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00:00:00.000After Scott Adams' racial remarks get his comic booted from newspapers across America, Elon Musk calls the media racist, Dwayne Wade's son is transitioned against the will of his mother, and the media celebrate.
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00:00:30.000Well folks, racism is just fine so long as it is directed against one group of people.
00:00:35.000In the United States, if you direct racism against black Americans, that of course is verboten, it's very bad, and you'll have your career ended.
00:00:42.000And there's a strong case that that ought to be the case because racism is bad.
00:00:46.000The simple fact of the matter is that when you say racist things, there will be penalties attached societally to saying racist things.
00:00:52.000Now, the problem is that the left has expanded out the definition of racist to include pretty much anything and everything in American life.
00:00:58.000They've actually expanded out the definition of racism to include simply pointing out disparities in outcome between different racial groups.
00:01:06.000We all generally agree that racism is bad.
00:01:09.000But the left doesn't actually agree with that.
00:01:11.000The left actually believes that racism is good so long as it is directed against white people.
00:01:15.000And this has been a long time coming in American life, unfortunately.
00:01:19.000This was pointed out by Elon Musk yesterday to the great consternation of the media.
00:01:23.000So, just to rewind for a second, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, he said some racist stuff.
00:01:27.000The stuff that he said was he was looking at a poll.
00:01:30.000This poll suggested that only 53% of black Americans said it was okay to be white.
00:01:36.000Or do they agree with the sentiment, it's okay to be white?
00:01:38.000Some 26% of black Americans suggested that they disagreed with the sentiment or the statement, it's okay to be white.
00:01:45.000Now, as I said yesterday, this may be a semantically overloaded phrase because it is possible to read into the phrase more than just it's okay to be white.
00:01:52.000It could be reading into the phrase, you know, something more racially tinged than simply, I'm okay with you existing.
00:01:59.000What Scott Adams then said about that polling data is he suggested that black people as a whole were a hate group, which of course is indeed racist because you can't extrapolate based on 26% of people saying a thing that even you interpret as racist, that the entire group is racist, nor can you suggest that you shouldn't live near black people, which is what then Scott Adams went on to say, right?
00:02:21.000Now, as I pointed out yesterday, what he said was in fact racist.
00:02:25.000Also, it is worth noting that if you took the word black and you substituted the word white in Scott Adams' actual statement, what you would end up with is something that would get you featured on mainstream media as genius-level commentary.
00:02:41.000Because the simple fact of the matter is, That the media is totally fine with anti-white racism.
00:02:47.000Here's a direct quote from Scott Adams, but I switched out the races.
00:02:50.000Quote, if nearly half of all whites are not okay with black people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group.
00:02:56.000I don't want to have anything to do with them.
00:02:57.000And I would say based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to black people is to get the hell away from white people.
00:03:02.000Just get the F away because there is no fixing this.
00:03:05.000Now, when I say it with the races switched, everybody on the left just starts nodding.
00:03:08.000Because, unfortunately, the hard left has decided that racism is just fine so long as it is directed at white people.
00:03:13.000Now, one person who made this point yesterday was Elon Musk.
00:03:16.000Elon Musk is not allowed to make these points because Elon Musk is, of course, the richest man in the world and also the owner of Twitter.
00:03:22.000And people in the media are very angry at Elon Musk for pointing out the obvious, which is that you can fully acknowledge Scott Adams' racism and still also recognize that the media would be totally fine with Scott Adams' racism if it was directed in precise reverse at white people.
00:03:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk has suggested the U.S.
00:03:40.000media is racist against white and Asian people as he appeared to defend the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
00:03:45.000Well, that's actually not precisely what happened.
00:03:48.000So there was a response to an article posted by the San Francisco Chronicle detailing the saga.
00:04:05.000So he's not actually defending what Scott Adams said.
00:04:07.000What he is saying is that the media are totally fine with racism so long as it's directed at people who are higher up on the intersectional hierarchy or more powerful on the intersectional hierarchy.
00:04:16.000Remember, for the left, there is a hierarchy of human value.
00:04:22.000Rooted in the notion of intersectionality.
00:04:24.000So the original theory of intersectionality, as articulated by Kimberly Crenshaw, was supposed to be a very specific legal theory.
00:04:29.000It's kind of like critical race theory.
00:04:31.000It starts off as a legal theory and then it suddenly gets blown up by its proponents into something much larger.
00:04:37.000So the basic idea of intersectionality is that people treat people of different races differently and also treat people of different sexes differently.
00:04:44.000And what this means is that if you are a black woman, you are treated differently than a black man, for example.
00:04:49.000That any system that doesn't take into account disparities between black women and black men is ignoring one aspect of identity that complicates the picture.
00:04:59.000That, I suppose, is inarguable to a certain extent.
00:05:02.000I mean, the simple fact is that black women are treated in American society differently than black men, because women are treated differently than men, and presumably Okay, put all of that aside.
00:05:11.000differently than white women, but only in certain contexts because as it turns out that if you actually adjust for family structure and you adjust for income level, black women perform equally or better than white women in a wide variety of circumstances.
00:05:24.000The basic point of intersectionality, as Kimberly Crenshaw originally articulated, has been put aside in favor of this idea that in American society, the more intersectional checkboxes you tick, the more victimized you are.
00:05:36.000And what that means is if you have many intersectional victim checkboxes ticked, then you cannot victimize anyone who has fewer intersectional checkboxes ticked.
00:05:45.000So if you are a black woman and you say something terrible about a white woman, this is not a form of discrimination.
00:05:51.000It's totally fine because black women have more checkboxes than white women do.
00:05:58.000And this holds true throughout the intersectional hierarchy.
00:06:00.000So if you're a white person and you're racist against Asians, this means that you're terrible and racist because Asians are more diverse than you.
00:06:06.000But if you're a black person, you're racist against Asians.
00:06:09.000That's just something else that we won't actually kind of talk about because it's super awkward.
00:06:12.000So the point that Elon Musk is making here is quite true.
00:06:15.000And yet the media refused to acknowledge this, of course.
00:06:17.000And they say that it's quite terrible for Elon Musk to have said this.
00:06:20.000Now, the simple fact of the matter is the media are perfectly OK with racism so long as it is directed Against a supposedly more powerful group from a supposedly less powerful group.
00:06:34.000What I'm saying here can be well substantiated, and we'll do that in just one moment.
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00:07:41.000The simple fact of the matter is that if you took everything that Scott Adams said, As I said, you said it in reverse, you would have a starring slot on MSNBC.
00:07:49.000We could call you Ellie Mistal on MSNBC circa September 2022.
00:07:52.000Here he was with Tiffany Cross explaining that white people generally just white people generally get violent when they don't get their way.
00:07:59.000Now, again, if you replace the word white with black here, you get banned not only from TV, but from all public polite society.
00:08:05.000But if you're Eli Mistal, you can say exactly what you want about white people at any time.
00:08:10.000This is literally what conservative white folks do when they don't get their way.
00:08:16.000As a black man in this country, as a person who is aware of the black history in the new world, white people turn violent when they don't politically get their way all the damn time in this country.
00:08:29.000And so, from the perspective of a black person, I'm kind of like, welcome to the world that I've been living in, America, because now what we have is white domestic terrorists threatening to turn violence against non-black people, against everybody else, if the white supremacist ideology doesn't win the day and their white supremacist king is held accountable for crime.
00:08:50.000And I want to point out, Ellie, You're right, and you're not opining.
00:08:56.000I mean, that statement is rooted in history.
00:08:58.000In fact, if you are even a modest student of history, you have seen this scenario play out several times.
00:09:14.000Now, if anybody suggested the same thing about black people writ large, if they looked at the riots of 2020 and they said, okay, well, George Floyd died under the knee of a police officer, and then there were massive riots.
00:09:24.000All black Americans are to blame for all parts of that riot.
00:09:27.000Because when black people don't get their way, then black people get violent.
00:09:30.000That would be racist and people would see consequences.
00:09:34.000But if you are on the left and you say this sort of stuff about white people, it's considered factual.
00:09:41.000That's just straight American history.
00:09:43.000Or, for example, Jon Stewart, March 2022.
00:09:47.000Doing the typical malice struggle session where he has to side with an insane guest talking about the problem with white people writ large.
00:09:53.000You would never even hear that specific statement.
00:09:57.000The problem with black people writ large.
00:09:59.000You'd never hear that because it's racist.
00:10:01.000But if you say it about white people, not only is it okay, it's good.
00:11:10.000Again, if you ever use the phrase, every single black person, you are off TV.
00:11:14.000If you say every single white person, you're Jon Stewart, and we build statues of you in media halls.
00:11:20.000Robin DiAngelo, who's been trotted out as a source on these things, even though her book White Fragility is legitimately one of the worst books of all time.
00:11:27.000If you don't actually believe that, I did an entire podcast where I went through her book almost word for word, and it is insane.
00:11:34.000But here's Robyn D'Angelo, who has been quoted in The Proud Family.
00:11:37.000They literally hand a copy of Robyn D'Angelo, one character to another, in an animated Disney Plus show.
00:11:43.000Because that's how mainstream Robin DiAngelo is.
00:11:45.000Here she is explaining that it's totally fine to make fun of white people in comedy, but not black people in comedy, because racism against white people is not a thing because white people are powerful and black people are powerless.
00:11:56.000I think TV shows like Family Guy and South Park and maybe a little bit The Simpsons, right, allowed white people to be racist self-consciously, right?
00:12:08.000Like, I know I'm being racist and therefore it doesn't count and it's okay.
00:12:12.000And so I don't think it's benign to do it in a joking way.
00:12:16.000And there is a concept in comedy called punching up, not down.
00:12:22.000So, you know, you want to punch up, there's very different power dynamics and it doesn't hurt in the same way.
00:12:28.000It doesn't invoke a So you just can't make fun of people of color, but you certainly can make fun of white people.
00:12:37.000But it's very, very different when you poke fun at people of color.
00:12:41.000So you just can't make fun of people of color, but you certainly can make fun of white people.
00:12:46.000It's really, really important, actually, to make fun of white people because they're powerful.
00:12:57.000It's about the fact that people in the mainstream media say this sort of crap on a regular basis, and it is considered part of the mainstream conversation, so long as it is directed against white people.
00:13:06.000Here's Van Jones explaining that white people have a virus in their brain.
00:13:10.000So even the most liberal, well-intentioned white person has a virus in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant.
00:13:22.000And so what you're seeing now is a curtain falling away.
00:13:26.000Look in the mirror at how you choke off black opportunity.
00:14:20.000Or how about the very famous piece from Dana Brownlee?
00:14:23.000Dear white people, here are five uncomfortable truths black colleagues need you to know.
00:14:27.000Dear black people, here are five uncomfortable truths white colleagues need you to know.
00:14:30.000You think that would make it off the ground?
00:14:33.000Or how about Michael Harriot writing an entire piece called Black History According to White People in which he chastises a column from a guy at National Review and suggests that National Review's Peter Kersenow is racist because he has critiqued the 1619 Project only to later discover that Peter Kersenow is, in fact, a person of minority status.
00:14:52.000Or how about a piece from Umair Haq called This is Why Minorities and White People Can't Get Along in America, How White Rage is Still the Force that Controls Every Level of American Society.
00:15:03.000This has been a long-standing thing in the media.
00:16:59.000It can be very isolating if you're a person of color.
00:17:02.000It's hard in Nebraska because it's a red state.
00:17:05.000And so you just don't know who you interact with on a daily basis, if they believe that you're lesser, if you're inferior, and how that, in turn, can affect me.
00:17:15.000She says the current political climate has only made these feelings worse.
00:17:19.000So, she decided to go on a women of color healing retreat.
00:17:24.000For 10 days, black women come together to eat vegan food, meditate, do yoga.
00:17:29.000So many people's ideologies are being validated that don't see us as human, that don't see us as people.
00:17:39.000Okay, can I just point out for a second that if this were a bunch of white ladies who are eating vegan food, meditating, and going on vacations, like 10-day vacations with other white people, this would be the height of white privilege.
00:17:49.000But if you do this on Vice, then this is just, this is what people of color have to do in the United States to escape all the white people.
00:17:54.000And of course it goes back further than 2018.
00:17:57.0002015, BuzzFeed did an entire video with like 7 million views on it, questions for white people.
00:18:02.000Now again, you would never see a similar video from BuzzFeed, questions for black people.
00:18:06.000I understand that the left likes to say that you're not allowed to do the switch.
00:18:09.000You're not allowed to actually compare racism against blacks to racism against whites.
00:18:13.000Because the histories are so different.
00:18:49.000Why is it that white people always act as though they have discovered a new trend when people of color have been doing it for virtually years?
00:18:56.000Why is it when a black woman wears her hair natural, it's seen as inappropriate, but when a white woman does, it's praised?
00:19:03.000This is the hair that I was born with, so you wearing it as a trend is not cute.
00:19:08.000Why do you want to say the n-word so badly?
00:19:11.000If I don't use it, what makes you think you can?
00:19:14.000Why do you always want to touch our hair?
00:19:16.000Who told you it was okay to touch people without their permission?
00:19:19.000Why do you feel like having one black friend makes you a cultural expert or not a racist?
00:19:23.000Is your only black friend comfortable with being the reason why you can't be racist?
00:20:12.000Well, you can look at the polling data, and you can see exactly what happened.
00:20:15.000So, if you look at the polling data on how Americans feel on race relations, what you see is a very consistently, solidly majority feel that race relations are good up until the year 2014.
00:20:30.000Okay, among black adults, well over 60% of black adults pretty much continuously from 2001 all the way till 2013 think that race relations in America are good.
00:20:42.000And 70% or so of white Americans feel exactly the same way from 2001 all the way till 2013.
00:21:13.000Well, there was a year it was called 2014.
00:21:15.000And that happened to be the year that Barack Obama decided that he was going to inject himself into a fundamental narrative.
00:21:21.000over Michael Brown and the Ferguson riots in which he suggested that black people were systematically put upon in the United States and that his own presidency was not evidence that racism had been alleviated in the United States.
00:21:31.000In fact, it may even have been a cover for the continuation of racism in the United States.
00:21:35.000All the racial healing during the Obama era really was a magical, magical thing.
00:21:40.000And listen, this sort of thing, it has consequences.
00:21:43.000This has now bled down into, up into the highest levels of American society and down into the lowest levels of American society.
00:21:49.000This entrenched belief that racist language is okay, so long as it is directed against one group, but not against another group.
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00:23:04.000So this has bled down into the lowest levels of American society, where racism is considered de rigueur, depending on who it is directed against.
00:23:11.000And it has bled all the way up into the halls of presidential power.
00:23:14.000So yesterday, Joe Biden, he was doing an event on Black History Month because we are reaching the end of Black History Month.
00:23:20.000We're about to enter Women's History Month.
00:24:25.000It's not fine like 1970s fine where everybody make jokes about everybody else's race in an attempt to sort of get over racial awkwardness.
00:24:31.000There's Richard Pryor who is saying incredibly inflammatory stuff or Archie Bunker on your TV saying incredibly inflammatory stuff.
00:24:37.000We live now in a very civil society with regard to this sort of stuff except with regard to one particular kind of language and that kind of language is pretty clear to everyone.
00:24:46.000Meanwhile, by the way, it's bleeding over into policy as well.
00:24:48.000Aside from the Biden administration, which has decided that it is going to inject equity into literally every facet of the federal government, as we discussed last week, an executive order went out from the Biden administration suggesting that equity had to be the guiding principle of every agency in the federal government.
00:25:02.000And by equity, they mean intersectional group justice, meaning that if there is a less powerful group, then we must elevate that less powerful group via the means of government power.
00:25:12.000Now in San Francisco, they are now considering whether to give $5 million to each black resident of San Francisco, which would destroy their economy.
00:25:19.000I mean, frankly, I'm sort of a burn it all down type when it comes to San Franciscans actually pursuing their leftist utopianism, like go for it.
00:25:29.000Now apparently they're talking about getting $5 million to every black resident of San Francisco on the basis of past discrimination or on the belief that this is somehow going to heal racial divides or something.
00:25:46.000This is what our society now has to say about racism, is that racial preferences are not only okay, but morally favored, and that that ought to apply in pretty much every area of American life.
00:25:59.000Now, speaking of other things that our society has decided to do that are unbelievably stupid and counterproductive, we have decided that it is imperative that we celebrate every time a boy believes that he is a girl, and then has hormones and surgery to prove it.
00:26:10.000This, even if one of the kid's parents objects.
00:26:15.000So, according to People Magazine, a Los Angeles County judge has now signed off on Zaya Wade's petition to change her name as well as her legal transition.
00:26:27.000According to People.com, Dwayne Wade's daughter, because this is the way that the media, this is all so tied up in the media.
00:26:32.000Every major narrative for the media is about violating taboos and then normalizing the violation of those taboos.
00:26:41.000This is how it became okay to say the kinds of things that you see Eli Mistall saying on MSNBC.
00:26:45.000It's also the way that we are now supposed to immediately just adopt the perverse language of suggesting that a boy is a girl.
00:26:51.000So People Magazine says, Dwayne Wade's daughter, i.e.
00:26:54.000son, has been granted an official name change and assignment of gender, according to court documents obtained by People.
00:26:59.000While Zaya has gone by her name since 2020, her legal name is now Zaya Maliki Eramis Wade, according to a ruling filed in LA's Superior Court.
00:27:07.000The judge also granted an official stamp of approval for the 15-year-old's legal transition that would allow her sex markers on documents to match her gender identity.
00:27:17.000So all documents will now say female, despite the fact that Zaya is, in fact, a male.
00:27:29.000And the entire media are in celebration mode.
00:27:32.000They're in celebration mode despite the fact that Zaya's mom is really objecting to this sort of thing.
00:27:39.000And this has made heroes, of course, of Zaya's parents.
00:27:43.000Zaya's parents are Dwayne Wade, the former NBA star, and Gabrielle Union, the stepmom.
00:27:50.000Now Zaya's mom, Siobhan Funches Wade, alleged in a court filing last November that Dwayne was trying to profit from their daughter's outreach toward naming gender change.
00:28:01.000And he says, none of us are surprised by Siobhan's attempt to fight Zaya's identity and her unwavering attempt to drag my name through the mud.
00:28:07.000I'm very disappointed that she continually finds ways of centering herself and her needs without regard to her children.
00:28:13.000Now, imagine any father said that about any mother in any other context.
00:28:16.000That you're censoring your needs above the needs of your child.
00:28:29.000Continuing his statement, Wade detailed how Funch's Wade, 41, tried a similar attempt over a decade ago, and 13 lawyers later, I was awarded sole custody of our two kids as an active NBA player.
00:28:38.000All I ever wanted was to have my parenting time uninterrupted as I knew it would be a very difficult time for our kids to navigate the new normal.
00:28:46.000Wade first spoke about his teen daughter coming out as transgender on a 2020 episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
00:28:53.000At the time, Wade noted, his child had decided to go by the name of Ziya and be referred to by she-her pronouns.
00:28:58.000They were married for eight years, by the way, and they share a son along with Zaya.
00:29:03.000That, by the way, is the best way to treat a child with a serious issue of gender confusion, is to go on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and just talk about it openly in the year 2020, by the way.
00:29:15.000The year is now 2023, and apparently Zaya is now 15, which means that Zaya was actually 12 when Dwayne Wade decided to go on Ellen's Generous and explain about the transition.
00:29:28.000And this is all to be celebrated by the media.
00:30:04.000I know you feel like the world is against you, and sometimes that is actually true.
00:30:08.000But there are so many people out here who want you to have the fullest life possible.
00:30:13.000And I think especially for young trans youth, know that whatever hate you hear, there's so much love that washes over that, and people are fighting for you.
00:30:23.000There are people fighting for you to be away from your parents.
00:30:26.000The entire media has decided that they are going to now side against parents who believe that their children have immutable biological sex.
00:30:36.000That's the really important thing to take away from all of this.
00:30:38.000This is the direction that our media moves.
00:30:42.000They live within a certain bubble, and in that bubble, A certain set of values is the norm.
00:30:47.000That set of values suggests that certain types of racism are okay and certain types of racism are not.
00:30:51.000That set of values suggests that boys can be girls, girls can become boys, and parents who refuse to acknowledge this pseudo-reality are apparently child abusers.
00:31:00.000And what you need is activists and authors coming in to explain to you that your parents are wrong, but you, in your internal subjective feeling, you will be made whole by a media that is there to cuddle you and give you hugs.
00:31:11.000I mean, by the way, they don't give two damns about you for the length of your life.
00:31:15.000And the simple fact of the matter is, according to all available data, like all available data, the rates of suicidal ideation, the rates of suicidality among LGBTQ youth are way, way higher than among heterosexual youth, and that is not because of quote-unquote mistreatment.
00:31:31.000That has much more to do with the fact that there is a high comorbidity between certain types of identification and behavior and actual depression.
00:31:39.000We acknowledge this in literally every other area of life, but it's politically and politics to say that sort of thing when it comes to LGBTQ identification and behavior.
00:31:48.000They have your best interests at heart as always, as always.
00:31:50.000Now, speaking of people who have your best interests at heart, it is fairly amazing that Disney has decided to blow itself out, you know, and talk about people who are targeting your kids.
00:32:00.000I am continually amazed by the fact that Disney, perhaps the most trusted brand in American life up till about 10 years ago, has decided that it is imperative to insert left-wing politics into every aspect of their being.
00:32:15.000It is like an incredible brand betrayal.
00:32:18.000As somebody who is a big Disney fan, as somebody who loves Disney legacy properties, as somebody who was a Disneyland annual pass member along with my wife and our kids, It is amazing how they decided to blow themselves out in order to please the woke contingent.
00:32:32.000Well now, Governor Ron DeSantis, he is taking the final step to remove the special tax dispensations that were given to Disney World.
00:32:40.000According to the Wall Street Journal, DeSantis signed into law legislation ending Walt Disney Company's control of a special tax district in New Orlando and named new members to the state control board that now governs it.
00:32:50.000Here was Ron DeSantis explaining that Disney will now be treated like SeaWorld.
00:32:55.000Local politicians, particularly in Orange County, were saying that that would mean that the debt of Disney would get dumped on their taxpayers, they would have to do services, and it would cause major property tax increases for people in Central Florida.
00:33:13.000A lot of media reported that that would happen, and I said that will not happen.
00:33:17.000And so, even though, and I'll announce here who's going to be running Disney on behalf of the state.
00:33:24.000Even though I would like eventually the local government to just take this, I was not going to put taxpayers at risk and I did not trust them to be able to handle this at this point.
00:33:34.000Now, DeSantis has taken all sorts of crap for this.
00:33:38.000But the simple fact of the matter is Disney was given corporate favoritism because again, Disney was a favorite.
00:33:44.000Disney was like an unmitigated apolitical boon to the state of Florida.
00:33:48.000And then they decided that it was very important that they become invested in politics.
00:33:51.000And at that point, I'm sorry, your special dispensations go away.
00:33:53.000F around and find out is the message from Governor DeSantis.
00:33:56.000And that happens to be correct as the woke corporations decide to insert themselves in every area of American life.
00:34:02.000In just one second, we'll get to Abigail Disney, who had something rather insane to say.
00:34:08.000Not about this particular topic, but about other topics.
00:34:10.000First, let's talk about a fact about me.
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00:35:10.000Also, standing at 6'4", Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president.
00:35:14.000Already towering over the men of his era, a young girl once asked Lincoln why he always wore such a tall stovepipe hat that made him look even taller.
00:35:20.000Honest Abe looked down at her, removed his hat, showed her inside and said, to better store Jeremy's razors.
00:35:27.000These are the important moments in history that the left would prefer to make you forget.
00:35:30.000But while the left cancels our history, Jeremy's razors celebrates it.
00:35:33.000This is why we are still offering 30% off any razor during our President's Day sale.
00:35:37.000But you have to act fast because the sale ends tonight.
00:36:14.000Okay, meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is now appointed an oversight board for the tax district.
00:36:19.000Named as chairman of the board is Martin Garcia, a Tampa attorney, head of a private investment firm and a Republican donor.
00:36:24.000He also appointed Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
00:36:27.000She's a member of the Sarasota County School Board.
00:36:30.000Also tapped Michael Sasso, an attorney in Winter Park who was previously named to a judicial nominating commission.
00:36:35.000Brian Angst, a Boyer and Clearwater, who was previously named to another judicial nominating commission, and Ron Perry, chief executive of The Gathering USA, which is a ministry.
00:36:43.000The newly constituted board will meet for the first time this week.
00:36:45.000Among its priorities will be to ensure that Disney pays its fair share of taxes to fund the infrastructure projects in the region so that nobody is paying for Disney's privileges.
00:36:54.000All of this is perfectly appropriate, given the fact that Disney has decided to go woke.
00:36:58.000By the way, I will be fascinated to see if Bob Iger runs this one back.
00:37:02.000So Bob Iger is to blame for the wokeness of Disney in the first place.
00:37:05.000Bob Chapek ran Disney for about five seconds there, and he's getting all the blame.
00:37:08.000And then Bob Iger came in like a white knight.
00:37:19.000The first indicator is going to be, it'll be interesting to see whether he goes for it, there's a lot of chatter online about Frozen 3.
00:37:24.000So Disney announced they're going to do Frozen 3.
00:37:26.000They're also doing Toy Story 5, which shows they have nothing left in the tank.
00:37:28.000Toy Story 4 was very clearly the concluding episode of that series.
00:37:31.000They're making Toy Story 5 because Lightyear was such a giant fail due to their attempt to shoehorn in a bunch of LGBTQ messaging to small children.
00:37:40.000Well, it'll be fascinating to see if Bob Iger is willing and able to withstand the anger of his own woke employees if they don't make Ilsa an open lesbian in Frozen 3, which has always been the push of the hardcore cultural left.
00:37:54.000Again, it is amazing how the new generation of Disney just feeds off the body of the old generation of Disney.
00:37:58.000You can see this, by the way, in the actual Disney commercial for the Super Bowl.
00:38:02.000The entire Disney commercial for the Super Bowl was legacy properties.
00:38:04.000It was like Pinocchio and Peter Pan and Aladdin, like all the things they put warning labels on.
00:38:09.000There's none of the new Proud family in that because no one cares about that.
00:38:13.000The only thing people like about Disney is legacy properties.
00:38:15.000The thing they don't like is all the wokeness.
00:38:17.000So we'll see if Bob Iger is willing to let the stockholders actually have their way.
00:38:23.000Worth noting here that the new generation of Disney, people like Abigail Disney, if you could encapsulate sort of the liberal, upper-crossed, highly educated white women who make up a huge part of the Democratic Party base, Abigail Disney is that, right?
00:40:01.000I am proud to announce that all of the left's insanity about how Donald Trump is responsible for the derailing of that train over in Ohio under Joe Biden, because Joe Biden is currently the president, and how he's to blame for the fact that Pete Buttigieg is an incompetent, pathetic, mewling, silly of a human.
00:40:19.000That Pete Buttigieg, who spends all day doing photo ops but couldn't be bothered to go over to East Palestine, then whines that he's expected to go over to East Palestine.
00:40:27.000They all tried to blame Donald Trump for this.
00:41:15.000They were or if they were relevant, they were not affected by this particular train crash.
00:41:20.000So that is, in fact, you know, just another episode of the media deciding to go after Trump for mainly because that is their constant misdirect.
00:41:29.000If something goes wrong with Joe Biden, it must be Trump's fault.
00:41:31.000So even Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post is like, nah, that's that's not a good thing.
00:41:34.000OK, meanwhile, We have some some bad news, unfortunately, for President Trump.
00:41:39.000So President Trump, who, again, he's still doing quite well overall in the Republican primary polls.
00:41:44.000He's running neck and neck with Ron DeSantis.
00:41:46.000And he has these great moments like he's Palestinian.
00:42:08.000It's Ron DeSanctis, which I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
00:42:12.000And then he says, reminds me of 2016 when they were pushing Jeb, the new Fox Bowl, which have always been purposefully terrible for me, has Trump crushing the sanctimonious, but they barely show it.
00:42:22.000Instead, they go with losers like Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, and now even Jesper, who have been wrong about everything.
00:42:29.000Isn't there a big, beautiful network which wants to do well and make a fortune besides fake news?
00:42:35.000So first of all, I would like to point out here, I'm perfectly willing to point out the various polls.
00:42:40.000Some show DeSantis doing better than Trump.
00:42:43.000There's some nationally that show Trump doing better than DeSantis.
00:42:46.000Also, if your idea as Donald Trump is that Fox News has been insufficiently kind to you over the past several years, yeah, that's a dog that ain't gonna hunt.
00:42:54.000He tried and succeeded in this routine, by the way, in 2015-2016, when he ripped into Megyn Kelly for asking him some questions he didn't like during the primary debates, and all the rest.
00:43:02.000But, I'm sorry, Whiny Trump is not the Trump who's going to win.
00:43:05.000Whiny Trump, when directed against media that we all don't like, is not— It's not a bad thing.
00:43:10.000Like him complaining about CNN and calling it fake news is one thing.
00:43:13.000Him saying like Fox News is fake news.
00:43:17.000And meanwhile, other Republican presidential candidates trying to jump into the race.
00:43:22.000It is my belief that right now, before DeSantis jumps in, it's effectively a two-person race.
00:43:28.000People do not want a multi-person race.
00:43:30.000In the Republican Party, Trump's obviously the center of mass.
00:43:34.000And then People would like a second candidate that they can just one-on-one, mano-a-mano, figure out which one they like.
00:43:40.000I don't think people want a crowded race.
00:43:42.000I don't think that they want 12 candidates.
00:43:44.000It's fine for there to be 12 candidates in the race, but this feel-better winnow right quick, because I don't think that a lot of Republican voters are going to be satisfied with any primary candidate sneaking through with 31% of the vote or something.
00:43:54.000While Tim Scott is trying to throw his hat in the ring, maybe.
00:43:57.000So the senator from South Carolina, he visited Iowa, and he's been doing an inspiring message tour.
00:44:03.000Now listen, I like Tim Scott, and I think that his message is, in fact, inspiring.
00:44:06.000So I think that he's the right man for the time.
00:44:08.000I don't think so, because I think, frankly, that he's a pretty conciliatory fellow.
00:44:12.000I'm not sure this is a conciliatory time.
00:44:29.000Is it realistic to believe that you or any other politician can get us out of our corners and get people back to a place where there isn't so much division?
00:44:36.000In today's society, the progressive left is trying to make America into a grievance culture, when in fact we've always stood on the foundation of greatness.
00:44:47.000Our original sin should never define us because the story of redemption is what we've been living for more than 50 plus years.
00:44:55.000The greatest story of progress in the world is American progress in the last 50 years.
00:45:04.000I'm just not sure that now is the moment for it, considering how negatively people feel about pretty much everything.
00:45:11.000He's been talking about how he would like to run for president right now, and he's been doing the tour on all this.
00:45:17.000We'll have to see if he gains any traction, but as I said before, I think that this race is going to come down largely to two people, unless somehow one of them implodes.
00:45:25.000And meanwhile, Joe Biden is falling apart.
00:45:28.000It is amazing how his his wokeness steps in kind of repeatedly to quash what would be his blue collar bona fides.
00:47:17.000One of the things that he touted in the middle of his State of the Union address was the so-called Chips Act.
00:47:22.000Now, this was an act that had some bipartisan support because there are a lot of people in the United States who are looking abroad, and what they are seeing is that China is threatening Taiwan.
00:47:29.000Virtually all sophisticated microchips are actually manufactured in Taiwan.
00:47:46.000And so a lot of people are looking at that.
00:47:47.000And they're looking at South Korea where there are another 4% of sophisticated microchips being manufactured.
00:47:51.000And they say, we need to reshore some of that process because frankly, if things go south along the supply lines over there, then we're all going to be in real trouble in our markets.
00:48:15.000But if you're going to do that and you're going to say it's a national security issue, presumably your top priority ought to be the national security of manufacturing the chips.
00:48:23.000So according to the Washington Post, Chipmakers are now going to have to provide child care plans to seek federal money.
00:48:29.000I know what you were thinking was, I wanted to make sure that my computer or my phone or my car or my microwave or literally anything else in the United States that relies on microchips, I just want to make sure those devices work.
00:48:39.000And that's what you were thinking yourself.
00:48:41.000And that's why we're expending oodles of taxpayer money to make sure that we can manufacture those over here.
00:48:46.000Well, Joe Biden is thinking, but is there a child care plan?
00:48:51.000That's the thing that we are most concerned with.
00:48:53.000According to the Washington Post, computer chip companies requesting millions from the federal government to build factories will have to outline a childcare plan for workers, according to the Commerce Department.
00:49:01.000Companies seeking more than $150 million in subsidies, part of what was allocated in the $52 billion CHIPS Act signed last year, will need to notify the federal government how they plan to provide childcare to their employees and construction workers.
00:49:13.000According to department spokeswoman Kaitlin Legacki, again, there is no such thing as a government program without massive grift.
00:49:19.000And that's essentially what this is, that you have to be a Democrat allied firm doing all the work.
00:49:50.000In order to get a bid into the federal government to build a chip-making facility, you now have to have a full child care plan for the workers who don't exist in your firm.
00:50:00.000The administration had proposed lowering child care costs for families as part of Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan.
00:50:06.000The child care requirement for semiconductor makers, which was reported by the New York Times earlier on Monday, would affect a relatively small number of people in the United States, but would extend beyond direct employees of the makers to construction workers for the plants as well.
00:50:17.000So in order for us to hedge against the threat of China, we now need chip makers that have childcare plans.
00:50:23.000Just genius level stuff from Joe Biden.
00:50:25.000Meanwhile, by the way, Joe Biden has dumped tons and tons and tons of money into his green agenda, right?
00:50:30.000The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which was designed to hedge against carbon-based fossil fuel emissions.
00:50:37.000It was the biggest green investment in American history, according to Joe Biden and company.
00:50:41.000Well, it turns out that he wanted, he said he was going to create jobs.
00:50:44.000And just like during Barack Obama's tenure, when he kept saying that green jobs, there'll be green jobs, he made Dan Jones, the green jobs czar.
00:50:51.000And then it turned out there were no green jobs.
00:50:53.000And well, now it's turning out that there is, there just aren't people to actually even fill these jobs.
00:50:59.000According to Politico, the same booming labor market that has given Joe Biden the lowest unemployment rate since the 60s is also creating a hiring bottleneck for the same construction and manufacturing companies central to his climate agenda.
00:51:09.000In other words, they've dumped a bunch of money in, and there are more than 100,000 clean energy job openings, and there is no one to fill them.
00:51:17.000construction industry is still short 413,000 workers as of December, and 764,000 manufacturing sector jobs remain open.
00:51:24.000So genius-level stuff creating inflation in order to reduce inflation.
00:51:29.000Amazing stuff there from Joe Biden, as per our usual arrangement.
00:51:32.000This, of course, has led the Democratic Party and their apparatchiks in the media into trying to figure out what exactly is the pitch for the Democratic Party at this point, because we're about to hit a very, very rough economy.
00:51:42.000Turns out that the war in Ukraine is just going to continue ad infinitum, apparently.
00:51:48.000They don't actually have anybody except for Joe Biden.
00:51:51.000And so they have to make excuses for the fact that this is a doddering old man who isn't particularly good at his job.
00:51:54.000So Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC, for example, she says, why do you keep making fun of Joe Biden's age?
00:51:58.000My mom was using a chainsaw into her 80s.
00:52:02.000The other part of this is that, you know, it's the age question, which I know is uncomfortable to talk about, but, you know, it's a huge issue for most Democrats.
00:53:06.000Yeah, I'm sure that Joe Biden with the chainsaw will go just splendidly.
00:53:10.000Meanwhile, Tony Deutch also suggesting that Democrats are going to be able to run in 2024 on being the party of competence, which ignores their incompetence.
00:53:18.000One woman who's now running the Michigan GOP, a party that just got wiped out last time, she lost her race in 2022 by 14 points and still hasn't conceded.
00:53:32.000Look, the problem you got is that the freaks and the insurrectionists and the nutjobs, the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world, they're the ones raising the money.
00:53:38.000So their individual needs are being met, yet the party suffers.
00:53:42.000And you also, when you mentioned that the Democratic state senator, you contrast that with the blocking and tackling that the Democrats are doing, starting with our president.
00:53:51.000And whether you look at it, whether you look at jobs, whether you look at unemployment, Whether you look at a climate bill, whether you look at a Bill Back Better, whether you look at an Inflation Reduction Act, whether you look at a Climate Act, it's just you've got one party that's the lug nut, nut job party, and the other party, which is the party of competence.
00:54:22.000They don't have anybody else on the table.
00:54:24.000There's literally a Department of Transportation watchdog that is now auditing Pete Buttigieg's use of government jets.
00:54:30.000Pete Buttigieg is done as a national figure.
00:54:31.000The East Palestine, Ohio thing finished him.
00:54:34.000Meanwhile, they're so uncomfortable about Kamala Harris in the Democratic Party that Greg Craig, a lawyer who served under both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, has a piece in the Washington Times, in the New York Times today.
00:54:45.000Asking if there can be a primary for the vice president.
00:54:50.000This is how much he's uncomfortable with Kamala Harris.
00:54:52.000Quote, if the party were to give Democratic voters a role in picking the vice presidential nominee, it would have to rely on the primaries and caucuses to make the decision.
00:55:00.000Divisions in the party would be on display and even deepen.
00:55:02.000A charismatic candidate like AOC might inspire the base and sweep the field.
00:55:06.000And perhaps most important, the inevitable messiness of the contest would make it appear the aging president and his team were not in charge.
00:55:11.000But, at the same time, it can't be Kamala Harris.
00:55:13.000I mean, this is how scared they are of the people who are behind Joe Biden.
00:55:18.000So they're gonna prop up this old buffoon.
00:55:20.000They're gonna John Fetterman this guy as much as they have to.
00:55:24.000Alrighty, time for some things I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:57:16.000And it's just really been negative, man.
00:57:17.000to talk about how America is failing people because mass shootings take place in the United States on ABC.
00:57:27.000Lost a lot of friends. Eight students were killed. Two teachers were killed. And it's just really been negative, man. Santa Fe's had a bad rap here since 2018. What you doing, Katie?
00:58:07.000Um, so, I'm just gonna point out this is American Idol, is it not?
00:58:12.000Um, so, yes, we all don't like mass shootings, but our country has effing failed us, and Katy Perry, who is worth $330 million, apparently, weeping openly because our country has failed us.
00:58:25.000There's a baseline notion in the United States that has somehow taken root in a huge number of Americans that any bad thing that happens in life, terrible things, people who are evil, doing evil, insane things like a mass shooting of children, for example, that these things are things where if they happen, the country has failed us.
00:58:43.000That the government has failed us in some way.
00:58:46.000That the system has failed us in some way.
00:58:58.000And so the idea is the system as a whole has failed us.
00:59:00.000Listen, I think we can all feel as emotionally strongly as Katy Perry does about when evil things happen, being horrified by them.
00:59:08.000But the channeling of that into the country has effing failed us the country has effing failed all of us is a little much again coming from like the same system of freedoms that exists in the United States that allows for Katy Perry to be Katy Perry.
00:59:24.000You know that that system is not capable and no system really is as it turns out of preventing all evil in the universe.
00:59:36.000The sort of compared to what syndrome.
00:59:38.000And people on the left, politically, they never do the compared to what syndrome.
00:59:42.000They never say compared to what other system other than the United States is preferable.
00:59:46.000And if you want to say it, just say it.
00:59:48.000If Katy Perry literally wants to call for confiscation of literally all guns in the United States, which is what she presumably wants, then just do it.
00:59:55.000But what is highly irritating is this, not the emotional response, the emotional response that leads to a notion That you should be able to blame the entire system without any reference to a solution.
01:00:45.000So David Hogg, who famously got into Harvard because he was present at Parkland when the mass shooting occurred.
01:00:53.000He was rejected from Harvard and then he reapplied based on the mass shooting and the fact that he was a prominent activist and then he got in and he tweeted out, you have no right to a gun.
01:01:22.000You do, in fact, have a right to a gun.
01:01:24.000And the militia is not, in fact, the nationally run National Guard.
01:01:28.000Militias at the time of the founding were, in fact, rather informal gatherings of people within the states, all of whom owned guns in their homes.
01:01:37.000So he's just wrong on the facts about all of this.
01:01:41.000But my favorite thing about David Hogg is his follow up.
01:01:44.000So David Hogg followed this up by saying, well, you know, are you saying that we're coming for your guns or are you saying that we're incompetent?
01:02:02.000The do something routine, it grows quite old because it turns out that in the real world, you actually have to have serious solutions to the problems.
01:02:13.000But it's amazing, because again, the virtue signal of just showing emotion about a bad thing that happened is so strong in American culture.
01:02:22.000One time, and it was kind of an event about climate change.
01:02:26.000And many of the people who were talking were experts on climate change.
01:02:28.000I'm talking like climatologists from MIT or Caltech, and they were talking about climate change and they were saying many of the things that I say on the show.
01:02:34.000Many of the things I say on the show are things like, I don't have to doubt the IPCC estimates with regard to the possibilities, the range of climate change over the course of the century to suggest that many of the solutions that are being proposed just don't work.
01:02:45.000And there was a very, very famous celebrity who then got up and started yelling at the climate experts.
01:03:06.000And it's super important that I've done these things.
01:03:09.000And everybody in the room recognized that what this person was saying had no impact on climate change.
01:03:13.000And in fact, this person probably their carbon emissions, I would say the person taking some private jets, their carbon emissions exceed whatever mitigations were taken at this person's property.
01:03:23.000But the response in the room was clapping.
01:03:28.000You clap for the people who don't actually have a connection with a political reality.
01:03:33.000You clap for those people, you cheer for those people, because again, the tears matter more than the solutions.
01:03:38.000That is not a way to generate actual political solutions in the country.
01:03:43.000But I think we're a country that may have moved beyond political solutions.
01:03:45.000And now it's just about the emotivism.
01:03:47.000Because again, the implication of when Katy Perry does that sort of stuff is that if you disagree with her on her proposed solutions, which she doesn't even articulate, it's because you don't care.