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00:00:00.000Joe Biden delays calling Florida Governor Ron DeSantis before Hurricane Ian slams the state, the White House fights to trans the children while blaming Russia for a weakening economy, and right-wing parties gain steam all over Europe.
00:04:28.000Now, normally in these situations, when you have a natural disaster, everybody sort of comes together no matter your political persuasion.
00:04:33.000Unfortunately, we now live in a country where this is no longer the case because the governor of Florida is Ron DeSantis.
00:04:38.000This means that he's very good and no bad, so look for very hot takes from the media about how this is all Ron DeSantis' fault, both because of global warming and also because Ron DeSantis is a very bad man.
00:04:46.000There's sort of a pagan element that has taken over the radical left that suggests that things like COVID, natural disasters, this is actually Some sort of divine revenge for right-wing governance, but only when it strikes a right-wing area.
00:04:58.000When it strikes a left-wing area, then we don't know why such a thing would happen.
00:05:02.000When it strikes a right-wing area, it must be because the gods of COVID have descended or because the hurricanes have decided to punish Ron DeSantis or some such nonsense.
00:05:09.000The reality is, of course, a natural disaster is a natural disaster, and thoughts, prayers, resources all need to go toward the people who are directly in the path of this thing.
00:05:18.000Ron DeSantis yesterday, the governor of Florida, He warned of the conditions across the state.
00:05:23.000Schools across the state have been shut down.
00:05:34.000There's still uncertainty with where that exact landfall will be, but just understand the impacts are going to be far, far broader than just where the eye of the storm happens to make landfall.
00:05:46.000In some areas, there will be catastrophic flooding.
00:05:52.000And so if you're on Florida's Gulf Coast, from Naples all the way through the Tampa Bay area and some of the counties north of that, that could be something that happens.
00:06:03.000And it will certainly happen in some parts of Florida's Gulf Coast.
00:06:08.000Meanwhile, the President of the United States said that his administration was on alert to help the people of Florida.
00:06:15.000My administration is on alert and in action to help the people of Florida.
00:06:19.000I've approved Florida's request for emergency assistance immediately upon receiving it from the governor when they received it.
00:06:26.000And I directed my team to surge federal assistance there before the storm hit.
00:06:31.000FEMA has already deployed 700 personnel to Florida, and the governor has activated 5,000 State National Guard with another 2,000 guards coming from other states.
00:06:41.000There was some controversy yesterday, given the fact that President Biden, for most of yesterday, had not called Governor DeSantis, which is not the usual procedure.
00:06:48.000Normally, the first person you call when there is a hurricane about to hit a state is the governor of that state.
00:06:52.000According to the New York Post, President Biden called three Florida mayors on Tuesday as Hurricane Ian neared Florida's west coast hours before reaching out to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:07:00.000Apparently he first spoke with Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, St.
00:07:04.000Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch, Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbert, Castor and Welch are Democrats.
00:07:09.000The President waited a fairly long time to call.
00:07:12.000This prompted the FEMA Administrator to have to go on national television and explain why Joe Biden had not called Ron DeSantis as of yet.
00:07:18.000As we say, Biden corrected that late afternoon after there was enormous blowback for him not calling Ron DeSantis because the two obviously are political rivals.
00:07:26.000Here is the FEMA Administrator trying to explain this away.
00:07:29.000He's made conversations with the mayors, so is there any reason why not the governor?
00:07:35.000Again, we have a strong team that's in place supporting the governor right now, working side-by-side with him and his staff.
00:07:40.000We'll continue to stay engaged with him.
00:07:42.000So that would be avoiding the question, obviously.
00:07:44.000Joe Biden was under pressure to call DeSantis, so in fact he did call DeSantis.
00:07:47.000Again, this is like baseline, baseline sort of stuff.
00:07:50.000Apparently, according to the White House press secretary, Corine Jean-Pierre, the steps the federal government is taking to help Florida prepare for Hurricane Ian were discussed.
00:07:57.000The president and governor committed to continue close coordination.
00:08:00.000This is not the first time that DeSantis has handled some sort of crisis in his state, but a crisis of this magnitude is a completely different beast.
00:08:07.000Obviously, in Florida, we've had the Surfside building collapse, where a couple of hundred people were killed when buildings on the beach just fell down, literally just fell down, and Governor DeSantis handled that very well.
00:08:17.000This, however, is a major hurricane and is going to cause complete chaos in the state because, again, you're talking about a hurricane that's Essentially the size of Hurricane Katrina, because it's trending toward a Cat 5 as it nears very, very populated areas.
00:08:33.000Now, this has not stopped the media from immediately jumping into, let's discuss this through a political lens, because this is what they do, of course.
00:08:40.000So, one member of the media tried to say to Ron DeSantis that he had not actually prepped for the hurricane, which of course is really silly.
00:08:48.000I mean, even before I went into the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, there were warnings from DeSantis and the governor's team about if you're in the path of the hurricane, get ready to leave, make sure that you batten down the hatches, make sure that you have all the resources necessary.
00:08:59.000A media member tried to go after DeSantis on his yesterday, and DeSantis just clocked him.
00:09:04.000FEMA Administrator Criswell said today that she acknowledged concerns that Florida, as it was said, lacks response to the storm so far.
00:09:18.000We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn't even formed.
00:09:21.000We've had people in here, you've had counties doing They've done a lot of hard work and and honestly you're trying to attack me I get but like you're attacking these other people who've worked very hard and so so that's just totally false.
00:09:33.000I don't think we've ever certainly since I've been governor declared a state emergency this early.
00:09:38.000We made sure that we were very inclusive with it.
00:09:40.000We said that there was a lot of uncertainty and and we've worked to make sure The preparations that have been done and all the stuff.
00:09:47.000You talk to the people at the counties when they've needed something, stuff gets there very quickly because of what Kevin and his team have done.
00:09:54.000And the members of the media who are more radical are doing exactly what you would think they would be doing.
00:09:58.000MSNBC's Joy Reid, who's one of the worst people in all of media, she suggested that this is going to test Ron DeSantis because after all he's a bad, bad Republican man who's bad.
00:10:26.000Ron DeSantis has an approval rating well above 50 percent in the state.
00:10:28.000He's going to win re-election in a walk come November.
00:10:31.000Any governor who's in charge of a major state in the middle of a natural disaster is put to the test.
00:10:35.000The notion that Ron DeSantis' chief mode of governance in Florida has been to go on Fox News is an absurdity, but it is pure joy read to suggest, of course, that this is really the first time that Ron DeSantis has ever been put to the test.
00:10:49.000Meanwhile, Don Lemon over on CNN tried to do the routine that we frequently hear with regard to global warming, which is Anytime there's a singular weather event that is really out of the box and kind of crazy, whether it's a freeze in Texas or whether it's a large hurricane about to hit Tampa, we hear people in the media immediately jump to, this must be due to climate change and global warming.
00:11:06.000Now, here's the deal with climate change and global warming.
00:11:09.000You cannot trace any single weather event to climate change.
00:11:26.000But members of the media, because all they do all day is just respond to headlines, what they like to do is if there is a singular weather event, they immediately start saying, well, this is because of global warming.
00:11:38.000Up until now, this was an extraordinarily calm hurricane season.
00:11:41.000I mean, there's literally nothing up until now.
00:11:43.000And last year was a pretty calm hurricane season.
00:11:46.000In fact, what the data tends to show is that there's very little correlation between the frequency of hurricanes and global warming entirely.
00:11:53.000And when it comes to the amount of damage done by hurricanes, that has been going down fairly consistently.
00:11:58.000If it goes up, it's typically because the hurricane is hitting a very populated area.
00:12:02.000So people build directly in the path of a hurricane, then the damage numbers go up.
00:12:06.000But that has little to do, it's called the target effect.
00:12:08.000It has very little to do with the intensity of the hurricanes.
00:12:11.000Three hundred years ago, if a cat five hurricane hit Florida, it hit like seven people.
00:12:15.000Today, if a cat five hurricane hits Florida, it's going to hit three or four million people.
00:12:18.000So obviously the amount of damage is going to go up, even if the frequency of the hurricanes is the same or lower or the intensity is the same or lower.
00:12:25.000But people in the media don't actually want to give you the truth about what global warming does and what can be traced to global warming.
00:12:32.000So instead, what they point out is that When there is a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, and it moves over warm water, it tends to intensify.
00:12:40.000And so because of global warming, that means that the water is warmer.
00:12:42.000So that means that the hurricane is more intense.
00:12:44.000The question is more intense than what?
00:12:45.000Because that water has been warm for a very, very long time in human history.
00:12:49.000The Gulf of Mexico has been known for its warm waters for pretty much as long as we've known about the Gulf of Mexico.
00:12:54.000And beyond that, there is no actual There's no actual data demonstrating that hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
00:13:28.000Listen, I'm just trying to get that you said you want to talk about climate change, but what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that is happening now?
00:13:36.000Because it seems these storms are intensifying. That's the question.
00:13:39.000I don't think you can link climate change to any one event.
00:13:42.000On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse, but to link it to any one event, I would caution against that.
00:13:53.000Okay, listen, I grew up there and these storms are intensifying.
00:13:58.000Something is causing them to intensify.
00:14:58.000But George W. Bush was a Republican, so it became a national issue.
00:15:01.000And so, on this one, watch for the media to immediately spin into, Ron DeSantis is a terrible person, it's all his fault, if somebody got killed in Tampa, it's because Ron DeSantis didn't nuke the hurricane or something.
00:15:13.000That is where this is going, so just be on the lookout for that sort of media coverage, because it is just inaccurate.
00:15:17.000And in the meantime, if you're a decent person, pray for the people who are actually in the path of a major hurricane.
00:15:23.000That likely will be tearing roofs off of buildings and harming a great number of people.
00:15:28.000And if you have it in your budget to give some charity, do that too.
00:15:32.000That'd be an actual useful thing that you can do over the next 72 hours, as opposed to watching the dullards over at CNN and MSNBC blame Ron DeSantis for a natural disaster that is rather actually frequent when it comes to the Gulf Coast.
00:15:44.000Okay, meanwhile, over in Virginia, the Democrats are fighting mad.
00:15:48.000They're fighting mad because Glenn Youngkin is actually keeping one of his promises.
00:15:53.000One of his promises is that he is not going to allow transgender policy to change how children go to school.
00:16:00.000So what he means by this is that he is no longer going to allow people who simply identify as a member of the opposite sex to walk into the bathrooms at public schools.
00:16:08.000And this follows hot on the heels of a story that was largely broken by the Daily Wire in which a student dressed in a skirt allegedly went into a girl's bathroom and sexually assaulted a girl.
00:16:20.000And so, and then was told by the school board in Loudoun County, this sort of stuff never happens.
00:16:24.000If you have transgender bathrooms, it really is no problem whatsoever.
00:16:27.000So, Glenn Youngkin has now changed the policy, and he has gone back to the original policy, which, until the last five minutes, was considered not only normal, but perfectly logical, that boys should go pee-pee in the boys' room, and girls should go pee-pee in the girls' room, and that boys should not go pee-pee in the girls' room just because they say that they are boys, and that girls should not go pee-pee in the boys' room because they're not capable of using the urinal.
00:16:47.000I mean, like, this is really not difficult stuff, but apparently it's now driving outsized outrage.
00:16:52.000So, according to BuzzFeed News, students at almost 100 schools in Virginia on Tuesday participated in walkouts to protest a proposed policy put forward by Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that would heavily restrict the rights of transgender students in public.
00:17:04.000How about the rights of girls not to be in a bathroom with a teenage boy?
00:17:08.000That seems like a pretty big right, but apparently no.
00:17:10.000No rights privacy for girls who actually would like to, you know, go to the bathroom in peace that a teenage boy in there saying he's a girl.
00:17:18.000It's only this particular set of people who apparently has rights.
00:17:21.000Under the new policy, parents would be given the decision-making power about whether their child expresses a gender that differs with their child's sex while at school and what pronouns their child uses at school, because this is the other part of the policy the left really objects to.
00:17:31.000The left would like to kidnap your children and allow the teachers at the NEA to explain to your kids that they actually are a member of the opposite sex, to socially transition them at school, and to never tell you.
00:17:42.000This is the position of people who are opposing Youngkin's policy.
00:17:45.000Because all Youngkin's policy says is that if a kid comes to school and says, I'm Bob, but I'd like to be called Jill, that you have to call the parents and tell them.
00:17:54.000Apparently, this is very bad according to the left.
00:17:55.000You should socially transition them at school.
00:17:58.000And if you refuse to socially transition them, then this means that you're a bigot.
00:18:01.000And you should definitely not tell the parents because you never know, Bob might go home and mom and dad might take out the belt.
00:18:07.000So the teachers are your real parents.
00:18:09.000Randy Weingarten, Is really your parent.
00:18:13.000Horrific childless Granny Weingarten, who again is... Her relationship to children over the past couple of years has been to simply prevent them from going to school and wreck their lives and force them to wear masks at two years old.
00:18:24.000She should be in charge of your children.
00:18:26.000That is the person who matters most of all.
00:18:29.000The proposal says that a student's legal name and sex cannot be changed without an official legal document or court order, which makes a lot of sense, right?
00:18:35.000You can't just come in and tell the teachers one day that you should be called Ji Jim And your new name will be Trans Dinosaur, and they start calling you that stuff.
00:18:44.000Instead, you actually have to go through a legal process to change your name, like, you know, you would in a normal country.
00:18:50.000The policy says the teachers and other school officials must refer to each student using only the pronouns appropriate to the sex appearing in the student's official record.
00:18:55.000In other words, if the student comes in and says, I'm a Xi Jin, and the teacher looks at you and you're a boy, the teacher is perfectly well within his rights and should, in fact, call you He Him.
00:19:06.000Transgender students would also be forced to use school facilities that match the sex assigned to them at birth.
00:19:11.000So the original policy from Democratic Governor Ralph Northam, who was quite fond of the idea that abortion should be allowed up to and including apparently after birth, allowed schools to let students use their chosen names and pronouns that reflect their gender identity without needing any legal documentation.
00:19:25.000So a bunch of these students walked out.
00:19:27.000All that's happening right here is that a bunch of teachers who work for the NEA decided to rabble-rouse among the students.
00:19:31.000Then the students are like, hey, I get out of class.
00:19:33.000This is how protests work, by the way, when you're in high school.
00:19:36.000Very few of these students are really, really involved with these issues.
00:19:39.000The number of trans students in Virginia is vanishingly low.
00:19:43.000But if you can get a teacher to excuse you from class, are you going to go or are you not going to go?
00:19:48.000Are you going to stay in class and do your math homework?
00:19:49.000Are you actually going to, you know, walk out of the school and pretend that you're a social justice warrior?
00:19:54.000According to BuzzFeed News, so often in issues around education, students are excluded from the conversation, especially queer students.
00:20:00.000Yes, if there's one thing we know about America, it's that LGBTQ people don't get enough media coverage.
00:20:04.000They've totally been excluded from the conversation.
00:20:06.000They're utterly silent in our media landscape.
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00:22:28.000Now, it is not just a bunch of foolish youngsters who are walking out of class to protest this, or their teachers, as pushed by the National Education Association of the American Federation of Teachers, Run by people again like Randy Weingarten.
00:22:40.000It is also the actual White House of the United States.
00:22:43.000And this is the important thing to remember when it comes to social policy of the left in the United States.
00:22:47.000It is promoted at the most radical levels by the most radical people with the most radical power.
00:22:53.000You're talking about the President of the United States promoting the idea that if your 15 year old girl goes to school, because and she's gender confused for any reason whatsoever because she's been watching TikTok.
00:23:03.000She goes to school and she says, I wish to be treated as a member of the opposite sex.
00:23:06.000All of the teachers, all the other students should be forced to say that she is a boy and parents should not be told about this because after all, the parents might be, this is like the policy of the White House in the United States. And here's Corrine Jean-Pierre saying just that yesterday.
00:23:20.000Students across Virginia today walked out of their classroom to protest the governor's new guidelines restricting the rights of transgender students.
00:23:29.000Does the White House support these students? We believe and he believes transgender youth should be allowed to be able to go to school freely, to be able to express themselves freely, to be able to have the protections that they need to be who they are.
00:23:45.000Again, I have not seen these reports, but we can say with all confidence, and you all know have covered him for some time, when it comes to this community, he is a partner and he is a strong ally.
00:23:57.000Okay, so parents should not be part of the conversation.
00:24:00.000Teachers, Joe Biden should be your old grandpa telling you that you're actually a member of the opposite sex.
00:24:06.000Glenn Youngkin, new governor of Virginia, elected on precisely this basis.
00:24:10.000Glenn Youngkin, he came back at this pretty easily.
00:24:12.000He's like, so basically you're saying you want to cut parents out of the loop.
00:24:16.000If you're against the guidelines, it means you're against having parents involved in students' lives, and I don't think that's where Virginia is.
00:24:23.000Virginia spoke loudly last year in our election that parents were really important to have involved in kids' lives, and so I think this is a chance for us to reflect, please read the guidelines, and then work towards making sure that we do include parents in these fundamentally important decisions.
00:24:39.000Okay, but the fact is that our elite case in the United States, they actually just believe that they should be able to run social policy top down.
00:24:46.000And this isn't just true for social policy, it's obviously true for economic policy as well.
00:24:49.000The only problem is they botched it every way it is possible to botch this thing.
00:24:53.000So on the domestic front, obviously, you've seen the Federal Reserve Keep those in these inflation rates incredibly high by keeping the interest rates incredibly low for far too long.
00:25:03.000And this has now led them to have to ramp up those interest rates really fast.
00:25:07.000And this means, of course, that we are likely to see a significantly harder landing than would otherwise be the case.
00:25:12.000And they're going to have to ramp it up even faster, according to Susan Collins, the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
00:25:18.000She said she is committed to bringing inflation down to 2% even if it means slowing the economy.
00:25:22.000Collins, in her first public remarks as Boston Fed leader, said Monday she supported further interest rate increases as projected by Federal Reserve officials last week.
00:25:29.000They showed the central bank raising aggressively through next year despite rising fears of an economic slowdown or recession.
00:25:34.000She said in a speech prepared for delivery Monday at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, quote, accomplishing price stability will require slower employment growth and a somewhat higher unemployment rate. Returning inflation to target will require further tightening of monetary policy.
00:25:46.000She said history has shown price stability is a precondition to achieving maximum employment over the medium and longer term. This, of course, is exactly right.
00:25:55.000The only problem is that this would have been completely unnecessary if it hadn't been for the Federal Reserve botching this thing and for the Biden administration pouring money, just pouring it almost physically into the American economy.
00:26:06.000Meanwhile, home prices have started to dump.
00:26:08.000So this increase in interest rates is starting to bite in the economy.
00:26:12.000We've seen the fastest slowdown in home pricing in, I think, my lifetime at this point, actually.
00:26:18.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:26:20.000home prices slid in July from June The first monthly decline in years, the latest sign that higher mortgage rates are starting to weigh on home prices in many of the country's biggest markets.
00:26:28.000Home prices are still rising on a year-over-year basis, even though the pace of growth has slowed.
00:26:32.000The National Index rose 15.8% in the year that ended in July, down from an 18.1% annual rate the prior month.
00:26:38.000Housing economists expect home price growth to slow significantly by the end of the year.
00:26:43.000July's report reflects a forceful declaration, said Craig Lazera, Managing Director at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
00:26:48.000As the Federal Reserve continues to move interest rates upward, mortgage financing has become significantly more expensive.
00:26:53.000We now have mortgage rates that in many cases are exceeding 7%.
00:27:00.000We were talking about historic lows, now we're talking about highs that we haven't seen in most of my lifetime.
00:27:07.000So the experts are doing an amazing job.
00:27:09.000Larry Summers, who's warning about all this, former Clinton Treasury Secretary, he said yesterday, listen, a hard landing is extremely likely at this point.
00:27:17.000Neil said that unless we get a miracle on the supply side, unless we get a lot of happy news on the supply side, it's likely to be a hard landing.
00:27:28.000And I don't know what reason there is for thinking that we're going to get some kind of sudden major increase in productivity.
00:27:36.000I supported the Inflation Reduction Act and a number of other steps that are directed at strengthening the economy's potential.
00:27:46.000But none of those policies have serious arguments associated with them that they're going to produce huge supply-side benefits quickly.
00:27:56.000Okay, well, with all of that said, the administration's take on this is not that they actually are going to get things under control, it's that they're going to blame Vladimir Putin.
00:28:04.000Now, as I've said before, if you are not a fan of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, pretty much everybody's not a fan of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, The stupidest thing you could do to undermine that, the support for the pushback, is to blame all economic problems on that invasion.
00:28:19.000Because that would obviously suggest that the way to bring those economic problems to an end would be to come to a negotiated agreement.
00:28:24.000Which, by the way, may be correct, but that's not the position of this administration.
00:28:28.000So, Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he continues to suggest that all economic problems on planet Earth are basically due to the Russian war in Ukraine, which is not true.
00:28:37.000Okay, just on a fiscal level, it is not true.
00:28:39.000We had massive inflation in the run-up to the war in Ukraine.
00:28:42.000The war in Ukraine has exacerbated a lot of those problems, but it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
00:28:47.000What matters to Tony Blinken and the Biden administration is finding someone to blame who is not the experts, who is not them.
00:28:54.000We saw the aggression, the threat of the aggression mounting.
00:28:58.000from Russia against Ukraine last year. We warned the world about it, and we tried everything possible to avert it through diplomacy. Unfortunately, tragically, President Putin pursued his aggression nonetheless. And now the Ukrainian people, but also the world, are reaping the consequences. We're seeing the consequences in everything from rising food insecurity to the energy prices that we've talked about. So it's profoundly in everyone's interest
00:29:26.000for Russia to stop its aggression. Okay, well, you can lecture Russia as much as you want, but the fact is that Russia is not going to stop this unless they have some sort of off-ramps.
00:29:35.000Okay, the experts keep saying that the harder we push Russia here, the better it's going to be.
00:29:40.000The reality is that some off-ramp is going to have to be provided at some point here, or things are going to get an awful lot worse.
00:29:46.000Vladimir Putin right now, he has staked his entire legacy on not completely losing the war in Ukraine, which means he is threatening tactical battlefield nuclear weapons.
00:29:53.000He is also calling up a million reservists and people who are trying to leave the country to avoid being called up are now being arrested.
00:30:00.000Meanwhile, Russia yesterday ran a sham referendum in the areas that it annexed.
00:30:05.000in which it essentially claimed these are now parts of Russia.
00:30:07.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia is set to formally annex occupied territories in Ukraine after staging referenda that involved coercion threats and in some places, soldiers going door to door and forcing people to vote at gunpoint.
00:30:17.000One of the things that I always find really funny about these forced votes is if you're going to do a forced vote, shouldn't you at least give it the appearance that it's contested? And like, why bother having a vote if the results are going to be 99% in favor of annexation?
00:30:30.000Like, why do you even bother doing that?
00:30:33.000If you're trying to fake an election to make it look as though you're going through some sort of democratic process, wouldn't you be like, that's a 63-37 result?
00:30:41.000Instead, they're like, what if we go 99% in favor of annexation?
00:30:45.000Then everyone will believe that it was a free and fair election.
00:30:47.000Kiev and Western governments have described the vote as a sham designed to confer a veneer of legitimacy to Moscow's seizure of Ukrainian land seven months on from its invasion.
00:30:55.000They could also enable Moscow to claim any effort by Ukrainian forces to recapture the territories amounts to an attack on Russia itself.
00:31:00.000That would be the idea, is that now you've invaded Russia because we claimed this territory and so we're going to come in, we're going to re-invade into Ukraine because you're now the aggressors.
00:31:08.000Residents in the occupied areas said Russian soldiers compelled them to vote, guns drawn, in a choreographed show of support for Moscow's plan to make their regions part of Russia.
00:31:15.000They said some Russian sympathizers were brought in from other regions to cast their votes at polling places to create the impression that it was in fact a regular vote.
00:31:29.000According to official results, 93% of voters in Russian-controlled parts of the Zaporizhia region checked the box in favor of joining Russia.
00:31:41.000Those are not real results, obviously, but none of that matters.
00:31:44.000What really matters here is that Russia continues to make aggressive moves.
00:31:47.000Meanwhile, things are getting extraordinarily dicey over in Europe with regard to oil and natural gas supplies going into the winter.
00:31:56.000Very mysterious and bizarre circumstances happening with the Nord Stream pipeline.
00:32:00.000According to the New York Times, explosions under the Baltic Sea and the rupture of major natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany appeared to be a deliberate attack, officials across Europe said on Tuesday, deepening uncertainty about European energy security amid soaring prices and fears of running short of fuel over the winter.
00:32:15.000This is so weird, because again, Russia controls Nord Streams 1 and 2, so if they wish to simply shut off the gas, as they've done before, they could.
00:32:23.000Or maybe they just don't want to be fined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund or something, and so they are faking it.
00:32:28.000But it's really unclear at this point why exactly they would blow up their own pipelines, but that seems to be the going theory in Western circles, is that it is not in fact A Ukrainian attack or an American attack that is somehow a Russian attack on their own pipelines.
00:32:43.000According to the New York Times, three separate leaks erupted from both Nord Stream 1 and 2, which were already caught up in the conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, sending swirling steams of methane to the surface of the waters off Denmark and Sweden.
00:32:53.000Top Polish and Ukrainian officials blame Moscow.
00:32:55.000Russian state media suggested US or Ukrainian involvement.
00:32:58.000Denmark's Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, told reporters while on a trip to Poland to open a new undersea pipeline that will carry Norwegian gas.
00:33:04.000It's hard to imagine that it's accidental.
00:33:07.000On Tuesday evening, Jake Sullivan, the president's national security advisor, called the incident apparent sabotage in a tweet.
00:33:13.000Again, unclear exactly why Russia would sabotage its own pipelines.
00:33:18.000They've done this sort of thing only in the sense that they've suggested, oh, we had a pipeline breakdown.
00:33:26.000It's possible they're doing this again.
00:33:27.000But again, if Russia really wants to essentially broaden its war to Europe, there's no reason for them to actually break the pipeline.
00:33:34.000Apparently Nord Stream 2 had never gone into service, so it really didn't have any immediate effect on the oil supply.
00:33:39.000Nord Stream 1 has been shut down since August.
00:33:43.000But the leaks hammered home the message that Europe and its energy infrastructure are vulnerable, even if Europe succeeds in its mission of weaning itself off of Russian energy.
00:33:49.000The CIA had warned in June that Nord Stream pipelines could be attacked.
00:33:53.000They declined to say whether that warning identified Russia as a possible attacker.
00:33:57.000They had reached no conclusion about who is responsible.
00:33:59.000Bottom line is things are going to get a lot more dicey in this region.
00:34:02.000And the more the experts tell you that everything is hunky dory over there, the more you should start to check for your wallet.
00:34:07.000You know, I gotta tell you, my sleep quality a few weeks ago when I was overseas, it was not that great.
00:34:12.000And one of the reasons for that, I did not have my personalized mattress, the one that made me sleep the best I can sleep on planet Earth.
00:34:19.000That, of course, is my Helix Sleep Mattress.
00:34:21.000Helix is so good, not only have I been on a Helix Sleep Mattress for years along with my wife, But also, I bought one for my parents.
00:35:12.000Meanwhile, when Harry's Razors pulled its ads from our site, we decided to fight fire with fire.
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00:36:32.000Meanwhile, these same experts who have presided over record inflation, they've presided over the slowing of the economy, they've presided over the blowing out of the Western debt, and they're presiding over radical increases in energy prices, they continue to maintain that the most important thing in the world for Western citizens is climate change.
00:36:49.000They continue to pretend that this is a thing.
00:36:51.000So Janet Yellen, who apparently may be on her way out, the Secretary of the Treasury, formerly a not particularly good Federal Reserve President, she says that climate change is the biggest threat to everyone on the planet.
00:37:04.000Let me touch on the risks of climate change to our economy.
00:37:09.000Of course, unmitigated climate change is an existential threat to everyone on our planet.
00:37:17.000In a world that continues to warm, regions that are prosperous today may eventually become unsuited for productive economic activity.
00:37:27.000In many regions, human mortality is projected to rise, and labor productivity to fall, with the size of the impacts depending on the degree of warming.
00:37:39.000So again, they're just going to continue to push on climate change.
00:37:41.000Now, the general public's in these areas.
00:37:44.000General public's in Europe, in the United States.
00:37:47.000Are we supposed to believe that the top issue for these public's right now are things like transing the children, climate change, Blowing out the spending and handing it over to experts.
00:37:58.000Is this really the thing that we're supposed to believe?
00:38:03.000It turns out that we had elite global left-wing rule during COVID and people didn't like it.
00:38:07.000They didn't like it so much that one of the most popular people on the world scene Jacinda Ardern, who is the New Zealand Prime Minister, you'll remember her as the great heroine of COVID, right?
00:38:16.000Everybody on the left in the media, they suggested she was amazing because she shut down the island where the hobbits are and she said that no one could come in and that no one could go out and then she stopped death, except that She didn't vaccinate anybody.
00:38:27.000And so when COVID actually hit the island, there were some people who actually died.
00:38:30.000Well, now Jacinda Ardern, she continues to call for social media crackdowns because it turns out that leftism, when people are actually made aware of its consequences, people don't like it very much.
00:38:39.000So here was Ardern yesterday suggesting that she needs social media crackdowns.
00:38:43.000So combine all of these issues, climate change, She says, this is the reason by the way, she says that there ought to be social media crackdowns so people can't freely discuss issues surrounding climate change because if you're going to transform the world economy on the basis that over the next hundred years the climate is going to warm somewhat slightly, then you have to be, like if that's how you're going to, you do need to shut down the free speech mechanisms because no one is going to buy that.
00:39:04.000Here is Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister and great heroine of the left.
00:39:09.000This week we launched an initiative alongside companies and non-profits to help improve research and understanding of how a person's online experiences are curated by automated processes.
00:39:20.000This will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online, a challenge that we must as leaders address.
00:39:29.000I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it.
00:39:33.000To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.
00:39:38.000After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?
00:39:48.000How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
00:39:52.000How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
00:40:01.000You'll notice that on the back of bad policy always comes the call to shut down free speech.
00:40:05.000Jacinda Ardern, again remember, a year and a half ago, she was the greatest hero of the West.
00:40:11.000CNN would play clips of her, MSNBC would play clips of her.
00:40:13.000They're not playing clips of her now because she's about to lose an election.
00:40:16.000According to One News in New Zealand, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has remained steady in her preferred Prime Minister rating, but Nationals, Christopher Luxon, he's dipped a little bit.
00:40:26.000It doesn't matter because the National Party is now outranking Labour.
00:40:29.000The National Party is at 37%, Labour is at 34%.
00:40:34.000In the party results, again, National with the ACT has a plurality.
00:40:40.000Labor with the Green Party is coming in second right now.
00:40:43.000So this means that translated to seats, Jacinda Ardern does not end up in the majority here.
00:40:50.000So this unbelievably popular left-wing politician is now not particularly popular.
00:40:56.000It turns out that people, basically left-wing governance, it's essentially like a temporary high.
00:41:04.000They have a temporary high and everything feels amazing and then the come down in the morning is just brutal and people are reacting to that and that is what you're seeing internationally.
00:41:10.000So now you're starting to see a reaction internationally.
00:41:14.000As we will talk about in a second, the reaction to the reaction is that everybody who doesn't like left-wing governance is a fascist.
00:41:44.000The other conservative parties brought the total up to 44%, so she's the undisputed leader of a conservative coalition that will have a majority in Italy's new parliament.
00:41:52.000The media immediately because this is what they do.
00:41:55.000Her main pitch, this is the pitch that she's making.
00:41:57.000It's making her popular with right-wingers in the United States.
00:41:59.000Her pitch is family, God, country, right?
00:42:02.000Things that the right has been castigated for in the United States.
00:42:06.000People on the left are, of course, calling her Benito Mussolini.
00:42:09.000So what exactly makes her Benito Mussolini?
00:42:13.000of Georgia Maloney speaking in 2019 at a conference about family.
00:42:18.000And let's just say that there are a lot of people across the world who are not on board with the climate change, open borders, trans the children agenda of the international left.
00:42:28.000And she speaks pretty well for a lot of those people.
00:42:33.000She says this is about what we are doing here today.
00:43:18.000Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators.
00:44:31.000Okay, so this speech went completely viral on the right for a reason.
00:44:35.000When she's talking about the attack on family, the attack on traditional rules and institutions, people all over the West resonate to that.
00:44:41.000Now, her little spin there that the reason that people are doing this is because there's sort of a global capitalist order that is driving people to be individualist consumers.
00:44:49.000That is a very sort of Fundamentalist, integralist idea that has taken root on parts of the nationalist right.
00:44:55.000But, she also happens to be a fan of tax cuts and more financial freedom in Italy because Italy is heavily, heavily regulated.
00:45:00.000So, again, you can hold by the idea of individual property rights and also that those individual property rights must be undergirded by institutions that promote virtue.
00:45:08.000That is actually the theory of Adam Smith.
00:45:09.000Adam Smith, arch-capitalist, he is the person who wrote before Wealth of Nations A theory of moral sentiments, right, which is all about the idea that morality has to actually undergird the markets in order for the markets to properly work.
00:45:23.000Alrighty, guys, we have run out of time.
00:45:25.000We're going to be getting into a lot more, including the left's reaction to the right's reaction.
00:45:29.000Namely, everyone we don't like is a fascist.