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00:01:27.000Well, the breaking news this morning is that Boris Johnson has now been basically ousted as the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK.
00:01:35.000Now, this doesn't mean that he is no longer prime minister.
00:01:38.000He's basically going to hold on to the prime ministership until he is forced out of office by the next election.
00:01:43.000But he says he's no longer going to lead the Conservative Party because all of his ministers have resigned on him.
00:01:48.000He announced that this morning in the UK.
00:02:04.000It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister.
00:02:14.000And I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now.
00:02:23.000And the timetable will be announced next week and I've today appointed a cabinet to serve as I will until a new leader is in place.
00:02:33.000Okay, so the way that it works in Great Britain, just like a lot of other parliamentary democracies, is that the Conservative Party was elected to lead the government.
00:02:39.000Boris Johnson, by resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party, does not lose his slot as Prime Minister, because the Conservative Party still was the elected majority, and until they have appointed a new leader inside the Conservative Party, that means that he is basically just the serving Prime Minister of Great Britain.
00:02:55.000It does mean that he is on his way out.
00:02:57.000According to CNN, Johnson's departure marks a remarkable downfall for a prime minister who's once seen as having political superpowers with an appeal that transcended traditional party lines.
00:03:05.000He won a landslide victory in December 2019 on the promise of delivering a Brexit deal and leading the UK to a bright future outside the EU.
00:03:12.000You'll recall that he got into a massive fight with Parliament.
00:03:14.000He actually had Parliament suspended for a few weeks.
00:03:17.000The British Supreme Court later suggested that this was unconstitutional in Great Britain, and he had to apologize to the Queen and all of this.
00:03:24.000But he ended up getting Brexit done, and he was seen as a pretty popular leader at the time.
00:03:28.000And then COVID hit, and his leadership during COVID became extremely controversial.
00:03:32.000And now, basically, a series of scandals have supposedly taken him down.
00:03:44.000Those are the only things that bring down politicians.
00:03:46.000Because otherwise, you can get away with nearly anything.
00:03:48.000If you're Andrew Cuomo and you kill every old person in the state of New York with your bad nursing home policy, you can get away with that.
00:03:53.000But the minute that we found out that you grabbed somebody's ass against their will, you are gone, man.
00:03:58.000That is something... Killing old people?
00:04:03.000Same sort of thing now appears to have happened to Boris Johnson.
00:04:05.000Not really because the scandals that bring down these politicians are those scandals, but because these are the scandals that we can pin directly on you.
00:04:12.000And this means that we can use these as a sort of lever to get you out of office.
00:04:16.000Because if you look at the list of scandals that supposedly plagued Boris Johnson, it's pretty mild.
00:04:22.000And Fox News has a pretty good roundup of the supposed scandals that brought him down.
00:04:26.000The biggest one, and this was really the one that brought him down.
00:04:28.000It just took a long time for it to manifest.
00:04:30.000Where he started to lose popularity is his lockdown policies.
00:04:33.000During COVID, the UK took an extraordinarily strict stance in the early going with regard to lockdown.
00:04:38.000And while that lockdown was happening, Boris Johnson had a big birthday party and he invited all of his friends.
00:04:43.000According to Fox News, the most enduring and infamous controversy with which Johnson wrangled involved parties that occurred on government grounds during the most strict COVID-19 lockdown periods.
00:04:51.000Rules at the time mandated individuals could not socialize indoors except with their household or support bubble.
00:04:56.000Police issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices to 83 people in government for the gatherings that totaled eight different parties between May 2020 and April 2021, which showed that they were hypocrites.
00:05:05.000It showed that they did not actually believe the standard that they were forcing everybody else to abide by.
00:05:10.000A report by senior civil servant Sue Gray on the matter claimed Johnson at one point provided wine and cheese to the staff from a May 2020 party in the gardens of 10 Downing Street, another party in the same venue.
00:05:20.000Partygoers raged well into the night, wrapping up at around 4 a.m.
00:05:23.000There's another party allegedly happening around April 16, 2021, the night before Queen Elizabeth buried her husband, Prince Philip, where party attendees drank wine, ordered four large pizzas to share, and took turns going down a slide belonging to Johnson's son, Wilf, according to eyewitness accounts and photos reviewed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
00:05:39.000Someone spilled wine on a copy machine and almost damaged the laptop that served as the jukebox for the evening.
00:05:44.000And so, again, this was the thing that really brought down Johnson.
00:05:47.000And it was a couple of years of trailing bad feeling because it is one thing for a left-wing politician to issue lockdown notices and then proceed to violate lockdown, whether it is Gavin Newsom in California or Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, whether it is Muriel Bowser in Washington, DC, or whether it is Lennon Breed in San Francisco.
00:06:04.000People expect left-wingers to be hypocrites on this kind of stuff because, frankly, left-wingers are always in favor of lockdown and they don't abide by any of their own social standards.
00:06:11.000But when it is somebody like Boris Johnson, who's supposed to be standing up for small businesses, somebody who is not supposed to engage in harsh lockdown policies, when it turns out that you're the hypocrite, then the fire is coming from inside your own party.
00:06:23.000And that's exactly what happened to Johnson.
00:06:24.000There are a couple of other scandals that started to creep up on him. And again, they have more to do with sort of inaction than action.
00:06:32.000So for example, Johnson had promoted a member of parliament named Chris Pincher to the position of deputy chief whip, who's one of the people responsible for lining up votes along party lines for conservative positions. Pincher took over the role February 8th, he resigned June 30th after allegedly groping two men at the Carleton Club in Piccadilly.
00:06:48.000So this is why I say the sex scandals were the coverups, right?
00:06:50.000So, this guy, it wasn't even Johnson who was grabbing ass in this particular circumstance, it was Chris Pinscher who was doing so.
00:06:56.000And supposedly Johnson said that he didn't know about it, Johnson kept him in the party, he insisted the matter was closed, and then it turns out there were more allegations that Johnson had known about earlier, and then he admitted that.
00:07:06.000And then there was, you know, a very brief report of a sex scandal involving Boris Johnson, but it was old, it was from like 2018, when his current wife was then his mistress, and apparently they were engaged in sexual congress.
00:07:21.000So those are sort of the big scandals that supposedly plagued him and a couple other staffing scandals.
00:07:27.000But the reality is that what really brought down Boris Johnson is the fact that his own party grew tired of the antics.
00:07:34.000His own party was annoyed by the fact that he had locked down the country in large measure and taken very strict protocols with regard to COVID and then violated those.
00:07:44.000And this is one of the things that we are going to see politically.
00:07:47.000I think everybody believes that because of the pandemic is effectively over for most people, meaning that everybody is going out living their lives, have gone back to work, they've gone back to school.
00:07:54.000Because of that, there's this belief in politics by a lot of politicians that that issue is dead, that COVID is dead.
00:08:01.000People are very, very angry and that anger is not going to go away.
00:08:05.000In fact, I think this is true in the United States as well.
00:08:07.000The fact that Joe Biden is president of the United States does not alleviate the fact that most Americans are not on board and were not on board with the lockdown-friendly policies pushed by Democrats across the country.
00:08:19.000That's why you've seen a mass exodus from blue states to red states in the United States during the course of the pandemic.
00:08:25.000It's why, for example, Florida went from a swing state to a pretty solidly red state.
00:08:56.000And the long tail effect of pandemic policies that extended well beyond the chief time period of the pandemic.
00:09:03.000Economic policies that are coming to fruition in the form of really, really high inflation.
00:09:07.000And what will soon be a recession if we're not already in one.
00:09:11.000All of that is going to bear really ugly fruit for the party that's going to get blamed.
00:09:14.000And in the United States, that party is the Democratic Party.
00:09:17.000In the UK, by the way, Just because Boris Johnson is out does not mean that the Conservative Party is going to lose the next election to Labour.
00:09:24.000Labour is in complete disarray over in the UK.
00:09:27.000Remember, they had to basically oust their own erstwhile leader, Jeremy Corbyn, because he's a rabid anti-Semite.
00:09:33.000People aren't willing to trust the Labour Party with nearly anything over there.
00:09:36.000They just didn't think that Boris Johnson was the person to lead the Conservative Party.
00:09:41.000So, distrust inside the Conservative Party is actually pushing the Conservative Party to the right in the UK.
00:09:45.000There are a bunch of other candidates who are up for the post of Prime Minister over there, but in the United States, don't mistake what's happening to Boris Johnson for some sort of left-wing move.
00:09:54.000That's not what's happening in the UK and that's not what's happening in the United States.
00:09:57.000Boris Johnson seems to be on his way out.
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00:11:21.000He's underwater in every major swing state.
00:11:23.000If the Republicans had nominated a better slate of candidates this year for the Senate, they would be picking up three to four seats in the Senate.
00:11:28.000As it stands, they might still pick up these seats, despite the fact that they have candidates who are running weak in polls.
00:11:33.000In Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz is running weak in the polls right now.
00:11:36.000In Georgia, Hershel Walker is running very weak in the polls.
00:11:38.000Those are eminently pick-upable seats.
00:11:41.000In Arizona, it's unclear at this point who's going to be running against Mark Kelly, but that too is a vulnerable seat.
00:11:46.000New Hampshire is a vulnerable seat for Democrats.
00:11:49.000There are a bunch of vulnerable seats for Democrats, and if Republicans had picked, I think, a more solid slate of candidates, there would be a significantly better shot that Republicans would pick up a lot more of those Senate seats.
00:11:57.000But this is about to be a terrible year for Democrats.
00:12:00.000Now, the terribleness of the year for Democrats is going to be mitigated by the fact that ideological sorting has increased radically in the United States, meaning the number of people who live in districts in the United States that voted for, say, George W. Bush for president in 2000, but also went for a Democratic candidate in Congress.
00:13:11.000Believe me, this is not a defense of Joe Biden, who's a horrible president, who's terrible at every aspect of the job, who's simply not up to it, who seems to be bordering on the senile.
00:13:34.000This has been true since the very beginning of the Biden administration.
00:13:36.000Since the very beginning, if Joe Biden had moderated in any way, shape, or form, he'd be a lot more popular.
00:13:41.000Instead, he ran to his hard left because Joe Biden has always, throughout his career, reflected the center of the Democratic Party.
00:13:46.000He really is just a buoy that floats along the tips of the waves of the Democratic Party.
00:13:51.000So if the tide in the Democratic Party is moving to the left, he just moves right along with it, which is why he's governed like Bernie Sanders, despite running more like Scoop Jackson.
00:14:00.000So, if they don't like what they are seeing in terms of the results of Joe Biden, perhaps they should look in the mirror.
00:14:05.000Not just at Joe Biden's wild incompetence, he is incompetent, but at the actual policies that he has been promoting.
00:14:10.000Instead, they have decided on their narrative, and their narrative is that it's Joe Biden's singular personal unpopularity that is the problem.
00:14:17.000Which, it doesn't help, but again, let's be real.
00:14:21.000Barack Obama was a singularly popular president.
00:14:24.000By polling data, people really liked the guy.
00:14:43.000As always, the Democrats in the media have an answer.
00:14:45.000When Democratic policy fails, the answer is you're stupid.
00:14:48.000The answer is that if Joe Biden were just a better communicator, well, then he would be able to talk you into believing all of the nonsense that they have been pushing.
00:14:55.000And this is why you're seeing a concerted push from inside the Democratic Party to now throw grandma off the back of the train.
00:15:00.000And grandma in this case would be Joe Biden.
00:15:04.000So here is CNN reporting that members of Joe Biden's own party are ready to get rid of the guy.
00:15:09.000President Biden will speak on the economy and this sticker shock that's hammering all of us.
00:15:15.000And he will announce new protections for workers and their pensions.
00:15:18.000His remarks come as members of his own party and key supporters are getting more frustrated.
00:15:23.000They're questioning if the White House can muster the urgency to deal with huge challenges from the economy to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
00:15:32.000And the rattled confidence is widespread.
00:15:33.000A Monmouth poll just found 88% of Americans think the U.S.
00:15:44.000So even the media are beginning to turn on Joe Biden.
00:15:50.000OK, so Joe Biden is trying to pull his irons out of the fire here. He went to Ohio to give a speech to the blue collar workers of Ohio, because after all, he's Scranton Joe.
00:15:59.000Hardscrabble beginnings in Scranton, where daddy told him on a street corner in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1952 that two men making out on a street corner was just love, Joey.
00:16:10.000I'm never going to get over that story because it's the single most absurd story that Biden has ever told.
00:16:16.000Joe Biden being hardscrabble Joe, while wearing a fairly nice Rolex, and having multiple houses, and leaving voice messages for his son Hunter, who is picking up bags of cash on foreign soil, while he is vice president.
00:16:40.000The referendum is now on you and your party.
00:16:42.000So he was speaking in Ohio about the wonders of the American Rescue Plan, which by the way, the American Rescue Plan has contributed pretty notably to the inflation that we are seeing right now.
00:16:51.000And so he is just going to lie to you.
00:16:53.000Here he is explaining that Donald Trump's economy was very bad.
00:16:56.000Now, for anyone with one iota of memory, somebody who doesn't have short-term memory loss, I mean, I understand Joe Biden may have short-term memory loss, but for the rest of us, we all remember that the economy was actually excellent up until about February 2020.
00:17:07.000And then there was this giant thing that happened.
00:17:09.000It was a worldwide pandemic that shut down the world for about a year.
00:17:12.000And that had some real impacts on the employment stats.
00:17:14.000But here's Joe Biden just lying and pretending the pandemic never happened.
00:17:18.000You all remember what the economy was like when I was elected?
00:17:21.000A country in a pandemic with no real plans how to get out of it.
00:17:27.000out of their jobs. Families and cars, remember, backed up for literally miles waiting for a box of food to be put in their trunk. Just a box of food to be put in their trunk because they never have to eat. Previous administration lost more jobs on its watch than any administration since Herbert Hoover. That's a fact. Okay, he's just a ridiculous person. I'm sorry, that's the most ridiculous statement. The prior administration lost more
00:18:11.000And then he's gonna try to blame Republicans for inflation, which is a weird one, considering that he's the president and he has a Democratic Congress.
00:18:18.000Do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?
00:18:21.000Well, Republicans do nothing to obstruct our efforts to lower your gas taxes.
00:18:27.000I've asked the Congress to eliminate the federal gas tax for the next, as long as this crisis goes on.
00:18:33.000Lower food prices, lower health care costs.
00:18:35.000Hopefully soon, lower your prescription drug costs.
00:18:38.000By the way, you got a Republican leader in the United States Senate.
00:18:46.000He's just he's unreal. He's unreal. So the inflation is all the fault of the people who have no actual power in the United States Congress. And then, of course, he falls back on Joe.
00:18:55.000It's all about Vladimir Putin and Skidam, but you and his tax manager, Green Greece and then Stamiches to play. We made incredible progress on the progress on the economy from where we were a year and a half ago. We got a long way to go because of inflation, because of the I call honestly the Putin tax increase.
00:19:19.000Putin because of gasoline and all that grain he's keeping from being able to get to the market.
00:19:24.000Now I'm fighting like hell to lower costs on things that you talk about around your kitchen table.
00:19:30.000My dad used to say, at the end of the day, it's just when you sit at that table, do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?
00:19:36.000Not a lot over, do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?
00:20:41.000If you wish for the American people to get behind the war in Ukraine, if you wish the American people to continue to support Ukraine in the face of Russian predations, you cannot then say to them, the reason that you are paying for high gas, the reason you are paying for high food prices, the reason that you are paying more for pretty much every area of your life is because of Putin's war and I have no plan to end it.
00:21:04.000Like, all you're doing is undermining both yourself and also the war that you are supposedly stumping in favor of.
00:21:09.000You're now telling the American people that you are not willing to take the measures to lower the prices of all of these goods, right?
00:21:34.000I mean, so that means endless war in Ukraine.
00:21:36.000Okay, well, I mean, if that were the case, then at least you would figure we might have to take some long-term policies that would lower the prices at home, but he's not doing any of that.
00:21:43.000So he's undermining the war effort in Ukraine while simultaneously trying to avoid responsibility for the inflation and economic situation at home.
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00:22:55.000I mean, we are headed, if we're not already in a recession, we are headed toward one right fast.
00:22:59.000According to the New York Times, the Federal Reserve is now moving toward another big rate increase as inflation lingers, which is, of course, what they have to do.
00:23:04.000If they want to crush the inflation, they have to raise the interest rates.
00:23:07.000And raising them to 1.5% ain't going to do it.
00:23:10.000It's going to need to be in the 5% to 6% range by most available economic estimates in order to really crush the sort of inflation that we've been seeing.
00:23:16.000According to the New York Times, the Federal Reserve determined to choke off rapid inflation before it becomes a permanent feature of the American economy is steering toward another three-quarter point interest rate increase later this month, even as the economy shows early signs of slowing and recession fears mount.
00:23:29.000Economic data suggests the United States could be headed for a rough road.
00:23:38.000Oil and gas commodity prices have dipped sharply lower this week as investors fear an impending downturn.
00:23:42.000That weakening is unlikely to dissuade central bankers.
00:23:45.000Some degree of economic slowdown would be welcome news for the Fed, which is actively trying to cool the economy.
00:23:49.000And a commitment to restoring price stability could keep officials on an aggressive policy path.
00:23:54.000Inflation measures are running at or near the fastest pace in four decades.
00:23:57.000The job market, while moderating somewhat, remains unusually strong, with 1.9 available jobs for every unemployed worker.
00:24:02.000Fed policymakers are likely to focus on those factors as they head into their July meeting, especially because their policy interest rate is still low enough it's likely spurring economic activity rather than subtracting from it.
00:24:12.000But pretty much all of the talk from the central bank is driving down the stock market because everybody sees these interest rate increases coming.
00:26:37.000In 2004, John Kerry, who's been wrong on every single issue his entire life, ranging from accusing his fellow troops of being rapists and murderers in Vietnam, to suggesting that peace would never break out in the Middle East until Israel surrendered to terrorists.
00:26:49.000John Kerry ran for president in 2004, and he lost.
00:26:52.000And the answer from the media was, John Kerry is too sophisticated for the room.
00:27:14.000And now the answer, of course, is that Joe Biden, he has a communication problem.
00:27:17.000See, even when Barack Obama was president, he was a really good communicator by all available metrics, right?
00:27:22.000He was great at giving speeches, saying nothing, and bloviating, and using empty platitudes combined with extraordinarily radical racial rhetoric.
00:27:30.000When Barack Obama, that developed over the course of his presidency.
00:27:32.000Early on, he was a moderate with racial rhetoric.
00:27:34.000By the time we hit like 2013, 2014, that had changed radically.
00:27:37.000But Barack Obama, when he was failing in policy terms, because he did, basically from 2010 on, he was a massive failure at everything he tried to do policy-wise, Barack Obama.
00:27:48.000So the answer was, of course, well, my communication strategy needs to be better.
00:28:28.000According to the New York Times, 48 hours after a horrific mass shooting on the 4th of July, President Biden flew to Ohio on Wednesday for a speech on pension plans.
00:28:36.000With inflation soaring and Democrats still fuming about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Mr. Biden's public schedule included no events or announcements on either topic.
00:28:44.000In response to last week's blockbuster testimony about the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Mr. Biden has said almost nothing, pledging deference to the Congressional Committee investigating the violent assault on American democracy.
00:28:54.000At a moment of broad political tumult and economic distress, Mr. Biden has appeared far less engaged than many of his supporters had hoped.
00:29:00.000First of all, I don't know why you'd hope for this.
00:29:02.000He went into a basement and fell asleep for eight months during the election cycle.
00:29:18.000While many Democrats are pleading for a fighter who gives voice to their anger, Mr. Biden has chosen a more passive path, blaming Congress, urging people to vote, avoiding heated rhetorical battles.
00:29:27.000Bill Neidhart, former spokesperson for Bernie Sanders, said, quote, The economy seems to be running out of control.
00:29:32.000Fundamental rights are being stripped away and the White House just isn't coming with anything.
00:29:37.000Inside the White House, administration officials say Biden has been quick to respond to the country's crises, even if he doesn't get the credit they believe he deserves.
00:29:43.000The president came into office promising competence and deliberative action after four years in which his predecessor governed by angry Twitter posts and frequent tirades.
00:29:50.000By contrast, Biden touted his sober experience as a legislator.
00:29:53.000By the way, Joe Biden never had a sober experience as a legislator.
00:30:52.000Well, there is a reason that the White House comms director, Kate Bedingfield, is stepping down.
00:30:57.000She doesn't want to be blamed for the coming tsunami because then she'll never get a job again.
00:31:01.000According to Chief of Staff Ron Klain, without Kate Bedingfield's talent and tenacity, Donald Trump might still be in the White House, the rescue plan and infrastructure law might still be unrealized, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson might not be sitting on the Supreme Court.
00:31:13.000By the way, Klain's misspelled Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:31:16.000She has played a huge role in everything the president has achieved, from his second term as vice president, through the campaign, and since coming to the White House.
00:31:33.000Apparently, Bedingfield had been weighing the decision to leave the White House for a number of weeks.
00:31:37.000She only gave official notification to Klain in recent days.
00:31:40.000She wants to get off that ship before that Titanic hits that iceberg.
00:31:44.000A person widely seen as Bedingfield's likely replacement is Liz Allen, another longtime Biden loyalist who worked for him when he was VP and was Deputy Communications Director for Barack Obama.
00:31:52.000She was also tasked with working with Kamala Harris after Harris was chosen to be Biden's VP running mate.
00:32:45.000Again, Kamala Harris makes Hillary Clinton look like Winston Churchill.
00:32:50.000Instead, what they're going to try and do is apparently shoehorn in Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, which is fairly incredible since he has one of the worst economic track records of any government in the country.
00:33:00.000His track record on COVID is not particularly stellar.
00:33:04.000Age adjusted, about the same death rate as Florida, except Florida never shut down and California did.
00:33:09.000He has repeatedly broken his own COVID protocols.
00:33:14.000This week, he's vacationing in Montana.
00:33:17.000California employees are not allowed to spend taxpayer dollars to go vacation or even visit places like Montana because Gavin Newsom has declared that these places are hell on earth for LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign people.
00:33:30.000His original response to that story that he's vacationing in Montana was he's not using taxpayer dollars to do it.
00:33:35.000When asked if he was using taxpayer dollars to cover his security because he's governor of California, he went completely silent.
00:33:41.000But this is the person that they are pinning their hopes on.
00:33:43.000Like the two ones that you keep hearing are JB Pritzker, the monstrously large governor of Illinois, and Gavin Newsom, the androgynous Ken doll.
00:33:55.000This is why Gavin Newsom is now running ads in Florida telling people to flee for California, which is hilarious because I fled California to get over here, to get away from you and your 13% income tax rate, which will soon rise to 20% if you have your way.
00:34:11.000As the Wall Street Journal's Kenneth Kachigian writes, He says, Once Mr. Newsom takes his show on the road, he'll quickly find the scrutiny that has escaped him in California.
00:34:21.000His slick-backed act will not play in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina.
00:34:24.000It's politically perverse that Newsom's ad asks Floridians to come to California when his own constituents are leaving for friendlier business and cultural climates in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and elsewhere.
00:34:33.000His claim that he will take the fight to Republicans is laughable.
00:34:35.000His own record of collapsed leadership is ripe for exploitation.
00:34:38.000Days ago, six miles from the home where I was raised in Tulare County, The Highway Patrol arrested two suspected drug traffickers with 150,000 fentanyl pills.
00:34:46.000They were released by an order signed by the Tulare County Superior Court Commissioner.
00:34:50.000Before Sheriff Mike Boudreaux was informed or asked about the risks to public safety, he placed the blame directly on Governor Newsom and the legislators in California, who are really soft on crime.
00:34:58.000Homicides in San Francisco are up 36% over the last two years.
00:35:01.000Things are much the same in Los Angeles, where homicides and robberies with guns are on the rise.
00:35:05.000The city has lost 40,000 residents in the past year.
00:35:07.000By the way, if you extend that back a couple of years, that includes me and my family.
00:35:10.000Residential users of electricity in California pay 66% more than homeowners in the rest of the United States.
00:35:16.000And that is because of all these stupid green policies pursued by people like Gavin Newsom.
00:35:21.000And this is leaving out, of course, the French laundry and the high-speed rail that Gavin Newsom once told me on the air that he did not support but then tried to put back in place as soon as he was elected governor.
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00:36:59.000So the Democrats are running on the strategy that Joe Biden is the real problem.
00:37:08.000It's all a comms issue if we just replace.
00:37:21.000Their new message is, everything we don't like is disinformation.
00:37:24.000When I say new, I mean it's the same old message.
00:37:26.000Everything we don't like is disinformation.
00:37:28.000So the New York Times has a very long piece about the victimized, horribly victimized Nina Jankowicz.
00:37:34.000Now you remember that she was the head of the Biden administration disinformation board, this dystopian feature of the Homeland Security Department that was going to look at misinformation and disinformation, had a very broad mandate, it was unclear what it was going to do.
00:37:49.000This entire article from the New York Times is about how so many people, how so many people here are engaging in disinformation about this woman, Nina Jankiewicz.
00:38:00.000But they can't name a single piece of disinformation that was put out about her.
00:38:04.000According to the New York Times, there is wide agreement across the federal government that coordinated disinformation campaigns threaten to exacerbate public health emergencies, stoke ethnic and racial divisions, and even undermine democracy itself.
00:38:15.000The board's fate, however, has underscored how deeply partisan the issue has become in Washington, making it nearly impossible to consider addressing the threat.
00:38:22.000The failure to act according to experts, according to, well, if I can cite anonymous experts, it must be true.
00:38:27.000According to experts, has left openings for new waves of disinformation ahead of November's midterm elections.
00:38:32.000And even for violence, like the racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in May, which was motivated by a baseless conspiracy theory that global forces aimed to replace white Americans with immigrants.
00:38:40.000I think we're in a really bleak situation here in this country, said Nina Jankiewicz, who briefly served as the board's director before resigning when the controversy boiled over.
00:38:47.000A prominent author and researcher in the field of disinformation who once advised Ukraine's government, Ms.
00:38:52.000Jankiewicz became a focus of the Fuhrer, targeted online by false or misleading information about her role in what critics denounced as a ministry of truth.
00:39:00.000It's hard to imagine how we get back from this, she said in an interview, when this is how our elected representatives are behaving, when we can't agree on, you know, what is the truth.
00:39:08.000And nobody in this article actually names a lie that was told about her.
00:39:13.000The threats from disinformation today, says the New York Times, involve issues that not long ago might have transcended partisan politics.
00:39:18.000Instead, disinformation has become mired in the country's deepening partisan and geographical divides over issues like abortion, guns, and climate change.
00:39:26.000When was there ever agreement about abortion, guns, and climate change?
00:39:29.000In my entire lifetime, there has not been.
00:39:32.000Even during the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security recognized the threat.
00:39:35.000So the goal here of the New York Times is If we can label everything we don't like disinformation, then we can ban all of that stuff.
00:39:41.000And we can lament the disinformation used to prevent the government from banning all of that stuff without actually naming any of the disinformation.
00:39:49.000You know, the singular fact that they cannot point to, and we all know why Nina Jenkins went away.
00:39:55.000The reason is because she had a long history of being a wild leftist on social media, including doing bizarre Mary Poppins skits talking about disinformation.
00:40:04.000Promoting the notion that the Russian laptop was not, that Hunter Biden's laptop was in fact a Russian laptop.
00:40:12.000And so there's a lot about Nina Jankowicz that was really worthy of scrutiny.
00:40:16.000But according to the New York Times, all of that was bad.
00:40:18.000It is no coincidence, by the way, the New York Times is pushing the idea that the government must crack down on disinformation while actively purveying disinformation.
00:40:24.000One of those aspects of the actively purveying disinformation is to try and fight back against the fact that Republicans are now doing really, really well with Hispanics.
00:40:31.000So if you look at the polling data right now, Joe Biden has about a 35% approval rating with Hispanics.
00:40:36.000And this is freaking the hell out of the Democratic Party.
00:40:38.000Because the Democratic Party had counted on a rising coalition of racial minorities, plus a few college-educated white ladies, in order to win a permanent majority in Congress and in the presidency.
00:40:47.000And as it turns out, Hispanics do not want to be categorized as just another racial group that can be counted in the Democratic Party playbook.
00:40:54.000Instead, it turns out many Hispanics, and many black people as it turns out, and most Americans as it turns out, like to be thought of as individuals who have their own thoughts, dreams, and hopes, and wish to actually vote on the basis of those.
00:41:04.000The New York Times is going to crack down on this.
00:41:06.000So while they are saying disinformation is bad, they are now purveying disinformation about Representative Mayra Flores.
00:41:12.000They have an entire piece today in the New York Times by Jennifer Medina called The Rise of the Far-Right Latina.
00:41:18.000So first of all, what happened to Latinx?
00:41:26.000But apparently she's very, very far right.
00:41:28.000And here is what the New York Times says.
00:41:29.000For years, Texas Republicans tried to win the Hispanic vote using a Bush-era brand of compassionate conservatism.
00:41:34.000The idea was that a moderate's touch and a softer rhetoric on immigration were key to making inroads with Hispanic voters, particularly in Democratic strongholds across the southern border.
00:41:44.000The Trump age has given rise to a new brand of Texas Republicans, one of whom is already walking the halls of Congress, the far-right Latina.
00:42:02.000Representative Mayra Flores became only the second Republican to represent the Rio Grande Valley after she won a special election last month and flipped the congressional seat from blue to red.
00:42:10.000Flores won by shunning moderates, embracing the far right, and wearing her support for Donald Trump on her sleeve.
00:42:16.000Her campaign slogan, God, Family, Country, was meant to appeal to what she calls traditional values of her majority Hispanic district on the border city of Brownsville.
00:42:24.000She called for President Biden's impeachment.
00:42:28.000By the way, when they say tweeted QAnon hashtags, that means her social media team included one hashtag of QAnon in one post on Facebook, so far as I'm aware.
00:42:36.000And this means that she must be some sort of conspiracy theorist because she included one hashtag in one Facebook post ever.
00:42:43.000She called the Democratic Party the greatest threat America faces.
00:43:05.000In an interview in her still barren office the day after her swearing in, Flores was asked whether she considered Biden the legitimately elected president.
00:43:11.000Quote, he's the worst president of the United States, she said.
00:43:14.000When asked three more times, she repeated the same non-answer.
00:43:19.000I'm unaware that saying that he's a very terrible president makes you a far-right person.
00:43:25.000Two other Latino Republicans, Monica de la Cruz in McAllen and Cassie Garcia in Laredo, are also on the ballot in congressional races along the Mexican border.
00:43:32.000All three share right-wing views on immigration, the 2020 election, and abortion.
00:43:43.000Republicans are Republicans and are also Hispanic, but are Republican?
00:43:47.000Wow, but we have to crack down on disinformation, guys.
00:43:49.000There's too much disinformation out there, according to the New York Times.
00:43:53.000By the way, speaking of disinformation, The Washington Post put out a piece today titled, Police kill another black man and the same old questions arise.
00:44:02.000Speaking of disinformation, police kill another black man.
00:44:04.000Who's the black man they're talking about?
00:44:06.000Jalen Walker, who fired a gun at the cops before getting out of his car and running and being shot for his trouble.
00:44:12.000The Washington Post editorial board, quote, We hope that after George Floyd's death, departments would reassess the use of deadly force, improve training, and question the wisdom of tactics like giving chase to drivers with broken headlights.
00:44:23.000That this young man is dead after being stopped for a traffic violation is not only a needless tragedy, it is just plain wrong.
00:44:28.000He fired a gun at the cops while driving away from them.
00:45:19.000When you run for a job, and then you get the job, and then you're bad at the job, you don't get a break.
00:45:25.000By the way, if he wants a break, he can resign anytime, and he can hand the country over to the wonderful and intersectional Kamala Harris anytime he pleases.
00:45:32.000But we need to give Joe Biden... The man needs a break.
00:45:43.000You need to give Joe Biden a break, says Dana Milbank.
00:45:45.000For weeks, Democrats have arrayed themselves in traditional circular firing formation, complaining about the president's failure to channel outrage about mass shootings, the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe, And MAGA Republicans' assaults on democracy.
00:45:57.000This produced post-Independence Day fireworks in a trio of news outlets.
00:46:00.000The Post reported some Democrats think Biden, quote, risks a dangerous failure to meet the moment, and quoted a Democratic consultant lamenting Biden's leadership vacuum.
00:46:08.000Politico reported Democrats have grown increasingly frustrated at what they perceive has been the White House's lack of urgency, and Biden seems to be lacking fire.
00:46:14.000And CNN reported that top Democrats are complaining the president isn't acting with the urgency the moment demands.
00:46:20.000Accompanying this hat trick of own-goal scoring by Democrats were unfavorable comparisons between Biden and J.B.
00:46:25.000Pritzker of Illinois and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:46:28.000There's just one problem with the two cool Joe complaints.
00:46:31.000Biden has been saying heatedly and repeatedly exactly that which she's accused of avoiding.
00:46:35.000Biden has been hammering Ron DeSantis, for example, for his hateful don't-say-gay bill, for book burnings, for trying to ban books, even math books, for a dangerous abortion bill eroding women's constitutional rights.
00:46:44.000AOC scolded Biden for failing to come to terms with the crisis of our democracy.
00:46:48.000And Politico reports Democrats criticizing Biden for lacking fire against escalating threats to democracy.
00:46:52.000But Biden, who frequently warns of the dire threats, was just a few months ago criticized for being too hot when he said of those restrictive voting rights, do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?
00:47:02.000So Dana Milbank says you have to leave him alone.
00:47:04.000It's fair for Democrats to ask whether in 2024 they should re-nominate a man in his 82nd year.
00:47:09.000But this Goldilocks tale about Biden's too hot and too cold rhetoric needs to be put to bed sustainably.
00:47:16.000He needs a break, say the members of the media.
00:47:20.000Or throw him off the train, one of the two.
00:47:22.000He needs a break or we need to throw him off the train.
00:47:24.000And in any case, what we really need to do is we need to shut down disinformation by which we mean all the things we don't like.
00:47:29.000That's a good thing that the Democrats Always have the media to cover for them because otherwise Democrats might be forced to answer awkward questions about their most awkward candidates.
00:47:37.000So there is one hallmark of the media when it comes to coverage of Republican politicians.
00:47:40.000If you can find a Republican anywhere in America who has said something bizarre or crazy, you then ask every Republican you can find about this.
00:47:47.000This has been true since like Todd Akin running for Missouri Senate.
00:47:51.000If you can find one Republican who says something bizarre or weird, then it becomes the obligation of every Republican to answer for it.
00:47:57.000Meanwhile, if the Democratic Party chooses as its rising stars some of the oddest and strangest and most off-putting people imaginable, no one answers for it.
00:50:28.000And then the media give attention to the people they should not.
00:50:33.000And then tell you you're not allowed to pay attention to the people who are actually in elected politics.
00:50:37.000So according to many members of the media, we should ignore this story.
00:50:40.000A young Democratic legislator, on the come as they say, who is now going to rise to the highest levels of American politics on the back of twerking upside down on TikTok.
00:50:50.000We're supposed to, if we notice this, this makes us racist.
00:50:54.000Meanwhile, the media will pay endless attention to mass shooters who post videos of themselves seeking attention, thereby driving the next mass shooting.
00:51:01.000Again, I would love to have an answer.
00:51:03.000Can you give me an answer from a single major media outlet as to why they feel the necessity to print the photos, videos, names, and manifestos of mass shooters on a routine basis?
00:51:13.000What is the public value in that when it drives more mass shootings?
00:51:26.000And again, this goes to, as I say, the state of the young in America.
00:51:30.000You walk into a Starbucks and you see some woman with a mohawk in seven different colors, eight earrings, a nose ring in the shape of a pig, and a tattoo that runs all the way up one arm and down the other.
00:51:45.000And this young woman calls herself they.
00:51:48.000And then, if you notice at all, then this is because you're an intolerant bigot.
00:51:54.000Could there possibly be more attention-seeking behavior than this?
00:51:56.000I mean, it's clearly, you're doing it in public.
00:53:32.000By the way, apparently, the video was shared with more than 7,000 TikTok followers and sparked a strong reaction She captured the clip, it promised Senator Thirst Trap at Block Island.
00:53:45.000Yeah, so that is amazing, amazing stuff.
00:53:51.000We do have to follow, policy is what this is all about after all.
00:55:37.000He began by addressing the description for the event we had all seen online.
00:55:41.000I went in expecting a talk, says one of the students, about his political experiences working to end conversion therapy, sexuality, and the LGBT community, mostly because that is what the description told me.
00:55:49.000Britton dispelled this, describing the event as a modern sex ed and an exploration of kink.
00:55:54.000He began by giving us the history of kink and sex education, including the Kama Sutra, The Making of Taboo, by Richard von Kraft-Epping, and Sigmund Freud, The Leather Era, and the rise of the term BDSM.
00:56:04.000On the subject of kinks directly, Britton explained the difference between headspace and physical types of play.
00:56:09.000Headspace involves the use of the mental state and includes kinks like adult babies and diaper lovers, primal play, humiliation, degradation, and pup play.
00:56:18.000Okay, so this is the person who was appointed.
00:56:21.000Also, as it turns out, this person also wrote an essay for The Advocate.
00:56:27.000The LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign magazine, in which he defended a site called Rentboy.com, which, as the name might suggest, is a male prostitution site.
00:56:36.000Brinton wrote in 2015, Rentboy may or may not have broken the law.
00:56:40.000But I do know from the frantic emails filling my inbox, the raid on its headquarters has thrown many gay, bisexual and transgender young adults into turmoil as their main source of income has been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work.
00:56:52.000That column ran shortly after federal prosecutors charged the CEO of Rentboy and six Rentboy employees with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution.
00:57:02.000And it was also shortly after there was an attempt by Rentboy to not verify the age of the escorts, so underage sex trafficking.
00:57:12.000And Britain wrote that the prosecutors were victimizing young male sex workers, not protecting them.
00:57:18.000This is a person who is in charge of our nuclear waste program.
00:57:37.000Probably in your... The fact that you've embraced every single radical element in American society ideologically.
00:57:43.000It probably isn't the fact that your policies are wildly counterproductive.
00:57:48.000It probably isn't the fact that you think that the best idea in American life is to Elect some of the strangest people in American life, put those people in positions of high power.
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