R.F. Kennedy Jr. responds to anti-vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, who has been on the air for years ranting against his father, Robert Kennedy Sr., and his son, RFK Sr., over their views on the controversial topic of vaccines and autism. And then he goes on to say that he doesn t think vaccines should be given to anyone older than 65, even if they have a serious obesity problem, because "the real thing you need to bother about nutrition is the vaccine." And then, a few days later, he tweets that he's no longer monitoring his health care provider, Spotify, because they don't give him the care he needs to keep up with his diet and exercise. And then they shut him down, and then they make him apologize for his comments. And they apologize again, and they promise to do a debate with him on his show, but then they still don't get him on the show. And Elon Musk calls him out for spreading "vaxxism" and calls him a "liar" and a "hypocrite" and says he doesn't even care about his own health care costs, which is a lie. And that's not even half as bad as he says it is. It's a good thing, because he's not the only one who doesn't care about nutrition and exercise, right? except he does have a problem with obesity and fatness, which could be the real problem. . and he's a lot of people should be in better shape, but he's just not getting enough of it, you know what else to get the shots he should be getting the shots to help his body in the first place? to be in shape? or should he be getting enough to be healthy enough to get enough vitamins and enough to stay in shape to keep his body enough to keep himself in shape to have a chance to exercise he should get the vitamins he needs them at least he's got enough vitamins? and enough exercise to get a good night's rest or is he somethings to lose weight, right?? is that a good enough to make it all the time he needs the vitamins that he needs it? so he should to keep it all right, right to stay healthy, right ? well, not enough to exercise enough to maintain his body to be able to function properly?
00:00:00.000So, major controversy broke out over the weekend over a doctor named Peter Hotez.
00:00:05.000You have seen him in a multiplicity of clips from MSNBC and CNN.
00:00:09.000He is a vaccine researcher who's sort of COVID famous.
00:00:12.000He was on the air a lot for the last several years talking about the magic of the COVID vaccines, why everyone should take them up to and including children.
00:00:19.000And he had appeared on Joe Rogan's show where he had ripped into RFK Jr.
00:00:28.000is not just against the COVID vax, where, you know, arguments can be made either way in terms of who it should apply to.
00:00:34.000My own opinion on the COVID vax is that it was effective for people 65 and above, people with severe obesity, but if you're a young, healthy person, there's really no reason you need to get the vax.
00:00:41.000That's why my children were not vaxed.
00:00:45.000also happens to be anti-vax generally, so he has very serious qualms about people taking generally proven vaccines like measles, mumps, rubella vaccines, for example.
00:00:55.000He has serious problems with all of that.
00:00:56.000So anyway, Dr. Peter Hotez ripped on R.F.K.
00:02:04.000That didn't get her autism from a vaccine.
00:02:06.000But I've read that book, and there is no science cited in that book.
00:02:10.000It's just him saying, you know, it didn't happen.
00:02:14.000Okay, so Rogan then pledged to donate $100,000 to a charity of Hotez's choice if he agreed to appear with RFK Jr.
00:02:21.000on his show to do a debate over all this.
00:02:23.000Rogan's challenge has been viewed over 25 million times, and that prompted Hotez to then respond to him, quote, Be serious, Joe.
00:02:29.000That's what you throw for your hunting parties.
00:02:31.000He said, $50 million endowment, which you, Spotify, RFK Jr., can easily afford, not for me, but so we can continue making low-cost, patent-free vaccines for the world's poor, preceded by RFK Jr.' 's public apology.
00:02:42.000Which, of course, is an extraordinary demand when the entire debate is over the issue, presumably.
00:02:47.000Elon Musk then chimed in, saying that Hotez hates charity, while Kennedy agreed to a respectful, congenial, informative debate the American people deserve.
00:02:54.000Hotez then tweeted, quote, from all the online attacks I'm receiving after this absurd podcast, it's clear that many actually believe this nonsense.
00:03:00.000And then he tweeted out a Vice News article claiming that Spotify was no longer monitoring Rogan's, quote-unquote, vaccine misinformation.
00:03:07.000During Rogan's interview with Kennedy, released on Thursday, Hotez was brought up as a point of discussion as the podcast host criticized the doctor for previously saying he didn't take basic measures to help boost his immune system.
00:03:16.000So Rogan correctly noted that Hotez had basically said, don't bother working out, don't bother about nutrition with regard to COVID.
00:03:23.000The real thing you need is the vaccine, which of course is not true.
00:03:26.000I mean, if you are, again, old, elderly, you have serious obesity, the vaccine was like a good short-term patch.
00:03:33.000But if you're talking about like young people, of course young people should be in better shape.
00:03:36.000In fact, even if you're 65, you should be in better shape.
00:03:38.000My dad, when COVID first hit, he found out that the statistics, when it came to disparity in death rate based on obesity or overweight status, were really grave.
00:03:47.000And so he immediately went about starting to lose weight, which would be a smart thing to do.
00:03:53.000Hotez then said he was happy to come on and clear the air, and he extended a counter-offer to Musk, inviting him to visit the vaccine laboratory and learn more about the work.
00:04:00.000Rogan then called that response a non-answer.
00:04:02.000He said, I challenged you publicly because you publicly quote-tweeted and agreed with that dog bleep Vice article.
00:04:07.000If you're really serious about what you stand for, you now have a massive opportunity for debate that will reach the largest audience a discussion like this has ever had.
00:04:12.000If you think someone else is better qualified, suggest that person.
00:04:16.000Hotez then said the deleted tweet was unnecessarily provocative, and he said he was upset because RFK Jr.
00:04:23.000Okay, so this then prompted Hotez to go on Mehdi Hassan's show on MSNBC and say he won't debate.
00:04:28.000So again, it's very weird to say you won't go on Rogan's show, which actually has way, way, way, way, way more people watching than Mehdi Hassan's show to talk about the topic that you have dedicated your life to.
00:05:11.000The reason this has become a hot topic is because what Hotez is falling back on is the same mask of authority the entire scientific establishment has used about a myriad of issues over the course of the last three years, and they've been wrong every time.
00:05:22.000Here is Hotez trying to explain to Mehdi Hassan why he won't debate RFK Jr.
00:05:26.000Anti-vaccine disinformation, it's always done a lot of damage and harm, but now it's a lethal force in the United States, and that's why we have to have that discussion.
00:05:35.000And I offer to come and talk to Joe Rogan again, I've been on a couple of times, and have that discussion with him, but not to turn it into the Jerry Springer show with having RFK Jr.
00:05:46.000Okay, but the reality is that somebody is going to have to, if he's the guy to do it, then great.
00:05:50.000And if he's not, then he should name the person.
00:05:51.000Somebody needs to rebut the claims if RFK Jr.
00:05:54.000is to be stopped in terms of the supposed misinformation that he's putting out right here.
00:05:58.000I mean, somebody is supposed to do that.
00:06:00.000Because, let's be real about this, RFK Jr.' 's claims have gained an awful lot of traction because he's on Joe Rogan's show.
00:06:05.000And here's Joe doing the right thing and saying, okay, well, let's get somebody else who opposes you on the program, and then you guys can battle it out.
00:06:11.000And again, even if you don't like, What RFK Jr.
00:06:57.000Now, I understand that Hotez and the rest of the crew are claiming that because Hotez is a doctor or because the science is settled, this means they no longer have to debate the issue, but that's just not true.
00:07:06.000That is not the way that human minds are changed.
00:07:08.000It's not the way that people's minds are changed.
00:07:09.000It's not the way that any of this goes, particularly because, again, as I say, the scientific establishment has destroyed itself over the course of the last decade or so.
00:07:16.000We'll get to more of this in a second.
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00:08:32.000So for example, he keeps claiming and a lot of people try to claim that there is a link between vaccinations and autism.
00:08:37.000The reality is that there is no solid scientific evidence linking vaccinations to autism.
00:08:42.000We really don't know what causes autism.
00:08:44.000We do know that there's a genetic component to it because siblings who have autism tend to have other siblings who have autism.
00:08:50.000But the notion that we know the cause of every disease in human history is just not true.
00:08:54.000And this is particularly the case with a broad-spectrum disease like autism, a broad-spectrum condition like autism.
00:08:59.000But that doesn't mean that it's the vaccines.
00:09:01.000And so very often one of the things that happens in talking about vaccines is that the burden of proof is somehow put on the vaccines to prove that it is not causing autism as opposed to the burden of proof being put on people who are making the claim to suggest that it is the vaccines causing autism.
00:09:14.000One of the things that's happened here Is that people have linked the rise in autism to the rise in vaccine usage because they say, well, they both occur when you're a child.
00:09:21.000Well, yeah, but there are a lot of other things that occur when you're a child as well.
00:09:24.000In fact, the original claim about autism being linked to vaccinations was made in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield and 12 of his colleagues ran a study in The Lancet, which suggested that MMR, measles, mumps, rubella vaccines, could predispose to behavioral regression and pervasive developmental disorder in children.
00:09:39.000This is according to a piece cited by the Indian Journal of Psychiatry.
00:09:44.000Despite the small sample size, it was only 12 people who were sampled, the uncontrolled design, and the speculative nature of the conclusions, this became like a bombshell in the middle of vaccine world.
00:09:52.000Almost immediately afterward, epidemiological studies were conducted and published refuting the positive link between MMR and autism.
00:10:00.000And then the paper ended up being fully retracted in February of 2010, and they admitted that several elements in the paper were incorrect, contrary to the findings of the earlier investigation.
00:10:08.000Wakefield and his entire crew were held guilty of ethical violations and scientific misrepresentation.
00:10:13.000But it doesn't matter because it had already sort of entered the bloodstream of the entire conversation with regard to, for example, autism.
00:10:23.000continues to claim Again, without, I think, any strong evidence at all that vaccines are linked to autism, that link just has never been proved in any sort of durable way.
00:10:42.000It's that if the people who are quote-unquote the science destroy their credibility, it means they now have to go back and they have to debate RFK Jr.
00:10:50.000Because the same exact people who are claiming that the science is settled on vaccines are also unfortunately claiming that the science is settled on global warming, gender-affirming care, universal masking, the COVID vax, right?
00:11:01.000And the science is not settled on any of those matters.
00:11:04.000This has reopened the door to why you need to actually debate all of these claims.
00:11:13.000makes these kinds of claims all the time.
00:11:15.000And again, there are a bunch of claims that he's been making for years, right?
00:11:17.000So he suggests, for example, that when people get, when babies get vaccines, that they get ethyl mercury in the vaccines, okay?
00:11:26.000And this is what is causing autism, and that it's crossing the blood-brain barrier, and it's getting embedded in the brain, and all this.
00:11:31.000Again, the evidence for this is extraordinarily scanty.
00:11:35.000Because the reality is, there's a good piece over at Stat News by a guy named Paul Offit talking about this.
00:11:39.000He says, babies typically ingest about 360 micrograms of methylmercury during the first six months of life, well before they ever receive their first dose of influenza vaccine.
00:11:48.000If the 25 micrograms of ethylmercury in vaccines is 100 times greater than what Kennedy claimed it is, simply by living on Earth by six months of age, babies will have ingested an amount of mercury 1,440 times greater than Kennedy's safety limit.
00:12:00.000Kennedy suggested that babies were being injected with 25 micrograms of ethylmercury Which is a preservative in something called thimerosal, which was used in multi-dose vials of influenza vaccine.
00:12:11.000So thimerosal has not been a part of virtually any vaccine since 2001, but he continues to claim that kids are being routinely injected with mercury, for example.
00:12:18.000And it turns out the kind of mercury they're being injected with is very common in human diets.
00:12:22.000And then he cites essentially one study, and he does it in the middle of the Rogan interview.
00:12:27.000He cites essentially one study suggesting that it's getting embedded in the brain, that it's linked with brain uptake in monkeys.
00:12:36.000But the reality, again, is that even in the study that he is citing with regard to the monkeys, what it tends to show is sort of the opposite, actually.
00:12:46.000This is a point made by another Twitter account called The Bad Stats.
00:12:52.000In which he says that essentially the Birbacher study, he talks about this, RFK does, this is the study on monkeys and mercury in the brain, shows thimerosal only appears to be processed out of your bloodstream because it's accumulating in your brain.
00:13:05.000But again, that actual study compares thimerosal to organic mercury and finds that a much lower brain concentration of total mercury was observed in the thimerosal monkey compared with the Organic mercury monkeys.
00:13:18.000So, in other words, thimerosal actually does clear out faster than, for example, organic mercury.
00:13:24.000And total mercury is cleared much more rapidly from the brain after thimerosal.
00:13:27.000So, thimerosal, number one, isn't really in a lot of vaccines.
00:13:30.000It's really, I think, in just flu vaccine at this point.
00:13:32.000Two, the kind of mercury that's in thimerosal is not really linked to any sort of serious damage by any available study that I'm aware of.
00:13:40.000There's speculation, but that speculation is not the equivalent of evidence.
00:13:44.000This sort of stuff is the sort of stuff that RFK Jr.
00:13:47.000frequently says, but again, why can't Hotez say that to him?
00:14:22.000If nobody rebuts the claims, then the claims win.
00:14:25.000And the reason you're not rebutting the claims is because you have so many claims of your own that are irrefutable and irrebuttable, and you won't defend them.
00:14:32.000If you never have to debate, it doesn't just mean that you won't debate RFK Jr.
00:14:34.000It means you won't debate anyone on your own claims.
00:14:37.000And those claims are very much in question.
00:15:41.000They also, you know, it opens up... Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier.
00:15:48.000Okay, so again, the notion that it is causing cancer is certainly open to debate, but he says this sort of stuff with, like, pure certainty.
00:15:57.000But again, the reason nobody will refute it is because there's a class of people who have considered themselves the specials, and those specials will not descend from the mountaintop to explain themselves to everybody else.
00:16:06.000And the problem is that those special people who had, like, a hundred years of, look at our amazing science that's made life better for you, on their side, then blew it over the last ten years.
00:16:14.000It was one thing for them to say, we're here on the mountaintop handing you down magical science that will make your life better.
00:16:19.000When they're actually making magical science that made your life better.
00:16:22.000When instead, the garbage, the stuff they've been handing down is no longer magical science that makes your life better, it's garbage.
00:16:28.000Then people start to say, okay, well, now you need to come down from the mountaintop and explain yourself.
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00:17:38.000So, again, the reason that I keep going back to this idea that RFK Jr.
00:17:42.000may not even be a reliable source on all of this stuff, but somebody should debate him, is because the same people who say they will not debate the regulars are the people who have been lying to you for years.
00:17:50.000So the same Peter Hotez, who's saying, I speak for the science, I speak for the vaccines.
00:17:54.000Here he was pushing the vaccination of kids in May of 2021.
00:17:58.000Kids being vaccinated before next school year, is that realistic?
00:19:27.000Okay, if you had represented the science and you had brought actual scientific progress to the fore, that would be one thing.
00:19:34.000But once you admix that with bad stuff, once you're a bleep sandwich, once even, let's say that Hotez does good stuff with the vaccines he's developing for the third world, fine.
00:19:43.000Okay, once you mix that with, you go on TV every night on MSNBC and CNN and you talk about things like kids have to get the vaccine, Now you are no longer a great science giver.
00:19:53.000Now you are a person who has to defend yourself because you have sullied yourself.
00:19:56.000You have sullied the science that you are presenting to people with your own personal agenda.
00:20:00.000And once your personal agenda is at stake, you have to defend not only your own point of view, but the science that you thought was inarguable five seconds ago because you've sullied it by association.
00:20:09.000You've engaged in what the word is, ultracorruptarianism.
00:20:12.000You're outside your realm of expertise, but it still is your actual realm of expertise because you operated outside that area.
00:20:18.000So now you actually do have to debate people like RF Kennedy Jr.
00:20:21.000We're going to get to more of this in a second because, again, every day there's a new quote-unquote myth that the scientific establishment declared was a myth that is being proved to be true like every single day.
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00:21:43.000Okay, so speaking of other things that the science said was not real, but now turns out to be real, according to The Intercept, One of the first Wuhan researchers reportedly sickened with COVID in fall of 2019, a guy named Ben Hu, was getting U.S.
00:21:56.000financial support for risky gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the transparency advocacy organization White Coat Waste Project.
00:22:06.000The funding came in three grants totaling $41 million dollars, doled out by USAID and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID.
00:22:13.000That is the agency then headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is listed as an investigator on the grant.
00:22:19.000intelligence had learned that three Wuhan Institute of Virology lab workers had been hospitalized with COVID symptoms in November 2019, well before the supposed outbreak at the city's seafood market was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in May 2021.
00:22:31.000But the revelation had pretty much no impact on the broader debate over the origin of the pandemic.
00:22:36.000It's still totally unclear which animal this thing supposedly jumped from spontaneously, but new reporting by Michael Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi sourced the three government sources familiar with the State Department investigation has now identified the three lab workers working at the COVID lab in Wuhan as Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu.
00:22:52.000Two of the grants ran from 2014 through 2019.
00:22:54.000The third was cut off in 2020 by President Trump after the outbreak in Wuhan.
00:22:59.000The NIAID and USAID grant list who, as an investigator in the project, is being funded.
00:23:04.000So in other words, people who are actively working on gain-of-function research funded by U.S.
00:23:08.000dollars were some of the first people who were infected with COVID, which is lending a lot of credence to all of the things that the scientific community said that you weren't allowed to talk about.
00:23:46.000At three in the morning, he was emailing somebody on January 31st, and that person was head of the committee that was supposed to review dangerous research, the P3CO committee.
00:24:26.000So the science told you that your kids had to take the COVID vax.
00:24:28.000And then the science told you, like, had to.
00:24:30.000And then the science told you that you had to mask mandate at your place of work or that you had to vax mandate at your place of work.
00:24:35.000And then the White House claimed that the science recommended all of this, which is why OSHA tried to cram it down, which is why our company actually sued to stop it.
00:24:42.000And then we find out that it may in fact have been engineered at a lab and then leaked from that lab.
00:24:48.000And maybe it turns out that after all, it was gain-of-function research.
00:24:54.000I mean, it undermines the scientific establishment when you have the Biden monkeypox advisor, a person named Dr. Dimitri Tsikalakis, again, this is for the Biden administration, claiming that we have to call monkeypox mpox.
00:25:08.000Because we wouldn't want to shut down the joy that some people have by banging random dudes at the bar through the glory hole on a Friday night.
00:25:24.000So really, stigma tends to be a barrier to testing, a barrier to vaccination.
00:25:29.000And so, you know, really addressing stigma intentionally and making sure that we get the word out in a way that supports people's joy as opposed to, you know, calling them risky.
00:25:40.000So I think, you know, one of the things to think about is that, you know, One person's idea of risk is another person's idea of a great festival or Friday night, for that matter.
00:25:48.000So we have to sort of embrace that with joy.
00:25:52.000If we just keep saying joy over and over and over, we will ignore the fact that it is wildly more risky to screw random people in bathrooms.
00:26:10.000It's because if they would debate you, then you might actually end up refuting some of their other points.
00:26:16.000It's very frustrating because, again, a lot of the scientific progress that we have already established in the area of, for example, getting rid of childhood diseases, like measles, mumps, rubella, it's not just those kill kids.
00:26:26.000They kill those kids, historically speaking, in very low numbers, even before vaccinations.
00:26:31.000Measles were killing, like, a couple of kids a year in the United States.
00:26:33.000It's all of the other side effects of measles, including, by the way, leading the way for shingles later on.
00:26:38.000It's leading to pneumonia, at least encephalitis, right?
00:26:40.000There are other things that happen when you get measles sometimes.
00:26:43.000Getting rid of the disease of measles has been a net positive, for sure, for the United States.
00:26:47.000But that goes away when you totally undercut your credibility.
00:26:51.000In the same way that when your obituary gets written, it doesn't matter how much good you did.
00:26:56.000If you took your car and mowed down three random passers-by, that will be your obit.
00:27:00.000It doesn't matter if you did something else that is good.
00:27:04.000In the same way, this is what the scientific establishment has now done.
00:27:07.000They spent 100 years building up the credibility of science, 150 years building up the credibility of science, and then in 10 years they ripped it all down.
00:27:13.000So now you do have to reestablish that credibility, and the only way that you reestablish that credibility is through open debate.
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00:29:26.000Okay, meanwhile, the idea that the scientific community has now created a set of pseudo-scientific notions that are irrefutable and undebatable, that's opened the door to a bunch of people who are saying stuff that actually is not particularly scientific and getting away with it because the scientists are like, I'm not debating anything.
00:29:41.000But there's another problem, and that is that these bad anti-science messages then get bled down via the media into literally everything.
00:29:48.000And anyone who stands up against that is then crushed.
00:29:51.000So, for example, the CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was on MSNBC over the weekend claiming that Twitter basically needs to be shut down.
00:30:01.000By the way, this is also happening with RFK Jr.
00:30:03.000The reality is that Jordan Peterson did a podcast with RFK Jr.
00:30:06.000and was immediately pulled from social media services.
00:30:09.000When that happens, it doesn't make people stop looking at the claims.
00:30:12.000It makes people think the claims are real and that you guys are trying to silence them.
00:30:15.000Here is GLAAD trying to do just that with Twitter.
00:30:18.000So there is incremental improvement on all of them, except for Twitter, which did significantly, statistically, excuse me, significant progress.
00:30:30.000And what's really sad here is that Twitter actually used to be the leader.
00:30:33.000We sat on their trust and safety council, but Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a weapon against the LGBTQ community.
00:31:03.000AMC Theaters, by the way, has now cancelled a detransitioner film following a trans group deplatforming campaign, according to the Daily Wire.
00:31:11.000AMC theaters canceled a film showcasing the voices of young people who have detransitioned after having hormone therapy and surgeries to purportedly affirm their gender identity.
00:31:19.000The movie is called No Way Back, the reality of gender-affirming care, and it was set for initial release on June 21st in dozens of theaters across the country.
00:31:26.000AMC then caved to the pressure of a deplatforming campaign by a trans group called Queer Trans Project, which has not even seen the film.
00:31:34.000The Daily Wire reached out to AMC theaters about the cancellation.
00:31:38.000So, you can't distribute stuff that runs counter to all of this.
00:31:42.000And this, of course, has now extended over into places like Ireland.
00:31:46.000Irish citizens currently are facing jail time for quote-unquote hate speech if they say things that do not comply with the changing and variable notions of truth promoted by the trans movement.
00:32:00.000According to Fox News, the Irish criminal justice bill is supposed to target hate speech, but the text notes that a person can be imprisoned if they prepare or possess material, quote, likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics or the view of the material being communicated to the public or a section of the public, whether by himself or herself or another person.
00:32:20.000So what exactly are those protected groups that you're not allowed to speak badly about in Ireland?
00:32:24.000Well, now they want to add in sexual orientation and gender identity.
00:32:29.000So that means that if you own a Bible, then you could theoretically be arrested in Ireland.
00:32:45.000So if you just have a Bible and you look up Leviticus, it turns out people may not particularly like particular types of behavior that are now identified with identity.
00:33:26.000And if your views on other people's identities Go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace.
00:33:40.000Then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good.
00:33:46.000Okay, the freedoms have to be restricted for the common— You can't say things.
00:33:50.000All part of the generalized authoritarian cram-down when it comes to everything from science to social politics, which of course are linked.
00:33:56.000And that authoritarian cram-down, I have to say, it is amazing to watch it coming from the Biden administration abroad.
00:34:01.000Like you know it's happening at home when they're promoting topless trans influencers
00:34:05.000at the White House jiggling male parts that have now been changed over by a surgeon.
00:34:11.000Right, you know that it's happening at home.
00:34:12.000Like we can all see it happening at home.
00:34:13.000But we're also doing it abroad and it's the most hypocritical, ridiculous thing.
00:34:16.000So for example, over the weekend, our ambassador, a guy named David Pressman,
00:34:21.000he was speaking in Hungary and he was ripping on the social politics in Hungary,
00:35:18.000Hungary is a country that is not at war with the United States and is not in a direct conflict with the United States geopolitically.
00:35:24.000In fact, Hungary sides with the United States far more often than it sides with the United States' enemies.
00:35:28.000The most you can say about Hungary right now is that they're drawing a middle line between Russia and the United States with regards to Ukraine.
00:35:33.000They're not opposing NATO action in Ukraine, obviously, but they also are adjacent to Russia, and so they have to be a little bit careful.
00:35:43.000We are perfectly willing to unleash our ambassadors to insult American allies.
00:35:47.000Meanwhile, we are sending American ambassadors to kowtow to America's enemies.
00:35:51.000So you know where they're really not big on the LGBTQ rights?
00:35:56.000Not big into the transing over in China.
00:35:59.000But we have no words for the Chinese, because the Chinese, of course, are the ones buying our debt.
00:36:03.000So here is the President of the United States, who's all for the Pride Progress flag, flying from the center of the White House.
00:36:10.000But here he is pretending that the Chinese spy balloon was no big deal, actually.
00:36:15.000Can Secretary Blinken ease tensions with China on this trip, do you think?
00:36:19.000Sure, well look, China has some legitimate difficulties unrelated to the United States.
00:36:34.000I think one of the things that that balloon caused was not so much that it got shot down, but I don't think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on.
00:36:46.000I think it was more embarrassing than it was Oh, you know, it was bad for them, right?
00:37:23.000But here is Anthony Blinken saying out loud that we don't want Taiwanese independence, which of course encourages the Chinese to do something about it.
00:37:32.000concerns, shared by a growing number of countries, about the PRC's provocative actions in the Taiwan Strait, as well as in the South and East China Seas.
00:37:42.000On Taiwan, I reiterated the longstanding U.S.
00:37:49.000It's guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three joint communiques, the six assurances.
00:37:55.000We do not support Taiwan independence.
00:37:57.000We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.
00:38:02.000We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross-strait differences.
00:38:06.000We remain committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act, including making sure that Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.
00:38:14.000So, kissing the ass of the Chinese, yes.
00:38:24.000Meanwhile, on the Republican side of the aisle, there is a battle that is going to break out and it's going to be over policy.
00:38:29.000So, there's really two battles with regards to Donald Trump.
00:38:31.000Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner at this point by every available poll.
00:38:34.000There are two battles that can be fought with regard to the Republican nomination.
00:38:37.000One is a battle over policy and one is a battle over personality.
00:38:40.000The battle over personality is likely to fail if the other Republican candidates point out that Donald Trump is very frequently incoherent.
00:38:53.000That is going to change precisely nothing.
00:38:55.000So the media were running with that narrative over the weekend because obviously Donald Trump's own lawyers are now likely to testify against him in this particular federal criminal indictment case in Miami.
00:39:05.000Bill Barr, his former attorney general, who's one of the people that Trump is now going to war with.
00:39:09.000And by the way, that list is like super long of former administration officials that Donald Trump is at war with.
00:39:15.000Here's just a brief list of the former administration officials appointed by Donald Trump who he now considers to have stabbed him in the back or been bad.
00:39:22.000Vice President Pence, Attorney General Bill Barr, James Madison and Mike Esper, both Secretaries of Defense, Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, both Secretaries of State, two Chiefs of Staff, John Kelly and Mick Mulvaney, two NSAs, John Bolton and H.R.
00:39:32.000McMaster, Deputy NSA Matt Pottinger, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, Communications Director Alyssa Farrah Griffin, Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Cabinet Members Elaine Chao, etc., personal lawyers Michael Cohen and counting.
00:39:42.000That is from a list put together by some of the folks over at The Bulwark.
00:39:46.000And while I disagree with The Bulwark a lot, that happens to be an accurate list.
00:39:48.000Those are all people that Trump hired and now is at war with.
00:39:51.000Okay, so Bill Barr goes after Donald Trump and he says, like, he's very bad at hiring people, I noticed.
00:39:55.000Like, if the idea here is that all the people he hired keep betraying him, why is he so bad at hiring people?
00:40:12.000He's like, you know, he's like a nine-year-old, defiant nine-year-old kid who's always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it.
00:40:20.000It's a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people.
00:40:25.000OK, and Chris Christie, of course, then picked up the baton and went after Trump as well, saying, like, he has the worst hiring history in the history of the world, which I mean, by the facts, it's I mean, who in his administration did he hire who he's not at war with?
00:40:36.000I mean, that that list is actually much shorter at this point.
00:40:40.000So Trump on his social media site is attacking former Trump officials that you know who have criticized him over the indictment.
00:40:47.000He's saying his former Chief of Staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, has a very small brain.
00:40:53.000For some reason he put brain in quotation marks.
00:40:56.000He also called Kelly a mummy who sat in his office and stared at the ceiling.
00:41:00.000Trump called his former Attorney General Bill Barr a gutless pig, lazy, and totally ineffective.
00:41:09.000Either Donald Trump, if you believe what he said when they left, that means he didn't pick the very best people and doesn't know how to pick personnel.
00:41:16.000If you believe what about them what he said at the beginning, the great stuff, then this guy is the worst manager in the history of the American presidency.
00:41:25.000Either way, Republicans should listen to what he says.
00:41:28.000He's a petulant child when someone disagrees with him.
00:41:31.000Okay, so this is going to be, you know, one of the big pushes is going to be the character push against Donald Trump.
00:41:38.000The problem is that that's not actually where the debate against Donald Trump is going to happen.
00:41:46.000And people love him specifically because he's wild and crazy and they feel like he can use that wild and crazy on their own behalf.
00:41:52.000The reason that Chris Christie's attack doesn't have any sort of actual sea legs is also because Christie is very wavery on policy himself.
00:41:59.000So for example, Chris Christie, same guy who's attacking Trump with regards to his personnel decisions, is ripping on conservatives who are trying to stop parents who are transing their kids.
00:42:12.000As governor of New Jersey, you signed into law some legal protections for trans people, including students.
00:42:18.000What do you make of your fellow Republican governors and candidates going in the opposite direction?
00:42:26.000Jake, what I believe we should be focused on most importantly in these issues is making sure there is parental involvement at every step along the way.
00:42:35.000I don't think that the government should ever be stepping into the place of the parents in helping to move their children through a process where those children are confused or concerned about their gender.
00:42:49.000And I just would say that parents are the people who are best positioned to make these judgments.
00:42:55.000Okay, so that's Chris Christie being bad on policy.
00:42:57.000So the question people are going to ask is Chris Christie's ripping on Trump on personnel.
00:43:04.000Also, he's wrong on policy, which opens the door for policy, okay?
00:43:08.000And that's really where the attack is going to come.
00:43:10.000So if the reason that you don't like Chris Christie is because Chris Christie, while he's saying true things about the personnel, is really bad on policy, saying that like parents should be able to trans their kids, here's the problem.
00:43:18.000Hey, Trump has some real political problems here, not only with regard to COVID.
00:43:22.000One of the disadvantages that Ron DeSantis has right now against Trump is that everybody forgot about COVID being like the worst thing in the world in terms of governance.
00:43:29.000People forgot that they literally moved.
00:43:30.000Like, I moved my family, at least in part, because of the COVID regime in California, to Florida, where Governor DeSantis is the governor.
00:43:37.000People don't want to talk about COVID anymore.
00:43:38.000They kind of want to put it in the back of their brains.
00:43:41.000Trump is a mess when it comes to his own political Sort of bona fides.
00:43:45.000So, for example, tape emerged over the weekend of Donald Trump really pushing pretty hard trans propaganda.
00:43:52.000Back when he was the head of the Miss Universe contest, back when he owned the thing, he was very much in favor of men competing with women.
00:44:00.000This is a young woman who, according to the laws of Canada and according to the laws of the United States, is allowed to enter the pageant system.
00:44:08.000What I did is I said, we have 58 contestants in Canada.
00:44:12.000I said, let her run and maybe she'll win.
00:44:15.000And if she wins, she'll go to Miss Universe.
00:44:17.000And I think I made the right decision.
00:44:56.000This does open the door for candidates who are able to actually attack Trump on policy.
00:45:00.000And again, this is why DeSantis is largely considered his most viable rival, is because DeSantis is certainly very, very consistent on policy.
00:45:09.000So over the weekend, DeSantis was campaigning, and in one of his sort of big campaign moments, he was at a bar, and he was asked what he wanted.
00:45:53.000I mean, the guy literally can't speak anymore, but she's amazing.
00:45:56.000When I say he can't speak anymore, I literally have a clip of John of John Fetterman introducing Joe Biden, and it is the most awkward, horrifying thing.
00:46:05.000Some some real severe lack of neural connections here between Joe Biden and John Fetterman on this stage, my goodness.
00:46:12.000The president again next to a collapsed bridge here, and he is here to commit to work with the governor and the Delegation to make sure that we get this fixed fast as well, too.
00:46:26.000This is a president that is committed to infrastructure.
00:46:30.000And then on top of that, the jewel kind of law of the infrastructure bill.
00:46:41.000Joe Biden is the only person who understands what the hell John Fetterman is talking about right there.
00:46:49.000Gisele Fetterman who ran this guy and maintains him in the Senate, however, she's great.
00:47:04.000Ron DeSantis was in the middle of a picnic in Sioux City, Iowa, bent over a homemade poster.
00:47:07.000Four photos arranged in a neat grid stared back at him.
00:47:10.000Ron and Casey smiling on election night 2022.
00:47:12.000Ron and Casey smiling outside the governor's mansion 2021.
00:47:14.000A headshot of Ron, a headshot of Casey.
00:47:16.000The governor signed his name in the corner, leaving room for his wife's signature.
00:47:19.000He was the one running for president, but of course she should sign it too.
00:47:21.000I don't know where the first lady is, but she'll do it, he said.
00:47:23.000Casey was on the other side of the room.
00:47:25.000She knew, starting with his early days in politics when Ron was still a member of Congress, elected at the age of 34, how she wanted to figure in his world.
00:47:31.000She knew the staff he should hire, former aide said, the invitations he should accept, the invitations he should decline.
00:47:36.000That is one of two articles over the weekend about how terrible it is that Ron DeSantis has a young family that is involved in his political career.
00:47:43.000The New York Times has an entire article titled, Ron DeSantis is young, has little kids, and wants America to know it.
00:47:48.000At 44, he is more than three decades younger than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:47:51.000He is subtly playing up that age gap, even if his right-wing views leave him out of step with many younger voters.
00:50:21.000It's a beautifully, beautifully written book.
00:50:26.000The basic premise of the book is there's a butler and he is going to meet the lead housekeeper at this estate where he was the butler.
00:50:35.000You know, 20 years after he's last seen her at the estate.
00:50:38.000And it's him reminiscing as he goes to meet her about what it was like to be butler for a person who's essentially supposed to be a Neville Chamberlain type.
00:50:46.000And how he sacrificed all of his life ambitions in order to help this person sort of achieve his life ambitions and what that meant for him.
00:50:57.000The movie is much more about the supposed romance between the two characters.
00:51:00.000That's not really what the book is about.
00:51:02.000And so if you have time to read the book, you really should.
00:51:04.000The book is largely about subsuming your own ambitions in favor of broader political or moral goals.
00:51:11.000I will say that the book, not to be a spoiler about it, but the book is sort of stacked in favor of the idea that one should never do this, when I don't think that that's actually the proper argument to be made.
00:51:20.000But it is a fascinating examination of class divides inside Britain.
00:51:25.000It's also a fascinating examination of what it means to put aside personal wants, needs,
00:51:30.000and ambitions in favor of sort of a higher goal and subsuming your own judgment in favor
00:52:24.000One of the things that we are now finding out, apparently, is that Megan, she did a podcast that nobody listened to, and that podcast was interview-centric.
00:52:32.000Apparently, she had her producers interview everybody, and then she cut in her questions, so she didn't even sit in the same room as the people she was interviewing, and the entire pod- it's not like that was like a section of her podcast, it was like the entire podcast!
00:52:42.000Which is pretty amazing stuff there from Harry and Meghan.
00:52:46.000When Bill Simmons is even trashing Harry and Meghan, I think that the gravy train for those two is over, which I'm here for.
00:52:53.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:52:55.000I really only have one thing I hate today because the thing that I really hate is the
00:53:02.000deconstructing the culture segment, which is going to make me want to rip off my own ears van Gogh style.
00:53:07.000But the thing that I hate today, Corinne Jean-Pierre, I'm so tired of people declaring themselves historic because of, you know, who they want to have sex with and also the color of their skin.
00:53:18.000So Corinne Jean-Pierre over the weekend declared herself historic, which again, if you're really historic, you don't need to say it yourself.
00:53:30.000A year in this role, there's been a couple of things that has made me incredibly proud.
00:53:36.000Many things, many things that made me incredibly proud to be at that podium during this historic moment.
00:53:41.000Again, this is a historic administration.
00:53:44.000I'm a historic figure and I certainly walk in history every day, but this is also a historic-making administration because of this president.
00:54:33.000Probably she came out of her mother and her mother said, Behold, I shall call you Sexy Red.
00:54:37.000And she apparently has become a bit of a thing, she's like in the hot 100 now, because of a song titled Pound Town, which is about the glories of Shakespeare, as you might imagine, and the joys of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
00:56:25.000This is about murdering people, by the way.
00:56:26.000I should point out that the lyrics are her actually talking about murdering people.
00:56:30.000Okay, like, you may have missed that in you wanting to rip out half of your own brain and throw it in the river in order to avoid hearing that anymore.
00:56:39.000But she took a song by Vanessa Carlton and she made it into a murder rap It's making my way through the hood.
00:56:50.000With your boo, all his homeboys think I'm cute.
00:56:52.000Ridin' round, tinted five, toting his iron, which I assume is a gun.
00:57:27.000Okay, this is like, we've reached new levels.
00:57:30.000We've now reached the level of transgressivism where it's not even like what it used to be.
00:57:36.000That in the world where we had traditional notions about sex and marriage and stuff, That art that was transgressive was kind of sexy, because it was transgressive.
00:57:45.000And then we transgressed further, and then still further.
00:57:47.000And we have now transgressed to the point where the transgressivism sounds like a third grader doing a clinical description of bodily orifices.
00:59:42.000Yep, and when I said that this person makes Cardi B sound like a kindergarten school teacher, I don't mean like the Drag Queen Story Hour person, I mean like an actual kindergarten school teacher, yeah.
00:59:54.000I'm so hesitant to read the lyrics to this thing out loud.
00:59:58.000It's gonna be even more meme-able than WAP, if I do.
01:00:03.000I can't live with myself reading it, and I can't live with myself not reading it.
01:00:08.000So, for all those who are watching this now, on the left, this is me reading the lyrics to Poundtown because it is the worst thing ever written, and it is hilariously bad, and I can't stop myself from laughing.