00:00:00.000You can be rich, you can be famous, and you can have hot women hanging on your every word, lavishing their attention on you, demanding nothing from you in return.
00:00:09.000All you have to do to get all of this is to give the manosphere your money, your brain, and your soul.
00:00:16.000We're living in the middle of a gigantic online op.
00:00:18.000It is an op designed to suck young men dry and leave them broken and stupid.
00:00:38.000And folks, remember, if you are watching on the Daily Wire site or app, then you can actually join the live chat and ask me questions in real time during the show.
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00:00:52.000Well, speaking of our friends over at the all access chat, I was informed by some of you, and again, this is just another reason why you should subscribe so you can tell me what to watch and cover, that I ought to watch the Netflix documentary from Louis Thoreau called Manosphere.
00:01:07.000And to be real, it didn't really tell me anything I didn't know, but I'm glad it's illuminating a far broader problem.
00:01:12.000The crisis of men without proper guideposts and durable moral institutions being ushered into a world of stupidity and immorality by grifters and liars who traffic in lies, spiritual emptiness, and outright grift.
00:01:25.000So in this documentary, Louis Thoreau talked with a series of Manosphere influencers.
00:01:30.000One young man who calls himself H.S. Tikitaki, not his given name, Amru Fudel, aka Myron Gaines, Nicholas Ken DeBlenthity, that would be Sneeko, and Justin Waller.
00:01:43.000Thoreau didn't actually get the godfathers of this Griffith brothers on film, but he didn't really have to because all these folks are running the same scheme.
00:01:50.000First, they tell young men that they are failing at life.
00:01:54.000And then they tell young men the reason they are failing at life is not because of anything they're doing per se, but because of the Matrix, a system of power, usually run by the Jews that's out to get them.
00:02:04.000That system is what is depriving them of women, of money, of social mobility.
00:02:09.000Third, these men act transgressively and provocatively.
00:02:12.000They violate all social stigmas and then seem magically to achieve all of the things the matrix has placed off limits to young men.
00:02:20.000Fourth, they inform young men that they too can have all of these wonderful things, the hot women and the nice cars and the big houses, if only they join a fake university or some BS stock trading app or donate money to the kickstream.
00:02:34.000And finally, they tell young men that anyone who says differently is part of the Matrix.
00:02:39.000Now, if any of this sounds familiar, this sort of program, that's because it's basically cult recruitment tactics just made viral online.
00:03:20.000And it's dangerous because it also informs young men of things that are not true.
00:03:24.000That, for example, women are disgusting and perverse, but also simultaneously available and completely pliant if you just crack the code.
00:03:34.000That you can achieve wealth and fame, not over time, by building a business or something, instantaneously, like this moment, simply by seeing through the matrix and eschewing the 925 hard job in favor of a get-rich-quick scam.
00:03:47.000And if you fail, it's because of the matrix.
00:03:49.000You just need to give more money to them.
00:03:50.000That matrix, by the way, is just code for the Jews.
00:03:54.000Tapping into the anti-Semitism, what that does is it allows them to seem both transgressive and also illuminating, which is why, of course, we have tons of clips of these quote-unquote manosphere influencers, as you'll get to later.
00:04:06.000All of them are losers singing Ye's Heil Hitler back just a couple of months ago.
00:04:21.000This may in fact be the definition of hell would be stuck in being stuck in a small vehicle with this few IQ points at one time.
00:04:29.000And of course, Myron Gaines, who is one of the key guests in the Louis Thoreau documentary, is he does this routine all the time.
00:04:39.000Halo is right about your because the reality is this.
00:04:43.000You fing you guys come into a country, you push your pornography, you push your central banking, you push your degeneracy, you push the LGBT community, you push all this bullshit into a society, you destroy it from within, and then you guys go ahead,
00:04:58.000and then you band together, you practice nepotism, you keep each other at the highest levels of echelons of government and everything else, you protect your fingers because you silence free speech, you silence anything that criticizes you, and then you get rid of them, and then you go and use stupid terms, fake terms, like anti-Semitism.
00:05:37.000He's a 23-year-old apparent moron named Harrison Sullivan who is raking in cash by scamming young people.
00:05:43.000He admits that he is fine with lying to his audience, to marketing pornography to them while maintaining that he actually doesn't like pornography and to robbing people blind.
00:05:50.000Here he was being asked specifically why he can't just be a good person, and he says he doesn't do it for morality, he does it for the cash because I openly say I don't give a f and I'm doing it for money, I don't care about the morality of it.
00:06:28.000And those who invest in him are, by the way, likely to lose money.
00:06:31.000So one of the things that this particular influencer does, this manosphere influencer, is he tells people that they can also have beautiful, loose women, and they can be jet skiing upon the oceans, and they can have wonderful apartments in Spain.
00:06:45.000All you have to do is sign up for his junk app.
00:06:49.000Well, Louis Thoreau actually invested 500 pounds in the junk app, and here's how it turned out.
00:06:55.000I opened an account and put in 500 pounds.
00:06:59.000I'd once taken 500 pounds and joined HS's investment group, making trades with its advice, hoping to join the ranks of those who'd leveled up.
00:07:08.000With its help, after two months, my money was mostly gone.
00:07:14.000Well, HS Tiki-Taki Sullivan is actually kind of pathetic.
00:07:18.000His own mom, who certainly bears some of the blame for raising this streaming trash bag, bosses him around like a toddler while simultaneously humoring his latest violin pure outtakes.
00:08:00.000Gaines happens to be an idiot who picks on people even dumber than he is.
00:08:04.000Largely, similarly vile female influencers who are also desperate for attention.
00:08:09.000It's this sort of never-ending cycle of loathsome garbage.
00:08:12.000Gaines, obviously, is not particularly bright.
00:08:14.000Here he was in the documentary pushing just complete myths about how women have children who look like not their husbands, but a prior partner because of retained sperm or some such nonsense.
00:08:28.000Ever wonder why some kids resemble an ex more than their father?
00:08:55.000When they talk about misinformation on the internet, this is what they're talking about.
00:09:01.000Well, I mean, obviously, he is saying stupid crap, but, you know, that's not really what matters because, more importantly, to his young male audience, Gaines poses as someone worth emulating.
00:09:11.000The tough guy who's raking it in and has even somehow found a woman so compliant that she is willing to let him have sex with random women.
00:09:20.000And then she's totally happy with this.
00:09:21.000That she's locked in, but he's having sex with random women.
00:09:24.000And also, she does his cooking and his cleaning.
00:09:27.000And it gets kind of awkward because in the documentary, Louis Thoreau asks her how happy she is with this arrangement.
00:09:36.000And she does not look super duper happy about it.
00:09:41.000But we were talking about in the future that maybe there's a world where you would have more than one wife.
00:10:50.000Scumbags who tell them to clean up their rooms while maintaining a harem.
00:10:53.000That's intellectual pornography for morons.
00:10:56.000Well, speaking of morons, there's also Sneeko, the newly minted Muslim who spends his days online ranting about wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
00:11:29.000Well, one of the hilarious things that happens in this documentary is at a certain point, Sneeko admits that the manosphere is basically a giant scam.
00:11:38.000Everybody in the manosphere is just people online who are trying to make a buck, you know, selling ideologies, and people have heard all the talking points already.
00:11:48.000I think the world got really crazy for a long time, but I think we're reaching a little more of a balance in terms of what's truthful and what's not.
00:12:08.000All this garbage works for the same reason.
00:12:10.000The get six pack in two weeks ads have a high click-through rate.
00:12:13.000The dream is more attractive than the reality.
00:12:15.000You don't actually want to watch the video that tells you you need to count your calories and exercise regularly if you want the six-pack.
00:12:21.000You want to watch the video that tells you that if you just have this powder, that in two weeks you will have a six-pack.
00:12:26.000That if you just try this extreme fitness regimen, then you will look like a Greek god within two weeks.
00:12:33.000That's the stuff that gets the click-through.
00:12:35.000Now, the result is young men who emulate this junk.
00:12:38.000Here was Sneeko walking around and getting recognized by middle school boys on the streets in New York, and you have to wonder where are their parents.
00:14:02.000It turns out there are lots of losers who are capable of renting apartments and cars, pretending that they own them, inflating their wealth, scamming gullible young men out of their money.
00:14:26.000He lives a pretty lonely life, streaming seven hours a day with his fake buddies he pays while trying to avoid being told what to do by his mommy.
00:14:34.000Sneeko is a single male, aged 27, no children.
00:14:37.000Myron Gaines is 36, no children, no wife.
00:14:41.000Justin Waller is unmarried to the mother of his children.
00:14:43.000And while both he and she claim they are happy with this arrangement, whereby he has sex with lots of other women and she sometimes joins in, I got to say, it doesn't seem like a particularly healthy arrangement for the kids.
00:14:54.000In the documentary, Walt Waller particularly comes off as kind of a sad person with a troubled childhood.
00:14:59.000Young men need better role models, you know, people who actually pursue true happiness and fulfillment.
00:15:04.000Because in the end, what these men are selling is not a dream.
00:15:10.000The real crime, by the way, is the people who won't call it out because there are lots of people who know better, but who have fellow traveled with this stuff because it gets clicks.
00:15:18.000That is the lifeblood of this industry.
00:15:20.000Remember, it's not just that these scam artists have made a cottage industry from streaming for hours and hours and then cutting up the clips and then recutting up the clips and then ramming them onto social media by the thousands and then building fake businesses from them.
00:15:33.000Because they have this sort of gigantically inflated popularity, they've been glazed and praised by some of the most popular political commentators, particularly on the grievance party right.
00:15:43.000There are just some of them blazing a man who's been credibly accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
00:15:51.000What you describe it as the matrix, I think that actually is the right term, is that the matrix works overtime to make it seem as though the people who recognize the insanity, recognize the homosexuality, recognize the pedophilia, are in fact the people that are crazy.
00:16:07.000Like it's a complete inversion of what's actually happening.
00:16:09.000And the saddest thing is that it works.
00:16:11.000You are naive enough to believe that there are good guys and bad guys in wars and it's as simple as good and bad and that the bad guys are crazy and the good guys want freedom.
00:16:24.000Then you need to do a little bit more investigation into what's really happening.
00:16:27.000And when you look at the vested interest of any country or any person.
00:16:32.000Can I just ask you to pause and just comment?
00:16:34.000That's the truest thing, what you just said.
00:16:36.000And anyone who doesn't understand that should shut the f ⁇ up.
00:16:56.000Listen, there are always things that society can do better in terms of providing opportunity.
00:17:00.000And yes, obviously there's a grain of truth to the idea that men have been victimized by an increasingly feminist society, that men have been cut out of what their roles used to be.
00:17:10.000There's no question that a lot of that is true.
00:17:12.000But the solution is not what is being provided here.
00:17:15.000Get rich quick schemes, total grift, toxic views of women.
00:17:20.000The answer is, wait for it, traditional virtue and decency.
00:17:25.000The answer here would be to pursue the same things that have made men successful for hundreds of years.
00:17:32.000If people are selling you some sort of newfangled, out-of-the-box solution that involves no effort other than you signing them a check, you are the mark.
00:18:11.000I'd wake up overheated, like sweating.
00:18:13.000It's gross, not nearly as rested as I should have been.
00:18:16.000Then we switched on over to a Helix mattress and that changed.
00:18:18.000Helix has a sleep quiz that uses your preferred sleep position, firmness, other factors to match you with the right mattress for you, which is a far more rational system than wandering around a showroom and laying on random beds.
00:19:49.000The people who say to young men, listen, you have a problem.
00:19:53.000You can solve that problem with effort and with virtue and with values, right?
00:19:57.000Those people are, you can say they're part of a manosphere or that they are male-directed shows.
00:20:01.000But to lump, say, Jordan Peterson in with Andrew Tate is a complete category error.
00:20:06.000It's one I think that some people on the left make on purpose, frankly.
00:20:10.000Well, joining us on the line to discuss all of this is Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute, best-selling author of Troubled, a memoir of foster care family and social class.
00:20:19.000And you can check out his sub stack as well.
00:20:20.000Rob, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:20:53.000I think a lot of the concerns are overblown, but the lexicon and some of the ideas are spilling over into real life.
00:21:01.000There was a very interesting survey recently, which asked representative samples of young men, who do you consider to be someone to look up to?
00:21:09.000And it listed famous figures like LeBron James and others, but then also, yeah, Elon Musk, but also people like Andrew Tate and Manosphere figures.
00:21:17.000And this is good news, that the Manosphere figures were towards the bottom in terms of how likely young men were to look up to them or think of them as role models.
00:21:26.000But still, if you interact with Zoomers, young men in everyday life, you will hear them use phrases like mogging, Chadopoly, Stacy's, a lot of the sort of language that you hear from Manosphere influencers.
00:21:39.000So even if they're not directly consuming the content, it is sort of spilling out through social media and then into the real world.
00:21:46.000You know, Rob, one of the things that's really interesting, you observed this about Louis Thoreau's approach in this documentary, is that the normal answer to this sort of toxic masculinity would be traditional masculinity, right?
00:21:56.000The things that I try to preach on the show that many of us try to preach about the actual virtue of hard work, making commitments to one woman, protecting her, creating a family, all the things that actually we know from the social science generate actual lifetimes of happiness.
00:22:09.000But one of the things that the left has done, and Thoreau falls into this trap, is on the one hand, he wants to condemn all of this immorality for being vulgar and terrible.
00:22:17.000And on the other hand, because he's socially liberal, he has no language with which to actually condemn this behavior.
00:22:23.000And so instead, he suggests that it's more about the grift or that it is more about lack of consent in some cases.
00:22:29.000But there's one point in the documentary that's kind of fascinating where he is talking to Justin Waller's wife.
00:22:34.000And at a certain point, she's acquiescing in all of this.
00:22:37.000And the normal kind of traditional answer would be, it doesn't matter if you acquiesce in this.
00:22:41.000What you're doing is bad for yourself and bad for your kids and bad for your family and not a way that you should be living.
00:22:45.000But he doesn't have the capacity to condemn it in that fashion.
00:22:52.000Well, you know, this is the sort of the consent-based morality of modern secular progressive kind of culture, where as long as everyone agrees to it, if there's a tacit understanding, then anything goes.
00:23:04.000But of course, this is, you know, it can erode relationships, a lot of the ideas that the Manosphere peddles.
00:23:12.000One example of this, and when I wrote about this piece recently in the Wall Street Journal, there were sort of multiple layers of contradictions and hypocrisy.
00:23:19.000So one of them was that these guys, sort of the bedrock foundation of their framework is women are born with innate value and men are not, which there's a grain of truth to that.
00:23:30.000But what they say, oh, women are born with innate importance and value.
00:23:33.000And then they immediately contradict this by telling their followers to mistreat women.
00:23:50.000Okay, the young guy says, well, how do I get those things?
00:23:52.000And the influencer says, well, you sign up for my fake university for my overpriced subscription service.
00:23:57.000You join my Telegram channel where I'm advertising OnlyFans content creators.
00:24:02.000I mean, it's this very sort of bizarre thing where they're saying, you know, oh, break out of the matrix, escape, and learn how to become this alpha male, this cartoonish vision of masculinity.
00:24:12.000But it's all sort of extracting money from their followers.
00:24:18.000You know, Rob, one of the other things that's happened here is that a lot of this has become, because we live in such a polarized political time, there are a lot of people on the right who refuse to just condemn it.
00:24:25.000They will say, no, no, this is part of our coalition now.
00:24:28.000We need association with these sorts of figures.
00:24:30.000We can't, I mean, there were very strong rumors, for example, that members of the Trump administration had attempted to call the Romanian authorities to allow the Tate brothers to travel, for example.
00:24:41.000And so there is this sort of attempt by some on the right to legitimize these figures mainly because they are seen as joiners in the anti-left coalition.
00:24:50.000It seems like that undermines a lot of the main points that the right has to make generally.
00:25:01.000They have some cachet, some clout with these young boys.
00:25:04.000And so let's make this alliance with them in order to sort of bolster political support and maybe some sort of cultural support online.
00:25:12.000But in the long run, I do think this sort of undermines sort of the moral legitimacy broadly of the conservative movement when you have guys like this who will openly preach to their followers on their podcast.
00:25:25.000Oh, you should have a rotation of women.
00:25:40.000But then when he would ask them in front of their female partners, then suddenly they would walk it back and say, well, maybe I only want to be with one woman after all.
00:25:50.000And so they're playing this character on their podcast of this cartoonish alpha male.
00:25:55.000But then when Thoreau interviews them in the context of the relationship with the man and the woman present, the man suddenly becomes very timid about this, when in other cases he would be sort of very forceful and very confident.
00:26:08.000And so to me, this is sort of a version of the luxury beliefs that I've pointed out on the progressive left, where you often see progressive elites who will get married and live very conventional family lives, but then will openly voice hedonism, short-term gratification, pleasure, have a lot of fun, don't worry about the future.
00:26:25.000Well, the Manosphere guys are doing the same thing, a lot of them, where they have a committed relationship.
00:26:29.000I know there's, you know, there's, there's, at least in some of the lives of these Manisphere influencers, they have an agreement with their partners or their wives or whatever, but still, you know, they live with them.
00:26:39.000They are committed to them as their primary partner.
00:26:43.000But then what are they telling their followers?
00:26:44.000Have no relationship, no commitment whatsoever.
00:26:46.000Sleep around, you know, be an alpha male.
00:26:49.000And this is, you know, this is a hypocrisy that they're selling their followers.
00:26:52.000And then when you point it out to them, you know, Thoreau points this out to them, you know, you're living one way, you're saying something else, what's going on here?
00:26:58.000And they'll openly say, I'm doing it for clout.
00:27:03.000You know, when they peddle in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Thoreau points this out to them and says, oh, you know, this is just for fun.
00:27:08.000It's just, you know, whatever increases my follower count.
00:27:11.000It's a very sort of naked, open, just, you know, whatever boosts the follower count.
00:27:16.000And in some ways, the fact that they're so honest about this leads me to think like it's not going to last.
00:27:21.000You know, there's the whole thing about social media is people want authenticity.
00:27:24.000And if they're openly saying I'm inauthentic, I don't think that popularity can last.
00:27:29.000There is another side to this, and that is the question that I think the male lizard brain goes to.
00:27:34.000When you watch these videos and you see these guys who are surrounded by good-looking women who are fawning all over them, they say, well, maybe it's working.
00:27:41.000And they turn off the critical faculty of their brain.
00:27:43.000One of the things that happens here is that in the documentary, it is very clear that these young women are also in it for the clout.
00:27:49.000That it is not as though these young women are suddenly attracted to these influencers or that they actually care about these influencers or even want to have sex with these influencers.
00:27:58.000They believe that they are going to make more money if they somehow do crossover shows with the Manosphere influencers.
00:28:04.000So in other words, toxic masculinity and toxic femininity, those are two halves of the same whole.
00:28:18.000And you can only play that game for so long.
00:28:20.000And you see that for these guys in particular, that real life and social media are one and the same, where they don't know how to behave without the camera on when they're just living their order, you know, going about their lives.
00:28:40.000And that is a very sort of shallow, superficial, empty way to lead your life.
00:28:44.000Maybe when you're 21, 22, that can be exciting, but in the long run, this isn't going to work out for these guys.
00:28:51.000And you can see this, you know, when Winthrop presses them in this documentary about their beliefs, they will suddenly start to crack and they'll say, you know, I don't give an F. I'm just doing it for money.
00:28:59.000But in some ways, even that phrase feels a little bit inauthentic.
00:29:03.000Like they know that the way that they're living their lives is wrong.
00:29:07.000But if they can say, oh, well, money's a justification for it.
00:29:10.000And in these guys' minds, anything for money is okay.
00:29:13.000Then that is sort of the go-to excuse here.
00:29:16.000Well, I get the followers, I get the money, then I get the girls.
00:29:18.000And what more could you possibly want?
00:29:21.000But in many cases, I don't even think they believe it.
00:29:25.000Well, that's Rob Henderson from Manhattan, too.
00:29:27.000Rob, really appreciate the time and the insight.
00:29:32.000Well, speaking of the flip side, okay, well, we'll get to the flip side.
00:29:35.000I just want to explain why, by the way, we are taking time with this.
00:29:37.000One of the reasons that we are taking time with this is because, yes, we'll get to, I promise, all of the daily news, all the big things happening in the world, but more people in the United States are watching what's happening on Netflix than watching what's happening in the Middle East.
00:29:49.000So it is important to note what your kids or what your friends or people like you are probably doing with their spare time because these are deep underlying trends that actually undermine the West.
00:29:58.000Okay, so I do want to talk about the other side of this.
00:30:02.000It turns out that toxic masculinity and toxic femininity require one another.
00:30:06.000As Thoreau shows in his documentary, many of the female influencers who are posting streams with these grifters appearing there in their bathing suits, they're doing it for the cash.
00:30:13.000Here is an OnlyFans model, an influencer named Ellie Nutts, who shows up in the documentary.
00:30:20.000Would it disappoint you if you found out that HS was very judgmental of OnlyFans and thought it was actually disgusting?
00:31:05.000But apparently, lots and lots of people are following this story.
00:31:09.000A person named Taylor Frankie Paul was the central figure of a TikTok group called Mom Talk.
00:31:13.000She got famous posting family and lifestyle content.
00:31:16.000She has 6 million followers on TikTok.
00:31:18.000In 2022, she went viral after showing that members of her friend group had participated in what she called soft swinging.
00:31:28.000The agreement, I already told you guys that The agreement was just like, as long as we were both there and we saw it and we knew it, it was okay.
00:31:38.000And the second it goes behind without each other, then that's you stepped out of the agreement.
00:33:17.000I feel like she said that while she was soft-swinging.
00:33:19.000Anyway, it apparently all fell apart this week after allegations have waited for it.
00:33:23.000Domestic violence against that charmer.
00:33:25.000According to Axios, a spokesperson for the Draper Police Department confirmed to people earlier this week, it is now conducting a domestic violence investigation involving Paul and her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Morton.
00:34:32.000You know how I can tell her kids don't come first because she's not lived in any way like her kids come first, like at all, at all, at all, at all.
00:34:37.000Wait until her kids are old enough to really watch what mommy's been doing.
00:35:26.000I got to tell you, like, I don't follow this stuff closely.
00:35:28.000I have been told that this is an enormous national story.
00:35:31.000Yeah, Ben, this is an enormous national story because The Bachelorette, The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades.
00:35:38.000And what's the whole premise to find love, to find your lifelong partner, and to live happily ever after?
00:35:44.000Well, as soon as they announced Taylor Frankie Paul as a bachelorette, I was so mad because I'm like, you could watch this girl in her TikToks, on her reality show, on any interview she's done ever, and can tell she is not mentally stable enough or in any type of form to go on a reality show to find love.
00:36:03.000And the fact that The Bachelorette premieres Sunday, as in three days from now, with Taylor Frankie Paul, who is being investigated for allegedly choking her baby daddy with a necklace, and ABC's like, we're going to continue to roll it out.
00:36:21.000It's absurd because imagine if the gender roles were reversed.
00:36:25.000If this is a man that had these allegations about choking his wife or baby mama allegedly, they would halt production.
00:36:41.000And it's like, what are you doing, ABC?
00:36:43.000Like, why are you promoting someone that clearly needs to go spend some time away from all cameras, all social media, and maybe focus on her kids, maybe take her kids to the park, maybe just try to live a normal life for a second?
00:36:58.000You know, Lyndon, we were talking a little bit earlier on the show about the Manosphere and their views of women, these views of women as promiscuous and terrible and attention-seeking.
00:37:07.000And I have to say, I think that when the legacy media prop up women who actually are many of those things, it tends to underline a lot of what the Manosphere says, even if that is broadly untrue about women.
00:37:16.000And it kind of grants the premise to a lot of these guys who are saying horrible things about women.
00:37:21.000Yeah, I think you're seeing right now the pendulum kind of swing the other way around because on these social media posts that I've seen, you have people that are normally like, oh, like, screw men, like, I hate men, saying, can you imagine if Taylor Frankie Paul was a man?
00:37:37.000Can you imagine if the roles are reversed?
00:37:40.000And what is the most shocking thing to me?
00:37:42.000And Ben, I'm sure you're not just glued to secret lives of Mormon wives, like, you know, a lot of us.
00:37:49.000But what is shocking is that just wrapped like their season four finale has already aired.
00:37:55.000And in this finale, you have Taylor missing her flight to go to LA to be on the bachelorette because why?
00:38:02.000Because she's sleeping with her baby daddy, Dakota, her toxic, on again, off again person, the night before she leaves.
00:38:11.000She is FaceTiming this man when she gets to LA on the way to Bachelor Mansion, being like, I love you and I hate you as she's about to go meet, you know, 30 men to date and try to find a husband.
00:38:24.000And now we know because of these domestic violence allegations, no arrests, you know, she's already was arrested in 2023 for this.
00:38:30.000No arrests have been made right now, but it's all under investigation.
00:38:36.000And this was from a couple of weeks ago at the end of February, this alleged incident from both sides where there was choking allegedly involved.
00:38:43.000So now you know, obviously, her bachelorette season was not a success because she's back with baby daddy and having baby daddy drama.
00:39:22.000Well, you know, in other gossip that's actually significantly more political, unbelievable story from the New York Times yesterday.
00:39:27.000They dropped a bombshell piece yesterday on famed labor leader Cesar Chavez.
00:39:31.000So, Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers Labor Union.
00:39:34.000He achieved lasting fame by getting California to allow far broader unionization.
00:39:39.000As it turns out, people around Chavez knew for years, for decades, that Chavez was a serial abuser of women and underage girls for years, for decades.
00:39:49.000The New York Times Expose alleges that a woman named Mergoya and another woman named Deborah Rojas, both of whom are now 66, were sexually abused by Chavez from 1972 to 1977.
00:40:04.000The findings from the New York Times are based on interviews with more than 60 people, including Chavez's top aides, relatives, former members of the United Farm Workers, as well as union records emails, photos, audio recordings from UFW board meetings.
00:40:17.000According to the New York Times report, quote, Anna Margoya remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him.
00:40:24.000She walks along the dirt trail, entered the run-down building, passed his secretary, and stepped into his office.
00:40:29.000He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been.
00:40:34.000He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her, and pulled her pants down.
00:40:39.000Don't tell anyone, he told her afterward, they'd get jealous.
00:40:41.000The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45.
00:41:05.000Now she's 96, and she put out a statement, quote, I'm nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believe that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement I've spent my entire life fighting for.
00:41:17.000I've encouraged people to always use their voice.
00:41:19.000Following the New York Times' multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences.
00:41:26.000As a young mother in the 1960s, I experienced two separate sexual encounters with Cesar.
00:41:31.000The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him, I didn't feel I could say no because he was someone I admired, my boss, and the leader of the movement I had already devoted years of my life to.
00:41:40.000The second time, I was forced against my will and in an environment where I felt trapped.
00:41:46.000She said that both sexual encounters with Cesar led to pregnancies.
00:42:06.000Chavez was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
00:42:09.000His bust was actually put in the Oval Office by Joe Biden.
00:42:13.000So, how did all of this go down for decades?
00:42:16.000Well, buried in the New York Times story is the key line, quote, many of the women stayed silent for decades, both out of shame and for fear of tarnishing the image of a man who has become the face of the Latino civil rights movement.
00:42:28.000His image on school murals and his birthday, a state holiday in California.
00:42:37.000One of them is supporting institutions over individuals.
00:42:41.000Herein lies the locus of an untold amount of human evil.
00:42:45.000Individuals are ruined, their lives destroyed, and people stay silent because they hope to uphold the institutions.
00:42:51.000And then it turns out that the story comes out.
00:42:53.000And when the stories come out, institutions lose their moral standing.
00:42:56.000You see this happen over and over and over again.
00:42:58.000The most obvious example, obviously, is the Catholic Church and the child sex abuse scandal, the shifting of parish priests around who are known abusers or suspected abusers.
00:43:07.000The damage that did to the Catholic Church was inestimable, truly horrifying.
00:43:13.000You see this happen with people who are complicit in covering up Jeffrey Epstein, pretend being friends with him, treating him as normal, even though he had already been convicted of sex trafficking of a minor.
00:43:25.000By the way, there's new information showing that a lot of those friends got him rich by basically funneling him information.
00:43:31.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Epstein for Epstein, the line between social networking and securities law was part of the way he conducted business.
00:43:40.000Again, the idea here is that if you want to discredit the institution of capitalism, all you have to do is find people who are willing to back a Jeffrey Epstein character, willing to back somebody like a Jeffrey Epstein.
00:43:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, key advisors to people like Bill Gates passed along information about biotech startups that Bill Gates was investing in.
00:44:02.000And you want to undermine institutions.
00:44:04.000This is the way that you actually do it.
00:44:05.000You want to undermine ideas, provide support for the ideas on the basis of loyalty to an important person.
00:44:11.000And then the minute that you do, when that's uncovered, it destroys the entire institution.
00:44:15.000Even in non-sexual situations like the scientific community, unwillingness to admit screw-ups by people like Anthony Fauci undermines the institution.
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00:46:15.000Okay, quick check-in with our members, and then I want to get to the actual news of the day.
00:46:19.000Yeah, I just have to say the chat is so excited that you said bear down yesterday, and they're very excited about the future of pterodactyl.
00:46:59.000I model virtue for them by treating my wife like a queen and by protecting her and by taking her opinion seriously and by making decisions with her.
00:47:09.000And yes, of course, I am the man of the house.
00:47:10.000I'm the provider, the protector, and the defender.
00:47:13.000But you want your kids to be virtuous, model virtue.
00:47:22.000According to reporter Shelby Talcott of Semaphore, now confirmed by Fox, Joe Kent, who you'll remember is the former head of the National Center for Counterterrorism, who resigned after making this very loud statement about how terrible the Iran war is, well, he's currently under investigation, oh no, for allegedly leaking classified information.
00:47:40.000That investigation reportedly predates that resignation from the administration.
00:47:45.000And remember, he wrote this very loud letter saying that he was opposed to the action in Iran, and then he blamed that on the Israelis, of course.
00:47:52.000He also blamed the Iraq war and ISIS in Syria on the Israelis for good measure.
00:47:56.000Well, Tucker Carlson swooped in like an elp-adled pterodactyl to interview Kent.
00:48:02.000This is unsurprising, given that Carlson and Kent have been tied at the hip for a long time.
00:48:06.000Kent promptly explained to Tucker Carlson that Iran wasn't developing nukes.
00:48:11.000And he knows that Iran wasn't developing nukes because the Iranians told him so.
00:48:17.000Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?
00:48:22.000No, they weren't three weeks ago when this started, and they weren't in June either.
00:48:27.000I mean, the Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa, against actually developing a nuclear weapon since 2004.
00:48:48.000The reason I don't believe him is because I have the testimony of other people saying it's not true who have the actual intelligence.
00:48:53.000By the way, that wasn't the only amazing moment of this interview.
00:48:55.000Kent actually suggested as the former head of the National Center for Counterterrorism that Charlie Kirk might have been murdered by Israel.
00:49:03.000So basically, he's Candace Owens, but with national security clearance.
00:49:09.000And the last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this earth was in June in the West Wing, in the stairway.
00:49:17.000And I said hi to him, and he looked me in the eye.
00:49:20.000And he said very loudly, and it's a small, you've been in the West Wing.
00:49:30.000And he walked off and he went, I believe, into the oval.
00:49:33.000So when one of President Trump's closest advisors who is vocally advocating for us to not go to war with Iran and for us to rethink at least our relationship with the Israelis, and then he's suddenly publicly assassinated, and we're not allowed to ask any questions about that.
00:49:53.000The real question here is how this person, this conspiratorial person, ended up as the head of the National Center for Counterterrorism.
00:50:09.000That is a thing that actually happened.
00:50:10.000Iranian airspace, their internet, shut down.
00:50:14.000But they will definitely play you Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent.
00:50:17.000Let's be clear, however, it now appears that Kent was not acting out of some sort of anti-war principle, but on the cynical calculation that he could counter-program news of his investigation by loudly quitting and blaming the Israelis.
00:50:29.000So it's fair to ask at this point just what Kent allegedly leaked.
00:50:34.000We know that Tucker was his first stop.
00:50:35.000We also know that Carlson has repeatedly reported supposed inside information, including just this week, when he accused the CIA of targeting him based on Wait for it intelligence sources.
00:50:45.000Now, it's also possible that Kent's alleged leaks have nothing to do with Tucker Carlson.
00:50:49.000The isolationist wing of the Trump administration is the leakiest shop in town.
00:50:54.000And it's a little odd that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, just hired one Dan Caldwell in some unspecified advisory capacity.
00:51:01.000You might remember Dan Caldwell from such things as, you know, being fired from the Defense Department amidst accusation of being a leaker.
00:51:09.000And this brings us to the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
00:51:12.000Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday.
00:51:15.000She gave a half-hearted response to the question of whether Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States.
00:51:21.000Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
00:51:29.000The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capabilities.
00:51:37.000Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, yes or no?
00:51:44.000Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.
00:51:50.000This is the worldwide threats hearing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective, and independent of political considerations.
00:52:00.000Now, she won't actually just say the thing, which is that Iran was, in fact, a threat.
00:52:04.000She won't say that because, of course, Tulsi Gabbard has always been incredibly soft when it comes to Russia, Iran, and other enemies of the United States in her generalized outlook.
00:52:13.000Contrast her language with that of the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, who specifically asked about this.
00:52:20.000Is there anything to indicate that Iran had ceased in its nuclear ambitions or in its desire to continue to build ballistic missiles capable of threatening American troops and allies in the Middle East?
00:52:37.000Senator, no, in fact, the intelligence reflects the contrary.
00:52:48.000Now, listen, it's not just that Tulsi Gabbard has been less than overt in support of President Trump's actions.
00:52:53.000The vice president, Vice President Vance, continues to signal what can best be described as kind of tepid support for the president's assessment, which again is an odd position for the VP, who seems to be stuck in many ways between the warmth that he has towards some of the Grievance Party and, you know, traditional Trump MAGA.
00:53:10.000Here was the vice president yesterday.
00:53:17.000And I guarantee you the president of the United States is not interested in getting us, you know, in the kind of long-term quagmires that we've seen in years past.
00:53:27.000I know the way that he thinks about America's national security.
00:53:30.000That is not a risk with this president at all.
00:53:33.000What he has also said consistently for 10, 15 years, maybe even longer, is Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and he's willing to take action, diplomatic, ideally, but military action if he has to to make sure that that doesn't happen.
00:54:34.000Actually, there is even a poll that came out on the specific question here.
00:54:37.000It's from a group called Jail Partners, and it asks explicitly whether Republican voters trust President Trump on Iran or Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly, who is sort of the new addition to the grievance party.
00:54:47.000The answer, 83% Trump, 6% Carlson and Kelly.
00:54:53.000But we keep being told Carlson and Kelly are the real voice of MAGA.
00:54:59.000At the elite level of the administration, there is, in fact, an attempt to pry MAGA away from President Trump.
00:55:05.000Some members of the administration don't want to say this openly because they would like to have it both ways.
00:55:09.000They want to simultaneously claim it Trump's mantle and also disown his policy.
00:55:14.000Members of the grievance party outside the government are sometimes clearer.
00:55:17.000The less cowardly ones, like say a Candace Owens or a Marjorie Taylor Greene, are clearly breaking with President Trump openly.
00:55:23.000And then you have the more cowardly ones like Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent or Megan Kelly who are pretending that Trump has been bamboozled, hoodwinked, and that they're really not arguing with President Trump at all.
00:55:34.000They're just arguing with the people who are manipulating Trump, puppeteers behind the scenes.
00:55:39.000In the end, none of it matters because what's really happening is that a splinter faction of the Trump coalition wishes to run a palace coup.
00:55:46.000It's not going to work unless that splinter faction is somehow able to convince President Trump to end the action in Iran before a clear victory is won.
00:55:54.000And that's precisely what they would like to do.
00:55:56.000They understand full well that if President Trump wins, if the Iranian regime is so weakened that they pose no further offensive threat, if the price of oil dives again, if the Iranian regime is irrevocably weakened and near failure, then their Noam Chomskyite foreign policy priorities will be shoved to the side and they themselves will probably be ostracized from the levers of policy.
00:56:32.000What's worse, given the fact that America is currently facing down in battle, an intractable terrorist enemy responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of American deaths, it is a deeply wicked bet.
00:56:43.000And this brings us to the latest in Iran.
00:56:44.000So yesterday, as we reported, Israel struck the South Powers gas fields in Iran.
00:56:49.000This was reportedly pre-approved by the United States.
00:56:53.000I got to say, it is obvious that Israel would not have hit the South Pars gas fields without coordinating that with the United States, given the extraordinary level of coordination between Israel and the United States in this operation.
00:57:05.000And it was done as leverage against the Iranian government.
00:57:07.000Leave the strait alone or face the consequences.
00:57:10.000So the Iranian government immediately retaliated by firing on Qatari gas facilities.
00:57:14.000Yesterday, President Trump issued a statement making clear that Iran had better leave Qatar's facilities alone or the United States would directly hit the South Pars gas field.
00:57:22.000So he used some plausible deniability.
00:57:24.000Here he said, Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars gas field in Iran.
00:57:32.000A relatively small section of the hole has been hit.
00:57:34.000The United States knew nothing about this particular attack.
00:57:36.000The country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form involved with it, nor did it have any idea this was going to happen.
00:57:41.000Unfortunately, Iran did not know this or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG gas facility.
00:57:50.000No more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar, in which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars gas field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.
00:58:10.000I don't want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long-term implications it will have on the future of Iran.
00:58:16.000But if Qatar's LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.
00:58:19.000So it appears that what happened here is that Israel, yes, with the coordination of the United States, hit the South Pars gas field as a warning to Iran to back off the Strait of Hormuz.
00:58:28.000And the Iranians decided to go on offensive and hit Qatar instead.
00:58:39.000And as far as the Straits of Hormuz, again, I do not think every lever has been pulled there, even remotely yet.
00:58:44.000Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabian government, which so far has not actually participated in offensive activity, it seems like they are moving closer and closer to doing that.
00:58:52.000Because here's the thing: the last thing the Saudis want, because the Iranians hate the Saudis, the last thing they want is to leave a rump Iranian Ayatollah regime in place dedicated to Saudis' destruction.
00:59:02.000Here was the Saudi foreign minister yesterday.
00:59:06.000I don't know how they claim to be fighting for Islamic causes while attacking Islamic countries.
00:59:49.000They didn't call for a joint U.S.-Israeli operation to stop because they are very much on board with what is happening right now.
00:59:56.000Regional opposition to Iran is actually growing stronger, not weaker at this point.
00:59:59.000Iran's strategy, which was to literally go ballistic at all the other countries in the region, it hasn't just not broken the will of the U.S.-Israel and Arab alliance.
01:01:19.000Britt Hume actually made a fantastic point on Fox earlier this week.
01:01:22.000He said, assume that the countries were averse for a second and assume that the president of the United States was dead, the Secretary of Defense was dead, the Secretary of State was on the run, that the major heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force were dead, that we had no Air Force and we had no Navy, and that every single day, members, top members of the brass and pretty much all internal security were being pummeled.
01:01:42.000Imagine that were happening to the United States.
01:01:44.000Would we be winning or would we be, and we had inflicted basically zero casualties on the enemy.
01:01:52.000Well, meanwhile, on the Hill, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen's nomination to head DHS is a hot topic.
01:01:58.000He passed through the Senate Intelligence Committee today 8-7, but yesterday it got pretty heated.
01:02:06.000So in his testimony, he explained that sanctuary cities are effectively in violation of federal law.
01:02:14.000As I said going on, we don't get to choose which laws we enforce.
01:02:21.000As elected officials, you shouldn't choose which laws you enforce.
01:02:24.000We're not asking them to go out there and enforce immigration.
01:02:26.000We're just saying be good partners with us.
01:02:28.000If we've got to serve judicial warrants, let us go serve the judicial warrants.
01:02:32.000If you pull over somebody that's wanted, that's in the country illegally and it's a municipality, we're saying just hold them.
01:02:39.000At least let us do a background check on them and see who they are.
01:02:43.000I mean, his performance was generally fine, obviously.
01:02:46.000John Fetterman is one Democrat who crossed the aisle to vote in favor of Mark Wayne Mullen, with whom he is friends.
01:02:56.000Last time I met, it was you and your wife behind you when I was here at the orientation here in the Senate.
01:03:02.000And even before you got the call for the big job, you know, we were even discussing about getting together and having dinner as family.
01:03:09.000So that's an ongoing relationship because that's also part of the fact here in this town, you got to get along and find a way to work together.
01:03:17.000And now we have to come at it and just let things go in the past for that.
01:03:23.000Again, it is just insane to me that John Fetterman appears to be one of the only people with common sense in the Senate.
01:03:29.000Senator Rand Paul, who obstructs President Trump's agenda on a regular basis, also decided it was time for some personal revenge against Mullen.
01:03:36.000A long time ago, you'll remember that Mullen made some bad comments about a physical attack by Paul's neighbor against Rand Paul.
01:03:42.000He was basically hit from behind, Rand Paul, by his neighbor.
01:03:55.000Sheer lack of any kind of self-awareness that you're going to be leading thousands of men and women who will have the use of force.
01:04:04.000And there's been great questions in our country about how that will be used.
01:04:07.000And you think a violent attack is just fine.
01:04:10.000So I guess my first question is, do you think that justifying that kind of violence sets a good example for the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol?
01:04:21.000Mr. Chairman, first of all, I didn't know the extent of your damage.
01:04:24.000When a phone call was made, I made it to you and I tried to talk to you.
01:04:54.000So you're jolly well fine, and you want the American public and the people up here to vote that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported the felonious, violent attack on me from behind.
01:05:33.000I simply addressed that I said I could understand because of the behavior you were having, that I could understand why your neighbor, why the neighbor did what he did.
01:05:42.000As far as my terms, the snake in the grass, sir, I work around this room to try to fix problems.
01:05:48.000I've worked with many people in this room.
01:05:50.000Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.