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00:00:00.000While Democrats push gun control and red flag laws, we find out all about the red flag surrounding the latest mass shooter.
00:00:05.000Joe Biden's approval rating continues to sink like a stone, and Dave Rubin is suspended from Twitter for noticing that Jordan Peterson was suspended from Twitter.
00:01:30.000Well, the entire world of the left is now consumed with the idea that gun control is the solution to all of our problems.
00:01:37.000Whenever there is some sort of mass shooting, the answer is that there must be some form of violation of your Second Amendment rights as a law-abiding American citizen.
00:01:48.000None of the measures that the left likes to propose when it comes to gun control actually would stop the mass shootings that they supposedly are attempting to stop.
00:01:54.000And this is particularly true when you look at this latest mass shooting in Highland Park.
00:01:57.000There's a much deeper thing going on in America than simple access to guns.
00:02:03.000You can say that that's a problem for people who are mentally ill, for people who are criminals, but there is something much deeper going on than just the access to the guns because there are a lot of young men, apparently, who are deeply troubled, who are engaged in evil, And who then carry out those acts of evil on other human beings.
00:02:21.000And no matter what laws you pass in Illinois and have extraordinarily heavy gun laws, that is not going to stop these acts of evil.
00:02:28.000There are a lot of broken minds in the United States.
00:02:30.000And until we actually start to tackle the question of why so many minds are broken in the United States, it's going to be very hard to stop additional acts of evil.
00:02:38.000Law is merely a mechanism for hemming in human evil.
00:02:41.000Well, as human evil grows, the thicket of laws is not going to hem that in.
00:02:47.000As mental illness, I'm talking violent mental illness, grows, no matter what laws are in place, it's not going to hem that sort of stuff in.
00:02:53.000Because the law is typically directed at those who are likely to be deterred by the law.
00:02:59.000And when it comes to people who are either completely evil or who are violently mentally ill, the law, as a sort of incentive structure, does not apply to those people.
00:03:09.000And this is obviously true in the case of this Highland Park shooter.
00:03:11.000We now know that this Highland Park shooter was known by the police.
00:03:16.000According to The Hill, officials say the suspect in the shooting at the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, which left seven people dead, threatened to kill everyone at his house in September of 2019, leading police to arrive and confiscate the knives he had collected.
00:03:31.000Chris Covelli is a spokesperson for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force.
00:03:34.000He did a press conference on Tuesday and he explained that this Highland Park shooter had tons of red flags.
00:03:41.000I'm gonna relay some information from two prior instances that occurred here in Highland Park.
00:04:03.000So Highland Park still responded to the residents a week later, spoke with parents, and the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time.
00:04:14.000There was no law enforcement action to be taken.
00:04:18.000It was a mental health issue handled by those professionals.
00:04:21.000The second occurred in September of 2019.
00:04:24.000A family member reported that Said he was going to kill everyone and had a collection of knives.
00:04:31.000The police responded to his residence.
00:04:34.000The police removed 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from his home.
00:04:38.000At that time, there was no probable cause to arrest.
00:04:42.000There were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims.
00:04:46.000The Highland Park Police Department, however, did immediately notify the Illinois State Police of the incident.
00:04:55.000Okay, so, we now know that this person had suicidal ideation a couple of years ago.
00:04:59.000We know that in 2019, this person threatened to kill everyone in his family.
00:05:06.000We know the police arrived and took away this person's knives.
00:05:10.000But there's no mechanism in the law by which we actually treat the violently mentally ill.
00:05:14.000It just doesn't exist because we basically have cleaned out our mental health system.
00:05:19.000The basic idea is that we're supposed to have essentially mental health first responders.
00:05:23.000You can put somebody in involuntary commitment for 48 or 72 hour holds if they are possibly violent to themselves or others to sound like this didn't even happen with this person.
00:05:33.000But we do not have a mechanism by which we actually keep people who are violently mentally ill off the streets, preventing them from killing innocent people.
00:05:40.000It does not exist in the United States anymore.
00:05:42.000It used to exist en masse in the 1950s and the 1960s.
00:05:44.000And then we decided that that was violative of basic individual freedoms and that the system didn't work well enough.
00:05:50.000And then we decided to basically release those people onto the streets and rely on various mental health drugs in order to hem that in.
00:05:59.000The problem is a lot of these people don't take their drugs.
00:06:02.000If you make that on a voluntary basis, a lot of people who are mentally ill don't like taking their drugs because they feel that it blurs sensations, that it makes them feel dampened.
00:06:10.000And so you have no mechanism for hemming this in.
00:06:13.000And if you have no mechanism for hemming this in, I'm not talking about gun control here.
00:06:16.000I'm talking about basic structures that do not exist in our society for taking care of people who are violently mentally ill and keeping them away from people who are innocent.
00:06:25.000This sort of stuff is going to happen a lot.
00:06:27.000So no red flag law would have stopped this because the red flags were everywhere.
00:06:33.000This person was reported to the police.
00:06:35.000And by the way, then went and legally purchased weapons.
00:06:37.000So this person, three years ago, had knives removed from them by the cops, and then this person was able to go into a gun shop and apparently legally buy five firearms.
00:06:50.000According to Mediaite, police say that this person dressed as a woman climbed atop a roof and opened fire on a 4th of July parade.
00:06:58.000Apparently the dressing as a woman has nothing to do with transgenderism or anything.
00:07:00.000He was doing this in order to avoid detection by the police.
00:07:04.000This person There are pictures of this person online in women's getup, but not because presumably they're transgender or gender dysphoric in any way, just because they're kooky and crazy and mentally ill in some other way.
00:07:19.000The suspect apparently fired a rifle fitted with at least one high-capacity magazine into the crowd.
00:07:23.000He then fled and left the rifle behind.
00:07:24.000They found him because his DNA was on the rifle.
00:07:26.000He was arrested roughly eight hours later.
00:07:28.000So again, Officers said on Tuesday there was no basis to prevent the shooter from purchasing the weapons.
00:07:36.000At least one firearm was purchased in 2019 after this person threatened suicide and was visited by officers.
00:07:41.000His dad reportedly sponsored the application in that particular gun purchase.
00:07:45.000Which, by the way, demonstrates, again, when it comes to red flag laws and all the rest, if you don't have social structures that are designed to create responsibility in the community for those who are damaged, Then people will fall through the cracks and they'll go on to hurt other human beings.
00:08:02.000There's a certain level, again, just on a human level, you have to feel for the family, not just because the family has a person who is a violent killer amongst them, but because how many parents, how many relatives are willing to report their own relatives for potentially being violent threats?
00:08:20.000Parents tend to want to protect their own kids, but at the expense of the broader community, that is why strong community ties matter.
00:08:26.000Because you have to care enough about the community that you are willing to make the moves necessary to preserve the lives of innocent people in your community, even at the expense of your own kid, if your kid happens to be violently mentally ill, as it appears that this shooter is and was.
00:08:41.000So, for example, the uncle of the shooter was on TV yesterday saying there were no warning signs.
00:09:07.000So he just sits down on his computer and there's no interaction between me and him.
00:09:16.000Okay, so it sounds like this particular uncle didn't have a lot of knowledge for the kid, but parents have to notify the authorities of their kids.
00:09:23.000This has happened over and over and over again.
00:09:24.000In these mass shooter cases, it turns out that the people who are closest to the mass shooter, they tend to know that the person is really screwed up in a serious way, and they don't report it, and so the red flag laws don't mean a damn thing.
00:09:35.000And when it comes to mental health, if somebody, again, is violently mentally ill, we in this country have decided, for bad reasons, that you cannot involuntarily commit people who will not take their medication and are violently mentally ill.
00:09:45.000We'll either put them in jail, which is not where they belong, or we'll put them in a mental institution for 48 hours and then we'll let them out, even if they are not taking the medication that would make them sane again.
00:09:57.000And all of this is going to multiply over time.
00:09:59.000Not just because we have a massive contagion problem when it comes to mass shootings in this country.
00:10:04.000There's no question that that is what's happening, by the way.
00:10:06.000There's a reason why, when you listen to this show, when you watch this show, when you look at my site, Daily Wire, We do not mention the names of shooters.
00:10:13.000We will not provide the impetus for contagion of these mass shootings by featuring this person's face on the news, by mentioning their name.
00:10:21.000Because it turns out that these people, a lot of the mass shooters, they're people who are desperately craving attention.
00:10:25.000That's particularly true in this case, where this person was putting out horrific, scary rap with videos of school shootings on YouTube in order to garner attention for himself.
00:10:38.000And then when they get attention from the media, when they see someone else get attention, they think, oh, how can I get attention as well?
00:10:43.000And then they go out and they commit a heinous act of murder.
00:10:46.000We're not going to contribute to that.
00:10:47.000So when the media talks about how guns are the problem, I can tell you that the bigger problem when it comes to the minds of these people is the mass contagion that the media foment.
00:10:56.000How many of these media outlets are willing to look in the mirror and then commit to a... I mean, the social science on this is fairly solid.
00:11:02.000How many of these media outlets, I'm talking NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, all of them, how many of them are willing to commit to not showing you the faces of killers?
00:11:10.000are not willing to show you their names and make them famous.
00:11:14.000You know the name of the Sandy Hook shooter.
00:11:15.000You know the name of the Parkland shooter.
00:11:17.000You now know the name of this Highland Park shooter.
00:11:21.000The reason you know their names is because the media have decided that they are more interested in the cliques than they are in preserving human life, apparently.
00:11:28.000Because this is a pretty clear cut case of just what media members can do to actually stop violent activities.
00:11:36.000But we've decided in the mass media age that we're not interested in what we can do anymore.
00:11:40.000We'll blame big tech for not shutting down the videos.
00:11:43.000We'll blame everybody else, but members of the media, they'll just go completely silent on this stuff and then continue to churn out coverage of people who desperately crave attention, incentivizing the next mass shooter to go out and do this sort of stuff in his sick mind.
00:11:56.000I say his because nearly all the time it's men.
00:11:59.000And then there is the broader, again, societal problem.
00:12:01.000And that is that as we develop into an atomized, individualistic society that has no social ties to anybody else, it foments violence.
00:12:10.000The broader mental health crisis that we are suffering in the United States is not a coincidence.
00:12:15.000We're a country that has basically decided that all social bonds are forms of repression of you.
00:12:20.000And that the best thing that you can do to find yourself, to find your true center, is to ignore all the roles and institutions that society has traditionally placed around you in order to provide you some sort of basis for living.
00:12:32.000We've decided instead that subjective self-worth is the only metric by which we are to decide whether human happiness has been achieved.
00:12:38.000Well, as it turns out, this actually creates more mental illness.
00:12:41.000It actually creates more confusion and chaos in the minds of young people.
00:12:46.000I do not think it is a coincidence that we have seen this rapid increase in the number of mass shootings by young people.
00:12:52.000At the same exact time, we are seeing a vast increase in the number of young people who are reporting that they are suicidal.
00:12:59.000The vast number of young people who are reporting that they are suffering from depression and mental illness.
00:13:04.000Those numbers are skyrocketing in the United States.
00:13:06.000And to pretend there is no association whatsoever is to ignore the elephant in the room.
00:13:13.000Again, social connections, commitments, duties, things that we give kids to actually form them into civilized human beings.
00:13:21.000When you blow all those things up in the name of a broader ideology that speaks of individual self-gratification, and then a bunch of people are left behind because they can't actually either pursue that self-gratification or they are disappointed in what they wish their lives were, you're gonna get more of this stuff.
00:13:38.000That doesn't mean that any particular politician is to blame for a mass shooting or anything like that.
00:13:42.000What it does mean is you cannot expect that when you put a fire under a pot of water, the water is not going to boil.
00:13:48.000And when it boils, there are going to be occasional times when the lid pops off the pot.
00:13:52.000And that is exactly what we have done, culturally speaking.
00:13:54.000It feels like an ugly time in America right now.
00:15:20.000She wrote, quote, The more a society is dedicated to the value of equality, and the more choices it offers for individual self-determination, the higher its rates of functional mental illness.
00:15:28.000These rates increase in parallel with the increase in the available occupational, geographical, religious, gender, and lifestyle-related choices.
00:15:34.000This explains why, since the 1970s, the U.S.
00:15:36.000leads the world as the country most affected by functional mental illness, though other prosperous liberal democracies aren't far behind.
00:15:43.000So there are lots of reasons for violence between young men.
00:15:45.000And violence between young men has been the way of the world since literally the Stone Age.
00:15:51.000When young males are aggressive, they have testosterone, they fight each other.
00:15:54.000But there is a difference in kind between the aggressive male instinct, taking it out on each other, which is what you see in gang warfare, not just in the United States, but across the world.
00:16:03.000There's a difference between that and the mentally ill loner who's going out and trying to gun down innocent people.
00:16:08.000That is going to multiply as you increase the number of mentally ill loners who are out there.
00:16:12.000And if you are a society that is dedicated to the idea of loneliness, And you remove all of the boundaries around young men, you're going to get more of this.
00:16:21.000And to pretend that there is no relationship between the two is whistling past the graveyard almost literally.
00:16:27.000It's a tragic reality and a tragic outgrowth of a society that has, in many ways, lost its way.
00:16:33.000If we are just talking about mass shootings by young men against innocent people, then let's talk about that.
00:16:39.000Because the reality is, if you want to talk about bastard gun crime or whatever, You're committing a category error.
00:16:44.000Not all quote-unquote gun crime is committed the same.
00:16:46.000Gang warfare is not the same thing as a school shooting.
00:16:49.000And pretending that all those problems are solved simply by railing about guns is missing the point.
00:16:54.000If you're actually going to target this specific problem, we have to talk about this specific problem, which is violently, mentally ill young men, isolated from society, who are going out and murdering innocent people.
00:17:03.000And then you have to look at the forces that are actually militating on behalf of those young men, and preventing people from doing anything about it, and incentivizing people to do nothing about it.
00:17:12.000Because again, the laws ain't working.
00:17:14.000There are plenty of red flags here, and it didn't solve the problem.
00:17:36.000You know, there's been a lot of excitement over the fact that the recent national legislation provides incentives to the states to institute red flag laws.
00:17:45.000Well, if we have yet another situation where we have a mass shooter who is putting out plenty of signals that possibly his network of associates and family knew about, but yet no word was ever passed on to law enforcement, really calls into question how effective can these red flag laws possibly be?
00:18:08.000And that question is not going to be answered by anybody who's actually promoting legislation.
00:18:12.000Thankfully, we have the federal administration, the Biden White House, that is pushing ineffective policy and pretending that they have solutions to these sorts of problems.
00:18:20.000And it comes in the form of Kamala Harris, the least talented politician of her generation, who has failed upward in every job she's ever been given.
00:18:26.000Here she was speaking on the shooting yesterday.
00:18:30.000We've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are, because you have been forced to have to take it seriously.
00:18:35.000The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this can happen anywhere, in any peace-loving community, and we should stand together and speak out about why it's got to stop.
00:18:55.000Man, she is just a word salad of a human being.
00:18:59.000Well, all of this, this feeling of chaos, this feeling that there are no stable social standards.
00:19:03.000The feeling that so much of what we are in the country and what we are as a civilization is collapsing and about us and that the person who's supposed to be standing between us and the monsters is a geriatric daughter.
00:19:14.000And there's a reason why Joe Biden's approval rating right now is just brutal.
00:19:18.000So brand new Monmouth poll out yesterday.
00:19:20.000Joe Biden's approval rating is in the aftermath, by the way, of the Roe versus Wade overrulings.
00:19:24.000You'd have expected a spike for Joe Biden since he is fighting the Supreme Court and we all love abortion and all the rest of it.
00:19:29.000Joe Biden's approval rating, according to Monmouth, is 36%.
00:19:47.000them at 41. Reuters has them at 38. Economist has them at 39. This dude cannot break 40% with a jackhammer. And when you look to the state polls, it's significantly worse, by In Arizona, he is riding at 26% approval rating.
00:20:20.000And there are a bunch of reasons for this.
00:20:25.000The most obvious is that Americans really are struggling with inflation and with the economy, but it also is the feeling that this dude does not have a handle on anything.
00:20:33.000He does not represent a unifying vision for the country in any way, shape, or form.
00:20:35.000He does not have any central worldview that coheres.
00:20:39.000All he is is a basket of leftist policy priorities rammed through over the objections of the American people.
00:20:46.000All the Democrats, by the way, who right now are saying that abortion is going to jog them to victory in November.
00:22:50.000ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire.
00:22:53.000And by the way, the inflation stats that we are following are significantly better than what the actual inflation experience is like for the vast majority of Americans.
00:23:01.000Henry Olsen has a really good piece over at the Washington Post talking about this today.
00:23:05.000He says, quote, if you're having trouble grasping why inflation is so politically potent, consider that Americans who enjoyed a 4th of July cookout on Monday paid 17% more for their food than last year, according to a survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation.
00:23:16.000Now, you'll remember that the Biden administration last year put out a graphic saying that you had saved something like 11 cents on your meal on 4th of July.
00:23:24.000Look at what a wonderful job we are doing in bringing down costs.
00:23:27.000Well, now Americans are paying 17% more for that 4th of July meal.
00:23:30.000That's a perfect illustration of a poorly understood aspect of inflation.
00:23:33.000For most Americans, the inflation they actually experience is much worse than the 8.6% headline rate.
00:23:38.000The official government inflation rate comes from the Consumer Price Index.
00:23:41.000That measures the prices of a basket of goods that reflect the overall annual consumption of items and services an average urban household pays for.
00:23:48.000As a national average, it can never reflect what a particular household faces in any particular city.
00:23:53.000It assumes the average family purchases all these goods and services in the same quantities.
00:24:10.000Prices for eggs skyrocketed 32% in the last year.
00:24:14.000Those categories are less than 20% of the overall consumer price index, but they are the products that people buy every single week.
00:24:20.000As a result, the political impact of these double-digit increases is likely to be worse than that of infrequently purchased goods, like visits to the doctor.
00:24:27.000Even some of the goods people don't often purchase likely produce extreme inflation anxiety for most households.
00:24:33.000The majority of those who have stayed past in the last year likely have mortgages whose repayment amounts don't fluctuate.
00:24:38.000But those who did buy a new home almost surely experienced massive sticker shock.
00:24:42.000The same is true for people who bought a new or used car in the past year.
00:24:45.000So inflation is much worse than Joe Biden is letting on for the vast majority of people.
00:24:50.000And this administration, as always, seems to be operating in a completely different sphere than the rest of us.
00:24:56.000So back to Kamala Harris, the nation's most inspirational politician picked Specifically because of her intersectional qualifications, certainly not because she's very good at this.
00:25:05.000Here she was trying to talk about inflation yesterday.
00:25:08.000We, first of all, need to deal with it.
00:25:10.000And the president and our administration, we have been in terms of being probably one of our highest priorities, which is to bring down gas prices and to deal with the cost of living, including what has been happening with prices on various goods that are almost directly related to a pandemic that impacted the supply chain in a profound way.
00:25:31.000Russians, Russia's and Putin's war in Ukraine and what that has meant in terms of gas and oil.
00:25:37.000And so we're working on bringing down basically the cost of what life requires for people.
00:25:45.000Man, she's still going with Putin and the pandemic.
00:25:49.000This pandemic has been effectively over for the vast majority of Americans for fully a year because the vaccines got tranched out in March of 2021.
00:25:57.000And she's still talking about how we're paying too much at the grocery because of supply chain problems due to the pandemic.
00:26:03.000She's still talking about Putin's price hike and all this nonsense.
00:26:07.000It's particularly not going to work when Americans are having to tap into their savings to cope with inflation.
00:26:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans are starting to dip into the huge pile of savings they accumulated over the first two years of the pandemic.
00:26:17.000From the start of the pandemic to the end of 2021, U.S.
00:26:19.000households built up $2.7 trillion in extra savings, according to Moody's.
00:26:23.000COVID-19 lockdowns kept people at home with nowhere to spend money.
00:26:26.000Three rounds of stimulus payments boosted their incomes.
00:26:28.000Now, with inflation at its highest point in decades and wage gains trailing behind, Americans are turning to that stash to cover their costs.
00:26:34.000The personal saving rate, a measure of how much money people have left over after spending in taxes, reached 5.4% in May.
00:26:40.000That figure is below the average of the last decade.
00:26:42.000It is far below the record of 34% in April 2020, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
00:26:47.000Families are tapping about $114 billion of their pandemic savings so far, and it's likely to get worse.
00:26:53.000Meanwhile, the price of gas continues to spike and this administration continues to laugh.
00:26:58.000So it is truly amazing how committed this administration is to the idea that oil and natural gas are just bad.
00:27:06.000So Pete Buttigieg was asked yesterday on Neil Cavuto's show on Fox News, he is the transportation secretary who is so useless that he went completely missing for two months and no one even knew it.
00:27:15.000He was on paternity leave because it was very important.
00:27:18.000Anyway, Pete Buttigieg Who, again, was like, where's Waldo?
00:27:24.000He's done such a crappy job that we still have massive supply chain bottlenecks.
00:27:28.000And we still don't know, by the way, where any of that massive transportation bill stimulus boondoggle, we don't know where that money's going.
00:27:33.000Anyway, Pete Buttigieg, he tried to explain why gas prices are so high and laughed about it in the process, which is always good luck.
00:27:40.000A major oil-producing country launched a war of aggression and destabilized so much of the world economy when they did.
00:27:48.000Half of that increase started prior to the first Russian soldiers arriving near Ukraine.
00:27:56.000You can't blame it all on Ukraine, right?
00:28:26.000We're in the middle of a massive gas shortage, and this idiot is attempting to block offshore drilling.
00:28:32.000Quote, the Biden administration has proposed blocking all new drilling, all of it, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
00:28:37.000But we'll allow some drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in a five-year development plan.
00:28:40.000The plan released on Friday proposed no more than 10 potential lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, an option for one potential lease sale in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet of Alaska, and no lease sales for the Atlantic or Pacific planning areas anywhere from 2023 to 2028.
00:28:53.000And then Joe Biden has the gall to explain to individual gas station owners that it's their fault that the gas prices are high?
00:29:03.000By the way, gas stations don't make their money from the gas.
00:29:06.000As a general rule, the price margin on gas is extremely low.
00:29:09.000It's from all the other stuff that the gas stations make their money.
00:29:12.000It's when you go inside and buy a Snickers bar.
00:29:14.000That's where they actually make their cash.
00:29:16.000Most of the gas stations are getting it from a few refiners.
00:29:18.000The number of refiners in the United States has been dropping dramatically since the 1970s, specifically because of the crap environmental policy that the left has pushed.
00:29:25.000And then we're shocked when there are shortages.
00:30:06.000Greta, by the way, is very angry at this.
00:30:08.000The Europeans are now, again, considering whether nuclear and natural gas ought to be labeled green sources of energy.
00:30:15.000And, um, and the scoldy, the scoldy Claude from Sweden, she said, tomorrow, the European Parliament will decide whether fossil gas and nuclear will be considered sustainable in the EU taxonomy.
00:30:27.000But no amount of lobbyism and greenwashing will ever make it green.
00:30:32.000We need desperately real renewable energy, not false solutions.
00:30:40.000Well, the moron Europeans who followed her down the primrose path to Russian gas dependency.
00:30:46.000They're finally breaking their dependency on the scoldy Swedish teen.
00:30:50.000And they've decided, according to the New York Times, in a landmark vote for Europe's climate and energy policies, lawmakers said on Wednesday, some gas and nuclear energy projects should be considered green and receive access to cheap loans and even state subsidies.
00:31:01.000You see, the Europeans have gone further than we have on the environmental front.
00:31:04.000And this is why they are now completely dependent on Vladimir Putin pumping them oil.
00:31:08.000A European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, voted in favor ...of accepting a proposal by the European Commission, the EU executive, with 328 votes backing the proposal, 278 against.
00:31:17.000Both inside the parliamentary chambers and outside the building, detractors of the policy booed in protest.
00:31:22.000The Commission's proposal to label gas and nuclear as green is part of a broader new EU law that classifies various types of energy investments as environmentally friendly.
00:31:30.000and lays out detailed rules on how to assess them.
00:31:33.000The policy, known as the taxonomy, is meant to stop greenwashing, a pervasive practice of mislabeling energy products as environmentally friendly.
00:31:39.000It would also give the bloc, which brings together 27 industrialized and wealthy nations, added wiggle room as it scrambles to replace Russian energy sources in its effort to penalize the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine this year.
00:31:50.000But the classification remains controversial in environmental circles.
00:31:53.000Yes, because the Europeans decided that they weren't going to be held hostage to the idiot Greens.
00:31:58.000Critics of the proposal contend the attempt to classify gas and nuclear projects as green isn't in itself greenwashing and runs counter to European efforts to slash carbon emissions by 55% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
00:32:10.000So while the Europeans are loosening up their own energy policy, Joe Biden is tightening America's energy policy.
00:32:16.000When asked about this sort of stuff, Corinne Jean-Pierre, who's just an utterly untalented press secretary, I mean, Jen Psaki, She lied with fluidity.
00:32:24.000Maybe Karine Jean-Pierre is a more honest person.
00:32:26.000I mean, I'm trying to explain why she's so much worse at this than Jen Psaki is.
00:32:31.000Her typical move is the I know nothing move.
00:32:34.000So she was asked specifically about a conversation that was held between Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic in Europe last week.
00:32:41.000And that conversation, Macron said to Joe Biden, you can't keep going to OPEC and asking for more oil.
00:32:52.000There's video of the French president running up to President Biden and relaying a message saying that the Saudis are about at capacity through the UAE.
00:33:01.000Did President Biden ask the French to ask the Saudis to pump more oil through the UAE?
00:33:07.000I did not hear this conversation, so I can't speak to that conversation.
00:33:14.000By the way, among other things, she doesn't know.
00:33:17.000Apparently, she was asked yesterday about the simple fact that, according to the Daily Wire, millions of barrels of oil Joe Biden released from the U.S.
00:33:23.000Strategic Petroleum Reserve found their way to European and Asian nations, including China, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters.
00:33:30.000Reuters found, through customs data, at least 5 million barrels of oil were exported to Europe and Asia last month, as the Strategic Reserve drains to its lowest level since 1986.
00:33:39.000American oil refiner Phillips 66 shipped 470,000 barrels of sour crude from Texas to Italy, while Atlantic Trading and Marketing, a division of the French entity Total Energies, exported two cargos of 560,000 barrels each.
00:33:51.000Meanwhile, industry sources told the outlet more crude oil was sent to China, India, and the Netherlands.
00:33:56.000So Corinne Jean-Pierre, do you have any idea why we are shipping oil from the Strategic Reserve to China?
00:34:06.000More than 5 million barrels of oil that were released from the emergency oil reserves were exported to Europe and Asia last month and some of it reportedly was actually heading to China.
00:34:18.000Is the administration aware of those reports and does the president mind that some of this oil that was meant to ease pain for consumers is headed overseas?
00:34:29.000I have not seen that report, so I would honestly have to go look into it and see what the truth is in that statement that you just laid out and see exactly what's happening.
00:34:54.000I've been citing you unemployment stats state by state since the middle of the pandemic, and it has been obvious that the best states for the economy are all red states that didn't lock down their economies.
00:35:03.000It is blue states that locked down their economies and have heavy regulations and have heavy taxation.
00:35:08.000All of those states are lagging far behind.
00:35:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the pandemic has changed the geography of the American economy.
00:35:14.000By many measures, red states, those that lean Republican, have recovered faster economically than Democratic-leaning blue ones, with workers and employers moving from the coast to the middle of the country and Florida.
00:35:25.000Since February 2020, the month before the pandemic began, the share of all U.S.
00:35:28.000jobs located in red states has grown by more than half a percentage point, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Brookings Institution.
00:35:34.000The Brookings Institution is a left-wing think tank.
00:35:36.000Red states have added 341,000 jobs over that time.
00:35:39.000Blue states were still short 1.3 million jobs as of May.
00:35:44.000So the red states actually picked up jobs since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:35:47.000The blue states are still 1.3 million jobs below where they were at the beginning of the pandemic.
00:35:52.000Several major companies have recently announced moves of their headquarters from blue to red states.
00:35:56.000By the way, that includes The Daily Wire, which moved from Los Angeles to Tennessee, and we have a branch in Florida as well.
00:36:01.000Hedge fund company Citadel said it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Miami.
00:36:04.000Caterpillar is moving from Illinois to Texas.
00:36:07.000Moody's Analytics developed an index of 13 metrics, including the value of goods and services produced, employment, retail sales, and new home listings.
00:36:14.00011 of the 15 states with the highest readings through mid-June were red.
00:36:57.000Well, folks, hope you all had an amazing 4th of July with friends and family.
00:37:01.000Sadly, the days of saving 16 whole cents on our cookouts like we did last year, those are in the rear view mirror, but there's still a lot to celebrate.
00:37:06.000Here at The Daily Wire, we are celebrating the birth of Daily Wire Plus.
00:37:10.000So what is Daily Wire Plus, aside from an amazing way to troll the failure of CNN Plus?
00:37:14.000Well, basically, it's everything you love from The Daily Wire.
00:37:26.000It's Andrew Klavan, and it's Candace Owens, plus so much more.
00:37:29.000And we are talking about now the entirety of Jordan Peterson's existing archive podcast, news shows, and bonus content, plus a new series from PragerU out this fall, plus fearless documentaries and movies, like What is a Woman?, Gina Carano's Terror on the Prairie, Plus soon, animated kids shows without the woke agenda.
00:37:45.000I'm particularly pumped about Jordan's brand new four-part series, Dragons, Monsters, and Men.
00:37:49.000It is streaming right now exclusively over at Daily Wire+.
00:37:52.000So you can't get Jordan over on Twitter because they banned him because he said true things.
00:37:55.000Well, you can get as much Jordan Peterson as you could possibly imagine over at Daily Wire+.
00:38:00.000In Dragons, Monsters, and Men, Jordan explores what it really means to be a man and explains how to slay the dragons in your life and truly excel.
00:38:33.000Because you want to fight the dragons that guard the gates of the treasure that you wish to attain.
00:38:40.000Productivity requires aim, orientation, responsibility, discipline, that willingness to work, that willingness to make sacrifices, which is the hallmark of maturity in the service of a higher goal.
00:38:54.000It orients you solidly in the world if you do that, and it gives you a dragon to fight.
00:39:13.000To say to an 18-year-old, you're okay the way you are, that just deflates them.
00:39:21.000You know, when you go to the gym and you start lifting weights, well, your body's going to transform, but it's not going to do that if you just sit around.
00:39:27.000You have to face your being with the necessity of transformation, and then all sorts of new things that you had no idea you were capable of will make themselves manifest.
00:39:37.000Those are the dragons, you know, the ones that stand in the path that leads to the light.
00:39:43.000And you have to say to yourself, I will do good nonetheless.
00:41:00.000They're going to lose that lawsuit, by the way.
00:41:01.000The DOJ has limited resources, so they're not going to track down, apparently, all the people who are firebombing pro-life clinics, but they are definitely, definitely going to go after the state of Arizona for the great crime of requesting that you show ID when you vote for President of the United States so we don't have people illegally voting.
00:41:15.000That would be super bad, according to the DOJ.
00:41:17.000The Wall Street Journal reports in its latest challenge to Republican-backed changes to state voting procedures, the Justice Department said that Arizona's newly enacted requirement that residents provide documentary proof of citizenship The state law is set to take effect in January.
00:41:30.000The state law is set to take effect in January.
00:41:32.000Quote, it turns back the clock by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls, said Kristen Clark, head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which is the weaponized form of the DOJ on behalf of leftism.
00:41:44.000This has been true since the Obama administration.
00:41:47.000Clark called Arizona's House Bill 2492, which requires proof of citizenship to vote by mail in any federal election, a textbook violation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.
00:41:56.000A provision requiring election officials to reject registration forms based on mistakes that aren't relevant to a voter's eligibility also violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:42:34.000In 2013, the Supreme Court did reject an earlier attempt by the state to impose similar proof of citizenship requirements for federal elections, saying such a mandate interfered with Congress's prerogative to set election laws.
00:42:44.000However, Mark Brnovich, Republican Arizona Attorney General, he says, I'll see you in court again.
00:42:54.000He said he was prepared to defend the new law all the way to the Supreme Court and defeat the federal government's efforts to interfere with our state's election safeguards.
00:43:01.000So again, the Biden administration suing people so that they don't have to show ID when they vote by mail is pretty amazing stuff.
00:43:17.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden's personal popularity continues to sink, largely because people know that he is not the person he was purported to be.
00:43:24.000So Joe Biden was supposed to be the most... He was Scranton Joe.
00:43:31.000And all of the sins of his son, Hunter, who was running around the world picking up bags of cash, well, snorting cocaine off hookers' asses, all of that had nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:43:40.000Well, now it turns out that Joe Biden actually knew about it.
00:43:42.000According to the New York Post, Joe Biden called his son, Hunter, in late 2018 to discuss a New York Times article detailing the younger Biden's dealings with a Chinese oil tycoon accused of economic crimes, telling him, I think you're clear, according to a report, Last week, the voicemail discovered on a cell phone backup contained on Hunter Biden's infamous discarded laptop would appear to contradict Biden's continued denial he ever talked with his disgraced 52-year-old son about his overseas business transactions and was aware they could be improper.
00:44:20.000So Joe Biden, by the way, said the next year, I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. So Corrine Jean-Pierre was asked about this. And of course, she had no answer because there is no answer. Why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings? If the president has said he's never spoken to his son about his overseas business? Well, first, I'll say that what the president said stands.
00:44:47.000So, if that's what the President said, that is what stands.
00:44:50.000And second... He's leaving a voicemail about a New York Times article concerning Hunter Biden's business dealings.
00:45:24.000Yes, the American people are, yes, we should definitely trust this guy.
00:45:27.000By the way, this entire administration, which is based on the notion that they have some sort of high-level moral superiority, I'm waiting to see it, like, really, demonstrated at some point here.
00:45:36.000I mean, they can't even generate moral superiority on the basis of being pro-institutions.
00:45:51.000Anyway, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked why it is that January 6th was insurrectionary, but Joe Biden and the Democratic Party basically encouraging people to go to justices' houses in order to threaten them to not overturn Roe v. Wade, why that was okay.
00:46:07.000What's the difference between President Trump not doing anything while the Capitol was being attacked and President Biden not doing anything while the protesters, while the Supreme Court justices were under attack in their own homes with their families and with their children?
00:46:23.000Well, there are two major differences here.
00:46:27.000First of all, Our predecessor was very... We have said that his behavior on that day, on January 6th, was atrocious.
00:47:07.000They have no answers on any of this stuff.
00:47:09.000Which may be the reason why the entire Democratic Party is now looking at Joe Biden and saying, you are just driving us directly into the ground.
00:47:15.000The Democrats have a massive problem on their hands.
00:47:17.000That massive problem comes in the form of the They're a bevy of pieces out there.
00:47:26.000Like the groundswell is beginning, and if Democrats get shellacked in November, wait for the movement to start to oust this guy.
00:47:31.000Now the question is on behalf of whom?
00:47:50.000He might be able to win a high school debate contest, but he ain't winning any states of major national popularity outside of like New York and California in a presidential election.
00:48:03.000Gavin Newsom, by the way, is hilarious.
00:48:05.000They're now pushing Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who is so bad that he drove businesses like mine out of his state and then ran commercials to us here in Florida trying to tell us to come back.
00:48:14.000Gavin Newsom, who ate at the French Laundry in the middle of the pandemic, his state currently, because of Gavin Newsom, has a travel ban on employees using state dollars in order to visit 22 separate states because they're not pro-LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign tilde enough.
00:48:31.000They're not pro all of that agenda enough.
00:48:39.000Because these people are all hypocrites.
00:48:40.000I look forward to seeing Gavin Newsom in Miami enjoying the beaches and the freedom over here in Florida, just like all of his other Democratic predecessors.
00:48:47.000So who do they got waiting in the wings?
00:48:58.000Quote, is President Joe Biden meeting the moment?
00:49:00.000That's the question driving the political zeitgeist as some of the loudest members of the Democratic Party vent their frustrations to major news outlets.
00:49:06.000The gist of their complaints, Biden and Democrats need a vibe shift, fast.
00:49:10.000They want the president to reflect their anger and angst.
00:49:13.000They want him to project strength and that he has a plan for meaningful action.
00:49:16.000Well, he can't project... He can project, like, irritation.
00:49:38.000They want him to pick fights at the right time with the right opponent.
00:49:41.000Messaging on teams that get reinforced time and again, but he can't do that.
00:49:44.000And they feel all of this is missing from the White House right now.
00:49:46.000According to Politico, there are currently three big stories on this.
00:49:49.000First, Christopher Catalego and Jonathan Lemire report on the differences between Biden's response to the mass shooting in Highland Park on Independence Day and that of Democratic Governor J.B.
00:49:57.000Pritzker, whose name is popping up more and more in conversations about 2024.
00:50:08.000The comparison, quote, where Pritzker demanded that people make politics of the moment as grisly as it may be, the president initially made just passing reference to the shooting.
00:50:15.000Later on the South Lawn, he said Biden has more work to do and called for a moment of silence.
00:50:19.000You've got to get this under control, Biden said.
00:50:21.000Perhaps no issue better encapsulates the Biden administration's viewpoint and tactics than how it has chosen to tackle the epidemic of gun violence.
00:50:27.000The president makes no secret of his bolder legislative ambitions, but those efforts have been stymied by Republicans in Congress, and he has had to balance dueling demands.
00:50:35.000Righteous indignation of fellow Democrats and the plodding incremental progress that comes with bipartisan compromise.
00:50:41.000Meanwhile, The Washington Post's Ashley Parker and Matt Visor write that Democrats continue to grow impatient with the Biden approach, which they describe as a mix of scolding Republicans urging Americans to vote Democrat and voicing broad optimism about the country.
00:50:53.000Quote, as the Democrats rank and file thirst for a more combative attitude becomes increasingly evident, other party leaders are beginning to showcase an alternative tone, one that goes far more sharply at Republican attitudes and tactics.
00:51:04.000Along with Pritzker, they point to Gavin Newsom, who ran an ad in Florida on Monday knocking Ron DeSantis' policies.
00:51:10.000Adam Jentleson, inaptly named, former top aide to Harry Reid.
00:51:15.000Quote, there is a leadership vacuum right now.
00:51:26.000Rutterless, aimless, and hopeless is how one member of Congress described the White House.
00:51:30.000Two dozen leading Democratic politicians and operatives, as well as several within the West Wing, tell CNN they feel this goes far deeper than questions of ideology and posture.
00:51:37.000Instead, they said, it gets to questions of basic management.
00:52:30.000We're talking, like, all of his speeches.
00:52:32.000We're talking a brand new series, Dragons, Monsters, MN.
00:52:35.000It is Jordan, like, completely unpacked over at DailyWirePlus.
00:52:38.000Head on over to DailyWirePlus right now and subscribe.
00:52:40.000I mean, the reason you need to go there is that you don't have to worry about big tech censoring, Jordan.
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00:52:47.000So you'll recall that last week Jordan Peterson was suspended from Twitter for noting that Elliot Page was actually Ellen Page.
00:52:55.000That she changed her name because we use biological pronouns here on The Ben Shapiro Show because those are the only pronouns that convey actual information about human beings.
00:53:02.000And Ellen Page is a woman who changed her name to Elliot Page and then got a bunch of surgeries to make her look more like a man.
00:53:10.000Jordan noted this, and he was banned from Twitter for that.
00:53:13.000Then Dave Rubin, we now have like a daisy chain of bannings.
00:53:17.000Dave Rubin then noted that Jordan Peterson had been banned.
00:53:20.000He tweeted, quote, the insanity continues at Twitter.
00:53:22.000Jordan Peterson has been suspended for this tweet about Ellen Page.
00:53:25.000He just told me he will, quote, never delete the tweet.
00:53:30.000So he was suspended on Twitter for this.
00:53:34.000So for mentioning that Jordan tweeted about Ellen Page, which Jordan did, He was banned because you're not allowed to... It's like Voldemort.
00:53:40.000You're never allowed to say Ellen Page.
00:53:42.000If you say Ellen Page, Voldemort will show up on your doorstep.
00:53:45.000Whereas transgender ideology violates all science.
00:53:49.000Biology, it violates the basic norms of logic.
00:54:08.000When you were watching Juno, the story of a young pregnant girl, what you were actually watching was a pregnant man named Elliot Page who looked exactly like a girl because, you know, was a girl.
00:54:21.000You didn't know Elliot Page was the star of Juno because Elliot Page didn't exist yet.
00:54:24.000But now, because we have a time machine, the trans time machine, Elliot Page is now the star of Juno.
00:55:10.000He said, I've been suspended by Twitter for posting a screenshot of Jordan Peterson's tweet, which got him suspended.
00:55:16.000Well, it's unclear how I broke their terms of service.
00:55:18.000It's clear they are breaking their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders by letting a bunch of woke activists run the company.
00:55:23.000I hope Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter goes through so he can blow up their servers and humanity can move past this pervasive, twisted, self-imposed mental institution.
00:55:30.000In the meantime, you can find me over at RubinReport.Locals.com, the platform I created to fight big tech censorship, something we need now more than ever.
00:55:38.000But this is the perversity of big tech.
00:55:40.000Big tech will literally erase you from existence for having noticed that a person was erased from existence.
00:56:50.000Because the game that I played with Twitter is that I said something extraordinarily sarcastic and they can't ban me for it because Twitter's algorithms don't pick up sarcasm.
00:57:09.000They haven't banned me yet, so, you know, the day is young.
00:57:12.000Quote, Rubin Report has now been suspended for posting news about Jordan Peterson's suspension.
00:57:16.000All because we are not allowed to mention that until five minutes ago, Elliot Page, who is very, very, very male, was a female actress named Ellen Page.
00:58:50.000Then you had Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, signed into debate.
00:58:53.000So she has decided that she is going to become newly relevant by just repeating woke nostrums, even though she has not done anything of career note since, like, the 1970s.
00:59:02.000So she tweeted out on this topic as well, quote, I cannot think of anything that helps women's rights less than pinning the blame on trans women.
00:59:09.000They face so much violence and scrutiny as it is.
00:59:11.000Leave them alone and focus on the real war on women.
00:59:13.000It's happening in the courts and legislatures around this country.
00:59:16.000Now erasing women as an actual, existent part of the species, that's not a war on women.
00:59:19.000Saying that women should not kill their unborn children, that's the real war on women, according to the left.
00:59:39.000This is the first time in my lifetime the left is losing the culture war and the answer is they pushed so hard that eventually they had to drive a backlash.
00:59:46.000It's going to form itself in November and it's going to be really, really ugly for Democrats, as well it should be because they've pursued bad policy on every single front Beyond the dissolution of all the social bonds that we used to rely upon to tie the country together.
00:59:59.000All right, we'll be back here later today with additional content.
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