R.I.P. announces his retirement from the rap game. Ice Spice has a new song out called Think You the Sh** Fart and it s about twerking and farting, and other women are spanking her on the video for it. The future of the hip-hop industry now that Dre is no longer a part of it is in the hands of a new generation of artists like artists like Ice Spice. This is a sad day for me, but music never dies, so long as the beat is in your heart. And so I will now do what I am most famous for doing when it comes to rap: I m going to do what we call English in a language we call "English." Thank you so much to everyone who has been with me through it all, and thank you to all the people who have supported me throughout my rap career. I m so grateful for all the love and support I ve gotten from all of you, and I hope you enjoy this new chapter in my life, and that you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing this with my family. Thank you for being a good friend, brother, sister, daughter, and daughter. XOXOXO, R. Ipso - DJ Semtex and R.A.P - R.E.D. and the rest of the team at The R&B Crew (featuring: , & . and is a tribute to the late, great, greats, DJ Khloe Kardashian, JAY-O & DJ Khaled, , and . . , R.Ip in the new album, I don t have any plans to release it any time soon, but I ll be back with a new album in the next few weeks. - I m looking forward to seeing you all on the road soon, so stay tuned for that. - DJ Khale - ? - and I m sorry for not getting to spend more time with you all in the future with you guys. - - E.S. (and I ll see you soon! - SONGS - PODCAST: - D.O. & R.B. ( ) s will be back! joins me on the next episode of the podcast
00:00:00.000So folks, we'll get to all the news in just one moment, but I have to tell you that today is, for me, a sad day.
00:00:06.000So a couple of days ago, Fact, by my friend Tom McDonald featuring me, dropped from the top slot on iTunes right after the Grammys after 10 days of pure magic.
00:00:15.000It is still the number one rated hip-hop song in America on iTunes, but Rap Hanukkah is officially over.
00:00:22.000And so, with tears in my eyes, I have a big announcement to make.
00:00:29.000To all the little homies who have been lifting me up since I began this journey.
00:01:31.000So, I have been informed, reliably, that Ice Spice is a human.
00:01:36.000And that Ice Spice also has a brand new charting song out.
00:01:39.000No, she has not surpassed Facts on the Charts yet.
00:01:42.000But we can only hope that for the sake of Western civilization, eventually, she is widely appreciated by the masses in the way that she so richly deserves.
00:01:51.000So, Ice Spice, As a brand new song out and the nature of this song is, I think, quite deep and requires a bit of explication.
00:02:01.000You know, we've deconstructed the culture on this show before.
00:02:04.000In fact, it was probably my extraordinary rendition of WAP that led eventually to my hip hop stardom and then, of course, to my short-lived but brilliant career in the industry.
00:02:13.000And so we have to deconstruct a little bit of the culture that I am now leaving.
00:02:17.000Because I gotta be honest, I was being drawn into, I mean, in that week, in that week where I was the top charting rapper in America, you know, I have to say, went to the clubs, sipping on some Henny, was wearing the bling.
00:02:30.000My wife, she was really getting into the lifestyle as well.
00:02:33.000But again, I have to leave it to the pros.
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00:05:55.000And, um, she apparently did a rendition of this rap, F my baby dad, at a hospital after having her latest baby.
00:06:06.000Because nothing says lucky child quite like you're pushed out a mom and you're immediately Making sexual videos in which you say, F the dad of your child.
00:06:19.000That baby's gonna live, that's a happy life for that kid, getting, wow, wow.
00:06:24.000I mean, just absolute cultural genius happening.
00:06:28.000I can't imagine why Tom McDonald and I rapped about the shortcomings of rap culture, because it seems like it's doing well.
00:06:33.000It seems like it's really incentivizing excellent behavior.
00:06:36.000These pictures are insane, by the way.
00:06:37.000She's literally in the hospital bed, and she is posing, Like ass out and like touching herself in the hospital bed.
00:06:48.000I gotta say that the definition of sexy has radically changed in America.
00:06:52.000If people find this attractive in any way, shape or form.
00:06:55.000In any case, here is some of the video.
00:06:58.000She literally cut a music video from her hospital room after having a baby about F the baby dad.
00:07:37.000One thing I will say is that if this lady doesn't get to take a maternity leave, then why does Pete Buttigieg get three months off for a paternity leave?
00:07:55.000I know I understand that I had a place in the rap culture.
00:07:57.000I understand that I was an inherently important part of hip hop, but I have to, as I say, I have to leave it to the pros.
00:08:04.000The reason I spend time on this stuff, by the way, is I think folks need to understand, you know, we talk cover politics a lot on this show.
00:08:10.000The number of people who are drawn in by pop culture is insane.
00:08:13.000Pop cultural engagement in America is at levels not even remotely charted by politics.
00:08:20.000The number of people in America who watch politics is extraordinarily low.
00:08:26.000In fact, if you look at the latest statistics with regard to, for example, news websites and political websites being visited, the answer is that the numbers are way down, like way, way, way down since the last election cycle.
00:08:40.000And if you look at big political events, for example, like the fifth Republican primary debate, that drew 2.5 million viewers.
00:08:49.000Trump's competing town hall had about 4.3 million viewers.
00:08:52.000Aggregate all of that and you're talking like 7 million viewers total.
00:08:55.000And then if you add in people on the other side of the aisle, people who are politically engaged, you're talking a maximum of 15 to 20 million people who are politically engaged on anything like a regular level.
00:09:05.000And even those people aren't engaged the way that you probably are, listening to the show, listening every day.
00:09:11.000The number of people who will engage with content in pop culture is so much wider and so much... I speak as a charting artist, as the number one rap artist in America, as a Hot 100 number 16 recipient on Billboard, without any radio plays.
00:09:26.000I speak as a great artist of my genre.
00:09:31.000And let me tell you, pop cultural engagement is so much more important in terms of how young people think and the values that are shaped than actual baseline politics.
00:09:40.000It's why we've done deconstructing the culture before.
00:09:42.000And it's why it sort of matters that garbage is being purveyed every day by people like Ice Spice and Sexy Red as our culture gets dumber and dumber and stupider and stupider.
00:09:52.000OK, meanwhile, on the political side of the aisle, there's a lot happening.
00:09:57.000So I have to say that Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party, there have been some interesting things about it.
00:10:02.000I liked a lot of his policy as president.
00:10:04.000But one of the negative things about having a singular figure atop the political pile for any party is that there is a tendency to follow them to stupid places.
00:10:12.000And today I have two examples from President Trump.
00:10:16.000Example number one, President Trump came out yesterday and he suggested that conservatives go back to buying Bud Light.
00:10:23.000Now you'll recall that it was just last year that Bud Light decided that they were going to sponsor, as a face of their brand, Dylan Mulvaney, a man who mocks womanhood by pretending to be a girl.
00:10:36.000And they made a Bud Light beer can and all this.
00:10:38.000And people like us at the show, my friend Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire personalities,
00:10:43.000pretty much everybody on the right said, okay, well, we're not gonna buy Bud Light.
00:10:46.000First of all, it tastes like horse piss.
00:10:48.000And then beyond that, it actually is promoting values that we don't like.
00:10:52.000It's a great American brand, Bud Light.
00:10:54.000Not Anheuser-Busch, which is now foreign owned, but the actual Bud Light brand
00:10:59.000is a deeply American intertwined brand.
00:11:01.000And they are sacrificing their brand, which is basically blue collar people
00:11:05.000in favor of upper class trans politics.
00:11:11.000And it's stupid, and it's bad, and it's bad for the country, and so we're not going to drink Bud Light anymore.
00:11:14.000And Bud Light took it directly on the chin.
00:11:16.000Their sales went directly through the floor.
00:11:18.000And they were in fact reduced to not the number one beer, but the number two or number three beer.
00:11:24.000Modelo actually overtook them, for example.
00:11:27.000Well, now President Trump is calling for an end to the boycott on Bud Light, which makes no sense.
00:11:31.000If you have a successful boycott, if you successfully Destroyed a large brand in order to make a political point.
00:11:36.000You then don't undestroy the brand before they've actually apologized for the thing.
00:11:40.000Now, Bud Light is trying to make some sort of obeisance to the other side of the aisle, to our side of the aisle, on the conservative side, by going and contracting with, say, Dana White over at the MMA.
00:11:51.000But the attempt to sort of buy back conservative love by hiring Dana, that doesn't make up for what you did in the first place when you spit in the face of all of your consumers.
00:12:02.000Well now Donald Trump is calling for an end to the boycott.
00:12:04.000He put out a missive last night on Truth Social.
00:12:08.000He said the Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions and for that a very big price was paid.
00:12:13.000But Anheuser-Busch is not a woke company.
00:12:15.000Anheuser-Busch is a great American brand that deserves a second chance.
00:12:25.000What would drive President Trump, one of the most vindictive voices in the history of American politics, to suddenly decide that it's time for forgiveness for Bud Light?
00:12:33.000Well, it could be the fact that apparently he owns about $5 million in Anheuser-Busch stock.
00:12:37.000It could also be the fact that a top Republican lobbyist for the company is hosting a fundraiser for Trump next month, with some tickets going at $10,000 each.
00:12:48.000has also previously defended Anheuser-Busch, saying the company donated more to Republicans than Democrats, and helped Kevin McCarthy's effort to assume control of the House.
00:12:58.000Now, as my friend Matt Walsh says, this is the most effective boycott probably in the history of conservative politics.
00:13:03.000Why would you end it on the basis of Donald Trump just says so?
00:13:05.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:13:07.000First, we all have that weird neighbor.
00:13:09.000You know, the one who has a rusty car with a tarp over it and that car hasn't been started in like 15 years.
00:13:15.000Or the guy who just so happens to be outside every time you're in a rush to get somewhere and then insists on having you look over his hydrangeas.
00:14:26.000I'm saying we should focus on the big picture, agreeing with 45.
00:14:30.000The big picture is 45, of course, is President Trump, who's the 45th president.
00:14:34.000The big picture is not agreeing with President Trump.
00:14:36.000It's never been agreeing with President Trump.
00:14:38.000I agree with President Trump when President Trump deserves to be agreed with.
00:14:41.000And I disagree with President Trump when he deserves to be disagreed with.
00:14:44.000This would be one case where he deserves to be disagreed with.
00:14:47.000There's another case where he deserves to be disagreed with.
00:14:49.000And that was on Ronna Romney McDaniel.
00:14:51.000So let me tell you the tragic story of Ronna Romney McDaniel, who now goes by Ronna McDaniel.
00:14:57.000The reason she goes by Ronna McDaniel, this is not a joke, is because Ronna Romney McDaniel, who is in fact Related to Mitt Romney, of course.
00:15:12.000She used to go by Ronna Romney McDaniel.
00:15:15.000And then it turned out that when she became RNC chair and Donald Trump was the leader of the Republican Party, she dropped the Romney because Trump hated Romney so much.
00:15:25.000Because that's the kind of obeisance that is demanded by many people who really love Trump.
00:15:55.000In fact, her tenure as RNC chair, which began January 19th, 2017, which was preceded by Reince Priebus, who ended up going into the administration briefly.
00:16:04.000When she assumed office in 2017, she assumed office with Donald Trump having a House majority and a Senate majority.
00:16:10.000That was the state of play when she took office.
00:16:13.000She then proceeded to lose the House in 2018, and she proceeded to lose the House and the Senate in 2020-2021, and then she proceeded to wildly underperform in the 2022 election cycle.
00:16:33.000So, she has sacrificed whatever principle she had, including the political principle that the RNC should be involved in choosing candidates on the primary level who can win, and then raising money for those candidates, and then boosting them to victory.
00:16:44.000Instead, she basically just said that Trump could have free reign of the place.
00:16:48.000So much so that the RNC, anytime there is a conflict inside the Republican Party between Trump and any other candidate, in the primaries, not in the primaries, with regard to the Senate, with regard to the House, the RNC always sided with Trump because McDaniel knew where her bread was buttered.
00:17:04.000Huge string of losses for Anirani McDaniel to the point where, after the November 2022 elections, where Republicans, by polling data, were supposed to clean up.
00:17:12.000Republicans were supposed to win a broad majority in 2022.
00:17:19.000One of its jobs is to work with the Senatorial Republican Campaign Committee.
00:17:24.000And the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and all the rest of these groups, in order to select good primary candidates, particularly in purple districts and purple states, in order to boost them to victory.
00:17:36.000The RNC instead spent a bunch of money on perks and flowers and nice dinners and limos.
00:17:43.000And then the 2022 elections were a full-scale disaster area in which the Republicans, not only did not regain the Senate, they ended up retaking the House by, like, a handful of votes.
00:17:52.000And that handful of votes is so small that Republicans can no longer do literally anything in the House of Representatives without making serious concessions to Democrats.
00:18:03.000So, in January of 2023, in the period between November 2022 and January 2023, there was a serious effort to oust Ronna Romney-McDaniel.
00:18:12.000In fact, you'll recall that right after the election in November 2022, I openly called on the show for the replacement of Ronna Romney-McDaniel because you don't get to lose this many times and still retain your job.
00:18:22.000At any job, if you fail over and over, if you fail once, okay, that's called life.
00:18:27.000You fail twice, okay, maybe you need a serious corrective.
00:18:30.000You fail three times, now you're starting to look pretty bad.
00:18:36.000You fail four times, you should lose your job.
00:18:38.000And she failed 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.
00:18:40.000She failed four times, four separate times.
00:19:08.000There's some other people who have been talked about as an RNC chair who'd be good.
00:19:10.000So, now, Donald Trump, a couple of weeks ago, after having boosted McDaniel back into place, just in time for the primaries, where the RNC, every time it could, put its thumb on the scale for Donald Trump, Now that she bent the knee to Trump in every- Which way?
00:19:25.000Literally took Romney out of her name, bent the RNC to Trump's will at every possible point, now Trump is going full Joffrey and cutting off her head.
00:19:32.000So now, she's going to be out of a job.
00:19:36.000This is, again, directly after she was endorsed by Trump and won re-election as RNC chair.
00:19:42.000So now, Ronna Romney McDaniel is gone.
00:19:47.000According to the Washington Post, Quote, Ronna McDaniel is expected to leave her job this spring after former President Donald Trump had increasingly grown critical of her leadership, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:20:00.000You mean after she ensured that he got everything that he could possibly want in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023?
00:20:07.000So basically, she did everything Trump could have possibly wanted, and now he's defenestrating her so that he can blame her for all the problems with the RNC, despite the fact that, again, he boosted her to that position.
00:20:16.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:20:17.000First, when you're running a business, your employees can create all kinds of interesting situations, like somebody not showing up when they're supposed to, or an employee filing a complaint for which you don't have a documented policy or procedure.
00:21:15.000The only point that I'm making is that you should agree with Donald Trump when it's good to agree.
00:21:20.000I agree with him about ousting Ronna Romney McDaniel.
00:21:23.000I also agreed about ousting her before she was even the RNC chair.
00:21:27.000And I disagreed with Donald Trump when he was attempting to foist her into place.
00:21:32.000The decision came as she visited Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump on Monday, but the situation remained fluid according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
00:21:39.000The news of her departure was first reported by the New York Times, which reported it was likely to occur after the South Carolina primary on February 24th.
00:21:46.000She was expected to serve until 2025, but has considered leaving for months.
00:21:49.000Her relationship with Trump soured over the Republican primary debates featuring his challengers this past fall.
00:21:55.000Trump wanted her to cancel them and she declined.
00:21:58.000So she provided so much fealty to him.
00:22:00.000I mean, she really did during the primaries.
00:22:03.000She didn't force him to sign any pledge saying he'd vote for the other candidates, despite the fact that she wanted all the other candidates to pledge they'd vote for Trump if, in fact, he won the nomination.
00:22:11.000She made room for him at every possible turn, but she wouldn't just outright hand him the primaries and got pissed at her.
00:22:16.000And now he wants her out, and now she's leaving.
00:22:18.000The point of the matter is that if you wish for good policy to emerge from Donald Trump or anyone else, that doesn't mean listening to Trump all the time.
00:22:26.000It doesn't mean listening to Trump when he says, end the Bud Light boycott.
00:22:29.000It doesn't mean listening to Trump when he tries to boost Ronna McDaniel back to the RNC chairmanship in January of 2023.
00:22:33.000It means sometimes he's right and sometimes he's wrong.
00:22:36.000You're an independent human being and you should have your own thoughts on matters and you shouldn't just follow any politician or people like me, anyone, literally anyone, blindly.
00:22:44.000You should actually think about these things and then decide whether or not it meets with your principles.
00:22:49.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the consequence of having a very narrow House majority yesterday, the House voted on impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:22:58.000Now, to be fair to the Republican Congress, people who voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, no high crime or misdemeanor was actually alleged.
00:23:05.000Okay, so there are some members of the House who argued against Donald Trump's impeachment, including Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin.
00:23:19.000Because he said, listen, I voted against Donald Trump's impeachment because no crime was alleged.
00:23:22.000Here, no crime is alleged, so I'm also voting against impeachment.
00:23:25.000Now, the reason I would have voted for impeachment if I were in the House, and the reason why I think it was good that people voted for impeachment is because impeachment is obviously a political tool.
00:23:35.000Impeachment has obviously become a political tool.
00:23:37.000Trump was impeached twice without any serious high crime or misdemeanor even being charged in the impeachment documents.
00:23:43.000And so now that that's what it is, everybody's fair game.
00:23:46.000Because if the rules apply one way for Democrats and another way for Republicans, then there are no rules.
00:23:53.000So if impeachment is a political tool, then it should be a political tool all the way.
00:23:57.000And then, we can make a deal, and we'll go back to status quo ante, where you only get impeached for actual impeachable offenses.
00:24:03.000But until then, you cross the line, and we'll treat it just like a political remedy.
00:24:08.000In any case, the reason that the Republicans couldn't get together a House majority is because their House majority was so narrow.
00:24:14.000So that goes back to the 2022 elections, in which the intervention of the RNC and Donald Trump and bad candidates ended up blowing the possibility of a Republican 15 or 20 seat House majority.
00:24:25.000And Republicans ended up with a tiny, slim, tiny House majority.
00:24:29.000And then, of course, George Santos was just ousted by Congress, which left them with one fewer Republican vote.
00:24:34.000And so the House ended up voting 216 to 214 against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:24:41.000Only four Republicans voted in favor of keeping Mayorkas, or not impeaching him.
00:24:45.000The Republicans who voted against the impeachment resolution said that Mayorkas' conduct did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
00:24:56.000He is not some sort of border dove easy on immigration or anything.
00:25:01.000He just said the same thing that Gallagher said.
00:25:03.000He said the impeachment articles failed to identify an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has committed.
00:25:08.000Democrats were accusing Republicans of trying to score political points, which of course is true, but that's exactly what they were doing when they impeached Donald Trump twice.
00:25:15.000Representative Ken Buck of Colorado indicated another vote could take place once the House Majority Leader Steve Scalise returns to work.
00:25:22.000Scalise has been working remotely as he undergoes cancer treatment.
00:25:26.000In the end, probably, Mayorkas will be impeached.
00:25:28.000They do have enough votes to do it, but barely.
00:25:32.000So, the Democrats did wheel in people who are literally sick to try to get the vote to turn in favor of Mayorkas.
00:25:40.000Representative Al Green tried to vote on a second resolution targeting Mayorkas.
00:25:46.000But he backed off after receiving assurances from House leaders that the earlier effort would proceed at the committee level, and then he was actually wheeled in because he was sick to vote against impeaching Mayorkas.
00:25:55.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:26:56.000So, bottom line is, does this damage Republicans anyway?
00:26:59.000No, I mean, it just looks again like Republicans can't count votes, but we've known that for quite a while.
00:27:04.000In yet another element of Republican stupidity, it turns out that banging your head against the wall does not end up being a very good strategy.
00:27:09.000They got rid of Kevin McCarthy, as I said at the time.
00:27:11.000Like McCarthy or hate McCarthy, McCarthy knew how to count votes.
00:28:10.000If the border was in crisis, why isn't Joe Biden doing something about it?
00:28:12.000He has the authority to do so already, as everyone legally acknowledges.
00:28:18.000Joe Biden, however, is trying to play the hand that he has dealt himself.
00:28:21.000Again, he could just shut the border and take the issue away from Trump, but he's afraid of ticking off that left-wing base.
00:28:26.000And so now he's trying to blame Republicans for all of this.
00:28:29.000He says the border isn't secure because of Trump and his friends.
00:28:31.000This is not going to play at all in any way, shape, or form.
00:28:34.000This is why he is 30 points behind Trump on immigration.
00:28:37.000Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his maggot Republican friends.
00:29:45.000Because Donald Trump thinks it's bad for him politically.
00:29:48.000therefore he doesn't, even though it helps the country, he's not for it.
00:29:53.000He'd rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it.
00:29:56.000So for the last 24 hours he's done nothing, I'm told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal.
00:30:21.000The other is that, I swear, Joe Biden at this point, he looks, no joke, like Julian Glover as Walter Donovan at the end of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.
00:30:37.000He looks like he drank from, he chose poorly.
00:30:40.000Literally every video of him is a state of further physical and mental degradation.
00:30:51.000By the way, Joe Biden is admitting, by the way, the bill will actually allow people to enter the country more quickly.
00:30:56.000We all know what the real agenda is here.
00:30:57.000Here's President Biden admitting this yesterday.
00:31:00.000This bill would also establish new, efficient, and fair process for the government to consider an asylum claim for those arriving at the border.
00:31:09.000Today, the process can take five to seven years, as you all know.
00:31:13.000They show up at the border, get a bracelet, told they'll come back when called.
00:31:20.000That's too long and it's not rational.
00:31:23.000With the new policies in this bill and the additional of 4,300 more asylum officers who spend hours, I might add, with each immigrant to consider their claims, whether they qualify, we'll be able to reduce that process to six months, not five to seven years.
00:31:42.000Okay, again, he's trying to reduce the time period between when you apply for refugee status and when you are granted refugee status.
00:31:50.000His goal is to get more people into the country, not fewer people into the country.
00:31:54.000The only thing that the bill does that is presumably good is it changes the definition of asylum.
00:31:59.000In order to have a legitimate asylum claim, you now not only have to claim that you fear to go back to your home country, you have to have some sort of credible fear that you cannot, such that you cannot relocate inside your home country or in any country that you have passed through before.
00:32:12.000But how do you establish that sort of thing?
00:32:15.000Like seriously, do you think that Joe Biden and his processing centers, people are going to come and they're just going to say that.
00:32:19.000They're just going to say, I can't move inside my own home country because people are pursuing me.
00:34:47.000And meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to be rather dire.
00:34:51.000Best reports suggest that Russia is going to mobilize another all-out assault on Ukraine sometime later in the year, and as Western support for Ukraine declines, Ukrainians are very much in fear that Kiev theoretically could be overrun.
00:35:04.000According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian parliament has now passed a law approving a presidential decree to extend martial law in Ukraine for another 90 days, from February 14th until May 13th.
00:35:15.000Apparently, this is basically a unanimous legislative act because, of course, the country is still, in fact, at war.
00:35:22.000And all of this is, again, coming to a head, not just because the United States is unlikely to grant $60 billion in aid to Ukraine based on the current voting constituency in the House of Representatives, but also because Tucker Carlson is now jet-setting over to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.
00:35:38.000So here was Tucker confirming that he's interviewing Putin, and here he was explaining why he's doing it.
00:35:50.000Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.
00:35:57.000They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning.
00:36:01.000Last month, we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again.
00:36:05.000But this time, we came to Moscow anyway.
00:36:09.000We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.
00:36:11.000We are here because we love the United States and we want it to remain prosperous and free.
00:36:16.000Okay, so the entire case that he is making is that you're not getting the full information and that we need an interview with Putin.
00:36:29.000Good for Tucker for getting the interview.
00:36:30.000You know, I will say that the only thing that's going to matter about this interview are the questions that he asks.
00:36:37.000Meaning that if he goes in and he basically just allows Putin to spout about denazification efforts in Ukraine and about how Ukraine is actually a country that is filled with wild left liberals who are promoting LGBTQ values but they're also Nazis and that's why he's invading and that's why he needs to take out Vladimir Zelensky or whatever.
00:36:55.000That will not, in fact, be a public service.
00:36:57.000That will not, in fact, be information that is added to the information that people need to hear.
00:37:03.000The questions that need to be asked, obviously, are what are the off-ramps?
00:37:06.000Why are you holding American journalists like Evan Gershkovich in jail?
00:37:31.000Number one, that Vladimir Putin has sort of a nefarious history of having his political enemies jailed and or poisoned and or pushed off of buildings.
00:37:38.000But in any case, if Tucker wants to provide another side to the conflict so that we can all get more information, that'll be great.
00:37:45.000But we're only going to know exactly how that goes once the interview actually airs.
00:37:48.000I'm not going to prejudge the interview.
00:37:50.000I certainly have no problem with Tucker interviewing Vladimir Putin.
00:37:53.000I hope he doesn't do the same thing that he actually did with Kanye West when he had on Kanye.
00:37:57.000On his show and proceeded to cut out all of the craziest sections of the interview with Kanye when she was spouting even at the time wild anti-semitic kind of stuff and Tucker cut it out and then put out the interview with Kanye and it made Kanye look like he was a lot more sane than he actually was at that time.
00:38:16.000You know, again, I think Tucker is a super smart guy.
00:38:19.000I think that he does care about the country, and I would love to hear him ask some really solid questions of Vladimir Putin, so we'll see how it goes.
00:38:27.000I will say that the Kremlin is expecting that they know how it goes.
00:38:31.000According to DNYUZ, Carlson's trip is exciting a lot of people over at the Kremlin.
00:38:39.000On Tuesday, Alexei Benediktov, the former editor of Echo Moscovy radio station, said, as I understand, Tucker Carlson got what he wanted.
00:38:48.000Apparently, a source close to the presidential administration told the Moscow Times, quote, Tucker has been expected here for a long time.
00:38:55.000To underscore the depth of Carlson's commitment to the Russian cause, state media programs pointed out that in America, he's called out as a traitor and his trip is being compared to Jane Fonda's visit to Vietnam in 1972.
00:39:04.000Now, again, the It's not like Jane Fonda unless he's actually a propagandist for the Kremlin.
00:39:36.000During an interview with The Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, political scientist Sergei Mikhaev said, quote, a few words about Tucker since he's a popular figure.
00:39:45.000He says, if Tucker dares to broadcast this interview in the United States, first and foremost, this will blow up their informational blockade from within.
00:39:53.000He said that an interview with Putin will have some interesting consequences, quote, it will blow them up into pieces.
00:40:01.000And then he said, God willing, there will be a civil war in the United States because of it.
00:40:04.000Now, again, I think that's some wishful thinking on the part of some Russian propagandists, but it's worth pointing out that the only thing that's important about an interview is the content of the interview, not just the faces of the people who are in the interview.
00:40:19.000And by the way, the United States does have a very strong interest in Ukraine, not actually just becoming a Russian protectorate.
00:40:25.000I've said since the since near the beginning of the war that the solution to this conflict was going to be in simply recognizing the frozen battle lines that are already present in the Donbass and in Crimea.
00:40:36.000The areas of the Donbass that are currently occupied by Russia and in Crimea that are currently occupied by Russia are largely Russian speaking.
00:40:43.000Those are areas in which Vladimir Zelensky did not win when it came to the last election cycle.
00:40:49.000Those are areas that didn't vote, some of them, in the last election cycle because they'd already been occupied by Russia in 2014, but those are areas that had not voted for the more European-minded Ukrainian politicians.
00:41:01.000They'd already voted for the more pro-Russian politicians in those areas.
00:41:06.000Those conflicts are not likely to be undone.
00:41:08.000Those areas are not likely to become sovereign Ukrainian territory again anytime soon.
00:41:13.000The battle lines have not moved for a year.
00:41:15.000And so, the idea of the off-ramp is American and European security guarantees to Ukraine, more military material put in to prevent a future invasion, and setting of the final lines, kind of where they are right now, everyone knows that's the solution.
00:41:30.000The question I hope Tucker asks Putin is, is that a solution for you?
00:41:34.000Right, because otherwise there's no off-ramp and it just continues.
00:41:36.000Putin is counting on the West to just get tired and eventually just give him Kiev.
00:41:39.000That's effectively what Putin is waiting for right now.
00:41:41.000Okay, meanwhile, Gina Carano, our friend, who of course starred in Terror on the Prairie for us.
00:41:47.000We hired her after she was fired from The Mandalorian for the great sin of saying that people should not dehumanize one another.
00:41:53.000That's really why she was fired from The Mandalorian.
00:41:55.000She put up a meme saying essentially that othering ends with murder, which is, I thought, kind of a mainstream point of view.
00:42:03.000In any case, they fired her, we hired her, and she was in terror on the prairie,
00:42:07.000and it was sort of a big win for everyone.
00:42:09.000Now, Gina is suing the Walt Disney Company.
00:42:12.000So according to Deadline Hollywood, three years after Carano was axed
00:42:15.000by then Bob Chapeck-run Disney for comparing the political climate in America
00:42:18.000to Nazi Germany, that's not what she was doing.
00:42:20.000Carano sued Disney and the Star Wars shingle Lucasfilm for dropping her from the Bounty Hunter series,
00:42:26.000and X is paying, Elon Musk is actually paying for her lawyers because I love it.
00:42:33.000According to the complaint, quote, a short time ago in a galaxy not so far away,
00:42:37.000defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy and thought speech or action was acceptable in their empire
00:42:41.000and that those who dared to question or fail to fully comply would not be tolerated.
00:43:30.000Pedro Pascal, who's the star of The Mandalorian, put out a meme about how basically the immigrants, illegal immigrants, were being held in detention facilities.
00:43:44.000She said her male co-stars were not disciplined, let alone terminated, in a way to destroy their careers, even though some would find their statements abhorrent.
00:43:50.000And she points out those statements by Pedro Pascal.
00:43:53.000As well as Mark Hamill comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
00:43:58.000So, Carano is amplifying all that, and then Elon Musk put out a statement saying, anybody else who wants to sue Disney, let me know.
00:44:11.000He put out a tweet saying, quote, if you were discriminated against by Disney or its subsidiaries, just reply to this post to receive legal support.
00:44:17.000Because he received an anonymous source that showed Disney general entertainment content and inclusion standards that violate basic civil rights law and basically create all sorts of racist hiring practices.
00:44:32.000And there are a bunch of people who are going to take him up on that.
00:44:34.000Would not be surprised to see Disney sued from a thousand different directions over that because DEI must, in fact, die.
00:44:41.000And Elon is doing God's work on that one.
00:44:43.000Alrighty, folks, the rest of the show continues right now.