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00:01:34.000So, if you just watched Legacy Media, if all you consumed was Legacy Media all day long, you would think that it is now illegal to say the word gay in the state of Florida.
00:01:43.000And apparently every left-wing celebrity you know thinks it is illegal to say the word gay in Florida.
00:01:50.000Luke Skywalker, he just tweeted out yesterday a giant tweet that just said gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, like a thousand times.
00:01:56.000You see every celebrity that you can think of tweeting out the word gay because somehow this is a blow against the evil, repressive state of Florida, which of course does have a fairly significant gay population living within it.
00:02:08.000There are a bunch of people who are tweeting out yesterday that they were being silenced and erased from Florida life because of the so-called don't say gay bill.
00:02:15.000Again, if you thought that there was a bill called don't say gay that had just passed Florida legislature and that have been signed into law by the governor.
00:02:21.000Number one, that would be violative of the First Amendment.
00:02:23.000And number two, you might think that there would be a punishment for doing any of these things.
00:02:27.000There is not because there is no don't say gay bill in the state of Florida.
00:02:30.000Instead, there is a bill that says that teachers are not allowed to sexually or gender ideology indoctrinate children K through three.
00:02:38.000And then they are not allowed to do any of that stuff in a non-age-appropriate fashion beyond that age.
00:02:43.0005th, 6th grade, you're not supposed to be teaching kids about hormone treatments that change your sex, for example.
00:02:48.000That would be non-age-appropriate for kids who are maybe 11 or 12 years old.
00:02:54.000The bill says the word parent about 30 times because the entire bill is about how parents ought to have the chief decision-making power with regard to how their kids are taught about controversial sexual and gender issues.
00:03:08.000It is not up to the schools to indoctrinate kids into the belief that all forms of sex are morally equivalent.
00:03:12.000It is not up to schools to instruct kids on different types of sex.
00:03:16.000It is not up to schools to instruct small children on the lie that men can become women and women can become men.
00:03:22.000But the entire legacy media just took what the left called this bill and then they repeated it and pretended that that was the name of the bill.
00:03:29.000Now, this would be the equivalent of if Democrats passed some sort of bill in, say, the state of New York and enshrined abortion up till the ninth month, which is what the New York legislature did.
00:03:37.000And the Republicans had termed this the Kill Babies Bill, which would be a much more accurate take on the bill than, for example, Don't Say Gay.
00:03:44.000But let's say that they had named it that because, obviously, they opposed the bills.
00:03:48.000They called the Let's Kill Babies Bill.
00:03:50.000And the entire media had immediately started using that language.
00:03:53.000Every headline has started using that language.
00:03:56.000That would demonstrate that the media were just lapdogs for the Republican Party.
00:04:00.000However, in this particular case, they have done that with the Democratic talking point with regard to the so-called Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:04:06.000It is not a so-called Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:04:08.000It is a Democratic propaganda labeled Don't Say Gay Bill because the bill, again, does not say that.
00:04:14.000I've explained this 1,000 times on the show already.
00:04:17.000Protecting the innocence of children and granting parents the authority to actually raise their children as they see fit with regard to sexual mores.
00:04:33.000This is the hill they want to die on because their idea is that if they do not get to indoctrinate all the children on their particular values, then a small fragment of kids who may be suffering from gender dysphoria are going to kill themselves.
00:04:45.000The idea is That they are the sympathetic ones and all they need in order to promote their sympathy is to override your parental values and destroy your relationship with your child.
00:04:54.000All they need is to just take your kids and put them in some sort of platonic school where they get to indoctrinate their kids, your kids, in their values.
00:05:03.000And then the world will be a utopian place.
00:05:06.000I mean, sure, your kids may believe a bunch of lies about gender.
00:05:09.000Sure, your kids may believe a bunch of things you believe to be immoral about sexuality.
00:05:14.000But at least they've been able to create a utopia of their own making.
00:05:17.000They need your kids as tools in this mission.
00:05:20.000That is why they are fussing about this bill.
00:05:22.000Again, this is not a bill that says you can't say gay in the state of Florida.
00:05:25.000It's not even a bill that says that you can't say the word gay in school.
00:05:27.000It says that you are not allowed to indoctrinate small children into your sexual values, and the left is having a bleep fit over it.
00:06:05.000This is like if Republicans had labeled Build Back Better, Giant Waste of Money Pork Barrel Spending Bullcrap Bill, and that had been in the headline of an AP article.
00:07:00.000This started ground up from a bunch of Democratic activists.
00:07:03.000And now, because this White House is run by Democratic radicals, it is not a moderate administration, it does not even pretend to be a moderate administration anymore.
00:07:09.000Jen Psaki yesterday suggested that this bill was quote unquote horrific and said that if you don't teach a kindergartner that boys can be girls and girls can be boys, or if there's a bill banning you from doing so, if you don't teach a second grader That all forms of sex are exactly morally equivalent.
00:07:23.000And that all lifestyle choices are exactly the same and deserve equal respect and acceptance.
00:07:42.000Again, this is so deeply ingrained in left-wing thinking right now.
00:07:45.000That parents are the obstacle to a better tomorrow.
00:07:48.000This is why you saw Terry McAuliffe say in that Virginia governor's race that parents should not have authority to determine what their kids learn.
00:08:31.000They want to be able to tell your child that he can be a she in first grade and not tell you about it.
00:08:37.000They want to be able to teach your kids About myriad forms of sexual exploration when the kid's eight and they don't want to have to tell you about it.
00:08:45.000Otherwise, what the hell are they objecting to?
00:08:57.000A bill like this, a bill that would discriminate against families, against kids, put these kids in a position of not getting the support they need at a time where that's exactly what they need, is discriminatory.
00:09:30.000Again, there is an entire group of people on the left, and all they wish to do is indoctrinate kids into these sorts of values.
00:09:35.000They want kids to learn these sorts of values.
00:09:37.000Now, it's the worst in public schools, because there you're actually hijacking kids against their parents' wishes.
00:09:41.000There are a whole group of parents who consensually, for some odd reason, decide that it's a good idea to give activists free reign over their children, to turn them into widgets on behalf of radical left-wing sexual morality.
00:09:54.000Which is why you end up with a sex education summer camp for children in grades 3 to 5, In Indianapolis that teaches kids as young as seven about sexual education, including a condom demonstration for children.
00:10:08.000According to the Daily Wire, there's a flyer for this particular sex-ed summer camp for kids in northern Indianapolis.
00:10:15.000It says, at this age, kids are prime for level-headed learning.
00:10:18.000There is no shame or ickiness associated with using band-aids.
00:10:21.000That same philosophy is applied to condoms and other barriers in this body-positive curriculum.
00:10:26.000In addition, kids will not be separated by gender when learning about puberty, bodies, and sex because, quote, gender is a spectrum and everyone needs to learn about all bodies, according to this flyer.
00:10:35.000And there are parents who will delegate their kids to places like this, which is how you end up with video of Chase and Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg's husband, teaching small children, I mean these are kids, these are like 10, 11, 12 year old kids, to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the gay flag.
00:10:49.000Now, parents presumably gave their permission to this sort of thing, but imagine for example, and I'm not going to go into what I think of parents who do this sort of thing, but Assume that this were not happening, for a second, at a place where parents gave permission.
00:11:03.000It were just happening at your school.
00:11:05.000And teachers were doing this with your kids, and not informing you.
00:11:11.000But again, the folks who believe that these are the best values believe that you should have no say in whether these values get taught to your kids.
00:11:16.000Here is Jason Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg's husband, an ardent opponent of the bill in Florida, teaching small children To pledge allegiance to the gay flag, which, by the way, just on a moral level, you probably shouldn't be pledging allegiance to any flag that is just about where you wish to put your genitals.
00:11:35.000That just seems like a... I don't care what we're talking about.
00:11:38.000If there were a straight pride flag, I don't believe that you should be paying homage to it.
00:11:48.000The idea that the center of your personality should be who you wish to have sex with, or how you are oriented, and that this is something you should pledge allegiance to, is a very bizarre one.
00:12:00.000And it's meant in opposition, presumably, to other values, which is why you do it in the first place.
00:12:03.000Here is Jason Buttigieg teaching small kids about this.
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00:14:00.000of the left have now reached the highest levels of corporate America. So woke capital rules the day right now. If you are a corporation, you can be pressured into doing just about anything by a bunch of people shouting at you. So what the media do is they play this game. Remember, they're democratic activists. They're not actually out there to just objectively cover the news and then provide good information. They lie, which is why all of their headlines include the overt lie that this bill is the don't say gay bill. So they then go to corporations and they say to
00:14:28.000to these corporations. Why aren't your silence is deafening?
00:14:32.000Your silence on this topic is deafening.
00:14:34.000Now, you never see them do this on the other side.
00:14:37.000You never see them say, OK, well, you know, a law just passed in the state of New York that allows killing up to the point of birth.
00:14:44.000What does this corporation located in the state of New York have to say about that?
00:14:49.000Or this particular area has embraced defund the police.
00:14:52.000Or this particular area believes in the mandatory indoctrination of children into these values.
00:14:56.000Do you as a corporation believe in that?
00:14:58.000By the way, it just shows you how far left our culture has moved.
00:15:01.000At Disney, a corporation designed to create entertainment for children is now being called on the carpet for not embracing the indoctrination of small kids into sexually leftist ideology.
00:15:12.000I mean, that just shows how far left the culture has moved.
00:15:15.000Is that a company designed to preserve the innocence of children and provide them good, wholesome entertainment is now being shamed into embracing an agenda that says boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and kindergartners should be taught about gay sex.
00:15:28.000Like, really, that's... We've moved in fascinating ways in our culture.
00:15:34.000So, Disney decided they had to respond, and the reason they decided that they had to respond, of course, is because they were being pressured by the left.
00:15:43.000The left said over and over, and Disney is a left-wing company, run by left-wing people, and staffed by left-wing people, predominantly, and they were pressed by the media, and they were pressed by their employees, presumably, to do something about Florida.
00:15:53.000Now, Disney, I will remind you, just produced a movie in China, right?
00:15:58.000Mulan was produced in the Zhangjiang province, where they are actively holding a bunch of Muslims in captivity.
00:16:06.000Disney has bases all over the world in actual repressive countries.
00:16:11.000Disney is never asked by the media about any of those things.
00:16:14.000Disney is only asked about Florida in the same way that Major League Baseball and Coca-Cola were only asked about Georgia after a voting law passed that was still more liberal on voting than the state of Delaware.
00:16:52.000Of course, the threat is if you don't have an opinion on that, they're going to print a story about how you don't have an opinion on it and silence is violence.
00:16:58.000If you don't forcibly and overtly reject that particular piece of legislation, this means you passed it.
00:17:16.000It is both a communist country, it is both a communist company because it's located in China, and it is a capitalist company because it is located in America.
00:17:24.000It is both a very left-wing company because it's located in California.
00:17:27.000It's a very right-wing company because it's located in Florida.
00:17:29.000Alternatively, it's just a company that produces a product and a service that people like to use.
00:17:35.000So the journalists pretend that Disney has some sort of obligation to sound off on issues like this.
00:17:42.000Now, this has been the way that the media worked this crap for a while.
00:17:44.000For example, when the state of North Carolina passed a bill that said that public bathrooms should be separated by men and women, which seems pretty obvious.
00:17:53.000The media went to places like the NCAA and they said, dude, do you have an opinion on this?
00:17:57.000And what they meant by do you have an opinion on this is if you don't do something here, we're going to run a story about how bad and terrible and nasty you are.
00:18:04.000So this is what the media did to Disney.
00:18:05.000They said, don't say gay over and over and over.
00:18:07.000They know that Disney is a very gay friendly company and that a lot of its employees are gay.
00:18:12.000A lot of the people who use its content and like its content are gay.
00:18:16.000And Disney is, as I say, on pretty much every issue, ranging from critical race theory to sexual ideas.
00:18:43.000Just like everybody in corporate America is a coward.
00:18:45.000And they are deeply afraid of the left-wing.
00:18:46.000Now, what they really should be afraid of, what Disney should be afraid of, is that it caves so far to left-wing values that parents stop consuming its product.
00:18:59.000The minute that Disney starts putting woke into its actual content, that is content I will not be consuming.
00:19:08.000Okay, so they're playing a very dangerous game here.
00:19:11.000They're siding with a bunch of left-wing radicals who, frankly, are not their chief market over the parent body at large.
00:19:18.000And I would guarantee you that 90-95% of parents don't want their kindergartners indoctrinated in sexual values of any sort by the schools where their kids go.
00:19:28.000But Disney, because they were suckered into doing this, they decided to speak out.
00:19:31.000So Bob Chapek He was criticized for speaking out about, but not directly condemning, Florida's controversial Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:19:39.000Again, that is how CNN characterizes it.
00:19:41.000The Don't Say Gay Bill, because they're a propaganda outlet.
00:19:44.000You can always tell who the propaganda outlets are.
00:19:46.000On Wednesday, Chapek agreed with the criticism.
00:19:48.000He said, I understand our original approach, no matter how well intended, didn't quite get the job done.
00:19:52.000He said this during the company's annual shareholder meeting.
00:19:54.000He took a stronger stance against the bill on Wednesday, telling shareholders he called Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Wednesday morning to convey the company's disappointment and concern.
00:20:02.000Chapek said if the legislation becomes law, it could, quote-unquote, be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, non-binary, and transgender kids and families.
00:20:10.000The governor heard our concerns and agreed to meet with me and LGBTQ plus members of our senior team in Florida to discuss ways to address them, said Chapek.
00:20:18.000He added the outcome in Florida was not what many of us were hoping for, especially our LGBTQ plus employees.
00:20:23.000And then he said he went on, he wanted to say Disney tried working behind the scenes to denounce the bill.
00:20:29.000This drove a response from Governor DeSantis, which is exactly right.
00:20:33.000His office says Governor DeSantis has always been open to hearing from Floridians and having conversations about legislation, as long as those discussions are grounded in fact, not false media narratives.
00:20:42.000Anyone who has questions or concerns about the Parental Rights and Education Bill is encouraged to read the bill, rather than the distorted coverage in mainstream media, which regurgitates false partisan talking points.
00:20:51.000Disney contacted our office today to speak with the governor.
00:20:53.000This is the first time we have heard from Disney regarding HB 1557.
00:20:56.000The governor did take the call from Mr. Chapek.
00:20:58.000The governor's position has not changed.
00:21:00.000No in-person meeting has been scheduled yet.
00:21:02.000Disney is a family-friendly company that creates wholesome entertainment for kids.
00:21:05.000The same Florida parents who take their families to Disney also support parental rights and education because they do not want their young children exposed to inappropriate content about sex and gender theory at school.
00:21:16.000So Disney is playing a very dangerous game pushed there by a media that repeats democratic lies and talking points for political purposes.
00:21:23.000So if Disney wishes to embrace this, man, go for it.
00:21:26.000Really, if you wish, you want to reap the whirlwind, come out against parents being able to teach their kids what they wish about sexual mores at young ages.
00:21:42.000Disney's, again, Disney's money comes from people like me.
00:21:47.000Disney's money predominantly does not come from left-wing social activists on Twitter.
00:21:52.000Or the morons who write for the Associated Press and term a bill that is not a don't-say-gay bill a don't-say-gay bill because they take their talking points directly from Jen Psaki and the White House.
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00:23:22.000This White House is now attempting to blame the gas price increases over the course of Joe Biden's presidency on everything except for Joe Biden.
00:23:29.000And they're actually attempting to blame oil and gas companies, which is quite incredible.
00:23:32.000So Jen Psaki, yesterday, she came out and she said, well, the reason that oil and gas companies are charging high prices is because they're greedy and terrible.
00:23:41.000And when she was asked about the fact that this administration has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the natural gas and oil industry, she responded by saying, well, they have, you know, they don't need permits.
00:24:24.000So, according to Katie Pavlich, she tweeted out the regulations from the Bureau of Land Management, the bureaucratic nightmare that has to be approved by the government.
00:24:32.000She says, leases for drilling are not the same thing as permits.
00:24:36.000The White House claims 9,000 and no permits.
00:24:38.000Permits can take ages to get approved by the government, federal and local.
00:24:41.000And it's true if you look at what the Bureau of Land Management has to say.
00:24:44.000They say once a leaseholder, operator, or designated agent identifies an oil and gas deposit on a federal lease, they can file an application for permit to drill.
00:24:51.000The Bureau of Land Management posts these APDs on its 30-day federal public posting report page.
00:24:57.000The Bureau of Land Management governs the APD process.
00:24:59.000The BLM cannot improve an APD until the operator meets the requirements of certain laws and regulations, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act.
00:25:08.000Upon receiving an application for permit to drill, the Bureau of Land Management typically conducts an on-site inspection with surface or mineral estate.
00:25:31.000Here is Joe Biden circa 2019 overtly saying in the middle of a presidential race that there is no more drilling on federal lands under his presidency.
00:25:40.000I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling on federal lands, and to stop that.
00:25:49.000Now, we could pass national legislation, but I don't think we'd get it done in terms of getting the votes to get it done to say all fracking that's going on now ends unless you can show there's some physical security need or worried about explosions, etc., which is a legitimate thing to worry about.
00:26:08.000But I would not allow- Okay, so he was just saying it.
00:26:10.000He was just saying it right out in 2019.
00:26:11.000We're not going to do any more leases.
00:26:13.000We're not interested in boosting the natural gas and oil industry.
00:26:17.000This is during a climate town hall in 2019.
00:26:18.000By the way, even the transformation of Joe Biden from 2019 when he wasn't all there to 2022 is astonishing.
00:26:28.000He looks like something from Tales of the Crypt.
00:26:33.000He's just, it's horrifying how decrepit the President of the United States is at this point.
00:26:38.000By the way, literally yesterday, Joe Biden said, we are moving away from fossil fuels.
00:26:42.000So just to get this straight, gas prices are seven bucks in some places in the United States.
00:26:47.000Here's Joe Biden yesterday talking about how we're moving away from fossil fuels, which makes perfect sense.
00:26:51.000If I went to the store and milk was $10 a gallon, and the President of the United States says, well, you know, we're trying to move you off of milk to rice milk.
00:27:02.000I might say, well, actually, I would just like the milk cheaper.
00:27:05.000But here is Joe Biden pledging that he will keep the prices high because if you don't invest in the increased production of oil and natural gas, you're not going to get cheaper oil and natural gas.
00:27:16.000As everything changes, there's a fundamental shift to the reality that we can't we can't keep the combustion engine the way it has been.
00:27:28.000It's even, you see what's happening in locomotives now, you know, and you see what's happening just across the board.
00:27:35.000And so, and I think it presents an enormous opportunity.
00:27:42.000Okay, it's an enormous opportunity, guys.
00:27:43.000High gas prices that are costing you your paycheck, that's an enormous opportunity, says the even more decrepit president of 2022.
00:27:50.000Okay, just go back to last year, Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary, She was saying the solution to all this is to drive an electric car.
00:27:57.000After all, this is when gas prices were already high last year, because if you look at that chart we showed it to you yesterday, gas prices under Joe Biden look kind of like this.
00:28:04.000They're rising, they're rising steadily, rising steadily, and then boom, they sort of pop in the last three weeks because of what's happening in Ukraine.
00:28:10.000But that rising steadily means that when there was a cutoff in supply, the prices were going to skyrocket, which is exactly what happened.
00:28:17.000When you prep the ground for a bad thing and the bad thing happens, that's what happens.
00:28:21.000Here's Jennifer Granholm, Circa 2021, saying we are going to move away from gas-powered vehicles and toward electric cars.
00:28:28.000We obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
00:28:39.000And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you.
00:28:47.000Well, you know, if you just spent that 60 grand on the Tesla, then this wouldn't... Elon Musk is more in touch with the people than these morons are.
00:29:31.000On behalf of the Ukrainians, I am sure that as the bombs fall in Mariupol, they are just thanking their lucky stars that Jennifer Granholm is trying to subsidize solar panels on your roof.
00:30:05.000We need to worry about sea level rise in a hundred years.
00:30:10.000There's Easter Island head John Kerry.
00:30:14.000We're already seeing climate refugees around the world.
00:30:18.000If you think migration has been a problem in Europe from the Syrian war, or even from what we see now, wait until you see 100 million people for whom the entire food production capacity has collapsed.
00:30:32.000Okay, I mean, first of all, let's make the point that over the course of the next hundred years, the climate will change gradually.
00:30:38.000What's happening in Ukraine right now is bombs are falling on cities and people are leaving immediately.
00:30:42.000They always make it sound like the day after tomorrow.
00:30:44.000Really, they always make climate change sound like it's going to happen immediately.
00:30:47.000Like, snap of the fingers, tomorrow it's just going to be 10 degrees hotter, all the food's going to go away, and you're going to see migrants all over the world.
00:30:53.000That is not how climate change operates, according to anyone, including the IPCC.
00:30:58.000But they've got their priorities straight, guys.
00:31:00.000Their priorities are not getting your gas prices lower by increasing production or making us independent of Russian oil or Venezuelan oil or Iranian oil.
00:31:09.000And they're going to use the high gas prices right now as an artificial way of pushing green energy.
00:31:14.000After all, these are the same idiots who suggested a global carbon tax rooted in the idea that if you artificially raise the price of gas, then people will be incentivized to use green energy.
00:31:23.000There's only one problem, which is that you'd have to raise the price of gas so extraordinarily high that it would wreck your economy.
00:31:28.000So if it happens by accident, hey look, we get to do what we wanted to do anyway.
00:31:31.000Here was Nancy Pelosi yesterday talking about the importance of accomplishing environmental justice.
00:31:36.000Again, we're seeing gas prices 7 bucks a gallon.
00:31:38.000These people, they are just cruising for a 2022 bruising.
00:31:42.000With this president, this Joe Biden, this president with justice, environmental justice, economic justice.
00:31:49.000So much has been accomplished that some of the governors are complaining that they're getting some of their money while many of them are enjoying slush funds in all of this.
00:32:03.000Okay so this administration, I do love this, this administration simultaneously is saying we need to move toward green energy and also they're saying you know what would be great is if they produced oil in Iran brokered by the Russians and maybe the Russians will even be given away out of their sanctions.
00:32:18.000So simultaneously while we are telling American oil producing companies that we are not going to build Keystone XL or loosen up the permitting process, get rid of the red tape, we're not going to do any of that stuff.
00:32:26.000We are, however, cutting a bunch of red tape so that Iran can get its money and develop nuclear weapons.
00:32:30.000Yesterday, the Russian negotiator in Iran, he came out, Mikhail Ulyanov, and he said, you know what is going to be part of our deal?
00:32:38.000Part of our deal with Iran, in order to broker it, is that we are going to be able to exempt all of our trade with Iran from any international sanctions, meaning Iran will be able to sell its oil on the world market.
00:32:48.000money to Iran, Iran will then give the money to us. Right.
00:32:51.000So we will be able to trade with Iran, Iran will be able to trade with the world. And by the transit of property, you'll be paying us. Here is the here's the Russian negotiator.
00:32:57.000In fact, it's wider by the score. We believe that all our trade and economic relations with Iran should be exempt from.
00:33:07.000It's difficult to understand what he's saying. What he is saying is that all of the trade between Russia and Iran should be exempted from international sanctions. And Jennifer Her grand home, our energy secretary, she's like, yeah, sure, maybe Iran will sell its Sure, maybe Iran will sell its oil.
00:33:20.000So, just to get this straight, no producing oil in America.
00:33:27.000But don't worry, the gas price spike, all of the increase in gas prices that's been happening over the course of the last year and a half, that's purely due to Vladimir Putin.
00:33:35.000Here is Jennifer Granholm exempting Iranian oil from her consternation over natural gas and oil.
00:33:40.000Is it your expectation that the Iranian barrels do come back online if there is a deal here?
00:33:46.000The reason for the deal is a denuclearized Iran.
00:35:41.000And it's, you know, many Americans are obviously seeing that in their daily lives at the pump or the grocery store.
00:35:48.000President Biden has directed us in his cabinet to go industry by industry and figure out everything we can do to increase supply of goods to bring down costs.
00:36:00.000Okay, and so the media, the good news is that they will just pick up whatever the Democratic talking points are.
00:36:05.000As always, the theme of today's show, legacy media will say whatever Democrats want them to say.
00:36:09.000So here is CBS Evening News yesterday saying that inflation is not in fact created by the inflationary, monetary, and fiscal policies of this administration.
00:36:16.000The inflation is not created by the foreign policy crises bred by this administration.
00:36:21.000Inflation is all about corporate greed, which is the Democratic talking point.
00:36:24.000Here is CBS Evening News just doing stenography for Nancy Pelosi and Company.
00:36:28.000The biggest food price hikes are in meats, with pork and beef up 14 to 20 percent from a year ago.
00:36:35.000Food companies and some economists say pandemic disruptions, inflation, and high demand are to blame.
00:36:42.000But others question whether there's more at play.
00:36:45.000Ricardo Salvador is with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-profit advocacy group.
00:36:50.000You're seeing just orders of magnitude greater profit that are not justified by the actual rate of inflation or their increased cost.
00:36:59.000So they're just running full-scale reports on how it's corporate greed that's causing all of this.
00:37:02.000Whatever is the talking point Democrats need, that is what the legacy media bring to the table.
00:37:06.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest in Ukraine, where the Biden administration is... I am astonished at how deep the blade of the Biden administration went between the shoulder blades of Ukraine yesterday.
00:37:19.000The Biden administration supposedly unified the world in support of Ukraine and then just shoved a knife directly between the shoulder blades of Ukraine.
00:37:27.000The economic situation in the United States is complete chaos right now.
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00:42:17.000So meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to get worse and worse.
00:42:26.000Ukraine is now accusing Russia of genocide after the bombing of a children's hospital.
00:42:30.000The footage coming out of Mariupol is absolutely stunning.
00:42:34.000Ukraine's president accused Russia of carrying out genocide after officials said Russian aircraft bombed a children's hospital on Wednesday, burying patients in rubble despite a ceasefire deal for people to flee the besieged city of Mariupol.
00:42:44.000Putin is ratcheting up the military moves and the attacks on civilians in order to put pressure on Ukraine to come to the table and give him a lot of concession.
00:42:54.000Because what Putin is realizing is that he has, in fact, been able to crack that Western show of support for Ukraine to a certain extent, which will provide him an opening to make some gains that will allow him to end this war with some sense of having won something, despite the fact that it was a botched attempt.
00:43:12.000The current casualty statistics from Russia are really, really bad.
00:43:15.000We're talking about like thousands of troops, somewhere between four and six thousand Russian troops probably dead inside the last couple of weeks, which is a massive loss for the Russian military.
00:43:23.000But if they're able to cudgel Ukraine into, for example, giving away the Donbass region, acknowledging the loss of Crimea, Formally stating that we'll never attempt to join NATO or the EU, then you might see Putin sort of get what he wants because and also have demonstrated to border nations, nations that are bordering NATO, that unless they are members of NATO, that the Western alliance has no interest in protecting them.
00:43:45.000And so they better make some overtures toward Russia.
00:43:46.000This would be directed at places like Moldova.
00:43:49.000You could also see Putin making a gain in terms of being able to show even sort of border NATO nations, the politics, that they better take a more pro-Russian stance because if they don't, then he might invade and then actually attempt to break NATO outright.
00:44:01.000Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, yesterday he took a look at the devastation.
00:44:24.000Nobody in the West is interested in a no-fly zone at this point.
00:44:29.000The problem is that the West isn't even interested in providing the baseline level of support necessary for Ukraine to continue fending off the Russian military power.
00:44:37.000Despite the fact that the West is fully acknowledging the human rights violations of the Russian forces at this point.
00:44:44.000So, for example, the Pentagon acknowledged yesterday that Russia had used dumb bombs Those dumb bombs would be non-targeted ordnance that hit civilians.
00:44:56.000Apparently, there was talk that they were using thermobaric weapons, which have extraordinarily high danger to civilians.
00:45:02.000These are weapons that are non-indiscriminate in their killing capacity.
00:45:08.000We're used to seeing the United States fight wars, or the UK fight wars, or Israel fight, or NATO fight wars.
00:45:12.000All of these first world countries, when they fight wars, they're extraordinarily targeted in how they go about hitting the bad guys.
00:45:17.000That is not the case with the Russians.
00:45:20.000So Jen Psaki yesterday, she even suggested that Russia was setting up a pretext to use chemical weapons, is what Jen Psaki said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:45:28.000White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki lashed out at Russian claims the U.S.
00:45:30.000was developing chemical weapons in Ukraine, warning it was actually a pretext for Moscow to use such weapons itself.
00:45:36.000A senior NATO official said there are serious concerns Russia is setting the stage to use chemical weapons in the war-torn country.
00:45:43.000Bashar Assad got away with it in Syria, when the Obama administration just handed control of the country over to the Russians.
00:45:49.000Saki wrote in a series of tweets late on Wednesday, it's the kind of disinformation operation we've seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine and in other countries.
00:45:56.000They've been debunked, an example of the type of false pretext we've been warning the Russians would invent.
00:46:01.000She also accused China of parroting Russia's claims and said, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine or to create a false flag operation using them.
00:46:12.000A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington alleged the U.S.
00:46:15.000has 26 biolabs and other related facilities in Ukraine.
00:46:19.000According to State Department spokesman Ned Price, he said there are no U.S.
00:46:21.000chemical or biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
00:46:23.000Apparently the real story is that there has been an attempt by the West to shut down or convert over old Soviet biolabs in Ukraine for the past couple of decades.
00:46:34.000Kamala Harris just came out and she embraced a call for a war crimes probe in Russia, but here is the problem.
00:46:40.000So Kamala Harris, who's terrible at this, she went over to Poland where she was speaking alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Warsaw.
00:46:50.000Harris expressed outrage over the bombing on Wednesday.
00:46:52.000She said, absolutely there should be investigation.
00:47:38.000But even stuff that we have already approved, we're now backtracking.
00:47:41.000So this is the big Ukraine story of the day.
00:47:44.000You'll recall that just a little while ago, just a little while ago, the United States basically said that we would allow NATO to send warplanes into Ukraine so that the Ukrainians could fly them against the Russian MiGs.
00:47:57.000In fact, Nancy Pelosi came out yesterday and she said, Vladimir Zelensky, he keeps asking us for planes, he wants planes.
00:48:10.000Well, on Sunday, you'll recall that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated clearly that the United States had given a green light to NATO countries to provide planes to the Ukrainians.
00:48:23.000Okay, I will just remind you that today is Thursday, so it has not been very long at all.
00:48:27.000Here is Antony Blinken saying, yeah, you know what?
00:48:29.000I think it's a good idea to get those planes into Ukraine.
00:48:32.000If, for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member, wants to send fighter jets, does that get a green light from the U.S., or are you afraid that that will escalate tension?
00:48:44.000In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians.
00:48:57.000So we're talking about backfilling it, we're working with the Poles, all that stuff.
00:49:00.000Okay, so then, Poland comes out, and they make a public announcement, because they obviously weren't getting cooperation from the Americans.
00:49:05.000And what they said is, we would like to use the American airbase, the NATO airbase, I should say, in Germany, in order to ship those planes into Ukraine.
00:49:15.000Now the reason that they want to do this is because what the Poles are afraid of is that if they ship directly into Ukraine, then the MiGs The Russian MIGs will start shooting down Polish pilots in those planes.
00:49:27.000Or they'll use this as an excuse to attack Poland.
00:49:30.000Whereas if it is shipped in from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, if it is shipped in from there, then the Russians will be dissuaded from making a direct attack on Germany.
00:49:43.000Because they'll know that then we'll eviscerate them.
00:49:45.000So what the Poles are really saying here is we don't trust you as far as we can throw you.
00:49:49.000You're saying, yeah, go ahead and do it yourself.
00:49:50.000But we've noticed that every time you say this to a country, go ahead and do it yourself.
00:49:53.000The minute we turn around, you're gone.
00:49:55.000Whether it is your Afghan allies, whether it is the people of Hong Kong, or whether it is the Ukrainians in Crimea, or in the Donbass region.
00:50:03.000Every time you keep saying that you'll have people's back, we turn around and you are gone.
00:50:10.000How about you are our open accomplice in sending these planes to Ukraine?
00:50:13.000And that way you have skin in the game.
00:50:16.000We're not going to send it direct from Poland because we believe that if they start shooting down Polish pilots and this brings Poland into direct conflict with Russia, you guys will be standing off to the side being like, well, you know, I mean, we said you could do it, but we didn't say that we were going to help or anything.
00:50:28.000And even if we did say we're going to help, we're really not going to do anything right now.
00:50:32.000The polls announced that they want to do this with the help of the United States.
00:50:35.000And the United States, five days after saying publicly via the Secretary of State on national television that they would green light the shipment of jets into Ukraine, they're like, nah, we're not going to do that.
00:50:45.000We know, you know, we got to stop this.
00:50:56.000There is a very large difference between the United States setting up a no-fly zone in Ukraine, which would involve us basically saying we control all the skies above Ukraine and we are going to shoot down anything we don't like above the skies of Ukraine.
00:51:10.000There's a large difference between that and allowing the Russians to establish a no-fly zone in Ukraine.
00:51:16.000Which is what we are now allowing them to do.
00:51:17.000We are now allowing them to, without any sort of resistance, take over the skies in Ukraine by refusing to ship in the military armaments necessary to shoot down Russian jets by the Ukrainians.
00:51:31.000So we're now saying we're going to allow Vladimir Putin to get away with his threat.
00:51:35.000So Vladimir Putin is saying, well, you know what?
00:51:36.000If you guys even, if you even ship in jets, you take this as act of war.
00:52:09.000The intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s to Ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in a significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.
00:52:22.000Therefore, we also assess the transfer of the MiG-29s to Ukraine to be high risk.
00:52:30.000So any transfer, now announcing any transfer of MiG-29s to Ukraine would be high risk.
00:52:34.000So basically you suckers, you're on your own.
00:53:21.000They won't even give you the armaments necessary to prevent Russia from setting up a no-fly zone.
00:53:25.000Once Russia has total air superiority, which everybody assumed was going to happen inside the first 48 hours, but the Russian Air Force just has not done its job.
00:53:32.000But if you give them an inordinate amount of time, they will do the job.
00:53:35.000The only thing that prevents that from happening is some sort of air force boost to the Ukrainians, obviously.
00:53:43.000In a separate statement, General Todd Wolters, head of the U.S.
00:53:46.000European Command, labeled the prospect of sending additional jets to Ukraine, quote, high risk and low gain.
00:53:56.000According to the Pentagon, the Pentagon quashed a Polish proposal to put its Soviet-origin MiG-29s in Germany to be used by the United States in aiding the Ukrainian war effort.
00:54:04.000By the way, we are shipping in like old planes to Ukraine to not be escalatory.
00:54:15.000Even that was seen as too much of a provocation by us.
00:54:20.000Kirby said there was no desire to see them in our custody.
00:54:23.000We didn't even want them in our custody.
00:54:25.000The transfer of MiG-29s would not appreciably increase the effectiveness of Ukraine's air force, according to Wolters.
00:54:29.000Weird, because that's... I assume the Ukrainians are asking for it for a reason.
00:54:33.000The United States has already shipped Ukraine a number of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles alongside shotguns and other materials useful for fighting in urban areas, the Washington Post first reported last week.
00:54:46.000defense official speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules established by the Pentagon said earlier Wednesday that Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and Mykolaiv, a possible staging ground to attack Odessa, appeared particularly vulnerable.
00:54:59.000So, again, we approved it, and then we backed off of it because Vladimir Putin batted his eyelids at us.
00:55:36.000NATO countries are already sending all sorts of weapons into Ukraine.
00:55:39.000Is a Polish MiG with a Ukrainian pilot somehow more provocative than a Turkish drone or an American anti-tank missile?
00:55:44.000Transferring planes isn't the same as NATO aviators directly shooting down Russian jets.
00:55:49.000Mr. Putin calls anything beyond Western acquiescence and Ukraine's surrender a provocation.
00:55:53.000NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg felt obliged to warn Mr. Putin on Tuesday a Russian attack on supply lines in Alliance territory would trigger a collective response.
00:56:02.000He said we're removing any room for miscalculation, misunderstanding about our commitment to defend every inch of NATO territory.
00:56:07.000Poland doesn't want the transfer of planes directly to Ukraine from its territory to be perceived as a unilateral provocation.
00:56:13.000Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morecki said on Wednesday the decision must be unanimous and unequivocally taken by all of NATO.
00:56:20.000Again, they're saying we don't want to be left here holding the bag.
00:56:46.000And by the way, it is worth noting here that as this war goes on, a few things are happening.
00:56:53.000Our allies in the Baltics, our allies who are not formally defended by us by treaty, they're becoming more and more wary.
00:57:00.000They're starting to draw a middle course between the Western Bloc, meaning the United States and Western Europe, and China, Russia, Iran.
00:57:09.000And China is strengthening its position dramatically in all of this.
00:57:12.000And China is buying up Russian assets at bargain basement prices, knowing that in the end, probably there is some sort of negotiated settlement where a lot of these sanctions are removed.
00:57:21.000China is going to continue to solidify its relations with the Russians.
00:57:24.000Meanwhile, playing the West by pretending that they are somehow anti the Russians, the Russian invasion.
00:57:30.000If they just keep silent, the West will leave them alone.
00:57:33.000Meanwhile, they will arm up for the possibility of taking over Taiwan when they feel the time is right.
00:57:38.000Good piece in the Wall Street Journal today by Seth Cropsey, who is a founder and president of Yorktown Institute, served as a naval officer and deputy undersecretary of the Navy.
00:58:01.000The Communist Party has to have absolute dominance.
00:58:03.000Assuming Russia's collapse is not imminent, China will use Russia's increasing isolation to transform Moscow into a petrochemical satellite, taking advantage of Western sanctions to secure Russian energy flows indefinitely.
00:58:13.000In turn, China hopes that Russia, humbled or emboldened by its Ukraine adventure, with or without Putin at the helm, will occupy Western attention as Beijing gobbles up the choices Pacific possessions and extends its economic and diplomatic tendrils into the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
00:58:25.000Far from accepting independent Russian action, China is counting on Russian failure to accelerate the satisfaction of its boundless appetite.
00:58:32.000Either Russia gets away with what it's doing here, and China enriches itself by drawing closer to Russia, or Russia loses, in which case China buys up all of the assets.
00:58:41.000All of this could have been prevented by a strong West.
00:58:43.000But the West keeps not learning the lesson.
00:58:45.000They keep demonstrating no strength on the world stage.
00:58:48.000They keep demonstrating that a backwater, second-rate dictatorship with nuclear weapons can blackmail the entire Western world into not sending MiGs over the border with Ukrainian pilots in them.
00:59:21.000You know, you guys are the ones who have always said that you have a policy of strategic ambiguity about Taiwan, so we really don't see the problem.
00:59:27.000You've always said that Taiwan could, may be part of China.
00:59:31.000You refuse to label Taiwan independent territory.
00:59:33.000Again, Western pusillanimity in the face of aggressive and concerted action over long periods of time means the West loses.
00:59:41.000One of the big problems with foreign policy in the West is that all foreign policy horizons in the West are about the length of a presidential administration.
00:59:47.000Foreign policy horizons for dictators are decades long because they know they'll be in power 10, 15, 20 years from now.
00:59:52.000What that means is that you have to have actual real moral backbone in the West in order to stand up for any length of time against the predatory countries on the world stage.
01:00:05.000And the likely outcome of what's going to happen in Ukraine is Putin will at least get most of what he wants, I think.
01:00:09.000I think in the end Putin will get most of what he wants.
01:00:11.000Because if you're Zelensky, and you've seen that the West will provide you just enough weaponry to stave off a full-scale Russian takeover, but not enough weaponry to stop the killing fields in your own country.
01:00:21.000You might start cutting that middle line and a lot of other countries are going to take notice.
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