On Wednesday morning, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death on the streets of New York City. The NYPD is still searching for the suspect, but they have released an image of a suspect they believe to be the shooter.
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00:00:24.000Alrighty, so on Wednesday, as we know...
00:00:26.000The United Health Executive, Brian Thompson, was shot to death on the streets of New York.
00:00:31.000Authorities are still searching for the suspect at this point, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:00:35.000Police are combing New York City for the suspect who used a sharpie to write deny, defend and depose on cartridges that are believed to have come out of his gun when it jams, according to law enforcement officials.
00:00:45.000Some of those words are commonly associated with tactics insurers use to avoid paying claims.
00:00:49.000Investigators believe that the suspect may be staying or may have stayed at a hostel on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
00:00:56.000The NYPD hasn't publicly identified the person who ambushed Brian Thompson.
00:01:00.000However, they have released an image of the person, quote-unquote, wanted for questioning.
00:01:26.000She was insane on COVID. She was insane when it came to the supposed predations of people on the right who ought to, she said, be shut out of media and particularly social media.
00:01:38.000Well, now she is full-scale rallying in favor of the murderer.
00:01:42.000So she tweeted yesterday on Blue Sky, which is a weird left-wing echo chamber form of Twitter.
00:01:48.000There was a post put out by Blue Cross Blue Shield All about whether it was going to pay for anesthesia under its healthcare coverage.
00:01:57.000And she then tweeted out, quote, and people wonder why we want these executives dead.
00:02:03.000So openly cheering the death of Brian Thompson, that wasn't her only post.
00:02:08.000Somebody put out a statement saying, quote, legislation idea, healthcare executives and their families must be on the cheapest plan their company offers and they aren't allowed to seek other care.
00:02:15.000And she wrote in all capital letters, indoors.
00:02:18.000Then, she put out a post that showed a graphic of a happy star, like a star with a happy face and balloons, and the captioned CEO down, and she wrote, And she said, I am not alone, that other people were doing the same thing.
00:02:33.000Then she reposted a post from left-wing agitator Ken Klippenstein saying, today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
00:02:44.000The claims and aisle rates by insurance companies.
00:02:47.000And of course, it's not just Taylor Lorenz.
00:02:50.000Socialist Nathan Robinson, a complete useless leech on the ass of society, posted himself, quote, live your life in such a way that people will be sad when you die.
00:03:00.000That was above a screen cap of a New York Times headline that said torrent of hate for health insurance industry follows CEOs killing.
00:03:07.000That piece from the New York Times is all about people who apparently were perfectly fine with the murder of Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City.
00:03:16.000According to the New York Times, none of this stopped social media commentators from leaping to conclusions and showing a blatant lack of sympathy over the death of a man who is a husband and father of two children.
00:03:25.000Thoughts and deductibles to the family, read one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online by CNN. Unfortunately, my condolences are out of network.
00:03:33.000A TikTok user wrote, quote, I'm an ER nurse, and the things I've seen dying patients get denied for by insurance makes me physically sick.
00:03:39.000I just can't feel sympathy for him because of all those patients and their families.
00:03:43.000And these sorts of messages were incredibly common across the internet.
00:03:47.000We discussed yesterday a Columbia professor who wrote something very similar.
00:03:52.000Unfortunately, bubbling under the surface of all this is something very serious, really serious.
00:04:15.000He wasn't even an advocate of death the way, for example, abortion or euthanasia advocates are.
00:04:19.000And by the way, murdering an abortionist or an advocate of euthanasia would be unjustifiable morally in a democratic system.
00:04:26.000Brian Thompson's great sin, according to these people, is that he was the head of a company that exists within a mixed private-public healthcare framework And that he did his job.
00:04:35.000Because that's how health insurance actually works.
00:04:37.000Some things are covered and some things are not.
00:04:38.000And you may not like the application of the coverage and it may be bad.
00:04:42.000But for the left, if you hate the system, you are morally justified in murdering anyone who acts within the system.
00:04:48.000That means that if, like one Bernie Sanders follower did, you believe that private health care kills Americans, you can go around murdering Congress people.
00:04:58.000Steve Scalise is still limping today because he was nearly shot to death by a Bernie Sanders fan who believed that being part of the quote-unquote system that didn't nationalize health care meant you were a murderer.
00:05:08.000This stuff means that if you don't like that health insurers often deny coverage for certain pre-existing conditions or non-covered doctors or medication, you can then murder the CEO of a health insurance company.
00:05:19.000This is revolutionary leftist evil, and it's evil for a First, violence is not justified in a democracy where your say is part of the process.
00:05:28.000This is why democracies are generally good because they outsource the violence to the government.
00:05:34.000Revolution to overthrow tyranny is justified, but tyranny has to be actually real and violence has to be the last resort.
00:05:40.000I didn't like public policy in California, so I picked up my family and my company and we left.
00:05:44.000Okay, tyranny is not real in the case of healthcare in the United States, and violence is not being used as last resort in this particular case.
00:05:52.000If you perceive America to be a tyranny and violence to be the proper response, that is a call for unending violence until the system itself is changed.
00:06:09.000That isn't even shooting politicians, which would be evil enough.
00:06:12.000It's even a different level of evil because it's a protest against the very system of free markets themselves.
00:06:17.000Brian Thompson isn't responsible for America's healthcare system any more than the head of CVS is responsible for America's trade system.
00:06:25.000Directing hatred against Brian Thompson is not about shaping public policy because you could shoot every CEO in America and it wouldn't shape public policy.
00:06:31.000It turns out that it's about trying to threaten anyone who engages in free markets at all.
00:06:36.000This is simply Marxist leftist radical evil.
00:06:39.000This person could just as easily have shot a doctor who decided not to perform a surgery or shot a bank CEO who denied a loan application for a home.
00:06:47.000It would have fallen under the same category.
00:06:50.000This, by the way, is not uncommon, unfortunately, in modern Western history.
00:06:54.000This was all the philosophy of the Red Army faction in Germany in the 1970s.
00:06:57.000That was known as the Beider-Meinhof gang.
00:07:11.000Ulrike Meinhof, a left-wing radical journalist, led the way.
00:07:14.000She famously said, quote, Protest is when I say this does not please me.
00:07:17.000Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
00:07:21.000And that language is replete with echoes in today's society from college campuses to left-wing media.
00:07:28.000That philosophy led the Beider-Meinhof gang to engage in routine assassination of everyone, from industrialists like Hans Martin Schleyer to Dresdner Bankhead Jürgen Ponto to American soldiers in Germany.
00:07:37.000These people also sometimes become the tools of enemy regimes.
00:07:42.000They worked with the Stasi, the East German Stasi, other Soviet agents to foment chaos.
00:07:46.000They coordinated with terrorist groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organization itself.
00:07:52.000The origins of Beider-Meinhof came from the 1968 student protests in Germany, Does any of this sound familiar?
00:08:00.000They were actually influenced by the 1965 Watts riots in the United States, radical race riots in the United States, in which violence was somehow justified.
00:08:07.000They allied with radicals all over the globe.
00:08:10.000They wrote essays defending the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists.
00:08:15.000Stephen Ost is an author who literally wrote the book on the Beider-Meinhof gang.
00:08:19.000And he pointed out, quote, We're good to go.
00:08:51.000Propaganda piece on behalf of actual groups that would end up with an Islamic fascist regime in Algeria.
00:08:58.000The pop poster of Che Guevara hung on his wall.
00:09:00.000He paid a designer to make a red army faction logo, a drawing of a machine gun against a red star.
00:09:05.000So, with all this backdrop, what exactly are we supposed to make of journalists, pseudo-journalists like Taylor Lorenz, or academics like that Columbia professor who proclaims soft support for the murder of Brian Thompson?
00:09:15.000Well, I mean, I think that we should take it as a leading, bleeding-edge indicator that we are on the verge of something terrible.
00:09:20.000After all, these acts of violence, they're not quite as sporadic as they used to be.
00:09:24.000This follows hard on the Black Lives Matter riots, which burned cities, did $2 billion in property damage, and were indulged and even celebrated by many on the left.
00:09:33.000The Hamas takeover of our college campuses, again, indulged and celebrated by the left-wing elite, up to and including the Democratic presidential candidate for the United States.
00:09:42.000And now, the not-so-quiet applause for the assassination of a private healthcare CEO. The toxic brew of radicalism and violence that characterized the 70s in Germany and the United States, actually, because it happened in the U.S., too.
00:09:53.000Enormous number of terror bombings in the United States in the 1970s.
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00:12:15.000Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn, they found high positions in academia.
00:12:18.000They used to hang out with Barack Obama after spending years planting bombs with the weather underground.
00:12:23.000Certainly today, a desperate left, spurred to action by constant talk of the fascistic takeover of Donald Trump, they can be counted on to increase their support for violence.
00:12:31.000I mean, there were two assassination attempts against Donald Trump in the last six months.
00:12:35.000That's an indicator of just how deeply this rot is spreading.
00:12:41.000It can only be stopped by a widespread rejection on all sides of the aisle for this type of violence and for support of this type of violence.
00:12:48.000The shooter in this case, we can only hope, is arrested and should be given the death penalty.
00:12:53.000Seedbeds for Marxist-Leninist violence on college campuses?
00:12:55.000I hope the incoming Department of Education defunds all of it.
00:13:01.000Pseudo-journalists like Taylor Lorenz should not only be rejected from polite society, all of the publications that hired her knowing she was a nut and then promoted her knowing she was a nut should be called on the carpet by the American public.
00:13:13.000The Brian Thompson shooting is a bleeding edge indicator of where the country could be going.
00:13:17.000It's the reason why there were security professionals who were wondering why he was walking around without security.
00:13:22.000That says something about the American body politic.
00:13:25.000A lot of people that I know now have to have 24-7 security just because of the climate of violence that is bubbling under the surface.
00:13:32.000All it takes is somebody with some organizational capacity on the left to launch America into a new era of domestic terrorism with the tacit moral support of much of the journalistic establishment.
00:13:40.000Meanwhile, of course, many of those people in the journalistic establishment will claim it's the right that's violent in the United States.
00:13:45.000That is not the story of the last 10-15 years in American life.
00:13:50.000And certainly it's not the story today.
00:13:52.000And it's something we need to watch out for because this has happened in the West before.
00:13:56.000And once that can of violence is open, it is very difficult to close again without concerted action, not just by law enforcement, but by an American public that decides it doesn't want to have anything to do with these people.
00:14:24.000And you can make the case that something unfair is happening in the industry.
00:14:28.000This is why socialist leech scavenger lingo used by people like Bernie Sanders.
00:14:33.000If you want to talk about stochastic terrorism, if you want to talk about rhetoric that leads to a higher possibility of violence, when you suggest that everything in American life is unfair and bad and rigged by the system, When you suggest that, and then you suggest that anybody who does business is merely an apparatchik of that system, the result is a support for revolutionary violence.
00:15:20.000I think the biggest threat to the Trump presidency is being distracted by shiny baubles.
00:15:24.000It's being distracted by sort of dumb rhetorical fights.
00:15:27.000But Donald Trump is set for a historic presidency right now.
00:15:31.000And you're seeing the people surrounding him encouraging him in the right way, I think, toward that.
00:15:35.000Lara Trump, of course, is the head of the RNC. She pointed out that Donald Trump is not seeking revenge.
00:15:40.000Now, by the way, I think this is true.
00:15:42.000I think that the Donald Trump is seeking revenge narrative is something that Democrats are promoting as an excuse to blanket pardon all of their friends.
00:15:49.000But the reality is Donald Trump did not seek revenge his first time around.
00:15:52.000And it is not revenge to fire people who are involved in things like Russiagate.
00:16:03.000We remember how he was the first term in office.
00:16:06.000He didn't start World War III. He was actually the first president in 82 years not to start a new war, not to get America into a new war.
00:16:13.000And much in the same way, I think people are going to see very quickly that this is a man who really just wants to go in there and take charge of this country as the American people mandated.
00:16:23.000You know, secure our border, bring down inflation, get us out of wars, and do the right things for America.
00:16:28.000He has no intention on retribution or revenge.
00:16:33.000Again, he has things to do, and I think that is the point.
00:16:36.000And you're starting to see corporate CEOs, people who are not friendly to Donald Trump, realize this.
00:16:40.000So Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, and also tangentially the Washington Post, because who cares about the Washington Post?
00:16:45.000Bezos says that he thinks that Donald Trump is calmer and more settled now that he actually has an agenda.
00:18:16.000So that means that he now knows that he has won, and that gives him a feeling of solidity, for sure, and a feeling that now he just has to pursue his agenda.
00:18:25.000That there's nothing that can be done to take that victory away from him.
00:19:27.000By the way, all of our problems, all of our economic problems, like if you look at...
00:19:34.000The debt, the national debt, and how gigantic it is as a portion of GDP. These are real problems, and they're real long-term problems.
00:19:42.000And the way you get out of them is by outgrowing them.
00:19:46.000You're going to solve the problem of the national debt by making it a smaller percentage of GDP. Not by shrinking the national debt, but by growing the GDP. You have to grow the denominator.
00:20:02.000He is right about that, and that is something that Donald Trump is, in fact, focused on.
00:20:05.000Because here's the actual reality of politics in the United States.
00:20:10.000There should be cuts around the edges.
00:20:11.000It's going to be very difficult to convince the American people that the giant systemic drivers of American debt, namely Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, Which are the giant drivers of American debt.
00:20:20.000Those are going to be radically restructured.
00:20:22.000Trump knows this, which is why he ruled it off the table in the middle of the campaign.
00:20:27.000And so what that means is that you're going to have to grow your way out of this.
00:20:30.000You're going to have to have robust GDP growth.
00:20:32.000That's something that Donald Trump absolutely wants.
00:20:35.000Well, this is something that the Republican Congress is going to be pursuing amidst a bevy of cuts.
00:20:41.000So a report from Luke Rosiak, quoting a Senate investigation over at Daily Wire, says, quote, Just 3% of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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00:23:20.000That's balanceofnature.com, promo code SHAPIRO. Elon Musk has signaled federal employees should have to work from the office.
00:23:26.000They should have to return to the office.
00:23:28.000That's also something that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested is going to be mandatory from now on.
00:23:34.000One of the first things that I think you'll see is a demand from the new administration and from all of us in Congress that federal workers return to their desks and get back to the work that they're supposed to be doing.
00:23:46.000What you're going to see here, the overriding theme here, is a return to common sense and a return to accountability and efficiency in government.
00:23:53.000I think that's going to serve the people well.
00:24:01.000I mean, this should be the most bipartisan thing in the world.
00:24:03.000Efficiency from the government that you pay for should be a bipartisan thing.
00:24:07.000The fact that Democrats are upset about it demonstrates something about their view of government.
00:24:11.000Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren of California says that actually the Department of Governmental Efficiency is unconstitutional and illegal, which is weird since it totally isn't.
00:24:20.000They're issuing recommendations and then they don't have the actual power to enforce those recommendations.
00:24:24.000So it's the same as me issuing a recommendation or something.
00:25:00.000If there is a plan that President Trump wants to propose to the Congress, he should send it to us.
00:25:06.000But the Constitution does not permit the President to simply avoid what the Congress has done.
00:25:13.000That power of the purse is with the legislative branch, not the President.
00:25:18.000Wow, it's really fun to hear Democrats suddenly standing up for the congressional power of the purse after Barack Obama declared years ago that he had a pen and he had a phone and therefore he could do anything he wanted to do.
00:25:28.000But there is so much deadwood that needs to be cut within the federal government and restructured within the federal government.
00:25:33.000So there's a little notice hearing yesterday from the House Oversight Committee over the census.
00:25:37.000Okay, so the Census Bureau in 2020 utterly blew it.
00:25:40.000The census of 2020 was an absolute mess.
00:25:43.000I've talked about this on the show before.
00:25:44.000The census of 2020 dramatically undercounted red states.
00:25:47.000It dramatically overcounted blue states.
00:25:49.000If the population count in 2020 had been done properly, Donald Trump could have won the 2024 election without winning any of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan.
00:26:00.000Because that's how many votes would have shifted in the Electoral College South to states that he definitely was going to win, like Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
00:26:07.000The balance in the United States Congress would be much more Republican, because it turns out many people, like me and my family and my company, we all move from a blue state to a red state.
00:26:16.000And that is the story of migration internally in the United States over the course of the last 10 years or so.
00:26:31.000That we understand what went wrong in the 2020 census and take action to mitigate the risk of those similar errors in the 2030 census.
00:26:39.000Mitigating these risks is even more important because there are major demographic changes happening across the country as citizens of blue states flee from those high tax sanctuary jurisdictions for red states to enjoy lower taxes, a safer environment, and to exercise more freedom.
00:26:57.000He's right about all this, and it has really significant electoral ramifications.
00:27:01.000Meanwhile, Democrats are, of course, upset that while people are migrating down to the South, that means that Republicans are winning more seats.
00:27:08.000Here's Representative Jasmine Crockett somehow turning this into an issue of racism.
00:27:12.000We know that specifically Texas added four million people.
00:27:16.000Of those four million people, do you want to take a guess at how many were Anglos?
00:28:06.000So let me tell you, they love to use our bodies to apportion us in an inaccurate way.
00:28:15.000That's not an inaccurate apportionment.
00:28:17.000It turns out that Hispanics voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in places like Texas.
00:28:21.000That is a very, very weird statement, but again, it always comes down to race for Democrats.
00:28:25.000What it really is about is the census failing.
00:28:26.000It's also true for the Secret Service.
00:28:28.000The Secret Service dramatically failed throughout this election cycle when the current president-elect of the United States missed assassination literally through the grace of God.
00:28:37.000God took his hand, put it on Donald Trump's head, and turned it slightly.
00:28:40.000And if not for that, Trump's brains would have been all over the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, in front of the entire nation.
00:28:47.000The Secret Service dramatically failed.
00:28:50.000But again, accountability in so many of these government agencies is in abeyance.
00:28:55.000Yesterday, there was a big shouting match.
00:28:57.000In Congress, during a hearing with the Acting Secret Service Director, they got into it because the Congressperson, Pat Fallon, he was questioning the Acting Secret Service Director about the fact that they had not gone, the Secret Service, to Butler, Pennsylvania, to investigate in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt in Butler.
00:29:16.000Instead, Ronald Rowe had gone to the 9-11 memorial with Donald Trump, and the suggestion by Pat Fallon is he was there to sort of appeal to both Biden and Trump, and things got a bit fraught.
00:29:27.000Who is usually at an event like this, closest to the President of the United States, security-wise?
00:30:57.000Bottom line is, a lot of these government agencies, they ain't working the way they are supposed to be working, which is precisely why Donald Trump is now trying to nominate people who are going to come in and clean out the dead wood.
00:31:08.000So, Hegseth's nomination is still up for grabs at this point.
00:31:11.000It's unclear exactly how much support Hegseth has inside the United States Senate for his nomination.
00:31:18.000There are some Republicans who are on the fence, given all of the allegations that have been made, mostly anonymously, about his nomination.
00:31:25.000Prior personal life and supposed drinking habits and all the rest of this stuff.
00:31:29.000Again, as I said yesterday on the show, all of that is anonymous.
00:31:32.000All of that is being litigated in the media.
00:31:34.000And much of it is being directed against Hegseth specifically because Hegseth knows that he has to come in and cut.
00:31:39.000Hegseth is going to come in and he is going to take a lot of political generals and he is going to have them fired.
00:31:43.000Hegseth is going to come in and he is going to completely redo how weapons systems are actually approved.
00:31:48.000Hegseth is going to come in and he is going to completely...
00:31:52.000Rejigger how recruitment is done to the United States military.
00:31:57.000It's going to be about making America's Department of Defense the most lethal fighting machine on planet Earth, staffed up, re-teched, all of it.
00:32:05.000And that's a threat to a lot of people within the system because I haven't heard any substantiated allegations thus far that should be sinking his nomination.
00:32:13.000I think that Pete will make a fantastic Secretary of Defense.
00:32:17.000Here was Hegseth yesterday saying, listen, we're not going to try this one in the media.
00:32:51.000And as long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight, fighting to bring our Pentagon back to what it needs to be.
00:33:02.000Well, President Trump, for his part, put out a statement this morning on Truth Social saying, Pete Hegseth is doing very well.
00:33:06.000His support is strong and deep, much more so than the fake news would have you believe.
00:33:09.000He's a great student, Princeton-Harvard educated, with a military state of mind.
00:33:12.000He will be a fantastic, high-energy Secretary of Defense, one who leads with charisma and skill.
00:33:17.000Pete is a winner, and there is nothing that can be done to change that.
00:33:20.000So, so far, he still has Trump's support.
00:33:23.000Again, that seems perfectly appropriate at this point, since the allegations are unsubstantiated.
00:33:29.000And the police report that, for example, was issued about his supposed possible rape of a woman at a conference in California, that police report tended to show the woman was telling a very sketchy story, shall we say.
00:33:45.000Again, there are some senators who are on the fence, but they seem to be leaning toward Hegseth.
00:35:43.000But it's true with many of the radical contingents in their caucus.
00:35:46.000The most radical contingent, ideologically, in the Democratic caucus is, of course, the contingent that suggests that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:35:53.000There's a case before the Supreme Court right now that we discussed at length yesterday discussing whether the Constitution of the United States mandates that girls be given testosterone if they have gender dysphoria.
00:36:04.000Or whether boys should be getting estrogen if they have gender dysphoria.
00:36:21.000If they can get you to say things that are wildly untrue, well then they've got you where they want you.
00:36:25.000Yesterday, MSNBC's Joy Reid, in what can only be described as an Orwellian turn of logic, suggested that Tennessee banning Giving cross-sex hormones to children was somehow akin to Nazi Germany, which is weird, because if you were talking about Mengele-like experiments on young children, that would be what transgender medicine is.
00:36:46.000Anyway, here is Joy Reid not knowing either history or biology.
00:36:53.000It is an age-old tradition, which Nazi Germany did with brutally violent ends in the 1930s.
00:36:59.000While the Supreme Court refuses to do anything about weapons of war in schools, today they seemed inclined to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
00:37:08.000While the decision is not expected for months, a majority of the justices parroted a string of debunked talking points, all under the guise of protecting the kids.
00:37:36.000If you've got a gender and that means that you're not a boy, you might be a girl, then why does cutting off your gender make you more of a girl?
00:38:06.000They're adorable and they're wonderful and they don't know things.
00:38:08.000And if you're a parent who's allowing your three-year-old child to dictate to you what their quote-unquote gender is, it's because you are engaging in child abuse.
00:38:41.00085%, what we know from the science, and again, it's about not putting ideology over evidence, and that's what's happening here.
00:38:49.00085% of all kids that are able to grow through puberty who say they're gender confused, over 85% of those kids live at peace with their bodies and consistent with their sex.
00:38:59.000In those children that are put on puberty blockers, the science tells us that you're putting them on a one-way treadmill To live as the opposite sex for the rest of their life.
00:39:11.000That is Kristen Wagoner, president of Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:39:15.000And that is Breonna Keillor, suggesting that three-year-olds know whether they wish to be sterilized or not.
00:39:20.000That is how insane some members of the left are.
00:39:23.000Annette Bening, who is the wife of Warren Beatty and who has a child who is a girl who believes that she is a boy, was outside the Supreme Court speaking and talked about what really is driving a lot of this.
00:39:34.000And that is the absolute narcissism of the parents.
00:39:56.000And for the Supreme Court justices, I encourage them to talk to their kids, their grandkids, their nieces and nephews, because I'll bet if they really sit down and ask them, do you know trans kids around you?
00:40:29.000By the way, my sister actually went to a theater camp when she was younger with the person who would become Stephen Beatty when this was a girl named Kat.
00:40:45.000But unfortunately, the left has decided that ridiculousness is the name of the game.
00:40:49.000And if the left refuses to let go of this stuff, by the way...
00:40:52.000Then there is an extremely good shot that they'll continue to lose elections because no one is buying into the lie that small children have the capacity to decide that they are not members of their own biological sex.
00:41:03.000But they're going to keep pushing it, man.
00:41:06.000I think it is too part and parcel of their entire philosophy.
00:41:09.000Their philosophy is that human beings ought to be equivalent in every single way.
00:41:15.000Unfortunately, nature and nature's God object to this.
00:41:18.000But that's not going to stop them from continuing to push the lie, because you have to assume that in order to get to the Marxist, redistributionist point of view.
00:41:27.000Ibram X. Kendi, racialist fool, said it best.
00:41:30.000He suggested that if there is any disparity in life, it must be due to discrimination.
00:41:59.000But, for the left, the entire predicate of redistributionism is that that inherent disparity is mean and nasty by the universe, and now we are going to correct for all of it.
00:42:09.000And most people understand that's stupid, so instead they have to make the argument that all human beings are innately exactly the same.
00:42:20.000Most Americans don't buy it, nor should most Americans buy it.
00:42:23.000Again, they're not going to stop pushing it.
00:42:24.000Here's sex education consultant Nora Gelperin talking about how kids as young as three can know that they are transgender.
00:42:34.000So if you ask any child at the ages of three, four, or five, what gender are they, they will clearly be able to tell you.
00:42:41.000They have been inundated with messages about gender.
00:42:43.000If you think about the Halloween costumes, if you think about the careers that kids are exposed to, if you think about the cartoon characters in their TV shows, the books that they're reading, there are messages about gender and gender role stereotypes and gender identity from when they are very, very young.
00:42:58.000And kids are able to identify what their gender is at a very early age.
00:43:11.000We'll see how it works for you electorally.
00:43:13.000Pretty soon, it's not going to be legislation like Tennessee's in 25 states.
00:43:17.000It'll be legislation like Tennessee's in 45 states.
00:43:19.000The only exception is going to be places that are insane, like Massachusetts, New York, and California.
00:43:24.000Alrighty, joining us on the line is Jonathan Pajot, French-Canadian liturgical artist, writer, and public speaker on religious philosophy, symbolism, and Orthodox Christianity.
00:43:32.000You can see all of his commentary on his YouTube channel, The Symbolic World.
00:43:35.000And of course, you can see Jonathan in our brand new series here at Daily Wire, plus The Gospels with Jordan B. Peterson, where Jordan brought together a bunch of great minds to talk about the New Testament.
00:43:47.000So let's talk about this brand new series.
00:43:49.000Take me through kind of what it was like behind the scenes, because obviously you have a bunch of different perspectives on the New Testament.
00:44:06.000I mean, talking about Exodus is one thing, but talking about the Gospels, there are literally wars based on interpretation of the Gospel.
00:44:13.000But what I found is, I think Jordan, the way he opens up the discussion and his deep respect for the people around made the conversation actually quite amazing.
00:44:23.000We really did come into a groove, and it was crazy, the difference between the people that were there.
00:44:29.000But the capacity we had to respect each other and to enter the conversation, just for that, for the capacity to model a conversation, I think it's worth the people checking it out, because it was quite impressive.
00:44:41.000So, you know, Jordan decides to take on the Gospels.
00:44:45.000What do you think are sort of the, what were your favorite episodes of this?
00:44:48.000What are your favorite themes to discuss in the Gospels with everybody?
00:44:51.000Well, I think the idea of looking at the Gospels in a way that is almost with fresh eyes, I think that's what everybody kind of came to the table in that way.
00:45:00.000So basically, the idea of sitting even around a table and reading the entire Gospels within a week is something that I don't think I've ever done in my life.
00:45:09.000And so what it did is it cast a different light on the entire story and opened it up in ways that were surprising.
00:45:15.000And I think that's what I love the most about it, is what How even people who have read it over and over for 20 years, 30 years, we still found some jewels of surprise and connection maybe we hadn't seen before.
00:45:32.000One of the things that Jordan does when he examines biblical texts is he sort of puts aside many of the questions that tend to come up in seminars like this where people go into the historicity or people tend to go into the archaeology.
00:45:43.000And instead, he really focuses on the meaning of the actual text, which I think is a wonderful way to go about looking at these things because the truth is that while many people who are believers are very interested in the historical nature of the text, the truth is that for most people who are first engaging with the text – It's the meaning of it that they actually care about because the truth is that in our lives, as you've talked about in terms of symbolism, the way we live our lives is through a prism of meaning, not through a prism of historicity per se.
00:46:09.000And so this isn't making any claims here.
00:46:11.000I'm not making any claims about historicity, but I think that it's the meaning centrality of this that actually makes it different.
00:46:20.000Because even if we ask the question of historicity, the reason why we ask it is because it's something that it's important.
00:46:26.000And it's the importance of the text, the stories that are brought about, which are more important than, let's say, the literal historical details of what happened in the first century.
00:46:34.000Not that that's completely uninteresting, but dealing with it as a story that presents itself to us and that people have cared about now for 2000 years, that's really the way to go.
00:46:44.000And that's why, in some ways, You know, looking at it as a story, first of all, is why it was so easy to have the conversation because even someone like Greg Hurwitz, you know, who's secular Jewish, could enter into it as a story and talk about what he's seeing there in the narrative.
00:47:01.000So that's what made it very, very good.
00:47:05.000So, you know, a couple of episodes are already available.
00:47:20.000For like two hours in the morning, each other in the afternoon.
00:47:22.000I think that for sure as it went forward and we kind of entered into this groove, I think that around towards the end, it was the time where I liked it the most because we had all kind of taken, we understood each other's perspective and we were in this almost like Conversation, dance.
00:47:39.000And that's when it's almost like this flowing experience of discussing something that important.
00:47:44.000I think that that's the thing that I get the most out of the experience that I remember the most.
00:48:08.000I definitely did reread the gospel before we started.
00:48:11.000And one of the things I did also is because we had just come out of the Exodus seminar, I spent quite a bit of time trying to see how the story in the gospel connects to the Exodus narrative in order to help people kind of bridge into the gospels.
00:48:24.000So that's the work that I did saying like, okay, what's the relationship between, let's say, the massacre of the innocents in the story of Jesus and, you know, the Pharaoh killing the Israelite babies in What's the connection between those stories?
00:48:40.000There are many parallels between the two stories, and I tried to bring that forward in order to help people connect it together.
00:48:50.000Well, again, the series is well worth the watch.
00:48:52.000The Gospel is available over at Daily Wire Plus right now.
00:48:55.000Jonathan Paggio is a key part of that, as he is with a lot of the series that Jordan does, ranging from the Western Civilization series that we did to the Exodus series.