The Daily Wire continues to call for President Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of a murder that never should have been heard by the jury. Meanwhile, the House votes to censure Al Green, and a new viral take on Street Fighter.
00:00:11.000The medical evidence demonstrates that he did not, in fact, murder George Floyd, that George Floyd had significant pre-existing conditions, that he was high as a kite.
00:00:20.000The tape itself does not show everything, that the media made it out to show the case when it was actually conducted in court.
00:00:27.000It was a political sacrifice to appease the mob.
00:01:02.000And so, while they roam the landscape suggesting that President Trump is falling apart, that the Trump administration is wildly unpopular, that is not what the polls are showing.
00:01:10.000The polls continue to show that Democrats and the Democratic Party writ large are in serious political straits.
00:01:16.000Harry Ensign yesterday on CNN explained that there is a real reason why Democrats are currently riding at 20% in the approval ratings.
00:01:23.000There's a reason why congressional Democrats have like a 20% approval rating and even amongst their own party has like a 40%, the lowest Quinnipiac has ever measured.
00:01:31.000And I think last night and sort of what's been going on over the past few months is a gosh darn good illustration of that.
00:01:55.000The other problem is they all want to be that leader.
00:01:57.000And so they have their own form of stupid protest.
00:01:59.000And then finally, they're afraid of being left behind in the Great Awakening.
00:02:04.000They're afraid of being seen as insufficiently far left and nutty.
00:02:07.000And so now it's just all signaling all the way down.
00:02:11.000Yesterday, Al Green, you know, not the famous sort of R&B singer who created Baby Boom, not that guy.
00:02:18.000The other algorithm, the 77-year-old guy waving a cane with a bad haircut at President Trump, well, he was censured by the House because, obviously, if you get kicked out of a State of the Union address by the sergeant-at-arms, you're going to receive a censure vote.
00:02:31.000In fact, several Democrats voted in favor of the censure.
00:02:34.000This censure vote ended with Democrats singing, we shall overcome, as though something had happened to Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma.
00:02:44.000When Al Green was removed for yelling nonsensical crap about Medicaid.
00:02:48.000The House has resolved that Representative Al Green be censured, that Representative Al Green forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure, and that Representative Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the Speaker. and that Representative Al Green be censured with public reading
00:03:32.000The House Democrats have also released a brand new viral video.
00:03:36.000It is a take on Street Fighter in which a bunch of Democratic Congress people, as well as a social media influencer by the name of Sulky Jessica Wu.
00:03:45.000I will admit I did not know who Miss Wu was until this video dropped.
00:04:52.000The best they have is the continuing sort of woke vibes.
00:04:56.000Tara Setmeyer, Democrat in the mainstream media, was on the Dean Obadiah show.
00:05:01.000And if you've never heard of that show, you're not unique.
00:05:03.000The first you're ever hearing of it is here on this show.
00:05:04.000So congrats to Dean on finally having a listenership.
00:05:07.000And Tara Setmeyer stopped by to explain that censuring Al Green for screaming nonsensically during the State of the Union gave her slaveick vibes.
00:05:16.000And when he was removed by the sergeant in arms, which which I found to be very alarming, it bothered me.
00:05:25.000I didn't like to see a black congressman being talked down to by a southern speaker of the House telling him, you know, sit down.
00:05:32.000It gave me very like, you know, slave masterick vibes.
00:05:36.000But to have the sergeant in arms come and remove a member of Congress from a joint session.
00:05:41.000Yes, it was just like slavery, wherein he was at no point a slave and in which.
00:05:47.000He implied that he was going to lead an impeachment effort against the current sitting president of the United States, just as a slave would.
00:06:10.000I have some personal experiences with Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:06:13.000In fact, the first time I spoke with Governor Gavin Newsom, It was all the way back in, I believe, 2013. And Governor Newsom was then not governor.
00:06:22.000And he was on a Los Angeles morning show that I was doing at the time.
00:06:26.000And I asked Governor Newsom at the time about the idiotic idea of building a bullet train extending from Los Angeles to San Francisco that would stop in Fresno.
00:06:35.000And they were talking about how it would cost billions of dollars.
00:06:37.000And I said to him, well, don't we have cars and planes in this state?
00:06:41.000Don't we have an I-5 that goes directly up the state?
00:06:45.000Why precisely would we need to spend billions of dollars on a bullet train?
00:06:49.000And he said, at that time, that it was a terrible, stupid idea.
00:06:52.000He then proceeded to be elected governor and spent billions of dollars on a stupid, terrible idea that never materialized in any way, shape, or form.
00:06:58.000So, let's just say that whenever he declares that he's had a change of heart, I treat that about the same way I would treat his prior relationship with Kimberly Goldfoyle, with a large grain of salt.
00:07:10.000In any case, Gavin Newsom has started a new podcast.
00:07:14.000And I'll admit that I'm eager to listen to every episode if it's as good as this.
00:07:18.000So Charlie Kirk, our friend from TPUSA, was on with Gavin Newsom.
00:07:22.000And Charlie asked Gavin Newsom, like, why is your party so addicted to the idea that boys should play in girls' sports?
00:07:28.000And Gavin Newsom, the reason I'm bringing this up, is not to strip on Gavin Newsom, which is fun.
00:08:16.000So that is Gavin Newsom giving up the ghost on this issue, which is, of course, the thing that Democrats must do.
00:08:21.000As I've been speaking about for years at this point, the thing that makes Democrats seem totally nuts the most is this particular issue.
00:08:28.000But Democrats are having a hard time on this one because just a few days ago, the entire House Democratic caucus voted in favor of the idea that men need to play in women's sports if they identify as women.
00:08:39.000The entire Senate Democrat caucus voted the same exact way and ended up defeating a bill that would have enshrined rights for women in sports.
00:08:46.000Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, was asked about Gavin Newsom's comments.
00:09:12.000So the way you oppose sexual predators being unleashed on girls is forcing grown-ass men with their dingleberries hanging out to shower with the ladies in the women's room before a swim meet.
00:09:25.000That's the way you prevent sexual predation, according to Hakeem Jeffries.
00:09:28.000Again, at some point, the reality is going to set in for Democrats.
00:09:37.000Because they decide to wise up or because the voters keep clocking them over and over and over.
00:09:42.000And so much of this, again, is being driven by the media's bizarre fixation on the idea that this is some sort of civil rights issue.
00:09:52.000So, for example, Politico has a piece titled Newsom's Move on Trans Athletes Jolts 2028 Campaign.
00:09:59.000Gavin Newsom's provocative new position on trans athletes on Thursday reopened a rift in the Democratic Party that could serve as one of the earliest flashpoints in the party's 2028 primary.
00:10:10.000Or is it the position of literally all of humanity for all of human history until the last seven minutes when the entire media and Democratic Party decided that boys who cut off their junk were girls?
00:10:22.000Within hours of the California governor condemning trans athletes playing in female sports, shocking his party in his home state, some Democrats unloaded on the likely presidential contender.
00:10:30.000It's disgusting, said Lori Lightfoot, the former Chicago mayor, with a...
00:10:35.000An approval rating so low that she ended up being ousted as the mayor after one term.
00:10:38.000There are kids waking up in California with this news thinking their governor hates them, and rightly so, said Pramila Jayapal.
00:10:43.000She urged Democrats to, quote, not take the bait and give into their anti-trans people rhetoric.
00:10:49.000But to moderates, Newsom was offering a lifeline for a party plagued by culture wars and the polarizing politics of trans women in sports.
00:10:55.000His comments were the latest from a field of potential contenders seeking to distance themselves from identity politics in 2024. Again, sort of fascinating to see some Democrats beginning to wake up to the political realities of the dumbass positions they've been holding on this one.
00:11:11.000And they're going to need to come to terms with some other political realities, like, for example, the fact that Americans are very much in favor of closing the borders.
00:11:18.000It turns out that Americans don't like open borders very much.
00:11:22.000And some Democrats, say John Fetterman, have been coming to grips with this.
00:11:26.000The reality is that in order for Democrats to win the presidency, they have to run as left-to-moderate Republicans.
00:11:34.000Joe Biden ran as a left to moderate Republican in the 2020 election.
00:11:38.000Barack Obama in 2008, before his re-elect in 2008, Barack Obama ran as a person who wanted to bring common sense to government and unify the country after a divisive era.
00:11:47.000Bill Clinton, by today's standards, would have been judged a left to moderate Republican.
00:12:07.000We live in a world where narratives often matter more than reality, but here's the thing, the data don't lie.
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00:12:36.000Like if you care about how our government is, for example, spending money and where your taxpayer dollars are actually going, this is for you.
00:12:43.000A lot of folks are interested in what Doge is doing.
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00:12:47.000Get clear, contextualized facts on the issues that matter.
00:12:50.000It's time to know those facts because the data don't lie.
00:12:53.000And you can always have your own narrative.
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00:14:22.000At the same time, you have to balance that with the reality that Americans actually don't like radical change very much.
00:14:28.000You have to somehow achieve the signal ability to craft radical change without undermining your own agenda.
00:14:35.000And so far, the Trump administration has been doing a good job on this.
00:14:37.000So, for example, despite all of the media freaking out over Doge, the Department of Governmental Efficiency and Elon Musk, it turns out the poll numbers remain pretty strong on this.
00:15:03.000So yeah, Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts and the idea of spending cuts, at least within the federal government and cutting at government agencies, that actually has majority support.
00:15:39.000are so ideologically attached to their positions that even if those positions start to go wrong with the American people, they hold by them.
00:15:46.000And there's something to be recommended about that because at least you know the differentiation between the parties.
00:15:50.000I mean, I'm clearly an ideological person.
00:15:52.000I have a set of beliefs that fit into a broader worldview.
00:15:56.000And I think that that's helpful to my listeners because they know where I'm coming from.
00:15:59.000But for President Trump to be successful, he has to continue to be as pragmatic as he has been.
00:16:04.000So yesterday, he made clear that he would be.
00:16:07.000Yesterday, according to Politico, President Trump convened his cabinet in person to deliver a message.
00:16:11.000You are in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.
00:16:14.000According to two administration officials, President Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments, but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy.
00:16:26.000The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder who helms the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
00:16:33.000President Trump then stressed that he wants to actually keep good people in government and not to eject capable workers en masse.
00:16:39.000Here's President Trump saying just that yesterday.
00:16:42.000I want the cabinet members to keep good people.
00:16:45.000I don't want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut.
00:16:49.000I want the cabinet members to keep the good people and the people that aren't doing a good job, that are unreliable, don't show up to work, etc.
00:17:23.000And now that we have my cabinet in place, I've instructed the secretaries and leadership to work with Doge on cost-cutting measures and staffing.
00:17:29.000As the secretaries learn about and understand the people working for the various departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go.
00:17:35.000We save the scalpel rather than the hatchet.
00:17:37.000The combination of them, Elon, Doge, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.
00:17:42.000We just had a meeting with most of the secretaries, Elon and others, and it was a very positive one.
00:17:46.000It's very important that we cut levels down to where they should be, but it's also important to keep the best and most productive people.
00:17:51.000We're going to have these meetings every two weeks until that aspect of this very necessary job is done.
00:17:56.000The relationships between everybody in the room are extraordinary.
00:17:58.000They all want to get to the exact same place, which is simply to make America great again.
00:18:02.000So, again, that is President Trump reading the tea leaves.
00:18:04.000He understands that many people are going to start targeting these sort of broad-level cuts without specificity and pointing to victim stories.
00:18:12.000And, of course, there will be victim stories because when you move fast and break things the way that you would at a tech company, then there are a bunch of people who lose their jobs who are sympathetic.
00:18:20.000There are going to be some things that get broken that actually might not need to get broken.
00:18:23.000And so Trump's saying, Listen, at the very beginning we go super hard, but now it's time to actually make sure that we don't break anything that we need and that the departments actually go through and take the recommendations under consideration and then with a scalpel, not with a baseball bat, go through their departments.
00:18:37.000That is a smart move by President Trump.
00:18:40.000A lot of people are painting this as a sort of flip by President Trump.
00:18:53.000The same, I believe, is holding true with regard to tariffs.
00:18:56.000So yesterday, amid all of the hubbub about President Trump's new tariff regime, President Trump reversed some of these tariffs.
00:19:04.000According to NBC News, President Trump issued exemptions on tariffs for a variety of goods coming into the United States from Mexico and Canada just two days after he put the sweeping tariffs in place, leaving investors and businesses grappling with the whiplash of his back-and-forth Trade policy.
00:19:17.000Those exemptions to the 25% tariffs enacted on Tuesday would apply to about half of goods coming into the United States from Mexico and about 38% of goods from Canada that comply with the North American trade deal reached during Trump's first term, according to a senior administration official.
00:19:31.000So again, this is being portrayed as a flip-flop, and in a certain way, it is.
00:19:34.000But it is also a recognition of reality, which is when the market takes a giant bump.
00:19:39.000At a certain point, you're going to look at that and go, hey, maybe we shouldn't do as much of this as we've been talking about.
00:19:45.000When the poll numbers start to go the wrong way, maybe that requires a course correction.
00:19:50.000A brand new poll from the economist YouGov on the tariffs explains that a majority of Americans believe that the cost of tariffs on foreign products imported into the United States would fall mostly on companies and people in the United States.
00:20:03.000Now, whether that is true or not, that perception is really bad for President Trump.
00:20:07.000If the prices rise, and all of that is blamed on the tariffs, the American people are not going to be happy.
00:20:13.000And trying to whistle past the graveyard on that was a mistake that Joe Biden made, right?
00:20:16.000You remember the transitory inflation that was not transitory at all?
00:20:19.000Or the implication that your life was better than you thought it was?
00:20:22.000People don't like being told that when the prices are going up, actually everything is hunky-dory.
00:20:28.000So, again, it is not about whether, in fact, China feels it more than we do.
00:20:32.000China will feel it more than we do, but what do we care?
00:20:34.000If you're an American citizen, what you care about is how America is feeling it, unless you actually believe that Canada and Mexico are enemies.
00:20:41.000Why do we care if a tariff is affecting Canada and Mexico more than it is affecting us?
00:20:53.000We are uniquely well-positioned in the world.
00:20:54.000We have a uniquely strong economy and constitution.
00:20:57.000But if things are worse for Americans on an absolute level, not a relative level with regard to other countries, on an absolute level, Americans feel it.
00:21:06.000This is why, for example, So, out of respect for President Scheinbaum.
00:21:27.000Our relationship has been a very good one.
00:21:29.000We are working hard together on the border, both in terms of stopping illegal aliens from entering the United States and likewise stopping fentanyl.
00:21:34.000Thank you to President Scheinbaum for your hardworking cooperation.
00:21:36.000So again, if the idea here, as I've said before, if tariffs are for leverage, if tariffs are a ratchet, then great.
00:21:43.000You got something you want from Mexico?
00:21:44.000You don't have to tariff the products.
00:21:46.000If, however, there is a principled attachment to tariffs as though tariffs are going to make America economically stronger just on their own, that is not a saleable position for the vast majority of Americans.
00:21:58.000When it comes to the economy, there's just reality.
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00:24:08.000So Scott Besson, who's an excellent Treasury Secretary, he really knows what he's doing, but he's being put out there to defend tariff policy.
00:24:14.000He's at the Economic Club of New York, and he was talking about what he thinks the American Dream is, and he dropped this line.
00:24:22.000Access to cheap goods is not the asset, is not the essence of the American Dream.
00:24:28.000The American Dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility, and economic security.
00:24:37.000For too long, the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this.
00:24:43.000International economic relations that do not work for the American people must be reexamined.
00:24:50.000Okay, now, again, if these trade deals are actually hurting the American people, and there are some that are, then we should reexamine them.
00:24:55.000However, part of the American dream and part of upward mobility is being able to afford things, obviously.
00:25:01.000Making the argument to Americans that access to cheap goods is not part of the American dream?
00:25:05.000Tell that to people who have to pay more for their mortgage.
00:25:08.000Tell that to people who have to pay more for services.
00:25:10.000Those are all goods and services that you have to pay for.
00:25:13.000Actually, access to affordable things is, in fact, part of the American dream because upward mobility relies on you being able to afford things.
00:25:22.000And so, again, I think President Trump is going to look at the markets.
00:25:24.000I think that, once again, he looks at the results of his policies, and if they're not achieving what he wants them to achieve, he changes the policy.
00:25:32.000Speaking of which, Vladimir Zelensky has changed his suit entirely in Ukraine.
00:25:35.000He is now not saying any longer that the war is going to last a very, very long time.
00:25:40.000He was saying that just a few days ago.
00:25:41.000Now he is saying that they are seeking a swift end to the war.
00:25:48.000He says there were some special issues concerning our national resilience on the staff meeting agenda today.
00:25:54.000We are working on all possible scenarios to protect Ukraine.
00:25:57.000The baseline scenario is to hold positions and create conditions for proper diplomacy.
00:26:19.000Now it's time for us to exert enough pressure to get Putin to actually come to the table, make some concessions, and get to the end of the war.
00:26:43.000You thought that Hunter Biden was a great artist capable of selling his paintings for half a million dollars a pop.
00:26:48.000However, according to Politico Playbook, a pardon from his dad spared Hunter Biden from prison, but the former president's son remained saddled with debt and was forced out of a home he was renting.
00:26:57.000By the recent Pacific Palisades fire, according to Politico's Josh Gerstein.
00:27:01.000Biden detailed his grim financial situation in a court filing yesterday, saying he has struggled to sell his paintings in recent months, moving only one in the past 14 months, compared with 27 in the prior two or three years.
00:27:11.000He reported significant debts and lackluster sales of his memoir, just more than 4,200 copies during a one-year period that led up to the trial in Delaware last spring, in which he was found guilty of lying about his drug addiction on a federal gun purchase form.
00:27:36.000Hmm, it's a mystery wrapped in enigma.
00:27:39.000Or maybe people realized that his father was not going to be president for much longer.
00:27:44.000And then if you bought a Hunter Biden painting, you were flushing your money down the toilet.
00:27:47.000Whereas before, if the idea was that he was actually the president of the United States and you bought a Hunter Biden painting, guess who got access to daddy?
00:27:55.000But don't worry, it was never corrupt.
00:27:56.000This family is as clean as the driven snow.
00:27:58.000I can't imagine why the Biden administration was widely derided and hated by the vast majority of the American public.
00:28:30.000Today, we are going to go through the response of the venerable intellect, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, to President Trump's State of the Union address the other night.
00:28:40.000She was knitting a sweater while she did it.
00:28:42.000And so, you know, her brain was apparently largely taken up by that absolutely difficult task.
00:28:49.000Here is some of what Alexander Ocasio-Cortez had to say about the President of the United States address to a joint session of Congress.
00:28:55.000I didn't feel like I could legitimize his presence.
00:29:02.000And so Trump actually has to be formally invited to the House floor in order to be allowed into the House floor.
00:29:11.000Same thing with all those senators and the cabinet members, etc.
00:29:15.000So, you know, I think other people had a certain logic, which is that this is the people's house, and Trump showing up should not kind of force the duly elected representatives of that chamber, especially those who disagree with him, out.
00:29:36.000Okay, so I assume here she's talking about Representative Val Green.
00:29:39.000You will note at this point that President Trump was, in fact, invited to address Congress.
00:29:59.000The reason they're shaking all these couch cushions and the reason that they are rattling off all these numbers is because all those numbers they are trying to add up into one of the most massive tax cuts for billionaires and the 1% probably in modern American history.
00:30:23.000It's not just about what Trump is saying.
00:30:27.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, it was the people at the top of the income tax spectrum who benefited the most from the Trump tax cuts of 2017. It was geared toward millionaires and billionaires.
00:30:37.000Now, I can tell you that my tax rate actually increased under the Trump tax cuts.
00:30:41.000However, the question that really should be asked is not whether people at the top saw more of a decrease in their taxes than people at the bottom.
00:30:50.000People at the top pay way more taxes than people at the bottom, on both an absolute and a relative level.
00:30:55.000The top tax bracket in the United States at the time of the Trump tax cuts was 39%, and it dropped down to 37%, 36%.
00:31:03.000If you're at the bottom of the tax bracket, you're paying basically no income tax, so it'd be very difficult to actually pass a tax cut that benefited you.
00:31:12.000Obviously, gains from income tax cuts are going to be disproportionately to the people who pay the taxes.
00:31:18.000The real question, and the only one that really matters, is after the Trump tax cuts, Did the share of total taxes, like all taxes, paid by the top increase or decrease?
00:31:30.000So in other words, if $100 in taxes got paid by the American people, what percentage of those taxes were paid by the top 1% in 2016 before the Trump tax cuts?
00:31:40.000And what percentage were paid in, say, 2020 after the Trump tax cuts?
00:31:44.000So I asked our friends over at Perplexity that question, quote.
00:31:48.000What percentage of total income taxes did the top 1% pay in 2016?
00:31:51.000And what percentage of total income taxes did the top 1% pay in 2020?
00:32:48.000The largest source of health insurance, one of the largest insurers in the United States that impacts most Americans, if he was confident about his attacks on Medicaid, he would have said something, Wouldn't he?
00:33:07.000He's confident about his attacks on immigrants.
00:33:10.000He's confident about his attacks on federal workers.
00:33:13.000He's confident about all those things.
00:33:14.000Why won't he own up and Republicans own up to their attacks on Medicaid?
00:33:26.000So, she is essentially arguing that absence of evidence is evidence of absence, meaning that there's a complete...
00:33:35.000Absence of evidence that President Trump wants to cut Medicaid.
00:33:38.000He said over and over and over he doesn't want to cut Medicaid.
00:33:40.000That's why he didn't mention it, because he doesn't want to cut Medicaid.
00:33:42.000And she is suggesting he didn't mention it because he does want to cut Medicaid.
00:33:48.000I'd need, like, some evidence to suggest that he wants to cut Medicaid.
00:33:53.000Like, where is she getting all of that?
00:33:55.000And the answer is she's sort of inferring it from the fact that if you are going to do a budgetary bill, as Republicans are proposing in the House, then it needs to be deficit neutral.
00:34:04.000And that means there need to be cuts from somewhere.
00:34:06.000But again, President Trump has already said he doesn't want to cut from Medicaid, which means the cuts are going to have to come from somewhere else, or the bill is going to have to change, obviously.
00:34:51.000Well, I mean, what she's actually referring to is the fact that part of the bill refers to the committee that deals with Medicaid, among other things.
00:35:02.000But it doesn't say that Medicaid has to be the source of the cuts.
00:35:04.000So Democrats just keep saying a thing over and over for which, again, there is no evidence.
00:35:08.000So then she decides that she is going to start talking about the work requirements of Medicaid.
00:35:15.000Now, one of the things that Democrats don't like to talk about a lot is the fact that there are a lot of people who are on Medicaid who are on Medicaid because, in fact, they are claiming disability falsely.
00:35:24.000One of the great multipliers in terms of our welfare dollars is disability.
00:35:28.000But here was AOC. Talking about how work requirements were really not in any way being harmed by Medicaid disability.
00:36:00.000You most likely have a major, major disability.
00:36:10.000When they talk about if you do not have a job and you do not have a job for a long period of time and Like, the percentage of people on that, on Medicaid, it's like, I, don't quote me on it, but I think it's like 3 or 4%.
00:37:21.000Now remember, these are people who are lower than the retirement age.
00:37:24.000They're lower than the retirement age.
00:37:26.000It is also worth noting here that an enormous number of people on Medicaid do claim permanent disability, including huge percentages of people claiming disability who are relatively young.
00:37:38.000Again, according to Perplexity, approximately 21-22% of Medicaid enrollees have a disability.
00:37:45.000That is way higher than it used to be, by the way.
00:37:48.000The claims of disability in the United States have risen almost exponentially over the course of the last couple of decades.
00:37:55.000According to Perplexity, adults aged 19 to 49, 22% claim a disability on Medicaid.
00:38:03.000If you're 50 to 64, 43% are claiming a disability.
00:38:07.000So, I asked my magical friend at Perplexity, what qualifies you for a disability under Medicaid?
00:38:14.000The answer is that you have to meet these criteria.
00:38:17.000One, the disability must prevent the individual from working and be expected to last for at least 12 months or result in death.
00:38:23.000Two, the condition must be a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that results in anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities as shown by a medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic technique.
00:38:35.000Now, there is only one problem with this.
00:38:38.000You know how easy it is to find a doctor who will say that because you have high blood pressure you have a disability?
00:38:42.000Or you have back pain and that is why you have a disability?
00:38:46.000And there is not a really fantastic way of checking whether these folks have disability.
00:38:51.000The instances of disability fraud in the United States are legion.
00:40:23.000And if you live off of tips, I get it.
00:40:28.000I do think it's important for us to recognize the danger of every job becoming a tipped job.
00:40:44.000Now, having to pay each other's wages, not just in waitressing, not just in bartending.
00:40:53.000And if you don't want every single person that you interact with starting to turn an iPad screen around, we need to take this very carefully.
00:41:10.000Because employers, Okay, so let's talk about the myriad idiocies in this particular segment because there are a bunch.
00:41:36.000Number one, she's admitting full scale that a bunch of people are going to start taking tips in order to avoid taxes.
00:41:43.000Why it's almost as though economics is dynamic.
00:41:45.000And when you increase the tax rates on certain things and decrease them on other things, people do the things with less taxes.
00:41:53.000Remember, the entire democratic idea about economics is that it is a fixed pie.
00:41:57.000So if you tax people more, they won't change their behavior.
00:42:01.000And here she is acknowledging that if no tax on tips goes through, a bunch of people are going to start taking more of their pay in the form of tips in order to avoid taxes.
00:42:11.000Almost as though tax rates impact economic activity.
00:42:40.000A lower wage, say $7.50 an hour if you're talking about the federal minimum wage.
00:42:44.000And then you take a bunch of tips on top so you don't have to pay taxes on it.
00:42:46.000And then the customer is the one paying for those things in order to achieve the same result as if you had to pay a higher price in order to pay the taxes that the employer is going to have to pay on the wage.
00:43:02.000The customer has to pay for all of it.
00:43:04.000The employer don't got a source of money other than the customer.
00:43:08.000So no matter how you slice it, is the customer paying?
00:43:10.000The only question is, if, for example, you get rid of the tax on tips, are the employees going to be taking more of their pay in the form of tips from the customer?
00:43:19.000Or are they going to be taking their pay more in the form of a check from the employer?
00:43:24.000But the bottom line is probably going to be about the same.
00:43:28.000And if you force the employer to pay more, to increase the quote-unquote living wage, that all gets passed on to the consumer anyway.
00:43:43.000Well, folks, since we do have this new segment called Takedown, if you see any crazy monologues that you'd love to see me debunk, leave them in the comments section below.
00:43:50.000Well, folks, it's a Friday, and that means it's time to talk about stuff that I don't know about, namely cultural stories.
00:43:55.000Now, you know I'll talk about tariff policy.
00:43:57.000I talked earlier this week about whether the dollar will...
00:44:00.000Long remain the world's reserve currency.
00:44:02.000But the thing I don't know about is the stuff that literally millions of people actually care about and talk about.
00:44:06.000And that is these big pop culture stories.
00:44:26.000Ethical implications that come from this story, which is why I wanted to talk to you and your audience about it because it talks about exploiting children, but also the implications of what family vlogging can do to a family.
00:44:37.000And it's also important to point out the crazy juxtaposition that happened because this woman was famous and viral for being this beloved mommy vlogger.
00:44:43.000She was so happy, so great, painted such a perfect life until she got arrested for child abuse, has been convicted of child abuse and will remain in jail for 30 plus years.
00:44:52.000So the story got even wilder because the daughter now has come out and she's an advocate against family vlogging.
00:44:57.000So she speaks publicly about it all the time.
00:44:59.000And one of her quotes said, there is no such thing as a moral or ethical family vlogger.
00:45:03.000I mean, once you involve the kids in that, I kind of agree with it.
00:45:06.000Meaning that if you're kind of blogging about you cooking at night, or it's you and how you put the kids to bed or something, that's one thing.
00:45:14.000Once you start actually involving your kids in the making of this sort of stuff...
00:45:19.000And I mean, I've known a lot of Hollywood moms because I used to live in Hollywood and I knew a lot of people who had kids in the industry.
00:45:24.000And that stuff is always borderline exploitative.
00:45:27.000There's a reason why Hollywood kids generally end up screwed up adults.
00:45:30.000And so it's not a real shock that when you take those means of production that used to require an entire studio system in order to make it happen, and then you just give it to everybody, there can be a lot of people who exploit their kids for the money.
00:45:41.000I mean, I think it's a pretty good take, actually.
00:45:43.000My wife has said, I've mentioned this on the show before, that she at some point wants to write a book.
00:45:49.000Because that's actually the reality of being a parent is that you realize that you fail literally all the time.
00:45:54.000And so the sort of perfect parent that mommy vloggers very often are portraying, the only way you can achieve that is actually through just lying or through exploiting your kid.
00:47:30.000I mean, it's Hollywood production very clearly, right?
00:47:32.000And I think that's the thing people miss about.
00:47:34.000This is true of reality TV. It's also obviously true of mommy blogging or whatever.
00:47:38.000There's a reason none of my kids, there are no pictures of them online, and we keep them completely away from the spotlight, specifically because of safety reasons and we don't want their life to be dominated by it.
00:47:47.000But, I mean, if you're making money off putting your kids on camera, then it, Is likely going to devolve into that, unfortunately.
00:47:53.000That looks pretty much like every Hollywood mom that I've ever met.
00:48:01.000They democratize the means of production.
00:48:04.000Speaking of which, apparently there are only updates that I have not yet heard.
00:48:07.000Unfortunately, yes, there are many of those.
00:48:09.000The same kind of unethical and ways that you make money is exactly, obviously, what they're doing with only and what women, unfortunately, are seeing, too.
00:48:42.000But she has been flaunting a lot, like, her money.
00:48:44.000Obviously, she's making tons of money because of this.
00:48:46.000And a bunch of young girls are seeing that.
00:48:47.000Bonnie Blue, the infamous only model, has recently made so much money that she has bought a $500,000 Ferrari and she's posting about it on all of her social media.
00:48:56.000So I wanted to show you that because I think, again, there's more ethical and important questions to talk about regarding these women.
00:49:02.000You ready to see your one-of-one custom 458 Liberty Walk?
00:49:42.000It has been a thing for a very, very long time.
00:49:44.000I mean, I wrote a book back in 2005 that I was widely derided for called Generation, all about the population of American society.
00:49:50.000And I suggested that it would become absolutely endemic, that every young person in America would have seen by the time they were 13, 14 years old.
00:49:58.000And again, everyone mocked me at the time for saying that, but it became very clear that that's exactly what's happened here.
00:50:02.000Of course, young women are only seeing sort of the quote-unquote upside and never the downside, which would be, you know, the fact that she has no soul.
00:50:11.000That's going to drive a bunch of young women to do really, really stupid and terrible things to themselves.
00:50:15.000And if they think that the money is going to pay for all the damage they're doing to themselves, I have a hard time believing that.
00:50:19.000The other thing that I wanted to point out, though, specifically with Bonnie and why I wanted to show you anything about her, is that her mom is her manager.
00:51:20.000And that justifies my daughter's soul.
00:51:22.000But the other thing that I want to note about these girls, unfortunately, is Lily Phillips announced just yesterday that she's going to old folks' homes, specifically elderly care facilities.
00:51:39.000And when I asked for his address, he actually sent me the address of a care home.
00:51:44.000So I'm actually here with him and his friends.
00:51:47.000And I'm going to show them a good time.
00:51:51.000I think people are waking up because it's so absurd.
00:51:53.000They're finally realizing, hey, maybe we should have this conversation.
00:51:55.000maybe these things are bad, which I'm absolutely very happy to say that there's also some more improvements in Hollywood.
00:52:01.000And I say it, I'm sort of celebrating crumbs here, but I'm going to show it nonetheless because, you know, we got to take the wins when we get them.
00:52:07.000White Lotus, the show that I know you're familiar with, there's a new season out and a new episode in which a Trump supporter is talked about in a good light.
00:52:15.000So I want to show you the scene because frankly, I've never seen a Trump supporter even really talked about in television, let alone not being exclusively made fun of.
00:54:25.000I mean, White Lotus actually is pretty subversive in this particular way.
00:54:28.000They take a bunch of liberal values and then they really mock the hell out of them.
00:54:32.000It doesn't make the show conservative.
00:54:34.000I mean, the first season is certainly not conservative, but they will definitely mock the living hell out of kind of the pretensions of limousine liberals.
00:54:40.000And that's really what the show is about.
00:54:41.000It's about limousine liberals from New York and L.A. who go on these extraordinarily expensive vacations and just act like horrific human beings, basically.
00:54:49.000I'm wondering, though, if in the future her character will end up being the worst person.
00:55:05.000And so I wanted to show you this as well.
00:55:07.000First episode of the new Pixar Disney Plus series, Win or Lose, features a character called Lori, the daughter of the team's softball coach who struggles with insecurity.
00:55:16.000In one of her first scenes in the show, she begins with the words, Dear Heavenly Father, please give me strength.
00:55:23.000This is the first Christian character from Disney since their 2007 film, Bridge to Terabithia, in which kids Jesse and Leslie attend church together and discuss religion.
00:55:33.000The shocker there is that it took them 20 years, basically, to put another Christian in a kid's movie.
00:56:02.000Is that a sign of the times changing that they're catching on, too?
00:56:05.000I mean, they better because they have completely failed.
00:56:08.000I mean, Disney's stock has been just ravaged over the course of the last few years.
00:56:12.000Their growth trajectory is terrible because they alienated all the parents.
00:56:16.000They forgot that the people they actually need to cater to are the people like me with four kids.
00:56:19.000We used to be Disney annual pass members.
00:56:21.000In California, we used to go to Disneyland almost twice a month, maybe.
00:56:25.000We used to take the kids out of school and go.
00:56:27.000And I have not been back to Disney World.
00:56:30.000Now that we're in Florida for several years because of the move that they made into sort of wild social leftism.
00:56:36.000Do you think there's any world in which they could change course and you'd go back?
00:56:40.000Yeah, I mean, if they change course, sure.
00:56:41.000You know, forgiveness is, I think, a virtue.
00:56:44.000And so if they actually change course and you start to see more of a consistent stream of non-woke nonsense coming from Disney, then absolutely.
00:56:51.000I mean, I would love nothing better than to take my kids to Disneyland.
00:56:55.000I mean, it's some of the greatest IP in history.
00:56:58.000It's going to take a while to earn back trust.
00:57:00.000Yeah, more than just the crumbs of saying maybe one nice thing for people of faith to actually appreciate.
00:57:05.000But there was kind of, to end this segment about pop culture and obviously some negativity with it and the chaos of OnlyFans and all that, there's a new study out about Christianity leveling off and no longer being on decline in America.
00:57:19.000And I think that that's a sign of potentially the changing times about the perspective of faith and the importance of having faith in a household again, which I found shocking.
00:57:29.000New York Times, and it was a Pew Research study, and they said, Christianity's decline in the U.S. appears to have halted major study shows.
00:57:35.000That one shocked me, because what they pointed out in the article was, over the last 20 years, ironically, the same time that we're talking about Bridge of Terabithia to this, but it was going down, and now it's stopped for a couple years.
00:58:43.000But I just thought it was at least something hopeful to end on of maybe not everything is doom and gloom and the generations can kind of change course.
00:58:50.000Well, Reagan Conrad, thank you so much for stopping by and informing me on all the things the world actually talks about most of the time.