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00:01:18.000When you gaslight everybody about COVID and COVID vaccines and the necessity to mandate those things, when you shut down the entire country but you allow people to riot in the streets so long as they're doing so for George Floyd, all in the name of science, you're going to get RFK Jr.
00:01:35.000That is the natural consequent of what you have done.
00:01:39.000If you decide to weaponize the DOJ, you should not then be super surprised when Donald Trump nominates somebody like Matt Gaetz to head the DOJ. If you're going to turn the military into a bastion of wokeism and pervert its structure and purpose from killing bad guys into promulgating your favorite social theories, you should not be surprised when Pete Hegseth is the nominee.
00:02:28.000This is the cabinet that you nominate not to run the U.S. government to do anything, but to destroy the U.S. government so that the U.S. government can be fundamentally reimagined as something much more like a unitary, authoritarian, or autocratic, for lack of a better term, system.
00:02:48.000Okay, the amazing thing about what she is saying is that it is such an inversion of history.
00:02:52.000What the Democrats have been doing, their entire project since the beginning of the 20th century under Woodrow Wilson, was to actually consolidate power in the executive branch.
00:02:59.000To create a complete, gigantic, unelected, authoritarian bureaucracy.
00:03:05.000That was the purpose of the Woodrow Wilson progressive movement.
00:03:07.000It was the purpose of FDR. It was the purpose of LBJ. It was the purpose of Barack Obama.
00:03:20.000Maybe the solution to all of this, if you're a Democrat, is to maybe walk away from the idea that the unitary executive ought to be the repository of all power.
00:03:29.000That you ought to be able to put career appointees in place all over the government to do your bidding.
00:03:35.000Who you can't fire and are unelectable in the first place.
00:03:38.000Maybe this should be the end of the administrative state.
00:03:40.000This is something that I've said to some of my friends on the left.
00:03:43.000I did an interview with Anna Kasparian a while back.
00:03:46.000We're talking about our differences in politics.
00:03:48.000Anna Kasparian, of course, is a host over at the Young Turks.
00:03:50.000And by the end of the interview, I said to her, you know what might be a great solution to many of our disagreements at the federal level?
00:03:55.000To have the federal government not involved in many of these things, to minimize the power of the federal government as per the founding fathers in the structure of the Constitution.
00:04:55.000Then finally, he ended up endorsing Donald Trump.
00:04:57.000And now he is the leader of the so-called Make America Healthy Again movement, MAHA. Which, by the way, I think is a great purpose for RFK Jr.
00:05:07.000He talked extensively about his purpose in making America healthy again.
00:05:11.000He said, listen, many of the biggest issues facing the American people are issues that none of our politicians talk about.
00:05:17.000Our politicians will talk about tax policy.
00:05:18.000They'll talk about whether to drill or not to drill.
00:05:21.000But they'll never talk about the fact that the American people are increasingly unhealthy.
00:05:25.000And RFK Jr., Bobby, he said, if I were in government, my number one job would be to make the American people healthy again.
00:05:33.000That there are a bunch of substances that are in our food and our drink that are banned in Europe and that are replete in all of our products and they are making us fatter.
00:05:41.000And by the way, he's not wrong about this.
00:05:44.000The New York Times today acknowledges that nearly three-quarters of American adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study.
00:05:52.000By the way, this has some downstream effects because it turns out that when you hear statistics about American life expectancy flatlining, about the fact that people are getting high rates of chronic diseases in the United States, that's because of what we are eating, that is because of what we are drinking, and it's because we never exercise.
00:06:08.000There are comparable places around the earth that have higher life expectancies than we do.
00:06:12.000And that is not because of our medical system.
00:06:14.000That is not because American doctors are worse or American hospitals are worse or anything remotely like that.
00:06:20.000When somebody in Europe has cancer, they're coming to the United States for treatment.
00:06:23.000The reality is that it's not our medical system per se that's broken.
00:06:26.000Our medical insurance system is broken.
00:06:29.000The thing that is broken is our health care system, our health system.
00:06:34.000According to the New York Times, the findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.
00:06:42.000The study, published on Thursday in The Lancet, reveals the striking rates of obesity nationwide since 1990.
00:06:47.000In 1990, just over half of American adults were overweight or obese, and it shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past.
00:06:56.000Both conditions raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, and they shorten life expectancy.
00:07:01.000Without aggressive intervention they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up, reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050.
00:07:11.000The paper defines overweight adults as people who are age 25 with a body mass index of BMI at or over 25 and obese adults as those with a BMI at or over 30.
00:07:21.000Now again, there are a number of things that the pharmaceutical industry is attempting in order to kind of walk that back.
00:07:28.000Obviously, Ozempic would be the most obvious example.
00:07:32.000But if you can take preventative measures so kids aren't obese at age 7, and if that means that we look for different solutions inside the FDA or inside the NIH or inside HHS generally...
00:07:49.000talking about the sort of products and services that are available to Americans that are not available other places because, as he says, the food industry has a giant lobbying arm, which is true.
00:08:00.000I've been picking on Darjecine today, but that's just one of at least 100 chemical poisons that our health agencies allow into our children's food.
00:08:09.000I can make a video just like this to talk about Red 40, BHA, BHD, potassium bromide, Chemical after chemical and on and on and on.
00:08:19.000If just one of them can cause all of these problems, imagine what they're doing in combination.
00:08:46.000Over the past 16 years, the government has banned eight chemical additives that cause cancer, genetic damage, asthma, and many of the other self-conditions as tartrazine does.
00:08:59.000All eight of those crucial steps forward in our kids' health were taken under President Trump.
00:09:04.000But the Democrats, who claim to be all about healthcare, have stood by watching other countries ban these poisons that make our kids sick, asthmatic, hyperactive, and depressed.
00:09:15.000They left them on every supermarket shelf in America.
00:09:18.000They even used your tax money to put them in your kids' school lunch.
00:09:22.000So their big food and their big ag donors probably gave them all that golden handshake and the big money hug.
00:09:28.000And their big pharma donors probably called them up and thanked them also because now they're going to make billions selling Adderall, Prozac, and rescue inhalers.
00:09:39.000President Trump and I are going to stop.
00:09:44.000Okay, so the general mission there, there's nothing wrong with the general mission there.
00:09:51.000How that is actually applied in real life is going to be the big question.
00:09:54.000And in a confirmation hearing, I'm sure much of that will come up.
00:09:56.000How much power should the HHS have to outright ban things in your food?
00:10:00.000How much power should the HHS have, for example, to hold up new drugs?
00:10:05.000One of the big problems in the United States is that it is very difficult to get a new pharmaceutical product approved and very expensive.
00:10:11.000That's the reason why pharmaceuticals are very expensive when it comes to the consumer level, is because it's not just the R&D you have to do to develop a drug.
00:10:18.000It's also that you then have to go through an extraordinarily rigorous process that very often is replete with red tape.
00:10:24.000So there are a bunch of problems inside FDA, inside NIH.
00:10:28.000Many of the studies that are being promulgated by NIH are just crap.
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00:13:05.000And again, the sort of mentality of a trial lawyer very often is to find the The vulnerability of a particular product to causation of a health problem.
00:13:17.000So if there's even a remote causative effect of some sort of product on somebody's health, then you can sue based on that and you can make a lot of money if you're a trial lawyer.
00:13:25.000However, is that enough of a standard to ban it?
00:13:27.000Or are we going to get more advisory opinions?
00:13:29.000None of this is particularly clear at this point.
00:13:31.000What is clear is that refocusing America on being healthier While also allowing for more innovation in a lot of these areas would definitely be the target goal.
00:13:41.000I think that's what President Trump wants here.
00:13:44.000He said, I'm thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:13:46.000as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:13:48.000For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception and misinformation and disinformation when it comes to public health.
00:13:56.000The safety and health of all Americans is the most important role of any administration.
00:13:59.000HHS will play a big role in helping ensure everyone will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming health crisis in this country.
00:14:09.000Kennedy will restore these agencies to the traditions of gold standard scientific research and beacons of transparency to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America great and healthy again.
00:14:18.000And one of the big problems in this entire area is that much of the data is confused, jumbled, very difficult to suss out.
00:14:25.000For example, when it comes to pesticides on fruits and veggies, they're used on fruits and veggies.
00:14:29.000It makes America's agricultural sector incredibly productive.
00:14:33.000It means that, for example, genetically modified organisms, when you're talking about GMOs, different types of corn or different types of rice, it's been a massive boon in terms of the productivity for society.
00:14:45.000And then there are people who will put out studies suggesting it's less healthy than sort of organic.
00:14:50.000Okay, well, what is the sort of happy medium there in terms of productivity and price versus possible risks?
00:14:57.000These are difficult questions to answer, but the fact that the questions very often have not even been asked is the problem.
00:15:03.000There's a clip of Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor, talking with Barry Weiss of the Free Press about this.
00:15:11.000He basically said the problem with science right now, he said science historically has been, this is a good take, it's been a balance between skepticism and doctrine.
00:15:20.000So science has pushed So if there's a doctrine that appears on scientific, science is pushed back against it.
00:15:26.000That's kind of the story of enlightenment versus religion in a wide variety of ways.
00:15:31.000But also you have to push back against radical skepticism in science as well.
00:15:35.000You have to push back against the idea that, for example, does my chair exist?
00:15:41.000And he says, if you fast forward to today, the problem is that scientists are actually doctrinaire.
00:15:47.000If you look at NIH, if you look at FDA, if you look at the treatment of COVID, they're doctrinaire.
00:15:52.000They just accept whatever is coming down the pike and they refuse to even think about the possibility that maybe they've been wrong and that maybe the studies that they've been citing and relying upon are no good.
00:16:04.000And he says, you know, maybe what we need is more skepticism rather than being just as doctrinaire as they are right now.
00:16:14.000And again, I don't think that there's a lot to argue with here.
00:16:16.000In some categories of workers, there are entire departments, like the nutrition departments at FDA, that have to go, that are not doing their job.
00:16:31.000So, again, I don't think he's wrong about all that.
00:16:34.000Now, there are a bunch of places, for example, where the media is pushing back and being doctrinaire, where the answer isn't particularly clear.
00:16:41.000So, RFK Jr., for example, has pushed against fluoridation in water.
00:16:47.000A much-mocked, quote-unquote, conspiracy theory going all the way back to Dr.
00:16:51.000Strangelove all the way back in the 1960s.
00:16:53.000That the fluoridation in the water is going to kill everybody.
00:16:55.000So what actually happened with fluoridation in the water is that the federal government, at a time when there wasn't enough fluoride in toothpaste and many people weren't actually brushing their teeth, decided to put fluoride in water so we didn't get massive tooth decay.
00:17:06.000Because fluoride builds up the materials in your teeth so that you don't get tooth decay.
00:17:11.000And there's a lot of questions about that at the time.
00:17:13.000And then it sort of went by the wayside and was treated as a conspiracy theory that there were any downside effects of fluoridating the water.
00:17:19.000So, for example, the Wall Street Journal today says Kennedy has pledged to advise against fluoride in drinking water, a stance that would put him at odds with public health officials.
00:17:29.000Leanna Nguyen, who is certainly no conservative, writing for the Washington Post today, says, quote, the debate over water fluoridation is far from settled.
00:17:39.000She says, When I delved into the research, I was shocked.
00:17:55.000The data clearly indicates that conventional wisdom needs to be revisited.
00:17:59.000And as I explained in my column, the benefit of continuing to fluoridate drinking water is unclear, given the widespread availability of fluoride-containing toothpaste.
00:18:05.000In addition, emerging research raises concerns for fluoride's negative impacts on developing brains.
00:18:13.000She says the studies demonstrating fluoride's impact are well-conducted, peer-reviewed, and published in prestigious journals like JAMA. That's the Journal of American Medical Association.
00:18:20.000Earlier this year, the National Toxicology Program, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, concluded with moderate confidence fluoride in drinking water is linked with lower IQ in kids.
00:18:31.000Critics have pointed out the association has seen a fluoride levels either at or higher than 1.5 milligrams per liter, which is more than twice the optimal level recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service.
00:18:40.000But nearly 3 million Americans live in areas with tap water fluoride levels at or above this threshold.
00:18:47.000She says, you know, again, that the sort of doctrinaire repetition of so-called medical truths has shut the mind to the possibility of future data.
00:18:58.000Again, you saw this a lot with regard to people's views on the mRNA vaccine.
00:19:03.000My own views on that evolved as data emerged with regard to that.
00:19:07.000I was never in favor of mandates, but, you know, following the data as it emerged, it became clearer and clearer that while the mRNA vaccine for COVID might be highly useful for people who are really obese or really old, for people who are young and healthy, it was a much dicier question.
00:19:22.000For example, there are myocarditis risks for people who are younger.
00:19:25.000My own kids were not vaccinated for COVID. You got to follow the data.
00:19:30.000But the scientific community has used the sort of conspiracy theory label to hit everybody at all times.
00:19:36.000And that's exactly what Leanna Nguyen is pointing out.
00:19:39.000By the way, Jared Polis, again, no Republican.
00:19:42.000He put out an entire statement saying, quote, I'm excited by the news.
00:19:45.000President-elect will appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:19:49.000He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans, which I think are terrible, just like mandates.
00:20:00.000By the way, states still get to control how vaccines work.
00:20:04.000It's actually not a federal-level question in general, unless you're banning full-out a vaccine.
00:20:09.000He said, what I'm most optimistic about is taking on Big Pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health.
00:20:14.000Before you mock or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through, show why I'm excited.
00:20:20.000Quote, in some categories, there are entire departments like the nutrition department at the FDA that have to go.
00:21:18.000You know, it's not often that the entire medical and public health community is going to be in lockstep on something, but they're pretty close on this in terms of their significant concerns, horror even.
00:21:30.000Somebody said to me today, I can't think of any single individual who'd be more damaging to public health than RFK. Keep in mind, I think if the reporting's correct and the job is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that comprises the CDC. We just got through this pandemic, comprises the FDA, comprises the NIH. He's talked about wanting to basically strip funding for infectious diseases overall.
00:21:56.000Again, just coming out of this pandemic with concerns about other viruses and things out there.
00:22:01.000So again, the sort of doctrinaire approach is wrong.
00:22:05.000It doesn't mean that everything that RFK Jr.
00:22:49.000You guys decided that you were going to pervert all the institutions of science and then claim in the name of science that you were unquestionable.
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00:25:08.000That was not the only big announcement by President Trump yesterday.
00:25:11.000Yesterday, President Trump was at Mar-a-Lago.
00:25:14.000He was introduced by Sylvester Stallone, which is just, as the entertainment value of this administration is going to be like through the roof.
00:25:20.000Here is Sylvester Stallone introducing President Trump.
00:25:23.000This is at an event for the America First Policy Institute, which is sort of the think tank that is very much associated with the Trump administration.
00:25:32.000And I'll just say this, and I mean it.
00:25:36.000When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world.
00:25:44.000Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like.
00:25:53.000So there's Rocky introducing President Trump.
00:25:55.000President Trump then gets up and he announces that Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, will be his nominee for Secretary of the Interior.
00:26:03.000We have a big announcement, and I won't tell you the name of his exact name.
00:27:01.000But we'll make the formal announcement tomorrow.
00:27:04.000So again, Burgum for Secretary of the Interior makes all the sense in the world.
00:27:08.000And he is from an area that does have an enormous amount of land that is protected by the federal government.
00:27:13.000Secretary of the Interior basically oversees national parks as well as drilling.
00:27:17.000So Secretary of the Interior does have a relationship with a lot of the oil companies.
00:27:22.000He has, of course, been a person who's very involved in the energy sector.
00:27:26.000Yeah, as governor of North Dakota, so Burgum is a great and sort of conventional pick.
00:27:30.000So you're getting, you know, some great conventional picks, and then you're getting some unconventional picks.
00:27:33.000And the pushback on some of the unconventional picks is pretty wild.
00:27:38.000The pushback on Pete Hegseth particularly over Department of Defense, President Trump's Department of Defense nominee, who I think will be excellent.
00:28:17.000This is someone who, you know, is known to be a white supremacist, known to be an extremist, whose platform, whose book is basically about his opposition to the advancement of black officers to the top brass.
00:28:47.000If this is the best you got, he's going to get confirmed.
00:28:49.000Meanwhile, you have Representative Steve Cohen from Tennessee saying that Pete Hegseth's main qualification is Fox News, which is weird since he is an Army National Guard major with two Bronze Stars who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and has a degree from Harvard and another degree from Princeton.
00:29:09.000So yeah, I'm going to go no on that, Steve.
00:29:12.000And the suggestion that the Department of Defense should be led by the host of Fox and Friends on weekends as his main contribution to society is scary to our soldiers who need the best and brightest at the helm.
00:29:26.000Again, like, this is the best you got?
00:29:29.000So, Senator from Illinois, Tammy Duckworth.
00:29:31.000Who is a retired Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel.
00:29:35.000She's very upset that Pete Hegseth said that women should not serve in frontline combat positions.
00:29:38.000She's upset apparently because she says that that makes him unqualified because she was wounded in combat.
00:29:45.000This idea that you can exclude women from combat is really one that shows his lack of experience and really, you know, him being unqualified to be the Secretary of Defense because it's not where modern warfare is.
00:29:57.000Well, I mean, it absolutely is where modern warfare is.
00:30:00.000He said frontline combat positions and the fact that you were wounded in the line of duty, that's heroic and amazing.
00:30:05.000And honestly, hats off to you, all honors appropriate.
00:30:09.000That doesn't change what the rules should be about whether women should be in frontline combat positions.
00:30:15.000Given the fact that men, on average, and at the extremes, have physical advantages over women.
00:30:23.000Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren was attacking Pete Hegseth, saying he was unqualified.
00:30:27.000Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma says, why would we possibly listen to Chief Wiggum over here?
00:30:35.000For Elizabeth Warren to say that someone's not qualified when she was claiming to be Cherokee for the majority of her life, which I am Cherokee, which is a direct insult, carries no weight with me.
00:30:44.000Peter served for 20 years in the United States Army.
00:30:48.000He was a decorative combat veteran with two bronze stars, and he's a civilian.
00:30:53.000People forget that the Secretary of Defense is supposed to be a civilian.
00:31:19.000Even the ex-Obama DHS Chief Jay Johnson is defending Pete Hegseth on CNN. I've given the benefit of the doubt on at least the nomination at this point, because here's somebody who is well-educated, obviously intelligent, was in financial services, was in the Wall Street community for a while, could have made a lot of money, and chose to leave that, put on the uniform of our country, and seek combat.
00:31:47.000So I give him the benefit of the doubt for that reason.
00:31:52.000Okay, so again, I think that's the proper approach.
00:31:56.000My belief at this point is that Hegseth will get confirmed, RFK Jr., and we'll see what the confirmation fight looks like.
00:32:01.000I think there's some outstanding issues for pro-lifers, particularly, about RFK Jr., because obviously he's very pro-choice, and HHS does have some ability to shape exactly, for example, religious mandates.
00:32:12.000So we'll see how that plays out in the hearings.
00:32:16.000So Matt Gaetz is obviously the most controversial of President Trump's picks.
00:32:20.000The justification for Matt Gaetz was basically made by J.D. Vance, the vice president-elect.
00:32:27.000He said the main issue with Matt Gaetz is that he used his office to prosecute his political opponents and authorized federal agents to harass parents who are peacefully protesting at school board meetings.
00:32:34.000Oh wait, that's actually Merrick Garland, the current attorney general.
00:32:37.000Okay, so, you don't have to make the argument with me that Merrick Garland is an awful attorney general.
00:32:40.000I think Merrick Garland is one of the worst attorney generals in American history.
00:32:56.000Donald Trump can find a bevy of excellent lawyers who are capable of doing exactly what he wants them to do as AG who don't have the excessive amount of baggage that Matt Gaetz has.
00:33:08.000There's a reason he's wildly unpopular in the House.
00:33:11.000There's also a reason that, you know, there's some skittishness about sort of his own personal record.
00:33:17.000So, for example, Professor Robert George.
00:33:19.000There is no one in the country in academia who is more conservative than Professor George.
00:33:23.000Okay, Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, he also happens to be on the board of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
00:33:32.000And they wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying, quote, as an elected member of Congress, Mr. Gates admitted to attending sex parties.
00:33:39.000These parties reportedly included young women, some allegedly minors, who were paid to participate in sex acts.
00:33:44.000It is further alleged that Mr. Gates did not merely attend these events, but actively participated.
00:33:48.000Evidence suggests he sent payments through Venmo and Cash App to an associate, who then transferred funds to the women, labeling payments as tuition.
00:33:55.000Gates' team argued the prostitution fell outside U.S. jurisdiction because it took place on yachts in international waters, an excuse that does not stand up to moral and perhaps legal scrutiny.
00:34:05.000Robert George says, NCOSE works tirelessly to protect women and children from trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation.
00:34:12.000My fellow board members are politically left, right, and center.
00:34:15.000We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.
00:34:17.000We are asking the Senate to withhold confirmation hearings from Mr.
00:34:19.000Gates until a full and transparent investigation is conducted into his possible role in the exploitation of young women and girls at the sex parties he has admitted to attending.
00:34:28.000So, again, we'll have to see exactly how all of that plays out.
00:34:34.000These are not, in fact, unserious concerns.
00:34:38.000There was one of the reasons that Matt Gaetz supposedly stepped down from his position in Congress immediately.
00:34:44.000He was nominated, he immediately stepped down.
00:34:46.000Usually if you're nominated, you wait until the outcome of your actual hearing and you take the position and then you resign your seat.
00:34:52.000Matt Gaetz said that the reason he was doing that was to accelerate the Republican race that would take place in his old district so Republicans would still have a majority in the House.
00:35:01.000The problem with that, of course, is that it's not going to take, as originally suspected, six to eight weeks to run a special election in his seat.
00:35:08.000Because of mail-in balloting, it's going to take full-on half a year.
00:35:12.000So that reason doesn't seem to pass scrutiny.
00:35:14.000The other sort of suggested reason is because there was a House ethics report that was going to drop on him on Friday.
00:35:19.000And so he resigned to sort of quash the House ethics report because the House typically does not release ethics reports until if somebody has dropped out of Congress.
00:35:28.000If you're out, they're not going to just drop a report on you.
00:35:32.000However, because he's a nominee, now there's a big call for that House ethics report to be released, so we actually have full information about Matt Gaetz for his confirmation hearings.
00:35:39.000Here's John Cornyn, senator from Texas, saying that he thinks the House GOP should release the ethics report.
00:35:44.000I think there should not be any limitation on the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation, including whatever the House Ethics Committee has generated.
00:35:55.000Now again, I think that President Trump can nominate a bevy of people who are not Matt Gaetz and don't have this baggage to do exactly the same thing.
00:36:01.000And so, you know, I do wonder whether, again, I think that it is perfectly true that Merrick Garland is an awful attorney general.
00:36:08.000I don't understand why that means that the best form of the person you pick to actually undo all his damage has the most baggage.
00:36:14.000That seems to me an error in judgment.
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00:41:04.000Hey guys, so today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for a while.
00:41:10.000And shows that she deactivated her account on X. And the reason for doing it and kissing goodbye my 1.9 million followers over there is because I hadn't been posting for a long time.
00:41:24.000I just didn't want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner.
00:41:29.000But just having it there, I was only holding on to it.
00:41:34.000Because I, you know, really didn't want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes.
00:41:40.000I was a little bit worried about that.
00:41:43.000And also every so often I would use it to just like sort of look at news that was trending and what's happening and I would just sort of use it as like an aggregator.
00:41:50.000But I just realized that's not really worth it.
00:41:52.000Because in order to like do the news aggregation and just look at all, you have to wade through a lot of dreck and a lot of just abuse and a lot of just negativity and it's just not worth it.
00:42:02.000Oh well, you know, I'm so sad to see you go.
00:42:27.000Meanwhile, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, causing massive consternation, has now removed the she-her pronouns from her public profile, which is hilarious.
00:42:40.000So it's fun to watch as reality sets in and they realize on the Democratic side of the aisle that all of their crazy is actually quite alienating for the vast majority of Americans.
00:42:50.000Some Democrats like Ezra Klein are beginning to admit the obvious, which is that, you know, blaming Fox News and quote-unquote misinformation ain't gonna fix anything.
00:42:58.000The thing that surprised me least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big cities.
00:43:04.000Because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them, they are furious.
00:43:07.000And this idea that like, oh no, the economy is actually good or crime is actually down.
00:43:27.000When an extraordinary thing happens in public life, I think that we have to point it out.
00:43:30.000I haven't done a thing I like on this show for months, maybe years at this point.
00:43:34.000We used to have a segment on the show, we'll probably bring it back, called Things I Like, which is kind of where we just do a fun thing near the end of the show.
00:43:40.000This clip is one of my favorite clips of all time.
00:43:43.000So Mike Tyson was about to fight Jake Paul in another one of these sort of made-for-TV gonzo matches because Mike Tyson is 58 years old and Jake Paul is 27 years old.
00:43:55.000But Mike Tyson, for a 58-year-old, is still in crazy shape.
00:43:58.000In any case, he was doing an interview with a 12-year-old influencer, and she asked him about legacy.
00:44:04.000And I gotta say, this is pretty spectacular, and I think we all just ought to take a moment and enjoy it together.
00:44:11.000Well, in your return to the ring for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for the first time.
00:44:20.000What type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it's all said and done?
00:46:33.000He's releasing it on NewsGuard, on all the censorship gatekeepers trying to deprive anybody on the right side of the aisle from receiving any sort of ad dollars.
00:46:40.000If you're not a member, become a member.