23-year-old porn star Lily Phillips did a stunt in which she had sex with 101 men in a day. Why is this wrong? And why is this a bad thing? And what does it have to do with consent?
00:00:00.000Well folks, there's something deeply broken about our society, and sometimes there are just some pretty egregious symptoms of that being the case.
00:00:07.000One of those symptoms is a person whose name is Lily Phillips.
00:00:11.000Lily Phillips is 23 years old, and right now she's become quite prominent because she has a very lucrative OnlyFans account where she earns millions of dollars to take her clothes off and have sex in front of men.
00:00:22.000And back in October, Lily Phillips did a stunt.
00:01:35.000Like more intense than you thought it might?
00:01:40.000And she ends up breaking down in tears, basically.
00:01:43.000She says, quote, I think by the 30th, when we're getting on a bit, I've got a routine of how we're going to do this, and sometimes you dissociate, and it's not like normal sex at all.
00:01:50.000She admitted that she did not remember much of this.
00:01:53.000She said, in my head right now, I can think of 5, 6, 10 guys I remember, and that's it.
00:02:55.000It will be a world record, a real challenge, she claimed.
00:02:59.000Apparently, the current world record is held by a person named Lisa Sparks, an adult film star who bedded 919 men in one day at a sex industry event in Poland back in 2004. Sparks said, to be completely transparent with you all, this event is the one thing I regret doing in the 23 plus years in the porn industry to this day.
00:03:15.000It was the only job I agreed to perform strictly for the money.
00:03:20.000Okay, so here is the thing about all this and is screwed up in a thousand different ways.
00:03:28.000As a columnist for the UK Daily Mail named Jane Fryer writes, she says, That this talking to Lily is like bobbing into a parallel universe where everything is upside down.
00:03:40.000Where Gen Z bodies are for sale like sweets.
00:03:41.000Sex is nothing more than a numbers game.
00:03:43.000And parents, even grandparents apparently, are quote, very supportive.
00:05:36.000Liberty versus oppression would be if you see an unjust rule being promulgated that oppresses someone versus is that person free to make their own choices.
00:05:44.000Fairness or cheating would be if somebody cheats you.
00:05:47.000It's unfair because somebody has cheated you.
00:05:48.000Loyalty versus betrayal would be if someone betrays a group.
00:05:52.000Authority versus subversion is if somebody disrespects legitimate authority, and sanctity versus degradation is if somebody does something disgusting, for example.
00:06:01.000Well, as it turns out, liberals and conservatives, left versus right, they think of the world in a very different way from one another.
00:06:06.000Liberals are interested in only about three of these six matrices.
00:06:11.000They're interested in the question of care versus harm, so compassion, liberty versus oppression, so the idea of your individual rights and individualism, and finally, fairness versus cheating.
00:06:22.000Is the final outcome of a system fair or are rights distributed fairly?
00:06:28.000Conservatives, people on the right, care about all six of those matrices, right?
00:06:32.000Including things like loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, and most importantly, sanctity versus degradation.
00:06:39.000So, if you're on the left, what do you do about somebody like Lily Phillips?
00:06:42.000Well, theoretically, you could make the argument that she's harming herself.
00:06:47.000This violates the sort of care-harm principle.
00:07:59.000And the idea in sort of modern left-wing parlance is that if you talk about something being disgusting, it means that you're being judgmental.
00:08:06.000So, for example, Jonathan Haidt, in this book, The Righteous Mind, he talks about the fact that when he teaches his college students, one of the questions he will ask them is, is it immoral for you to have sex with a frozen chicken?
00:08:17.000Liberals will say, maybe, and then they'll think about it and they'll think, no, it doesn't violate my principles of consent.
00:08:23.000It doesn't violate the care-harm matrix.
00:08:25.000It's a violation of liberty to say that it is disgusting or problematic or wrong.
00:08:29.000There's nothing unfair about having sex with a chicken.
00:08:31.000Conservatives are like, yeah, it's gross.
00:08:37.000It has actually kept human beings alive for eons.
00:08:40.000Originally it evolved as a way of naturally driving people away for things that are quite bad for them.
00:08:45.000The reason that human beings have a reaction of disgust when they see, for example, a snake is because snakes can kill people.
00:08:51.000Now, that does not mean that all disgust historically is proper.
00:08:56.000Sometimes, human beings are disgusted at behaviors or traits that are perfectly legitimate or have risen through no fault of the person you're disgusted by.
00:09:04.000So, for example, there are a lot of primitive cultures where people with mental disabilities are found to be disgusting.
00:09:09.000In ancient Sparta, you have a disabled baby and you leave it out on a cliff somewhere.
00:09:14.000But disgust, as a general human emotion, is a response to the violation of the sacred.
00:09:27.000Sacred means that you're taking something and you now declare it holy.
00:09:30.000And for something to be holy means it is separate from the secular.
00:09:33.000It is something that is not to be questioned.
00:09:35.000It is something that of such high value that to question it would undermine the entire society.
00:09:40.000To throw away the sacred is to throw out one of the things that is most important in building a society.
00:09:45.000Again, there are some things we find so sacred that we will not violate them.
00:09:50.000The philosopher Robert Nisbet, in a book called The Twilight of Authority, writes about this.
00:09:53.000He says, the greatest of all distinctions the human mind is capable of, according to Emile Durkheim, another sociologist, is that between the sacred and the profane or merely utilitarian.
00:10:01.000Even the distinction between good and evil is small by comparison, for both good and evil are representations of the sacred, positive or negative.
00:10:09.000Nisbet says, rightly, did Emile Durkheim declare the sacred, but the other side of the coin on which community is written.
00:10:15.000Human aggregates are possible, or at least conceivable, without a sense of the sacred, but not, Durkheim declared, community.
00:10:21.000You can't get an entire community together to share the same values unless they agree on a concept of the sacred and the profane.
00:10:27.000Things that are so high in value that they are not worth arguing about, and to argue with them, should actually generate a feeling of disgust.
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00:13:44.000And a society should be able to look at that behavior and say, that is wrong behavior.
00:13:48.000It's not just a matter of moral apathy.
00:13:51.000Because a society that greenlights this sort of behavior or celebrates it or pays people millions of dollars for this sort of behavior gets more of it.
00:13:58.000It reduces the humanity in all of us to the level of the animal.
00:14:03.000And then all you're left with is the profane.
00:14:05.000And you cannot build any community, any workable society on the profane alone.
00:14:11.000Human beings, we have a natural understanding of the sacred.
00:14:14.000We have a natural understanding, a desire to worship, a desire to understand there are things that are of eternal value.
00:14:20.000This is why, by the way, the concept of consent when it comes to sex is necessary, but it is not sufficient.
00:14:26.000Meaning, of course, consent is necessary to sex, but it is not the only marker of whether sex itself is a good thing or a bad thing in how people engage in it.
00:14:35.000It's because we've lost the concept of the sacred and the profane, for example, that I think some things have happened in the Me Too movement.
00:14:43.000So, for example, in the Me Too movement, there's a phenomenon that has arisen many times where women will consent to sex with someone they should not have consented to sex to.
00:14:52.000They'll treat themselves badly and then they'll wake up the next morning and they'll decide they didn't like it.
00:14:56.000And they don't have the language to even express what it is they don't like because they already gave consent and you can't un-give the consent.
00:15:03.000So then they go to the language of consent again.
00:15:06.000They'll say that they were raped in some cases when they weren't actually raped or the evidence shows they weren't raped.
00:15:10.000But they're not wrong to feel bad about themselves.
00:15:12.000They're not wrong to feel bad about the decision making.
00:15:15.000Regret is an understanding you have taken something sacred and you have made it profane.
00:15:20.000And the relationship between two people who love one another in a committed bond, that is a sacred thing.
00:15:26.000That's what makes sex sacred rather than profane.
00:15:28.000And if you treat it as a profane thing, well, a lot of the time, profane things are going to feel profane to you.
00:15:33.000You might wake up in the morning and feel degraded because maybe you degraded yourself.
00:15:39.000And then people look for an excuse for why they feel the way they do.
00:15:41.000But they don't even have the language to explain why they feel the way they do.
00:15:44.000It's particularly true of young women who are engaging in activities that later they regret.
00:15:50.000They don't even understand why they regret it.
00:15:52.000But the answer is that we are all, men and women, all of us are capable of sullying ourselves, of disgusting ourselves.
00:16:00.000And that is a worthwhile tendency in human beings to recognize that That sometimes when we look at the behavior of somebody like a Lily Phillips here, she should be upset and we should be upset that as a society we have decided that the OnlyFans society is fine and decent and good.
00:16:18.000Pornography ought to disgust us because it is disgust-ing.
00:16:22.000It should disgust us because it takes something that should be about commitment and love and turns it into something that is simply about rutting.
00:16:33.000It takes something that is meaningful, but not because it is just a matter of consent, because it is a matter that has meaning attached to it and has throughout human history.
00:16:41.000And pretending that people don't have emotions connected to sex is one of the most ridiculous aspects of the modern feminist movement and the modern secular left.
00:16:49.000I mean, even Lily Phillips acknowledges this.
00:16:51.000She says, I didn't even get to talk to the guys.
00:16:53.000It's the most pathetic sort of expression of the problem.
00:16:58.000It turns out that both women and men, very often, you know, they actually want to know the person with whom they are having sex.
00:17:05.000Because it means something beyond just pure consent.
00:17:07.000A society that boils its morality down to consent alone is a society that doesn't even have the language to express why it's corrupting itself.
00:17:17.000It's why we as a society have such trouble saying that by the way pornography is morally bad.
00:17:25.000Young men are being destroyed by OnlyFans.
00:17:28.000Young women are certainly being destroyed by OnlyFans.
00:17:31.000And this should not be a matter of moral apathy in our society.
00:17:34.000Again, I'm not talking about regulation or legislation.
00:17:37.000Perhaps that's appropriate, but that's not even the question.
00:17:39.000The question is, do we even have the moral language anymore to look at human behavior that ought to disgust us and say, it's okay to be disgusted by that behavior?
00:17:49.000It's okay to look at things that violate the nature of what it means to be made in the sacred image of God and say, that's bad.
00:17:58.000And I have an innate sense of being provoked by it into disgust.
00:18:04.000We were made that way, and that's not a terrible thing.
00:18:07.000Again, a society that loses any concept of the sacred and trades the sacred for the profane is a society that is not long for this world.
00:18:15.000Because in the end, if we can't place certain principles above and beyond debate in the realm of the sacred, such as, for example, the value of human life.
00:18:22.000If you cannot do that, then you're not going to have a society for very long.
00:18:29.000Well, that brings us to the latest in this shooting of the United Healthcare CEO.
00:18:34.000Now, again, you can have whatever arguments you want to have with regard to health insurance, which is a very, very complex topic.
00:18:42.000This basic idea that people seem to have that if you remove the profit incentive from business, somehow the product, good or service gets more efficient and better.
00:18:51.000Please name such a product, good or service in which this is the case.
00:18:56.000I would love to hear one product, good, or service that has ever become more efficiently distributed, better, and higher quality by removing the profit margin and instead acting through pseudo-altruism.
00:19:09.000But, put aside whatever questions you have about healthcare for a second.
00:19:13.000There is a sacred principle that we all have to hold by, and that is, murder is bad.
00:19:17.000Why this should in any way be questioned is beyond me.
00:19:21.000A society that can't even declare human life sacred enough that you don't get to shoot somebody because you don't like how the healthcare system works, that is not a society that is long for this world.
00:19:30.000Well, the latest on this case is that despite all of the bizarre conspiratorial speculation that the shooter in this case, the alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, that this person was not the person who was framed or that this was a put-up job by the government or such.
00:19:45.000Well, the 3D-printed gun, according to CNN, that the killing suspect had when he was arrested this week in Pennsylvania matches three shell casings found at the crime scene in Midtown Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department commissioner.
00:19:56.000Manjohn's fingerprints matched those investigators found on items near the scene of the December 4th assassination of the UnitedHealthcare chief.
00:20:04.000Again, three 9mm shell casings from the crime scene had the words delay, deny, and depose written across them one word per bullet.
00:20:10.000Police had been looking into the words, which titled a 2010 book critiquing the insurance industry, may point to a motive.
00:20:17.000Well, it's pretty clear they do point to a motive at this point.
00:20:20.000Meanwhile, the police say that the suspect's notebook described a rationale for the CEO's killing.
00:20:57.000Presumably, they could have helped pay for whatever back bills he had.
00:21:00.000And the person he shot, Brian Thompson, actually grew up relatively poor and made his way to the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, whether you like what he did or not as the head of UnitedHealthcare.
00:21:10.000Also, this person's politics were somewhat bizarrely heterodox.
00:21:14.000As I say, existed in an online sphere that was sort of center-right, perhaps, in some contexts.
00:21:21.000He quoted Tucker Carlson at one point.
00:21:24.000He had quoted a wide variety of other sort of center-right accounts.
00:21:30.000But then, about six months ago, it appears that he had some sort of mental break.
00:21:35.000According to the contemporaneous accounts, he had a really bad back problem and that this led him to chronic pain, maybe to painkillers.
00:21:42.000Many of the books he was exploring were talking about the use of psychedelics and all the rest of this.
00:21:46.000So there's an attempt to paint him as some sort of Robin Hood type hero here.
00:21:50.000According to the Washington Post, even when Luigi Mangione was surrounded with people who cared about him, he was isolated by a spinal defect that gave the athletic young man crippling pain and contributed to a jaundiced view of the American healthcare system.
00:22:03.000On Reddit in April, Mangione foreshadowed that skepticism about the healthcare industry as he offered advice for getting a doctor to perform spinal surgery.
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00:24:31.000Lumen dot M-E. Okay, the reason that I bring up the question of whether human life is now considered sacred is because of the many people, mainly on the left but not entirely on the left, who seem to believe that the answer is at the very least qualified.
00:24:47.000That somehow, violence can be justified in individual cases.
00:24:51.000And this would be almost a textbook example of terrorism.
00:24:55.000It is in fact terrorism when you are attempting to affect political change through murder this way.
00:25:00.000There are a group of people on the left who seem to be kind of fine with that.
00:25:03.000Elizabeth Warren is chief on that list.
00:25:05.000Elizabeth Warren, she suggested, while appearing with Joy Reid, the least joyful joy there is, that violence may not be the answer, but, but, but, but, but, you can only push people so far.
00:26:55.000And yet you have, to your point, very few people in Congress, in the Democratic Party, in the Republican Party, who really say, you know, healthcare is a human right.
00:27:05.000The function of healthcare should not be to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, but to provide quality care to all people.
00:27:46.000If I have a right to free speech, what that means is that you have a duty not to interfere with my free speech.
00:27:51.000If I have a right to a house, now what you're declaring is that I have a right to demand from a construction worker that he build me a house, that people provide me the resources for that house.
00:28:00.000That's a very different kind of thing.
00:28:02.000Declaring something a right that is not, in fact...
00:28:05.000Just what you would have in the absence of other human action.
00:28:09.000If you declare that I'm owed something from someone else a right, if you do that, the natural consequence is that if someone denies you that thing, they are quote-unquote denying you that right.
00:28:22.000Now, that is only problem number one with what he's saying.
00:28:24.000He is also seeming to suggest, and he admits, that there's no perfect healthcare system.
00:28:28.000But then he says the American healthcare system is about creating profits, as though, again, profits are somehow the dramatic enemy of efficiency, of efficacy, of research and development.
00:28:49.000It has pretty much everywhere it's been tried.
00:28:51.000The most successful healthcare systems are largely privatized healthcare systems, whether you're talking about Switzerland or whether you're talking about Singapore.
00:28:58.000The bottom line is that what Bernie Sanders is actually doing is he is establishing a moral matrix in which anyone who opposes his agenda actually is in favor of death and thus deserves whatever is coming to them.
00:29:12.000This kind of politics is wrong, it is bad, and it is ugly.
00:29:16.000Alright, meanwhile, the Trump transition continues to go swimmingly for the president-elect.
00:29:21.000President Trump has just been named the Time Person of the Year again.
00:29:24.000This would be his second time as Time Person of the Year, which, of course, perfectly deserved.
00:29:36.000Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:29:39.000Again, there's a case to be made, but when you're elected president of the United States for a second time after losing an election, that's pretty damned historic.
00:29:47.000And the entire world shapes itself to your priorities.
00:30:23.000Right now, in terms of dealing with the economy, 39% of Americans say they have a lot of confidence in President Trump dealing with the economy.
00:30:31.000And it adds to that another 27% who say that they have some confidence for President Trump in dealing with the economy.
00:30:39.000Adding up to 66% of the public, about, somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:30:43.000Only 35% of the public suggests that they have no confidence in him.
00:30:49.000Handling the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:30:52.000Full-on 63% of Americans say that they have a lot of confidence or some confidence in him handling the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:31:00.000When it comes to dealing with immigration policy, that number is 61%.
00:31:03.000When it comes to providing real leadership for the country, the number is 59%.
00:31:30.000Because his term was a waste of space, he set the world on fire, he lit 40-year highs in inflation, and he's still president, and he's dead, and everyone knows it.
00:31:38.000Somewhere, Joe Biden is still wandering the earth like Bigfoot, a mythical creature, deemed humanoid, but nobody knows where he is, what he's doing, or why anyone considers him president anymore.
00:31:49.000Meanwhile, the effects of the upcoming Trump administration are already taking effect.
00:31:54.000Chris Wray, the FBI director, has decided that he is going to step down Again, that is not a giant shock considering that Ray was going to be fired anyway.
00:32:04.000And yes, the president-elect will have the ability to fire whomever is the FBI director at that point.
00:32:09.000The term is 10 years, but it's not a set term.
00:32:12.000That's the maximum the FBI director is supposed to serve.
00:32:15.000Of course, the FBI repeatedly investigated Trump, including by searching Mar-a-Lago for classified documents in 2022. President Trump responded by declaring the stepping down a great day for America.
00:32:30.000Ray said, I've decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down.
00:32:35.000This is the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.
00:32:43.000Meanwhile, again, the president-elect of the United States is quite happy to see him go.
00:32:50.000Kash Patel, of course, is going to go with a comb through the FBI and try and find members of the deep state who are so intent on thwarting President Trump's ambitions during Trump term number one.
00:33:03.000So things are about to change pretty dramatically.
00:33:06.000Meanwhile, many of the attempts to hit President Trump's nominee are just falling apart.
00:33:10.000So, for example, Pete Hegseth He became the target of a supposed attempted scoop by ProPublica, which is a left-wing hack group, as Hegseth understandably writes.
00:33:22.000He put out on X the following statement, quote, We understand that ProPublica, the left-wing hack group, is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999. Here's my letter of acceptance, signed by West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Daniel Chrisman, U.S. Army.
00:33:38.000Apparently, ProPublica said that they were not going to run the piece, Only because of what Hegseth had done.
00:33:46.000So what happened is that West Point told the outlet on two occasions that Hegseth did not even apply to the academy, but then Hegseth's people sent ProPublica the acceptance letter.
00:33:54.000So good thing he kept all of those letters.
00:33:56.000If not, they probably would have published that false story, a story that was simply not the truth.
00:34:01.000In just one second, we'll get to more developments from Trump World.
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00:34:41.000Okay, meanwhile, the Trump bump continues that is particularly true with regard to the economy.
00:34:45.000According to Axios, confidence among America's top chief executives is soaring after President-elect Trump's re-election with high hopes the former president will usher in an era of low taxes and regulations.
00:34:55.000Mainstream economists warn the economy will take a hit from some of Trump's proposals, but business leaders see a brighter outlook for their industries in the months ahead.
00:35:02.000That, of course, is not a giant shock considering that Trump has been overtly pro-business throughout both of his terms.
00:35:08.000He announced just the other day that if you invest a billion dollars in the United States, he's going to expedite all of the regulatory approvals that are necessary in order to get that investment going.
00:35:17.000Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, who chairs the Business Roundtable, said in a statement that top executives feel energized by Washington, set to consider measures that can protect and strengthen tax reform, enable a sensible regulatory environment, and drive investment and job creation.
00:35:29.000Nearly 80% of the lobbying group's CEO members expect higher sales in the next six months.
00:36:18.000I think that is most likely to happen.
00:36:20.000At this moment, it's worth giving some credit to Kyrsten Sinema as well as Senator Joe Manchin, both independents who left the Democratic Party during the last several years.
00:36:29.000They rejected a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just before he leaves office to try and ram through a bunch of federal government nominees.
00:36:37.000According to Politico, the Senate failed to end debate on a bid to extend the tenure of Lorne McFerrin at the National Labor Relations Board after drama on the Senate floor and a final decisive no vote from Joe Manchin.
00:36:48.000Schumer was hoping to extend McFerrin's tenure at the NLRB to give Democrats effective control of the body into 2026, halfway through President Trump's term.
00:36:56.000The floor stayed open at length, awaiting a decision from Manchin with the tally tied at 49. He then emerged and said no.
00:37:04.000So did Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
00:37:06.000Because I guess the bottom line for them is, why are we handing an extension of Joe Biden's power over to the NLRB when he's going to be leaving and Republicans are going to be taking the chamber?
00:37:17.000Speaking of Democrats who have a decent head on their shoulder at this point, John Fetterman.
00:37:21.000It's not just that he has a good head on his shoulder with regard to Israel.
00:37:24.000He is also joining President Trump's social media platform and calling for a pardon in New York for Trump in his very first post.
00:37:33.000So he suggested the Trump hush money and Hunter Biden cases were both BS and pardons are appropriate.
00:37:38.000So he's trying to justify what he's saying about Trump by appealing to the Hunter Biden case, but he is totally right about the Trump hush money case.
00:40:11.000The pardon power is a personal thing, according to Bill Clinton.
00:40:14.000A lot of things were personal things when Bill Clinton was president.
00:40:17.000Meanwhile, in other good news for Republicans and for the country in general, according to Corey Liu, the adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, The Fifth Circuit has now held that the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, acted unlawfully in approving a NASDAQ policy that forced corporate boards to implement an identity-based diversity quota looking at race, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, or to provide a written explanation for why they failed to meet the quota.
00:40:42.000This is like a real thing the SEC attempted to do.
00:40:45.000They approved a NASDAQ policy that said that if you wish to be listed on the NASDAQ, you had to put forward a statement explaining why you didn't have more gay with people and women on your board or some such nonsense.
00:40:55.000So the Fifth Circuit said that that is a violation of the law.
00:40:59.000They suggested that this idea of a diversity mandate coming from the SEC is a joke, as it absolutely is.
00:41:06.000Again, DEI is about to die a horrifying death, a well-deserved horrifying death under President Trump.
00:41:16.000There's a brand new pullout from Manhattan Institute.
00:41:19.000And it asks a simple question with regard to questions of quote-unquote racial equity.
00:41:23.000Which approach do you prefer for addressing racial inequality?
00:41:26.000Approach one, we should focus on creating a race-conscious society to repair the harms of the past by developing policies that benefit marginalized groups.
00:41:34.000Or, option two, we should focus on creating a colorblind society where everyone is treated equally regardless of the color of their skin.
00:41:41.000And so option one would be sort of the Black Lives Matter, Ibram X. Kendi idea that everybody should be super racially conscious and that we should redistribute outcomes based on race.
00:41:51.000And number two is the MLK prospect that we should treat everybody individually without reference to skin color.
00:41:57.00068% of Americans believe in colorblindness.
00:41:59.000Only 21% of Americans actually believe in the Ibram X. Kendi version of society.
00:43:17.000Now, it's not going to go without a little bit of violence, obviously.
00:43:21.000Just another indicator of where we stand in the country.
00:43:24.000Two days ago, an Illinois man allegedly attacked South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace on the U.S. Capitol grounds over her views on trans-identifying men in women's spaces, according to Mace.
00:43:33.000His Daily Wire report, unquote, She ended up wearing a sling into Congress.
00:43:49.000Apparently, the Capitol Police told the Daily Wire they arrested a person accused of assaulting her on Tuesday evening.
00:43:54.000That person was a 33-year-old trans rights advocate.
00:43:58.000Apparently, this person reportedly went through security screening before entering the congressional buildings where the incident occurred.
00:44:04.000Well, meanwhile, President Trump has basically proposed that we annex Canada, and I feel like they will greet us as liberators at this point because Justin Trudeau is just absolutely the worst.
00:46:29.000We have to be very, very careful with the president-elect, and we have to pull together, I think, all opposition party leaders.
00:46:37.000Premiers, all elements of the Canadian political establishment, such as we are, better pull together to make sure we don't create any cracks that allow Fox News or Mr. Trump's social media to exploit us and say things about Canada that aren't true.
00:47:29.000All righty, folks, coming up, we'll get into Tony Blinken testifying before Congress and, of course, just being a representative of the worst administration in modern history.
00:47:37.000If you're not a member, become a member.