who wouldn't answer polls.
00:39:18.000Secret Trump voter, let me correct that, who wouldn't answer anonymous polls saying that they were going to vote for Donald Trump for fear of retribution.
00:39:25.000to the Trump dance taking over professional sports.
00:40:12.000again I'm glad that the cultural shift is taking place and I really obviously voted and support Donald Trump but I don't really get why the dance is catching on as much as it is Gerald we really need to put a stop to this This is the...
00:44:03.000Anyway, he's become a cultural phenomenon.
00:44:07.000When the kneeling during the National Anthem, people said, hey, hey, hey, look, I get it, but that's really disrespectful to a lot of people.
00:44:46.000It's not solemn and disrespectful to a flag.
00:44:50.000I think that what we're seeing right now, to really sort of distill this point, it's the same reason that you saw, according to Tufts, 56% of Gen Z men, 56% of Gen Z males vote for Donald Trump.
00:45:03.000Because we were all steeped, and certainly we were rock against Bush, and we hate America, and American imperialism, and Code Pink, and then Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, so this was the first time she was proud of her country.
00:45:12.000Where now, you are actually seeing it's cool, or at least okay, to be proud of your country again.
00:45:19.000You don't have to feel ashamed because, oh, patriarchy, oh, because white privilege, oh, because...
00:45:24.000You can see white, black, whether it's professional sports, you're going to have a huge number of black people, let's be honest, outside of hockey.
00:45:32.000Yeah, I don't have to feel guilty anymore because some liberal great-grandpa owned slaves.
00:46:39.000And finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.
00:46:42.000And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back...
00:46:54.00080 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, and January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.
00:47:09.000Joe and I realize it's time to do something different.
00:47:13.000And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.
00:47:18.000We couldn't tell they cut 50% of the hosts.
00:48:04.000You made the transports thing into an issue.
00:48:06.000You made the idea of patriarchy, white privilege, of banning books into an issue, and then blamed Republicans.
00:48:11.000Hold We didn't ask for Drag Queen Story Hour.
00:48:13.000We didn't ask for LGBT pornography in public libraries.
00:48:17.000You made it into an issue and now you're surprised that Americans voted on the issues they have been screaming for really over half a decade are the ones they care about.
00:48:28.000And now you have to fundamentally change your business structure I hope you go bankrupt.
00:48:56.000Why would you have to worry about that?
00:48:58.000The funniest thing that I'm seeing right now with this, though, is that the left is absolutely eating them alive for going and talking with Donald Trump.
00:49:09.000Now, he's a little bit of a nut, but he is losing his mind saying, I can't believe that this is Vichy MSNBC. Almost like the real MSNBC that carried his water forever is now not the real MSNBC anymore because they deign to go and speak with the president-elect.
00:49:24.000When the right says, okay, this is propaganda.
00:49:26.000When we say that media is biased, because you're seeing the left now.
00:49:28.000The left saying that the media is biased to the right.
00:49:31.000That's what they're saying about Morning Joe.
00:49:32.000When we say the media is biased, what we mean is active propaganda.
00:49:36.000For example, lying about immigration numbers.
00:49:38.000For example, lying about unemployment numbers.
00:49:40.000For example, lying to the American people about the reason for energy prices.
00:49:44.000Lying to the American people about the biological realities of male and female lives.
00:49:48.000Lying about parents, for example, being hauled out of PTA meetings because of the original lie that I just told you that you perpetuated the idea that there's no difference between males and females.
00:50:22.000When we talk about this, Josh, when you're talking to the North Korean leaders, talking to people that we don't like necessarily as leaders, talking to Putin is seen as betrayal.
00:50:31.000Basically, what you're trying to do is figure out a way to go forward and negotiate and develop a relationship that isn't shooting missiles at one another.
00:51:00.000And Layne the Brain and I kind of agree, but kind of disagree a little bit.
00:51:03.000It does seem to me, and I'm curious to hear what you think, Joe Biden has just made a major step toward what could be seen.
00:51:11.000As America almost engaging in war directly with Russia, or certainly crossing that line.
00:51:16.000And he's doing it right as his administration exits the White House.
00:51:19.000Do you think he's doing that to kneecap Donald Trump?
00:51:21.000And do you think this actually could be a net positive because it gives Donald Trump leverage to end this war with more on the negotiating table?
00:51:29.000There are different ways to look at sort of the fallout.
00:51:32.000But there's really only one way to look at the change that has taken place.
00:51:36.000So Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden made this major change regarding the United States and their weapons and how they can be used in Ukraine.
00:51:44.000U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia.
00:51:54.000This major policy shift comes after months of requests by Ukraine and just two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
00:52:04.000Okay, so the difference here, and I want to be very careful in how I choose my words because there are two differing sort of lines of PR that we've seen.
00:52:15.000According to Ukrainian officials, right, these weapons, which now can be used in the Kursk region, which means Russian territory, not territory that has been somehow ceded to Russia or they've taken over in Ukraine.
00:52:26.000So right now we're talking about these missiles going straight into Russia.
00:52:30.000with permission from the American government and according to Ukrainian officials they actually are reliant on the United States for targeting coordinates and for the satellite systems that actually guide these missiles.
00:52:42.000So one could argue And I bet you that Putin will argue, the United States is basically launching missiles into Russia.
00:52:51.000They're doing everything but picking the target.
00:52:53.000That's what Ukrainian officials are saying.
00:52:55.000It needs U.S. satellite technology, and it requires someone here in the United States to punch in the coordinates.
00:53:08.000And maybe some people out there, if you guys have heard this before, but essentially what the Ukrainian official is saying is they would send them a list of places they wanted to hit.
00:53:16.000These are some targets that we want to hit.
00:53:17.000Give us the coordinates so that we can put them in.
00:53:19.000Otherwise, the missiles are most likely going to miss their targets.
00:53:21.000And what they were saying is they were given permission to hit very low-value targets.
00:53:25.000Now, put that in your mind and go, okay, wait, now we're talking about Russian soil.
00:53:30.000And if what the Ukrainian official is saying is true, and that's a big if, we're basically picking the targets.
00:53:36.000Don't you think that's going to piss Putin off just a little bit more?
00:54:17.000America is launching missiles right here into Russia.
00:54:20.000And he warned in September that a decision like this would basically amount to NATO being at war with Russia.
00:54:26.000If this decision will be accepted, it will mean nothing else as direct participation of NATO, United States, European countries in Ukraine in the war.
00:54:42.000For those on audio, because a lot of people still listen on Apple and Spotify, it was something, Blah, blah, blah!
00:54:52.000Now, this could have been, to be fair, again, a miscommunication, Biden having another senior moment when he asked Ukraine to try using tow missiles to Russia.
00:55:02.000He actually meant to ask Ukraine to use mistletoe in Russia.
00:55:36.000There's a lot going on here that I don't think people are paying attention to on the outside, just going like, ah, these are missiles that we give them.
00:55:41.000No, we're a lot more involved than probably we want to be, according to the Ukrainian officials.
00:55:51.000Look, you can still understand that this is probably not the best idea and also agree with the fact that Putin shouldn't have been marching into Ukraine.
00:56:01.000And can you also hold the position that Putin shouldn't have marched into Ukraine but also acknowledge that a huge minority...
00:56:07.000It's a huge minority, but still a huge portion of those people in these areas of Ukraine are ethnic Russians, speak Russian.
00:56:13.000Can you acknowledge that it's one of those areas that, look, he's using it as an excuse, but to act as though there's no understanding as to why Putin would have, you know, an axe to grind here, and it's the same as Poland, and it's the same as other NATO nations, I just think is disingenuous.
00:56:27.000And you're going to have to be honest about this if you want this conflict to end in anything other than complete decimation.
00:56:33.000So some people are celebrating this announcement.
00:56:35.000You have Alex Soros saying, Great news!
00:58:40.000Where we are at this point, too, China is going to say, okay, Russia, yeah, but you know what?
00:58:45.000This isn't really worth being at war with all of NATO. So that could potentially give Donald Trump some leverage here when you think about it, where, okay, these other nations may want to peel off, and you know what else could give Donald Trump a whole bunch of leverage?
00:59:07.000So, this could be, right, you could see it as one of two things.
00:59:11.000The negatives could be that Russia could escalate this, or it could be thinking about targeting the United States or elsewhere if they feel like they're backed into a corner.
00:59:19.000Right, they could arm like the Houthis or something like that.
00:59:22.000I very much doubt that they would use nuclear weapons.
00:59:25.000I don't think we're going to be crossing that line.
00:59:27.000The positives is it could provide Donald Trump and an incoming administration with some leverage in negotiating powers if it helps Ukraine hold Russian territory.
00:59:35.000I want to know what you guys think about this, if you think it's World War III. I don't think it's World War III. I don't think that it's a good thing for Biden to do, but Donald Trump may be able to spin it into something good.
01:00:00.000And I think he really genuinely does have a bit of a stain on his legacy from what happened in Ukraine.
01:00:05.000This was the biggest thing that he was responsible for militarily around the world, and it sucks other than obviously the Afghanistan withdrawal for us, right?
01:00:13.000And so I think there is some kind of logic to say, okay, maybe he's doing something that gives Ukraine a little bit of an advantage.
01:00:20.000They can hold a little bit more territory, and now we have a swap.
01:02:51.000And as we go on to Rebel Premium, the Mug Club segment here, we are actually going to be discussing a tale of two headlines where you can see the media bias at play.