00:00:11.000On the basis of President Trump's astonishingly great Supreme Court alone, they are idiots.1.00
00:00:15.000Obviously, President Trump has done a lot of great things.0.99
00:00:18.000He arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, wiped out DEI in the executive branch, went after the trans movement, attacked Iran's nuclear and missile capacity, and a lot more.
00:00:37.000They allowed states to ban the transgender mutilation of children.
00:00:40.000They've stood for religious freedom.0.50
00:00:41.000And now, in yet another amazingly courageous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot force states to draw racist congressional districts.
00:02:18.000And what we would expect from the Trump Court is an effort to continue their scheme to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections and beyond.0.99
00:02:31.000Okay, this is ridiculous, and Democrats are going nuts.0.99
00:02:34.000See, here's the thing Democrats think that Americans, by and large, are racist, that white Americans are racist.1.00
00:02:39.000So, the government must force white Americans not to be racist by creating racist districts.0.95
00:03:06.000Again, they are saying that if you don't create a congressional district based on race, That's Jim Crow.
00:03:11.000If you don't create a segregated district, that's Jim Crow.
00:03:16.000And today we're ramping up our efforts.0.52
00:03:18.000We see the need for it just today in today's Supreme Court decision, which was a despicable decision that is a return to Jim Crow, taking decades of hard work, sweat, blood, and tears, and even people dying for the right to vote, to prevent racial discrimination in the right to vote.
00:03:40.000We see what they're doing in the SAVE Act.
00:03:43.000Which would disenfranchise 20 million people.
00:03:46.000And we are fighting that every step of the way.
00:03:50.000Honestly, this is conspiratorial nonsense.1.00
00:03:52.000The idea that white people are trying to stop black people from voting in the United States is ridiculous.1.00
00:03:56.000First of all, take Virginia, for example.0.99
00:03:59.000The white candidate, Abigail Spanberger, won 90% of the black vote.
00:04:02.000The black candidate, Winsome Sears, won 90% of the white vote.
00:04:07.000So it turns out the American people are not nearly as racist as Chuck Schumer wishes they were.
00:04:14.000So he tweeted out this decision upends half a century of precedent, defies the spirit of the American civil rights movement, and reverses generations of progress toward racial justice.
00:04:24.000And it shows that Democrats hold 24 seats in a variety of Southern states.
00:04:29.000And after redistricting, Republicans will gain 12 more seats.
00:04:32.000And then he added, by some estimates, this decision could lead conservative state legislatures to draw as many as 19 additional seats that favor Republicans in the House.
00:04:41.000The reason he's upset is not because he believes that black people are discriminated against.
00:04:45.000It's because black people are disproportionately Democratic voters, and he believes that Democratic seats are going to disappear.
00:04:51.000That's called normal gerrymandering.0.82
00:04:53.000Now, again, gerrymandering has been a part of our process since the very beginning.
00:04:57.000There's truly no great substitute for gerrymandering, political gerrymandering, where the State legislature or state commission or another body draws the districts within a state.
00:05:20.000It may be a bad thing, but there is no alternative to it.
00:05:23.000Every alternative that has been tried is a giant fail.
00:05:26.000But according to the Democrats, if you are not drawing specific black districts, right, they're the ones who want to take race into account.0.94
00:05:32.000If you are not drawing specific black districts, this means you are a racist.0.68
00:05:36.000And again, Democrats are just telling on themselves.0.97
00:05:38.000They believe that government must discriminate on the basis of race to stop those racist Americans.
00:05:45.000This is their baseline belief system.0.99
00:05:47.000Americans are racist, just as racist as they were in 1964.0.98
00:05:51.000And therefore, we must have government promoted policies that benefit black people at the expense of other people.0.97
00:05:57.000This is why Hakeem Jeffries yesterday was suggesting that affirmative action, equity, inclusion, and also racial tolerance are all gone.
00:06:19.000In the aftermath of the 2008 election, they've tried to do everything that they can to eliminate and erase our journey, our struggle, our march in this country toward a more perfect union.
00:06:37.000And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone.
00:06:41.000Diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone, the Voting Rights Act largely gone.
00:06:53.000We're still here and we're not going anywhere.0.67
00:06:57.000Okay, by the way, the fact that black Democrats are still there demonstrates that America is not, in fact, particularly racist.
00:07:03.000Actually, there's something like 26 majority black districts in the United States, 24 of them are represented by a black person in those districts.
00:07:14.000But there are well over 60 black representatives in Congress, which means a lot of white people are voting for a lot of black candidates.
00:07:23.000I mean, that does not bespeak tremendous American racism.
00:07:27.000Barack Obama, of course, a beneficiary of the white vote, he comes out and he says, Today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities.0.51
00:07:42.000So long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.
00:07:46.000And as we'll explain in just a second, he's lying.
00:07:49.000Basically, what the Supreme Court ruled is that you can do normal partisan gerrymandering.0.99
00:07:54.000You just can't decide that you're going to hurt black people because they are black.
00:08:00.000Obama says this serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
00:08:12.000The good news is such setbacks can be overcome, but that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers.
00:08:20.000Now, again, his tweet is self defeating.
00:08:23.000If it turns out black citizens can mobilize and vote in record numbers, you do not have systemic barriers to voting in the United States, do you?
00:08:30.000Which is what the VRA was designed to stop, the Voting Rights Act.0.87
00:08:33.000All right, coming up, Kamala Harris sounds off on the Supreme Court ruling, plus Candace Owens getting slapped down by Erica Kirk.
00:08:40.000And we get to Graham Plattner, that's the Nazi tattoo guy being embraced by the Democratic Party a lot to come first.
00:08:46.000Let's just be honest for a second paying 70, 80, 90 bucks a month for wireless, that is absurd.
00:09:47.000Switch to puretalk, America's wireless company, today.
00:09:51.000Meanwhile, Kamal Harris again, there is a conspiracy theory on the right that suggests that voter fraud is deciding our elections.
00:09:58.000That there are millions of people who are voting fraudulently, which is not true.
00:10:01.000And there is a similar countervailing conspiracy theory on the left that vast voter suppression is happening in the United States, and that is also not true.
00:10:09.000In fact, in several elections in the recent past, the black turnout rate was higher than the comparative white turnout rate.
00:10:18.000But here is Kamala Harris doing this routine also.1.00
00:10:23.000No, they have had an agenda that has been in place for decades.0.99
00:10:29.000To get to this very moment and beyond, which is to make it so difficult for the people to vote that they won't because they know the people are not stupid and see the corrupt, incompetent, callous administration that is in the White House right now.0.99
00:11:23.000I mean, she does this routine where she kind of goes into a particular way of speaking, she's kind of cosplaying, and then she'll drop out of it.
00:11:43.000And so, you know, the level of disrespect that is continuously lobbed against us as black women, you know, for me, I'm like, wait a minute now, I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country.
00:12:00.000And for some reason, you think we're on the same level, but you're going to disrespect me?
00:12:31.000Rashida Tlaib, again, another demonstration of how terribly racist America is that we can have a terrorist stand like Rashida Tlaib in Congress.1.00
00:12:39.000She wants to expand the court and impeach the justices.1.00
00:12:43.000You know, Governor J.B. Pritzker, he's saying that Republicans are incapable of winning majorities, so they're making it harder to vote.0.98
00:12:52.000The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
00:12:55.000I'll just say it Donald Trump and Republicans can't win majorities at the ballot box this November, so they're going back to a playbook as old as this country, making it harder for black and brown Americans to vote.
00:13:09.000On every front, Trump and his allies are assaulting the institutions of our democracy.
00:13:40.000Okay, the first map here was the original map of Louisiana's district.
00:13:44.000Okay, this is the map of Louisiana's districts.
00:13:47.000And what you see here is that there were six congressional districts here in Louisiana.
00:13:52.000And what you have is a first district that is sort of disparate, and a second district that is sort of disparate, a sixth that is somewhat more cohesive, a third that is cohesive, a fourth and a fifth that are somewhat cohesive.
00:14:05.000That's what you're looking at when you look at this map.0.83
00:14:07.000You have a sort of salamander like majority black district.
00:14:11.000That would be the second congressional district in Louisiana.
00:14:13.000That was Louisiana's map from 2013 to 2022.
00:14:16.000Then a court ruled that they couldn't use that map.
00:15:10.000It carves all the way through the heart of the state, like through the middle of the state, in order to unite black populations in places that are 100 miles apart.
00:15:17.000And they did that because the court said you must have a second majority black district.0.64
00:16:02.000Second, can compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act be a compelling interest that justified intentional race based redistricting?
00:16:11.000And the answer is yes, but only very narrowly.
00:16:13.000So, Section 2 has to be very narrowly applied.
00:16:15.000Like, when there's intent to draw a congressional map to harm black people, and that's the open intent of the thing, then you can invoke Section 2.
00:16:23.000When does Section 2 require redistricting?
00:16:26.000Only when circumstances create a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred.
00:16:35.000He was joined by all the conservative justices.
00:16:37.000Kagan dissented, and she was joined by Sotomayor and Jackson.
00:16:40.000So, Again, just to go through the decision, the 15th Amendment provides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
00:16:53.000And Section 2 of the 15th Amendment authorizes Congress to enact appropriate legislation to enforce that amendment.
00:16:59.000Okay, so the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes about.
00:17:04.000And there are a couple of sections that theoretically implicate redistricting and how districts are drawn.
00:17:15.000If you were in a historically discriminatory part of the United States, the Jim Crow part of the United States, you actually had to preclear your maps with the federal government in order to show that you weren't discriminating.
00:17:25.000And in 2013, in a case called Shelby County versus Holder, the Supreme Court found hey, look at the calendar.
00:17:45.000And so Section 5 preclearance was no longer forced.
00:17:48.000Now, what you will notice is that in the aftermath of Section 5 going away, there were still a lot of black representatives in the United States from the South.
00:17:57.000That map that Chuck Schumer was showing earlier of the map of congressional districts in 2024 showed a lot of Democrat political districts in the South.
00:18:07.000That was after Section 5 of the VRA was basically ruled to be non applicable.
00:18:12.000Okay, so now there is an attempt to invoke Section 2.
00:18:17.000So, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act says no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any state or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of the United States to vote on account of race or color.
00:18:32.000So, as you may notice, there's nothing in there about redistricting.
00:18:35.000What that's really talking about mostly is things like poll taxes or literacy tests or things that are designed to get black people not to vote.
00:18:43.000And again, the Voting Rights Act was necessary because from the end of the Civil War to basically the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60s, There were heavy attempts by various Jim Crow states to stop black people from activating politically.
00:18:57.000And that included discriminatory tests designed to stop black people from voting.
00:19:00.000That's why the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed.
00:19:05.000And so that set up some elements of the law in both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that would seem to be facially violative of the Constitution of the United States.
00:19:14.000It's a point Christopher Caldwell has made, convincingly, in my view.
00:19:18.000There are elements, for example, of the Civil Rights Act that pretty clearly Discriminate against private business owners, for example, in a way that would be unconstitutional, but the CRA basically overrules that.
00:19:28.000And the VRA gets involved in what normally would be state matters in order to enforce the 15th Amendment.
00:19:36.000So there is a case called Gingles from 1986, which set out a four part test to prove vote dilution.
00:19:43.000Okay, so vote dilution is the idea that the Voting Rights Act can stop redistricting that dilutes the black vote.0.66
00:19:52.000So the example that Elena Kagan uses is let's say that you have a circle shaped black population in terms of its sort of demographic location inside a square sized state.0.55
00:20:04.000So, you have the circle and then you have the square.0.87
00:20:08.000And inside that black circle, you would have a group of people voting for a particular candidate.0.90
00:20:16.000And so, what the state does in order to water down the black vote is they say, We don't want black people to have that much autonomy.0.92
00:20:22.000So, we are just going to carve the state into four separate parts and we are going to dilute the black vote so that 25% of each part of that circle goes into a broader square.0.52
00:20:35.000Well, according to the Gingles precedent, You have to show that a minority group is sufficiently large and geographically compact and politically cohesive, and that that's why it's being divided.0.52
00:20:45.000It must also demonstrate the white majority votes sufficiently as a block to defeat the minority's preferred candidate, and that the process, based on the totality of the circumstances, is not equally open to minority voters.
00:20:55.000Okay, well, those factors are not actually present in this particular case in Louisiana.
00:21:00.000First of all, the district that is being drawn, again, stretches like 150 miles.
00:21:05.000It is certainly not geographically compact and politically cohesive.
00:21:11.000And if the idea is that just because black voters vote disproportionately Democrat and white voters in Louisiana vote disproportionately Republican, that you must therefore draw districts for Democrats or you're racist, no.
00:21:23.000That is just called political districting.
00:21:25.000So Justice Alito wrote the opinion of the court.
00:21:28.000He says Section 2 of the VRA was designed to enforce the Constitution, not collide with it.
00:21:33.000Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this court's Section 2 precedents in a way that forces states to engage in the very race based discrimination the Constitution forbids.
00:21:42.000He's saying here that sometimes a court will force you to draw a black majority district, which is in fact racist and violative of the Equal Rights Amendment of the Constitution, 15th Amendment.
00:21:55.000If the court is forcing you to draw a majority black district, that is in fact racist and that violates the Constitution.
00:22:02.000So the court held that Section 2 imposes liability only when the evidence supports a strong inference that the state intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.
00:22:13.000When a state defends a districting scheme on the ground it was drawn for partisan purposes, plaintiffs have a special burden to overcome.
00:22:20.000To prevail, the plaintiff must disentangle race from politics by proving that the former drove a district's lines.
00:22:27.000So, in other words, if you draw districts because you want to maintain Mike Johnson's district in Louisiana, that's fine.0.52
00:22:34.000And if it turns out that maintaining that district meant a not majority black district, okay, that's normal.0.79
00:22:43.000And again, one of the things that Alito points out is that the calendar says 2026, not 1966.0.52
00:22:47.000Quote, Vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, where many Section 2 suits arise.
00:22:54.000At the time of the act's passage, the nation had faced nearly a century of entrenched racial discrimination in voting, an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution.
00:23:09.000Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent presidential elections nationwide and in Louisiana.
00:23:21.000Also, a full blown two party system has emerged in the states where Section 2 suits are the most common.
00:23:26.000Gingles arose, the original Supreme Court case you mentioned, in the context of a one party system in which black and white voters had starkly different voting patterns despite their affiliation within the same party.
00:23:37.000In the area involved in Gingles, an overwhelming majority of white voters did not vote for any black candidate in the Democratic Party primary elections, which for all practical purposes selected the candidates who would ultimately obtain office.
00:23:47.000And in the general, white voters in heavily Democratic areas often ranked black candidates last among Democrats.
00:23:54.000Such intra party disparities showed black voters had less opportunity to elect their preferred candidate because of race.
00:24:00.000So he's saying those were intra democratic fights.
00:24:04.000Okay, so the majority decision says that basically Section 2 has become obviated by racial progress in the United States.
00:24:13.000Justice Thomas, being the most strict constructionist on the bench, says basically Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act should not have applied to districting at all.
00:24:23.000He says, as I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.
00:24:29.000The relevant text prohibits states from imposing or implying a voting qualification prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure in a manner that results in denial or abridgment of the right to vote based on race.
00:24:40.000This does not include a state's choice of one districting scheme over another.
00:24:44.000Okay, so Elena Kagan, in her dissent, she says, no, no, no, this is racism.
00:24:49.000And she says, this part's pretty funny, actually.
00:24:52.000She says, in the states where that law continues to matter, the states still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting, minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process.
00:25:03.000Now, I would just like to point out at this point that if you're talking about residential segregation, it turns out that actually, actually, some of the most segregated parts of the United States are in areas that Elena Kagan would leave alone under the VRA.
00:25:18.000Here is a map from the left wing Brookings Institute.
00:25:21.000Brookings is a liberal institution of the most and least segregated areas in the United States.
00:25:28.000Areas of low segregation are predominantly located in the Southwest and in places like Texas and some of the rest of the South.
00:25:36.000Some of the places that have the highest levels of segregation are the Northeast and the Rust Belt, which are presumably not the areas that Elena Kagan thinks are racist.
00:25:44.000In fact, according to William Fry, demographer at Brookings, the most segregated city in the U.S. is Milwaukee.
00:25:51.000The next most segregated, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh.
00:25:57.000The most segregated city, by the way, between whites and Hispanics is, wait for it, Los Angeles.
00:26:03.000So what's actually happening here is that Democrats, as per their usual arrangement, Are trying to claim that normal politics is racism.
00:26:12.000And what they're really upset about, of course, is that more and more people are moving to the South, which means more Southern congressional districts, which means more Republicans.
00:26:20.000Here is a map of projected 2030 congressional reapportionment.
00:26:24.000This is based on population trajectory.
00:26:28.000And what you see is massive gains in the South.
00:26:31.000You see Texas picking up another four seats and Florida picking up another three.
00:26:37.000You can see North Carolina picking up another two.
00:26:46.000The areas that are bleeding votes are the Democrat areas.
00:26:49.000The places that are gaining votes are the Republican areas.
00:26:51.000So, total numbers red states are likely to gain eight to 10 congressional seats by 2030.
00:26:56.000That also, by the way, means another 10 electoral votes in the presidential election.
00:27:00.000So, what's actually happening here, as per our usual arrangement, is Democrats are claiming that them losing politically is America being racist or the Supreme Court being racist.
00:27:16.000Now, what's really amazing here is that President Trump, who again has been widely derided by the left, remember, Trump is trying to do Jim Crow 2.0, according to the Democrats.
00:27:26.000Well, it turns out that Trump's approval rating among black Americans is actually at an all time high.
00:27:31.000Doesn't mean that he has 40%, but these numbers are pretty astounding.
00:27:37.000I think what we're seeing right now in the numbers is President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at the long term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters with African Americans.0.67
00:28:00.000And you say this isn't that big of a shift.
00:28:02.000But I will tell you, Republicans absolutely love this shift that's going on because Democrats have had such a long term advantage.
00:28:09.000The fact that he's actually gaining ground versus where he was in term number one, this has major implications.
00:28:18.000So it turns out Democrats shouting racist, racist over and over and over is not actually winning over additional black voters, it's alienating some black voters.
00:28:56.000Because I'm a qualified representative for Congressional District 38, and the American people choose who they want to choose.
00:29:02.000And the one thing I don't want to get into is this game of race bait all day, every day.
00:29:07.000If there's four, if there's 10, if there's none, we are talking about who is the best person that is best qualified to fill a seat, regardless of the way that they look.0.85
00:29:20.000But Democrats, of course, think that if not enough people of a particular melanin level are in Congress, that somehow this is reflective of deep and abiding American racism.
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00:31:49.000Listen, we all have some regrets in life.
00:31:52.000But in today's news surrounding Candace Owens, Erica Kirk has now come out and condemned Candace directly after months of Candace implying, openly stating that Erica was complicit in Charlie's death.
00:32:08.000Finally, Erica Kirk came out and said something.0.96
00:32:10.000And by the way, I have to say, as somebody who was saying from literally the first moment this sort of crap started circulating, that it's garbage and terrible and horrible and evil what people are doing to Erica.0.73
00:32:21.000As somebody who laments the fact that that's somehow a controversial statement in some right wing circles, and that where are her allies?0.97
00:32:29.000The fact that she has to come out and defend herself here from this nonsense is indicative of a moral collapse on the part of the pseudo right.0.87
00:32:38.000It's disgusting that Erica has to somehow come out and defend herself from bizarre charges that she's involved in a cover up of the murder of her husband.
00:33:29.000And as she points out, she is now under a security threat because of this sort of stuff, which of course is true.
00:33:34.000I mean, by the way, I know this kind of stuff is true because I know where my security threats come from as well.
00:33:39.000Here is Erica saying that if you keep stripping people of their humanity, then this is where you end up.
00:33:46.000And this culture we're living in absorbs disagreement as a form of personal betrayal, it turns having an opposing viewpoint.
00:33:57.000Into a moral crime worthy of punishment.
00:34:00.000And here's what I've realized through all of this truly, having lived through quite literal hell these past seven months, if you strip someone of their humanity long enough, you will arrive at the chilling conclusion that they don't deserve to exist at all.
00:34:46.000So it turns out that a person named Aubrey Leitch was texting with Candace Owens, and Andrew Colvitt released these texts.0.84
00:34:57.000And in the text, she literally accuses Erica Kirk of murder.
00:35:03.000So, this person, Aubrey Lage, and Candace were texting each other during the.0.94
00:35:08.000You remember part of the saga is when Erica was forced basically to go and sit down with Candace while she was making these crazy accusations.
00:35:16.000This is just before the TPUSA event at the end of last year.
00:35:22.000And this person wrote, I assume she's coming to you.
00:35:59.000And here is Candace making a wild series of accusations, ranging from complicity of Erica in the murder to all sorts of other accusations surrounding Erica.1.00
00:36:08.000She is truly an awful human being.0.99
00:36:12.000And honestly, If you are an audience member of Candace who foments this sort of evil, because she makes money off of you, the way she makes money is by spewing trash into the public sphere, and then she makes money off it through advertising.1.00
00:37:40.000It turns out that there was a police report showing that her husband, George, who is a British immigrant who now has dual citizenship, at the time I don't believe he did, that he was found on the side of a highway, more alcohol than human.
00:37:50.000Apparently, his Blood alcohol level was 0.261, which is 3.3 times the legal limit somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:37:59.000Who's also wandering on the side of the road in possession of a firearm.
00:38:04.000Apparently, that police report is now widely available.
00:38:08.000Also, a member of Charlie's security team, the head of his security, has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace for saying that he and Erica conspired to murder Charlie.
00:38:18.000According to the lawsuit Candace Owens, a wealthy, influential, and well known conspiracy theorist with a massive social media following, falsely accused. Brian Harpole of conspiring to assassinate Charlie Kirk.
00:38:29.000She did so in coordination with Mitchell Snow, who fed Owens a completely and obviously fabricated story that Brian Harpole met with Army intelligence officers and Erica Kirk, Charlie's now widow, at Fort Huachuca to plan the murder.
00:38:43.000There are six counts in the lawsuit, ranging from defamation to false light invasion of privacy to civil conspiracy to the fame to aiding and abetting defamation.
00:38:56.000Again, the fact that Erica has been forced to now defend herself, the fact there's a lawsuit about all of this, it doesn't just show that Candace Owens is quite a terrible human being, which clearly she is.
00:39:05.000It also shows the absolute unbelievable cowardice of so many people who have been hugging her for the last eight months.
00:39:14.000And if you think that the sort of vile, toxic garbage that she's been spewing into the public sphere has no impact, know that the left has picked it up as well.1.00
00:39:25.000Who again is sort of, I have no idea why this person is in some way popular with the left, but they pick weird models for sure.1.00
00:39:33.000Jennifer Welch dressed up like Erica Kirk to tell Erica Kirk that she is a racist fascist because Erica Kirk is pursuing the great crime of defending herself from charges that she murdered her husband or is complicit in a cover up of said murder.1.00
00:40:05.000You were the racist fascist about whom I am talking to.1.00
00:40:08.000The work that your husband's company and that you were doing to America's youth to make them racist, narrow minded, hateful, and bat crazy is an absolute disgrace.1.00
00:40:20.000And thank you for the outfit, hashtag inspo.0.99
00:40:41.000But this is also who the Democrats have become.
00:40:44.000So, one of the factors that's fascinating about the midterm elections is that apparently, while President Trump's approval is down, Republicans remain somewhat steady with likely midterm voters as well as GOP voters, according to a brand new Harvard Harris poll.
00:40:59.000Again, what you see here is that while President Trump is at 42% overall, and again, that is not some sort of kind of gigantic shock.
00:41:08.000He's been in the mid 40s for months and months at this point.
00:41:10.000This is his lowest point, but it is not wildly lower than he has been previously in this Harvard Harris poll.
00:41:16.000It turns out that when it comes to midterm voters and GOP voters, he's basically where he was.
00:41:26.000Nothing has really changed all that much.
00:41:29.000And part of that is because Democrats are largely disliked.
00:41:33.000It's also because Americans actually agree with President Trump about our interests in the Middle East.
00:41:38.000So they're upset more about inflation than they are actually about, say, the war in Iran.
00:41:42.00048% of Americans say that inflation and affordability is their number one issue.
00:42:01.000According to the same Harvard Harris poll, 74% of Americans believe that it's in America's interest to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
00:42:10.00066% of Americans believe it's in America's interest to restrain the global influence of China and Russia.
00:42:19.000Meanwhile, in the primaries, JD Vance still has a strong lead among Republicans.
00:42:26.000He's clocking in at 48% to 18% for Don Jr., who, of course, is sort of just a proxy for President Trump.
00:42:32.000Marco Rubio at 16%, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, at 9%.
00:42:36.000Tucker Carlson stuck down there at 4%.
00:42:39.000Meanwhile, among Democrats, Kamala Harris is up to 50%, Gavin Newsom at 22%.
00:42:44.000Pretty astonishing numbers there for the candidate who lost to Donald Trump.
00:42:48.000Now, the Democrats have decided that the only way to win is to go more and more radical, which is totally insane.
00:42:54.000Jan Favreau, who you'll remember just a couple of weeks ago, I know Jan, he's a likable enough fellow, but I don't know what he thinks he's doing here.
00:43:02.000Aside from hanging out with Hassan Piker while Hassan Piker was hugging Hamas, now he is grilling the DNC chair Ken Martin, suggesting that the Democrats have to move further and further and further to the left.
00:43:14.000That's the only way to win, apparently.
00:43:33.000But if there's no smoking gun, why wouldn't you just release it then?
00:43:37.000Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons.
00:43:39.000Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way to look backwards, to point fingers, place blame in a way that actually doesn't keep us focused on the upcoming election.
00:43:51.000But instead, the navel gazing of focusing backwards actually takes us backwards.
00:43:57.000We're 189 days from this election, John.
00:44:01.000Okay, so what is John Favreau's actual recommendation?
00:44:04.000That the Democratic Party needs to join up with the Hassan Pikers and also with the Grant Platner.
00:44:10.000So you'll remember that Grant Platner is the main Senate Democratic candidate with the Nazi tattoo, like the actual literal Nazi tattoo, who had appeared on Nazi podcasts as well.
00:44:22.000Well, now Janet Mills. who had been basically talked into running for the Senate by the Democratic Party in order to take out Susan Collins.
00:44:28.000She suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday.
00:44:32.000Graham Platner, who cosplays as a blue collar dude, he is now going to win that primary.
00:44:39.000And John Favreau is pleased with this.
00:44:41.000Graham Platner isn't just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins.
00:44:43.000He's a good, decent man who struggled and grown and is always trying to do better.0.83
00:44:54.000Until like this precise moment in time.
00:44:57.000I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces.
00:45:03.000Clearly, that's what so many people in Maine have done from all different walks of life and political persuasions.
00:45:09.000I'm just going to point out now that John Favreau in 2002 literally tweeted, Let me know when a far lefty candidate appears with a Nazi sympathizer and we can chat.
00:45:43.000Here's the thing the same Democratic Party that thinks that white people are racist, this is one of the reasons they think that Graham Plattner is like the white people talker.
00:45:51.000They think that he is the spokesperson for Democrat white people.0.88
00:45:55.000Because if white people are kind of Nazis, then maybe if we run some dude with a Nazi tattoo who cosplays a Gene wearing blue collar dude, even though he's kind of wealthy.0.93
00:46:04.000Then maybe that'll win over the white people in Maine.0.98
00:46:07.000Susan Collins is going to retain this seat.
00:46:20.000Past couple months, though, there has been more reach out from, I would say, more kind of like establishment folks.
00:46:27.000However, however, and this is the important part, not from like, The, not from like the DSCC, not from the DNC, like the, like nobody in the places of power remains interested.
00:46:45.000And the thing that bothers me the most isn't like, I'm not asking for you to be my friend.
00:46:52.000I'm just, but you should be curious because I'm pulling 40 points ahead.
00:46:59.000I mean, we know why you're pulling 40 points ahead because primary voters tend to favor the more extreme candidate with the more colorful rhetoric.
00:47:07.000Meanwhile, mainstream Democrats continue to try and hug Graham Platner with the most, I mean, it's awkward hugging, really awkward.
00:47:14.000Senator Chris Van Hollen, truly a dullard from Maryland, he says, That Platner is going to grab the attention of blue collar voters because he wears a sweatshirt, gang.
00:47:25.000In my view, we need somebody who will shake things up.
00:47:29.000And Platner has clearly proven himself to be somebody who can, you know, grab the attention of a lot of voters and not just Democratic primary voters.
00:47:38.000You know, we're talking about blue collar labor voters.
00:47:41.000We're talking about some of the tribes up in Maine who've not been happy with the way things are going.
00:47:48.000So, you know, Platinum, you know, for all his sort of, you know, ups and downs.
00:47:54.000And let's talk about those edges, has been somebody who connects him.
00:49:59.000Cartier communists, Mansion Marxists over here.0.97
00:50:03.000What a pretentious douchebag Hassan Piker is, truly.0.94
00:50:06.000He took a picture of himself reading What is to be Done by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on a train.0.97
00:50:18.000Honestly, like watching him read, it's like those pictures of LeBron James where you go into the locker room and LeBron had read one page of a book.
00:50:24.000And people were like, I'm not sure he read that book.
00:50:27.000First of all, the fact that he did this guy, this one.
00:50:33.000The guy can barely make his way through one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.
00:50:37.000And he's sitting there reading Lenin while he wears Cartier jewelry.
00:51:05.000Anything that is destructive of systems and that appears to be sort of campy is what the Democrats are looking for, which is why they're fine with Nazi tattoo guys.
00:51:13.000Once again, the only voice of reason in the Democratic Party is Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.0.51
00:51:17.000Here was his comment on Graham Platner Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine, but the Republicans effing love him.
00:51:24.000If Maine wants an a hole with a Nazi tattoo on, it's just they got him.
00:51:28.000Fetterman, the only rational person in the Democratic Party at this point.
00:51:31.000Meanwhile, over in Los Angeles, the mayoral race is heating up.
00:51:36.000Spencer Pratt has now cut a pretty viral ad regarding the failures of Los Angeles leadership, contrasting.
00:51:43.000The homes of the people implementing crappy policy with, you know, the actual living conditions of a lot of Angelenos.
00:52:07.000And he shows it's a trailer of his policies.
00:52:10.000That's why I'm running for mayor for my sons and the rest of us, Angelenos.
00:52:15.000That would have stopped these corrupt politicians from destroying our city.
00:52:18.000We are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back.
00:52:23.000So, again, contrasting their nice houses in the middle of LA with the trailer where he has to live because his house burned down because of bad fire policy.
00:52:30.000So, meanwhile, one of the other LA mayoral candidates is an LA city council member named Nithya Raman.
00:52:36.000And she is as far left as it's possible to be, which means that she is welcome to Podsave America, of course.1.00
00:52:58.000We have a company, you know, the Prius, whatever, Toyota, who makes the Prius, that essentially has a device on their cars, which is super easy to remove.
00:53:12.000It's basically the value of a MacBook, right?
00:53:16.000That is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car.
00:53:21.000And then the thefts related to this issue have essentially all of the costs of that are given to us to bear instead of them having to manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen.
00:53:36.000This person says the fault of the car company that the car is stolen, not the fault of crime policies in Los Angeles.
00:53:42.000By the way, she also voted against a law that prohibited encampments on sidewalks and parks, schools, underpasses.
00:54:56.000It turns out all the free stuff costs money.0.95
00:54:58.000Here is Zorhan Mamdani, the pathetic mayor of New York City.0.82
00:55:02.000New York City faces a budget crisis of a historic magnitude.0.89
00:55:07.000We inherited a deficit larger than any since the Great Recession.
00:55:11.000Years of mismanagement and chronic under budgeting.
00:55:14.000Alongside a structural imbalance between what New York City sends to the state and what we receive in return, have taken a toll.
00:55:20.000We cannot close this deficit with savings alone.
00:55:23.000We need new revenue, and we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state.
00:55:29.000That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget, and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people.
00:55:38.000I'm glad to partner with Speaker Menon as we call upon Albany and deliver a balanced budget.
00:55:44.000Together, We are extending the executive budget deadline from this coming Friday until May 12th because a crisis at this scale cannot be solved without state action.
00:56:28.000It just demonstrates, by the way, that there are so many areas of life where people who are legitimately like the best in the world and maybe in human history at their craft, they're just not world famous.
00:56:44.000Here is an excerpt of him playing The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt, which you will recognize from all the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
00:57:26.000He's an unbelievable dynamic touch, by the way.
00:57:29.000But wait until the cadenza he plays here.
00:57:31.000So, cadenza is a part of a classical piece that's basically written by somebody who's not the original composer to demonstrate the skill level of the player.
00:58:31.000So there's a story that went totally viral on the internet over the course of the last 48 hours.
00:58:36.000It was about a very good looking woman at JP Morgan who supposedly was sexually harassing a younger man.
00:58:46.000Okay, now these sorts of stories go viral all the time online where there's a good looking woman who is having sex with a 17 year old student and then everybody's like, ah, ha, Okay, in this particular case, the idea was that there was a former JP Morgan staffer.
00:59:02.000Who had been sexually harassed by a higher up at JP Morgan who's a very pretty woman.
00:59:08.000And this thing went viral because the Daily Mail reported it.0.97
00:59:10.000So, first of all, I hope she sues the living hell out of the Daily Mail, and I hope she sues the living hell out of this former JP Morgan staffer because now it turns out it was a lie, which is gross, truly disgusting.
00:59:21.000According to the New York Post, a former JP Morgan staffer, whom sources identified as Chirayurana, has been accused of making fabricated sexual harassment claims against a high ranking executive at the bank after an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.
00:59:34.000Multiple sources told the Post that 35 year old Rana, now a principal at investment firm Briegel Sagemount, is the man who brought a bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini earlier this week.
00:59:44.000Rana's suit, filed on Monday under the pseudonym Jondo, accused the 37 year old executive director of turning him into her sex slave by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra and threatening to slash his bonus if he did not comply.
00:59:57.000The British tabloid quoted the now deleted court papers and reported that Hajdini, the executive director at JP Morgan's leveraged finance team, even turned up unannounced at Rana's apartment and forced him to have sex.
01:00:06.000And so, of course, the entire internet was like, oh man, I'd love his job.
01:00:21.000And how gross of the Daily Mail to run with the allegations without even going and getting a response from her or from her lawyers or from the bank.
01:00:29.000You know, what people want to do for clicks, truly, what people want to do for clicks.