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00:00:00.000The stock market officially hits bear market territory as the Fed desperately seeks to tamp down inflation, the January 6th committee keeps rehashing the stuff we already knew, and Pride Month continues with perverse displays in front of small children.
00:00:31.000Out-of-control inflation is hammering the living crap out of the stock market at this point.
00:00:35.000The S&P 500 is having its worst start to the year since World War II.
00:00:38.000We are now in official bear market territory.
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00:01:31.000Well, Bidenomics has been a giant failure, and the easiest way to tell that Bidenomics has been a giant failure is that we are now in a full-on bear market.
00:01:40.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the stock market sell-off deepened on Monday with the S&P 500 entering a bear market as investors took another look at Friday's red-hot inflation data and liked it even less, which is not a surprise because the inflation data month-on-month was again 8.6% annualized inflation rate.
00:01:53.000That is a horrifying rate of inflation.
00:01:56.000Faced with rising chances of aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, investors broadly unloaded risk.
00:02:00.000The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% as 495 of its 500 components ended the day lower.
00:02:06.000So that is not a matter of a few big companies that are dragging the rest of the market down.
00:02:10.000This is a matter of every single company, with the exception of like five companies, had its stock decline.
00:02:15.000And that is because people are looking at this economy and they're like, I don't have the extra cash.
00:02:20.000People are looking at the economy and they are figuring they need to either liquidate their assets in order to pay the bills or they're trying to get out of the stock market because they believe that it's going to decline even further.
00:02:29.000And given the fact that Joe Biden wants heavier regulations, heavier taxation, global taxation schemes, the likelihood is that we are now entering a period of significant economic stagnation over the course of the next several years.
00:02:48.000The Fed is not going to be able to do this lukewarm thing where they gradually raise the inflation rate just ever so slightly and edge us away from inflationary territory and away from a recession.
00:02:58.000Instead, what's going to happen is that the Fed is going to have to clamp down because, again, the Federal Reserve, as much as people like to pretend it's a scalpel, it's not.
00:03:05.000The Federal Reserve does not have a magic wand that can bring down inflation without also slowing economic activity.
00:03:12.000It does not have the ability to make that magical balance happen where the markets have no bear market or bull market territory.
00:03:20.000All that ends up happening, what the Federal Reserve really does in the end is it sort of smooths out the various bumps in the market, but it can't get rid of the hills and valleys in the market entirely.
00:03:29.000And very often it creates larger hills and larger valleys over the course of time.
00:03:34.000So if you figure you look at the markets from, say, 1860 to 1925, right before the Federal Reserve became sort of a major issue in American life, what you see is there are a lot of booms, there are a lot of busts.
00:03:45.000But overall, the trend line looks like that.
00:03:47.000And you see that that even continues in the early days of the Federal Reserve.
00:03:51.000And now what you see is sort of an economic stagnation, like slight growth.
00:04:18.000So instead of these kind of gigantic shocks happening every five years, what you have is big shocks happening maybe every 20 or 30 years.
00:04:25.000And then in the meantime, you have slower growth or you have slower or you have slower declines.
00:04:31.000And that is simply because when you have the Federal Reserve, which has now been put in charge of not just fiscal and monetary policy, been put in charge of economic policy, when basically the federal government has abdicated all responsibility for the economy to the Federal Reserve, to this cadre of experts, Well, that cadre of experts is often wrong, but they also are able to maintain a consistent policy over the course of long periods of time, which Congress is not really able to do.
00:04:55.000Now, none of this was really foreseen when the Federal Reserve was given the sort of power that it was given.
00:05:00.000The idea from the Federal Reserve is that it was going to be a rather inactive branch of American government.
00:05:04.000And it was basically there to backstop the banks.
00:05:06.000It was there to make sure there weren't runs on the banks such that you had a complete collapse in the banking system.
00:05:12.000sure there was a slow but steady rate of inflation. That's at least what Milton Friedman proposed and was taken up by the Federal Reserve in the 1960s, 1970s.
00:05:18.000Well, now the Federal Reserve has become the policymaker of first resort. There's a point made by Mohammed L. Arian, the head of Allianz. He has said that when the Federal Reserve becomes the policymaker of first resort, you end up basically using up what it was that you had in reserve, right? When it was the last resort, you would do all these things. Then finally it got down to it. You call in the Federal Reserve.
00:05:37.000Now the Federal Reserve is the chief policymaker in the United States. And this is true for central banks across the world. When you exhaust all those options, there's nothing, there's nowhere else to And this is what we are now experiencing in the economy.
00:05:50.000In fact, you know, now's the time where you look down memory lane, you think, man, probably should have sold my stocks like six months ago.
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00:06:07.000You know, Father's Day is coming up, or as we in the political community like to call it, second official legal guardian day of unspecified gender.
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00:07:05.000Meanwhile, a route in cryptocurrencies highlighted investors' increasing unwillingness to hang on to the most speculative holdings, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:07:12.000The price of Bitcoin plunged below $23,000 before pairing that loss to trade at 5 p.m.
00:07:19.000As of November, Bitcoin was trading at above $60,000.
00:07:21.000The drop in crypto accelerated Monday after interest rate fears sparked a weekend sell-off.
00:07:26.000So, you would figure that in a time of economic uncertainty, Bitcoin might do okay, except for the fact that Bitcoin, in a lot of people's mind, is not a well-established asset?
00:07:34.000And it hasn't been as broadly adopted as some people would like it to be.
00:07:37.000And so if you have an asset and you're going to sell it off, are you going to sell off U.S.
00:07:39.000treasuries, which are a pretty well-established asset over the course of a century, two centuries?
00:07:57.000I think they'll come back over time specifically because they're well-established enough.
00:08:01.000That as the market presumably recovers, or as it at least evens out, people are going to start looking at it just like another asset class.
00:08:07.000However, the more speculative stuff, these sort of F Joe Biden bitcoins, those always seemed very sketch to me.
00:08:15.000And so the idea that these were going to be a big boomtown for people, that only holds when you have cheap and easy money that's available to everyone.
00:08:22.000We're definitely seeing a risk-off atmosphere, a flight to quality, said Charlie Ripley, senior investment strategist at Allianz Investment Management.
00:08:28.000In that environment, people need to raise cash.
00:08:30.000So people are taking their money out of speculative assets, they're trying to sell those off, and they're trying to get into what they think are more solid assets.
00:08:37.000When you inflate the currency, when you inflate the economy, and people have extra cash in their pockets, they tend to spend it on speculative things, hoping that there will be a big boom and then they can sell it.
00:08:46.000But what happens when nobody has that extra money?
00:08:49.000If you're going to take that money, you're going to put it in the surest thing available.
00:08:52.000And so what you've seen is actually yield curves inverting, which means people are now investing in long-term bonds, for example, more than they are in short-term bonds.
00:08:59.000At least that was one thing that happened for a brief moment yesterday that usually foretells a recession in the next one to two years.
00:09:05.000And again, the notion that the Federal Reserve is going to be able to cure this, the Federal Reserve created this.
00:09:10.000So the idea that Jerome Powell is going to magically fix all of the problems on behalf of Joe Biden is just crazy.
00:09:50.000I'm not saying that now is the time to buy because I don't know how much lower the market's going to go.
00:09:55.000But I will tell you that in times of a declining market, I typically go to my investment people.
00:10:00.000And I tell them to gradually increase the amount that they're buying, if possible, because buying on the downslope is usually a better idea than buying on the upslope, which is what most people did during the pandemic.
00:10:11.000Now again, Bitcoin has taken this serious hit because there are a lot of speculative traders in Bitcoin.
00:10:15.000A lot of the extra money people had in their pocket went into Bitcoin.
00:10:17.000Bitcoin's slide since November, according to the Wall Street Journal, has contributed to a roughly $2 trillion wipeout in the broader market.
00:10:23.000Crypto's total market capitalization, meaning like all the shares of crypto multiplied by the price of crypto, which peaked in November at nearly $3 trillion, stood at around $975 billion Monday evening.
00:10:33.000That's a loss of over $2 trillion in value in the crypto market.
00:10:37.000Now again, If you're holding crypto, if you haven't sold the crypto, you haven't realized the loss.
00:10:41.000But this also goes to show you how stupid the policy promoted by Elizabeth Warren and company is.
00:10:45.000Their policy was that we should do a wealth tax.
00:10:48.000So when you had an unrealized gain in something like crypto, we should tax the unrealized gain.
00:10:52.000What are they going to be a tax refund for the unrealized loss?
00:10:57.000It's all just stupidity attempting to confiscate wealth from people who are the high income earners in our society, meaning the most successful business people in our society.
00:11:05.000According to the Wall Street Journal, there are some clear reasons why Bitcoin is selling off now.
00:11:08.000For one thing, its moves have been more generally aligned with other risk assets like tech stocks, as professional traders have joined the crypto market in bigger numbers.
00:11:15.000Speculative assets like crypto have been falling as high inflation persists.
00:11:18.000Central banks try to combat that with higher interest rates, which, of course, crypto is usually a hedge against inflation.
00:11:24.000Well, right now you have an inflating currency, but you're also seeing the Federal Reserve and other central banks ramp up the interest rates.
00:11:28.000The idea is that inflation eventually is going to be crushed here, and that will damage crypto.
00:11:33.000inflation index hit 8.6%, dragging down the stock market.
00:11:36.000So you have this very weird market in which pretty much everything is taking a hit at this point, and there are no safe havens, which is a dangerous place to be.
00:11:44.000And this is being particularly jogged by the uncertainty from the Fed.
00:11:46.000Remember, I said a couple of months ago, I did not think they were increasing interest rates fast enough, that when you have a massive inflationary bubble like you have right now, you can't increase it gradually and go to what are still close to record lows in the inflation rate.
00:12:21.000We have the biggest inflationary bubble in four decades.
00:12:23.000You're going to have to see the overall interest rates increase to the 5% to 6% range, I think, before you start to see inflation really start to come down in a severe way.
00:12:30.000And that means there will be a recession.
00:12:32.000And pretty much everybody knows it at this point.
00:12:34.000The Federal Reserve has been trying to pitch you a bill of goods here, saying they're going to fix all of your problems.
00:12:38.000Do you hate it when people try to sell products they know next to nothing about, like the Federal Reserve right now?
00:12:42.000Well, this is why you should not head on over to your local auto parts store when you need to fix your car, because the people behind the counter, they don't know anything.
00:12:51.000That's all they sell, auto parts and related tools.
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00:13:07.000You quickly see all the parts available for your specific car, SUV, or truck.
00:13:11.000There are photos, specs, and installation tips to help you pick the best parts to meet your vehicle's needs.
00:13:15.000RockAuto.com will not only have the part, but usually will give you several trusted brands to choose from.
00:13:19.000Rock Auto's kits are also popular because they bundle together all the parts needed for a successful repair.
00:13:23.000You don't get halfway through installing a timing belt and then discover that you actually need another pulley or something.
00:13:28.000Professional mechanics, do-it-yourselfers, they always pay the same reliably low prices.
00:13:31.000So, your car is worth now more than probably it has ever been, even if it is used.
00:14:13.000You think a recession is in the works?
00:14:14.000I think that when inflation is as high as it is right now, and unemployment is as low as it is right now, it's almost always been followed within two years by inflation, by recession.
00:14:30.000It is amazing how the narrative changed so quickly.
00:14:31.000You remember that last summer it was, inflation is transitory, don't worry about it, everything's good.
00:14:36.000Then it was, inflation is not transitory, don't worry, everything is good.
00:14:39.000Then it's inflation is a crisis, recession is not going to happen.
00:14:43.000Then it was, well, recession might happen, but probably not for a little while, and maybe we can avoid it.
00:14:47.000And within, I promise you, within a couple of months, it's gonna be, oh, recession is here.
00:14:51.000Because this is the way that our experts work.
00:14:53.000In our expert class, if the last few years have proved nothing, except one thing, if they've proved only one thing, that thing would be the expert class, they're not experts in things.
00:15:01.000Just because you have a lot of knowledge about one specific topic does not mean that you are capable of taking into consideration all of the various factors that go into even your topic.
00:15:10.000The collective wisdom of humanity is far larger than that of the expert class.
00:15:14.000Experts are very good at knowing one thing.
00:15:17.000The general public is very good at knowing a little bit about a lot of things.
00:15:21.000And when you gather all of that together, that broad base of knowledge is much larger than that of any one expert, which is why centralized economics is such a dumb idea.
00:15:27.000And you get a bunch of experts in the room trying to figure out how literally hundreds of millions, billions of people are going to interact with one another.
00:16:05.000Maybe it's because the people running the institutions are really terrible at their jobs.
00:16:09.000According to the Wall Street Journal, now the Federal Reserve is vacillating.
00:16:12.000So you remember, they had said they're very specific about what they were going to do, which is always a dumb idea.
00:16:16.000They should have just said, we are going to raise the interest rates as much as necessary, as quickly as necessary, in order to tamp down inflation.
00:16:22.000Instead, what they did is they said, okay, well, we're definitely not going to raise the interest rates more than 0.5% At the next Fed meeting and the meeting after that, like we have a regular rule.
00:16:34.000The problem is then when they announce 0.75%, which is more than 0.5, but it is not 3%, then the markets freak out, which is what we've been seeing this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:16:46.000A string of troubling inflation reports in recent days is likely to lead the Fed to consider surprising markets with a larger-than-expected 0.75 percentage point interest rate increase at their meeting this week.
00:16:55.000Before officials began their pre-meeting quiet period on June 4, they had signaled they were prepared to raise interest rates by half a percentage point this week and again at their meeting in July.
00:17:03.000They had also said their outlook depended on the economy evolving as they expected.
00:17:07.000Last week's inflation report from the Labor Department showed a bigger jump in prices in May than officials had anticipated.
00:17:12.000And there is something deeply disturbing about the fact that we have hundreds of millions of people who all have holdings in the stock market sitting around and waiting on like seven guys in suits to figure out the direction of the American economy.
00:17:21.000That is not the way any of this is supposed to work.
00:17:24.000The same thing happens to be true when it comes to the Constitution of the United States.
00:17:27.000Like yesterday, we were waiting around, literally waiting in the newsroom to see whether the Supreme Court was going to bring down its decision on Roe versus Wade.
00:17:33.000And so you have the entire country waiting on nine people in robes to decide the fate of the country.
00:17:39.000This sort of stuff is not how things are supposed to work.
00:17:41.000In a democratic republic, most power is supposed to devolve to the local level.
00:17:45.000And most power is really supposed to devolve to the individual.
00:17:48.000You're not supposed to be sitting around waiting for the expert class to control the most important areas of your life, from economics to how your rights are defined, to the rights of the unborn.
00:17:59.000But nonetheless, we've delegated more and more power to people that we declare the expert class.
00:18:04.000And that is the outgrowth of a progressive agenda from the early 20th century promoted by people like Woodrow Wilson.
00:18:09.000The idea was that government is just too complicated for the people.
00:18:12.000And so we have to have experts and bureaucrats figuring out everything for us.
00:18:15.000And now we're all very comfortable with this.
00:18:17.000Well, we don't know about the environment.
00:18:31.000Not because even they're so crappy at their jobs, but because you cannot delegate a massive swath of life to a very small cadre of individuals whose knowledge is limited because inherently the knowledge of individuals is limited in a way that group and collective knowledge just is not.
00:18:45.000Okay, well, all of this results in rather large scale unpopularity for Joe Biden.
00:18:50.000The main characteristic of the Biden administration is that they've been wrong about everything, but they are completely blind to the consequences of their own decision-making.
00:18:58.000It is amazing how many times they have done something, not even thinking about what comes next, and then the thing that comes next is perfectly predictable, and they freak out.
00:19:47.000That is the 2024 slogan of the Biden administration, is oh, oh.
00:19:52.000The minute that they figure out, oops, everything that we did has been counterproductive.
00:19:56.000According to the Wall Street Journal, in recent weeks, top officials in the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve Have publicly conceded.
00:20:02.000They made mistakes in their handling of inflation.
00:20:04.000Oh, well, now that you've conceded it, I probably I trust you more, you know, like first of all, you should concede it because you're idiots.
00:20:10.000But if your agenda is, yeah, sorry, we botched the most important economic issue of the last 10 years are bad.
00:20:17.000Also, if you could give us more power, that'd be amazing.
00:20:22.000I said when Joe Biden took office, we were going to see an unprecedented recovery.
00:20:24.000Biden and Fed officials worried the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions would bring similar consequences to the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
00:20:32.000Weak demand, slow growth, long periods of high unemployment and too low inflation.
00:20:40.000I said when Joe Biden took office, we were going to see an unprecedented recovery.
00:20:43.000I said at the beginning of COVID that after COVID was over, we were going to see an unprecedented recovery because it was an artificial depression.
00:20:52.000That was the bottom fell out of the real estate market.
00:20:54.000It dragged down pretty much every area of the market because the collateralization of bad mortgages that it infused nearly every insurance industry, company, it infused the banks.
00:21:04.000And so it was dragging down wide swaths of the economy.
00:21:26.000And so the idea was, when COVID was over, which was supposed to be when the vaccines came out, circa January, February, March of 2021, it would be done.
00:21:55.000People had more savings after the pandemic than they had before the pandemic.
00:21:59.000But these idiots kept running the inflation hot.
00:22:02.000Now, the real reason they're running the inflation hot is because Joe Biden and Ezra Klein and all of the econ geniuses on the other side, they were suggesting that if you run the economy hot, it was going to help the poorest.
00:22:11.000The only problem is when you inflate the economy, it hurts the poorest most.
00:22:15.000So, the Biden administration and the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal, applied the last playbook to the new crisis.
00:22:20.000The Fed redeployed low-interest rate policies it believes have been effective and generally benign and promised not to pull back prematurely.
00:22:26.000Elected officials concluded they'd relied too heavily on the Fed previously and decided to spend more aggressively this time, starting with Donald Trump capping with Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus.
00:22:34.000Moreover, many Democrats saw their control of the White House and Congress as a rare opportunity to shift Washington's priority away from tax cuts and toward expansive new social programs.
00:22:42.000Again, this was the Build Back Better lie.
00:22:45.000We didn't need you to build back better.
00:22:46.000We needed you to leave well enough alone.
00:22:48.000Instead, they decided they were going to build.
00:23:25.000Those are constructed by fat cats in the backroom and they are likely to fail because again, centralized knowledge is not nearly as diverse, diffuse, and useful as collectivized knowledge.
00:23:34.000The experts, they don't know a lot of things.
00:23:36.000Well, you know, when the experts don't know a lot of things, it makes you feel a little bit nervous, right?
00:23:40.000Well, maybe you should prepare for the possibility that the experts don't know everything by, you know, actually prepping for times when those times get bad.
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00:25:29.000So Karine Jean-Pierre, the incompetent new White House press secretary, the thing you could say about Jen Psaki, you can say that she was a liar and she said things that were untrue, but she wasn't incompetent.
00:25:37.000Karine Jean-Pierre is like full-scale incompetent.
00:25:39.000So she said yesterday that Joe Biden's spending binge had nothing to do with inflation.
00:27:08.000You took money away from one person and you gave it to another.
00:27:10.000Because that money does not come out of thin air.
00:27:12.000And if it does come out of thin air, what you're really doing is just robbing future generations who are going to have to pay back that money.
00:27:18.000President Biden once bragged about the stock market hitting record after record after record on my watch.
00:28:18.000Well, do you pay attention to like actual bear markets or no?
00:28:22.000First of all, we don't really pay too much attention to daily wiggles, but I think the broader trend is of course something of great interest to us in two ways.
00:28:34.000First of all, while most stock ownership is concentrated among the very wealthiest, I think 80% of the value is held by the top 10%, there are still a lot of people with retirement accounts, so we have to be mindful of that.
00:28:46.000Well, I mean, 58% of Americans own stock.
00:28:49.000So when you say that 80% of stocks are owned by the very wealthy, that's true.
00:28:53.000It also happens to be true that the wealthiest people are wealthy because they own wealth.
00:29:06.000People are going to have to liquidate that to pay their bills because of the inflation that you idiots created.
00:29:10.000Meanwhile, you have Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce out there saying, nobody knows more about national affairs than Biden, which may be the dumbest statement of the last five years.
00:29:19.000Nobody, no one knows more about national, I'm hard pressed to find anyone who knows less about national affairs than Joe Biden.
00:29:25.000The man doesn't even know what's going on in the morning.
00:29:27.000As I've said before, he must be the happiest guy in America.
00:29:29.000He wakes up every morning and somebody tells him he's president.
00:29:45.000I mean, I certainly support the president and his national security team.
00:29:51.000No one knows more about, you know, national affairs than President Biden.
00:29:57.000And I would say that he is very serious when the president, when he says he's going to use every arrow in his quiver in order to bring down gas prices for Americans.
00:30:09.000Okay, the problem is that the quiver in his brain is empty.
00:30:49.000And the truth is that these days I like to finger paint and, you know, they come in for my art therapy and I have crayons and I like to, they tell me not to use Sharpies because it permanently stains the furniture.
00:31:00.000And that's just another way I stain the furniture.
00:31:02.000I don't know why they do this, but they only give you one pen.
00:31:09.000I used to stand in absolute awe and watch Barack Obama sign with seven, eight, nine different pens, Barack Obama.
00:31:54.000And I remember in the olden days, you know, and before the pens where we had like a duck feather and we would use like a, they called it a quill.
00:32:04.000It was about time my dad would say, Joey!
00:32:06.000We were walking around the screen and he'd say, you see that Quill store?
00:32:09.000See those two gay men kissing outside the Quill store?
00:32:13.000Joe Biden, in charge of the United States economy.
00:32:30.000So we'll see how things work out for this administration.
00:32:33.000It's why when Democrats try to distract from all of this with uncontrollable or with January 6th, most Americans are looking around and they're like, um, this economy, it was not supposed to be like this.
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00:34:16.000We've been waiting for it for well over a year.
00:34:18.000Remember that time that Disney Plus cancelled Gina Carano?
00:34:21.000So now Disney is pushing lesbians in Buzz Lightyear films.
00:34:24.000But, last year, they were firing Gina Carano for no apparent reason, and we decided that we were going to hire Gina Carano because people who don't deserve to get cancelled.
00:35:19.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:35:22.000So meanwhile, the Democrats trying to distract from the fact that they have an awful, awful president and they're probably going to have to run him because what is their alternative?
00:35:36.000You're going to go to like Pete Buttigieg, whose main claim to fame is that he is both gay and went on paternity leave and also was a bad mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
00:35:59.000I mean, I didn't think it was possible to get any worse than many of the politicians we've seen over the past several years on right and left.
00:36:06.000And Kamala Harris has set a new bar, man.
00:36:08.000So this means they have to distract, right?
00:36:11.000And so they are going to talk about January 6th.
00:36:13.000January 6th this and January 6th that.
00:36:16.000They had more of their hearings yesterday.
00:36:18.000The original big primetime special didn't do what they needed it to do, which was shift the conversation to Trump and January 6th.
00:36:25.000And so yesterday they had more hearings.
00:36:26.000And again, they've made promises that their body just can't cash.
00:36:29.000They're writing checks that they can't cash.
00:36:31.000Meaning that if these hearings were to mean anything, you have to prove that Donald Trump was actually involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government via a mob that stormed the Capitol.
00:36:40.000Not that he considered weird legal possibilities on January 6th.
00:36:45.000Not that he was fibbing from November 4th to January 6th or lying from November 4th to January 6th.
00:36:50.000I mean, all those things were out in public view.
00:36:52.000We all knew a lot of these things, right?
00:36:54.000These legal plans that he was putting forth about how Mike Pence could just throw out electoral votes and all the rest of this.
00:37:00.000What you actually have to show, if it's about January 6th, is that Donald Trump didn't just incentivize people to riot, or he didn't just give them a logical impetus to riot, but that he ordered them, that he coordinated with them, that he was involved in the attempt to quote-unquote overthrow the United States government.
00:37:16.000And this is what Democrats keep claiming.
00:37:17.000So, for example, Representative Bennie Thompson yesterday, he says, you know, the mob was sent by Trump.
00:37:22.000Well, no, they weren't, and you're going to have to show evidence that they were.
00:37:27.000Because what he said in that speech was, we want you to peacefully march to the Capitol and protest.
00:37:53.000If you're going to pretend that 2022 is about 2020, then you actually have to demonstrate that 2022 and the agenda of the Republican Party has something to do with January 6th, 2021.
00:38:04.000There was Bennie Thompson, again, making a promise of evidence that he has yet to present.
00:38:10.000This morning, we'll tell the story of how Donald Trump lost an election, and knew he lost an election, and as a result of his loss, decided to wage an attack on our democracy.
00:38:24.000and attack on the American people by trying to rob you of your voice in our democracy.
00:38:30.000And in doing so, lit the fuse that led to the horrific violence of January 6th, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol sent by Donald Trump to stop the transfer of power.
00:38:44.000Sent by Donald Trump to stop the transfer of power is the key there, because that would actually be a criminal act.
00:38:48.000No one on the Democratic side has provided the evidence that a criminal act was actually performed You can talk about dereliction of duty during the hours when the riot was going on.
00:38:57.000You can talk about the lies that Donald Trump told up to January 6th.
00:39:00.000That's not what this committee is supposedly going to reveal to you.
00:39:04.000So instead, they're just rehashing old stuff and hoping that it distracts everybody.
00:39:07.000So they're saying that, for example, the big takeaways, according to Aaron Blake, writing for the Washington Post, he said there are four big takeaways from the hearings yesterday.
00:39:13.000One, Trump was told that he lost the election, but he didn't care.
00:39:48.000My opinion then and my opinion now is that the election was not stolen by fraud.
00:39:58.000I haven't seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the 2000 mules movie.
00:40:08.000Maybe you can assess that 2000 mules and people are talking about that.
00:40:12.000Well, I mean, just in a nutshell, you know, I just think the GBI was unimpressed with it.
00:40:20.000And I was similarly unimpressed with it because I think if you because I was holding my fire on that to see what the photographic evidence was.
00:40:29.000OK, and listen, I went through 2,000 mules at length.
00:40:33.000I talked to Catherine Engelbrecht, who's the person behind True the Vote, which provided all the data for 2,000 mules.
00:40:37.000Bottom line here is that Barr is not saying anything that he hasn't already said publicly.
00:40:41.000So what exactly is the committee hoping to find here?
00:40:44.000According to Aaron Blake, here are the four takeaways.
00:40:46.000Takeaway number one is that Trump was told, but he didn't care, which again, Trump has a unique capacity to convince himself of things that are not true.
00:40:54.000I mean, he was tweeting out that Brian Kemp just won his gubernatorial runoff with David Perdue based on voter fraud, right?
00:41:04.000has a unique capacity to find in his own mind things that he believes were true and then suggest that they were true.
00:41:10.000More evidence that almost everyone knew Trump had lost.
00:41:22.000I keep asking where's the meat because at a certain point you're going to have to show it or we're not going to believe you.
00:41:26.000They brought out Jason Miller, who was heavily involved in the 2016 Trump campaign, to talk about how Trump was listening to drunk Rudy Giuliani.
00:41:33.000Again, this is not particularly shocking.
00:41:35.000I mean, did you watch Rudy Giuliani during this?
00:41:37.000He was out there with lawyers who, like Sidney Powell, suggesting that there was going to be a Kraken released and he was standing in front of Four Seasons Lawn and Gardening instead of the Four Seasons Hotel.
00:42:09.000What was your observation about his potential intoxication during that discussion about what the president should say when he's addressed the nation on election night?
00:42:22.000And the mayor was definitely intoxicated, but I do not know his level of intoxication when he spoke with the president, for example.
00:42:34.000And then the final big revelation from Aaron Blake, from the Washington Post, is that Donald Trump took in an awful lot of money between the election and January 6th, and he used very little of it for legal maneuvers.
00:42:43.000Which, again, I said at the time, this is not a giant shock.
00:42:46.000Again, the fact that it's not shocking doesn't change the fact that what Trump did was wrong and wild, right?
00:42:52.000The amount of legal bills incurred did not amount to the $100 million, $250 million, apparently, that Donald Trump was raising for his Super PAC committee.
00:42:59.000It also happens to be that Super PACs By their very nature, have a lot of fungible cash, and they can use them for whatever they want.
00:43:05.000So, I don't think that Donald Trump was using that in ways that his supporters would want him to use it.
00:43:09.000Apparently, he was paying Kimberly Guilfoyle something like $60,000 for a two-minute speech at the January 6th rally, for example.
00:43:15.000This was one of the big revelations yesterday at the hearing.
00:43:19.000They brought out a legislative analyst named Amanda Wick, who basically laid forth what exactly Trump had done with all of this money.
00:43:26.000The emails claimed the, quote, left-wing mob was undermining the election, implored supporters to, quote, step up to protect the integrity of the election, and encouraged them to, quote, fight back.
00:43:39.000But as the Select Committee has demonstrated, the Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false, yet they continued to barrage small-dollar donors with emails encouraging them to donate to something called the Official Election Defense Fund.
00:43:53.000The select committee discovered no such fund existed.
00:43:57.000I don't believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund.
00:44:01.000Okay, well the fact that there wasn't actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund doesn't mean that a super PAC couldn't give money to the Election Defense, right, or what they called the Election Defense.
00:44:08.000Okay, bottom line here is that the January 6th committee, they have provided no evidence so far that really changes the game on what we already knew about January 6th in terms of what people already understood to be happening in the lead-up and during January 6th.
00:44:21.000And that really doesn't speak to 2022.
00:44:22.000So the Democrats' attempt to shift away from all of this is very unlikely to be successful.
00:44:29.000And so when Dan Pfeiffer, Who is a former Obama official, he's over on Pod Save America now, and when he's not trying to shut down Daily Wire and claim that outlets not to his liking should be censored, he's appearing on CNN.
00:44:40.000Dan Pfeiffer, he keeps making the actual argument that the left would like to make, which is that January 6th is shorthand for what's happening right now.
00:44:47.000That dog ain't gonna hunt, because that's not what's happening right now.
00:44:51.000The story here is a months-long, wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to overturn the election.
00:44:58.000But we also have to project that forward, because January 6th is a shorthand for what is happening right now.
00:45:04.000You had a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan arrested in his house for participating in the insurrection.
00:45:09.000You have a Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate who ran on the platform of giving Pennsylvania's electoral votes to Donald Trump, no matter what the voters say.
00:45:18.000This is a clear and present danger, and I think, as we think about what success means for these hearings, it is focusing the mind on what is coming, not just what happened.
00:45:28.000Okay, well, it is not focusing America's mind on that.
00:45:30.000In fact, the only thing that could focus America's mind back on January 6th is if Donald Trump runs again.
00:45:34.000If Donald Trump runs again, there will be a rehash.
00:45:36.000People will have to deal with this because, again, Donald Trump is very concerned about that.
00:45:40.000And herein lies the danger for Donald Trump in another presidential campaign.
00:45:44.000Donald Trump in 2016 successfully was able to channel Americans' outrage at Democratic governance and say, listen, the reason they hate me is because they hate you.
00:45:53.000And that was a very successful line because many Americans in 2016 and even in 2020 believed that that was true, that the reason they were targeting Trump is not because they particularly hated Trump, but because they hated all the people who had voted for Trump.
00:46:29.000If Donald Trump makes 2024 about him, then the election will be about him, and then he will be in trouble.
00:46:35.000The way that Donald Trump, if he wants to run again, is going to have to run is by removing his ego from the picture and instead becoming the defender of the Americans that he says he is defending, rather than a defender of his own prerogative, his own ego, his own narcissism.
00:46:47.000If he does that, then he's... I don't even know that he wins the nomination if he does that, frankly, because I think most Americans are not thinking right now.
00:46:55.000In the same way that the Democrats want you to think about 2020 and election 2020, I don't think most Americans, right or left, are thinking about that.
00:47:00.000I think they're thinking about inflation.
00:47:01.000I think they're thinking about the cultural degradation of the United States.
00:47:04.000I think they're thinking about our feckless and moreless foreign policy.
00:47:08.000I think that's what they're thinking about right now.
00:47:10.000Now speaking of the devastating cultural destruction of our children, it is amazing, during this most prized time of the year, it's the most wonderful time of the year, it's Pride Month, LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, ampersand, pound sign, hashtag, emoji.
00:47:29.000It's that time of the year, it's magic.
00:47:31.000Well, I think most Americans are beginning to see that there has been a rather striking move from, what we do in our own bedrooms is none of your business, leave us alone, to I'm going to put on a strap-on and I'm going to mimic masturbation in front of your children.
00:47:49.000The argument for leave us alone, privacy, consent, that argument radically changes when the idea is performative Sexual antics in front of children so as to induct them into the idea that all forms of sex are morally equivalent.
00:48:04.000And that if you do not believe this, you are a bigot.
00:48:09.000Really, that is a rather shocking move that we have seen from the radical left in terms of the LGBTQ divided by sign community.
00:48:18.000That is an unsustainable argument and it's going to have massive backlash attached and every video that comes out of major American celebrities doing this or every pride parade that features men in assless chaps Jiggling their nether regions before small children is going to create a backlash that I think people are not going to like very much.
00:48:37.000So, for example, Christina Aguilera, who is looking rough these days.
00:48:41.000Christina Aguilera shoots at the LA Pride Parade, where she donned a bejeweled strap-on, which is always just a delightful thing, and mimics masturbation.
00:48:53.000This was an event open to all ages, so presumably there are minors in the crowd.
00:49:25.000She's going to mimic masturbating right now with her tongue out in front of a woman on her knees in front of her.
00:49:31.000This is this is exactly the kind of stuff that I think that America's children should be exposed to.
00:49:36.000Because if they are exposed to this sort of stuff, then presumably it will broaden their minds to the point where all their brains fall out.
00:49:41.000Also, you'll have increasing rates of suicidal ideation among children if they are exposed to a ruleless and roleless society, which is precisely what you're seeing.
00:49:48.000And it's being promoted by every cultural institution in America.
00:49:52.000Pride parades are no longer the preserve of adults who are engaged in antics better relegated to the recesses of their boudoirs.
00:50:00.000Instead, you have men with fake breasts attached to them, twerking in front of children.
00:50:04.000This is a thing that happened at, I believe, again, the LA Pride Parade.
00:50:19.000And here is a man, wearing devil horns, strutting over with fake breasts, and, uh, and trying to twerk on a police officer who's attempting to get away.
00:50:38.000There are children who are right there in the crowd.
00:50:49.000And all of this is attached to a basic agenda, which is to, it is to go after kids, not for sexual pleasure, but to go after kids and to mold their minds in such a way that you have raised the next generation to believe all of the radical things that make you feel good about yourself, which is why it is rather important.
00:51:05.000You have to see this as part of a broader left-wing movement to take your ability to raise your child away from you and through the mechanisms of social media and through the mechanisms of entertainment and through the mechanisms of of corporate America and schooling to essentially indoctrinate your kids in an alternative system of values that opposes everything that you wish to teach them.
00:51:51.000I mean, Disney has said they have a not-so-secret gay agenda.
00:51:53.000That's according to producer Latoya Raveneau, who says that they are seeking to add queerness to children's programming.
00:51:58.000The reason that you're doing this is not because you're seeking to protect the kids, but because you are seeking to indoctrinate the kids in a belief system that makes you feel better about yourself.
00:52:06.000And this isn't just true on issues of LGBT.
00:52:08.000This is also true on issues of race, which is why you have people like Ibram X. Kendi, who is a grifter extraordinaire.
00:52:13.000I mean, this moral idiot is now writing books for small children, the goal of which is to indoctrinate them in the idea that America is systemically racist, and that racism is in the air all around you, and that children have to be thinking about race all the time, that somehow this is better for them.
00:52:32.000So here is Ibram X. Kendi, I believe he's done Good Morning America, correct?
00:52:38.000Who is talking about how his books teach children to see racism.
00:52:41.000So normally what you want to teach kids is to treat everybody really well.
00:52:43.000Like, my kids do not even understand racism because the idea that people should be treated differently based on their skin color is idiotic to them.
00:52:49.000And by the way, I believe this has been the pattern in the United States for at least two generations at this point.
00:52:56.000The idea was that there are kids in your class who look different than you, and so what?
00:53:01.000I treat everybody as an individual, which is the essence of decency.
00:53:03.000Ibram X. Kendi teaches precisely the reverse.
00:53:05.000You're supposed to treat people as part of an essentialized race that has a status in American society, and thus we have to have different standards for everyone based on their immutable characteristics.
00:53:15.000Here's Ibram X. Kendi promoting this garbage to children.
00:53:18.000Now look at you and say, you're the racist, actually, Ibram Kendi.
00:54:13.000And not just that, the values that I'm seeking to teach my kids have been time tested over the course of several thousand years.
00:54:19.000The values you're seeking your kids came directly out of your colon five seconds ago.
00:54:23.000And now you're wishing to indoctrinate kids into an entire system of belief That is perverse and confusing to children.
00:54:29.000And then we are wondering why exactly we have a massive increase in the amount of suicidal ideation and mental illness among kids.
00:54:37.000Eric Kaufman has a pretty brave piece today over at Quillette talking about this, and he makes a point that I've been making for months on this program, which is that when you look at the skyrocketing rates of mental illness and suicidal ideation among teenagers, that is not disconnected from the sexual Anarchy that we have been promoting to small kids.
00:54:55.000And when you remove all roles, all of the duties, all of the responsibilities, all of the rules surrounding children, what you end up with is kids who are confused, kids who don't know what to do with themselves, kids who are facing the prospect of their own changing biology with no tools to handle any of that.
00:55:13.000And then you wonder why people are losing their minds, why kids are more suicidal.
00:55:24.000We're all supposed to pretend that it has something to do with the animistic, A-N-O, animistic, atomistic society that we've created, but we're not supposed to actually explain how we got to this animistic society.
00:55:37.000We're supposed to pretend that individualized sexual and sexual orientation and gender identity standards are not animistic in any way.
00:55:56.000It would appear so from a straight-line extrapolation of the stunning rise in both LGBT identification and mental illness among young Americans.
00:56:02.000Let's begin with trends in sexual orientation among young people.
00:56:04.000A recent Gallup survey found that roughly 20% of Generation Z Americans who have reached adulthood, those born between 97 and 2003, identify as LGBT.
00:56:12.000That is nearly double the proportion of millennials who do so, while the gap widens even further when compared with older generations.
00:56:18.000Abigail Schreier reports a 1,000-fold increase in trans identification.
00:56:23.000Republican Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks this indicates there will be no straight people in a few generations.
00:56:27.000Bill Maher lampoons the increase as a rebellious fad.
00:56:29.000Progressives celebrate the rise as an electoral boom for the Democrats.
00:56:33.000Other liberals view the rise as a product of increasing toleration, like left-handedness, right?
00:56:36.000This is the chart that they'll send you when you mention the increasing rise in ID.
00:56:40.000They'll say, well, you know, it used to be that society suppressed left-handedness.
00:56:43.000Then it got rid of the suppressions and a lot of people identified as left-handed.
00:56:46.000Yeah, the difference is that flattened out at like 7% of the population.
00:56:49.000Didn't continue to rise generation on generation over time.
00:56:53.000Says Eric Kaufman, of these responses, Mars is closest to the target.
00:56:56.000A granular look at survey data on same-sex behavior and LGBT identity shows identification is increasingly diverging from behavior.
00:57:03.000More importantly, those who adopt an LGBT identity but display conventionally heterosexual behavior are a growing and distinct group who lean strongly to the left politically and experience considerably greater mental health problems than the rest of the population.
00:57:14.000In other words, you have a bunch of people Who are self-identifying as queer, who are actually just heterosexual, quote-unquote, cisgender people.
00:57:19.000People who identify with the sex they were born into, and only have sex with people of the opposite sex, which used to be the statistical norm.
00:57:27.000And those people are identifying as queer.
00:57:29.000By contrast, and this is really an interesting contrast Derek Kaufman is drawing, those who engage in same-sex behavior are more politically moderate and psychologically stable than left-wingers who are now calling themselves LGBTQ but engaging in heterosexual behavior.
00:57:42.000These facts sit awkwardly with the progressive view that the rise in LGBT identity, like left-handedness, is explained by people increasingly feeling they can come out of the closet because society is more liberal.
00:57:51.000My analysis of these data raise another interesting question.
00:57:54.000Has some of the increase in anxiety and depression among young people, like the LGBT identity surge, arisen from a culture that values divergence and boundary transgression over conformity to traditional norms and rules?
00:58:05.000And the data is really, really compelling.
00:58:08.000And he says, there's a serious issue thrown up by these trends, rising levels of anxiety and depression, especially among LGBT female and liberal young people. Derek Thompson's Atlantic article shows that over three and four LGBT identifying teens in 2021, so they felt persistently sad or hopeless as did 57% of female teens.
00:58:24.000The 2021 GSS and 2020 Qualtrics survey I conducted show that very liberal young people are twice as likely as slight liberals, moderates and conservatives to say they have experienced depression and anxiety.
00:58:36.000LGBT young people are 2.5 times more likely to report these symptoms.
00:58:40.000This means there is a strong correlation between people's responses to three questions, sexual orientation, mental health, political beliefs.
00:58:48.000In fact, a common factor accounts for almost half of the variation in the answers across all three questions, suggesting they heavily overlap.
00:58:56.000Well, it can be difficult to pick causation and correlation apart.
00:58:58.000There is one figure that is interesting.
00:59:00.000The figure compares two separate groups.
00:59:01.000Young women who report having slept with a woman over the past year and young women who did not sleep with a woman but identify as LGBT.
00:59:08.000The data shows that the share of women who have had a same-sex partner does not differ a great deal in their ideology.
00:59:13.000Around 3% of both liberal and conservative women reported a same-sex experience between 2008 and 2021.
00:59:17.000There is a huge ideological difference, however, among women who have not had a same-sex partner but still identify as LGBT, which means it's a political identity, an identity that is directly aimed at Judeo-Christian value systems.
00:59:30.000Turning to mental health, he says, I find the same pattern.
00:59:33.000Women exhibiting same-sex behavior are far less different from the average than women who have conventional sexual behavior but identify as LGBT.
00:59:42.000The progressive account that LGBT identification is like left-handedness, that persecution explains mental illness, that rising toleration leads to more people coming out, cannot account for the patterns in my data.
00:59:52.000A more parsimonious explanation is that left-liberal culture, especially among young people, inclines people to identify as both LGBT and as having a mental health problem.
01:00:03.000It may be that modern culture is, as Boston University's Leah Greenfield suggests, anomic.
01:00:06.000That is, by breaking down established identity roles, narratives, and boundaries, it introduces dissonance, indeterminacy, and choice, increasing rates of identity crisis, and, by extension, psychological distress.
01:00:16.000The rise in mental health problems is worse in the West than elsewhere in the world, reflecting the cultural specificity of mental illness.
01:00:22.000In a recent article for the Wall Street Journal, Greenfield says, the more a society is dedicated to the value of equality, the more choices it offers for individual self-determination, the higher its rates of functional mental illness.
01:00:32.000Equality inevitably makes self-definition a matter of one's own choice.
01:00:35.000The formation of personal identity becomes a personal responsibility, a burden some people can't shoulder.
01:00:39.000And you know who can't shoulder that burden?
01:00:46.000That is why they are targeting children.
01:00:48.000And anybody, by the way, who tries to cram this down on children is committing a sin.
01:00:56.000One of the pieces of data that the left likes to cite all the time with regards to this sort of stuff is the idea, and it's not data, that if you give puberty blockers to children, that this somehow is going to make their lives better.
01:01:05.000Cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, is it going to make everything better?
01:01:08.000Well, as it turns out, there's a brand new study from Heritage Foundation, Professor Jay Green, There's a senior research fellow at the Center for Education Policy, and he finds that actually lowering the legal barriers to make it easier for minors to undergo cross-sex medical interventions without parental consent does not reduce suicide rates, at least to higher rates of suicide among young people in states that adopt these changes.
01:01:29.000Confuse kids, and then give them the means to screw themselves up, and they will take it.
01:01:33.000None of this is surprising, but you know what the media's angry at?
01:01:36.000The media's angry at anybody who mentions this stuff, or at anybody who even offers the option to kids to get involved in societal institutions that have proved their worth over the course of centuries.
01:01:45.000Which is why, for example, Sports Illustrated, which used to be a sports magazine and now is actually just a left-wing propaganda outlet that sometimes covers sports, They put out a cover of a coach named Joe Kennedy.
01:02:04.000You can't kneel for prayer at a public school.
01:02:06.000He kneeled for prayer after the games and some, and he didn't force any of the kids to join him.
01:02:10.000And some of the kids came and joined him, even kids from the other teams.
01:02:14.000And so the school district decided to fire him and he sued.
01:02:17.000So, again, prayer in schools was allowed in the United States, like, as a matter of course, for the vast majority of American history.
01:02:25.000But this wasn't even prayer really in school.
01:02:27.000This was after the game, he would kneel.
01:02:29.000And then he was fired for that great crime.
01:02:31.000So Sports Illustrated put out a tweet.
01:02:33.000At a prayer in court, SCOTUS will soon rule on the case of a public school football coach who wants to pray on field after games.
01:02:38.000After games, Greg Bishop on Joe Kennedy, the machine backing him, and the expected result, a win for Kennedy and an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy.
01:02:47.000See, according to the left, it is a bedrock of American democracy that we must not, we must not allow children to engage with any of the important things in American life.
01:02:57.000That is a bedrock of American democracy.
01:02:59.000In fact, we must cram down an alternative point of view.
01:03:02.000There is no such thing when it comes to the education of children as value neutrality.
01:03:05.000People on the right who believes that there is, they're wrong.
01:03:07.000There's no value neutrality in the education of children.
01:03:10.000The best you can do with regard to value neutrality, meaning we just put you there and you learn what you need to know, is if you actually restricted what was taught to reading, writing, math.
01:03:19.000But so long as we are teaching anything remotely resembling values in the classroom, somebody is going to win and somebody is going to lose.
01:03:24.000And right now, the people who are winning in the culture, in the educational system, in corporate America, the people who are winning are the people who seek to confuse and destroy your kids.
01:03:32.000Those are the people who are on the ascendance in American society.
01:03:38.000I mean, if you think that the rates of suicidal ideation have skyrocketed in the past couple of years, wait about five years.
01:03:44.000Wait about five years when TikTok generation comes of age.
01:03:48.000As those kids get older, the amount that those kids are going to be screwed up will be beyond... I mean, this is not just a suicidal culture that we are currently engaged in.
01:03:55.000A culture where, again, you are expected to provide a defense of age-old, historic, proved, tried-and-true institutions.
01:04:03.000But nobody has to defend the idea that a boy can be a girl and you should pump cross-sex hormones into kids without parental consent.
01:04:09.000That is a society that promotes suicide on the individual level.
01:04:12.000But not only is it that kind of society, it's a society that does not want to survive.
01:04:16.000This is a society in which we have basically decided that we are at the end of time.
01:04:20.000And at the end of time lies a brave new world in which people are specifically devoted to genital pleasure above all else and the pleasure that comes from the celebration of your identity which can be shifting and movable and completely fluid from day to day.
01:04:35.000And that identity is more important than the success of the civilization or the continuation of the civilization.
01:04:39.000And after all, if there is no next generation, well, at least we'll have a big party at the end of this one.
01:04:44.000And then, you know, whatever happens next, the earth will go back to the animals and the earth will grow green again and everything will be better.
01:04:52.000And then there are those people who want to actually have humanity and important Western civilizations continue into the future.
01:04:58.000Those are people who actually believe in all the rules, rules and necessities that kids need in order to live healthy and functional lives.
01:05:04.000And they have to be opposing this garbage with every fiber of their being.
01:05:08.000All right, we'll be back here later today with more content.
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