A young technologist known online as Big Balls has access to sensitive U.S. government systems, but his professional and online history calls into question whether he would pass a background check typically required to obtain a security clearance.
00:00:11.000And when I say the theater kid, I mean very specifically performative young people who cast aspersions at everyone who is older than they are, cast blame.
00:00:19.000Those people are tools of the Democratic Party.
00:00:50.000We can't allow them anywhere near the levers of power.
00:00:52.000This has come to a head today because the left has decided that the worst young people in existence work for Elon Musk's doge.
00:00:59.000And this has specifically become a central feature of the democratic angst because there is one young person in particular, a young technologist, who is being targeted by Wired Magazine and now the entire unified left.
00:01:48.000So you're doing genius things, but also you're doing super stupid things by calling yourself Big Balls on LinkedIn.
00:01:54.000Apparently, Wired is very angry about this.
00:01:56.000They had a report that says that a young technologist known online as Big Balls, who works for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has access to sensitive U.S. government systems.
00:02:04.000But his professional and online history call into question whether he would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances.
00:02:12.000Sure, that is the thing that I think people are deeply worried about is whether they would pass a security clearance, the kind of security clearance that for example, allowed Biden administration appointees to full on leak Israeli war plans to the press.
00:02:26.000Those security clearances have been doing a hell of a lot of work.
00:02:28.000They've been doing an amazing job over there.
00:02:30.000The engineers that Elon Musk has working for him, typically, are young and incredibly smart, which is why they work for Elon Musk.
00:02:38.000So, the six young men Who are sort of leading the charge are apparently all between the ages of 19 and 24. And this has been determined to be a very, very bad thing, again, by so many of the people on the left.
00:02:59.000First of all, the chyron is just wonderful.
00:03:01.000Quote, wired, doge teen, known online as big balls, now a government expert.
00:03:08.000First of all, government expertise, according to the left, is you went to...
00:03:11.000George Washington University, after majoring in African-American history, and now we call you a State Department expert.
00:03:18.000That is the way that you get appointed an expert, according to CNN. But because this young technologist, who apparently is kind of a genius, jokingly called himself Big Balls Online, the Democrats are very upset.
00:03:32.000Understand, Democrats only like Big Balls when they are on a purported woman.
00:03:36.000In any case, here are the CNN anchors just beside themselves over this revelation.
00:03:41.000So, Kara, you know, you hear this, and you have known Elon Musk for years.
00:03:46.000So now you look at these young men who are now in data and in the private information about maybe hundreds of millions of American citizens as young as 19, the big balls here that Katie's talking about.
00:04:07.000I think there's no vetting whatsoever, as you can see, that's taking place.
00:04:11.000It took Katie and the really great team.
00:04:12.000Wired has done an astonishing job here.
00:04:15.000You know, I could make a joke that's probably why he was hired, for all this ridiculous nonsense and other nefarious things.
00:04:21.000But, you know, there's an expression in technology that's a feature, not a bug.
00:04:28.000Well, this is your local HOA. Telling you that you're not allowed to put an American flag on your lawn on July 4th because it might be offensive to others.
00:04:36.000The media just losing it over big balls.
00:04:49.000And again, another very censorious hit.
00:04:51.000Remember, the things that are very offensive and upsetting to the left do not include, for example, men who get boob jobs and jiggle their bare breasts at the White House on the lawn.
00:05:27.000Honestly, the entire democratic approach to politics seems to be the meme from Arrested Development of Joe Bluth with his magician friends holding up a sign that says we demand to be taken seriously.
00:05:39.000But they need to be taken seriously, folks.
00:05:41.000These folks at MSNBC, Joy Reid is a serious person and she will not brook the idea of a young man who called himself online big balls cutting governmental waste programs.
00:05:57.000He has access to U.S. government systems.
00:05:59.000His professional and online history call into question whether he would even pass a background check typically required to obtain security clearances.
00:06:06.000Security experts tell Wired he runs something called Tesla.Sexy.
00:06:13.000He worked at a startup that hired convicted hackers.
00:06:16.000Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyber attack.
00:06:21.000And on his LinkedIn, and I apologize to the saints out there, and we know a lot of the saints listen to the show, he called himself Big B-A-L-L-S. I won't say the whole word, so I won't be vulgar.
00:06:33.000So Big B-A-L-L-S. Okay, as a person who's relatively famous for not reading full obscene lyrics on the air, I promise that Joy Reid has said words way worse than balls on her show before.
00:07:19.000So David Hogg is like the perfect example of this.
00:07:22.000David Hogg, or Stickman Hogg, as I will call him from now on, since he is both a stick figure of a person when it comes to his physical stature, as well as his intellectual representation of left-wing ideas.
00:07:34.000So David Hogg tweeted out, he's now the vice chair of the DNC, by the way, at the age of 24, based on his varied accomplishments, which include getting into Harvard with a low SAT score because he went to a school where a school shooting took place, not running a failed pillow company, and tweeting inane nonsense for years, while claiming that he was sort of immune from any criticism because, again, a school shooting took place at a school that he went to when he was in high school.
00:08:00.000He tweeted out, quote, Yeah, let's let a 19-year-old who goes by big balls handle the situation.
00:08:11.000And he's somehow the vice chair of the DNC. I will point out at this point, by the way, that the relative youth of technologists is in fact a hallmark of successful technologists.
00:08:23.000Charlie Cook, who is one of the editors over at National Review, he points out that...
00:08:27.000Page and Brin created Google at 24. Zuckerberg launched Facebook at 19. Steve Jobs started Apple at 21. It's kind of a hallmark of genius that it starts to be productive very, very early in life.
00:08:38.000It is a hallmark of Democratic children, their child heroes, that they are not productive.
00:08:44.000They don't do anything useful except yell at the adults.
00:08:46.000All they are are cuter versions of older Democrats at your HOA, which is why David Hogg became famous in the first place.
00:09:00.000He didn't have anything of value to say.
00:09:02.000But he was a young person who was yelling all the things Democrats wanted to hear.
00:09:06.000Here was David Hogg back in the day, and this is the reason why he is currently the vice chair, Stickman Hogg.
00:09:11.000He's currently the vice chair of the DNC. First off, I'm going to start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student's life in Florida.
00:09:26.000When people try to suppress your vote, and there are people who stand against you because you are too young, we say no more!
00:09:35.000When politicians say that your voice doesn't matter because the NRA owns them, we say no more!
00:09:45.000When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say no more!
00:09:53.000And to those politicians supported by the NRA that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say get your resumes ready.
00:10:24.000I know some of the former Parkland kids who are now adults.
00:10:27.000Many of them not real fans of David Hogg.
00:10:29.000In any case, that guy is now the vice chair of the DNC. He was championed by the left specifically because he was young and he never did anything.
00:10:38.000He just yelled the things they wanted to hear.
00:10:40.000This is why Greta Thunberg was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
00:10:43.000That moronic Swedish now woman who I can make fun of because she's over the age of 18. The rule is that you can't make fun of anybody under 18. She's well over 18 even if she dresses like she's under 18. And still wears around the pigtails and the braid and pretends that she is, you know, a child still.
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00:13:15.000I mean, ranging from shutdown capitalism, destroy it utterly, to root for Hamas.
00:13:21.000They nominated her for a Nobel Prize and told us she was a moral clarion voice because she yelled at the adults.
00:13:27.000These are the kinds of young people the Democrats want.
00:13:30.000Young people who yell at the adults without ever attempting to actually do anything productive.
00:13:34.000The productive kids who are out in the back room, you know, actually coding and figuring out how things work, and then using those powers in order to go through government waste and fraud if they call themselves big balls online.
00:13:46.000But if you are a 16-year-old Swedish child who drops out of high school to travel around yelling at adults about why capitalism is bad, then we give you the Nobel Prize, according to the left.
00:15:01.000You said this person is worthy of listening to with no skill set other than lecturing adults.
00:15:08.000So, yeah, I'm going to take it with a grain of salt.
00:15:10.000And when I say a grain, I mean like an ocean filled, like a dead sea filled with salt.
00:15:15.000I'm going to take with your recommendation that because a dude called himself big balls in a meme online, that that somehow makes him unable to go through government waste and fraud.
00:15:24.000Now, in the end, the truth is what Democrats really want is not just young people who are theater kids.
00:15:28.000They want that lifestyle extended over the entire course of adult life.
00:15:54.000Lori Pohutsky is 36, which in the old days would have put you squarely in sort of the lower middle-aged category.
00:16:01.000Lori Pohutsky announced yesterday that she had undergone surgery to ensure that you'd never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America and thus had sterilized herself.
00:16:14.000Perennial childhood, perennial lack of responsibility, and then blaming the system for it.
00:16:18.000Now, you might say to yourself, wait, hold up.
00:16:20.000You know, there are many things that human beings can do, it turns out, to avoid getting pregnant.
00:16:47.000It is 80-year-old Greta Thunbergs filling the Democratic Party.
00:16:51.000So yeah, I'm not going to take you seriously that you're very, very upset over big balls going through the budget at the Transportation Department for waste and fraud.
00:17:03.000Listen, I hope Democrats fight this one all the way.
00:17:05.000I really hope they fight this one all the way because their fight against Doge is one of the dumbest political fights I've ever seen anyone pick.
00:17:11.000They will be able to ding Elon Musk as a human just in terms of his individual polling numbers.
00:17:16.000But what they are fighting right now is against government bureaucracies being cut.
00:17:21.000That is what they are fighting against.
00:17:23.000And Doge is doing a really good job, so is the Trump administration generally, of calling out the waste and fraud that have been happening inside the system.
00:17:30.000Now, look, the real reality when it comes to America's national debt and bending the cost curve is that trimming around the edges, getting rid...
00:17:38.000Of even many of the billions of dollars that are put out by USAID, that is a worthy cause.
00:17:42.000That is not going to truly bend the cost curve for the United States.
00:17:44.000The entire budget of the USAID is $40 billion.
00:17:47.000The United States is running trillion-dollar deficits every single year.
00:17:52.000We currently have a $36 trillion national debt.
00:17:55.000Unless you change the actual entitlement systems, which nobody is willing to do, you're not going to cure the problem.
00:18:00.000With that said, is it very good that it's happening?
00:18:16.000And their arguments, of course, make zero sense at all.
00:18:19.000Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, she's very upset because there is a rumor that Doge had basically plugged into the FAA in order to help correct the aviation systems.
00:18:28.000And again, cut out the waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:18:30.000Here's Maria Cantwell getting very upset about it.
00:18:33.000I'm sending a letter to Secretary Duffy.
00:18:35.000It's a clear conflict of interest, and Secretary Duffy should make sure that Mr. Moss is not part of the FAA. What we don't welcome is a man who's regulated by this sector and who has had fines for violation of safety, which is launch issues related to protecting the flying public at a time when you need the FAA to call the shots and say, don't launch now because there could be a conflict in the airspace.
00:19:04.000The last thing I want is that guy trying to control the airspace.
00:19:10.000Well, you certainly cannot have a man controlling the airspace and working on aviation who, you know, owns the most successful space company of our time and creates machines capable of firing 20-story rockets into the air and bringing them back down and catching them.
00:19:26.000Can't have that guy involved with aviation.
00:19:28.000The person we need at the head of the transportation department is a man who couldn't fill potholes in South Bend, Indiana, but is gay and loves juju trains and takes two-month paternity leaves without telling anybody.
00:19:38.000That's who I trust with our federal aviation security.
00:19:42.000And this is a losing battle for Democrats.
00:19:44.000And if they continue to fight it, it is not going to end well for them.
00:19:47.000I think most hilariously is the argument that's now being put forward by the media, that what Musk is doing is somehow wild, crazy, out of the unprecedented.
00:19:55.000So, CNN's Pamela Brown, she was very upset yesterday.
00:19:58.000She said, would you be okay with George Soros doing what Elon Musk is doing?
00:20:04.000Would you be okay if Democrats were doing this?
00:20:07.000If, for example, George Soros came in under a Democratic administration and had his staffers gain access to sensitive programs about Americans and their personal information and dismantling agencies, would you be okay with that?
00:20:21.000It's amazing that Democrats are acting as if this is something that's novel.
00:20:26.000I've been talking to my constituents for months and months and months about Elon Musk coming in, having a serious business person coming in, and using his team to go through the federal budget with a fine-tooth comb.
00:20:39.000Would you be okay if Democrats did this, if a George Soros came in with his staffers and did the same thing that Elon Musk is doing?
00:21:21.000Who do you think is staffing these bureaucratic institutions?
00:21:24.000Who do you think is receiving checks in the non-governmental sphere from institutions like USAID? Organizations run by people like George Soros.
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00:23:53.000Code DAILYWIRE. Meanwhile, Scott Pesson, the new Treasury Secretary, was asked about what is the impact of Doge over at the Treasury Department.
00:24:21.000It is an operational program to suggest improvements.
00:24:24.000So we make 1.3 billion payments a year.
00:24:28.000And this is two employees who are working with a group of longstanding employees.
00:24:37.000So, again, the kind of lies that are being told are absurd, but the panic is being driven by the fact, in the end, that the entire gravy train for the Democrats has been a permanent bureaucracy designed to funnel cash to their friends.
00:24:50.000Well, all of that is coming to a crashing halt.
00:24:53.000President Trump and his administration are laying off nearly all USAID staff.
00:24:57.000According to the New York Times, the Trump administration plans to reduce the number of workers at USAID from more than 10,000 to 290. These are the kinds of cuts, by the way, that Musk does.
00:25:07.000When Elon comes into act, he just kills all the jobs.
00:25:10.000He just destroys all the jobs and he keeps a small group of people to run the thing and then fixes the problems.
00:25:15.000Because he says there is no reason why we need 1,000 employees, 2,000 employees to run a company that is not running at a solid profit.
00:25:25.000Those sorts of cuts, are they worthwhile?
00:25:35.000Here, for example, is Representative Cynthia Loomis explaining some of the programs that were in USAID. She's from Wyoming.
00:25:44.000Five million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs, non-government organizations.
00:25:51.000Funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab.
00:25:56.000$20 million for a group related, by the way, to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax.
00:26:04.000$1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem.
00:26:11.000$1.5 million on DEI programs in Serbia.
00:26:18.000And do those seem like good expenditures to you?
00:26:20.000By the way, BBC's Media Action, which is the BBC International Charity, received millions of dollars in American government grants from USAID. Perhaps the worst expenditure from USAID. USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory project.
00:26:41.000It was a private venture by a company called Sanad to create cement mills and factories.
00:26:47.000What do you think they needed all that cement for?
00:26:48.000What do you think they used all that cement for?
00:26:59.000Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath the Gaza Strip, leading to the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip after October 7th.
00:27:08.000So, just slow clap for the geniuses in the permanent bureaucratic state.
00:27:35.000And if Democrats wish to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans are somehow going to object to cuts to this, good luck with that.
00:27:41.000Samantha Power, one of the worst foreign policy officials of my lifetime, She's supposedly the anti-genocide activist who fully stood aside while Joe Biden turned over Afghanistan to the Taliban.
00:27:53.000She's just awful, Samantha Power, in every possible way.
00:27:55.000She was on CNN to decry the cuts to USAID. This is devastating and it is ceding the field as well to the People's Republic of China.
00:28:06.000To the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the U.S. ground game in American foreign policy, the face of American values, disappear like this.
00:28:19.000You think this is a victory for dictators, autocratic regimes around the world who are competing with the U.S. in Africa, in South America, all around the world for influence?
00:28:29.000What's not even an opinion, they are out relishing this moment and celebrating it.
00:28:50.000Joe Rogan, I think, speaks for Americans when he says, yeah, no, what we're really cutting here, what Trump and Musk are doing here is just cutting stupid nonsense.
00:28:56.000I think this is pretty commonsensical from Joe.
00:28:59.000You're seeing a politician, a president, who's coming in who can't get reelected, so he's just going ham.
00:29:06.000And he's just cleaning out everything.
00:29:31.000And you're seeing that corruption get weeded out.
00:29:34.000I am hoping that this is successful and that it yields a benefit to the American people, to the working class people, to everybody, where they recognize, like, hey, we can't just be spending all our f***ing tax money on nonsense.
00:30:12.000So, Luke, let's talk about your recent article about...
00:30:15.000How sort of the groundwork was set for Doge.
00:30:17.000Democrats are trying to claim over and over that something unprecedented is being done with the Department of Government Efficiency, that you have a bunch of unelected people who are worming their way into government and making cuts.
00:30:27.000What's the actual origin of the powers that preexisted Doge?
00:30:34.000Democrats basically spent 10 years building the biggest rake you've ever seen and then stomped on it.
00:30:39.000So it kind of starts in 2014. Obama creates something called the U.S. Digital Service that is designed to hire people from Silicon Valley and exempt them from many of the federal rules.
00:30:50.000And then through the first Trump administration, they convince Trump that these are civil servants that should be left alone to be independent.
00:30:57.000And they use that status to basically completely undermine him, doing completely ridiculous things, leftist activism from within the Trump executive office of the president.
00:31:05.000And Biden comes in and he dispenses with the pretense of nonpartisanship.
00:31:10.000And he just blatantly makes it subject to the power of a political appointee.
00:31:15.000So he basically loads a gun and then they hand it to Elon Musk.
00:31:19.000So this is definitely one of the greatest cell phones of all time.
00:31:22.000And then on top of that, just the things that they were doing inside of the Trump U.S. digital service, kind of without his knowledge, but right underneath his nose, are truly shocking.
00:31:34.000They were hiring transgender activists.
00:31:36.000They were hiring multiple people from websites, if you can believe it.
00:31:39.000They had somebody called a kink-aware professional on staff.
00:31:43.000And this is all happening in Trump's payroll.
00:31:45.000They're going to DEI conferences and sending an entire panel of lesbians who work there.
00:31:50.000They hired somebody from a gender studies department who then sent an email to staff in the executive office of the president in Trump's presidency lecturing them about white cis.
00:32:05.000So basically, Trump was very kind to these people.
00:32:08.000He wanted to give them space to operate as civil servants, and they kind of took his kindness as weakness.
00:32:13.000So there's a lot of lessons here, but I think the betrayal that USDS kind of committed in Trump's first term is definitely informing the way that he's going to come in and look at how Biden used and Trump and Obama used these agencies in a more partisan way, and naturally say...
00:32:29.000It only seems fair to do the same thing.
00:32:31.000And so he's bringing in people like, you know, it's, yeah, so I'll leave it there on that part, but there's so many examples I could go on and on about basically how they operated a left-wing activism outfit in Trump's White House and basically set up this whole thing.
00:32:47.000And now what Elon Musk is doing with it is not all that dissimilar from how Barack Obama set it up in 2014. Yeah, and this is one of the things that I find so hilarious about the entire Democratic take on Doge.
00:33:00.000What they're very upset about is the idea that a quote-unquote unelected bureaucrat who is unaccountable to, say, the legislative branch is now going through their giant unelected bureaucracy that they created as essentially a permanent taxpayer money-funded scam to send cash out the door to a variety of their own friends in sort of blue non-governmental organizations.
00:33:20.000Across the world, they set up essentially a permanent funding pipeline from places like USAID to all of their friends, run by all of their friends, and now they're upset that somebody is coming in and cutting all of that, and they're claiming that somehow this is opposition to the American people.
00:33:36.000You guys, as you say, set up the rake, and now you've stepped on it.
00:33:42.000Yeah, and I think one of the things that really threatens Elon, really makes Democrats scared of Elon, is that he's an outsider.
00:33:51.000And I think about even this role that, you know, where the Daily Wire is now naming me the government efficiency reporter.
00:33:56.000In some ways, I've been around Washington for a while.
00:33:59.000My original mentor back in the day was Tom Coburn, a senator who was called Dr. No because he basically called out spending and shut down so much wasteful spending.
00:34:10.000And he actually created the website usaspending.gov for exactly the kind of thing we're now seeing.
00:34:16.000But nobody really looked at it for about 15 years.
00:34:18.000It was all out there, but nobody was really using it.
00:34:21.000And now what we have is, I just feel like a kid waking up on Christmas morning because people are suddenly using this website for exactly what they wanted them to.
00:34:28.000I almost wish Tom Coburn was still alive to see it.
00:34:34.000But, you know, some of the things they're finding as outsiders...
00:34:39.000We've kind of known about, those of us who have followed Washington for years, some of it we knew about, but we just felt like we couldn't change.
00:34:45.000We didn't like it, but we just were jaded and pessimistic, and we were told that nothing could ever change.
00:34:51.000And what you have is these outsiders like Elon, who are coming in with his merry band of 20-year-olds, and kind of waltzing into the parade and pointing at the emperor and saying, hey, why does that dude have no clothes?
00:35:02.000And those of us who have kind of been in the alphabet soup of D.C. jargon for a long time, You know, you're right.
00:35:11.000So it's just incredible to see people using this USA spending, finding all the USAID stuff that you're mentioning, and there's so much more.
00:35:19.000Once in a while, these people who are just random people all over America who are exploring how taxpayers are spending their money, they're finding that bureaucrats spend your money in ways that they would never spend their own money.
00:35:31.000And once in a while, these new people that are poking around this data, they make mistakes because they don't know how government works.
00:35:37.000But most of the time, the fact that they don't know how government works is an incredible superpower.
00:35:42.000It lets them look at things with fresh eyes.
00:35:45.000And so where we may have had in the sort of old conservative movement a certain despondency and, you know, sort of resignation, what they have is righteous indignation, and they have optimism.
00:35:56.000And we've never had those two things at once.
00:36:01.000Well, that's Luke Rosiak, investigative reporter for The Daily Wire.
00:36:03.000He's following what Doge is doing on a daily basis.
00:36:06.000Look, really appreciate the time and the insight.
00:36:11.000And meanwhile, President Trump is moving forward with another series of executive orders.
00:36:15.000I think one of the things that Democrats are finding so discombobulating about the Trump administration, they are moving so unbelievably fast.
00:36:23.000The minute Democrats think that they've got their arms around, for example, the cuts to USAID, Trump announces a plan for investment in the Gaza Strip after Israel.
00:36:46.000And then within 24 hours, Trump is releasing executive orders to eradicate, for example, anti-Christian bias.
00:36:51.000That was an executive order put out yesterday.
00:36:53.000Quote, it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this order to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.
00:37:00.000The founders established a nation in which people were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government.
00:37:06.000The previous administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent anti-Christian offenses.
00:37:13.000The Biden DOJ sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities.
00:37:24.000Those convicted included a Catholic priest and 75-year-old grandmother.
00:37:27.000At the same time, Catholic churches, charities and pro-life centers sought justice for violence, theft and arson perpetrated against them.
00:37:35.000After more than 100 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning this violence and calling on the Biden administration to enforce the law.
00:37:42.000Then, in 2023, the FBI asserted that radical traditionalist Catholics were domestic terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as a threat mitigation.
00:37:51.000The Biden administration sought to repeal religious liberty protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses.
00:37:58.000In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government, hostility and vandalism against Christian churches in places of worship surged.
00:38:03.000My administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.
00:38:14.000And so the media are going to go nuts over that.
00:38:16.000And if they're not going to go nuts over that, maybe they'll go nuts over Trump signing an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court.
00:38:21.000A wretched hive of scum and villainy in which the worst people on earth set up fake legal standards in order to prosecute people for not breaking the law.
00:38:31.000The order includes both financial sanctions and visa restrictions against unspecified ICC officials and their family members found to have assisted in investigations of U.S. citizens.
00:38:40.000Our allies, the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court, nor should we be, because it would make all American soldiers subject to the predations of the International Criminal Court run by corrupt nations like South Africa, for example.
00:38:52.000So, the United States is now going to go after the ICC and threaten to sanction members of the ICC. Again, the movement here is coming fast and furious from the Trump administration.
00:39:03.000And Democrats do not know how to handle it.
00:39:06.000The world is reshaping itself around much of the action being taken.
00:39:09.000So, for example, yesterday, in the aftermath of President Trump issuing an executive order banning men in women's sports under Title IX, the NCAA announced that trans women will be barred from competing in NCAA women's college sports.
00:39:23.000So the NCAA has acted with alacrity, they've moved, and they are now reflecting the administration of the law that men don't get to play with the ladies in sports.
00:39:34.000They were so radically anti-woman that they were going to allow big balls to play with the women.
00:39:39.000They won't allow a dude named big balls online to cut government.
00:39:42.000They will allow a dude with big balls to swim with the ladies.
00:40:22.000I don't think that we should actually adjust the SALT cap.
00:40:24.000I understand that President Trump is making a move here to effectively cut taxes for people in blue states.
00:40:30.000Presumably, he is hoping to make those states more competitive politically.
00:40:34.000The reality is that you should pay the same federal tax whether you live in California or in Florida.
00:40:42.000The reason being that you should not get me to subsidize you.
00:40:45.000If I live in a low-tax state and you live in a high-tax state, why should I have to subsidize you because you live in a state that has bad tax law?
00:41:01.000He also wants to eliminate special tax breaks for sports team owners, which makes perfect sense.
00:41:07.000He wants to close the so-called carried interest tax deduction, which allows partners of investment firms to pay a lower tax rate on a portion of their profits.
00:41:16.000So he's doing some populist things with the tax bill.
00:41:19.000No tax on tips, ending taxes on social security benefits.
00:41:22.000All of that wrapped into a bigger tax package.
00:41:26.000Republicans seem to be drawing closer on the tax deal.
00:41:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, House Republicans wrapped up a more than four-hour meeting at the White House on Thursday saying they had closed gaps in their own internal disagreements over extending expiring tax cuts and cutting spending and indicated details of the deal could be announced as soon as Friday.
00:41:43.000House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said, we had a very productive meeting.
00:41:46.000We are narrowing down the areas of difference.
00:41:49.000They're having to bring a bunch of different factions together.
00:41:51.000Those include the House Freedom Caucus, which is worried about budget deficits.
00:41:57.000New Yorkers who want to increase the cap on SALT deductions.
00:42:03.000House Republicans had been discussing a five-year extension of expiring tax cuts instead of permanence as a way to limit the total cost of the bill.
00:42:09.000On Thursday, Scalise said it would be possible some portions of the tax cut would be permanent, while others would not be.
00:42:14.000It is also unclear what exactly is going to end up in the final bill.
00:42:17.000Is this going to end up as one big bill that includes border security, that includes defense, or is this going to end up as two separate bills, one for taxes and one...
00:42:24.000The sort of high-risk strategy is to go for two separate bills under reconciliation.
00:42:29.000The reason that's high-risk is because basically no Congress has ever used reconciliation two times in one year to get a big bill through.
00:42:37.000The upside of doing it as two separate bills is you're guaranteed pretty well that one half gets through and that that half is better than it would be if it were included in a broader bill.
00:42:45.000The downside is you don't get the whole thing.
00:42:47.000So basically your choice is between two better sandwiches, one of which you may not get, And one giant sandwich that has more bad stuff in it, but more good stuff in it as well.
00:42:56.000That's essentially the metaphor or analogy to use when you're thinking of how House Republicans are putting this thing together.
00:43:02.000Unclear how it all comes together, but it does seem to be coming together pretty quickly here.
00:43:06.000And we are only, again, 19 days in to the Trump administration, part two.
00:43:10.000All right, coming up on the show, we have a lot to get to.
00:43:13.000I've been taking a look at this new Mr. B show on Amazon.
00:43:16.000The left seems to be suggesting that it's a critique of capitalism.
00:43:33.000First, at The Daily Wire, we don't just watch culture, we build it.
00:43:36.000And now, we're building the future with AI. So yesterday, Jeremy Boring dropped the first ever fully AI-produced Jeremy's Razors commercial.
00:43:42.000If you haven't seen it yet, good news.
00:43:44.000We're going to show it to you right now.
00:46:36.000I genuinely do believe the Chiefs will win, but I wouldn't sleep on the Eagles either because I think nothing motivates somebody more than revenge.
00:46:43.000And they're trying for that comeback from 2023 and trying to prove, look, we're still in this game.
00:46:48.000I mean, obviously, you're in the Super Bowl.
00:48:07.000is going to do the Super Bowl interview.
00:48:08.000Famously, Joe Biden did not last year, mainly because he was not alive at the time, unfortunately, and so he was not capable of doing the Super Bowl interview.
00:48:15.000Now, President Trump has been everywhere.
00:48:19.000I mean, the man's nearly 80, and he is just, I mean, he's doing a presser basically every single day.
00:48:23.000He put out a truth, saying, quote, two great quarterbacks in this game, also an unbelievable running back, and the absolute best tight end in football ever.
00:48:46.000So what are you expecting from the president of the United States?
00:48:49.000I know the president was utilizing Grok to get all the spark notes on who's in this game and what.
00:48:54.000But I think there's nothing more patriotic than a president attending the Super Bowl.
00:48:58.000The fact that Biden hasn't done it over the last four years just speaks to what his presidency was.
00:49:03.000You never felt more of a lack of pride in your country than under the Biden administration.
00:49:08.000If you're an American president and you have the annual biggest sporting event of the year with the highest ratings, there is no excuse for you not to be there.
00:49:16.000In fact, this is going to really stir the pot this morning on X. But Travis Kelsey even said that he's honored or flattered that the president will be in attendance because he's the commander-in-chief of the United States.
00:49:29.000You know, the fact that the entire sort of pop culture world has decided that it's acceptable to now say that you like President Trump or you're at least lukewarm toward President Trump is an amazing, amazing shift.
00:49:39.000Well, you mentioned Kelsey, which means, of course, the over-under on how many times Taylor Swift will be shown live is currently at six and a half.
00:50:05.000So I say in between each quarter, they show her in blimps, assuming how she'll react to Kelsey's performance, especially if he does outstanding or bad.
00:50:27.000I don't think they'll go over because, truth be told, the NFL fans are not happy with Taylor Swift hijacking the entire season's narrative.
00:50:35.000It's actually downplaying Kelsey as a player, and it's bringing a lot of that...
00:50:39.000Drama, including a lot of Democrat drama with her endorsement with Kamala to the sport that they didn't need.
00:51:57.000Well, meanwhile, Kanye West is back at it, and he is over on Twitter doing things again.
00:52:04.000Now, a wise man once said about Kanye West, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye.
00:52:09.000That wise man was me, and that was in 2018. There are some who decided that, in fact, Kanye was a deeply wise and trustworthy individual and, in fact, should be a hero to people on the right.
00:52:23.000Now, there are two things that are possible to say about Kanye West.
00:52:27.000One is that he's mentally ill, and he clearly is mentally ill.
00:52:38.000Autism is now being used as a catch-all term for pretty much any strange behavior out there, like all of it.
00:52:44.000I'd love to see a medical diagnosis, but if there's a mental problem, then he is not totally responsible for his actions, which might explain why he does evil things.
00:53:07.000Because I don't know what else to make of a person who trots his wife out stark naked in front of the cameras, has suggested starting a company, shows pictures to people who work with him, and proclaims himself a Nazi.
00:53:20.000Those seem like not amazing behaviors.
00:57:56.000It is absolutely not a critique of capitalism.
00:57:58.000In fact, the setup for the show is the opposite of capitalism.
00:58:02.000The setup is that 1,000 contestants compete in physical, mental, and social challenges for a chance to win a $5 million cash prize, a $1.8 million private island, and more.
00:58:27.000The thing about capitalism is if you cheat somebody in a capitalist system, You can cheat one guy, but you really can't cheat like five, because if you keep cheating people over and over, they stop doing business with you.
00:58:37.000It's one of the great disincentives to cheat people under capitalism.
00:58:40.000This is a point that's been made by Adam Smith, is that capitalism, as practiced, actually makes you more ethical in business, because you need to give somebody a product that they want, and it can't malfunction, because if it malfunctions, they're not going to buy from you again.
00:58:52.000So there are a bunch of distinctions between what you're watching here and capitalism.
00:58:56.000The left likes to think that capitalism is a zero-sum game, that it's a bunch of people competing for a bag of cash.
00:59:02.000In fact, capitalism makes everybody richer.
00:59:05.000This is much more like communism, where you have a bag of cash, and then the question is just how that cash gets divided up.
00:59:11.000And predictably, when it comes to a bag of cash and how it gets divided up, it turns out that the people who are the most scurrilous and underhanded are the people who are going to be the most likely to have the Dasha on the water, and everybody else is going to get victimized by those people.
00:59:26.000It turns out that human nature is to maximize the return to you at the cost of somebody else unless all boats are rising.
00:59:40.000Greed is a universal human phenomenon.
00:59:42.000Pretending it away doesn't make it go away.
00:59:44.000The great lie of communism is that if you have a grab bag of cash, magically greed will just disappear if you force everybody to take the same amount.
00:59:53.000And it's a lie and it never works because human nature is still human nature.
00:59:56.000The only thing that can get past human greed is mutual dependence, which is what capitalism creates.
01:00:06.000That's the sort of stuff that creates better behavior and creates an incentive structure that leads you to channel your particular greed toward actually helping somebody else because you're not going to get what you want unless you give somebody else what they want.
01:00:19.000I've described capitalism as effectively forced altruism and that's correct.
01:00:22.000So, I'm putting that out there because there have been a bunch of articles that are basically suggesting that the Beast games are a sort of critique of capitalism.
01:00:29.000That's only if you really, really don't understand capitalism.
01:00:33.000If you understand that this isn't capitalism, it's a grab bag of cash, then basically, all of Beast games can be reduced to a repeated iteration of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
01:00:42.000Let's talk about what this game looks like.
01:00:46.000So, for those of you who don't know some game theory, basic game theory, game theory is basically an attempt to quantify How decisions get made based on available possible outcomes.
01:00:56.000So the perfect example of a sort of game theory is Prisoner's Dilemma.
01:01:01.000So Prisoner's Dilemma is a situation where you have two guys who commit a crime together.
01:01:04.000One of them is brought into one room by the cops.
01:01:07.000The other is brought into another room by the cops.
01:01:08.000And they are given a series of options.
01:01:13.000You can confess or you can stay quiet.
01:01:16.000Now, if you stay quiet and your partner confesses, That is the worst case outcome for you.
01:01:24.000You refuse to talk to the cops and your partner confesses, then you are going to get 10 years in prison and your partner gets zero because he gets the benefit.
01:01:31.000He flipped on you, but you didn't flip on anybody.
01:02:14.000Outcome, typically, is that everybody sort of loses because you don't want the tenure sentence.
01:02:19.000If you don't trust your partner a lot that he's going to shut up, if he ain't your brother or something, you are immediately going to confess, and so will he, and then you're going to end up in this box, right?
01:02:29.000That's where everybody's going to end up, typically speaking.
01:02:32.000Okay, the reason that I bring this up is because when you look at sort of the outcome of these various games, they match that sort of human behavior.
01:02:39.000So much of this show is kind of fascinating just because it is a...
01:02:42.000It is a way of assessing in real life sort of Bayesian risk calculations.
01:02:48.000I want to go through some of them because, again, I think people are reading the show wrong.
01:02:52.000They're reading it as sort of critique of culture and there is some of that in here.
01:02:55.000They have a bunch of Gen Z morons who somehow are of the opinion that they're best friends with everybody and so they keep getting screwed like over and over and over.
01:03:03.000They keep doing the thing where they stay quiet and then the Gen Xer is like, I don't even know you, bro.
01:07:25.000Okay, so another sort of social experiment that was played was episode 8. In this particular episode, There was a bag of cash and contestants were asked sequentially to take money from the bag of cash.
01:07:42.000It's like a million dollars in the bag and there are 10 people on each team or there's 10 contestants left at this point in the whole game.
01:09:29.000Because we've all come so far for a reason, so we're all deserving of this, and anyone who is ill-intent coming in or has sabotaged anyone else is already out.
01:11:11.000And Mr. Beast gave the final six contestants a chance to flip a coin to double the money available, making it $10 million available to the pool, as opposed to $5 million.
01:11:45.000So whether you flip the coin or whether you don't flip the coin, just in terms of risk assessment, it's irrelevant.
01:11:50.000Your expected value at the end, It's exactly the same.
01:11:53.000So there's no moral component to that.
01:11:55.000There's nothing that makes you better or worse for flipping the coin or not flipping the coin or even makes you smarter or not as smart for not flipping the coin.
01:12:02.000A Hollywood reporter reports that professional TV reviewers have called this a sad reflection of our modern times.
01:12:07.000One of the most undignified spectacles ever shown on TV. A deafening, joyless cash dash.
01:12:12.000If you see it as a sort of social experiment that just reveals preferences, then it's kind of interesting that way.
01:12:20.000The only thing that would make it joyless is if you expect that all these people are not in a competition show and really it's like you battling members of your family.
01:12:30.000It'd be a joyless competition show if this was like you doing this to your own kids, not some random people who you're in a stated competition show with.