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00:01:34.000We begin today with a rather shocking event that took place last night.
00:01:37.000So last night was the premiere of the much awaited documentary from Matt Walsh over at the Dailyware, What is a Woman?
00:01:43.000And it was the most successful launch in the history of our company.
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00:01:52.000It would have been a far larger number except for the fact that we were then hit at the very beginning of the live stream with a massive denial of service attack.
00:02:00.000So a denial of service attack is essentially where your system is flooded with so much fake traffic that it ends up overwhelming the servers and denying other people who are trying to log in their service.
00:02:11.000So there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to watch the movie last night because somebody, I'm not going to name names because we don't know yet, Somebody was attempting to prevent you from seeing what is the most important documentary, not only of this year, but I think of the last five or ten years.
00:02:29.000And it's going to completely change the debate.
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00:02:34.000According to our internal investigation over at the Daily Wire, As Jeremy Boring, co-CEO, announced, we've confirmed that DailyWire experienced a significant and sustained DDoS attack meant to disrupt the world premiere of What Is A Woman?
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00:03:22.000The event was still the most trafficked live stream in DailyWire history.
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00:03:30.000I mean, it was a massive, massive success.
00:03:32.000And that was despite the attempt to destroy the ability for viewers to actually see the truth about the trans ideology movement.
00:03:41.000It was an amazing event, but it would have been even more amazing if we hadn't been under severe internet attack.
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00:05:10.000All right, the big news yesterday, aside from all of that, was the verdict coming down in the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial.
00:05:29.000Her bad acting was obvious to everyone.
00:05:32.000Her story did not make any sort of internal sense.
00:05:34.000She said stuff that was contradicted by forensic evidence.
00:05:37.000Johnny Depp's testimony was Tended to be confirmed by the forensic evidence that was at his disposal.
00:05:43.000Basically, they were accusing each other of abuse.
00:05:44.000Johnny Depp's original accusation is that Amber Heard wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.
00:05:51.000Everybody knew that she was talking about Johnny Depp.
00:05:53.000And he started to lose massive film roles, tens of millions of dollars in film roles lost.
00:05:59.000She then cross-sued him, suggesting that he and his lawyers had lied about her And therefore, she needed to be awarded some sort of defamation damages.
00:06:10.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Johnny Depp has now won his libel case against Amber Heard, saying he now has his life back after the jury ruled he was defamed and awarded him $15 million.
00:06:19.000In a statement after the verdict, Depp said, Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed.
00:06:28.000Six years later, the jury gave me my life back.
00:06:31.000After less than three days of deliberation, the jury ruled in favor of all three of Depp's defamation claims against Hurd, finding that she had falsely accused him of domestic abuse.
00:06:39.000He was awarded $15 million, $10 million in compensation, $5 million in punitive damages.
00:06:48.000Those were related to statements made by Depp's lawyer suggesting that she and her friends had trashed their apartment before calling the police out.
00:06:54.000She was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100 million she was seeking and $0 in punitive damages.
00:07:01.000None of those dollars are coming directly from Johnny Depp.
00:07:04.000The judge later reduced Depp's $5 million punitive damages award to the Virginia maximum of $350,000.
00:07:08.000of $350,000. So that means that he kind of nets $8.35 million.
00:07:16.000Well, Amber Heard suggested that this was a setback for all women, which is not true.
00:07:19.000It's just a setback for women who are lying.
00:07:22.000She put out a statement saying, No, that was not the problem.
00:07:32.000That was not the problem, because the reality is that everybody in society immediately snapped to the Me Too, Believe All Women conclusion that Johnny Depp was a spousal abuser, and that is why he was denied parts for solidly six years here.
00:07:45.000So the baseline notion that she is somehow the victim of a grander power structure is not true.
00:07:50.000She's still an Aquaman, despite the fact that we have verified evidence that she was abusing Johnny Depp.
00:07:54.000And that existed long before the trial.
00:08:09.000No, the problem is that Amber Heard looked like a crazy person during that trial.
00:08:12.000If you watch any of the footage, and again, I'm not a close trial watcher, but producer Savvy definitely is.
00:08:17.000She spends every waking moment, including in the middle of the night, she'll just wake up and she'll just watch the old footage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
00:08:24.000And she's shown me many of those clips.
00:08:26.000We played many of the clips on the show.
00:08:27.000Amber Heard appears to be a sociopathic liar.
00:08:30.000That is what she looks like on the stand.
00:08:32.000She's saying things that are not true.
00:08:33.000She's weirdly Looking at the jury, well, she's not a believable or credible witness, in other words.
00:08:39.000She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
00:08:43.000Oh, is that really what you're worried about?
00:09:03.000When you make false accusations in mainstream newspapers like the Washington Post, undermining the credibility of other women who actually have been spousally abused.
00:09:10.000She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
00:09:34.000The notion that just because you happen to be a biological woman you therefore are more credible than you would be if you were a man is absurd at baseline.
00:09:42.000It also is particularly absurd when the left can't even define, as we have discussed, what a woman is.
00:09:47.000So somehow being a woman makes you more believable.
00:09:50.000That also includes men who say they are women who are inherently not believable on this particular subject because they are not in fact women.
00:09:59.000Amber Heard says, I believe Johnny's attorney succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of freedom of speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.
00:10:06.000I'm sad I lost this case, but I'm sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American to speak freely and openly.
00:10:12.000Now, that was not really the question.
00:10:14.000The question is whether what you said met the standard of malice, of actual malice when it comes to slander.
00:10:21.000So the rule in the United States It's actually far more strict.
00:10:25.000You have to prove far more in order to win a defamation case in the United States than you do in Great Britain.
00:10:30.000You don't have to prove malice in Great Britain.
00:10:32.000In the United States, you actually have to prove that the person knew what they were publishing at the time was false and did so anyway with malice.
00:10:40.000It's not just that they made a mistake, it was with malice, with malicious intent.
00:10:43.000And that was proved according to the jury.
00:10:47.000Heard's spokesperson told the New York Times that she now plans to appeal the jury's verdict, though it is not clear on what grounds she's going to do so.
00:10:53.000To be granted an appeal, Heard would likely need to demonstrate there were errors in the trial or in the presiding judge's reading of the law.
00:10:58.000That's going to be extremely difficult.
00:11:01.000Heard fans were despondent and accused the jury that delivered the verdict in favor of Depp of sexism.
00:11:07.000Of course, because this is always the way that it works.
00:11:09.000If you're a woman and you're a liar, then this means that if somebody notices, then this is sexism.
00:11:14.000Because after all, everything is just structures of intersectional power.
00:11:19.000Several prominent celebrities expressed their support for Depp and chastised Heard on social media, along with many other regular users, of course.
00:11:27.000Now, one of the things that is so amazing about this story that really did not get enough coverage is the fact that Amber Heard's original op-ed in this story was written by the ACLU.
00:11:43.000actually helped Amber Heard write an op-ed that was not true.
00:11:47.000The Washington Post supposedly vetted this op-ed and then published this op-ed, and now a jury has found that the Washington Post actually created fake news and posted it online.
00:11:56.000So I have a question for all of the news checkers over at Facebook.
00:12:00.000You gonna ding the Washington Post now?
00:12:03.000According to The Atlantic, this is Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, writing a little bit earlier, This year, in mid-May, she wrote specifically about Amber Heard.
00:12:15.000She said, By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations.
00:12:18.000lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard hasn't just tarnished his star and hers with allegations that he beat her and violated with her a bottle or that she severed part of his finger and emptied her bowels in the marital bed. By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations. Her allegations seem to be contradicted by physical evidence as well as any lack of credible witnesses. Amid this grotesquerie, says this professor, it might be possible to overlook the bizarre involvement of the ACLU, but the civil right organization's cringeworthy role deserves closer scrutiny
00:12:47.000because of its centrality to the case and because it exemplifies the degree to which the ACLU has lost its way in recent years.
00:12:53.000The heart of Depp's claim is that Hurd ruined his acting career when she published a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post describing herself as, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse, a thinly veiled reference to much-publicized accusations of assault she made against Depp in court filings toward the end of their short-lived marriage.
00:13:07.000But Hurd hadn't pitched the idea to the Post.
00:13:19.000The ACLU named her an ambassador on women's rights, but they focus on gender-based violence, which is a really great way of trying to go after your ex-spouse.
00:13:28.000And you want the ACLU to back you in the claim that apparently is false, that you were abused by a spouse.
00:13:34.000Just give a bunch of money to the ACLU and they will then declare you an ambassador with a focus of gender-based violence.
00:13:41.000The ACLU spearheaded an effort to place the op-ed and served as her, 's ghostwriter.
00:13:46.000failed to pay up, it already said the ACLU collected $100,000 from Depp himself and another $500,000 from a fund connected to Elon Musk, whom H.E.R.D.
00:13:59.000The ACLU's bestowal of an ambassadorship inscribed for higher services upon a scandal-plagued actor willing to pay seven figures to transform herself into a victim's advocate and advance her acting career heard push for a publication date that coincided with the release of Aquaman.
00:14:12.000As part of the group's continuing decline, once a bastion of free speech and high-minded ideals, the ACLU has become in many respects a caricature of its former self.
00:14:19.000This, of course, is exactly right, but so has a large swath of the left.
00:14:23.000The left used to say that free speech mattered and truth mattered, and now neither of those things are true.
00:14:27.000Now you're just supposed to shut up and believe.
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00:16:02.000A major victory for Johnny Depp, to be clear.
00:16:06.000Apparently, the jury really absorbed, digested those statements, and gave the indication that they rejected Amber Heard, I mean, completely, just about.
00:16:19.000I can say that I am very shocked and surprised by the nature of this, by the fact that the jury concluded, after hearing this, that she would be liable.
00:16:28.000Okay, so Amber Heard, for her part again, called it a setback.
00:16:31.000MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi said this will negatively impact the MeToo movement.
00:16:36.000Now, again, it shouldn't because the MeToo movement made too much of a claim.
00:16:42.000The MeToo movement claimed that basically everyone in the United States has been subjected to sexual harassment or assault.
00:16:47.000That is the claim that the MeToo movement made, and they broadened the definition of sexual harassment and assault to include everything from, guy you think is ugly hits on you at a bar, to full-on rape.
00:16:56.000And this was all included under the rubric of MeToo.
00:16:58.000So you'd have women going on Facebook and talking about, tell your MeToo story, and their MeToo story is, ugly guy said that I looked good in that skirt.
00:17:05.000And it's like, well that's, that's really not, I mean, I'm sorry, that is not on the same par as Harvey Weinstein raping people.
00:17:12.000For example, but Me Too covered the entire rubric and that was then combined with Believe All Women.
00:17:16.000So the idea was any account that you had, completely unverifiable, had to be believed because you were claiming to be a victim.
00:17:22.000Well, those claims were always too broad.
00:17:25.000It's not that Amber Too blew up the Me Too Believe All Women movement.
00:17:28.000It's that it was perfectly stupid to say that you had to believe all women regardless of the nature of the credibility of the actual of the actual testimony in the first place.
00:17:47.000Why is her dishonesty any indicator of your dishonesty?
00:17:50.000Why would her honesty be any indicator of your honesty?
00:17:53.000Here is MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi saying that, as always, it's not just about Amber Heard being a crazy person, it's about you.
00:18:01.000Will this set back the broader Me Too movement and women who do want to speak out against abuse?
00:18:07.000Look, each trial is supposed to be sort of, you know, not knowing about the larger cultural context that it sits in.
00:18:16.000But without a doubt, this will have a massive chilling effect on the Me Too movement, on women speaking out.
00:18:24.000Okay, again, the cases that have already had an impact on the Me Too movement, again, because it made extraordinarily dumb claims like all women ought to be able to live, I mean, the UVA rape claims that Rolling Stone ran out there that turned out to be completely and utterly false, those, again, if you make a claim that is unsustainable and then the claim falls apart, And that holds true whether you are making a specific claim or whether you're making a general claim.
00:18:46.000That shouldn't have any implication for other people who are saying true things.
00:18:50.000And yet, of course, we have to go in search of new victims of American society because every individual event is symptomatic of broader American ills.
00:18:57.000This is why this thing has become political.
00:18:59.000talking point is because basically anyone who watched that trial came away with the impression that Amber Heard was lying. If you spent a lot of time watching the trial or even a passing moment watching the trial, it was pretty clear that Amber Heard is not a person who can be trusted on on anything that she was saying. She was saying things that were she is not remotely credible.
00:19:18.000I keep saying it, watch the testimony yourself. In fact, here is a clip of Amber Heard testifying.
00:19:24.000You tell me if you find this credible. I wish so much he had said he was joking Because it didn't hurt.
00:19:33.000I was just sitting there on this carpet, looking at the dirty carpet, wondering how I wound up on this carpet and why I never noticed that the carpet was so filthy before.
00:19:45.000And I just didn't know what else to do.
00:19:59.000So the fact that that lady's not credible, I don't know why that should have any impact on whether you are credible or not.
00:20:05.000But again, the entire media is now going to say that Amber Heard should have been rewarded, or at least Johnny Depp should have been denied on behalf of all women, which is the way that they view criminal justice and virtually every justice issue.
00:20:19.000It doesn't matter if Kyle Rittenhouse is actually guilty.
00:20:21.000In order to quote-unquote protect black people, we have to make sure that Kyle Rittenhouse goes to jail, even though Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and shot white people.
00:20:28.000Social justice demands that we deny individual justice, which is why you have Monica Hess writing in the Washington Post, quote, I worry about this trial.
00:20:36.000After watching nearly every bit of it, I came away feeling deeply dirty for having watched nearly every bit of it.
00:20:40.000Wondering where the line is between gawking and bearing witness.
00:20:43.000I mean, let's just be honest about this.
00:20:44.000The reason people were watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is because they were gawking.
00:20:46.000I mean, it wasn't because they were bearing witness to anything.
00:20:52.000I worry that the awful spectacle of this trial might cause alleged abusers to sue their accusers in court, possibly forcing them to relive the alleged abuse.
00:20:59.000Well, I mean, if you are hit with an accusation, you do have the right in this country to defend yourself against false accusations.
00:21:09.000If someone accuses you of something, you get to defend yourself and face your accuser.
00:21:13.000I worry that watching this mess of judgment and humiliation will be seen by non-famous abuse victims as one more reason not to come forward when coming forward is already so hard to do.
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00:24:34.000It wasn't that they had created a crappy character, a major media conglomerate using the most famous IP in history.
00:24:41.000Had made a crappy character and inserted that crappy character into a crappy movie, The Last Jedi.
00:24:45.000Now the problem was people didn't like that character and the reason they didn't like the character is because she was Asian, clearly.
00:24:49.000Now what was weird is that nobody, except for apparently the Chinese audience, actually cared that Finn, who's a black character, was in The Force Awakens.
00:24:58.000I mean, Finn was not hit by an overwhelming wave of American racism in The Force Awakens.
00:25:03.000It was just Rose who was hit with supposedly an overwhelming wave of racism, mainly because Finn's character is not nearly as crappy as Rose's character in the sequel trilogy.
00:25:14.000So, by the way, when I talk about Chinese racism, what I mean is that Disney, in making The Force Awakens, actually removed, they removed Finn from the Chinese posters because there's so much anti-black racism in China.
00:25:25.000Okay, so, this is the new model, apparently, for Disney and the Star Wars universe, is to preemptively declare that if you are, that we know that we made a character who isn't really very likable, but if the character's a minority and you don't like the character, clearly this is because you're a racist.
00:25:46.000Like, I've yet to see... I'm seeing a lot of talk about the toxic fandom of Star Wars.
00:25:51.000I haven't seen anybody beyond people with, like, two Twitter followers tweeting stuff about Moses Ingram.
00:25:58.000But Star Wars tweeted out, like the people who run the Star Wars account, quote, We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Riva's story to unfold.
00:26:05.000If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say.
00:26:14.000If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only... We're not even saying you're being racist to her.
00:26:19.000We're saying if you might think about being racist to her by not liking her character, we resist because you're bad.
00:26:25.000You're really, really... Now, here's the thing.
00:26:28.000Moses Ingram is actually a pretty good actress, and she played Lady Macduff in the Joel Cohen production of Macbeth, and she's very good in it.
00:26:37.000I haven't seen her performance in obi-wan because i haven't watched a single minute of obi-wan because frankly i find the entire series kind of insulting i don't care what happened to obi-wan between episodes between episodes three and four i don't care at all like it doesn't matter to me that's not an important part of the story
00:26:56.000It's just you trying to suck the life out of an old character who has actual name recognition and then drive value for Disney+, which then uses that money in order to indoctrinate kids in the not-so-secret gay agenda according to their own employees.
00:27:45.000But again, they have to preemptively do this because they've done a crappy job with so much of the Star Wars content that I guess this is the new way to avoid the consequences of making bad content and also to generate critical response.
00:27:59.000And now the critics will fall into your corner even if what you're making is not particularly good.
00:28:03.000As Jim Treacher wrote recently, and he's correct, they're using the Jedi mind trick to make you think there's some huge wave of racism against Star Wars.
00:28:12.000Ewan McGregor then cut a video from his car, a personal message from Ewan McGregor.
00:28:19.000And again, I'm not, like, where is the giant wave of racism against this person?
00:28:25.000You would think that if you're going to generate this amount of blowback against the racist Star Wars base, you'd actually have to show evidence of the racist Star Wars base, en masse rejecting the character, not because she's a crap character, but because she's black.
00:28:38.000I find that whole line of argument really hard to believe, considering that maybe the most popular character in the first trilogy, like the original trilogy, is Lando Calrissian, who's the coolest dude in the original trilogy.
00:28:49.000Okay, Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980.
00:28:53.000It was four years before I was born when Lando Calrissian came out as a character in the Star Wars universe.
00:28:59.000So I'm just wondering, like, why are we now talking about racism in the Star- Like, Lando Calrissian was the cool- It makes no sense.
00:29:05.000Anyway, here's Ewan McGregor doing this routine as well.
00:29:07.000This weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most watched Disney Plus original series premiere of all time.
00:29:17.000And for that, I would say a big thank you.
00:29:20.000And it just goes to show what this family can do when we all pull together.
00:29:26.000However, it seems that some of the fanbase from this influential fanbase have decided to attack Moses Ingram online and send her the most horrendous, racist DMs.
00:29:38.000And I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart.
00:29:42.000Moses is a brilliant actor, she's a brilliant woman, and she's absolutely amazing in this series.
00:29:48.000She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise, and it just sickened me to my stomach to hear that this had been happening.
00:29:56.000I just want to say, as the leading actor in the series, as the executive producer in the series, That we stand with Moses.
00:30:32.000But this, again, is a preemptive strike on the Star Wars fanbase by suggesting that a substantial portion Shockingly, all the people who don't like this particular series or this particular character, all of them, must be racist.
00:30:42.000Which of course is, you know, it is a ginned up controversy because no one is in favor, anyone of sentient mind, no one is in favor of Moses Ingram being hit with racist DMs.
00:30:53.000I will also note here that this is the same Star Wars universe that summarily canned Gina Carano for the great sin of saying that people shouldn't be mean to each other.
00:31:01.000And by the way, I will mention right here that when they canned Gina Carano and not a single member of Gina Carano's cast, ranging from Pedro Pascal, who had made overt Holocaust references on his own Twitter page.
00:31:12.000And that was the ostensible reason why they fired Gina Carano is because she tweeted out a photo of people chasing Jews in the streets.
00:31:19.000And she said, when people dehumanize each other, this is what happens.
00:31:24.000Pedro Pascal had openly suggested that American immigration policy was similar to Auschwitz.
00:31:30.000And Pedro Pascal, when Gina Carano got fired, there wasn't a single member of the Star Wars universe who had the balls to come out and defend Gina Carano.
00:31:44.000People I disagree with should be allowed to work on the show.
00:31:46.000That is unsafe territory for these folks, which is why we're very proud to have immediately stepped in and begun working with Gina Carano on the fabulous new movie Terror on the Prairie that is going to be coming out.
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00:31:59.000But again, this is indicative of where we are in the entertainment universe.
00:32:03.000The signaling, not to the audience, but against the audience, grows every single day.
00:32:08.000Because remember, entertainers exist in real life.
00:32:10.000They don't just exist to serve the audience.
00:32:16.000And this is why, for example, in the most absurd tweet of the day, Linda Carter, who is the original Wonder Woman on TV, In the not very good 1970s show.
00:32:26.000Representing a character who originated in the comics in 1941.
00:32:28.000She tweeted, quote, because it's Pride Month.
00:32:33.000And Pride Month means that every single celebrity in the world will now virtue signal about how much they love LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign hashtag ampersand tilde.
00:32:45.000I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow NOT a queer or trans icon, you are not paying attention.
00:32:56.000Every time someone comes up to me and says that Wonder Woman helped them while they were closeted, it reminds me how special the role is.
00:33:02.000Okay, I'm just going to point out that in 1970, no one thought that Wonder Woman was a queer or trans icon.
00:33:08.000It just didn't, that notion in 1970 did not exist.
00:33:11.000In fact, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, was on the bedroom walls of millions of teenage boys.
00:33:16.0001941, here is a straight woman with extraordinary powers.
00:33:29.000If by trans icon she just means that the trans movement will find any popular figure and then appropriate it, Or that the LGBT movement generally will do this?
00:33:38.000With everything up to and including Spongebob Squarepants and Teletubbies?
00:33:44.000But that does not mean that the original character of Wonder Woman was written as a queer or trans icon.
00:33:51.000Now again, if it had been written that way, that's fine.
00:33:52.000But to try to retcon the idea that a 1941 character, like we're in the middle of World War II, and the authors of the DC Comics are like, what we need here is a trans icon.
00:34:03.000And it's all about virtue signaling to a particular group of people who are in the critical base in the major cities, the people that Linda Carter hangs out with at parties.
00:34:12.000And she can virtue signal as a leader in the movement simply by dint of having donned some very tight clothing in the 1970s and then acted out a character who is neither queer nor trans in the original series.
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00:39:20.000Well, this cultural insanity has bled all the way up to the United States military.
00:39:29.000So it's Pride Month, which means it's time for the United States military to get in on the act.
00:39:35.000So every branch of the United States Armed Services tweeted out some message with regard to LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign pride.
00:39:45.000This is weird because the entire premise of a military is that we shave your head, we turn you into a person who takes orders, your individuality is set aside virtually entirely, and it's not about personal self-fulfillment anymore.
00:40:01.000It is about you becoming part of a cohesive unit that performs a group function.
00:40:07.000That is literally what militaries are all about.
00:40:09.000An army of individualists is a losing army.
00:40:12.000A military made up of people who are predominantly interested in their own sense of fulfillment is a military that is destined to go down in the annals of history as a complete and giant failure.
00:40:32.000Marine Corps takes pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ plus service members.
00:40:38.000We remain committed to fostering an environment free from discrimination and defend the values of treating all equally with dignity and respect.
00:40:45.000Hey, this is one of the least offensive ones.
00:40:47.000It's not really the verbiage here that's particularly stupid.
00:40:50.000The image here is really, really dumb.
00:40:51.000And one of the reasons that the image is really dumb is because the image, for those who can't see it, is actually just a poster to Full Metal Jacket.
00:41:01.000The poster of Full Metal Jacket, if you recall, the Stanley Kubrick film from 1987, is a helmet with a series of bullets in the band of the helmet.
00:41:15.000It is a marine helmet, same angle, same image, and there are six bullets that are on the side, six rounds that are on the side of the helmet in rainbow colors.
00:42:02.000But you have to explain to me why military readiness is dependent on the idea that sexual validation lies at the heart of what the military does.
00:42:11.000The military is there to deny validation of you.
00:43:29.000And then we have Liz Allen, who is the State Department Senior Official for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, serving under Secretary Blinken.
00:43:34.000It says, we are celebrating Pride Month at the State Department.
00:43:36.000Every day, we seek to advance human rights of LGBTQ plus I people globally.
00:43:41.000And then it shows a bunch of different images of the Pride flag everywhere, which again, no flag should be flown at any American facility that is not the American flag.
00:43:52.000It turns out that a lot of the issues that you are standing for here are not widely accepted in the United States, including the idea that men can be women and women can be men.
00:44:25.000We are celebrating all the diverse voices that contribute to our mission because having pride in who you are and what you do is intelligent.
00:44:53.000And nothing better than massive, creepy, overfunded agencies of the United States government that are wildly incompetent tweeting about Boys becoming girls.
00:45:01.000Today, we mark the beginning of Pride Month.
00:45:02.000During Pride, we recognize and celebrate the members of the LGBTQ plus community.
00:45:07.000We also mark the progress that has been made and the work that still needs to be done to ensure safety and equality for LGBTQ plus people.
00:45:14.000And then you have the ever growing flag.
00:45:17.000You have the normal gay pride flag, and then they've added the trans flag, and then they've added black, and they've added brown.
00:45:22.000That, by the way, is not the ugliest agglomeration of symbols for LGBTQ+.
00:45:28.000The United States Space Force put out an image of an astronaut on the moon with a queer pride flag, which is just exciting because the American flag For the left, simple proposition.
00:45:46.000The gay pride flag is significantly less controversial than the American flag.
00:45:49.000The American flag stands for oppression and evil, which is why you kneel for it during the national anthem, and why it is a good thing to do so, and actually pro-America to do so.
00:45:56.000The gay pride flag, if we don't post it at the Vatican, this means that you're a homophobe.
00:46:03.000By the way, the single worst display of all this doesn't come from the United States military.
00:46:07.000It's absurd with regard to military forces because, again, it runs directly counter to the mission of the United States military to suggest that your individual sense of sexual fulfillment lies at the heart of the strength of the military.
00:46:17.000That's the stupidest proposition in human history.
00:46:19.000It was true whether you're talking about straight or gay or anything in between.
00:46:25.000If we're just going the aesthetically ugliest Pride display so far this month, and it's very early in the month, it comes courtesy of the Brooklyn Nets.
00:46:32.000Okay, so I'm just gonna say, this is the ugliest thing I think has ever been designed.
00:46:52.000I have no idea what this is supposed to be.
00:46:54.000I mean, whoever did the graphic design on this thing should immediately be fired.
00:46:59.000Unless that would violate their sense of self-fulfillment, in which case I will say that this is maybe the greatest piece of art that I have ever seen.
00:47:05.000Honestly, I think it's really indicative of who the Brooklyn Nets were this year.
00:47:09.000Namely, a bunch of pieces that didn't really fit together, and they put them together on the court, and then pretended it was going to be a team, and then it got immediately defeated by the Boston Celtics.
00:47:15.000So, really, well done there, Brooklyn Nets.
00:47:19.000By the way, speaking of Pride Month here, one of the great polarities of Pride Month is watching corporate idiots try to pander to the gay community, but only in America.
00:47:34.000So basically every major American corporation, in order to virtue signal in America and also to try and pry extra dollars out of gay Americans, they've decided to put out pride flag symbols in the United States.
00:48:16.000Mercedes, they put a rainbow across their Mercedes symbol.
00:48:19.000And then in like all the Islamic countries, gone.
00:48:21.000Is that cultural tolerance or the simple fact that in the West, the LGBTQ plus I movement feels that it has achieved success and can cram down its values on literally everyone.
00:48:31.000And that corporate America is going to pander to exactly that.
00:48:34.000And that abroad, they don't have the courage of their own convictions at all.
00:48:44.000Yeah, well, just a monster of, once again, of the fact that when it comes to these corporations, LGBTQI plus people should not find allies in these corporations because these are people who are basically just cowards and they're willing to do whatever they think is going to get them ahead on a given day.
00:48:59.000So if you guys are counting on their loyalty for your particular set of principles, Good luck with that.