Gavin Newsom is launching his Redistricting effort in the most colorful possible way. President Trump is unleashing ice right outside that redistricting effort, which is highly amusing. Plus, we get to Taylor Swift s album, and male cheerleaders in the NFL, and all the rest.
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00:01:38.000Well, Gavin Newsom, the California governor, he is running for the nomination for the Democratic Party in 2028, and he has a plan, a redistricting plan.
00:01:49.000He is acting all hot and bothered about the fact that the Texas state legislature is going to redistrict, which they are allowed to do by all available and applicable law in the state of Texas.
00:01:59.000California, they're really not supposed to do this.
00:02:00.000In California, the state constitution says that you redistrict every 10 years with the census, and also that there is an independent commission that is supposed to be doing the redistricting.
00:02:10.000Well, now Gavin Newsom has decided it's his moment.
00:02:13.000Now, Gavin Newsom believes that it's always his moment.
00:02:19.000Just in the last few months, you've had the Gavin Newsom moment over the fires where he blamed President Trump somehow for giant fires that were happening in his state.
00:02:28.000And then you had the Gavin Newsom moment over illegal immigration, where he claimed that President Trump was trying to fascistically take over the state of California.
00:02:34.000And now the third Gavin Newsom moment in the past six months, he is now claiming that he is going to redistrict the state of California in order to fight back against those evil Texas state legislators who are attempting to redistrict and put the state more in line with its actual political proclivities.
00:02:51.000Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, California Democrats are planning their own redistricting effort to counter President Trump's push for a new congressional map in Texas to create more Republican House seats.
00:03:01.000So he laid out a plan on Thursday to redraw the state's congressional maps to put Democrats in position to flip five seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
00:03:09.000He called for a special November 4th election to put the maps before California voters.
00:03:14.000And he said we have to meet fire with fire.
00:03:16.000Here he was yesterday explaining his plan.
00:03:19.000We'll be asking for the people on November 4th, a special election, coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections, to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps.
00:03:32.000We will affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census, but we're asking the voters for their consent to do midterm redistricting in 2026, 2028, and 2030 for the congressional maps to respond to what's happening in Texas, to respond what Trump is trying to excite.
00:03:56.000Now, you might be saying to yourself, wait, hold up.
00:03:58.000I thought that California was one of the states that has an independent redistricting commission in an attempt to prevent things like what Gavin Newsom is doing right now.
00:04:10.000And also, California does not have very many Republican seats in the first place.
00:04:14.000In fact, the state of California is split about 60, 40, Democrats who Republican, but Democrats hold an extraordinary number of seats in the state of California.
00:04:30.000Well, as a response to President Trump's supposed craziness, here's Gavin Newsom suggesting we have to fight fire with fire, which again is sort of a bad metaphor for him to be using considering his state is legitimately and literally on fire every couple of months, thanks to his forestation policies.
00:04:49.000We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt.
00:04:53.000And we have got to meet fire with fire.
00:04:56.000And we've got to be held to a higher level of accountability.
00:05:03.000We're doing this in reaction to a president of the United States that called a sitting governor of the state of Texas and said, find me five seats.
00:05:12.000California currently has 52 congressional seats and 43 of them are held by Democrats.
00:05:17.000So that's a lot more than the percentage of the population of California that is actually Democrat.
00:05:23.000So they're going to fight fire with fire by doing more of what California has been doing all along.
00:05:27.000Just to demonstrate, by the way, what a sham the Independent Redistricting Commission is generally in the state of California, because California is indeed fairly highly gerrymandered.
00:05:36.000The independent redistricting commissioner, Sarah Sadwani, showed up to say that her authority should be taken away from her and they should simply redraw the maps without any independent redistricting authority, which shows how independent she was in the first place.
00:05:48.000Not that she's a Democratic tool or anything.
00:05:52.000We have witnessed masked gunmen kidnapping our neighbors off the streets.
00:05:57.000And my understanding is they're outside waiting to do it again.
00:06:05.000We have seen not just the toleration of political violence, but the encouragement of it on January 6th against nonpartisan election officials and the deployment of the National Guard in our cities, turning our cities into police states.
00:06:25.000And if that wasn't enough, we are watching executive overreach that no doubt is making our founding fathers turn in their graves.
00:06:36.000So she seems like a very independent commissioner.
00:06:38.000She probably is not a Democrat at all, probably, by the way.
00:06:42.000Her normal day job is that she is a professor of politics, specializing in Asian American and Latino voting behavior elections, interest groups, and representation at Pomona College.
00:06:50.000So obviously, this is a person with no political priors at all.
00:06:54.000Now, there is a problem for the Democrats in California, and that is that the Californian voters are not particularly interested in doing any of this.
00:07:02.000According to a new poll, by a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state's House seats.
00:07:08.000Only 36% of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.
00:07:14.000Jack Citron, a veteran political science professor at UC Berkeley, said, quote, it's not surprising in the sense that California has voted twice for this independent review commission not all that long ago.
00:07:22.000There's a lot of mistrust and cynicism about politicians and the legislature, and that is reflected here.
00:07:35.000If he wants to take the California Democrats from 43 of 52 possible seats in California to 48 of 52 possible seats in California, now that's nothing new.
00:07:47.000He was just prevented by the California Constitution from doing it.
00:07:49.000And if, in fact, the voters stop him, well, he can still say he tried his best, which is the most important thing because Gavin Newsom is interested in one thing and one thing only, and that is running for president in 2028, which is why he continues to promote the lie that President Trump is going to run for an unconstitutional third term in 2028.
00:08:07.000Here is Gavin Newsom doing this regime yesterday.
00:08:10.000I said it a moment ago, wake up, America.
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00:11:28.000According to MediaIT, federal immigration officials detained at least one person outside of Governor Gavin Newsom's speech on Thursday, discussing the Texas push to redistrict its congressional map, according to the local news.
00:11:38.000Newsom's office posted images of ICE agents outside the event.
00:11:41.000And then he wrote, Trump's private army is illegally on private property.
00:11:45.000We will not be intimidated by this weak little man.
00:11:47.000Three exclamation points, all capital letters.
00:11:53.000Apparently, U.S. Border Patrol Sector Commander Gregory Bovino spoke to NBC Los Angeles and told them they were, quote, conducting roving immigration enforcement patrols in the area, and one person was taken into custody.
00:12:05.000The report added that the video filmed in the area should masked U.S. Border Patrol agents taking man into custody near several federal buildings in the area, one of which includes a detention center.
00:12:15.000So Gavin Newsom told the crowd, apparently, that it was not a coincidence.
00:12:20.000He said, Donald Trump's minions, Tom Homan, decided this was the location.
00:12:32.000Here is the footage of Border Patrol outside the presser on redistricting.
00:12:38.000Border Patrol has arrived just outside of the downtown LA venue where Governor Gavin Newsom was actually holding a press conference today.
00:12:47.000And it appears that those Border Patrol agents are making arrests, illegal immigrants.
00:12:52.000I don't know if they were at this press conference, if they were in the area, but this is a very, as John put it, we first saw this video, a very in-your-face way to let Democrats know that you are going to do your job, that you're going to carry out these Trump policies.
00:13:10.000Well, the Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noam, was on Fox News as this footage was airing, and here's what she had to say about the situation.
00:13:17.000Every single one of our ICE and Border Patrol operations is built on information, on investigative work.
00:13:24.000It's a case and an operation that has been planned because of who they think could be in that area And what they have for information that shows that there are illegal criminals there.
00:13:33.000Remember, we're focusing on the worst of the worst.
00:13:36.000So I don't know specific to what information that they had for that operation that they planned today, but it was based on the investigative work that all law enforcement officers do for every single operation they conduct to make sure that they're getting dangerous criminals off our streets.
00:13:51.000Okay, so apparently this was not enough for Democrats.
00:13:56.000If President Trump came out in favor of getting rid of cancer, if he started some sort of Operation Warp Speed to fight cancer, Democrats would come out in favor of cancer.
00:14:07.000They are coming out in favor of crime, illegal immigration, and every other 80-20 issue.
00:14:11.000They are taking 20% simply if Trump takes the 80% issue and in the dumbest possible way.
00:14:17.000So, in what has to amount to the stupidest protest I've ever seen, yesterday there was a man whose name is Sean Charles Dunn, who approached law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and began yelling obscenities and calling them fascists.
00:14:31.000And then, if you can't see this video, he is holding a sandwich and he chucks his sandwich at one of the officers and then tries to take off down the street.
00:14:43.000He looks like he's coming straight from his golf game at the local club.
00:14:47.000He's wearing like a pink polo shirt or a pink button down, and then he just chucks his sandwich and now he takes off down the street with the grace of a gazelle.
00:15:54.000According to the Washington Post, in court documents filed on Wednesday.
00:15:58.000Police allege that Sean Charles Dunn approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities and calling them fascists.
00:16:07.000And then he threw a sandwich at one of the officers.
00:16:10.000He was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and employees of the United States.
00:16:15.000After his arrest, after his arrest, Dunn allegedly told one of the officers, quote, I did it.
00:16:28.000Hero of the day, you tossed your lunch.
00:16:32.000Pam Bondi, the attorney general, posted on X, if you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you.
00:16:37.000This is an example of the deep state we've been up against for seven months as we work to refocus the DOJ.
00:16:42.000And apparently, he will be charged with a felony who's a paralegal and worked as an international affairs specialist in the criminal division of the DOJ.
00:16:51.000So he could do up to eight years in prison.
00:16:54.000He gave only a few brief answers to the magistrate judge's questions, but smiled as he conferred with his defense attorney after the court agreed to release him on his own recognizance for now.
00:17:04.000So apparently the government sent 20 police officers to his home.
00:17:09.000Apparently, he's an Air Force veteran.
00:17:11.000The lawyer said he did absolutely the most responsible thing by trying to surrender.
00:17:18.000So apparently the reason this got caught on tape is because a person on Instagram saw this person shouting at Border Patrol and they turned on their phone and then he chants shame and then he walks back and heaves a sandwich at the officers.
00:17:32.000So solid stuff there, solid stuff there from Democrats and their allies in the DOJ who will no longer have a job.
00:17:41.000Meanwhile, the federal government continues to arrest human traffickers in Los Angeles.
00:17:49.000In a partnered investigation, including the DOJ, Homeland Security, and LAPD, 11 suspects across LA were targeted in a RICO case at a downtown motel used to allegedly sell women, federal agents surrounded one of their 11 suspects and took him into custody.
00:18:06.000Police say during the operation, they also rescued four victims, including a minor.
00:18:11.000Federal investigators say a female, Amaya Armstead, who goes by the street name Lady Duck, was a lead target and prolific human trafficker.
00:18:19.000Her moniker even tattooed on at least four victims' bodies.
00:18:25.000We must throw sandwiches in order to protect these people.
00:18:30.000And Democrats are doing a wonderful job of taking every 20% issue.
00:18:33.000Speaking of which, in Washington, D.C., President Trump has been utilizing federal law enforcement and federalization of the police forces to get rid of gigantic homeless incampers on Thursday, according to the Washington Post, President Trump promised to have the crime situation in D.C. solved very soon.
00:18:50.000Pam Bonni, the AG, has directed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the police department to submit to a new governing structure with Terry Cole, a Trump appointee, as the emergency police commissioner.
00:19:00.000Apparently, a White House official says federal operations will run 24 hours a day rather than simply focusing on nighttime hours and will target high crime areas and known hotspots.
00:19:09.000There were also stepped up efforts to address the tents and other visible signs of homelessness that have long seized President Trump's attention.
00:19:15.000By the way, I mean, for quality of life, you should not have to live in a city where homeless encampments overrun every sidewalk and every underpass.
00:19:25.000Public parks should not just be gigantic homeless encampments.
00:19:27.000That's what L.A. turned into, and it was a bleep show.
00:19:36.000President Trump spoke from the Oval Office, and he said that National Guard troops can make a meaningful difference because he says they're common sense.
00:19:56.000Now, National Guard members are not armed.
00:19:58.000They're not going to be conducting law enforcement activities.
00:20:01.000They're not going to be arresting people because that is not what they are empowered to do.
00:20:06.000However, nobody is going to be messing around by violating the law right in front of the National Guard.
00:20:11.000That'd be a dumb move because they are working in concert with local law enforcement.
00:20:16.000Apparently, the National Park Service also regularly cleared homeless encampments on federal land in the district.
00:20:24.000Caroline Levitt has said two encampments remain in the National Park Service jurisdiction in D.C., and she said the removal of those two remaining camps is in fact scheduled for this week.
00:20:33.000Members of the D.C. Health and Human Services team began clearing an encampment on Thursday morning on a grassy no man's land near the Kennedy Center after giving the residents a day notice to remove their belongings.
00:20:43.000And they sent a bunch of caterpillars to basically run over whatever tents were remaining and take them away.
00:20:52.000Now, again, this is not a violation of law.
00:20:55.000This is all in concert with the Home Act of Washington, D.C. It's all in concert with the Constitution of the United States.
00:21:03.000The Trump administration is also going to be utilizing federal law enforcement to effectuate immigration policy in Washington, D.C. in a stricter way.
00:21:12.000So President Trump, according to Axios, has deployed the National Guard to L.A., sent the National Guard to the southern border, and he's going to target five other Democrat-led cities in a campaign against crime.
00:21:22.000Federal officers aren't generally doing civilian law enforcement, but they are going to be able to back up local law enforcement.
00:21:32.000The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits federal military troops from participating in civilian law enforcement.
00:21:36.000The Insurrection Act is the primary exception that allows in cases of riot or insurrection for the National Guard to be activated to do that sort of stuff.
00:21:44.000But FBI agents are helping to arrest civilians, according to a post from FBI Director Cash Patel.
00:21:50.000And when it comes to the National Guard, they do have broad latitude, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
00:21:56.000And in the event that police officers aren't around, Guard members will have to have their back to ensure they can take the necessary action to protect the citizens of D.C. So, again, it is more about putting additional boots on the ground.
00:22:09.000Now, amazingly, Democrats have again decided that apparently crime and homelessness are good or at least not a big deal.
00:22:17.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, he says there's no way in hell that we are going to congressionally extend federal authority in Washington, D.C. Well, he's not going to have much of a say about it because this is going to go along party line votes.
00:22:33.000If he went to Congress and said, you know what, there's this crime emergency.
00:22:36.000We need the National Guard out there longer.
00:22:38.000We need to take over Washington, D.C., would you grant it?
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00:25:31.000Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, he says this is all an illegitimate power grab.
00:25:36.000I stand with the people of Washington, D.C. I stand with Mayor Bowser, and we are strongly supporting their efforts to stop this scheme to take over the police department in the District of Columbia, which is nothing more than an illegitimate power grab.
00:27:28.000People don't want to leave in those areas.
00:27:30.000All they want, this is basically the one thing that local government must do is guarantee the safety and security of its law-abiding citizens.
00:27:38.000And if you won't do that, then you don't deserve to be in office.
00:27:42.000Here is Harry Enton discussing President Trump on crime.
00:27:45.000I think this sort of gives the game away here because Donald Trump is like Eric Jordan towering over Joe Biden when it comes to their handling of crime.
00:27:53.000Look, in 2024, look at where Biden's net approval was on crime.
00:27:57.000Way underwater there at minus 26 points.
00:28:11.000So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's approach to crime than they did to Joe Biden's.
00:28:18.000And Democrats are so ensconced in their woke, they can't get out.
00:28:21.000Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who, again, by our friends and sponsors over perplexity, is the mayor with the lowest approval rating in all of America, says that what's really happening here when Trump is fighting crime and illegal immigration is that he is intimidated by the intellectual prowess of black men, which is a hell of a take.
00:28:38.000Honest to God, I'm not sure how he's getting here, but I too am astonished by his intellectual prowess.
00:29:10.000So yesterday, Zoran Mamdani went to Staten Island to campaign.
00:29:13.000He, of course, is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York.
00:29:16.000He's likely to be the next mayor of New York because no one can get their act together on the other side of the aisle to consolidate.
00:29:22.000There continue to be three candidates, none of whom is going to be mayor, if two of the others don't drop out and at least create some sort of fighting chance here.
00:29:30.000He went to Staten Island, which, of course, is a Redder area of New York.
00:29:33.000And some of the constituents were yelling at him because it turns out that they may not want their city completely taken over by communism.
00:30:36.000He was a community organizer with no history of gainful employment who then went into the Senate for two years and then ran for president of the United States.
00:30:43.000And all of his policy prescriptions basically mirrored Momdani's.
00:30:48.000He and Mamdani alike think of America as an exploitative colonialist state on planet Earth, think of capitalism as a problem.
00:30:57.000So of course Obama called Mamdani because they are two peas in a pod.
00:31:00.000The new attempt to retcon Barack Obama into some sort of glorious moderate is insane.
00:31:05.000He was a radical, radical president who broke the country in a wide variety of ways.
00:31:09.000But according to Maragay, former President Barack Obama, the last Democrat to captivate the party's base, got on the phone.
00:31:15.000In a lengthy call in June, Mr. Obama congratulated Mr. Mamdani, offered him advice about governing, and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.
00:31:25.000Others in Mr. Obama's orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mr. Mamdani and his campaign.
00:31:29.000Jon Favreau, who served as Mr. Obama's speechwriter, and Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor, have been in communications with Democratic strategist Morris Katz, among Mr. Mamdani's closest aides.
00:31:42.000Axelrod said, What I found when I went over to that office was a familiar spirit that I hadn't seen in a while of just determined, upbeat idealism.
00:31:48.000You may not agree with every answer he's giving or every idea he has, but he's certainly asking the right questions, which is how do we make the country work for working people?
00:32:25.000I'm curious where you land on things like freezing rents, free buses, giving away free food at supermarkets and the like.
00:32:37.000And what you just think of that idea and what it represents.
00:32:43.000Listen, Zoron is going to have to make the case to the people of New York City, including in the neighborhoods that I represent, that these ideas, which are designed to address affordability in New York City and that as a top-line effort is important.
00:32:59.000The cost of living is the number one issue here in the city, number one issue across the country.
00:33:05.000It's why Donald Trump's poll numbers are in the you may have noticed there was no answer to the question, what do you think of his policies?
00:33:13.000Well, he's going to have to go out and talk about them.
00:34:13.000So that was still not an answer to the question, but that's the entire Democratic pitch here is say socialist things and then run away from the implications of the socialist things.
00:34:22.000Now, the problem is they have real world impact.
00:34:24.000According to the Wall Street Journal, blue states are hunting for ways to wring more taxes from the wealthy.
00:34:29.000Well, I mean, we're down here in Florida.
00:35:01.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a growing number of blue cities and states across the country from Washington state's Rhode Island are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers.
00:35:09.000Lawmakers are boosting tax rates on robust annual incomes, hiking capital gains taxes, and putting new levies on luxury vacation homes.
00:35:17.000Minnesota State Representative Aisha Gomez, a Democrat, who has sponsored legislation that would implement a higher tax rate for joint filers in Minnesota, making over a million dollars a year if federal Medicaid cuts take effect, says, quote, this is an attempt to acknowledge that people who are being richly rewarded by the economy in its current form are people who are going to disproportionately benefit from the bill passed by Congress.
00:35:36.000Many legislators are considering potential taxes on rich residents of their states.
00:35:41.000And they have been inspired by billions of dollars Massachusetts has collected since it's implemented an income surtax on those who are more than $1 million per year.
00:35:49.000Connecticut is proposing a bill that would raise income tax rates on couples who make at least half a million dollars to offset expected federal funding losses from the new federal tax law.
00:35:58.000Maryland Governor Wesmore in May signed into law his tax proposal, which includes higher income tax rates for state residents who make more than half a million dollars a year to close a budget deficit.
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00:37:33.000Well, joining us on the line to discuss all the problems with Gen Z is the author of a book about Gen Z and, of course, a Daily Wire host, Isabel Brown.
00:37:40.000Her book is The End of the Alphabet, which is all about Generation Z and its vicissitudes.
00:37:44.000Isabel, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:38:04.000And honestly, I have to think that the media is pushing a very strong narrative about Gen Z being all in on Momdani for a reason.
00:38:12.000Newsweek magazine just ran a headline that apparently he is the key to recapturing all of the young men that Republicans and conservatives made substantial inroads with for the 2024 election.
00:38:24.000I don't fully buy that, but I do think there is a bit of renewed interest in the left because of Momdani being radically different from the rest of the left-wing political lineup, especially in New York City.
00:38:36.000If your other options are Cuomo, who've been in political offices as a family for a very, very long time, or Eric Adams, something new with new ideas is somewhat appealing to young people across the board.
00:38:48.000Now, those new ideas are terrible and are probably going to burn New York City to the ground, but I think it speaks volumes as to what young people are looking for to shake up the status quo and why Donald Trump was so appealing to them to begin with.
00:39:01.000Well, one of the things that's sort of fascinating about Gen Z is, of course, this gigantic sex split between girls and boys, men and women in Gen Z. Men are trending, apparently, according to the polls, more Republican, although they seem to be sort of moving back to the mean, regressing to the mean.
00:39:16.000Women tend to be moving significantly more to the left and very, very quickly to the left.
00:39:23.000You know, interestingly, that is the narrative.
00:39:25.000And typically, when you see these graphs go major, major viral on X or Instagram or YouTube, I think there is this narrative that young women are overwhelmingly becoming radically more leftist while Gen Z men are becoming extremely conservative.
00:39:39.000We know that young men are the most conservative generation we've seen in my lifetime.
00:39:44.000And for the first time, young men under 35 are more conservative than the oldest generation that is currently alive for the last several generations, which I think is really fascinating.
00:39:53.000But people are forgetting to mention that young women are also shifting substantially to the right, just not quite on pace with what we're seeing with young men.
00:40:02.000From 2020 to 2024, for example, young women exit polling for women under the age of 35 voting shifted 11 points away from the Democrat Party towards the Republican Party in just one presidential election cycle.
00:40:16.000And notably, this was during an election where young women were told you are only allowed to vote for the candidate that shares your genitalia and campaigns on the supposed women's right to end the life of your pre-born child.
00:40:29.000So there are substantial inroads that are happening with young women.
00:40:33.000The media is just refusing to cover that.
00:40:35.000And it's not happening at the snowball pace quite as quickly as it is with young men.
00:40:41.000Well, Isabel, you follow culture much more closely than I do because, again, I'm old.
00:40:44.000But when it comes to the culture, the biggest news of the cultural moment is, of course, Taylor Swift has a new announcement about her new album.
00:40:53.000I did talk about this very briefly on the show.
00:40:55.000And by briefly, I mean, I spent 27 seconds, I believe, on it, because that's how important it is to my life.
00:40:59.000But apparently, it's important to hundreds of millions of people that she has a new album out, something about the story of a showgirl or something.
00:41:06.000And she announced this on her boyfriend's podcast, Travis Kelsey.
00:41:10.000It is sort of fascinating to watch the evolution of her public image because of Travis Kelsey.
00:41:15.000And I think it does say something kind of vaguely political because, you know, my rip on Taylor Swift has been that she's now, what, 35 years old and she's cosplaying as a 16-year-old girl all the time about her failed relationships and about how everyone has wronged her.
00:41:28.000And meanwhile, she's a billionaire in what appears to be a relatively healthy relationship.
00:41:32.000And so I've been rooting for them to get married and have kids, actually.
00:41:34.000I think it'd be very good for America.
00:41:35.000We can start the Taylor Swift baby boom.
00:41:37.000But what is the story with her and Travis Kelsey?
00:41:44.000Despite only dedicating 27 seconds there, Ben, I think you actually have quite an accurate read on the cultural impact of this.
00:41:51.000I am not a die-hard Swifty that would sell my car for tickets to the Aires tour like many people were going viral for over the last few years.
00:42:06.000And gosh, the vibes of that album are just totally unmatched, which allegedly we're going to get similar pop star music in this new album coming out October 3rd, The Life of a Showgirl.
00:42:17.000But zooming in on this interview and why this is such an interesting cultural moment right now, Taylor Swift has never appeared publicly on a red carpet with one of her boyfriends.
00:42:26.000She's certainly never done a long form interview podcasting at all, but certainly with one of her significant others throughout history.
00:42:34.000And she has a totally different energy about her than what I think she's been pretty famous for over the last 10 years or so, being the kind of cutting edge liberal women leader of whatever we're seeing with this cultural moment.
00:42:46.000She's done lots of political statements over the past few years on social media and in documentaries, but she had a very different energy that she was putting out during this podcast episode that came out early this week.
00:42:57.000By the way, is almost at 15 million views in just over 24 hours on track to be the most viewed single podcast episode ever of all time.
00:43:06.000She seems happy and content and relaxed and comfortable in her life for the first time that I've ever noticed, certainly throughout her career as a musician.
00:43:16.000And I think a lot of that has to do with her relationship dynamic with a pretty masculine man, an NFL player who is constantly talking about sports, has this podcast with his brother that they drink beer on and they talk about sports things all the time.
00:43:28.000And she's admitting, you know, I never knew anything about this world before I started dating Travis, but now my eyes have been opened and I absolutely love it.
00:43:36.000And now that the heiress tour has wrapped up, I spend most of my free time baking sourdough bread in the kitchen and I absolutely love it.
00:43:43.000It's the best chapter of my life up to this point.
00:43:45.000I don't know that she's even fully aware of the political connotation of what all of these statements actually mean, that she's leaning more into her femininity.
00:43:53.000She's very comfortable dating a pretty masculine man compared to the tortured artists of her dating history.
00:43:59.000And that's coming through to inspire other young women to do the same thing.
00:44:02.000But just like we're seeing JoJo Siwa all of a sudden leave lesbianism behind or Demi Lovato get married and reunite with the Jonas brothers to make great music again.
00:44:12.000I think we're watching Hollywood in general start to heal the same way our culture is.
00:44:18.000Yeah, Isabelle, I mean, it'll be fascinating to see if she can carry her audience because this has always been a conundrum for pop stars as they hit their mid-30s and much of their brand has been built around sexuality and built around being kind of a single wild girl.
00:44:30.000And you see that many of these women age out.
00:44:32.000There's something vaguely pathetic about Madonna still twerking on stage at the age of 70 and even now watching the sort of hatred for Katy Perry in the public mind because of the way that she's gallivanting around, which is she's aged out of this role and she continues to play that role.
00:44:46.000It'll be interesting to see if Taylor Swift moves in what is a more traditionalist direction with her personal life, what the ramifications are for her listenership.
00:44:54.000Will people come along with her on a journey to, say, getting married and motherhood?
00:45:02.000At least Katy Perry has a backup career as a professional astronaut now, but I don't think Taylor Swift has those same inroads to be going to space all the time.
00:45:10.000But look, I think Taylor Swift is easily the most influential person impacting culture for young women.
00:45:16.000The economic downstream impact that we've seen from the Aristor is unlike anything we've ever seen from the music industry and totally redefined live music as we know it.
00:45:24.000And I certainly think she can impact the choices that young women are making, realizing, you know, I can have a meaningful relationship.
00:45:58.000She, of course, is the host of the Isabel Brown show, which premieres this fall at the Daily Wire.
00:46:02.000And you can check out her new book, The End of the Alphabet.
00:46:05.000And thanks for somehow making a conversation about Taylor Swift palatable to me, considering I did, I believe, a one-hour and 30-minute review of her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, which was pure torture.
00:46:22.000Well, meanwhile, speaking of the culture wars and left's failure to truly engage on a level that people understand, I have to say I am both bemused and amused by the decision by some NFL teams to now have male cheerleaders.
00:46:35.000Now, there's a difference between many of the male cheerleaders that you see in college who, you know, are typically buff dudes who chuck ladies in the air.
00:46:43.000I see these videos at cheerleading competitions where they're building human pyramids and stuff.
00:46:46.000You need some dude who can pick up 300, 400 pounds on his shoulders in order to make that happen.
00:46:52.000That is not what these NFL cheerleaders are now doing.
00:46:55.000And I have no idea why these teams are doing this.
00:46:59.000Apparently, the Minnesota Vikings and the New England Patriots, among others, have decided that they are going to feature male cheerleaders who are basically gallivanting around effeminately like women.
00:47:10.000That is the goal of these cheerleaders.
00:47:11.000Again, male cheerleading has been a thing for 100 years or so, but this is a completely different thing.
00:48:47.000And cross-pollinating those things is generally not a wonderful thing.
00:48:51.000Doesn't mean that everybody has to fit into every specific box, but the idea of glorifying men who are dancing like women or women who act like men-that's a bizarre thing for any healthy civilization.
00:49:03.000It turns out that all of human society, including procreation, rests on the sexual dichotomy between men and women.
00:49:12.000The fact that we even have to say these basic things demonstrates how stupid our society has become, that everything is supposed to be gender neutral, but that's not gender neutral.
00:49:25.000Now, I can object, by the way, to cheerleaders generally as well.
00:49:28.000I think there's a good case to be made that cheerleading as a general spectacle, what it has become, which is effectively people dancing like strippers in skimpy outfits, is ridiculous and should not be publicized.
00:49:42.000But the notion that men should be prancing around like women, that somehow they should be celebrated at a very male sport is bizarre, to say the least.
00:49:51.000And meanwhile, speaking of the culture wars, I have to say we have made an entire generation of people, America and social media, made an entire generation of people mentally unwell.
00:49:59.000Ella M. Hoff is the allegedly model stepdaughter of Kamala Harris and Doug M. Hoff is her dad.
00:50:07.000She put out a video yesterday in which she explained that she was anxious and nervous about climate change.
00:50:14.000Like this is a person who needs some mental help.
00:50:18.000I feel disgust at what's going on in the world around genocides, the loss of rights, the loss of health care, the just general fear that everyone has surrounding affordability, their lives, their livelihood, like everything.
00:51:06.000It's all of these things are happening.
00:51:09.000And like, what are what, besides the small things we can do and pushing for change and fighting and protesting?
00:51:17.000And it's really hard not to sit in those moments where it just feels so heavy.
00:51:23.000Honestly, I kind of feel terrible for her.
00:51:25.000Like, really, I want to laugh at her, but I kind of feel terrible for her because this is a person who has something going on, like emotionally and mentally.
00:51:36.000People who are anxious, people who are narcissistic, people who think that the apotheosis of living is going to a protest to protest, you know, the sun or the fact that the climate is incrementally changing over the course of the next hundred years and get anxiety about that.
00:51:58.000Affordability is downstream of a generation of people who will not move to seek job opportunity outside of New York as a model or community organizer.
00:52:10.000And I'm not blaming the people who have the attitudinal problem.
00:52:12.000I'm blaming a society that's created that attitudinal problem by not demanding that people actually be useful, go and fulfill the roles that make life worth living.
00:52:22.000People who believe, apparently, that performative politics is the height of human existence.
00:52:28.000And that is so much of the Democratic Party at this point, the performative politics.
00:52:33.000This is why you have Jasmine Crockett as the newer, fresher AOC out there suggesting that Republicans are racist.
00:52:39.000Like, is this what makes you feel good about your life?
00:52:42.000Truly, does this make your life better in any way?
00:52:44.000If you're a Democrat, does this make your life better in any way?
00:52:48.000I talk to black folk all the time as somebody that's a child of a preacher.
00:52:52.000Listen, most black people are not Republicans simply because we just is like, y'all racist.
00:52:57.000I can't hang out with the KKK and them.
00:53:00.000But when we think about who we are as black people and we think about where we come from, most black people have very conservative values, right?
00:53:09.000But the reality is that like, we just can't side with like the neo-Nazis and them.
00:53:14.000We like, we're not, we're not dealing with y'all like that, right?
00:53:19.000So again, is this making anybody's life better?
00:53:22.000Al Sharpton, who's been a grifter his entire career, is sitting two seats down, grinning at all of this.
00:53:28.000Are they made better by this sort of rhetoric?
00:53:31.000Are women made better by the insanity of people like Ella M. Hoff promoting climate anxiety?
00:53:37.000When did we decide that we don't need to make people's lives better by actually demanding that they do the things that make you healthy and happy?
00:53:46.000And we'd also promote false history in order, presumably, to somehow make that pose, what, more serious?
00:53:54.000So Julian Michaels, who has become somewhat conservative, she was a host With the Bill Maher podcast network for a bit.
00:54:03.000She was on CNN yesterday, and she was ripped up and down by the left for making what is a clearly and obviously true point, which is that slavery is not unique to America.
00:54:10.000Again, one of the aspects of the left in America is this belief that America is uniquely evil, that we live in a uniquely terrible time, capitalism is bad, and all the rest.
00:54:19.000Well, Jillian Michaels was, somehow, slavery came up, and she made the perfectly obvious point, which is that white people are not responsible for all slavery on planet Earth.
00:54:27.000And in fact, white people basically solved slavery on planet Earth as much as it could be solved.
00:54:32.000It was white Christian countries that did away with slavery and fought it literally everywhere.
00:54:37.000Slavery was legal in Arab countries up until the late 20th century.
00:54:41.000It is still practiced in many Arab countries today.
00:54:43.000It is still practiced in parts of Africa today.
00:54:46.000And here's Jillian Michaels making some of these points.
00:54:51.000So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with Dear Leader and what the MAGA community does.
00:54:59.000Some of those things that are because have you looked at some of the things that slavery?
00:55:04.000Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that we should talk about.
00:55:50.000What I'm trying to tell you in the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you saying is incorrect by slavery?
00:55:57.000What am I saying that you can't white people oppressing every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.
00:57:01.000And they decided to lead off with a pretty audacious statement because Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, arrived at this event wearing a USSR t-shirt.
00:57:11.000It's a CCCP shirt, which is USSR in Russian.
00:57:16.000That is a hell of a take here by Sergei Lavrov.
00:57:19.000Now, remember, when Vladimir Zelensky showed up to the White House wearing military fatigues, this was the end of the world.
00:57:26.000I mean, we should have something to say about Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister showing up in a CCCP shirt.
00:57:41.000I mean, that is a clearly coordinated move, right?
00:57:43.000I mean, he's not doing that by accident.
00:57:44.000I don't think that Sergei Lavrov just walks around in USSR shirts randomly.
00:57:49.000So what exactly is to be gained from these talks?
00:57:53.000Well, apparently, according to Caroline Lovitt over at the White House, President Trump wants to look Vladimir Putin in the eye and try to figure out exactly what it is that he wants.
00:58:02.000What comes after that meeting is up to President Trump, and that's part of the reason he is going.
00:58:07.000He has incredible instincts and he wants to sit down and look the Russian president in the eye and see what progress can be made to move the ball forward to end this brutal war and to restore peace.
00:58:20.000Now, again, the goal for Vladimir Putin here is to presumably stall because he believes that the longer he stalls, the more a chance that the West falls out of this war.
00:58:29.000He also would love some sort of territory, major territorial concession pushed by the United States on Ukraine without any significant security guarantees for Ukraine, which is going to be undoable.
00:58:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, face-to-face talks between President Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday will give the Russian president a chance to pitch his conditions for peace, chief among them for Ukraine to hand over swaths of its territory.
00:58:49.000Putin has long coveted the south and east of Ukraine, which his army has failed to fully occupy.
00:58:54.000President Trump has said he would seek to negotiate a swap that would return some of the territory Russia occupies back to Ukraine without offering further details.
00:59:01.000The Kremlin has declared five occupied regions to be part of Russia.
00:59:04.000That'd be Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Crimea.
00:59:08.000Of those regions, Russia currently fully occupies Crimea, almost all of Luhansk, and much of the other three.
00:59:15.000What he would like is a bunch of territory he has not yet won, including Zaporizhia, a remaining section of Donetsk, and part of Kherson.
00:59:28.000And Donetsk, he wants another 24% or so.
00:59:32.000Donetsk is his top target, but his military is having a tough time taking the risk of Donetsk.
00:59:39.000Now, one of the reasons why Ukraine is hesitant to give up a lot of this territory, aside from the fact that this is a foreign invasion of their sovereign nation, is the fact that much of this area is mineral and oil rich.
00:59:50.000And so one of the reasons that Putin wants to grab it and hold on to it is because he believes he is taking away a lot of the economic base of Ukraine in grabbing and holding this territory.
00:59:59.000Apparently, President Trump and Putin are set to hold a joint press conference after the summit.
01:00:05.000The summit is to be held at the joint base of Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage.
01:00:09.000President Trump thinks that Putin is going to make a deal, according to Fox News Radio, but he says there's a 25% chance talks will fail, describing the summit as a chess game.
01:00:17.000And if the meeting went well, President Trump raised the possibility of inviting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for further negotiations.
01:00:24.000He said that the first meeting will be setting the table.
01:00:26.000He would like to have a trilateral meeting.
01:00:28.000He said it would be certainly convenient if we had a very good meeting because I'm going to let them negotiate their deal.
01:00:32.000I'm not going to negotiate their deal for them.
01:00:34.000But of course, the goal of Putin is to get Trump to do that.
01:00:37.000And Putin thinks he's going to be able to sort of leverage President Trump into doing that.
01:00:45.000She says no foreign policy expert has solved a foreign policy conflict, which happens to be the truth of recent vintage.
01:00:52.000You're being very kind, and I won't be so kind.
01:00:54.000And I'll just name some of those people, such as John Bolton, who I think has made a disgrace of himself on television and in the newspapers, claiming that he knows better than President Trump.
01:01:05.000And neither do any of these so-called foreign policy experts who have never solved a foreign policy conflict in their lives.
01:01:12.000Look at what this president has done in six months.
01:01:15.000He has stopped seven global conflicts all around the world using the leverage of the United States of America to negotiate these conflicts to an end.
01:01:25.000You had the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House last week, both of whom said this would not have been possible without the leadership of President Trump and his administration.
01:01:36.000So the American people trust this president.
01:01:39.000That's why they overwhelmingly re-elected him.
01:01:41.000And I think it's pathetic, some of the chatter that we see from these so-called experts who have zero accomplishments on their own resumes to point to.
01:01:51.000Okay, so we will find out whether President Trump is able to negotiate anything of substance at this meeting or whether it just ends up being a platform for Vladimir Putin or whether the conflict just sort of continues apace.
01:02:03.000Now, meanwhile, yesterday, there was some negative inflation news for the president of the United States.
01:02:08.000According to the Wall Street Journal, wholesale prices, that would be the cost of goods and services purchased directly from producers, rose at the sharpest monthly rate in three years, raising fresh alarm that tariffs are taking root in the economy and pushing up inflation.
01:02:18.000So far, retailers have been eating that cost, and they're not passing it on to consumers quite as of yet, presumably in the hopes that those wholesale prices will go down at some point in the near future.
01:02:29.000Or it's possible that demand is already falling off and they don't have the ability to raise prices on consumers and have to eat that cost, which then presumably would result in a business slowdown.
01:02:38.000The data complicates the picture for an anticipated interest rate cut over at the Federal Reserve's next meeting in September, nudging the central bank's inflation gauge in the wrong direction.
01:02:46.000Prices charged by U.S. manufacturers and service providers rose by 0.9% month over month in July, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics.
01:02:54.000The increase spanned prices of wholesale goods from food attires.
01:02:57.000Those jumped by 0.7% from a month earlier.
01:02:59.000The price of business to business services were up 1.1% in July versus June.
01:03:05.000So it'll be interesting to see how, again, the tariffs play through the economy.
01:03:09.000We don't actually know yet what is going to happen, but I do not believe that conventional economics on tariffs, which is that prices, at least in the moment, are going to spike and then come down again probably as demand drops off.
01:03:19.000It would be shocking if that were wrong in some way here.
01:03:22.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the producer price data gets worse the closer you look.
01:03:27.000Goods and services both experience substantial inflation.
01:03:30.000Goods and services related to business investment in particular are becoming pricier, with the cost of manufacturing equipment rising 0.4% in one month and related services 4.5%.
01:03:39.000Prices for intermediate goods like components and raw materials are also on the rise.
01:03:43.000This isn't showing up in consumer prices so far because many companies entered the Trump tariff year with large cash reserves or wider margins so they can absorb these costs for the time being, but they can't do this forever.
01:03:52.000Meanwhile, cash loss to paying tariffs or paying tariff-induced higher prices is not available for reinvestment in the business or to return to shareholders.
01:04:01.000So again, if the tariffs continue to push up the prices, if that results in no interest rate drop, if it means mortgages stay where they are, that is going to be a problem for President Trump.
01:04:11.000Again, I think that it's too early for President Trump to change courses, presumably, but I also assume that his team, including Scott Besson, they have their eye on these economic data and are going to make a move if things move in the wrong direction.
01:04:24.000All righty, folks, as the show continues, we'll get into the latest in the Gaza Strip.
01:04:29.000We'll also get to the United States discussing taking a stake in Intel.
01:04:32.000Not a fan of this corporatism in which the federal government is now picking and choosing winners and losers and taking stakes in private companies.