Ben Shapiro talks about the Washington Post s targeting of a right-wing Twitter account, a federal judge strikes down the CDC's mask mandate, the Biden administration announces it will appeal, and Florida targets Disney with special carve-outs. Plus, the media s worst person in media, Taylor Lorenz, is a wimp who can't take a punch, and whines incessantly when she herself is targeted. And, of course, there's the West Elm story about how the New York Times sold West Elm furniture through affiliate affiliate affiliate West Elm. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard. He's also a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to The Daily Wire. His new book, is out now, and it's out on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. It's available for pre-order now! Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.org/ProtectYourOnline Privacy. Protect Your Online Privacy: Protect Your Privacy Today at Express VPN. PureTalk is simply smarter wireless. Save 50% off your first month of coverage when you use promo code SHAPIRO, and you'll save hundreds of bucks down the road! Puretalk is a company that saves the average family over $800 a year! Subscribe to Pure Talk is a smart, reliable, 5G wireless service that offers the same 5G coverage as Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. and offers unlimited 4Gadvancements that makes the average person s life better, faster, cheaper, faster and more reliable than they ve ever had before they knew them before. . Pure Talk and more! - save $30 a month on their first month, saving $30,000 in the process of getting 5G and gets them the same service, they'll save $100,000, they get $50, they ll be able to do that too, they won't have to pay you $30 or they'll get $150,000 or they can help you, they can save you $40,000 a month, they say that they'll send you $50 or they say so, they promise you that you get $30 and they'll give you $25,000 more than that, they're gonna help you that day they'll say that? And they'll help you save $10,000!
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00:00:27.000We'll get to all the news in just one moment.
00:00:29.000First, thanks to Joe Biden and Biden inflation.
00:00:32.000You're just spending too much money for everything.
00:00:34.000Not only are you spending too much money for everything, a lot of the places you spend your money are corporations that don't really like you very much.
00:00:39.000I'm talking like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile.
00:00:41.000You're spending a lot of money in those places every single month.
00:00:43.000What if you could like have your bill and also take that money and use it on a company that actually doesn't hate you?
00:01:51.000As somebody who receives his fair share of internet hatred, who trends on Twitter once every three weeks or so, who was the number one recipient of all online antisemitism in 2015-2016, I can safely say that Taylor Lorenz is a wimp.
00:02:04.000And not only is she a wimp, she's an aggressive wimp, which is the worst kind of wimp.
00:02:08.000She's the person who can throw a punch but can't take one.
00:02:10.000And what's worse, the punches that she throws are always down.
00:02:13.000You always hear from the left that you shouldn't punch down.
00:02:16.000Don't pick somebody who is weaker than you are and go after them.
00:02:19.000Don't find somebody who's anonymous and then try to dox them.
00:02:22.000In fact, Taylor Lorenz herself She has said that she is very anti-doxing.
00:02:26.000Doxing is the phenomenon where you find somebody anonymous and then you spill all the details of their personal life online in an attempt to destroy their lives.
00:02:32.000And Taylor Lorenz is very anti-doxing because she herself has been doxed.
00:02:36.000People have found her address and posted it online.
00:02:38.000People have posted details about her life.
00:02:40.000And so here she is, not all that long ago, complaining about doxing.
00:02:44.000A bunch of people are asking if I'm going to write about the West Elm Caleb story.
00:02:48.000I can't keep writing pieces for the New York Times.
00:02:51.000I literally do have a lot of deadlines.
00:02:53.000But journalists who are writing about it, please speak to people with experience in online harassment.
00:02:59.000I'm not gonna lie, I've been pretty horrified by a lot of the media coverage of this.
00:03:03.000A lot of people are just aggregating some of the cruelest commentary online and whipping it all up into a news story with absolutely no comment from Caleb or Nuance about the situation.
00:03:12.000The top story on Google yesterday was literally this House Beautiful story that doxes Caleb, puts his full name in the story, zero comment from this man.
00:03:20.000After this whole article gleefully encourages this online harassment and doxing campaign, they literally use him to sell West Elm furniture through affiliate links.
00:03:30.000Once again, commercializing a harassment and doxing campaign.
00:03:34.000I think the media needs a total wake-up call on the way that they cover online harassment, and this is just the latest example of it.
00:03:43.000Everything that she says happens in that story is something she deliberately did in the Washington Post to a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok a couple of days ago.
00:03:51.000There was an active link in that Washington Post article to the real estate license of the person whose account is Libs of TikTok, and that real estate license included a home address.
00:04:18.000And then she complains about being victimized and harassed.
00:04:21.000You'll recall, because we played it literally yesterday, that Taylor Lawrence did a full story on MSNBC complaining and whining and weeping over the fact that she'd been targeted online so much, which is just, I'm sorry, it's pathetic.
00:04:35.000After that segment, this is really funny, after that segment in which she herself went on camera voluntarily with a bunch of political allies who were extremely sympathetic to her complaints, that people were being mean to her and hurting her feel-feels, directly after that, she went on in the media and she whined that MSNBC had undercut her.
00:05:02.000Quote, Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz slammed MSNBC's handling of a segment in which she detailed her experiences contending with online harassment, claiming the network botched the report so badly that it made the problem worse.
00:05:14.000In a segment airing last Friday on MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily, Lorenz revealed that online harassment targeting her and her family caused her to experience severe PTSD and contemplate suicide in the recent past.
00:05:24.000The MSNBC coverage aimed to detail brutal harassment faced by female journalists, but Lorenz said she has faced even worse treatment since the segment went live.
00:05:33.000She tweeted, quote, So in other words, you are so solipsistic and narcissistic, you spend all day looking into your own emotions, that when you go on camera and somebody gives you the opportunity to whine about your emotions, and you do, and then people mock you for it because it's mockable and you're a ridiculous person, then you go in the media and you rip the people who gave you the platform to whine about your life.
00:06:05.000She's been targeting basically anonymous people, people who didn't deserve the wrath of the New York Times, where she used to work, or the Washington Post, where she now works.
00:06:13.000She's been doing this for years as a career.
00:06:16.000And then, by the way, crapping all over the New York Times, which stuck by her despite the fact that she is a garbage reporter who has spent her entire career basically highlighting videos from 16-year-olds.
00:06:27.000Taylor Lorenz is alternatively the 37 or 43.
00:06:30.000Unclear what her age is because she said on Twitter she's 43.
00:06:36.000But she has spent her entire career basically just complaining that everybody around her is the problem.
00:06:41.000When you complain that everybody around you is the problem, usually you are the problem.
00:06:45.000By the way, when she left the New York Times, she then promptly did a long interview with Vanity Fair in which she was the hero of the story.
00:06:53.000She complained, quote, I think people do not understand my beat.
00:06:57.000She said this in an interview with Vanity Fair, reflecting on the coverage area that's made her, at least in a certain generation, the must-read staffer at the Times.
00:07:04.000The reporter, who will join the Post as a columnist on the feature staff, said that in her role at the Times, she felt like she had to prove to people through her reporting that stories about the creator economy and emerging platforms were worth covering.
00:07:15.000There's not room for the commentary aspect, she said of her current gig, but at The Post, she hopes to take her beat and blow it up bigger.
00:07:21.000One thing you definitely don't want is Taylor Lorenz showing up at your door being a weird creeper, because that's what she does.
00:07:26.000One thing that can let you know if she is at your door is, of course, Ring.
00:07:29.000So, for years, I've been telling you about Ring, and it allows you to know what's going on on your property at all times, including if garbage Washington Post reporters show up at your door for no apparent reason.
00:08:45.000So, the way that she decided to blow it up bigger is by doing a large story for the Washington Post, trying to unmask the most evil account on Twitter, which happens to be an account run by an Orthodox Jewish woman.
00:09:00.000The Libs of TikTok account, for those who have not seen it, is one of the better accounts on Twitter.
00:09:04.000The reason it is one of the better accounts on Twitter is the entire Twitter account is just clips of Libs on TikTok and on Twitter.
00:09:10.000The entire account is people who publicly post Their own stupidity on TikTok, talking about how they have come out as gender-fluid pansexuals to seven-year-old kids.
00:09:33.000So it notices that Brooklyn's liberal dad will post something about how Trump is evil and Hitlerian two years ago, Because he does X. And then Biden does X today, and then the same account celebrates it.
00:09:49.000And Libs of TikTok has been kicked off of Twitter for this great sin.
00:09:52.000Again, the only thing the account does, this is the amazing thing, all the account does is just puts a spotlight on things that people themselves are saying.
00:10:00.000And so people like me in the media follow Libs of TikTok because it brings to light a bunch of TikTok videos I am not going to spend the time going through.
00:10:26.000Now, at no point does Taylor Lorenz or anyone at the Washington Post think, you know, perhaps the reason we should examine why Libs of TikTok is popular is because it has an outsized influence in that the left is so off the rails That it's very easy to find multiple TikTok videos a day demonstrating how crazy they are.
00:10:45.000Instead it is, who is this evil person who's noticing?
00:10:48.000And this really goes to a couple of major points about the legacy media.
00:11:08.000If we notice that Latoya Rabinow over at Disney says that there is a not-at-all-secret gay agenda in children's programming at Disney, the problem is not her saying that, or Disney putting that on an all-hands call, or Disney mainlining a bunch of leftism into their programming.
00:11:42.000Problem number two is that when it comes to the legacy media, Anyone who opposes their agenda must be unmasked and their life must be torn apart.
00:12:08.000And so we had to uncover all of his real estate liens.
00:12:11.000We had to go through his business history.
00:12:13.000We had to go through his personal life.
00:12:14.000We had to unmask everything about him.
00:12:16.000It was deeply important we know who he was.
00:12:18.000Barack Obama never had to answer the question.
00:12:19.000The problem was that Joe Wurzelbacher noticed, and so we need to know who Joe Wurzelbacher is.
00:12:24.000It's the exact same thing here at the Washington Post.
00:12:26.000So this is a very, very long piece about the evils of Libs of TikTok.
00:12:31.000Quote, on March 8th, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a predator.
00:12:39.000The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham's Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, when did our schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?
00:12:50.000Now, notice one thing that Taylor Lorenz doesn't do at the top.
00:12:57.000Right, what this educator actually did.
00:12:59.000She runs a quote, sexy summer camp for children in Kentucky, and says in the video, she believes that it is good for toddlers to masturbate.
00:13:07.000So here is how Taylor Lorenz characterizes that.
00:13:11.000Does that sound like an accurate depiction of that video to you?
00:13:17.000Because Taylor Lorenz is garbage and her reporting is a steaming heaping pile of horse dung.
00:13:49.000Videos shared from the account quickly find their way to the most influential names in right-wing media.
00:13:53.000That's true, I retweet this account a lot.
00:13:55.000The account has emerged as a powerful force on the internet, shaping right-wing media, impacting anti-LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign, percentage sign, legislation, and influencing millions by posting viral videos aimed at inciting outrage among the right.
00:14:08.000The anonymous account's impact is deep and far-reaching.
00:14:12.000Its content is amplified by high-profile media figures, politicians, right-wing influencers.
00:14:18.000Libs of TikTok is basically acting as a wire service for the broader right-wing media ecosystem, said Ari Drennan, LGBTQ program director for Media Matters.
00:14:26.000So Taylor Lorenz is angry at Libs of TikTok on the basis of Media Matters, a wild left organization whose only goal in life is to just destroy anyone who opposes the left politically.
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00:15:56.000By the way, the sources Taylor Lorenz cites in this piece, she cites Media Matters, I believe, twice.
00:16:01.000She cites somebody from the ACLU, right?
00:16:05.000She just finds a bunch of left-wing sources to talk about how evil this account is.
00:16:10.000The role I've seen this account playing is finding new characters for right-wing propaganda, said Jillian Brandstetter, a media strategist for the ACLU.
00:16:16.000It's relying on the endless stream of content from TikTok and the internet to cast any individual trans person as a new villain in their story.
00:16:22.000How dare libs of TikTok take your publicly viewed video and make it more public?
00:16:27.000But you might ask, when you post things on TikTok, aren't you seeking attention?
00:16:30.000Yes, but this is the wrong kind of attention.
00:16:32.000The only type of attention that will be allowed here is the echo chamber that celebrates your stupid identification as a transsexual polymorphous kitten.
00:16:42.000If you don't celebrate that, if you don't have an account that's talking about how great this is, if you're just libs of TikTok posting and then saying, this looks kind of crazy, then that means that you are very, very bad.
00:16:55.000She's been working as a real estate salesperson in Brooklyn, when in early November 2020, she created the account that would eventually become Libs of TikTok.
00:17:02.000Under her first handle, she minimized COVID.
00:18:07.000On November 23rd, 2020, Raychick changed handles, this time going by Shia Ray, identifying herself publicly as a real estate investor in Brooklyn.
00:18:14.000She began doubling down on election fraud conspiracies using QAnon-related language.
00:18:32.000Eric Trump had tweeted, quote, Biden lost 212 more counties than Obama did in 2012, yet Biden magically gained 13 million more votes than Obama, please, hashtag rigged election.
00:18:42.000And she tweeted, America doesn't buy it, hashtag rigged election, hashtag MAGA.
00:18:46.000How is that QAnon related language, exactly?
00:18:49.000If you use the word rigged, this is now QAnon?
00:18:52.000And then, she joked about launching a clothing line titled, Voter Fraud is Real.
00:20:49.000Again, this article just goes on and on and on because she's so evil.
00:20:54.000So Taylor Lorenz has to go after her and tracks down her family and links directly to her real estate license, which puts her address on there.
00:21:00.000So the Washington Post, it's amazing how many of these dumbass legacy media outlets will keep hiring Taylor Lorenz and then be burned by Taylor Lorenz and then have to defend Taylor Lorenz.
00:21:11.000The editor should be fired to put this out, by the way.
00:21:14.000And the Cameron Barr, the senior managing editor, put out a statement, quote, For that statement alone, that she is an accomplished and diligent journalist, I don't think you know what words mean.
00:21:29.000She's not accomplished, she's not diligent, and she's not a journalist.
00:21:31.000So what that statement really should say is, Taylor Lorenz is a. That's what that sentence should read.
00:21:39.000But according to the Washington Post, she's an accomplished and diligent journalist whose reporting methods comport entirely with the Washington Post professional standards.
00:21:45.000Well, that part doesn't shock me at all.
00:21:47.000I'm sure they do comport with your garbage professional standards.
00:21:49.000Chaya Raychik, in her management of the libs of TikTok, Twitter account, and in media interviews, has had significant impact on public discourse.
00:21:55.000Her identity had become public knowledge on social media.
00:21:58.000We did not publish to or link to any details about her personal life.
00:22:10.000So the question is, why did they remove it?
00:22:11.000If this comported with all of your standards, why did you remove it?
00:22:15.000And the answer is you removed it because you knew that you were wrong.
00:22:18.000The whole point here is not really about Libs of TikTok.
00:22:22.000The real point here is not really about Chaya Raycheck, who tweeted yesterday, quote, words cannot express how appreciative I am of the support I'm receiving right now.
00:22:29.000Thankfully, I'm currently holed up in a safe location.
00:22:31.000I'm confident we'll get through this and come out even stronger.
00:22:33.000Grateful for all the thoughts and prayers.
00:22:50.000They do it to big corporations, and they'll run pieces every single day about why Disney is bad until Disney caves, and then gets involved in a political conflict they had no business getting involved in, and then when Disney gets smacked by Ron DeSantis in Florida, then the media jump in and say, how dare anyone say something bad about Disney, after spending months saying, Disney's silence is deafening on the don't say gay bill.
00:23:10.000The media are an intimidation thugocracy.
00:23:13.000They're just a giant club on behalf of the left.
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00:24:55.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to demonstrate its complete political buffoonery.
00:25:02.000So a federal judge yesterday ruled, or two days ago, ruled that the Biden mask mandate via the CDC did not comport with the enabling laws of the CDC.
00:25:12.000So when you create a regulation, there's a very specific process you are supposed to go through with a notice and comment period.
00:25:17.000It's supposed to be rolled out in advance of the regulation, and then you formally roll out the regulation.
00:25:21.000Now, if you want to issue an emergency regulation, you can do that, but you can also initiate a full formal regulation review period.
00:25:30.000And so what this allows you to do is you put out the emergency regulation, which only lasts for, say, 60 days.
00:25:34.000And in that 60 days, you do the notice and comment.
00:25:36.000And then the minute that the emergency regulation sunsets, then you already have another regulation ready to go.
00:25:42.000The Biden administration didn't do that.
00:25:43.000They put in place the CDC regulation, forcing everybody on any sort of federal transport to mask And they did this on an emergency basis to demonstrate that they knew it was an emergency.
00:25:55.000And they didn't bother to do any of the rest of it.
00:25:58.000So the federal judge in Florida made two separate rulings in this one ruling.
00:26:01.000One was that the CDC didn't follow its own regulatory procedure.
00:26:05.000That is absolutely true and perfectly clear.
00:26:07.000The second was that the CDC really did not have the power to do this in general.
00:26:11.000Now that one is a little bit more controversial.
00:26:13.000You can argue maybe the CDC has the power to issue these sort of broad-scale regulatory restrictions with regard to federal travel, although really you would think that should be under the FAA's jurisdiction.
00:26:27.000But it's pretty clear that the judge was correct that the CDC had not followed its own protocols.
00:26:33.000As soon as this federal ruling came down, There was a massive level of confusion inside the administration over what to do.
00:26:44.000Because no one in the administration actually wanted to just acquiesce to the federal judge.
00:26:49.000But at the same time, they understood that this was a really bad policy.
00:26:55.000So there was a bunch of sort of conflict inside the administration.
00:26:58.000Nobody wanted to be the person who came out and either appealed the decision, which would try and replace the mask mandate and put a new mask mandate in place.
00:27:05.000Or come out and just endorse the judge's decision.
00:28:13.000Okay, so they all still believe religiously in the cultic lie that Joe Biden was going to protect them from COVID.
00:28:19.000After more people have died under Biden from COVID than under Trump, and Biden had a working vaccine.
00:28:25.000They still believe that Biden has the magical ability to protect them from COVID by simply issuing federal regulations, which demonstrates the magical thinking that infuses the left.
00:28:32.000If government says something will happen, it must definitely happen.
00:29:43.000Because when it comes to totalitarianism, that's true.
00:29:45.000Either you are forced to do something or you're forced not to do something, but there's no option in the middle where you could do it or you couldn't do it.
00:29:50.000So for folks on the left, it literally does not compute to them that if you remove a mandate, you are now not mandating that everybody take off the mask.
00:29:59.000So they all start tweeting as though they are some sort of like French underground resistance to the evil anti-maskers.
00:30:05.000So Valerie Jarrett posted a photo of herself as the former Obama chief of staff, quote, wearing my mask no matter what non-scientists tell me I can do.
00:30:13.000I mean, first of all, a lot of scientists tell you you can do it and you seem to be a non-scientist.
00:30:18.000And by the way, none of the mask mandates actually mandated that you wear a KN95 or N95 so far as I'm aware.
00:30:25.000She's wearing, I believe, a KN95 in that particular photo.
00:30:28.000She actually is one of the lesser crazy people.
00:30:30.000But again, the broader point from the left is that they will not be compelled to unmask.
00:30:34.000No one's trying to compel you to unmask, you idiots.
00:30:37.000But for them, if it's not being compelled by government, it simply doesn't matter.
00:30:41.000And so the scientific crew over at MSNBC, again, and they're just going nuts, MSNBC's And Dr. Patel says, you know what you should do?
00:30:49.000You should really carry extra masks with you.
00:30:51.000And you should ask all the people around you to mask up, which will make you the most unpopular person on a plane.
00:30:56.000Now, listen, I've been the most unpopular person on a plane before.
00:30:59.000Not really because of my politics, but because I have many small children and sometimes they just scream the whole flight.
00:31:03.000But if you want to be less popular than the person with the screaming child who's changing diapers in the middle of a flight, be the person.
00:31:11.000Who carries an extra bag of masks and asks everyone around you to mask up because you're a paranoid lunatic.
00:31:18.000The best thing they can do, high quality masks, and that when possible, carry some extra masks.
00:31:23.000I know this sounds crazy, but if you tell someone next to you on a plane, pay a 95 and just say, or a surgical mask, and just say, I've got an elderly mother at home, I've got a child with cancer at home, will you please do me a favor?
00:31:35.000Having the people at least closest to you in that row, protecting yourself and them, can be the best safety.
00:31:41.000So, carry some extra masks with you, carry some rapid tests with you if you're traveling.
00:31:46.000Okay, so it's these crazies who are running the Biden administration.
00:31:49.000Because it turns out that people were really, really happy about unmasking.
00:31:53.000There was a video going around yesterday, it's hysterical, of a black flight attendant who's walking down the aisle as the announcement is made, and he literally starts singing out loud that it's time to take the masks off, and people break into wild applause.
00:32:48.000For the moment, there are squeals of unbridled delight, which aren't so much a reflection of just how onerous the mask mandate has been, but rather just how childish and selfish so much of the country has been in dealing with it.
00:33:14.000Robin Given's social media has been full of examples of airline passengers turning petulant and violent over mask rules.
00:33:19.000As if in time before masks, people had been able to party like the wolves of Wall Street on planes, and now suddenly they were being forced to strap into a teeny tiny seat with limited legroom and survive on bags of miniature pretzels.
00:33:29.000Masks are uncomfortable, but there are so many other aspects of flying that have been awful for a very long time.
00:33:34.000Most of those long-term terrible circumstances resulted from airlines simply trying to raise revenue- ah, capitalism is to blame.
00:33:40.000But the shouts of joy are a reminder that after everything people have been through collectively over these past two years, we are emerging from the darkness, still as absorbed by our individual circumstances as ever.
00:33:52.000We complain bitterly about having to wear a mask as a benefit to others.
00:34:54.000The DOJ and the CDC disagree with the district court's decision and will appeal, subject to the CDC's conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health.
00:35:03.000The department continues to believe the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.
00:35:12.000So I do love that they are now basically going back to the CDC and throwing it at the CDC.
00:35:16.000They're kind of splitting the baby here.
00:35:19.000They're saying, we'll only appeal if the CDC says we should appeal.
00:35:23.000Now we'll see if the CDC doubles down.
00:35:25.000But it is pretty fascinating, and again...
00:35:28.000In one second we'll get to Jen Psaki, who had to spend the day yesterday trying to defend a CDC mandate that nobody wants because these people are so- they're in their bubble.
00:35:36.000They're in the Washington Post-Taylor Lorenz bubble.
00:35:40.000Well, if you want something good, never go to the Biden administration.
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00:37:36.000So all the Biden administration has to do with this federal judge ruling is basically They blew it.
00:37:41.000They had an opportunity to lead on this thing, and they didn't.
00:37:43.000Instead, they were so intimidated by their own crazy left-wing base that they were still trying to push mask mandates for two-year-olds on federal flights while relieving Title 42, which basically says that illegal immigrants can't come into the country if they might have COVID.
00:37:58.000So at the same time that COVID was not an issue on our border, it was an issue on airplanes, which have HEPA filters, and for small children.
00:38:04.000So Jen Psaki has been asked about all of this and she just can't, she can't escape it because the logic is inescapable.
00:38:09.000You guys don't know what you are doing.
00:38:11.000So Jen Psaki yesterday, she says she's going to continue to advise all Americans to mask on airplanes.
00:38:15.000But wait, I was told literally yesterday that you have no opinion on masking because you, of course, are not a medical source.
00:38:20.000She literally said that yesterday in the White House press room because Peter Doocy asked her, why don't we have to mask here?
00:38:25.000But you're saying that people should mask on airplanes.
00:39:40.000So, you know, if you get headaches from wearing a mask for five hours on a cross-country flight, and you have to deal with a screaming toddler who's wiping their nose with their mask, that's just anecdotes, man.
00:39:51.000You saw a lot of Americans, you know, immediately pulling off their masks and airplanes, very happy about the change.
00:39:57.000Is the administration concerned that the public is moving on, you know, without the CDC and that the country's in a different place where the administration isn't?
00:40:29.000They are in maybe some heavy blue areas.
00:40:31.000There must be some political incentive here.
00:40:33.000Either that or the media have these people so wrapped around their little finger that they'll just repeat anything.
00:40:37.000Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, he says we're still going to do mask mandates on city subways.
00:40:40.000First of all, you have a better chance at this point.
00:40:43.000Thanks to the presence of Obama, you probably have a better chance of catching herpes or being stabbed on a city subway in New York or thrown in front of a train than you do of dying because you got COVID on a city subway in New York.
00:41:26.000By the way, how not great is the Biden administration doing?
00:41:29.000Apparently, the Biden administration, thanks to blowback, is now considering not repealing Title 42.
00:41:35.000So after a couple of weeks of saying we're going to repeal Title 42, the time has come we need to open up our border, it turns out that every Senate Democrat who's in a vulnerable position was like, uh, guys, we're going to lose our seats if you stop Title 42.
00:41:48.000He futzed around and now he's snapping Title 42 back into place, perhaps.
00:41:52.000Quote, his axios, President Biden's inner circle has been discussing delaying the repeal of Title 42 border restrictions, according to a source with direct knowledge of the internal discussion.
00:42:01.000The White House is looking for ways to buy time to avoid a massive influx of migrants that would add to already historic border numbers.
00:42:07.000That already endangers Democratic incumbents in states that could decide the Senate majority in November.
00:42:11.000Biden officials recognize they're in a jam.
00:42:13.000Moderate Democrats are pounding on them to delay the repeal, but doing so would inflame the party's progressive base.
00:42:19.000That includes members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who are scheduled to meet with the president next Monday.
00:42:24.000I do love that they are more beholden to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus than to actual Hispanic voters who are running screaming with their hair on fire away from the Democratic Party at this point.
00:42:50.000So it's hilarious to watch the Democrats caught between their progressive base and reality.
00:42:57.000But that vice grip, I think that the Democrats just can't escape.
00:43:00.000Not only can they not escape it, the vice grip is going to tighten, which is why November 2022 is going to be extremely ugly for Joe Biden.
00:43:08.000And him going out there and just sort of rambling his usual nostrums is not going to help in any significant way.
00:43:16.000The political reaper is coming for these folks.
00:43:19.000So, Joe Biden is going to continue to try to trot this thing out.
00:43:22.000So, yesterday, he did another one of these speeches, and he's just so tired, and he's just so old, and everything he says is so tired and old.
00:43:49.000The way the global economy works, if a factory in Vietnam makes computer ships and shuts down in Vietnam because of a COVID outbreak, it causes a ripple effect to slow down manufacturing in Detroit, where they need those semiconductors to build the automobiles.
00:44:08.000So because of the pandemic, we had disruptions in our supply of important materials.
00:46:37.000I mean, in a sense, it didn't trickle down upon him.
00:46:39.000It trickled up from his son picking up bags of cash in places like Ukraine and China.
00:46:44.000And suddenly, little Joey is buying wonderful houses based on credit card companies, giving him all sorts of sweetheart real estate deals in Delaware.
00:47:39.000There are people with gender dysphoria.
00:47:41.000They are a minute percentage of the population.
00:47:43.000Then there are all the young kids whose parents are massaging them into identifying as gender non-binary and trans.
00:47:52.000The vast majority of kids who suffer from gender dysphoria, actual diagnosed gender dysphoria, end up growing out of it.
00:47:59.000Somewhere between 70 and 90% by all available studies.
00:48:01.000Now you have mass numbers of young kids who are basically being Munchausen syndrome by proxied into believing that they're members of the opposite sex.
00:48:09.000And we're supposed to believe that we have to indoctrinate all kids from kindergarten on with the idea that they could be a member of the opposite sex.
00:48:15.000And if you don't go along with this, it's because you're very bad.
00:48:19.000So Jen Psaki yesterday, she broke down in tears over the idea that you shouldn't be indoctrinating six-year-olds with the idea they can be a member of the opposite sex.
00:48:52.000This is a political wedge issue and an attempt to win a culture war.
00:48:57.000And they're doing that in a way that is harsh and cruel to a community of kids especially.
00:49:04.000I'm going to get emotional about this issue because it's horrible.
00:49:10.000But, you know, it's like kids who are bullied and all these leaders are taking steps to hurt them and hurt their lives and hurt their families.
00:49:21.000And you look at some of these laws in these states and it is going after parents who are in loving relationships who have kids.
00:49:30.000Okay, she's gonna have to explain how bullying is now enabled by us not indoctrinating.
00:49:35.000You know what the kind of bullying that I'm worried about is?
00:49:37.000Adults telling kids that they can be members of the opposite sex.
00:49:41.000That's the kind of bullying that I'm afraid of.
00:49:43.000And I'm also afraid of governmental sponsorship of this.
00:49:46.000And the White House telling people in states that they must be forced to gender transition their kids.
00:49:53.000Which, by the way, is what this administration would like.
00:49:55.000If this administration had its way, what they would like is that if you had a child who said, a five-year-old who said, I'm gender confused, that child should go to school, the teachers would not tell you, the teachers would, quote-unquote, socially transition the kids, and then, as soon as humanly possible, we'd start giving the kids puberty blockers without parental consent.
00:50:13.000That is what this White House would like if they had their way.
00:50:15.000But you're the bully for saying no to that.
00:51:28.000Where are her parents in all this, by the way?
00:51:29.000Her mother was administering her weekly testosterone injections.
00:51:34.000Two years later, in early June 2020, she went under the knife.
00:51:37.000Khloe was the beneficiary of what transgender activists call gender-affirming care, which means all the adults in her life, doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents, actively supported her decision to become the person she believed she was meant to be, even if that person required an elective mastectomy in high school, or taking puberty blockers, or injecting cross-sex hormones like testosterone.
00:51:56.000In this, Khloe is the poster child for the Biden administration's recently announced transgender policy.
00:52:02.000There is a growing chorus of young people, including Chloe, who had come to regret deeply the decisions they had made and the gender-affirming care they had received.
00:52:09.000In the middle of this story are teenagers who are largely going unheard by a government and medical establishment that's plowing ahead.
00:52:14.000I don't think gender-affirming care helps kids like me, said Chloe.
00:52:17.000There should be more regard to alternatives in treating dysphoria, especially when it comes to kids.
00:52:22.000Helena Kirshner, 23, says, I thought testosterone would transform me from being short and pudgy to lanky and male, but in a graceful type of way, not muscly.
00:53:43.000She once cut herself with a serrated kitchen knife, which landed her in a psych ward for a week.
00:53:47.000After a year and a half on testosterone, it also began to dawn on her that, quote, the reality I was living in was not lining up with the fantasy I'd had as a teen.
00:53:54.000Helena's roommate, also a trans man, shocking, made a video chronicling their friendship.
00:55:16.000In California, if you're a publicly traded company, California's legislature attempts to set your board.
00:55:21.000They say if you operate in California, you're headquartered in California, they will literally attempt to tell you how many trans people and black people and minority people have to be sitting on the board of your company.
00:55:32.000But if a company comes out and says, we are going to deeply invest ourselves in politics, and they've been getting special tax breaks from the state, and the party they're attacking says, no, no, no, no, no, no more of this.
00:56:27.000All you had to do was say, listen, we're not going to get involved in these issues.
00:56:30.000We will get involved in issues that directly impact our business in the state of Florida, like, for example, lobbying for a special tax district.
00:56:36.000When it comes to bills like, should K-3 students be indoctrinated with sexual orientation garbage?
00:56:42.000Then we're not going to have any comment.
00:56:45.000But you guys were cowards, and so you didn't.
00:56:48.000According to one of the sponsors, Republican Representative Randy Fine, he filed a bill under which any special district established prior to the ratification of the Florida Constitution in 1968, not renewed since then, would be dissolved June 1st, 2023.
00:57:02.000That would include that entire massive area covered by Disney World.
00:57:06.000You kick the hornet's nest and things come up, said Mr. Fine.
00:57:37.000Because they sunk a lot of resources in the state of Florida, and then they decided that they were going to get deeply involved in a political fight.
00:57:55.000I took a business from California to Tennessee and Florida.
00:57:58.000But, says Jared Polis, it's authoritarian socialism now to get rid of special tax districts for specialized companies, giving them special tax breaks.
00:58:07.000Interesting definition of authoritarian socialism.
00:58:10.000Also, he's very angry with Ron DeSantis because Ron DeSantis came out and he said that he is going to look into Twitter's board of directors.
00:58:21.000He said that because Twitter has basically been attempting to stop Elon Musk's takeover.
00:58:26.000And they're doing so on the basis of politics.
00:58:29.000So DeSantis said, we're going to try to hold Twitter accountable for breach of fiduciary duty.
00:58:32.000After all, people are being offered way more than the current stock price by Elon Musk.
00:58:44.000But nevertheless, it hasn't exactly been great in returns on investment.
00:58:48.000It's been pretty stagnant for many, many years.
00:58:51.000So, but nevertheless, I mean, to me, I think that that's probably an injury to the fund.
00:58:55.000So we're going to be looking at ways that the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty.
00:59:05.000Again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, gang.
00:59:08.000And listen, I'm all for free enterprise.
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