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00:01:33.000The fallout over the Parkland shooting continues, and the fallout from the media continues.
00:01:39.000So, we've been told this story, which is that all the Parkland survivors have innate moral authority and can speak on any issue without any criticism.
00:01:46.000Now, I have said over and over and over on this program, listen to every episode since Parkland, I've said these kids have a right to speak out.
00:01:52.000Of course they have a right to speak out.
00:02:01.000People will pick apart what you are saying publicly, especially when you're the type of person who goes on national television and suggests that all those who disagree with you are actually akin to child murderers.
00:02:10.000If you do that, it turns out people get pissed off.
00:02:13.000But the media have decided that any criticism of these kids whatsoever
00:02:17.000Not their right to speak, not their expertise, right?
00:02:20.000If you criticize the stuff they are saying, if you say what they are saying is wrong, or if you say, I don't think that they are conducting themselves properly publicly, if you say that sort of stuff, then you are a hater, then you are brutal, then you are doing something terrible.
00:02:33.000I don't understand why this should be the case.
00:02:35.000Really, in public life, everyone gets criticized.
00:02:39.000And when you're speaking on issues of deep public importance, fundamental issues to American liberty, and frankly, human liberty, like should you have the right to keep and bear arms, then passions are going to run high.
00:02:49.000And not only are passions going to run high, people have not only every right, but every responsibility to speak out against perspectives that they think are bad.
00:02:56.000And I think a lot of what these kids have been saying is wrong, non-factual.
00:03:00.000I think some of what they've been saying is immoral when they suggest that Marco Rubio is akin to the shooter in Parkland.
00:03:06.000And when they say that Dana Lash is a murderer with blood on her hands, this stuff is disgusting.
00:03:10.000And I have, not only do I have every right, I have every moral obligation to speak up against it because it's gross.
00:03:14.000But that's not how the media have treated this.
00:03:16.000So CNN tweeted this out about David Hogg.
00:03:18.000David Hogg is, of course, the guy who's probably become the most famous of these Parkland survivors.
00:03:23.000Emma Gonzales is the other one who's really gained a lot of credibility.
00:03:30.000He thinks that the sort of Che Guevara attitude, the fist in the air thing that you're seeing here, is what's going to win the day, that anger wins the day.
00:03:37.000Emma Gonzales understands that anger doesn't win the day.
00:03:39.000She's much better at this than David Hogg, just from a purely political point of view.
00:03:42.000If you're going to pick one of those two people to run for office, there's no doubt in my mind you run Emma Gonzales, not David Hogg.
00:03:48.000The media have decided that David Hogg's voice is deeply important and that he should be booked on every show.
00:03:52.000So he's been on CNN a thousand times at this point.
00:03:55.000And this is what CNN tweeted out yesterday, quote, a brief history of how Parkland survivor David Hogg keeps schooling lawmakers on social media.
00:04:03.000Yeah, that sounds like objective journalism to me.
00:04:05.000We here at The Daily Wire, we're not objective.
00:04:07.000So when we say that somebody is schooling somebody else, you can assume that we're conservative.
00:04:10.000And we're saying that a conservative is schooling a leftist.
00:04:25.000Well, the big controversy that's broken out over David Hogg in the last 24 hours concerns Laura Ingraham.
00:04:29.000So, Laura retweeted a piece that was on our website.
00:04:32.000The piece that was on our website about David Hogg being rejected by certain colleges originally appeared at TMZ.
00:04:38.000So, the story did not originate with us, and it really only originated with David Hogg because he was interviewed by TMZ somewhere, and he started discussing which colleges he had gotten into.
00:04:46.000So, we begin with what David Hogg actually said about not getting into colleges.
00:04:50.000And there are a couple ways of reading this, and I want to be fair to him.
00:05:25.000If colleges want to support us in that grade, if they don't, it doesn't matter.
00:05:28.000We're still going to change the world.
00:05:29.000Okay, so his comments here could have been read in a couple of different ways.
00:05:33.000The part that you see the slash through, the part that's cut out there, is where David Hogg says, listen, a lot of people don't actually get into colleges, right?
00:05:42.000A lot of people in my class didn't get into a lot of colleges.
00:05:43.000There are a lot of people who can't afford to go to college.
00:05:45.000All of that is true, and for the first two-thirds of this comment, I'm actually in agreement David Hogg is handling this with class.
00:05:51.000That last comment there where he says that if colleges want to help us in our crusade, great.
00:05:54.000If not, then we're still changing the world.
00:05:57.000This is where I have a bit of trouble, because the implication is where he—and listen, he's speaking off the cuff, so maybe it's just a mistake.
00:06:03.000But the implication of what he's saying is the reason that colleges are not letting him in is not because he wasn't qualified.
00:06:07.000They're not letting him in because of his activism.
00:06:09.000Which, of course, would be incredibly silly.
00:06:11.000There is no question that the top leaders of this movement will end up going to fantastic graduate schools, specifically because they are top leaders of this movement.
00:06:19.000Political activism on the left is not going to come back and bite you.
00:06:22.000It's the ultimate extracurricular activity for most college administrators.
00:06:25.000My guess is that if he had sent in his applications right now, as opposed to six months ago, then he would be admitted to a lot of these schools.
00:06:32.000But he's getting these rejections now, or two weeks ago, in the middle of all of this.
00:06:35.000It's not like they were considering him five minutes ago.
00:06:37.000They were considering him four months ago.
00:06:39.000They probably don't even remember seeing his application, because places like UCLA get tens of thousands of applications every year.
00:06:44.000So in any case, Laura Ingraham tweets out this story, and we covered it pretty straight.
00:06:47.000It was pretty objective coverage, or at least it wasn't politically charged.
00:07:01.000Hey, I don't think that this is particularly awful.
00:07:03.000Anything that Laura says here is particularly awful.
00:07:05.000Do I think that it's fair to say that he's whining about it?
00:07:08.000Eh, I think it's maybe half-fair or a quarter-fair.
00:07:10.000I don't totally agree with Laura's take on David Hogg's comments here, but the way David Hogg responds is what's really important here.
00:07:16.000So David Hogg responds to this relatively mild critique by saying that they should boycott Laura Ingraham.
00:07:22.000Right, so he stopped, he starts immediately, immediately, like within minutes, tweeting out Laura Ingraham's advertisers and saying that all these places should drop Laura Ingraham.
00:07:55.000They tried out a bunch of kids, and then if you disagree with the kids, they suggest you are attacking the kids personally, and then based on that, they say you shouldn't be on the air.
00:08:02.000And this is what David Hogg is now doing.
00:08:04.000David Hogg does not have, I'm sorry, any sort of moral impetus to call for a full boycott of Laura Ingraham based on that tweet.
00:08:12.000She got ratioed pretty hard on Twitter, meaning that more people replied to her tweet than actually retweeted it, which is very often taken on Twitter as a sign of it was a bad tweet or something.
00:08:24.000And if we're really at the point in this country where you say something that's even mildly controversial and there are calls for boycotts, then we're not going to have a common culture anymore.
00:08:32.000Because I promise you, the right is just as capable of this as the left.
00:08:35.000A lot of the right has stayed away from it.
00:08:37.000In fact, I used to run an organization called Truth Revolt.
00:08:40.000It was a branch of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
00:08:42.000And when I ran Truth Revolt, one of our goals was to provide a mutually assured destruction.
00:08:45.000The idea was if the left was going to use boycott tactics in order to knock conservatives off the air,
00:08:50.000Then we would use boycott tactics to knock leftists off the air.
00:08:53.000And then everybody would learn that boycott tactics are bad.
00:08:56.000That boycott tactics end up knocking voices off the air or destroying the profit margins for shows that are controversial.
00:09:03.000I think David Hogg should be able to speak out however he wants.
00:09:06.000I don't think that advertisers should be boycotted for praising David Hogg.
00:09:11.000I don't think any of those things, but there's this attempt to use market forces to club people with whom you politically disagree, not because they're racist or brutal or horrible, but just because you disagree.
00:09:21.000And if that becomes our politics, the entire market basis for political discourse in the country goes away, and that is going to have a significant weakening impact on the kind of voices that you're allowed to hear.
00:09:31.000And meanwhile, the media continues to portray David Hogg as some sort of apolitical, above-the-fray figure.
00:09:44.000And the Washington Post, I'm on their email list, and the Washington Post emailed this out as their lead today.
00:09:49.000Legitimately, as their lead, they emailed out the Laura Ingraham story, that this was some sort of brutal, terrible thing that had just happened, that Laura Ingraham is deserving of all of this.
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00:11:03.000So that's pretty exciting stuff, and we are really excited to announce it, and we're thankful to Westwood One for giving us the opportunity, because it really is pretty awesome.
00:11:10.000Well, in just a second, I want to tell you about something else that the media has tweeted out that is just inane and demonstrates, again, that they don't know anything about how statistics work.
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00:12:46.000OK, so speaking of stupidity in the media, and again, just a quick final note on the Laura Ingraham boycott tactic here.
00:12:55.000The same media that's promoting that tactic is vulnerable to that tactic should they step out of line in any particular way.
00:13:00.000You're living in a very dangerous era for the future of the media when audiences are being pushed to boycott particular outlets because of the viewpoints of those outlets.
00:13:55.000But Jezebel has to defend that, of course, because we do need—you know what we need?
00:13:58.000We need to indoctrinate children about abortion and transgenderism and same-sex marriage.
00:14:01.000We need a Disney princess who's a lesbian—this is the new push, by the way, for Ilsa in Frozen, is that in the sequel, they should give Ilsa a girlfriend.
00:14:08.000Because there's nothing better than teaching three-year-old children who like the movie Frozen because they like Olaf.
00:14:14.000That lesbianism is on equal moral par and societal value with heterosexuality.
00:14:19.000It's perfect, because kids at three should know all about sex.
00:14:23.000So Jezebel tweeted something out that was even stupider yesterday.
00:14:26.000It tweeted out, statistically, at least two Disney princesses have had abortions.
00:14:30.000And the reason that Jezebel says this, of course, is because they say that statistically speaking, a certain percentage of people in the United States, a certain percentage of women, have had abortions.
00:14:39.000And that means that a certain percentage of Disney princesses, by extension, must have had abortions.
00:15:20.000That means statistically around two and a half of these strong women have gotten abortions and aren't telling you about it because of a national culture of shame and misogyny.
00:15:27.000Let me just say something to Planned Parenthood and Jezebel.
00:15:42.000If that number is true, that still would not suggest that Disney princesses, were they real people and not fictional characters, would have had abortions.
00:17:06.000I mean, they've really been dropping pretty precipitously in the last few days.
00:17:11.000A lot of that is specifically because of all of the hubbub surrounding Facebook and social media, which I'm going to get to in just a second.
00:17:18.000According to Reuters, fund managers have begun to ditch so-called FANG stocks that powered the U.S.
00:17:22.000stock market to record highs in January and are slowly rotating into commodity-related shares and other value stocks which typically outperform in late-cycle recoveries.
00:17:31.000Portfolio managers holding shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google Parent Alphabet, Inc., that's Google, say they are increasingly concerned that the data scandal that has sent shares of Facebook down nearly 15% to date, year to date, will spill over into all of FAANG stocks, imperiling the broad market's momentum at a time when there are no clear companies or sectors to take their place.
00:17:49.000On Tuesday, an index which tracks the FAANG stocks, along with six other mega cap technology stocks, tumbled 6.3%, the biggest decline since September 2014.
00:18:02.000A portfolio manager said, there are legitimate concerns over the business models of these companies, and I expect that they will be ironed out in legislation.
00:18:10.000So this, of course, is talking specifically about Facebook.
00:18:12.000So I want to talk about a couple of things that are great about technology, and then I want to talk about a thing that is very bad about the future of technology in the United States, particularly with regard to the distribution of our news.
00:18:24.000So we begin with President Trump ripping on Amazon today.
00:18:29.000So President Trump decided to go after Amazon today.
00:18:32.000Amazon has been his bugaboo for a couple of reasons.
00:18:33.000One is because it's owned by Jeff Bezos.
00:18:35.000Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post.
00:18:37.000The Washington Post has not been friendly to Trump.
00:18:39.000Therefore, Trump says, the Amazon Washington Post.
00:18:42.000His suggestion is that Amazon uses its profits to subsidize the Washington Post.
00:18:46.000There is no statistical truth to this.
00:18:48.000This is something that is made up in Trump's mind.
00:19:12.000I believe I was one of their first 1,000 prime users, because it started off as a used book company, and so I used to buy used books from there all the time.
00:19:57.000But states do require that if you buy a product in California from Amazon, that you are going to pay the sales tax that is equivalent to what you would pay at the store.
00:20:05.000So I pay a sales tax on products that are shipped to me in California.
00:20:08.000And I'm not sure why Trump is complaining about Amazon using the postal system.
00:20:12.000You know what is keeping the postal system existent?
00:20:20.000When people send packages and they want to make sure that it gets there, they use FedEx.
00:20:24.000So Amazon is using the post office because the post office is subsidized and because the post office is cheap, and it is because they are doing that that the post office has any business at all.
00:20:33.000In fact, little known fact about Amazon.
00:20:35.000Have you ever gotten an Amazon package where it's like you ordered a thing of toothpaste and it comes in a box that's like half the size of your house?
00:20:41.000And you're always wondering why is it that the box is totally out of proportion to the item that is inside the box?
00:20:46.000That is because Amazon has come up with such a science of this thing that when they deliver stuff to you, they actually have slotted every box into the truck in the most efficient possible way.
00:20:56.000So they know that they need to fill up every piece of space in the truck so that the things aren't bouncing around back there.
00:21:01.000So they will ship you things with weird sized boxes because it is most efficient to ship it that way.
00:21:07.000Several states, according to CNBC, say that online retailers should have to collect sales tax, even in those states where companies don't have a physical presence.
00:21:15.000The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that states couldn't collect sales taxes gathered by mail-order catalog companies unless the firms had a physical presence in the state.
00:21:22.000Obviously, Amazon does collect sales—I mean, listen to this.
00:21:25.000Amazon collects sales tax from consumers in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
00:21:29.000So what is Trump even talking about here?
00:21:33.000There are certain economists who say that if Amazon started to—I mean, the truth is, what Amazon is eventually going to do here is they are just going to substitute their own shipping for the post office, and the post office will have no business.
00:21:44.000So the fact that Amazon is using the post office right now is really a temporary measure.
00:21:48.000People think that Amazon is going to become the largest single shipper in the United States and become a shipping company, basically.
00:21:55.000So Axios is reporting that Trump wants to go after Amazon.
00:22:22.000I'm going to tell you another great piece of technology that people are ignoring, and it's being attacked by leftists and some people who don't understand economics as well.
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00:23:54.000Right now, there's an effort underway by a lot of folks on the left to go after Uber and Lyft.
00:23:58.000This has happened particularly in leftist jurisdictions.
00:24:01.000So in California, for a long time, there was a rule that ride-sharing apps could not actually go to the airport because they wanted you to use cabs instead.
00:24:07.000It was basically a government-guaranteed monopoly.
00:24:09.000In the city of New York, there are heavy restrictions on Uber and Lyft.
00:24:12.000In the city of Seattle, there are heavy restrictions on Uber and Lyft.
00:24:16.000But there is an upside, and this demonstrates a point that I've been making about the free market for a long time.
00:24:20.000The great thing about the free market is that the free market actually cuts against racism.
00:24:24.000It cuts against discrimination in virtually all forms, because the only color that the free market cares about is the color green.
00:24:30.000So there's a tweet from a guy named Matthew Cherry, who is a black filmmaker for the NFL,
00:24:36.000And he was tweeting about a New York Post story.
00:24:38.000So the New York Post story said, This was another one of these lamentation pieces about how all these new technologies are hurting people who are already in business, and what are we going to do about the cabbies, and all the rest of this nonsense.
00:25:16.000Over the last five years, last month longtime black car driver Doug Shifter shot himself in front of City Hall over money troubles.
00:25:22.000Two livery drivers killed themselves in recent months, one of whom, Danilo Castillo, pointedly wrote his suicide note on the back of a taxi and limousine commission summons.
00:25:32.000I'm by review to say is the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and wrote that we've seen this building over the past three years.
00:25:38.000In particular, the financial crisis is crushing enough, but it's the political silence that's destroying people.
00:25:43.000The number of four higher cars in circulation is swell to about 100,000.
00:25:47.000About two thirds of those are Uber drivers.
00:25:49.000The number of yellow cabs is capped by the city at 13,587.
00:25:53.000Once again, demonstrating the government guaranteed monopolies are garbage.
00:25:56.000And the minute that those monopolies end, those companies go out of business.
00:26:01.000It's not the fault of these cab drivers.
00:26:02.000I feel terrible for the cab drivers who spent their years investing in a product that the government had basically guaranteed, only to have the government pull the rug out from under them.
00:26:08.000But that's not enough for me to say that we should get rid of a technology that's helping lots of people.
00:26:38.000It's almost impossible to get a taxi cab out there.
00:26:40.000And if they go into heavily black or Hispanic neighborhoods, they just won't pick people up because they're afraid that they'll pick somebody up who will attempt to rob the cab.
00:26:58.000And what this demonstrates—and here's the amazing thing.
00:27:00.000OK, so what kind of discrimination is that?
00:27:02.000So, as I discussed last week with regard to a New York Times article in which there was a claim that America was widely and terribly racist, Thomas Sowell has a model of how to think about discrimination that's really useful.
00:27:15.000He thinks about discrimination in three ways.
00:27:16.000There's open discrimination, like, I'm a racist, I hate black people, and therefore I'm not going to pick up a black guy if I'm driving a cab.
00:27:44.000It's what Sowell calls Discrimination 1B.
00:27:46.000Discrimination 1B is I don't have any data other than the group data.
00:27:51.000The only data I have as a taxi driver in New York City is that if I go into this particular area and I pick up a person of this particular race, I am more likely to be robbed.
00:28:00.000And because the crime rates in New York are racially disproportionate.
00:28:03.000And so if I have a choice between driving into a middle of a high crime black area and picking up a black guy or driving down to the Wall Street district and picking up a white guy in a suit and pick up the white guy in the suit.
00:28:17.000It's a form of making individual judgment based on group data.
00:28:21.000But that's not quite the same thing as, I think all black people are incapable of being picked up for a ride, right?
00:28:25.000That's people using data as a substitute for lack of individual data.
00:28:29.000Now here's where Uber solves this problem.
00:28:31.000It's not that Uber drivers are better people.
00:28:33.000It's not that Lyft drivers are better people.
00:28:35.000Okay, the reason that drivers were not picking up black folks in New York is because, one, there was a guaranteed monopoly, which meant that you wouldn't lose your job if you did this.
00:28:43.000Two, that everybody in the monopoly had the same rules and pay.
00:28:47.000So it wasn't like you gained money by going out of your way to pick up the black guy in the black neighborhood.
00:28:52.000There was no competitive advantage to that.
00:28:53.000You were already a member of an exclusive club and you were going to make a certain amount of money per year.
00:29:25.000So, if the only data that you had as a taxi driver in New York is that certain races are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than other races,
00:29:35.000And then you may not be making an individual judgment on this particular black guy, that this particular black guy is going to rob me, but you make a group judgment based on the only data that's available to you.
00:29:46.000So, number one, it creates a competitive advantage for you to go into what would be higher risk crime areas, because if nobody else is doing it, you can pick up a lot of money by going into those areas, right?
00:29:57.000And number two, you have user-specific data.
00:29:59.000So if I look and I see that there's a one-star rating on a guy because last time he was in a car, he crapped in the backseat, I'm not going to pick that guy up.
00:30:06.000But if I see there are a bunch of five-star ratings, I can pretty well guarantee that the guy actually isn't a criminal.
00:30:12.000So what's hilarious is that a lot of people on the left don't understand why it is that Uber and Lyft don't discriminate against black folks in New York.
00:30:18.000The answer is not, again, that cab drivers in New York are evil, terrible racists, and Uber drivers are wonderful people.
00:30:23.000That is not what, or that Lyft drivers are wonderful people, right?
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00:32:01.000Alrighty, so, as I say, what makes technology great is that it is value neutral and provides data.
00:32:07.000And then it's up to human beings how they want to use that data.
00:32:09.000And if we are provided with more data, then this gives us a better ability to choose.
00:32:13.000But value neutral is important when it comes to the platforms.
00:32:17.000Now, value neutral isn't important when it comes to
00:32:19.000You know, you come to the Daily Y. We're not value neutral.
00:32:21.000And we make very obvious to you we're not value neutral because we're providing you another piece of data that you can use to judge whether you think our stories are good or not.
00:34:33.000So everybody started investing tons of money in Facebook, in Google, in YouTube, in SEO, in research, in marketing.
00:34:41.000We all started investing lots of money in those things on the promise that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, that all of these outlets were acting more like AT&T, more like they were providing a phone line, than acting like the editors of the New York Times.
00:34:52.000They weren't actually cultivating my content.
00:34:56.000They were just the neutral platform on which we put material.
00:34:59.000Then all the heads of these companies decided that they were going to lie to the public, and from now on, they were going to become gatekeepers again.
00:35:08.000So they sucked everyone into this lie that they were just AT&T, that they were just a phone line.
00:35:14.000We're the editors of The New York Times.
00:35:15.000Even the editor of The New York Times, Ian Paquette, he came out and he said, it seems to me that people over at Facebook are acting more like we are than they're acting like a social media platform.
00:35:25.000This is a serious problem because it means that now when you follow people like me on Facebook, my alerts may not pop up in your timeline anymore because Mark Zuckerberg has decided he doesn't want you to see my alerts.
00:35:34.000Now, the way Facebook expresses it is, we just want better news.
00:35:38.000But there's no standard for better news.
00:35:39.000They say, well, better news is nonpartisan news.
00:35:57.000The way that free speech works in the United States, when it comes to lawsuits, for example, the way free speech works is that if you are a social media platform, a neutral social media platform, you cannot be sued for the material that is put on your platform.
00:36:08.000You're an open source platform, like Facebook, for example, and somebody puts something up that's slanderous or libelous,
00:36:17.000In any case, somebody puts up something that is defamatory on Facebook.
00:36:23.000Can Facebook be sued for having that stuff up on Facebook?
00:36:28.000Instead, only the person who posted it can be sued.
00:36:30.000That's because Facebook is like AT&T, right?
00:36:32.000If I say something nasty about Mathis over the phone, on a radio show, then the phone company doesn't get sued, right?
00:36:39.000Verizon doesn't get sued every time I say something nasty about Mathis.
00:36:43.000Okay, only I get sued if I say something nasty and untrue and defamatory about Mathis.
00:36:47.000Okay, but what if the phone company decides that it's going to screen my calls?
00:36:51.000And so every time I say something now, the phone company is going to intervene and mute me every time I say something they don't like.
00:36:57.000Well, now the phone company is on the hook because the phone company has decided what it's okay for me to say and what it's not okay for me to say.
00:37:16.000And this means they are now going to be start, I think, that in the very near future, they're really opening themselves up here.
00:37:21.000I think that there will be lawsuits in the near future in which all of these social media platforms are sued for the content that they allowed to be put on their sites because they're acting as cultivators of content and publishers of content, not merely a social media platform.
00:37:35.000I think there's a pretty decent legal case for all of this.
00:37:39.000And maybe that'll encourage all of these social media companies to go back to being platforms, because fully 78% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 get their news from social media, right?
00:37:49.000They use it more like a search engine than they use it like the New York Times, right?
00:37:54.00055% of 50-plus Americans get their news from social media.
00:37:57.000So if all of these companies decide to act like publishers and crack down on the right, which is what has happened in the last few months, right?
00:38:02.000Virtually every right-wing site has seen its traffic plummet, except for Fox News, just because it was a legacy brand that's really large.
00:38:09.000If that continues to happen, I think that what you will see is people begin to realize that this is a publisher.
00:38:13.000Well, if Facebook is a publisher, Facebook has a real problem.
00:38:17.000Just on the basis of unlicensed photos alone.
00:38:19.000Like, we at The Daily Wire license our photos, right?
00:39:51.000The VA has been mishandled and misrun for years, of course.
00:39:55.000There was obviously the Veterans Affairs scandal in the latter years of the Obama administration, in which it became clear that the VA was putting people on hold, that they were making people wait for years at a time.
00:40:05.000And those people were literally dying in line.
00:40:23.000He has never run a $200 million agency or $200 billion agency.
00:40:27.000That's a very weird pick by Trump, but Trump tends to pick people that he trusts personally.
00:40:32.000Shulkin's exit was expected, although the timing was not known, according to Politico, after he antagonized the White House with a scandal over a taxpayer-financed trip to Europe last summer and engaged in open warfare with conservatives in his agency.
00:40:44.000And Trump made the decision on Wednesday afternoon.
00:40:47.000The news was delivered by Chief of Staff Kelly in a short phone call to Shulkin.
00:40:50.000The turnover in the administration right now is quite high.
00:41:41.000The VA inspector general reported last year that Shulkin and his wife had improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and used staff to arrange sightseeing visits during a business trip to Denmark and England.
00:41:49.000Last summer, Shulkin repaid the money in question, but foes in the White House and the VA used the opportunity to press for his removal.
00:43:14.000This is not about, you know, Trump distracting from anything.
00:43:16.000Again, people are going crazy over nonsense.
00:43:18.000They're also going crazy because the president decided that he was going to ask about immigration status in the latest census, which is certainly within his purview.
00:43:25.000But as Guy Benson writes, this is not even a thing, right?
00:43:28.000Why is this even a question as to whether we should ask about census status?
00:43:31.000Prior to 2010, according to Guy, which represents the historical anomaly on this question, citizenship questions had appeared on U.S.
00:43:37.000censuses dating back to the early 1800s.
00:43:39.000And the citizenship inquiry on the long-form version of the questionnaire from 1970 to 2000 appeared.
00:43:47.000But people are saying this is somehow going to alienate illegal immigrants who won't get a proper census count.
00:43:52.000So we can ask about race, we can ask about religion, but we can't ask about whether you're in the country legally?
00:43:57.000Again, just demonstrates how crazy everyone is that this has become even an issue.
00:44:03.000This is not an issue, but because it's Trump, everything is an issue now, no matter how stupid.
00:44:07.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:47.000There is talk of vigilantes who may seek revenge on the Rajneeshies.
00:45:52.000Okay, it's really interesting, but it is worth noting that this group was holding orgies and poisoning people, and things went pretty wild pretty quickly.
00:46:01.000So, it's a very interesting documentary and well worth the watch.
00:46:06.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:13.000I really should have put this in things I like.
00:46:47.000Quote, hence, his life remains incessantly infused with her identity infidelity and her abhorrent ascensions to those constant salacious sessions of sexual solitaire she'd seen as self-regard.
00:46:58.000That's an actual thing that somebody wrote.
00:47:00.000So, you understand, he's got a Thesaurus on his nightstand because he doesn't know any of those words, but it doesn't even make any sense.
00:47:15.000Whenever he felt these collisions of incubus and succubus, he punched his way out of the proletariat with a purposeful inputting of covert codes, thereby drawing distraction through Scottsdale's deployments, dodging the ambush of innocents astray, evading the discount vogue of viagratic assaults on virtual vaginas or worse, falling passively into prosaic pastimes.
00:49:33.000I'd rather... I prefer a slower-paced show.
00:49:39.000Okay, so, um, let's be real about this.
00:49:42.000There was no way she was going to say that things are going better than I expected, but things are going better than anyone expected, okay?
00:49:46.000When it comes to President Trump's administration, okay, the economy is good, everybody's doing pretty well, there hasn't been this giant assault on civil liberties or anything remotely like that, but the left has spun itself up into such a frenzy that everything is worse than you could possibly have imagined.
00:50:01.000Pretty much all the chaos I imagined, right?
00:50:02.000I thought, like, if you were realistic about President Trump, you figured that this is pretty much how that part of the administration was going to go, right?
00:50:07.000Trump was going to tweet stupid crap all the time.
00:50:11.000But even Samantha Bee should be looking at the stock market or at the economic statistics and going, well, to be honest with you, I thought that there was going to be a Great Depression three days in.
00:50:19.000I thought we would already be in a nuclear war by now.
00:50:22.000At a certain point, don't you get tired of being, you know, this panicked about stuff that's not going all that badly?