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00:01:28.000Well, last night we had a huge event at the Ryman Auditorium here in Nashville, Tennessee, and the big announcement of that, we had a bunch of big announcements, the first and foremost announcement is that Daily Wire has now become Daily Wire Plus, because we're not just a news and commentary site anymore, we don't just do podcasts, we also now do kids content, that's going to be coming in spring of next year, we do movies obviously, we announced a partnership that we have with our friends over at Prager University, Dennis Prager is going to be doing an entire series of lectures, it's going to be a wonderful
00:01:57.000Masterclass in the most eternal values Western civilization has to offer.
00:02:01.000And the biggest announcement of the night, obviously, is that Jordan Peterson has now signed up with Daily Wire Plus.
00:02:06.000And you can see all sorts of Jordan Peterson stuff there.
00:02:09.000I'm talking about, like, his entire archives.
00:02:10.000I'm talking about every speech that he has ever made, essentially.
00:02:23.000Dragons, monsters, and men about manliness and what it takes to be a man in today's world and how you can become the man that you want to be.
00:02:30.000All of that is available right now over a daily Wire+.
00:02:32.000When you use code PLUS, by the way, you get 35% off your membership.
00:02:36.000It's an amazing moment for us as a company.
00:02:38.000We just celebrated our 7th anniversary yesterday.
00:02:41.000Of the founding of Daily Wire, we've grown to be a rather large company, and we are extraordinarily proud of what we've accomplished so far, ranging from What is a Woman by Matt Walsh, to Candace Owens' new documentary, to the podcast that we produce here every single day.
00:02:54.000But this is a step in an entirely new direction, and honestly, I am ecstatic to be associated with Jordan Peterson.
00:03:00.000I've known Jordan for years at this point, going all the way back to when we met at a conference in Canada, and he was recommending me books by Jung, and Jordan and I have become close friends, and I am just, I'm more than excited to have Jordan aboard.
00:03:14.000Now, the reason that I mention this is not just because you should go subscribe today and become a member over at DailyWirePlus.
00:03:20.000I mean, you should take your money away from places like Disney Plus that hate your values and give it to places that don't hate your values so we can produce the content that you want to see and get that content out.
00:03:29.000It's because Jordan is a perfect example of a person who has now been basically thrown out of the room by the progressive left for the crime of observing reality.
00:03:39.000And that group is growing ever larger.
00:03:41.000That group isn't relegated to Jordan Peterson, obviously.
00:03:43.000It's not relegated to people who consider themselves conservative.
00:03:47.000Jordan, I'm not sure, considers himself a conservative.
00:03:49.000And there are just too many people who have now been cast out into the wilderness.
00:03:52.000I'm talking about people ranging from Neil Ferguson to Barry Weiss.
00:04:01.000There are all sorts of people who are being thrown out of the common conversation because the left has decided that it alone will dictate the terms of the conversation.
00:04:09.000The best example of this was just yesterday, just before the announcement by Daily Wire that we were switching to Daily Wire Plus and that Jordan will be joining us here at Daily Wire Plus again.
00:04:20.000I'm just pumped, really pumped about it.
00:04:22.000Right before that, literally just hours before that, Jordan found out that he had been barred from Twitter Now, why would Jordan Peterson be barred from Twitter?
00:04:30.000After all, you're talking about one of the most popular authors and speakers and lecturers and psychologists on planet Earth.
00:04:35.000Okay, Jordan is not just famous in the United States, he's Canadian, he's famous internationally, he's famous in Canada, he's famous throughout Europe, he does a lecture tour that, frankly, would exhaust any other human being.
00:04:46.000And yet now, he has been barred from tweeting.
00:04:49.000His great sin is that he tweeted out about Elliot Page, quote, remember when pride was a sin and Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.
00:05:03.000So they waited for over a week to ban Jordan for that tweet.
00:05:07.000There's literally no way to express the thought that Elliot Page is a biological woman who was named Ellen Page when she had her breasts removed by a surgeon who somehow thinks that this makes Ellen Page into a man named Elliot Page.
00:05:22.000There's no way to express that thought other than the way that Jordan expressed it.
00:05:40.000It is now Elliot because she changed it.
00:05:43.000But now we are expected to not see the evidence of our own eyes.
00:05:46.000And if we see the evidence of our own eyes, we are expected to be thrown out into the cornfield somewhere.
00:05:51.000I remember when the whole Ellen, Elliot, Paige, the news broke that she had decided that she was no longer a lesbian woman.
00:05:56.000She started off as a straight woman, then she was a bisexual woman, then she was a lesbian woman, and now she's a transgender man who likes women, I assume.
00:06:03.000The evolution of Ellen into Elliot, when she, because I only use biological pronouns on the show, because those are the only ones that actually carry actual content as to information that you would need to know in the real world.
00:06:14.000When Elliot Paige, I'll call her by her new name, When Elliot Page decided that Elliot Page was no longer Ellen, but was now Elliot, when that happened, just as when Ron Artestle himself met a world peace, you can change your name legally, you can't change your sex, that's ridiculous.
00:06:28.000When Ellen Page became Elliot Page, the media ran headlines like, Elliot Page, star of Juno, says he is transgender man.
00:06:40.000There was no way to garner any sort of valuable information from a headline like that.
00:06:44.000There's just no way to do it because there is no star of Juno named Elliot Page.
00:06:47.000When I first read the headline, I remember thinking, was Ellen Page's brother in that movie?
00:06:52.000But now we've got to retcon everything.
00:06:54.000The left insists that we violate the boundaries of logic, that we violate the boundaries of biology, that we violate the boundaries of morality, that, for God's sake, we violate the boundaries of physics and go back in time.
00:07:03.000There was never a person named Ellen Page.
00:07:39.000And they don't want you to be part of the conversation.
00:07:41.000They don't want you to be part of the dialogue.
00:07:44.000Now here, I have conversations with pretty much everyone on pretty much every issue.
00:07:48.000I've had transgender women on my show, like Blair White.
00:07:51.000I've talked to people who have detransitioned on this show.
00:07:54.000I've talked to people who are advocates of using pronouns and people who are not advocates of using pronouns.
00:07:59.000I've talked to people who are far left.
00:08:00.000I've talked to people who are far right.
00:08:02.000I'll do that sort of thing because I think that the dialogue ought to be fairly broad.
00:08:05.000I'm not saying I'll talk to anybody on the show because no one would talk to anybody on the show, but if we are going to have a free exchange of ideas, the limits of the Overton window, the limits of acceptable discourse, have to be rather broad.
00:08:16.000The left doesn't believe that because fundamentally As Jordan observed last night on stage at the Ryman, the left doesn't believe in free speech.
00:08:22.000They believe that free speech, the principle, does not exist.
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00:10:10.000They accused Jordan of, quote, promoting violence against, threatening, or harassing other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
00:10:24.000This is what they accused Jordan of, and then banned him from Twitter.
00:10:29.000Meanwhile, this movement, this broad ideological movement, is pushing transition of children, which is pagan sacrifice of children to the god Moloch.
00:10:41.000When you are talking about transitioning small children, socially transitioning four, five, six-year-olds, to the celebration of some weak need, even on the right, When you are talking about that, as fundamental American government policy, we have left the realm of reality behind.
00:10:58.000We have left the realm of decency behind.
00:11:01.000So, just to take a perfectly obvious example, our brand new historic Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, who is a biological man who says he is a woman, a transgender woman.
00:11:17.000Levine was speaking at a DNC Pride Month event on Friday.
00:11:21.000And said the following, quote, This is amazing.
00:11:32.000Gender affirming care is life saving, medically necessary, age appropriate.
00:11:38.000and a critical tool for health care providers.
00:11:42.000As a pediatrician, when it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy, I know how important care that affirmed someone's true identity can be.
00:11:54.000So you have the actual federal government of the United States, the most powerful government on the planet, having a man who believes he is a woman explain that it is deeply necessary for small children to have quote unquote gender affirming care.
00:12:06.000The euphemism of gender-affirming care, by the way, means that you are supposed to take a four or a five-year-old who says that they are a member of the opposite sex and immediately start to social transition them.
00:12:14.000You're not supposed to say, you know, you might be confused about sex and your sex because that's kind of normal in small kids, because confusion is normal in small kids, but you're a boy, right?
00:12:23.000You might say you're a girl, you're not, you're a boy.
00:12:25.000You're not supposed to say that, according to the federal government of the United States.
00:12:29.000You're supposed to say, no, you might actually be a girl.
00:12:31.000In fact, we are going to treat you as a girl.
00:12:33.000It is a great good we do when we treat you as a girl, when we start to call you by a girl's name, and when we encourage you to put on dresses, and when we encourage you that as you get older, we should put you on drugs that have long-term impacts.
00:13:05.000And then they pretend that they're only speaking to the very, very small subset of kids who suffer from gender dysphoria, ignoring the fact, of course, that when you promulgate lies about gender, when you promulgate lies about biology and reality, a lot of people get confused who wouldn't otherwise have been confused.
00:13:45.000If they're going to move out from the center, they at least have to know that the center exists.
00:13:48.000The left has exploded the center and said that kids are supposed to be transitioned at the age of two.
00:13:54.000I mean, there's an Honest to God segment on Fox News, we talked about it at length just a couple of weeks ago, celebrating a family that transitioned their daughter into a son and said that she was exhibiting signs that she was a boy before she could talk.
00:14:11.000And this is being celebrated in the mainstream media by the institutions.
00:14:15.000The institutions of power, they are almost universally directed against the interests of the people that they are supposed to represent and serve.
00:14:24.000And it's true in every area, ranging from the government, certainly to the media, which is dominated by an echo chamber left that never happens to listen to themselves.
00:14:32.000They have no capacity to listen to themselves.
00:14:34.000They say things that are self-contradictory, flatly immoral.
00:14:37.000They do it all the time without even hearing what they're saying, which is why a week ago I can read an article in the Washington Post about a woman who had twins, and the Washington Post article is supposed to be how terrible it is that she had twins and the entire article is actually just a pro-life piece of propaganda because the left can't hear itself.
00:14:56.000And that's how you end up with banks, like the Halifax Bank has now announced it does not want you to use their services if you are not in favor of using preferred pronouns.
00:15:06.000According to the UK Independent, Halifax Bank told customers they can close their accounts if they don't like its values following a Twitter row over the staff including gender pronouns on their name tags.
00:15:16.000The company posted a photo of a staff member wearing a name tag, Gemma, followed by she, her, hers.
00:15:51.000I wasn't aware that it was your job to be a propaganda outlet on behalf of the most radical social transformation Western civilization has ever seen.
00:16:00.000When you obliterate sex as a category, when you say it is not only not important, that sex is a biological imposition on the real you, that is the most radical move Western civilization has ever made.
00:16:10.000You are taking the fundamental basis of all procreation among all mammals, and you are saying not only it doesn't matter, but it's an act of bad.
00:16:19.000Banks, their job is to lend you money, to give you a mortgage, and if you disagree with the value, well then maybe you shouldn't have a bank account.
00:16:27.000And by the way, it's a pretty short step from, maybe you shouldn't bank here, to maybe you shouldn't bank at all.
00:16:33.000Maybe you're just... The journey from institutions saying they don't want your business, to institutions working with government to basically borrow you from the public sphere, that's a real short step.
00:16:44.000That is what the left presumably would like, some sort of social credit system where if you violate the precepts of their most cherished values, then in the same way that Jordan Peterson is banned from Twitter, in the same way you're banned from using a bank account, you're banned from using your credit card.
00:16:56.000You've already started to see early instances of this, where credit card companies will say, listen, you can't use our credit card if you want to give to this group or that group, you can't use our credit card if you want to buy a gun, you can't use our credit card if you want to do this or that, as long as it violates our policies and our policies are driven by politics.
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00:18:35.000The January 6th hearings have been going on.
00:18:37.000They've dropped some supposed bombshells.
00:18:40.000As I discussed yesterday on the show, I think that those bombshells are largely a dud.
00:18:44.000They certainly have not fulfilled the promise of the January 6th committee to show indictable criminal conduct by the former president of the United States.
00:18:51.000They basically underscored what most people thought about January 6th already.
00:18:54.000But there is an entire breed of journalism that is just activism now.
00:18:59.000And it is entirely directed, all of it, it's directed at cuddling institutions into doing what they want them to do.
00:19:05.000And so every time there's a controversial public issue, you'll see a bevy of stories from these left-wing media outlets saying, the silence of Walmart on abortion is deafening.
00:19:15.000Where is Dunkin' Donuts on the question of Roe versus Wade?
00:19:19.000And so now they're doing it with January 6th.
00:19:20.000There's an article in the New York Times Dealbook, and here's what they say.
00:19:24.000The CEO's silence on the January 6th hearings.
00:19:26.000Some business leaders say they fear retaliation for speaking out.
00:19:31.000Andrew here, so it's Andrew Ross Sorkin who actually wrote this piece.
00:19:34.000He says, I want to speak with you directly this morning, much as I did after the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
00:19:38.000After January 6th, corporations across the nation raced to put out news releases condemning the insurrection, as well as the Republican members of Congress who tried to overturn the election results.
00:19:46.000Many companies pledged to end or pause donating to these politicians.
00:19:51.000Whatever your politics, yesterday's testimony by a former White House aide about President Donald Trump's actions on January 6th was deeply disturbing.
00:19:58.000And yet you will most likely hear only one thing from the business community in the coming days.
00:20:04.000Well, maybe because, I don't know, they're corporations and it is not their job to sound off on the political goings-on of the day that have little or no impact on their business.
00:20:13.000Maybe it's not Disney's job to sound off on whether kids should be indoctrinated with radical gender theory in kindergarten in Florida.
00:20:20.000Maybe it's not the job of Major League Baseball to sound off on voter ID laws in Georgia.
00:20:26.000Maybe it's not the job of the NCAA to sound off on whether men should be able to go into women's bathrooms in Charlotte, North Carolina.
00:20:34.000Maybe that's none of their damned business.
00:20:36.000Maybe they should stick to do what they are doing.
00:20:38.000And if we hope to have any sort of common institutional framework at all, maybe it's reliant on the fact that the market is open to everybody, and that you're not discriminating amongst your customers based on your view of their views, and that you are not a governmental actor.
00:20:51.000But the left wants every institution to mirror its own priorities.
00:20:54.000And so Andrew Ross Sorkin is now asking every corporation in America.
00:20:58.000You have a local Xerox shop down the street.
00:21:03.000I need to know their thoughts on January 6th.
00:21:12.000On whether Elliot Page is a man or a woman before I bank their end.
00:21:16.000If they refuse to do that, then I will put them in the pages of the New York Times and I will drive down their stock prices because I will ask them whether they are compliant with the ESG protocols of the stock market.
00:21:29.000Andrus Rossori says, I've been spending the past several days at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
00:21:32.000The Aspen Ideas Festival is one of these gatherings of the she-she, extraordinarily wealthy, mostly high IQ people who run institutions and who have an overweening sense of their own self-importance.
00:21:44.000There will be a lot of people who are very bright and who believe because they are bright in their particular industry, this gives them the street cred to basically run everybody else's life.
00:21:53.000So, Andrew Ross Sorkin says, I've been spending the past several days at the Aspen Ideas Festival asking chief executives and other leaders that very question.
00:21:59.000What I hear again and again is that the business community, and perhaps the public at large, has outrage fatigue.
00:22:05.000Those who do want to speak out are concerned about retaliation from public officials and a significant portion of the public in ways they weren't a year and a half ago.
00:23:04.000And that's the unifying feature of DailyWirePlus.
00:23:05.000We'll have people on DailyWirePlus, I'm sure, in the coming years who disagree with me strenuously on a wide variety of topics.
00:23:11.000But the one thing they will not disagree about is that it is very important that we have public conversations about important topics and not ram down our views via the corporate mechanism by discriminating against our customers.
00:23:26.000But all of this is part and parcel of an increasing leftist belief that they can cram down whatever they want on everybody else.
00:23:33.000How else do you end up with a major American political party endorsing the idea of transing the kids?
00:23:38.000How do you end up with the biggest institutions in media pushing radical agendas ranging from transgenderism to on-demand abortion up to and past point of birth?
00:23:52.000The answer is you live in a chamber of your own making.
00:23:55.000You live in an echo chamber of your own making.
00:23:58.000And because of that echo chamber, I think that the media, I think the Democrats, I think that these corporations, I think that they are so bubbled off from the rest of the American public, they have no idea the kind of cruising for a bruising that they have been creating for themselves.
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00:25:17.000The backlash is coming, and it's coming strong, and I'm here for it, because it is well-deserved.
00:25:22.000Take the issue of abortion, for example.
00:25:23.000So, according to Breitbart today, the White House responded to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Charlie Speier and Good Reporter, by promoting a website advising children how to hide their abortions from their parents.
00:25:34.000This is how radical this White House is.
00:25:35.000Now, who thinks this is politically smart?
00:25:38.000Seriously, let's say that you're the White House and you say, listen, those pro-lifers, their policies are too radical for the American people.
00:26:01.000They're trying to ban abortion across the board.
00:26:02.000So we're going to take the political middle and we're going to say some restrictions, but not all restrictions.
00:26:07.000But that's not what the White House is doing.
00:26:09.000The White House is pushing abortion on demand to the point where they are now promoting websites to kids telling them to hide their abortions from their parents.
00:26:19.000The Department of Health and Human Services, same department that is being run by people like Rachel Levine, who says it's good to trans the kids.
00:26:26.000The Department of Health and Human Services advised in a published release to the press that was promoted by the White House, quote, if you need information on your state's laws or legal help, you may consider this website, abortionfinder.org.
00:26:36.000The website informs children 15 years old or younger that parental requirement laws demand that parents and guardians must be involved with the decision to have an abortion.
00:26:44.000If you need to avoid involving a parent or guardian, contact the If, When, How Judicial Bypass Helpline for information about getting a judicial bypass, the website advises.
00:26:54.000The website was recently assembled by abortion supporters to simplify the process for people to get abortions.
00:26:59.000The organizers wrote on their website, The website also offers advice on how to prepare for an abortion, what to bring, what to expect, how to physically recover from the procedure.
00:27:16.000So, your elected White House is now promoting a website that tells kids about the legal process for preventing their parents from knowing about their abortions.
00:27:26.000This sort of radicalism is completely disconnected from the American public, but it's not going to stop people from attempting to implement it.
00:27:30.000I mean, for example, Elizabeth Warren.
00:27:33.000I mean, the measures that Democrats are talking about taking here are truly amazing.
00:27:36.000So you've got Elizabeth Warren out there saying that what we actually should do is we should turn national parks into abortion land.
00:27:43.000Yellowstone will now be abortion land.
00:27:50.000I also think, at this moment, the federal government needs to be exploring what they can do to make federal lands available to help ensure access to abortion.
00:28:24.000I do not think that it is possible to uphold that view after watching her for years.
00:28:29.000We've covered her antics for a while here.
00:28:31.000She's a dangerous figure in American politics because she has excellent camera presence, obviously.
00:28:37.000She also happens to be a deeply stupid human being.
00:28:40.000So here is AOC saying it's time to open abortion clinics on federal land.
00:28:45.000Let's start with the babiest of the babiest of the baby steps.
00:28:49.000Open abortion clinics on federal land in red states.
00:28:54.000Okay, so, um, first of all, if you are going to talk about opening abortion clinics in red states, probably the sentence you begin that with should not include the word baby three times.
00:29:04.000The babiest of the babiest of the baby steps.
00:29:11.000Let's just, we'll open up I mean, Elizabeth Warren, you know, she probably knows how, we will put up some tents on federal land, and then we'll have abortions in the tents on federal land, and this will cure America of its, it'll purge America of its great evil of trying to save the pre-born.
00:29:26.000And of course, all of the institutions, the cultural institutions, mirror this kind of stuff, which is why we have Stephen Colbert, who is not a late-night comic, he's just a bad political commentator.
00:29:35.000You want to talk about ultra-crepidarianism, people getting outside their area of expertise?
00:30:03.000But he did have one important thing to say.
00:30:05.000He wants Alexander Ocasio-Cortez to run for president.
00:30:08.000Your cultural arbiter is deciding that ignorant congresspeople from deep blue districts in Brooklyn should run for president of the United States because, after all, she does stick her face in a bowl of ice water on Instagram.
00:30:20.000I know somebody who's going to turn 35 about a month before the election in 2024.
00:30:55.000So, yes, our cultural arbiters would love for AOC, an actual socialist, who wants abortion clinics on federal land, to be president of the United States and believes in transing the kids.
00:31:04.000These people are in an echo chamber, and they want institutional power in order to cram this sort of stuff down.
00:31:09.000And one of the funny things in the aftermath of the overruling of Roe vs. Wade is the idea that the reversion of the issue of abortion back to the states is somehow an imposition on democracy.
00:31:16.000This is something you keep hearing from the left.
00:31:21.000You have Wanda Sykes saying just this, again on Stephen Colbert, who is, I think, really just late night therapy for libs.
00:31:27.000It's like you have a bunch of people who are on the left and they're like, oh my god, you know, I can't afford therapy this week because, I don't know, I was busy or I just don't have inflation, you know.
00:31:34.000So let's turn on Stephen Colbert and I'll lie down on the couch and I'll just unburden myself.
00:31:38.000So here's Wanda Sykes, another former comedian who left comedy far behind for Clapton instead.
00:31:45.000Here she is explaining that American democracy is at risk because people might get to vote on abortion.
00:31:49.000You're going to have to explain how that circle is actually a square, Wanda.
00:32:31.000It's really not that long, the Constitution of the United States.
00:32:33.000It has these things that are called checks and balances.
00:32:36.000It suggests that there is a separation of powers, and that these powers are supposed to balance one another, and it's supposed to be hard to do things on the federal level.
00:32:43.000But, again, according to the left, the idea is if I don't get to cram down my particular point of view, democracy is in threat.
00:32:48.000Our institutions are broken unless I get to do exactly what I want.
00:33:06.000But it's not just people like Wanda Sykes.
00:33:08.000You can't expect Wanda Sykes to be a brilliant political commentator because she's not.
00:33:11.000But Ezra Klein is supposed to be one of the wisest people on the left.
00:33:15.000And he has a piece in the New York Times today called, Since the Dobbs decision came down, I've heard a lot of liberals lamenting the Republican theft of the Supreme Court.
00:33:25.000As the story goes, Mitch McConnell stole the majority when he refused to give Merrick Garland so much as a hearing in 2016, holding the vacancy open until Donald Trump took office in 2017.
00:33:34.000McConnell's justification was his deep commitment to small-D democracy.
00:33:37.000No seat should be filled in a presidential election year that people should be given a chance to weigh in.
00:33:40.000In 2020, he lit that invented principle aflame when he rushed to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:33:46.000McConnell gaslit the nation, but he didn't steal any seats.
00:33:48.000Nothing he did was against the rules, which is why Democrats found themselves powerless to stop him.
00:33:52.000Liberals, in their anger, have too often ignored the logic of McConnell's action.
00:33:55.000He understood what too many have ignored.
00:33:59.000This is the age of power, and there is a reason for that.
00:34:04.000Okay, but, and the reason for that, of course, is that there has been ideological polarization in the United States, and that ideological polarization has been driven, as he suggests, by the, he thinks it's been driven by the right, of course, And he says that the Supreme Court has gone from being undemocratic to being anti-democratic.
00:34:21.000Well, I mean, did he not notice that the Supreme Court routinely overrules legislation and that is their actual job?
00:34:28.000Speaking of human beings who want to destroy American institutions because he's not getting his way, Joe Biden actually came out and for the first time endorsed the idea of killing the filibuster.
00:34:35.000So there have been a lot of people on the Democratic side of the aisle since the primaries saying that Joe Biden should kill the filibuster.
00:34:41.000And he's been resistant to that because in the past, Democrats have made a rather large scale mistake when they kill the filibuster.
00:34:47.000For a temporary attempt at a political win, it fails in enormous fashion.
00:34:51.000So, for example, like, they won't learn their lesson.
00:34:53.000Harry Reid, you'll recall, tried to kill the judicial filibuster because he felt like Republicans were holding up too many judicial nominees.
00:35:00.000So he said, we're no longer going to have a filibuster with regard to judicial nominees.
00:35:03.000And Mitch McConnell said, at the time, you're going to live to regret this.
00:35:06.000And he did, because then Republicans, with a bare majority, put a bunch of Supreme Court justices on the Supreme Court, and those people ended up overturning Roe.
00:35:13.000So now Joe Biden, being utterly incapable of learning lessons of the past because his neurons no longer fire, the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.
00:35:22.000Because of this, Joe Biden, abroad by the way, Abroad.
00:35:30.000And saying, by the way, that now he wants to end the filibuster so they can codify Roe vs. Wade.
00:35:34.000Here was Joe Biden in front of the foreigners explaining it was time to actually kill the filibuster in the United States Senate so as to preserve American democracy.
00:35:43.000The most important thing to be clear about is, we have to change, I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the Congress votes to do that.
00:35:55.000And if the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights, it should be, we provide an exception for this, require an exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.
00:36:11.000Okay, so just to get this straight, Republicans have spent half a century fighting within the boundaries of the law to overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court level.
00:36:22.000And within five minutes of Dobbs coming down, the President of the United States is calling to kill the filibuster to pass a codification of Roe v. Wade into federal law that is unconstitutional.
00:36:33.000As I've made clear, it is not possible to codify Roe v. Wade via the federal government.
00:36:37.000The federal government does not have that sort of power.
00:36:40.000The only powers the federal government has vis-a-vis the states are powers delegated to the federal government.
00:36:45.000That does not include the power to regulate the in-trust state practices with regard to abortion.
00:36:52.000And yet Joe Biden is now calling for overthrowing the... Like, good luck to him on this, seriously.
00:36:56.000You want to play stupid games, win stupid prizes?
00:36:59.000Because if they kill the filibuster in order to try to codify Roe, and they do this with 50 seats in the Senate, and they're about to get their asses just hands of them in the 2022 election, let's see how this goes for you when it's 2025, and Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump or some other Republican is president, and the Republicans control the House and the Senate, and we'll see how much you enjoy the, the filibuster is deadline, you idiots.
00:37:41.000Because the institutional takeover of the left is nearly complete.
00:37:44.000It's hard to think of an institution in American society, or more broadly, an international society in the West, that has not been impacted by the march of the left through the institutions.
00:37:54.000To take, I think, the most disturbing example of the last 48 hours or so, Nancy Pelosi went to meet with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received communion during a papal mass in St.
00:38:04.000Peter's Basilica, according to witnesses.
00:38:06.000Now, she believes that abortion is effectively a sacrament.
00:38:09.000She thinks that abortion is not only necessary, it is a good option for women and that it is absolutely necessary in order for them to preserve their equality.
00:38:18.000What she means by equality, of course, is not that women have a different biology than men and should have the same general rights as men but have different biology and so rights materialize differently for different people.
00:38:29.000Now, what she means by that is that in order for women to be their freest, most sexual beings, they must have the ability to kill babies in the womb.
00:38:36.000Otherwise, their biology will dictate differently, and that would be bad.
00:38:39.000So they have to overcome their biology so they can find their subjective sense of identity that makes them feel good.
00:38:45.000You must mirror it, and you must cheer.
00:38:48.000Nancy Pelosi proclaiming in the same sentence that she is a religious Catholic and also abortion on demand is unthinkable, which is why there are certain areas of the Catholic Church in her own town, San Francisco, that will not provide her a communion.
00:39:03.000And this, of course, led Whoopi Goldberg to the amazing statement that a cardinal denying, denying communion to Nancy Pelosi was not his job, when it literally was his job.
00:39:25.000He's put on radical wealth redistribution.
00:39:28.000Pope Francis, giving Nancy Pelosi communion the same week that she's calling for abortion on demand until point of birth, demonstrates the hollowing out of institutions that are necessary to the preservation of Western civilization.
00:39:41.000The Catholic Church is deeply important to the continued health and thriving of Western civilization, considering the impact that it has had on the building of Western civilization in the first place.
00:39:50.000And the hijacking of these institutions.
00:39:52.000By the way, it's true in a wide variety of political communities.
00:39:54.000Lest you think I'm signaling out the Catholics here, I think it's happening inside the Jewish community.
00:39:58.000I think that it's happening inside the Protestant community.
00:40:00.000It looks like it's happening across the board.
00:40:01.000Religious leaders are simply afraid to proclaim the morality of their own point of view.
00:40:06.000They've relied on the weak-kneed response that, we're religious, we get to have our own arguments, we get to have our own belief system.
00:40:11.000That is not the response you should be making.
00:40:12.000The response that religious leaders need to make, it's the only reason people should be religious, is that there are eternal moral values that are worthy of commitment, those eternal moral values are worthy of defense, and you want them to win.
00:40:24.000And when you do things like the Pope giving communion to a woman who overtly directs herself against the fundamental precepts of that church, what you are doing is undermining the credibility of that church.
00:40:34.000I don't think there's any other way to read that.
00:40:36.000As our religious leaders are hijacked by a leftist institutional culture that really disagrees strenuously with moral precepts of religion, things are getting pretty dicey out there.
00:40:45.000They're also getting dicey financially speaking, and this is one of the reasons you need to check out my friends over at American Financing.
00:40:50.000The cost of everything continues to rise.
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00:43:04.000So, as the left believes that it has taken over the institutions, it has simultaneously gotten more and more radical in its arguments.
00:43:15.000And the arguments don't even make any sense.
00:43:16.000Like, there are arguments that internally have no consistency, but because the left believes that everything is a power game, the arguments are completely secondary to the priorities.
00:43:23.000So this is how you end up with the spectacle of people like Ayanna Pressley, the congresswoman from Massachusetts, making the argument that The overturning of Roe vs. Wade is a matter of life and death for LGBTQ people.
00:43:52.000We know there's a black maternal morbidity crisis.
00:43:54.000This is an issue that Vice President Harris has led on.
00:43:57.000Black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth.
00:44:01.000We know that for those that do not have means to travel to safe haven states, that they will be left with no options.
00:44:11.000And so this is a matter of life and death for our LGBTQ siblings, for the disabled, for low income women, for women of color, for black women, For LGBTQ, I'm gonna need a chart.
00:44:27.000I may not be an expert here, but I do have three kids, and I'm aware of how children are produced.
00:44:32.000And my deep belief is that the end of abortion in red states, of all the humans on earth, the threat is least to those who are, say, lesbian and gay.
00:44:44.000I know, call me crazy, but it seems to me that that's not particularly the type of sexual lifestyle that leads to the accidental bearing of children.
00:44:52.000Unless I missed something here, which I'm fairly certain I did not.
00:44:55.000But again, it's not about the argument.
00:44:56.000It's about, they can say whatever radical, crazy, stupid thing they want because if you control the institutions, you can do whatever you want.
00:45:02.000And you feel comfortable making these arguments.
00:45:04.000This is actually going to precede a backlash because when you make bad arguments, it turns out that many of us still want to hear the argument.
00:45:08.000If the argument is bad, we just reject it.
00:45:10.000And this is how, look, the New York Times has a piece today in which it is titled, for many women, Roe was about more than abortion.
00:45:19.000After the reversal of Roe vs. Wade, some women are reconsidering their plans, including where they live, wondering how best to channel their anger.
00:45:26.000Julie Bosman writing, Countless women wept.
00:45:40.000Many were fearful, recognizing the feeling of freedom being taken away and thinking to themselves, this could only get worse.
00:45:46.000Millions of American women spent the past five days absorbing the news the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, erasing their constitutional right to a legal abortion that it held for nearly a half century.
00:45:55.000This is not a commentary piece by Julie Bosman.
00:45:57.000The decision instantly reordered the lives of women across the country.
00:46:01.000Some women, especially conservative Christians, reveled in the decision as a moral and legal victory.
00:46:05.000But a poll released Sunday revealed a sizable majority of women in the United States, 67%, opposed the court's ruling to overturn Roe.
00:46:12.000For women who had sought abortions in states where clinics were forced to shutter, the ruling was an immediate catastrophe, jeopardizing their decision to terminate their pregnancies.
00:46:19.000Yet the decision reached far beyond them.
00:46:21.000Across generations and geography, across race and class, many women were sent spinning, questioning their place in society, at least in the eyes of the Supreme Court.
00:46:29.000In dozens of interviews this week, says the New York Times, American women who support abortion rights recalled the moment when they heard Roe had been overturned, and how the waves and shock A fury that followed affected them.
00:46:40.000They reflected on how access to legal abortion and quietly undergirded their personal decisions, even if they'd never sought one themselves.
00:46:46.000They worried that progress many women have made since abortion was legalized in education, workplace, and culture would be halted.
00:46:52.000So they're using basically as a backstop the fact that they could kill the preborn.
00:46:57.000Like, do these people even hear themselves?
00:46:58.000Oh no, my freedom is being invaded by the fact that if I get pregnant through a voluntary act in the vast majority of cases, That I might not then be able to just kill the thing.
00:47:11.000I mean, I might not be able to make second year law associate at that law firm if I have a sexual relationship with a person I don't want to marry and then I get pregnant and I don't feel like having the baby.
00:47:43.000The New York Times says, when Mary Pavlich, a marketing executive in Chicago, got the notification on her phone, she was not surprised, having steeled herself for the decision, but the news still hit her like a punch, a physical reaction followed by despair.
00:47:54.000I was so sad, so angry, just feeling out of control, feeling helpless.
00:48:02.000Unless we're talking about a case of rape and incest, which, again, represent a vanishingly small number of people who get pregnant in the United States.
00:48:09.000If you're talking about the vast majority of people who get abortions, and the vast majority of people who get pregnant, these things are not out of your control.
00:48:16.000They are not things that you are helpless about.
00:48:19.000She says, even if you knew the drop of the roller coaster was coming, it is still shocking to feel the drop.
00:48:24.000In rural Wessington Springs, South Dakota, Kate Schmidt, 41, a social studies teacher, expressed her feelings partly by rage gardening.
00:48:47.000So your superpower makes you just an incubator now?
00:48:50.000I thought that that was actually... There's a... Forgive me for speaking a little Bible here.
00:48:55.000But this really has little to do with whether you believe in the Bible, whether you don't believe in the Bible.
00:48:58.000It's just a beautiful thought from Genesis.
00:49:00.000So one of the beautiful things about the explanation, the beginning of Genesis, what male and female constitute, right?
00:49:04.000It says, male and female, he made them.
00:49:08.000So, one of the things that, when it talks about the relationship between men and women at the beginning of Genesis, it talks about Adam and Eve.
00:49:13.000And it says that, a man shall leave his woman and join his wife and they shall become one flesh, right?
00:49:19.000And when it describes Eve being made, the idea is, and when Adam names her, when Adam calls her, he says, because she is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone, right?
00:49:52.000What Genesis is saying right there, whether you believe it's written by God, whether you don't, it doesn't matter.
00:49:56.000The deeper message there is fairly obvious, which is that the most important things that you do with your body have a major impact on your life.
00:50:05.000They are, in fact, a deep element of fulfillment and the left's attempt to strip away the thing that most characterizes women for all of human history.
00:50:13.000And to treat that as an act of evil, to treat that as though this makes you an incubator, as opposed to, you know, the most important human being on earth because you are producing the next generation of people who are going to make the world better for other people.
00:50:32.000They're not going to stay in control of these institutions.
00:50:34.000They're going to lose because of this.
00:50:35.000It's one of the reasons we're fighting back.
00:50:37.000It's one of the reasons we here at Daily Wire Plus have signed Jordan Peterson to a multi-year deal because for us, it's not just about making money.
00:50:45.000We'd love to be, we are a profitable company.
00:50:47.000We hope to be a more profitable company, a larger company with more employees.
00:50:50.000We hope for all those things, but we are part of a fight for the future of the civilization.
00:50:53.000And that future rests not only on the debates and the conversations that we need to have and that the left hates down to the marrow of its bones, but it rests on promulgating actual eternal values that matter.
00:51:05.000Because the left has its own set of values.
00:51:07.000And they are directly opposed to those eternal values, in many cases.
00:51:10.000And unfortunately, those values of the left have seeped out through nearly every institution in our society.
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