The Ben Shapiro Show - June 22, 2023


The Schiff Hits The Fan

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Adam Schiff has been censured by the House of Representatives, but as he stood in the well to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles, shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back. Adam Schiff needs to grow a third arm so he can pat himself on the head and say, "I stand proudly before the truth" and I am grateful for the words of Rep. Tom McClintock, who said that Schiff was not punishing himself for the things he was doing wrong, but rather for the political tactics he was pressing on to divert attention away from his political priorities and divert resources away from pressing them into other matters. And as always, two things can be true at once. Schiff is a liar, and he has been lying for years on end. He spent years with a pup tent right outside the CNN green room waiting to be called in so he could explain that Donald Trump was in the coordination of Russia, that he was essentially a cat s paw for Vladimir Putin, and all the rest. It turns out, that was a lie. And he kept saying that he had access to special information that was gonna blow the cover off of this entire scandal. And he s one of the people who kept throwing gasoline on the flames in that particular non-scandal. Well, now he s here to make sure that the fire was lit, and the flames were ready to be put out, right? so he s been called in to explain that Trump s colluding with the Russians, and that he s working with Vladimir Putin . Well, that s one thing he s a cat's paw for Putin . well, isn t it? And now that s a done deal, is he? . . . and he s running for a Senate seat in California in 2020? And what s he s got a chance to run against Dianne Feinstein in a primary challenge against her in the Democratic primary race in the next election, and is he going to run for re-election in the primary race against her? ? or is he running to be re-elected to the Senate seat that s not even worth running in 2020 because he s going to be a shot at all? Or is he just a little bit better than he s supposed to be running for the seat he s actually running for? What s he really running for, you know?

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00:00:00.000 Well, you'll recall that Adam Schiff, the congressperson from California, he's currently running for Senate, and as always, two things can be true at once.
00:00:06.000 Republicans ought to have censored him in the House of Representatives. 0.94
00:00:10.000 He is a liar, and he has been lying for years on end. 0.98
00:00:14.000 He spent years with a pup tent right outside the CNN green room, 0.99
00:00:17.000 waiting to be called in so he could explain that Donald Trump was in the
00:00:20.000 coordination of Russia, that he was essentially a cat's paw for 0.52
00:00:24.000 Vladimir Putin and all the rest.
00:00:25.000 It turns out all of that was a lie.
00:00:26.000 He kept saying that he had access to special information that was gonna blow
00:00:29.000 the cover off of this entire scandal.
00:00:30.000 And he's one of the people who kept throwing gasoline on the flames
00:00:33.000 in that particular non-scandal.
00:00:35.000 Well, now he has been censured by the House of Representatives.
00:00:39.000 That is one thing that can be true.
00:00:40.000 The other thing that can be true is that because the Republicans just did this, it probably elevates him in his senatorial primary race in California to replace the late Dianne Feinstein.
00:00:49.000 She's not dead, but she may as well be at this point because she is going to be out of Congress in the next run, and she is not fully sentient even in the moment.
00:00:55.000 According to Roll Call, Schiff was censured by the House Wednesday.
00:00:59.000 But as he stood in the well to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles, shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back.
00:01:07.000 Because the way that this works in Democrat land is the more lies you tell about Republicans, the more you are treasured among Democrats.
00:01:14.000 Here is what it looked like on the House floor when the vote went through to censure Adam Schiff.
00:01:20.000 On this vote, the ayes are 213 and the nays are 209, with six answering present.
00:01:27.000 The resolution adopted.
00:01:29.000 Without objection, the motion to consider is laid on the table.
00:01:34.000 House will be in order.
00:01:35.000 These are Democrats cheering shame.
00:01:36.000 They're chanting shame.
00:01:38.000 Apparently not realizing that it's the bad guys in Game of Thrones who chant shame at people.
00:01:43.000 They're standing in the well of the House, an intimidating group of elderly white people chanting shame over Adam Schiff.
00:01:50.000 And then he comes through and he's being patted on the back by the Democrats and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:01:54.000 Floor representative Ana Paulina Luna was the one who offered the resolution to censure the former House Intelligence Committee chairman. 0.75
00:01:59.000 By the way, there was a big non-troversy.
00:02:01.000 Just a week ago, when the censure was brought forth in the House, and some representatives on the Republican side voted against it, not because they didn't want to censure Adam Schiff, but because the original form of the censure was actually unconstitutional, it required something like a $16 million fine of Adam Schiff, and Thomas Massey, a great congressperson from Kentucky, Massey had suggested that we don't want to set this precedent where the House is simply removing wealth From its members over political disagreements, because that's a really, really bad way to go.
00:02:31.000 Democrats will undoubtedly use it on the other side. 0.62
00:02:33.000 So a better form of this thing passed with 213 votes all from the Republicans, 209 against all Democrats.
00:02:41.000 The resolution argued that Schiff abused his power as the ranking member and chair of the panel, and falsely spread allegations about Trump's 2016 campaign collusion with Russia.
00:02:48.000 Democrats said that Schiff was being targeted as Trump faces legal troubles.
00:02:51.000 The vote came a week after, as I say, 20 Republicans voted with Democrats to table a similar measure.
00:02:56.000 Again, a lot of people were very angry at Thomas Massie at the time, but Massie was right, and a lot of people who were angry at him were wrong.
00:03:01.000 He had suggested change the form, and we'll vote it out of committee, and then we'll do this thing.
00:03:05.000 Schiff, yesterday, tried to defend himself.
00:03:07.000 He called himself a truth teller.
00:03:09.000 Adam Schiff needs to grow a third arm so he can pat himself on the back a little bit more.
00:03:13.000 You honor me with your enmity.
00:03:15.000 You flatter me with this falsehood.
00:03:18.000 You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers, and I stand proudly before you.
00:03:26.000 Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.
00:03:32.000 Representative Tom McClintock said that this was really not punishing him for the things that he was saying.
00:03:37.000 It was really more about specific acts, quote, most particularly the abuse of his position as intelligence
00:03:41.000 chairman by implying he had access to classified information that
00:03:43.000 did not exist and his placement into the congressional record of the Steele
00:03:46.000 dossier that he knew or should have known was false.
00:03:49.000 Schiff, of course, has been fundraising off of all of this.
00:03:52.000 He sent out an email on Tuesday night saying, quote, these political smear tactics divert the resources of the House away from pressing priorities.
00:03:58.000 This is always my favorite thing is when people like, oh, the Congress, they have pressing.
00:04:01.000 The Congress has never had a pressing priority.
00:04:04.000 They are a useless legislative body that achieves very little on a daily basis.
00:04:09.000 They should go to part time like most state legislatures do. 0.97
00:04:11.000 Meanwhile, Representative Bennie Thompson.
00:04:14.000 These attempts to censor Adam have been orchestrated to distract, but no one is fooled.
00:04:17.000 Extreme mega-Republicans are targeting Adam because he's everything they wish they could be.
00:04:21.000 be jealous of Adam Schiff. That's like, what is there to be jealous of? But here we go anyway.
00:04:26.000 These attempts to censor Adam have been orchestrated to distract, but no one is fooled.
00:04:34.000 Extreme mega Republicans are targeting Adam because he's everything they wish they could be.
00:04:39.000 He's tough, he's principled, and he's effective.
00:04:43.000 He is so tough, he's so principled, and he is so effective that he
00:04:47.000 was involved in a couple of impeachments of Trump.
00:04:50.000 Neither one of them ended up sticking in the Senate.
00:04:52.000 And also now he has been censured by the House of Representatives.
00:04:55.000 But it shows you the kayfabe that really is at the heart of so much congressional politics these days.
00:05:00.000 The truth is that censures very rarely have any material effect.
00:05:05.000 Sure, they have a symbolic impact when you censure somebody who's in the house, but it's not as though you're kicking them out.
00:05:09.000 You're not impeaching them.
00:05:10.000 It has no real impact on anything that they are doing in their life.
00:05:13.000 They didn't strip him of his committee assignments, for example, which theoretically they could have done.
00:05:17.000 Maybe that's the next step here.
00:05:20.000 You know, Schiff benefits, the people who are attacking him benefit.
00:05:23.000 So everybody goes home happy at the end of the day.
00:05:25.000 Representative Daniel Goldman, who again is one of the lawyers, he was one of the lawyers in the impeachment attempt against Donald Trump.
00:05:30.000 I believe the Ukraine impeachment attempt.
00:05:32.000 He was very upset.
00:05:33.000 He suggested the Republicans have no ground to stand on because they're the party of George Santos.
00:05:37.000 Now again, the problem for Schiff is not that he lied about his own personal activities, which is what George Santos has done.
00:05:43.000 George Santos is a running joke.
00:05:44.000 It's not as though the censure of George Santos would make any difference, but I suppose you could do it.
00:05:48.000 But Adam Schiff was literally lying about abusing his position as intelligence chair.
00:05:53.000 Here's Goldman.
00:05:56.000 Boy, is Adam Schiff powerful.
00:05:59.000 He can at once be the chairman of the intelligence committee, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump, Manage and run the FBI and be a judge ruling on FISA applications.
00:06:15.000 It is remarkable that he, from his perch in Congress, can do all of that.
00:06:22.000 There is nothing in this motion, this resolution, that is true.
00:06:24.000 One of my colleagues says, we will hold members accountable.
00:06:26.000 I'm going to yield the gentleman an additional 20 seconds.
00:06:28.000 Gentleman's recognized.
00:06:30.000 One of my colleagues says, we will hold members accountable.
00:06:34.000 You are the party of George Santos!
00:06:37.000 Who are you holding accountable?
00:06:41.000 The guy is an alleged and acknowledged liar and indicted, and you protect him every day.
00:06:48.000 What a warrior for truth is Daniel Goleman, who's involved in both impeachment attempts.
00:06:52.000 Worth noting here, just at this point for all the class warriors on the left who are big Daniel Goleman fans, he is the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.
00:06:59.000 He's worth about $250 million, that particular congressperson.
00:07:03.000 All on merit, guys.
00:07:05.000 Just all on merit.
00:07:06.000 In just a second, we'll get to the other big congressional event of the day, and that was the arrival of Special Counsel John Durham on Capitol Hill to testify about his bombshell report from a little bit earlier this year.
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00:08:24.000 According to Politico, Durham testified for over five hours before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the details of a 360-page report that he released earlier this year that was all about the origins of the so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
00:08:39.000 That report, if you'll recall, was just an absolute disaster for Democrats.
00:08:43.000 I called it maybe the worst political scandal in American history.
00:08:46.000 Nobody actually took it seriously in the press because to do so would have been devastating for the Obama administration in particular.
00:08:52.000 As I wrote at the time, Crossfire Hurricane was an initiative based on sheer conjecture.
00:08:56.000 That was conjecture that was created whole cloth by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
00:09:02.000 Durham reports that in late July 2016, Australia provided information to the U.S.
00:09:06.000 Embassy in London surrounding conversations between Australian diplomats and a low-level Trump foreign policy advisor named George Papadopoulos, in which Papadopoulos had allegedly suggested that the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist in the process of releasing information about Hillary Clinton.
00:09:20.000 That information was the predicate for the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
00:09:24.000 The FBI basically greenlit the investigation within days of receiving that flimsy information, Peter Strzok, who is an ardent Trump hater, he helped initiate that investigation.
00:09:36.000 The investigation, Zoram notes, was launched before any dialogue with Australia or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself.
00:09:43.000 So basically, they heard a rumor that a very low-level Trump official had mentioned Russia in a conversation, and they launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:09:50.000 So what exactly prompted their eagerness to launch?
00:09:53.000 The FBI, as Jerome acknowledges, was already in possession of the Steele dossier, which is the lies and innuendo compiled by Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton's law firm, at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
00:10:03.000 The FBI had also been approached by a second source working with Fusion GPS in July of 2016.
00:10:07.000 Apparently, there was a push for an investigation prompted by the desires of the Clinton campaign and the perceived necessity of stopping Trump.
00:10:13.000 The FBI's assistant legal attache in London knew that this information was not good enough to be the predicate for an investigation.
00:10:19.000 He said that the FBI management was pushing the matter so hard there is, quote, no stopping the train, making it his job to grease the skids.
00:10:26.000 Meanwhile, in July 2016, U.S.
00:10:28.000 intelligence agencies already knew that Russia was saying that Hillary was basically trumping all of this up. 1.00
00:10:34.000 On August 3rd, CIA Director John Brennan, quote, met with the president, vice president, and other senior administration officials, including but not limited to the attorney general and the FBI director, and briefed them on the so-called the Clinton plan.
00:10:43.000 The Clinton plan was, of course, her plan to turn Trump-Russia into a major campaign issue by laundering this into public view.
00:10:49.000 Nobody at that point decided to put a hold on the Trump-Russia investigation to investigate whether it was coming from Hillary.
00:10:54.000 Instead, they just jumped full-scale both feet into the middle of this thing.
00:10:58.000 As I wrote at the time, that collusion is significantly worse than Watergate, involves the former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for president laundering false intelligence information to the FBI, and the FBI overseen by that candidate's political allies in the Obama administration using that information as the predicate for a full-scale investigation, knowing full well that the Clinton campaign could well be behind the allegations in the first place and they went forward with it anyway.
00:11:20.000 And that is essentially what Durham testified yesterday.
00:11:24.000 He testified yesterday that FBI agents had actually come to him personally to apologize for having been involved in the thing at all.
00:11:30.000 Here was John Durham yesterday.
00:11:32.000 Mr. Durham, in your report, and again here today, you said that your findings and conclusions are sobering.
00:11:37.000 Could you unpack a little bit more what that means?
00:11:39.000 Why do you say sobering?
00:11:42.000 Well, let me give you some real life views on that.
00:11:46.000 I have had any number of FBI agents who I've worked with over the years, some of whom are retired, some are still in place, who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken.
00:11:59.000 I take that seriously.
00:12:00.000 These are good, hardworking, majority of people in the FBI, decent human beings who swear under their oaths to abide by the law.
00:12:13.000 In fact, Durham went on to explain that James Comey had full knowledge that the Hillary Clinton campaign was attempting to launder the Steele dossier into public view, and he didn't inform his lower-down FBI agents that this was happening.
00:12:23.000 So he basically created a Chinese screen between the information about the Hillary Clinton campaign laundering this stuff, and the FBI agents who are then tasked with investigating the underlying material, which is insane.
00:12:35.000 So the same FBI agents who were being tasked with tracking down false information, information that had largely been propagated by the Hillary Clinton campaign, had never been told that Hillary Clinton was actually the one behind all of this and that her campaign was the one behind all of this.
00:12:47.000 Here's Durham testifying that James Comey, then the head of the FBI, hid Clinton's campaign plan from his own FBI agents.
00:12:56.000 Mr. Durham, in the summer of 2016, did our government receive intelligence that suggested Secretary Clinton had approved a plan to tie President Trump to Russia?
00:13:04.000 Yes.
00:13:05.000 Did he share it with the agents on the case, working the Crossfire Hurricane case?
00:13:10.000 No.
00:13:10.000 Didn't share with the agents on the case.
00:13:12.000 Can you tell the committee what happened when you took that referral memo and shared it with one of those agents, specifically Supervisory Special Agent Number One?
00:13:22.000 We interviewed the first supervisor of the crossfire investigation, the operational person.
00:13:31.000 We showed him the intelligence information.
00:13:34.000 He indicated he had never seen it before.
00:13:36.000 He immediately became emotional, got up and left the room with his lawyer.
00:13:43.000 Spent some time in the hallway, came back.
00:13:46.000 He was ticked off, wasn't he?
00:13:48.000 He was ticked off because this is something he should have had as an agent on the case.
00:13:52.000 This is important information that the director of the FBI kept from the people doing the investigation.
00:13:58.000 The information was kept from him.
00:14:00.000 As Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air points out, in other words, the director of the FBI knowingly withheld evidence pertinent to an FBI investigation that resulted not just in errors made by the agents conducting the investigation that might have resulted ending what turned out to be a witch hunt, but also contributed to misrepresentations to the FISA court about the nature of the evidence they were using to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign figures.
00:14:20.000 That FISA court, you'll recall, was handed a warrant to surveil Carter Page, who was, again, a low-level Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
00:14:30.000 And they put forward a FISA warrant on the basis of essentially false information that was being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign, not knowing that it was false information being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign because James Comey had refused to actually tell them.
00:14:43.000 As Ed points out, Comey knew it, but made sure the agents assigned to the case did not.
00:14:46.000 So did Obama, Lynch, and Biden.
00:14:48.000 All of those officeholders lied publicly about the nature of the rumors and innuendo consistently for months.
00:14:52.000 Obama himself ramped up his rhetoric about Russian interference in the weeks following this briefing, which certainly seems as though Brennan's briefing resulted more in a political campaign strategy than in concern over the security of American elections.
00:15:02.000 All the top officials in the Obama administration knew that Hillary Clinton was behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative entirely, and they went out and they promoted it anyway.
00:15:11.000 Which, you want to talk election interference, that is high-level election interference.
00:15:15.000 As Durham says, the FBI itself, they had tons of red flags, they ignored all of them.
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00:16:23.000 Okay, so...
00:16:25.000 John Durham testified yesterday that the FBI basically ignored all the red flags in initiating this investigation into Donald Trump and Trump-Russia collusion.
00:16:32.000 Again, this is relevant also to the censure of Adam Schiff because Adam Schiff was fully aware of virtually all of this stuff when he was still promoting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for years on end, saying that he had access to secret information via the Intelligence Committee when apparently he had none.
00:16:46.000 Here's John Durham saying every red flag was ignored here.
00:16:50.000 From the report, I gathered that key FBI leaders all the way at the top Yes.
00:16:55.000 were predisposed to go after candidate Trump.
00:17:00.000 This bias likely affected the conduct of FBI personnel in this investigation.
00:17:05.000 Is that true?
00:17:06.000 Yes.
00:17:07.000 Can you describe that for a moment?
00:17:09.000 How did confirmation bias play into this?
00:17:13.000 Confirmation bias, as was alluded to, has to do with our human tendency to accept things
00:17:20.000 that we already think are true and to reject anything else.
00:17:23.000 In this instance, there are any number of significant red flags that were raised that
00:17:30.000 If there's evidence that was inconsistent with the narrative, they didn't pay attention to it.
00:17:35.000 They didn't explore it.
00:17:36.000 They didn't take the logical investigative steps that should have been taken.
00:17:40.000 Well, all this ticked off the Democrats to no end because what he is suggesting here is systemic failure.
00:17:44.000 And it's not just a question of a few bad apples, the Andy McCabe's and the James Comey's.
00:17:51.000 This was a rot at the top of the FBI.
00:17:54.000 There was open political coordination.
00:17:56.000 Here was Durham saying, we need some form of accountability here.
00:18:00.000 Well, I'm encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI.
00:18:03.000 The problems identified in this report, anybody who actually reads the report and the details of the report, The documented portions of the report, I think, would find that the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes.
00:18:22.000 As we said in the report, they cannot be addressed solely by enhancing training or additional policy requirements.
00:18:29.000 Rather, what is required is accountability, both in terms of the standards to which our law enforcement personnel hold themselves, And in the consequences they face for violation of laws and policies.
00:18:42.000 One of the things that was amazing here was the response by Democrats on the committees.
00:18:47.000 The response by Democrats on the committee was not specific questions that actually targeted the content of what Durham was saying.
00:18:52.000 Instead they just went after him personally.
00:18:53.000 So Steve Cohen...
00:18:55.000 Who's a Democratic congressperson from Tennessee, started ripping into Durham and saying, you've sullied your reputation, says a man with hair directly.
00:19:03.000 He looks like Jerry Garcia in his later days at this point, does Steve Cohen.
00:19:08.000 Here we go.
00:19:09.000 Your reputation will be damaged.
00:19:11.000 As everybody's reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged, he's damaged goods, there's no good dealing with him, because you will end up on the bottom of a pyre.
00:19:19.000 I yield back the balance of my time.
00:19:21.000 Sure.
00:19:21.000 Can we presume the gentleman's undecided on how he feels about the former president?
00:19:28.000 Gentlemen, witness can respond.
00:19:32.000 Yeah, my concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect, my family and my Lord, and I'm Perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.
00:19:43.000 Well, that is a very, very good answer.
00:19:45.000 We'll get to more Democratic attacks on Durham for the crime of speaking the truth on all this in just a second, including Adam Schiff, who decided to sign into the conversation first.
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00:20:43.000 Rules and restrictions Okay, so Democrats continued their assault on John Durham, the special counsel for the great crime of unveiling the level of coordination between the Obama White House, the FBI, the DOJ, and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
00:21:08.000 Representative Cori Bush, and this really speaks to, again, the mentality the Democrats have about Donald Trump.
00:21:14.000 Everything is fair in love and destroying Donald Trump.
00:21:17.000 Representative Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri, she says that what Durham is trying to do is redeem a former white supremacist-in-chief.
00:21:25.000 Wow, that sort of really well-thought-out language is what's going to convince people there, Cori.
00:21:32.000 St.
00:21:33.000 Louis and I are here today to set the record straight about this political investigation conducted on behalf of the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former white supremacist-in-chief Donald Trump.
00:21:44.000 From the start, this entire investigation has been an attempt to undermine the findings of the Mueller investigation and distract the people of this country from Donald Trump's corruption. 0.64
00:21:56.000 Again, this is all that it comes down to for Democrats, is that as long as you're going after Donald Trump, anything is justified, which explains exactly why Adam Schiff made a liar of himself.
00:22:04.000 Here was Schiff himself signing into this debate, saying that, you know, the real question here is whether Donald Trump is a good man or a bad man.
00:22:10.000 Well, that isn't the question.
00:22:11.000 The question here is rule of law and whether you ought to exploit the office that you hold in order to lie to the American public to get somebody you don't like.
00:22:20.000 What did you make of that exchange?
00:22:22.000 And his responses are in direct contradiction to the Mueller report.
00:22:27.000 Well, he was really trying to downplay the significance of the President's son being offered dirt on Hillary Clinton, something that was represented to Don Jr.
00:22:38.000 as part of the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign, taking a secret meeting to receive that information, along with the campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, along with his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner.
00:22:49.000 He wanted to downplay it.
00:22:50.000 He wanted to minimize it.
00:22:51.000 He wanted to suggest, well, this happens all the time.
00:22:53.000 And in that answer, And so many others, what it really betrayed is exactly what he accused the FBI of, and that is confirmation bias.
00:23:02.000 You could really see his bias into thinking that what the Trump campaign did was fine, that he wasn't going to call it collusion, even though there is no other name for what the Trump campaign tried to do.
00:23:15.000 Well, I mean, there is another name.
00:23:17.000 Because if that's collusion, then so is Hillary Clinton coordinating with Ukrainian sources to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign, which is something that actively happened during the 2016 campaign.
00:23:26.000 There's a reason Adam Schiff was censured.
00:23:27.000 He should be censured.
00:23:28.000 He is just a smarmy. 1.00
00:23:30.000 He is a smarmy corrupt politician. 0.96
00:23:32.000 And meanwhile, one other thing happened on the Hill yesterday, and this is worth noting, mainly because it's hilarious to watch as the left continues to be Completely unable to define the difference between men and women. 0.87
00:23:40.000 So yesterday, there was a hearing in the House with regard to whether women should be allowed their own spaces in sports.
00:23:47.000 That men, like Leah Thomas, are not allowed to walk full twig and berries into ladies' locker rooms a-dangling.
00:23:55.000 And this became a point of hot contention among Democrats.
00:23:58.000 It was pretty awkward when Kelly Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, was asked about, are there any differences between men and women?
00:24:04.000 And Kelly Robinson was like, well, I don't know.
00:24:08.000 Ms.
00:24:08.000 Robinson, do you agree with Ms.
00:24:09.000 Gaines that there's a difference between women and men?
00:24:14.000 If the question is about trans women... I'm just asking, is there a difference between women and men?
00:24:19.000 What I can say is that the NCAA has rules in place.
00:24:22.000 They've had rules in place for the last decade, and when this competition happened, the rules were clear.
00:24:25.000 Okay, I'm going to try again.
00:24:26.000 Do you believe there's a difference between women and men?
00:24:28.000 It's a yes-no question.
00:24:30.000 Do you believe there's a difference?
00:24:31.000 Oh, I think that we're talking about this case with the NCAA.
00:24:33.000 No, I'm asking a question.
00:24:35.000 Do you believe there's a difference between women and men?
00:24:37.000 Most people could answer this very simply.
00:24:40.000 I'm curious if you're willing to do so.
00:24:42.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:24:43.000 I'm just putting it into the context of the conversation that we're having.
00:24:46.000 I think that there are definitions related to sex.
00:24:48.000 So I'm trying to get a yes or no.
00:24:50.000 I'm not trying to get a speech.
00:24:52.000 Is there a difference between women and men? 0.99
00:24:54.000 I think that there are definitions for biological sex.
00:25:01.000 The inability of these people to just say the obvious because they have convinced themselves they must never say the thing that is true is truly amazing.
00:25:07.000 Actually, the same Democratic witness from the human rights campaign just got absolutely...
00:25:12.000 BTFO by Riley Gaines.
00:25:15.000 So Riley Gaines, the former champion swimmer who's out swam by a dude in Leah Thomas and has been talking about the predations of men in women's sports for a while.
00:25:26.000 This Democratic witness was asked whether if there's no difference between men and women, then why is it that men who compete in women's sports are dominating them?
00:25:32.000 And she actually tried to make the case that women can dominate and routinely dominate men in sport. 1.00
00:25:37.000 And so she was asked specifically to name such a situation.
00:25:40.000 It went very, very poorly.
00:25:43.000 You don't believe that a biological male has a physical advantage in sports over a biological female?
00:25:51.000 Not as a definitive statement.
00:25:54.000 Give me an example.
00:25:55.000 Well, no, I don't think... How many female members of the NBA do you see? 1.00
00:26:03.000 Well, I can say that, you know, there's been this news article about men that think that they could beat Serena Williams in tennis, right?
00:26:10.000 That they think that they could actually score a point on her.
00:26:13.000 And it's just not the case.
00:26:14.000 She is stronger than that.
00:26:16.000 What's your experience, Ben?
00:26:18.000 Male, female. 0.89
00:26:19.000 Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player, which they're phenoms for women.
00:26:26.000 My experience, my husband, he swam at University of Kentucky as well.
00:26:29.000 In terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking, I was a much better swimmer than him. 0.99
00:26:36.000 He could kick my butt any day of the week.
00:26:42.000 If you want to check out a YouTube interview I did with Riley Gaines on particularly this topic, it's really entertaining and worthwhile. 0.99
00:26:47.000 That's very funny.
00:26:48.000 When the human rights campaign lady's like, well, Serena Williams beats men, and then Riley Gaines is like, no she doesn't. 1.00
00:26:53.000 By the way, worth noting, in that particular Serena Venus Williams story, they wanted to play a man, so the 203rd ranked man, not only did he defeat them in straight sets, He also did so while smoking between the actual sets.
00:27:05.000 He was smoking and having beer between the sets.
00:27:08.000 Again, that is not a rip-off.
00:27:09.000 I mean, Serena has said this herself, but once the lie has been promulgated by the left, they must keep repeating it until it becomes true.
00:27:16.000 Which is how you end up with the bizarre situation that six in ten Democrats now claim that a woman can become a man and a man can become a woman, which is just amazing, amazing stuff. 0.83
00:27:27.000 Meanwhile, The situation aboard the submersible, this Titanic submersible, is ending in tragedy.
00:27:34.000 They thought yesterday that they were hearing knocking from the seafloor.
00:27:36.000 It now turns out that they're not sure whether that knocking was actually coming from the submersible or whether it was just equipment that was dropping off of the Titanic because the Titanic itself continues to decay, of course.
00:27:48.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, the Coast Guard is still saying that they are hunting for these Titanic 5.
00:27:55.000 And they're looking for survivors, but oxygen supply has apparently run out.
00:28:00.000 The Ocean Gate co-founder says that it's possible that they have more oxygen down there or it's possible that if in fact they go unconscious because of lack of oxygen, they will be consuming less oxygen, but...
00:28:10.000 It seems almost certain that this is going to end in absolute tragedy.
00:28:14.000 According to the Daily Mail, Rear Admiral John Malgar of the U.S.
00:28:17.000 Coast Guard said the operation remains in active search and he remains hopeful thanks to favorable weather conditions.
00:28:21.000 Asked about the banging noise, he said initial analysis suggested they were background ocean noise, but this was still being examined.
00:28:26.000 So yesterday there was a lot of talk about the idea that maybe the banging that they were hearing was people inside the submersible banging to try and send some sonar Indicators that they were still down there or where they were, but they haven't even found the submersible as of this morning.
00:28:40.000 Those stuck on board the sub include British billionaire Hamish Harding, Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Ph.
00:28:46.000 Nargileh, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleyman, who's just 19.
00:28:52.000 A deepwater robot sub reached the Atlantic floor.
00:28:54.000 Another is descending the 12,500 feet of ocean fast.
00:28:57.000 The Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic has deployed an ROV that reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing sub, according to a spokesperson.
00:29:03.000 A friendship viewed as the best and final hope of finding the missing Titanic submersible has also dropped its remote-controlled sub to find the five missing adventurers.
00:29:12.000 Now, again, as we mentioned yesterday, This just there's certain things that seem like a bad idea and it turns out that getting into a jerry-rigged contraption to travel 13,000 feet below sea surface is a bad idea.
00:29:26.000 Here was Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush in one of his last interviews over the course of last year talking about how he wasn't worried that much about safety.
00:29:35.000 I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised.
00:29:40.000 We can use these off-the-shelf components.
00:29:42.000 I got these from Camper World.
00:29:44.000 We run the whole thing with this game controller.
00:29:47.000 Come on! 0.61
00:29:50.000 It seems like this submersible has some elements of MacGyver-y jerry-rig-ness.
00:29:58.000 I mean, you're putting construction pipes as ballasts.
00:30:00.000 I don't know if I'd use that description of it, but there's certain things that you want to be buttoned down.
00:30:07.000 So, the pressure vessel is not MacGyvered at all, because that's where we work with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington.
00:30:14.000 Everything else can fail.
00:30:15.000 Your thrusters can go, your lights can go, you're still going to be safe.
00:30:20.000 Okay, but the problem is that basically if there's one point of failure, if you're always one point of failure and there are no backup systems available, which is essentially the case with the submersible, you're dead.
00:30:30.000 If your ballast fails, right, you can't get rid of it, it's dragging you to the bottom and it fails,
00:30:34.000 what's your backup?
00:30:36.000 And what happens if your oxygen, you're dead, right?
00:30:39.000 There are a lot of points of failure in this particular system.
00:30:41.000 He said, I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed, don't get in your car,
00:30:43.000 don't do anything.
00:30:44.000 At some point, you're going to take some risk.
00:30:45.000 It really is a risk reward question.
00:30:48.000 Now, one of the questions here is why people are paying this much money to do this sort of thing.
00:30:52.000 I will say that one of the draws, I think, for a lot of very wealthy people
00:30:57.000 who are doing this sort of stuff is the price point.
00:31:00.000 Meaning that there comes a point where you have a lot of money, you're a billionaire like some of the people who are aboard this submersible, and somebody says you can have this experience for an incredible High price point, you immediately go, it must be safe.
00:31:13.000 I mean, if somebody is actually charging you that much money, it's not as though he's going to put me aboard a jerry-rigged vessel using parts from camping world.
00:31:19.000 Well, not so much, actually, as it turns out.
00:31:23.000 Again, it is quite possible that the controller that was running this thing was a $49.99 video game controller.
00:31:30.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, it's unclear if Oceangate Expeditions was using a Logitech controller on the Titan when it started its mission on Sunday.
00:31:36.000 A spokesperson for Oceangate declined to comment.
00:31:38.000 Logitech did not respond to requests for comment.
00:31:41.000 The Titan, which is the name of this submersible, lost contact with the ship, monitoring it from the surface one hour and 45 minutes after it began its dive in the North Atlantic on Sunday morning.
00:31:49.000 The Titanic, again, is 900 miles off Massachusetts' Cape Cod.
00:31:52.000 It's in the middle of nowhere.
00:31:54.000 The controller the Titan used in the past was a modified Logitech F710 gamepad with extended joysticks.
00:32:01.000 An earlier version was using the Sony PlayStation 3 controller.
00:32:05.000 So, I mean, again, this does go to one of the questions that people are asking about this, which is why people would do this.
00:32:15.000 Risk of death is mentioned at least three times on a waiver they signed before boarding.
00:32:18.000 As they dive deep into the ocean, according to the Wall Street Journal, untethered to the surface, sunlight faded away.
00:32:22.000 In pitch black waters, luminescent creatures became visible through a small porthole.
00:32:25.000 The bone-chilling cold bloomed on the Titans' curved walls, according to past travelers.
00:32:30.000 One comedy writer brought a pad and pencil on a trip last summer.
00:32:32.000 If the vessel failed, said Mike Rice, he'd write jokes from the bottom of the ocean as his last gift to the world.
00:32:37.000 Joseph Wortman, who went on a trip in 2021, said it was sobering to be inside the Titan.
00:32:41.000 He said, this is pretty extreme.
00:32:42.000 If something goes wrong, there's no real out.
00:32:43.000 You can't call 911.
00:32:44.000 You're going to have to figure it out on your own.
00:32:47.000 And again, the air was slated to run out as of Thursday morning.
00:32:51.000 One of the things that is fascinating about this is just how our country is so polarized that everybody goes to sort of politics immediately.
00:32:58.000 It's hard for me to find the political angle on what is obviously a tragedy.
00:33:03.000 I think there are a couple of human angles that are pretty obvious.
00:33:05.000 What drives people to do extreme things?
00:33:08.000 And spend a lot of money to do them.
00:33:10.000 So one perspective says this is adventuring, right?
00:33:12.000 This is exploring.
00:33:13.000 This is bravery.
00:33:14.000 Another says that this is basically a form of very high-end tourism.
00:33:18.000 And so the question for me is, if this were an SAT analogy, is this more like you are traveling to space and helping to fund a project that is going to lead to future discoveries, for example, like Richard Branson or Elon Musk or something?
00:33:30.000 Or is this more like you went on a safari?
00:33:32.000 And this seems to me more like a safari.
00:33:34.000 It's sort of disaster tourism, to a certain extent.
00:33:37.000 And so I don't think that you get the explorer points for something that has already been explored and in which there is no new discovery really to be made.
00:33:45.000 That doesn't mean what they're doing is quote-unquote morally wrong, although I'm not a big fan of putting yourself in dangerous situations that you don't need to be in unless there is some sort of real upside to it.
00:33:55.000 I think there may be a morality question there, just in terms of the value of human life.
00:33:58.000 If there is no real exploratory upside, and the safety risk is so high, is that something that you morally should be doing?
00:34:06.000 That's a real question.
00:34:07.000 But that's not the question that people are asking today.
00:34:09.000 The question people are asking today over at the New Republic is, who did the guy donate to?
00:34:12.000 The CEO. 0.89
00:34:12.000 Which is just, I'm sorry, ridiculous. 0.89
00:34:15.000 The New Republic actually ran a headline that said, quote, Well, I mean, I guess that means that he had it coming. 1.00
00:34:25.000 I guess it means all those people should die. 0.94
00:34:26.000 You know, if he donated to some local congressional Republicans or even to Donald Trump, that means that he should probably, you know, suffocate to death 13,000 feet below the ocean. 1.00
00:34:36.000 Ooh, gross stuff there from the New Republic.
00:34:39.000 And you can always count on Eli Mistel of MSNBC to sign in and be terrible as well.
00:34:43.000 He actually tweeted about Sam Alito, quote, next time some rich white person wants to take Sam Alito on an expensive trip, please take him to see the Titanic. 0.93
00:34:50.000 Eli Mistel, continuing to be one of the more disgusting people in American politics. 0.99
00:34:55.000 There is a sense of glee with a certain crowd when it comes to this, where they're like, oh, billionaires, billionaires doing stupid things and dying. 0.98
00:35:01.000 Well, again, it seems to me That the status of their wealth has very little to do with the moral worth of the decision. 0.97
00:35:10.000 Either it's a good decision or it's a bad decision.
00:35:13.000 Them being wealthy doesn't make them worse people for doing the thing.
00:35:16.000 You can say there's better uses for the money, and I would tend to agree with you.
00:35:20.000 But that does not mean that these are people who are innately horrible.
00:35:24.000 I mean, I haven't seen their charitable giving, have you?
00:35:29.000 And in terms of bad use of money, I don't see that there's a massive difference between spending $250,000 to take a submersible down to see the Titanic or spending $250,000 on a random Lamborghini that loses half its value the minute you drive it off the lot in terms of if we're going to critique people's spending habits.
00:35:45.000 All these weird strains of antagonism are rising to the surface on the back of a tragedy, and that really is ugly, because this is a tragedy.
00:35:51.000 Now, with that said, should we be devoting the kinds of efforts to saving migrants who are drowning in the Mediterranean, getting from Libya to Italy?
00:36:01.000 Should we spend more efforts doing that, or as many efforts, saving those 300 migrants who are doing that, than the five guys who took the submersible voluntarily, spending that much money?
00:36:09.000 I think there's a case to be made for that, for sure.
00:36:11.000 Alrighty, in just a second, We'll get to Joe Biden basically completely blowing it on China in every possible way.
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00:38:14.000 I like balloons.
00:38:14.000 They're pretty.
00:38:15.000 Meanwhile, you remember that time that Joe Biden was spending weeks trying to kiss up to the Chinese 0.95
00:38:19.000 in an attempt to avoid conflict with the Chinese? Even as China becomes more and more militant,
00:38:23.000 they're opening military bases in Cuba. Joe Biden was going out of his way. You remember
00:38:28.000 that time that he was saying, oh, yeah, there's a big balloon. They flew a big balloon over the
00:38:33.000 United States. It was a mistake. I like balloons. They're pretty. Oh, shiny balloon.
00:38:38.000 And then he got sleepy and went, just nodded right off after having a can of Ensure. 1.00
00:38:44.000 Well, his entire State Department was mobilized in order to kiss the ass of Xi Jinping, the dictator of China. 0.99
00:38:52.000 Well, now Joe Biden blew all of it. 0.99
00:38:54.000 So he was trying to approach them all and that failed because he's an old man who doesn't know what he is doing. 1.00
00:39:00.000 So apparently he was doing a fundraiser near San Francisco on Tuesday evening and he called Xi Jinping a dictator. 1.00
00:39:07.000 Well, she is a dictator, but that is really stupid. 0.99
00:39:11.000 If your strategy right now is how do I do a rapprochement with the dictator of China and you 1.00
00:39:18.000 really mobilize all resources, including the Secretary of State, to go over to China and 0.98
00:39:23.000 smooch some butt. 1.00
00:39:24.000 And then meanwhile, you go to a fundraiser like, that guy's a dictator, right? 1.00
00:39:27.000 Well, that seems real stupid. According to Jude Blanchett, China specialist at the Center for 0.99
00:39:34.000 Strategic and International Studies, to have the world's leading power refer to him in ways
00:39:37.000 that de-elevate him. I think Xi Jinping will take that personally.
00:39:40.000 He wants to be seen as a peer with the United States.
00:39:42.000 China's foreign ministry then termed Biden's characterization extremely absurd and extremely irresponsible.
00:39:47.000 The White House then declined to comment. 0.98
00:39:49.000 I love that Joe Biden just crapped all over himself, just crapped the bed.
00:39:52.000 Meanwhile, the State Department came out and tried to defend this. 0.68
00:39:54.000 They're simultaneously trying to defend the rapprochement with China and Joe Biden claiming that Xi Jinping is a dictator, thus Scuttling the rapprochement.
00:40:02.000 Good job, Joe.
00:40:03.000 He is... Oh man, clean up on aisle seven, guys.
00:40:05.000 Joe pooped his pants again.
00:40:06.000 The progress the secretary had appeared to have made, do you think that has faded or
00:40:15.000 wasted?
00:40:16.000 Absolutely not at all.
00:40:19.000 We believe that engagement and dialogue and diplomacy are integral to a number of the issues that we think are important as it relates to our bilateral relationship with the PRC.
00:40:37.000 That is a lot of us to obscure the fact that the President of the United States no longer has functional brain waves at this point.
00:40:43.000 Meanwhile, Andrea Mitchell was making excuses for Joe Biden as well. 1.00
00:40:47.000 Like, think about how stupid this is. 0.98
00:40:49.000 We mobilized all the resources of the government, up to and including Joe Biden, downplaying Chinese aggression just so he could call China a dictator and then reverse everything he was trying to do. 0.99
00:40:57.000 Here's Andrea Mitchell trying to save the President from himself. 0.99
00:41:00.000 Let's pull back the curtain a little bit and explain how these fundraisers work.
00:41:04.000 Because one person can go in, a pooler, to take notes, one or another, but no cameras, no audio that we can play.
00:41:13.000 And they have a transcript of it.
00:41:15.000 And he's speaking It's the West Coast.
00:41:17.000 It's late at night.
00:41:18.000 He's done four of these, plus that meeting on artificial intelligence earlier in the day, so he's had a very busy schedule.
00:41:24.000 And this is how he, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton at these events sometimes say things.
00:41:30.000 Clinton with deplorables.
00:41:31.000 Obama talked about guns out there in San Francisco.
00:41:34.000 Get themselves in trouble, because they become more relaxed when you don't see a camera platform, and you're surrounded by donors who want to hear the inside stuff, and you kind of get too casual, right?
00:41:47.000 Yeah, it's all casual.
00:41:48.000 Thanks for trying to walk that one back there, Andrew.
00:41:50.000 I really, really appreciate it.
00:41:51.000 Speaking of failures by the Biden administration, remember Randi Weingarten?
00:41:54.000 She, of course, is the head of the American Federation of Teachers and one of the most nefarious forces in the country. 0.98
00:41:59.000 It is worth noting at this point that her lockdown strategy when it came to schools has destroyed the educational experience and performance of literally tens of millions of American school kids.
00:42:07.000 Story from the Washington Post, national test scores plummeted for 13 year olds according to new data that shows the single largest drop in math in 50 years and no signs of academic recovery following the disruptions of the pandemic.
00:42:18.000 It's people like Randy Weingarten pushing for lockdowns and simultaneously pushing that we have to pay our teachers more.
00:42:24.000 It's always weird to me that every time our education system fails, the push from the left is, what if we paid our teachers more?
00:42:29.000 Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you achieved 40-year lows in outcome and you went into your boss for a raise.
00:42:34.000 How do you think that would go for you?
00:42:35.000 Well, Randy Weingarten is getting some special treatment from the Department of Homeland Security.
00:42:40.000 It was announced on Wednesday that they were going to create 22 members for their school safety board ahead of their first public meeting in the coming months.
00:42:46.000 One of those members?
00:42:47.000 Randi Weingarten.
00:42:48.000 She's going to be on the public school safety board, is Randi Weingarten, because she is just so good at her job. 0.65
00:42:54.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:42:57.000 So things I like.
00:42:58.000 Kind of like, I suppose?
00:42:59.000 Well, um, I didn't see epic rap battles of history, me versus Nicki Minaj happening, but apparently that's a thing that is now happening.
00:43:07.000 And the reason that's happening is because I had the temerity to critique Pound Town 2.
00:43:12.000 Revenge of the pound.
00:43:14.000 Um, and, um, for those who missed it, I did this a few days ago, the single worst song maybe ever recorded, Poundtown, but then there was a sequel called Poundtown 2, which is apparently too pound too furious.
00:43:30.000 Even more pounding.
00:43:31.000 Pound 2, pound harder.
00:43:34.000 Pound 2, live free or pound hard.
00:43:37.000 Um, I, I, yeah, so.
00:43:41.000 I can't wait till Poundtown 4, The Quest for Peace.
00:43:45.000 P-I-E-C-E. 1.00
00:43:48.000 Anyway, it's a terrible song by a person who calls herself Sexy Red.
00:43:53.000 There are multiple Y's at the end of her name for no reason that anyone can explain other than I guess that it is sort of a prereq in rap that you can't spell.
00:44:00.000 I think that's the way that this works.
00:44:01.000 Anyway, Nicki Minaj co-starred on Poundtown 2.
00:44:05.000 Now, in the original critique, I actually mentioned only that she co-starred in it, did Nicki Minaj.
00:44:11.000 I did not actually critique her verse in Poundtown 2.
00:44:14.000 Because after all, I think we'd had enough.
00:44:16.000 But now, Nicki Minaj has decided to sign into the chat.
00:44:23.000 She was unhappy with me critiquing the brilliant lyrics and extraordinary flow of a song in which the main artist, Sexy E Red, describes the colors of her various bodily orifices.
00:44:36.000 And Nicki Minaj was very insulted.
00:44:38.000 Very insulted indeed.
00:44:40.000 It's as though I had, it's as though I had shat upon Shakespeare.
00:44:44.000 And she had to sign in. 1.00
00:44:45.000 So she went on Twitter and she tweeted, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir. 1.00
00:44:51.000 No pun intended. 0.99
00:44:52.000 Directed at me because there's a clip of me going around. 0.99
00:44:56.000 It's, uh, so I had to first decode what this means because I don't speak stupid people. 1.00
00:45:03.000 And Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir. 1.00
00:45:06.000 No pun intended. 1.00
00:45:08.000 So Roman, I guess, is one of Nicki Minaj's various alter egos.
00:45:11.000 So she has many alter egos is my understanding.
00:45:14.000 And Roman is apparently, I had to look this up, a homosexual man who she plays sometimes or takes on that persona, which is weird.
00:45:25.000 And strange. 1.00
00:45:26.000 But in any case, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir. 1.00
00:45:28.000 To which I replied, not possible, Nicki Minaj, since you have apparently never recorded a song that left your ass out of it. 1.00
00:45:34.000 Which is true. 0.99
00:45:35.000 I mean, like, that's her entire brand, is it not?
00:45:39.000 My favorite version of rap battles is where you have a person like Nicki Minaj, whose entire brand is just rapping about sex.
00:45:48.000 And then you note that this is vulgar and crude. 0.99
00:45:50.000 And then she's like, you, leave my ass out of it. 1.00
00:45:55.000 You put your ass in it, lady. 1.00
00:45:57.000 It ain't my fault. 1.00
00:45:59.000 And she replied to that, So you can suck it. 1.00
00:46:05.000 S-U-K. 1.00
00:46:05.000 Again, not being able to spell is a prereq. 1.00
00:46:08.000 So you can suck it. 1.00
00:46:09.000 Love you. 1.00
00:46:10.000 Various emojis.
00:46:12.000 To which I replied, surprise twist.
00:46:14.000 Nicki Minaj was the one with the anaconda all along.
00:46:18.000 But in any case, I think what this requires now is that we actually look at the cultural context and pure joy of Poundtown 2, because we actually critiqued mostly the lyrics from Poundtown 1 last time.
00:46:31.000 First of all, before I even get to Nicki Minaj's verse here, I should point out that 6E Red She did an interview in which she described the rules of Poundtown.
00:46:40.000 Apparently, there is law in Poundtown.
00:46:43.000 Poundtown is not a lawless, anarchic place.
00:46:45.000 I don't know who the sheriff is in Poundtown, but apparently there is a full law enforcement body that is not systemically racist.
00:46:51.000 That's exciting to learn.
00:46:53.000 And one of the rules that we learned from SexyRed is that you should not get chlamydia.
00:47:01.000 Twice.
00:47:03.000 She got two...
00:47:06.000 She got two rounds of chlamydia, one for each pound town.
00:47:10.000 So, here we go.
00:47:12.000 Sexy Red. 1.00
00:47:13.000 I had chlamydia before, though, twice.
00:47:15.000 Okay.
00:47:16.000 That's the most pretty common.
00:47:18.000 Yeah, very common.
00:47:19.000 Well, let's do a PSA right now.
00:47:22.000 No, but how did you... So you felt it like you was burning?
00:47:25.000 No, it be a smell.
00:47:27.000 From chlamydia?
00:47:27.000 Yeah.
00:47:28.000 And you went to the doctor and they were like... Because me and my... This what happened.
00:47:32.000 Me and my n***a was together. 0.99
00:47:33.000 Mm-hmm. 0.99
00:47:33.000 And we broke up because he was cheating on me. 0.99
00:47:35.000 So then we broke up.
00:47:37.000 Then I went and did me.
00:47:38.000 And then you did him.
00:47:40.000 And then we got back together.
00:47:41.000 We missed each other, came back together.
00:47:42.000 And something wasn't right. 0.99
00:47:44.000 We both was like, what the fuck is this smell? 1.00
00:47:46.000 Oh, shit. 1.00
00:47:47.000 I'm like, ugh, what's going on? 1.00
00:47:50.000 So then we both went to the doctor together. 1.00
00:47:53.000 And then we both was like, well, you fucked two people. 1.00
00:47:55.000 And he like, you fucked two people, too. 0.99
00:47:57.000 I'm like, we don't know who did it. 0.99
00:47:59.000 We still don't know who called it.
00:48:00.000 Also, for those who cannot see this clip.
00:48:09.000 The sexy you read is also apparently she gets hairstyling tips from Tony the tiger. 0.62
00:48:15.000 Thank you.
00:48:16.000 From the Frosted Flakes box.
00:48:18.000 Thanks, uh, to the producers for that hat tip.
00:48:20.000 That is, uh, that is correct.
00:48:21.000 But, um, yeah, so that's Sexy Ered. 0.85
00:48:23.000 These are the kind of people that Nicki Minaj does songs with, because they are just the most brilliant, classy people that ever were.
00:48:29.000 And if you make fun of them, then Nicki Minaj will come at you with her male homosexual persona. 1.00
00:48:37.000 Who is apparently known as... What was it? 0.94
00:48:40.000 Roman? 0.93
00:48:41.000 Okay.
00:48:42.000 Yeah, yeah. 1.00
00:48:44.000 Got so much stupid in such a small... Oh, my God. 1.00
00:48:47.000 Anyway. 0.99
00:48:48.000 What are the actual lyrics from Nicki Minaj?
00:48:50.000 You thought that that clip of Sexy E Red talking about not only the color but the smell of various bodily orifices was bad.
00:48:57.000 Well, Nicki Minaj, well, she has some lyrics for you from her version of Sexy E Red's Pound Town 2.
00:49:04.000 As opposed to Pound Town 3 starring Mr. T.
00:49:06.000 Here we go.
00:49:08.000 Hey yo, my name is pink. I made him go get that ink. Let him eat that pretty b****. Now he keep trying to link. I'm 1.00
00:49:14.000 pimpin' pinky ring. His ex is his makey dink. I'm bout to pop a thingy then sip on his drinky drink. Get a grip from
00:49:20.000 my b****. Dip b**** with my tip. I'm a flip like a hundred bricks. Get back on my lick. I'm a b****. I want fish and 0.99
00:49:25.000 grits. Throwing hissy fits. I'm a cup of tea.
00:49:28.000 No I'll be tweaking on it. It's so bad. Oh my god missionary 1.00
00:49:34.000 doing split. She is She is a female role model. 0.99
00:49:39.000 She is what your daughters should all be looking up to is Nicki Minaj. 1.00
00:49:42.000 She is a strong, powerful woman who raps consistently about her own vagina. 1.00
00:49:48.000 Wow. 1.00
00:49:48.000 Wow. 1.00
00:49:49.000 This is what you this is the height of female power, female empowerment. 1.00
00:49:53.000 Indistinguishable, actually, from like 17th century prostitution, but also on record.
00:50:00.000 So that's exciting.
00:50:02.000 For those who don't actually know what the hell she was saying, I'm not gonna read you that part of the lyrics because I don't want to.
00:50:09.000 But here is part of the lyrics that she quote-unquote sings.
00:50:15.000 Scare quotes around singing.
00:50:17.000 Anyway, I'm out in Miami, ho. 0.99
00:50:19.000 He like feet, suck on this camel toe. 1.00
00:50:22.000 Eat the pound cake down. 0.99
00:50:24.000 I'm waxed up, booty hole waxed down.
00:50:27.000 Ah, the words of The words of Lord Alfred Tennyson.
00:50:34.000 That's strong stuff there.
00:50:37.000 From Poundtown 2.
00:50:40.000 From Poundtown 2.
00:50:41.000 Oh no.
00:50:46.000 Poundtown 2.
00:50:48.000 I can't get over that this is our culture.
00:50:50.000 And then we're all supposed to pretend that this is like high culture.
00:50:53.000 This is the part that drives me absolutely up a wall.
00:50:55.000 We're all supposed to pretend that this is somehow a reflection of intelligence, that it's a reflection of emotional depth, that it's all just playful witticisms and lyricisms.
00:51:06.000 Wow, that our culture has not degraded in any way.
00:51:09.000 Pound town, too.
00:51:10.000 Red, white, and pound.
00:51:12.000 Good stuff there from Nicki Minaj.
00:51:15.000 And again, never thought I'd be in epic rap battles of history.
00:51:18.000 Me versus Nicki Minaj.
00:51:19.000 That was not one I saw coming.
00:51:20.000 Okay.
00:51:20.000 You know what?
00:51:21.000 No time for things I hate.
00:51:22.000 That was basically a thing I hate anyway.
00:51:24.000 So, yeah, we're done here.
00:51:25.000 Alrighty, guys.
00:51:26.000 We're gonna talk to Dr. Marty McGarry now about a more serious topic like vaccinations and their efficacy.
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