Elon Musk has become persona non grata, enemy number one to the left, and the attacks on his Tesla are only getting worse. A website called DogeQuest has published the personal details of Tesla owners, leading to concerns about privacy and safety, and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor.
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00:00:28.000Well, speaking of the left wing assault on basic human values, the assault on Elon Musk's Tesla continues.
00:00:35.000Now, I will say, it's pretty incredible what we're watching right now.
00:00:38.000There have been, across American history, a number of very large industrialists, bankers, innovators.
00:00:44.000Who have worked hand-in-glove with the American government when called upon to do so.
00:00:48.000In the early 20th century, there were bankers who worked with the federal government in order to essentially bail the United States government out of serious debt problems.
00:00:56.000During World War II, obviously, industrialists worked with the FDR administration in order to rev up the American war machine.
00:01:05.000Nothing about what Elon Musk is doing is particularly unprecedented.
00:01:11.000is the idea that it's good for the country if his company is taken down.
00:01:15.000The hatred of President Trump is so strong and President Trump has been so invulnerable to that hatred that pretty much all the hatred of the left has now turned to Musk.
00:01:31.000Elon Musk is the new hot thing to hate.
00:01:33.000And because Elon Musk has dedicated himself to Doge, to the Department of Governmental Efficiency, because he is going through department by department and looking for possible waste, fraud, and abuse, because he's so valuable on X, because he's so rich, specifically because of all that, he has become persona non grata, enemy number one.
00:01:51.000And that means that the left is now excusing actual acts of violence against, for example, Tesla dealerships.
00:01:57.000There are entire sites that have been set up to dox Tesla owners, according to the UK Independent.
00:02:02.000As protests against Doge head Elon Musk spread across the country, a website called DogeQuest has reportedly published the personal details of Tesla owners leading to concerns about privacy and safety.
00:02:11.000The site reveals the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor.
00:02:18.000The operators of the site have said that they will only remove the information of Tesla owners who prove they've sold their cars, according to 404 Media, which is full-scale insane.
00:02:26.000There are legitimately hundreds of thousands of people who own Teslas.
00:02:29.000The new site comes amid a number of attacks on Tesla properties, such as arsenic showrooms and service centers, seemingly in protest of Musk and his role in the administration of President Trump.
00:02:38.000That map also includes locations of Tesla dealerships and superchargers.
00:02:41.000So I'm old enough to remember when Sarah Palin was blamed for putting up a map of targeted districts that she was hoping Republicans could flip.
00:02:49.000And then a nutjob, who had nothing to do with that map, went and shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
00:03:09.000I mean, this is incitement to violence, certainly.
00:03:12.000The site says DogeQuest is the ultimate hub for enthusiasts of the Department of Government Efficiency.
00:03:16.000Our innovative platform allows users to explore an interactive map of Doge landmarks.
00:03:19.000Leveraging our cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms, DogeQuest goes a step further by connecting like-minded Tesla owners with one another, facilitating a vibrant community through shared contact information.
00:03:30.000So obviously it's cynical and ironical.
00:03:34.000All of this comes after a bunch of high-profile attacks on Tesla vehicles, including setting Tesla vehicles on fire at a Las Vegas dealership.
00:03:42.000The vandalism against Tesla has absolutely surged, not just in the United States, but apparently also in Canada.
00:03:49.000According to the New York Times, people in Canada have done real damage to vehicles at Tesla dealerships in Canada.
00:03:55.000More than 80 Teslas had their tires punctured and bodies scratched at a lot in Hamilton, Ontario.
00:04:00.000Police said on Thursday several acts of vandalism against Tesla property have also been committed in the United States.
00:04:05.000Apparently all in retaliation for President Trump being mean to the Canadians and Elon Musk being friendly with President Trump.
00:04:12.000I mean, it has not exactly been sort of top of mind for Musk what is going on with the Canadians and the tariff war.
00:05:11.000Now, I'd like you to imagine for just a second that there is a company associated with the Biden administration wherein right-wingers literally went to the factories where that company manufactured its products and started burning up the factories.
00:05:23.000And not the kind of stuff where you buy Bud Light and then you break a Bud Light to demonstrate you don't like Bud Light.
00:05:29.000What we are talking about, people vandalizing other people's property, burning cars.
00:05:36.000And of course, it shades over into violence because many of the same people cheering this are also cheering the murderer, Luigi, the alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione, who's the person who shot the head of UnitedHealthcare.
00:05:46.000The escalation of rage against the right into actual acts of violence is truly astonishing and also predictable.
00:05:54.000And it's being fomented by some of the most voluble people in American culture, including, of course, the schmuck Bill Burr.
00:06:02.000Who used to be interesting, used to be funny, and then decided that he was going to go full woke, and he's angry at me for saying that.
00:06:46.000All these tech nerds that want to build robots because they don't know how to talk to hot women.
00:06:50.000Yeah. They're going to take over the world.
00:06:55.000They are literally going to replace us.
00:06:57.000We're like beta right now, and they're coming out with the VCR.
00:07:01.000And I think Elon has got the rockets going because they realize there's other Earths out there, and they're going to trash this one because they don't have any concern for it, and they're going to move on to the next Earth.
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00:11:02.000Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett, who's attempting to drink Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's milkshake as the most viral left-wing congressional star.
00:11:11.000She was also on this Tesla takedown mask.
00:11:13.000Notice where they are directing their energies.
00:11:44.000But none of this has to do with government interventionism.
00:11:47.000Typically, in a republic, the way that you change policy is through your vote.
00:11:52.000Even when you're lobbying, the threat is to change votes.
00:11:55.000The threat is that you're going to do something that is going to change the nature of the electorate, which will then change the nature of the people who are governing you.
00:12:02.000But that's not what these people are doing.
00:12:03.000They're literally attempting to pressure a private company so as to pressure the owner of that private company into doing something they don't.
00:12:13.000Here's Jasmine Crockett, U.S. Representative.
00:12:15.000I mean, again, these are members of Congress who are actively attempting to foment some of the worst action against an electric vehicle company.
00:12:26.000I'm gonna keep screaming in the halls of Congress.
00:12:29.000I just need y'all to make sure that y'all keep screaming in the streets.
00:12:33.000I am truly here for very selfish reasons.
00:12:37.000Starting with, on March 29th, it's my birthday.
00:12:40.000And all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.
00:12:45.000Yes! That's all she wants on her birthday, to see Elon taken down.
00:12:50.000These people are, there's something sick about this.
00:12:54.000You know, Chuck Schumer is admitting that all these activists who you're seeing showing up at Republican town halls and screaming at Republican congresspeople, basically Democrats are astroturfing this.
00:13:04.000That when you're having Harriet Hageman, who is a congresswoman from Wyoming, Wyoming is like 110% Republican, being berated at a congressional town hall.
00:13:16.000That is not the natural state of things.
00:13:23.000We have people going to the Republican districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences.
00:13:38.000I mean, at least you know what they're doing and who's astrodurfing it.
00:13:41.000Meanwhile, again, this is spreading beyond its kind of normal boundaries into the realm of attacks by private citizens on other private citizens.
00:13:49.000According to Breitbart, a series of swatting incidents targeting conservative commentators and journalists have transpired nearly every evening since March 11th, according to ExPost, in which victims shared video surveillance footage and photos of the events, sparking questions as to who is engaging what Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee called domestic terrorism and attempted murder.
00:14:05.000FBI Director Cash Patel, Attorney General Pambani, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, have also reacted to the wave of dangerous crime.
00:14:11.000Swatting is where an anonymous person will call the cops and claim that there is a dangerous crime going on.
00:14:17.000At some conservative's house, the police arrive ready to engage in some sort of battle with the person inside.
00:14:23.000They'll say that a murder or a hostage event is taking place at the home.
00:14:27.000It's designed to prompt SWAT teams to arrive at the targeted home and then possibly do violence to the people inside.
00:14:33.000As Breitbart reports, at least 15 figures in conservative politics and media have reportedly been SWATed within the course of one week.
00:14:40.000The string of swatting incidents seemingly began on the evening of March 11th with Infowars reporters Chase Geiser revealing in an early morning March 12th ex-post that six to eight police officers used a PA system to call me by name and order me to walk out of my house.
00:14:52.000And he is not, of course, the only one.
00:14:56.000Nick Sorter announced that his family was swatted.
00:14:59.000We have also seen Gunther Eagleman, who has 1.3 million followers on X, who is swatted.
00:15:07.000This sort of stuff is really dangerous.
00:15:09.000And the fact that it is becoming more and more popular with the left to do this is a very bad sign for the country.
00:15:16.000Now, meanwhile, the media are trying to target Musk with anything they can.
00:15:20.000There's a story that the Trump administration is calling fake news about Elon Musk having a briefing at the Department of Defense today.
00:15:28.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times also reported this.
00:15:31.000Musk was scheduled to receive a briefing Friday on the U.S. military's top-secret war plans for China, according to two U.S. officials, giving the wealthy businessman and presidential advisor insight into one of the Pentagon's most closely guarded operational blueprints.
00:15:42.000Now, the reality is that Elon should not be in on that.
00:15:45.000He does not, in fact, have security clearance.
00:15:46.000Elon does enormous amounts of business with China.
00:15:49.000Tesla does enormous business in China.
00:15:51.000And so the idea that America's confidential war plan should be put in front of a civilian without proper security clearance, that is a bad idea.
00:15:59.000Well, fortunately, according to the Trump administration, that was never going to happen.
00:16:03.000Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Musk was going to visit the Pentagon, but he disputed that he would receive a sensitive China briefing saying, quote, it's an informal meeting about innovation, efficiencies, and smarter production.
00:16:13.000President Trump put up a post on Truth Social Thursday evening saying China will not even be mentioned or discussed.
00:16:20.000So, you now have a conflict between a media that has two confidential sources that they are not revealing and openly...
00:17:00.000There's been a lot of controversy surrounding, for example, the F-35, which is incredibly expensive to maintain.
00:17:05.000And there's great and open debate within the defense community about the efficacy of the F-35 for the future.
00:17:11.000Because as drone warfare becomes more and more plausible, should the United States be shifting its production into drones?
00:17:17.000This is something that Elon Musk has suggested.
00:17:20.000Musk recently made an unannounced visit to the NSA.
00:17:23.000Which, of course, focuses on communication intercepts to discuss operations and staff reductions.
00:17:27.000But I think the idea that they were going to bring him in and then show him the actual set of war plans, it seems like that is not true at all.
00:17:34.000But the media are jumping on anything involving Musk right now.
00:17:37.000Which does show that they are very deeply afraid of what Musk is doing.
00:17:42.000What Musk is doing is firing a lot of people.
00:17:44.000And he's not actually doing the firing.
00:17:45.000He's advising the Trump administration whom to fire.
00:17:48.000He's also acting as a sort of public relations shield for the Trump administration because everybody can hate on Musk, but he's an unelected official.
00:17:54.000So there's nothing for them to really do about it.
00:17:57.000In reality, if you're mad at Trump, you should be mad at Trump.
00:18:00.000If you don't like that Musk is doing what he's doing, you should be angry at Trump if you're on the left, not at Musk.
00:18:39.000I was a charter member of the Tea Party.
00:18:41.000You didn't actually have a membership card or anything, but basically the Tea Party was about reducing government spending.
00:18:45.000The idea was that the government's intervention in the economy had led to the real estate recession and general recession in the United States.
00:18:52.000And so the Tea Party focused its efforts on lobbying the government, on saying the government should cut.
00:18:57.000The government should restructure itself.
00:18:59.000The government should get less involved in the markets, which makes sense because if you're going to lobby somebody, lobby the government.
00:19:05.000As the name would suggest, did not occupy Washington, D.C. They occupied Wall Street, which was not answerable to them in any way.
00:19:11.000And it basically ended up being a bunch of anarchists and fellow travelers who pitched tents, not near houses of government, but near great centers of finance and industry.
00:19:22.000Because the private sector had to be to blame.
00:19:36.000Mary Margaret had the opportunity to ask questions again this week of Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, particularly with regard to Doge.
00:19:43.000Mary Margaret, let me ask you about that.
00:19:45.000You had a report earlier this week about a bizarre standoff at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
00:19:56.000This was an extraordinary story that we reported on.
00:19:58.000I'm not sure if I've seen something like this before.
00:20:01.000So, the United States Institute of Peace, it's down on the other side of Washington, D.C. It's a massive institution, which is congressionally funded.
00:20:09.000But unfortunately, when Doge went in and told them that they needed to allow the new president or the organization to take over, they would not, in fact, do this.
00:20:19.000And so what sources have told us and what we reported on and the White House has also further clarified on...
00:20:24.000Is that when the new president of USIP, the United States Institute of Peace, went to take over and to enter the building, the old president, George Moose, would not, in fact, let him in.
00:20:35.000And this turned into a kind of bizarre standoff, not something you see in D.C. every day, where security, the Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, were all involved in trying to let the new leader of this organization into the building.
00:20:49.000Well, the old leader had himself barricaded upstairs in his office.
00:20:52.000And it was more than that, Ben, actually.
00:20:54.000They were distributing pictures of the Doge employees, of the new leader of USIP, to show the people inside the building who not to allow into the building.
00:21:04.000They were also, when the new leadership was finally able to enter the building on Monday evening, they found that the elevators were not working, the internet was down, the telephones were not working, there was white noise on on the top floor where the executive suite was.
00:21:18.000And they found that all the shades were drawn.
00:21:20.000So just lots of confusingly suspicious behavior.
00:21:24.000And I'm told that there's investigations into what was going on there.
00:21:27.000But the old leadership of USIP filed a lawsuit trying to say that Doge should not have been able to enter, that Doge illegally entered.
00:21:35.000And a judge ruled earlier this week that no, Doge could enter because the old leadership had been removed and the new leadership should have been allowed into the building.
00:21:44.000However, that judge did say that he was...
00:21:46.000She was confused by why Doge had behaved in this manner and kind of rebuked Doge for going into the building in this way.
00:21:54.000Now, the White House is saying they should have been able to do this because the old president had been removed.
00:21:59.000And when I asked Caroline Levitt about this during the briefing, she...
00:22:03.000Suggested that this was just an example of how bureaucrats are resisting change to the Trump administration and why this is one of the reasons that the Trump administration is so excited about Doge coming in and effectively cleaning house, removing bureaucrats who don't want to serve the American people.
00:22:19.000Now, Mary Margaret, one of the things that's become quite apparent is that the hatred for The Trump administration is now being telescoped into hatred for Elon Musk personally.
00:22:27.000It's pretty clear it's a public relations ploy that's being done by the Democratic Party and members of the media.
00:22:31.000They can't actually challenge many of the things that Doge is doing on a sort of populist basis because most people actually want waste, fraud, and abuse cut.
00:22:37.000And so they've decided they're going to go after Elon personally.
00:22:40.000What's the feeling in sort of the White House about Elon at this moment?
00:22:45.000Well, what you're hearing from most sides is that the White House is really excited by what Doge has been doing, by what Elon Musk has been doing.
00:22:51.000They want to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:22:54.000And they're both horrified by the attacks on Tesla owners or by the attacks on Elon Musk, and I would say a little amused by the outrage that Elon is drawing.
00:23:04.000You know, for years, Trump and his campaign are used to the outrage that they're...
00:23:09.000Efforts to change the United States have caused, you know, Trump has really drawn a lot of outrage since he first came down that escalator many years ago.
00:23:17.000But now a lot of that ire is being directed at Elon.
00:23:20.000And that's very interesting because Trump's support from the American people is just only rising right now.
00:23:26.000You know, more and more we're finding that most Americans are supporting Trump's efforts.
00:23:30.000Most Americans do support Elon as well, but I think a lot of Democrats are really focusing their ire on Elon rather than Trump, understanding that the president is very popular right now.
00:23:57.000Tesla is a company that sells cars and develops AI technology.
00:24:01.000What does protesting Tesla have to do?
00:24:05.000With protesting what the federal government is doing in terms of cuts, even if you don't like Musk, shouldn't you be going after Musk in his pseudo-governmental capacity as opposed to in his private capacity as an owner of a business?
00:24:19.000And the answer is because for the left, the government is never to blame.
00:24:22.000You just switch to the people at the top of the government.
00:24:23.000The government must be maintained at all costs, even if that means you focus your ire on Tesla and not on the actual people in the government who are actively currently doing the kinds of firings that you're very angry about.
00:24:34.000Speaking of which, President Trump is moving forward to try and dismantle the Department of Education.
00:24:38.000This is a four-decade-long promise from Republicans that they are going to dismantle the Department of Education, which of course performs functions that should be performed not at the federal governmental level, but should be performed at the state level.
00:24:49.000Here is President Trump signing an executive order directed at abolishing the Department of Education yesterday.
00:25:51.000It is an established department by Congress.
00:25:53.000He's not going to dismantle the Department of Education outright.
00:25:57.000He's going to reduce the size and the scope of it, and then he's going to wait for Congress to do it.
00:26:00.000This was made clear by Caroline Levitt over at the White House yesterday.
00:26:03.000So the Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today.
00:26:07.000As you know, the president's executive order directed Linda McMahon to greatly minimize the agency.
00:26:13.000So when it comes to student loans and Pell Grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education.
00:26:17.000But we don't need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades on a department that's clearly failing in its initial intention to educate our students.
00:26:30.000Educational performance in the United States has sunk over the course of the existence of the Department of Education.
00:26:35.000And when it comes to American educational performance, sort of like America's performance in the war on poverty, the question isn't, did America get worse at education over the past few decades?
00:26:43.000The question is whether we got better after injecting trillions of dollars into the system.
00:26:47.000So if the war on poverty took $22 trillion to reach the same point that we had before, that would be a failure.
00:26:53.000And if you have a Department of Education that spends trillions of dollars and achieves basically nothing, that would also be a failure.
00:26:59.000Perplexity, one of our sponsors, quote, has American educational performance versus the rest of the world declined since the creation of the Department of Education?
00:27:06.000And Perplexity answered, American educational performance relative to other countries has not significantly declined since the creation of the Department of Education in 1979.
00:27:15.000While the U.S. does face challenges in some areas, particularly in mathematics, the overall trend shows mixed results rather than a clear decline.
00:27:22.000When it comes to the program for international student assessment, in 2022, U.S. students ranked 21st in math.
00:27:28.000Fifth in reading and tied for tenth in science among OECD countries.
00:27:31.000When it comes to the trends in international mathematics and science study, in 2019, the U.S. had higher average scores than most participating countries in both math and science at fourth and eighth grade levels, but higher than most.
00:27:41.000We also spend virtually more than anybody.
00:27:43.000The U.S. ranked eighth out of 41 countries in educational attainment, with 92% of adults aged 25 to 64 holding at least a high school diploma.
00:27:51.000But that particular measure is also not a great measure because...
00:27:54.000A lot of people in the United States are elevated through high school without ever learning anything, which is why you have to have remedial courses in college.
00:28:00.000One of the things that tends to happen when it comes to analyzing educational performance is people saying, look how many people have college degrees, rather than have the degrees been watered down such that a college degree is now worth what a high school degree used to be worth or a high school degree is now worth what a junior high degree used to be worth.
00:28:16.000The bottom line is we have expended trillions of dollars over time via the federal government and very little to show for it.
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00:30:26.000The actual executive order, by the way, does not actually close the Department of Education.
00:30:30.000It says that it should close, but it doesn't close it because Trump doesn't have the power to do that.
00:30:34.000The actual text of the executive order says, quote, closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them.
00:30:42.000Today, American reading and math scores are near historical lows.
00:30:45.000This year's national assessment of educational progress showed that 70 percent of eighth graders were below proficient in reading and 72 percent were below proficient in math.
00:30:52.000The federal education bureaucracy is not working.
00:30:54.000Closure of the Department of Education would drastically improve program implementation in higher education.
00:31:00.000The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than one point six trillion dollars.
00:31:05.000This means the federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the nation's largest banks, Wells Fargo.
00:31:09.000But although Wells Fargo has more than two hundred thousand.
00:31:11.000The Department of Education is not a bank.
00:31:17.000It must return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America's students.
00:31:21.000Ultimately, the Department of Education's main functions can and should be returned to the state.
00:31:26.000And then the actual executive order says, quote, the Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the states.
00:31:38.000Now, again, consistent with the provisions of law.
00:31:43.000So he's saying we should move toward that.
00:31:44.000We can't actually do it without some sort of congressional intervention, but we are going to move toward that.
00:31:49.000And this, by the way, is a broad spectrum popular conservative policy.
00:31:52.000Chris Sununu, who is the former governor of New Hampshire, And very popular in the state, and certainly not a radically conservative Republican, talked on CNN about why conservatives have been focused on closing the DOE.
00:32:06.000What value add does the Federal Department of Education bring when you return power to states?
00:32:11.000And as a governor, I can tell you that's very important.
00:32:15.000It's the control, how those dollars are spent.
00:32:18.000All the red tape that comes with the Federal Department of Education when it comes to special ed, school choice, homeschooling, charter schools, whatever it might be, let states have those options.
00:32:34.000California knows what their students need a heck of a lot better than a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington.
00:32:38.000And this isn't just a MAGA idea, guys.
00:32:41.000This is empowering parents, teachers, that better communication at the local level, driving curriculum at a localized level for the needs of that community.
00:33:08.000It's not about what he's trying to do.
00:33:09.000Which, of course, is doomed to failure.
00:33:11.000But the good news is that Democrats do have a bunch of federal judges on their side.
00:33:15.000According to Politico, yesterday, a federal judge barred Elon Musk's doge from accessing sensitive information at the Social Security Administration, saying the group appears to be on a fishing expedition that could jeopardize the data of millions of people.
00:33:26.000The doge team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA in search of a fraud epidemic based on little more than suspicion.
00:33:32.000Said U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in a 137-page ruling and has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack.
00:33:51.000Illegal immigrants in particular have spent decades obtaining false social security numbers and then receiving aid or employment based on those false social security numbers.
00:33:59.000But beyond that, That is really stupid.
00:34:02.000If you're auditing a government department and the argument is you can't audit the government department because you don't know if there's anything wrong, that's literally the purpose of an audit.
00:34:11.000That's why an audit exists, is to determine if there is something wrong.
00:34:15.000Honest to God, that's like suggesting that police should never ever be able to serve a search warrant because they don't know for sure what's inside the house before they actually search the house.
00:34:22.000Yeah, that's the point of the search warrant.
00:34:26.000Hollander, of course, a Barack Obama appointee, said the group's broad access likely violated privacy laws and then ordered an immediate halt to the Doge social security team's access to any systems that contain sensitive data of social security recipients.
00:34:39.000The judge wrote, Ironically, the identity of these Doge affiliates has been concealed because defendants are concerned the disclosure of viewing their names would expose them to harassment and thus invade their privacy.
00:34:47.000The defense does not appear to share a privacy concern for the millions of Americans whose SSA records were made available to Doge affiliates without their consent.
00:34:56.000The people who are working for Doge are properly concerned based on the fact that, you know, the left is burning cars and doxing people and swatting their homes.
00:35:05.000That may be the revelation of their names would be a problem for their safety.
00:35:08.000Who thinks it's a problem for their safety if the Doge team looks at a list of social security numbers and tries to match it up with, say, birth records?
00:35:22.000Part and parcel of a broader judicial attempt by Barack Obama appointees, in large part Clinton appointees too, Biden appointees, to undercut the functioning of the executive branch, the judiciary, saying that basically Trump can't do what he needs to do because the judiciary says no.
00:35:40.000And it's all exaggerated and ridiculous.
00:35:42.000Vice President Vance is correct on this.
00:35:44.000He was talking about judicial overage yesterday.
00:35:51.000You can't have a judge who's controlling how we enforce our immigration laws.
00:35:56.000You know, the American people actually invested the president of the United States with some of these core law enforcement authorities, and the president has to be able to do the job the American people elected him to do.
00:36:08.000I think what you're seeing really is judicial overreach on a scale we've never seen in the history of this country, and I think the Supreme Court has got to put a stop to it.
00:36:20.000By the way, J.D. went to Yale Law School, so it's not like J.D. has no background in any of this sort of stuff.
00:36:25.000Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer, who was perfectly willing to buck the Constitution on behalf of both Barack Obama and Joe Biden routinely, he says that the United States is now in a constitutional crisis.
00:36:47.000What they are saying is, A district court judge should not have the ability to issue nationwide injunctions on national policy before the Supreme Court is weighed in.
00:36:56.000And again, the Supreme Court needs to take this up.
00:37:20.000The overreach by a judiciary into the realm of what the legislature or what the executive does is just as much of a damage as the executive branch reaching into the functions of the judiciary or the legislature or a legislative branch reaching into the functions of the executive or the judiciary.
00:37:35.000This kind of notion of a completely unfettered judiciary that can simply encroach upon the prerogatives of the other branch.
00:37:41.000is a complete violation of what the founders meant to do.
00:37:46.000And here's Chuck Schumer making the case that the Trump administration, not waiting around on every district court judge in America to sign off on their action, but instead wanting the Supreme Court to sign off on it, is somehow a violation of the Constitution.
00:38:21.000Barack Obama so much thought that judges should listen to him that he literally ripped the Supreme Court in front of the Supreme Court, leading Justice Samuel Alito to shake his head mildly and create an entire news cycle about how the Supreme Court justice had been disrespectful to Barack Obama.
00:39:32.000To cross that Rubicon is a big no-no in the eyes of the American public.
00:39:38.000Okay, but the American public is not really talking there about, like, a lower district court judge who puts a temporary restraining order and then that temporary restraining order doesn't hold.
00:39:48.000They're talking about, the Supreme Court says, for example, that student loans cannot simply be relieved by dint of executive action.
00:39:59.000Meanwhile... The leftist agenda here suggests, of course, that everything is a danger to the republic, including, by the way, the idea that if you deport Hamas supporters, somehow this is a danger to American citizens.
00:40:09.000So Mehdi Hassan, who is an American—I mean, I understand why he's upset.
00:40:12.000Mehdi Hassan is pretty warm toward terrorism and also became an American citizen in 2020.
00:40:17.000But no one can deport Mehdi Hassan, and no one's calling for the deportation of Mehdi Hassan.
00:40:22.000But here he was claiming that the threat is to American citizens if— You know, a person on a student visa or a work visa goes to a Hezbollah funeral.
00:40:31.000Here's Mehdi Hassan being Mehdi Hassan.
00:40:32.000Again, the horseshoe theory here is so strong.
00:40:34.000Here he is with Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project.
00:40:37.000Mehdi Hassan crossing streams of Tucker Carlson these days.
00:40:40.000The horseshoe theory of politics is quite a real thing.
00:40:43.000We are in a very dark place because if you accept the argument from the Trump administration that there's no due process for people, then what is to stop them from going after citizens and green card holders and political enemies?
00:40:54.000Because by definition, all we have is their say-so.
00:40:57.000And the United States of America's entire constitutional system was built on the basis that you don't just take the president's say-so for something.
00:41:03.000Correct. So I'm just wondering, what is the due process that has been denied to citizens and political enemies?
00:41:17.000That is a very, very large-scale jump.
00:41:19.000Even the people that he's talking about, for example, this green card holder who is going to be deported for being a Hamasnik, that guy's getting due process.
00:41:28.000Literally, his case is in the process of appeal right now in front of the judiciary.
00:41:32.000And meanwhile, the battle on the left continues between the kind of insane and the people who are more moderate.
00:41:37.000The insane are likely to win that battle.
00:41:40.000On the side of the more moderate are people like James Carville, who keeps pointing out, why is it that the Democratic Party has abandoned the traditional sort of Clintonian blue dog Democrat audience?
00:41:51.000You know, the stupidity of we ought to be the most progressive, self-righteous, moralistic people in the world.
00:42:00.000You know, people who live in rural America just, you know, fat, lazy, and stupid, which is decidedly not true.
00:42:08.000But that's the way that some of the urbanist elements of our party have tried to come across.
00:42:18.000And again, Carville is not wrong about this sort of stuff.
00:42:26.000But Democrats are not going to listen to him.
00:42:28.000And the reason they're not going to listen to him is because they actually do not like non-college educated white men.
00:42:32.000This is a very big problem for the Democrats.
00:42:33.000They do not like a constituency that they actually need to win a larger share of.
00:44:41.000Those are the people who want these sort of resistance nonsense.
00:44:45.000Here she was, just a couple of days ago, saying that Americans, the Republicans, have disdain for working people because they make fun of her being a bartender.
00:44:53.000Well, yeah, we make fun of you being a bartender because you have not shown that you are qualified to be a useful person in the halls of Congress.
00:44:59.000And by the way, cosplaying as a blue collar working woman while earning a pretty good salary to live in a really nice Georgetown apartment, it doesn't play anymore.
00:45:08.000But I want you to understand that she isn't just talking about me here.
00:45:31.000So imagine what it means for our country that the president's own lawyer cannot even conceive of a working class person being intelligent simply because of the job that they have.
00:46:00.000Democrats? Are exactly the sort of people who believe that a degree in gender studies from Wellesley qualifies you for higher office.
00:46:08.000Alyssa Slotkin, who is the senator from Michigan, who's attempting to do the James Carville routine, she actually spent yesterday slamming AOC and Bernie Sanders and said, what the hell do you guys do for a living?
00:46:59.000Bad economic policy is the greatest threat to the Trump administration.
00:47:02.000There's a bunch of good economic policy that they are currently doing, ranging from deregulation to presumably enshrining tax cuts permanently.
00:47:09.000The current tax rates should be maintained.
00:47:12.000All of that would be really, really good.
00:47:13.000But the markets are still quite nervous about the possibility of a major hike in tariffs come April 2nd.
00:47:20.000The Dow Jones is bouncing around a lot.
00:47:29.000The Federal Reserve set out its projection yesterday.
00:47:33.000And what they suggested is that the president's tariff plans are likely to subdue the strength of the economy.
00:47:40.000Policymakers had presumed that they would spend 2025 gradually cutting rates to keep inflation heading down without a big rise in joblessness, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:47:47.000The latest projections point to the prospect that tariffs covering a swath of goods and materials will actually send prices up, while sapping investment, sentiment, and growth in the short term.
00:47:56.000Fed Chair Jerome Powell said, we now have inflation coming in from an exogenous source.
00:48:00.000The underlying inflationary picture before that was basically 2.5% inflation, 2% growth, and 4% unemployment.
00:48:06.000Now, officials are projecting weaker growth, higher unemployment, and higher inflation.
00:48:11.000President Trump continues to push forward with the idea that there should be both tariffs and rate cuts, which is not a thing that's going to happen.
00:48:17.000He put out a statement on Wednesday saying, quote, the Fed would be much better off cutting rates as U.S. tariffs start to transition and ease their ways into the economy, do the right thing.
00:48:26.000But cutting rates in the middle of inflation that is still 50% too high, while tariffs are increasing prices, would actually not be the world's best move.
00:48:36.000The truth is that if you want to wipe inflation completely out, the Fed made a mistake last year by artificially lowering those interest rates.
00:48:42.000They should have actually kept the interest rates where they were and let the inflation peter out in the economy.
00:48:47.000Again, the economy is ready to go in a lot of ways.
00:48:50.000For example, existing home sales rose 4.2% in February from the month prior to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.26 million, according to the National Association of Realtors, which was far better than expectations.
00:49:02.000I think one of the reasons for that, probably, is that There are a lot of people who are now running out of cash, and now they are going to have to try and sell their houses, and they figure that the interest rates on mortgages are not going to drop dramatically any time in the near future.
00:49:16.000And so they're basically giving up, and now they're selling their houses.
00:49:18.000There's more inventory, so people are buying those houses.
00:49:20.000However, there are people who are, in fact, capable of buying those houses, so you are seeing some action in the real estate markets.
00:49:25.000Weirdly enough, that action in the real estate markets might actually lead to prices going down as supply increases to meet demand.
00:49:32.000The Trump administration's number one goal at this point has to be a booming economy.
00:50:11.000For people who remember back to 2007, 2008, Lost was a huge show on ABC, a fascinating show that posited a bunch of mysteries and then refused to answer any of them and suggested you were an idiot if you wanted to know the answers, which is why Damon Lindelof, who wrote the show, is a schmuck.
00:50:25.000Here's an entire show filled with interesting mysteries, and you have faith in the writers that are going to solve them, and then he says at the end of the show, That if you want those mysteries answered, well, you're just not mature.
00:51:29.000Some interesting sort of spiritual and identity-based conundrums.
00:51:32.000Like, for example, if you have a completely separate identity when you go to your work life, a completely separate love life, because you might fall in love with a co-worker because you don't even remember that you have a wife upstairs, for example.
00:51:42.000If you do that, is that a separate human?
00:51:44.000And if that person goes away, did you just kill a person?
00:51:47.000It's these sorts of questions that Severance is asking.
00:51:52.000Is there a common thread between the different parts of your identity that holds them together?
00:51:56.000And it's wrapped into a really compelling plot with really likable and interesting characters and terrific writing.
00:52:01.000It's super weird and super interesting.
00:52:03.000So in the season 2 finale, the setup is that the main character, played by Adam Scott, is Mark Scout.
00:52:11.000When he goes into his Innie world, which is sort of the employment world, then he's known as Mark S. And he falls in love in the Innie world with a woman who is not his wife.
00:52:20.000His wife supposedly died, but actually has been taken prisoner by Lumen and is being used in experiments, as it turns out.
00:52:26.000And he doesn't realize when he's in the Indy world that he actually has a wife.
00:52:30.000So he falls in love with a co-worker who, it turns out, is working for the company in her Audi life.
00:52:35.000The Audi life is what's happening outside the workplace.
00:52:37.000The Indy life is what's happening inside the workplace.
00:52:39.000And so Mark S. finally breaks the barrier.
00:52:43.000The course of season two is about him sort of introducing his Indy to his Audi and trying to find what is the connection between them and what their various interests are.
00:53:23.000The characters are really fascinating, all the way down to certain characters who are sort of the indoctrinated parts of the Egan Empire, which is Lumen Industries.
00:53:34.000Particularly the guy who plays Mr. Milchick is really a terrific actor.
00:53:58.000There's so many paint-by-numbers pieces of content right now.
00:54:02.000And good for Ben Stiller and for his team for putting together a piece of content that truly is interesting, asks cool questions, is well-plotted, is well-written, truly well-acted.
00:54:12.000I think it's the best TV show of the last several years.
00:54:43.000Alrighty, coming up, we'll get into some more cultural questions, including...
00:54:47.000Apparently, LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign narratives on Assassin's Creed Shadows, a video game, and also images of the new Mattel doll have broken.