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00:01:51.000Well, we have reached the point now where the entire leftist program is performative outrage.
00:01:56.000It's performative outrage all the way, even at things that actually they should not only not be outraged by, they should actually be on the side of.
00:02:04.000So as today's example, I give you this raid by ICE at a large pot farm in Southern California.
00:02:11.000So according to the New York Times, federal agents raided a large cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, clashing with protesters and arresting multiple people.
00:02:19.000Okay, so that sounds like these are just normal people.
00:02:22.000Sure, they're illegal immigrants, but they're picking the pot that America needs.
00:02:25.000First of all, let's point out they're not raiding a tomato farm.
00:02:30.000A pot actually is quite a damaging product on the American market.
00:02:33.000And if you don't believe me, visit LA, visit Denver, visit any major American city where cannabis has become recreationally heavy.
00:02:41.000Footage taken by local news media from helicopters showed the agents firing tear gas and crowd control munitions during the operation in Camarillo, California.
00:02:49.000The agents were executing criminal search warrants, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:55.000So what exactly were they doing there?
00:02:56.000Well, Rodney Scott, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said on social media, 10 juveniles, eight of them unaccompanied, were found at one of the facilities raided on Thursday.
00:03:05.000All of them were in the country illegally.
00:03:07.000So this would have been illegal underage labor.
00:03:10.000This was a pot farm using illegal underage labor.
00:03:12.000It's hard to think of a place that is more deserving, actually, of a federal law enforcement raid than a pot farm that is engaging in illegal underage labor.
00:03:21.000I mean, seriously, like pick a place of work in America that deserves a raid more than that one.
00:03:27.000Not a granary, not a normal vegetable farm.
00:03:32.000We're talking about a cannabis farm that produces what is still a federally illegal drug and does so with illegal child labor.
00:03:46.000So the protesters showed up because they heard that ICE was showing up.
00:03:49.000And basically, this is the way that things now work.
00:03:51.000If ICE shows up at a place, the protesters get together and decide that they're going to then obstruct ICE from doing its job.
00:03:58.000So here is some of the video of some of these pathetic folks trying to obstruct an ICE vehicle.
00:04:05.000This is happening at Wood and Laguna, and you now see the military vehicles advancing despite those protesters trying to make a stance and trying to stop the military vehicle from continuing on.
00:04:46.000But it wasn't just idiots who showed up with Mexican flags trying to poke at the tires of ICE vehicles.
00:04:51.000It was also at least one person who showed up with a gun and then actually fired at an ICE agent is what it appears to be in this particular video.
00:05:11.000It was a really chaotic scene at the time.
00:05:13.000A lot of smoke was being launched at the protesters.
00:05:16.000And again, it appears a protester fired back with that weapon.
00:05:19.000It looks like he fired at least a couple of times.
00:05:22.000We have not heard about any agents being hurt.
00:05:27.000Okay, so you are no longer a protester.
00:05:29.000You are now an attempted murderer if you fire a gun at a federal agent.
00:05:33.000I mean, and treating this as though this is sort of normie protest, of course, is untrue.
00:05:39.000Well, the video that was then put out and went viral on social media was not the video of the so-called protester shooting a gun or the idiots who are attempting to stop an ICE vehicle using flagpoles.
00:05:50.000It was children protesters running from tear gas because it turns out that ICE fired some tear gas in order to disperse the crowd so they could get the job done of raiding the pot farm using the illegal immigrant child labor.
00:06:28.000These are not people who are all getting arrested Or being brutalized or something.
00:06:32.000When they say children are running away, number one, they should point out that some of the children who are running away were presumably brought there as protesters, because if they were there as child labor, the parents should be in jail.
00:06:42.000It's a violation of both federal and state law to use your small children as child labor at a cannabis farm.
00:06:50.000Again, we're talking about performative politics.
00:06:52.000This caused Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who desperately wants to run for president of the United States, to tweet out, quote, kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.
00:07:03.000Trump calls me new scum, but he's the real scum.
00:07:24.000I mean, that would be the real question.
00:07:26.000Why have you and the left incentivized parents to bring small children to protest immigration raids at a cannabis farm employing underage labor?
00:08:09.000The problem is that the numbers don't actually justify that.
00:08:13.000Right now, the Trump administration is actually not doing heavy removal.
00:08:17.000According to NBC News, ICE agents last month arrested the most people in at least five years, but deportations are still lagging far behind what President Trump has promised, and even those in the Obama administration, according to data obtained by NBC News.
00:08:30.000The discrepancy between arrests and deportations highlights the challenges the Trump administration faces to make good on President Trump's inauguration day vow to deport millions and millions of illegal immigrants.
00:08:41.000According to ICE data, the agents arrested roughly 30,000 immigrants last month.
00:08:45.000The most since monthly data was made publicly available in November 2020.
00:08:48.000By the way, I love how NBC News, I'm adding the word illegal here, NBC News just calls them immigrants.
00:08:54.000Quote, according to ICE data, its agents arrested roughly 30,000 immigrants last month.
00:08:59.000Well, why would they be able to just arrest immigrants?
00:09:02.000If you're a legal immigrant, the administration is not going to and cannot arrest you.
00:09:06.000You have to have violated the law in some way that calls for your deportation in order for them to pursue the arrest.
00:09:11.000So they're just obscuring the actual story by ignoring the actual story in the media.
00:09:17.000This entire article just refers to everyone being arrested as an immigrant, not even undocumented, not even kind of the mushwords that they like to use.
00:09:25.000The number of immigrants deported in June, illegal immigrants, more than 18,000 amounts to roughly half the number of arrests, according to internal figures obtained by NBC News.
00:09:35.000So again, this kind of idea that ICE is going around and then randomly arresting mass numbers of illegal immigrants at church, for example.
00:09:44.000There's pretty much no evidence that that is happening at the moment.
00:09:48.000In fact, there's so little evidence that that is happening that many in the MAGA base are quite upset with President Trump because they believe that he might amnesty farm workers.
00:09:56.000President Trump has mentioned the idea of providing some sort of temporary shield for illegal immigrant farm workers and hospitality workers, people working in hotels, for example.
00:10:08.000He's insisted there will be no amnesty, but also suggested that some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers take responsibility for them.
00:10:15.000He said, what we're doing is getting rid of criminals, but we are doing a work program.
00:10:19.000He said at a cabinet meeting this week.
00:10:21.000So again, the policy that the media are saying that Trump is pursuing is not actually the policy that he is pursuing.
00:10:28.000But because the media are fibbing about the actual policy, and because there are people on social media who are able to blow those fibs up into full-fledged stories, because of that, you end up with violence against ICE agents, people showing up en masse to stop what are clearly legitimate law enforcement raids.
00:10:44.000People are telling lies about ICE all the time.
00:10:46.000Here, for example, is the acting ICE director, Todd Lyons, who points out that Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, who keeps claiming that members of ICE aren't showing ID, he's like, that's false.
00:11:22.000It's why the violence against ICE agents is dramatically up.
00:11:25.000Because when you retail false narratives about any entity, like truly false narratives about any entity, you are raising the temperature with regards to that entity and the people who staff it.
00:11:34.000And that is particularly true with regard to ICE.
00:11:38.000And again, this is the sort of false narrative that is being retailed by the entire media.
00:11:42.000So there's been a lot of coverage, for example, of Alligator Alcatraz, right?
00:11:45.000That, of course, is the holding facility for criminal illegal immigrants in Florida.
00:11:49.000And the suggestion is that basically the Trump administration and the state of Florida have decided to take normal illegal immigrant farm workers, drag them out to the Everglades, and toss them in with the alligators for dinner, which, of course, is not what is happening.
00:12:03.000What you have is a runway that is sometimes used by law enforcement that's being converted into a temporary holding facility with air-conditioned vehicles there, big trailers that people are being held in.
00:12:17.000Well, the media are suggesting that, again, it's Abuela.
00:12:20.000The reality is that it probably is not Abuela.
00:12:23.000Bill Malugan, reporting for Fox News, points out that the people being held at Allegator Alcatraz include multiple murderers, including a Cuban man who slit the throat of an elderly woman in Florida and set her house on fire, a Venezuelan alien wanted for murder and aggravated robbery in Venezuela, a Honduran MS-13 gang member known as Satan, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in New York, and a Cuban alien convicted of sexual assault in Texas.
00:12:49.000Jeremy Redfern, who's the attorney general of Florida's communications director, said, the left-wing press continues to spend their time amplifying false reports.
00:12:56.000The reality is there are monsters awaiting deportation within Alligator Alcatraz, far worse than the monsters lurking in the surrounding Everglades.
00:13:03.000This group of murderers, rapists, and gang members are just a small sample of the deranged psychopaths that Florida is helping President Trump and his administration remove from our country.
00:13:12.000Hey, well, I mean, that all sounds reasonable to me, but that is not the way that the story is being told.
00:13:17.000That is not the way that the story is being told at all.
00:13:20.000And again, the performative outrage is the entire shtick here.
00:13:23.000For the left, it's all performative outrage.
00:13:25.000Can you find a point of opposition to President Trump that allows you to push back?
00:13:30.000Because frankly, the left has been relegated to really terrible arguments with regard to President Trump.
00:13:35.000President Trump's policies thus far have been extraordinarily effective.
00:13:39.000Even the policies I don't particularly like, like his tariff policies, he has mostly backed off a lot of those tariff policies and is now trying to massage those into something more palatable to the economy.
00:13:48.000Overall, this has been a highly successful first several months of the Trump second term.
00:13:53.000So the Democrats, the left, is now relegated to more and more ridiculous, performative resistance.
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00:16:37.000Here I should mention, I think, the most ridiculous performative resistance.
00:16:41.000And that is a piece in the Washington Post titled, Donald Trump is Not a Clown.
00:16:50.000That's an actual, real piece in the Washington Post.
00:16:54.000Tim Cunningham, board president of Clowns Without Borders, wrote this piece.
00:17:00.000Quote, allegations that President Trump is a clownish figure are not hard to come by.
00:17:04.000Political strategist James Carville referred to Trump's administration as the clown show after Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam gave an incorrect definition of habeas corpus during a Senate hearing.
00:17:14.000But none of this qualifies Trump for such a title.
00:17:17.000I am a clown and board president of the nonprofit Clowns Without Borders, and I'm here to set the record straight.
00:17:28.000Oh my gosh, this is what they're relegated to.
00:17:30.000They're relegated to Trump isn't the clown because real clowns make children laugh.
00:17:35.000Quote, I have performed as a professional clown for 24 years.
00:17:38.000Clown, capital C, is a valuable and varied art form.
00:17:41.000Pantomimes, acrobats, magicians, dancers, Santa comedians, vaudeville artists, and jugglers are all examples of artists who incorporate clown into their work.
00:17:49.000Whether you know it as clown or not, you've likely seen it.
00:17:51.000From stage clowns such as Bill Irwin to the characters of Cirque de Soleil, created by masters such as Michelle Matlock and Mookie Cornish, from pedagogical ensembles such as Pigiron or SpyMonkey to healthcare clown organizations such as Laughter League and Healthy Humor, clown is huge.
00:18:05.000Clown demands years, if not a lifetime, of study.
00:18:08.000And he just goes on talking about the magic of clown.
00:19:37.000Apparently, if she does run, according to the polling, she would be at the forefront of likely Democratic voters' preferences in the race for that U.S. Senate seat in Texas.
00:19:47.000Now, we'll get to the Republican response in Texas, which is a bit of a mess in terms of who is running.
00:19:51.000It should be John Cornyn, who is the current senator.
00:19:53.000Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general of the state of Texas, also would like to run, but he has a bunch of skeletons in his closet.
00:20:01.000In any case, Crockett led with 35% support among surveyed Democratic voters ahead of Colin Allred, who you remember ran for Senate against Ted Cruz and lost.
00:21:58.000But again, this is the entire shtick for the Democratic Party.
00:22:00.000The more performative you are, the more you are beloved.
00:22:03.000I'm not going to pretend this doesn't exist in the Republican Party too, but there are some forces pushing back in the Republican Party.
00:22:08.000I see zero forces of any weight or size pushing back against this in the Democratic Party.
00:22:13.000It's a disaster area for them and for the country because the Democratic Party is a major party, which means if these performative schmucks ever gain power, what comes next for the country is truly horrifyingly ugly.
00:22:25.000Speaking of which, over in New York, there's new polling out surrounding the mayoral race.
00:22:30.000Democratic nominee Zoran Montani, the socialist jihad-friendly candidate of New York.
00:22:36.000I say jihad-friendly because he literally rapped about wanting to release the Holy Land Five who were put in jail for funding Hamas.
00:22:44.000So that is said with full understanding of what that means.
00:22:48.000He holds a 10-point lead right now in the New York City general election for mayor.
00:22:52.000Now, it is important to recognize here that he's at 35%.
00:23:22.000Adams is at 11%, which means that if you combine the support of Cuomo Sliwa and Adams, right, everybody who is not Momdani here, you are talking about a 50 to 35 race against Momdani.
00:23:34.000So apparently one-third of the voters in New York support Momdani in New York City.
00:23:39.000And the other two-thirds are like, not so much.
00:23:41.00013% of respondents said they weren't sure.
00:23:44.000If you say you're not sure about Momdani, hard to read that.
00:23:48.000Could mean that there's some shy Momdani voters, people who actually want to vote for him, but don't want to say so out loud.
00:23:52.000Could be that people don't want to say they don't want to vote for Momdani because they're afraid of being labeled Islamophobic or whatever.
00:23:57.000Eric Adams should not be the consolidation candidate.
00:24:50.000And as far as Curtis, Curtis should look for a position within the administration of somebody else because, again, he is not going to be the next mayor of New York.
00:24:59.000He'd be a great mayor of New York, but it's not going to happen.
00:25:03.000Adams trails Mamdani and Cuomo among even black voters.
00:25:07.000Momdani currently leads at 35, followed by Cuomo at 32, Adams at 14, and Slibwa at 3.
00:25:13.000So, again, it is possible to stop Mamdani, but not within the Democratic Party.
00:25:19.000The Democratic Party is perfectly fine with Mamdani.
00:25:22.000Again, they are constantly doing this thing in the Democratic Party where they find the craziest members of their caucus, and then they pat them on the head, they hug them close, and they try to use them as jet fuel.
00:25:31.000They never seem to understand that when you feed the revolutionaries, eventually you're first to the guillotine.
00:25:36.000That feeding AOC didn't lead to AOC becoming mainstream.
00:25:40.000It led to AOC's radical philosophy becoming mainstream, and now she's endangering Chuck Schumer in a Senate race in New York.
00:26:34.000To what extent of my personal material gains am I willing to sacrifice for this bigger noble cause?
00:26:43.000And subhanAllah, I truly believe that when your heart is in the right place, if you get suspended, if you get doxed because it's bound to happen when you're doing a righteous cause and when you're doing something for the sake of Allah here in the West, it will never ever be in vain.
00:26:58.000And the true believer does not fear that because the true believer knows that the akhira is a promise.
00:27:03.000And the true believer knows that none of this is in vain, that this is all jihad, that this is all ibadah, and that this is all counted for by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:27:13.000And so the conversation of doxing, the conversation of getting arrested and suspended, I think it's time for Muslims to start to say, all right, all right, so what?
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00:30:36.000He says that, you know, Mamdani's refusal to condemn globalized the Intifada, that's fine.
00:30:40.000We're a Big Ten party, a Big Ten party that includes people who, you know, like Hamas and also people who only sort of like Hamas.
00:30:49.000There's no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you.
00:30:54.000There's things that I don't agree with Mom Dani that he said.
00:30:58.000But at the end of the day, I always believe as a Democratic Party chair in Minnesota for the last 14 years and now the chair of the DNC that you win through addition.
00:31:06.000You win by bringing people into your coalition.
00:31:09.000We have conservative Democrats, we have centrist Democrats, we have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftists.
00:31:18.000And we win by bringing people into that coalition.
00:31:21.000And at the end of the day, for me, that's the type of party we're going to lead.
00:31:26.000Yes, it leads to dissent and debate, and there's differences of opinions on a whole host of issues, but we should celebrate that as a party and recognize at the end of the day, we're better because of it.
00:31:38.000Well, they're better because they have people who are kind of warm toward jihad in their party, obviously.
00:31:43.000I mean, that obviously is what makes a party stronger.
00:31:46.000See, this sort of idea, and it exists, I will say, across the political spectrum, that the big tent is bigger than the small tent.
00:31:52.000Well, Grover Norquist once said, the problem with the big tent is you let in a lot of clowns.
00:31:56.000You know, I don't mean to, you know, again, bring up the clown, offend clown guy, but the problem with a big tent is that you have to have some limits to who you let in your tent.
00:32:06.000Otherwise, you let in some pretty evil people into your tent.
00:32:08.000And that's what the DNC is doing right now.
00:32:12.000The Democratic Party is studiously avoiding the consequences of bringing in people who believe, like Zora Mamdani believes, into the Democratic Party.
00:32:19.000Hakeem Jeffries is too much of a coward to even answer questions about Zora Mamdani.
00:32:23.000Here he was, avoiding the question the other day.
00:32:27.000Asked whether Mamdani thinks those House incumbent challenges should happen.
00:32:32.000His press secretary told CNN he was declining to comment, at least for now.
00:32:39.000I have no idea what these people are talking about.
00:32:41.000We are going to continue to focus our efforts as we did on the House floor in connection with Donald Trump's one big ugly bill on pushing back against the extremism that has been unleashed on the American people.
00:32:55.000It's clear to us as House Democrats, it's clear to us as members of the New York City delegation that the problem is Donald Trump and House Republicans who have launched this unprecedented assault on the American way of life, an assault on health care.
00:33:09.000They're ripping food out of the mouths of children, veterans, and seniors.
00:33:15.000They're unleashing mass agents on law-abiding immigrant communities.
00:33:20.000It shouldn't be too difficult for some people to figure out who the problem is in the United States of America.
00:33:29.000I noticed that you avoided the question, sir.
00:33:32.000Meanwhile, the other Democrats, you know, good-hearted Democrats, people like Richie Torres, right, Democratic representative from New York, he is trying to defend his party from the predations of Momdani.
00:34:32.000And the fact is, there is a generation of young voters who are struggling with the crushing cost of housing and higher education and health care and who want to hear candidates speak to their anxieties about the affordability crisis.
00:34:45.000And so that, to me, is the greatest lesson learned is that we as Democrats have to create an agenda that speaks to the affordability crisis.
00:34:58.000And even if he ran on those things, shouldn't the Democratic Party be like, okay, so you're right about affordability, but you're wrong about Hamas?
00:35:05.000But the Democratic Party can never seem to do that.
00:35:08.000Scott Jennings of CNN made that point to you, Richie Torres, saying, like, the people who are attacking you are attacking you because you support Israel.
00:35:15.000Are you being honest when you say you don't know why they're targeting you?
00:36:16.000Well, there are a few Democrats who are attempting to fight back against this, but they are in short supply and they are being ripped up by their own party.
00:36:22.000So John Fetterman, the senator from Pennsylvania, is a great example of this.
00:36:25.000Apparently, the only last reasonable Democrat in the Senate, or at least one of the very few.
00:36:30.000And basically, the Democrats turned on him not when they believed that he actually had a serious issue, a serious brain issue when he was first elected.
00:36:37.000They turned on him when it turned out that he wasn't a full-scale nut job in line with poo-pooing Zar Mamdani and company.
00:36:44.000Here's John Fetterman saying Mamdani isn't even a Democrat.
00:37:11.000But again, this puts him on the outs with his own party, which is trying to make nice with Mom Dani.
00:37:16.000Because again, every legit party always tries to make peace with its revolutionaries, and then the revolutionaries end up eating them.
00:37:23.000Now, there's sort of a last-ditch effort to try and get somebody to drop out.
00:37:26.000Nobody's dropping out of the New York race right now.
00:37:29.000Some of New York's wealthiest financiers, according to the Wall Street Journal, are trying to build out a network of outside groups planning to go to war against Mom Dani.
00:37:34.000But unless there is some sort of consolidation around somebody who is not Mom Dani, the vote's going to get split and Mom Dani is going to end up being the mayor of New York.
00:37:43.000So they're trying to raise $20 million for this sort of thing.
00:37:46.000And I don't think that that is going to be the key factor.
00:37:50.000Negative campaigning will work against Mom Dani if people have an alternative.
00:37:53.000But if there are several alternatives and nobody likes any of them, then that is going to be a major, major problem.
00:37:58.000But again, speaking of the Democratic Party, what is the sort of jet fuel for the Democratic Party?
00:38:03.000The jet fuel is an unending victim ideology, an unending sense of perennial victimhood.
00:38:09.000No matter how successful you are, you are a victim.
00:38:11.000And if you're not a victim, you're speaking on behalf of the victimized.
00:38:15.000And this is, again, why you see the coalitional scavengers.
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00:38:25.000When you're talking about the scavengers, the people who spend their lives complaining about how rough they have it and how rough everybody has it, who's a member of a quote-unquote marginalized community while they sit there in their air-conditioned studios being worth tens of millions of dollars.
00:38:39.000These are the people that we are talking about.
00:38:41.000Because frequently, the people who lead revolutions are not, in fact, the people who grow up dirt poor, come from nothing.
00:38:50.000The people who tend to lead revolutions are generally somewhat privileged members of the middle or upper middle class who then rise to fame and fortune on the back Of complaining about their societies.
00:39:02.000This is true of pretty much every revolutionary, every serious revolutionary in modern history.
00:39:07.000It doesn't come from the people who are the poorest.
00:39:09.000It's a point made by the philosopher Eric Hoffer.
00:39:13.000But Michelle Obama is just a beautiful example of this.
00:39:16.000So, Michelle Obama did not grow up dirt poor.
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00:42:13.000It just it's it's so rough being Michelle Obama.
00:42:17.000Women, we have so many landmines and barriers and don'ts and limitations.
00:42:26.000It's, you know, I mean, Craig, you're the guy at the table, but I think it's important for all guys listening, especially men raising daughters, to realize that difference, you know, and that thing that inadvertently, as you are loving and raising these beautiful girls, there are so many rules that make us small.
00:43:01.000In fact, Michelle Obama is very, by the way, she's talking with Julia Louis Dreyfus, you know, like the very, very famous and wealthy actress, complaining about how rough life is for women in a beautifully turned out studio drinking from porcelain mugs.
00:43:17.000Here she was talking about how she doesn't have the certainty of maleness.
00:43:20.000Women don't have the certainty of maleness.
00:43:25.000We're always hedging, you know, because in the back of our minds, we weren't raised with the certainty of maleness that, you know, kind of the confidence that young men in their 30s have, which they haven't earned.
00:43:57.000Men face such great certainty as opposed to women who face tremendous uncertainty.
00:44:02.000Okay, so I asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity a couple of easy questions.
00:44:07.000What percentage of women versus men graduate from college and from graduate school?
00:44:10.000Who is more likely to die young, men or women?
00:44:14.000Answer, women are more likely than men to graduate from college in the United States.
00:44:17.000In 2024, the six-year graduation rate for women at four-year colleges was 67% compared to 60% for men.
00:44:24.000Among adults aged 25 to 34, 47% of women have a bachelor's degree compared to 37% of men.
00:44:31.000The gender gap is consistent across all major racial and ethnic groups.
00:44:35.000Women also outpace men in graduate study completion.
00:44:38.000Women earn about 54 to 56% of all doctoral degrees and 62 to 67% of all master's degrees.
00:44:45.000Who is likely to die young, men or women?
00:44:47.000In the United States, life expectancy for men is about five to six years shorter than for women.
00:44:52.000A larger percentage of men die before age 65 compared to women.
00:44:55.00031% of men who died in 2023 were under 65 versus only 19% of women.
00:45:01.000Men have a higher mortality rate from nearly all major causes of death, including accidents, heart disease, suicide, and drug overdoses.
00:45:10.000So when we're talking about women don't have the certainty of maleness, if by this you mean testosterone gives people a greater feeling of risk-taking, that of course is true, but that's a biological rationale.
00:45:35.000Or is that just the way that human biology works?
00:45:38.000Like, if you feel less certain, is that because society is mean to you specifically, or is that because reality dictates that the hormones that you have in your body are making you less aggressive than that heavily muscled dude down the hallway who works out twice a day and eats nothing but red meat?
00:45:53.000Like that biology has something to do with this, but again, this idea is that you're victimized, you're victimized.
00:45:58.000And the reason Michelle Obama is talking about this is not because she believes that you're victimized by biology.
00:46:03.000She believes that you are victimized by the deep-rooted evil of American society that somehow makes women less than, that somehow throws obstacles in the way of women.
00:46:13.000Now, never in human history has there been a group of women as privileged as American women in 2025.
00:46:19.000Again, you can make the argument that men had it better than women do in 2025 100 years ago.
00:46:26.000But the argument that women of today are the deeply suffering class in American society is not statistically true.
00:46:35.000That is not to denigrate the struggles of any specific woman.
00:46:38.000It is not to denigrate the fact that women have to make life choices that men don't have to make because of their biology, including when to have kids, when not to have kids, how to balance career and kids.
00:47:24.000By the way, we'll still mention that abortion on demand is available in New York and California, for example, and Massachusetts and a wide variety of other states across the country.
00:47:32.000But this perennial victimhood ideology spreads out beyond the boundaries of just womanhood.
00:47:36.000You hear it with regard to DEI sort of, it's about blackness or brownness or gayness or whatever the subgroup may be.
00:47:45.000You declare yourself a member of a marginalized community, and then you suggest the entire superstructure of power is designed in order to put you down.
00:47:51.000And then you can join with all the other people who consider themselves marginalized in order to tear down the system.
00:47:58.000It's a point J.D. Vance made beautifully the other day at the Claremont Institute.
00:48:02.000When you have a consolidated group of people who disagree with each other on pretty much everything, except the idea that the system must be torn out by its roots, this is what you end up with.
00:48:14.000Supposedly, Mahmoud Khalil is a victim.
00:48:17.000Mahmoud Khalil is, of course, the person who basically immigrated to the United States in order to become a protest leader on behalf of terrorism.
00:48:25.000And then the federal government arrested him and was going to deport him because of his associations and deep involvement with the violent Colombia protests.
00:48:37.000And then a federal judge ordered him freed.
00:48:38.000And now he's suggesting that he wants to sue the federal government for $20 million in damage.
00:48:43.000They're alleging that he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as an anti-Semite.
00:48:48.000I'm afraid that you were not smeared, my friend.
00:48:50.000All you did was hang out and stand for a group that promotes the most vicious anti-Semitism in American life.
00:48:59.000Well, here is Mahmoud Khalil, again, victim of American society.
00:49:04.000Today, we filed for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration because of the unconstitutional and unlawful arrest and all these conditions that I was put under.
00:49:21.000It's clear to me it's either the $20 million or an official apology from the administration.
00:49:26.000Because ultimately, my goal is not self-enrichment.
00:49:30.000I don't want this money just because I need money.
00:49:33.000What I want is actually accountability, real accountability.
00:49:36.000So if President Trump apologized, would you accept that?
00:49:40.000If it's a formal apology that, of course, would reverse his fascist agenda, then definitely I would accept that.
00:49:51.000Now, again, this idea that he is some sort of moderate immigrant to the United States who just wishes to live the American life.
00:49:57.000He's a victim, just like everybody else.
00:49:59.000We should not import people who believe that they are part of a gigantic coalition of victims directed at tearing down Western institutions.
00:50:07.000But this is why the left is in favor of illegal immigrant child labor at pot farms in California over ICE.
00:50:16.000This is why they are in favor of Zoran Mamdani over even what used to be a mainstream Democrat.
00:50:22.000This is why, because of all of this, because of all of this.
00:50:25.000Now, how are Republicans responding to this sort of stuff?
00:50:29.000Well, President Trump has responded by actually pursuing a wide variety of successful policies.
00:50:34.000However, polarization is a two-party game.
00:50:37.000And one of the things that's happening in terms of our performative social media-driven politics is that if the left comes up with performative politicians and figures, then so does the right.
00:50:46.000And that performative politics is now making its way to the Texas Senate race.
00:50:52.000So Ken Paxton, who takes an awful lot of very loud positions as the attorney general of the state of Texas, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't.
00:51:04.000Ken Paxton wants to run for the Senate in Texas in a primary against John Cornyn.
00:51:10.000Well, that dude has a lot of skeletons and a lot of baggage, as we've talked about.
00:51:14.000Some of that baggage includes an impeachment in the Texas House.
00:51:18.000An impeachment in the Texas House on charges of corruption, in which he was effectively alleged to have directed government monies toward particular sources who are then providing employment for a woman, not his wife, with whom he was having an affair, for example.
00:51:37.000And there are some other allegations surrounding Ken Paxton.
00:51:40.000Ken Paxton is significantly less likely to win a general election than John Cornyn is in the state of Texas.
00:51:45.000And Republicans cannot afford to lose Senate seats at this point.
00:51:48.000They have a very narrow majority as it is.
00:51:50.000Well, yesterday, Angela Paxton, his wife, who is a Texas state senator herself, announced that she had filed for divorce from Ken Paxton.
00:51:58.000Quote, today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.
00:52:02.000On biblical grounds, the euphemism for he's committing adultery.
00:52:05.000I believe marriage is a sacred covenant, and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation.
00:52:08.000But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or ken to remain in the marriage.
00:52:13.000I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.
00:52:21.000He then released his own statement, pointing blame at countless political attacks and public scrutiny.
00:52:28.000Now, again, he was impeached for corruption allegations in the Texas House of Representatives, accused of using his position to help a real estate developer who allegedly was providing work to a girl who he was having an affair with.
00:52:41.000So again, this sort of stuff, is this where Republicans want to go?
00:52:45.000How many Republican Senate seats have now been lost to bad Republican Senate candidates?
00:53:02.000Those are both states that Donald Trump won running away in the last election cycle.
00:53:06.000And both states have two Democratic senators because Republicans keep running idiots for these various seats.
00:53:11.000Or people who at least are not able to translate their appeal to the base into a general election appeal.
00:53:18.000So my guidance for the Republican Party, at some point, put your foot down and actually say who can win.
00:53:26.000See, I like winners, not losers, as the president might say.
00:53:30.000And I'm fond of actually achieving policy goals rather than the performative.
00:53:35.000Well, folks, we do have some exciting news here at Daily Wire Plus, a brand new documentary titled Journey to the UFC.
00:53:41.000It's the true story of Joe Pfeiffer, who went from an abusive home and living on the streets to breaking bones, breaking odds, earning a UFC contract the hard way.
00:53:48.000That documentary, Journey to the UFC, premieres July 25th on Daily Wire Plus.
00:53:53.000And Joe Pfeiffer joins us on the line right now.
00:53:56.000He's racked up to 14-3 pro record with nine wins by knockout, three by submission.
00:54:00.000And again, he's subject of that new Daily Wire documentary, Journey to the UFC.
00:54:04.000Joe, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:54:44.000You know, no matter how bad my home situation had gotten, running away from home, dealing with abuse from an abusive father to, you know, still pursuing this, going into a wrestling career with high school, and then immediately fighting out of high school.
00:55:01.000And I think the testimony as to how big MMA is getting is simply because you are as hard as you work.
00:55:11.000Whatever your work ethic is, and no matter the circumstances of your life, as long as you put some effort into something that you're willing to get better at any time of the day, you can always turn your life around.
00:55:22.000So I would say that's what I've done with my career, avoiding a lot of the big details in your question.
00:55:28.000But yeah, I mean, I essentially fought back from circumstances I wasn't supposed to win against.
00:55:36.000Yeah, and I think that that is the key to the UFC's popularity is that in essence, it's a pure meritocracy.
00:55:42.000And it happens to be a sort of anti-woke meritocracy because Dana White has done a really good job of keeping himself out of the politics.
00:55:49.000He says, listen, I don't agree with much of the stuff that my fighters say.
00:55:51.000My fighters are fighters and they get to say what they want to say.
00:56:09.000Yeah, I mean, so my day will start out pretty early.
00:56:11.000I'll go and I'll hit a training session.
00:56:13.000And I train in Philadelphia at Marquez MMA, my lead coach being John Marquez.
00:56:17.000And we have some other really top UFC guys up there like Sean Brady, who's on his title run at 170.
00:56:25.000But yeah, I'll go, I'll hit a training session from 9 to about 11, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, go do it again.
00:56:33.000And in between that, sometimes we'll get a run or we'll get an Echo Bike workout, but that's six days a week.
00:56:40.000And then obviously diet, we count our macros, everything like that, especially, you know, I used to make fun of it because I usually did not like counting the things I was eating.
00:56:49.000I would eat healthy, but it really is at this level, man.
00:56:52.000If you want to make a real title run and you want to be one of the best in the world, you really have to do those extra tiny details, which is counting macros, going to sleep, you know, tracking your sleep, things of that matter.
00:57:15.000But, you know, it's all worth it, man.
00:57:17.000And to go back to what you were saying as far as like, I guess, a censorship with the UFC, it's why I also chose this sport.
00:57:24.000I'm a very blunt, outspoken person, and I like having the freedom of speech.
00:57:29.000There's been some things that I have said that they weren't happy with, but nonetheless, I still have a job and they keep me.
00:57:35.000But I will say this, what they didn't like, I understand, but I didn't tell a lie.
00:57:43.000So let's talk about what it means to young men that you have seen.
00:57:47.000So the left has sort of tried to portray UFC as the embodiment of toxic masculinity.
00:57:52.000I think not really understanding that what makes UFC popular among young men is that far from it being a sort of emblem of male uselessness, it actually is telling men that they ought to go out and achieve, that they actually ought to go out and do something.
00:58:05.000When you describe your daily schedule and the stuff that you're doing, that is, as you say, unbelievably hard work.
00:58:10.000I mean, that is stuff that the vast majority of humans can't do.
00:58:12.000And if you want to be the best at a thing, you really have to throw yourself into it and put yourself into a situation, a risky situation where you might even get hurt in order to achieve.
00:58:20.000What do you think is the connection between UFC and what young males, particularly young males who may have been sort of abandoned by the culture, are looking for?
00:58:28.000Yeah, I mean, I think they're looking for a Way to come up.
00:58:30.000I mean, there's a way to get paid while doing what you love.
00:58:33.000I mean, I don't think people understand that there's boxing training, there's wrestling training, there's jiu-jitsu training, there's strength and conditioning training.
00:58:40.000And if you are missing any of those, then you're probably not going to make it, right?
00:58:45.000So this isn't just for anybody to pick it up and go and make the UFC.
00:58:49.000You know, I tried to make the UFC and my elbow broke, things like that.
00:58:58.000I was taken in by my wrestling coach so I could be able to make it to this level.
00:59:03.000And so, you know, it's a relentless work ethic.
00:59:06.000And sometimes the margin for error at this level is so small, but even trying to get to this level is very, very difficult in itself.
00:59:15.000So for anybody that, you know, thinks that this is toxic masculinity, this is a sport like any other that you are going to train aimlessly to achieve perfection and you never will.
01:00:23.000So obviously on the heels of the Jeffrey Epstein non-revelation or quasi-revelation or the Jeffrey Epstein DOJ FBI letter that basically said no evidence that he was an intelligence agent, no evidence that there was a blackmail scheme, no evidence that he was trafficking young girls to third parties.
01:00:38.000And that was kind of the end of it, which is a very bad approach.
01:00:40.000Even if you believe the government when they say that, and again, I've laid out my reasons for believing that, including Dan Bongino is the person who's the deputy director of the FBI who's overseeing this case in large part.
01:00:53.000And I do think it would behoove many of the people who keep claiming that there's a conspiracy and that people in the Trump administration are lying to just say out loud what they actually want to say.
01:01:01.000If you want to say that the Trump administration is now complicit in a pedophile cover-up, that Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, and all the rest are actually now part of a child rape gang and covering up for it, or at least covering for it, or providing excuses for it, or using the mechanisms of law to let them off.
01:01:21.000If you want to say that, just say it out loud.
01:01:25.000You know, there are some people who will say it out loud, right?
01:01:27.000Nick Fuentes is of the world will just say it.
01:01:29.000Okay, well, at least he's being honest.
01:01:31.000There are a bunch of people who will simply imply it without just saying it because they're afraid of pissing off the Trump administration while effectively calling them publicly complicit in pedophilia.
01:01:39.000If you want to say it, just say the thing.
01:01:41.000Seriously, just say the thing and stand by the courage of your own convictions.
01:01:45.000In any case, Pam Boni has handled this just in a horrible fashion, building up and building up and building up expectations and then immediately cutting the legs out from underneath her own expectations without even a press conference.
01:01:56.000Pamboni has handled this just horribly.
01:01:58.000Somebody who's handling this sort of stuff better would be the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldon.
01:02:02.000So Lee Zeldon yesterday put out a video in which he said, listen, I understand that people have a lot of questions about geoengineering and contrails.
01:02:10.000And instead of just sort of hand-waving that away, you should go to our website.
01:02:13.000We've put together all the information.
01:02:39.000The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency.
01:02:43.000As a result, I tasked my team at EPA to compile a list of everything we know about contrails and geoengineering for the purpose of releasing it to you now publicly.
01:02:57.000That means anyone who reads through this information will know as much about these topics as I do as EPA administrator.
01:03:07.000And many people on the left were upset with Zeldin for putting this out.
01:03:10.000Oh, you're giving steam to the opposite.
01:03:12.000He is saying, listen, you have questions.
01:03:14.000Instead of just dismissing the questions, let me give you the answers to your questions.
01:03:17.000And when you go over to the EPA website, it legitimately lays out all the information that we have about everything on contrails and geoengineering.
01:04:01.000I think this is retailed like crap, but I don't think that that's what's happening here.
01:04:05.000I think what happened is a bunch of people who had the same suspicions that many of the people today who are crying conspiracy had until five minutes ago saw all the evidence, analyzed all the evidence, went through the videos that none of the speculators have seen, went through the documents that none of the speculators have seen, went through all the evidence that none of the speculators have seen, and then came to another conclusion.
01:04:23.000Because those are the only two possibilities.
01:04:25.000The two possibilities are that either they are now complicit in a cover-up of a child rape gang or they are telling the truth about what they found.
01:04:34.000But they should answer the questions anyway.
01:04:35.000Because again, public disclosure is a better strategy than sort of putting out a two-page memo and declaring the whole thing dead.
01:04:42.000And meanwhile, the Trump administration is still seeking a way forward with regard to Russia and Ukraine.
01:04:50.000Marco Rubio had a meeting yesterday in Malaysia with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
01:04:58.000He did convey the White House's disappointment and Frustration at the continuation of the war.
01:05:02.000After a 50-minute conversation with Lavrov, Rubio said he would tell President Trump about a new and different approach to peace talks that was raised in the meeting.
01:05:09.000Here's what the Secretary of State had to say.
01:05:13.000I would say that the overwhelming majority of defense of military aid that the United States provides Ukraine has never been paused and continues along the same schedules that it's been.
01:05:22.000I think there's a broader issue unrelated to the pause, and that involves the defense productive capabilities of the West, not just us, but of Europe as an example.
01:05:32.000He's saying we need to ramp up our own production.
01:05:34.000He also said we're going to send some more weapons.
01:05:35.000President Trump said, we'll send some more weapons.
01:05:37.000We have to, because they have to defend themselves.
01:05:39.000The question is whether this is just another Russian gambit to waste time.
01:05:43.000Until I see otherwise, I'm going to assume that's what it is, because again, the Russians have demonstrated no actual interest thus far in pursuing an end to this war at all.
01:05:53.000Well, the good news is that the U.S. is now taking the defense production problems fairly seriously.
01:05:59.000The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon is making a big investment in rare earth magnets, striking an unusual deal with a private sector company aimed at undercutting China's dominance.
01:06:08.000MP Materials, America's largest rare earths miner, said Thursday it has reached a deal under which the Defense Department will take a 15% stake in the company.
01:06:15.000The government is committed to spending billions of dollars investing in MP Materials and purchasing its output.
01:06:20.000The deal calls for MP Materials to build a new factory to make rare earth magnets at a scale that vastly exceeds current U.S. magnet production is expected to come online in 2028.
01:06:29.000The company's shares surged around 50% after the deal was announced.
01:06:33.000Now, do I love the idea of the Defense Department or the Pentagon directly owning firms?
01:06:37.000I'm not a big fan of this sort of activity generally.
01:06:40.000With that said, anything that ups our production of rare earth minerals and magnets, that is a national security issue at this point, like a major national security issue.
01:06:50.000And so anything that gets us off the Chinese supply chain is a worthwhile thing.
01:06:55.000A better alternative might be to simply sign a long-term guaranteed contract.
01:06:59.000I think one of the reasons that the Trump administration is doing this is because they are hopeful that if a Democrat ever takes over, if the government owns 15% of the company, they're going to fulfill their contracts.
01:07:09.000They just don't want the government walking this stuff back.
01:07:11.000In a deal with MP Materials, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Defense is guaranteeing a price floor for rare earth minerals and magnets.
01:07:17.000This means the company is protected against a scenario in which China fully withdraws its restrictive export policies and the minerals flood into the market, thus lowering global prices.
01:07:27.000The government will guarantee all magnets produced at the new magnet-making facility will be purchased either by the government or by commercial consumers.
01:07:35.000So, again, this is, I think, a smart move.
01:07:38.000I think it's necessary, unfortunately, because of where these rare earth minerals are mined and good for the Trump administration along these lines.
01:07:47.000Now, meanwhile, President Trump, the anniversary is coming up of the Butler assassination attempt against President Trump.
01:07:55.000On the back of that attempt, the government has now suspended six Secret Service agents without pay based on the attack last July.
01:08:03.000The disciplinary action took place in February, according to the Secret Service, which confirmed the news because the Senate report is set to be released any day now.
01:08:12.000No agents were fired because the entire agency failed, not just the specific agents in this particular case, but the agency came under heavy criticism as well.
01:08:18.000It should have, given the fact that there was a man lying on a roof, shooting a gun directly at the head of the next president and former president of the United States, and that they had not cleared the roof.
01:08:29.000Here is President Trump recalling what happened during the Butler assassination attempt.
01:09:03.000And so, again, it was a moment that changed American history forever because that bullet moves half an inch one way, and all of American history has changed in a much, much darker direction.