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Let’s Go, Brandon! | Ep. 1366


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00:00:00.000 A Southwest pilot finds himself on the hot seat after allegedly speaking the most vulgar of all phrases.
00:00:05.000 Let's go, Brandon.
00:00:06.000 Plus, Joe Biden's polls are in the toilet and Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine to actual slavery.
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00:01:56.000 Here's the thing.
00:01:57.000 Democrats have a real problem on their hands because Joe Biden has pursued radical policies that no one wanted for him.
00:02:01.000 And again, I can't say it enough.
00:02:03.000 His mandate coming in was one, be not alive, and two, be moderate.
00:02:07.000 And he has achieved only one of these things.
00:02:09.000 He is a zombie wandering around doing the work of Bernie Sanders.
00:02:13.000 And this is like the worst combo because you've got a guy who's not alive, But also, he's scaring you.
00:02:18.000 He's not like an inanimate object that's not scary.
00:02:21.000 He's not just a jug on the floor or something.
00:02:24.000 Instead, he's actually wandering around searching for brains in the mold of progressive radicals.
00:02:30.000 And so, Americans are increasingly not liking this at all.
00:02:33.000 Right now, there's an NBC poll.
00:02:35.000 It shows 71% of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track.
00:02:40.000 Uh-oh.
00:02:41.000 Biden's approval rating stands at 42%.
00:02:43.000 That is down seven points from August.
00:02:45.000 That's the last time their survey was taken.
00:02:48.000 The poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of the president's job performance.
00:02:52.000 54% giving Biden a thumbs down for his first nine months in office.
00:02:56.000 Only 37% of Americans believe Biden is competent and effective compared with 50% who don't believe that.
00:03:02.000 Only 37% believe that Biden can handle a crisis with 47% saying he cannot, which means his actual floor is not 42.
00:03:10.000 His actual floor is like 37%, which is just horrific for him, especially because the hopes of the Democratic Party are so pegged to him personally.
00:03:19.000 Nobody's big on his agenda.
00:03:21.000 But the idea was that he was going to be personally a popular guy, right?
00:03:24.000 He's inoffensive and he's sympathetic, empathetic Grandpa Joe, right?
00:03:28.000 He's the guy who's going to come in.
00:03:30.000 He's going to comfort you and tell you stories about Beau.
00:03:32.000 And then it turns out that Afghanistan killed all of that.
00:03:34.000 He didn't seem empathetic anymore.
00:03:35.000 He seemed like a jerk.
00:03:36.000 He seemed like a belligerent jackass.
00:03:37.000 And because of that, Americans were like, OK, he's belligerent and he's nasty.
00:03:41.000 And he's incompetent.
00:03:42.000 And he's senile.
00:03:43.000 So that is a very, very bad combination for Joe Biden.
00:03:46.000 And you're seeing it reflected across the board.
00:03:48.000 The polling numbers for Democrats right now are just brutal.
00:03:51.000 Issue by issue, Republicans have massive advantages.
00:03:54.000 Issue by issue.
00:03:55.000 Right now, Republicans are up by 27 points in terms of who you trust to deal with border security.
00:04:03.000 In dealing with the economy, Republicans are up by 18 points in dealing with the economy.
00:04:08.000 That is the biggest number in the, I'm looking at it right now, that is the biggest number in the history of the NBC News poll, that number.
00:04:16.000 Republicans up by 18 points.
00:04:18.000 Huge, huge advantage for Republicans.
00:04:21.000 Dealing with immigration, again, they're up by a huge, a huge number.
00:04:27.000 When it comes to education, Democrats, who traditionally have been up by like 20 points in that area, are only up by about 10.
00:04:33.000 Democrats are up a lot in global warming, but here's the thing, no one cares about global warming, so who cares?
00:04:38.000 When it comes to every major issue that Americans care about, Republicans are up big in this new NBC News poll, and that is a disaster for them.
00:04:45.000 Republicans are up massively when it comes to controlling inflation.
00:04:49.000 24 points with regard to controlling inflation.
00:04:52.000 Dealing with crime.
00:04:53.000 Republicans are up by 22 points.
00:04:55.000 Dealing with crime.
00:04:56.000 Dealing with national security.
00:04:57.000 Republicans up 21 points.
00:04:59.000 Dealing with national security.
00:05:01.000 How about election security, right?
00:05:03.000 Now we're talking about the January 6th stuff.
00:05:05.000 Democrats are only up one point.
00:05:07.000 So that whole January 6th talking point that elections are going to be stolen by the evil Republicans, no one actually thinks that's true and no one cares.
00:05:14.000 It's a basically even split.
00:05:17.000 Democrats are ahead on one issue and one issue only by any significant margin.
00:05:20.000 And that, of course, is climate change, which no one has a top priority in the United States right now.
00:05:26.000 Not just that.
00:05:27.000 New poll from ABC News shows roughly 7 in 10 Americans know virtually nothing about what exactly Democrats are negotiating about.
00:05:35.000 But of the Americans who do, more Americans say that they don't like the bill than say that they do like the bill.
00:05:41.000 The new ABC News Ipsos poll found a plurality.
00:05:43.000 32% of Americans think the bills would hurt people like them if they became law.
00:05:47.000 Only 25% think it would help them.
00:05:50.000 About 2 in 10, 18%, said that they think the bills will make no difference.
00:05:54.000 24% said they didn't know.
00:05:55.000 Even among Democrats, fewer than half think the two bills would help people like them.
00:06:00.000 47%.
00:06:01.000 A quarter of Democrats think it'll make no difference.
00:06:04.000 22% don't know how it would impact their lives.
00:06:08.000 Okay, so these are just disastrous numbers for Democrats across the board.
00:06:11.000 So if you believe that them passing this bill is going to save them, wrongo!
00:06:15.000 It is not.
00:06:15.000 Them passing Build Back Better will not save them, it will harm them.
00:06:18.000 Because they are throwing money at an inflation problem.
00:06:21.000 Okay, only about half of independents approve of Biden's handling of climate change.
00:06:26.000 Okay, but on other issues, economic recovery, gun violence, crime and taxes, independents approval hovers around 4 in 10.
00:06:34.000 He is below 40% on gun violence, Afghanistan, and immigration.
00:06:38.000 He's at 31% on immigration.
00:06:42.000 Fewer than two-thirds of Democrats approve of Biden's handling of gun violence.
00:06:46.000 Why?
00:06:46.000 Because crime has spiked in the major cities.
00:06:48.000 Only 62% of Democrats approve of Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
00:06:51.000 This is the ABC News poll.
00:06:52.000 Again, separate poll.
00:06:53.000 On immigration, only 54% of Democrats approve of Biden on immigration.
00:06:57.000 These are abysmal numbers.
00:06:59.000 I mean, honestly, these are numbers that are way worse than what Trump had.
00:07:02.000 Because Biden ain't even holding his own base.
00:07:04.000 His own base is looking at him cross-eyed.
00:07:07.000 And Joe Biden has no good answer on this.
00:07:09.000 So he was at this G20 summit.
00:07:12.000 So he decided to cross the seas and spew a bunch of carbon in order to jabber about climate change to a bunch of other people who aren't going to do anything about climate change.
00:07:21.000 And then apparently be looked askance at by Greta Thunberg, who will be very disappointed in Joe Biden.
00:07:28.000 So here is Joe Biden, a decrepit, doddering president, a top-aged, decrepit, doddering, authoritarian presidency, saying that he has no good answer on these polls.
00:07:38.000 The polls are going to go up and down and up and down.
00:07:41.000 They were high early, then they got medium, then went back up, and now they're low.
00:07:45.000 Well, look, this is, look, look at every other president.
00:07:48.000 The same thing has happened, but that's not why I ran.
00:07:50.000 I didn't run to determine how well I'm going to do in the polls.
00:07:54.000 I ran to make sure that I followed through on what I said I would do as president of the United States.
00:08:01.000 Yeah, man.
00:08:02.000 No, not everybody's polls look like this.
00:08:04.000 Obama's polls didn't look like this.
00:08:05.000 They didn't.
00:08:06.000 His predecessor in the Democratic Party, his polls did not look like that.
00:08:10.000 OK, so this is what is underlying the media's sudden obsession with the fact that people really don't like Biden to the extent that they are now chanting, let's go, Brandon.
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00:09:42.000 As you all know, as I'm sure you have heard, the chant, let's go, Brandon, has become very common across the country.
00:09:47.000 Now, you'll recall the reason that let's go, Brandon, went viral in the first place is because there was a NASCAR race in which a driver named Brandon Brown won the race.
00:09:55.000 And he was being interviewed after the race by a sports reporter.
00:09:57.000 And in the background, people were not chanting, let's go, Brandon.
00:10:00.000 They were chanting bleep Joe Biden.
00:10:04.000 F Joe Biden.
00:10:05.000 This is what they were chanting.
00:10:06.000 And the reporter trying to pass this off as a non-obscene chant said, listen to that crowd, Brandon.
00:10:11.000 They're all saying, let's go, Brandon.
00:10:12.000 And it was super funny because you can hear right in the background, the people chanting F Joe Biden.
00:10:17.000 You can hear it, and then you can hear the media in real time trying to spin it as like a pro-Brandon Scheer.
00:10:22.000 So this has become sort of the more innocent meme of F Joe Biden, right?
00:10:27.000 When you want to say F Joe Biden, but you don't want to be vulgar, instead you say, let's go Brandon.
00:10:30.000 It also happens to be kind of a hilarious in-joke about the incompetence and stupidity of an insular media that are constantly attempting to spin away the fact that people do not like Joe Biden.
00:10:39.000 And this is the whole thing, guys.
00:10:41.000 If for the media, for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden must remain personally popular or the Democrats are toast.
00:10:46.000 Remember, the entire 2020 campaign was not run on issues.
00:10:50.000 On the issues, Donald Trump won.
00:10:52.000 On personality, Joe Biden won.
00:10:54.000 Not because people love Joe Biden, but because he's not Donald Trump.
00:10:56.000 And so ever since then, Democrats have basically been relying on two things.
00:11:01.000 Not being Trump, and maybe, maybe you'll develop a certain sense of warmth for Joe Biden.
00:11:06.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:11:07.000 Nobody has a sense of warmth for Joe Biden.
00:11:09.000 Nobody thinks that Joe Biden is what he was billed as, this empathetic elderly statesman who's going to massage your shoulders while he comforts you about your life issues.
00:11:20.000 Nobody thinks of Joe Biden that way.
00:11:21.000 And so when the ire raises with Joe Biden, it scares the living hell out of the Democrats, as it should, especially because they don't have anybody waiting in the wings.
00:11:29.000 The person who is next in line is even more unpopular than Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
00:11:35.000 The cackling politician who literally begins laughing randomly if asked a difficult question and is so fake that she makes I Can't Believe It's Not Butter seem like the genuine article.
00:11:50.000 She airsats authenticity and very clearly so.
00:11:56.000 She's the spam of breakfast mates.
00:11:58.000 I mean, nobody likes Kamala Harris.
00:12:01.000 So you got Joe Biden here and then behind him, you got Kamala Harris.
00:12:04.000 And they're like, oh, my God, really?
00:12:07.000 And then they were trying to prop up Pete Buttigieg.
00:12:08.000 But it turns out that guy went on paternity leave for two months for who knows.
00:12:14.000 And and then no one even noticed.
00:12:17.000 So Democrats have a real world of hurt coming for them.
00:12:20.000 It's not as though they have a deep bench here.
00:12:22.000 And so this scares them.
00:12:23.000 Let's Go Brandon is scary to them.
00:12:25.000 You have to understand that Let's Go Brandon is even scarier to them than the time that that rodeo clown...
00:12:31.000 Don's an Obama mask and the entire media activated because here's the other thing about Joe Biden.
00:12:36.000 If Joe Biden is not personally popular, if people don't like Joe Biden, the Democrats cannot claim it is because of racism.
00:12:42.000 When people didn't like Barack Obama's agenda, the Democrats kept claiming and so did Obama that it was because the American people are actually secretly racist.
00:12:50.000 When it was Hillary Clinton, the media had a convenient excuse.
00:12:53.000 It turns out that you are a vicious, brutal sexist.
00:12:57.000 In fact, the media would have an easier time with people not liking Kamala Harris and not liking Joe Biden.
00:13:01.000 Because if people don't like Kamala Harris, the media just says that you are racist and sexist.
00:13:05.000 But if you don't like Joe Biden, who is whiter than the back of this sheet of paper, I mean, Joe Biden makes me look like a person of color.
00:13:13.000 If you don't like Joe Biden, it turns out maybe you just don't like Joe Biden, and you don't like his agenda.
00:13:18.000 And this is scary for Democrats, because if you don't like Joe Biden, and you don't like his agenda, what's the alternative?
00:13:24.000 Okay, so all of this came to a head over the weekend, because allegedly there was a pilot on Southwest Airlines who came on the loudspeaker and, as a joke, said, let's go Brandon, which is just horrific.
00:13:39.000 I mean, just brutal and horrific.
00:13:41.000 And how could it happen?
00:13:42.000 Okay, so, according to a reporter from the Associated Press named Colleen Long, this is the only allegation we have.
00:13:49.000 On Friday morning, on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers.
00:14:00.000 People just audibly gasping.
00:14:03.000 The pearl clutching.
00:14:04.000 They're clutching those pearls so hard, they actually turn them into pearls, they clutch them so hard.
00:14:08.000 They turn them into diamonds, they clutch them so hard.
00:14:11.000 Southwest said in a statement, the airline quote, takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable and respectful environment and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned.
00:14:22.000 Veterans GOP ad maker Jim Enosensi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it hilarious.
00:14:27.000 But again, Democrats in the media, they can't have a sense of humor about this thing.
00:14:31.000 So it's very bad.
00:14:32.000 Okay, so first of all, we don't know this actually happened because there's no tape of it that has emerged so far.
00:14:37.000 It's literally just the word of a person who's on a flight.
00:14:39.000 It's going to be really, really funny if it turns out that all the pilot said was prepare for landing.
00:14:44.000 And this person was like, did he say, let's go, Brandon?
00:14:46.000 Apparently she then charged up to the cockpit and started pounding on the door, which is a great tactic, by the way.
00:14:51.000 That's not an FAA violation at all.
00:14:53.000 So but even if that's true and it could be.
00:14:57.000 The reason I know it could be is because last week I was flying and the pilot, it was a private flight, and the pilot said, would you like to get on the radio and radio all the other pilots and say, let's go Brandon.
00:15:10.000 So apparently this has in fact become somewhat of a thing among pilots, which is super funny.
00:15:15.000 And, um, this is the end of the world.
00:15:17.000 Okay, so one pilot gets on the intercom, and apparently, allegedly, says, let's go Brandon, and the media lose their bleep.
00:15:24.000 They just go ape bleep.
00:15:26.000 Which, of course, is exactly the way to get people to stop doing a funny thing.
00:15:30.000 If you really want to get people to stop doing something, make a huge deal out of it.
00:15:33.000 If you've ever had children, and your children have cursed, the smartest thing to do is make a huge deal out of it, because then they'll never do it again.
00:15:42.000 Or alternatively, you're really stupid if you do that.
00:15:45.000 But the media can't help themselves.
00:15:46.000 We'll get to this in just one second because it's great.
00:15:49.000 And it is indicative again of the fact that the double standard when it comes to vulgarity, the double standard when it comes to how you're supposed to feel about particular politicians is so unbelievably glaring when it comes to the media.
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00:17:02.000 Okay, so Southwest Airlines has now released a statement.
00:17:07.000 And so we know many of you have heard about recent statements that may have been made on a Southwest flight.
00:17:12.000 We wanted you to hear directly from us.
00:17:13.000 So they can't even confirm, by the way, that this happened.
00:17:16.000 So it will be hysterical if it turns out this is all a figment of an AP reporter's imagination.
00:17:20.000 I will laugh.
00:17:21.000 Very hard.
00:17:22.000 It wouldn't be rare.
00:17:23.000 The media do this kind of stuff all the time.
00:17:25.000 The media are constantly reporting incidents that are supposedly damning of American right-wing culture, and then it turns out that it never happened.
00:17:32.000 That kind of stuff does happen.
00:17:33.000 But here's what Southwest says, quote, The Southwest team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, safe, and respectful environment for the millions of customers who fly with us each year.
00:17:42.000 Southwest does not condone employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job, serving our customers, and one employee's individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 employees.
00:17:54.000 Southwest is conducting an internal investigation into the recently reported event and will address the situation directly with any employee involved, while continuing to remind all employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable.
00:18:06.000 Southwest does not tolerate any behavior that encourages divisiveness as it does not reflect the Southwest hospitality and inclusiveness for which we are known and strive to provide each day on every flight.
00:18:16.000 Ah, the end of the world has arrived.
00:18:18.000 Somebody said, let's go Brandon on a flight.
00:18:21.000 Oh, just just horrific.
00:18:23.000 Just horrific.
00:18:24.000 OK, so Southwest is apparently addressing it internally.
00:18:28.000 According to the Washington Post, the phrase has been used as a code by conservative critics of the president since a chant of F Joe Biden broke out among a crowd at Alabama's Talladega Super Speedway in early October.
00:18:41.000 The story also became a rallying cry for those defending the pilot's purported remarks, with some saying it would in fact encourage them to fly southwest.
00:18:47.000 First of all, that would be great.
00:18:49.000 Harvard professor and CNN analyst, Juliette Kayyem, had a tweet.
00:18:53.000 Okay, so there are a lot of tweets from a lot of blue checkmark people who are super upset.
00:18:58.000 So for example, expert on everything Tom Nichols, who writes books on expertise, because he's an expert on expertise.
00:19:04.000 He's so expert-y that he doesn't know things.
00:19:06.000 So he tweeted out, maybe for a flight attendant this would have been okay, but the pilot announcing his political feelings with a slogan like that strikes me as kind of loopy.
00:19:14.000 If F.A.
00:19:15.000 gets off the handle, yeah, but the pilot?
00:19:18.000 He knows he's risking getting fired.
00:19:19.000 I'm not good with trusting a guy like that with my life.
00:19:22.000 So expert Tom Nichols is now worried that, what, the guy's going to, like, fly the plane into a building because he said, let's go, Brandon.
00:19:29.000 These people are insane.
00:19:30.000 I'm sorry.
00:19:31.000 They're just crazy.
00:19:32.000 They're just crazy.
00:19:33.000 Tristan Snell, who is a person who, I guess, comments for CNN.
00:19:37.000 That's literally the only reason anyone has ever heard of him.
00:19:39.000 He tweeted, Let's Go Brandon has become the MAGA version of Sieg Heil.
00:19:45.000 Oh, has it?
00:19:46.000 I spot some differences.
00:19:47.000 I'm spotting some differences.
00:19:49.000 Like, for example, I, an Orthodox Jew, not big with the Sieg Heil.
00:19:53.000 However, Let's Go Brandon is hilarious.
00:19:57.000 Let's Go Brandon is great.
00:19:59.000 Then you have Asha Rangappa, who's another CNN commenter.
00:20:02.000 I don't know what's in the water over at CNN.
00:20:04.000 People are higher than their own supply.
00:20:06.000 Asha Rangappa, she tweeted, as an experiment, I'd love for a Southwest pilot to say long live ISIS before taking off.
00:20:13.000 My guess is one, the plane would be immediately grounded.
00:20:15.000 Two, the pilot fired.
00:20:16.000 And three, a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours.
00:20:21.000 Long live ISIS?
00:20:23.000 And let's go Brandon.
00:20:24.000 Again, not the same.
00:20:26.000 Like, not the same thing.
00:20:28.000 I noticed because ISIS cuts the heads off people or puts them in cages and sets them on fire or, you know, bombs American service people in Afghanistan, whereas Let's Go Brandon is a bunch of people who think it's funny to say F Joe Biden because he's the worst.
00:20:42.000 Then she followed up.
00:20:43.000 She couldn't let it go.
00:20:44.000 And somebody tweeted back.
00:20:46.000 Right, because supporting terrorists that have run planes into buildings is atrocious.
00:20:49.000 And not at all like saying, let's go Brandon.
00:20:50.000 If you were a former FBI, it does explain what's wrong with the FBI.
00:20:53.000 That is a fair critique.
00:20:54.000 And she wrote, ISIS didn't run planes into buildings.
00:20:56.000 They didn't exist in 2001.
00:20:57.000 Oh, well owned, pawned.
00:21:00.000 MAGA did attack the Capitol.
00:21:02.000 Attempt to overthrow the government of the United States and threatened to hang the vice president.
00:21:05.000 So.
00:21:06.000 Oh yeah, so let's go Brandon is the same as breaking into the Capitol now.
00:21:10.000 You wonder why the right thinks the left is loony and these people cannot be let anywhere near power?
00:21:14.000 It's because of this kind of crap where you suggest that if I don't like Joe Biden because he's a bad president, that it's the equivalent of me rushing into the Capitol and threatening to hang Mike Pence.
00:21:24.000 And then Juliette Kayyem, as I mentioned before, she tweeted, if Southwest Air doesn't do anything, every passenger on that flight has standing to file a complaint with the FAA and they should do so.
00:21:34.000 Southwest will then be compelled to investigate or defend it.
00:21:36.000 Have fun with that.
00:21:37.000 No messing around in the air.
00:21:38.000 Bright line rule.
00:21:41.000 And somebody wrote back, not being flipped, but a complaint for what?
00:21:44.000 Is he in violation of an FAA rule or regulation?
00:21:46.000 And she said, yes, pilot conduct.
00:21:47.000 His words reflect the possibility of anger management or substance abuse.
00:21:51.000 It is worth asking.
00:21:55.000 So now, if you say, let's go, Brandon, publicly, by the way, I bought a shirt that says, let's go, Brandon, one of my favorite shirts, a great shirt, available from Daily Wire.
00:22:05.000 If you if you say that now, maybe you're on drugs or drunk while flying.
00:22:11.000 Okay, maybe you shouldn't get drunk before tweeting, Juliet Kayyem.
00:22:15.000 Dino Badaya tweeted, Southwest Airlines is now the pro-January 6th terrorist attack airlines.
00:22:23.000 Man, again, all these folks who comment for CNN, they are so crazy.
00:22:27.000 By the way, just a quick note here.
00:22:29.000 It would be crazy, right?
00:22:31.000 I mean, totally nuts, if it turned out that pretty frequently these airlines allow people to say political things.
00:22:39.000 Say, for example, that the American Airlines crew had been allowed to wear Black Lives Matter pins on their uniforms last year, which is what they did.
00:22:51.000 Quote, American Airlines believes in equity and inclusion for all.
00:22:54.000 Fundamentally, we believe Black Lives Matter is an expression of equality, not a political statement.
00:22:57.000 It doesn't mean other lives don't matter, rather that in our society, Black lives should be mattered and be valued the same as others.
00:23:03.000 Also, American has already allowed employees to wear pins representing recognized groups, including religious faith, nationality, military service, and LGBTQ pride.
00:23:11.000 Flight attendants can wear three pieces of flare on their uniform.
00:23:15.000 Don't worry, it's all—this is the rule for the left.
00:23:17.000 It's apolitical when they say it, but so political that maybe you should get fired if you say it.
00:23:22.000 And everybody can see this crap.
00:23:24.000 Everybody can see it.
00:23:26.000 In just one second, we'll get to the hilarity of all these folks on the left being very upset about the vulgarity.
00:23:31.000 Ah!
00:23:32.000 The vulgarity.
00:23:33.000 This is what they care about deeply now.
00:23:34.000 The vulgarity.
00:23:35.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:24:46.000 Okay, so.
00:24:47.000 The left is going to pretend that they're very angry at the politicization of anybody who's involved with the corporation after spending a year bullying and cuddling corporations into doing precisely their bidding.
00:24:58.000 Remember, the worst thing in the world is that MLB was going to have the all-star game in Georgia.
00:25:01.000 They moved the all-star game because some Democrats pretended to be offended by Georgia's voter law.
00:25:07.000 Remember that Coca-Cola made statements about this and then had to back off of them.
00:25:12.000 Remember that every major corporation in America has endorsed every woke point of view for the last several years.
00:25:18.000 Everything from branding all of their products for LGBTQ Pride Month to BLM.
00:25:24.000 Any corporate leader, by the way, who spoke out about the 2020 election ripped on Trump.
00:25:28.000 You can't find a corporate... And if they didn't, like the guy who's the head of Goya, he got ripped up and down by the media.
00:25:33.000 So the entire corporate culture, the entire institutional corporate culture is biased to the left because they know where their bread is buttered.
00:25:40.000 But if one pilot says a thing on a plane, bad, he's probably a drunk, he's probably a drug user, you got to get him fired.
00:25:47.000 Really, really important.
00:25:50.000 Are they really that concerned about the pilot?
00:25:51.000 No.
00:25:51.000 They're concerned that people don't like Joe Biden.
00:25:53.000 End of story.
00:25:54.000 Okay, so then they have a second pitch.
00:25:56.000 Okay, and their second pitch is that anybody who doesn't like Joe Biden is actually in league with January 6th or that sort of crap or must be fired.
00:26:05.000 And this is real politicization.
00:26:06.000 How dare you polarize America with your Let's Go Brandon chant?
00:26:10.000 Oh, so that's one.
00:26:11.000 The other is it's so vulgar.
00:26:14.000 Guys, the reason we say Let's Go Brandon is because it is not vulgar.
00:26:17.000 Like, I'm not going to say F Joe Biden in front of my kids.
00:26:21.000 I will 100% say Let's Go Brandon in front of my kids because it doesn't mean anything.
00:26:24.000 It's a euphemism for F Joe Biden, obviously.
00:26:28.000 But that's the whole point.
00:26:29.000 That's why we use euphemisms.
00:26:30.000 The point of euphemisms is so that you're not vulgar.
00:26:32.000 It's a deliberately non-vulgar statement.
00:26:34.000 But the media are like, be still, they're beating hearts.
00:26:37.000 You said Let's Go Brandon and we know secretly what you mean is F Joe Biden.
00:26:41.000 And that's vulgar.
00:26:42.000 It's vulgar and terrible.
00:26:44.000 So you end up with foolishness like this from Dana Milbank over at the Washington Post.
00:26:50.000 Let's Go Brandon is Republicans vulgar, vulgar governing agenda.
00:26:56.000 At 7.30 a.m.
00:26:59.000 Thursday morning, White House officials rolled out President Biden's roughly $1.75 trillion framework to cut taxes for ordinary Americans and make it easier for them to afford health care and housing, send their kids to pre-K and college, and adopt clean new power for their homes and cars.
00:27:12.000 Was that all it does there, Dana Milbank?
00:27:14.000 An hour later came the Republican response from the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
00:27:19.000 It was succinct and to the point.
00:27:21.000 F. Joe Biden.
00:27:23.000 Technically, the message, a tweet from McConnell press secretary Doug Andre, showed a photo of a roadside sign that said, Let's Go Brandon.
00:27:30.000 For the uninitiated, that's a MAGA meme, in which the phrase stands for the slightly homophonous F. Joe Biden.
00:27:36.000 It's a way to flip the bird at the president without running afoul of technology censors, as the right-wing Washington Times put it.
00:27:42.000 First of all, it's not a MAGA meme.
00:27:44.000 Okay, like, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump particularly.
00:27:48.000 As y'all know, I voted for Donald Trump in the last election.
00:27:50.000 I didn't vote for him in the first election.
00:27:52.000 Guess what?
00:27:52.000 Doesn't have to do with Trump.
00:27:54.000 Joe Biden's a terrible president.
00:27:55.000 Let's Go Brandon just means you don't like him.
00:27:57.000 A lot of people feeling Let's Go Brandon right now who didn't vote for Trump.
00:28:01.000 Which is why Joe Biden is in the toilet in the approval ratings.
00:28:05.000 It's why on particular issues he's down at 37%.
00:28:06.000 Like, is he competent?
00:28:10.000 The substitute phrase has been chanted at rallies for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, used by Senators Ted Cruz, Republican Representatives Bill Posey of Florida on the House floor, Jim Banks of Indiana, and Donald Trump Jr.
00:28:21.000 On Thursday, adopted by Trump himself, he offered Let's Go Brandon t-shirts for those sending at least $45 to his organization, Save America.
00:28:27.000 Think about that!
00:28:30.000 Could the contrast be any greater, says Dana Milbank?
00:28:32.000 Half of America's leaders are trying to govern.
00:28:34.000 The other half are hurling vulgarities.
00:28:36.000 Oh, the vulgarities.
00:28:37.000 You know, what's amazing was those four years where there were no vulgarities.
00:28:40.000 There were no vulgarities for four long years when Donald Trump was president.
00:28:44.000 America was just filled with a spirit of goodwill and tolerance from Democrats who never had anything vulgar to say about Donald Trump.
00:28:53.000 And in fact, were utterly intolerant of any vulgarity directed at the President of the United States for four years.
00:28:58.000 They hated vulgarity, Democrats.
00:29:00.000 If there's one thing Democrats hate, it is vulgarity.
00:29:03.000 I mean, sure, they're into there being no social standards whatsoever on anything ranging from I'm gonna say one thing.
00:29:10.000 your kids in school to curse words in music like that's all fine.
00:29:15.000 WAP is a great song for you to play to your seven-year-old, but they are very worried about vulgarity generally and they are specifically worried about vulgarity that is directed at the President of the United States, which is why they were, you remember this, Robert De Niro, he went out at the Tonys, you remember, and he was so, you remember the blowback?
00:29:31.000 Remember how angry Democrats were when Robert De Niro said this?
00:29:33.000 I'm going to say one thing, f*** Trump. It's no longer down with Trump, it's f*** Trump.
00:29:44.000 Oh, and everybody, standing ovation, standing ovation from the crowd, but secretly in their heart they were upset about the vulgarity. That's what we're led to believe. They're literally standing and cheering for f*** Trump there.
00:29:57.000 And the media are like, oh, Robert De Niro, what a hero.
00:29:59.000 I mean, there's nothing quite as heroic as standing up in front of a bunch of people who totally agree with you and saying F Trump.
00:30:05.000 Resistance heroes!
00:30:06.000 Oh, you remember?
00:30:07.000 But the truth is, deep down in their heart, they were very upset with the vulgarity.
00:30:12.000 Now, remember, he actually said F Trump.
00:30:14.000 He didn't say, let's go Trump or let's go Brandon or let's go Tony or something.
00:30:19.000 Okay.
00:30:19.000 And it wasn't just, it wasn't just Robert De Niro.
00:30:22.000 Of course we all know this.
00:30:23.000 We, we were here for four years while you use vulgarities that are honestly unprecedented in American life with regard to Trump.
00:30:23.000 Okay.
00:30:34.000 Like whatever you think about the vulgarities directed at Barack Obama by public figures, they were nothing compared to what public figures said about Trump and his family and anything associated with Trump, his supporters, like not close, not even remotely close.
00:30:48.000 Many of us really thought that Barack Obama was a terrible president and did great damage to the country.
00:30:52.000 There were no public figures who were saying this kind of stuff about Barack Obama.
00:30:56.000 He's certainly not celebrated by the mainstream media.
00:30:59.000 And if a public figure was saying it, he was pretty quickly taken to task.
00:31:02.000 Not so on the left.
00:31:03.000 For four years, the greatest way to fame and fortune was to say F Trump and F his family.
00:31:07.000 I mean, you remember Samantha Bee literally went on air and she called Ivanka Trump, right?
00:31:12.000 Not even Trump himself, Ivanka Trump, she called a feckless C word.
00:31:16.000 Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week.
00:31:24.000 You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c**t!
00:31:35.000 He listens to you!
00:31:40.000 OK, yeah, and people cheering wildly, right?
00:31:44.000 But it's the vulgarity.
00:31:46.000 If there's one thing Democrats are known for is their objections to generalized vulgarity.
00:31:49.000 They hate generalized vulgarity.
00:31:52.000 It's just the worst for them.
00:31:53.000 Now, play that latest Cardi B song again.
00:31:55.000 Here's Jim Gaffigan, you'll remember, in middle of August last year.
00:31:59.000 He wanted to demonstrate because there are a lot of right wingers who kind of like Jim Gaffigan's comedy.
00:32:03.000 For reasons that partially elude me.
00:32:05.000 Anyway, Jim Gaffigan tweeted out, I don't give a bleep if anyone thinks this is virtue signaling or whatever.
00:32:09.000 We need to wake up.
00:32:10.000 We need to call Trump the conman and thief that he is.
00:32:12.000 And then somebody wrote back to him and he said, oh, F you.
00:32:15.000 That is moronic, but dare you got me to respond, idiot.
00:32:19.000 He's just a genius.
00:32:21.000 And then he says, remember, everything Trump accuses the Democrats of, he's guilty of.
00:32:24.000 Don't let the socialist name calling distract you from the fact he's a fascist who has no belief in law.
00:32:28.000 And someone wrote back, you probably just lost a lot of followers for this one.
00:32:31.000 Stick to comedy.
00:32:32.000 And he wrote back, hey, F you, Karen.
00:32:36.000 But he was cheered for this, right?
00:32:38.000 Heroism from Jim Gaffigan.
00:32:39.000 Oh, Jim Gaffigan.
00:32:41.000 That's what they'll say.
00:32:46.000 The gaslighting is insane.
00:32:47.000 It's insane.
00:32:48.000 This is how you're going to get more Trump, guys.
00:32:48.000 You want more Trump?
00:32:50.000 This is how you're going to get more Trump.
00:32:51.000 Seriously, because eventually the right is just going to be like, OK, we're not going to say let's go Brandon anymore.
00:32:55.000 We're just going to say, Joe Biden, right?
00:32:58.000 We're all going to say that we're just going to say that because if you say that we can't even use the euphemism for we don't like Biden without us being accused of unprecedented vulgarity and terrorism, we're all just going to be like, you know what?
00:33:09.000 Screw it.
00:33:10.000 We're going to say exactly what we mean.
00:33:12.000 Remember that for four years wearing a hat.
00:33:16.000 A p***y hat, which was specifically supposed to be a reference not to a cat, but to female genitals, was considered a wonderful thing.
00:33:23.000 It was considered a sign of resistance heroism.
00:33:26.000 Even NPR noted at the time that it was meant to be a reference to vulgarity.
00:33:30.000 Here's NPR way back when.
00:33:33.000 McGovern acknowledges some may find the name of the hats vulgar, but... I feel like we kind of had to take it back, make it a feminist word.
00:33:42.000 A 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women by their genitals inspired the hat's creation.
00:33:49.000 Deepthi Sethi marched with her mom and sister, all wearing the hats.
00:33:54.000 She says it's empowering to re-appropriate the word.
00:33:57.000 I think sitting there and saying, I'm wearing a hat, and not having it reflect something vulgar, something that you should shy away from.
00:34:07.000 Okay, so they were literally putting f***ing hats on children.
00:34:11.000 How dare you with your vulgarity, with your let's go Brandon vulgarity?
00:34:14.000 Honestly, f*** off.
00:34:15.000 I mean, come on.
00:34:18.000 It's absurd.
00:34:19.000 The whole thing is absurd.
00:34:20.000 Okay, and the vulgarity is not, on the left, the vulgarity is not restricted to the kind of language they use with regard to Republicans.
00:34:27.000 It's expansive.
00:34:29.000 That vulgarity exists in the entire approach to America and public life.
00:34:33.000 They engage in the kind of polarizing, insane activity that is way worse than anything remotely, like Let's Go Brandon.
00:34:42.000 Just to take the latest example.
00:34:43.000 So in Virginia, it looks very much as though Terry McAuliffe may go down to flaming defeat tomorrow in Virginia.
00:34:47.000 Right now in the RealClearPolitics poll average, McAuliffe is trailing.
00:34:50.000 The enthusiasm in Virginia by all accounts on the ground is not for McAuliffe.
00:34:54.000 The enthusiasm is for Junkin.
00:34:56.000 By the way, all the polls nationally are showing that Republicans are far more motivated to vote in 2022 than Democrats are.
00:35:02.000 So this early bellwether is a disaster for Democrats.
00:35:06.000 So over the weekend, right before the weekend, there was this picture that came out.
00:35:10.000 Okay, the picture that came out was a picture of five people standing in front of a Glenn Youngkin bus.
00:35:15.000 They were wearing Charlottesville outfits.
00:35:17.000 They were wearing outfits from Charlottesville, from the white supremacist rally, like khakis and white shirts, and they were carrying tiki torches.
00:35:24.000 Now it was pretty clear, and they were talking about how they supported Junkin, it was pretty clear from the get-go that this was a phony, right?
00:35:30.000 That it was an op.
00:35:33.000 It was pretty clear from the get-go.
00:35:34.000 Why?
00:35:34.000 Well, because one of the people who was carrying the tiki torch was black.
00:35:37.000 My favorite thing about this...
00:35:38.000 Is that the leftists who wanted to make it seem as though a bunch of white supremacists were supporting Glenn Youngkin?
00:35:45.000 They were like, but you know what?
00:35:46.000 We still have to pay attention to our own diversity requirements.
00:35:49.000 So we can't just have a bunch of white guys go out there and pretend to be white supremacists supporting Glenn Youngkin to make Youngkin look bad.
00:35:54.000 That would violate our own strictures and sense of propriety about diversity.
00:35:59.000 So they sent a black dude and a lady as well.
00:36:04.000 We'll send this transgender little person to pretend to be a white supremacist youngkin supporter.
00:36:08.000 Geniuses.
00:36:09.000 Geniuses all.
00:36:10.000 Okay, so this became a big thing.
00:36:11.000 So on Friday, there were a bunch of people on the left who were tweeting this out.
00:36:14.000 Look at these white supremacist youngkin supporters.
00:36:17.000 And everybody on the right was like, yeah, this is bulls**t. I'm sorry, this is not real.
00:36:20.000 Everybody on the right was like, this is just nonsense.
00:36:23.000 It's pretty clear what you guys are doing.
00:36:24.000 It is clear this is not true.
00:36:27.000 And as it turns out, it wasn't true.
00:36:28.000 The Lincoln Project then had to claim responsibility.
00:36:31.000 So you remember all those idiots at the Lincoln Project who, when they are not busy covering up their founders, reaching out?
00:36:37.000 I'll put that mildly.
00:36:38.000 reaching out to underage men, that when they're not busy doing that, and then disbanding, then rebanding, they're committing ops like this.
00:36:46.000 Remember, this was supposed to be, these are the true believer, anti-Trump Republicans, right?
00:36:50.000 Except they vote for every Democrat across the country, including people who have no relation to Trump.
00:36:55.000 So they're just Democrats who grift and grift hard.
00:36:58.000 This is grift hard too, grift harder.
00:37:00.000 So they put out a statement.
00:37:02.000 Glenn Youngkin has said, President Trump represents so much of why I'm running.
00:37:06.000 Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words like critical race theory.
00:37:11.000 The Lincoln Project has run advertisements highlighting the hate unleashed in Charlottesville, as well as Glenn Youngkin's continued failure to denounce Donald Trump.
00:37:19.000 Today's demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago.
00:37:23.000 We will continue to hold Glenn Youngkin accountable.
00:37:27.000 Until then, we'll be back.
00:37:30.000 Okay, so yeah, it was a complete backfire.
00:37:33.000 And I do appreciate that the Lincoln Project continues to use minors for their own perverse purposes.
00:37:38.000 That's fun.
00:37:39.000 Apparently these were members of the Young Democrats.
00:37:41.000 So using young people for their own perverse purposes and ruining their lives is apparently, like, these people will now be searchable for the rest of time and memeable for the rest of time.
00:37:49.000 That was a genius move.
00:37:50.000 And this is the entire Democratic shtick in Virginia right now, is to try and accuse Glenn Youngkin of racism without any evidence.
00:37:56.000 This is a form of political vulgarity that really is damaging to the country.
00:37:59.000 By the way, critical race theory is written into many of the standards for the Virginia Department of Education.
00:38:04.000 Chris Ruffo has the receipts over on Twitter.
00:38:07.000 But this is part of the pitch.
00:38:09.000 And the same people are like, don't say let's go Brannon, too vulgar.
00:38:12.000 They will go out there and just lie about their political opponents by calling them vicious racists.
00:38:15.000 This is Terry McAuliffe's game because he's losing.
00:38:17.000 Here is Terry McAuliffe over the weekend.
00:38:20.000 He wants to ban Toni Morrison's book, Beloved.
00:38:23.000 So, he's going after one of the most preeminent African-American female writers in American history, won the Nobel Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and he wants her book banned.
00:38:35.000 Now, of all the hundreds of books you could look at, why did you take the one black female author?
00:38:41.000 Why did you do it?
00:38:42.000 He's ending his campaign on a racist dog whistle, just like he started the campaign when he talks about election integrity.
00:38:50.000 Okay, that's just a lie.
00:38:51.000 It's just a lie, okay?
00:38:52.000 This has been debunked by the Washington Post.
00:38:54.000 It's not true.
00:38:55.000 But he's going out there and he's just yelling about how Glenn Youngkin is a racist.
00:39:00.000 That's much more vulgar to me than just saying you don't like who the current president of the United States is.
00:39:04.000 That is a slur on character.
00:39:07.000 It's a slur on Youngkin.
00:39:08.000 It is overtly false.
00:39:09.000 Again, it's been fact-checked by people on the left.
00:39:11.000 It is not true.
00:39:13.000 But that sort of vulgarity is endemic to the leftist view of the United States more broadly.
00:39:18.000 And it's really harmful, like much more harmful than you don't like the current president.
00:39:22.000 It turns out pretty much half the country at all times doesn't like the current president.
00:39:25.000 Doesn't matter who the current president is.
00:39:27.000 That is not the true vulgarity.
00:39:28.000 The true vulgarity is calling your fellow citizens vicious, brutal racists.
00:39:33.000 And then being taken seriously.
00:39:35.000 That's the vulgarity.
00:39:36.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second because it really is.
00:39:40.000 It's true gaslighting and Americans know it and it's driving the wedge.
00:39:43.000 It's driving the polarization.
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00:41:47.000 Alrighty, so when I talk about the vulgarity that's endemic in American life right now, I'm not talking about F Trump or F Joe Biden.
00:41:57.000 I'm talking about the vulgarity of particular narratives.
00:42:01.000 I mean, first of all, there's just the bad treatment of people.
00:42:03.000 The notion that you can just treat people badly based on their politics.
00:42:06.000 So, for example, Kyrsten Sinema has been raked over the coals by the radical left Who have suggested that she is very, very bad because she wasn't going to sign off on $3.5 trillion in spending.
00:42:16.000 She's only going to sign off on probably $3 trillion when you actually do the math.
00:42:20.000 $4 trillion when you actually do the math and extend these democratic programs that are greenlighting over the course of actually 10 years as opposed to false sunsets.
00:42:27.000 But anyway, a bunch of protesters showed up at a wedding that Kyrsten Sinema was actually officiating.
00:42:32.000 And they ruined the wedding.
00:42:34.000 They ruined the wedding.
00:42:35.000 Okay, so this is apparently not a national story.
00:42:37.000 It is a national story if a pilot says, let's go Brandon, which ruined nobody's day and ruined nobody's life.
00:42:43.000 Here's somebody actually trying to ruin a wedding and Kirsten Sinema like comes out and she's like begging with them.
00:42:47.000 Please don't do this.
00:42:49.000 Could you just go down to the corner for an hour?
00:42:53.000 It's my daughter's wedding.
00:42:55.000 Just for an hour.
00:42:56.000 Just let her get married, please.
00:42:59.000 This person is not my daughter.
00:43:02.000 My daughter's getting married.
00:43:03.000 Will you tell her that... Did you even invite Senator?
00:43:06.000 Is Senator really here?
00:43:07.000 I don't want to tell her that we don't like what she's doing to our country.
00:43:12.000 I want you to invite this woman.
00:43:14.000 You know what?
00:43:14.000 Tell her!
00:43:15.000 Tell her!
00:43:19.000 Okay, that's the mother of the bride comes in and is begging with these people not to ruin the daughter's wedding.
00:43:23.000 And they're like, the person officiating the wedding is like, you wanna know what's undermining American life?
00:43:28.000 Like that kind of stuff.
00:43:29.000 You know what else is undermining American life?
00:43:31.000 Is the generalized left-wing take on race.
00:43:33.000 So Colin Kaepernick is just a giant con man.
00:43:37.000 Like one of the great con men of our time.
00:43:39.000 He's a failed NFL quarterback.
00:43:40.000 He had like a couple of good seasons and then he started to fail.
00:43:43.000 And so they benched him for the immortal Blaine Gabbard.
00:43:47.000 And then he decided it's time to kneel for the national anthem because America is deeply racist.
00:43:51.000 It wasn't racist until he got benched.
00:43:52.000 Then he got benched and then America magically became racist and he was wearing socks with pigs as cops on them on the basis of the lie that the police are systemically shooting black people for no reason.
00:44:04.000 This has won him accolades.
00:44:05.000 He got a Nike deal.
00:44:06.000 The only failed quarterback to win a giant Nike deal, right?
00:44:10.000 With slogans saying things like you have to risk everything.
00:44:14.000 Well, he's risked nothing.
00:44:15.000 He risked zero things.
00:44:17.000 He waited until he was a backup quarterback, then he knelt for the national anthem, and then the entire left wing ran to his defense.
00:44:23.000 And then he spent the last few years saying he wants to play in the NFL while avoiding anything that would actually get him back into the NFL, because it turns out he kind of sucks.
00:44:29.000 He's not a very good quarterback.
00:44:30.000 Hey, so now, Netflix, remember, the way the corporations work is that if you work for Southwest and you say, let's go Brandon, it's a fireable offense.
00:44:39.000 But all of Netflix, well, Netflix will just churn out democratic propaganda day after day after day.
00:44:46.000 They'll put out propaganda, a Pete Buttigieg documentary about how he changed the world.
00:44:50.000 And now we've got Anna DuVernay, who of course is the woman who has made other propaganda films about race in the United States.
00:44:57.000 Now she's making a propaganda film with Colin Kaepernick Talking about how Colin Kaepernick changed the world is called Colin in Black and White.
00:45:04.000 Here's a clip from it.
00:45:06.000 You want to know what ruins the country?
00:45:08.000 This kind of crap.
00:45:08.000 So here is Colin Kaepernick talking about how the NFL Combine, which is a place where players show up to demonstrate their skills in front of coaches so that they will get drafted higher and be paid more millions of dollars.
00:45:21.000 He compares this, millionaire Colin Kaepernick, Compares this to slave auctions in this film.
00:45:29.000 Backed by Netflix.
00:45:30.000 Backed by corporate bucks.
00:45:32.000 But that's not a problem.
00:45:33.000 Let's Go Brandon is a problem.
00:45:34.000 You want to know which is more vulgar in the broader sense of the world?
00:45:38.000 Not a question.
00:45:39.000 Here's Colin Kaepernick doing something morally despicable, but he's fond of doing that for cash.
00:45:45.000 Before they put you on the field, teams poke, pry, and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance.
00:45:55.000 No boundary respected.
00:45:58.000 No dignity left intact.
00:46:04.000 Okay, and then, if you can't see this, there's a bunch of guys who are getting checked out at the combine with their shirts off.
00:46:10.000 And then, they walk out of the combine and into a graphic of them with chains on them being auctioned off as slaves.
00:46:18.000 I'm not kidding.
00:46:19.000 This is what Netflix is producing.
00:46:21.000 And people bidding on them.
00:46:22.000 Okay, I can spot a few differences.
00:46:24.000 One, slaves were called slaves because they were not paid.
00:46:27.000 Because they were literally enslaved.
00:46:29.000 Not they volunteered into an NFL combine, where they then got paid millions of dollars based on their physical abilities.
00:46:36.000 But Colin Kaepernick conflates the two.
00:46:38.000 Which is more vulgar for the United States?
00:46:40.000 Saying that the NFL combine is equivalent to actual honest-to-God slavery?
00:46:44.000 Or saying, let's go Brandon?
00:46:46.000 But you know what the real vulgarity is?
00:46:47.000 It's not that.
00:46:47.000 That's not real vulgarity in sports.
00:46:48.000 The real vulgarity is that Donald Trump went to a Braves game and did the tomahawk chop.
00:46:53.000 That was the end of the world.
00:46:54.000 Over the weekend, Donald Trump went to a Braves game.
00:46:56.000 By the way, there's great irony to the fact that Texas and Georgia are the two states competing in the World Series after the MLB decided to cave to the Wokescolds.
00:47:04.000 So Donald Trump went to the Braves game, and he was doing the tomahawk chop.
00:47:08.000 And this was the end of the world.
00:47:09.000 Okay, because the tomahawk chop is supposedly racist.
00:47:12.000 Now, if you're gonna talk about which is more racially problematic, comparing the NFL combine to actual honest-to-God slavery, or a non-offensive symbol at a Braves game, where nobody is saying, I hate Native Americans, therefore I'm doing the tomahawk chop.
00:47:25.000 They're saying that this is a symbol of Native American culture that we wish to co-opt because it's awesome, and they're doing the tomahawk chop.
00:47:32.000 But Donald Trump is the real threat to American mores.
00:47:36.000 He's the threat.
00:47:37.000 He's the threat.
00:47:38.000 And the grift is so unbelievably strong.
00:47:42.000 And this is why Americans are rebelling against this kind of crap.
00:47:44.000 Let's Go Brandon is going to become more ubiquitous, not less.
00:47:47.000 Because it's not just that Joe Biden is pursuing radical economic policy.
00:47:50.000 It's that Joe Biden is pursuing radical social policy.
00:47:52.000 It's that he has bought into a vulgarization of the idea of America, broad scale.
00:47:57.000 And if you note that, using any language whatsoever, this makes you bad.
00:48:00.000 If you note that, using euphemistic language, because you don't even want to curse.
00:48:04.000 That's apparently super duper bad.
00:48:07.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:48:09.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mills Show that is available right now.
00:48:12.000 Also remember, tune in tomorrow night over at Daily Wire and Matt Walsh is going to be live streaming the Virginia elections.
00:48:17.000 I'll stop by.
00:48:18.000 We'll have some, we'll have some chat about it.
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