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00:00:00.000The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation unleashes an article blaming me for violent extremism, an FBI whistleblower says the government has distorted the January 6th attack into broader domestic extremism pseudo-crises, and a Democratic sheriff launches an investigation into Ron DeSantis shipping illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard.
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00:02:36.000Well, once again, apparently I'm a very scary person.
00:02:39.000I'm a very scary person, it turns out, because a lot of people watch shows like this one.
00:02:43.000People watch this show, people listen to this show, people watch clips of me saying things on the YouTubes.
00:02:48.000And according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is essentially the NPR of Canada, this is a state-funded enterprise, a left-wing state-funded enterprise in Canada, apparently All of my speech should probably be banned, because after all, people might watch my stuff, and then there's an off chance that they might then see even worse stuff, and then that might lead them down a rabbit hole to the super, super bad stuff.
00:03:10.000There's an entire article on the CBC website titled, It's a Slippery Slope, How Young Men Fall into Online Radicalization.
00:03:17.000By the way, it is fun to watch how the left treats slippery slope arguments when they're coming from their side.
00:03:21.000When the right says, you know, if you go along with civil unions, eventually it'll be gay marriage.
00:03:25.000And if you go along with gay marriage, eventually it'll be attempting to force people to accept same-sex marriage in religious schools.
00:03:31.000Then that's a slippery slope we cannot abide.
00:03:33.000Even if the slippery slope completely materializes.
00:03:35.000But apparently, it is fully okay to make a slippery slope argument when I say something that is not extreme.
00:03:42.000It's possible to make the argument that somebody might view that and then see something that's a little more extreme, a little more extreme than that, and eventually they end up being a Nazi.
00:03:48.000This is the case the CBC is about to make.
00:04:14.000Though Shapiro describes himself as a conservative political commentator, his views are controversial.
00:04:19.000Is there another way to describe me other than as a political commentator who is conservative?
00:04:24.000Is there another description that is more apt?
00:04:26.000What they want to say here, of course, is that I'm alt-right.
00:04:28.000The problem is that people in the media, including the economists, have attempted to call me alt-right before, and we have then threatened them with legal action because the alt-right hates my guts, and I have ripped the alt-right routinely doing full speeches about the alt-right, and so they've had to retract such statements.
00:04:41.000So instead, they say, well, I call myself conservative, but you know what they would call me.
00:04:44.000They would call me an extremist, which goes to show you that if they call me an extremist, you're definitely an extremist as well.
00:04:50.000Shapiro describes himself as a conservative political commentator.
00:05:00.000It seems to me that I've always been of the viewpoint that, for example, people should be treated as individuals, not based on their race or their religion.
00:05:07.000I thought that that was, like, basic to my worldview, actually.
00:05:10.000But it turns out, according to the CBC, that some of my views are outright discriminatory.
00:05:15.000He suggested, for example, that transgender people suffer from a mental disorder.
00:05:20.000Oh, you mean me and the American Psychiatric Association?
00:05:23.000Like, in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5, it literally labels gender dysphoria a mental disorder.
00:05:31.000Because it used to be called gender identity disorder.
00:06:20.000Like Brown was when he got pushed in Shapiro's direction.
00:06:23.000Well, Shapiro is not affiliated with any hate group.
00:06:26.000Experts, ah, the ever-present experts in media, gender studies, and radicalization of young men say the commentator's content is prevalent in online extremist communities.
00:06:36.000They're saying, openly, there's no evidence that I'm affiliated with a hate group because I'm not affiliated with a hate group, and they have no evidence of it because it doesn't exist, but they do have experts.
00:08:17.000I mean, it's the equivalent of me, like, hitting you with a baseball bat or something.
00:08:20.000The exposure to controversial and increasingly harmful views about masculinity, the objectification of women, and the LGBT community has these same experts raising concern about how extremist far-right groups are using TikTok, YouTube, and other social media apps in a drip campaign to slowly radicalize vulnerable teens and young men.
00:08:39.000Okay, so, I just have a couple of questions about that particular paragraph.
00:08:41.000They say, exposure to controversial views about masculinity.
00:08:44.000What are my controversial views about masculinity?
00:09:34.000I've been an outspoken anti-porn advocate since I was like 16 years old.
00:09:38.000I was an advocate, and still am, for virginity of both sexes until marriage.
00:09:43.000So I'm gonna need some evidence on the objectification of women front.
00:09:47.000By objectification of women do you mean that I think that there are actual standards of beauty?
00:09:50.000And that there are many people in popular culture who we have been told are supposed to be seen as beautiful who are not objectively beautiful?
00:09:59.000If you polled men on whether Lizzo is beautiful, and I say Lizzo is not by any classical definition a beautiful person, that does not mean that that is objectification of women.
00:10:09.000That just means that there is a standard called beauty and it has meaning and content.
00:10:13.000That's not a particular controversial view unless, again, you're an insane person.
00:10:17.000But they say that I have increasingly harmful views about LGBT community.
00:10:21.000Now, I assume that what they mean by this is that I say, you know, as most societies have said for literally all human history, that the foundation of a successful society is man, woman, child.
00:10:33.000That heterosexual sex within marriage is the morally preferable form of sex in society, that all of human progeneration is rooted in it, that all of societal Stability is founded upon it, and that when you get rid of the standard, that there is, in fact, a moral superiority to heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage.
00:10:52.000When you get rid of that, you end up destabilizing both reproduction and society itself.
00:10:57.000Again, this is basic natural law kind of stuff.
00:11:00.000Seems to be backed by a fair bit of evolutionary biology as well.
00:11:04.000This is not saying that the government should regulate the type of sex that people can have in the privacy of their own bedroom.
00:11:09.000It is to say that pretending that there is no level of moral superiority to your sex life is very, very silly when we apply moral superiority and inferiority scales to literally everything else you do, from the food that you eat to the clothes that you wear.
00:11:22.000So apparently that's very controversial as well, and that's really bad.
00:11:25.000The goal of the CBC piece, of course, is to get my content banned on social media.
00:11:31.000And so what they have to do here is that they can't actually say, what about my views is so terrible.
00:11:35.000So instead what they do is they say, well, you know, young people watch my stuff and then they increasingly watch other people's stuff.
00:11:41.000And those other people's stuff is really bad.
00:11:44.000Now, again, they'll never use this argument about, for example, marijuana and the fact Virtually everyone who does hard drugs originally started with marijuana.
00:11:51.000That argument was ruled out of bounds long ago, and we have to pretend now, by the way, that marijuana is not addictive.
00:11:56.000Marijuana is in fact addictive by all available data.
00:11:59.000We have to pretend all that stuff, but we're not allowed to make that argument with regard to a slippery slope on drugs.
00:12:04.000We're also not allowed to make the argument with regard to a slippery slope on pornography.
00:12:07.000If we say that people access porn and a subsection of the people who access that porn are going to access more and more extreme versions of porn, up to and including violent porn, and that that has an effect on people's souls and it makes them less sensitive toward women, you're not supposed to say that either.
00:12:22.000So again, slippery slope arguments only apply to the things that they want them to apply to, namely politics.
00:12:28.000According to the CBC, again, I can't get over the fact, if this were like a normal piece in a normal left-wing publication, like Salon or something, like, okay, fine, this is normal.
00:12:39.000It is not even a commentary report from the CBC.
00:12:42.000And as you'll see, this has broader ramifications for where we go as a civilization.
00:12:45.000Because this piece is really the latest iteration of what Canada is doing, which is an attempt to crack down on free speech, particularly the free speech of people who believe in traditional ideas about marriage, for example.
00:12:56.000The videos Brown watched as an early teen were often misogynistic, he said, and it started to affect the way he thought and how he interacted with people at school.
00:13:02.000I remember repeating some sexist attitudes, things about the wage gap.
00:13:07.000OK, so what have I said about the wage gap?
00:13:11.000I said the wage gap is a myth that women do not earn less than men if they are equally qualified, if they've had equal amount of time in the workplace, if they're working the same jobs, if they've not taken time off to have kids.
00:13:55.000So the things that apparently are really bad that we have learned from this article so far is if you say men are not women and that women and men are not generally judged by the marketplace on sex, these are the problems.
00:14:06.000This is what leads you to apparently extremism.
00:14:09.000That's exactly how online radicalization works.
00:14:11.000This is Ellen Chloe Bateman of Brown's Experience, a documentary and podcast producer who researches online radicalization among young men and insults subculture.
00:14:19.000Bateman describes radicalization as a slippery slope that can begin as algorithms pushing boys to videos that's increasingly harmful.
00:14:29.000They said there are experts and now we are being presented with an expert.
00:14:32.000Then, someone might engage you in a comment thread and tell you to join their Discord group, where the content gets darker and it's edgy.
00:14:37.000It's entertaining for some young guys before you know it, you've stumbled into extremist subculture.
00:14:42.000Some young men may also see messages of empowerment for women and girls as an attack on masculinity, says Joanna Schrader, a writer whose work focuses on gender and media representation.
00:14:49.000Man, the expertise of the people they are citing here at the CBC, just stunning.
00:15:16.000If the future is female, then the future is by necessity not male, is it not?
00:15:19.000I mean, I'm sorry that your language seems a little extreme, actually.
00:15:24.000And I can see why people might draw the opposite conclusion from the one that you are pushing.
00:15:30.000So how can society give young men a way to work through their feelings in a healthy way?
00:15:33.000Well, they can go to a liberal group and then they can talk about normal behavior and they can be re-indoctrinated into the precepts of the left.
00:15:45.000Apparently, there is a group that they are pushing, the CBC is pushing, called Guys Work in Nova Scotia.
00:15:50.000There's a person named Morris Green who founded it.
00:15:54.000Green says he began working with schools in Nova Scotia in 2012, hoping to give young men a safe space to talk about their feelings, mental health, and to disrupt problematic ideas about masculinity.
00:16:03.000Wow, disrupt, you gotta disrupt those problematic ideas.
00:16:06.000There's often homophobia and a concern that anything other than straight may be perceived by peers as not normal.
00:16:10.000We wanted to basically normalize help-seeking behavior.
00:16:24.000Now, again, as I say, there are broader ramifications to this.
00:16:27.000So many elements of Western civilization, from Great Britain to Canada to the United States, pushed by the cultural left, have this stamp.
00:16:35.000And the stamp is that traditional ideas are bad and dangerous.
00:16:39.000And those traditional ideas must be thrown out.
00:16:41.000And that's how you end up with the CBC, a state-sponsored enterprise, pushing the idea That my content is somehow an extremism factory.
00:16:49.000But you know what's not extreme in Canada?
00:16:52.000What's not extreme is the Halton District School Board standing behind an accepted transgender teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School.
00:17:02.000Apparently, this teacher is a man who has been wearing fake breasts that are the sizes of beach balls with fake plastic hard nipples attached to them to class.
00:17:15.000So this is a male teacher acting out his sexual fetishes against students.
00:17:33.000This is not a man who believes that he is a woman who just decided one day to put on a wig and slap on a dress.
00:17:39.000Nope, this is a man who has decided to act out his actual full-on sexual fetishes in front of children because that is the only reason that you wear fake prosthetic breasts that are the size of watermelons to school with hard nipples at the end of them.
00:17:54.000And the school district is defending this because after all, gender identity.
00:17:58.000HDSP Chair Margo Shuttleworth told the Toronto Sun staff are looking at going through creating a safety plan to ensure the Oakville Trafalgar High School teachers' security as they prepare for potential protests when the school open for classes.
00:18:08.000Protecting any person's gender rights is the stance the school board is taking.
00:18:11.000They are standing behind the teacher, said Shuttleworth.
00:18:14.000Pre-transition, the teacher was known to students and faculty as a male and went by a man's name.
00:18:18.000The teacher now identifies as a woman and is referenced with a female name.
00:18:22.000The school board says it simply sees her as a good teacher.
00:18:31.000Again, we're not even talking about a person who just has gender dysphoria.
00:18:34.000We're talking about a person, the picture shows, who's wearing watermelon-sized breasts in front of high school students with fake nipples attached to them.
00:18:45.000That apparently is a sexual identity and that must be protected.
00:18:48.000True extremism is a saying that there are gradations of sexual morality in life and that heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage is the best.
00:18:58.000That's the true extremism according to Canada.
00:19:02.000And by the way, Canada right now is pushing forward with a bill to quote unquote address harmful online content.
00:19:08.000It is not a coincidence the CBC is pushing this at the same time that this bill is moving forward.
00:19:12.000According to Rachel Aiello at ctvnews.ca Apparently, after receiving heaps of largely critical feedback and going back to the drawing board with the help of experts over the last several months, sources close to a particular file on hate and harassment online tell CTV News the government is still contemplating how to approach the complex online safety legislation they are pushing in a way that responds to critics' concerns while addressing the state of discourse online.
00:19:37.000The pledge originated with the intention of forcing online communication service providers like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok To be more accountable and transparent in handling five kinds of harmful content on their platforms.
00:19:48.000Hate speech, by which they mean anything they don't like.
00:19:52.000Child exploitation, the sharing of non-consensual images, incitements to violence and terrorism.
00:19:57.000The Liberals' intention was to ensure the kinds of behaviors that are illegal in person are also illegal online.
00:20:02.000Well, the problem is that in Canada, many of the behaviors that are illegal in person are things that in the United States used to be called free speech.
00:20:08.000So for example, in Canada, if you misgender a person, you could be in violation of the law in large swaths of Canada.
00:20:15.000If you say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman in Canada, this may be a crime depending on how you address that question publicly.
00:20:20.000So now they would like to extend that to the online sphere.
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00:21:58.000In the United States, there is a hard push from the left to radically shift the boundaries of quote-unquote acceptable speech.
00:22:07.000So, for example, there's been a very hard push against my friend Libs of TikTok.
00:22:12.000Libs of TikTok is an account, and all Libs of TikTok does on Twitter is just retweet videos of people who are nutty on the left.
00:22:21.000People who say crazy, extreme, radical things and who are targeting children.
00:22:25.000So Libs of TikTok, for example, puts out videos like this one.
00:22:28.000This is a video of a fifth grade teacher who released a video on TikTok.
00:22:35.000She calls herself the rainbow teacher, wears rainbow glasses and rainbow hair because obviously this is a gay, bisexual, I don't know how this person identifies, but this is not a straight person.
00:22:45.000And this person says that she is really, really excited that so many students are coming to her and coming out without talking with their parents, without working through the issues.
00:22:58.000So she says there are a lot of 10, 11-year-olds who are coming to her and coming out of the closet.
00:23:03.000Libs of TikTok, of course, is to blame for taking a public video and reposting it in a place where people might not actually approve of the recruitment of small children into the LGBT community.
00:23:13.000Yes, I have had multiple students come out to me not just with their sexuality but also with their gender identity.
00:23:20.000It's one of the reasons I think it's so important to be out and loud and proud so that people feel comfortable coming to me and talking to me because I don't know how much different my life would have been if I had had somebody to come talk to about this kind of stuff.
00:23:35.000My hope is that every student will have somebody that they can talk to about this.
00:23:45.000This is a propagandist who I'm sure propagandizes on behalf of the idea that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and that the fullest form of self-exploration is alternative forms of sexual identity.
00:23:54.000I mean, I don't feel like it's a big leap from, you know, the dyed eyebrows.
00:24:01.000But libs of TikTok, by putting this sort of stuff up, this means libs of TikTok must be curved.
00:24:06.000So there's an entire article in the New Republic Just a couple of weeks ago, blaming libs of TikTok for a bomb threat, a fake bomb threat on Boston Children's Hospital.
00:24:17.000Quote, what began in spring as a succession of far-right attacks on all ages drag events celebrating pride has by the end of the summer spiraled into a multi-city harassment campaign targeting children's hospitals for offering gender-affirming care, including death threats against providers and at least one bomb threat.
00:24:31.000Anti-LGBTQ politics has without question accelerated and shifted character this year to embrace outright political violence.
00:24:36.000Again, the idea is conflating The notions of traditional morality, and also, by the way, even if you're not traditional, the notion that you should not indoctrinate kids with this garbage.
00:24:45.000That is apparently a form of violence.
00:24:46.000Okay, so the argument the CBC is making in Canada, now you have many outlets in the United States making that about libs of TikTok.
00:24:53.000And the natural corollary is that supposedly libs of TikTok should be banned.
00:24:59.000This has been the ongoing harassment campaign by Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post against libs of TikTok, who apparently spends every waking minute attempting to get libs of TikTok thrown off of social media because of the evil dangers of, you know, actually taking people's videos and then just exposing them to a larger audience.
00:25:15.000Says the New Republic, these may be actors on the political fringe, and the tech-driven aspects of this terror campaign have sometimes been interpreted to minimize its real-world impact.
00:25:23.000But the narrative of LGBTQ rights being cover for child abuse is not just fodder for the right-wing clout chasers of social media.
00:25:28.000It has been weaponized by the right against their opponents in elections, from school boards to state legislatures.
00:25:33.000It has been amplified and legitimized by lawmakers like Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who in August introduced a sweeping bill that would ban gender-affirming care, and by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:25:42.000Again, the idea here is everyone I don't like is a violent threat.
00:25:45.000And thus, we must use the auspices of government and social media and big tech to shut them down.
00:25:51.000And this, of course, is now being forwarded by certain governmental actors.
00:25:54.000According to the Associated Press, in Montana, Montana's health department said Monday it will follow a judge's ruling and temporarily allow transgender people to change their gender on their birth certificates.
00:26:05.000The judge issued a scathing order Monday morning saying health officials made calculated violations of his order, which had told them to temporarily stop enforcing a law blocking transgender people from changing their gender on their birth certificates unless they had undergone surgery.
00:26:18.000There had been, um, there'd been a law that was passed duly by the state of Montana that said you are not allowed to retcon history and pretend that you were born a male when you were born a female.
00:26:28.000And this judge overruled the law on the basis of, hmm, on the basis of whatever.
00:26:34.000District Court Judge Michael Moses said Monday he would promptly consider motions for contempt based on continued violations of his April order, which he clarified in a verbal order at a hearing on Thursday.
00:26:42.000Just hours after that hearing, the Republican-run state said it would defy the order and keep in place a rule that will disallow any changes to birth certificates unless they were due to a clerical error.
00:26:51.000On Monday afternoon, the Department of Public Health and Human Services issued a statement saying it would comply with the order despite disagreeing with it.
00:26:57.000Funny how all of the advocates on the left who are talking about how the Supreme Court is anti-democratic have no problem with the anti-democracy of a single district court judge forcing the state to now retcon birth certificates.
00:27:08.000The goal here is a radical shift in social politics and the shutting down by law or social pressure of all countervailing viewpoints.
00:27:17.000This ties into, of course, a broader problem in American public life right now, which is the attempt to criminalize opposing political activity.
00:27:26.000Which brings us to this amazing story, courtesy of Ashley Oliver over at Breitbart.
00:27:29.000Quote, a whistleblower has accused the FBI's Washington field office of using cases related to the January 6th U.S.
00:27:35.000Capitol riot to overstate the threat of domestic violence extremism in America, according to Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.
00:27:42.000The whistleblower alleged the FBI did not follow standard investigative practices for the January 6th cases when it moved the cases to various local field offices around the country based on where the case subjects were from.
00:27:52.000Jordan revealed in a letter addressed to the FBI Director Chris Wray, Over the weekend, January 6th cases should all be officially led by the Washington Field Office and categorized as WFO cases, according to the letter.
00:28:03.000Instead, a task force dispatched instructions to open January 6th investigations to local field offices nationwide.
00:28:09.000The whistleblower told Jordan, quote, the manipulative case file practice creates false and misleading crime statistics.
00:28:14.000Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single Black Swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violence, extremism and terrorism around the United States.
00:28:24.000Jordan noted in the letter, such an artificial case categorization scheme allows FBI leadership to misleadingly point to significant increases in domestic violence, extremist threats nationwide, which supports a narrative being perpetuated by the Biden administration.
00:28:36.000The whistleblower also alleges January 6th cases weren't appropriately taking priority over other cases, citing an instance of being told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies.
00:28:49.000The whistleblower allegation comes after at least two other whistleblowers indicated to Jordan that FBI officials were pressuring agents to reclassify cases as domestic violence extremism, despite there being limited evidence to do so.
00:29:00.000In other words, this has been the goal since January 6th, is to broaden out the indictment of people who committed criminal acts on January 6th to include a bunch of people who just disagree in local areas.
00:29:09.000Which ties into the 2021 narrative, for example, that school boards being yelled at by angry parents over trans students going into bathrooms, that those school boards were now the victims of domestic terror threats.
00:29:24.000The attempt to broaden out criminal prosecution to encompass people you just don't like is particularly scary coming, again, from law enforcement agencies that are imperfectly willing to play politics.
00:29:38.000In a little-noticed story last week from the Washington Free Beacon, Chuck Ross reported that the Russian analyst charged with lying to the FBI about his role in crafting the infamous Steele dossier was on the Bureau's payroll as a confidential informant, according to an explosive court filing.
00:29:51.000Special Counsel John Durham revealed the FBI hired Igor Danchenko in March 2017, months after the Bureau first interviewed him about his work on the Steele dossier.
00:29:58.000The Steele dossier, of course, was crap.
00:29:59.000Igor Danchenko was one of the lead sources for the Steele dossier.
00:30:02.000And apparently the FBI had him on payroll.
00:30:05.000Durham charged Danchenko last year with repeatedly lying to the FBI about his work on the dossier.
00:30:09.000His source is for the discredited document.
00:30:11.000Durham alleged that Danchenko fabricated allegations in the dossier that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
00:30:18.000Danchenko worked at the time for Christopher Steele, who investigated Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
00:30:22.000The filing is likely to raise questions about the FBI's relationship with Danchenko, which ended in October 2020.
00:30:27.000The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation against Danchenko in 2009, when he worked as an analyst at Brookings, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C.
00:30:35.000One of Danchenko's colleagues claimed Danchenko asked whether he'd be willing to sell him classified information.
00:30:39.000The FBI closed that investigation after Danchenko left the United States in 2011.
00:30:43.000Then he came back and he started working for Steele's private intelligence firm, Orbis.
00:30:47.000During the 2016 presidential campaign, Steele funneled the Steele dossier to the FBI, and apparently the FBI was using Danchenko to provide information about a wide variety of topics and paying him at the time that he was similarly dissembling to them.
00:31:30.000After all, this is a human rights violation, putting people on it.
00:31:33.000Air-conditioned charter airplanes when they, apparently, we are learning, been homeless, wandering around the border, taking them, putting them on charter airplanes to the nicest area of the United States, where they are promptly taken in by the local residents for a grand total of 48 hours before the National Guard arrives to take them to an Air Force base and provide them all the amenities.
00:31:48.000Apparently, this is a massive human rights abuse.
00:31:51.000It is amazing that the first move of so many Democratic officials is to simply criminalize things they do not like without any proper cause, by the way.
00:31:58.000So yesterday, A Democratic sheriff in Bexar County, his name is Javier Salazar.
00:32:04.000He said that he was opening an investigation into the 50 illegal immigrants sent to Martha's Vineyard.
00:32:09.000This requires a full-scale investigation.
00:32:11.000So, no investigation on the 2 million illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.
00:32:15.000No investigation on drug cartels that are preying on people who are crossing the southern border by offering them work as soon as they get across.
00:32:21.000This is a story of Blake Masters in Arizona, the senatorial campaign.
00:32:24.000who's currently running for senator in Arizona.
00:32:28.000He released that story that basically there are gangs that are going down to the border, finding young men who are crossing the border illegally, and then recruiting them into the drug trade.
00:32:37.000No investigation from Javier Salazar on that.
00:32:40.000No investigation on the 53 illegal immigrants who died in the back of a truck in his county not all that long ago.
00:32:46.000But he is full scale on the case of the illegal immigrants who were put on charter airplanes to Martha's Vineyard and given snack bags and water bottles.
00:32:55.000Here's Javier Salazar announcing this yesterday.
00:32:57.000We are opening up a case with an investigation with regard to the suspected activities involving the 48 migrants from Venezuela.
00:33:09.000As we understand it, 48 migrants were lured, I will use the word lured, under false pretenses into staying at a hotel.
00:33:20.000For a couple of days they were taken by airplane at a certain point they were shuttled to an airplane where they were flown to Florida and then eventually flown to Martha's Vineyard again under false pretenses is the information that we have.
00:33:34.000When you're playing with human lives of people that are already in a desperate situation people that Again, had every right to be where they were but were lured under false pretenses.
00:33:45.000That does tend to bother me quite a bit and so we are absolutely opening up an investigation into this.
00:35:36.000Apparently, by the way, the brochures that were given to the illegal immigrants had information from the Massachusetts state website about what you get when you obtain refugee status, which you get after you are granted asylum, if in fact you are granted asylum.
00:35:51.000Also, apparently, according to Ron DeSantis and the Florida government, apparently, the illegal immigrants were given multiple opportunities to get off the plane, to not go to Martha's Vineyard.
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00:37:16.000Okay, so Again, the left's prevailing take is, if I don't like it, it must be criminal.
00:37:22.000Whether we are talking about a take on LGBTQ politics, or whether we are talking about Ron DeSantis shipping illegal immigrants from Texas via Florida to Martha's Vineyard.
00:37:32.000The thing they actually don't want to pay attention to, of course, is the wages of illegal immigration.
00:37:36.000that might actually require them to take action.
00:37:38.000Instead, they would like to virtue signal about how they are into sanctuary cities without actually having to take credit for their very, very bad policy.
00:37:44.000This is a point made by the Washington Examiner.
00:37:49.000Ron DeSantis' team put out a statement after Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced an investigation with no actual statute to back him.
00:37:56.000The DeSantis administration put out a statement pointing out that he seemed a lot less bothered by 53 illegal immigrants dying in a truck found abandoned in Bexar County this June.
00:38:08.000The spokesperson for the governor said Florida gave them an opportunity to see greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them as we expected.
00:38:15.000Unless the Massachusetts National Guard has abandoned these individuals, they've been provided accommodation, sustenance, clothing, and more options to succeed following their unfair enticement into the United States.
00:38:23.000You're thinking that you're speaking about luring people?
00:38:25.000How about luring two million people across the southern border and then basically abandoning them, which is what the Biden administration has done.
00:38:31.000That seems like a bit more of a problem.
00:38:32.000That's the point the Washington Examiner editorial board makes.
00:38:35.000Sending a few immigrants to a Democratic enclave inhabited by left liberals who mostly support Biden and are planning rich enough to look after the new arrivals is an effective way of drawing a national crisis properly to national attention.
00:38:46.000It also puts those responsible for the crisis on the spot and asks what they propose doing about it.
00:38:50.000Not only is it Republicans who are trying to get Biden to pay attention to the disaster he has caused.
00:38:54.000The mayor of Yuma, Arizona asked the White House in May to stop busing immigrants to his small city of 97,000.
00:39:02.000The Democratic mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas reached out to the White House for assistance with immigrants flooding his community.
00:39:07.000Mayor Rolando Salinas told the Washington Examiner, I'd like to hear a plan as to what they're doing to counter the possibility of a surge in people on the border.
00:39:13.000Nobody's reached out to me or to the city.
00:39:16.000The situation in El Paso, Texas is even worse.
00:39:18.000Immigrants are sleeping on streets all over town.
00:39:20.000The situation is so bad, the Democratic mayor has already sent more than 50 bus loads to New York City, over and above any sent there, and to Washington, D.C.
00:39:28.000Those buses have been arriving in New York since August.
00:39:30.000CBS News didn't bother to report on those.
00:39:33.000Again, 50 illegal immigrants arriving in Martha's Vineyard sets the world aflame simply because the left is forced to admit that its policies don't work.
00:39:40.000And so their natural apparent response is to celebrate when a sheriff with no legal authority whatsoever to prosecute a non-crime decides that he is going to get himself involved in this sort of thing.
00:39:53.000Now, this should be scary to a lot of Americans.
00:40:50.000After all, she didn't actually have real power.
00:40:52.000But the real reason why there are so many people who are mourning for Queen Elizabeth II is, again, we are part of a chain of history.
00:40:58.000And when you untether that chain, what you end up with is bad utopian ideas floating away into the sunlight where they burn up and fall down to Earth like Icarus.
00:41:08.000That is what we are watching as a civilization right now.
00:41:11.000And so, mourning the death of a person who is tethered to that past, tethered to traditional religions, tethered to traditional ideas, that is well worthwhile.
00:41:20.000The left likes to pretend it's not worthwhile, that it's really bad and really stupid, but in reality, that is something that is indeed worth mourning.
00:41:27.000Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing.
00:41:28.000Now, you're not going to want to miss it.
00:41:29.000We'll be getting into Don Lemming getting absolutely shellacked on CNN by a historian for the royals.
00:41:35.000Plus, we still have to get into Joe Biden suggesting that inflation actually isn't that bad.