The Ben Shapiro Show - Musk Blows Up The Twitter Deal | Ep. 1531

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk pulls out of his purchase of Twitter, but Twitter wants to force him to go through with it.

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00:01:37.000 Well, the big news of the weekend is that Elon Musk has now announced that he is pulling out of his Twitter deal.

00:01:43.000 According 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.

00:01:54.000 In 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.

00:02:06.000 With Musk's attempt to terminate his $44 billion takeover, Twitter says it plans legal action.

00:02:11.000 In 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.

00:02:17.000 Basically, 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.

00:02:30.000 Friday evening, he filed papers saying he wanted out, taking aim at Twitter on several fronts, saying the company violated their merger agreement.

00:02:35.000 He 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.

00:02:43.000 He 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.

00:02:50.000 So, basically, he said he was going to buy the company.

00:02:54.000 On the basis of that, they started making changes.

00:02:55.000 And then he said, I don't like the changes that you're making based on me saying I'm going to buy the company.

00:02:59.000 I'm out.

00:03:00.000 And also, you guys keep saying that there's only a certain amount of spam on the platform.

00:03:03.000 I say there's way more spam on the platform than you're letting on.

00:03:06.000 The 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.

00:03:12.000 There are some accounts that are bots but are actually owned by major corporations, for example.

00:03:16.000 Corporate law experts say Twitter appears to be on sounder legal footing than Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:03:20.000 The filing didn't provide evidence to back up his assertion that the estimate was inaccurate or an alternate calculation.

00:03:25.000 This isn't even in the ballparks.

00:03:27.000 And 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.

00:03:35.000 Lefson hiring freezes at tech companies in recent weeks have also become commonplace.

00:03:38.000 Facebook has cut back.

00:03:39.000 Tesla is also trimming staff.

00:03:40.000 The question remains whether it's really possible to force the eccentric billionaire to buy a company he doesn't even want to own.

00:03:46.000 Goshen says, what are they going to do if there's a judgment?

00:03:48.000 And he says, well, I'm still not going to do it.

00:03:49.000 They don't have the tools to force them to go through with it.

00:03:51.000 You can't put people in jail because they don't buy something, which is true.

00:03:55.000 There have been a few examples of buyers being forced to follow through with purchases under specific performance clauses that Musk agreed to.

00:04:01.000 Most were really small deals.

00:04:02.000 Never has the concept of a court forcing a buyer to complete a deal been tested on a large scale like this.

00:04:07.000 Most legal clashes over sour deals and in settlements involving a price cut or a one-time payment.

00:04:12.000 Musk 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.

00:04:21.000 Neither has occurred.

00:04:22.000 And they're bringing in all of the big legal guns.

00:04:24.000 Twitter brought in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, which is a massive New York-based law firm.

00:04:28.000 Musk is using Skadden Arps, another massive, I believe, New York-based law firm.

00:04:33.000 Twitter's already been working with Simpson, Thatcher, Bartlett, and Wilson-Sonsini.

00:04:36.000 Musk's team includes Quinn Emanuel, Urka Hart, and Sullivan, which is a California-based law firm.

00:04:39.000 These are major legal players, by the way.

00:04:42.000 The agreement caps at $1 billion, the amount Twitter could sue for damages.

00:04:45.000 So 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.

00:04:55.000 The 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.

00:05:03.000 The biggest problem for Twitter is that Twitter is a giant.

00:05:06.000 aggregation of data machine, but it doesn't actually earn a profit.

00:05:10.000 In fact, according to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, right now, Twitter's price earnings ratio is something like 160.

00:05:15.000 To put that in perspective, what that means is that it's earnings on a yearly basis.

00:05:19.000 The price of the company, like the market cap of the company, is now 160 times the earnings of the company on a yearly basis.

00:05:25.000 The normal company on the New York Stock Exchange is somewhere between 20 and 25.

00:05:30.000 I mean, on an annualized basis, that means that Twitter is maybe earning less money on an annualized basis than my company.

00:05:37.000 Okay, my company ain't worth $44 billion.

00:05:40.000 Musk offered $54.20, a share price, originally.

00:05:44.000 Twitter shares closed down at $36.81 on Friday.

00:05:48.000 Okay, and right now, again, the Twitter price is dropping precipitously.

00:05:54.000 Over the weekend, prior to the opening of the market, it was already down 5%.

00:05:57.000 I think it's going to drop significantly further than that.

00:06:01.000 Because 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.

00:06:09.000 So this raises the question of what exactly Musk thought he was doing.

00:06:12.000 Now there is a going theory out there that is pretty clever if this is what Musk was actually doing.

00:06:17.000 So, Musk, obviously, is the biggest shareholder in Tesla.

00:06:21.000 It 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.

00:06:29.000 That's how bad the backlog is over a Tesla.

00:06:33.000 There's a theory that's been put out there by Josh Wolf, the co-founder at Lux Capital.

00:06:36.000 His suggestion is that Musk actually wanted to liquidate a bunch of his Tesla stock.

00:06:41.000 He wanted to use that money for other things.

00:06:43.000 But 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.

00:06:50.000 It's been a problem for a very long time for people who own stock in major companies.

00:06:53.000 This 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.

00:07:00.000 He's worth that.

00:07:01.000 If you took his stock, Times the number of times the price of the stock.

00:07:05.000 If you take his stock holdings times the price of the stock, that would be what he is worth.

00:07:10.000 But that neglects the fact that if he were to sell all that stock at one time, for example, he wouldn't be able to get that price.

00:07:15.000 The same thing is true of Jeff Bezos.

00:07:17.000 The minute you start liquidating stock in your own company, the stock price of the company drops.

00:07:21.000 Just a simple fact.

00:07:22.000 In 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.

00:07:30.000 And he had to actually explain why he was doing it, that he wasn't losing faith in his company and all the rest.

00:07:34.000 Well, Musk apparently wanted to sell some $8.5 billion of Tesla stock, but he didn't want to tank the stock price.

00:07:41.000 So how do you do that?

00:07:42.000 If 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.

00:07:52.000 How 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?

00:07:58.000 One way you do that is you say, listen, guys, it's not that I'm losing faith in Tesla.

00:08:01.000 It's that I want to take some of my profits from Tesla and I want to use those to buy another company over here.

00:08:05.000 So it's not that I haven't lost faith in Tesla.

00:08:07.000 I'm just trying to save the world by buying Twitter.

00:08:10.000 And 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.

00:08:18.000 And let's say that you even have to pay the $1 billion fee in order to get out of the Twitter deal.

00:08:24.000 Now, let's say you pay that fee.

00:08:25.000 Well, now you get to take that as a loss, as a capital loss on your taxes.

00:08:29.000 So really, you only lose about $600 million in order to liquidate, say, $8.5 billion of Tesla stocks.

00:08:35.000 If that's what he was doing, then that is indeed a very, it's a very clever move.

00:08:39.000 Because 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.

00:08:46.000 I 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.

00:08:51.000 It basically started to tank back in May, like early May.

00:08:55.000 And it's kind of holding steady since then.

00:08:58.000 It's basically been steady.

00:08:59.000 And that's despite the fact that he's liquidated all of the stock.

00:09:02.000 So if he was trying to get out of that stock, wanted to make a profit on that stock, But he didn't want the entire stock price to tank.

00:09:10.000 He had to have an excuse.

00:09:11.000 So he just says, listen, I need the money in order to buy Tesla, in order to buy Twitter.

00:09:15.000 It's not that I have lost face here.

00:09:17.000 It's that I really, really want to buy this company over here.

00:09:19.000 And then if later he has to get out of that Twitter deal, then he can.

00:09:24.000 Josh Wolf says the entire thing was a clever ruse to sell and liquidate $8.5 billion of Tesla stock with a plausible excuse for doing it.

00:09:29.000 80% odds, Elon pays $1 billion breakup fee, walks away with $7.5 billion liquidated, 20% spends $100 million fighting litigation.

00:09:38.000 You honestly think he can land rockets but he can't fix bots?

00:09:41.000 Because that's his claim.

00:09:41.000 His claim is that the bots problem on Twitter is so bad that he can't fix it at the current price.

00:09:45.000 Now, 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.

00:09:54.000 And 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.

00:10:03.000 And now, you see, like, after he announced that he was going to buy it, it spiked up to about $50.

00:10:07.000 But that is because he said he was going to buy it for $54.

00:10:10.000 And it stuck around in that area.

00:10:11.000 And then, as the deal started to look like it was going to collapse, Now, the Twitter stock price is down in the mid-30s.

00:10:17.000 So, he's paying almost a 50% surcharge for that piece of real estate. 0.97

00:10:23.000 That seems really dumb.

00:10:25.000 Just 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. 0.92

00:10:35.000 Vijay 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.

00:10:47.000 Musk had put the acquisition deal temporarily on hold in May so his team couldn't investigate the number of spam or bot accounts.

00:10:51.000 Twitter says that it's 5% or less of users.

00:10:54.000 Musk says his team hadn't been provided with enough information to independently analyze the data.

00:10:58.000 Twitter chairman Brett Taylor said the company is committed to closing the transaction on the price in terms agreed to with Miskra.

00:11:03.000 Of 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.

00:11:10.000 And 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.

00:11:34.000 Those people get banned.

00:11:35.000 And meanwhile, you have the Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the extermination of all Jews on the platform and apparently Twitter does nothing.

00:11:39.000 So a lot of people are placing a lot of faith in Musk to save Twitter.

00:11:43.000 In 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.

00:11:54.000 Hats off for a clever business move if that is exactly what Musk was doing.

00:11:57.000 It's possible also that Musk was basically playing out a hand that was going to go well for him no matter what.

00:12:03.000 If the Twitter deal fell through, Twitter stock crashes, which he doesn't like the people at Twitter, so it's fine with him.

00:12:08.000 He can afford a billion dollars.

00:12:09.000 That does not cost a lot of money to him.

00:12:11.000 He's worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:12:14.000 He was able to liquidate some stock without tanking the stock of his home company, Tesla, without doing any damage to himself.

00:12:19.000 So, pretty clever.

00:12:19.000 And if he ended up going through with the deal, well, it's not the end of the world either, because then he's in control of Twitter.

00:12:24.000 So all of this is to say that Musk is very good at what he does.

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00:13:35.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:13:46.000 According to Politico, on Wednesday night, D.C.

00:13:48.000 protesters targeted the conservative Supreme Court justices who had signed on to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

00:13:54.000 They got a tip that Brett Kavanaugh was dining at Morton's downtown D.C.

00:13:57.000 location.

00:13:58.000 Protesters 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.

00:14:05.000 Daniel 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.

00:14:15.000 Morton's was outraged about the incident.

00:14:17.000 A representative for the chain steakhouse sent Lipman this statement.

00:14:20.000 Honorable 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.

00:14:26.000 Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.

00:14:32.000 There's a time and place for everything.

00:14:33.000 Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.

00:14:38.000 Is there a quote-unquote right to congregate and eat dinner?

00:14:41.000 There's no constitutional right to congregate and eat dinner.

00:14:43.000 There is a right to be free of harassment.

00:14:46.000 If people come up and assault you while you are at dinner, assault is where they yell at you in a threatening manner.

00:14:51.000 Battery is where they hit you.

00:14:52.000 If somebody comes up to you at dinner and they are threatening you in some way, then obviously that is illegal under every local law.

00:14:58.000 Does it violate the common boundaries of decency to arrive at a restaurant and harass people out of restaurants?

00:15:02.000 Absolutely.

00:15:03.000 Of course it does.

00:15:04.000 And we all need to understand this.

00:15:05.000 There 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.

00:15:12.000 It's something we saw during the Black Lives Matter riots.

00:15:15.000 You'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.

00:15:23.000 Is that something that is good for the country?

00:15:26.000 Now 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?

00:15:32.000 After all, this is about abortion.

00:15:34.000 I mean, and when it's about abortion, that means that you can bother people.

00:15:37.000 According 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. 1.00

00:15:44.000 That must be the math here. 0.99

00:15:46.000 Now the real math here is that you guys are all acting like a bunch of jackasses. 0.99

00:15:49.000 The Supreme Court ruled. 0.98

00:15:51.000 They've ruled a bunch of ways I don't like.

00:15:52.000 I'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.

00:16:07.000 It's a ridiculous suggestion.

00:16:09.000 And 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. 0.76

00:16:19.000 They'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. 0.80

00:16:26.000 They're so damned angry that they're actually going to have to justify their positions.

00:16:30.000 But 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.

00:16:36.000 And this is a good thing.

00:16:37.000 It's an actively good thing to randomly yell at people at restaurants.

00:16:41.000 This is going to magically fix everything.

00:16:43.000 Mortons, of course, started getting hit for the very suggestion that they don't want their... Forget about Kavanaugh.

00:16:49.000 They don't want their other patrons to be forced out of the restaurant because they're a bunch of crazy protesters out front. 0.89

00:16:54.000 It ruins their dinner too.

00:16:56.000 But apparently, the way that the left sees it, corporate America must always simply bow to all of their whims and do all of their work.

00:17:04.000 So, according to Politico, about a day later, when a corporation is getting grilled on social media, there's a lot at stake.

00:17:10.000 Haha, that's punny.

00:17:11.000 The best course is often to say nothing, lest you butcher the response.

00:17:14.000 Issuing a statement can often just inflame things, because let's be honest, press releases are a medium rarely well done.

00:17:19.000 Yes, 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.

00:17:29.000 Morton's, the steakhouse, learned that the hard way this week when it seared right into the middle of the culture wars. 0.80

00:17:32.000 Morton's didn't do anything.

00:17:34.000 Morton's was just a steakhouse serving steak.

00:17:35.000 And then, like, we don't like that people are bothering people who are eating steak at a restaurant.

00:17:39.000 And according to Politico, this is them steering into the culture wars.

00:17:41.000 Because according to the left, you're not engaged in culture wars when you just repeat the radical leftism of insane people.

00:17:47.000 But when you say no, that's you engaged in a culture war.

00:17:49.000 This is the common theme from the left media.

00:17:52.000 If you say that there must be abortion on demand in transing of the kids, this means that you're not engaged in a culture war.

00:17:57.000 This is just normal, everyday, rote action.

00:18:00.000 If I say no to any of that, now I'm engaged in a culture war.

00:18:02.000 So Morton's is the problem here.

00:18:04.000 Because Morton's said, we don't like that people are harassing our patrons.

00:18:07.000 After 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.

00:18:16.000 And everybody in the media went nuts.

00:18:18.000 Everybody in the media went insane.

00:18:20.000 How dare Mortons say these things?

00:18:23.000 How dare Mortons suggest that there is a need for people to be able to dine without being yelled at at the restaurants?

00:18:32.000 According 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.

00:18:42.000 There'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.

00:19:12.000 If they think this is going to win them friends and influence people, yelling at people at restaurants, good luck to them.

00:19:16.000 But you can see that the blue checks were gleeful about that. 0.81

00:19:18.000 They love it.

00:19:19.000 They love the harassment of their political opponents.

00:19:22.000 It's their favorite thing.

00:19:24.000 Because they don't give a damn about institutions.

00:19:26.000 They don't give a damn about civic norms. 0.77

00:19:27.000 They don't give a damn about decency.

00:19:29.000 I 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.

00:19:36.000 They love this sort of stuff.

00:19:37.000 Making 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.

00:19:45.000 You can look at some of the tweets from some of the geniuses, Ryan Reilly, in which a steakhouse accidentally serves up Twitter red meat.

00:19:52.000 I mean, it's an amazing- Ryan Cooper.

00:19:54.000 Next year, the Supreme Court is going to rule 6-3 that Oliver cannot have some more.

00:19:58.000 Ahahaha! 0.88

00:19:59.000 Ryan Cooper of the week.

00:20:00.000 Bradley Moss.

00:20:01.000 Sorry, under the originalist reading of the Constitution, there is no right to eat dinner.

00:20:04.000 The Founding Fathers never spoke of a right to eat dinner, and therefore the right does not exist. 0.98

00:20:08.000 Well, first of all, ya idiots, there is right to association. 0.97

00:20:11.000 And 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. 0.99

00:20:18.000 That'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.

00:20:35.000 There is, however, a right to be not assaulted.

00:20:39.000 That's a thing.

00:20:40.000 That right to be not assaulted, that exists at the state level, it exists at the local level, it exists at every level.

00:20:46.000 Eli Nistel, who's legitimately the worst legal commentator in America.

00:20:49.000 He said, imagine lying to a Congress and the American people to get an unaccountable job for life.

00:20:53.000 Getting that job, using your unaccountable power to take away rights, then getting pissy the people you hurt interrupted your ice cream.

00:20:58.000 So first of all, Kavanaugh hasn't even issued a statement.

00:21:00.000 Morton's issued a statement.

00:21:01.000 But 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.

00:21:08.000 Well, first of all, I wasn't aware that Morton's was an abortion clinic.

00:21:11.000 You 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.

00:21:32.000 That seems like slightly a different context. 0.96

00:21:34.000 And then, of course, we have the irrepressibly moronic Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted out on this score as well. 0.84

00:21:41.000 She tweeted about Justice Kavanaugh two things. 0.95

00:21:44.000 She said, quote, Poor guy.

00:21:45.000 He left before his souffle because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines.

00:21:52.000 It's all very unfair to him.

00:21:53.000 The least they could let him do is eat cake. 0.99

00:21:56.000 First of all, they're such liars. 0.90

00:21:59.000 Roe versus Wade has nothing to do with ectopic pregnancy. 0.98

00:22:01.000 There's not a state in the United States that bars a DNC for an ectopic pregnancy.

00:22:05.000 That does not exist.

00:22:07.000 So they just have to make things up because if they actually talk about what most abortions look like, people realize that's pretty ugly.

00:22:11.000 Then she says, I will never understand the pearl clutching over these protests.

00:22:14.000 Republicans send people to protest me all the time, sometimes drunk and belligerent.

00:22:18.000 Do they?

00:22:18.000 Really?

00:22:19.000 I feel like that would make social media a lot more.

00:22:20.000 I 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.

00:22:29.000 Nobody cares about it unless it's a Republican in a restaurant.

00:22:32.000 Can someone please explain the obsession because I don't get it.

00:22:35.000 These people are so tiresome.

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00:23:42.000 That's A-L-T-O-I-R-A. 1.00

00:23:44.000 They're making the country actively worse.

00:23:54.000 And it's the entire Democratic Party, all the way on up to the top.

00:23:58.000 So, 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.

00:24:04.000 But we should mention here, someone literally attempted to kill Justice Kavanaugh about five weeks ago.

00:24:09.000 Someone was arrested for arriving at Kavanaugh's house with weapons and And goods meant to harm and silence his family.

00:24:19.000 And that person was arrested.

00:24:20.000 So there was an assassination attempt on a sitting Supreme Court justice, like, five weeks ago, a little over a month ago.

00:24:26.000 And 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.

00:24:33.000 Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary.

00:24:35.000 Anybody who pretends these folks care about institutions, they do not.

00:24:39.000 They do not give one good damn about institutions.

00:24:42.000 These are the same people who complain ceaselessly about January 6th.

00:24:46.000 I also think January 6th was a really bad thing.

00:24:48.000 It turns out, you know what I don't like?

00:24:49.000 I don't like when people violate the law and harass lawmakers.

00:24:53.000 And I thought, by the way, forget about January 6th.

00:24:55.000 I 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.

00:25:06.000 I generally think that harassment of people is a bad thing.

00:25:09.000 Apparently, the left does not.

00:25:10.000 And when I say apparently, I mean clearly.

00:25:12.000 Here'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.

00:25:22.000 By the way, the purpose of a Supreme Court is to be insulated from public pressure.

00:25:25.000 And here you have the White House openly calling for it.

00:25:28.000 Peaceful protest.

00:25:30.000 People should be allowed to be able to do that.

00:25:33.000 In a restaurant.

00:25:35.000 If it's outside of a restaurant, if it's peaceful, for sure.

00:25:39.000 Really?

00:25:40.000 Peaceful protests.

00:25:42.000 Your first question to me was intimidation and violence.

00:25:45.000 So 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?

00:25:54.000 But Peter, this is, people have the right, this is what a democracy is.

00:25:58.000 People have the right to privacy?

00:26:00.000 Of course people have a right to privacy, but people also have a right to be able to protest peacefully.

00:26:09.000 So if this is the new role of the left, then you know what, turnabout is fair play.

00:26:13.000 Turnabout is fair play.

00:26:14.000 So 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.

00:26:22.000 Because apparently the White House is in favor of it.

00:26:25.000 So what that means is that presumably, Corine Jean-Pierre, you can go outside her house and you can picket it.

00:26:29.000 After all, that's free speech.

00:26:31.000 When she's at dinner, you can go out to- I mean, she's a bad press secretary. 1.00

00:26:34.000 You can go outside her place of eating and you can yell at her outside.

00:26:38.000 That's just free speech. 0.99

00:26:39.000 And Pete Buttigieg says as much the secretary of transportation, professional, useless person. 0.97

00:26:43.000 Pete Buttigieg couldn't fill.

00:26:46.000 Potholes 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. 0.89

00:26:52.000 But, you know, important person because he's gay.

00:26:55.000 Pete Buttigieg, that guy, he literally says that it's totally fine with him if people, you know, it's not a problem.

00:27:00.000 It's not a problem.

00:27:00.000 It's all good.

00:27:01.000 The Democratic Party loves this position.

00:27:01.000 Here's the thing.

00:27:03.000 This is their favorite position because it demonstrates ire.

00:27:05.000 It demonstrates anger.

00:27:06.000 It doesn't matter that it's all performative and it gets nothing done and it's actually wildly counterproductive.

00:27:10.000 But 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. 0.99

00:27:22.000 Doing that's actually counterproductive and stupid. 0.98

00:27:25.000 No, it's a good thing. 0.99

00:27:26.000 Because it shows passion, guys.

00:27:28.000 See, this is the thing.

00:27:31.000 For the left, the people who are criminally rioting during 2020, the problem with them is really not that they're criminally rioting.

00:27:38.000 They're just too pure.

00:27:39.000 They just are.

00:27:39.000 I mean, they've just taken it a little too far.

00:27:40.000 But their basic ideology, which is disrupt, make life worse, it's good.

00:27:45.000 It's necessary.

00:27:46.000 Pete Buttigieg basically says that openly on Fox News.

00:27:48.000 This is trending on Twitter because the left loves this so much, this particular clip of Pete Buttigieg.

00:27:52.000 This is supposedly Pastor Pete.

00:27:55.000 Being a very decent and wonderful person and making fine-toothed distinctions between protests and harassment and all of this.

00:28:04.000 Somehow I feel like if the shoe were on the other foot, nobody on the left would be quite so sanguine about this.

00:28:08.000 Which means that there will be a shoe on the other foot.

00:28:10.000 So here is Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg suggesting that it's totally fine to harass people at restaurants.

00:28:16.000 What's the big deal?

00:28:18.000 Are you comfortable with protesters protesting when you and your husband go to dinner at a restaurant?

00:28:25.000 Protesting peacefully outside in a public space?

00:28:28.000 Look, I can't even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and scenarios where I've been protested.

00:28:28.000 Sure.

00:28:33.000 And the bottom line is this.

00:28:35.000 Any 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.

00:28:49.000 Okay, except that whenever you say a mean word to a Democrat on Twitter, that is violence and harassment.

00:28:53.000 And whenever you go outside of Justice's house with a gun, apparently, that's just free speech.

00:28:57.000 I 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.

00:29:04.000 That's really what this is about.

00:29:05.000 This is all part of a broader effort on the left by particular politicians to demonstrate how angry they are.

00:29:11.000 Because so much, again, of our politics is performative.

00:29:13.000 The reality is, the Supreme Court overruled Roe vs. Wade.

00:29:16.000 Now it goes back to the state level.

00:29:18.000 And Democrats could work at the state level to get what they want enshrined in law. 0.75

00:29:21.000 They could.

00:29:22.000 Instead, 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. 0.97

00:29:29.000 It's all performative woke bullcrap. 0.92

00:29:32.000 In 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. 0.73

00:29:39.000 That's all this is.

00:29:41.000 And it's approved by the highest levels.

00:29:43.000 Then they wonder about why it seems like the polarization and the temperature is really high.

00:29:48.000 I'll say it right now.

00:29:50.000 We all play by the same rules.

00:29:51.000 If this is the rule, then fine.

00:29:53.000 Every 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.

00:30:01.000 Every single time. 1.00

00:30:02.000 If this is the game you want, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:30:06.000 One set of rules for everybody. 1.00

00:30:07.000 By the way, I don't believe him at all.

00:30:09.000 If he thinks that there are I'd like to see the evidence.

00:30:13.000 Let's put it that way.

00:30:13.000 I'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.

00:30:20.000 I'd love to see that evidence.

00:30:22.000 I 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.

00:30:30.000 Meanwhile, somebody tries to assassinate a Supreme Court justice five weeks ago.

00:30:33.000 It's not even national news story for three days.

00:30:35.000 And then you have the entire Democratic Party saying, it's good to follow these folks around. 0.58

00:30:40.000 It'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. 0.56

00:30:46.000 How could this have happened?

00:30:47.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:31:01.000 They said, while the bad asses, R. Wright's D.C.

00:31:05.000 and his own neighbors are gathered outside Kavanaugh's home, the justice seems to have snuck out for a swanky D.C. 0.96

00:31:09.000 dinner.

00:31:10.000 We got a tip from someone who spotted him around 7.40.

00:31:12.000 DM us if you want to join him.

00:31:14.000 We're sure he can pull up a seat.

00:31:18.000 Making life worse, one piece of jackassery at a time.

00:31:21.000 And again, the White House continues to push all of this stuff.

00:31:26.000 Because it's all about the anger.

00:31:27.000 It's never about truth.

00:31:29.000 It's never about reality.

00:31:30.000 It's all about the anger.

00:31:35.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:31:35.000 And that anger materializes, particularly at Joe Biden now.

00:31:39.000 So they're really, really mad at Joe Biden.

00:31:40.000 Now, I'm not a Joe Biden defender, as you may know.

00:31:43.000 I think Joe Biden is the worst president of the modern era, and it ain't close.

00:31:45.000 I think that he inherited pretty much everything good and proceeded to turn it into everything bad.

00:31:51.000 But Joe Biden is now basically being shoved out the door for the great crime of not being performative enough.

00:31:57.000 This is what they are suggesting.

00:31:59.000 So 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.

00:32:08.000 So they're noticing over the New York Times that he's old.

00:32:10.000 This 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.

00:32:19.000 And the reason they're upset at Joe Biden is because Joe Biden isn't performative enough in his anger.

00:32:23.000 He just seems kind of grumpy and peeved.

00:32:25.000 And then he goes to bed at 4.30 p.m.

00:32:26.000 and 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.

00:32:32.000 So the New York Times is noticing that he's super old.

00:32:34.000 Now, there are some of us who have been noticing this since he was running for president, because he's old.

00:32:39.000 At least in political terms, that dude is old, and he is declining quite fast.

00:32:42.000 In 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.

00:32:50.000 Like, he gets to the teleprompter instructions, and then he reads them out loud.

00:32:53.000 One 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.

00:33:05.000 Women are not without electoral or political power. 0.99

00:33:09.000 It 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.

00:33:17.000 End of quote.

00:33:18.000 Repeat the line.

00:33:19.000 Women are not without electoral and or political... Sarah starts laughing. 1.00

00:33:24.000 As you can see, you're not supposed to say, repeat the lines.

00:33:26.000 He says, repeat the line.

00:33:27.000 This went viral.

00:33:28.000 The entire media originally came out and said, he didn't say, repeat the line.

00:33:31.000 He said, let me repeat the line.

00:33:32.000 He didn't.

00:33:33.000 He said, repeat the line.

00:33:34.000 He's clearly reading, I mean, oatmeal for brains over here.

00:33:37.000 He's gone.

00:33:38.000 He's been gone for quite a while.

00:33:40.000 The light is on, but ain't nobody home.

00:33:42.000 That attic is empty.

00:33:44.000 The hamster wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead.

00:33:46.000 There's just not much happening upstairs for that guy.

00:33:48.000 A lot of cobwebs.

00:33:49.000 A lot of random balls bouncing around.

00:33:51.000 It's a game of pong, but one of the paddles is missing.

00:33:55.000 So, now the New York Times is noticing.

00:33:57.000 Is that a coincidence?

00:33:58.000 It's not a coincidence.

00:33:59.000 They're noticing because they're mad that he doesn't seem mad enough.

00:34:03.000 This is the big critique of Joe Biden.

00:34:04.000 You have to be as mad as Pete Buttigieg saying that you should go outside restaurants and harass people.

00:34:08.000 You have to be as mad as Corina Jean-Pierre saying that you should go outside people's homes and you should harass them. 0.91

00:34:13.000 And 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. 0.99

00:34:20.000 So 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.

00:34:27.000 The 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.

00:34:41.000 AIDS also cited political and diplomatic reasons to reorganize the extra stops as a separate trip later.

00:34:46.000 But the reality is that managing the schedule of the oldest president in American history presents distinct challenges.

00:34:51.000 And 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.

00:34:57.000 If only somebody had noted when he was running at the ripe old age of 77 that people naturally get older as each day passes.

00:35:04.000 If only somebody had noted, wait a second, in two years, he's going to be 79.

00:35:07.000 I love how they act as though it's like a shock, a crept up on them.

00:35:10.000 You mean the aging process crept up on you?

00:35:12.000 The passage of time?

00:35:13.000 I mean, we were told by the Vice President of the United States that there's great significance to the passage of time.

00:35:19.000 She's really smart, and she told us that.

00:35:21.000 So much significance to the passage of time that it's significant that time passes, which is significant.

00:35:26.000 That's how significant it is.

00:35:28.000 But 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.

00:35:37.000 Now, 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.

00:35:47.000 He's old.

00:35:47.000 Now, the reason, again, they're mad that he's old is because he's not doing the things he wants.

00:35:51.000 He's not popular.

00:35:52.000 He's bad at this.

00:35:54.000 He doesn't seem to be passionate enough.

00:35:57.000 According to the New York Times, it is unsurprisingly a sensitive topic in the West Wing.

00:36:00.000 In 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.

00:36:17.000 I love that we now have to have testimony.

00:36:19.000 This is the way that I talk about my daughter if she didn't do her homework. 0.81

00:36:21.000 The teacher calls me like, yeah, but she was staying up really late last night and she was working really hard.

00:36:25.000 You know, a bunch of these days, like, the old man's fine.

00:36:27.000 He's doing fine, guys.

00:36:29.000 He's fine.

00:36:30.000 But they acknowledge Biden looks older than just a few years ago.

00:36:34.000 I mean, I do love that line.

00:36:36.000 You mean he looks old?

00:36:37.000 You mean like every human?

00:36:38.000 Name a human who doesn't look older than a few years ago.

00:36:40.000 Name one.

00:36:41.000 They don't exist.

00:36:42.000 Except for Tom Cruise, who's ageless.

00:36:44.000 Every other human looks older than a few years ago. 0.94

00:36:46.000 His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was.

00:36:50.000 Some aides quietly watch out for him.

00:36:52.000 He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire.

00:36:56.000 He stumbles over words during public events.

00:36:58.000 They hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end, without a gaffe.

00:37:01.000 All this is going on now.

00:37:02.000 These sorts of articles were widely available.

00:37:04.000 You could have made these stories.

00:37:07.000 You could have made this kind of story available before.

00:37:07.000 It's a long story.

00:37:09.000 But the reason that they're doing it now is because, again, he's not performatively mad enough.

00:37:14.000 The Washington Post has a really long piece by Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Aputaleb, and Tyler Pager over the weekend about this.

00:37:20.000 It's called Two Long Weeks Inside Biden's Struggle to Respond to the Abortion Ruling.

00:37:25.000 And the entire article is about how he's not angry enough.

00:37:28.000 For many Democrats, it was too little and too late.

00:37:31.000 Just 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.

00:37:41.000 Biden 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.

00:37:49.000 To 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.

00:38:01.000 Leadership right now is coming from the streets.

00:38:02.000 We'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.

00:38:09.000 Meanwhile, the White House officials, they're defending the urgency of Biden's response.

00:38:13.000 Kate 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.

00:38:20.000 It's to help deliver help to women who are in danger, etc, etc.

00:38:22.000 So she's trying to slap down the activist base. 1.00

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00:41:43.000 So 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. 0.96

00:41:55.000 And because Joe Biden hasn't really been doing enough of that, mainly because he's tired. 0.96

00:41:58.000 They assume that it's because he's tired, not because he is actually congenitally a moderate.

00:42:01.000 Joe Biden could actually win some political points by just saying to people, no, you should not protest people outside restaurants.

00:42:01.000 And here's the thing.

00:42:06.000 We can make an argument.

00:42:07.000 We can win the argument.

00:42:08.000 You don't need to bother people outside of restaurants in order to make your point.

00:42:11.000 He could say that kind of stuff.

00:42:12.000 He could say, don't go outside Justice's house.

00:42:13.000 But the problem for Joe Biden is that always and forever, he is just a mirror for the center of the Democratic Party.

00:42:18.000 The center of the Democratic Party has moved left.

00:42:21.000 The center of the Democratic Party has decided that harassment of public officials is actually an act of good.

00:42:26.000 Meanwhile, January 6th is really bad, but harassment of public officials is really, really good.

00:42:31.000 They've decided this, and Joe Biden ain't along for the ride.

00:42:33.000 They think it's because he's tired, which may very well be.

00:42:36.000 And thus, they want to throw him off the side of the bus.

00:42:38.000 And so they've decided in the media that it's time to supplant him with somebody else.

00:42:42.000 Which is why, for example, they're now pushing Governor J.B.

00:42:45.000 Pritzker of Illinois.

00:42:47.000 What recommends J.B.

00:42:48.000 Pritzker?

00:42:48.000 Seriously, I'm just wondering.

00:42:50.000 What exactly says that J.B.

00:42:52.000 Pritzker is a massively powerful and useful governor?

00:42:56.000 I'm wondering.

00:42:58.000 Because right now, I'm looking at the state unemployment rates, And what I'm seeing is that Illinois is not doing great, guys.

00:43:06.000 Illinois, like, is trailing most other states in terms of its unemployment rate.

00:43:09.000 I'm looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics right now.

00:43:13.000 Illinois is, let me count this, one, two, three, four, five, sixth from the bottom in terms of its unemployment rate in the United States.

00:43:20.000 It has the sixth lowest unemployment rate in the United States, if you include Washington, D.C.

00:43:24.000 And yet they're talking about him for President of the United States, J.B.

00:43:28.000 Pritzker, in his massively successful state.

00:43:31.000 Where people are fleeing, including major corporations down to Florida, like Citadel.

00:43:36.000 And where there's gun violence that claims the lives of a dozen people every weekend in Chicago.

00:43:42.000 They're talking about J.B.

00:43:43.000 Pritzker.

00:43:44.000 Why?

00:43:44.000 That's how desperate they are.

00:43:45.000 Well, because J.B.

00:43:45.000 Pritzker is a big, thumping, angry man.

00:43:49.000 And because he's a big, thumping, angry man, this means that he's the guy.

00:43:53.000 So they had J.B.

00:43:54.000 Pritzker on the Sunday shows to talk about a wide variety of topics.

00:43:57.000 He 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.

00:44:06.000 Pritzker is anything remotely close to a national political candidate, but go for it, guys, if this is what you want.

00:44:12.000 President Biden runs for re-election, which he says he is expected to do.

00:44:17.000 Will you support him?

00:44:20.000 I will.

00:44:21.000 All right.

00:44:21.000 Governor Pritzker, thank you so much.

00:44:24.000 I will.

00:44:25.000 And they all have to say that.

00:44:26.000 What are they going to say?

00:44:27.000 They're going to primary Biden?

00:44:28.000 But they're all setting themselves up to replace Biden because the question is, can you force Biden out before the primaries even begin?

00:44:33.000 And so his case is I love that the case for Democrats is this.

00:44:37.000 We have created here in Illinois an abortion mecca. 0.93

00:44:40.000 It's great.

00:44:41.000 It's like abortion.

00:44:42.000 So you got Gavin Newsom out in California.

00:44:43.000 He's like, we've got abortion Disneyland out here. 0.61

00:44:46.000 Pritzker's like, no, no, no, no.

00:44:46.000 And J.B.

00:44:47.000 You've got abortion Disneyland. 1.00

00:44:49.000 We have an abortion oasis. 0.97

00:44:50.000 It's like the Mecca of abortion.

00:44:52.000 Like we will have a competition to see how many babies we can abort.

00:44:55.000 We'll have like a running billboard in the middle of Chicago.

00:44:58.000 How many kids have been killed in Illinois today?

00:45:00.000 And we'll defeat California on its own terms because, man, this is a great place to be.

00:45:04.000 So great. 1.00

00:45:04.000 You can kill your baby here. 1.00

00:45:05.000 That's a hell of a state slogan. 1.00

00:45:07.000 Here's J.B.

00:45:07.000 Pritzker pushing it.

00:45:09.000 Illinois is now an island, an oasis in the nation, protecting women's reproductive rights, and we're going to continue to do that. 0.98

00:45:17.000 There's more that we need to do.

00:45:19.000 But I must say that the federal government should be doing more.

00:45:22.000 I've talked to the president about this, and he took some action in that regard with some executive orders the other day.

00:45:29.000 But Democrats need to be pushing for a national law that protects reproductive rights across the nation. 0.98

00:45:38.000 Mm.

00:45:38.000 Well, yeah, J.B.

00:45:39.000 Pritzker, I mean, look at that.

00:45:40.000 Can you sense that animal charisma from J.B.

00:45:42.000 Pritzker right there?

00:45:42.000 My goodness.

00:45:43.000 I mean, he's just blowing everybody off the screen right there.

00:45:45.000 Well, if it's not J.B.

00:45:46.000 Pritzker, it's got to be somebody else.

00:45:47.000 They've tried Gavin Newsom.

00:45:49.000 Fail.

00:45:50.000 They're trying J.B.

00:45:50.000 Pritzker, and it ain't going great.

00:45:52.000 They're also now trying Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whose performance in Michigan was just abysmal during the pandemic.

00:45:58.000 She was opening up specific sort of Niceties for her husband so he could avoid all of the COVID rules and vacationing down in Miami.

00:46:07.000 She's a wonder, Gretchen Whitmer.

00:46:08.000 She's done an amazing, amazing job.

00:46:10.000 Now, massive piece in the Washington Post titled, Gretchen Whitmer's abortion fight from the porch with her daughters.

00:46:17.000 Wow, just stunning.

00:46:18.000 Stunning stuff.

00:46:20.000 And then they have a romantic picture of her with her two daughters in their house because abortion. 0.69

00:46:26.000 Sherry was asleep.

00:46:27.000 She was home from college for the summer.

00:46:28.000 It was barely 10 a.m.

00:46:29.000 Her door swung open and light filled up the bedroom.

00:46:31.000 Then she saw her mother bounding in. 1.00

00:46:32.000 She groaned, are you kidding me right now?

00:46:34.000 Roe versus Wade was overturned, her mother said.

00:46:36.000 Then she rushed out. 0.92

00:46:39.000 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, she's the hero America needs because abortion! 1.00

00:46:43.000 Abortion! 1.00

00:46:45.000 Now here's the thing.

00:46:46.000 If Democrats run on abortion in 2022, let alone 2024, they're going to get clocked.

00:46:51.000 It turns out the vast majority of Americans are in favor of some restrictions on abortion.

00:46:54.000 And 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.

00:47:05.000 But the media, they've decided Joe Biden is not passionate enough.

00:47:08.000 He's not, he's not mad enough.

00:47:09.000 And because he's not passionate and he's not mad enough, he has to go.

00:47:13.000 And the way you're going to show passion and anger is by making the country an actively worse place by harassing people.

00:47:17.000 So who are, it's amazing.

00:47:19.000 They 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.

00:47:24.000 Their conclusion, by the way, is that Joe Biden is too moderate.

00:47:27.000 They need to replace Joe Biden with somebody more radical.

00:47:29.000 This is a recipe for presidential candidate AOC in 2024.

00:47:33.000 So prepare thyselves.

00:47:35.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with additional content.

00:47:37.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show.

00:47:39.000 Today, he discusses Hunter Biden's leaked cell phone files.

00:47:42.000 You can hear more about that story over on Michael's show that's available right now.

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