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00:01:35.000We've reached a pretty radical point in American history when Democratic witnesses in front of Senate committees testifying about abortion cannot say that women are the only people who have babies.
00:01:44.000And yet that is precisely where we are.
00:01:47.000And it speaks to the ideological drip down that happens from academia into the halls of power and how that then drips down to the American people more broadly.
00:01:58.000Because you have to understand that the sort of radicalism that you're now seeing from the Biden administration, in which they proclaim that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and that actual medical transition is a necessity for small children.
00:02:08.000When they say that sort of stuff, that is not coming from them.
00:02:10.000That is coming from the halls of academia, the ivory tower, where a bunch of people who are the intellectual oligarchy decide what the rest of us should think.
00:02:19.000And this has been the role of academia for a very long time.
00:02:21.000Academia, when it first began, was supposed to be the place where all the smartest people gathered and they thought about the world, and then they came up with rubrics and heuristics that we could use in order to understand the world.
00:02:31.000And it was supposed to be based on merit.
00:02:32.000It was supposed to be based on the merit of your ideas, the fact that you were very smart, the fact that your ideas were creative and interesting and tested and true.
00:02:40.000Research was supposed to be done at universities.
00:02:41.000It was supposed to be a place where civilization was built.
00:02:44.000And then, in the 60s, academia essentially became a place where civilization was torn down.
00:02:49.000And at that point, legitimacy in academia should have fallen away.
00:02:52.000People should have stopped paying attention to the academics who were spewing absolute gobbledygook nonsense.
00:02:57.000Unreadable jargon in academic papers that made no sense.
00:03:00.000And they should have said, OK, we're not respected.
00:03:04.000Whatever merit you had as sort of the high IQ people who are supposed to rule from on high, which was always kind of a bad idea.
00:03:10.000Whatever merit that idea had went by the wayside the minute you started spewing absolute nonsense.
00:03:15.000Instead, the academic elite, the oligarchic university institutions decided that in order to maintain their power, because the critique of them Was that they were too powerful and too oligarchic in order to maintain their power.
00:03:25.000Instead, what they would do is they would allow some people in who were radical criticizers of the system.
00:03:32.000They were going to allow the radicals to take over the building so they could maintain their own power.
00:03:38.000They could have said to these folks, no, I'm sorry, you don't, your ideas do not merit to be in the upper tiers of academia because they're bad ideas.
00:03:45.000You don't have anything to teach the world.
00:03:46.000Instead, the critique was you won't let us in because you are racist or because you are sexist.
00:03:50.000It's not because we have bad ideas because you're racist or you're sexist.
00:03:52.000And so the halls of academia, which were.
00:03:56.000I think immunologically compromised with this sort of stuff.
00:04:00.000They just didn't have a good response to it.
00:04:01.000So they said, okay, you guys come on in and you too can be part of the academic oligarchy.
00:04:05.000You too can be part of the intellectual elite that decide for the rest of us what truth constitutes and what facts constitute.
00:04:11.000That is the only way to explain why somebody like Kiera Bridges, a professor at Berkeley, is considered a public intellectual in the United States of America, spewing absolute nonsense with an extraordinary level of self-absorbed narcissistic confidence.
00:04:29.000There were a bunch of clips yesterday that went viral from a Senate committee hearing.
00:04:33.000The Senate committee hearing is the Senate Judiciary Committee, and they were talking about the overruling of Roe v. Wade under Dobbs, and Kiera Bridges was called by the Democrats in order to testify.
00:04:41.000And there are a few things to learn from this exchange, which was championed by the left, by the way.
00:04:45.000In this exchange, according to the entire media, Chiara Bridges is the victor.
00:04:49.000She is a wonderful expositor of humane values that have at their root deep eternal truths, is according to the media.
00:04:57.000And Josh Hawley is getting skunked in these videos.
00:05:24.000They are tiny cadres of people who rule from above, which means they cannot allow dissent.
00:05:27.000If you wonder why it is that Ivy League colleges and universities, why these places are 98% Democrat, why there are no Republican professors in the halls of power, any conservatives in the halls of power, any natural law theorists in the halls of power.
00:05:39.000If there are, you can name them on one hand at all the Ivy League universities.
00:05:43.000That is because the oligarchy can only maintain its dominance by treating every form of dissent, every question as an actual threat.
00:05:50.000And then rolling rolling the eyes, it's a teenage response, it's amazing.
00:05:53.000These are supposed to be the wisest people.
00:05:55.000They should have cogent responses to obvious questions.
00:05:58.000Instead, they engage in teenage eye rolling.
00:06:01.000All this leads up to the actual eclipse here because they really are, it's an amazing embodiment and distillation of just what our academic culture has become, which is why we need to blow it up entirely.
00:06:22.000We need to get people out of universities to teach this sort of garbage, as though this garbage was some form of higher knowledge, as though it was Moses on the Mount.
00:06:32.000To understand, by the way, who Keira Bridges is, you have to understand that Keira Bridges is one of the most privileged people, educationally speaking, ever to walk this earth.
00:06:41.000Here is Keira Bridges' actual academic background.
00:07:23.000And yet she spends her entire career, and this is the key, She has spent her entire career ripping on the United States, which is one of the reasons why she's so widely beloved in leftist circles.
00:07:32.000In fact, she studies, quote, race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three.
00:07:37.000She's the author of a book called Critical Race Theory, a Primer.
00:07:40.000She's a self-described critical race theorist.
00:07:43.000She believes in the rejection of legal conventions.
00:07:51.000And advocates in favor of the idea that, quote, racism is a normal feature of American society, not a deviation from an otherwise fair and just status quo.
00:07:58.000And that traditional liberal understandings of the problems of racism and how racism will be defeated ought to be rejected.
00:08:04.000Namely, treating people in colorblind fashion, trying to treat people as individuals, the meritocracy, all of that is not going to solve racism.
00:08:10.000Instead, you need deep systemic change.
00:08:15.000Which means she's a pseudo-intellectual masquerading as a real intellectual.
00:08:19.000And she speaks the jargon, and she says all of the words, and because she does all these things, she is considered the alpha and omega of intellectual life in the United States.
00:08:32.000So, you tell me whether this seems like this should be at the height of intellectual achievement in the United States.
00:08:36.000So, we begin with a clip of Kara Bridges talking with Senator John Cornyn from Texas.
00:08:42.000And he asks her a very simple question because they're talking about abortion.
00:08:45.000He says, does the life of a pre-born child have any worth at all in your view?
00:08:49.000Because she is an advocate of abortion all the way up to birth.
00:08:53.000And normally, Democrats have to have some sort of answer to this, but because she is an arrogant professor, she does not need to have an answer to this.
00:09:00.000In fact, it is her arrogance that just dismisses the question out of hand.
00:09:04.000She doesn't want to answer that question, so she won't.
00:10:15.000You weren't called here to talk about the things that are interesting to you.
00:10:19.000You're testifying in front of Congress.
00:10:21.000And of course, she's using exactly the sort of nonsensical gender ideology jargon that you're used to hearing from the left now.
00:10:28.000Remember, for years, when people on the right have talked about what's happening in academia, the typical response of so many people in the mainstream media and in the Democratic Party, and yes, even on the right, has been, why do we care what happens on campus?
00:10:39.000Why does it matter what happens on campus?
00:10:41.000After all, it's just a bunch of pointy heads who are talking with each other in echo chambers with a few hundred people.
00:11:24.000A woman who is born female is still a woman even if she believes she is a man.
00:11:29.000But because she is a devotee of the idea that men can be women and women can be men, in an anti-biological, anti-logic, anti-physics position, considering that now the position of the left is that you have to go back in time and erase the fact that this person was ever a member of their biological sex.
00:11:45.000She doesn't have any evidence to this effect, but she doesn't have to.
00:11:48.000She can just use scorn and nastiness in order to achieve her point.
00:11:53.000And then she can wrap it up with a bow that says, I care.
00:11:56.000And that's exactly what happens in this now viral exchange with Josh Halle.
00:12:01.000All of this feels like a little bit of a nightmare because of the bizarre dream logic of all of it.
00:12:04.000Well, if you feel like you're sleeping, but you're not sleeping, but you should be sleeping, You really need a Helix Sleep mattress.
00:14:42.000Because denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist I'm denying that trans people exist by asking you if you're talking about women having pregnancies.
00:14:52.000Do you believe that men can get pregnant?
00:14:55.000No, I don't think men can get pregnant.
00:14:56.000So you're denying that trans people exist?
00:15:24.000She's filled with intersectional criteria and she spouts intersectional, woke nonsense.
00:15:27.000And that means that nobody's ever asked her a question.
00:15:29.000She's never had a PhD advisor who's forced her to answer a question.
00:15:32.000She's never had a student who's asked her a tough question that she hasn't been able to dismiss with the wide eyes and the rolling eyes and the...
00:16:04.000This does not mean that the radio is talking to them.
00:16:07.000Trans people exist in the same way that anorexic people exist.
00:16:11.000There are people who believe that they are fat when they are actually underweight.
00:16:14.000This does not mean that they are actually fat.
00:16:18.000So you're not denying anybody's existence.
00:16:20.000You're denying that their claim about reality is true.
00:16:23.000But she suggests, of course, that this means that people are committing suicide.
00:16:26.000And this is always the threat that the left likes to bring, and it starts in academia, it bleeds all the way down.
00:16:31.000The idea is that if you make an argument based in fact, that you're going to cause somebody else to commit suicide.
00:16:38.000Now, in American law, and in law typically, the idea that you can cause someone else to commit suicide is pretty dicey territory generally.
00:16:45.000And you actually have some pretty specific evidence saying that somebody is telling somebody to commit suicide in order to even attempt to hold them accountable for their commission of suicide because there's an intervening actor, namely the person who's committing the suicide.
00:16:57.000The generalized point the left tries to make is that if you say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, a bunch of people who believe they are members of the opposite sex will be so despondent about the fact that biological reality exists and that you are saying it.
00:17:08.000Not even that it exists, that you're saying it.
00:17:10.000That they're going to go commit suicide.
00:17:11.000There's only one problem with this line of argument.
00:17:14.000There's no statistical evidence to suggest that the wildly disparate suicidal ideation rate among LGBT people suddenly corrects itself to meet the cis norm, meaning people who know what sex they are and it is their biological sex, the heterosexual norm.
00:17:31.000The suicide rates, the suicidal ideation rates, do not suddenly become equal if you live in an area that is highly tolerant of LGBT.
00:17:37.000They're still wildly disproportionate, which suggests that there are a bunch of other intervening factors, including serious comorbidities with regard to anxiety and depression that attend upon LGBT identity.
00:17:49.000We're not allowed to talk about any of that.
00:17:51.000The idea is supposed to be that it's because Josh Hawley is mean that trans kids are now suicidal.
00:18:08.000If some people are unable to handle truth, and this causes them to be more mentally ill or more suicidal, that is not the fault of the truth.
00:18:17.000We're going to have to find some different solutions.
00:18:19.000The solution is not society-wide falsehoods.
00:18:23.000And yet that is exactly what is being promoted here because and yet the reason that this matters is because for people like Keira Bridges.
00:18:50.000What you think of as truth is just because you have grown up in a system in which that definition of truth was crammed down upon you by forces that use that particular definition of truth and that value of truth as a tool for power.
00:19:02.000So if we wish to correct the mechanisms of power imbalance, we have to redefine truth.
00:19:07.000We have to pretend truth away in order so that the marginalized and the dispossessed can have more power.
00:19:11.000And if that means we all have to lie, then we all have to lie.
00:19:13.000And if it means that truth has to go by the wayside as value, then truth has to go by the wayside as value, which raises the question as to why you are a professor.
00:20:01.000It matters, number one, because our academic institutions are entirely corrupt and need to be completely dispensed with in many ways.
00:20:07.000Unless you are in a STEM field, science, technology, engineering, math, unless you are in one of those fields, if you're in a liberal arts field, I can say with fairly high degree of certitude that you are learning sheer bizarro world silliness on a regular basis.
00:20:22.000I know, I have a poli-sci degree at UCLA and a law degree from Harvard, so I get it.
00:20:29.000It's that the people who are the most respected in our society, the people who are granted the greatest titles, the people who have all the letters after their name, the people who are supposed to be our intellectual leaders, the tip of the spear in terms of ideas and thought, those people are actually corrupting the society and destroying it from within.
00:20:52.000That's what you're watching, that clip.
00:20:53.000And the entire media are graduates from these Ivy League universities now.
00:20:56.000They're not sort of the hard-boiled, shoe-on-the-pavement reporters of the 1920s.
00:20:59.000These are all college graduates who went to Ivy League schools.
00:21:03.000They agree with all of this because they've been inducted into the cult.
00:21:07.000The cult suggests that you have to repeat these nostrums.
00:21:10.000And the more you repeat the nostrums, the more you have demonstrated skin in the game.
00:21:13.000This is why you see all of the members of the media with their pronouns listed after their bios.
00:21:17.000We know that you are a man or that you're a woman.
00:21:19.000We can tell because we are not six months old.
00:21:22.000But the whole point of doing this is to demonstrate fealty to the woke ideology.
00:21:26.000To demonstrate fealty to an ideology that suggests that truth is of secondary concern.
00:21:30.000And when that bleeds over into journalism, truth becomes a secondary concern in journalism as well, which is how you end up with people like Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post suggesting that if a story is repeated enough, including false stories about a 10-year-old needing an abortion, that it just becomes fact without any supporting evidence.
00:21:44.000Truth as a value is crucial to a society's functioning.
00:21:48.000Because if we can't agree on a common core of truth, how exactly are we going to have any sort of discussion in a democratic republic?
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00:24:00.000Killing pre-mortem children is an act of love.
00:24:02.000After all, the only thing we're worried about is people capable of giving birth, according to Keira Bridges.
00:24:07.000And this leads to the result that you have actual senators who taught at Harvard Law School, like Elizabeth Warren, who is now suggesting, you know it's an act of love killing a baby, you know it's not an act of love?
00:24:17.000Counseling people not to kill their babies.
00:24:19.000That's brutality and needs to be stopped.
00:24:21.000So here's Elizabeth Warren, actively arguing that crisis pregnancy centers, which provide prenatal care to women and try to convince them to actually have their babies, need to be shut down by force of law.
00:24:34.000Truth, love, sympathy, all of these are being completely exploded.
00:24:39.000But that's because it's all power game, folks.
00:24:41.000In the end, all of those words don't matter.
00:24:43.000All that matters is who gets to wield the power.
00:24:45.000Here's Senator Elizabeth Warren declaring that a true act of love is to shut down crisis pregnancy centers.
00:24:51.000In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber True abortion clinics by three to one.
00:25:09.000We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.
00:25:14.000You should not be able to torture a pregnant person like that.
00:25:20.000It's torturing a pregnant person to bring in a pregnant person.
00:25:55.000Mazie Hirono, who is the stupidest senator in the United States Senate.
00:25:58.000And that's saying a lot, because there are a lot of dodos in the Senate.
00:26:00.000There are a lot of morons in elected office.
00:26:02.000You spend any time at all around elected officials, and the first thing you recognize is that your average plumber is significantly smarter than virtually all members of Congress.
00:26:09.000Mazie Hirono is no exception to this rule.
00:26:11.000She is by far the dumbest person in the United States Senate.
00:26:14.000And again, that is saying an extraordinary amount.
00:26:16.000So Mazie Hirono, yesterday she was talking about abortion.
00:26:19.000And she says, who would know what the founding fathers meant?
00:27:50.000The only thing that matters is who wields the power against whom.
00:27:52.000That's why I have Lori Lightfoot arguing that it is a form of slavery for women to bear the burden.
00:27:57.000It seems a lot more like slavery to, I don't know, dehumanize an entire swath of the population and then target them as property that can be destroyed.
00:28:02.000That seems a lot more like slavery to me.
00:28:04.000It seems more like slavery to treat a nine-month-old in the womb like he can just be killed for no reason at all.
00:28:09.000Just because somebody wants to, that seems a lot more like slavery than saying, hey, maybe that thing has rights.
00:28:14.000But here's Lori Lightfoot, the horrible mayor of Chicago.
00:28:19.000There's been some notion out there in other state legislatures that they are going to bring legal action against health care providers and against women themselves if they travel outside of states where abortion is banned to a city like Chicago or a state like Illinois.
00:28:39.000I mean, I have to tell you, as an African American, what I hear when I hear that is fugitive slave laws like We're back in the day where they're chasing people who are seeking freedom.
00:29:00.000Truth doesn't matter, which is why you had Joe Biden repeating from the rostrum of the White House a story about a 10 year old who needed an abortion in Ohio and the 10 year old apparently does not exist.
00:29:09.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the tale is a potent post-roadtale of woe for those who want to make abortion a voting issue this fall.
00:29:15.000One problem, there's no evidence the girl exists.
00:29:17.000We're talking, of course, about a story that was repeated by Joe Biden.
00:29:19.000He said a 10-year-old girl he didn't identify by name was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to have an abortion because Ohio now prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is discovered.
00:29:56.000There's been no police report anywhere in the state of Ohio so far as anyone can tell.
00:29:59.000Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost told Fox News Monday his office had not heard a whisper of such a crime from prosecutors, police, and sheriffs in the state.
00:30:06.000You may not be surprised to learn, says the Wall Street Journal, that Dr. Bernard has a long history of abortion activism in the media.
00:30:12.000But the story, it doesn't matter whether the story is true or not.
00:30:14.000All that matters is whether the story is useful or not.
00:30:17.000That is the thing that matters most to these people.
00:30:20.000Because truth is of completely no value.
00:30:46.000But now you're not even allowed to say that there was an actress named Ellen Page at any point in the past.
00:30:51.000As the Daily Wire reports, Amanda Harding, if someone from 2008 awakened from a coma and immediately decided to look up their favorite actress Ellen Page, that person would be left disappointed because she doesn't exist anymore in places like IMDb and Wikipedia.
00:31:03.000The person formerly known as Ellen Page now goes by Elliot Page.
00:31:06.000Page has only been Elliot since December 1st, 2020.
00:31:09.000But somehow in that short time, has managed to transform the past to suit a new identity.
00:31:15.000Apparently, pretty much everybody has now decided that Ellen Page never existed.
00:31:21.000The only place that Ellen Page is listed ever is Ellen Page was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2008.
00:31:28.000That is the only place that it is listed.
00:31:30.000Now, it has to be nominated that way because it's Best Actress.
00:31:47.000Wikipedia says formerly Ellen Page, but pretty much everywhere the truth has now been erased.
00:31:52.000And if you say the truth on places like Twitter, they will ban you like they did to Jordan Peterson.
00:31:56.000You're not allowed to say this sort of stuff.
00:31:59.000It's all, and again, it's not just culture, it's not just the media, it's everywhere.
00:32:06.000It bleeds down to the lowest level because once people repeat things enough, this is taken in by children.
00:32:11.000You wonder why more and more children are identifying as LGBT in new and extraordinary ways.
00:32:17.000That is not because there is a biological bottleneck that has hit Western civilization where suddenly the new generation, we've discovered it, magically, genetically, 21% of them are now LGBT.
00:32:30.000It is chaos on the sexual front fostered by the left on the basis of lies and untruths about the moral and psychological equivalence of all sexual identity and activity.
00:32:40.000This is something that the leftists push, and when you subsidize things, you get more of them.
00:32:46.000When you subsidize the message, for example, in the United States, that the system is completely racist, that the cops are racist, that any interaction you have with the cops is likely to be racist, this bleeds down to the lowest level, which brings us to the most disturbing story of the day.
00:33:08.000The footage was recorded last week, according to the UK Daily Mail, while police were at a home to serve a search warrant in the hunt for a murder suspect.
00:33:14.000The 30-second clip shows an unnamed small boy standing in the street in his underwear barefoot, screaming, shut up, at a black police officer and telling him to shut the F up.
00:33:24.000He then turns to the other cop and makes fun of his ugly ass shoes, while other barefoot and barely dressed kids stand around him.
00:33:32.000Meanwhile, there's an adult male who calls the black police officer Oreo Head.
00:33:39.000You have toddlers trying to hit cops now.
00:33:51.000You think that's a natural behavior or is that a learned behavior?
00:33:55.000to hit cops now. You think that's a natural behavior or is that a learned behavior? What do you think? You think maybe there's some authority figures in that kid's life who are teaching those kids evil, evil things about the police?
00:34:09.000And you think that an entire media that fosters those evil statements about the police, that it's the police who are at fault, the police are the problem, you think maybe that bleeds down and has real consequences?
00:34:18.000That's exactly what happens in our culture.
00:34:22.000All of the anti-Americanism, all of the anti-cop rhetoric, all of the suggestion that America is a deeply racist, terrible place, all of this bleeds down.
00:34:29.000It pervades our society at every level.
00:34:31.000You want to talk about the intellectual civil war in the United States?
00:34:33.000It's a civil war between people who still believe that you have to have evidence and truth on your side and people who just believe that America is a power game.
00:34:40.000And that means you can say whatever you want, no matter how powerful and how rich you are, which is how you have LeBron James and most powerful rich people in the United States declaring that Britney Griner, who's now being held in Russia, should not even want to come back to the United States.
00:35:19.000Now, how can she feel like America has her back?
00:35:22.000I would be feeling like, do I even want to go back to America?
00:35:27.000He'd be asking, I don't know, you might want to go back to your billion dollar fortune in the United States.
00:35:31.000But the truth is that LeBron James wouldn't end up in Russian custody because the Chinese would free him since he's done an excellent amount of work on their behalf.
00:35:39.000A culture that is pervaded with the notion that America is just a power game, that truth and evidence don't matter at all, is a society that is dying.
00:35:47.000Everything for these folks is a power game, but here's something that is not a game.
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00:38:43.000It turns out that the joke that I frequently tell about Joe Biden being the happiest man in the world because every morning somebody wakes him up and reminds him he's president of the United States because he's forgotten thanks to his short-term memory loss.
00:39:34.000Unexpected by the media that wish to play a lapdog role for Joe Biden, but are having real trouble with the economic facts on the ground.
00:39:40.000See, the good news is, about a society that dispenses with truth, you can only do that so long before reality tends to bite you directly on the ass.
00:39:46.000And that's exactly what's happening on economics.
00:40:00.000That's the biggest increase for food since 1981.
00:40:02.000The reacceleration in core inflation is what people are really worried about because it's not just that the food and energy prices have gone up.
00:40:10.000It's pretty much everything else as well.
00:40:13.000The inflation index, including food and gas, could slow in July's data because prices at the pump have moderated a little bit in recent weeks, but gas prices are volatile, they could shoot up again.
00:40:21.000The report contained unwelcome news beyond the headline number, according to the New York Times.
00:40:24.000A core inflation index that strips out food and fuel prices remains high, came in faster than economists expected.
00:40:29.000The core index climbed 5.9% in the year through June, barely a slowdown from 6% in the previous report.
00:40:35.000The core measure actually climbed 0.7% from May to June, more than the previous monthly increase.
00:41:05.000The central bank has been escalating its assault on inflation.
00:41:08.000The Fed first lifted interest rates from near zero in March by a quarter point to try to make money more expensive to borrow and slow consumer demand.
00:41:15.000Last month, it increased them by 0.75 percentage points.
00:41:19.000Many central bankers have been clear and want to make another 0.75% increase in July.
00:41:23.000They hope to raise rates into the neighborhood of 3.5% by the end of the year.
00:41:27.000Larry Summers was suggesting we're going to need to hit the 5 to 7% inflation range, interest rate range, in order to really quash inflation.
00:41:33.000So far, he's been a lot more right than anybody who is in power.
00:41:37.000These are disastrous economic reports for Joe Biden, who was hoping that all this stuff was sort of going to militate before the election.
00:41:45.000Again, the Fed is trying to prevent consumer expectations of higher inflation becoming entrenched because that expectation can then be self-fulfilling, meaning the prices never really go back down.
00:41:54.000Persistent high inflation, according to the Wall Street Journal, is putting a strain on business and consumers who, after decades of price stability, aren't used to it.
00:42:02.000Consumer inflation expectations have improved somewhat, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey this week.
00:42:07.000Americans expect slower inflation increases over the longer run than they had in recent months, which makes sense.
00:42:11.000Otherwise, the Federal Reserve would be literally doing nothing.
00:42:14.000With that said, the continued acceleration of inflation is demonstrative of the fact that this administration has run this economy so hot it's out of control.
00:42:23.000And they can try to blame that on Putin.
00:42:26.000You want to talk about just foreign policy incompetence.
00:42:29.000Joe Biden trying to blame this on Putin is the height of foreign policy incompetence.
00:42:33.000Because the logic of blaming it on Putin suggests that if you want this to be alleviated, the war in Ukraine then has to end or you have to change your policy.
00:42:40.000Those are the only two available options.
00:42:43.000Joe Biden has said, we've got a Putin price hike, that's what infl- It's Putin!
00:42:46.000Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine!
00:42:49.000Okay, well, if it's that, and if I'm an American, and I want the prices to go down, that means I want you to stop the war in Ukraine, or I want you to change the energy policies and economic policies of the United States, such that we can continue to fight the war in Ukraine, and I also am not bankrupting myself every time I take my kids to the grocery store.
00:43:07.000And yet, Joe Biden refuses to do either of those things.
00:43:09.000He thinks that just by yelling at Putin, suddenly people are going to be like, oh yeah, things are going amazing.
00:43:16.000So, Joe Biden's economic performance continues to be absolutely abysmal.
00:43:20.000The Democrats are about to get walloped, and they deserve to be walloped because, man, if you run the economy this hot, and then it turns out that you spend years and years suggesting that there's no such thing as inflation, you're going to take it right in the teeth.
00:43:36.000By the way, again, what you're looking at in 12-month percentage change in Consumer Price Index, food is up 10.4%, energy is up 41.6%, gas is up 59.9%.
00:43:46.000That psychotic spending bill in March 2021 is a disaster area.
00:43:54.000That giant boondoggle spending bill that was supposed to end COVID.
00:43:59.000And here's the thing, Democrats are still trying to pile on the COVID train.
00:44:42.000And I think that, you know, people have an understandable desire to put this in the rearview mirror and say we're through with it.
00:44:50.000But that's just not the reality, Neil.
00:44:52.000And when I say that, I don't mean to scare people or to get people feel they have to dramatically alter their lives or do anything with mandating a thing like that.
00:46:00.000And well, meanwhile, Democrats are staring down the barrel of 2022.
00:46:02.000They continue to put all of their eggs in the January 6th basket.
00:46:06.000They continue to ramp up the rhetoric with regard to the January 6th committee.
00:46:09.000So yesterday, all of the news was about the January 6th committee and new bombshells, new bombshells.
00:46:13.000OK, so all of the bombshells are people said stuff.
00:46:16.000What I mean by this is not people committed crimes.
00:46:18.000It's that people said that they were worried that crimes may have been committed, or they were upset that January 6th happened, or they were mad, or they perceived something.
00:46:28.000All the bombshells are not smoking guns, nor are they connected dots.
00:46:32.000So the promise of the January 6th committee was originally there was going to be an attempt to show an actual connection between Donald Trump and the people who broke into the Capitol such that he was instructing them to do so, which would be a crime.
00:46:45.000They claimed there was a seven-step plan that culminated in the events of January 6th, as opposed to what January 6th actually looked like, which was the natural outgrowth of Donald Trump thrashing against the box that he'd been placed in by losing the Electoral College.
00:46:59.000And so the Democrats keep throwing out this idea that there are these bombshells.
00:47:02.000Wow, this is why you can't vote Republican, man.
00:47:06.000But you've got to connect dots in order for the bombshells to have any impact.
00:47:10.000So they keep using language suggestive of the connection of the dots.
00:47:14.000But then they don't connect at odds. So Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland, he was leading the questioning yesterday, and he suggested that Trump had galvanized his supporters to attack the Capitol building. In the wee hours of December 19th, dissatisfied with his options, Donald Trump decided to call for a large and wild crowd on Wednesday, January 6th, the day when Congress would meet to certify the electoral votes.
00:47:42.000Never before in American history had a president called for a crowd to come contest the counting of electoral votes by Congress or engaged in any effort designed to influence, delay, or obstruct the joint session of Congress in doing its work required by our Constitution and the Electoral Count Act.
00:48:02.000As we'll see, Donald Trump's 1.42 a.m.
00:48:05.000tweet electrified and galvanized his supporters, especially the dangerous extremists in the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other racist and white nationalist groups spoiling for a fight against the government.
00:48:20.000Okay, by galvanized, he seems to be suggesting that Trump quote-unquote incited the riot.
00:48:24.000Well, if you're going to make a charge for incitement, you have to say that Donald Trump told people to go attack the Capitol building.
00:48:35.000So they use very colorful language in order to try and drive at a conclusion they want to reach, but they don't actually then show the evidence that conclusion has been reached.
00:48:44.000So they keep coming at it sort of ass backwards.
00:48:45.000They'll bring out a witness and the witness will be like, I perceived Trump's tweet as having told me to go attack the Capitol building.
00:48:51.000Well, why do I care what a random oath keeper perceived?
00:48:54.000You actually have to show intent, right?
00:48:59.000Incitement requires you not just to have said something, then somebody took your words and went and did something.
00:49:03.000It's that you actually have to have told them to go do it.
00:49:06.000And yet the media keeps trotting out people who are clearly not of the top intellectual stock to talk about what they perceived Trump to have said.
00:49:16.000This is not going to get you where you need to go.
00:49:19.000So, for example, an ex-oathkeeper named Jason Van Tatenholm, He suggested that January 6th was going to be an armed revolution, possibly a new civil war.
00:49:28.000But anywhere in here does he say that Donald Trump like called him up on the phone and said it's time to attack?
00:49:51.000So five seconds ago, he was a crazy criminal that Democrats were accusing of insurrection.
00:49:55.000Today, he's testifying before Congress as a great intellectual on why Donald Trump had launched a civil war.
00:50:00.000and no one would have won there. That would have been good for no one.
00:50:08.000So five seconds ago he was a crazy criminal the Democrats were accusing of insurrection.
00:50:11.000Today he's testifying before Congress as a great intellectual on why Donald Trump had launched a civil war. Weird that sort of flip. The treatment of respect for this person.
00:50:20.000No, we didn't actually plan to go down there.
00:50:21.000And it was a lot of that yesterday at the January 6th committee.
00:50:24.000So you had a convicted writer named Stephen Ayers blaming Trump.
00:51:27.000The damaging stuff they have about Trump may be that he's pressuring witnesses, but they're gonna have to actually show evidence of that.
00:51:31.000So Liz Cheney is suggesting that they have evidence that Trump is calling up witnesses and saying stuff, okay, well, present it to the DOJ, and then it's up to Merrick Garland to prosecute that if that's an actual witness tampering charge.
00:51:41.000But this committee routinely seems to be over-promising and under-delivering.
00:51:46.000After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation.
00:51:54.000A witness you have not yet seen in these hearings.
00:51:58.000That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call and instead alerted their lawyer to the call.
00:52:10.000And this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice.
00:52:16.000Okay, well, I mean, that's what the Department of Justice exists to do.
00:52:18.000So if they've got the evidence, then go for it, man.
00:52:21.000But this committee, what it seems to really exist to do, is to overpromise on what they are going to deliver on a thing that we already know about.
00:52:26.000Again, this is the problem with the January 6th committee.
00:52:32.000If you're going to demonstrate new material, it can't just be, hey, the Oath Keepers said really nasty things, or Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.
00:52:37.000Those people, they say really violent and terrible things sometimes.
00:52:40.000Like, yes, we know they said it publicly.
00:52:45.000By the way, Steve Bannon has demanded that he be allowed to testify publicly, and the committee's like, no.
00:52:50.000Which is always the sign of a good committee.
00:52:52.000Now look, Bannon wants his moment in the sun.
00:52:55.000Bannon would love nothing better than to be in front of, he's a clever guy, he's very bombastic, he'd love nothing better than to do the sort of Al Pacino and Injustice for All, you're out of order, you're out of order, this entire committee's, like, he would love that, it would make him a celebrity.
00:53:07.000And so the committee doesn't want him to do that.
00:53:08.000But the fact that this committee only brings out certain witnesses to testify publicly and others, they just sort of pick and choose little pieces that they decide to show of their testimony in public.
00:53:21.000I mean, there's just no other way to put it because this is not typically how a committee is run.
00:53:25.000And so as part of that propaganda outfit, they decided that it was really important to show what Steve Bannon said the day before.
00:53:30.000And to understand how silly this is, you really have to know Bannon.
00:53:34.000You have to have followed Bannon for a while.
00:53:35.000So they trotted out footage of Steve Bannon from his show The War Room on January 5th, talking about how all hell was going to break loose.
00:54:57.000This is how Bannon talks all the time.
00:54:59.000Like, I bet he talks this way in his personal life, too.
00:55:01.000How about when dinner is over and it's time to clear the dishes, we've got to grab those dishes, we've got to smash it, we've got to plan of attack, we've got to bring all of our forces to a head, bring those dishes to the kitchen, and then we've got to scrub.
00:55:48.000He is now Calling on we, the people, to take action and to show our numbers.
00:55:56.000We're going to only be saved by millions of Americans moving to Washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary, storming right into the Capitol.
00:56:10.000You know, we know the rules of engagement.
00:56:13.000If you have enough people, you can push down any kind of a fence or a wall.
00:56:55.000If you're going to demonstrate that Donald Trump is responsible for a vast web of conspiracy in which he attempted an armed overthrow of the United States government via a bunch of droogs attacking a Capitol building being cleared within three hours, the only casualty being one of the people who was a member of the riot, then you're going to have to actually at some point connect those dots.
00:57:12.000But they never try to connect the dots.
00:57:16.000The goal is not to actually get Trump prosecuted, really.
00:57:21.000The goal is not really to demonstrate evidence.
00:57:23.000The goal is to suggest that the entire GOP can never be elected again, which is what you're hearing from people at the Washington Post, right?
00:57:29.000Like Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman, the hacks at the Washington Post.
00:57:33.000They talk about They suggest, the title of the piece is, Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP.
00:57:50.000They say, a full accounting must include the role of many mainstream Republicans in feeding the belief among countless Americans the election actually could be procedurally reversed.
00:57:57.000This no doubt helped fuel rage when Trump's procedural efforts failed, helping spark the violence.
00:58:02.000And then they talk about Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
00:58:04.000And they suggest that the failure by mainstream Republicans was neatly captured by one other moment at Tuesday's hearing.
00:58:09.000The committee played a recording of Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona telling GOP members on a January 5th call she was concerned about security.
00:58:18.000the election. When that doesn't happen, most likely will not happen. They're going to go nuts. And then let's go voted to object to Biden's electors.
00:58:28.000You may not like that. I didn't like those votes. I came out against those votes. I thought that you vote in favor of the slate of electors because you have no reason not to legally speaking. But that's not illegal, nor is it a riot.
00:58:40.000If the whole game of the January 6th committee, for the Democrats at least, and I think Liz Cheney has her own motivations, but if the goal of the Democrats is to indict the whole GOP such that Republicans are not elected in 2022, and this is the best they've got, it ain't going to happen.
00:58:54.000Especially because when it comes to which radical ideology is more represented by party, The radical ideology of, say, the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, or a radical ideology that suggests that it's absolutely unthinkable brutality to say that men exist and women exist and only women can have babies.
00:59:11.000Or that America is not a systemically racist place.
00:59:16.000If you're talking about which one of those ideologies, you know, an ideology that rejects all of that, as part of the Democratic Party, or the let's attack the Capitol building part of the Republican Party, which one is bigger and more threatening?
00:59:28.000I don't think there's much of a question there.
00:59:30.000And when inflation is running at 9% year on year, I think that is only going to add to the hurt the Democrats are about to feel come November.
00:59:38.000Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with more content.
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