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00:02:25.000According to the Washington Post, when Joe Biden campaigned for president in 2020, Barack Obama was rarely at his side.
00:02:30.000In Biden's time in the White House, he has not headlined an event with the former president.
00:02:34.000Overall, Biden and Obama have seen little of each other recently, despite an ostensibly close relationship and having residences two miles apart.
00:02:40.000But on Tuesday afternoon, Obama stepped into the White House for the first time since vacating the premises in 2017, making way for the newly elected Donald Trump.
00:02:49.000Now, the supposed reason why Barack Obama was going back to the White House was that Joe Biden could announce moves to strengthen Obamacare.
00:02:55.000But the real reason is because they're trying to see if some of the magic of Barack Obama can rub off on Joe Biden.
00:03:09.000He was a Black candidate who appealed to a lot of white voters.
00:03:15.000He was the first black president of the United States.
00:03:17.000He was very personally appealing, even if he was very radical in his politics.
00:03:20.000And that was just something that is not duplicable and also was not transferable.
00:03:24.000So while Barack Obama was president, his party just got shellacked in Congress, in the Senate, in state legislatures, in gubernatorial houses across the country.
00:03:32.000Barack Obama just got everybody else's asses kicked.
00:03:35.000He did fine, but everybody else just got destroyed.
00:03:38.000So, the idea that he's going to show up at the White House and suddenly the Obama magic is just going to rain down upon sad old Joe Biden, who can barely function at this point, it was a really dumb idea, and it became even stupider in the room.
00:03:50.000Because here's the thing, Barack Obama always was very good at this, and Joe Biden was always very, very bad at this, as Barack Obama Pretty much openly acknowledged, never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to F things up.
00:04:01.000So the very basic notion, like whoever brainstormed this and thought, let's bring in this incredibly charismatic, popular former president to stand next to a guy who everyone hates at this point.
00:04:12.000If you look at Joe Biden's polling data, they're just terrible.
00:04:16.000I mean, you've got an inflation at 40-year highs, you have an economy that may be tipping into a recession, and you look at the polling data, and Joe Biden in the Quinnipiac poll is like 36%.
00:04:26.000Right now, there's a Marist College pullout, finding 39% job approval rating.
00:04:33.000So you bring in, by contrast, a person who's pretty personally popular?
00:04:37.000A former president who doesn't actually have to answer for any of the stuff that is happening right now because he's not the president.
00:04:42.000And you put him next to this person who cannot string together three sentences.
00:04:45.000And this is Democrats' idea of how they're going to rescue the Biden presidency is by trotting out Barack Obama, who again, even when he was president, couldn't transfer his popularity to other candidates.
00:04:54.000This is about the stupidest idea that anyone has had in public relations for a very, very long time.
00:05:00.000So Barack Obama arrives and Joe Biden immediately tries to revert back to being Barack Obama's vice president because that was the last time anybody liked Joe Biden.
00:05:09.000And Joe Biden won election in 2020 because he wasn't Donald Trump, but nobody actually liked Joe Biden.
00:05:13.000The last time anybody supposedly liked Joe Biden is when he was just the guy who was filling the office that John Adams once called equivalent to a warm bucket of spit.
00:05:20.000And so Joe Biden gets up there and he says that he is in fact Barack Obama's vice president.
00:05:50.000He's the president of the United States now.
00:05:51.000And this is why everyone is displeased.
00:05:54.000And then Barack Obama, because Barack Obama is one of the most graceless people to be in the Oval Office ever.
00:06:00.000And by the way, we've had a lot of graceless people in the Oval Office, but Barack Obama always tried to masquerade as sort of a graceful president.
00:07:24.000So here he was going on and on about how Joe Biden... Thank you for your support, Joe, when you were vice president.
00:07:30.000I'm sorry, but this makes Joe Biden look so pathetic, which, I mean, he is, but if you're in the White House, your job is to make him look not pathetic.
00:07:36.000And granted, that is a difficult thing to do.
00:07:41.000Don Corleone going to Bona Sera and saying, like, use all of your skills to make this dead person look, don't let his mother see him like this.
00:07:52.000Every morning, every morning, Jill goes into the White House press room and she's like, don't, don't let, don't let anybody, don't let the people see him like this.
00:08:06.000Anyway, Barack Obama gets out there and he thanks Biden for his support as VP.
00:08:11.000It's wonderful to be back to say thank you to all of you.
00:08:16.000But most of all, coming back here gives me a chance to say thank you and spend some time with an extraordinary friend and partner who was by my side for eight years.
00:08:53.000And so you decide, you know what, I'm gonna get that guy who used to be my boss at the mailroom, and he's gonna come in and he's gonna talk about what a great guy I was when I was in the mailroom.
00:09:04.000Then, Barack Obama started talking about his own accomplishments, which of course is exactly what Joe Biden needs, is, you know, to hear about Barack Obama's accomplishments.
00:09:43.000And then Obama talked about how the ACA actually didn't go far enough.
00:09:47.000The Obamacare didn't go far enough, which is weird because he said it was going to fix the system.
00:09:50.000I was told by Barack Obama that not only was going to fix the system, If you liked your doctor, you were gonna get to keep your doctor, and all of that was a lie, but now he's back to tout his old lies because things are going so badly, you have to bring up the guy who left office in 2017 to talk about all of the shortcomings of his presidency to draw fire away from the shortcomings of the current president of the United States.
00:10:11.000The reason we're here today is because President Biden, Vice President Harris, everybody who's worked on this thing understood from the start that the ACA wasn't perfect.
00:10:24.000To get the bill passed, we had to make compromises.
00:10:54.000According to a transcript of Barack Obama's speech at the White House, and remember again, he's not the president, he used the words, this is Steve Guest reporting, I, I'm, me, and my, 33 times, 33 times, That's not a shock.
00:11:11.000I mean, this guy's written 27 autobiographies already.
00:11:36.000The anchor and moderator of Washington Week on PBS and Washington correspondent for NBC News.
00:11:40.000Here's what she tweeted, quote, President Obama had the room both laughing and captivated as he explained how he risked reelection to get the Affordable Care Act passed.
00:11:48.000President Biden follows by saying Obamacare was, in his view, the most consequential legislation since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
00:11:56.000Is any of this going to save Joe Biden?
00:13:28.000Again, all that Barack Obama's presence demonstrated is that when you bring the star in from the wings, all you have done is relegate Joe Biden back to what he always was, which was an insipid dullard who had made his way in politics basically by personality mirroring what he thought the American public wanted.
00:13:52.000Okay, this happens to be the major problem.
00:13:55.000It's not Barack Obama coming, it's that Joe Biden is remaining because he's a really, really bad president.
00:14:00.000So Jen Psaki was actually asked yesterday if Joe Biden blames anybody on the White House team for his own unpopularity, and here was Jen Psaki's answer.
00:14:07.000I mean, this should be her answer, considering she's running away to MSNBC.
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00:15:50.000Meanwhile, there are news stories breaking on Hunter Biden, because we're now allowed to talk about Hunter Biden, since Joe Biden's already been elected, despite being not alive.
00:15:58.000According to the New York Post, a witness who testified before the Hunter Biden grand jury was asked to identify the big guy in the first son's planned deal with a Chinese energy conglomerate, as calls ramped up to have President Biden included in a conspiracy probe.
00:16:10.000The question arose after the witness was shown a piece of evidence while appearing in secret before the panel in Wilmington, Delaware, a source familiar with the proceedings told the Post.
00:16:17.000A bombshell email exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 showed that one of Hunter Biden's business partners, James Gilliar, outlined the proposed percentage distribution of equity in a company created for a joint venture with CEFC China Energy Corporation.
00:16:32.000The March 13, 2017 plan included, quote, 10 held by H, meaning Hunter, for the big guy, question mark.
00:16:38.000Another former Hunter Biden partner, U.S.
00:16:41.000Navy veteran Tony Bobulinski, later revealed the big guy was Hunter's dad.
00:16:44.000Then the Democratic candidate for president said, quote, I've heard Joe Biden say he has never discussed his dealings with Hunter.
00:16:51.000So now, witnesses are being asked to testify before a grand jury who exactly the big guy is.
00:16:55.000So things are going to get worse for Joe Biden before they get better.
00:16:58.000By the way, the basic idea that Hunter Biden's financial dealings had no benefit for his father is obviously untrue, considering the fact that we have an actual September 21st, 2012 message to Hunter Biden from Ron Klain, the current White House chief of staff, approaching Hunter Biden in September 2012, while his father was vice president of the United States, for help raising 20 grand for a foundation that looks after the vice president's residents.
00:17:22.000He told the now-first son to, quote, keep it low-key, to prevent bad PR, according to emails obtained by the New York Post.
00:17:32.000According to Klain, quote, the tax lawyers for the VP Residence Foundation have concluded that since the Cheney folks last raised money in 2007 and not 2008, we actually have to have some incoming funds before the end of this fiscal year to remain eligible as a public charity.
00:17:45.000And then he asked if Hunter could come up with $20,000.
00:17:50.000So I'm hitting up a few very close friends on a very confidential basis to write checks of $2,000 each.
00:17:55.000We need to keep this low, low key because raising money for the residents is now bad PR, but it has to be done.
00:18:00.000So I'm just trying to collect the 10 checks of $2,000, get it done in a week, and then we can do an event for the Residence Foundation after the presidential election.
00:18:08.000Apparently Hunter Biden then forwarded Clayne's email to Eric Schwerin, a longtime business partner who is managing his finances.
00:18:16.000A few days later, Hunter Biden emailed Klain, quote, On the same day, according to Fox, Schwerin emailed the younger Biden to say he had talked to Klain, who was checking to see if the foundation would take a check from Alaska.
00:18:31.000It remains unclear whether the law firm contributed to the foundation, but a 990 tax form from that year shows it received $20,000 in contributions just over Klain's ask.
00:18:41.000So, yeah, the always tenuous notion that Hunter Biden's business activities had no positive impact on his dad remains quite tenuous.
00:18:50.000And meanwhile, the Democrats are staring down the barrel of 2022 disaster.
00:18:55.000Nancy Pelosi, for her part, she's just trying to whistle or chatter or move her dentures past the graveyard.
00:19:01.000Here she was yesterday talking about, Democrats, we're not going to lose this election.
00:19:05.000We have no intention of losing this election.
00:19:07.000Well, then you might want to stop running the country like garbage.
00:19:10.000Just in case you're wondering, Democrats in the House, Democrats in the Congress have no intention of losing the election in November.
00:19:19.000Oh, well, I mean, I'm sure that's not your intention, but it is going to happen.
00:19:24.000And the reason it's going to happen is because everything that Joe Biden touches is set on fire.
00:19:29.000He is like a small child with a book of matches.
00:19:32.000Everything that he touches is set on fire.
00:19:36.000So according to Breitbart Today, Border Chief Alejandro Mayorkas is directing that economic migrants get every opportunity to stay once the Title 42 barrier is removed, regardless of the huge damage he inflicts on ordinary Americans.
00:19:48.000Mayorkas' intentions are described in his February strategy, which was leaked to Breitbart Texas on April 4th.
00:19:53.000The February strategy is titled DHS Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan.
00:19:58.000It says on page 16, quote, The purpose of this plan is to describe a proactive approach that humanely prevents and responds to surges in irregular migration across the U.S.
00:20:09.000This will be done while ensuring that migrants can apply for any form of relief or protection for which they may be eligible, including asylum, withholding of removal, and protection from removal under the regulations implementing the United States' obligations under the Convention Against Torture.
00:20:24.000To maximize benefits for migrants, Mayorkas minimizes the detention and deportation of migrants, even though federal law generally denies the entry of foreign workers and economic migrants into America's homeland.
00:20:34.000His plan sketches ways for border officials to squeeze many migrants through small doorways in the nation's border.
00:20:39.000Quote, current pathways to removal will be limited.
00:20:42.000Component use of broad-scale release mechanisms with issuance of a notice to appear or parole and alternatives to detention with administrative tools are necessary to ensure humane and efficient treatment of migrants.
00:20:53.000So they're basically limiting the ability to deport anybody in the middle of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants about to descend on our southern border.
00:21:04.000And even Barack Obama's people are saying this is unsustainable.
00:21:06.000Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said the current border crisis is not sustainable.
00:21:37.000And according to Che Johnson, everybody in Central America now knows that Title 42 is going away, so you can prepare for this vast wave.
00:21:44.000The lifting of Title 42, I'm sure that news is circulating right now in Central America.
00:21:51.000If I'd had my druthers, and I don't, I would have argued, can we lift this perhaps later in the summer when it gets hotter and the numbers do slow down?
00:22:04.000I mean, my goodness, how radical is this administration?
00:22:07.000Jay Johnson from the Obama administration is saying this is crazy policy.
00:22:12.000So on the border, they're a full-scale disaster.
00:22:14.000And then, of course, you have all the other issues on which the White House is a disaster, and the polls are showing that they are a disaster.
00:22:20.000So I don't care how often you bring Barack Obama back to the White House, it ain't gonna make one damn bit of difference.
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00:23:46.000So, another area where the White House has completely lost the thread, they continue to push puberty blockers for quote-unquote trans kids.
00:23:53.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration promoted the use of puberty blockers for transgender children by citing a study from an LGBT group funded in part by a manufacturer of the controversial drugs used in gender reassignment.
00:24:06.000In statements commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility, the White House and Department of Health and Human Services cited research from The Trevor Project to support the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex reassignment procedures in children seeking to change genders.
00:24:19.000Two of The Trevor Project's donors, AbbVie and Allergen, make drugs and medical products used in the medical transition process.
00:24:26.000The charitable foundations of both companies give at least $50,000 to The Trevor Project according to a review of tax documents and The Trevor Project's website.
00:24:33.000The Trevor Project does not disclose the funding in its research.
00:24:36.000So in other words, the Biden administration started stumping on behalf of transgender hormone blockers for children, citing research from a 501c3 that takes donations from the people who actually develop the drugs to be used in precisely these type of hormonal perversions.
00:24:53.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration's support for gender-affirming care—that is, the progressive buzzword for gender transitions—comes as conservatives push to stop the prescription of hormones and puberty blockers to children.
00:25:04.000The Trevor Project study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, cited by numerous news outlets, claimed that teenagers with access to drugs and procedures to change genders were less likely to have depression and suicidal thoughts.
00:25:14.000The organization polled nearly 12,000 transgender and non-binary youth, offering gift cards to some participants.
00:25:20.000Now, of course, one of the big problems with this is that people tend to self-report that they've done the right thing.
00:25:25.000Self-reporting surveys like this are not useful, like, at all.
00:25:29.000They're pretty much useless all the way through.
00:25:31.000But, of course, this administration has embraced the most radical social policies available.
00:25:36.000And all of their allies are pushing even more radical social policy.
00:25:39.000So, for example, you have the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, suggesting two variety apparently, quote, don't wait until you are in the hot seat.
00:25:51.000She says that there's no more time to sit on the sidelines.
00:25:53.000We need Hollywood on the front lines, fighting for our rights and telling our stories.
00:25:56.000And then this person, this head of GLAAD, again, GLAAD is a Democratic Party associated 501c3, implored Hollywood to quote, take meaningful action and will soon convene the biggest brands, agencies, studios, and streamers together with two goals.
00:26:08.000One, to commit to improving the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ images, especially in kids and family programming.
00:26:15.000Especially in kids and family programming.
00:26:19.000I mean, these folks want to radicalize the country incredibly, incredibly fast.
00:26:25.000And of course, this has bled over into public schools.
00:26:27.000There's more and more footage now emerging of teachers indoctrinating small kids in absolute horrendous sexual orientation and gender identity garbage.
00:26:36.000So for example, one Kansas teacher was caught on tape talking about how it's necessary to teach kindergartners about LGBTQ plus minus, ampersand, percentage sign, star sign, tilde, Because there are already kindergartners who are trans, non-binary, etc.
00:26:59.000There's no such thing as a trans five-year-old or a gay five-year-old.
00:27:03.000These are non-sexual beings if you've ever met a child.
00:27:05.000But here's a Kansas teacher explaining why we need to teach all kindergartners about the vast spectrum that is gender and why boys can be boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:28:38.000Where one teacher was talking with a 7th grader and a 7th grader discussed coming out in 5th grade with the help of the school guidance counselor.
00:28:49.000Now, 5th graders, that's kids who are like 11 years old, 10, 11 years old, coming out in 5th grade with the help of guidance counselors.
00:28:59.000This is the kind of stuff that this White House is promoting.
00:29:02.000This is why they oppose the Florida Parental Rights and Education Bill.
00:29:05.000Here is a Burlington, Vermont middle school talking about the indoctrination of small kids.
00:29:11.000Do you feel like young kids feel seen and supported as much in elementary school as they do in middle and high school?
00:29:22.000Um to answer that question um so I'm in middle school and I have a younger sibling in fourth grade and not 100% sure what their pronouns are but I went to the same elementary school and I felt pretty supported and I actually like I came out in fifth grade with the help of my guidance counselor um and it was they were really supportive they had a I think I we had like a whole unit with
00:29:51.000The guidance counselor just, like, teaching us about stuff?
00:29:55.000Don't worry, there's no indoctrination of children.
00:29:56.000Here's a 7th grader talking about coming out in 5th grade with the help of the guidance counselor.
00:30:00.000And also, I have a 4th grade sibling who doesn't know what her pronouns are.
00:30:06.000By the way, this is the same Burlington, Vermont school district that hosted a webinar in February of 2022 titled, Let's Talk About Gender Identity and Expression, in which they used what they call the gender unicorn to teach middle school students.
00:30:20.000The blue is representing the gender identity, the green we're talking about gender expression, sex assigned at birth, physically attracted to, emotionally attracted to.
00:30:31.000There's a whole series on the gender unicorn and lessons that can be used to I learned about it in a training I went to this fall and two years ago I was in it as well.
00:30:44.000This is a fabulous tool, especially for visual learners, right?
00:30:56.000So they're teaching young kids using a cartoon unicorn about why they can be members of the opposite sex.
00:31:02.000This is the stuff that this White House is supporting, and then they wonder why it's not working if they bring in Barack Obama to say a few weird words about Joe Biden and make him look absolutely irrelevant.
00:31:11.000Meanwhile, by the way, on crime, things continue to be really bad.
00:31:15.000So there's a story out of Sacramento that really is quite horrific, all about this Sacramento shooting that happened over the weekend.
00:31:22.000It turns out that the Sacramento shooter who was involved in the killing of six people, 12 people were hurt in this mass shooting.
00:31:30.000Apparently, this person had a criminal history, of course, of course, and was let out of prison for no apparent reason.
00:31:36.000According to KCRA.com, Sacramento police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with Sunday's deadly mass shooting, the city's police chief confirmed.
00:31:45.000The shooter was taken into custody, booked on charges of assault with a firearm, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
00:31:52.000Apparently, the person who was arrested had a long criminal history.
00:31:59.000This person was wanted in Riverside County since 2015.
00:32:02.000Jail records show he has an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.
00:32:06.000According to court documents, this shooter, the alleged shooter, inflicted bodily injury resulting in a traumatic condition to his spouse.
00:32:14.000This person also violated two terms of probation.
00:32:20.000This person was released from an Arizona prison in 2020 after serving a year and a half for violating probation on a separate felony conviction.
00:32:28.000And now he's engaged in multiple murder, allegedly.
00:32:32.000So really, well done on the criminal justice reform pushed by the left.
00:33:30.000Things are going beautifully in a wide variety of Democratic-governed areas, according to Fox News.
00:33:35.000Seattle's crime surge spreads statewide thanks to Democrats' progressive policies.
00:33:39.000Thanks to a Democratic legislature that codified the radical defund police proposals into law, plus light on crime judges, the crime surge hitting Seattle is spreading across the state.
00:33:46.000There's no sign the crime explosion will slow.
00:34:51.000It makes them look more and more out of touch, honestly.
00:34:53.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to Elon Musk being added to the board of Twitter and what sort of a difference that's going to make.
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00:35:32.000Well, as it turns out, the only way that the left can fight back against this is, of course, to crack down on free speech, right?
00:35:43.000If the Hunter Biden story is bad, then you just prevent it from being disseminated at the time that it is important.
00:35:48.000And one of the areas where social media have done the most work is on Twitter, right?
00:35:52.000On Twitter, they've banned accounts like that of the Babylon Bee.
00:35:55.000Well, now they're running up against the brutality of reality because Elon Musk has bought 9.2% of Twitter and Twitter announced on Tuesday that he has now been appointed to its board of directors.
00:36:06.000The move comes one day after Musk purchased a 9.2% stake, about 73.5 million shares worth $2.9 billion on Monday.
00:36:13.000This made him Twitter's largest shareholder according to Mediaite.
00:36:16.000According to an SEC report, quote, for so long as Mr. Musk is serving on the board and for 90 days thereafter, Mr. Musk will not, either alone or as a member of the group, become the beneficial owner of more than 14.9% of the company's common stock outstanding at such time.
00:36:30.000Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who was the heir to Jack Dorsey, tweeted, quote, I'm excited to share we're appointing Elon Musk to our board.
00:36:36.000Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us he would bring great value to our board. He's both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service, which is exactly what we need on Twitter and in the boardroom to make us stronger in the long term.
00:36:47.000Welcome, Elon. Musk tweeted, quote, looking forward to working with Parag and Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months.
00:36:54.000So naturally, the left is just livid about all of this.
00:36:57.000Because again, God forbid somebody like Elon Musk should buy into Twitter and then broaden the amount of speech on the platform.
00:37:04.000So the geniuses over at The View, the intellectual heavyweights over at The View, they were very, very angry at Elon Musk for buying into Twitter.
00:37:12.000All you have to do is you got enough dough to put a Tesla group out there that can come and rescue women with children, older people who decided to get it done.
00:37:34.000So why is he spending it on things like Twitter?
00:37:35.000I mean, only the ladies at The View should have a broad platform to promulgate their viewpoints.
00:37:38.000The reason they're telling me in my ear, the reason we're discussing this is because Elon Musk with all his dollars just, you know, became a board member of Twitter.
00:37:47.000I literally just said that a second ago.
00:38:09.000Writing in the pages of The Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos, you know, so oligarchy.
00:38:12.000Complaining that there might be too much oligarchy if Elon Musk buys into Twitter.
00:38:16.000According to Timothy O'Brien, quote, Elon Musk just bought a $3 billion stake in Twitter, because when you're the world's richest human, you can toss billions around like poker chips.
00:38:23.000This may just be another piece of performance art from Musk, who has alternatively endorsed and poo-pooed Bitcoin to great effect.
00:38:28.000He's also taken to Twitter to hype altcoins like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu while simultaneously warning followers don't bet the farm on crypto.
00:38:34.000So maybe we should take Musk's Twitter investment as more of the same from a guy who's pondered the meaning of life while sipping whiskey and smoking weed during a podcast and once mysteriously claimed he had funding secured to take a Tesla private.
00:38:44.000But I suspect there's something even more serious informing Musk's decision to invest in Twitter, even if he revels in buffoonery.
00:39:13.000A day later, Musk, who fashions himself a free speech absolutist, was on the social media platform again.
00:39:17.000Quote, given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.
00:39:47.000I mean, if Twitter started hearings like basic free speech principles, wouldn't that be terrible, says this columnist for Bloomberg?
00:39:52.000Related efforts by social media platforms to constrain some of the most virulent forms of political propaganda have raised the hackles of that crowd, along with far-rightists and Trumpistas.
00:40:01.000Now Musk has at least fired a shot across Twitter's bow by purchasing 9.2% of its stock.
00:40:16.000That's worrisome because it's not ideal to have a free speech absolutist who isn't absolutely in favor of free speech at the helm of a media company.
00:40:23.000Man, somebody should probably tell Jack Dorsey about that.
00:40:28.000Musk has already received a nice pop on his Twitter stake, of course, but Musk probably isn't in this for the money.
00:40:32.000He's in it to make a point, and he's in it to scare Twitter's management.
00:40:34.000So people on the left are very, very upset about Elon Musk buying into Twitter because, God forbid, there should be a broader discourse.
00:40:42.000By the way, it is worth noting at this point that the Securities and Exchange Commission is spending an awful lot of time investigating Elon Musk.
00:40:49.000And either you can see that as them targeting just an investment bad boy, or is it possible they don't like Musk's point of view?
00:40:55.000Because I've never seen them target anybody remotely this way.
00:40:58.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk has set the stage for a new fight with the SEC, this time over how he disclosed his investment in Twitter that has made him the company's largest investor.
00:41:08.000The Tesla chief executive disclosed those holdings in a form investors are required to file when they buy more than 5% of a company's stock without planning to seek control.
00:41:16.000But the notice came several days late.
00:41:17.000It also didn't include a standard certification that underscores an investor's passive status.
00:41:22.000Musk didn't respond to a request for comment on his filing.
00:41:25.000So now, apparently, the SEC is investigating him over this.
00:41:29.000They're already investigating him, by the way, over other investments, including a fraud settlement he reached with securities regulators in 2018, which required some of his Tesla-related tweets to be pre-approved by company lawyers.
00:41:41.000He said they were violating his freedom of speech.
00:41:47.000You know, Elon Musk, the reason that he is scaring everybody right now on the left is that if the channels of free speech are reopened and social media is not, in fact, made the great firehose of information directed at promoting left-wing propaganda alone, that is a real problem for the Democrats.
00:42:05.000I mean, they're suffering that Americans know too much about what they're doing now.
00:42:09.000Wait until social media actually become somewhat more open to the dissemination of accurate information.
00:42:16.000Meanwhile, the latest in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told the U.N.
00:42:21.000Security Council Russia should be removed from the council or it should otherwise be dissolved after warning that newly uncovered atrocities followed in the withdrawal of Russian forces near Kiev could be worse than those in the city of Bukha.
00:42:32.000Zelensky said during a virtual appearance at the council's chamber on Tuesday, quote, it is difficult to find a war crime the occupiers have not committed.
00:42:38.000He previously said more than 300 civilians had been tortured or killed in Bukha.
00:42:42.000Zelensky said civilians were, quote, crushed by tanks and civilian cars in the middle of the road for fun.
00:42:46.000He said they were raped and killed in front of their own children.
00:42:50.000So, first of all, the UN Security Council is a joke.
00:42:52.000It's been a joke for a very, very long time.
00:42:54.000I mean, after all, Russia and China are on it.
00:42:57.000The Security Council hasn't taken action because, of course, Russia is already on the Security Council.
00:43:02.000Zelensky told the Council Russia should be stripped of its seat to remove, quote, a source of war from blocking decisions about its own aggression.
00:43:09.000The problem is that the Council's permanent membership is set in the UN Charter, so it would be almost impossible for that to happen.
00:43:14.000But this does underscore just how useless the UN is at this point in time.
00:43:18.000And Zelensky, of course, is not wrong in pointing out that the UN is a trash organization that promotes trash countries to trash positions where they cover their own trash.
00:43:30.000White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, for her part, she said that there would be no changes to the Security Council.
00:43:35.000Apparently, the US and the EU have said that they're going to assist the Ukrainians in investigating human rights violations.
00:43:40.000But the truth is, at this point, there's not much left to do.
00:43:42.000They're talking about various forms of sanctions.
00:43:44.000But aside from providing the Ukrainians more military aid, basically, the West has shot its wad at this point.
00:43:53.000Issue more sanctions on Russia's already flailing economy?
00:43:55.000Seems like it's gonna be very difficult, especially given the fact that, for example, Germany is completely dependent on Russian energy at this point.
00:44:03.000Last year, Russia supplied more than half of all natural gas and about a third of all the oil Germany burned in its homes.
00:44:07.000So how long can they go while continuing to heat their homes along these lines?
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