A massive update on the biggest cover-up and scandal of my political lifetime. Plus, we will get to the situation in Ukraine. Is there somebody who is sort of freelancing foreign policy inside the Trump administration? Plus, the Trump Administration putting Harvard on blast first. The Daily Wire's Isabelle Brown is joining the fight.
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00:00:42.000All righty, folks, it's time to talk about the biggest conspiracy and the biggest cover-up in modern American history.
00:00:48.000And no, I'm not talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:00:49.000If you want my full take on that, you can listen to yesterday's show.
00:00:52.000But I am talking about the cover-up that was right in front of us and that actually does go all the way to the top.
00:00:57.000And that, of course, involves the fact that the president of the United States was for several years mentally deficient and that someone else, we don't know who, was actually running the country.
00:01:07.000Well, the smoking gun to that effect was essentially presented yesterday in front of Congress.
00:01:12.000So Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who is former President Joe Biden's White House physician, invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, which is insane.
00:01:22.000House Republicans, led by Representative James Comer, had subpoenaed O'Connor in June, according to Newsweek, ordering him to testify as part of the investigation into the cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
00:01:33.000Remember, for years, the entire media, the entire Democratic apparatus claimed that Joe Biden was mentally well, and we could all even see his decline back during that 2020 race.
00:01:43.000It was not nearly as severe as it became in 2021, 22, and certainly by 2024 when he went on stage with Donald Trump and effectively died on the stage.
00:01:52.000But it was clear to anyone with eyeballs who was watching Joe Biden for any amount of time that this was a man who's in serious mental and physical decline.
00:02:00.000And Kevin O'Connor was the former White House physician for Joe Biden.
00:02:06.000And here he was yesterday, pleading the fifth.
00:02:08.000He was asked about what he knew when he knew it about Joe Biden's health condition, and he pled the fifth.
00:02:13.000Were you ever told to lie about the president's health?
00:02:17.000On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
00:02:26.000Did you ever believe the president was unfit to execute his duties as president?
00:02:32.000On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
00:02:42.000On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
00:02:52.000Dr. O'Connor, is it your intention to decline to answer all questions put to you today by the committee on the basis of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination?
00:03:02.000On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
00:03:15.000Okay, so he is claiming based on two things that he is not going to testify.
00:03:19.000One, of course, is physician patient privilege, which is the idea that you are supposed to keep secret the sort of health information that you and your doctor exchange.
00:03:28.000The doctor is not supposed to talk publicly about that.
00:03:31.000However, however, the physician patient privilege should probably not extend to public statements that you make about the health of the president of the United States because you're violating patient privilege by even saying that much.
00:03:43.000If you make a statement that the president is healthy, that the president has the following conditions, that's a violation of physician patient privilege in any other context.
00:03:51.000If your doctor went to a bar today and started talking about your specific health issues, even if he said you're totally healthy and fine, that's a violation of physician patient privilege.
00:04:00.000But that's exactly what Kevin O'Connor did as the White House doctor for Joe Biden.
00:04:04.000He put out public statements about the health of the president of the United States.
00:04:09.000And so asking him about that really should not be an issue.
00:04:13.000As far as the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that protects against self-incrimination.
00:04:17.000So what he's saying is, if I talk here, then I may find myself in danger of a perjury trap.
00:04:23.000I might find myself in danger of committing a crime, which is absolutely astonishing.
00:04:29.000Again, remember, the original question here was, were you instructed to lie about the president's health at any point?
00:04:34.000That is not, by the way, a question about the president's health.
00:04:37.000Notice that's not a question about the president's health.
00:04:39.000That's a question about the lies surrounding the president's health.
00:04:44.000And if he says yes, then he's relying on the Fifth Amendment, presumably, right?
00:04:50.000Then he's saying that he might have told the American people something false or told Congress something false or something like that.
00:04:56.000All of which goes to the fact that it is a dramatically undercovered feature of our national life that for several years, the president of the United States was not Joseph R. Biden, the elected president of the United States, and that there were people who colluded to keep him in power, despite the fact we have an explicit amendment to the Constitution designed to oust people who are mentally incompetent from this office, which means all members of the Biden cabinet were complicit in the cover-up of his health condition.
00:05:22.000All Biden cabinet members were complicit in the reality that the president of the United States was not actually the president of the United States.
00:05:36.000And now all of the key witnesses are claiming, what, their Fifth Amendment rights?
00:05:42.000A statement was put out on behalf of Dr. O'Connor by his lawyers.
00:05:47.000Quote, as you know, Dr. Kevin O'Connor served as the physician to President Biden during President Biden's term of office from January 2021 to January 2025.
00:05:56.000Dr. O'Connor also had been President Biden's primary care physician for the 12 years before President Biden took office.
00:06:01.000It was Dr. O'Connor's privilege and honor to serve as President Biden's physician as head of the White House medical unit.
00:06:08.000Dr. O'Connor also served in the United States Army for more than 20 years, doing active tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:06:13.000This committee has indicated to Dr. O'Connor and his attorneys it does not intend to honor one of the most well-known privileges in our law, the physician-patient privilege.
00:06:21.000Now, again, he was the White House doctor who did, in fact, speak publicly about the health of the President of the United States while he was in the White House.
00:06:30.000So this is not a normal patient-physician relationship.
00:06:36.000The committee has indicated it will demand that Dr. O'Connell reveal, without any limitations, confidential information regarding his medical examinations, treatment, and care of President Biden.
00:06:43.000Revealing confidential patient information would violate the most fundamental ethical duty of a physician, could result in revocation of Dr. O'Connor's medical license, and would subject Dr. O'Connor to potential civil liability.
00:06:53.000He will not violate his oath of confidentiality to any of his patients, including President Biden.
00:06:58.000Furthermore, through the issuance of a presidential memorandum dated June 4th, 2025, 2025, President Trump has directed the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel to conduct a parallel criminal investigation into the same topics being investigated by this committee.
00:07:11.000In fact, just this past Sunday, Chairman Comer himself confirmed on Fox that Pambondi has announced an investigation at the Department of Justice into the illegal use of the Autopen.
00:07:20.000We believe that the committee should hold its investigation in abeyance until any criminal investigation has concluded.
00:07:26.000The totality of the circumstances surrounding this committee's investigation leave Dr. O'Connor no choice but to decline to answer questions on two overlapping grounds.
00:07:33.000First, the physician patient privilege.
00:07:35.000Second, the pending DOJ criminal investigation leaves Dr. O'Connor no choice but to invoke his constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to any questions posed by the committee.
00:07:45.000Now, Congress can easily solve this problem.
00:07:48.000All they have to do is just grant him immunity because then the Fifth Amendment concern goes away.
00:07:52.000If they say anything you testify on today cannot be used as the basis for your future prosecution, he can no longer claim the Fifth Amendment because the Fifth Amendment only applies in arenas where you could theoretically be prosecuted for the things that you are saying.
00:08:07.000By the way, there are ways around this.
00:08:08.000According to the Congressional Research Service, under federal statute, when a witness asserts the privilege, the full house or the committee conducting the investigation may seek a court order that one directs the witness to testify and two grants the witness immunity against the use of his or her testimony.
00:08:21.000So that presumably is the next step right here.
00:09:33.000So the Alex Thompson J. Tapper book, Original Sin, which is all about the cover-up of Joe Biden's mental health condition, mentions O'Connor several times.
00:09:43.000Quote, O'Connor told people the 10-minute test was for physicians who saw their patients only occasionally, and he constantly saw the president.
00:09:49.000When others suggested doing the test to make sure, O'Connor would sometimes point to the Oval Office and say, Biden's already being president.
00:09:56.000O'Connor quipped that Biden's staff were trying to kill him while O'Connor was trying to keep him alive.
00:10:20.000Also, why was everybody else in the White House complicit in this cover-up?
00:10:23.000And who the hell was the president of the United States for multiple years, for multiple years?
00:10:29.000Now, listen, I understand all of this has consequences for the radical and I think justified distrust of our institutions on a wide level.
00:10:36.000What we've watched over the course of the last few years is the complete destruction of institutional trust at pretty much every major American institution.
00:10:43.000And I think that that destruction of trust is largely, sometimes almost entirely justified from the BLM riots of 2020 to the COVID lies that we were told during 2020 to the lies that were told about inflation in Afghanistan and the president's health.
00:11:01.000I'm not sure more lies have ever been exposed more quickly than right now.
00:11:04.000So I totally get the radical skepticism that many, many people are engaging in right now.
00:11:10.000And even in cases where I don't agree with the outcome of that radical skepticism, I totally understand the radical skepticism for sure, for sure.
00:11:17.000This needs to be uncovered to the fullest extent of law, and people do need to be prosecuted for it.
00:11:24.000Anybody who was involved in the Joe Biden cabinet that refused to make a move to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust him as president of the United States for mental incompetence needs to be effectively barred from politics forever.
00:11:39.000Anyone who is a cabinet secretary who rose to that level, the Pete Buttigieges of the world, for example, needs to be held accountable for not having tried to invoke the 25th Amendment because the American people were robbed of having a president of the United States that they actually elected.
00:11:58.000And the fact that the doctor is taking the Fifth Amendment right now is just demonstrative of the lengths to which people surrounding the president will go to maintain their hold on proximity to power, even if the person they are supposed to be caring for is the president of the United States, not his administrative power or his family members who may be exercising that power in his absence.
00:12:18.000Again, the widespread speculation, justified by an enormous amount of contemporaneous evidence, is that it was actually Jill and Hunter who were effectively running the country while the president of the United States was mentally incompetent.
00:12:30.000Democrats are going to have to live this one down for a very, very long time.
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00:15:10.000politico both top republican congressional leaders said wednesday they are prepared to move forward with new sanctions targeting russia this month after president trump signaled this week he is willing to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
00:15:22.000Speaker Johnson said Vladimir Putin has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable and to talk seriously about brokering a peace.
00:15:27.000And I think we have to send him a message.
00:15:31.000Meanwhile, Senator Majority Leader Thune cited substantial progress in working with the White House on legislation he said would, quote, enhance President Trump's leverage at the negotiating table and help end the bloodshed in Ukraine.
00:15:41.000He said Senate Republicans are committed to working with the House and White House to get this legislation through Congress and onto the president's desk.
00:15:49.000And this, of course, is the right approach.
00:15:50.000I mean, the fact is that Vladimir Putin is wildly intransigent.
00:15:53.000He does not want an end to this conflict.
00:15:56.000He believes that if he just holds out long enough, eventually resistance is going to collapse and he will be able to take Ukraine.
00:16:02.000And he's also in a situation where he can continue to run this meat grinder on his own people.
00:16:07.000And because he's a dictator who hurls people from third story windows without the questioning media to ask him about it, because every leader kills people, he's able to continue doing this odd infinitum.
00:16:17.000He can just continue doing this forever.
00:16:19.000The United States backing off would mean that Ukraine loses the war.
00:16:22.000In fact, last night in Kyiv was the biggest drone barrage of the war so far.
00:16:27.000Russia's been dramatically upping the ante in Ukraine.
00:16:30.000Joining us on the line is JP Lindsley, American journalist who has reported from Ukraine off and live since 2022, bringing daily uncensored frontline updates to a global audience.
00:16:38.000JP, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:16:45.000And I know you were here not long ago.
00:16:48.000And when you were here, it was calm and quiet.
00:16:50.000But what we went through last night, really the past week, but last night was probably the worst and most intense attack I have witnessed during my three years of reporting here every single day.
00:17:01.000So why don't you tell me about what's been going on for the last week?
00:17:06.000What do those look like on the ground in Kyiv?
00:17:08.000When we were there, there was a drone alert, but it never actually materialized.
00:17:11.000Obviously, things have changed pretty radically.
00:17:14.000Yeah, you know, I'd say that there are two types of dualities here in the war that I'm feeling, that we're feeling every day here.
00:17:20.000One is a duality that happens at the front line, which is something we can discuss later.
00:17:23.000But then this is a duality in the cities.
00:17:26.000And so a city like Kyiv today, you know that every single person in this city was awake the entire night during that horrible, intense attack.
00:17:34.000And moments ago, I was just going for a run through the city.
00:17:38.000People went to work on time this morning.
00:17:40.000I was at my coffee shop at 9 o'clock in the morning.
00:17:44.000And yet you know that everyone has gone through this hell.
00:17:46.000And what we had last night from about 1.30 in the morning until almost 4 o'clock, something that I've never witnessed before.
00:17:54.000Every single second, then for those hours, almost every single second, we heard the sound of the Iranian-designed Shahed drones buzzing or exploding.
00:18:04.000Every single second, for two and a half hours, incredibly intense, terrifying.
00:18:09.000Even people that have been through a lot here, military guys and all that, everyone was scared.
00:18:15.000And it felt like one of those nights when you think, this could be the end.
00:18:18.000And then very curiously, in the shelter where I was in my building, at about 4 o'clock in the morning, the intense drone attack stopped.
00:18:26.000And then we got round two, which was the missiles, the ballistic missiles.
00:18:30.000But very interestingly, people started to leave the shelter during the missile attack, in part because you get tired in a way and you accept things.
00:18:37.000But also, if a missile hits your building, a shelter is not really going to protect you.
00:18:41.000So the irony is when the more dangerous weapon showed up, people go upstairs and go back up to their apartments.
00:18:46.000And then just a few hours later, 8 o'clock, I was at my regular coffee shop and everyone is, you can tell everyone is shaking.
00:18:54.000The girl pouring my coffee, she just said Strasno, scary, and she smiles and says, what a beautiful day the weather is today.
00:19:19.000On a geopolitical level, the president of the United States is upping the ante as well, because he has now recognized publicly that Vladimir Putin was slowplaying him or lying to him about his supposed desire to achieve a ceasefire.
00:19:29.000President Zelensky of Ukraine, of course, has for at this point months been saying that he is willing to do an immediate ceasefire, just freeze the lines on the ground, and all the rest.
00:19:38.000Putin has been saying nothing of the sort.
00:19:40.000President Trump has said, okay, well, then I'm going to send additional defensive weaponry to Ukraine.
00:19:45.000Do you think it's because President Trump is now recognizing the reality that Vladimir Putin is trying to up the ante and put pressure on Trump?
00:19:51.000I think there's a significant chance of that because we're seeing, you know, every attack these past weeks, every major attack has been the worst ever.
00:19:57.000And it's always coincident with something that Trump has just said.
00:20:01.000And if you look at Trump's comments, you know, saying the other day that Putin is full of BS, you know, we're starting to see that Trump is seeing a different perspective on Ukraine.
00:20:08.000He's seeing that Ukraine needs to win and maybe even that Ukraine can win.
00:20:52.000If Americans saw that, they would love it.
00:20:54.000And they'd say, we need to protect it.
00:20:55.000But they only really see the negative side of it.
00:20:57.000And I think even within the White House, maybe this is changing now.
00:21:00.000But even the White House has only seen the sad stories and they haven't seen the stories of strength.
00:21:05.000And there's a new chance now with Ukraine finally, they should have done this a while ago, is dismissing the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. who really didn't understand the heart of America.
00:21:17.000And I think the key here is that Ukraine doesn't score an own goal, that they picked the right person.
00:21:22.000And so I would hope they would pick someone like someone you met, my friend Gandalf, the warrior from Mazov, who's lost an eye and an arm in battle, who, by the way, listens to your show, or my friend Serhi Stakovsky, who beat Roger Federer at Wimbledon, and now he's a soldier in the front lines.
00:21:37.000If Ukraine can think like that, and they can think of the optics that are needed to persuade the American people, the optics that Trump needs to make the case, I think then Ukraine can actually seize this moment, this awakening from Trump, and the sense that what Russia is doing, as Trump himself said, that Putin is just a bad person.
00:21:55.000And finally, I think thanks to your reporting and thanks to these attacks on cities like Kyiv, finally Trump is starting to realize what Margaret Thatcher realized in 2000, that Putin is a bad guy.
00:22:07.000So let's talk for a second about the situation on the Eastern Front.
00:22:10.000Obviously, Russia continues to pour troops and material into that area.
00:22:15.000The case that the United States has made, and I think this is true for virtually everybody on the right, including people like me, is that the chances right now that Ukraine is going to be able to push Russia out of Donbass or out of Crimea, extremely, extremely low.
00:22:27.000So when Americans look at the possibility of an off-ramp, obviously everybody in Ukraine, in the United States, would love to see an off-ramp.
00:22:34.000That off-ramp can only come when Vladimir Putin realizes that he's not going to be able to go an inch further and that there is, in fact, a wall in his way in the form of material aid and support.
00:22:43.000President Trump seems to be coming to that conclusion right now.
00:22:46.000How dynamic is the battlefield in the East right now?
00:22:49.000Are the lines moving or is this essentially a frozen conflict?
00:22:52.000Well, I would say here's what the other duality is, because, you know, there's incredible things happening at the front, especially with Ukrainian drone innovation.
00:22:59.000But there's also, everything is always, you know, just a few steps away from disaster.
00:23:04.000And it's been that way these three years.
00:23:12.000The first step could simply be getting Patriot missile systems and other air defense to protect Ukrainian cities, to make sure that the fight is only at the front line and stop letting it be in the cities.
00:23:21.000That's the first thing that can happen.
00:23:23.000Secondly, at the front, you know, here's an important perspective.
00:23:26.000So last August, the Russians were on the edge of taking the city of Prokrovsk in Donbas.
00:23:32.000And go back and look at all the headlines from The Economist and the BBC, all the military experts told us that Prokrovsk was going to fall in two weeks.
00:23:41.000Prokrovsk now is decimated, but it hasn't fallen.
00:23:44.000And we never see, you know, the absence of a problem doesn't become a headline in our Western media, but it should be.
00:23:50.000I mean, Ukrainians have held Prokrovsk, which means that instead of the fight being in a major city like Dnipro, it's been in a small city.
00:23:57.000And so when we talk about frozen conflict, I think we kind of miss that element of the story, that actually, because Ukrainians have held the line, other places are safer.
00:24:06.000And if Ukrainians had the firepower from the West, so what Ukrainians are doing with their resources is incredible innovation.
00:24:16.000I just posted a thread on Axe yesterday at JP Lindsley about how NATO drones, when they come to Ukraine, including American drones, including from great American companies, they're not ready.
00:24:30.000They could teach so many lessons to the Pentagon.
00:24:32.000But with those drones, they can kind of hold the line.
00:24:35.000But as far as pushing it back, you cannot do that without the heavy firepower that comes from a country like Germany and especially America.
00:24:43.000And so if Trump were to decide to move away from only a defensive posture, that's the first thing, protect the cities.
00:24:48.000But you could really end this if you get American firepower, which we've seen.
00:24:52.000I mean, when the HIMARS arrived, Joe Biden reluctantly sent them, Jake Sullivan, Otto Penn, whatever, reluctantly sent the HIMARS in June of 2022.
00:25:01.000Before the HIMARS arrived, one city in Donbass was falling every week into Russian hands.
00:25:24.000Well, President Trump, for his part, was asked by the media about who had authorized the pause and aids Ukraine, particularly Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine.
00:25:33.000Here was President Trump being grilled about it.
00:25:36.000Yesterday, you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine.
00:25:43.000Have you since been able to figure that out?
00:25:45.000Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have not gone into it.
00:25:52.000What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?
00:26:02.000In fact, most likely I'd give the order, but I haven't done that yet.
00:26:06.000Okay, so the question is then who did give the order?
00:26:09.000Because there are clearly forces inside the Trump administration who are running their own foreign policy.
00:26:13.000This is a thing that clearly is happening.
00:26:16.000So, according to the scroll, which is a daily news update from Tablet, they think that they've uncovered who this person was.
00:26:22.000It is not a shock to find that it is probably Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of Defense, who is allies with the Vice President of the United States and is very much part of the isolationist wing inside the White House.
00:26:33.000Now, again, there can be widespread debate inside the White House about foreign policy.
00:26:36.000We know that that debate happens and that there are very live conversations about a wide variety of topics ranging from Ukraine to the Middle East to the Far East.
00:26:46.000It is another thing to effectuate your own decision-making before the president signs in to just go ahead and do the thing.
00:26:53.000And that seems to me a fireable offense, if this is true.
00:26:56.000So Park McDougal reporting, last week, media reported the United States had decided to pause weapons shipments to Ukraine, including missile defense interceptors, 155 millimeter artillery shells, and Stinger surface-to-air missiles amid concern about the U.S.'s military stockpiles.
00:27:10.000The move marked a major shift in U.S. policy, one that could spell doom for Ukraine's war against Russia.
00:27:14.000As it turned out, the policy shift lasted less than a week.
00:27:18.000President Trump said the weapons deliveries to Ukraine would continue because the Ukrainians have to be able to defend themselves.
00:27:23.000The next day, he said he didn't know who had authorized the weapons pause and added a shot at the Russian president Vladimir Putin, saying, quote, we get a lot of BS thrown to us by Putin.
00:27:31.000So someone formulated a major change in U.S. foreign policy and announced it to the press without clearing it with the president of the United States.
00:27:39.000According to two reports on Wednesday, one in CNN, one in Politico, the authorization for the weapons pause came from the defense secretary, but the idea came from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and restraintist extraordinaire Elbridge Bridge Colby.
00:27:52.000Per the reports, Colby recommended the pause after Trump ordered a review of U.S. munitions stockpiles and then pushed it up the chain at the Pentagon.
00:27:58.000Hegseth signed off on Colby's recommendation, but did so without first notifying Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg, or Congress.
00:28:06.000Upon learning of the pause, White House officials told Hegseth they would provide cover for the decision, but urged the Pentagon to explain it to Congress.
00:28:14.000But here, as always, it's not clear who these White House officials were, whether they were acting with Trump's approval, or whether they had even looped the president in.
00:28:21.000And again, one of the things that I noted yesterday on the program is that in the political article that named Check Colby is the source of this pause, the first person to rush out to defense was the press secretary, the communications director for J.D. Vance, not President Trump, not the Defense Department.
00:28:38.000And again, this all plays a role in the perception of Elbridge Colby as a man who's running his own foreign policy in the administration to the detriment of the administration.
00:28:48.000Right now, the top priority for the administration in the Far East is containment of China.
00:28:52.000This is why we have significant tariffs on China.
00:28:55.000It is why we are pursuing a military buildup largely directed at the South China Sea and protecting Taiwan from the predations of China.
00:29:02.000It's why we are trying to foster a better relationship with Japan.
00:29:04.000That is a hard-fought trade negotiation happening with Japan right now.
00:29:08.000Well, apparently, Bridge Colby has been participating in a process of effectively undermining our relationship with Japan.
00:29:17.000According to that political report, he was responsible for tanking the 2 plus 2 summit with Japan scheduled for July.
00:29:23.000The Japanese had agreed to negotiate on the basis of Kolby's initial request to raise their defense spending to 3.5% of GDP.
00:29:30.000That's doubling the percent of GDP they're currently spending on defense.
00:29:33.000But then Kolby unilaterally escalated the demand to 5%, and Japan was like, what the hell?
00:29:38.000Why are you just throwing this thing in the middle of the table right now when we're late in the negotiations?
00:29:42.000Apparently, Kolby also has surprised officials at the State Department and National Security Council by ordering a review of AUKUS.
00:29:49.000That's the trilateral U.S.-British-Australian security pact, under which the U.S. agreed to supply Australia with nuclear submarines and reportedly alarmed the British by demanding they recall an aircraft carrier from a routine deployment to Asia because the United States does not want you there.
00:30:03.000And again, Japan canceling those negotiations with the United States over Colby.
00:30:08.000Japan really does not like to do that.
00:30:11.000So, you know, all of this suggests that there is not just a split inside the administration.
00:30:18.000It suggests actually that there are some people inside the administration who are just doing things without the permission of the president of the United States.
00:30:27.000I don't agree with everything President Trump does.
00:30:29.000There are times where I'm very critical of the president of the United States.
00:30:31.000I also don't work in the executive branch.
00:30:33.000The job of the people who work inside the executive branch is to effectuate the policy of the presidents of the United States whom they serve.
00:30:40.000And again, it is one thing to have a widespread, open, honest, hard debate about tough issues in American foreign policy.
00:30:48.000It's another thing to just go do your own foreign policy under the auspices of the president of the United States without his permission.
00:31:00.000You are not supposed to be doing that.
00:31:03.000In the first term, we called that the deep state when there were people who were actively pursuing their own policy preferences without reference to the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
00:31:11.000We said that was the deep state thwarting the will of the president.
00:31:14.000If that is what happened here with regard to the arms pause on Ukraine, then the president should make somebody's head roll for that, truly.
00:31:22.000Because again, it is the president of the United States whose policy must prevail in these conversations.
00:31:26.000And that's true whether you like the president's policy or you don't like the president's policy.
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00:33:38.000And meanwhile, the president of the United States has authorized more action on the education front.
00:33:44.000So the Trump administration is now suing the state of California because the state of California has decided that they are going to, in fact, ensure that boys can race against girls in athletics.
00:33:54.000According to Los Angeles Times, the Trump administration on Wednesday sued California for allowing transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity, alleging state officials violated federal civil rights law by discriminating against women, a legal action that threatens billions of dollars in federal education funds.
00:34:09.000The suit filed in the Central District of California alleges that California is in violation of Title IX, a 1972 federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding.
00:34:21.000Our friend and the U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmie Dillon said, quote, Title IX was enacted over half a century ago to protect women and girls from discrimination.
00:34:29.000The Justice Department will not stand for policies that deprive girls of their hard-earned athletic trophies and ignore the safety on the field and in private spaces.
00:34:36.000Young women should not have to sacrifice their rights to compete for scholarships, opportunities, and awards on the altar of woke gender ideology.
00:34:42.000Of course, this is the correct policy, naturally.
00:34:45.000Linda McMahon, she announced that the Department of Education was finding California in violation of Title IX.
00:34:53.000Well, I can announce, you know, today, Ainsley, that the Department of Education has found that the state of California, the Department of Education, and their Interscholastic Sports Federation is in violation of Title IX.
00:35:09.000We are giving them 10 days to remedy that situation.
00:35:53.000So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that.
00:35:56.000There's also humility and grace, you know, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression.
00:36:03.000And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with.
00:36:09.000Okay, but that does not mean that boys should race against the girls.
00:36:12.000So Gavin Newsom said all the right things to Charlie Kirk, and then he proceeded to continue to do exactly the same thing that he was doing before.
00:36:18.000Well, meanwhile, the education department is now announcing that their interest accrual for student loan borrowers is going to resume on August 1st, which of course makes sense.
00:36:28.000And there are a lot of people who are student loan borrowers who are very happy with the student loan repayment pause.
00:36:41.000However, the federal taxpayer should not be the one who has to pick up the bill for your decision to take out a gigantic loan to major in sociology at Wellesley.
00:36:50.000That really is not the taxpayer's burden.
00:36:52.000Since the ruling, millions of borrowers have remained in forbearance with no interest accrual, with the possibility this forbearance could last until summer 2026 before borrowers were forced to switch out.
00:37:02.000So the Education Department is now urging borrowers to choose a new repayment plan before restarting payments.
00:37:08.000In the One Big Beautiful bill, Congressional Republicans eliminated this program and some other repayment options, leaving borrowers with two possible plans, a standard repayment plan and a new repayment assistance plans.
00:37:19.000And they have until 2028 to figure that out.
00:37:21.000Secretary of Education McMahon said for years the Biden administration used so-called loan forgiveness promises to win votes, but federal courts repeatedly ruled that those actions were unlawful.
00:37:29.000Congress designed these programs to ensure that borrowers repay their loans, yet the Biden administration tried to illegally force taxpayers to foot the bill instead.
00:37:36.000Since day one of the Trump administration, we focused on strengthening the student loan portfolio and simplifying repayment to better serve borrowers.
00:37:43.000And that is the goal of this particular program.
00:37:45.000The administration, by the way, is also going after Harvard on every available front because if Harvard continues to churn out propagandistic violations of the Civil Rights Act, well, then Harvard's going to take it directly on the chin.
00:37:57.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration has now attacked Harvard University's accreditation, saying that the school has violated federal discrimination law and may no longer meet accreditation standards.
00:38:07.000The Department's Education, Health, and Human Services notified Harvard's accreditor that a government investigation found the school violated civil rights law for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment.
00:38:19.000The notification does not actually remove Harvard's accreditation, which would effectively shut down the school.
00:38:24.000It's a shot across the bow telling Harvard to work with the school to, quote, keep the department fully informed of its efforts to ensure that Harvard is in compliance with federal law and accreditor standards.
00:38:33.000Also, DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, has announced it will subpoena Harvard to obtain records relevant to the enforcement of immigration law in connection with the school's international students.
00:38:44.000Again, there's huge numbers of foreign students who are being imported to the United States from enemy countries like China and who are being given all sorts of magical privileges in the United States.
00:38:54.000The Trump administration is seeking to stop all of that.
00:38:58.000Meanwhile, in other action taken By the Trump administration, we now know that the FBI and DOJ are opening investigations into RussiaGate, into the prosecution of John Brennan, the former head of the CIA, as well as James Comey, the former head of the FBI, for their corrupt activities in connection with the Russiagate investigation.
00:39:16.000John Brennan continues to maintain that he's heard nothing from the DOJ so far.
00:39:20.000The people who actually worked this, both in terms of trying to collect intelligence prior to the election, and then the ones who put together the intelligence community assessment, they really, I think, showed the best of what the intelligence community and what CIA is made of.
00:39:33.000So again, I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.
00:39:40.000Well, I mean, I think that you should know what they're investigating me for.
00:39:43.000He went in front of Congress and he testified that he had nothing to do with the insertion of the steel dossier into the intelligence community assessment regarding Russia Gate.
00:39:53.000And it turns out that that, according to internal documents and emails, that that wasn't exactly correct, actually.
00:39:58.000John Brennan, one of the most corrupt people in the history of modern American government and now under investigation, that, of course, is the right move.
00:40:04.000President Trump signed into chat on this particular matter.
00:40:50.000It is the issue on which he is most popular.
00:40:53.000Trump's proposals with regard to immigration are approved by a wide majority of Americans by every available poll.
00:40:59.000And so you're starting to see people try to come up with new angles to thwart immigration law or to make their pitch more sympathetic.
00:41:10.000So for example, the San Bernardino bishop, a man named Alberto Rojas, has now put out a statement dispensing with his parishioners' obligations to attend Sunday Mass, saying that you don't have to come to Mass anymore, because if you come to Mass, you might get arrested.
00:41:29.000The statement says, recognizing that fear of immigration enforcement, such as raids by U.S. ICE, may deter some members of our diocese from fulfilling the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of obligation, and acknowledging that such fear constitutes a grave inconvenience that may impede the spiritual good of the faithful, I hereby decree that all members of the faithful of the Diocese of San Bernardino who due to genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions are unable to attend Sunday Mass or Masses on Holy Days of obligation are dispensed from this obligation until such time as this decree is revoked or amended.
00:42:00.000Pastors, parochial vicars, other pastoral ministers are to provide compassionate support to those affected by this fear, ensuring they feel welcomed and safe in our communities.
00:42:07.000Parishes are encouraged to explore alternative means of sacramental preparation for those unable to attend regularly.
00:42:14.000So this was then ripped up by Tom Homan, who had a lot of worries about this.
00:42:22.000He said that the announcement was basically designed to set up a public relations stunt by saying that ICE is raiding churches.
00:42:35.000He said, I don't know of a single incident of church arrest.
00:42:39.000Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Wire, we would only go in there if there was a violent criminal who's actively hiding out there or something.
00:42:46.000That is just a fact of the matter, unfortunately.
00:42:48.000The Catholic Church has been a heavy force in facilitating illegal immigration into the United States.
00:42:55.000If you go down to the southern border, there are, in fact, Catholic charities and organizations that out of charitable intentions try to facilitate the movement of illegal immigrants away from the southern border.
00:43:07.000And of course, churches around the country have been complicit in attempting to push sanctuary status and all the rest.
00:43:17.000But it still sort of boggles the mind that some of these churches are willing to flout federal law in this way, as though it is a call of religion to tell people that violation of federal law, particularly basic law like border law, is somehow a positive good or a law that should simply be disregarded.
00:43:38.000Listen, sometimes religious conviction and law conflicts.
00:43:41.000In fact, that happens fairly frequently.
00:43:44.000But this is a strange place to sort of plant your flag at the very, very least.
00:43:49.000And as Tom Holman says, this happens to be a particularly bad example of that because ICE is not, in fact, raiding churches.
00:43:56.000Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is, of course, the leftmost worst mayor in America until Zorn Mamdani of New York gets elected, he says that the police will never cooperate with ICE.
00:44:08.000You know, again, it's unconscionable at a time in which so many working people and poor people need government to show up for them, that this administration, the Trump administration, has caused so much consternation and division.
00:44:22.000Look, we are welcoming city ordinance.
00:44:25.000Our local police department will not ever cooperate with ICE.
00:44:37.000Whatever their constitutional authority is.
00:44:43.000Well, then I would assume that if you actually facilitate illegal immigration in violation of federal law, you could find yourself on the wrong side of the borders fairly soon.
00:44:51.000You know, Eric Swalwell, who is a man who chases the cameras like a Kardashian.
00:44:57.000I mean, that red light goes on anywhere in a 300-mile radius, and Eric Swalwell is running to it.
00:45:00.000The congressman from California, he says, ICE is terrorizing Americans.
00:45:04.000Are they really sure that this is the angle that they want to take?
00:45:06.000That the real problem in America is ICE, not illegal immigration?
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00:47:47.000Meanwhile, President Trump won a major 8-to-1 victory at the Supreme Court.
00:47:51.000So first of all, we should point out an 8-to-1 victory is an overwhelming victory at the Supreme Court.
00:47:55.000It means that all of the Republican appointees voted in a particular way, but so did Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
00:48:01.000Even 7-2 is not as big a victory, obviously, not just statistically, but philosophically as an 8-to-1.
00:48:06.000An 8-to-1 basically means unanimous except for this one crazy person, usually when it comes to a court that is as divided as this one.
00:48:13.000Okay, so in this particular case, the Supreme Court lifted a halt on President Trump's plan to shrink the federal workforce, which cleared the way for potential mass layoffs.
00:48:22.000In February, Trump had issued an executive order, according to the Wall Street Journal, aimed at drastically reducing the government's workforce by eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity.
00:48:30.000The order directed heads of agencies to work with Doge on hiring decisions and to develop plans for layoffs.
00:48:35.000And then in May, a federal judge in San Francisco blocked it from taking effect.
00:48:39.000So the high court put out an unsigned order on Tuesday and said that it had based its decision on the legality of Trump's executive order and didn't rule on whether any reorg plans broke the law.
00:48:48.000The court said, quote, the government is likely to succeed on its argument that the executive order and memorandum are lawful.
00:48:54.000The only dissenter was Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who has proved herself to now be the worst justice on the Supreme Court.
00:49:00.000It's not actually all that close, which is shocking.
00:49:02.000I did not think that the low bar presented by Sonia Sotomayor could ever be underdone.
00:49:07.000But somehow, somehow, the underwhelming Katanji Brown Jackson has achieved this.
00:49:12.000Not just with her asinine opinions of late, including one in which she just included memes in her opinion and claimed that district court judges should have the ability to shut down the entire federal government whenever they please.
00:49:26.000But now in this ruling, where she suggests that the court is greenlighting illegally dubious actions, quote, this was the wrong decision at the wrong moment, especially given what little this court knows about what is actually happening on the ground.
00:49:40.000Again, that is a bizarre statement by her.
00:49:44.000I mean, if you are in doubt, generally speaking, you're the court as to the legality of an executive action, you usually wait for ripeness.
00:49:50.000You usually wait to see what the executive branch does and then you rule on it.
00:49:54.000Justice Sotomayor wrote to concur with the court's decision to lift the halt.
00:49:58.000She said the plans themselves weren't even the thing before the high court.
00:50:01.000She said the district court is still going to consider the legality of the layoff plans.
00:50:08.000But Katanji Brown Jackson, again, has proved herself to be absolutely an open tool of the left at this point.
00:50:16.000She did an interview recently with ABC's Lindsey Davis in which she said that it was her job to express her feelings in her opinions, which by the way is just, I'm sorry, that's insane.
00:50:25.000It is not your job to, this is not poetry.
00:50:32.000You are not supposed to express your feelings in your opinions.
00:50:35.000You are supposed to express interpretation of the law, hopefully interpretation of the law that hews to the text.
00:50:42.000This is not feelings time down at the local drag queen story hour at the library.
00:50:47.000But here we are with an actual Supreme Court Justice, Katanji Brown Jackson, now talking about how her feelings have to be infused into her opinions.
00:50:56.000Are you concerned about the state of democracy today?
00:50:59.000You know, my feelings about the state of democracy have been expressed in the context of my opinions when issues come up related to democracy.
00:51:12.000So it's hard to say, you know, am I concerned in a general way?
00:51:16.000The concerns that I have, I have articulated in my opinion.
00:51:20.000I think the nice part about being on the court is that you have the opportunity, whether you're in the majority or in the dissent, to express your opinions.
00:52:24.000Again, this sort of language from KBJ is, and again, she's another one of these people who's going to end up with her own acronym.
00:52:31.000She's incredibly purple in her language.
00:52:33.000So it is not exactly a shock to find that she now has a fan club because performative outrage is the mode of the day, for sure, on both left and right.
00:52:42.000However, it is demonstrative of what a terrible justice she is.
00:52:45.000Also, whenever you have Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island, who is a complete and utter dunderhead, defending you, that is a good indicator that you are a bad justice.
00:52:54.000He put out an entire tweet thread defending Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:52:57.000Quote, what's up with Justice Jackson?
00:52:59.000She started making her mark and speaking out early.
00:53:01.000And some of her dissents are so pointed, Kagan and Sotomayor don't even join them.
00:53:20.000And an ally in one case is an opponent into another.
00:53:23.000Third, the court thinks of itself as a stately institution, hence decorum matters, all of which is well and good in ordinary times.
00:53:28.000It's akin to members of Congress calling each other the distinguished gentleman or the distinguished gentlelady to maintain decorum and avoid events like the caning of Senator Sumner.
00:53:36.000But what if we're not in ordinary times, as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse?
00:53:40.000Well, that's, of course, when you need a hero without a cape, a hero in perhaps a judicial robe.
00:53:45.000We are in a time when a billionaire-funded scheme has spent decades trying to pack the court with billionaire agreeable justices so as to capture the court in the sense of regulatory capture or agency capture.
00:53:53.000And what if the billionaires have finally succeeded?
00:53:56.000What if we're in a time when a billionaire's gifts program has given certain justices lifestyles of the rich and famous and they have reciprocated with favorable rulings and sheltered behind the weakest ethics review of any court in the land whenever the gifts program is challenged?
00:54:41.000It's not an ordinary time, and yet she persisted.
00:54:45.000Are we really going to do this girl boss stuff when she's just a bad justice?
00:54:48.000I mean, I guess we are, is what the left is fond of doing.
00:54:51.000As far as those government cuts, by the way, some of the cuts are absolutely excellent.
00:54:57.000Right now, the FTC is targeting gender-affirming care as consumer fraud.
00:55:02.000There's a lot that the federal government is doing on the regulatory side that is going largely unnoticed, but that is excellent.
00:55:06.000According to the Daily Wire, in a major move against the transgender medical industry, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., examining the dangers of so-called gender-affirming care.
00:55:16.000That FTC workshop, first reported by the Daily Wire, has sparked the ire of leftist activists.
00:55:21.000At the beginning of the panel, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson addressed the objection that trans issues are outside his agency's purview.
00:55:27.000In fact, Ted Ferguson, the FTC targets industries and entities that lie or deceive the public.
00:55:32.000And then he said that the trans medicine industry is a lie and it is deceiving the public, which of course is absolutely true.
00:55:37.000Meanwhile, the TSA has finally decided to get rid of the shoe removal rule.
00:55:42.000So the thing that's been annoying you for legitimately 20 years, where you go to the airport and they make you take off your shoes and stand in line with the other smelly-feeded people, and then you have to kind of shuffle through and put your shoes back on, all because there was an attempted shoe bomber way back when.
00:55:58.000That's gone now, which makes perfect sense, actually.
00:56:01.000Christy Noam said, our security technology has changed.
00:56:06.000Airport wait times average about 27 minutes, and some of the time is going to come off the process.
00:56:12.000A spokesperson told Axios on Tuesday that TSA and DHS are always exploring new and innovative ways to enhance passenger experience and our strong security posture.
00:56:21.000And it was three months after the 9-11 attacks that a terrorist named Richard Reed tried to detonate explosives hidden in his sneakers on an American airlines flight.
00:56:30.000But it took five years for the TSA to implement that choose-off policy, citing a continuing threat.
00:56:35.000So, you know, again, this is how government typically works.
00:56:41.000Now, those cuts are being used in some cases or attempted cuts as a sort of way to blame the Trump administration for things going wrong.
00:56:49.000So we have yet to hear that FEMA has somehow mishandled the Texas flood circumstance, but CNN is doing its very, very best.
00:56:58.000They're saying that if it had not been for the federal government and its projected attempts to cut costs, then FEMA would have been even faster with regards to these Texas floods.
00:57:07.000According to CNN, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency said.
00:57:13.000Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending.
00:57:17.000Every contract and grants over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.
00:57:23.000For FEMA, where disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews, officials say the threshold is essentially pennies requiring sign-off of relatively small expenditures.
00:57:34.000And they're complaining that that means that there is too much bureaucracy.
00:57:39.000So FEMA officials said that they couldn't pre-position urban search and rescue crews from a network of teams stationed regionally across the country without Christy Noam's approval.
00:57:48.000In the past, says CNN, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests.
00:57:58.000But FEMA officials realized they needed Noam's approval before sending those additional assets.
00:58:02.000Noam didn't authorize that deployment of urban search and rescue teams until Monday, that's 72 hours after the flooding began.
00:58:10.000Now, Trisha McLaughlin told CNN GNOME did not need to authorize those additional resources initially because the department used other DHS search and rescue assets.
00:58:18.000And then over time, as a need for FEMA resources arose, those requests received Noam's approval.
00:58:24.000So basically, CNN is trying to spin up the idea that FEMA did not act with any level of timeliness because of this ridiculous bureaucratic nonsense.
00:58:36.000but DHS is saying, no, that's not how it worked.
00:58:38.000We actually had other resources on the ground and then it got approved and we shifted resources.
00:58:42.000So, in order for this to be a major problem, what you'd have to do is make the case that FEMA somehow was not on the ground doing its job.
00:58:49.000So far, it is not clear that that is the case.
00:58:51.000But the media are doing their very best.
00:58:53.000First, they tried to claim that cuts to the National Weather Service had allowed this sort of damage, and it turned out that wasn't true.
00:58:58.000Now they're trying their next strategy, which is that explicit approval for mid-range to large-scale costs from Christy Noam at DHS caused a delay, but they haven't actually shown evidence of a delay that affected how things were dealt with with regards to this Texas flood.
00:59:13.000They're going to keep trying and keep trying and keep trying because this is the way the media work.
00:59:20.000And now they're just looking for an excuse.
00:59:22.000Now, one of the weird oddities of the Democratic approach to the Trump administration is they want to suggest that the government is both attempting to radically cut itself and also is an autocracy.
00:59:31.000One of the foremost people making this claim is, of course, former Georgia governor Stacey Abrams.
01:00:18.000Can you pause it there for one second?
01:00:19.000Okay, I just want to say at the very outset that Brazil did not become an autocracy under Bolsonaro.
01:00:23.000And India is not an autocracy now under Modi.
01:00:25.000So at least two of the examples she's currently citing are not, in fact, autocracies.
01:00:29.000In fact, Bolsonaro is no longer in charge of Brazil.
01:00:31.000And actually, it's more of an autocracy thanks to the leadership of left-winger Lula Da Silva, which is why President Trump just hit them with a 50% tariff.
01:00:38.000In any case, here is Stacey Abrams continuing.
01:00:41.000Usually the last one you're going to get to have for real.
01:00:44.000Number two, you have an expansion of executive power.
01:00:47.000The president decides he wants more than he's supposed to have.
01:00:50.000Number three, you start to make the Congress complicit.
01:00:55.000So you weaken them and you neutralize or neuter the judiciary.
01:01:00.000Like, oh, I don't know, the Supreme Court giving you unfettered power and saying we don't have the ability to stop things.
01:01:05.000Well, actually, that's not neutralizing the judiciary.
01:01:07.000Okay, so there are a bunch of things to say here.
01:01:10.000Remember that time that Barack Obama was president and he said that because Congress wouldn't give him what he wanted, he would use his pen and his phone to do things?
01:01:16.000Was that an expansion of executive power?
01:01:19.000How about that time that Joe Biden decided he could just make 80 million people vaccinate using OSHA regulations and that he could just alleviate the student loan debt of tens of millions of people just for no reason?
01:01:31.000Was that, in fact, an expansion of executive power or attempted expansion of executive power?
01:01:37.000As far as the idea that you're running roughshod over the judiciary, when the judiciary rules in a way you don't like, that does not mean the judiciary has now been ignored.
01:01:45.000In fact, it was Joe Biden who was routinely saying that if the judiciary did not do the thing he wanted to do, he would simply find another way to do it.
01:01:52.000He said that with regard to the student loan process.
01:01:55.000So so far, this is a really bad diagnosis by Stacey.
01:01:58.000I still can't get over the fact that she says when things are transforming into autocracies, you're having the last election you will ever have.
01:02:04.000And she cites Bolsonaro as a reason, but Bolsonaro is not the leader of Brazil and right now may end up in jail for a significant period of time.
01:02:13.000They had another election and the left won.
01:02:25.000And you do that because you want to break democracy so people forget the stuff that used to get done.
01:02:31.000So you can't get your social security check.
01:02:32.000So the CDC doesn't know what diseases are anymore.
01:02:35.000Then you put in place these loyalists, people who are only responsive to you.
01:02:40.000You put them in charge of the FBI so they go after your enemies.
01:02:42.000You put them in charge of the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, so they can signal to their friends and tell them all about the evil plans that you have.
01:02:50.000Then you make certain that you break how we communicate.
01:02:55.000So you criticize the media and you create your own echo chamber of propaganda.
01:02:59.000You call it truth, even though you know you're lying.
01:04:51.000You kidnap people off of the streets and pretend that's normal because that's how you quiet dissent.
01:04:57.000Because you make everyone afraid that if they don't do what you want, they might be next.
01:05:01.000And once you've done those nine steps, steps 10 is easy.
01:05:03.000That's when you decide there won't be new elections because everyone's either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.
01:05:10.000Okay, so this is so insane because you accuse another group of the unworkability of government.
01:05:15.000Okay, the entire Democratic Party has been claiming for decades at this point, the unworkability of the federal government is due to a white supremacist power structure that lies at the root of America, which means you have to have $2 billion riots in 2020.
01:05:29.000And then she says you have to attack the institutions.
01:05:31.000Oh, do you mean like the church and the family?
01:05:34.000You know, those institutions, like the fundamental institutions of civil society?
01:05:38.000And then she says you incentivize private violence and proceeds to give examples of actual law enforcement, the U.S. Marines and National Guard.
01:05:47.000That's not incentivizing private violence.
01:05:49.000Incentivizing private violence, that would be like when you make excuses for gigantic riots that do $2 billion in damage or like when you make excuses for people who murder healthcare CEOs, allegedly.
01:05:59.000And then she says, final step, no new elections.
01:06:01.000So her paranoia is there will be no new elections in 2028.
01:06:05.000I would love to see one iota of evidence of this, like one.
01:06:08.000But again, the paranoia justifies anything.
01:06:30.000In later and stupider news, the WNBA has now named Angel Reese to their 2K26 video game cover, which is really, really exciting.
01:06:42.000I will say that Angel Reese apparently has been on a tear as of late, according to ESPN, averaging 18 points, 17 rebounds, five assists, and two steals during her six-game double-double scoring streak, which is truly an impressive stat.
01:06:58.000I mean, I know we are all very, very impressed by her shockingly amazing basketball skills.
01:07:04.000And first of all, I always feel bad showing clips of the WNBA because watching the WNBA in action is mostly like watching a pretty bad junior high boys basketball team.
01:07:14.000Here is all-star, absolute superstar Angel Reese coming down the floor, isolation situation.
01:07:22.000This is some pretty stunning basketball you're about to watch right now.
01:07:26.000Four-second differential between shot clock and game clock here.
01:07:30.000I like this matchup right here, Kiki Erie Finn and Angel Reese, two all-stars.
01:08:08.000Okay, so Caitlin Clark, her current stats right now, according to basketballreference.com, she's played in 10 games this season, okay, because she's been injured.
01:08:25.000On the career, she averages 19 points per game, as opposed to 13 points per game for Angel Reese.
01:08:30.000Now, let's be clear what's happening right now.
01:08:32.000The WNBA is bending over backward, not to just say that Caitlin Clark is their star.
01:08:37.000They're bending over backward because Angel Reese has become the bet noir of Caitlin Clark.
01:08:42.000And there are a lot of players in the league who keep complaining that Caitlin Clark is too white to be featured by the WNBA, even though Caitlin Clark is making them all significantly more rich and significantly more famous.
01:08:51.000You have not heard of any of the players in the WNBA until Caitlin Clark made them famous when they started bullying Caitlin Clark or, as in the case of one of her teammates, came to Caitlin Clark's defense.
01:09:03.000So, I mean, WNBA can do this, I suppose, but it is, in fact, a pretty obvious form of DEI.
01:09:34.000And so it just speaks to the reality of the WNBA, which is that as a league that has existed off the subsidies from the NBA for decades at this point, the entire reason for being for the league is to reinforce these DEI perceptions.
01:09:50.000And at the very moment when they could shed that in favor of actual popularity, they are unable to do it.
01:09:55.000That's the only takeaway I can make right here.
01:09:58.000So I asked my sponsors at Perplexity because I was definitely not going to know this off the top of my head.
01:10:03.000Who are the top 10 scorers for the last season, top 10 rebounders, and top 10 assist makers for the WNBA in the 2024 season?
01:10:11.000Top 10 scorers, Asia Wilson, Arique Agunbawale.
01:10:16.000Again, I'm going to scroll up all these names because I've never heard of these people because it's the WNBA and I don't follow this any more than I follow your local curling competition.
01:10:23.000Kalia Copper, Breonna Stewart, Nafiza Collier, Jewel Lloyd, and then Caitlin Clark at 19 points a game.
01:10:31.000And I will note here that there is no mention here of Angel Reese.
01:10:35.000Angel Reese is the number one rebounder in the game mainly by rebounding her own misses.
01:10:40.000That is basically how she stacks those up, right?
01:11:01.000So congrats to the WNBA for, again, making wise marketing decisions.
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