Elmo, the Sesame Street muppet, made a big boo-boo and the world unleashed its hellfire on him, with users from all across the political spectrum immediately unloading on Elmo to tell him how disappointed, upset, and depressed they were. And then, Joe Biden comes in from the wings with a chainsaw to massacre the joke. What happened to our sense of humor? Why can t we just laugh at this? It's funny when Elmo asks, "How everyone is doing?" and people are answering with their suicidal thoughts? That's funny. But it seems as though in the country, it's not okay to laugh at pretty much anything anymore. Comedy is a space that we used to share as a society, and that was the basic idea for decades in American life. No matter where you were politically, funny was funny. George Carlin was funny, Johnny Carson was funny - and then, as the social fabric breaks down, it becomes incredibly difficult to laugh. And if you believe that the person who is making the joke is not joking, then you're not laughing along along with the person making it either. Sadness, depression, anger, existential dread, existential angst, and existential angst are not funny either. That's not funny, is it? and if you don't laugh at it, you re not laughing at it. And that's not a funny thing, either, right? . Today's episode is a mashup of two of my favorite songs from the 80's and 90's: "I Can't Wait for Friday" by The Smiths and "I'm Too Effing High School" by Fergie. by The Used to Do It by The Kinks by Tom McDonalds by Fat Joe McElroy's "I Don't Think I Can Do It, I Can't Do It Anymore by The Weezer by Jingle Bells by Missy Elliott by Lady Antebellum by Puff and Friends by Squeex by John Singleton written and produced by Ian Dorsch in honor of the late singer-songwriter Tom McDonald . . . by the late rapper Tom McDonald. and I'm Sorry to You, I'm Sober Now by My Girl by Shaggin' by Jukebox Records is out now. (feat. Jeffree Star ,
00:00:20.000The world unleashed its hellfire on Elmo with users from all across the political spectrum immediately unloading on Elmo to tell him how disappointed, upset, and depressed they were.
00:00:33.000One user replied, Elmo, I'm suffering from existential dread over here.
00:00:37.000Another replied, every morning, I cannot wait to go back to sleep.
00:00:40.000Every Monday, I cannot wait for Friday to come.
00:00:42.000Every single day and every single week for life.
00:00:46.000Rachel Zegler, who you'll recall is the actress from Snow White, they had to reshoot it because she made obnoxious comments about how terrible Snow White was, she tweeted that she was, quote, resisting the urge to tell Elmo that I am kinda sad.
00:00:58.000This was the thing that was going on all over X yesterday, and it's a funny joke.
00:01:02.000It's a funny joke because a Muppet asking how everybody is doing, and then everybody responding that they are experiencing existential angst and upset is really funny.
00:02:06.000But it seems as though in the country, it's not okay to laugh at pretty much anything anymore.
00:02:11.000Comedy, I believe, really died during the Obama administration when pretty much all of our comedic leaders decided that they were actually politicians and Barack Obama was actually a celebrity.
00:02:20.000The complete merger of celebrity and politics that occurred when Barack Obama became president totally ate comedy because comedians decided that they were going to effectively become spokespeople for Barack Obama's administration.
00:02:31.000You'll recall Chris Rock suggesting that Barack Obama was Like his father.
00:02:36.000He was like a father figure to all of us.
00:02:38.000You'll recall that there were comedians who were suggesting that it was impossible to make fun of Barack Obama because he just there was nothing funny about the man which of course is in and of itself pretty funny.
00:02:46.000Barack Obama was a highly mockable character.
00:02:49.000He thought that he was a transformative figure when in fact he was just kind of a corrupt Chicago politician with delusions of grandeur.
00:02:55.000But because Comedy decided that it could not stay separate from politics.
00:03:00.000What that did is it totally undermined one of the common spaces that we have as a society.
00:03:05.000Comedy is a space that we used to share as a society.
00:03:09.000No matter where you were politically, funny was funny.
00:03:12.000And that was the basic idea for decades in American life.
00:03:16.000It didn't matter where you were on the political spectrum.
00:03:26.000And then it turns out that as the social fabric breaks down, it is very difficult to laugh.
00:03:31.000Laughter becomes incredibly difficult because if you believe that the person who is making the joke is laughing at you, you are no longer laughing along.
00:03:40.000And if you believe that the person who is making the joke is actually not joking, that underneath that joke is That's not funny either.
00:03:51.000Sadness, depression, anger, these are not emotions that can coexist with laughing at things.
00:03:56.000And we as a society, we're having kind of a mental breakdown.
00:04:00.000That's actually what's happening right here, because we should all be able to laugh at this thing.
00:04:03.000And this is one of the things that I found so kind of hilarious about the rap song that Tom McDonald and I released, which is now number one worldwide on the iTunes charts, the number one song on the planet.
00:04:29.000In fact, if two weeks ago you had done a poll of people who knew even my name and asked, what is the thing Ben Shapiro is least likely to do?
00:05:06.000Okay, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, their romance basically being a plant by the NFL or by her stage managers or whatever is a funny idea.
00:05:17.000We can all laugh at that because Taylor Swift has spent her entire life in music doing songs about how she has a horrible history with men and breaking up with very famous people.
00:05:27.000And so, if she really is in a sincere romance at this point, and we all wish the best for her, and that's fine.
00:05:32.000And by the way, if Taylor Swift actually does marry Travis Kelce, and they end up having babies, there will be a Taylor Swift baby boom, because that's how stupid our culture is, and we all take pop culture too seriously.
00:05:42.000So there'll be a bunch of 30-year-old women who suddenly decide that it's okay to put their feminist bona fides on the shelf, and get married to a man, and then have babies, if Taylor Swift decides that it's okay to do so.
00:05:51.000And she stops acting like a 17-year-old girl in a 34-year-old woman's body.
00:05:54.000In any case, The whole shtick is really funny.
00:05:57.000That's why I've been making jokes about it.
00:05:58.000I've been making jokes about it since the NFL started showing her up in the skybox and she was like, Oh my God, I love football now.
00:06:33.000But I'm allowed to make a joke about Roger Goodell assassinating Lamar Jackson to make sure that Travis Kelce gets into the Super Bowl so they can get really high ratings as he proposes to Taylor Swift on one knee and then she rejects him and writes a breakup song.
00:08:41.000Politics is hysterically funny when viewed from one lens and then deeply tragic when viewed from another because politics can have such an impact on all of our lives.
00:08:48.000But if you lose the comedy, that really is not because this isn't funny stuff.
00:08:53.000You're losing the comedy because you don't like the people who are around you.
00:09:07.000It's all very serious, and we're going to get to the serious issues in a moment, but I'd like to say that it's okay for everybody to lighten up and laugh a little bit, okay?
00:09:13.000We have Donald Trump, who's a real estate magnate, who's president of the United States once, and is a stand-up insult comic running against a vegetable.
00:09:23.000And in the middle of this, we have projected all of this onto a football star dating a pop star in the middle of the NFL playoffs and pretending this has world historical importance.
00:09:35.000The New York Times, by the way, jumping all over this.
00:09:37.000The fulmination surrounding the world's biggest pop icon and girlfriend of Travis Kelce, the Chiefs' star-tied end, reached the stratosphere after Kansas City made it to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years and the first time since Ms.
00:09:49.000The conspiracy theories coming out of the Make America Great Again contingent were already legion that Ms.
00:09:53.000Swift is a secret agent of the Pentagon and she's bolstering her fan base in preparation for endorsement of President Biden's reelect, or that she and Mr. Kelce are a contrived couple assembled to boost the NFL or COVID vaccines or Democrats or whatever.
00:10:04.000Okay, that last one I kind of... That might be right.
00:10:08.000Because again, Taylor Swift has sort of a history with this stuff.
00:10:13.000Apparently, this has now taken the form... Again, you always have to doubt these sort of anonymous reports, especially from Rolling Stone, which is not a credible source.
00:10:22.000But again, for the humor effect of it, I'm just going to read it because it's kind of hysterically funny.
00:10:26.000According to three people familiar with the matter, Trump loyalists working on or close to the former president's campaign, longtime Trump allies in right-wing media, and an array of outside advisors to the ex-president have long taken it as a given that Swift will eventually endorse Biden.
00:10:39.000But apparently, members of Magellan's upper crust are plotting to declare a holy war on the pop megastar, especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.
00:10:51.000Behind the scenes, Trump has reacted to the possibility of Biden and Swift teaming up against him this year, not with alarm, but with an instant projection of ego.
00:10:57.000In recent weeks, the former president has told people in his orbit that no amount of A-list celebrity endorsements will save Biden.
00:11:30.000Comedy requires trust, and so does political success.
00:11:33.000And Joe Biden does not have trust right now, so comedy is dying.
00:11:36.000And so, by the way, Our Joe Biden's 2024 prospects.
00:11:38.000There's a tough new swing state poll out for Joe Biden from Business Insider or Bloomberg Business rather and Morning Consult that shows in the swing states Donald Trump is now up 48 to 42.
00:12:39.000So this is gonna be a very tight election.
00:12:40.000Anybody who thinks there's gonna be a blowout right now, the evidence is just not there for it.
00:12:43.000But the fact that it's tight is almost solely due to the fact that Joe Biden is a deeply unpopular president who has breached trust with Americans.
00:12:51.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:13:51.000Right now, this poll shows that in the swing states, would you say the economy is going in the right direction or going in the wrong direction?
00:14:30.000That is not even remotely a re-elect number.
00:14:34.000Donald Trump, by the way, is currently at a 46% approval rating, which is higher than Joe Biden in these swing states.
00:14:46.000So, Joe Biden has a lot of problems, and he's exacerbating those problems with bad governance, which of course is why the border continues to matter.
00:14:53.000Joe Biden continues to try it out there and suggest that the border crisis, which continues to simmer, that that border crisis is about him not being given enough power, which of course is not true, because that border crisis did not exist while Donald Trump was president.
00:15:04.000And then Joe Biden came in, as we've explained many times, and as we explain in our new border documentary available over at Daily Wire+, Joe Biden has the executive authority to basically prevent the border from collapsing the way that it has.
00:15:17.000But Joe Biden is still trying to blame it on Republicans as though he needs to be given legislative power in order to do things.
00:15:22.000By the way, it's an amazing statement coming from the same president who has declared the unilateral executive ability to relieve student loan debt and force you to get a vaccine.
00:15:31.000Those are all things that Joe Biden says he can do with presidential power.
00:15:33.000But the one thing he can't do, apparently, is close the border, which is a specifically delegated power that he already has legal authority, nay, legal obligation to fulfill.
00:16:34.000So how do you expect me to say whether the border deal is good or bad?
00:16:38.000It could be worse than the status quo.
00:16:40.000If Joe Biden would just enforce the law.
00:16:43.000Perhaps the proper Republican play in the face of a bad deal is to walk away from the table and say that Joe Biden needs to enforce the laws that are currently on the books.
00:16:51.000That seems to be the current Republican play.
00:16:53.000Democrats are trying to claim that that's a Trump thing.
00:17:52.000Here's the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
00:17:55.000The former president has made it clear that he doesn't want you guys to move forward on this, and judging by his comments, he clearly wants to campaign on this issue.
00:18:04.000Have you spoken to him about the Senate proposal, and are you simply trying to kill this to help him out in the campaign?
00:18:41.000I have talked to former President Trump about this issue at length and he understands that.
00:18:47.000He understands that we have a responsibility to do here.
00:18:49.000The President, of course, President Trump, wants to secure the country.
00:18:54.000The polls are against Joe Biden here, which is why you're not seeing Republicans give
00:18:57.000ground to Joe Biden and they should not give ground to Joe Biden.
00:18:59.000Meanwhile, Democrats are busy in the House trying to defend Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who keeps declaring that the border is in fact secure and is not in fact open, when in reality, the catch and release policy pursued by this administration means that the border is effectively open.
00:19:12.000So Republicans have been pursuing an impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:19:17.000Here was Representative Mark Green saying that Mayorkas has no respect for the law. Now,
00:19:21.000does that amount to a high crime or misdemeanor? I mean, no crime is really alleged. My general
00:19:27.000view of impeachment is that you should allege a crime.
00:19:30.000However, Democrats did impeach Donald Trump twice without actively alleging a crime. So there is that.
00:19:34.000So if we're just going to use impeachment as a political tool, it's good for the goose, it's good for
00:19:38.000the yander. And Alejandro Mayorkas is absolutely not fulfilling his constitutional oath to
00:20:13.000Meanwhile, you have Representative Dan Goldman, who was first and foremost on the Trump impeachment
00:20:17.000train. This guy actively participated in the Trump impeachment, both of them, actually.
00:20:21.000And he says it's demeaning to the institution to impeach Mayorkas. I'm sorry. I think we're well
00:20:25.000beyond the demeaning of Congress. What you are upset about is that Secretary Mayorkas
00:20:32.000rescinded prior executive orders that were working. And you have a right to be upset about that.
00:20:40.000And you have a right to talk about that.
00:20:42.000And you have a right to express your dissatisfaction in any way you choose.
00:20:48.000And you have a right to make that case to the American people so that they vote Secretary Mayorkas and this president out of office in November if that's ultimately what the people believe.
00:21:00.000But you do not have a right To demean this institution, to bastardize the impeachment clause of the Constitution, to belittle the standard of constitutional impeachment to such a degree that you can't even produce a legal memo in support of your articles of impeachment that do not exist in history and do not exist in the law.
00:21:25.000Okay, again, you invoking the law when you literally did not even allege crimes against Donald Trump before impeaching him twice is a pretty astonishing display of hypocrisy.
00:21:36.000The border issue is cutting against Joe Biden.
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00:23:32.000And then, the other half of that equation is, you allow America's allies to do the work that you are not capable of doing because you don't have the boots on the ground.
00:24:43.000I'm responsible for the death of those three Americans.
00:24:48.000I do hold them responsible in the sense that they're supplying the weapons to the people who did it.
00:24:53.000Alrighty, well, um, I'm just going to point out right now that your sense of responsibility has amounted to nothing so far.
00:25:00.000All you have done is exacerbated the problems with Iran.
00:25:03.000They continue to get more aggressive because you're doing nothing.
00:25:05.000Senator Tom Cotton, who of course is a former member of the military from Arkansas, he says that the way you actually do deterrence is through, you know, deterring people.
00:25:22.000Bill, you laid out four options for how we could retaliate against Iran.
00:25:26.000I'd add a fifth, which is all of the above.
00:25:28.000There has to be devastating military retaliation for the targeting of American troops in Jordan, a friendly nation across international borders, leaving three dead Americans and more than three dozen wounded.
00:25:41.000And some of those, Bill, are in grave, critical condition as well.
00:25:49.000This is what they've been doing for 45 years, but they have amped it up under Joe Biden and before him, Barack Obama, because the Obama-Biden foreign policy has been one of appeasement and conciliation.
00:26:01.000We have to totally reverse that policy, starting with retaliatory strikes right now and continuing beyond that to ensure that we're no longer trying to bribe the Ayatollahs with billions of dollars.
00:26:48.000As I've been saying for quite a while here, it turns out that deterrence requires you to deter.
00:26:53.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is resting his campaign on the supposed evils of Donald Trump.
00:26:58.000And a lot of that is predicated on the legal charges.
00:27:00.000And honestly, the more the headlines appear about Donald Trump's legal charges, the less effect they're going to have.
00:27:05.000Say, well, he's facing four cases with 91 charges.
00:27:07.000That looks like political prosecution.
00:27:08.000I'm sorry, that is what it looks like.
00:27:10.000And it looks particularly like political prosecution when several of these cases are clearly trumped up or falling apart.
00:27:15.000The January 6th case in Washington, D.C.
00:27:19.000is a stretch of the law every which way.
00:27:20.000The Fannie Willis case in Georgia is an attention-seeking ploy by Fannie Willis in a legal stretch of RICO that doesn't even really allege the underlying organization to do the criming, which is what you require for a RICO charge.
00:27:34.000Not only that, Fannie Willis is now caught up in her own scandal because it turns out that she hired as a prosecutor a person with no prosecutorial experience who she happens to be schtuping right now.
00:27:43.000So that turns out to be... and then paid him a bunch of taxpayer dollars and went on cruises with him.
00:27:49.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:28:54.000The only case that has any sort of merit at all is the classified docs case down in Florida.
00:28:59.000In that case, Donald Trump can just point at Hillary Clinton politically speaking.
00:29:02.000All this looks like political persecution.
00:29:03.000Not only that, it looks thoroughly like this DOJ is a political tool of the Biden administration.
00:29:10.000The most obvious and insane case of this is the charging of pro-life demonstrators Over their blocking of an entry to a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021.
00:29:22.000So here is film of what it looked like when these supposedly evil, violent, terrible people were outside an abortion facility in Tennessee in 2021.
00:29:31.000They're being charged with charges that would give them up to 11 years in prison.
00:29:36.000They were accused by the Department of Justice of violating the so-called F.A.C.E.
00:29:39.000Act and Civil Rights Conspiracy, violation of people's civil rights, for a protest that took place in a hallway outside of a Mount Juliet abortion provider March 5th, 2021.
00:29:48.000As you will see, this group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Caraphim Health Center Clinic.
00:29:53.000The group prayed and sang hymns and urged women showing up to the clinic not to get abortions.
00:30:31.000The verdict was delivered on the fifth day of the trial, which took place in Nashville.
00:30:36.000One of the government's key witnesses was Caroline Davis, a woman who was arrested with the group at CARE-FM during her testimony.
00:30:40.000Davis claimed she had a change of heart about attending the protest, and that her rational side was in the toilet at the time of her participation.
00:30:46.000She said that she changed her mind over time, and that being indicted by the federal government terrified her.
00:30:51.000Apparently, some people talked to the police.
00:30:54.000One video showed one participant telling another to speak in love to a man with his girlfriend who'd shown up, and that someone's baby was a gift from God.
00:31:01.000And so now these people are going to face 11 years in prison for all of this.
00:31:07.000For this brutal, violent, terrible activity.
00:31:11.000Steve Crampton, who's Thomas More Society Senior Counsel and attorney for one of the people charged
00:31:15.000said quote, we're disappointed with the outcome. This is a peaceful demonstration by entirely
00:31:18.000peaceful citizens filled with prayer, hymn singing and worship oriented toward persuading expecting
00:31:23.000mothers not to abort their babies. Unfortunately, the Biden Department of Justice decided to
00:31:26.000characterize these peaceful actions as a felony conspiracy against rights to intimidate and punish
00:31:32.000the people charged and other pro-life people and people of faith.
00:31:34.000Crampton suggested the Biden's DOJ's pattern of arresting and prosecuting peaceful pro-life
00:31:43.000Remember, this is the same administration.
00:31:45.000That basically decided not to charge huge numbers of people who were involved in the Black Lives Matter riots that did $2 billion in damage in 2020.
00:31:54.000This is the same administration that has basically decided to facilitate shutting down of highways.
00:32:00.000I mean, the Democratic Party has absolutely, in a major city, facilitated the shutdown of airports, the shutdown of highways by protesters who then sometimes assault the police.
00:32:10.000But these anti-abortion protesters sitting in a hallway and singing, that's the violent stuff, that's the truly threatening, horrifying, terrible stuff.
00:32:18.000You wonder why so many Republicans and so many people generally are like, this Biden DOJ, like, if they're indicting Trump, okay, like, are we supposed to take that super seriously?
00:32:37.000Or, if you're Grandma, and you walked through the Capitol building on January 6th, you're not one of the people who was violent, you're not one of the people assaulting a police officer, you're just Grandma, and you're stupidly walking through the Capitol building on January 6th, we will track you down, and we will put you in jail.
00:32:50.000And we'll put you in jail for as long as humanly possible, because obviously, you're an insurrectionist.
00:32:55.000Like, this DOJ is the one that ought to be trusted?
00:33:00.000Meanwhile, speaking of people who ought to be prosecuted, it turns out that the squad, the Hamas squad, you know, the radicals in Congress, we're talking about all the best people, the people the media love, the people they put on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine with Nancy Pelosi.
00:33:13.000It turns out that pretty much all of them have now been embroiled by either controversy, Or, or actual outright criminal activity.
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00:34:10.000Okay, meanwhile, the Hamas squad, the radicals in Congress, they are having themselves quite a week here.
00:34:15.000So, it now emerges that Congresswoman Cori Bush is under investigation for alleged misuse of security funds.
00:34:21.000You'll remember Cori Bush from pretty much every radical rally, claiming America's a deeply racist, terrible place, that we ought to defund the police, well, simultaneously, by the way, she was claiming that pretty much Everybody needed to pay for her security.
00:34:36.000Well now, the DOJ is investigating Cori Bush.
00:34:38.000This is maybe the only good thing the DOJ is doing right now.
00:34:40.000For allegedly misusing money intended for members of Congress and candidates to spend on private security.
00:34:46.000The scope of the investigation and allegations of wrongdoing were not immediately known, but in recent months, investigators have contacted multiple current and former staffers, according to the Washington Post, inquiring about the Congresswoman's campaign spending.
00:34:57.000Apparently, this has to do with her paying all of her friends and calling them security.
00:35:01.000She came under fire for using campaign money to hire her husband, Courtney Merritt, as her security.
00:35:06.000But the Office of Congressional Ethics dismissed a complaint filed against Bush last fall alleging that her campaign's employment of Merritt was a violation of federal election law.
00:35:14.000She paid him over $100,000 between 2022 and 2023, despite the fact that Merritt had no private security license in either St.
00:35:23.000And that, of course, is not the only member of security that she has put on payroll who really has very little to do with security.
00:35:30.000As Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon reported back in March of last year, one of the people working for her, her close friend and highest paid private security guard, is a guy named Nathaniel Davis III, who claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies.
00:35:48.000Which, by the way, awesome set of skills.
00:35:51.000First of all, you should get paid way more than you're getting paid if you can actually do those things.
00:35:54.000That is some awesome stuff right there.
00:35:58.000By the way, anybody who can prove that they can do these things, we have a slot open for you right here at The Daily Wire.
00:36:03.000Perfectly happy to carve out a salaried position for anyone who can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with your hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon your enemies.
00:36:12.000Apparently he's an intergalactic master of psychic self-defense born 109 trillion years ago, which is wild.
00:36:18.000So he is older than the universe by like an order of magnitude.
00:36:24.000His days, he says, are now spent tending to his crops and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies.
00:36:28.000I mean, that is a dude that you should pay for your security if you're Cori Bush.
00:36:32.000So, she then claims, obviously, that it's because Republicans are racist that she's being targeted.
00:36:37.000The beautiful thing about being a member of the Diverse Squad is that you basically get to claim that everything is about racism.
00:36:45.000Since before I was sworn into office, I have endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life.
00:36:52.000As a rank-and-file member of Congress, I am not entitled to personal protection by the House and instead have used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services.
00:37:03.000I have not used any federal tax dollars for personal security services.
00:37:08.000Any reporting that I have used funds for personal security is simply false.
00:37:15.000In recent months, right-wing organizations have lodged baseless complaints against me, peddling notions that I have misused campaign funds to pay for personal security services.
00:38:33.000She claimed that the transcription of the speech, the translation here, in the clip that went viral was off.
00:38:40.000So we here at Daily Wire, we actually went to a translation service and paid ourselves to have it translated.
00:38:45.000And I'm going to read you the transcript of the relevant portion of what she said, because it's absolutely wild and pretty certainly violates her oath of office.
00:38:54.000Here is Ilhan Omar, the worst person in the American Congress.
00:39:13.000Okay, so I'm going to read you our transcript that we got from an actual translation service because, again, I want to make sure that we're accurate in our representation of what Ilhan Omar actually said here.
00:39:22.000Here is the full translation of the segment of the clip that has been going viral on Axe.
00:40:38.000government will do what we tell them to do about it.
00:40:41.000I mean, like whatever conspiratorial nightmare bait she has put out there about Jews, she obviously engages in exactly that same kind of language with regard to her areas of orientation.
00:40:53.000And she says, oh, the Jews are like a hardcore group of people who control the American government.
00:40:56.000Also, we control the American government.
00:41:30.000Like, she's not a member of the Somali political regime, but she talks like she is.
00:41:37.000She says the lady you sent to Congress knows about you and she feels our interest like you all do.
00:41:41.000To President Hassan Sheikh, we are happy about you and the good job you have done.
00:41:44.000Thank you, Mr. President, for reminding everyone that even if Somalia is in crisis, we are a people of talent who know their country and whose country cannot be put in danger.
00:41:52.000I want to congratulate the Somalis in Minnesota and the Somalis everywhere on how you are all united and how you supported our president who needs our support.
00:42:02.000Um, the president of the United States is Joe Biden.
00:42:05.000As a Republican, the president of the United States is, in fact, Joe Biden.
00:42:09.000He is my president, because he's the president of the United States, and I'm an American.
00:42:13.000Like, that's an amazing statement from Ilhan Omar.
00:42:16.000So people have talked about denaturalizing, deporting, and all the rest.
00:42:19.000That's a pretty hard thing to do in the United States.
00:42:22.000There's a lot of free speech rights that attach to being an American citizen, even if you're saying a bunch of nonsense and bad garbage.
00:42:29.000However, the oath of office does in fact require you to solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, to take the obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
00:43:01.000In the bad week for the Hamas squad continues Jamal Bowman, who is a man so intelligent he once mistook a fire alarm for a door opening apparatus.
00:43:12.000Apparently, way back when, he was promoting conspiracy theories about 9-11.
00:43:18.000Not a shock, conspiratorialism on the left and on the right has been growing in recent years.
00:43:21.000There are plenty of conspiracy theorists in Congress, unfortunately.
00:43:24.000On Tuesday, the Daily Beast published a report about a blog that Bowman maintained during his days in education.
00:43:30.000This is where he was a principal of an actual public middle school.
00:43:33.000He published poems and brief essays there on personal political and pedagogical concerns through 2014.
00:43:40.000They found a May 2011 post titled, Recapitulate.
00:43:43.000It is a 137-line free-verse poem, sounds terrible, which starts as a recollection of world events before transitioning heavily into meditations on various 9-11 conspiracy theories, generally focused on claiming that they were not terrorist attacks, rather planned by some other entities to precipitate the War on Terror.
00:44:04.000He says, well over a decade ago as I was debating diving into a doctoral degree, I explored a wide range of books, films, and articles across a wide swath of the political spectrum and processed my thoughts in a personal blog that few people ever read.
00:44:49.000That is amazing, amazing deep thoughts there from Jamal Bowman.
00:44:54.000So again, the squad having a bad week, but again, I don't blame the squad for their own stupidity, malice, and corruption.
00:45:00.000I blame the people who voted for them.
00:45:01.000It's their fault they shouldn't have voted for them in the first place.
00:45:04.000And meanwhile, In the least shocking news of the day, it turns out that Harvard's diversity chief is also guilty of plagiarism.
00:45:11.000So remember that time that the Harvard president, Claudine Gay, was guilty of lots and lots of plagiarism and then ended up losing her job?
00:45:17.000Well, it turns out now, according to the New York Post, Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer has been hit with dozens of plagiarism allegations tied to her academic work, including one claim that she failed to properly cite her husband's study.
00:45:32.000The Ivy League school was handed an anonymous complaint on Monday listing at least 40 examples of alleged plagiarism by Sherry Ann Charleston dating back to 2009 according to the Washington Free Beacon.
00:45:43.000According to the Beacon, Charleston allegedly quoted or paraphrased a dozen scholars without attribution in her 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan and actually took credit for a study that her husband wrote in 2012.
00:45:57.000So, well done to Harvard, which, again, if you're making the case that diversity is our strength, you need to actually hire people who don't plagiarize.
00:46:04.000That would be like the first barrier to overcome.
00:46:07.000The diversity is not our strength argument would be to hire people who are competent and non-plagiarist.
00:46:12.000That would be like the place that you start.
00:46:13.000But apparently that was too heavy a lift.