In the wake of the mass shooting at a Catholic elementary school in Minnesota, many are asking the question: what was the real motive behind the attack? And why did a 14-year-old boy change his name from Robert to Robin in order to commit the worst mass shooting in American history?
00:00:00.000People, as new details emerge about the identity, thoughts, feelings, mental illness of this horrifying Catholic school shooter in Minnesota, it becomes clearer and clearer that we have an institutional problem.
00:00:13.000Now, not every crime in a country of 330, 340 million people implies an institutional problem.
00:00:22.000Sometimes you just have people who do things that are crazy or terrible, and there's really no way of preventing or minimizing that particular crime.
00:00:30.000This is not one of those cases because what we are looking at here is symptomatic of a broader ideological ill that has afflicted our state institutions and our medical institutions and has massive downstream effects.
00:00:41.000Those downstream effects aren't always school shootings.
00:00:43.000In fact, only in rare occasions are they school shootings, but they are harming literally thousands of children across our country.
00:00:50.000So one of the things that we have now found out about the school shooter, this trans school shooter named Robin, again, I haven't used the last name because I do not believe that glorifying these shooters or giving a lot of attention to their names is worthwhile.
00:01:04.000And the reason for that is pretty obvious from the actual guns used by the shooter, which were emblazoned with the names of other school shooters and mass killers.
00:01:13.000There's a sort of bizarre transmission effect that happens.
00:01:16.000when the media grant enormous attention to evil mentally ill people who go and shoot a bunch of school children.
00:01:23.000But one of the factors here is that the transgender shooter, whose name was Robert and then legally changed it to Robin and was a biological male, confessed he was, quote, tired of being trans and wished he had never brainwashed himself in a manifesto posted online before he slaughtered two children and wounded eighteen more in a Minneapolis church, according to the New York Post in a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube but before the massacre, much of which was encrypted in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic script and English words.
00:01:51.000The shooter groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition, quote., I only keep the long hair because it pretty much is my last shred of being trans.
00:02:10.000I will probably chop it on the day of the attack.
00:02:12.000Hey, there's so many elements here that are astonishing.
00:02:15.000Hey, number one, the belief that what would have put a red flag up is the removal of the long female like hair.
00:02:25.000That's what would have thrown up a red flag to the Minnesota authorities is if a male could have grown his hair out to attempt to look more like a female had cut his hair to look more like a male again.
00:02:35.000He was afraid that that would have actually thrown up a red flag to the authorities who might have said, there's something wrong.
00:02:41.000So there was nothing wrong with a boy saying that he was a girl, his parents signing off on forms to transition him by name.
00:02:48.000Nothing wrong with that in Minnesota as we'll get to, that's actually not only upheld in Minnesota, it is celebrated in Minnesota.
00:02:54.000But if he had decided to detransition, he was afraid that the Minnesota authorities might take a second look at him.
00:02:59.000Second of all, this was a person who was clearly suffering from gender identity disorder and was not satisfied with the solutions provided by the trans fake medical community.
00:03:12.000Now we've been told by that fake medical community, the only way to prevent terrible things from happening to and from trans people, people who are trans identified, is to pretend along with them that they are members of the opposite sex.
00:03:23.000And in fact, we are supposed to socially shame people who quote unquote detransition.
00:03:28.000The shooter wrote, quote, I regret being trans.
00:04:06.000The amount of Orwellian double speak here is insane, totally crazy.
00:04:11.000So respect the killer's pronouns preferred pronouns, but pretend that the motive is a mystery.
00:04:16.000We know exactly what the motive was because it is spelled out in all of the journals, in the YouTube videos, on the guns themselves.
00:04:23.000This is the media trying to cover up the reality of the situation, which is a mentally ill person who is not given proper treatment, who is told that his illusions were in fact a reflection of the evil patriarchy and a terrible traditional society,
00:04:42.000whose parents were told by medical and state institutions the most important thing that they could do to minimize threat to their child and threat to others was to pretend along with this person that he was a woman, that any sort of corrective activity designed at alleviating gender identity disorder by saying,
00:05:00.000no, actually you are a boy, and we need to deal with that in rational, psychologically tested ways instead of doing that., they decided to play along and the consequences were murder in this particular case.
00:05:15.000It is also demonstrative of the fact that for a lot of people who have gender identity disorder, what they are actually suffering from is autogynophilia.
00:05:23.000This is a person who obviously was turned on by the idea of himself as a girl, rather than believing that he was a girl.
00:05:30.000But when I say this implies our institutions, I mean it.
00:05:40.000Now, just by coincidence, over the course of the last couple of days, we dropped that story about the American Medical Association.
00:05:46.000I'm the head of the AMA, Dr. Bobby McCamala.
00:05:49.000We've been talking about it extensively on the show the last couple of days.
00:05:53.000We recorded those shows before the actual shooting occurred.
00:05:58.000It just so happened that the AMA has been promoting exactly the kind of fake medicine that leads to the abandonment of people who are truly suffering, truly psychologically suffering.
00:06:10.000That fake medicine, which masquerades as empathy, is not in fact medicine.
00:06:15.000It is in fact an ideologically driven crusade to pretend that men and women are identical and can switch bodies at will.
00:06:24.000We know for a fact now that the shooter in this particular case was interested in detransitioning, didn't want to be trans anymore, but had been told by the medical establishment, by the state, by the influential authorities that that was an impossibility, that one's trans always trans, that a boy can become a girl but can't become a boy again, and that it would be shameful and somehow a surrender to do so.
00:06:50.000And here is the head of the AMA, Dr. Bobby McConnell, saying that people literally don't transition.
00:06:58.000And we certainly shouldn't leave the opportunity open for people with gender identity disorder or any other form of trans delusion to start to feel comfortable in their own biological body.
00:07:12.000Instead, we ought to transition the body to meet the vagaries of the mind.
00:07:18.000Yeah, but even so, so you're a doctor, you're a surgeon.
00:07:22.000How can you justify doing surgery, the most radical surgeries that medicine has come up with on an individual who has an evolving or changing gender identity?
00:07:35.000How, how, how can you write that, that possibility?
00:07:39.000So, I mean, people that actually change.
00:07:41.000So are you talking about so when an adult after twenty years of feeling like they are a woman instead of a man is considering suicide and wants to do something about that, then they go to a psychiatrist, they get medicine, and then they would consider an operation if that's what really was going to keep them healthy.
00:08:06.000And that doesn't even happen in kids in Michigan, by the way.
00:08:08.000If you're talking about pediatrics, it's a totally different thing.
00:08:14.000Now, again, this sort of delusional insanity from the AMA.
00:08:18.000the most important medical organization in America, it is embedded.
00:08:22.000This trans ideology, this blight, this lie is embedded in our most important institutions, including medical institutions.
00:08:29.000If you wonder why there is no trust in the CDC, if you wonder why there's no trust in the NIH, if you wonder why trust has been completely undermined in quote unquote science, it's because the ideological left infiltrated all of these organizations, took them over, and then wore their face around as a mask like Hannibal Lecter.
00:08:47.000And then said, why don't you just trust the science?
00:08:49.000And the answer is because you're not doing the science.
00:09:20.000But here was a non-binary teacher named Nairobi Makiba Colon in Camden, New Jersey at the KIPP Hatch Middle School.
00:09:28.000Now, first of all, I should point out, you know, how thoroughgoing this ideology is, how much it has infiltrated every part of American public life when this is infiltrating schools in Camden, New Jersey.
00:09:38.000Camden, New Jersey happens to be one of the most high crime cities in all of America.
00:09:55.000Instead of worrying about an enormous number of kids who don't have fathers in the home in an area blighted by crime, they're busy teaching kids that they must use the correct pronouns.
00:10:28.000So if I ever get your name or pronouns wrong, please correct me every single time.
00:10:33.000The absolute insane narcissism of this and then cramming it down on kids.
00:10:37.000This is happening at schools across the country.
00:10:39.000This is not a sort of fringe thing happening at a few schools.
00:10:43.000It is literally happening at public schools across the country.
00:10:46.000Meanwhile, how about the state of the law in Minnesota?
00:10:49.000So Minnesota in 2023 passed a law, chapter 28., HF number 16, section 1, 214.078, protection from conversion therapy.
00:11:02.000Now, there have been a bunch of laws passed across the country with regard to conversion therapy.
00:11:06.000When most people think of conversion therapy, what they think is that there is someone who takes a gay kid hooks the kids up, the kid up to electrodes and then zaps them until they're straight.
00:11:15.000That's what conversion therapy is because that is like the old fashioned horror show that many people attempted back in like the 1970s, early 1980s, maybe.
00:11:24.000Well, that is illegal, but that is not what these states now mean by conversion therapy.
00:11:29.000What they mean by conversion therapy is that you are not allowed as I said.
00:11:32.000as a psychologist, as a mental health care professional, as a parent, by the way, to bring your kid to a mental health care professional who tries to convince your boy that he is not, in fact, a girl that is illegal in the state of Minnesota.
00:11:47.000So if the parents of the shooter had brought him to a mental health care professional or religious guidance professional, a priest, because this kid apparently went to a Catholic school.
00:11:58.000who had said, you know, you might not in fact be a girl.
00:12:02.000We need to work within the boundaries God gave you, drawing within the biological lines that could be illegal in the state of Minnesota because conversion.
00:12:11.000therapy is banned in the state of Minnesota, but here is the definition of conversion therapy.
00:12:15.000It means any practice by a mental health practitioner that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender.
00:12:34.000Conversion therapy does not include counseling practice or treatment that provides assistance to an individual undergoing gender transition.
00:12:40.000or counseling practice or treatment that provides acceptance, support, and understanding of an individual or facilitates an individual's coping, social support, and identity exploration.
00:12:51.000As long as the counseling practice or treatment does not seek to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, understand what this law does.
00:13:01.000What this law says is that if your kid expresses gender confusion, says, Mommy, I might be a girl and he's a boy, and you bring him to a psychologist and the psychologist says, You're a boy, you're not a girl.
00:13:10.000You should stop trying to claim that you're a girl because you're not.
00:13:14.000That right there would violate the law in the state of Minnesota.
00:13:18.000It effectively makes any help for a quote unquote detransitioner illegal in the state of Minnesota.
00:13:26.000If you brought your kid, if you brought this shooter before he was a shooter, This troubled young man, deeply mentally disturbed young man to a mental health professional.
00:14:00.000Well, because that 2023 legislation signed by Governor Tim Walls, again, insanely enough, the vice presidential nominee for the Democrats, according to the New York Post, blocks out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants, and extradition requests for people who travel to the land of 10,000 lakes from other states for sex reassignment surgeries or homeown treatments.
00:14:18.000So let's say that you are a parent and your kid absconds with another adult to the state of Minnesota for a gender transition and you say no, I want my kid back.
00:14:30.000They will not extradite your kid in the state of Minnesota.
00:14:35.000If you as a parent in the state of Minnesota say no to transition procedures or you wish to fight the insanity that is this ideology, you could have your kid removedoved from you under Minnesota law.
00:14:54.000You have an entire delusion that is now being promoted by state legislatures, by governors across the country, particularly in blue states, reinforced by the lies of medical associations that are supposed to be all about doing no harm and instead are actively promoting harm promoted by an educational system completely honeycombed with members of the ideological left.
00:15:17.000This happens to be an over sized cost because it's not just about the person who had the mental illness.
00:15:22.000It's about all the people that that person decided to harm.
00:15:25.000Obviously, that's the main story here.
00:15:27.000But the point is that this is part of a broader systemic problem.
00:15:32.000Now, Democrats, of course, have decided that it's all about the guns, always and forever, because that's the formula.
00:15:38.000If this were a white supremacist shooting up a mosque or a Jewish school or a Catholic school for that matter, then there might be some talk about the ideology, about the system of white supremacy, about the basic philosophy of white supremacism and the evil that it promotes.
00:15:54.000But if this is clearly an outshoot of trans ideology, which it is, it was the targeting of a religious Catholic school for the murder of school children by a trans identified person who had in his journals many references to not only his trans identity, but also to the evils of Catholics and Jews, President Trump and all the rest.
00:16:21.000So here is Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who really should shut her face.
00:16:24.000I mean Peggy Flanagan again, just a couple of months ago was wearing around a T-shirt that said protect trans kids with an actual emblazoned knife on it.
00:16:35.000This is not a person with the moral authority to be speaking about this particular shooting, but here we go.
00:16:41.000We continue to hear people say, why does God let things like this happen?
00:16:47.000And I would just say that God weeps, that we have tools, that we have elected leaders who want to move legislation that could truly make a difference.
00:17:01.000And I think we just need to have that willpower to take those steps that are needed to protect our communities.
00:17:10.000Well, I mean, I don't wish to hear lectures about God from you.
00:17:15.000I do not wish to hear lectures about God's mercy or justice from a person who believes in T-shirts that have knives on them, talking about how kids need to be protected by promoting the idea that they can be members of the opposite sex.
00:17:30.000Meanwhile, the American Federation of Teachers Randy Weingarten doing the same routine.
00:17:34.000She says a national assault weapon ban would work, would it though?
00:17:36.000Because it turns out this particular school shooter had a bunch of different weapons and there was an assault weapons ban in place from the mid nineties until the early 2000s.
00:17:45.000Then it expired and it had no impact on school shootings by the measures.
00:17:49.000But it's always fun for Democrats to invoke their own religious mantra.
00:17:58.000We are Who those young people were, who saved other young people, who those teachers were, who saved other teachers, who those medical professionals were, who went with a CT scan with a child, who those law enforcement people are.
00:18:18.000That is the best of America, but we have to have the national conversation around a set of belief or policy that we know will work and a national assault weapons ban would work.
00:18:33.000Okay, you have no actual data to back that, none.
00:18:35.000The idea that the national assault weapons ban would be the thing that stops this sort of thing.
00:18:40.000By the way, I do know what would actually promote the end of this particular sort of shooting, and that would be that people identified as suffering from gender identity disorder not be allowed to purchase weapons.
00:18:54.000Again, Democrats are all very much in favor of red flag laws until it applies to people who legitimately are mentally ill, who they believe are actually just victims of society.
00:19:03.000Meanwhile, David Hogg, he gets to have another moment in the sun.
00:19:07.000So David Hogg, who originally made his name by being a student who attended Parkland, he was there during the Parkland shooting, but he parlayed that into a leader in activism and then a slot at Harvard University with a below average SAT score.
00:19:21.000And then he parlayed that into a very short-lived stint as the vice president of the Democratic National Committee.
00:19:27.000And then he was thrown out because he was basically destroying everything within.
00:19:32.000But don't worry, he's still here to be useless.
00:19:35.000So here he was on CNN going off on all people, President Trump, after a trans person shoots up a Catholic church in the blue state of Minnesota.
00:19:42.000It's President Trump's fault, of course.
00:19:46.000Donald Trump has the power to do something about this.
00:19:50.000After Parkland, he repeatedly said, you guys are cowards.
00:19:53.000You're not going to do anything because you're afraidid of the NRA.
00:20:01.000And my message to Donald Trump is that you are a coward, sir.
00:20:05.000You are not going to do anything about this issue because you were terrified of the NRA, even though you have the power to save tens of thousands of lives.
00:20:12.000You were the strongest president in modern American history with a chokehold over your party and both chambers of Congress.
00:20:18.000You have the power to end this, but you are not going to because you are a damn coward.
00:20:24.000Okay, again, this sort of ridiculous pandering by people like David Hogg, a complete career useless person is what he will become.
00:20:31.000He's young, maybe there's time to change prediction.
00:20:34.000Fifty years from now, he's just as useless as he is right now.
00:20:37.000But the idea that Trump can single handedly snap his fingers and bam, all school shootings stop, that of course is an absurdity and a moral blind.
00:20:45.000Stephen King is trying to shift the focus away from the identity of the shooter, saying, quote, whether he was transgender is beside the point.
00:21:01.000I am a threat to no one except a criminal who breaks into my house.
00:21:05.000In fact, there are millions of Americans who own guns who are not going to shoot up at school.
00:21:10.000If what we are doing is identifying the most likely causal factor that is correlative with school shootings, and it goes mental illness or gun ownership, I promise you that significant mental illness has a much higher correlation with school shootings than just gun ownership alone.
00:21:31.000The gun didn't do anything on its own.
00:21:33.000It had to be in the hands of a deranged human being.
00:21:39.000The struggle to avoid the obvious here from the left is pretty incredible.
00:21:44.000Former Homeland Security official, Danell Harvin, he added his voice to the mix over on CNN saying the same sort of thing.
00:21:53.000This individual appears to be what we call a nihilist.
00:21:56.000And not to get into too much detail about their ideology, they believe that no lives matter.
00:22:02.000I believe that calling this or investigating this as an attack against Catholics, I believe, is a little disingenuous and it plays into the far right's narrative about Christians being under attack in this country.
00:22:14.000Clearly, since this person went to this school, it appears to be, and we don't know their background.
00:22:20.000But I think that we're starting to see the creepingsing politicization of the tragedy.
00:22:30.000It is a politicization when you blame the tens of millions of gun owners in America who have nothing to do with the school shootings for the crimes of a deranged individual who was ideologically driven.
00:22:40.000And we can see the connection between A and B already coming up.
00:22:44.000The Republican response to this horrifying shooting.
00:22:47.000Plus, we'll get into the latest from Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, up the ante once again.
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00:25:05.000Meanwhile, the Republican response obviously seems to be significantly more tethered to reality.
00:25:09.000The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, he points out we have a pretty significant mental health crisis in the country, which of course is true.
00:25:17.000The first lady, Melania, who really has a very big heart for children, obviously as a mother herself, she put out a statement earlier today that I think is really worth taking a look at because this happens too much in our country.
00:25:30.000And if you look, we really do have, I think, a mental health crisis in the United States of America.
00:25:35.000We take way more psychiatric medication than any other nation on Earth.
00:25:38.000And I think it's time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence.
00:26:30.000And when you look at those numbers, what you see is that independents are somewhere in the thirty some percent range, Republicans are in the seventy six percent range, and Democrats are at zero in general.
00:26:39.000Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States?
00:26:42.000What that does is it creates a political wave on behalf of Democrats who use extremely, extremely polarizing and extreme language.
00:26:54.000If you are a Democrat and you want to capture the democratic Zeitgeist.
00:26:57.000You have to understand, everyone is fighting mad on the democratic side of the aisle.
00:27:00.000And that means you're going to keep racketing up the rhetoric over and over again.
00:27:03.000You're going to claim that your opponents are the Gestapo.
00:27:05.000You're going to claim that the President of the United States is an incipient dictator who is going to overthrow all the mechanisms of constitutional government and we're on the order of something truly horrifying.
00:27:16.000Now, as I've said before, the connection between rhetoric and violence is there, but we have to be pretty calibrated in how we analyze that.
00:27:25.000There's a difference between somebody getting up and saying go shoot the president, which is illegal, right?
00:27:36.000Okay, the latter is wrong, but it's not terri technical incitement.
00:27:40.000What the ladder does is it raises the temperature.
00:27:43.000I've used this metaphor a lot because it happens to be a good metaphor.
00:27:46.000The metaphor is that the American body politic is essentially a pot of water.
00:27:52.000You can raise the temperature on the water.
00:27:55.000You can increase the temperature on the stove and the pot starts to boil.
00:27:59.000The higher you hit the temperature, the more the pot is going to boil.
00:28:01.000And the more the pot boils, the more there's a chance that it boils over.
00:28:05.000And so you are increasing the chances in this metaphor of the pot boiling over, meaning violence, when you use unhinged rhetoric.
00:28:12.000And again, this is nothing that is relegated solely to the left.
00:28:15.000You've seen it from the right as well as well.
00:28:17.000You can see it in a wide variety of countries.
00:28:18.000It's not relegated to the United States alone.
00:28:22.000And so if you're a Democrat and the incentive structure is for you to say extreme things to get attention, you're going to keep saying more and more extreme things to get attention.
00:28:29.000And then there's going to be some unhinged people who look at what you're saying and take it absolutely literally, absolutely seriously, and then they go do things about it.
00:28:37.000So it's a bad thing when you have, for example, Democratic representative John Larson of Connecticut comparing Ice to the Gestapo and saying to rise up.
00:29:06.000So, you know, again, the Gestapo, I mean, if somebody does an act of violence against a member of ICE, well, based on the fact that you're saying that they're good, they're Gestapo and it's time to rise up.
00:29:17.000I mean, to pretend that there is no connection there is kind of crazy.
00:29:21.000Gavin Newsom is playing this game as well, the governor of California.
00:29:27.000So here he was at a politico event the other day suggesting that Donald Trump does not want another election.
00:29:33.000that he is legitimately a Hitlerian figure who is going to cancel all future elections and essentially take total power in the United States.
00:29:40.000First of all, if Gavin Newsom believed this as the governor of the largest and most populous state in the Union, economically the largest, most populous state in America, then he would have a duty to probably lead an insurrection.
00:29:53.000If he actually thought that were real, he does not think that's real.
00:29:56.000Of course, he does not believe that President Trump wants to cancel all future elections.
00:30:00.000It's ridiculous when people claim this sort of stuff.
00:30:02.000There will be an election in 2028 and then there will be one in 2032 and then there will be one in 2036.
00:30:06.000We can hope Gavin Newsom does not make the finish line in any of those elections.
00:30:10.000But there is a market for this sort of rhetoric on the Democratic left.
00:30:47.000This is, there's no., this guy doesn't believe in free, fair elections.
00:30:51.000He could, he's tried to wreck this country.
00:30:53.000I wonder, were we, were you there, January 6?
00:30:58.000Okay, so notice that the audience itself is laughing at this, literally laughing out loud at Gavin Newsom.
00:31:04.000He's pretending that he's serious about this in the audience because it's a political audience, so presumably they know something about politics.
00:31:57.000President Trump has these long pressers where all the members of the cabinet are there praising him and talking about how great he is.
00:32:03.000And Gavin Newsom decided that he was going to mock that and then talk about how crime rates in red states are really bad, neglecting, of course, the fact that the crime rates in red states, the ones that are bad, it tends to be because of blue governed large cities in red states, like, say, New Orleans in Louisiana.
00:32:17.000But here is Gavin Newsom mocking President Trump.
00:32:19.000This is why I say I can't take him seriously when he says there won't be another election if Trump has his way.
00:33:33.000Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi.
00:33:38.000And the fact remains, if the president is sincere about the issue of crime and violence, there's no question in my mind that he will likely be sending the troops into Louisiana and Mississippi to address the just unconscionable wave of violence that continues to plague those states.
00:34:00.000I mean, he is so gr incredibly cringy.
00:34:03.000He's just a big ball of cringe, Gavin Newsom.
00:34:05.000By the way, it should be mentioned that the number one murder city in Mississippi, just to take an example, is Jackson, Mississippi.
00:34:10.000The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi is John Horne, Democrat.
00:34:14.000In fact, I decided to ask my sponsors over a comet, a new web browser by perplexity, a question analyzing the top ten highest crime major cities in red states, right?
00:34:23.000The red states would be Newsom's select group over the past thirty years.
00:34:27.000What percentage of that time have those cities been governed by Democratic mayors?
00:34:31.000Most of the top ten highest crime major cities in red states have been governed by Democratic mayors for a significant majority of the past thirty years, often exceeding eighty percent of that period or more.
00:34:39.000This trend is clearest in cities such as Memphis, Tennessee, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and is broadly consistent with other high crime major cities in red states.
00:34:47.000The top ten high crime cities in red states commonly include Memphis, Saint Louis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Detroit, sometime included in red state analysis, Baltimore, disputed as to red, blue in terms of Maryland, Jackson, Mississippi, and Shreveport.
00:35:01.000Those cities are mostly in states that have voted Republican in recent presidential elections and consistently have among the highest murder and violent crime rates.
00:35:09.000And as it turns out, empirical pattern in major southern cities with the highest crime, Democratic mayors have typically governed for more than eighty percent to ninety percent of the last three decades.
00:35:18.000This pattern aligns with findings that among the 100 largest US cities, the great majority, about 60 to 65 percent, are led by Democratic mayors.
00:35:25.000And nearly all of the largest cities in the South with high crime rates are included in this group.
00:35:30.000So blaming that on red states as opposed to blue mayors, that is a category error, but Newsom knows that and he's making it on purpose.
00:35:40.000We'll get to the latest economic reports plus firings at the CDC in a moment.
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00:37:56.000He exploded over the DNC doing a land acknowledgement to open the other day, which of course Carville at least has enough touch the grass to him to understand that most Americans are not interested in a party that opens its actual national convention every year by suggesting that America is stolen land.
00:38:34.000It doesn't exist to acknowledge the more unpleasant parts of history.
00:38:40.000It doesn't exist to make people feel good.
00:38:43.000It exists to get this through your head to win elections.
00:38:47.000Now, do you think that's going to help us win elections, say, like we did in Iowa, which is, I think, close to Minnesota, my geography is there, by our good land theft from the Dakotas.
00:39:08.000Please stop this in the next election.
00:39:10.000In the name of a just, merciful God, don't you see what's happening?
00:39:15.000Don't you see where this has brought us to?
00:39:20.000Well, you know, luxury believes that's that's what the Democrats are very much into.
00:39:25.000One of the more hilarious luxury beliefs clips that I've seen in the recent past involved a member of the Pod Save America crew who are increasingly out hinged with regard to a wide variety of issues, but no shock there.
00:39:37.000Team Obama always masqueraded as moderate when in fact they were extraordinarily radical, but they had on a LA City Council member named Imelda Padilla and she was trying to explain how she was making housing more affordable in.
00:39:53.000Under the emergency ordinance, I'm bringing a set of tiny homes into an underutilized MetroLink parking station.
00:40:00.000I didn't have to do any outreach, but I started a neighborhood watch and I also had a whole town hall related to addressing that component.
00:40:08.000And there's also an ED one that's being built on Victory and Balboa.
00:40:12.000And going back to what you said, the neighbors didn't want it at all.
00:40:21.000But by law, I really have no jurisdiction anymore because it's an ED one, right?
00:40:28.000But we still as a team got together with the developer, the high school across the street, other stakeholders, and instead of building something that was potentially six stories, we got it down to three stories.
00:40:39.000And we also got the developer to also work with us to make sure that it helps the families of the area.
00:40:45.000We also said, you know, instead of a ton of office space, we do want you to also incorporate a few more parking lots and EV chargers.
00:40:54.000And there's John Lovett looking like his head is going to legitimately come off his body and explode, which is because this is what you guys look at the magic they are doing in lowering rent prices in California by preventing three stories of a building from being built and also getting rid of office space.
00:41:11.000Genius level stuff here from your democrat friends.
00:41:19.000According to the New York Post, Russia has launched a sweeping aerial assault across Ukraine late on Wednesday, pounding Kiev with ballistic missiles and swarms of drones killing at least seventeen people, including four children, injuring dozens more.
00:41:31.000Andrey Yermak, the top advisor to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy, said, quote, many people are under the rubble, including children.
00:41:37.000The barrage began around 9:30 pm setting off air raid sirens and prompting urgent shelter notification warnings in nearly every region nationwide.
00:41:45.000Now, you know, I've been in Kiev when the journal alarms went off.
00:41:50.000In fact, we released an extraordinary video this morning going through what Vladimir Putin wants, the history of Ukraine.
00:41:56.000There's footage of me in Ukraine that's never been seen before.
00:42:00.000Here's a little bit of what it looked like.
00:42:31.000According to the New York Post, at least four Russian MiG 31 jets armed with Kinshaw missiles decolled during the attack.
00:42:37.000Missiles, drones and bombs were spotted throughout the country, particularly in Kiev, but also in western regions of the country where attacks have been rarer.
00:42:43.000At least seventeen people, including four children, were killed.
00:42:47.000That's the second largest air attack on the nation's capital since the war began.
00:42:51.000It's the biggest since President Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
00:42:56.000Meanwhile, the Europeans are grasping at straws.
00:42:58.000They've now been floating the possibility of the Ukraine Russia buffer zone in a push for peace.
00:43:02.000According to Politico, they are weighing the creation of a 40 km buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian front lines as part of a peace deal, a lasting idea Moscow has embraced that would likely stretch the continent's modest number of peacekeeping troops.
00:43:14.000The proposal, according to five European diplomats, is among several that military and civilian officials are considering for either a post-war or ceasefire scenario in Ukraine.
00:43:22.000Officials disagree how deep the actual zone could be.
00:43:24.000It's unclear whether a key would accept the plan as it would come with territorial concessions.
00:43:28.000The US is not involved apparently in these buffer zone discussions.
00:43:32.000So the idea would be that there would be a block, a strip of land inside Ukraine would be blocked off to force a fragile peace.
00:43:38.000Now, the reason that Putin presumably would accept that is because he's figuring, okay fine, they'll put together some sort of buffer zone.
00:43:44.000We'll just put some infiltrators in there, some little green men, as they call them, and those people will start doing violence and a uprising, and then the Europeans won't be able to do anything.
00:43:53.000Are the Europeans going to up the ante?
00:43:54.000Are they going to do counter insurgency offensives in that buffer zone?
00:43:58.000There's a reason that Putin wants to sign on to that.
00:44:01.000European diplomats have stayed away from likening this to the heavily guarded divide between North and South Korea.
00:44:06.000They compare it more to the division of Germany during the Cold War, which again was an actual hard division.
00:44:11.000Putin and his deputies have said they want to create buffer zones along Russia's borders with Ukraine.
00:44:17.000No details have emerged to suggest what these these proposals would entail.
00:44:21.000So Russia's probably figuring, okay, if we've got a buffer zone, then we will be able to again exploit that buffer zone.
00:44:28.000Because the question, as always with Russia, is who's going to stand up to them when they push the Russian way of war is you push where there's mush.
00:44:35.000This goes all the way back to Lenin and Stalin.
00:44:38.000You push where there's mush and there's awfully much mush happening on the European and yes, on the American side as well.
00:44:45.000And if you want Vladimir Putin to come to the table, you need to up the ante in the other direction, which is what President Trump had signified he wanted to do on Truth Social last week.
00:44:52.000And then Elbridge Colby and team over at the State Department and the Defense Department have decided that they want to hold up aid to the Ukrainians in the middle of all this, which is kind of unbelievable.
00:45:02.000Meanwhile, Germany's Friedrich Merz says that there's not going to be a Putin-Zelensky summit.
00:45:07.000So all that talk last week about it, not going to happen.
00:45:09.000He said, unlike what had been agreed between President Trump and President Putin last week, when we were together in Washington, it's obviously not going to come to a meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
00:45:19.000European leaders have privately expressed skepticism that the peace push with Putin will yield results.
00:45:24.000But again, the Europeans are basically saying over and over and over that Putin is sabotaging whatever is left here.
00:45:31.000In order to understand what Vladimir Putin is doing, again, I recommend that you watch that YouTube video because I really go through in detail what Putin wants.
00:45:37.000And the answer is he wants to ingest Ukraine.
00:45:39.000He sees Ukraine as a giant stick in his eye.
00:45:44.000He sees Ukraine as a Russian speaking historically Russian territory that has decided to move away from a Russian-dominated Eastern Europe that thwarts his ambitions for a Russia-dominated not only Eastern Europe but Western Europe, making essentially Western Europe into sort of a satellite of Russia.
00:46:05.000That is the goal of that has been the goal of Vladimir Putin for decades.
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00:47:51.000Hey, meanwhile, some good news and some bad news on the economic front.
00:47:55.000Good news is that the US economy grew at a 3.3% annualized rate in the second quarter.
00:47:59.000According to an updated Commerce Department estimate, as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, that is an upgrade of 0.3%, which is good.
00:48:07.000That latest estimate changed because of revisions to investment and consumer spending.
00:48:11.000Investments in IP, light trucks and commercial and health care structures were all revised upwards.
00:48:24.000So that means that the US economy grew at an annualized average 1.4 percent in the first half of the year, which is a significant slowdown from the pace in recent years.
00:48:33.000But the economy continues to chug along.
00:48:39.000Meanwhile, a brand new inflation reading is out.
00:48:43.000Apparently, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure came in exactly where the economists thought that it would.
00:48:49.000The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 2.6% in the twelve months through July.
00:48:54.000That's perfectly in line with where it was in June.
00:48:57.000So futures pricing suggests that traders currently see an 85% shot that the Fed lowers the interest rates.
00:49:03.000Again, that is what is expected, which is a little bit surprising only because, again, the goal of the Federal Reserve is to get those interest rates down to 2% or below.
00:49:15.000But the basic idea here, and I think this is correct, is that the price spike that we are about to see will be temporary because demand will drop off.
00:49:22.000And so what you want is to jog the demand from the other side in terms of monetary policy.
00:49:27.000Now listen, if you're a monetarist, if you're somebody who believes in the way that Milton Friedman did, that monetary policy lies at the heart of economic manipulation by the central government, then I can see why you'd be interested in this sort of, if you're sort of a Vienna school person,
00:49:44.000which is what I am, where you believe that the central government should not be flipping that switch up and down and up and down and up and down, then what I would really prefer is to allow the interest rates to go down to zero essentially in terms of the overnight rates and really allow the economy to do what it's going to do.
00:50:02.000And that doesn't mean lowering the interest rates.
00:50:05.000I'm just not of the generalized belief that that should be up to the government whether people speculate or whether they don't speculate.
00:50:13.000That seems like a mistake to me, but that that's a broader economic discussion in terms of whether the interest rates come down.
00:50:18.000Obviously, President Trump has been pushing for that for a long time for two reasons.
00:50:43.000What you will see is that President Trump between.
00:50:46.000Between him taking over in January of 2025 and Liberation Day, what you see is actually fairly significant and steady growth in terms of the in terms of the stock market.
00:50:59.000And then you see as we approach Liberation Day, things start to hover and then you see them just drop off a cliff and now we've kind of made up back most of that ground.
00:51:08.000But again, as I say, as I pointed out before, the actual measure that we should be using is not, have we hit record highs under President Trump?
00:51:16.000If you had a natural rate of growth, you would.
00:51:18.000The Dow Jones industrial average was 44,000 when he took office.
00:51:24.000Which again is not the kind of radical increase that you would have expected.
00:51:28.000All the crosswinds are having an impact.
00:51:31.000Hopefully, the impact begins to shallow.
00:51:35.000And meanwhile, huge controversy over the CDC because the White House decided to lay off the director of the CDC.
00:51:43.000Presumably that was at the behest of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:51:45.000Now again, a lot of distrust over the CDC, a lot of it well earned.
00:51:49.000The CDC was chocked filled with people who prioritized ideology over science.
00:51:54.000As we talked about yesterday, one of the people who is leaving is the MPOC's guy,'s gone and that's good.
00:52:06.000However, the question remains as to what exactly the CDC is going to be from here on out.
00:52:11.000Is it going to be sort of a tool of RFK Jr.'s more bizarre medical beliefs or is it actually going to follow the science, which is what we were promised?
00:52:19.000Well, apparently the person who's going to be selected to replace the outgoing head of the CDC, Susan Minerez, is Jim O'Neill.
00:52:26.000He's currently the deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, that is the interim leader of the CDC.
00:52:33.000So O'Neill served in the George W. Bush administration as a senior health official before becoming a close ally of Investor Peter Thiel.
00:52:40.000He was confirmed by the Senate in June to serve as Deputy HHS Secretary.
00:52:43.000As Acting CDC Director, O'Neill is set to play a key role in the agency's efforts to revise vaccine recommendations with the CDC scheduled to hold a meeting of vaccine advisers next month.
00:52:52.000That process, overseen by RFK Jr., is expected to lead to a narrower CDC guidance on which Americans should receive coronavirus vaccines.
00:53:01.000Again, I think that the original mandate that came down from the federal government with regard to the vaccines, which is that kids needed them, was an absurdity is something that Marty McCarry has talked about, who again is working inside the HHS.
00:53:17.000O'Neill was a frequent critic of the CDC.
00:53:21.000He tweeted things like, is Omicron the best vaccine?
00:53:23.000Remember, the CDC can redefine the word vaccine at will.
00:53:26.000And I mean, I pointed that out at the time.
00:53:28.000If you go back and listen to the show, I said Omicron may actually have ended the pandemic because everyone got it and fewer people were dying, which is typically what happens with viruses as they get less voracious.
00:53:39.000They get more viral and less voracious.
00:53:40.000They kill fewer people, but they affect more people.
00:53:43.000Tevi Troy, who served as Deputy HHS Secretary under George W. Bush, described O'Neill as a tested health official.
00:53:49.000He said he believes the CDC should focus on its core mission of combating dangerous communicable diseases.
00:53:54.000I trust you'll bring that perspective to his new role.
00:54:01.000Still not sure, you know, what the run in was with Monero's, but the person who is slated to replace her seems basically fine.
00:54:09.000And as Caroline Lovett points out over at the CDC, the president does have the power to fire whoever he wants at the CDC.
00:54:15.000That is under the prerogative of the executive branch.
00:54:18.000Her lawyers' statement made it abundantly clear themselves that she was not aligned with the president's mission to make America healthy again.
00:54:26.000And the Secretary asked her to resign.
00:54:29.000She said she would, and then she said she wouldn't.
00:54:31.000So the president fired her, which he has every right to do.
00:54:39.000Joining us online is Thomas Chatterton Williams.
00:54:41.000He's an author and staff writer at The Atlantic.
00:54:43.000He's also visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College 2022, Guggenheim fellow and nonresident fellow at AEI.
00:54:51.000His brand new book out titled The Summer of Art Discontent, The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.
00:54:55.000Thomas, thanks so much for joining us.
00:55:01.000So first of all, it sounds like this book has been a while in the making because it really focuses in on that insane summer of 2020 that basically broke the country in about ten different ways.
00:55:11.000So what is the basic thesis of the book?
00:55:14.000Well, I try to trace the trajectory of the bo kind of optimism and this kind of multi ethnic bargain that was struck under the rise of Barack Obama and his first term, through the disillusionment at the realization that the election of one man wouldn't solve all of America's racial tensions and the kind of great awakening,
00:55:34.000if you want to call it, that occurred since I would put it at the death of Trayvon Martin, roughly, that went through all through Trump's first term through the Biden administration peaked in the summer of 2020 and I think contributed greatly to the kind of backlash and recalibration of culture that we're going through right now.
00:55:52.000So when you look at that timeline, where do you see?
00:55:56.000So you say that, and there was by the polling data, a tremendous upsurge in optimism with the election of Barack Obama.
00:56:03.000Race relations in the United States were on an optimistic trajectory.
00:56:06.000Both black Americans and white Americans, by all available polling data, were very optimistic about race relations in the United States circa about 2009, and then you can see a sharp dive starting about 2013.
00:56:17.000And so, you know, there's a temptation always to sort of ascribe racial problems to the Trump administration, the first Trump election and all the rest, but the reality is that that seems to have been symptomatic of something that was already happening by the data that I'm looking at.
00:56:32.000So I think that the disillusionment, it's multifaceted, of course, but obviously, Occupy Wall Street and the kind of reaction to the economic crisis cannot be dismissed.
00:56:44.000And that kind of formed a template for, I think, a left-wing kind of reaction and activism that then found its real purpose and calling with the rise of social media, with the ubiquity of smartphones and the distribution of videos of police violence and vigilante violence against black people, the circulation of those videos.
00:57:06.000Trayvon Martin is a real inflection point, the beginning of Black Lives Matter and a kind of just growing.
00:57:11.000disillusionment during the second term of the Obama administration that then found its real purpose once Trump was elected in twenty sixteen.
00:57:22.000Well, again, looking at that trajectory, do you think that President Obama bears some responsibility for that?
00:57:27.000I've made the case that the most important election of my lifetime was not twenty sixteen, twenty twenty or twenty twenty four, that the most important election was actually twenty twelve.
00:57:34.000The reason being that in two thousand eight, President Obama came in, he basically suggested that he was a unifying figure, he was going to unify right and left.
00:57:42.000There wasn't a red blue or a red America or a blue America.
00:57:44.000There wasn't a black America or a white America.
00:57:46.000This was legitimately the rhetoric he used in two thousand eight.
00:57:48.000in 2008, coming in in sort of his own personage as a unifying figure.
00:57:53.000And then by 2012, after his approval ratings had nosedive thanks to Obamacare, the rise of the Tea Party and all the rest, in 2012, he ran a significantly more polarizing campaign.
00:58:03.000He really tried to kind of agglomerate various identity groups together, which is why you saw a radical shift in the way Democrats started to approach politics.
00:58:11.000Instead of sort of broadcasting, they started narrowcasting to various different audiences figuring that they had a rising majority minority coalition that this was never going to be defeated again because demographics were destiny.
00:58:22.000And then I think they were totally shocked by the election of President Trump because of that.
00:58:25.000And so we're now in this kind of reactionary cycle from one identity politics to the other.
00:58:31.000Well, absolutely, we're in a reactionary cycle.
00:58:33.000And I think the first time I really became aware of the dynamic you're talking about was with the loss of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:58:41.000Mark Lilla, the Columbia University professor, wrote a very interesting book, The Once in Future Liberal, in which he talked about how if you just went on the Democrats' website, the DNC's website, they had seventeen different messages for seventeen different groups they had identified as part of their coalition.
00:58:58.000Whereas if you went on the RNC's website, they had one platform, whether you might like it or not.
00:59:03.000You might like it or not, but they had one platform, take it or leave it.
00:59:06.000The Democrats were micromass messaging.
00:59:08.000I saw that I became aware of that first in 2016, but I do think that Barack Obama is not entirely without fault.
00:59:14.000I also I think I see things a little differently than you.
00:59:17.000I think that he probably, no matter what he did, it was any misstep, there was very little attitude.
00:59:26.000But I do think he really made a mistake in how he framed the Trayvon Martin killing.
00:59:31.000When he mused that if he had a child, he would look like Trayvon, that injected a kind of identity angle when the country was already quite outraged and unified, I think, and appalled by the idea that you can't just walk to the store and come home without being stalked and targeted, right?
00:59:48.000And I think that if you can imagine Donald Trump saying that about Lake and Riley or something like that, and it would be seized upon by the left as quite a kind of signal that white identity is foregrounded.
01:00:00.000And I just think that, you know, there were ways to talk about the Trayvon situation based on universal principles that would have brought the country together.
01:00:07.000I also think, you know, in the book I talk about how I think in retrospect it was quite a mistake the way he handled Officer Crowley's arrest of Henry Louis Gates junior at Harvard University, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
01:00:20.000That also seemed to inject a level of interference from the president that wasn't necessary or called for and that, you know, violated part of what was the kind of post-racial bargain that Barack Obama had come into office with, which was the idea that we are happy to elect you and to believe that America can become a post-racial society.
01:00:43.000So therefore, that means that when things like this happen, you trust the process and we already have elected you and you don't actually inject a kind of identity politics into something like the arrest of a Harvard professor.
01:00:54.000That is just not part of what the post-racial president was supposed to bring to the table.
01:01:00.000And one of the things that's been sort of fascinating to watch.
01:01:03.000over the course of the last couple of decades has been the reality that our politics has become significantly less individualistic, and yet individualism is blamed for all of the failings of our politics.
01:01:12.000And so you have a sort of woke collectivism that has risen on the left.
01:01:16.000You've seen an identitarian collectivism that's risen on certain parts of the right.
01:01:20.000I wouldn't say that that's the Trump movement, but I would say that there are certain parts of the Trump movement that are kind of at the fringes that are playing in those waters.
01:01:29.000And what's blamed innerly is always the idea that meritocracy, rugged individualism are the problem and that the only solution is a collective solution.
01:01:37.000And so a thing that really hasn't been tried all that much over the course of the last twenty years is the thing that now seems to be blamed by people on a number of sides of the political aisle.
01:01:53.000Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm my my history of writing and my last book especially, Self Portrait in Black and White is a kind of plea for a return to the dignity of the individual and the idea that, you know, we can't just be reduced to the membership of abstract identity categories that we're slotted into.
01:02:11.000And I think that, you know, I really am optimistic that America will proceed to this kind of multiethnic culture where people are first and foremost, individuals and that what's most salient about you is not that you're that you're that you worship at a different place than I do on the weekend or that you trace your ancestry to a different part of the world, but that you, Ben, and I, Thomas, talk together and we find out what our actual values are and that we believe in values that we can all buy into, irrespective of ancestry or these kind of categories that we divide each other into.
01:02:42.000Yeah, well, one of the things that's really happened, I think also, is because of the use of language in different ways by the left and the right.
01:02:48.000There are certain terms that get used that get immediately coded by the brand.
01:02:51.000So you say multi ethnic and people on the right immediately go, oh, you just mean open immigration.
01:03:01.000And I think what you're going for, correct me if I'm wrong here, is just that ethnicity is a category that really should not be relevant to the question of individual quality, which I grew up with.
01:03:11.000I think those of us who grew up in the nineties were basically told this over and over again, which is why I think the nineties may have been the greatest era of American life in this sense, or at least, you know, coming into it.
01:03:21.000What was the basic idea that it was taken for granted that your race really shouldn't matter, that the Martin Luther King idea that you should be judged by the contents of your character, not the color of your skin, which now you say that and people think that you're being ironic or they think that you're being naive.
01:03:35.000That's amazing because we all grew up with with that basic concept that that was the hallmark of what it meant to be an American was to judge people by their individual virtue, individual moral quality, their belief in the American system, the constitution, freedom of speech, property, right, like all these things were sort of the things that we grew up with and those things have been exploded.
01:04:29.000It's actually that you are an agent of white supremacy.
01:04:32.000And it doesn't matter that I myself descend from African slaves as much as I'm descended from European immigrants.
01:04:38.000That is just a I'm just a black mouthpiece of white supremacy.
01:04:42.000And just Coleman Hughes has faced that.
01:04:44.000Many, many black writers and public intellectuals who try to make that point are dismissed quite easily as merely agents of white supremacy.
01:04:52.000And so it's kind of nefarious that that has just and even, you know, in the discourse, you know, at times, Martin Luther King is not so fashionable when he's associated too closely with that point of view.
01:05:02.000Well, the book is The Summer of Our Discontent, The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.