Donald Trump attends a memorial service for a slain New York City police officer. Meanwhile, four other presidents attend a ritzy, glitzy fundraiser in the center of New York, attended by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
00:00:00.000So Donald Trump won a big PR victory yesterday.
00:00:03.000He won a big PR victory mainly because it seems like the Democrats at the upper echelons of the party, the people who are running Joe Biden's campaign, they don't seem to know even relatively recent history.
00:00:13.000The 2016 campaign that pitted Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump turned into a campaign about upper class elitism.
00:00:21.000That largely predominated in places like Washington, D.C.
00:00:24.000and New York City against Donald Trump's sort of blue-collar vibe.
00:00:27.000And yesterday that was on precisely the same sort of display in New York City.
00:00:31.000So you had four presidents who descended into New York City yesterday, but they went for very different purposes.
00:00:36.000Donald Trump went to New York City to attend the wake of a New York City police officer who was murdered in the line of duty.
00:00:43.000The visitation was for Officer Jonathan Diller, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop on Monday and was held in suburban Massapequa on Long Island.
00:00:51.000According to the Associated Press, police said the 31-year-old Diller was shot below his bulletproof vest while approaching an illegally parked car in Queens.
00:00:58.000Diller was married, had a one-year-old son, and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
00:01:02.000Here was Donald Trump talking about law and order and a crackdown on crime coming out of the memorial service for this dead young officer.
00:01:35.000The same exact time that Donald Trump was visiting this memorial service, the Democrats
00:01:42.000were preparing for a ritzy fundraiser over Radio City Music Hall.
00:01:47.000President Biden went to Radio City Music Hall.
00:01:49.000He was joined there by Barack Obama, as well as Bill Clinton.
00:01:53.000They apparently raised more than $26 million, and they had a bevy of stars.
00:01:57.000It was a cavalcade of glitzy Hollywood celebrities, ranging from Lizzo, To Cynthia Erivo, to Lea Michele of Glee, and also who's now on Broadway, and all these stars just singing, dancing for the assembled crowd, many of whom I'm sure were paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege.
00:02:17.000And it's the glitz and the glamour that were at the center of all of this.
00:02:20.000There is video of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton literally rising from underneath the stage Like at some sort of bizarre rock concert.
00:03:18.000The reason it was closed to the press, presumably, is because they knew that it was actually quite a bad look.
00:03:23.000That in a time when most Americans are deeply unhappy with the direction of the country, they're having this ritzy, glitzy, glamorous fundraiser in the center of New York City at Radio City Music Hall.
00:03:32.000According to NBC News, Mindy Kaling...
00:03:48.000He moderated a conversation with Biden, Clinton, and Obama in which all of them ripped into Donald Trump, of course.
00:03:52.000And again, Donald Trump was busily going to, you know, a national memorial service for a fallen officer in a Democratic city.
00:03:59.000So let me ask you, which one is more sympathetic?
00:04:01.000Donald Trump going to visit with the family of a slain New York City police officer?
00:04:05.000Or Joe Biden, who still has not gone to, for example, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which is an hour outside Washington DC, even just to stand there for the cameras.
00:04:13.000Instead, heading on over to Radio City Music Hall to hang out with uber-celeb Barack Obama and former uber-celeb Bill Clinton.
00:04:21.000Other special guests included Queen Latifah, Ben Platt, Apparently, according to NBC News, during the nearly hour-long moderated conversation, Colbert joked that the moment was historic because three presidents have come to New York and not one of them appear in court.
00:04:34.000So again, it's all these little jibes, these snide jibes of Trump.
00:04:37.000But Trump is busy doing the thing that blue-collar people do.
00:04:53.000And it's very reminiscent, again, of 2016.
00:04:55.000You remember the 2016 Democratic National Convention?
00:04:57.000We had a bevy of celebrities, all involved in the filming of the most obnoxious music video of all time.
00:05:05.000All these people singing fight song to Hillary Clinton because she was a fighter and everybody just recoiled in horror at the absolute stupidity of all of it.
00:06:10.000He doesn't care about anyone but himself.
00:06:12.000And New Yorkers are sophisticated to know that.
00:06:14.000I hope America is more sophisticated to understand he's exploiting a grieving family.
00:06:21.000OK, well, he's acknowledging the grieving family.
00:06:23.000Joe Biden is busily hanging out with Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert.
00:06:27.000That's what was going on in New York City last night.
00:06:30.000We'll get to more on all this in a moment.
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00:07:33.000Corinne Jean-Pierre was so puzzled by all of this that she tried to blame the crime surge that's been happening in some of America's major cities on Donald Trump.
00:07:42.000Surge under the previous administration, which repeatedly attempted to cut the COPS program, all of their budgets targeted that they, that key funding for the police and congressional Republicans just proposed doing it again.
00:07:55.000So this is a president, this is a Biden-Harris administration, have done the polar opposite, taking decisive action from the very beginning to fund the police and achieving a historic reduction in crime under his leadership.
00:08:26.000I'm not going to stop talking about it because it is going to lose Joe Biden in the election.
00:08:29.000His attempt to swivel all the way to the left to get low-propensity progressive young voters to the polls in outsized numbers, it is not going to be successful.
00:08:36.000The more he attempts to feed the alligator, the more the alligator demands of him.
00:08:40.000So last night, outside and apparently inside the event with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, both outside and inside, pro-Chamas protesters descended upon the event.
00:08:51.000Here are some of the video of what was going on outside the event.
00:08:53.000See a fairly large crowd of protesters outside.
00:09:01.000My favorite is the trans flag right above the right below the Palestinian flag.
00:09:06.000That is definitely a coalition that is odd, as we pointed out elsewhere.
00:09:09.000But of course, that coalition is built on hatred for the West.
00:09:11.000It's built on anti-Americanism, which presumably is why Down With the USA was actively being chanted outside the event for Joe Biden yesterday.
00:10:24.000And Joe Biden is pandering to these people.
00:10:27.000Let's be clear, when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, we've said this over and over and over, and this is the fact of the matter.
00:10:32.000The Palestinians have failed to build a functional government or society for literally decades.
00:10:37.000Gaza was handed over to the Palestinians in 2005.
00:10:42.000Hamas promptly turned it into the most large functioning terror base in the world, replete with hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, with tens of thousands of rockets.
00:10:54.000And then they proceeded to launch a would-be genocidal attack against every Jew across the Gaza border.
00:11:01.000And then they got their asses handed to them.
00:11:03.000That's effectively what is going on in the Middle East right now.
00:11:08.000Well, yesterday, Israel released some tape.
00:11:10.000They're all these... The online space is truly toxic.
00:11:13.000But, Israel released, in the sense that they're constantly doubting obvious evils, like the fact that Hamas are a bunch of murderers and r*****s. Some of the worst people on Earth.
00:11:23.000Israel, yesterday, released some tape of one of the Hamas terrorists admitting that on October 7th, he participated in r*****.
00:11:34.000The interrogator says, so you entered the house, and then you saw her in the room, and what did you do?
00:11:38.000He says, the devil took me over, I laid her down, started undressing her, and did what I did.
00:11:43.000And the interrogator says, what did you do?
00:11:58.000And there's widespread evidence of sexual abuse that happened during October 7th, putting aside the murder of everybody up to and including small children.
00:12:08.000Deliberate murder, not collateral damage that happens in war, deliberate murder.
00:12:12.000And yet somehow this is considered an issue that is worthy of massive protest by the far left.
00:12:18.000And Joe Biden and company are still catering to these people.
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00:13:25.000So apparently the discussion last night with Biden and Clinton and Obama was interrupted at least five times by protesters, according to NBC News.
00:13:33.000Colbert acknowledged one protester and asked Biden about the U.S.
00:13:35.000role in ensuring a peaceful and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians.
00:13:39.000Biden said more needed to be done to get relief into Gaza, but added that Israel's very existence was at stake.
00:13:44.000And then he said there has to be a train for a two-state solution.
00:13:50.000Again, this is the only time I can imagine a mass terror attack met with a massive hegemonic world power suggesting that those who favor the terrorists ought to be given a fully functioning state.
00:14:16.000And it's important for us to understand it's possible to have moral clarity and have deeply held beliefs, but still recognize the world is complicated and it's hard to solve these problems.
00:14:24.000Now the real question is, why Democrats keep catering to these people?
00:14:29.000Why do Democrats keep catering to the most radical conspiracy theorists on their side?
00:14:33.000If you wonder why the elevation of this particular theory about Palestinians and Gaza and Hamas, above all else, why is it that this has become the point of the spear for the progressive movement?
00:14:44.000We talked about this a little bit yesterday.
00:15:02.000And the answer is because the victimhood mentality has pervaded the society so widely that the best way that you can show your fealty to a basic belief system, which is that the failures of individual human beings and groups are related to their victimhood at the hands of another group, the best way that you can show fealty to that perverse idea And it's a conspiracy theory, is to find literally the worst people on earth, who are the most unsuccessful, and who are claiming victimhood, and then say they're right.
00:15:33.000That is the way that you can show fealty to the idea, just like any cult.
00:15:36.000Any cult requires you to go through a series of steps to show what they call skin in the game.
00:15:42.000This is why, if you're joining a sex cult, they make you get a tattoo, for example.
00:15:45.000You have to do the most extreme thing in order to show that you have fealty to the idea.
00:15:50.000So if you want to show fealty to a basic political idea, which is that individuals and groups fail not because they are failures, not because they have made terrible, terrible decisions, not because they are Betraying their own sense of aspirational purpose, but instead they are failing because of the evil system that surrounds them.
00:16:10.000In order for you to show your fealty to that idea, you have to find the most obvious case of a group of people who have blown every opportunity and acted in the most evil ways and still claim that even those people are victims of the society around them.
00:16:25.000You have to find Hamas, ****, and murderers, and their sympathizers in the civilian population, who spent 20 years allowing Hamas to run roughshod through their area and govern them, and who still, by polling data, favor October 7th and Hamas.
00:16:38.000You have to find those people, and you have to say, those people too are victims.
00:16:41.000And I will show you how strongly I believe they're victims.
00:16:55.000Understand, this is a broad writ conspiracy theory.
00:16:57.000Now I want to talk about the rise of conspiracy theories on all sides.
00:17:01.000I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but I want to talk about this more at length because the conspiratorial victimhood cult now infuses pretty much every side of the political aisle.
00:17:11.000I wish it were restricted to the far progressive left.
00:17:38.000But when I talk about the conspiracy theory of society, I'm referring to the idea that without any real specification as to who comprises the conspiracy, how it works, what are the actual evidentiary proofs that it's happening, You can simply suggest that your own victimhood, your own failures are the result of you being a victim.
00:17:58.000And again, this is a pervasive sense that has encroached upon the entire body of politics.
00:18:02.000It is enervating and it's un-American.
00:18:05.000The American dream is the idea that you are not a victim.
00:18:08.000In fact, no matter how terrible your history, no matter how much you were a victim, you can still rise.
00:18:15.000The American Dream is formerly enslaved people in the United States rising into the middle class and then into wealth, building families, building churches.
00:18:26.000The American Dream is poor commoners in Europe coming to the United States, forging and surging forth across the continent and building themselves up into successful people.
00:18:37.000That's the American dream, not them sitting around and talking about how societal forces are so militarized against them.
00:18:43.000The American dream is people like my great-great-grandparents coming in 1907 and showing up with nothing, not knowing the language, and not considering themselves victims of the government or of the surrounding society, but treating all obstacles As barriers to be overcome rather than insuperable obstacles that bar them from success.
00:19:07.000When we say the American dream is dead, I think that what most people mean is that there are now obstacles to the American dream that prevent them from achieving their aspirations.
00:19:15.000But if the American dream is dying, it's because we have ceased to dream.
00:19:19.000It's because people have decided that the dream itself is stupid.
00:19:22.000That the reason that they are failing is not because of their own failures.
00:19:26.000They're failing because the society around them is failing.
00:20:21.000He said the conspiracy theory of society is quote, the view that an explanation of a social phenomenon consists in the discovery of the men or groups who are interested in the occurrence of this phenomenon.
00:20:32.000Sometimes it's a hidden interest which has to first be revealed and who have planned and conspired to bring it about.
00:20:38.000So what he says is most of the societal forces that are around us are evolutionarily created.
00:20:43.000That when there's a problem in society, usually that has been built up over the course of generations gradually and very often not on purpose.
00:20:51.000That the unintended consequences of human action typically are the things that build up systems.
00:20:56.000It's usually not some group of men in a room somewhere who are figuring out how all the levers of society work.
00:21:04.000Because once you start attributing everything around you to a conspiratorial group of people in the back room who are trying to figure out how to screw you, things get very ugly very quickly.
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00:21:57.000He says this view, this conspiratorial view of society, arises, quote, From the mistaken theory that whatever happens in society, especially happening such as war, unemployment, poverty, shortages, which people as a rule dislike, is the result of direct design by some powerful individuals and groups.
00:22:15.000In its modern forms, it is a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition.
00:22:19.000The belief in the Homeric gods, whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War, is gone.
00:22:24.000The gods are abandoned, but their place is filled by powerful men or groups, sinister pressure groups, whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from, such as the learned elders of Zion, or the monopolists, or the capitalists, or the imperialists.
00:22:36.000And so what he's pointing out here is that if you go back to pagan cultures, pagan cultures basically suggested that all the ills that you were suffering were the result of a series of gods who were conspiring against you.
00:22:46.000And when you read the Iliad, this is what you see.
00:22:48.000You see people who are making independent human decisions, but those decisions are constantly thwarted by a group of people in the sky, and I call it a conspiracy theory, who are figuring out how your life actually is supposed to work.
00:22:59.000Monotheistic religion, on the other hand, actually fights against conspiracy theories.
00:24:38.000We have to find pathways of fixing those problems.
00:24:42.000But if there's something going wrong in your life, the first place you should look before you look to quote-unquote vague systems, before you go ghost hunting, you should look at you.
00:24:52.000And in its place, you don't get pagan gods.
00:24:54.000You get a new form of paganism, which is the conspiracy theory.
00:24:57.000So here's what Popper writes, is, I do not wish to imply that conspiracies never happen.
00:25:01.000On the contrary, they are typical social phenomena.
00:25:03.000They become important, for example, whenever people who believe in the conspiracy theory get into power.
00:25:09.000People who sincerely believe that they know how to make heaven on earth are most likely to adopt the conspiracy theory and to get involved in a counter conspiracy against non-existing conspirators.
00:25:17.000For the only explanation of their failure to produce their heaven is the evil intention of the devil, who has a vested interest in hell.
00:25:23.000You see this on all sides of the political aisle.
00:25:24.000The only thing that stands between us and a greater world is if I can just get those group of people and I can, I need the power in order to do that.
00:25:31.000And the reason I need the power is because they are involved in a conspiracy against me.
00:25:35.000Give me the power and I will fix this thing.
00:25:38.000When the reality is that the vast majority of problems are solvable in a free country like the United States, the freest country in the history of the world.
00:25:45.000The most prosperous country in the history of the world because it is the freest country.
00:25:49.000Those problems are mostly solvable at a personal level.
00:25:51.000Again, politics, instead of finding discreet problems and solving discreet problems, has become about how do we blame the society around us for our own personal failings.
00:26:01.000By the way, when it comes to monotheistic religion, the reason Marxists hate monotheistic religion is because it debunks the conspiracy theory.
00:26:10.000This is the reason why the communists tried to kill the church, because the idea was that a monotheistic religion says God is good, the universe is good.
00:26:17.000If you're failing, you might want to look at you.
00:26:19.000Marxism says if you're failing it's because society created a system that makes you fail and we need to rip down that system.
00:26:25.000This is why Marx suggested that religion was the opiate of the masses.
00:26:28.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:27:34.000He says, the big problem is what he called discretionary powers designed to empower organs of the state to act within certain limits as they consider necessary for achieving the ends laid down by the rulers for the time being.
00:27:45.000So centralization of power turns into, we need to act against the conspiracy.
00:27:49.000And we can't go through any sort of predictable process.
00:27:51.000We can't go through any legalistic process because it might get thwarted.
00:27:57.000More centralized power in the hands of an unanswerable few.
00:28:00.000He writes, the use of discretionary powers is liable to grow quickly once it has become an accepted method, since adjustments to discretionary short-term decisions can hardly be carried out by institutional means.
00:28:11.000You can't go through, like, a legislature.
00:28:13.000You can't go through a budgetary process.
00:28:15.000You need to have an administrative state that can move quickly and needs to be able to do things at a moment's notice.
00:28:19.000And it doesn't have to make its excuses to you, because after all, there's a conspiracy afoot, and that conspiracy can only be thwarted by centralized collective power through discretionary means.
00:28:28.000He says this tendency must greatly increase the irrationality of the system, creating in many the impression that there are actually hidden powers behind the scenes, making them susceptible to the conspiracy theory of society with all of its consequences, heresy hunts, national, social, and class hostility.
00:28:43.000So, you give the government a lot of power?
00:28:47.000And then you use that centralized power in order to push discretionary power and then discretionary power because it doesn't look predictable, because it doesn't look rational.
00:28:54.000That breeds more conspiracy theories because now you actually do have small groups of people in shady rooms making decisions for all of society.
00:29:02.000And so now we are in a death spiral, a conspiracy theory death spiral that ends with the belief by the vast majority of Americans that they are now victims in the society.
00:29:10.000And once Americans believe that they are victims of societal institutions around them, And that freedom is not the answer.
00:29:24.000You can draw this out on a flow chart.
00:29:25.000I want to do this just for one second because it's actually a pretty simple way to see exactly where the country is going if this doesn't stop right now.
00:29:32.000Okay, so everything starts with a problem.
00:29:41.000The question is, is it an individual problem or a collective problem?
00:29:44.000Is this a problem that you could solve on an individual level, or is this a problem that has to be solved by the mass power of the collective?
00:29:53.000The vast majority of problems in your life are solvable on an individual or local community level.
00:29:58.000That has been true for a very long time in the United States.
00:30:00.000It doesn't mean there aren't big collective problems that we need to solve together.
00:30:02.000It means that those are pretty few in number.
00:30:05.000In a free country like the United States, we are not living in Tsarist Russia.
00:30:09.000Okay, so the next move that people make, a problem really is a claim of victimhood.
00:31:20.000If you are 50 and you are just asking questions, I don't think you're just asking questions.
00:31:25.000I think that your level of curiosity is actually quite low.
00:31:29.000I think that you don't care enough to know or know enough to care.
00:31:33.000I think that the vast majority of people who are in the just asking questions business have an answer that they want to suggest, but they know there's no evidence for it, so instead they hide behind just asking questions.
00:31:43.000In other words, they're completely full of s***.
00:32:07.000And then you have a problem, as Popper says.
00:32:08.000Collective power tends to be pretty slow-moving and large and unwieldy.
00:32:13.000So then what you have to do is you have to delegate that.
00:32:14.000You have to delegate that collective power to some sort of discretionary power.
00:32:23.000You have to delegate it to the discretionary power, right?
00:32:25.000Because once you delegate it to the discretionary power, then they can handle the problem.
00:32:28.000The problem is that the discretionary power actually does look a lot like a conspiracy because now you actually have a small group of people who have been allocated outsized power without answerability or accountability.
00:32:39.000And that group of people can now be blamed for other failings because they, in fact, will be involved in those failings.
00:32:46.000And so what you end up with is, wait for it, You've shortcutted the first couple of steps, you end up back at the conspiracy theory, and now you're in a spiral.
00:32:56.000More conspiracy theories requires more collective power, requires more discretionary power, which leads to more conspiracy theories, more collective power, more discretionary power, and so on.
00:33:03.000And that's how freedom dies, through the power of collective conspiracy theories.
00:33:37.000We have to go back to the individual American dream.
00:33:39.000Again, it doesn't mean there aren't conspiracies, doesn't mean there aren't bad people trying to do bad things, but we have to be very specific about what we are targeting, and very meticulous in our use of power in order to target it, or we end up in a very, very bad position.
00:33:53.000Now, in the end, who are the greatest enemies of the conspiracy theorists?
00:34:41.000It's true for middlemen Chinese in various countries in Asia.
00:34:45.000It's true right now of Southeast Asians in many areas of the United States, in impoverished areas of the United States.
00:34:51.000It's not unique to Jews, but any group or person who is disproportionately victimized and also disproportionately successful explodes the entire victimhood conspiracy theory mentality.
00:36:07.000Because the conspiracy theories that believe that the West is the obstacle to your success, those conspiracy theories always end with going after people who have experienced victimhood and refuse to be the victims.
00:36:20.000Because it explodes the entire basis for their attempt at collective power.
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00:37:35.000Those prisons represent possible landing places for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who will, in coming months, report to begin serving his 25-year sentence imposed Thursday by U.S.
00:37:43.000District Judge Louis Kaplan in Manhattan.
00:37:45.000Kaplan recommended the one-time entrepreneur be assigned to either a low- or medium-security prison near where his parents live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
00:37:53.000They suggested, the judge did, that he has autism and his association with wealth that make him a target for other prisoners, so they're going to put him in a minimum or moderate security prison.
00:38:03.000He is going to stay there for the next 25 years of his life.
00:38:06.000He'll probably be 50 by the time he gets out.
00:38:09.000And of course, a well-deserved sentence for a fraudster.
00:38:12.000This is the second biggest sentence that we have seen for this kind of fraud since Bernie Madoff
00:38:16.000got 150 years in prison and then died in prison.
00:38:19.000Benjamin Fried's sentence, of course, was based on the fact that he essentially told people
00:38:25.000to invest in FTX and then took the money from FTX and poured it into a fake Bitcoin scam
00:38:31.000while simultaneously skimming off the top.
00:38:34.000He got away with it because for a very long time, he was pretending that he was a charitable entrepreneur.
00:38:40.000He had this whole theory about how if you made more money, this meant you could give more charity,
00:38:44.000which of course is true, but it also meant that since he was passing that money
00:38:47.000around to politically connected people,
00:38:49.000he could get away with it for a very, very long time, which apparently he did.
00:38:54.000Bankman Freed's sentence is good evidence that you should really check the financial bona fides of the places you invest rather than simply trusting people based on their virtue signaling.
00:39:03.000That is the short story of Sam Bankman Freed.
00:39:06.000And meanwhile, The Democrats are starting to get very nervous about RFK Jr.
00:39:45.000And you can't, you take a poll now, but I think there's a certain percent of people in the country that they're just like, just F the whole thing.
00:39:55.000And Biden is not going to get any of the F it all vote.
00:40:00.000Now, the reality is that RFK Jr., because of Nicole Shanahan, the person he just brought on as VP, who actually has been bankrolling a lot of his campaign, he's going to be on a lot of state ballots.
00:40:10.000And if he's on state ballots in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania?
00:40:16.000According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump leads Biden by a little bit under two points in a two-candidate race, but in a three-candidate race, with Kennedy earning somewhere around 12% nationally, he is beating Joe Biden by five points, 41 to 35.
00:40:36.000Not a lot of battleground polling on the three-candidate race, but The reality is that Kennedy is going to do better in a three-candidate race than, say, Jill Stein did in 2016, when her voters provided a margin of error large enough to hand the election to Trump in many of the swing states.
00:40:53.000In the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump's lead, for example, grows from 5.2% to 6% in Arizona in a three-way,
00:41:00.0005.2% to 7.4% in Georgia, 3 to 6 in Nevada, 4.4 to 6.7 in North Carolina.
00:41:07.000Only in Michigan does it seem like the addition of these other third-party candidates actually hurts Trump a little
00:41:44.000Earlier this week, he attacked him, casting him as a liberal Democrat in disguise, but he also was backing him as a spoiler against Joe Biden.
00:41:52.000He did say, I love that he is running.
00:41:57.000is basically a stand-in for people who are dissatisfied with Biden but can't bring themselves to pull the trigger for Trump.
00:42:02.000And that's going to be a lot of people.
00:42:03.000Joe Biden has disappointed an enormous number of people, particularly moderates.
00:42:07.000Everybody's talking about the progressive disaffection with Joe Biden.
00:42:12.000Moderate disaffection with Joe Biden is going to be just as high, if not higher.
00:42:16.000Progressive voters are louder about it, but moderate voters are the ones who are going to make a difference in this year's election.
00:42:20.000And as I've said over and over and over and over, Joe Biden has steered away from the voters that brung him, which is usually a very bad strategy in a national election.
00:42:28.000We'll get some more on this in just one moment.
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00:43:46.000Meanwhile, there is more information on the death of Next Benedict.
00:43:50.000So you remember, Next Benedict's death was exploited by the media to pretend that it was anti-trans bigotry that led Next Benedict to die.
00:43:56.000Originally, they suggested that Next Benedict, who was a 16-year-old girl who claimed that she was gender non-binary, they claimed that she was abused by other students at her high school, beat up in a bathroom, and then died because of being beaten up.
00:44:09.000And it turns out not one element of that was true.
00:44:11.000It turns out that Next Benedict started the fight in the bathroom, It turns out that next Benedict was actually in full decent health after that fight?
00:44:21.000It turns out that NextBenedict committed suicide.
00:44:24.000So literally every element of that was false.
00:44:25.000And now we are getting new details into the life of NextBenedict, which demonstrate once and again, again, again, again.
00:44:31.000When you are talking about young people committing suicide, it is not because society is mean to them for their gender non-binary status.
00:44:38.000According to RedState, now that we have the full autopsy report for NextBenedict, many of the questions surrounding her overdose have been answered.
00:44:45.000The full report released by the Chief Medical Officer and Board of Medicological Investigations confirms what the earlier Medical Examiner's Office reported.
00:44:52.000There were massive amounts of diphenhydramine, more commonly known as Benadryl, in Nex Benedict's Dagny, was her actual name, in her blood.
00:45:00.000Dr. Paul Wax, the Executive Director of the American College of Toxicology, reviewed the results, confirmed she could have consumed 50 to 100 pills to reach that toxicity level.
00:45:09.000Her death was intentionally self-inflicted.
00:45:12.000While advocacy groups remain insistent her distress sourced from bullying at school, Dagny did not indicate this in her last notes.
00:45:18.000The Owasso Police Department released a statement saying, quote, although the notes do not make any reference to the earlier fight or difficulties at school, the parents indicated that Benedict reported being picked upon for various reasons while at school.
00:45:28.000As is usual in these cases, there's much more to the story, says Red State.
00:45:31.000A hint was provided by the Washington Post on February 21st, 2024 that never made it beyond that report.
00:45:35.000Describing Dagny's funeral, the article states that Dagny's cousin spoke along with her mother and Benedict.
00:45:41.000Next, his biological mother was among the mourners.
00:45:42.000Their father, who was in prison for abuse, was not.
00:45:48.000Well, on July 17th, 2019, when Dagny was 11 years old, an arrest warrant was issued for James Everett Hughes, Dagny's father.
00:45:55.000He was arrested on July 31st, 2019, in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
00:46:00.000The charge was for rape of a minor, under the age of 14, during the time period between May 2017 and August 2017, when Dagny was 9 years old.
00:46:08.000Among many witnesses was Sue Benedict, the grandmother who had adopted Dagny in 2019.
00:46:13.000Hughes would accept a plea deal to sexual assault in the second degree, November 27, 2019.
00:46:17.000He was sentenced to 5 years in prison with 10 years suspended.
00:46:20.000He would be placed on the sex offender list and have no contact with his daughter.
00:46:23.000He was then arrested again January 25th, 2024 by Little Rock Police Department for failing to comply with reporting as a sex offender two weeks before Dagny's suicide.
00:46:32.000Hughes' new case was filed March 5th, 2024 for the offense of failing to register as a sex offender or report the address change.
00:46:41.000In the report, Dagny, age 11, would tell investigators her father anally raped her when she was nine years old and that he had molested her for years prior.
00:46:50.000So in other words, this is obviously a story of horrific physical sexual abuse of a child by her own father, and that resulted in problems that deserve nothing but sympathy.
00:47:01.000But the media treated this as a case of conservative anti-trans bigotry, which is insane and sick and wrong.
00:47:12.000Will the media walk any of what they did back here?
00:47:15.000Of course not, because it backs their particular narrative, and that particular narrative is that America is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad place, and their proof of that is that, next Benedict, a young girl committed suicide, and that she must have done so because society was too mean to her, as opposed to because of the very specific circumstances of what appears to be a deeply tragic life.