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00:01:37.000Well, the big news of the weekend is that Elon Musk has now announced that he is pulling out of his Twitter deal.
00:01:43.000According to the Wall Street Journal, his showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate takeover history, a spurned acquisition target that never saw to be bought, potentially trying to force the buyer who soured on the deal to see it through.
00:01:54.000In just over three months, Musk aggressively pursued a takeover of Twitter that first Twitter resisted, and then he prevailed, and then he reneged, all the while using the very platform to ridicule Twitter and its leaders and drop hints about his shifting intentions.
00:02:06.000With Musk's attempt to terminate his $44 billion takeover, Twitter says it plans legal action.
00:02:11.000In a statement on Friday, it indicated it will file a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, arguing that Musk has to close the agreed-upon deal.
00:02:17.000Basically, in order for Musk to show that the deal cannot close, he has to now demonstrate That there was some sort of materially adverse circumstance that prevented him from closing the deal, namely that Twitter lied to him in its materials, for example.
00:02:30.000Friday evening, he filed papers saying he wanted out, taking aim at Twitter on several fronts, saying the company violated their merger agreement.
00:02:35.000He accused Twitter of withholding data from him to verify facts about the business and that its statements on the amount of spam on the platform represent material misstatements to regulators.
00:02:43.000He also argued the company was making critical changes to the ordinary running of the business without his consent, such as imposing a hiring freeze and layoffs.
00:02:50.000So, basically, he said he was going to buy the company.
00:02:54.000On the basis of that, they started making changes.
00:02:55.000And then he said, I don't like the changes that you're making based on me saying I'm going to buy the company.
00:03:00.000And also, you guys keep saying that there's only a certain amount of spam on the platform.
00:03:03.000I say there's way more spam on the platform than you're letting on.
00:03:06.000The problem is it's very difficult for Twitter to actually know how much spam is on the platform because there's some accounts that look like bots that aren't bots.
00:03:12.000There are some accounts that are bots but are actually owned by major corporations, for example.
00:03:16.000Corporate law experts say Twitter appears to be on sounder legal footing than Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:03:20.000The filing didn't provide evidence to back up his assertion that the estimate was inaccurate or an alternate calculation.
00:03:27.000And Zohar Goshen, professor of transactional law at Columbia Law School, adding the impact on a company's value needs to be so dramatic, its value would have to be halved, for example.
00:03:35.000Lefson hiring freezes at tech companies in recent weeks have also become commonplace.
00:03:40.000The question remains whether it's really possible to force the eccentric billionaire to buy a company he doesn't even want to own.
00:03:46.000Goshen says, what are they going to do if there's a judgment?
00:03:48.000And he says, well, I'm still not going to do it.
00:03:49.000They don't have the tools to force them to go through with it.
00:03:51.000You can't put people in jail because they don't buy something, which is true.
00:03:55.000There have been a few examples of buyers being forced to follow through with purchases under specific performance clauses that Musk agreed to.
00:04:02.000Never has the concept of a court forcing a buyer to complete a deal been tested on a large scale like this.
00:04:07.000Most legal clashes over sour deals and in settlements involving a price cut or a one-time payment.
00:04:12.000Musk did agree to pay a $1 billion reverse termination fee to Twitter if the deal fell apart, triggered under certain scenarios, including if his debt financing falls through or if regulators try to block the deal.
00:04:22.000And they're bringing in all of the big legal guns.
00:04:24.000Twitter brought in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, which is a massive New York-based law firm.
00:04:28.000Musk is using Skadden Arps, another massive, I believe, New York-based law firm.
00:04:33.000Twitter's already been working with Simpson, Thatcher, Bartlett, and Wilson-Sonsini.
00:04:36.000Musk's team includes Quinn Emanuel, Urka Hart, and Sullivan, which is a California-based law firm.
00:04:39.000These are major legal players, by the way.
00:04:42.000The agreement caps at $1 billion, the amount Twitter could sue for damages.
00:04:45.000So either they can force him to buy the whole company and sue for that, which again, can be very hard to pry $44 billion out of somebody's pocket, or $1 billion to basically make him go away.
00:04:55.000The standoff leaves Twitter in a precarious position given that its prospects as a standalone company are daunting because of the digital advertising market in upheaval.
00:05:03.000The biggest problem for Twitter is that Twitter is a giant.
00:05:06.000aggregation of data machine, but it doesn't actually earn a profit.
00:05:10.000In fact, according to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, right now, Twitter's price earnings ratio is something like 160.
00:05:15.000To put that in perspective, what that means is that it's earnings on a yearly basis.
00:05:19.000The price of the company, like the market cap of the company, is now 160 times the earnings of the company on a yearly basis.
00:05:25.000The normal company on the New York Stock Exchange is somewhere between 20 and 25.
00:05:30.000I mean, on an annualized basis, that means that Twitter is maybe earning less money on an annualized basis than my company.
00:05:37.000Okay, my company ain't worth $44 billion.
00:05:40.000Musk offered $54.20, a share price, originally.
00:05:44.000Twitter shares closed down at $36.81 on Friday.
00:05:48.000Okay, and right now, again, the Twitter price is dropping precipitously.
00:05:54.000Over the weekend, prior to the opening of the market, it was already down 5%.
00:05:57.000I think it's going to drop significantly further than that.
00:06:01.000Because the simple fact of the matter is that everybody was sort of counting on Musk coming in, revamping the platform, figuring out ways to monetize the platform.
00:06:09.000So this raises the question of what exactly Musk thought he was doing.
00:06:12.000Now there is a going theory out there that is pretty clever if this is what Musk was actually doing.
00:06:17.000So, Musk, obviously, is the biggest shareholder in Tesla.
00:06:21.000It is the company that he started, the major automobile company that has such a backlog that I've ordered a Tesla like a year ago and it still hasn't arrived.
00:06:29.000That's how bad the backlog is over a Tesla.
00:06:33.000There's a theory that's been put out there by Josh Wolf, the co-founder at Lux Capital.
00:06:36.000His suggestion is that Musk actually wanted to liquidate a bunch of his Tesla stock.
00:06:41.000He wanted to use that money for other things.
00:06:43.000But the big problem is that if you own a lot of stock in a company where you are the co-founder and you sell a lot of that stock, the stock price absolutely tanks.
00:06:50.000It's been a problem for a very long time for people who own stock in major companies.
00:06:53.000This is why whenever people say things like Mark Zuckerberg is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, well, I mean, he is and he isn't.
00:07:22.000In fact, when Zuckerberg liquidated like a billion dollars worth of stock, Five, six years ago, it tanked the price of the stock of Facebook in a serious way.
00:07:30.000And he had to actually explain why he was doing it, that he wasn't losing faith in his company and all the rest.
00:07:34.000Well, Musk apparently wanted to sell some $8.5 billion of Tesla stock, but he didn't want to tank the stock price.
00:07:42.000If you're the co-founder of a company and you're the voice of the company and the face of the company, And you just going on Joe Rogan and smoking pot tanks the stock by a significant percentage.
00:07:52.000How exactly do you liquidate eight and a half billion dollars worth of stock without tanking the price of the stock overall and people losing faith in the company?
00:07:58.000One way you do that is you say, listen, guys, it's not that I'm losing faith in Tesla.
00:08:01.000It's that I want to take some of my profits from Tesla and I want to use those to buy another company over here.
00:08:05.000So it's not that I haven't lost faith in Tesla.
00:08:07.000I'm just trying to save the world by buying Twitter.
00:08:10.000And so everybody is distracted by this hand and they're neglecting the fact that you actually just liquidated $8.5 billion worth of stock over here with regard to Tesla.
00:08:18.000And let's say that you even have to pay the $1 billion fee in order to get out of the Twitter deal.
00:08:25.000Well, now you get to take that as a loss, as a capital loss on your taxes.
00:08:29.000So really, you only lose about $600 million in order to liquidate, say, $8.5 billion of Tesla stocks.
00:08:35.000If that's what he was doing, then that is indeed a very, it's a very clever move.
00:08:39.000Because if you look at the price of the Tesla stock, the price of the Tesla stock has been dropping, but the Tesla stock price hasn't been dropping because he sold it.
00:08:46.000I mean, the simple fact of the matter is, I mean, I'm looking right now at the price of Tesla over the last six months.
00:08:51.000It basically started to tank back in May, like early May.
00:08:55.000And it's kind of holding steady since then.
00:09:41.000His claim is that the bots problem on Twitter is so bad that he can't fix it at the current price.
00:09:45.000Now, the other reality, of course, is that Twitter's stock price has been in freefall, basically, since the moment that Elon Musk announced that he was going to buy it.
00:09:54.000And if you look at the one-year Twitter stock price, if you go back to about June of 2021, you're looking at a Twitter stock price of $70.
00:10:03.000And now, you see, like, after he announced that he was going to buy it, it spiked up to about $50.
00:10:07.000But that is because he said he was going to buy it for $54.
00:10:25.000Just on a pure business level, paying $44 billion for a company that's worth maybe $28-27 billion on today's market is something that he is not going to want to do anyway.
00:10:35.000Vijay Aghati, Musk's legal team, who is the top lawyer for Musk, accused Twitter of making false and misleading representations upon which Musk relied when entering into the merger agreement.
00:10:47.000Musk had put the acquisition deal temporarily on hold in May so his team couldn't investigate the number of spam or bot accounts.
00:10:51.000Twitter says that it's 5% or less of users.
00:10:54.000Musk says his team hadn't been provided with enough information to independently analyze the data.
00:10:58.000Twitter chairman Brett Taylor said the company is committed to closing the transaction on the price in terms agreed to with Miskra.
00:11:03.000Of course they want that because again, he's said that he was going to pay like 50% more than the company is actually worth on the open market today.
00:11:10.000And if Musk indeed ends up pulling out of the deal, the free fall that Twitter is in is only likely to continue because the truth is the amount of hope that people were placing in Twitter was directly related to the amount of hope they're placing in Musk to fix the Twitter mechanism that gets people like Jordan Peterson banned for saying obvious things like men exist and people who change their names used to be people with different names.
00:11:35.000And meanwhile, you have the Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the extermination of all Jews on the platform and apparently Twitter does nothing.
00:11:39.000So a lot of people are placing a lot of faith in Musk to save Twitter.
00:11:43.000In any case, the amount of damage that he's done to Twitter here is extraordinary just in terms of raising hopes and then absolutely dashing them maybe in order to liquidate some Tesla stocks.
00:11:54.000Hats off for a clever business move if that is exactly what Musk was doing.
00:11:57.000It's possible also that Musk was basically playing out a hand that was going to go well for him no matter what.
00:12:03.000If the Twitter deal fell through, Twitter stock crashes, which he doesn't like the people at Twitter, so it's fine with him.
00:13:35.000Meanwhile, the big controversy of the weekend is that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was eating a steak dinner over at Morton's and a bunch of people arrived outside Morton's Steakhouse in order to harass him.
00:13:46.000According to Politico, on Wednesday night, D.C.
00:13:48.000protesters targeted the conservative Supreme Court justices who had signed on to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
00:13:54.000They got a tip that Brett Kavanaugh was dining at Morton's downtown D.C.
00:13:58.000Protesters showed up out front, called the manager to tell him to kick Kavanaugh out.
00:14:01.000...and later tweeted that the justice was forced to exit through the rear of the restaurant.
00:14:05.000Daniel Lipman looked into the incident and confirmed that account for Politico, while the court had no official comment on Kavanaugh's behalf, and a person familiar with the situation said he did not hear or see the protesters and ate a full meal but left before dessert.
00:14:15.000Morton's was outraged about the incident.
00:14:17.000A representative for the chain steakhouse sent Lipman this statement.
00:14:20.000Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protesters while eating dinner at our Morton's restaurant.
00:14:26.000Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.
00:14:32.000There's a time and place for everything.
00:14:33.000Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.
00:14:38.000Is there a quote-unquote right to congregate and eat dinner?
00:14:41.000There's no constitutional right to congregate and eat dinner.
00:14:43.000There is a right to be free of harassment.
00:14:46.000If people come up and assault you while you are at dinner, assault is where they yell at you in a threatening manner.
00:15:05.000There have been some pretty significant political disagreements in this country, but it's pretty rare that people just go around looking for people who are at dinner and harass them.
00:15:12.000It's something we saw during the Black Lives Matter riots.
00:15:15.000You'd see people who are just eating dinner normally, like at a DC restaurant, and people would walk up to them and start harassing them at dinner and drinking their drinks and bothering them.
00:15:23.000Is that something that is good for the country?
00:15:26.000Now the left immediately jumped on the fact that Morton's had suggested that there was a right to congregate and eat dinner to suggest what are they whining about?
00:15:34.000I mean, and when it's about abortion, that means that you can bother people.
00:15:37.000According to the 47th Amendment to the United States Constitution, if we go to steakhouses and harass five of the nine justices, then our abortion rights come back.
00:15:51.000They've ruled a bunch of ways I don't like.
00:15:52.000I've never once suggested in the aftermath of, for example, Obergefell, which is a wildly unconstitutional decision, I've never suggested that it was in the interest of the United States for right-wingers to go and harass Ruth Bader Ginsburg while she was having dinner at, like, the Capitol Grill.
00:16:09.000And yet the entire left has now signed on because they're in the midst of a moment of impotent rage in which they've finally been asked to defend their own positions in terms of democratic voting.
00:16:19.000They're actually going to have to explain to people why abortion until birth should be the law of the land and why people should vote for that and why they should vote for them based on that.
00:16:26.000They're so damned angry that they're actually going to have to justify their positions.
00:16:30.000But now they've decided that the most important thing is in a sort of radical, impotent rage, they're going to just yell at people.
00:17:11.000The best course is often to say nothing, lest you butcher the response.
00:17:14.000Issuing a statement can often just inflame things, because let's be honest, press releases are a medium rarely well done.
00:17:19.000Yes, it's super punny when your entire business is put at stake by a bunch of jackasses who are standing and braying outside your restaurant and bothering all the patrons who nobody wants to go.
00:17:29.000Morton's, the steakhouse, learned that the hard way this week when it seared right into the middle of the culture wars.
00:18:04.000Because Morton's said, we don't like that people are harassing our patrons.
00:18:07.000After abortion rights protesters showed up in front of Morton's in downtown DC on Wednesday night to demonstrate, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh dined inside, the company issued a statement to Politico's Daniel Lippman.
00:18:23.000How dare Mortons suggest that there is a need for people to be able to dine without being yelled at at the restaurants?
00:18:32.000According to Scott Crane, the SVP and COO of Morton's, he said, currently we're experiencing a massive wave of negative response to our comments yesterday, as well as being bombarded at the local level of phone calls and fake reservations on open table.
00:18:42.000There's a good chance your restaurant will also potentially have some people reaching out for comment and or making bogus reservations over the next few days. As I stated yesterday, our comments is always no comment. We don't respond. We don't retweet. We don't post on Instagram or Facebook. Don't do anything. Please remind your teams, especially the hour employees of this policy. Again, we do not insert our political beliefs at any time, not with an employee, not with a fellow manager, not with a guest. And the fact that this is considered the controversial part is where Morton's like, we just want people to be able to eat dinner at our It demonstrates how insane the left has become.
00:19:12.000If they think this is going to win them friends and influence people, yelling at people at restaurants, good luck to them.
00:19:16.000But you can see that the blue checks were gleeful about that.
00:19:29.000I mean, I remember when they were cheering when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was thrown out of a restaurant for the great crime of being Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
00:19:37.000Making life unlivable for people you disagree with is apparently a hallmark of the mainstream left, and I say mainstream left because it's approved all the way on up to the top of the White House.
00:19:45.000You can look at some of the tweets from some of the geniuses, Ryan Reilly, in which a steakhouse accidentally serves up Twitter red meat.
00:20:01.000Sorry, under the originalist reading of the Constitution, there is no right to eat dinner.
00:20:04.000The Founding Fathers never spoke of a right to eat dinner, and therefore the right does not exist.
00:20:08.000Well, first of all, ya idiots, there is right to association.
00:20:11.000And that's been part of constitutional jurisprudence since the origins of the Republic, but beyond that, you're right, there is no federal right to quote-unquote eat dinner.
00:20:18.000That's why it's been delegated to the states, to prevent harassment of people First of all, I wasn't aware that Morton's the Steakhouse was the Supreme Court of the United States, or that what they meant was that there is a constitutional right to eat dinner in peace.
00:20:35.000There is, however, a right to be not assaulted.
00:21:01.000But also, I love that he describes the role of a Supreme Court justice, and then he's like, but you're pissy that people are yelling at you in public.
00:21:08.000Well, first of all, I wasn't aware that Morton's was an abortion clinic.
00:21:11.000You all do know that for decades, anti-abortion protesters have swarmed abortion clinics, alternatively counseling them, please don't kill your baby, you're a mother already, and screaming at them, calling them murderers, baby killers, etc. Well, first of all, I wasn't aware that Morton's was an abortion clinic. I wasn't aware that anything was happening at Morton's other than people eating dinner. That seems like a difference in kind from an actual place where you believe that a baby is being killed inside.
00:21:32.000That seems like slightly a different context.
00:21:34.000And then, of course, we have the irrepressibly moronic Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted out on this score as well.
00:21:41.000She tweeted about Justice Kavanaugh two things.
00:21:45.000He left before his souffle because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines.
00:22:19.000I feel like that would make social media a lot more.
00:22:20.000I feel like if you were out to dinner with your boyfriend and his bare feet and people just started harassing you at dinner on a routine basis, I feel like we'd hear about that from AOC a little more.
00:22:29.000Nobody cares about it unless it's a Republican in a restaurant.
00:22:32.000Can someone please explain the obsession because I don't get it.
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00:23:44.000They're making the country actively worse.
00:23:54.000And it's the entire Democratic Party, all the way on up to the top.
00:23:58.000So, for example, Corinne Jean-Pierre was asked by Peter Doocy about the fact that there were people arriving outside of a steakhouse to bother a Justice and his family.
00:24:04.000But we should mention here, someone literally attempted to kill Justice Kavanaugh about five weeks ago.
00:24:09.000Someone was arrested for arriving at Kavanaugh's house with weapons and And goods meant to harm and silence his family.
00:24:20.000So there was an assassination attempt on a sitting Supreme Court justice, like, five weeks ago, a little over a month ago.
00:24:26.000And these people are like, yeah, you know, we should probably just encourage people to find Brett Kavanaugh wherever he is and bother him and the other Supreme Court justices.
00:24:33.000Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary.
00:24:35.000Anybody who pretends these folks care about institutions, they do not.
00:24:39.000They do not give one good damn about institutions.
00:24:42.000These are the same people who complain ceaselessly about January 6th.
00:24:46.000I also think January 6th was a really bad thing.
00:24:48.000It turns out, you know what I don't like?
00:24:49.000I don't like when people violate the law and harass lawmakers.
00:24:53.000And I thought, by the way, forget about January 6th.
00:24:55.000I thought it was bad when there were people who were going into bathrooms and following Kyrsten Sinema, the senator from Arizona, Democrat, into bathrooms to try to harass her into voting in favor of Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill.
00:25:06.000I generally think that harassment of people is a bad thing.
00:25:10.000And when I say apparently, I mean clearly.
00:25:12.000Here's Corine Jean-Pierre approving the idea that, you know, it's probably a good thing, generally speaking, if people go to justices' houses, they've already said that, or go to restaurants, follow justices around.
00:25:22.000By the way, the purpose of a Supreme Court is to be insulated from public pressure.
00:25:25.000And here you have the White House openly calling for it.
00:25:42.000Your first question to me was intimidation and violence.
00:25:45.000So these justices, because protesters do not agree with an opinion that they signed on to, have no right to privacy, is what you're saying?
00:25:54.000But Peter, this is, people have the right, this is what a democracy is.
00:26:14.000So I look forward to a much worse country in which every public official of every stripe is protested outside of their restaurant, in which everybody's house is picketed.
00:26:22.000Because apparently the White House is in favor of it.
00:26:25.000So what that means is that presumably, Corine Jean-Pierre, you can go outside her house and you can picket it.
00:26:46.000Potholes in South Bend, Indiana, can't do anything about the supply chain, can take a two-month paternity leave where nobody even notices that he's gone.
00:26:52.000But, you know, important person because he's gay.
00:26:55.000Pete Buttigieg, that guy, he literally says that it's totally fine with him if people, you know, it's not a problem.
00:27:06.000It doesn't matter that it's all performative and it gets nothing done and it's actually wildly counterproductive.
00:27:10.000But if you are a Democrat and you want to, quote unquote, enshrine Roe in law, what you're going to need to do is convince people Not to go outside restaurants and yell at them and bother them and go outside their houses as they have with Amy Coney Barrett or Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:27:22.000Doing that's actually counterproductive and stupid.
00:28:35.000Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation, and harassment, but should never be free from criticism or people exercising their First Amendment rights.
00:28:49.000Okay, except that whenever you say a mean word to a Democrat on Twitter, that is violence and harassment.
00:28:53.000And whenever you go outside of Justice's house with a gun, apparently, that's just free speech.
00:28:57.000I mean, it really is incredible how these folks are willing to degrade the public space in order to demonstrate passion so they can run to the left in their base.
00:29:22.000Instead, what they've decided to do is yell at Joe Biden, and yell at the White House, and scream at the sky, and yell at Brett Kavanaugh, and all of this makes them better people.
00:29:32.000In the same way that 21 million people getting out in the streets and yelling at the police was performative woke bullcrap, this is performative woke bullcrap.
00:29:53.000Every time Pete and Chasen go out to dinner, there should be people outside the restaurant protesting Pete and Chasen for being pro-abortion on demand.
00:30:13.000I'd love to see the evidence that there have been widespread protests outside of Pete Buttigieg's house or outside the restaurants where he eats dinner with his husband.
00:30:22.000I promise you, if this happened on an even semi-regular basis, even singularly to a Democrat, it would be a national news story for months.
00:30:30.000Meanwhile, somebody tries to assassinate a Supreme Court justice five weeks ago.
00:30:33.000It's not even national news story for three days.
00:30:35.000And then you have the entire Democratic Party saying, it's good to follow these folks around.
00:30:40.000It's good to follow these folks around until one of you nutcases decides to pick up a gun and try to shoot one of the justices, at which point I'll be like, wow, this is completely unforeseeable.
00:30:47.000Meanwhile, Shutdown DC, the group responsible for the mob that protested Kavanaugh at dinner the other night, they're now offering cash bounties to service workers in Washington, D.C., who DM them tips on any sightings of Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett, or Roberts out and about.
00:31:01.000They said, while the bad asses, R. Wright's D.C.
00:31:05.000and his own neighbors are gathered outside Kavanaugh's home, the justice seems to have snuck out for a swanky D.C.
00:31:59.000So the reason I say this is because the New York Times has a piece today titled, quote, at 79, Biden is testing the boundaries of age and the presidency.
00:32:08.000So they're noticing over the New York Times that he's old.
00:32:10.000This follows stories in Politico and CNN and Huffington Post and every other left-wing media outlet about how the Democratic Party base is upset with Joe Biden.
00:32:19.000And the reason they're upset at Joe Biden is because Joe Biden isn't performative enough in his anger.
00:32:23.000He just seems kind of grumpy and peeved.
00:32:26.000and watches Matlock and eats some oatmeal and then wakes up the next morning and somebody tells him he's present and he's super happy.
00:32:32.000So the New York Times is noticing that he's super old.
00:32:34.000Now, there are some of us who have been noticing this since he was running for president, because he's old.
00:32:39.000At least in political terms, that dude is old, and he is declining quite fast.
00:32:42.000In fact, on Friday, there was a clip that was going around, went viral, of Joe Biden giving a speech in which he is clearly reading the instructions from the teleprompter.
00:32:50.000Like, he gets to the teleprompter instructions, and then he reads them out loud.
00:32:53.000One of the most extraordinary parts of the decision, in my view, is the majority rights, and I quote, it's a quote now, from the majority.
00:33:05.000Women are not without electoral or political power.
00:33:09.000It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so.
00:33:59.000They're noticing because they're mad that he doesn't seem mad enough.
00:34:03.000This is the big critique of Joe Biden.
00:34:04.000You have to be as mad as Pete Buttigieg saying that you should go outside restaurants and harass people.
00:34:08.000You have to be as mad as Corina Jean-Pierre saying that you should go outside people's homes and you should harass them.
00:34:13.000And if you're not, then presumably we should say that you're really, really old and we need to shove you off the back of the train, as we talked about last week.
00:34:20.000So the New York Times says, quote, When President Biden leaves Tuesday night for a four-day swing through the Middle East, he will presumably be more rested than he would have been had he followed the original plan.
00:34:27.000The trip was initially tacked on to another journey last month to Europe, which would have made for an arduous 10-day overseas trek until it became clear to Biden's team such extended travel might be unnecessarily taxing for a 79-year-old president, or crazy, as one official puts it.
00:34:41.000AIDS also cited political and diplomatic reasons to reorganize the extra stops as a separate trip later.
00:34:46.000But the reality is that managing the schedule of the oldest president in American history presents distinct challenges.
00:34:51.000And as Biden insists he plans to run for a second term, his age has increasingly become an uncomfortable issue for him, his team, and his party.
00:34:57.000If only somebody had noted when he was running at the ripe old age of 77 that people naturally get older as each day passes.
00:35:04.000If only somebody had noted, wait a second, in two years, he's going to be 79.
00:35:07.000I love how they act as though it's like a shock, a crept up on them.
00:35:10.000You mean the aging process crept up on you?
00:35:28.000But we were told that we can't pay attention to the fact that Joe Biden's face holes seem to be spewing nonsense for like a year on end, because after all, Guys, it was a stammer.
00:35:37.000Now, he hadn't had a stammer for, like, 40 intervening years because he conquered it, but we're supposed to believe that all of his problems now are... Now, it turns out that the... Wait, he's really old.
00:35:54.000He doesn't seem to be passionate enough.
00:35:57.000According to the New York Times, it is unsurprisingly a sensitive topic in the West Wing.
00:36:00.000In interviews, some sanctioned by the White House, some not, more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisors uniformly reported Biden remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meeting, grilling aides on points of dispute, calling them late at night, picking out that weak point on page 14 of a memo, rewriting speeches like his abortion remarks on Friday right up until the last minute.
00:36:17.000I love that we now have to have testimony.
00:36:19.000This is the way that I talk about my daughter if she didn't do her homework.
00:36:21.000The teacher calls me like, yeah, but she was staying up really late last night and she was working really hard.
00:36:25.000You know, a bunch of these days, like, the old man's fine.
00:37:09.000But the reason that they're doing it now is because, again, he's not performatively mad enough.
00:37:14.000The Washington Post has a really long piece by Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Aputaleb, and Tyler Pager over the weekend about this.
00:37:20.000It's called Two Long Weeks Inside Biden's Struggle to Respond to the Abortion Ruling.
00:37:25.000And the entire article is about how he's not angry enough.
00:37:28.000For many Democrats, it was too little and too late.
00:37:31.000Just one more example over the two weeks in which Biden and his team struggled to come up with a muscular plan of action on abortion rights, even though the Supreme Court ruling had been presaged two months earlier with the leak of a draft opinion.
00:37:41.000Biden and his team were caught off guard by the timing of the decision, and they failed to channel the raw and visceral anger felt by many Americans over the decision, according to The Washington Post.
00:37:49.000To many increasingly frustrated Democrats, Biden's slow-footed response on abortion was just the latest example of a failure to meet the moment on a wave of conservative rollbacks from gun control to environmental protections to voting rights.
00:38:01.000Leadership right now is coming from the streets.
00:38:02.000We'd love to be met in that effort by the White House and the Democrats more broadly, said Rachel Carmona, executive director of the Women's March.
00:38:09.000Meanwhile, the White House officials, they're defending the urgency of Biden's response.
00:38:13.000Kate Bedingfield said, Joe Biden's goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
00:38:20.000It's to help deliver help to women who are in danger, etc, etc.
00:38:22.000So she's trying to slap down the activist base.
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00:41:43.000So they've decided in the media that because Joe Biden isn't mad enough about abortion and that the way you show anger is by being a complete and utter moron, by yelling at people and by going outside restaurants and bothering them, etc.
00:41:55.000And because Joe Biden hasn't really been doing enough of that, mainly because he's tired.
00:41:58.000They assume that it's because he's tired, not because he is actually congenitally a moderate.
00:42:01.000Joe Biden could actually win some political points by just saying to people, no, you should not protest people outside restaurants.
00:43:54.000Pritzker on the Sunday shows to talk about a wide variety of topics.
00:43:57.000He said he's going to support Biden if he runs for re-election, but then they start asking him questions about abortion because the idea is that he's some sort of... I don't know what makes them think that J.B.
00:44:06.000Pritzker is anything remotely close to a national political candidate, but go for it, guys, if this is what you want.
00:44:12.000President Biden runs for re-election, which he says he is expected to do.
00:46:46.000If Democrats run on abortion in 2022, let alone 2024, they're going to get clocked.
00:46:51.000It turns out the vast majority of Americans are in favor of some restrictions on abortion.
00:46:54.000And when this resolves at the state issue, which it will, abortions will be widely available in places like Chicago and in New York and in LA, and they'll be widely not available in places like Alabama.
00:47:05.000But the media, they've decided Joe Biden is not passionate enough.
00:47:19.000They are going to try to nominate in place of Joe Biden, because Joe Biden is too, their conclusion is not that Joe Biden is too old, by the way.
00:47:24.000Their conclusion, by the way, is that Joe Biden is too moderate.
00:47:27.000They need to replace Joe Biden with somebody more radical.
00:47:29.000This is a recipe for presidential candidate AOC in 2024.
00:48:14.000A celebrity lasts four days questioning the transgender agenda Before issuing a groveling apology, Joe Biden spreads fake news about a 10-year-old trying to get an abortion, and Hunter Biden's leaked cell phone files make his laptop look wholesome.