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00:02:03.000It's OK to laugh at the fact that the president of the United States, who should not be bicycling, In the physical and mental condition that he is apparently that he fell off a bike, mainly because when I first read the headline, my first reaction was, oh, that's that's terrible.
00:03:10.000And he rolls around on the ground for a little while.
00:03:12.000According to the New York Times, the president did not need medical attention after he fell off his bike at a state park near his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, according to the White House.
00:03:20.000Mr. Biden often takes bike rides during the visits to his vacation home, where he and his first lady Jill Biden were spending the weekend.
00:03:26.000On Friday, they celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary.
00:03:28.000The president had been riding his bike in Cape Henlopen State Park when he had the mishap.
00:03:32.000He did not appear to suffer any injuries.
00:03:33.000The White House said he did not require any medical attention.
00:03:37.000And then, of course, the New York Times immediately starts covering for him.
00:03:41.000Biden is only the latest American president to take a tumble on the public stage.
00:03:43.000In 1975, President Gerald Ford fell while descending the stairs from Air Force One during a visit to Australia.
00:03:48.000Well, as you'll recall, Joe Biden also fell down the stairs three separate times while going up the stairs to Air Force One near the beginning of his presidency.
00:03:55.000Nearly a decade later, President Ronald Reagan slipped while climbing aboard his plane.
00:03:59.000Biden himself tripped last year while boarding the presidential aircraft.
00:04:02.000Biden's misfortune on wheels was not without precedent either.
00:04:04.000In 2004, George W. Bush took a spill while mountain biking at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
00:04:08.000The next year, Bush crashed into a police officer during a bike ride in Scotland.
00:04:12.000In 2015, John Kerry, the Secretary of State, broke his leg while biking in the French Alps.
00:04:15.000Yeah, the difference is none of them were at the stage in life where a fall in the shower in which you break a hip is the prelude to a long and drawn-out time in the hospice.
00:04:24.000Like, this is the biggest problem, okay?
00:04:25.000The fact is that when Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, everybody said he was too old.
00:05:35.000You can prop El Cid on that horse, but if El Cid loses his balance, it becomes quite obvious to everyone that El Cid is no longer with us.
00:05:43.000And that is what the Democrats are banking on now.
00:05:45.000They're banking on a man who falls off non-moving bikes and who, to demonstrate his vitality, jumps lower than any white man has ever jumped.
00:06:46.000In the head-to-head, Trump beats Biden 42 to 39.
00:06:50.000Now, again, I don't think that that is a wild endorsement of Trump, given the fact that Joe Biden is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
00:06:57.000And Donald Trump's only beating him by like two points.
00:06:59.000That's not a recommendation for Trump, but it is definitely a smack at Biden by the American public, who's looking at this guy and they're like, wow, you know, maybe he doesn't have it.
00:07:10.000Even the folks on the left are now saying this.
00:07:12.000At the Atlantic, there was a well-trafficked article over the weekend by Mark Leibovich, who is a left-wing journalist, says why Biden shouldn't run in 2024.
00:07:21.000Yes, he's fit to be president right now, but he's too old for the next election.
00:07:27.000And if you mentioned this, you were called ageist.
00:07:29.000If you pointed out that he was in a state of mental decline and his faculties were leaving him, then you would be told that you were actually making fun of his stammer, which of course is ridiculous.
00:07:38.000None made fun of his stammer for his entire career.
00:07:41.000And now all of a sudden, or alternatively, he is not with us.
00:07:45.000I mean, the number of clips that are floating around of Joe Biden not being able to speak words out of his face hole is incredibly high because every time he goes in public, he cannot speak words out of his face hole or he's falling off a bike or he's falling down the stairs.
00:07:57.000But according to Mark Leibovich at The Atlantic, let me put this bluntly, Joe Biden should not run for reelection in 2024.
00:08:04.000He'll be 82 if and when he begins his second term.
00:08:06.000The numbers just keep getting more ridiculous from there.
00:08:10.000It's not the 82 that's the problem, it's the 86, one swing voter said at a recent focus group, referring to the hypothetical age Biden would be at the end of that very hypothetical second term.
00:08:19.000In recent weeks, says Leibovich, I've spoken with 10 official and unofficial advisors to the administration who have spent time around the president during these deranged and divided days in America.
00:08:28.000What has this been like for him, is what I've been asking them, essentially.
00:08:39.000He's the most powerful person on earth!
00:08:40.000The question shouldn't be, how is he emotionally and mentally holding up?
00:08:45.000That's what you ask about grandma in the nursing home.
00:08:48.000You shouldn't be asking that about the president of the United States.
00:08:51.000You ask, like, is grandma getting paranoid about the help stealing her jewelry?
00:08:55.000You don't ask that about the President of the United States, who's supposed to be in charge of things.
00:08:59.000They say, for the most part, that Biden is coping fine.
00:09:01.000You know, despite the 8.6% inflation, his depressed approval numbers, his vice president's worse approval numbers, the looming wipeout in the midterms, and all the other delights attending to Biden as he awaits the big round number birthday he has coming up in a few months.
00:09:21.000presidency to accelerate the aging process.
00:09:23.000This has been well documented, usually in those side-by-side photos of spry incoming presidents seen next to dramatically older-looking versions of themselves upon departure.
00:09:30.000Yet Biden keeps insisting that he will run again.
00:09:33.000Well, I mean, he is going to run again, because here's the thing, they cannot let him not run again.
00:09:47.000And meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal A similar piece talking about the fact that the Democrats do not know what to do.
00:09:53.000That it turns out that when you place the country in the hands of essentially an empty vessel and all he had to do was just stand still and he can't.
00:10:12.000Democratic insiders in Washington and key primary states expect Biden to follow through on his intention to stand for re-election and appear to have little appetite for casting him aside, though they expressed concerns about his advanced age and persistently low poll numbers.
00:10:23.000The White House has repeatedly said that Biden, 79, the oldest president to be sworn into office, intends to run for re-election.
00:10:29.000A person familiar with the president's advisers' thinking said they are planning on him running and that the private conversations have matched the public statements.
00:10:36.000But Democrats are starting to have their doubts.
00:10:39.000Some potential candidates are visiting key presidential voting states and building a national profile.
00:10:43.000Key Democrats said they doubted many top-tier candidates who would try to push Kamala Harris aside.
00:10:48.000See, this is the problem with picking an affirmative action candidate like Kamala Harris.
00:10:51.000When you do this, you look like a racist if you say, I don't think she's going to be good, and then you run against her.
00:10:56.000Her own poll numbers aren't better than Biden's.
00:10:58.000Democrats have a mixed view of how strong she'd be leading a ticket.
00:11:03.000Democrats do not have a mixed view of how Kamala Harris would be leading the ticket.
00:11:07.000They're in a state of full, sheer panic at the idea of Kamala Harris leading a ticket.
00:11:12.000There's a woman who imploded in the primaries so badly she dropped out before California after having a brief poll lead against all the other Democrats.
00:11:52.000And Pete Buttigieg, whose main draw is, again, that he took a paternity leave for two months and no one noticed.
00:11:57.000As well as Biden infrastructures are Mitch Landrieu and governors Phil Murphy of New Jersey.
00:12:02.000Phil Murphy of New Jersey almost lost a gubernatorial race to a person whose name I don't know in New Jersey.
00:12:08.000And Gavin Newsom of California, who is subjected to a recall vote in California.
00:12:16.000But there's no obvious person party leaders would see as the best pick if neither Biden or Harris topped the ticket.
00:12:20.000JB Pritzker, all 800 pounds of him, made a weekend trip to New Hampshire, the state that typically hosts the second nominating contest in the presidential primary after Iowa's caucuses.
00:12:28.000His massively great governing record in Chicago, where 87 people get shot every weekend?
00:12:32.000Are we talking about his massively great governing record on COVID, where Illinois has one of the worst per 100,000 stats on death in the nation, adjusted for age?
00:12:41.000He gave a keynote address at the state's Democratic Party annual convention on Saturday, and on Friday attended its splashy annual fundraiser.
00:12:50.000I don't know if this is 2024, 2028, 2032, but listen, we're grateful to have you in New Hampshire.
00:12:54.000Representative Annie Custer, Democrat of New Hampshire, eliciting laughter from a packed Manchester ballroom.
00:13:07.000And this is a problem for them because, as it turns out, Joe Biden is a terrible president.
00:13:12.000By the way, there is one person waiting in the wings.
00:13:14.000Hillary Clinton's doing an awful lot of interviews these days.
00:13:17.000Hillary Clinton, who will only be, I mean, let's face it.
00:13:21.000She's an elderly woman at this point, but she's only 74 compared to Joe Biden.
00:13:26.000She's a spring chicken compared to Joe Biden.
00:13:28.000She is the youth movement in the Democratic Party.
00:13:32.000So Hillary Clinton over the weekend, she said we're on the precipice of losing our democracy is one of her fondest lines, because when she lost, then it was as though democracy was lost.
00:13:45.000She says, we are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window.
00:13:50.000But the most important thing is to win the next election.
00:13:51.000The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.
00:13:57.000Anyway, she's talking about how the Democratic Party is moving too far to the left and she is needed in order to step into the gap, basically.
00:14:03.000If you think that Hillary Clinton's political career is over, she's doing a lot of time on TV.
00:14:08.000If Joe Biden should actually fall out of the running, a Hillary Clinton comeback is not unthinkable in any way, shape, or form.
00:14:40.000Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal have dramatically raised the probability of recession.
00:14:44.000They now put it at 44% in the next 12 months, a level usually seen only on the brink of or during actual recessions.
00:14:49.000The likelihood of recession has increased rapidly this year as inflationary pressures remain strong and the Federal Reserve took increasingly aggressive action to tame them.
00:14:57.000And by the way, you think that the mortgage rates are high right now?
00:15:05.000And then we'll see how that real estate market is doing.
00:15:08.000Economists on average put the probability of the economy being in recession sometime in the next 12 months at 28% in the journal's last survey in April and 18% in January.
00:15:35.000We're not going to know the stats from that until July.
00:15:37.000So we could be in the middle of a recession right now and not even know it.
00:15:41.000Since the Journal began asking the question in mid-2005, a 44% recession probability is seldom seen outside of an actual recession.
00:15:47.000In December 2007, the month the 2007-2009 recession began, economists assigned a 38% probability.
00:15:49.0002007 and 2009 recession began, economists assigned a 38% probability.
00:15:53.000In February 2020, when the last recession began, they assigned a 26% probability.
00:15:59.000It's hard to avoid a recession in this situation, said Michael Moran, chief economist at Daiwa Capital Markets, America Inc.
00:16:05.000The latest survey showed a marked increase in economists' forecast for inflation.
00:16:09.000They see ending the year at 7%, up from 5.5% in the April survey.
00:16:13.000The poll of 53 economists was conducted June 16th to 17th.
00:16:16.000That was after the Fed voted to sharply raise the benchmark rates.
00:16:19.000And now they are talking about another 75 basis point jump.
00:16:23.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said if the economy performs in line with his expectations, he would support raising interest rates by another 75 basis points at the central bank's meeting next month.
00:16:34.000He said the Fed is all in on establishing price stability.
00:16:37.000Waller said the Fed had taken a significant step toward achieving its 2% inflation goal this last week when it raised its benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage points to a range between 1.5 and 1.75.
00:16:48.000They're not even close to coming in inflation at this point.
00:16:50.000It's going to be 4% by the end of the year at this rate, the interest rates.
00:16:54.000And they're going to have to go higher than that to really kill this thing.
00:16:57.000Meanwhile, the White House is in a state of complete disarray because the problem is that as the inflation has risen, the only solutions they have on the table to cure the inflation, aside from the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, the only way they can deal with this is by creating worse inflationary problems.
00:18:19.000According to the Washington Post, senior White House aides are exploring new ideas to respond to high gas prices and are looking again at some they had previously discarded, desperate to show the administration is trying to address voter frustration about rising costs at the pump.
00:18:31.000Those efforts, though, come amid early signs of a broader slowdown in the economy, which could ease inflationary pressures but also lead to higher joblessness and slower growth.
00:18:38.000On Friday, oil prices suddenly dropped to a four-week low, a decline likely to push down gas prices, the latest indicator of a potential recession, after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this week to try to contain inflation.
00:18:49.000They're taking a second look at whether the federal government could send rebate cards out to millions of American drivers to help them pay at gas stations, an idea they examined months ago before ruling it out.
00:18:58.000Aides had found that shortages in the U.S.
00:19:00.000chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards to people familiar with the matter said.
00:19:04.000White House officials also fear there'd be no way to prevent consumers from using them for purchases other than gasoline, according to another person familiar with the discussions.
00:19:12.000Even if the administration embraces the proposal, it would probably require congressional approval and face long odds among lawmakers wary of spending more money.
00:19:18.000But again, their only answer is spend more money or invoke in ridiculous fashion the Defense Production Act, which is completely unnecessary and also unlikely to actually result in what they want it to result in here.
00:19:49.000This is not a time to be focusing on record profit margins and stock buybacks as opposed to doing everything you can to expand refinery capacity so that we have lower prices at the pump.
00:20:04.000And again, this is a time of war and the President sent a very clear message on that.
00:20:09.000He's having a Secretary of Energy, Secretary Granholm, meet with the major refineries and oil companies next week.
00:20:17.000And I think he made pretty clear that he has used a lot of emergency powers so far and that there's nothing off the table.
00:20:26.000There's nothing off the table other than allowing people to drill.
00:20:29.000And promoting investment in actual sources of energy.
00:20:38.000Is that Joe Biden only stays on that horse because his ideological allies prop him up on that horse.
00:20:42.000And the minute he removes those props, he falls off the horse.
00:20:46.000That bicycle keels right over, unless there's a group of phalanx of people around the bicycle, holding him there like they're his physical training wheels.
00:20:53.000And the minute he undermines those people, they walk away and that bicycle just falls over.
00:20:59.000Meanwhile, they need him to stay on that bicycle, because if he ain't on that bicycle, Kamala Harris is getting on that bicycle, and I promise you, Kamala Harris's bicycle is not a bicycle, it's a unicycle, because she's a clown.
00:21:07.000Listen, all Joe Biden really wants to do is want to bike around.
00:22:15.000Meanwhile, you got George Stephanopoulos pressing Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, over whether she and Joe Biden are too optimistic about the economy.
00:22:22.000And here is Janet Proudfoot directly from the Shire explaining.
00:22:27.000It turns out that you and the President, maybe even the Fed, were too optimistic about inflation last year.
00:22:31.000Concerned that may be happening again with your suggestion that a recession is not inevitable?
00:22:37.000Over time, I certainly expect inflation to come down, and I think it's possible to have that happen in the context of a strong labor market.
00:22:48.000Well, you expect it to come down, but prices are going to go up before they go down, right?
00:22:51.000Again, most economists expect the inflation rate to move up to around 7% by the end of the year.
00:22:59.000She's got no answer to this, except that she's going to happy talk this thing.
00:23:02.000Meanwhile, one of the big problems here in the energy markets is that it turns out that the war in Ukraine does not have a natural terminus.
00:23:11.000That would have been just par for the course, because the fact is, once Russia invaded, it was always going to turn into a war of attrition.
00:23:17.000I said this from the very earliest days of the war, that if Russia did not take over Ukraine entirely, this was going to turn, at best, into a long-lasting war of attrition.
00:23:24.000That was the most probable possibility here, which means you need to ramp up domestic oil production.
00:23:28.000And if you're worried about economic energy supply, you need more production.
00:23:45.000Useful natural resource in Ukraine is the oil that all exists in the area that Russia is seeking to control.
00:23:50.000According to the New York Times, Russian forces appeared poised to tighten the noose around thousands of Ukrainian troops near two strategically important cities in the fiercely contested Donbass region of eastern Ukraine on Sunday, mounting an assault on Ukrainian front lines that forced Ukraine to rush reinforcements to the area.
00:24:03.000On a day of fighting that put even territory thought to be securely in Ukrainian hands in play, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, warned the war could grind on for years.
00:24:13.000They urged Ukraine's Western allies to settle in for the long haul as Russia moved aggressively to wear Ukraine down, throwing Mr. Johnson writing in the Sunday Times of London called a campaign of attrition.
00:25:26.000When you outsource your energy production to Russia, and when you outsource your energy policy to a Whiny and lechery Swedish teenager on the other, you end up with crap policy and high energy prices.
00:25:39.000Who could have foreseen that when you sink billions upon billions of dollars into green energy boondoggles at the behest of a teenager who shouts at you, how dare you, but knows nothing about actual energy policy.
00:25:49.000And then when you fill in that gap by bringing in dirty, cheap oil from the Russians, that that might have some negative side effects.
00:25:56.000Like they're lighting up the coal plants.
00:26:18.000I wish it weren't, really, I wish it weren't true.
00:26:20.000Because I also like the idea of the wind and the sun being able to power all of us and getting rid of the idea that we have to dredge stuff up from the earth and it's disproportionately in areas like Like the Middle East or in Eastern Ukraine, places that are global hotspots.
00:26:42.000And yet you guys are the ones who are advocates for science because you don't understand science.
00:26:46.000You're now firing up the coal plants again the minute that you have to shut off Russia, according to The Wall Street Journal.
00:26:51.000Germany will restart coal-fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption, marking a new step in the economic war between Europe and Russia.
00:26:59.000Berlin unveiled the measure Sunday after Russia cut gas supplies to Europe last week as it punched back against European sanctions and military support for Ukraine.
00:27:06.000The steps, part of a broader strategy initiated after the invasion of Ukraine, aim to reduce gas consumption and divert gas deliveries to storage facilities to ensure that the country has enough reserves to get through the winter.
00:27:17.000People are going to be freezing in Germany because of their crap energy policy.
00:27:22.000Russia's gradual cutting of gas supplies has raised the spectrum of potential fuel shortage if Europe goes into winter with less than full stowages.
00:27:28.000It has also raised prices, putting additional pressure on economies that are already struggling with high inflation and rising borrowing costs and face the prospect of recession.
00:27:36.000Nord Stream, the main channel for Russian-fueled Europe, has reported a sharp drop in gas supplies.
00:27:41.000Robert Habeck, Germany's economic minister, he says it's obvious Putin's strategy is to rattle us, drive up prices, divide us.
00:27:47.000We'll defend ourselves resolutely, precisely, and thoughtfully.
00:27:49.000Again, if the West actually cared about preserving itself, it would not pursue stupid, self-defeating policy.
00:27:56.000This is true everywhere, from economic policy to social policy to military policy.
00:28:00.000And yet we have entire forces inside the West that are more concerned with their ideological utopias than the actual on-the-ground practice of politics that makes people's lives better and strengthens the West.
00:28:10.000And so it is no wonder that when push comes to shove, you have to go right back to the things you decried as evil and terrible five minutes ago.
00:28:17.000And if you don't, by the way, you will pay the price.
00:28:18.000And that's what's happening to Emmanuel Macron over in France.
00:28:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, French President Emmanuel Macron has now lost his majority in the National Assembly as voters in France's parliamentary elections delivered a blow to his pro-business agenda and positioned leaders on both the far left and the far right to wield unprecedented influence.
00:28:33.000Results showed that Macron's party renaissance and its allies won 245 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly.
00:28:39.000That gives him the most seats in France's lower house, but not enough to retain the majority that allowed the French leader to steamroll the opposition during his first term.
00:28:54.000Marine Le Pen's far-right national rally got 89.
00:28:56.000The conservative Les Republicains and its allies won 61 seats.
00:28:59.000So when you measure that out, what you see actually is 150 seats for the so called far right, 131 seats for the socialists, and 245 seats for Macron.
00:29:10.000And this is going to be the pattern in the Western world, when you have a group of elites who seem completely disconnected from the actual needs and desires of their citizenry.
00:29:20.000Because they're so attached to their own ideological agenda, and they're so interested in propping up on the one hand, the notion that they are capitalists while catering to socialistic ideas about energy, or socialistic ideas about redistribution of wealth, or socialistic and racialist ideas about how people ought to get jobs.
00:29:38.000When you do that, you undermine yourself.
00:29:40.000And people say, OK, we're either going to go far left or we're going to go far right.
00:29:43.000That's, by the way, exactly what just happened in Colombia.
00:29:46.000So in Colombia, you actually had for the first time, the very dangerous stuff, the election of a leftist named Gustavo Petro, a former member of M19, the guerrilla movement that has vowed profound social and economic change.
00:29:56.000He won Colombia's president on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.
00:30:00.000Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 716,000 votes.
00:30:06.000The two had been technically tied in polling ahead of the vote.
00:30:08.000Petro, a former mayor of the capital Bogota and current senator, has pledged to fight inequality with free university education, pension reforms, and high taxes on unproductive land.
00:30:36.000You're going to continue to see a polarization in politics that is led because of an establishment that has refused to take into account the concerns of actual human beings, and instead has pursued an ideological agenda that they believe is forward thinking, when in reality what they should have just been doing is being productive, doing the productive things.
00:30:54.000If you're in favor of the free market, be in favor of the free market.
00:30:57.000If you're in favor of good energy policy, be in favor of good energy policy.
00:30:59.000If you're in favor of a strong military, be in favor of a strong military.
00:31:02.000When you wildly vacillate between your ideological commitment to the hard left and your sort of semi-acknowledgement that the hard left's policies aren't going to work, what you end up with is the worst of all available worlds.
00:31:13.000And that's exactly what you're seeing right now.
00:31:16.000By the way, the left in the United States is beginning to panic because it looks as though the Supreme Court may be looking at striking down the EPA's authority to simply regulate climate Using bills that have nothing to do with it.
00:31:28.000And so a lot of that conflict is about to break out in the open.
00:31:30.000The environmentalist conflict in the United States as well.
00:31:33.000According to the New York Times, within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the federal government's authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants, pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
00:31:45.000The case, West Virginia v. EPA, is the product of a coordinated multi-year strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists, and their funders, several with ties to oil and gas, to use the judicial system to rewrite environmental law.
00:31:58.000What they're actually doing is saying you should interpret environmental law the way that it was written.
00:32:02.000Because we need to get back to something resembling a practical energy policy.
00:32:05.000So, things are coming apart economically, and things are coming apart militarily, and also it turns out things are coming apart culturally.
00:32:12.000First, let's talk about the fact that, you know, back on the economy for just a second.
00:32:15.000Right now, you might be in some economic trouble because you look at your finances and you think to yourself, man, how do I save money?
00:32:21.000Well, you really need to talk to my friends over at American Financing.
00:32:24.000Your home is much more than the place you live.
00:32:26.000It's actually probably your best investment tool, especially these days.
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00:34:25.000And so the dead consensus that you are seeing, whether it's economic or military, in which basically there is a false unity of the center, in which the center claimed, yeah, well, we like free markets, but free markets need to be governed by us.
00:34:42.000We like to be interventionists on foreign policy, but not enough to actually win wars.
00:34:46.000We like a green energy policy, but not enough to actually You know, undergo the sacrifices to do the green energy policy.
00:34:52.000We're just going to tell you that and then we're going to ship in cheap oil from Russia.
00:34:55.000Those sorts of dead consensuses have been failing all over planet Earth.
00:34:59.000And there's one more dead consensus that has been failing.
00:35:02.000And this is the product of a political class that actually does not believe what it says it believes.
00:35:06.000And that dead consensus is social in the United States.
00:35:09.000The dead consensus is we are going to pursue very progressive social policy that is directly opposed to traditional Judeo-Christian tradition while claiming that we love Judeo-Christian tradition and that we love the church and we love God.
00:35:20.000That consensus cannot hold because there are people who actually read the Bible and take it seriously and then there are people who do not.
00:35:25.000There are people who actually believe in God and take God seriously on a regular day-to-day level and then there are people who are not.
00:35:30.000And when the people who govern you Pee on your leg and tell you it's raining.
00:35:34.000When they tell you that they favor a bunch of policy that no traditional religion approves, but don't worry, they're religious people, that consensus is unlikely to hold.
00:35:43.000And that's exactly what you're seeing in the United States today.
00:35:45.000Religious adherence on the right continues to maintain.
00:35:48.000Religious adherence on the left has dropped off an absolute cliff and it's exacerbating the culture gap that we're seeing in the United States.
00:35:52.000So there's a fascinating and disturbing poll from Gallup.
00:35:57.000adults believe in God, but the 81% who do so is down 6 percentage points from 2017.
00:36:01.000It is currently the lowest on Gallup's trend.
00:36:03.000Between 1944 and 2011, more than 90% of Americans believed in God.
00:36:09.00017% of Americans say they do not believe in God.
00:36:11.000Now, this is an important question, not just because your personal beliefs about the divine matter, which I believe that they do on both a spiritual and a mental level, but the idea of a society that can thrive and survive without some sort of hardcore moral absolutes about good and evil.
00:36:29.000There's never been a society that's ever survived for the long term based on the moral relativism of people utilizing the power that falls into their hands.
00:36:39.000I may not be a New Testament scholar, but when Pilate says to Jesus, what is truth?
00:36:46.000That is a pretty good indicator of power that is run amok.
00:36:48.000And that is what we are seeing currently in American society because when you deny the possibility of the divine, when you deny the idea that there is an absolute right and wrong, which to me, I've never been able to understand the argument that you can define an absolute right and wrong apart from the idea of a moral creator.
00:37:04.000The reason I say that is because evolutionary biology does not lead to the idea of absolute truth.
00:37:09.000It leads to the idea that there is a social morality that may be useful from time to time, but it does not speak to what is absolutely right and absolutely wrong.
00:37:28.000The question is whether you can build an entire edifice of civilizational values on the basis of there is no God and you and I will make up morality as we go.
00:37:36.000Okay, so, here is what this poll finds.
00:37:39.000What it finds is that this breaks down really, really strong on political lines.
00:38:29.000And then if you look at the identification, The self-worshipful identification as a member of an alternative gender or sexuality, that has gone straight up in coincidence.
00:39:33.000Because it turns out that all the Democratic politicians who pay lip service to belief in God or belief in Judeo-Christian traditions or any of that stuff, they were lying.
00:39:56.000He claims that he's a religious Catholic.
00:39:58.000And if by that he means that he believes in a creator, he may believe in a creator of some sort, he certainly doesn't believe in the creator who hands it over either the Old or the New Testament.
00:40:08.000Because if he did, he would have very different... I mean, the Bible is not silent on these issues.
00:40:12.000The reason I point this out is because when you have a ruling class that is lying to you, seeking to have it all ways, what you end up with is a breakdown.
00:40:22.000And that breakdown is being exacerbated these days.
00:40:25.000The culture wars are very much in the offing.
00:40:28.000And they're going to get worse because the country is now basically saying, OK, let's be honest about this.
00:40:34.000Are you a God believer who believes in traditional Judeo-Christian ideals, or are you a person who believes that teaching God and traditional Judeo-Christian ideals to children is dangerous for them?
00:40:42.000There is a stark difference between how people on the hard left, the atheistic hard left, look at the raising of children, and people who are in the traditional Judeo-Christian right view the raising of children.
00:40:51.000We on the traditional Judeo-Christian right believe, and I think moderates believe this too, that kids need rules, that gender roles are important.
00:40:57.000They believe that boys and girls are different.
00:40:59.000They believe that there are actual moral differences in how you conduct your sex life, and how you identify as a human being, and what your duties are.
00:41:07.000And people on the left believe that the best thing that you can do for a child is remove all duties from them, and all rules, and all roles, and anything that teaches them about this stuff is actually a form of bigotry that you're indoctrinating into kids.
00:41:17.000I will fully admit, I'm indoctrinating my kids into a belief system I think is important for them.
00:41:24.000I think that the left is bad because I think the left is indoctrinating them into a belief system that is making kids more confused, that is creating additional levels of suicidal ideation, that is leading them to unhappiness, that is leading them to life choices that do not end anything remotely like in fulfillment.
00:42:32.000And so what you're going to see is this take, you're going to see these conflicts at the tip of the iceberg.
00:42:36.000You're going to see the sort of stuff that's visible to the light of day, but you have to look at what's at the bottom of the iceberg, which is this massive ideological conflict that has been exacerbated by a leadership class that refused to take a stand on the key issues or actively lied about its own position on those issues.
00:42:50.000So this is what you see, for example, in Fairfax County.
00:42:52.000Apparently, a Fairfax County school board has now announced that it wants to punish students for, quote unquote, malicious misgendering.
00:43:10.000The Fairfax County School Board voted Thursday night and made it possible for students as young as fourth graders to be suspended for, quote, malicious misgendering.
00:43:21.000Now, the terminology here can be confusing and simply not having a good filter as a kid could get you in trouble.
00:43:28.000The rule was actually there last year to not go as young as fourth grade and it had deliberately, inadvertently, language that sort of gave an out should you have a child that simply didn't have a filter, didn't fully understand.
00:43:43.000Now it's a hard law and that's got parents upset.
00:43:49.000All of society is now supposed to change its standards so as not to say true things about people.
00:43:56.000Again, these sorts of issues, they seem ridiculous on their face, because they are ridiculous that we've even come to this point.
00:44:03.000And the left insists that we go along with this.
00:44:06.000This is why, for example, they say that Florida is a terrible, no good, very bad place when it comes to transition and trans kids.
00:44:11.000The truth is that Florida's policy looks actually a lot more like Europe's than New Jersey's policy does.
00:44:15.000This is a point that's being made by Lisa Selin Davis, the author of a book called Tomboy, a nonfiction book about gender nonconforming girls that grew out of an op-ed that she published in the New York Times.
00:44:23.000She wrote a piece over at Wesley Yang's Substack.
00:44:25.000And what she pointed out is that when it looks like when you look at what Europe is doing about gender transition and all the rest of this, Europe looks a lot more like Florida is banning experimental treatments on kids.
00:44:36.000It's looking at the policy of the state of Florida and saying this looks a lot more like Denmark than New Jersey does.
00:44:41.000New Jersey is like way out of line on this sort of stuff.
00:44:45.000These conflicts are only going to get worse, and they're also going to get worse when it comes to abortion.
00:44:50.000The left has gotten more and more radical over time on the issue of abortion.
00:44:53.000They used to, as I say, when I was a younger person, when I was like 16, 15, in the 90s, what you were looking at is a democratic party that's safe, legal, and rare.
00:45:01.000Abortion was a tragedy, but sometimes you needed it.
00:45:04.000Wasn't a very good argument, but at least it was an emotionally appealing argument and acknowledged the great evil that was being done in abortion.
00:45:09.000Now, what the left says is, we need to ramp this stuff up.
00:45:29.000They have no distinction between mother and father.
00:45:32.000In order to celebrate Mother's and Father's Day, you have to explain what a father is and why a father is important.
00:45:36.000In order to celebrate Mother's Day, you have to explain what a mother is and why a mother is important.
00:45:40.000You have to explain why a child needs a father as opposed to a second mother, or why a child needs a mother as opposed to a second father.
00:45:45.000I'm always amused by people on the left who get very offended when you point out that they have no actual ideological grounds or moral ground to stand on when they say, celebrate fathers.
00:46:54.000So the left celebrates Father's Day, but the way they celebrate Father's Day Is by encouraging dads to fight for abortion because nothing says be a great father like don't have kids.
00:48:00.000Daddy's doing a PSA about how if we had killed you before birth, it would have been totally You know, I'm glad you're here now, but I don't know about tomorrow.
00:48:11.000And what in the- This is- What ha- Okay, a society without God.
00:49:46.000By the way, I'm aware of no serious investigation by the Merrick Garland DOJ into the spate of attacks on pro-life centers that have been occurring across the country.
00:49:56.000So as the consensus about God and morality declines in the United States, driven entirely Because remember, conservative identification is still where it was.
00:50:04.000Moderate identification on God is still where it was.
00:51:44.000They say, well, you know, Lightyear's mixed marketing campaign.
00:51:46.000Lightyear is a high concept premise, actually making the film which is referenced within the Toy Story universe and inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy line.
00:51:53.000Well, a fun exercise, the film by its very nature was likely going to confuse some audience members who would question where and how the film fits into the Toy Story franchise.
00:52:00.000Pixar tried its best with TV spots letting audiences know this was the movie Andy saw, but it's such a niche meta idea, the general audience may not have been sold.
00:52:07.000Also, Pixar has been releasing its films on Disney Plus because of the pandemic.
00:52:12.000So they released Onward back in March 2020.
00:52:15.000And then they quickly put it on Disney Plus because of the pandemic.
00:52:17.000In December 2020, Disney released Soul on Disney Plus.
00:52:20.000And the movie performed so well on the streamer that they sent the summer film Luca to Disney Plus as well.
00:52:25.0002022 was supposed to be a return to the cinema for Pixar.
00:52:29.000But early in 2022, they sent Turning Red to Disney Plus, which meant three Pixar films in a row were sent to Disney Plus for no additional charge.
00:52:34.000So maybe people just got used to sitting at home and waiting for the stuff to pop up on Disney Plus.
00:52:38.000The problem is that does not answer the question because there have been other kids films that actually have done pretty well this year.
00:52:46.000They're a bunch of movies, including, by the way, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which did really, really well at the box office.
00:52:54.000There was another movie, I believe it was called The Bad Guys, that did pretty solid box office.
00:53:00.000It made $230 million at the box office, and nobody ever heard of that movie.
00:53:14.000The only movies that were out were Jurassic World Domination, which is for, you know, teenagers and older, and Top Gun, which is for teenagers and older.
00:53:21.000So they have like 10 different reasons why this movie failed.
00:53:27.000The reason that this movie completely failed is because they decided to make an entire marketed Disney film and build the marketing around how it was LGBTQ plus positive.
00:53:37.000That was the entire marketing of the film.
00:53:39.000If you read headlines about the film, it was Chris Evans talking about how you were a bigot if you didn't want to watch two women kiss in a children's film.
00:53:46.000You were a terrible person and they were going to make this the norm.
00:53:48.000That was Chris Evans' direct language.
00:53:50.000They also got rid of Tim Allen, who is the voice of Buzz Lightyear because he happens to be conservative.
00:53:53.000And instead, for no reason at all, they cast Chris Evans.
00:53:58.000Tim Allen is one of the most iconic movie voices in history because his voice for Buzz Lightyear makes the film... Tom Hanks and Tim Allen was the entire thing.
00:54:07.000So they did that, as Patricia Heaton pointed out, really dumb business decision.
00:54:11.000And then, on top of that, they were like, by the way, if you want to prove your woke bona fides, take your small children to watch two women kiss as they form a lesbian nuclear family on Father's Day.
00:55:05.000And the backlash is coming, and it's coming strong.
00:55:08.000Meanwhile, World Swimming has now banned transgender athletes from women events because they looked at the fact that Leah Thomas is a giant dude and was beating up all the ladies and decided, hey, wait, we don't want to do that.
00:55:18.000According to Yahoo News, World Swimming's governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women's events starting on Monday.
00:55:24.000FINA members widely adopted a new gender inclusion policy on Sunday that only permits swimmers who transition before age 12 to compete in women's events.
00:55:31.000The organization also proposed an open competition category.
00:55:35.000This is not saying that people are encouraged to transition by the age of 12.
00:55:40.000And if you transition after the start of puberty, you have an advantage, which is unfair, said James Pearce, the spokesperson for FINA President Hussein al-Musallam.
00:55:47.000He said to the Associated Press, they're not saying everyone should transition by age 11.
00:55:54.000Basically, what they're saying is it's not feasible for people who have transitioned to compete without having to.
00:55:58.000I'm glad to see that reality is setting in, at least among a certain subset.
00:56:03.000The battles over reality are going to get worse and worse because the left has insisted on ignoring reality for far too long.
00:56:08.000When the backlash comes, it's going to come from two directions.
00:56:10.000One is going to be from the far left, which says, you guys were insufficiently loyal to our ideals, and so we will punish you for that.
00:56:17.000And one is going to come from the moderates in the right, who are going to say, you guys were so wedded to your ideological commitments that even the stuff you were saying that was true was infused with lies.
00:56:26.000In the same way that you said you were in favor of capitalism, and then you were like, yeah, but let's put a bunch of environmental social governance standards on the stock market.
00:56:32.000Let's cram down diversity standards on your board.
00:56:35.000Let's make sure that you can't trade on the stock market if you're an oil company, right?
00:56:39.000There are a lot of people in the moderate and right who are like, that's bad policy.
00:56:41.000And it looks like you're in hock to the very people who are trying to destroy you.
00:56:46.000That bifurcation is only going to get worse over time.
00:56:50.000The reason I say maybe that's not a bad thing, to paraphrase my friend Dennis Prager, clarity before agreement.
00:56:55.000I'd rather have an honest leftist telling me what they honestly think so I can fight it, than a bunch of people lying to me about what traditionalists they are while they push abortion, same-sex marriage, and socialism.
00:57:03.000All right, we'll be back here later today with additional content.
00:57:05.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Mullins show today.
00:57:07.000He discusses the pushback on porn in libraries and school by parents.
00:57:10.000You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that's available right now.
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