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00:00:26.000Well, some of what we're going to talk about today involves big tech and how they are cracking down on people who do not think the way they would like you to think.
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00:02:29.000In the middle of COVID, when you had to shut down the entire worldwide economy, when people were barred from going to work, it made some sense for the government to provide you redress.
00:02:38.000As I said at the time, if the government drives a Ford F-150 through your business, at that point, It's essentially a takings, and they have to recompense you for the fact that they drove that Ford F-150 through the front door of your business.
00:02:49.000But now, your business is open, and the government's still sending you money.
00:02:53.000And so now, we are now in a position where the federal government is essentially attempting to addict you to the drug of free money.
00:03:01.000And many people are going to take them up on that, because why wouldn't you?
00:03:03.000The check arrives in the mail, and you are going to use that check.
00:03:57.000What it really was about, again, was giving people a taste of the drug so that then they need it.
00:04:02.000Then you want the government to continue to send you checks.
00:04:04.000So when Joe Manchin, the supposed moderate from West Virginia, when he says that this targets relief to people who need relief, that is just not true.
00:04:10.000It does not target relief to people who need relief.
00:04:23.000And yet here is Joe Manchin defending it.
00:04:26.000In this bill, we targeted where help is needed.
00:04:29.000We were able to target basically the people that need help, the children that need help, the schools that need help, the people on the front line, all of America.
00:04:38.000That's what we were able to do, and a lot of that was by talking with my colleagues and negotiating back and forth, and I was able to channel that through, I think, and hopefully make a bill that is a much more encompassing bill.
00:04:50.000I think it's a great piece of legislation, going to help a lot of people.
00:05:06.000Because you cannot continue to spend like this and then assume that the economy is just going to make up the burden.
00:05:12.000This is true during Bush, it was true during Reagan, it is true during Obama, it is true during Trump, and it is true now.
00:05:17.000At a certain point, the bill will come due.
00:05:19.000I understand that everybody out there thinks that modern monetary theory is a reality, that we can just continue to blow out the spending this way and it will have no actual consequences.
00:05:32.000And the notion that you can continue to spend this way and inflate the currency in order to do so, especially at a time when the economy is in full-scale recovery, And effectively speaking, you're redistributing from future generations to our generation, and you're also redistributing from open states to closed states, that this is gonna have no consequences at all on economic growth.
00:06:00.000Everybody in the country, everybody who earned, you know, under a couple hundred thousand dollars probably should've gotten a $100,000 check.
00:06:06.000I mean, as long as we're just handing out checks, why $1,400?
00:06:48.000So after changes that you pushed for, enhanced federal unemployment benefits now expire about a month earlier, and there's a new income cap for writing them off on your taxes.
00:06:58.000I have to say, you represent one of the lowest income states in the nation.
00:07:02.000Why were you fighting for less help for citizens during this cruel economic time?
00:07:09.000Well, Jake, first let me just say it's always good to be with you, okay?
00:07:11.000And next of all, all I did was try to make sure that we were targeting where the help was needed.
00:07:16.000Okay, we didn't target where the help is needed.
00:07:44.000Okay, Joe Biden is now a more transformational president than Barack Obama was because he has now instituted a wide variety of measures that are going to be incredibly difficult to claw back.
00:07:54.000Obama's transformation came in two forms.
00:07:56.000One was a cultural transformation in which we moved from the era of race-blind meritocracy, or at least that was the ideal, We moved from race-blind meritocracy as an ideal to wokeness as an ideal.
00:08:06.000That was his number one transformation.
00:08:08.000And his number two transformation was Obamacare, in terms of governmental transformation.
00:08:13.000Joe Biden's legacy, at least thus far, is going to be taking wokeness and putting it at the center of all government policy, and then instituting all these massive government programs that addict the American public to taxpayer cash.
00:08:26.000In a way that hasn't been done really since the 60s, really since LBJ.
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00:09:59.000Okay, so, the media are in full celebration mode.
00:10:11.000Biden's stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses.
00:10:17.000Wow, you might wanna smoke a cigarette, take a cold shower after that one, headline writers over at the Washington Post.
00:10:23.000I mean, this thing, it's showering money on America, showering!
00:10:26.000I mean, the money just came from nowhere, and all that happened is that Joe Biden just turned on the spigot, and now he is showering you in joy.
00:10:32.000I know it sounds weird, but that's what he's doing.
00:10:41.000I mean, sure, we've been trying to do that for literally decades in the war on poverty, but if you do it again, probably it'll work this time.
00:10:46.000And favoring individuals over businesses.
00:10:49.000According to Heather Long, Alyssa Fowers, and Andrew Van Dam, President Biden's stimulus package, which passed the Senate on Saturday, represents one of the most generous expansions of aid to the poor in recent history, while also showering thousands, or in some cases tens of thousands, of dollars on American families navigating the coronavirus pandemic.
00:11:03.000Now, quick note about the hypocrisy of this media coverage.
00:11:07.000Donald Trump pushed forward a $2 trillion package while he was president, with bipartisan support.
00:11:13.000And the Fed blew out the spending to the tune of another $3 trillion, and he didn't get this sort of headline.
00:11:19.000At no point did he get this sort of headline.
00:11:21.000And that was actually at least somewhat justified, considering we're in the middle of a global coronavirus pandemic that had forced the closure of nearly every business in America.
00:11:28.000Right now we're coming out of this, and Joe Biden is forcing this thing through, which of course is the reason why you still have the panicked talking heads on TV from the Biden administration talking about how COVID's going to kill us all.
00:11:37.000Because if ever the American people recognized that essentially they were Completely shifting the nature of the distribution of power between the individual and government on the basis of a lie, which is that this coronavirus pandemic is going to continue for another year, or two years, or five years.
00:11:53.000If they ever realized that, maybe they would fight back.
00:11:58.000The roughly $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to the Washington Post, which only Democrats supported, spends most of the money on low-income and middle-class Americans and state and local governments, with very little funding going toward companies.
00:12:09.000Which, of course, if you want people to hire, you would actually give it to the companies, but they're not doing that.
00:12:13.000The plan is one of the largest federal responses to a downturn Congress has enacted, and economists estimate it will boost growth this year to the highest level in decades and reduce the number of Americans living in poverty by a third.
00:12:23.000Yeah, it turns out that you can quote-unquote boost growth by simply pumping money into the economy.
00:12:28.000Or is that just the government pumping?
00:12:30.000Every time the government pumps, that is included in the GDP numbers.
00:12:33.000It's one of the problems with how you actually generate GDP.
00:12:36.000The GDP number is number of dollars spent.
00:12:38.000If you inflate the number of dollars spent by inflating the number of dollars in the economy, simply by just dumping a bunch of cash into the economy, by signing everybody a check, it makes it look like GDP is growing.
00:12:46.000The question of economic growth is really not about how many dollars are circulating.
00:12:50.000It is about the nature of the products and services that are being provided and the living standards of the people who are engaging in those products and services.
00:12:57.000GDP is not a wonderful figure for measuring that particular sort of stuff when the government is explicitly gaming the system.
00:13:04.000Wait, you mean there's a poll that shows that people like free money?
00:13:11.000But the ambitious legislation entails risks, both economic and political.
00:13:15.000The bill injects the economy with so much money, some economists from both parties are warned growth could overheat, leading to a bout of hard-to-contain inflation.
00:13:22.000Meanwhile, some businesses are saying government aid has been so generous, they're having trouble getting unemployed people to come back to work.
00:13:30.000Unlike many significant anti-poverty measures passed by Congress, this one has a short time Almost all the relief for families goes away over the coming year.
00:13:39.000This could be an abrupt awakening for Americans who have grown accustomed to financial support.
00:13:42.000Yes, and this is going to be the pitch, right?
00:13:44.000By the end of the year, the pitch from Democrats is going to be, we can't just get people off of the dole.
00:13:52.000It's not the actual Cocaine mainlining?
00:13:55.000Okay, this is the taste of the coke to get people addicted to the coke.
00:13:58.000This is the same thing drug dealers do.
00:13:59.000They give you the taste so you get addicted.
00:14:02.000Indivar Dutta Gupta, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality says, There's the code word to be a part of the member of the new ruling class using the term latinx, which is used by zero Latinos anywhere in America.
00:14:21.000The Biden administration is seeing this more like a wartime mobilization.
00:14:40.000So, apparently, here is the total impact of the three major coronavirus relief bills that have been passed over the course of the last year or so.
00:14:47.000$870 billion to state and local governments.
00:14:52.000That's just to bail out California and New York and Illinois and all the badly run states in America.
00:14:58.000There's another $865 billion devoted to, quote, other healthcare spending or other policies.
00:15:04.000There's $2.2 trillion that were devoted to stimulus payments, tax credits, unemployment benefits, health coverage.
00:15:11.000Again, all of this is designed to get people addicted to public money.
00:15:14.000And the New York Times, by the way, has been pretty clear about this.
00:15:17.000And the New York Times is being pretty obvious about this.
00:15:19.000They just say, listen, what we are attempting to do here is get people more and more dependent on the government and to essentially reconnect the idea that if you have kids and you can't pay for the kids, the government's going to pay for the kids.
00:15:33.000Now, listen, there should be social structures that are in place to help take care of children whose parents are unable to take care of them.
00:15:39.000What we are setting up here is a rather perverse incentive that, again, incentivizes people to have kids without being able to pay for them, which is really not ideal.
00:15:49.000When you pay people for their kids, they tend to have kids in order so that the government will pay for them.
00:15:53.000That is just something that happened in the 1960s.
00:15:55.000It's why illegitimacy rates rose so incredibly high in virtually all communities, but particularly in minority communities.
00:16:01.000The New York Times says the stimulus bill is a policy revolution in aid for children.
00:16:06.000It's establishing a guaranteed income for families with children, except that the guaranteed income for families with children phases out over the basis of the income.
00:16:13.000So it's not a universal basic income connected with the American priority of generating children.
00:16:18.000Instead, it is incentivizing people to have children and earn a low income.
00:16:39.000It continued under Trump, and now it has been exacerbated by Joe Biden, except you add a little bit of spice with some equity talk in there so that you figure that not everybody is going to get the money.
00:16:48.000The only people who are going to get the money are the people who are adjudicated to be the most victimized in our American society.
00:16:55.000He is a transformational president, I'll give him that.
00:16:56.000I mean, he may not be, Joe Biden may not be aware of it, I mean, the man may not be alive, but what he is doing in the first few weeks of his administration is indeed a fundamental transformation.
00:17:07.000He is materializing the third term of Obama.
00:17:10.000In Barack Obama's first term, he started pushing big government in a way You know, the very open way that had not truly been done for decades.
00:17:18.000And then in his second term, Barack Obama really started to shift how Americans thought of themselves.
00:17:24.000He pushed identity politics up to wazoo.
00:17:26.000And then in his third term, which is really Biden, right?
00:17:43.000Okay, in just one second, we'll talk about what's going on with the Royals, because I know that people in my audience are fascinated with the Royals, but there actually is something kind of interesting to talk about there and kind of perverse.
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00:18:57.000Okay, so in order for Joe Biden to sell this COVID package, he has to continue complaining that this is never going to end, the COVID pandemic is never going to end.
00:19:07.000Because in order to sell you on the idea that we can just continue blowing out the spending, he has to sell you on the idea that the crisis continues.
00:19:13.000If he had just campaigned as the LBJ war on poverty guy, without the pandemic in the backdrop, he would have just been Walter Mondale.
00:19:21.000A person who is a stalwart in the Democratic Party, pushing the same policies as LBJ, that Americans mostly weren't super fond of.
00:19:29.000But using the pandemic, he's been able to push this thing through.
00:19:32.000Which is why you're seeing the Biden administration continue to proclaim that COVID remains a world-shaking crisis.
00:19:50.000Here's Dr. Fauci, the second greatest doctor in American government after Dr. Joe Biden.
00:19:55.000Historically, if you look back at the different surges we've had, when they come down and then start to plateau at a very high level, plateauing at a level of 60,000 to 70,000 new cases per day is not an acceptable level.
00:20:12.000And if you look at what happened in Europe, A few weeks ago, they're usually a couple of weeks ahead of us in these patterns they were coming down to.
00:20:20.000Then they plateaued, and over the last week or so, they've had about a 9% increase in cases.
00:20:26.000Okay, so I mean, this plateau is unacceptable.
00:20:32.000They're the American young, who are not being hurt by this virus in anything like the numbers of the American elderly.
00:20:38.000Dr. Marty McCary, He put out a graphic demonstrating this.
00:20:42.000The graphic that he put out was actually put out there by Scott Gottlieb.
00:20:45.000And what it showed is that Americans are rushing out the vaccine for people over the age of 65.
00:20:49.000This week, we're gonna cross 60% of those over the age of 65 vaccinated and 70% of those over the age of 75.
00:20:56.000Given the fact that those are the people who are most likely to die of COVID, what we are talking about right now is a bunch of young people getting COVID, which is not super dangerous.
00:21:05.000Okay, it is more dangerous than the flu, as I've said before, for people between the ages of 20 and 65, but not so much more dangerous that you're gonna stop living your life unless you have a serious pre-existing condition.
00:21:14.000That's why when you're seeing all these headlines about, wow, COVID's gonna spread on the beaches, what, to a bunch of 20-year-old drunks?
00:21:30.000So, I'm failing to see the giant problem.
00:21:32.000Dr. McCary tweeted out, Vaccinating older and vulnerable people first means deaths will plummet soon as cases linger among young people, which means it's more likely to have asymptomatic infections or mild non-fatal disease.
00:21:42.000This week, 10 states had days with zero deaths and another 10 averaged less than five days.
00:21:47.000Okay, but you're not supposed to say that, right?
00:21:49.000If you point out that that's progress, then that undercuts the entire Biden argument for restructuring the American economy, for building back better.
00:21:56.000But even members of Biden's own administration are beginning to recognize that you can't say the kind of stuff that they've been saying, that eventually people are going to see the ridiculousness of what they are pushing.
00:22:05.000Dr. Michael Osterholm, who has been a COVID hawk all the way through here, he's director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and a member of Biden's advisory board on COVID.
00:22:14.000He says the CDC should just recognize that people aren't going to be masking up until 2022.
00:22:30.000If we just tell people that they've got to stay cocooned, that they've got to stay in their homes, that they've got to continue to wear their mask even though they're fully vaccinated, they're not going to do that.
00:22:40.000They're going to disregard the public health recommendations.
00:23:02.000By the way, how seriously is the Biden administration actually taking COVID?
00:23:06.000Well, according to the Washington Examiner, the Department of Homeland Security is not going to test thousands of migrants before releasing them into the United States.
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00:24:54.000Honestly, like, when I think of victims in our society, the victims who come to mind are absolutely A guy who grew up a prince and also a B-rate television actress from Suits on USA Network who marries into the royal family and is shocked to discover that she is married into the royal family.
00:25:11.000And she learns, she learns, just like she would on a USA Network TV show, she learns that they are not up to woke par.
00:25:24.000And no one would have been able to say this before, but Meghan Markle is the first person to have married into the royal family of color.
00:25:30.000And so that means that she can see through her woke colored glasses that the royal family is in fact a systemically racist and evil institution, and she can speak truth to power while living off of her mother-in-law, Diana's $25 million endowment.
00:25:44.000I mean, wow, the heroism, truly the victimization.
00:25:49.000So last night, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who, I mean, I gotta say, Meghan Markle, I'll just put it out there.
00:26:05.000I don't believe that she is just some, you know, she was just walking along like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
00:26:10.000She was just a poor little flower girl.
00:26:11.000And then one day she was plucked off the street by Prince Harry and she had no idea what the monarchy was and just found herself in the palace.
00:26:29.000She and Harry had to rush off to America.
00:26:32.000By the way, the one kind of unspoken part of this story that I do love is if America is so systemically racist, why did they run to America?
00:26:40.000Seriously, they could've gone anywhere.
00:26:42.000And they came to the most systemically racist place on earth, America, replete with our, I mean, isn't she afraid that if she comes back with Prince Harry, she just went from the royal family, which is racist, to America, which is so racist that we elected Donald Trump, and also our cops just shoot people on the basis of race.
00:26:57.000But she came back here, which is weird, right?
00:27:03.000But I think the real theme here is don't screw with us, Brits.
00:27:07.000You know, George III, he screwed with us and we defeated him.
00:27:11.000But we waited two centuries to unleash our most powerful weapon of all.
00:27:18.000An unhappy B-rate actress from a USA Network TV show armed with the power of woke.
00:27:25.000And she has come, she's like the Thanos of the royal family over here.
00:27:28.000She has come to erase the royal family.
00:27:31.000Finally, we are going to overtake the monarchy.
00:27:33.000All we had to do was send a woke actress to do an interview with Oprah.
00:27:38.000Okay, so again, nothing says lack of privilege and victimhood quite like, you know, living off mommy-in-laws, $25 million, being married to a prince, using the newfound celebrity that you gained.
00:27:47.000Like, I'd never heard of Meghan Markle until she started dating Harry, right?
00:27:57.000And then it turns out that, according to Piers Morgan, she's not particularly a nice person, which is unshocking.
00:28:04.000And now it turns out, according to the royal family, that she actually was kind of abusive to the staff while she was over there.
00:28:09.000Again, the allegations, not super shocking, but victimization means that you take all of this privilege, and I'm sorry, that's privilege.
00:28:17.000You act on a TV show for a living in the most prosperous society in human history, and then you move from that to being a member of a royal family.
00:28:24.000You become an actual honest-to-God princess.
00:28:27.000With like the bajillion-dollar wedding, and the train that runs for three miles behind you, and all this show, and this pomp, and this circumstance, and your entire life is going to be paid to shake people's hands.
00:28:42.000It's not like there's any responsibility that comes along with being a member of the royal family, beyond just smiling, and looking good, and shaking people's hands.
00:28:55.000Because the royal family is no longer actually powerful because they don't actually have any political power since basically the killing of Charles.
00:29:04.000They haven't had a lot of power in the British system for quite a while.
00:29:10.000In any case, since the 19th century, the king of Britain has not had tremendous power.
00:29:16.000Okay, but because the monarchy doesn't have power, what they really stand for is the history of Britain and the UK.
00:29:23.000And really, you know, deeply intertwined with the history of the West.
00:29:27.000And so this is really more an assault on the institution of the monarchy, in the same way that there's an assault going on right now on the history of the United States.
00:29:34.000Because that's really what the monarchy stands for, right?
00:29:35.000When people look at Elizabeth, what they see is World War II, and post-World War II, and the history of Britain, and standing up to the Nazis.
00:29:43.000And now what we're getting is that, well, you know, this institution, just like all Western institutions, is racist and terrible.
00:29:49.000And the way we know that it's racist and terrible is because they were mean to this B-rate actress who arrived on their shores seeking only to be accepted, but was rejected based on the color of her skin.
00:29:59.000So I don't believe nearly any of that.
00:30:05.000Again, call me cynical, but anybody who marries into the royal family I think is just a little on the make.
00:30:11.000Okay, I think that you have to be this kind of meek, cute, Hugh Grant-esque fantasy that people marry into the royal family because they just found love.
00:30:21.000I find this very difficult to believe.
00:30:23.000I find it very difficult to believe that people marry into the royal family because they just fell in love with members of the royal family.
00:30:29.000In fact, that seems not to be the history of the royal family in general.
00:30:33.000Royal families in general, that's typically not how it works.
00:30:35.000Okay, but in any case, Meghan Markle Okay, so Meghan Markle does this interview with Oprah, and they've already been rejected from the royal family, right?
00:30:44.000They basically said, we wanna stay members of the royal family, but we're gonna be adjunct members of the royal family.
00:30:49.000We are gonna go over to America, and we're gonna cut a Netflix deal, right?
00:30:52.000Again, none of this is privilege, guys.
00:30:54.000True privilege, true privilege is just you out there having a normal job.
00:31:38.000She was just a perfect innocent in all of this, right?
00:31:41.000And then when she left and they wanted to retain their sort of royal prerogatives while traipsing around America picking up Netflix deals, and the royal family was like, nope, not gonna do that.
00:31:49.000Then she was even more of a victim because she'd been stripped of her princesshood So now she's gonna go on Oprah and bitch.
00:31:57.000Well, by the way, Prince Philip is in the hospital at 99 years old.
00:32:06.000You go from actually serving in the British military during World War II, I believe, Prince Philip.
00:32:11.000You go from that, and then having your wife take over the monarchy of Britain after her father's early demise.
00:32:19.000And facing the travails that Britain had after World War II, and the social changes, and you've lived that whole life, and your life culminates as you're lying in a hospital bed, watching your grand, what is it, granddaughter-in-law?
00:32:34.000Watching your granddaughter-in-law call the entire royal institution racist?
00:32:39.000And a pretty good metaphor for all of Western society at this point.
00:32:44.000People who really fought tyranny and spent their lives fighting against the Soviet Union and the Nazis and all this, and only to see their great-grandchildren and grandchildren call them a bunch of anti-woke racists who are terrible people.
00:32:57.000Yeah, the story of Western civilization in a nutshell, right there.
00:32:59.000Okay, we'll get to what Meghan Markle actually had to say in just one moment.
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00:34:34.000We will send you our crappiest actresses, and they will go on Oprah, and they will say mean things about you and collapse your entire monarchy with the power of woke.
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00:37:00.000In any case, here she was explaining, you know, Prince Harry taught her to curtsy.
00:37:04.000She was just a little down-home girl from America, and she came in, and she had to learn the ways of the royals, but only she was able to identify their deepest secret flaw.
00:37:16.000Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Harry and I are in the car, and he says, OK, well, my grandmother's there, so you're going to meet her.
00:38:45.000I'm just going to drive this bus over them, back up the bus over them, because my wife wants to be a famous actress and wasn't very good in suits.
00:39:56.000Because I don't believe this for a second, but here she is saying a thing, plus she's a, maybe it's true and she's such a bad actress that I can't even tell that it's true.
00:40:03.000In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, he won't be given security, he's not gonna be given a title.
00:40:18.000And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
00:40:34.000And of course she connects the fact that Harry, who is like ninth in line for the throne at this point, that Harry is not going to get the security, he's not going to get all this stuff, and again, I believe at this point they'd already decided they wanted to move to America.
00:40:47.000That that was going to be the basis for- That was going to be the basis- It was all about skin color.
00:40:52.000Of course, it was all about the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Now, again, I don't know the truth or falsehood of any of these statements.
00:41:09.000I do know that once you claim that you were suicidal, that you had suicidal ideation, then people generally should not question that.
00:41:20.000I also will assume that I have no idea what anybody else did around her because I don't think that she's a credible source about anything other than her own feelings.
00:41:27.000I think most people are credible sources on their own feelings, but people tend not to be credible sources when their self-interest is at stake.
00:41:33.000Here's Meghan Markle, then, trying to impute to the royal family a lack of care for her suicidal ideation, which is a hell of an accusation to make.
00:41:40.000Look, I was really ashamed to say it at the time, and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry especially, because I know how much loss he's suffered.
00:41:53.000But I knew that if I didn't say it, that I would do it.
00:41:59.000And I just didn't, I just didn't wanna be alive anymore.
00:42:02.000Okay, and then what she says is that she went to the institution and they were like, you can't get outside help because if you get outside help, then that is gonna become a story in and of itself.
00:42:10.000Well, okay, first of all, Meghan Markle was a story from like the day that she joined the royal family because she started lecturing everybody inside the palace about race.
00:42:19.000I mean, she was in the tabloids every single day.
00:43:38.000as well, right? There were certain things that you couldn't do, but you know, unlike what you see in the movies, there's no class on how to, how to speak, how to cross your legs, how to be royal. There's none of that training that might exist for other members of the family. That was not, okay. Okay. The beginning, the beginning part of that, that's I'm sorry.
00:43:58.000That's just from any angle, that is super funny.
00:44:01.000So Oprah's like, so did you like join the royal family and then you knew that you were going to build your career that way?
00:46:42.000Okay, so there's an actual deeper underlying thing that's going on here, and that has to do with racism and colonialism.
00:46:48.000There's been this move in Britain to do sort of what you've seen in the United States, which is the entire history of Britain is about colonialism and racism and brutality in the same way that the entire history of America is about racism and colonialism and brutality, right?
00:47:00.000And Prince Harry backs that to the hilt.
00:47:02.000So he starts talking about how he's done the work, right?
00:47:04.000Other members of the royal family, they didn't do the work.
00:47:06.000He says racism drove him out of Britain.
00:47:08.000It was the tabloids and their racism that drove him out of Britain.
00:47:11.000And then he says, quote, I've spent many years doing the work and doing my own learning, but then my upbringing and the system in which I was brought up and in which I've been exposed to, I wasn't aware of it to start with, but by God, it doesn't take very long to suddenly become aware of it.
00:47:23.000It takes living in her shoes for a day or those first eight days to see where it was going to go and how far they were going to take it and get away with it.
00:48:02.000It's going on into Meghan Markle and how she treated the employees and the staff over there.
00:48:06.000The reason this has some deeper significance, though, truly, is because what everybody recognizes is that the British monarchy, being essentially just a facade at this point, that it really doesn't have any institutional power, all it is is just a face for the history of Britain.
00:48:20.000And when Harry and Meghan make the case that the British monarchy is rife with colonialism and racism, that they have not moved beyond any of that, that there is still this deep systemic racism that is inherent in the most beloved part of the British government, namely the figurehead, What they're really saying is that all of British history and really British society is infused with the same sort of systemic racism they accuse America of having as well.
00:49:09.000But again, part of a piece, and that piece is something larger, which is the broader attack on institutional pillars in our society, even institutional pillars that don't have a lot of actual power at the moment.
00:49:27.000Meanwhile, that sort of ties in with the broader argument that's happening in the United States about racism and cancellation and the cleansing of the American body politic.
00:49:37.000So, what we have seen now is that our First Amendment press, the people who love the First Amendment the most, those folks have decided that cancel culture literally does not exist.
00:52:07.000His estate decided they would stop publishing several books because they contained illustrations that most people, if looking at them objectively, would say, ooh, that's pretty racist.
00:52:17.000Now, you can debate on individual books, but let's have the individual images that cause the estate of Dr. Seuss to feel uncomfortable and have people defend them.
00:53:16.000If you are not willing to defend a single Dr. Seuss page, right, the one that people are upset about, then this means that you are actually a hypocrite, right?
00:53:25.000You have to defend the page in order to defend the right of that book to still be distributed.
00:53:29.000Now, I'll be completely honest with you.
00:53:31.000I'm willing to defend if I ran the zoo as a book.
00:53:34.000I am willing to defend the I'm willing to defend and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street on the basis of a simple fact.
00:53:41.000Those books have not produced more racism in American society by any measurable level, by any measurable.
00:53:47.000You cannot find an individual who's been made more racist by If I Ran the Zoo.
00:53:53.000In other words, you're looking for things to be offended by, and then when you find something that you are offended by, you say, isn't this objectively offensive?
00:53:59.000And then people who were never offended by it before, they go back and they're like, oh, that does look kind of uncomfortable.
00:54:03.000And then they say, let's get rid of the literature.
00:54:05.000That is not the way a free society ought to operate.
00:54:07.000Instead, people ought to be able to consume what they want to consume.
00:54:10.000And by the way, people can use their best judgment and know these materials are not making people more racist.
00:54:19.000But the idea from CNN now is, That if you are, if you don't think, if you don't love that particular picture in a Dr. Seuss book, how dare you criticize the Dr. Seuss estate for taking this stuff down?
00:54:29.000Okay, so Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader.
00:54:32.000He decided to defend Dr. Seuss who would read Green Eggs and Ham, which doesn't make a ton of sense to me because Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books being canceled.
00:54:38.000I would have read, and to think that I, to think I saw it on Mulberry Street.
00:54:42.000I would have just gotten up here and I just would have read it.
00:54:44.000Because again, even if I don't love those particular images, even I could see why somebody might find them offensive, they have not offended generations of children or made anybody racist.
00:54:54.000Okay, but Jake Tapper tweeted out, one of the weirdest parts of this culture war is that the self-styled warriors aren't willing to stand by the empirically racist images they're supposedly defending.
00:55:02.000Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books the Dr. Seuss Foundation has decided to stop publishing.
00:55:06.000Okay, now, here is where it gets weird.
00:55:08.000You don't even have to defend those books to defend the right of those books to be distributed.
00:56:18.000Okay, but the move of the left is twofold.
00:56:20.000One is, you're not even willing to defend that picture, so that picture shouldn't exist.
00:56:24.000And two is, why are you even worrying about all this stuff?
00:56:26.000Sure, we're trying to cancel random stuff, but you know, what are you worried about?
00:56:30.000And the answer is, as you keep evolving the standard, so as to maximize your own power, there is no standard.
00:56:34.000The standard just continues to get broader and broader.
00:56:38.000So over the weekend, we saw an attempt now to go after Speedy Gonzalez and Pepe Le Pew, right?
00:56:42.000Notice how they're going after all the kids' stuff.
00:56:44.000The reason they're going after all the kids' stuff is because they only want their standards taught in school.
00:56:48.000So it is very dangerous for your kid ever to watch a Pepe Le Pew cartoon, but it is also dangerous for you not to teach your four-year-old boy that he might be a four-year-old girl.
00:56:57.000In fact, it is mandatory that you teach your child about cross-dressing when they're five.
00:57:01.000Very important that you teach your kid about the virtues of cross-dressing, but if they watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he cross-dresses for humorous purposes, then this is very bad, and in fact terrible, and you can't do that.
00:57:11.000Don't worry, they're not trying to control your kid's mind.
00:57:13.000They're not trying to control how your kids are brought up.
00:57:15.000The same culture that says that Cardi B is excellent for teenagers says they cannot read a Dr. Seuss book lest they become racist.
00:58:30.000Even though you didn't define problematic.
00:58:32.000Is it a popular figure losing fans or affiliations because of past actions?
00:58:35.000No, that's the power of public opinion.
00:58:38.000Or it's cancellation depending on the content of the past actions and its impact on their current job.
00:58:43.000My favorite part of this particular piece from CNN is that they actually cite, this idiot author actually cites Gina Carano as not being canceled because we hired her at Daily Wire.
00:58:53.000She was canceled and then we hired her.
00:58:57.000What do you not understand about this?
00:58:58.000But again, if you point out that there is a censorious move on the left, then you are somehow either delusional or participating in cruelty and malice.
00:59:08.000By the way, as far as Pepe Le Pew goes, the entire joke of Pepe Le Pew is that he was a pervert.
00:59:30.000It seems to me that if you're going to connect content with effect, which is what you guys love to do, right?
00:59:35.000You like to suggest that Donald Trump is responsible for a riot on the Capitol because he said stuff and then people ignored the peaceful part and went and rioted at the Capitol.
00:59:43.000But the content was connected with the action.
00:59:44.000So show me how the content was connected with the action with Pepe Le Pew.
00:59:47.000Show me the rapist who was desperately watching Pepe Le Pew late at night and then decided to go participate in quote-unquote rape culture.
00:59:55.000And again, there's no end to it, of course.
00:59:59.000When they say that Dr. Seuss... So the original defense of the whole Dr. Seuss thing was, don't worry, we're just stopping the distribution of new books, but you can still go to the library and get the books.
01:00:07.000CBS then called up libraries and asked whether they would remove Dr. Seuss books.
01:00:13.000Okay, when journalists do this sort of stuff, when they call up libraries, when they get the intelligent idea to start calling places and asking whether they're gonna remove material, that is not journalism, that is activism.
01:00:21.000It's a soft way of pressuring these libraries into doing just that.
01:00:25.000So they called up these places, and as it turns out, yes, there are now libraries that are going to start removing this stuff.
01:00:50.000Talk about how you've seen this evolve over time.
01:00:53.000I'm sure there are books that maybe you've read or seen that were, you know, popular or bestsellers that in retrospect you might look at and go, that didn't age very well.
01:01:59.000But the notion that it's doing some terrible psychological harm, horrible harm, to have a boys and girls section of a toy store is idiotic in the extreme.
01:02:12.000It has to do with cramming down a particular vision of society.
01:02:16.000And it extends over into the tech sphere as well, by the way.
01:02:19.000Apparently, both Google and Urban Dictionary are now censoring particular terminology.
01:02:24.000One of those pieces of terminology that they are censoring is the term Blue Anon.
01:02:29.000So the term Blue Anon, which was used recently by our friend Candace Owens, that term refers to all the conspiracy theories the left has bought into over the past few years, right?
01:02:37.000Everything from the Russia collusion hoax to the Brett Kavanaugh rape stuff, to Jussie Smollett, to all of that.
01:02:43.000So Google and Urban Dictionary literally removed that term, Blue Anon, they took it down.
01:02:48.000I've never heard of a word being banned at any of these places, But apparently Google has censored searches for Blue Anon.
01:03:31.000And we are all supposed to just acquiesce to this and pretend that this is not in any way a violation of individual freedom or a change to the culture that is bad.
01:03:37.000We're supposed to just say, well, you know, that's the way the world works.