The Ben Shapiro Show - Ilhan Omar Thinks Singing About Jesus Publicly Is Very, Very Bad | Ep. 1476

00:00:00.000 Ilhan Omar complains about a video of a Christian ministry singing about Jesus on an airplane during Easter weekend.

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00:01:40.000 Well, this weekend marked a major holiday for two of the three major world religions.

00:01:45.000 Ramadan is also this month, so actually all three major world religions are involved in celebrating holidays this month in a wide variety of ways.

00:01:53.000 This week marks Passover for my folks, the religious Jews.

00:01:57.000 It marks Easter, Sunday marks Easter for Christians. 0.98

00:02:01.000 And the religious nature of the weekend, it's a very good thing.

00:02:04.000 Let me just put it out there.

00:02:05.000 We need more public religion, not less public religion.

00:02:08.000 We have a mental health crisis in this country right now, particularly among young people.

00:02:11.000 It is not a coincidence that as churchgoing has declined across the United States, you have seen an uptick in mental health problems.

00:02:16.000 It is not a coincidence that the social fabric of the country has been fraying.

00:02:20.000 The less people go to church and the less people go to synagogue.

00:02:22.000 In other words, public practice of religion has always been a deep core need.

00:02:28.000 in the United States.

00:02:29.000 And this has been true since the time of de Tocqueville.

00:02:31.000 There was always the belief in the United States that the liberties that we enjoyed had to be placed against the backdrop of a public practice of religion that made people feel duty bound to one another.

00:02:42.000 That if there was no social fabric, the liberty that we supposedly prize was going to rip away all of that social fabric.

00:02:48.000 Liberty would act as universal acid in the absence of the base, right?

00:02:53.000 And what you needed for the base is religious practice in the United States.

00:02:56.000 As John Adams suggested, the constitution was made for a moral and religious people only.

00:03:00.000 For any other people, it would be like a whale breaking through the boundaries of a net.

00:03:05.000 The constitutional limitations on government would just be broken through by any other group of people. 0.57

00:03:11.000 You need a moral and religious people.

00:03:13.000 The reason that I bring this up is because, as always, whenever there is a religious weekend, there's an all-out assault, particularly on Judeo-Christian religion, by the media.

00:03:22.000 And I do separate off here Islam because the media is very, very shy about criticizing Islam in the same way that it does Christianity or Judaism.

00:03:29.000 It is not close.

00:03:30.000 Now, maybe there will come a time when the media changes and realizes that religious Muslims are actually religious, and they start hating on Muslims the same way they do on Christians and Jews, but that time has not yet come. 0.56

00:03:40.000 I bring this up because Ilhan Omar, who is a rabid anti-Semite and quite a terrible person, she tweeted out a video over the weekend of a group on a plane that was playing a Jesus worship song on this plane.

00:03:56.000 And this video had like 30 million views.

00:03:59.000 And the video itself appears to be.

00:04:02.000 The context is it's not super clear.

00:04:04.000 But TMZ reports the original video was shot by a guy named Jack Jentz Jr., who leads a group called Kingdom Realm Ministries.

00:04:10.000 The original posting appears to have been deleted.

00:04:12.000 It is unclear if the plane was privately chartered or if some of the passengers on board report a captive audience, according to the New York Daily News.

00:04:19.000 Jens' Facebook timeline indicates his group is in Ukraine, is in Europe, seemingly supporting Ukrainian refugees.

00:04:24.000 So not only are these people super bad for singing about Jesus, they're super, super bad because they're singing about Jesus while trying to save people from the predations of a Russian military assault on Ukraine, apparently, which means they're really bad.

00:04:34.000 And this, of course, has greatly frustrated Ilhan Omar, who is a wild leftist in everything except for her own religious precepts, apparently.

00:04:43.000 So Ilhan Omar promptly tweets, How do you think it will end?

00:04:51.000 Okay, the answer is that if you are praying quietly on a plane, people don't really do anything.

00:04:57.000 And the reason I know this is because I've prayed quietly on a plane before.

00:05:00.000 Like, I've gotten out the talus, I've gotten out the tefillin, I've gone to the back of the plane.

00:05:03.000 By the way, it would also depend on the airline, right?

00:05:05.000 Ilhan Omar is acting as though all airlines and all locations are equivalent.

00:05:10.000 So, for example, You generally would not see Jews praying on a plane, en masse, on a United Airlines flight.

00:05:15.000 On El Al, flying to Israel, this happens all the time.

00:05:18.000 If you're on a flight to Qatar, or you're on Qatar Airlines, there is public prayer on the airlines to Qatar, or on Turkish Airlines.

00:05:25.000 This sort of stuff does happen fairly regularly, depending on which airline you are under.

00:05:29.000 But her real point is not the supposedly evil, discriminatory nature of the United States.

00:05:34.000 Her real point is, why are these Christians being allowed to pray on a plane? 1.00

00:05:37.000 That is really what is upsetting her.

00:05:39.000 And again, I don't know why you would find this video particularly upsetting.

00:05:42.000 This is literally just people who are singing about Jesus on a plane.

00:05:44.000 And here's what the video sounded like.

00:05:46.000 You are the name above all names.

00:06:00.000 You are worthy of all praise.

00:06:06.000 By the way, that singing on the airplane right there, that is a chartered flight that Ilhan Omar is complaining about.

00:06:11.000 That's not even a public flight where people are sitting there being quote-unquote subjected to this.

00:06:14.000 That is a chartered flight, and she's whining about it. 1.00

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00:07:36.000 So, the reason that I bring this up is because there's an overt attempt by a huge number of people in our society to destroy the public practice of Judeo-Christian religion.

00:07:45.000 And it ratchets up every time we have a holy weekend.

00:07:47.000 It ratchets up.

00:07:48.000 So, for example, the New York Times ran a piece over Passover weekend, when the Orthodox Jews can't respond because we're busy, right?

00:07:55.000 You actually are not allowed to.

00:07:57.000 Use computers or electronics or any of that sort of stuff.

00:07:59.000 And it was a piece by a person named Shalom Auslander, who was raised in Muncie, New York.

00:08:04.000 He says that he was raised Orthodox.

00:08:07.000 And the piece is called, In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God.

00:08:11.000 So this is what we call the hot slate pitch right here, right?

00:08:13.000 The slate pitch is the part where you make a completely counterintuitive argument in the middle of somebody else's holy week.

00:08:20.000 And all of this stuff, Ilhan Omar ripping on Christians who are praying in the air, and Sholem Oslander writing a piece in the New York Times about giving up on God during Easter weekend and Passover weekend.

00:08:30.000 All of this stuff, as we'll notice in just one second, again, only seems to apply to criticism of Judeo-Christian religion.

00:08:36.000 It does not seem to apply to other sorts of religion.

00:08:39.000 If you insult other people's religions, then this means that you're mean and very bad, and then you ought to be punished publicly, as we'll see in just one second.

00:08:46.000 So Sholem Oslander writes this.

00:08:48.000 This weekend, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Passover, the name of which comes from the story of God, quote, passing over the homes of our distant ancestors on his way to slaughter the firstborn sons of evil Egyptians. 0.93

00:08:58.000 Our forefathers, the story goes, marked our doorposts with lamb's blood in order to spare their own sons the awful fate of their enemies.

00:09:03.000 In this time of war and violence, of oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else.

00:09:08.000 God. 0.96

00:09:08.000 Okay, this is a super unsophisticated and dumb piece that is basically along the lines of John Lennon's Imagine the Worst Song Ever Written. 0.96

00:09:16.000 Not only for its garbage piano chords, but also for the idiotic lyrics. 1.00

00:09:21.000 Mainly for the idiotic lyrics. 1.00

00:09:23.000 All about how if you get rid of God and get rid of nations, then suddenly there will be world peace, which turns out to be just nonsense all the way through. 1.00

00:09:30.000 One of the things you might have noticed is that in this time of war and oppression and suffering, very little of it has to do with overt religious practice.

00:09:36.000 Vladimir Putin is not attacking Ukraine for religious reasons.

00:09:39.000 China is not threatening Taiwan for religious reasons.

00:09:41.000 In fact, as it turns out, atheistic, communistic countries, or countries of the communist past, seem to be particularly aggressive at this point in time.

00:09:49.000 But, writes Shalom Auslander, two aspects of the Passover story have troubled me since I was first taught them long ago in an Orthodox yeshiva in Muncie, New York.

00:09:56.000 I was eight years old, and as the holiday approached, our rabbi commanded us to open our Chumashim, or Old Testaments, to the Book of Exodus.

00:10:01.000 To get us in the holiday spirit, he told us gruesome tales of torture and persecution.

00:10:05.000 The Egyptians, he told us, used the corpses of Jewish slaves in their buildings.

00:10:08.000 You mean they used slaves to build their buildings, I asked, and the slaves died from work?

00:10:11.000 No, said the rabbi.

00:10:12.000 They put the Jewish bodies into the walls and used them as bricks. 0.96

00:10:15.000 My father was something of a handyman at the time, and this seemed to me a serious violation of basic building codes, not to mention a surefire way to lose a home sale.

00:10:24.000 Okay, so my favorite thing in religious practice is when a bunch of people who abandoned religion in their teenage years and really never seriously engaged with religion other than what they were taught as very small children suddenly become experts in all theodicy.

00:10:31.000 Okay, so my favorite thing in religious practice is when a bunch of people who abandoned religion in their teenage years and really never seriously engaged with religion other than what they were taught as very small children suddenly become experts in all theodicy.

00:10:45.000 It's really amusing to me.

00:10:47.000 It never occurred to him that maybe what was taught to an eight-year-old was meant to be That the idea of Jews being used, for example, in the bricks of the pyramids, which again, this is not a midrash that I'd heard.

00:10:57.000 I'd heard this with regard to the Tower of Babel and not with regard to the pyramids.

00:11:00.000 But that's usually because midrash is not meant to be taken completely literally.

00:11:04.000 It's meant to be taken figuratively.

00:11:05.000 So maybe it is about the disrespect for the lives of the Jewish slaves who were being used to build Pharaoh's storehouses, for example.

00:11:12.000 But this never occurs to him, right?

00:11:13.000 He has to take it as literally as possible in order to disparage the religion.

00:11:17.000 He says, just as troubling, even more so today in light of the brutal slaughter taking place in Ukraine, or the plagues themselves.

00:11:22.000 God, the rabbi said, struck all the Egyptians with his wrath, not just Pharaoh and his soldiers.

00:11:26.000 Egyptians, young and old, innocent and guilty, suffered locusts and frogs, hail and darkness, beasts running wild, and water becoming blood.

00:11:31.000 Mothers nursing their babies, the rabbi explained, found their breast milk had turned to blood.

00:11:34.000 Yay! 0.99

00:11:35.000 My classmates cheered.

00:11:36.000 Because the classmates are now evil because they heard about the Bible. 0.98

00:11:39.000 This sort of You know, kind of pathetic biblical analysis is really stupid, particularly because there's a lot in Jewish tradition that specifically talks about the problems of collective punishment and why collective punishment happened with regard to the Egyptians in the Exodus story. 0.98

00:11:54.000 There's talk about complicity. 0.99

00:11:56.000 There's also talk about the responsibility of the leadership for its own people, right?

00:12:01.000 There's a part in the Exodus story, I mean, it's straight in the book of Exodus, where the people come to Pharaoh and they say, it's time for you to give up.

00:12:06.000 And Pharaoh says, no, I can't give up.

00:12:07.000 We're going to continue along these lines.

00:12:11.000 There's part of the Passover Seder, the Pesach Seder, in which you have a cup of wine, and as you mentioned the plagues, you're supposed to take a little bit of the wine out of your cup for each plague.

00:12:22.000 Because that's supposed to symbolically represent the fact that your cup is less full because people had to suffer in order to free the Jews.

00:12:30.000 There's a famous midrash.

00:12:31.000 I mean, if he's going to say midrashim, there's a famous midrash in which the angels are celebrating at the splitting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians being drowned and God tells them to stop because he says, those are my creations too.

00:12:39.000 So there's been a long question in Jewish history and in Jewish philosophy about the nature and morality of collective punishment along these lines.

00:12:47.000 But of course, none of this matters to him.

00:12:49.000 This is the thing about so many of our atheistic friends.

00:12:52.000 They hijack biblical morality and they live off of the roots of biblical morality because otherwise where is this morality coming from?

00:12:58.000 And then they use it to attack the Bible. 0.59

00:13:00.000 So the idea is they imbibe from the great stream of moral history that springs from Judeo-Christian practice.

00:13:06.000 And then they look back down at the foundation and they say, all those foundations are bad.

00:13:09.000 All those foundations are terrible.

00:13:11.000 We should rip them away.

00:13:11.000 If we just stop practicing religion, then everything would be all better.

00:13:16.000 So says Sholem Oslender, I was raised strictly Orthodox, old school, shtetl fabulous.

00:13:20.000 Every year at the beginning of the Seder, we welcome in the hungry and poor Jews who can't afford to have a Seder themselves. 1.00

00:13:24.000 It's a wonderfully human gesture.

00:13:25.000 A few short hours of God later, at the end of the Seder, we open the front door and call out to him, pour out thy wrath upon the nations that did not know you. 0.56

00:13:32.000 Because the idea is that those are the people who are going to victimize you.

00:13:35.000 I mean, the idea is, I mean, you have to put this in the context of Jewish history, where that specific paragraph, Shefok Hamascha, is specifically directed at people who are, you know, carrying out pogroms in the streets against Jews.

00:13:46.000 Which was sort of the history of the Jewish people as we'll see continuing until today.

00:13:49.000 So somehow he's linking up the God of Passover to Vladimir Putin firebombing cities.

00:13:54.000 He's going to have to explain that link.

00:13:55.000 He doesn't explain that link because that link is not explicable.

00:13:57.000 the same with fixed-wing bombers and cluster bombs of self-propelled mortars and thermal barrack rocket launchers. So somehow he's linking up the God of Passover to Vladimir Putin firebombing cities. He's gonna have to explain that link. He doesn't explain that link because that link is not explicable.

00:14:12.000 Vladimir Putin is violating biblical precepts. There are very few Christians on planet Earth who think, wow, what Vladimir Putin is doing is really a reflection of the best that Christianity has to offer this Easter weekend.

00:14:23.000 Which is why the Pope was out there condemning Vladimir Putin over Easter weekend.

00:14:28.000 But, says Shalom Ausländer, killing gods is an idea I can get behind.

00:14:30.000 This year, at the end of the Seder, let's indeed throw our doors open to strangers, to people who aren't our own, to the terrifying them, to the evil others, those people who seem so different from us. 0.82

00:14:39.000 Oh, the humanism.

00:14:41.000 Okay, so, again, the New York Times runs this over Passover weekend.

00:14:46.000 And Ilhan Omar is ripping on people singing about Jesus while in flight.

00:14:50.000 Everybody seems to be okay.

00:14:51.000 There doesn't seem to have been any hijacking attempts on that flight.

00:14:54.000 She's very upset about all of that.

00:14:56.000 By the way, I have to say, Ilhan Omar, the irony of people who are purportedly religious like Ilhan Omar is.

00:15:02.000 And I don't know how religious she is.

00:15:03.000 She seems to be differential in her practice, depending on, you know, her marital life and all of that.

00:15:07.000 But let's assume that she's a religious Muslim.

00:15:10.000 If you are publicly practicing your religion, it seems to me at the very least, you should be tolerant and celebratory of other people who publicly practice their religion.

00:15:17.000 I, for example, have said that Ilhan Omar should be able to wear hijab while she is in Congress.

00:15:22.000 I've said she should be able to be sworn in on Quran.

00:15:24.000 I've said that because when it comes to people publicly living out their religion, I think that is generally a good thing for the world because I'm a person who publicly lives out my religion.

00:15:33.000 I think it's a very good thing.

00:15:35.000 I want more people to go back to church.

00:15:36.000 I'm not somebody who goes to church.

00:15:37.000 I go to synagogue.

00:15:39.000 But I've said publicly, I think that the future of the United States relies on people going back to church. 0.98

00:15:43.000 I want more planes filled with people singing about Jesus at 30,000 feet in the United States.

00:15:47.000 I think that is the only way that the country reimbibes from the moral precepts of the Old and New Testaments, and that would be very good for civilization, as opposed to the sort of secular, atheistic, hedonistic narcissism in which we are currently embroiled, and which is not only sacrificing our children, but is also sacrificing our foreign policy to secular, atheistic countries like China, which is a predatory human rights violator on every possible level. 0.90

00:16:12.000 But it is amazing how, on a holy weekend, the media sort of get together, and it's like, well, the holy weekend, yeah, maybe we'll pay lip service to the holiness of the weekend, but really, those people are pretty barbaric, and they're pretty bad. 1.00

00:16:22.000 So this columnist, who is now suggesting that somehow biblical religion is responsible for Vladimir Putin bombing Ukraine, that guy is an idiot. 1.00

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00:17:45.000 Now, there's one group of people who is fully exempt from this sort of analysis, and that is the media's treatment of Islam.

00:17:52.000 The media's treatment of Islam is soft bigotry of low expectations kind of stuff.

00:17:55.000 The basic idea is that if Muslims go crazy over something that Christians and Jews never would go crazy over, this is because Muslims have been duly offended. 1.00

00:18:04.000 For example, here is a headline from Sweden over the weekend.

00:18:07.000 Quote, is Axios.

00:18:09.000 Far-right groups' Quran-burning plans trigger unrest in Sweden.

00:18:15.000 That is the headline.

00:18:17.000 So what you would think is that the real problem here is people burning Korans.

00:18:19.000 Now listen, I'm not a fan of people burning Korans.

00:18:22.000 I'm not a fan of people burning Bibles.

00:18:23.000 I'm not a fan of any of that.

00:18:25.000 As Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher from Britain wrote, there's a certain baseline level of civility that you should generally have for other people's religion.

00:18:32.000 It makes for a better world.

00:18:33.000 However, If somebody burns a Koran, and your response is to riot, you are the bigger problem than the person who is building the Koran. 0.89

00:18:41.000 The person who is burning the Koran.

00:18:44.000 Reuters, by the way, is doing the same thing, right?

00:18:46.000 If you look at the Reuters headline, they say this, riots erupt in Sweden's Orebro ahead of right-wing extremist demonstration.

00:18:55.000 So the riots are in response to the right-wing extremist.

00:18:59.000 If you just remove the cancer of the right-wing extremist demonstration, well then none of this would ever happen.

00:19:04.000 So what exactly happened here?

00:19:05.000 What happened here is that there was a right-wing group in Sweden.

00:19:10.000 Sweden has had a serious problem with criminality among the Muslim immigrant population in Sweden. 1.00

00:19:15.000 Malmö, Sweden has basically become unlivable for people who are Jewish, for example.

00:19:18.000 Lots of hate crimes pursued.

00:19:20.000 against people who are Jewish in Sweden.

00:19:21.000 A huge amount of crime in Sweden is driven by immigrants who are coming in and are unemployed. 1.00

00:19:26.000 And a lot of those immigrants are coming from Northern African countries, Arab countries as well.

00:19:32.000 Axios says, clashes erupted in Sweden for a fourth straight day Sunday after a far-right group announced plans to burn the Korana rallies.

00:19:38.000 At least 16 law enforcement officers have been wounded, and several police vehicles destroyed in clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter-protesters since last Thursday in Stockholm and other cities, where the group Strömkurz, or Hardline, planned to hold events.

00:19:50.000 Now, again, notice the language here.

00:19:53.000 16 law enforcement officers have been wounded, several police vehicles destroyed, in clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter-protesters.

00:19:59.000 So, who are the counter-protesters who actually are engaged in the rioting?

00:20:04.000 They are generally not the far-right extremists.

00:20:08.000 What happened is that during Ramadan, a far-right group planned events to take place in which they burned Qurans.

00:20:14.000 Unrest has been reported in several cities over the Easter weekend, including in Norrköping in Sweden's east, where the police said Sunday three people were wounded as officers fired warning shots into a crowd.

00:20:22.000 The southern town of Landskron saw stone throwing and objects set alight Saturday night after Stromkers moved its demonstrations in the nearby city of Malmo.

00:20:29.000 Again, as I mentioned, Malmo is now a heavily Muslim city in terms of population.

00:20:33.000 Twelve officers were wounded and four police vehicles set alight in the central city of Orebro, Friday, ahead of a demonstration in which Strom Kurz planned to burn a Quran, according to AP.

00:20:42.000 Okay, so, um, you may have noticed that nowhere in this article does it say who actually is attacking the cops and burning things.

00:20:48.000 Nowhere.

00:20:50.000 Right, so, uh, it turns out that a lot of the people who are attacking cops and burning things are people who are protesting and upset at the burning of the Quran, not the people who are actually burning a Quran.

00:21:00.000 Kim Hild, spokeswoman for police in southern Sweden, said earlier Saturday police would not revoke permission for the landskrona demonstration because the threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden, which values free speech.

00:21:10.000 The right of the protesters to demonstrate and speak out weighs enormously heavily, and it takes an incredible amount for this to be ignored, said Hild.

00:21:17.000 The demonstration took place Saturday evening in a central park in Malmö, where Strömkurs leader Rasmus Paludan addressed a few dozen people, a small number of counter-protesters, through stones at demonstrators.

00:21:26.000 Police were forced to use pepper spray to disperse them.

00:21:28.000 Paludan himself was reported to have been hit by a stone on his leg.

00:21:33.000 No serious injuries were reported.

00:21:35.000 Since Thursday, clashes have also been reported in Stockholm and in cities of Linköping and Norrköping, all locations where Strömkurs either planned or had demonstrations.

00:21:44.000 Notice the media coverage here.

00:21:45.000 There's a soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:21:47.000 People who riot because a Quran gets burned are treated as though they are not even part of the story.

00:21:51.000 The real problem is just the burning of the Quran. 0.68

00:21:54.000 Now, if you're going to have that sort of respect for public practice of religion, that we are now going to have tremendous sympathy for people who riot every time there's a cartoon of Muhammad drawn or a Quran burned, then I would suggest that you Extend at least a modicum of that respect to the religion that undergirds Western civilization, Judeo-Christian religion. 0.69

00:22:12.000 But of course, that is not how this works.

00:22:14.000 Instead, it's just low bigotry.

00:22:16.000 It is the soft bigotry of low expectations kind of nonsense.

00:22:20.000 And you see this every time there is a clash in Israel, for example.

00:22:23.000 So over the weekend, there were also clashes in Israel.

00:22:26.000 This has been pushed forward by the Palestinian Authority as well as Hamas.

00:22:30.000 So basically what's happening in the Middle East right now is that thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden attempting to reach out to Iran in the perverse view that if you give, Billions of dollars to radical Iranian mullahs who wish to murder as many Jews as humanly possible and take over surrounding countries and attack the Saudis.

00:22:46.000 That if you give them a bunch of money and a pathway to a nuclear bomb while allowing them to develop ballistic missile technology, this will moderate them.

00:22:52.000 What has happened in the Middle East is a complete reorientation, a complete shifting, in which a bunch of Sunni Muslim countries have now effectively made alliances with the Israelis.

00:23:01.000 They've said, listen, our big problem here is not the Israeli-Palestinian issue, because the Palestinians are supported by the Iranians, And because frankly we've been using them as pawns for several decades in order to redirect from the outrage of our own citizens and in order so that we can use them as a tool against Israel. 0.94

00:23:15.000 So maybe the problem isn't the Israelis, maybe the problem is the Iranians. 0.88

00:23:18.000 And thus the Abraham Accords under the Trump administration, where you have the UAE and Morocco and a bevy of other countries, really kind of backed by Saudi Arabia, entering into full-scale recognition of the state of Israel and now significant economic ties.

00:23:31.000 And so the Palestinians have responded, as they generally do. 0.99

00:23:35.000 The Palestinian Authority, the Hamas leadership, have responded by encouraging rioting in Jerusalem.

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00:24:52.000 So what happened over the course of the past several days is that spurred on undoubtedly by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, a bunch of rioters all up on the Temple Mount.

00:25:00.000 And I've been up on the Temple Mount.

00:25:03.000 The Temple Mount is heavily restricted.

00:25:06.000 It is run by the Waqf, the Islamic Waqf.

00:25:09.000 For years, for decades, Jews were prohibited from openly praying on the Temple Mount.

00:25:12.000 Even when I was up there, Jews were not allowed to openly pray on the Temple Mount.

00:25:16.000 I'm talking about standing there.

00:25:18.000 If you stand there and they see your lips move, they will literally deploy the Islamic Waqf to kick you off the Temple Mount. 0.98

00:25:24.000 I know because this happened to the group that I was in when I went up to the Temple Mount.

00:25:28.000 In fact, it happened to be a Jewish holiday.

00:25:29.000 It was actually During the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

00:25:32.000 And one of the days is called Hoshana Rabbah.

00:25:34.000 During that day, one of the things that happens is that you take essentially a set of willow branches and you beat them on the ground.

00:25:40.000 It's just a ceremonial ritual that has some meaning.

00:25:42.000 Don't need to get into it.

00:25:44.000 And one of the guys we were up there with, he took these out of his pocket and he started hitting them on the ground.

00:25:48.000 Literally taking branches and hitting them on the ground.

00:25:50.000 The Islamic WAF came over, a bunch of women started approaching from both sides, shouting, Allahu Akbar. 1.00

00:25:57.000 A bunch of young men who were unemployed, young Arab men were up there, and they ran over to start screaming at us.

00:26:03.000 And the Mishdara, the Israeli authorities, literally threatened to arrest this guy for the great sin of taking some branches and hitting them on the ground.

00:26:09.000 In an area, by the way, where Muslims pray every day.

00:26:12.000 In fact, Muslims even have a school up there on the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism, because unfortunately for Centuries.

00:26:19.000 Islam has had the bad habit of finding any holy site of any religion and then just building a mosque right on top of it, which is why you have the Al-Aqsa Dome, the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the edge of the Temple Mount complex, and why you have the Dome of the Rock built directly where the Kodosh Kedoshim, the holiest site in Judaism, would have been, right? 0.96

00:26:38.000 The center of the temple.

00:26:39.000 There's a reason why this is now a Muslim holy site and all of that is the case.

00:26:43.000 Okay, so Every time there needs to be a distraction from world politics or an attempt to cudgel Arab countries into not making peace with Israel, there's an attempt to start a riot on the Temple Mount.

00:26:54.000 And so the Al-Aqsa Mosque is used as a staging ground for these riots.

00:26:57.000 And you can see it in the videos.

00:26:58.000 People literally bring baskets of rocks into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and they start hurling them at the Israeli police officers who are on the Temple Mount to guard people who are touring the Temple Mount and also to make sure that violence does not break out up there.

00:27:10.000 And then the media cover it as though the Jews have somehow initiated the violence.

00:27:13.000 Like the Jews are randomly going into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. 0.91

00:27:16.000 The Jews, the Israelis over there, have no interest in going into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. 0.84

00:27:20.000 The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been protected by the state of Israel, literally since its inception.

00:27:25.000 Right, from 48 to 67, there was not even any control, Jewish control of the Old City of Jerusalem. 0.56

00:27:29.000 From 67 on, when Moshe Dayan handed the keys to the Temple Mount, to the Islamic Waqf, Israeli security forces have been protecting Muslim worship on the Temple Mount and not protecting Jewish worship on the Temple Mount. 0.59

00:27:40.000 In fact, one of the most discriminatory places on earth for Jews is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, presided over by the State of Israel, which delegated its power to the Islamic Waqf.

00:27:48.000 The reason that I explain all of this is because the media coverage is.

00:27:51.000 That when Muslims riot on the Temple Mount in an attempt to shift attention away from the bad governance of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, or an attempt to refocus the eyes of the world on the supposed suffering of the Palestinians who again are living, the vast majority of Palestinians live under the direct rule of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. 0.88

00:28:09.000 So instead what they do is they start riots in order to try and blame Israel.

00:28:12.000 The media instead treat it as a question of moral equivalence, which it is not.

00:28:17.000 And this follows, the riots on the Temple Mount follow several weeks of gun and knife attacks on Jews leading up to Passover.

00:28:24.000 And these gun and knife attacks, again, have been celebrated by Hamas. 0.86

00:28:27.000 Hamas has issued statements on the stabbing to death of civilians, the mass shooting of civilians.

00:28:32.000 Candies are handed out in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, ruled by the Palestinian Authority.

00:28:36.000 And the media just don't cover this because the soft bigotry of law expectations that applies to Muslim countries continues.

00:28:43.000 And so, that is the latest from Israel.

00:28:46.000 I mean, the Palestinians, like, four days ago, vandalized Joseph's tomb in one of the holier sites in Judaism. 1.00

00:28:54.000 Joseph, like, from the Bible.

00:28:56.000 is in the West Bank city of Nablus, which is the Arab name for the city.

00:29:01.000 And Palestinian rioters decided to just go and set fire to the site, which they do every so often.

00:29:06.000 Every so often, they find a Jewish site that happens to be in sort of a Palestinian area, and they break it, and they set fire to it. 0.93

00:29:11.000 This happens fairly regularly.

00:29:12.000 The vandalism came amid the second night of arrests made by Israeli security forces in the West Bank following a deadly terrorist attack on Thursday night on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv that claimed three lives.

00:29:22.000 The terrorist, Ram Hazem, 28, was from a nearby Palestinian city of Jenin.

00:29:27.000 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said, We will not accept this kind of attack on a place that is holy to us, particularly on the eve of Passover.

00:29:32.000 We will reach the rioters, of course.

00:29:33.000 We will make sure to rebuild what they destroyed, as we always do.

00:29:37.000 And again, this is an area that is completely ruled by the Palestinian Authority.

00:29:40.000 So, they vandalized Joseph's tomb.

00:29:42.000 Again, this happens fairly regularly.

00:29:46.000 And in response, the Rom Party, which is part of the current coalition in Israel, right?

00:29:50.000 The supposed apartheid state of Israel.

00:29:52.000 One of the parties that is part of that coalition is an Arab party called the Rom, the United Arab List.

00:29:56.000 They quote-unquote froze their participation in the coalition to protest, quote, police violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem, which is probably eventually going to bring down the government.

00:30:05.000 Because as it turns out, when you side with people who are rioting against the existence of the state of Israel, which is what is happening, then it's hard to hold a coalition together.

00:30:15.000 Meanwhile, Hezbollah is on Israel's northern border backed by Iran and saying they only need nine billion dollars to destroy Israel.

00:30:21.000 Mohammed Raab, the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament.

00:30:25.000 Okay, these are people who sit in an actual parliament in Lebanon.

00:30:28.000 They now say the resistance needs only nine billion dollars, there'll be nothing left to call to Israel in the region.

00:30:34.000 Hey, the reason that I bring all of this up is, again, when it comes to media attacks on religion, some of these things just don't make headlines ever.

00:30:40.000 There's just a soft bigotry of low expectations that applies to the Muslim world.

00:30:45.000 And that soft bigotry of low expectations means that secularists in the West will attack Judaism and Christianity.

00:30:50.000 And when it comes to Islam, then Islam gets a pass.

00:30:53.000 And if Muslims anywhere do anything that is violent or terrible, the idea is the West must somehow have caused all of this.

00:31:01.000 Now, this does stand in kind of stark contrast to how the left is treating the situation in Ukraine.

00:31:05.000 It's kind of fascinating.

00:31:07.000 Ukraine is a Western country.

00:31:10.000 Russia is a non-Western country. 0.84

00:31:11.000 Russia is attacking Ukraine.

00:31:13.000 And the left is sort of rushed to the defense of Ukraine.

00:31:15.000 Using arguments, by the way, that apply to Israel, In their totality.

00:31:21.000 They'll say, you know, Ukraine is a sovereign territory in which areas are being carved off by people who are engaged in terrorist activity.

00:31:32.000 That's a pretty good description of what's happened in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.

00:31:36.000 And there's an idea that Ukraine should never ever surrender any territory to Russia because after all, Russia is the negative power in this region. 0.80

00:31:43.000 But bottom line is that, you know, again, when it comes to foreign policy, there's real inconsistency, and the inconsistency seems to be largely predicated on the notion that has arisen in the West that religion is bad.

00:31:54.000 Religion is not bad. 0.99

00:31:56.000 Religion is generally very, very good for human beings.

00:31:58.000 We have a religious instinct.

00:31:59.000 That religious instinct is quite important.

00:32:01.000 Pretending that it doesn't exist is ignoring a fundamental factor in human life.

00:32:07.000 And again, that does not mean that all religion is created equal.

00:32:09.000 It doesn't mean that all religions are equally true or equally good.

00:32:12.000 It does mean that before you pull the trigger on your article in the New York Times about how God needs to go away, perhaps you should think about what a world without God actually looks like.

00:32:21.000 It doesn't look all that good.

00:32:23.000 Okay, meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate.

00:32:28.000 Apparently, Mariupol is completely surrounded at this point.

00:32:30.000 The Russians have completely surrounded it. 0.83

00:32:32.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the last Ukrainian troops holding out in besieged Mariupol rejected Moscow's ultimatum on Sunday that they surrender or face destruction by Russian forces, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned an all-out Russian assault on the troops would endanger further peace negotiations.

00:32:45.000 Russia had given the troops until noon local time to lay down arms and observe a seven-hour ceasefire it said would allow them to leave the battlefield unscathed.

00:32:52.000 Russian forces are close to capturing the strategic ports after weeks of heavy bombardment.

00:32:56.000 In fact, It seems as though there is a war in the east that is going to get significantly heavier as well.

00:33:02.000 The Wall Street Journal says, Russia's expanding military deployments in and around eastern Ukraine in recent days are setting the stage for a new phase of Moscow's offensive, one that is likely to be very different from the kind of fighting that has characterized the past two months.

00:33:13.000 This time, the two countries' militaries will be operating on open terrain well suited for mass forces and armored thrusts.

00:33:19.000 Russian forces will also be fighting in closer proximity to their bases in Western Russia, giving them significantly shorter supply lines, and on territory their commanders know better.

00:33:27.000 Zelensky, for his part, is saying we are not going to surrender a single inch of Ukrainian territory, which is what was likely to happen in the end.

00:33:35.000 Here, by the way, is a sort of a North Korea-South Korea situation.

00:33:37.000 in which a rump Ukraine is left without the non-vassal region, without Crimea, in which Russia solidifies its gains. I thought before the war this was actually Russia's initial goal. Instead it turned out that Putin went for broke and this was his plan B.

00:33:50.000 Zelensky is now warning about the possibility that Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons. Here's what he had to say.

00:33:56.000 The director of the CIA warned that he's worried Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon in this fight. Are you worried?

00:34:08.000 There is a possibility of them using these weapons.

00:34:13.000 Nobody expected there to be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine from the Russian Federation.

00:34:18.000 No one expected there to be a war in 2014.

00:34:21.000 And now that there will be a full-scale invasion and killing of civilians, nobody expected them to invade the areas where there is no military equipment and just kill and shoot dead a civilian population.

00:34:33.000 Meanwhile, Zelensky is ratcheting up the rhetoric.

00:34:35.000 He's calling on Joe Biden to come visit Ukraine.

00:34:37.000 Now that Boris Johnson has visited Ukraine, there are already some American congressmen who have visited Kiev as well.

00:34:41.000 Here's Zelensky saying it's time for Joe Biden to come.

00:34:43.000 Do you want President Biden to come here?

00:34:47.000 Yes.

00:34:49.000 Are there any plans for him to come?

00:34:51.000 I think he will.

00:34:52.000 I think he will.

00:34:52.000 You think he will?

00:34:54.000 And I think it's his decision, of course, and about the safety situation, it depends.

00:35:03.000 But I think he's the leader of the United States and that's why he should come here to see.

00:35:12.000 Okay, meanwhile, again, Zelensky has been ratcheting up the rhetoric pretty dramatically here.

00:35:16.000 You know, he's trying to invoke the Holocaust.

00:35:18.000 He's saying, we don't believe those who say never again again.

00:35:20.000 There's something kind of deeply, I would say, odd about the leader of Ukraine, even if he is of Jewish extraction, talking about never again in the context of a nation that was fully complicit in the Holocaust itself. 0.68

00:35:33.000 And again, I've never bought into this idea that when the world says never again, we actually mean never again.

00:35:37.000 I don't think that's true.

00:35:38.000 I think that very little foreign policy is actually driven by human rights concerns.

00:35:42.000 Most foreign policy is driven by hard-headed realpolitik and the necessity for political and military and economic might and creating spheres of influence.

00:35:51.000 Now, those spheres of influence are not all morally equivalent.

00:35:54.000 An American eurosphere of influence is significantly better than a Russian-Chinese sphere of influence.

00:35:58.000 However, the sort of idea that never again was ever a global priority is just not true. I mean there are a million Uighur Muslims being held in abject servitude over in China right now. There's ethnic cleansing that happens in Africa on a pretty regular basis. So whenever people cite human rights violations I start to get a little skeptical that this is a real rationale. It's good press, I mean I understand what he's doing. I just don't think that the world takes this sort of rhetoric particularly seriously.

00:36:25.000 Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day politicians put out statements that say never again, never again.

00:36:32.000 Thank you.

00:36:34.000 Those statements must seem really hollow right now to you.

00:36:40.000 When the world says never again, do they ever mean it?

00:36:43.000 I don't believe the world.

00:36:45.000 After we see what's going on in Ukraine.

00:36:48.000 Okay, by the way, I mean, Ukraine has voted several times to essentially undercut the state of Israel in its own defense against a genocidal terrorist who wished to destroy it.

00:36:59.000 And never again is not a priority for pretty much anybody.

00:37:03.000 What will happen in Ukraine right now?

00:37:05.000 It feels like we are getting drawn into a conflict in the East that looks less Like protecting Ukraine and more like a protracted battle with the Russians.

00:37:16.000 In other words, it might be that there's a bit of opportunism that's also going on here to reverse some of the things that never should have been allowed to happen back in 2014.

00:37:22.000 I don't blame Zelensky for this, but the West is going to have to decide what its priorities are and how far it's willing to go in order to pursue those priorities.

00:37:29.000 In other words, we want to get into a contracted, protracted conflict over, for example, large swaths of the Donbass region that were already carried out by by the Russians in 2014.

00:37:39.000 Do we want to get involved in a conflict in Crimea?

00:37:42.000 Like how far is this repelling the invasion that has already happened?

00:37:45.000 I'm full scale on board with that.

00:37:46.000 If this turns into protracted Western support for reversing the gains that Putin made in 2014, you're going to have to assess the cost benefit analysis of that.

00:37:55.000 I understand what Zelensky's doing.

00:37:56.000 I don't blame him whatsoever for that.

00:37:58.000 But the West is going to have to figure out what exactly its interests are and where the off-ramp is throughout all of this.

00:38:02.000 Because remember, Vladimir Putin is the kind of person who would use a tactical nuclear weapon.

00:38:07.000 And so when you have Senate Democrats out there saying things like the United States should think about sending troops to Ukraine, I think it's a pretty... This is Chris Coons from Delaware.

00:38:14.000 It's a pretty dangerous suggestion.

00:38:16.000 If Vladimir Putin, who has shown us how brutal he can be, is allowed to just continue to massacre civilians, to commit war crimes throughout Ukraine, without NATO, without the West coming more forcefully to his aid, I deeply worry that what's going to happen next is that we will see Ukraine turn into Syria.

00:38:39.000 The American people cannot turn away from this tragedy in Ukraine.

00:38:43.000 I think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in Ukraine and that Putin will only stop when we stop him.

00:38:51.000 Okay.

00:38:51.000 I mean, I generally agree with all of that.

00:38:53.000 I'm just wondering where Chris Coons was when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine back in 2014 and where he was when Vladimir Putin decided to take control of Syria and Barack Obama went totally along with all of that.

00:39:02.000 All right.

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00:41:07.000 Meanwhile, Elon Musk's bid to take over Twitter has now been stymied by a poison pill that Twitter is putting in its documents.

00:41:20.000 According to the New York Times, Twitter does not want to become a plaything of the world's richest person.

00:41:24.000 I love that the media are now pretending that very rich people don't run places like the New York Times.

00:41:28.000 It's owned by the Sulzberger family.

00:41:30.000 There's this bizarre, crazy wording here.

00:41:33.000 It's like, Twitter doesn't want to be the plaything of a rich person.

00:41:35.000 What do you think?

00:41:36.000 It's owned by a bunch of poor people, Twitter?

00:41:38.000 The folks over at the local homeless shelter are setting the algorithms, or what?

00:41:42.000 Or is it a bunch of billionaires?

00:41:43.000 On Friday, according to Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger of the New York Times, Twitter turned to a tried-and-tested corporate defense mechanism invented in the 1980s, the heyday of the corporate raider, to block a potential takeover attempt by Elon Musk and buy its boards some time.

00:41:56.000 The mechanism, known as a poison pill, Has a simple intention to make it less palatable for a potential buyer to pursue the target company if the buyer accumulates shares above a certain threshold.

00:42:04.000 In Twitter's case, if Musk bought more than 15% of the company, Twitter would then flood the market with new stock that all shareholders except Musk could buy at a discounted price.

00:42:13.000 That would immediately dilute Musk's stake and make it significantly more expensive for him to buy the company.

00:42:18.000 Musk currently owns a little more than 9% of Twitter's stock.

00:42:21.000 Twitter said its plan would be in place for just shy of one year.

00:42:23.000 The tool will not stop the company from holding talks with any potential buyer, and will give it more time to negotiate a deal the Twitter's board believes best reflects the company's values.

00:42:31.000 So, the board of Twitter is going to decide, not the shareholders of Twitter.

00:42:36.000 The strategy doesn't mean the company is going to be independent forever, said Drew Pasquarello, senior lecturer of finance at Cornell.

00:42:41.000 It just means they can effectively fend off Elon.

00:42:44.000 Twitter is weighing whether to invite bids from other people to other people close to the company's head.

00:42:49.000 So apparently they're now trying to sell to someone else because all they are looking for at this point is just somebody who is not going to change the algorithm so that it doesn't discriminate against conservatives.

00:42:58.000 Silverlake, a private equity firm that already owns a significant stake in Twitter, could be a possibility, people said.

00:43:03.000 Silverlake, a technology-focused buyout fund, has more than $90 billion in assets under management, and a managing partner there, Egan Durbin, sits on Twitter's board.

00:43:11.000 Silverlake has come to Twitter's rescue before.

00:43:13.000 In 2020, when Elliott Management, an activist investor, amassed shares in Twitter and wanted to make changes, Silverlake helped the parties reach a compromise.

00:43:20.000 As part of that deal, Silverlake invested $1 billion in Twitter.

00:43:22.000 Well, let me just explain, that is not the same thing as Elon Musk offering, what was it, $43 billion?

00:43:28.000 Not $1 billion, $43 billion, in order to just buy it straight up.

00:43:33.000 At least one other private equity firm, Tama Bravo, is weighing a possible offer for Twitter, according to Reuters.

00:43:39.000 Poison pills have become part of a corporate toolkit in America, Netflix adopted a poison pill in 2012 to stop Carl Icahn from buying up its shares.

00:43:46.000 Papa John's used one against the pizza chain's founder and chairman, John Schnatter, in 2018.

00:43:51.000 Investors rarely try to get around a poison pill by buying shares beyond the threshold set by the company, according to securities experts.

00:43:57.000 One said it would be financially ruinous, even for Mr. Musk.

00:44:01.000 Okay, but the fact that the media are celebratory about this demonstrates What exactly their priorities are.

00:44:07.000 And of course, their real priorities are making sure that Twitter is just an outlet for all of their preferred beliefs.

00:44:13.000 Because without a monopoly on the media, they've got nothing.

00:44:15.000 If people actually get to say what they think, the left loses so much of its momentum in the culture wars.

00:44:21.000 This is why you have democratic strategists coming out, and there's Danielle Moody telling Al Sharpton, who I get, unbelievable, it will never stop being unbelievable to me that Al Sharpton has his own television show.

00:44:31.000 I mean, the man is the worst race baiter of the last half century. 0.81

00:44:34.000 It's unbelievable.

00:44:35.000 This Democratic strategist is telling Al Sharpton, who himself has been involved in no less than two riots, that Elon Musk is a danger to free speech.

00:44:45.000 Elon Musk is a danger to Twitter and to freedom of speech.

00:44:49.000 He has been known to say some of the most transphobic and homophobic things to his millions of followers.

00:44:56.000 So creating an arena for hate, to me, that's what that sounds like.

00:45:00.000 An opportunity for him to have no consequences, to have no flags, for people just to be able to do whatever it is and say whatever they want regardless of what kind of harm that it causes.

00:45:12.000 Oh my God, he wants people to be able to say and do what they want? 0.99

00:45:15.000 Holy crap! 0.99

00:45:16.000 That would be terrible. 0.97

00:45:17.000 It'd be horrible if we had a, you know, like, amendment in the Constitution that basically guaranteed the same thing.

00:45:21.000 Can you imagine how bad that country would be?

00:45:22.000 That'd be a terrible country. 0.94

00:45:24.000 It had an amendment that says you can say and do kind of what you want.

00:45:26.000 I love that.

00:45:27.000 Regardless of what harm it does.

00:45:29.000 Because speech to these folks is violence. 0.99

00:45:31.000 Meanwhile, SNL, which exists at the mercy of a public willing to take its pathetic mockery, SNL is just—the people who write SNL, they must just be interns at the White House, because the material there is just garbage. 0.97

00:45:43.000 So SNL, over the weekend, was suggesting the real reason Elon Musk wanted to take over Twitter is so he can say the N-word. 0.85

00:45:48.000 Because that—of course, that's really what this is about.

00:45:49.000 It's not about suppression of obvious stories like the Hunter Biden story.

00:45:53.000 It's about people wanting to say the N-word.

00:45:54.000 Nailed it.

00:45:55.000 Nailed it, SNL.

00:45:56.000 Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over $40 billion so he can loosen its free speech rules.

00:46:03.000 That's how badly white guys want to use the n-word.

00:46:08.000 Because that's exactly how this is working. 0.99

00:46:10.000 It's all about white guys who want to say the n-word.

00:46:12.000 Now, if you wonder why the media are so upset about the possibility of Musk taking over Twitter, the answer is if they don't have a monopoly on the messaging, they've got nothing. 0.64

00:46:21.000 Nothing.

00:46:23.000 They need the monopoly on the messaging because it turns out that when people find out the truth about what it is that they are saying, people don't like it.

00:46:28.000 At all.

00:46:29.000 So, let me give you an example.

00:46:31.000 The entire media decided that Florida's bill to protect parental rights in education was bad.

00:46:36.000 All that bill said was, no indoctrination in gender identity or sexual orientation from K-3.

00:46:41.000 That's all it said.

00:46:43.000 That is the wording of the bill.

00:46:44.000 It never said, don't say gay.

00:46:45.000 It didn't say any of that stuff.

00:46:46.000 The entire media just lied about it.

00:46:47.000 And they lied about it because there were activist groups who decided to lie about it.

00:46:51.000 And the media and the activist groups are one and the same group.

00:46:54.000 And then it turned out that thanks to social media, and thanks to alternative outlets like the Daily Wire, and thanks to the fact that there are shows like this one, people actually found out what's in the bill, and this turned out to be a wild negative for the left.

00:47:05.000 And the more information that is out there, the worse it is for the left.

00:47:09.000 So, the media were basically counting on their monopoly to be able to cudgel everybody into place.

00:47:14.000 They tried to bully Disney, and they succeeded in bullying Disney into taking a position on this bill.

00:47:19.000 And then they went even further. 0.78

00:47:22.000 They forced Disney to have an all-hands meeting at which Members of the Disney crew basically came out and said that we are mainlining a bunch of left-wing garbage into children's programming.

00:47:33.000 And the media covered this because this is supposed to be a good thing.

00:47:36.000 So, for example, there's an article in the New York Times today called Disney built on fairy tales and fantasy confronts the real world.

00:47:42.000 The entertainment behemoth spent decades avoiding even the whiff of controversy, but it has increasingly been drawn into the political partisan fright.

00:47:49.000 By whom?

00:47:50.000 By whom?

00:47:51.000 Was it by us here on the right who just wanted to take our kids to Disneyland?

00:47:55.000 And not mind if our little girls were called princesses and our little boys were called princes?

00:47:59.000 Was it us?

00:48:00.000 The people who just want to be able to watch Encanto without being bothered with the vagaries of gender theory? 0.55

00:48:08.000 Was it really us or was it a bunch of activists in the media and activists inside the company who had decided that they wish to reorient Disney toward a quote-unquote not-at-all-secret gay agenda, the direct words of one of the producers of The Proud Family over at Disney?

00:48:23.000 I mean, the New York Times noticed that there's an active attempt in the children's programming to put this content in.

00:48:28.000 Well, it's gently, according to the New York Times, so it's totally fine.

00:48:38.000 And them saying that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and boys should wear dresses?

00:48:41.000 That's gentle, according to the New York Times, so it really isn't the problem.

00:48:44.000 Gonzo dons a gown, defying a directive from Miss Piggy that girls come as princesses and boys come as knights.

00:48:49.000 Out Magazine wrote that the episode, quote, just sent a powerful message of love and acceptance to gender-variant kids everywhere.

00:48:57.000 The fighting will undoubtedly continue, says the New York Times.

00:48:59.000 The Disney-Pixar film, Lightyear, set to release in June, depicts a loving lesbian couple, while Thor, Love and Thunder, arriving in July, will showcase a major LGBTQIA-plus-minus-divided-by-a-sign-percentage-sign-tilde character.

00:49:13.000 So, it's the left that cuddled Disney into doing these things, and they continue to try to cuddle Disney into doing these things.

00:49:18.000 There's an article from a person named Sean Griffin for CNN Business.

00:49:22.000 He's a professor for film and media art at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of Art.

00:49:28.000 He's also the author of Tinker Bells and Evil Queens, the Walt Disney Company, from the inside out.

00:49:34.000 And his recommendation is that Disney has to halt all investment in Florida, Which, good luck with that, since Disney World is in Florida.

00:49:41.000 So really, good luck with one of your major profit centers, halting all investment in that. 0.99

00:49:45.000 A really slow clap for this moron. 1.00

00:49:47.000 Officially recognize gay days. 1.00

00:49:49.000 So you should officially recognize and facilitate annual gay days so that children are subjected to as much sexual propaganda as humanly possible. 0.94

00:49:57.000 These parks are designed, by the way, for children.

00:49:59.000 Adults enjoy them.

00:50:00.000 These parks are designed for children.

00:50:02.000 And they must feature LGBTQIA2SLY plus minus divided by sign. 1.00

00:50:10.000 More characters like this.

00:50:12.000 LGBTQIA plus fans of Disney says this columnist have long identified with non-binary characters, such as Ferdinand the Bull and Peter Pan, and appreciated the campy flitter villains such as Captain Hook and Maleficent.

00:50:22.000 Well, I mean, wow.

00:50:24.000 Well, good for them.

00:50:25.000 Okay, so, they dragged Disney kicking and screaming into this fight. 1.00

00:50:29.000 And Disney went into the fight because, number one, they have a bunch of woke employees, and their CEOs are a bunch of cowards, like abject, pathetic, yellow-bellied cowards. 1.00

00:50:40.000 And so they got dragged into this fight. 0.99

00:50:42.000 And they got dragged into the fight on the predicate that the media was basically just going to echo chamber this thing.

00:50:46.000 They were going to keep reflecting wild leftist values, and nobody was ever going to notice.

00:50:50.000 The problem is, people have started to notice.

00:50:53.000 Because the left is so radical in their perspectives on gender and sexual orientation that the idea of this stuff for adults, let alone for kids, is totally insane.

00:51:01.000 I'm just going to give you an example, by the way, of how radical the left is.

00:51:04.000 So Jack Turban is a child psychiatry fellow at Stanford Medical School, which is just, my god.

00:51:09.000 And a trans youth mental health researcher who writes for the New York Times opinion section, he tweeted the other day, quote, And by the way, the evidence is not that puberty blockers are temporary and reversible.

00:51:20.000 That is not what the evidence shows.

00:51:21.000 There are serious open questions about the long-term health effects of puberty blockers.

00:51:24.000 He says, puberty blockers are more benign than going through a puberty that cannot be undone.

00:51:29.000 If you go through puberty, you see, you should be able to be so independent of your own biological sex.

00:51:35.000 And if you go through puberty, that is your body doing violence to you, the secret Cartesian you that lives in your head. 0.99

00:51:42.000 So puberty is more damaging to you than puberty blockers and then maybe carving a fake vagina into your body. 1.00

00:51:49.000 If you can't see that, then you really need to reflect on your biases and whether you consider trans people at all when you form your opinions.

00:51:55.000 Okay, my opinion is that it is a normal, natural process for the human body to go through puberty.

00:51:59.000 I don't know when this became wildly controversial.

00:52:01.000 It is not even close to controversial. 0.98

00:52:03.000 What should be controversial is the garbage being spewed by the left on this particular topic. 0.93

00:52:07.000 Because medical transition is not a Sneetch's star-on, star-off machine. 0.95

00:52:12.000 There's a horrifying piece by a guy named Scott Nugent.

00:52:14.000 And when I say a guy, I mean a transgender man.

00:52:17.000 Okay, so a she who got a bunch of surgeries and hormone treatments to look like a he by Scott Nugent in Quillette. 0.63

00:52:25.000 And here is what this person says.

00:52:26.000 Quote, at a recent gathering, a friend's daughter told us, I'm probably trans because I don't like female puberty.

00:52:32.000 This instantly got my attention because I have known this child for years.

00:52:34.000 I never saw any indication of her being trans.

00:52:36.000 I innocently asked why she would say that.

00:52:38.000 Was it a joke perhaps?

00:52:39.000 She replied, quote, I don't like my boobs growing and Reddit says I'm probably trans.

00:52:44.000 That night I tracked down these Reddit exchanges and my jaw dropped when I saw how many people and organizations were heavily pushing the possibility of her being trans.

00:52:51.000 But perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised, given the way such attitudes have gone mainstream.

00:52:55.000 This includes the pediatrician mom whose recent opinion piece for the New York Times was titled, quote, What I Learned as the Parents of a Transgender Child.

00:53:01.000 For kids googling this subject, the overall effect is the equivalent of one big glitter bomb going off on their screen.

00:53:06.000 I write all of this as a 47-year-old transgender man who transitioned five years ago.

00:53:10.000 I'm also a parent to three teenagers.

00:53:12.000 Though I admire the good intentions of parents who seek to support their children, I have serious concerns about reckless acquiescence to a child's internet-mediated self-diagnosis.

00:53:20.000 Many older transgender folks share these concerns, too.

00:53:24.000 Transgenderism isn't a vague feeling or a distaste for stereotypical roles.

00:53:31.000 It's a serious internal condition that causes you to want to become a member of the opposite sex. 0.99

00:53:35.000 Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.

00:53:42.000 It did for me.

00:53:43.000 It was the right path for me.

00:53:44.000 I wasn't born in the wrong body.

00:53:45.000 I was born female, but I didn't like it. 1.00

00:53:47.000 So I changed my appearance at significant monetary, psychological, and physical costs with plastic surgery and hormones.

00:53:52.000 My sex never changed, though.

00:53:54.000 Only my appearance changed.

00:53:55.000 Anyone going through this is in store for a brutal process.

00:53:58.000 And we now have thousands of naive parents walking their children into gender treatment centers, often based on internet-peddled narratives that present the transition experience through a gauzy, rainbow lens.

00:54:08.000 During my own transition, this person says, I had seven surgeries.

00:54:10.000 I had a massive pulmonary embolism, a helicopter life flight ride, an emergency ambulance ride, a stress-induced heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin, during a failed phalloplasty, which is the creation of a fake penis that does not work, 16 rounds of antibiotics, 3 weeks of daily IV antibiotics, the loss of all my hair, only partially successful arm reconstructive surgery, permanent lug and heart damage, a cut bladder, insomnia-induced hallucinations, oh, and frequent loss of consciousness due to pain from the hair on the inside of my urethra.

00:54:40.000 All this led to a form of PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year.

00:54:44.000 Between me and my insurance company, medical expenses exceeded $900,000.

00:54:49.000 Whenever you question the maximalist activist line on trans affirmation, you're directed to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH as a reference.

00:54:57.000 But much of what you find there consists of vague phrases such as, up to the doctor's discretion.

00:55:03.000 Lupron, the hormone blocker some doctors seem intent on giving to kids like Tylenol, isn't even FDA approved to treat children with gender dysphoria.

00:55:10.000 In 2001, the manufacturer pled guilty to fraudulent sales practices with regard to its marketing as a prostate cancer drug.

00:55:16.000 We don't know yet its long-term effects off-label.

00:55:18.000 Here's what we do know.

00:55:19.000 The long-term use of synthetic hormone therapy shortens lives.

00:55:23.000 So in other words, all of this is just nonsense pushed by the media and they rely on the echo chamber in order to mirror that nonsense.

00:55:31.000 And some of the actual medical data when it comes to gender transition is absolutely horrifying.

00:55:37.000 There was a post that was going around yesterday.

00:55:42.000 It was put up on Reddit and it said this, quote, I have no clue what to do.

00:55:46.000 Daughter can't get the bottom surgery and is becoming suicidal.

00:55:48.000 Quote, hello, I've always been in support of my transgender daughter.

00:55:51.000 When she was still a boy and started expressing a want to be a girl, I did everything right. 0.99

00:55:55.000 Therapists, then puberty blockers, everything.

00:55:57.000 Now she is 20.

00:55:58.000 Everything is falling apart.

00:55:59.000 We had to hold off on the body of surgery because of cause, but now finally had enough and went and got several consults.

00:56:04.000 All have said the same thing.

00:56:05.000 The puberty blockers have left her with a micropenis. 0.99

00:56:08.000 She has to get part of her vagina made with her colon. 1.00

00:56:10.000 Well, one of her friends had that surgery. 0.99

00:56:12.000 Even years later, it smells fairly colon-like.

00:56:15.000 Obviously, my daughter is now distraught.

00:56:16.000 She's in counseling, but is becoming worse and worse in her mental state, and I am frantic. 0.99

00:56:20.000 On top of this, she has never had any sexual function, no urges, no erections, even when she tried masturbation to see if she could stimulate herself. 0.99

00:56:26.000 Nothing. 0.97

00:56:27.000 The doctors say this may not change after her surgery.

00:56:30.000 Her dating life is dismal as well.

00:56:32.000 We knew it would be hard, but it's impossible.

00:56:35.000 Well, yes, of course, because the actual data on this stuff is horrifying.

00:56:39.000 And when people find out the actual data, it turns out that they are horrified by all of it.

00:56:44.000 And this is why Disney is now backing off.

00:56:46.000 This is why when I mention the sort of insanity that is pushed by the left, and the fact that they have to control places like Twitter, because if they don't control Twitter, they can't control the narrative.

00:56:55.000 This is the reality.

00:56:57.000 So there's a dog that didn't bark in the Disney, quote unquote, don't say gay story.

00:57:00.000 And that is where all the other corporations.

00:57:03.000 Remember when there was a bill in Charlotte, North Carolina.

00:57:07.000 It was a bill in North Carolina that basically said public restrooms have to be separated men, women. 1.00

00:57:12.000 And there was such enormous backlash from a wide variety of corporations that they ended up sort of reversing the bill.

00:57:18.000 You remember this?

00:57:19.000 You remember that in Georgia, when a voting law passed, including voter ID, a multiplicity of organizations ranging from MLB to Coca-Cola decided to get involved.

00:57:28.000 When it came to the quote-unquote don't say gay bill in Florida, Very, very few organizations decided to say anything.

00:57:33.000 You know why? 0.94

00:57:34.000 Because it turns out that when the American people push back against the garbage, corporations don't want to be caught in the crossfire.

00:57:40.000 And Disney is now starting to go silent.

00:57:44.000 Disney is becoming completely silent in Florida.

00:57:47.000 You know why?

00:57:47.000 Because some Republican lawmakers in Florida are threatening to end a special tax district that has allowed the company to effectively govern the land on which Walt Disney World sits for decades.

00:57:55.000 Members of Congress have called for Disney to be stripped of its original Mickey Mouse copyright, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:58:01.000 Politicians are campaigning for re-election on promises to stand up to Disney and other woke corporations.

00:58:05.000 They say are promoting messages and taking stands that put them out of step with the values of Florida parents and voters.

00:58:10.000 Fans and park workers protested outside the company's headquarters earlier this month.

00:58:14.000 Others have used social media to call for boycotts against Disney's parks.

00:58:18.000 Disney is now going silent.

00:58:20.000 They've decided to decline to comment on criticism from lawmakers.

00:58:24.000 Inside the company, some executives have expressed disappointment Disney has become politicized, had people familiar with their thinking.

00:58:30.000 Good.

00:58:31.000 Good.

00:58:32.000 It turns out that when Americans respond to actual data and not the garbage spewed out by Reddit and Twitter, things get very ugly for corporations that decide to go along with the woes.

00:58:42.000 So, bottom line is, the reason that people in the media are so darn upset, like very, very upset with Elon Musk taking over Twitter, possibly, is because they have to maintain the monopoly.

00:58:53.000 And the echo chamber is so strong.

00:58:55.000 How strong is the echo chamber, by the way?

00:58:56.000 I'll finish on this, but how strong is the echo chamber?

00:58:59.000 The reason that it is so strong, I mean, it is so strong that Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, knows she's among friends so strongly, she can go out in public and disparage a member of the press from Fox News as essentially the worst kind of human, knowing that she will face very, very little blowback in any real terms.

00:59:16.000 I mean, the lady already has a contract with MSNBC, and she's currently acting as the White House press secretary. 1.00

00:59:21.000 Here she was a couple of days ago, going after Peter Doocy from Fox News.

00:59:25.000 So we have to talk about Peter Doocy for one second.

00:59:29.000 Okay.

00:59:33.000 Is he a stupid son of a bitch or does he play a stupid son of a bitch on TV? 1.00

00:59:41.000 Okay. 1.00

00:59:43.000 Well, he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone's life.

01:00:00.000 She thinks she can get away with that.

01:00:05.000 Here's the thing.

01:00:05.000 They've created a bubble of their own making.

01:00:07.000 They can't get outside of that bubble.

01:00:08.000 This is now under the dome by Stephen King.

01:00:10.000 Bad things are about to happen inside that bubble for the Democrats.

01:00:13.000 And if that bubble is ever burst, they will lose control even of the echo chamber they currently control.

01:00:18.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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