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00:00:00.000Well, folks, Democrats still seem quite troubled as to what went wrong in the 2024 election.
00:00:04.000They keep offering various reasons why they lost the 2024 election.
00:00:08.000Those range from the failure of the meritocracy, according to David Brooks, to the utter disconnect of the American people, their racism, their sexism, their bigotry and homophobia, all of it.
00:00:20.000Explanation comes courtesy of Kamala Harris' advisors.
00:00:25.000According to the Washington Post, senior officials with Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign say her defeat stemmed primarily from dissatisfaction among voters about the overall direction of the country and discontent over inflation and the economy, arguing those headwinds proved too strong for Harris to overcome in her sprint to Election Day.
00:00:42.000So, again, the idea here is that the Democratic Party platform is totally fine.
00:00:46.000It's just exogenous circumstances that change the math on the ground.
00:00:49.000It's just because of inflation, which nobody could control.
00:00:52.000It's just because of the stagnant economy, which is that really Joe Biden's fault.
00:00:56.000And it's because the American voters, they're just in a bad mood.
00:00:59.000And because they were in a bad mood, it was time for Kamala Harris to go.
00:01:03.000And this is a very convenient explanation for Democrats because it means they don't have to change anything.
00:01:09.000According to The Washington Post, officials credit President-elect Trump with success in targeting and turning out sporadic voters and using new media sources to speak to them, especially younger men.
00:01:17.000They acknowledge Democrats now appear at a disadvantage in their ability to use these newer channels, such as personality-driven podcasts and websites, presumably shows like this one.
00:01:26.000Now, again, this is a very convenient explanation.
00:01:29.000The idea here is if only Kamala Harris had been cool enough to go on Joe Rogan, she probably would have won.
00:01:34.000If Kamala Harris or any other Democrat had gone on podcasts, that would have been the end of the story.
00:01:39.000Donald Trump would not be the president-elect.
00:01:41.000Now, all this feels like whistling past the political graveyard because, again, it is a refusal to deal with the underlying factors that led to the Democrats getting shellacked across the country.
00:01:52.000Instead, they're looking at external factors.
00:01:55.000They're looking at their own inability to go on podcasts, things that are easily fixable or not under their control, which means that they really don't have to do anything big.
00:02:04.000They don't have to shift tactics at all in order to change direction of their party.
00:02:08.000Campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said in an interview, quote, there are certain things we're looking at to understand if we made the right call.
00:02:13.000But fundamentally, there wasn't just one audience of voters that would have impacted this or one program.
00:02:18.000The headwinds were just too great for us to overcome, especially in 107 days.
00:02:21.000But we came very close to what we anticipated, both in terms of turnout and in terms of support.
00:02:26.000So, actually, they did an amazing job.
00:02:31.000And it's not because they're totally disconnected from the American public.
00:02:34.000It's actually just that, again, the American public, they were in a bad mood, and Kamala Harris felt the brunt of all of it.
00:02:41.000Well, you're getting this same sort of sense from the so-called resistance.
00:02:45.000There's a big article in the New York Times talking about how Trump resistance is encountering fatigue.
00:02:49.000It turns out that all of the ladies who went out there during the first Trump administration and protested the Trump administration, well, they're a little frustrated because they're not sure quite what to do.
00:02:59.000According to the New York Times, The first Trump presidency spawned the largest protest the country had seen in half a century.
00:03:06.000But not everyone wants to participate in another four years of mass movement work.
00:03:09.000When Women's March shared information about an upcoming rally on Instagram, one person responded, No, I'm tired.
00:03:16.000Women's March later hid some of the pushback and limited who could respond to a handful of posts.
00:03:20.000On TikTok, plans for the March were met with memes of women saying, Get somebody else to do it.
00:03:24.000This is an opportunity for a national brunch day for the 93%, said one user referring to the 93% of black women who exit polls suggested had voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:03:33.000Others questioned whether the previous protests had resulted in substantial concessions.
00:03:38.000So they're realizing that their protest movements have accomplished nothing.
00:03:42.000But the thing that they refuse to recognize is the reason why those protest movements are accomplishing nothing.
00:03:49.000According to the New York Times, the left's failure to shift policy has contrasted markedly with past mass movements that helped spur progressive legislative change.
00:03:58.000The stark difference is in keeping with a sharp global reversal in the power of mass action, according to some political activists.
00:04:03.000At the beginning of the century, about two in three protest movements around the world could show measurable success versus only one in six today, according to researchers at Harvard.
00:04:11.000This is in part because governments are leaning toward authoritarianism and are less willing to respond to dissent, said Lisa Miller, a professor at McAllister College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
00:04:20.000Or maybe it's because the stuff that they are protesting for sucks.
00:04:31.000Maybe it's when there was great discontent.
00:04:35.000Over, for example, AIDS-related activism back in the 1980s is because there should have been more government resources poured into AIDS. Maybe it's because there was at least the patina of legitimacy to many of the causes that people were protesting back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
00:04:50.000And now, as it turns out, well, the causes they are backing are just bad.
00:04:55.000And this brings us to the controversy of the day.
00:04:58.000So Nancy Mace has now sponsored a resolution on the floor of the House that is going to be implemented that suggests that women should be able to use their bathrooms without men with penises in those same bathrooms.
00:05:10.000And again, this seems perfectly legitimate.
00:05:13.000In fact, relatively non-controversial in the regular world.
00:05:17.000And these transgender bathroom rules are perfectly obvious.
00:05:21.000There's nothing particularly shocking about them.
00:05:24.000A man should use the men's bathroom and a woman should use the woman's bathroom.
00:05:29.000According to News Nation, on Monday, Mace introduced a resolution requiring all individuals in the Capitol complex to use bathrooms matching their sex assigned at birth.
00:05:38.000A move that has sparked controversy because a new representative-elect who calls himself Sarah McBride, but is in fact a biological male, is upset about all of this.
00:05:48.000The measure charges the House sergeants at Armsville and McFarland with enforcing the ban.
00:05:52.000It's unclear how the House's chief law enforcement officer would determine who can and cannot use capital facilities.
00:05:59.000So, again, this was supposed to be included in the rules package for the 119th Congress.
00:06:04.000If the bill is not included in the rules package, then Nancy Mace would force a vote on the legislation.
00:06:10.000Well, this apparently, according to the left, is very bad.
00:07:36.000Americans disagree about everything 50-50.
00:07:38.000A 75-25 proposition is what you call a political winner.
00:07:43.000Should it be against the law for doctors to provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries to gender dysphoric minors?
00:08:14.000That is a 62-point gap in favor of the proposition that there should be sex-specific sports Again, these are not controversial propositions, but the left can't let go of it.
00:08:28.000So, for example, Hakeem Jeffries is now calling Nancy Mace a bully.
00:08:32.000This follows hard on Dean Phillips, tweeting out at her, What are you so afraid of?
00:08:35.000And the answer that Nancy Mace gave was, Well, I'm afraid of sexual assault since I've been sexually assaulted before.
00:08:40.000And it seems that a man in a women's bathroom, who's taking pictures of himself, by the way, in women's bathrooms, bragging about using women's bathrooms.
00:08:49.000Maybe that's not the kind of person you want in the bathroom with you.
00:09:02.000This is the lesson that you've drawn from the election in November.
00:09:07.000This is your priority, that you want to bully a member of Congress as opposed to welcoming her.
00:09:13.000To join this body so that all of us can work together.
00:09:19.000Well, I mean, the priority is truth and protection of women.
00:09:23.000One of the most annoying things about democratic policy on this particular proposition is that they do something totally abnormal and out of the boundaries of decent human behavior.
00:09:32.000And then when you notice it, they're like, why are you bringing this up?
00:09:46.000Well, for his part, Speaker Johnson has put out a statement saying, quote, all single sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings, such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.
00:09:56.000It's also important to note each member office has its own private restroom.
00:09:59.000Unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.
00:10:07.000Well, folks, despite the left trying to pretend this isn't a major issue, it turns out that, you know, whether boys are girls and vice versa, that actually is a major issue as It's not the only major issue in the country.
00:10:16.000One of the most significant issues is our national debt.
00:10:18.000The fact is, and this is important, our nation is broke.
00:10:21.000That debt is a house of cards that simply cannot be quickly dismantled.
00:10:24.000For as long as the economy sits on top of that house of cards, the strategy remains the same.
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00:13:31.000Because if you're looking for a reason Democrats lost, it is the cultural disconnect that the people on the coast and in the Democratic elite have with the rest of America.
00:13:40.000These are non-controversial propositions that are made controversial by the Democratic Party.
00:13:47.000And these are belief systems that are held so deeply within the Democratic elite that even the most elite people in the Democratic Party, people who face no discrimination in America, are now treating the election of Donald Trump and the restoration of some form of normality as a grave threat to them.
00:14:03.000So, for example, Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have now moved to rural England, putting their Montecito estate on the market.
00:14:10.000They plan to never return to the United States, telling friends the election of Donald Trump was their primary motivation.
00:14:16.000Now, DeGeneres, of course, has been kicked out of show business after she was reported for toxic workplace behavior at the syndicated Ellen Show in 2022. She had already moved to a rural area in South Central England, and she added that her Montecito mansion, roughly 90 minutes north of LA, has been pocket-listed or will be listed soon.
00:14:34.000Now, is Ellen DeGeneres some sort of victim in American society?
00:14:38.000Is Portia de Rossi a victim in America?
00:15:03.000It's that implementation of a value system so different from traditional Americanism that has gotten everybody's goat.
00:15:09.000And this election was a backlash to it.
00:15:11.000And Democrats cannot, they cannot abandon it.
00:15:13.000It's a massive problem for them because their entire party is now built around the idea that Americans are inherently racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
00:15:22.000And that they can keep saying that over and over and over and still win elections.
00:15:25.000And the only reason they would lose elections, as we said at the top of the show, is if the economy is bad or if people just have a general sense of malaise.
00:15:31.000But otherwise, people love this set of values.
00:17:45.000That it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed.
00:17:55.000That y'all are the ones that are being harmed.
00:18:02.000The sympathy, apparently, is for the position that if you are a member of a specific historically discriminated against race, you are inherently a victim in the United States forever, for like the rest of time.
00:18:13.000Now, of course, this only applies to particular racial groups.
00:18:15.000This, as we know, does not apply to Jews.
00:18:17.000Who have been historically victimized and are currently victimized at the highest rate in terms of hate crimes, according to the FBI. They don't count.
00:18:23.000It doesn't apply to Asian Americans who have been too wildly successful.
00:18:26.000Increasingly, it does not apply to Hispanic Americans who are moving toward the Republican Party.
00:18:32.000Okay, but the basic idea here is that there's an intersectional hierarchy and no one who's white can complain about being victimized even if they can point to an actual government policy that victimizes white people like, for example, affirmative action, which does, in fact, victimize people who are not of particular races.
00:18:49.000Affirmative action is designed as a racial quota system.
00:18:53.000In a zero-sum game, where merit is ignored in favor of race, that is, of course, going to victimize the person who is not counted as part of the beneficiary race.
00:19:05.000But, in any case, that particular attitude, that attitude, which is, you are a victim because in 1619, your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was shipped over from Africa, is patently crazy.
00:19:23.000Again, that is not ignoring American history.
00:19:24.000That is recognizing the reality of world history in which, if you go back far enough, pretty much everyone's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was victimized in some way or another.
00:19:35.000I mean, speaking of Jasmine Crockett is a beneficiary of this country.
00:19:41.000The utter ingratitude, the argument that she's using here is the same argument that you get from a kid when they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
00:19:47.000And you say, well, why are you doing that?
00:20:32.000So does that sound like a highly victimized life to you?
00:20:35.000Does that sound like a person who was dragged over in chains?
00:20:39.000Again, if you believe that America has not progressed in any way, that America is still the same America, that you are just as victimized as, again, your ancestors...
00:20:46.000That does beg the question as to why you don't leave.
00:20:49.000If you are that victimized by the United States of America, not historically, because again, you go back in history and tons of people have been victimized.
00:20:57.000And of course, history has consequences.
00:20:59.000But that is not the argument that she is making.
00:21:01.000The argument she's making is that no one who is not of a particularly victimized race can ever claim victimization in today's day and age, like today.
00:21:08.000Because years, centuries ago, something bad happened to my ancestors.
00:22:01.000For some sort of coherent and cohesive moral thought that doesn't just boil down to, if you're a member of a victimized group, a victimized group as I classify it, that means you can do no wrong.
00:22:11.000And if you're a member of an oppressive group, an oppressive group as I classify it, that means you can do no right.
00:22:16.000That is the basic logic of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is in fact a moral idiot.
00:22:19.000In any case, his father is now receiving an award from the National Book Award.
00:22:30.000Well, he's the publisher of a wide variety of books, including a book called The Jewish Onslaught.
00:22:36.000According to Mark Oppenheimer, he is a purveyor of antisemitic and homophobic tracts He has promoted writing that in the parlance of our time is problematic advancing pseudoscience while demeaning Jews and gays, among others.
00:22:49.000On September 4th, the National Book Foundation, which gives out National Book Awards, announced the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the Literary Community, which is essentially a Lifetime Achievement Award, would be given to W. Paul Coates, who is the father of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:23:04.000Listen, Ta-Nehisi Coates, as a moral matter, is a waste of space, and it turns out that his dad isn't much better.
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00:25:12.000David Steinberger, chair of the National Book Foundation's board, said in a press release, Now, at first glance, Coates is a surprising choice because from 1997 to 2005, he was a member of the National Book Foundation's board of directors.
00:25:33.000Typically, people don't give people on the board the award because, obviously, there's a conflict of interest.
00:25:43.000According to Ta-Nehisi Coates, his father would, quote, untuck his shirt and descend into the cellar after coming back home at night from his work to be with his collection of out-of-print texts, obscure lectures, and self-published monographs by writers like J.A. Rogers, Dr. Ben, and Drusilla Dungey Houston, great seers who returned to Egypt to Africa and recorded our history when all great seers who returned to Egypt to Africa and recorded our history when all the world Those texts, many taught by self-taught scholars, according to Oppenheimer, formed the core of what would later be called Afrocentric historiography.
00:26:11.000Coates believed the knowledge these writers impart had been deliberately withheld from black people.
00:26:15.000Ta-Nehisi says, quote, from the day we touched these stolen shores, his father would explain to anyone who'd listened they'd infected our minds.
00:26:22.000White people had forged a false knowledge to keep us down.
00:26:26.000So, in 1978, Ta-Nehisi Coates' dad built what he called Black Classic Books, a publishing operation, And it included some better-known books like David Walker's Appeal and some books by respected figures like W.E.B. DuBois and the historian Carter Woodson.
00:26:44.000But on September 27th, Jewish Insider published an article by a reporter named Matthew Castle with the headline, Paul Coates, father of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, republished anti-Semitic screed, the Jewish onslaught.
00:26:55.000Apparently, into Black Classics online store, Coates had added the Jewish onslaught, which is a book by the late Wellesley professor Tony Martin.
00:27:03.000Martin was notorious in the early 1990s for assigning to his students the Nation of Islam text the secret relationship between Blacks and Jews, which accused the Jews of monumental culpability in slavery and the Black Holocaust.
00:27:15.000Henry Louis Gates, who is no conservative, did a New York Times article in 1992 calling that book one of the most sophisticated instances of hate literature yet compiled.
00:27:25.000Coates refused to answer questions about his inclusion of the Jewish onslaught on Black Classics lists.
00:27:31.000Black Classic was republished a number of books from Majority Press.
00:27:35.000That's the press that Tony Martin founded, including works by and about Marcus Garvey.
00:27:40.000And then apparently, after the reporting, Black Classic removed The Jewish Onslaught from its online store.
00:27:46.000Okay, but there's a bunch of other problems.
00:27:49.000They also published a book called The Osiris Papers, Reflections on Life and Writings of Dr. Francis Cress Welsing.
00:27:55.000This is a collection of essays celebrating the late psychiatrist Francis Cress Welsing, who around 1970 began advancing the theory that racism in white people is correlated to lack of melanin in their skin.
00:28:06.000That same book, by the way, says that homosexuality was imposed by white people on black men.
00:28:12.000But there are a bunch of other books here that are just trash.
00:28:15.000This person was now given a National Book Award by the National Book Foundation.
00:28:19.000Because this is the morality of the left.
00:28:21.000Because when it comes to how to dole out sympathy, sympathy is doled out on the basis of pseudo-victimhood status.
00:28:27.000If you're a man who wishes to go into a woman's restroom, you are a victim of American society and we have to pour out our empathy copiously upon you.
00:28:36.000If you are a black person in American society, regardless of whether you're a successful black person like Jasmine Crockett, we have to pour our empathy upon you because centuries ago, your ancestors were enslaved.
00:28:46.000And because 60 years ago, segregation was still legal in the South before you were born.
00:28:52.000Now it turns out most Americans are not up for this.
00:28:55.000You know where they want empathy poured?
00:28:56.000They want empathy poured on actual victims.
00:29:00.000They want empathy poured on victims of crime.
00:29:02.000They want empathy poured on people whose jobs have been lost thanks to bad government policy.
00:29:08.000They want empathy for the American people writ large.
00:29:11.000They're not interested in sectarian empathy.
00:29:14.000That is not something that the American people are up for.
00:29:17.000And so, for example, the left has decided that Tom Homan, who is Donald Trump's new chosen border czar, is a very bad man.
00:29:23.000He's a very bad man because he's going to engage in deportation of illegal immigrants.
00:29:27.000But the truth is, when you watch Tom Homan, Tom Homan is more representative of Americans' feelings about where empathy should be placed than Ta-Nehisi Coates or his dad or Ellen DeGeneres or Sarah McBride or Hakeem Jeffries.
00:29:41.000Tom Homan was on Laura Ingraham's show and he was talking about the conviction of the criminal who murdered Lakin Riley, who you'll remember as the young woman who was brutally slain by an illegal immigrant.
00:30:25.000And this, and the government failed the Lincoln Riley family.
00:30:28.000Not only, if President Trump was president, he'd be sitting in Mexico and the Remain in Mexico program.
00:30:33.000And if he did get to New York, and he was arrested for an injured child in New York, I used to be able to arrest him because the priorities under Trump Where if you're in the country illegally, you're a target.
00:30:44.000But because Texas Marcos put the priorities so low, even the injury to the child didn't meet the standards, so ICE could even place a detainer on them.
00:30:51.000So this is purely, it could have been prevented, this young lady's dead, and I want every mayor, every governor of a sanctuary jurisdiction to listen to that tape.
00:31:00.000Listen to this young girl fight for her life, fight for her breath, trying to survive, terrified.
00:31:07.000I want you to understand what she went through.
00:31:09.000Like the nine-year-old boy, the five-year-old boy in the back of the tractor trailer that I held, I found him dead, that baked to death.
00:31:16.000I thought about what the last hour of his life was like.
00:31:35.000That is perfectly obvious to most Americans.
00:31:38.000Internationally, empathy should be with America's allies, not with America's enemies.
00:31:42.000And yet Democrats seem to have a problem with this.
00:31:44.000The Senate voted on a measure led by the execrable, useless, leech-on-the-ass of society, Senator Bernie Sanders, and a bunch of other Democrats, that sought to block the sale of $20 billion in U.S.-made weapons to Israel.
00:31:57.000Okay, now, that had already been cleared by the Congress.
00:32:00.000It's a last-ditch effort, according to the Washington Post, to limit the carnage, suffering, and destruction.
00:32:18.000Blocking this aid to Israel to embargo arms to Israel in the middle of a war, an existential war on its northern border and its southern border from two massive terrorist groups, both of which are funded by the Iranian terror regime.
00:32:32.00019 senators out of 51, 37%, over a third of the Senate caucus for Democrats voted in favor of a full-scale arms embargo on the state of Israel in the middle of a war.
00:32:43.000That includes things like blocking mortar rounds, like the most basic munitions available.
00:32:50.000Again, there are some people like Tammy Baldwin who voted present.
00:32:55.000But those senators were Heinrich Hirono, Cain King, Markey, Merkley, Ossoff Sanders, Shat Smith, Warren Welch, Durbin Van Hollen, Shaheen Lujan, Warnock Murphy.
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00:34:37.000Well, it is because of this Democratic vision of the world that they are so angry at MSNBC's Morning Joe for going and meeting with Donald Trump.
00:34:44.000Remember, if this were just a disagreement over the direction of the economy, if, in fact, Democrats and Republicans held the same baseline values, it were just a matter of how we reach the same endpoint, if that were the case, why would anybody be that angry at Morning Joe going and visiting Donald Trump?
00:34:59.000The answer is, of course, that that is not what the members of MSNBC's viewer class believe.
00:35:03.000They believe that Donald Trump represents a lesser morality.
00:37:29.000Well, because they committed the great sin.
00:37:30.000The great sin is to recognize that perhaps the morality of the left is not so superior to the morality of the right that you shouldn't have a conversation.
00:37:37.000That is precisely the thing they're angry about, which is why the left is constantly calling for censorship.
00:37:43.000So the latest episode of censorship comes courtesy of something called the Conscious Advertising Network.
00:37:49.000So the Conscious Advertising Network Is another one of these ginned up organizations designed to promote censorship against conservative shows.
00:38:01.000According to their website, they're focused on breaking the economic link between advertising and harmful content.
00:38:06.000Quote, we combine our advertising and human rights expertise, that sounds like they have a lot of expertise, to help implement industry platform and policy interventions and embed human rights within relevant commercial and political decision making globally.
00:38:19.000They include Halion, Virgin Media O2, British Gas and Innocent Drinks, network media agencies like Group M, Havist Media and Omnicom Media Group, and leading civil society groups like the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.
00:38:32.000So they're a trash bag and they basically put pressure on advertisers not to advertise on things they don't like.
00:38:40.000Here, for example, was at a UN conference.
00:38:44.000One of the leaders of the Conscious Advertising Network, a person named Alex Murray, talking about how what we actually need now is full scale censorship on climate issues.
00:38:53.000The climate information ecosystem has been compromised by the relentless onslaught of disinformation campaigns orchestrated and amplified by powerful actors.
00:39:05.000The impacts of this is that it's obstructed climate action, it's deepened division, it's reduced trust and it's obstructed progress on climate action.
00:39:15.000And big tech, legacy media, influential PR firms, and the advertising industry all have played a role within this and often have prioritized profit over truth.
00:39:29.000So he believes that he is the sole arbiter of truth.
00:39:32.000And that means that he is going to put pressure to censor any sort of information that runs counter to the climate alarmism that his group, the Conscious Advertising Network, is pushing.
00:39:42.000In fact, he says we need regulation of First Amendment speech.
00:39:45.000What we would call First Amendment speech in the United States.
00:39:47.000And the United Nations is the most Orwellian institution.
00:39:50.000And I pray to God that when the Trump administration gets in, they completely defund it.
00:40:10.000Anyway, here's this schmuck talking about how they need democratic regulation of the First Amendment, which is usually one of the things we tend to call tyranny here in the United States.
00:40:19.000We need democratic regulation of this as well.
00:40:22.000We need measures which increase transparency.
00:40:25.000We need responsible, we need to promote responsible moderation within platform design.
00:40:31.000And we need to support media literacy as well.
00:40:36.000I don't trust you because I think that you're a liar.
00:40:38.000And I think that you are willing to say whatever you have to do in order to advance your agenda and to shut down whoever you have to shut down in order to advance that agenda.
00:40:45.000That too is something we're rebelling against in the United States.
00:40:48.000You want to know why the Overton window has blown wide open?
00:40:50.000The reason is because y'all shut it up so tight that nobody could get through.
00:40:54.000No one, unless they agreed with Hillary Clinton, could get through that Overton window.
00:40:58.000Well, now the Overton window no longer exists.
00:41:01.000And that is a far hell of a sight better than what you had established before.
00:41:05.000Now, speaking of people who helped to blow up the Overton window, Elon Musk continues to unveil win after win.
00:41:12.000Elon Musk is, of course, going to be heading up with Vivek Ramaswamy, the so-called Doge plan to reform government.
00:41:20.000They have a piece in the Wall Street Journal talking about how they are going to push back against the rules and regulations promulgated by unelected bureaucrats.
00:41:29.000They say, quote, We're assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small government crusaders,
00:41:58.000including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America.
00:42:01.000This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
00:42:06.000Speaking of which, President Trump is looking at the return of Russell Vaught We're good to go.
00:42:33.000So again, it's been widely reported that he's going to bring him back.
00:42:36.000That would be a very good move by President Trump to move toward achieving what Vivek and Elon are trying to do right here.
00:42:43.000According to Vivek and Elon, Doge will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies aided by advanced technology to apply the new Supreme Court rulings that overrule the Chevron Doctrine, which basically gave unlimited discretion to administrative agencies to adjudicate their own rulings.
00:42:57.000They're going to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies.
00:43:01.000Doge will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive order, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission.
00:43:10.000This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and would stimulate the United States economy.
00:43:19.000And it's just an indicator of the kind of changes that are coming to Washington, D.C.
00:43:23.000And meanwhile, President Trump is making some other strong moves he.
00:43:27.000He's thinking seriously about nominating our friend Marty McCary for his FDA pick, which would be a great pick.
00:43:34.000Marty McCary was sort of our go-to guy during the COVID pandemic on all things scientific and informational.
00:43:40.000According to Bloomberg, McCary is seen as the leading candidate to run the FDA. He's a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and he's a health researcher whose latest book focuses on questioning medical orthodoxy on topics from peanut allergies to antibiotics.
00:43:53.000McCary has not yet responded to a request for comment, but apparently, Carolyn Levitt said, President-elect Trump is making decisions on who will serve.
00:43:59.000Those decisions will continue to be announced by him when they are made.
00:44:12.000He's also, he was a skeptic of much of the conventional wisdom with regard to COVID. He'd be an excellent pick.
00:44:17.000President Trump is also apparently aiming to restore the Keystone XL pipeline deal.
00:44:21.000So this is a big deal during his first administration because Obama had killed it and then he put it back in place and then Biden killed it.
00:44:27.000And Trump campaigned on reopening Keystone XL this time.
00:44:31.000We killed Keystone XL and we allowed the Russians to open Nord Stream 2. Which helped facilitate Russian entry into Ukraine because they had more leverage over natural oil and gas in Europe.
00:44:42.000Well, now Trump is looking, as always, to increase American production in the oil and gas industry.
00:44:47.000According to Politico, Trump believes declaring the 1200-mile Canada to Nebraska crude project back on the table would drive the pro-oil message he delivered in his campaign.
00:44:58.000Now, again, the pipeline's permit to cross the U.S.-Canadian border was first rejected by Barack Obama and then Trump reversed that, only to have that reversed again by Joe Biden in 2021. Calgary-based TC Energy no longer owns the pipeline system that the Keystone XL was intended to complement.
00:45:12.000Portions of the pipeline TC Energy had put in the ground in both Canada and the United States have already been dug up.
00:45:18.000So again, local permits would have to be acquired.
00:45:20.000But this just shows you how orientation toward energy changes actual action on the ground.
00:45:25.000You want to know why there's been a cut down on productivity in the oil and natural gas industry under Joe Biden?
00:45:30.000Because he kept telegraphing that he hated it and wanted to phase it out.
00:45:34.000There are not enough oil refineries in the United States, and no one's going to build a new oil refinery if they believe Democrats are going to come in five minutes from now and then promptly shut down the oil refineries.
00:45:44.000Trump instead is opening the floodgates on all of that.
00:45:49.000Again, I'm believing that more information is better.
00:45:51.000The American people deserve to know about the people who are serving in their cabinet.
00:45:54.000And this is why there's a police report that's now been released about Pete Hegseth.
00:45:59.000There's an allegation made about Pete Hegseth, who is President Trump's nominee for Department of Defense.
00:46:03.000And it provides graphic details, according to the New York Times, about a sexual assault accusation against Hegseth.
00:46:09.000And honestly, like the document is illuminating in a variety of ways, including the fact that it lends credence to Hegseth's contention that actually he was not the person at fault in this particular incident.
00:46:20.000So if you read the New York Times report on this, according to the report, the woman whose name was withheld told the police she ended up in Mr. Hegseth's hotel room after he spoke at a conference in October 27, hosted by the California Federation of Republican Women at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa.
00:46:37.000So the woman, referred to throughout the report as Jane Doe, suggests that Hegseth took her phone and blocked the hotel room door and sexually assaulted her, but she said her memory was hazy and that she had drunk far more alcohol than usual throughout the day.
00:46:48.000Hegseth told the police he repeatedly sought the woman's consent for sex and told her they could stop if it was a problem.
00:46:54.000Video footage at the hotel earlier that evening showed them at one point leaving a hotel bar with their arms locked together.
00:47:00.000Hegseth apparently was drunk, and he says that he believed the woman led him to his room.
00:47:06.000The woman's allegations have complicated the nomination process.
00:47:10.000But again, her story is, shall we say, questionable enough that the prosecution decided, again, not to prosecute in this particular case.
00:47:19.000In fact, she told the hospital nurse that she believed something might have been slipped into her drink.
00:47:27.000She only visited a hospital four days later.
00:47:30.000So there are a lot of open questions about this particular police report, which presumably is why the police did not end up pressing charges in that particular case.
00:47:41.000All right, you guys, coming up, we'll get into the latest from Ukraine, where, honestly, people are getting over their skis talking about World War III. If you're not a member, become a member.