The New York Times was slapped by karma yesterday when a group of LGBTQ + + + divided by + sign + activists launched an assault on the NY Times for its shockingly objective coverage of the trans agenda. You'll recall this is the same NY Times that went after one of its top science writers for the great sin of suggesting that there might be contexts in which using the N-word to elucidate a point might be necessary. And you'll recall that they fired the guy over this. And they allowed the Slack channel to be filled with people at the NY TIMES abusing Barry Weiss day in and day out. This is the exact same exact Times that spent years defending the falsehoods of Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is still given a prominent role at The NY Times despite the fact that I'm not sure she's written anything for the paper in the past several years. And now the karma is coming for the Times, because the Times has finally decided to finally cover the controversial issue that has been on their mind for years: that of gender reassignment surgery for minors who want to transition from male to female. And they're not going to do it the old fashioned way, they're going to cover it the hard way, the way the Times does it the way it used to do things the old-fashioned way, in glowing fashion, with factually correct reporting and factually incorrect reporting on the facts. And that cuts against the left-wing agenda that the Times have been doing for decades. And that's not even remotely close to the left wing agenda they ve been covering for decades it's long enough to be considered mainstream. . Ben Shapiro: Karma comes for all of us, karma comes for ALL of us! The Weekly Standard - Ben Shapiro - The Daily Beast - Subscribe to the Weekly Standard - Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on Podchaser Learn more about your ad choices. Learn about our sponsorships and become a supporter of our new sponsor, The Ringer - Rate, review, review and subscribe to our new podcast The RATE our work! - Rate and review our new episodes on iTunes! and leave us a review on review by becoming a fellow convert! Thank you for listening to The RING and rating us your thoughts and rating! Subscribe to our newest episode of RHONJAY WEEKLY! in iTunes! Subscribe & review our podcast!
00:00:00.000LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign half you face emoji cat emoji activists launch an assault on the New York Times for its shockingly objective coverage of the trans agenda.
00:00:09.000Nikki Haley officially launches her 2024 campaign with a speech that slaps both Joe Biden and Donald Trump and the Congressional Budget Office reports that America's national debt is headed for disaster.
00:00:20.000Well, folks, karma comes for everyone.
00:00:28.000And the New York Times was slapped by karma yesterday when a bunch of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign happy face emoji till that little squiggly thing that goes over the Spanish letters.
00:00:38.000Hashtag dollar sign, pound sign, cat emoji.
00:00:43.000When that group of people decided, along with some of their allies, that they were going to write a letter to the New York Times decrying their coverage of the trans agenda.
00:00:52.000Now, the New York Times in the last six months has decided to finally cover the fact that there is something controversial about generally mutilating minors.
00:01:00.000That there might be something controversial about giving kids untested, sterilizing drugs because they have a mental disorder that suggests that they are a member of a sex to which they are not in fact a member.
00:01:10.000The New York Times has been covering things like the fact that there are a bunch of people who get these quote-unquote treatments and then want to detransition because it turns out that this was a giant mistake.
00:01:18.000They've been covering the fact that there's been a huge scandal at the Tavistock Gender Clinic over in the UK where it turns out that quote-unquote experts in this field were essentially recommending hormone treatments to small children who had autism, for example.
00:01:33.000They've been covering the fact that in Europe, places like Sweden and Finland, they've actually been banning a lot of this sort of, quote unquote, gender affirming health care for minors, specifically because it is highly damaging.
00:01:44.000So the New York Times has actually been doing the unsayable.
00:01:47.000They have actually been covering the news.
00:01:49.000Now, this is something the left is not used to.
00:01:51.000And you got to sympathize with the left, because for literally decades, all the New York Times did was basically cover the left wing agenda and do so in glowing fashion.
00:02:00.000If there was any news that cut against the left-wing agenda, the New York Times would just not cover it.
00:02:04.000It just would not be covered by the New York Times.
00:02:06.000Journalism was foreign to the New York Times.
00:02:08.000And so when they did an occasional act of journalism, you know, a couple of years too late.
00:02:12.000And by a couple, I mean like a decade too late.
00:02:15.000Then, of course, the LGBTQ plus divided by sign activists, they got very, very upset.
00:02:21.000And you can understand why, because, again, they had it set in their brains that the New York Times was one of us.
00:02:27.000After all, the New York Times And this was the same exact group of people who decided that it was necessary to oust an op-ed editor for having greenlit an op-ed from Tom Cotton in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots, pointing out that riots might need to be quelled using the National Guard.
00:02:43.000And you recall that this op editor literally lost his job over this.
00:02:46.000You'll recall this is the same New York Times that went after one of its top science writers for the great sin of suggesting that there might be contexts in which using the n-word to elucidate a point might be necessary.
00:02:58.000And they literally fired the guy over this.
00:03:00.000You'll recall this is the exact same New York Times that canceled Barry Weiss because Barry Weiss had the temerity to not agree with generalized agenda items of the New York Times despite the fact that Barry is a center-left person.
00:03:12.000And Barry is not a conservative on the vast majority of issues.
00:03:27.000And they allowed the Slack channel to be filled with people at the New York Times abusing Barry Weiss day in and day out.
00:03:30.000This is the same exact New York Times.
00:03:32.000That spent years defending the falsehoods, the outright falsehoods of Nikole Hannah-Jones.
00:03:36.000Not just defending, promoting with millions of dollars in press.
00:03:39.000Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is still given a role at the New York Times despite the fact that I'm not sure she's written anything for the New York Times in the past several years.
00:03:47.000All she does is make crappy Hulu documentaries that continue to lie about American history.
00:03:51.000So again, the left felt that the New York Times was its preserve.
00:03:56.000And now the karma is coming for the New York Times.
00:03:58.000The New York Times, which has spent years trying to cancel everybody on the right.
00:04:02.000New York Times had a front page article just a few years ago and it featured pictures of people like me and Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin and it suggested that we were mainstreaming hate on the internet because what we were doing is we were acting as a sort of conduit to the alt-right.
00:04:16.000The same New York Times that has spent reams of paper and barrels of ink going after people or even remotely on the right in order to get their advertisers to cancel them and in order to destroy their livelihoods, now the New York Times is being hit by the same people that it thought were fellow travelers.
00:04:35.000So again, here's how it went down yesterday.
00:04:37.000So there was an open letter that was released by 200 plus New York Times contributors.
00:04:42.000So what makes you a New York Times contributor?
00:04:44.000You once wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, which means by that definition, I am technically a New York Times contributor because I did write an obit for Rush Limbaugh in the pages of the New York Times.
00:04:55.000And then there was a whole list of people who supported it.
00:04:58.000And the list of supporters is almost endless because it's basically just a bunch of randos online who signed their petition.
00:05:04.000So what exactly did the open letter say?
00:05:06.000It says, Dear Philip, they are writing to Philip Corbett, the Associate Managing Editor for Standards at the New York Times.
00:05:10.000Dear Philip, we write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspapers reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.
00:05:20.000Wait, wait, you're suggesting the New York Times has editorial bias, guys?
00:05:30.000Plenty of reporters at the Times cover trans issues fairly, write these contributors.
00:05:34.000Their work is eclipsed, however, by what one journalist has calculated as over 15,000 words of front page Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for trans children published in the last eight months alone.
00:05:44.000Wow, 15,000 words of front page Times coverage over the course of eight months?
00:05:50.000I mean, just to get this absolutely clear, by the way, 15,000 words over eight months is not that many words.
00:05:57.000Because an average lengthy article in the New York Times might be 3,000 words.
00:06:02.000You're talking about maybe five articles, four or five articles over the course of eight months.
00:06:05.000The newspaper's editorial guidelines demand that reporters, quote, preserve a professional detachment free of any whiff of bias when cultivating their sources, remaining, quote, sensitive that personal relationships with news sources can erode into favoritism in fact or appearance.
00:06:17.000Yet, the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic charged language while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.
00:06:29.000So what exactly did the New York Times do wrong?
00:06:33.000They're angry, all these contributors, who are in fact friendly with the people at the New York Times.
00:06:37.000They are contributors and many of them are personal friends with the people who work at the New York Times.
00:06:41.000They're like, God, you guys are supposed to be absolutely objective and bias-free without a whiff of favoritism.
00:06:47.000That's why we as your friends are writing you and telling you exactly what you should and should not print.
00:06:51.000All the censors coming from the New York Times is so delicious.
00:06:53.000For example, say these open letter writers, Emily Bazelon's article, The Battle Over Gender Therapy, uncritically used the term patient zero to refer to a trans child seeking gender affirming care, a phrase that vilifies transness as a disease to be feared.
00:07:08.000Patient zero just means the first patient.
00:07:11.000Bazelon quoted multiple expert sources who have since expressed regret over the work's misrepresentation.
00:07:17.000Um, well, then they shouldn't have represented their work that way to the New York Times.
00:07:21.000Another source, Grace Ladinsky-Smith, was identified as an individual person speaking about a personal choice to detransition, rather than president of GCCAN, an activist organization that pushes junk science and partners with explicitly anti-trans hate groups.
00:07:33.000Well, but was Grace Ladinsky-Smith a person who detransitioned?
00:07:38.000Because that would be the relevant category in which to place them.
00:07:41.000They're talking about their personal experience in that particular case.
00:08:09.000Again, you can't trust so many people out there who have your interests not at heart, who actually kind of despise you.
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00:08:39.000They're so sure you're going to love their service.
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00:08:42.000Stop paying a fortune to Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile.
00:09:16.000Okay, so this open letter to the New York Times from its contributors continues.
00:09:19.000In a similar case, Katie Baker's recent feature, when students change gender identity and parents don't know, So in other words, you don't quote the people we want you to quote, so that's bad journalism.
00:09:27.000The piece fails to make clear that court cases brought by parents who want schools to out their trans children are part of a legal strategy pursued by anti-trans hate groups.
00:09:35.000So in other words, you don't quote the people we want you to quote, so that's bad journalism.
00:09:40.000No, there's nothing wrong with quoting parents who would have a right to know if the school is trying to tell their child they are a member of the opposite sex.
00:09:49.000These groups, say these open letter writers, have identified trans people as an existential threat to society and seek to replace the American public education system with Christian homeschooling, key context Baker did not provide to Times readers.
00:10:01.000Well, is that every parent who's upset?
00:10:06.000Or are you just making this crap up because that's what you do?
00:10:10.000The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law.
00:10:13.000Last year, Arkansas's Attorney General filed an amicus brief in defense of Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which would make it a felony punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment for any medical provider to administer a certain gender-affirming medical care to a minor, including puberty blockers that diverges from sex assigned at birth.
00:10:28.000The brief cited three different New York Times articles to justify its support of the law.
00:10:32.000Then it cites Bazalon's piece, a piece by Azeen Gouraishi, titled Doctors Debate Whether Trans Teen Need Therapy Before Hormones, and Ross Douthat's How to Make Sense of the New LGBTQ Culture War. As recently as February 8th, 2023, attorney David Begley invited testimony to the Nebraska state legislature in support of a similar bill, approvingly cited the Times reporting, and relied on its reputation as the quote-unquote paper of record to justify criminalizing gender-affirming care. So, um, wait. So now your suggestion is that the New York
00:11:01.000Times shouldn't have printed these pieces because people might use it in evidence in court?
00:11:06.000That's not a case against printing the pieces.
00:11:09.000That's a case against you guys actually having anything relevant to say.
00:11:13.000If you can't defend the point on the merits, why are you blaming the New York Times for people actually using the New York Times in court cases?
00:11:20.000And then, of course, they point out, quote, Douthat's piece was published in the opinion section, which lost one of the paper's most consistently published trans writers, Jennifer Finney Boylan, following the Times' recent decision not to renew her contract.
00:11:32.000So how dare they print a piece from Ross Douthat about this issue if you are not going to pay this trans woman?
00:11:39.000I'm sorry, I didn't realize this is how newspapers are supposed to be run, is that if I don't hire this affirmative action hire that you want me to hire, then I'm not allowed to print an opinion that you disagree with.
00:11:52.000This letter continues along these lines.
00:11:54.000As thinkers, we are disappointed to see the New York Times follow the lead of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy warranting new punitive legislation.
00:12:02.000Puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries have been standard forms of care for cis and trans people alike for decades.
00:12:10.000Because they've been banned in a wide variety of European countries.
00:12:13.000And also, there is no actual lengthy history suggesting what happens when you give hormone blockers to pre-pubertal non-teenagers.
00:12:22.000Legal challenges to gender nonconformity date back even further, with 34 cities and 21 states passing laws against cross-dressing between 1848 and 1900, usually enforced alongside so-called prohibitions against public indecency, that disproportionately targeted immigrants, people of color, sex workers, and other marginalized groups.
00:12:37.000Such punishments are documented as far back as 1394, when police in England detained Eleanor Reichener on suspicion of the crime of sodomy, exposing her after an interrogation as John.
00:12:53.000So your suggestion is that the New York Times publishing well-researched pieces about the cost of dosing small children or minors with cross-sex hormones and then chopping off their breasts or their penises, that that coverage is somehow equivalent to laws from 1394?
00:13:09.000And therefore, this is not a public controversy?
00:13:15.000And then, of course, they compared this to homosexuality.
00:13:18.000You no doubt recall a time in more recent history when it was ordinary to speak of homosexuality as a disease at the family dinner table, a norm fostered in part by the New York Times' track record of demonizing queers through the ostensible reporting of science.
00:13:29.000In 1963, the New York Times published a front page story with the title, Growth of Overt Homosexuality in City Provokes Wide Concern, which stated that homosexuals saw their own sexuality as an inborn incurable disease, one that scientists at the time announced now thought could be cured.
00:13:41.000The word gay started making its way into the paper.
00:13:44.000Then in 1970, and it goes on and on, citing a bunch of pieces about the newspapers' coverage of homosexuality, which has literally nothing to do with their coverage of trans issues involving, again, the hormonal perversion and sterilization of minors, followed by surgical removal of healthy body parts.
00:14:08.000The letter concludes, some of us are trans non-binary or gender non-conforming.
00:14:11.000We resent the fact that our work, but not our person, is good enough for this paper of record.
00:14:15.000Some of us are cis, and we have seen those we love discover and fight for their true selves, often swimming upstream against currents of bigotry and pseudoscience fomented by the kind of coverage we hear protest.
00:14:24.000By the way, Not one scientific fact appears in this open letter.
00:14:33.000It's just a foregone conclusion that their perspective is fact, and what the New York Times is promoting, which, by the way, is steeped in science, is actually not even worthy of the debate.
00:14:42.000All of us dare say our stance is unremarkable, even common, and certainly not deserving of The Times' intense scrutiny.
00:14:47.000A tiny percentage of the population is trans, an even smaller percentage of those people face the type of conflict The Times is so intense on magnifying.
00:14:52.000There is no rapt reporting on the thousands of parents who simply love and support their children, or on the hardworking professionals at The New York Times enduring a workplace made hostile by bias, a period of forbearance that ends today.
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00:16:38.000Okay, so just a reminder, this letter from the New York Times, it was accompanied by a long thread from the President and CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
00:16:52.000I'm glad is, of course, a radical interest group.
00:16:54.000So radical that they actually put a billboard outside, it's like a mobile billboard on a truck, outside the New York Times.
00:17:00.000It said, every major medical association supports gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.
00:17:53.000People need to not know that there's controversy surrounding this issue, so we can continue to pretend that action to protect minors, particularly, or action to protect science itself from this pseudoscientific garbage, that that action is out of bounds.
00:18:07.000So here's what Sarah Kate Ellis writes.
00:18:09.000The New York Times has had a long reputation as a leader in the world of media.
00:18:12.000The example they are setting for coverage of trans people is downright shameful.
00:18:16.000From the front page to the opinion page, readers are too often getting an inaccurate view of trans people and issues important to them, with poor reporting that elevates and equates LGBTQ opponents' harmful opinions and concerns to actual facts that have widespread scientific and medical consensus.
00:18:30.000The Times' inaccurate coverage has been cited in legal documents used to justify discrimination and targeting of trans people.
00:18:37.000It should give every reader and every leader of the New York Times pause.
00:18:39.000The LGBTQ community, especially the trans community, is under attack.
00:18:45.000It's time for the Times to stop this relentless misinformation disguised as disingenuous, just asking questions reporting and ridiculous and harmful opinion pieces that do not represent the reality of trans people's experience.
00:18:56.000The Times must earn back the LGBTQ community's trust.
00:19:02.000Start, and this is the demand, start by listening, hiring, and reporting accurately and inclusively on trans people.
00:19:08.000By accurately and inclusively, they mean only the stuff we want you to report.
00:19:13.000Which, by the way, is the way that GLAAD operates.
00:19:15.000You do realize that in Hollywood, it is common practice for every major show to be pre-screened for GLAAD so GLAAD can determine whether it fosters anti-gay stereotypes.
00:19:24.000This is why GLAAD put out a report after the Super Bowl saying there weren't enough gay characters in the commercials for the Super Bowl.
00:19:31.000This is the kind of stuff GLAAD does on a daily basis.
00:19:33.000Anything less than an intentional and meaningful effort to reach out to and listen to transgender experts is unconscionable, unacceptable, a violation of the public trust.
00:19:42.000So, as I say, I am perfectly happy to see the New York Times take it on the chin.
00:19:47.000I am pleased, however, that the New York Times is actually fighting back.
00:19:50.000Charlie Statlander, the director of external communications, put out a statement, quote, we received the open letter delivered by GLAAD and welcome their feedback. We understand how GLAAD and the co-signers of the letter see our coverage. At the same time, we recognize GLAAD's advocacy mission and the Times' journalistic mission are different.
00:20:03.000As a news organization, we pursue independent reporting on trans issues that include profiling groundbreakers in the movement, challenges and prejudice faced by the community, and how society is grappling with debates about The very news stories criticized in their letter reported deeply and empathetically on issues of care and well-being for trans teens and adults.
00:20:19.000Our journalism strives to explore, interrogate, and reflect the experiences, ideas, and debates in society to help readers understand them.
00:20:25.000Our reporting did exactly that and we're proud of it.
00:20:29.000Good for the New York Times for defending itself.
00:20:32.000And also, you guys, you had it coming, you had it coming.
00:20:35.000You guys decided to feed the Slack idiots, all the people in your Slack channels, all the Nikole Hannah-Joneses in your channels, who thought they were gonna control editorial coverage from the inside.
00:20:43.000And now you have a bunch of liberals who are very upset with you for not being left-wing enough, and they are trying to control you from the outside.
00:20:50.000By the way, there is irony in some of the people who are signatories to this letter.
00:20:53.000You have Lena Dunham, who is criticizing The New York Times for being soft on LGBTQ plus minus divided by time issues.
00:21:02.000This is the same Lena Dunham who bragged in her memoir about essentially sexually harassing her sister.
00:21:09.000You have Chelsea Manning as in the trans trader who took government secrets and then blew them out at WikiLeaks, who's a signatory to this letter.
00:21:19.000And also you have Allison Roman, who criticized Marie Kondo and Chrissy Teigen and talks about her own cancellation and now she's interested in canceling the writers at the New York Times.
00:21:33.000Democracy dies in darkness, and journalism dies in censorship, and the New York Times is now coming under the gun for a movement that it has helped to create in the first place.
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00:22:45.000So again, so much of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji, sad face emoji, cat emoji agenda relies on a conspiracy of silence.
00:22:55.000It relies on there not being actual journalism on these issues.
00:22:59.000It is desperate to promote a censorship campaign.
00:23:02.000Because the thing is that when you actually look the science directly in the eye, it cuts directly against what they are saying.
00:23:11.000It's only by ignoring reality that you can come up with the absurd idea that the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, who is in fact a man, has some sort of scientific monopoly talking about whether parents should be able to know whether their child is being quote-unquote socially transitioned at school.
00:23:28.000For those who don't speak the idiotic lingo, socially transition means your kid goes to school, expresses gender confusion at the age of seven, and the school immediately starts treating Billy as Jane.
00:23:39.000Keeping dresses in the closet so Billy can change into cross-dressing material and then never telling you as a parent.
00:23:45.000Rachel Levine, who, again, is a biological dude, is telling you that it is important that you as a parent not know.
00:23:53.000One example would be the quote-unquote don't-say-gay law in Florida.
00:23:57.000Studies show that one supportive adult, one supportive adult for an LGBTQI plus kid can make all the difference in terms of preventing suicide, in terms of them being able to navigate the world and to adulthood and leading a happy, successful, productive life.
00:24:49.000But this is what a science-is-settled crowd is telling you.
00:24:52.000That your choice is between a dead kid, a kid who's going to commit suicide, and basically the school taking your kid away from you and separating them off from reality and having people like Rachel Levine explain the facts of life to them.
00:25:05.000I don't trust a system that promotes this sort of stuff.
00:25:09.000This is why actual journalism on that would be good.
00:25:11.000But this is also why the activist class opposes actual journalism on this matter.
00:25:16.000And this is how you ended up with a widespread public perception, for example, that Leah Thomas in the media, in the sports media, is a woman.
00:25:45.000You're saying Leah Thomas, a male who apparently exposes his genitals to the women in the locker room, that that person should not be in the locker room with women.
00:25:56.000Well, the fact is that if the media had done half a second of digging, they might have realized that Leah Thomas has some real problems as a human.
00:26:02.000And those problems mean that I would not want Leah Thomas anywhere near a locker room with my daughters, with my wife, with women of any sort.
00:26:10.000Jake Crane of our show here at Crane & Company, he put out a thread yesterday going through some of the facts about Leah Thomas.
00:26:15.000So Leah Thomas apparently has a couple of Instagram accounts.
00:26:19.000There's a public account called Leah K Thomas, which features some generic photos promoting let trans kids play and all the rest.
00:26:24.000And then there is a private account, apparently, that is called Leah Timmis.
00:26:29.000And there is a bunch of stuff in this account that is super disturbing, including multiple Instagram posts liked by Leah Timmis.
00:26:38.000Who allegedly is Lea Thomas, talking about autogynephilia, which again is one aspect of the trans community you're never allowed to talk about, which is the idea that men are turned on by the idea of themselves as women.
00:26:51.000And so it's really not about they want to be a woman, it is they are turned on by, it's a sexual fetish essentially.
00:26:58.000Autogynephilia, which has been written about very well by Helen Joyce in her book Trans, is a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as female.
00:27:06.000And Lea Thomas has apparently, allegedly, liked a bunch of posts along these lines.
00:27:12.000Not only that, Lea Timmis is apparently, allegedly, a member of a polyamorous sex pod.
00:27:21.000Lea Timmis apparently is Posting a series of photos or this person's boyfriend slash girlfriend because Leah Thomas's girlfriend is actually a man who says that he is a woman and has the surgeries to prove it.
00:27:37.000A person named Gwen posted a series of himself.
00:27:41.000A series of photos of himself and Leah with the caption cherries and scissors.
00:27:47.000And and then when posted a mysteriously round shaped organ looking item in a clear ball jar.
00:28:43.000I think the fact that you're seeing such a big increase specifically in the youngest age group, so the 25 to 44 year olds, you saw this 30% increase in the risk of death from heart attack.
00:28:56.000That's not a group, an age group in which you normally see heart attacks, much less dying from a heart attack.
00:29:03.000So CBS News tried to claim that this is because of COVID.
00:29:06.000It is because young people have gotten COVID, now they're dying of heart attacks.
00:29:09.000Alternatively, a possible cause could be the fact that an enormous number of young adults took the vaccines, particularly the Moderna vaccine, which has now been paused in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland for use in young people.
00:29:24.000But that's not the kind of stuff that CBS News is going to report, because again, it cuts against the narrative.
00:29:28.000The conspiracy of silence is the way things get done, and so when the New York Times breaks the silence, the New York Times has to obviously be clubbed about the ears for all of that.
00:29:35.000Okay, meanwhile, Nikki Haley launched her official campaign yesterday.
00:29:40.000She put out a campaign launch video a couple of days ago, but she officially launched her campaign with a big speech yesterday.
00:29:44.000It was kind of fascinating for a couple of reasons.
00:29:46.000There's some really interesting things about Nikki Haley's candidacy.
00:29:49.000First, Nikki Haley is in fact running on a partially anti-woke agenda.
00:29:55.000She is saying, for example, America is not a racist country, which, you know, used to be, I thought, sort of the road idea in the United States until Joe Biden declared that America is a systemically racist country.
00:30:05.000But if this is going to be the battle, I think it's a battle that Republicans can win.
00:31:19.000Now, the thing that made a lot of headlines yesterday was her tacit slap at both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the issue of age.
00:31:24.000And this is smart play by Nikki Haley.
00:31:26.000It is because I think most Americans look at the age of Joe Biden and they say, we do not need a president who is 80 years of age right now.
00:31:34.000And by the way, we do not need a president in Donald Trump, who is currently 76 years of age.
00:31:40.000And who after the election of 2024 would presumably be closer to 78 years of age, meaning that he would be in office in his in his early 80s, 82, 83 years old.
00:31:52.000So here's Nikki Haley saying what I think a lot of people think, which is maybe we ought to have some mental competency tests for the elderly before we make them president of the United States.
00:32:01.000When America is distracted, the world is less safe.
00:32:04.000And today our enemies think that the American era has passed.
00:32:40.000So that of course made a lot of headlines because everybody can read the tea leaves.
00:32:43.000Donald Trump is currently 76 years old and so she's essentially saying you're too old to be president of the United States.
00:32:48.000Now again, one of the things that I find really fascinating about Haley's candidacy is not her candidacy nearly as much as the media reaction to her candidacy.
00:32:55.000As I said yesterday, If you're the media and supposedly Donald Trump is the root of all evil, wouldn't you be eager?
00:33:00.000You keep saying things like, we need two viable parties and Donald Trump is Hitler and we need to get rid of this guy.
00:33:04.000The minute that somebody actively declares a candidacy against Donald Trump, your first move is to label her Trump.
00:33:23.000I mean, how is this a straightforward argument as she enters this race?
00:33:30.000No, her messaging over the past few years has been very contradictory, not just about Trump, but about January 6th, about wokeism, about Confederate flags.
00:33:42.000She's going to really have to reconcile the messiness of her positions when she's challenged for the first time by an aggressive press.
00:33:52.000She'll have to explain why being generationally new is actually new in terms of policy.
00:34:00.000Because to me, she sounded a lot like Trumpism, just with, you know, bigger words.
00:34:14.000The minute that Donald Trump was off the scene, the first move would be whoever succeeds Donald Trump is just like Donald Trump.
00:34:19.000The most absurd response to all of this, by the way, is after Nikki Haley suggested that people over the age of 75 should have a mental competency test before we elect them president of the United States, Don Lemon of CNN, he immediately suggested that she's not in her prime.
00:34:31.000Now, if this was said by literally any other host on TV, we would recognize this for what it is, which is sexism.
00:35:31.000And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google.
00:36:36.000So Kamala Harris, if I said that, boycotts galore.
00:36:39.000Don Lemon says that sort of thing on CNN.
00:36:41.000Well, you know, he is Don Lemon, so I guess it's...
00:36:43.000Unbelievable stuff there from the journalismers over at CNN.
00:36:47.000OK, in just a second, we'll talk about the vulnerability of the Biden administration in 2024, but really the vulnerability of the United States because of Joe Biden's policies, because on the economic level, there's a new report that came out yesterday.
00:36:58.000It is terrifying with regard to the future of the economy of the United States.
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00:39:22.000retail sales in January from December, which the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, followed declines in the final two months of 2022 as shoppers spent more on vehicles, furniture, clothing, and eating out.
00:39:32.000Hey, now there is a problem with this, which is that the wholesale prices rose 0.7% in January, more than expected, fueling another inflation increase.
00:39:40.000Core PPI increased 0.5% compared to expectations for a 0.3% increase.
00:39:45.000And this is all because the Federal Reserve blew too much money into the economy and because Joe Biden's entire political agenda is blowing money into the economy.
00:39:52.000And so inflation is absolutely crushing consumers, which is why I have an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast.
00:40:00.000I think this should be the campaign slogan for Joe Biden 2024.
00:40:08.000Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks and continued effects from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:40:15.000According to the Wall Street Journal, egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier.
00:40:36.000Breakfast cereal increased more modestly, but prices in the category were up 15% over the course of the last year.
00:40:43.000Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month.
00:40:46.000Instant coffee rose by 3.6% monthly increase.
00:40:49.000So again, the cost on everything is going up.
00:40:51.000And while the inflation is continuing to ratchet up, The amount of money that Joe Biden has added to the national debt is absolutely astonishing.
00:41:01.000The Congressional Budget Office released figures on Wednesday that should scare the living hell out of anyone who assumes that the future of the United States should last for more than about another decade.
00:41:09.000According to the New York Times, the United States is on track to add nearly $19 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
00:41:17.000$19 trillion over the course of the next decade.
00:41:20.000Okay, just to put this in perspective, What this means is that if you exclude 2020 and 2021, which were the years of the pandemic, really should exclude 2020 but not 2021 because by 2021, again, the vaccines were already widely available, people should have been getting back to work, and all of the bailouts under Joe Biden were completely counterproductive.
00:41:40.000Every single deficit for the next 10 years is larger than any year's deficit in American history.
00:41:49.000That is, at least since the end of the Nixon administration.
00:41:54.000We are going to go from about $31 trillion national debt to $50 trillion national debt over the course of the next decade.
00:42:01.000That is for sure an underestimate, by the way.
00:42:04.000The new forecast projects a $1.4 trillion gap this year between what the government spent and what it takes in from tax revenues.
00:42:09.000Remember, Joe Biden's out there lying to you that he brought down the deficit.
00:42:12.000By brought down the deficit, he means we spent more money than any time in human history two years ago, and then we spent second most amount of money the following year.
00:42:19.000But because it was the second most, that was a reduction from the first most.
00:42:23.000To put those numbers in context, the total amount of debt held by the public will equal the total annual output of the United States economy in 2024.
00:42:31.000That rises to 118% of the economy by 2033.
00:42:34.000So in other words, if we had to pay off our debt all at once, thank God we don't, that would take the entirety of the American economy.
00:42:42.000Congress's nonpartisan budget scorekeeper now projects that the U.S.
00:42:44.000economy will barely grow this year at all, after adjusting for inflation.
00:42:48.000That unemployment will rise above 5% before growth re-accelerates next year.
00:42:52.000It attributes the slowdown in growth to the Federal Reserve's campaign to tame inflation by raising those interest rates again.
00:42:58.000As we mentioned yesterday, 6.4% annualized inflation rate in January follows.
00:43:02.000Over the previous year, a 7.5% inflation rate.
00:43:06.000So that means over the course of the last couple of years, you're talking about a 12-13% inflation rate.
00:43:11.000The updated projections could supercharge a partisan debate between Biden and Republicans over taxes, spending, and the nation's debt limit.
00:43:19.000And Joe Biden is lying to you when he says that he is fiscally responsible.
00:43:21.000He's the least fiscally responsible president in American history.
00:43:24.000He makes Barack Obama look like Bill Clinton.
00:43:29.000The CBO says, quote, if the debt limit is not raised or suspended before the extraordinary measures are exhausted, the government would be unable to pay its obligations.
00:43:43.000February 16, 2023, we'll have much bigger problems in our future.
00:43:46.000Everyone will keep kicking the can down the road on this thing.
00:43:50.000Newly enacted legislation in the past nine months alone adds about $1.5 trillion to cumulative deficits over the next decade, according to the Budget Office.
00:43:56.000More than half of that increase comes from a single law, an expansion of health care benefits for military veterans who are exposed to toxic burn pits.
00:44:03.000That passed overwhelmingly in both the House and the Senate.
00:44:07.000Now, again, this effectively presumes that literally any American service member stationed in a combat zone for 32 years could have been exposed to a burn pit.
00:44:15.000Which, I'm sorry, it sounds great and it's a bad law.
00:44:19.000I also would like to have recompense for people who are exposed to toxic burn pits.
00:44:23.000That is not every member of the military for the last 32 years.
00:44:27.000Apparently, Joe Biden continues to claim that he is being fiscally responsible.
00:44:32.000And of course, he's got his priorities straight.
00:45:50.000We're very lucky because it turns out that everybody is more socialistic than we are.
00:45:53.000That doesn't mean that we are not increasingly socialistic in this country in terms of regulation, redistribution of income, nationalization of industry, and all the rest.
00:46:02.000Meanwhile, the incompetence that just infects every aspect of the Biden administration we just talked about yesterday continues.
00:46:08.000So you'll recall that the EPA, they blew up a train filled with toxic chemicals.
00:46:44.000Russell Murphy is referring to the fish now belly up in Leslie Run.
00:46:49.000He and his wife noticed them last night, barely 48 hours after the fiery derailment five miles away.
00:46:56.000You know, is this stuff safe to drink?
00:46:57.000At today's press conference, the EPA says it's safe.
00:47:01.000We have been able to successfully control that runoff and contain the water and either treat it in place along with a robust sampling program for the water quality and we continue to expand that and that will continue throughout this operation.
00:47:19.000Good thing Peabody judges focus laser-like on all the things that matter.
00:47:22.000Too many white people on construction crews.
00:47:24.000He apparently, according to Politico, is drawing newfound criticism from both sides of the aisle.
00:47:28.000His response has been to blame everybody else.
00:47:31.000He says, glad to see a new found bipartisan agreement here.
00:47:33.000We could start by discussing immediate steps Congress could take to address rail safety and reduce constraints on the Department of Transportation in this area.
00:47:41.000Um, or theoretically you could do your job.
00:47:45.000Representative guy, Wrench and Taylor.
00:47:50.000Even Rashida Tlaib was sounding off on this thing.
00:47:51.000dispute radical Green New Deal talking points, but when a train derailment causes one of the worst environmental disasters in history, he is silent for 10 days.
00:48:25.000Um, yeah, I, I don't, I don't think so.
00:48:29.000I think that he was, again, a diversity hire, and diversity hires don't tend to do a very good job.
00:48:35.000Speaking of incompetent government employees, there is a woman named Karen Decker, and she became an issue on the interwebs yesterday.
00:48:42.000And the reason for this is because she is the charge d'affaires To the U.S.
00:48:47.000mission in Afghanistan, which means she's now stationed not in Afghanistan because the place is run by the Taliban since Joe Biden decided to turn over the entire country to 8th century barbarians, again, a bunch of American soldiers killed in the process while lying to the American people as Afghans fell off of American wheel wells.
00:49:02.000Well, now she's doing the important stuff.
00:49:04.000She's doing the really important stuff, you know, the important work.
00:49:07.000So right now you have 19 million Afghan women who are living under the repressive tyranny of one of the world's worst regimes.
00:49:14.000But she is tweeting out the things that matter.
00:49:16.000Here's what she tweeted out, February 15th, 2023, quote, Are Afghans familiar with hashtag Black Girl Magic and the movement it inspired?
00:49:24.000Do Afghan girls need a similar movement?
00:50:55.000Well, it looks like you get shot in the face.
00:50:57.000That's what it looks like in Afghanistan.
00:50:59.000Because the President of the United States, like a coward, cut and ran from Afghanistan and let a bunch of people take our military hardware on the ground.
00:52:25.000And so, it makes me happy when reality occurs.
00:52:29.000And so, you are seeing this in California where, you know, after I led an exodus from California in which I parted the waters of the Colorado River and led forth a journeying assemblage into the wilderness and ended up in the promised land of Florida.
00:52:42.000According to the LA Times, the California exodus has shown no sign of slowing down as the state's population dropped by more than 500,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in by nearly 700,000.
00:53:37.000And this is why I really do appreciate the South Dakota State House of Representative District 10 representative, a person named Aaron Healy.
00:53:46.000She tweeted out, quote, extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad.
00:53:54.000What a dangerous and un-American belief.
00:53:58.000Just to get this completely solid, it is a dangerous un-American belief to say the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad.
00:54:08.000I urge all Democrats to run on this slogan.
00:54:10.000Now, by the way, Democrats, largely in the elite class, believe this.
00:54:15.000Rank-and-file Democrats don't believe for a second what Aaron Healy is saying.
00:54:18.000In fact, very few sane people believe that the safest place for a child is not in the home of a married mom and dad.
00:54:25.000The best place for them is in a place with two dads, two moms, just a mom, just a dad, random relatives, the school system.
00:54:34.000Married mom and dad has been the basis of child raising for literally thousands of years and is in fact the safest place because mom provides comfort and dad provides security and that is the basic bargain.
00:54:42.000But the fact that this has become controversial, dangerous and un-American.
00:54:46.000People who are hardcore social leftists, they do believe it's un-American because their version of America is a libertine America in which transgression of social norms is the freedom that is promised to you.
00:54:56.000The freedom for you is not the freedom of owning property in your own name, for example, and then dispensing with that property as you see fit.
00:55:05.000It's not the freedom to raise your family within the boundaries of social of social institutions like the family.
00:55:12.000True freedom is blowing up all those institutions.
00:55:14.000Most American thing is destroying the family.
00:55:16.000It is the most American thing that just happens to cross streams with the most extreme forms of Marxism.
00:55:20.000But sure, it's the most American thing.
00:55:22.000And so, you know, I really do appreciate when people show you who they are.
00:55:24.000So thanks to Representative Aaron Healy on that one.
00:55:29.000So Chelsea Handler cannot let this thing go.
00:55:32.000So we've talked about Chelsea Handler the last couple of days because again, she started it.
00:55:35.000No one was talking about Chelsea Handler until Chelsea Handler decided that she was going to basically go online and put out a video talking about how wonderful it was not to have kids and how happy she is not to have kids.
00:55:47.000And some of us looked at that and went, you don't look that happy.
00:55:49.000And the life you're describing doesn't sound that happy.
00:55:51.000And trying to model that behavior for young women and pretend that this is the height of human happiness is a lie.
00:55:56.000And then Chelsea Handler responded to that, and then some of us responded to that.
00:55:59.000So Chelsea Handler is neglecting the first rule of holes, which is to stop digging.
00:56:03.000When you say that the height of human happiness is eating an edible at 6 a.m., going back to sleep and masturbating, and then getting up and drinking a lot of wine and doing Xanax, I gotta say, that doesn't sound like happiness to me.
00:56:49.000You're a boss and you can do anything a man can do, which everyone who's ever seen a woman back up a vehicle knows that's not true.
00:56:55.000Your womb resembles a dried up tumbleweed blowing down an old Western town and your Valentine's Day date for the 10th year in a row is a 10 year old copy of Magic Mike and a half full bottle of Xanax and you're trying to pretend like you're happy, but you're not happy.
00:57:11.000I mean, she is miserable and it's written all over her face how miserable she is.
00:57:18.000I woke up this morning, well, more like this afternoon, and noticed that there was an emergency meeting of the Receding Hairline Society to discuss a comedy video I filmed about not wanting kids.
00:57:31.000Why would I even need my own children when I get to hear these crybabies all the time?
00:57:36.000I mean, I can't believe that bearded version of Tucker Carlson thinks I would take a half a bottle of Xanax.
00:57:43.000I'd take way more than that, you silly goose.
00:57:45.000Look, I don't want to debate whether or not I'm a girl boss, although I did just look at my bank account and think, that's pretty girl boss.
00:57:52.000And then I thought about the 10 different people, plus, 10 plus different people I've been able to put through college.
00:57:58.000And then I remembered my six New York Times best-selling books.
00:58:05.000And then I remember my recent stand-up special that was just released on Netflix called Revolution, and I thought, yeah, you are a girl boss.