AOC for President, Snow White and the Box Office Broke, and Bill Maher Mocking the Democrats. Ben Shapiro explains why the Democratic Party is a disaster at every level of government, including the White House, Congress, and local governments.
00:01:35.000And we're taxed more than any other state.
00:01:38.000People are leaving these kind of states for places where they're not, they feel the heavy breath of government on them.
00:01:46.000It's just, it's not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.
00:01:55.000Mar, of course, is totally correct about this.
00:01:57.000And if you follow people's revealed preferences, meaning not what they say they like, but what they actually like, the feet are moving south.
00:02:29.000The people that are actually governing, like the Josh Shapiro's, the Gretchen Whitney's, the Wes Moore's, y'all stay in y'all states and keep governing and doing the work.
00:02:39.000Distance yourself from all of that that's going on in D.C. Distance yourself from the party and speak for you.
00:02:45.000He, by the way, is right that the party is totally toxic.
00:02:48.000I mean, he's wrong to cite Wes Moore and Gretchen Whitmer as examples of people who are doing an amazing job.
00:02:52.000But the reality is that Democrats have misgoverned at nearly every level of government.
00:02:56.000The Wall Street Journal has a piece over the weekend talking about the failures of Los Angeles, my old home city.
00:03:02.000Quote, the Democratic mismanagement of America's big city is becoming a liability for the party.
00:03:06.000A shining example is Los Angeles, where city leaders this week announced a $1 billion budget hole owing to a slowing economy and soaring payouts to public unions.
00:03:14.000City Administrative Officer Matthew Jabo told the council on Wednesday this year's extraordinary shortfall could necessitate thousands of layoffs.
00:03:21.000Mayor Karen Bass blamed the recent wildfires, extreme uncertainty in terms of federal funding, and downward national economic trends.
00:03:27.000The reality is that the city's fiscal problems have been building up like dry tinder, and Ms. Bass has made them worse.
00:03:32.000And this, of course, is exactly right.
00:03:36.000Apparently, LA's unemployment rate in December was 6%.
00:03:38.000That is higher than any state and even Puerto Rico.
00:03:41.000High taxes, burdensome regulations, the city's $17.28 an hour minimum wage, litigation abuse, shoplifting, and other crime, raised business costs and insurance premiums.
00:03:49.000Litigation abuse is busting the city's budget.
00:03:51.000Payouts totaled $240 million in the last fiscal year alone.
00:03:57.000The city of Los Angeles is collapsing from within.
00:04:02.000Because their governance is really, really poor.
00:04:05.000And President Trump is moving incredibly fast, and it's very difficult for them to figure out what is the point of differentiation?
00:04:10.000Where do they want to put their chips?
00:04:12.000Where is going to be the line of attack that they can use against President Trump and Republicans?
00:04:18.000And so Democrats are going to have to define exactly what they are.
00:04:20.000Now, there is a rule that has been put forward by the political commentator, another one of my friends, Matt Continetti, which I think is exactly right.
00:04:28.000If you're trying to scope out the future candidates of any party, Going rule for the last several decades has been that the successful candidate, the successful presidential candidate, first runs against his or her own party and then runs for the presidency.
00:04:43.000So President Trump is an excellent example of this.
00:04:52.000He overcame Hillary Clinton, who was considered the establishment pick, took over the party, and then won.
00:04:58.000And so if you're looking at the Democratic Party right now, What exactly is the Democratic Party?
00:05:03.000Now, there are a few angles they could take.
00:05:05.000There are a few angles that could be taken to take over the Democratic Party.
00:05:08.000Angle number one would be the better administrative angle.
00:05:12.000be the Bill Maher angle or say the Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson angle in their new book, Abundance, which is a book basically about how Democrats ought to suggest that government actually is good at certain things and then should get a lot of regulations out of the way so government can build the Hoover Dam again or government can build affordable housing without any of the environmental regulations or build a bullet train or whatever it is.
00:05:35.000I think that case is relatively unsuccessful, but they could say, listen, we're good at So that's problem number one.
00:05:48.000Problem number two is that most of the Democrat hardcore does not care about that stuff.
00:05:53.000Most of the Democrat hardcore cares more deeply about the quote unquote moral issues in the country rather than just being good at administration They don't understand that being a good administrator on the local or state level actually does have a moral component.
00:06:05.000Because if you wish to, for example, alleviate poverty, one of the best ways to do that is to provide a stable and useful local government.
00:06:13.000But Democrats have stopped believing that, at least the primary voting Democrats.
00:06:17.000And so now they are left with a couple of other angles.
00:07:31.000So, part of that is going to be name recognition.
00:07:33.000Obviously, Kamala Harris has very high name recognition.
00:07:35.000She was the last Democratic presidential candidate, even if she lost to President Trump.
00:07:39.000So maybe it's that, or maybe it's the Democrats who are trying to double down on DEI.
00:07:44.000That seems like that is likely to be an unsuccessful angle.
00:07:47.000However... They also cannot go back to sort of establishmentarian Democratic politics.
00:07:52.000The establishment has failed the Democratic Party and they know it, which is why Chuck Schumer is under serious fire right now.
00:08:00.000Chuck Schumer was making his pitch for why he should continue to be sort of the leader of the Democratic congressional contingent on Meet the Press over the weekend.
00:08:10.000And our caucus is united in fighting Donald Trump every step of the way.
00:08:15.000Our goal, our plan, which we're united on, is to make Donald Trump the quickest lame duck in modern history by showing how bad his policies are.
00:08:27.000He represents the oligarchs, as I said.
00:08:29.000He's hurting average people in every way.
00:08:33.000And we are, through oversight hearings, we're exposing what he's doing.
00:08:36.000Through the courts, which I mentioned, we've had some real success in.
00:08:40.000Through legislation and through organizing in all the districts throughout the country.
00:08:49.000Chuck Schumer is getting run over by the Congress, run by Republicans.
00:08:53.000While the possibility of a resurgent Bernie Sanders should scare everybody who has money in the stock market, or, you know, money in general, in these uncertain economic times with tariff tensions, recession worries, stubborn inflation, it's no surprise that gold prices keep breaking records.
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00:09:36.000The economic challenges we're facing, they took decades to develop.
00:09:39.000The real question is, how long will recovery take?
00:09:42.000What's it going to cost along the way?
00:09:43.000It is not going to be an easy economic road going forward, in my own personal opinion.
00:11:03.000Democrats are basically left with the Bernie Sanders wing.
00:11:05.000Bernie Sanders led an insurgency originally against Hillary Clinton in 2016, which wounded her for the general election.
00:11:11.000Then, of course, he ran again in 2020 and really threatened to take over the party until Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment mobilized Jim Clyburn and the heavily black Democrat electoral base against Bernie Sanders.
00:11:27.000And then, of course, he didn't run in 2024 because there was an incumbent, but he was very critical of Joe Biden for at least part of that race.
00:13:18.000A packed house at Mullet Arena listened as Sanders and AOC underscored the need to come together and be united to fight against a Republican-controlled Congress and President.
00:13:28.000Okay, so again, this is sort of fight oligarchy.
00:13:31.000There is a class of people who are running the country and they're evil and they're rich and we need to tear them down to the ground.
00:13:37.000It runs in direct opposition to exactly the sort of abundance Democrat mentality pushed by Ezra Klein or pushed by Derek Thompson.
00:13:43.000But it is the thing that Democrats are animated by.
00:13:46.000Originally, according to the Wall Street Journal, when visiting Omaha, Nebraska, AOC and Bernie reserved a place that held 800 people.
00:13:53.000Then they had to move to a bigger venue of 3,400.
00:13:56.000And then when they went to Tempe, 15,000 people showed up.
00:14:30.000He's abandoning certain issues that are sort of tentpole Democrat issues right now, and he's focusing instead on pure class warfare, pure unbridled Eugene V. Debs class warfare.
00:14:40.000He's an old-school wobbly, Bernie Sanders.
00:14:44.000So, for example, when it came to the border over the weekend, Bernie was interviewed, and he said that Trump was actually right about the border.
00:14:49.000Now, this is a switch in time for Bernie.
00:14:51.000So if you remember all the way back to 2016 when he was running against Hillary Clinton, he actually talked about solidifying the border.
00:14:57.000Why? Because He understands, this is correct, that you cannot have both socialism and an open border.
00:15:56.000And he does pure, unbridled, kill the rich and eat them, class warfare.
00:16:00.000So here he was railing against his own party.
00:16:02.000Well, I would take us back even two years before that, before Trump was elected, and saying that it saddens me that when the Democrats had control of the Senate, they did virtually nothing for working people.
00:16:15.000I'm a member of the Democratic caucus as an independent.
00:16:18.000So I'm not going to lie to you and tell you otherwise.
00:16:22.000Okay, so, again, of course he has an interest in saying this.
00:16:24.000He is an independent from Vermont who has basically become a quote-unquote thought leader inside the Democratic Party because they have no thoughts.
00:16:31.000And so he is just pouring old-school Marxism into the vessel of the Democratic Party.
00:16:37.000Here he was talking about the quote-unquote oligarchy.
00:16:39.000Now again, any actual definition of oligarchy would have to include Bernie Sanders in it.
00:16:45.000He's the most powerful people in the country.
00:17:07.000Bernie is the kind of person who literally has said that private charity is bad because it crowds out government spending.
00:17:12.000I mean, you have to go pretty far afield to find people who literally hate people giving charity.
00:17:17.000Bernie has said himself that charity is bad.
00:17:21.000Private charity is wrong because it might make people feel as though they're actually doing something good when actually the government should be doing that thing.
00:17:27.000Bernie Sanders is the kind of person who praised bread lines at one point because there's bread at the lines.
00:17:33.000Bernie Sanders is the type of person who has said there are too many types of toothpaste in the aisles at CVS.
00:17:39.000Why do you need that many types of toothpaste?
00:17:40.000He is like a full-scale tanky, meaning a communist sympathizer.
00:17:45.000There's a reason that this dude honeymooned in the USSR.
00:17:49.000Here he was going after the quote-unquote oligarchy with John Carl on ABC News.
00:17:54.000I've been covering you for a long, long time.
00:17:56.000I've heard you railing against millionaires and billionaires for a long time.
00:19:26.000Unbelievable. So he's getting up, and the reason he's getting up is because he knows that he's being asked to create a war inside the party.
00:19:36.000What he actually wants is for AOC to run for president.
00:19:38.000And so, by the way, does the Associated Press.
00:19:40.000Quote, Bernie Sanders stepped onto a stage in downtown Denver, surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters in what he described as the biggest rally he had ever addressed.
00:19:47.000The Vermont senator put his hand on the shoulder of the woman who had introduced him, a signal for her to stay on stage.
00:19:51.000Quote, she's become an inspiration to millions of young people, recounting her biography from a girl who helped her mother clean houses and later became a bartender before emerging as political insurgent who ousted a powerful New York Democrat in a U.S. House primary.
00:20:03.000Now, again, that is a very rosy picture of AOC's history.
00:20:06.000The truth is that she grew up pretty middle class in New York.
00:20:10.000Growing up middle class is great, but this kind of idea that she's a total rags to riches story, she runs at Boston University.
00:20:14.000I mean, this is not somebody who grew up totally impoverished.
00:20:17.000And then she ousted a powerful New York Democrat in a House primary that, I think she received 15,000 votes in that House primary.
00:20:25.000The crowd began a chant of her well-known moniker, AOC.
00:20:28.000In a leaderless Democratic Party out of power in Washington, Ocasio-Cortez has a message and a connection, with a segment of liberals feeling disenchanted with both parties.
00:20:36.000Now in her fourth term, the 35-year-old congresswoman is working to broaden her appeal beyond her progressive anti-establishment roots.
00:20:42.000Hitting the road last week with Sanders for his fighting oligarchy rallies, she's addressing people who disagree with her and reframing the divide in the Democratic Party not as progressive versus moderate, but as those going after Republican President Donald Trump and those being more cautious.
00:20:53.000She said, quote, no matter who you voted for in the past, no matter if you know all the right words to say, no matter your race, religion, gender identity, or status, no matter, even if you disagree with me on a few things, if you're willing to fight for someone you don't know, you are welcome here.
00:21:04.000So she is posing herself as against the establishment Democratic Party that is unwilling to face up to the challenges of President Trump, which is smart.
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00:24:20.000What they're attempting to do is craft a narrative of a group of people at the top of government in private industry and in the public sector who are working together to corrupt the system.
00:24:30.000Now, the comeback to that typically from the conservative side of the aisle is, well, if the economy is booming, what are you complaining about?
00:24:39.000There's coordination and collusion, but of course business is going to support Republican administrations because Republican administrations remove all of the horrible regulations that have led to the downfall of cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Detroit.
00:24:53.000Republicans get the obstacles out of the way of business, so business tends to support Republicans.
00:24:56.000This has been sort of a long-standing theme in American politics for decades.
00:25:01.000But the way that Democrats are playing it is that there's a sort of corporatist, slimy deal going on at the top of politics, the oligarchy.
00:25:11.000In which the Musks of the world are cooperating with the Trumps of the world so that Trump will put money in Musk's pocket and Musk will put money in Trump's pocket and they both go home happy and everybody else gets poor.
00:26:19.000Then you pull back and you see the whole picture.
00:26:21.000Most people are people who wander into the room with the Seurat painting.
00:26:25.000They see a bunch of people who are by a river and walking on a Sunday and they walk out of the room.
00:26:31.000It is not a granular view of politics.
00:26:33.000So if you see a picture of President Trump at the inauguration flanked by Jeff Bezos, And Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, and Tim Cook, and Neil Mohan, and Sundar Pinchai, and all the rest of these sort of tech CEOs, and they're all in a room together.
00:26:54.000These sort of bird's eye view, take half a moment and look at the TV and then move on with your day, view of that is, oh, these guys are friends and they must work together.
00:27:01.000And so what Democrats are banking on, what they are banking on, is a close coordination between private industry, And the president, and then an economic fall.
00:27:19.000People on the sort of Trump-supportive side of the aisle, maybe they're frustrated with the fact that I've been critical of President Trump's moves toward tariffs, what he's been doing with regard to Canada.
00:27:29.000The reason I've been saying that is because the greatest danger to the Trump administration's success isn't economic downturn.
00:27:52.000But every image showing how friendly this White House is toward business becomes a weapon in the arsenal of people like AOC, who doesn't understand business, doesn't understand economics, hates the rich, truly does not like them.
00:28:06.000Thinks that there's like a moral quality that adheres to you as you gain wealth that makes you immoral and bad.
00:28:11.000It's a bizarre sort of Marxist presentiment that makes no sense, just on a moral level.
00:28:17.000I have been very not rich and I've been very rich.
00:28:20.000And I'm basically the same person all the way through.
00:28:22.000And that's true of pretty much everybody I know who was at one point not rich and then became rich.
00:28:28.000It turns out I know many people who are wonderful who are not rich.
00:28:30.000I know many people who are wonderful who are rich.
00:28:32.000I know many people who are awful who are rich.
00:28:33.000I know many people who are awful who are not rich.
00:28:38.000But for people like AOC and Bernie, there's a very flattering view that they can present to the vast majority of Americans, which is that if you are rich, it's because you suckered someone and did something wrong and did something corrupt and you're bad.
00:28:51.000That essentially, participating in the capitalist system makes you morally inferior in some way.
00:28:56.000The richer you get, the worse you get.
00:28:58.000This is why Bernie will say billionaires should not exist.
00:29:00.000He doesn't just mean we should redistribute the wealth.
00:29:02.000He means there's something literally immoral in being a billionaire.
00:29:06.000Well, that's precisely the opposite of what President Trump is doing.
00:29:10.000But people tend to judge politics, again, based on that walking through the room, looking once at the painting, walking out.
00:29:15.000And if they see closeness between the White House and various industrial capitalists who have done really well, tech bros who have done really well, and then the economy sinks, all of that is going to be tied to the ship.
00:29:29.000All of that is going to get tied into...
00:29:32.000The sinking ship, if the ship should sink, which is why the ship really needs it not to sink.
00:29:36.000As part of this, for example, over the weekend, it was reported that the White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year's Easter egg roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties.
00:29:50.000The sponsorship offers range from $75,000 to $200,000, with the promise of logo and branding opportunities, according to a nine-page document sent to potential sponsors and obtained by CNN.
00:29:58.000The egg roll has long been privately funded without taxpayer dollars, largely through the American Egg Board, which also provides tens of thousands of eggs for the occasion.
00:30:06.000All the money raised by Harbinger will go to the White House Historical Association.
00:30:09.000But the solicitation of sponsorships marks an unprecedented offering of corporate branding opportunities on White House grounds, running counter to long-established regulations prohibiting the use of public office for private gain.
00:30:21.000A former official said, this is an enterprise, this is not your grandmother's Easter egg roll, where people lined up outside the gate and go and roll an egg and get a little gift bag and walk out.
00:30:29.000The pitch document includes logos for both the White House and Harbinger, which previously produced the event during President Trump's first term and is offering initial planning and event day execution for sponsors that sign on.
00:30:39.000It features imagery of Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, members of the Trump family, the Easter Bunny, and the White House press corps, including CNN correspondent Caitlin Collins.
00:30:46.000The document says sponsors of the White House Easter egg roll provide financial support activities and giveaways to enhance the event while gaining valuable brand visibility and national recognition.
00:31:08.000This idea that this is some sort of open bribery or something like that, it seems to me that if you're raising money for charity and people want a sponsorship opportunity attached, that's true for pretty much every private charitable enterprise I've ever associated with or seen.
00:31:22.000Go to, seriously, a charity dinner and you'll see a bunch of corporate sponsors of the charity dinner.
00:31:26.000And that's where the money comes from.
00:31:29.000Except that if the economy sinks, then Democrats are going to try to tie this to President Trump.
00:31:36.000The same thing is true with regard to, for example, Tesla.
00:31:40.000So President Trump did a big presser, you'll recall, a few weeks ago on the lawn over at the White House where he talked about buying a Tesla.
00:31:47.000And this was ripped on by the members of the media suggesting this is a form of corruption.
00:31:52.000This is Trump trying to prop up the Tesla stock or whatever.
00:31:55.000Well, the truth is that Joe Biden had done exactly the same thing with Stellantis.
00:32:02.000The point is, the close cooperation, which I think is quite good, between Trump and people who are successful in business, is going to be wrapped around the Republican Party's neck and capitalism's neck if the economy should shift south.
00:32:16.000That right there is the biggest problem that Trump...
00:32:19.000It's why we cannot afford, either as a country or as a body politic, For this administration to economically downturn, because the next thing that comes is a horseshoe theory populism that takes capitalism and stomps its boot on it.
00:32:32.000What you're going to get the rise of is on the right, these sort of anti-capitalist populists.
00:32:39.000These people are actually an increasingly loud contingent of the Republican Party who believe that capitalism is evil, that business is bad, that capitalism takes away from home and hearth.
00:32:49.000There's a very live debate inside the right.
00:32:52.000And meanwhile, on the left, you are going to see the rise.
00:32:55.000Bernie is well placed inside the party right now, and whomever he taps on the shoulder is quite likely at this point to be the nominee, particularly if that person can knit together some of the other aspects of the Democratic agenda.
00:33:05.000AOC is perfectly on brand when it comes to the wokeness.
00:33:08.000She obviously is very involved in standing up for DEI and all the rest.
00:33:13.000So she checks the boxes of the radical left on the woke side, but she is also reaching over not into that.
00:34:57.000Just two months after JPMorgan Chase declared American exceptionalism the broad and dominant investing theme of 2025, ordinary investors across the world are looking elsewhere.
00:35:05.000Instead of riding the wave of U.S. outperformance, they are parsing the potential implications of tariff wars and major shifts in U.S. foreign policy.
00:35:11.000And for much of this volatile stretch, markets in China and Europe are outpacing expectations.
00:35:18.000And much of this is being self-created.
00:35:20.000So unless somebody can spell out the long-term plan for how this helps the American economy, and by long-term, I really mean short to mid-term.
00:35:27.000Because again, the election is coming up fast.
00:35:36.000If the idea is we've got to undergo some economic pain in order to get economic gain, that better be some fairly short-term pain for some pretty long-term gain if you hope that the successor to President Trump is going to win the White House.
00:35:47.000Well, meanwhile, speaking of controversies that could be a problem for the Trump administration, so President Trump right now is going up against an incredibly left-wing judiciary, particularly at the district court level.
00:35:56.000Apparently, today, there's supposed to be a hearing.
00:35:59.000The Trump administration has a hearing with a three-member appeals panel to overturn a judgment from Judge James Bosberg.
00:36:06.000That was the temporary restraining order that blocked the use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport plane loads of migrants without due process.
00:36:12.000And that's what the lawsuit suggested.
00:36:15.000Justice Department lawyers will demand that Boesburg be thrown off the case.
00:36:21.000So, Josh Gerstein of Politico says, this is a big test for Trump's team's in-your-face approach to all the litigation he now faces, coupling confrontational court filings with an all-out fusillade on both cable news and social media against judges who have blocked administration policies.
00:36:35.000Boesburg, of course, is not going to go along with it.
00:36:37.000I think it's very doubtful, by the way, that the appeals court goes along with...
00:36:42.000Trump's attempt to get Bosberg thrown off the case.
00:36:46.000According to Politico, there are two Republican appointees on this three-judge panel.
00:36:51.000One is a Trump appointee named Justin Walker.
00:36:52.000The second is a George W. Bush appointee named Karen Henderson.
00:36:57.000Josh Gerstein says, will they embrace Trump's expansive view of executive power or will they show concern about what Bosberg has called the very frightening possibility of almost any migrant being rapidly expelled to a third country based solely on the say-so of the executive branch?
00:37:10.000Now, It's not clear exactly what happens if the appellate court rules against Trump.
00:37:17.000Presumably, they will then appeal to the Supreme Court, and that's where this needs to go.
00:37:20.000What we really need at this point is a broad-scale understanding of what local district court judges are allowed to put TROs on and what they are not allowed to put TROs on, at least when it comes to national policy.
00:37:33.000President Trump was asked about defying the judiciary.
00:37:36.000So the Democrats have been suggesting that Trump is just going to defy the judiciary and keep defying the judiciary and keep defying...
00:37:40.000Here was Trump yesterday basically making clear that that's not the case.
00:37:44.000He said the Secretary of State is in charge of these deportations and determining who will be deported and who will not in many of these cases, and he's going to act in accordance with the law.
00:37:53.000If there was a flight tonight with these guys, even though it's still being litigated, if there was a flight tonight full of accused gang members and somebody called and said, Mr. President, I know that this is still being adjudicated, but we can get these guys down to El Salvador right now.
00:38:32.000It's going to go to the Supreme Court.
00:38:33.000There is no evidence whatsoever at this point that the Trump team is going to ignore orders from the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:38:39.000Meanwhile, these justices, these judges at the low level, many of them are just nuttily radical, totally crazy.
00:38:47.000For example, just last week, U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes issued another sweeping injunction against banning trans volunteers and current service members from serving in the military and wrote a 75-page decision, quote, The military ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext.
00:39:04.000Its language is unabashedly demeaning.
00:39:06.000Its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit.
00:39:09.000Its conclusions bear no relation to fact.
00:39:12.000Well... Pete Hegseth, the excellent Secretary of Defense, then immediately tweeted back, quote, Since Judge Reyes is now a top military planner, she, they, can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute high-value target raids.
00:39:24.000After that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
00:39:32.000And again, that judgment will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
00:39:34.000Right now, what we need is for the Supreme Court to stop mouthing off about President Trump mouthing off about district judges and actually sign into chat.
00:39:41.000When is Justice Roberts going to allow the Supreme Court to take up the question of what are district court judges allowed to do in terms of these gigantic temporary restraining orders that stop in their tracks any national policy?
00:39:56.000And again, all the talk right now about how...
00:39:59.000Republicans are going to run roughshod over the rule of law.
00:41:00.000When President Trump is ranting about these district court judges and when he's saying we're going to impeach them, that's not going to happen.
00:41:06.000And when President Trump suggests that he's going to defy court orders, again, there's very little evidence that President Trump is actually going to defy court orders once we know what the actual authority of these district court judges is.
00:41:18.000Okay, meanwhile, in cultural news, Snow White, there's been an enormous amount of controversy surrounding Snow White, obviously, because of everything from the original decisions with regard to casting to the insane, hardcore, nasty leftism of Rachel Zegler attacking her own co-star for being Israeli and generally attacking men and suggesting that Snow White was a sexist story and all this.
00:41:41.000Controversy has been dogging this movie since the very beginning.
00:41:44.000So much so that the Daily Wire, I think we played a major role in basically forcing Disney to go reshoot it.
00:42:11.000Obviously, it was going to win the box office.
00:42:13.000It's the biggest movie at the box office this weekend.
00:42:16.000But... For example, Disney's Cinderella, which for my money is still the only good live-action Disney remake, mainly because it was directed by Kenneth Branagh, who actually is a terrific director.
00:42:25.000That one did $91.8 million in its opening weekend against a $138 million budget.
00:42:48.000The cinema score, which is basically how audiences respond to the film, is a B +, which generally is not terrible, but it actually is quite terrible with regard to kids' films.
00:42:58.000There's never been a Disney live-action remake that is graded lower than an A-, except for Snow White.
00:43:04.000It turns out that Americans are not in love with the politics of Disney.
00:43:09.000I think this is the last gasp of old Disney.
00:43:11.000And when I say old Disney, I mean sort of the...
00:43:13.000The regime that decided that wokeness needed to be infused in every movie.
00:43:17.000If they keep going along this path, they're going to go bankrupt.
00:43:19.000They really are going to be in serious, serious trouble.
00:43:21.000They can't keep churning out trash IP based on some of the greatest IP ever created and hope that audiences are going to keep showing up at the box office.
00:43:29.000Well, folks, in order to determine just how badly Snow White is doing at the box office, I asked my friend Perplexity, one of our sponsors of the show.
00:43:37.000About which Disney films actually have done the best at the box office in terms of live action remakes adjusted for inflation versus the budget.
00:43:43.000And here is what my friend Perplexity says.
00:43:45.000Quote, Disney's live action remakes have generally performed well at the box office, with several earning over a billion dollars worldwide.
00:43:51.000The Lion King of 2019 had box office $1.663 billion.
00:45:38.000Eventually, it'll end up earning maybe its budget.
00:45:41.000Maybe. Maybe it makes back like its original money.
00:45:44.000Certainly not if you include all of the advertising that was put behind it, all the press, and the rest.
00:45:48.000It's going to be a gigantic box office failure.
00:45:50.000But the trend that you're noticing is that the worst performing of the Disney movies in terms of live-action remakes, are basically everything in the last five years.
00:45:59.000And that is a combination of wokeness and the pandemic.
00:46:02.000And now you better have a good reason to get people to the theaters.
00:46:10.000Again, the star, Rachel Ziegler, is unbelievably charmless in public.
00:46:14.000Studios really need to go back to what they originally did, which was tell your stars to shut up and not say things because no one is paying to hear your star say offensive things off the screen.
00:46:53.000And all across the country, Under pressure from the Health and Human Services Department under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., there's been a push to cut off the use of SNAP for candy and soda and junk food, which is a smart move.
00:47:10.000If SNAP is designed to provide nutritional supplement to kids particularly or to poor families, then why exactly are we supplementing with the most unhealthy stuff in American life?
00:47:19.000We already have a massive childhood obesity problem in this country.
00:47:22.000The problem in the United States right now, by the way, When it comes to things like obesity, is that if you were to create a curve of obesity versus health, it actually reverses the historical curve.
00:47:33.000The historical curve would have been that people at the top of the income pyramid were the most overweight, right?
00:47:41.000If you go back to ancient societies, and then if you move to now, actually it's the reverse.
00:47:46.000Right now the problem with the health of people who make less money in the United States is not about them being undernourished.
00:47:54.000In terms of not getting enough caloric intake, it's actually too much caloric intake.
00:47:57.000And that comes along with an enormous number of other health problems.
00:48:01.000So why exactly should the American taxpayers subsidize people eating unhealthy junk?
00:48:06.000And yet somehow this has turned into a massive controversy.
00:48:08.000There are some right-wing influencers who are suggesting that this is very bad, that somehow there has to be some right for people to use Snap to buy a Snickers.
00:48:15.000I don't know under what rubric of conservatism that falls.
00:48:19.000I can hear a libertarian conservatism that suggests that you shouldn't pay for anybody's food stamps to begin with.
00:48:24.000That's a libertarian conservatism that suggests that private charity should fill the gap or whatever.
00:48:27.000You could be a sort of social conservative who believes that government should, at some baseline level, care for people who are the most impoverished, but they should not subsidize them fattening themselves in the most unhealthy ways.
00:48:49.000Kennedy is right about this, obviously.
00:48:52.000The amount of clinical obesity in the country is extraordinary.
00:48:56.000It is crippling the American healthcare system.
00:48:58.000If you look at the sort of life outcomes, the health outcomes of Americans right now, one of the reasons we lag behind many of the other places on Earth, ranging from Japan to certain countries in Europe, one of the reasons for that is because we are inordinately fat.
00:49:09.000We are a very unhealthy country before you ever hit the medical system.
00:49:14.000Many of the so-called failings of the medical system are not failings of the American medical system.
00:49:18.000They're failings of the American nutritional system.
00:49:20.000This is something that RFK Jr. is absolutely right on.
00:49:22.000Now, where RFK Jr. is sort of half right and half wrong is over the weekend, RFK Jr. suggested that we should ban cell phones from schools, which is right.
00:49:30.000We should not have kids on iPhones at their schools.
00:49:33.000The reason that he cited was because of electric radiation effects on the human body.
00:49:43.000Which, let's just say the evidence for that is scanty at best.
00:49:47.000So, there have been some jokes online about the idea that perhaps this will be the pattern here, is that RFK Jr. recommends good policy based on bad premises.
00:49:55.000That basically, RFK Jr. is going to be saying that you should not eat too many trans fats because the aliens might get you or something.
00:50:05.000Like, it's good policy, but it's not exactly based on the best available science.
00:50:09.000All right, you guys, coming up, fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal about American women abandoning marriage.