Donald Trump outflanks Joe Biden by visiting East Palestine, Ohio with supplies. And radical race agitator Angela Davis finds out about her white ancestry. This is The Bench Bureau Show, a show where we try to be as honest as possible about everything on this show, including the 2020 Democratic primary race. Today's episode features: Why Joe Biden should go to the site of a disaster. Why a mushroom cloud in Ohio should be safe to live in. And why it's a sign of disloyalty if you don't go along with Donald Trump. If you agree with Trump or don't agree with him, that's a bad political pitch. The best part of Trump's pitch is that he's coming down from the heights of American society, and he is coming from the depths of the most elite rooms. Whether you agree or disagree with Trump, you can t argue that Trump is a good politician. And that's why he should be the next president of the United States, not Hillary Clinton. Also, if you're running for president in 2020, you need to know what it really means to be a loyalist. You need to be able to take the bullet for someone who s willing to stand up for you in order to be taken the bullet in a loyalty test. And if you can't do that, then you're not going to have a good chance of winning the next election, which means you'll have to be loyal to someone who's going to do the job you're going to be good at something you're good at, right? And that s a good political pitch, right there, no matter who it s going to get the most of it? And you'll get a chance to vote for you, right in the polls, and you'll know that you'll be a good shot at it, right at the rest of the evidence, and they'll be better than you'll see that they'll have the chance to decide that they're gonna be the most effective guy in the most important thing in a test of that, and that's not a good thing, right, they'll get it in the other thing, too, they're not even a good idea, right or they'll see it's not the best of it, or they're just a good place, they won't have it, they will have it in a fair chance to see it, so they'll know it's all a good day, right and they're getting it all of that?
00:00:11.000All righty, so we try to be as honest as possible about the 2024 presidential race.
00:00:22.000We try to be as honest as possible about everything on this show.
00:00:24.000Donald Trump just did a very, very smart thing.
00:00:26.000Donald Trump just went to East Palestine, Ohio.
00:00:29.000Now, this was a gimme, it was a layup, it was a slam dunk, but he did it, and that's the thing.
00:00:32.000And he was capable of doing that specifically because of who he is, but also because of sort of his place in politics right now.
00:00:39.000So the big controversy for Joe Biden, the Biden administration has been, they didn't send anybody to East Palestine, Ohio, after they blew up a mushroom cloud filled with toxic chemicals next to an American town.
00:00:50.000And there's a railroad car and it went off the rails and it was slowly leaking toxic chemicals into the soil.
00:00:57.000And so instead of allowing that slowly to happen, apparently the EPA decided the best thing to do would be to blow this thing up.
00:01:03.000So they blew it up and it created this mushroom cloud of dust and ash and just terrible garbage.
00:01:14.000You have people, public officials, going there and drinking.
00:01:17.000But the images were obviously terrifying to people.
00:01:20.000They would be to you if you were living right next door to a giant mushroom cloud filled with toxic chemicals.
00:01:25.000And the Biden administration essentially has hit nothing.
00:01:27.000Pete Buttigieg, the supposedly genius transportation secretary, he did not go to East Palestine, Ohio, which is sort of de rigueur for the job.
00:01:35.000I've said before, I'm not a big fan of the expectation that politicians have to go to the site of some sort of disaster because, frankly, what are they going to do there?
00:01:42.000But that is, in fact, the expectation that most people have of politicians these days.
00:01:54.000And when he was running for president, all he did was photo ops.
00:01:57.000And so him not going was obviously political malfeasance.
00:02:01.000Joe Biden didn't go to East Palestine, Ohio, either.
00:02:03.000He instead kept going back for the weekend to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, or heading off to Ukraine to do a photo op with Vladimir Zelensky in an attempt to misdirect away from his own failures with a giant Chinese spy balloon.
00:02:15.000But this left an opening for Donald Trump, and it was an opening that no other Republican could really fill, for a couple of reasons.
00:02:21.000If you're Ron DeSantis and you're governor of Florida, you can't go to another governor's state and start handing out resources, especially a Republican governor's state.
00:02:31.000He's supposed to be home in his own state.
00:02:33.000If you're Nikki Haley and you're running for president, and you show up in East Palestine, Ohio, Are you going to show up with truckloads of stuff the way that Donald Trump could?
00:03:01.000And what he got away from post 2020 was that instead of they're hitting me because they wish to hit you or I'm here to take the bullet for you or I'm going to use my impact, my wealth, my fame, in order to help you.
00:03:13.000It turned into, I need you to stand in the line of fire for me.
00:03:17.000I need you to say, as sort of a loyalty test, that I won the 2020 election and all I'm going to do is just sit there and kind of stew in my own anger about the 2020 election.
00:03:26.000If you don't go along with me, it's a sign of disloyalty.
00:03:29.000Whether you agree with Trump or you don't agree with Trump, it's a bad political pitch for voters.
00:03:33.000The best part of Trump was always that he is coming down from the heights of American society, from the heights of wealth, from the most elite rooms, and he is with you.
00:03:42.000He's with the people who go to McDonald's.
00:03:44.000He's with the guys who are truckers in Ohio.
00:03:46.000So Donald Trump, again, this is a, it is a smart, it is a brilliant political move.
00:03:51.000I say it's a slam dunk because honestly, it kind of is.
00:03:54.000That doesn't mean that you have to, you do have to stick the landing.
00:03:57.000And I will say that this is a windmill jam for President Trump going to East Palestine, Ohio.
00:04:32.000He has spent the last several months just attacking other Republican candidates from Mar-a-Lago, on the toilet, on Truth Social.
00:04:38.000This is an actual smart political move by President Trump, and it also happens to jive with the warmth that a lot of middle Americans have for Donald Trump for reasons like we're about to see.
00:04:47.000So Trump shows up in his MAGA hat, and here was President Trump bringing water to East Palestine while the EPA administrators are telling you to just drink the tap water.
00:04:56.000And Trump's like, you know, I understand why you don't want to drink the tap water.
00:05:00.000The Biden administration should ensure that every family has the option of moving and homes and everything else until this thing is straightened out.
00:05:09.000I do want to especially thank some of the incredible people that helped us because we're bringing thousands of bottle of water, Trump water, actually, most of it.
00:05:21.000Some of it we had to go to a much lesser quality water.
00:05:26.000You want to get those Trump bottles, I think, more than anybody else.
00:05:28.000But we're bringing a lot of water, thousands of bottles, and we have it in trucks, and we brought some on my plane today.
00:05:34.000But to that end, I'm pleased to announce that we've helped coordinate the delivery of the water and bottled water, as well as the tractor trailers full of it.
00:05:43.000We have big tractor trailers full of water.
00:05:45.000I think you're going to have plenty of water for a long time, maybe.
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00:08:15.000Okay, so President Trump then took everybody over to the local McDonald's and he bought McDonald's for everybody from the policemen to the firefighters to just everybody who's in the restaurant.
00:08:24.000And again, the inimitable Trump style comes through here.
00:08:26.000This is a... I can't stress it enough.
00:08:29.000It is a stylish visit for Trump, right?
00:08:33.000and this is where his popularity lies.
00:08:35.000And if he did this full-time, frankly, he would still be president if he had done this full-time while he was president of the United States.
00:08:43.000Enjoy your meal, and we're going to get the meals for the fire department.
00:09:42.000He also completely wrong-footed the Biden administration.
00:09:44.000So, literally within the last 48 hours, Pete Buttigieg, who is the candidate of white, college-educated female elites, That's Pete Buttigieg's base.
00:09:53.000Pete Buttigieg has no blue-collar base.
00:11:01.000So I'm planning to go, and when I do, it will be focused on action, not on politics, not on show.
00:11:07.000In the early days, I have been respecting the role that the independent NTSB plays and staying out of their way, but we are now entering the policy phase of our response to this.
00:11:19.000Okay, so that was a BS excuse in the first place.
00:11:22.000You're telling me Pete Buttigieg is humble enough in his role as sort of a government agent that he just doesn't want to step on any toes.
00:11:29.000Pete Buttigieg was going on national TV to talk about why it was okay for him to leave his job for two and a half months because he had to be on paternity leave.
00:11:37.000I mean, that guy has red light syndrome like few people I've ever seen.
00:11:41.000If there is a red light anywhere in sight, if he's like going down the street and a red light appears half a mile down the road, he runs over there, he tightens up his tie, and he straightens his lapel pin, and then he starts talking to the stoplight.
00:12:14.000So any time in the last two weeks, he could have gone.
00:12:17.000Only the day after Trump went, he's like, well, I guess now I have to go deal with these, you know, these Rust Belt idiots, these bitter clingers.
00:12:23.000I guess I got to go deal with these, these Terrible, cisgender, homophobic.
00:12:39.000And because his media bubble got burst, he is now showing up in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:12:42.000So Buttigieg plans to meet with community members, get an update from the NTSB, that is the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, and hear from the Transportation Department investigators who are on the ground in the hours after that February 3rd derailment, according to the department.
00:12:55.000A spokesperson said that Buttigieg had said he would visit the area when it was appropriate to do so and when it would not detract from emergency response efforts.
00:13:02.000The visit will coincide with the NTSB's release of a preliminary report on Thursday about its investigation into the derailment.
00:13:15.000Meanwhile, the White House is trying to blame Trump himself for the derailment.
00:13:19.000That is a dog that just ain't gonna hunt.
00:13:21.000I mean, it just fails on every possible level.
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00:13:29.000I don't get the nutrients that I need by eating salad because salad is Satan's creation.
00:13:34.000This is one of my theories about life.
00:13:35.000Anyone who says that they like salad is lying to you.
00:13:37.000What they mean is, I'm not going to die if I eat a salad, but if you literally put any other food in front of them and a salad, they will pick the other food.
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00:14:32.000Okay, so, The White House is trying to blame Trump for the East Palestine derailment.
00:14:38.000They put out a statement yesterday suggesting that it was because of the rail lobbyists gutting all of the regulations from the Obama-Biden rail safety protections back in 2016-2017.
00:15:07.000And this is why Biden is going to get blamed.
00:15:09.000It's why Buttigieg is going to get blamed.
00:15:10.000If they had been on the ground immediately providing resources and explaining to the cameras it was a serious situation, they were taking it seriously.
00:15:16.000They wouldn't be getting the kind of heat that they're getting today.
00:15:19.000Instead trying to blame Trump for regulations in like 2017, like the year, the calendar is now 2023.
00:15:25.000Joe Biden has been president for more than two years at this point.
00:15:29.000You don't get to blame the last guy for a train disaster that happened on your watch.
00:15:32.000That is not the way any of that works.
00:15:36.000So meanwhile, the media, I'm honestly amazed and amused at how the media may have just let Donald Trump legally off the hook.
00:15:48.000It's kind of hilarious. So they have been for years, for literally years, begging for an indictment of Donald Trump.
00:15:55.000Since he was President of the United States, like right after it, they were like, we should indict him for treason, man.
00:15:59.000And then it was, we should indict him for corruption.
00:16:00.000And then it was, well, there's an investigation in New York, and that investigation in New York will totally get him.
00:16:04.000And there's an investigation in Washington, D.C., and there's one in Georgia, and that'll totally get him.
00:16:08.000Well, finally, they thought they had their man.
00:16:11.000They thought they had their man, because there were some grand jury Indictments that were handed down.
00:16:18.000The grand jury recommended a series of indictments in Georgia surrounding a Fulton County investigation into post-election interference by Trump.
00:16:24.000You remember there was this phone call between Trump and Brad Raffensperger.
00:16:27.000Again, all this has been public knowledge for literally years at this point.
00:16:30.000He called up Brad Raffensperger, who is the Secretary of State of Georgia.
00:16:33.000And he said, Brad, I want you to find me 11,253, however many votes it was, that would put him over the top.
00:16:39.000And that could have been read in one of two ways.
00:16:41.000Either, as Trump's saying, I want you to manufacture out of thin air these votes so I win the state.
00:16:44.000Or, I think that it's pretty obvious that fraud occurred in Georgia.
00:16:55.000So the first thing looks like election interference.
00:16:57.000The second thing looks more like Trump spouting off.
00:17:00.000My theory of Donald Trump is always that Donald Trump is spouting off because Donald Trump is always spouting off.
00:17:04.000That has always seemed like a significantly more accurate take on who Trump is as a human being than Trump is sitting there meticulously with like an abacus figuring out how many votes need to be moved from one side to the other and how many need to be created out of that.
00:17:15.000I don't think that level of forethought goes into nearly anything that President Trump does.
00:17:20.000There's a grand jury investigation into this whole thing.
00:17:23.000And there were a bunch of indictments that were theoretically going to come down from the district attorney, Fannie Willis.
00:17:29.000Well, now, because the media could not get enough of this case, they may have just destroyed the possibility of any indictments of Trump in the Georgia case.
00:17:51.000Okay, apparently Emily Kors is a Wiccan or something?
00:17:56.000And her appearance on national television is super strange.
00:18:03.000According to the Daily Mail, the Georgia grand jury forewoman who laughed about bringing down former President Trump has a wacky Pinterest page with collections of pinned magic spells and all things witchy.
00:18:15.000Showing once again that the problem with the jury system is that it relies on people who are too stupid to avoid jury duty.
00:18:21.000Emily Kors has been on a bizarre media tour that is already causing headaches for prosecutors after she giggled during a televised interview with MSNBC when she said she kind of wanted to subpoena Trump just to get the chance to swear him in.
00:18:30.000Apparently, many of her social media accounts have been deleted, but her Pinterest page remains, with several collections of pins dedicated to Wicca and witchcraft.
00:18:57.000Some of the pins apparently give instructions for magic spells.
00:18:59.000Others list herbs and other supplies for the spells.
00:19:03.000And as you would imagine, a person who has that sort of stuff on her Pinterest page is a giant weirdo.
00:19:08.000So she was asked on CNN, about the list of indictments the grand jury is going to bring down and she starts giggling very oddly like a bizarre movie villain. Here we go.
00:19:20.000Is it would you say when it comes to there are there are indictments recommended of course, is it more than the people is it more than 20 people?
00:19:30.000I think if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that got cut out allow for spacing.
00:19:41.000If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
00:21:05.000And she's like, guys, unless you make me the jury floor person, I'm gonna boil this frog, kill this cat, spill its blood in there, mix it with a little bit of turmeric and then put it on your head and you yourself will turn it into a llama.
00:21:15.000Like what exactly did she do to get the jury floor person role?
00:23:04.000So here she was on MSNBC fantasizing about swearing in Donald Trump between apparently fattening up Hansel and Gretel.
00:23:14.000Did you personally want to hear from the former president?
00:23:17.000I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in.
00:23:23.000And so I thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, do you solemnly swear?
00:23:46.000So here was a CNN commentator pointing out that this is really, really bad, saying, you know, if the Georgia grand jury foreperson would like people charged, you should probably shut up.
00:24:08.000She's just kind of talking here about some of the evidence, but there could be some more compelling sound out there.
00:24:15.000Sure, but here's the problem that is created with a statement like that, Victor.
00:24:20.000The entire Fulton County, Georgia could potentially be, anybody in Fulton County who's sort of over the age of 18 can be a potential juror in this trial.
00:24:27.000They're hearing now evidence that's going to be presented before them at trial and developing opinions about it, developing opinions about defendants.
00:24:37.000If this individual who we're hearing from really wants these people charged with crime so badly, she better shut her mouth about them because ultimately she could imperil their convictions if they ever reach that point.
00:24:50.000That's Elliot Williams, a former federal prosecutor.
00:24:52.000It's hysterical because in the end, it's not about the crazy Wiccan grand jury floor person.
00:24:56.000It's about the media because the media didn't have to do this.
00:25:01.000And now because they were so desperate to have on the lady who's crazy to talk about the Trump indictments, they may have poisoned the entire grand jury pool, preventing his indictment.
00:25:10.000So according to CBS News, lawyers close to several Republican witnesses in the Fulton County investigation into the post-election interference are preparing to quash any possible indictments now.
00:25:20.000That special purpose grand jury served at his investigative body that could recommend charges but could not indict.
00:25:24.000Now the DA is deciding whether to pursue those charges and open a regular criminal grand jury.
00:25:30.000Now that means that this is an attenuated claim by the Trump team.
00:25:34.000They have to say that the investigative grand jury has tainted the jury pool so much that you can't have sort of a second grand jury that can recommend charges.
00:25:42.000Okay, it's unlikely to be successful, legally speaking.
00:25:46.000But, again, when it comes to, if there were a conviction in this case, it's now going to be pretty easy for Team Trump to claim the entire jury pool was tainted early.
00:25:55.000So, again, amazing, amazing stuff from our media.
00:25:59.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is stumbling downstairs again.
00:26:02.000President Trump has been ripped up and down by the media for his supposed crazy and all the rest of this stuff.
00:26:09.000Joe Biden will be 86 years old when he leaves office, if he is re-elected.
00:26:13.000And he is saying he wants to run for president.
00:26:15.000Well, before you can run, you have to be able to walk.
00:26:17.000And Joe Biden seems particularly unable to do basic human functions at this point in a wide variety of ways.
00:26:24.000It doesn't mean that it's not possible for him to win.
00:26:26.000I mean, he was pretty much dead during the last election cycle.
00:26:29.000And every so often they would trot out his body and they would move his mouth.
00:26:32.000And then he got elected president of the United States.
00:26:34.000He'd go back down to the basement, they'd put him in the coffin, close it up.
00:26:37.000And then you store them there for the next day.
00:26:40.000They can do the same thing again, but it is not a great look.
00:26:43.000It's actually kind of hard to watch the President of the United States because it feels like watching the Walendas cross a tightrope between volcanoes.
00:26:53.000I'm not sure I want to watch President Biden go upstairs.
00:26:56.000As an American, it's hard to watch the President of the United States and think, man, if that dude misses a step, we're going to be watching I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up, the commercial from 1997.
00:27:05.000Here's what happened to Joe Biden yesterday.
00:27:08.000Right now he's aboard Air Force One probably watching this after this trip where he came to Eastern Europe to show the world that NATO stands strong.
00:27:18.000But on his way up the stairs, the president did slip for a moment, losing his balance above on Air Force One staircase.
00:27:28.000And this shouldn't be too big of a distraction from the point of this trip, which was to make NATO look as tough as possible to Russia and China who appear to be teaming up in Ukraine.
00:27:41.000I mean, it's better than last time he went up the stairs and fell down when he fell down like three times going up the stairs.
00:28:11.000He'll look like one of the weird stuffed humans in the original Planet of the Apes and they will just be wheeling him around to campaign stops and they'll play like a recording.
00:28:20.000They'll have like a tape recorder back here and they'll put him back in the train and go on.
00:28:38.000The kind of going wisdom is the only reason that he would decide not to run is if he actually believes that Trump is not going to get the nomination.
00:28:45.000In other words, he likes running against Trump because he won last time and he thinks he would win this time against Trump.
00:28:49.000Now, number one, that is no sure thing by any stretch of the imagination.
00:28:52.000Number two, it is quite possible that Trump does not get the nomination.
00:28:56.000Ron DeSantis has continued to make very strong moves in the state of Florida that are setting a real groundwork for loyalty from a lot of Trump's bays.
00:29:03.000The polls right now show that individual matchups In a wide variety of primary states, DeSantis may be outpacing Trump.
00:29:10.000Now, again, Trump has that solid 25% floor.
00:29:13.000He ain't going below 25% in any primary.
00:29:15.000That's a pretty good place to be if the primary vote splits seven ways from Sunday.
00:29:19.000I don't think that's what's going to happen in the Republican primaries.
00:29:21.000I think this is essentially already a two-person race between DeSantis and Trump, even though DeSantis is not yet declared.
00:29:26.000According to Breitbart, Over the last couple of days, there have been a couple of bills that have been proposed in the Florida State Legislature that would ban mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion statements from the hiring and tenure processes in higher education.
00:29:37.000So again, Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature are doing yeoman's work in the state of Florida.
00:29:42.000I love the state of Florida, obviously.
00:29:44.000The legislation would require that public colleges establish an office of public policy events.
00:29:49.000That office would seek to foster debates and discourse on campus.
00:29:52.000The legislation is part of a broader attempt to reform higher education in the state of Florida and cut out the DEI and critical race theory agenda.
00:30:07.000So, you'll recall that Andrea Mitchell, the other day, lied about Ron DeSantis.
00:30:11.000She said that it was impossible to teach slavery in the state of Florida.
00:30:17.000She said you couldn't teach slavery, you couldn't teach about black history in the state of Florida.
00:30:20.000All of that was predicated on Ron DeSantis saying that he did not accept The advanced placement courses that included in African-American history like queer theory and critical race theory and all the rest of this mumbo-jumbo garbage.
00:30:34.000So obviously you can still teach all of this stuff and it is mandated that you teach slavery and black history in the United States in high school classes in every school in Florida, right?
00:30:48.000She said that you couldn't teach any of those things.
00:30:51.000And then she claimed that she was imprecise in her description.
00:30:55.000But it wasn't being imprecise, she lied.
00:30:57.000Which prompted Brian Griffin, who is a press secretary for DeSantis, to respond to MSNBC attempts to book DeSantis with this letter, quote, I think we need to take a step back.
00:31:10.000There will be no consideration of anything related to NBCUniversal or its affiliates until and at least Andrea Mitchell corrects this blatant lie she made about the governor.
00:31:18.000The direct quote was, DeSantis says slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida school children.
00:31:23.000NBC and its affiliates display a consistent track record of truthful reporting.
00:31:26.000That's what we need in order for DeSantis to appear on your network.
00:31:29.000Please feel free to pass this up and around the network.
00:31:31.000Sincerely, Brian Griffin, Press Secretary.
00:31:34.000That happens to be absolutely correct, and that's exactly how every Republican candidate should treat the left-wing press.
00:31:39.000If you're going to lie about me, I'm not coming on your shows.
00:31:41.000There's no reason for me to come on your shows.
00:31:44.000When you overtly lie, and then when your crawl down is, I was imprecise.
00:31:49.000Again, the problem wasn't that Andrea Mitchell was imprecise, it's that she was incredibly precise and lying.
00:31:56.000All right, well, meanwhile, if you are worried about the state of the economy, and you've been trying to run a business throughout the pandemic, and then Biden inflation, now the Cummings stagnation, if you pay too much to the federal government in taxes, you should try to claw back some of that.
00:32:09.000This is where innovation refunds comes in.
00:32:11.000If your business has five or more employees and managed to survive COVID, you could be eligible to receive a payroll tax rebate of up to $26,000 per employee.
00:32:19.000It's not a loan, there's no payback, it's a refund on your taxes.
00:32:21.000The challenge is how exactly to get your hands on it.
00:33:20.000On Christmas night, 1776, George Washington crossed the Delaware River in a sneak attack against the British, but only after he shaved with Jeremy's razor.
00:35:40.000He's not just stealing the Tanzanian culture.
00:35:43.000He's literally stealing somebody's baggage with the femininity and the Tanzanian culture and then wearing it in photos, which is amazing.
00:35:51.000OK, think of how Think of how crazy you have to be, how sociopathic you have to be, that you steal somebody's clothes.
00:35:57.000And you're not just like a random person stealing somebody's clothes and like wearing it out to the local CVS or the Ralphs or something.
00:36:04.000You are a prominent public figure who is constantly being photographed and seeking the limelight, and you're wearing the stolen clothes publicly.
00:36:11.000You know, obviously it's a fetishistic thing for this weirdo, but it's like, wow!
00:36:16.000So she then dropped all of the various pictures of her clothes and, and Sam Britton wearing them.
00:36:24.000So she, she put out like she did a fashion show in Tanzania in 2018, Lady in Red.
00:36:31.000And then there's a picture of Sam Britton wearing the exact piece of clothing at the, at the premiere of a, I guess it was the premiere of Love, Simon, which is like a gay love story over at Netflix.
00:37:05.000Diversity means that a white man can be A non-binary, gender-stealing weirdo who steals other people's luggage from a woman of color, and then wears all of her culturally appropriate attire, but it's inappropriate because he's a white dude, but it's okay because he's not just a regular white dude, he's a white dude with the magical star of LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign.
00:37:30.000It's just like, slow clap genius quality stuff there.
00:38:03.000Now, in the same sort of vein, This is pretty hysterical.
00:38:07.000We keep seeing this spate of people who are white masquerading now as minorities.
00:38:13.000Obviously, Rachel Dolezal was doing this.
00:38:14.000Now, I have to point out here that in American culture today, if you're a white person, you masquerade as a black person like Rachel Dolezal.
00:38:21.000We all think that you're crazy and we make fun of you for literally years and you become a household name.
00:38:24.000If you're a man and you say you're a woman, you're a hero.
00:38:27.000Which is strange because it turns out that race is a lot more of a socially constructed category than sex.
00:38:33.000Sex is not a socially constructed category.
00:38:35.000Biological sex and sexual dichotomy between male and female is literally the basis of all mammalian propagation.
00:38:42.000But, put that aside, the fact that we are idiots, and so we suggest that racial appropriation is way, way worse than gender appropriation.
00:38:51.000There is something weird about a society that is supposedly so racist and so terrible, where you're not seeing a lot of black Americans attempting to look white or pass, right?
00:39:01.000That is a vestige of America's horrifying racial past, in which, in order to live a normal life, and by normal life I mean sort of the standard American opportunistic life, Very often you would have black people who would attempt to pass for white, right?
00:39:14.000That was a symptom of a broken racial culture in the United States.
00:39:17.000Now things are sort of broken weirdly in reverse where you have white people who are attempting to appropriate black culture and to be black or to be Muslim or to be a minority group simply so they are not labeled white, which shows you where we are culturally speaking.
00:39:31.000Again, I've yet to see a publicized case of a black person masquerading as white recently, but you do see a wide variety of cases of white people who are masquerading as members of minorities.
00:39:43.000that members of the American Friends Service Committee, a prominent Quaker organization known for its progressive values and social justice advocacy in the United States and abroad, have now raised an alarm about a woman holding a leadership position within the organization who they say has misrepresented her ethnic background for years, and they fear may be working on behalf of groups seeking to undermine their organization.
00:40:01.000Raquel Evita Saraswati, a Muslim activist who for years has encouraged people to believe she is a woman of color, including Latina, as well as South Asian and Arab descent, is the AFSC's chief equity inclusion and culture officer.
00:40:13.000That is a senior position that gives her access to files of dozens of the organization's staff and volunteers.
00:40:17.000But unfortunately, according to her mom, she's a white lady.
00:40:22.000Her mom is a woman named Carol Perone, quote, I call her Rachel.
00:40:24.000I don't know why she's doing what she's doing.
00:40:26.000Saraswati, her mother added, is of British, German, and Italian descent, not Latina, South Asian, or Arab.
00:40:31.000I'm as white as the driven so-and-so, she added, Perone, who shared with The Intercept photos of Saraswati as a child.
00:40:36.000In the photos, which the mother asked not be published, Saraswati's complexion is significantly lighter than the bronzed look in more recent photographs.
00:40:43.000Perone also shared with The Intercept her Ancestry.com profile and a photo of Saraswati's biological father, who's dead.
00:40:48.000Another relative who has not to be identified confirmed Saraswati is white.
00:40:52.000Pro noted her daughter converted to Islam in high school, and at some point, she seemed to have felt the need to portray herself as having a different ethnic identity.
00:41:06.000Oscar Pierre Castro, a human resources professional who participated in the search committee to fill Saraswati's position, told The Intercept that, get ready for this, she had presented herself as a queer, Muslim, multi-ethnic woman.
00:41:20.000The answer is because that is a status symbol in America now.
00:41:24.000If you present yourself as a queer, Muslim, multi-ethnic woman, that is a good way to get a job now.
00:41:32.000Which suggests that America isn't quite that racist.
00:41:35.000In fact, it sort of suggests that if there is a racial bias, broadly speaking, on a cultural level right now, it mostly applies to what we would call white people.
00:41:43.000That there is a huge cultural bias against white people in hiring.
00:41:47.000That if you're a company you're looking to hire, you're looking for diversity.
00:41:50.000And if you're looking for diversity, that means non-white people, for example.
00:41:53.000And so, predictably, that incentivizes people to masquerade as non-white.
00:41:58.000These sorts of stories are indicative of a broader cultural shift that, again, should be disturbing because we should be treating individuals as individuals, not as people who check particular boxes on their diversity forms.
00:42:10.000Meanwhile, the most ironic story of the day, again, another wonderful, wonderful story.
00:42:14.000So, Angela Davis is a terrible person.
00:42:17.000Angela Davis is widely beloved by the left.
00:42:20.000She's an insanely radical, crazy person.
00:42:25.000Was literally on the FBI's most wanted list for years.
00:42:29.000Because in August of 1970, she was apparently complicit in a bloody event in which she was charged with three capital offenses, including murder.
00:42:41.000The New York Times reported this a while back.
00:42:44.000In 1969, Davis was an assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of California, LA.
00:42:48.000She was fired at the beginning of the school year for her membership in the Communist Party.
00:42:51.000After a court ruled the termination illegal, she was fired again nine months later for using inflammatory rhetoric in public speeches.
00:42:56.000She became close to a trio of black inmates, nicknamed the Soledad Brothers, who had been charged with the murder of a white prison guard in January 1970.
00:43:04.000One, George Jackson was an activist and writer that Davis befriended.
00:43:07.000In August 1970, after Jackson's younger brother Jonathan used firearms registered to Angela Davis in a takeover Marin County Courthouse that left four people dead, she came under suspicion because they were her guns that were used in the murders, and she became an outlaw.
00:43:20.000J. Edgar Hoover placed Davis on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
00:43:23.000She was the third woman ever to be included.
00:43:28.000President Nixon congratulated the Bureau on capturing the dangerous terrorist Angela Davis.
00:43:32.000And then, of course, the left decided that she was a wonderful person, she was a political prisoner.
00:43:37.000By a political prisoner, we mean that she apparently actively participated in, or allegedly actively participated, in an actual murder and jailbreak plot.
00:43:48.000And of course, she continues to be a terrible communist who has been propped up by the left, which is a thing that the left likes to do.
00:43:55.000They like to suggest, of course, that radicals who are communists are somehow better than radicals of other stripes, which is not true.
00:44:03.000Well, Angela Davis's entire life has been built on the notion that America is a deeply racist, terrible place, and that she is representative of under-attack minorities.
00:44:18.000Well, something very ironic happened to Angela Davis.
00:44:20.000She did Henry Louis Gates' show, which is all about ancestry.
00:44:24.000And there have been some kind of interesting moments on Henry Louis Gates' show before.
00:44:29.000So, most famously, Ben Affleck did an episode in which He found out that he had a slaveholding ancestor and he got very, very upset about this.
00:44:42.000Now, I think most normal people look at their ancestry and like, well, I can't change any of that, so who cares?
00:44:47.000But it was a big controversy at the time.
00:44:53.000Angela Davis is sitting there and she finds out that one of her ancestors arrived on the American Mayflower.
00:45:00.000Which means that for all of her anti-Americanism, one of her great-great-great-great grandparents was one of the original American white settlers.
00:45:53.000Her disbelief and her kind of shock, and she obviously looks a little bit upset about this, is kind of amazing.
00:46:01.000You know, America is an amazing place in which Angela Davis's ancestors from, you know, obviously the black side of her family were victimized in the United States, obviously.
00:46:12.000But also, it means that some of the founders of the United States are in her lineage.
00:46:18.000So I'm not sure which side of her pays reparations to the other side, but her entire notion, which is that America is a terrible place of racial oppression and brutality, Then that means she has to look into her own ancestry, right?
00:46:31.000There's always this awkward problem with history.
00:46:33.000And the awkward problem with history is that it's filled with bad people and good people and people on all sides, and many of them are in your genealogy.
00:46:39.000And what that means is no one is responsible for their own genealogy.
00:46:43.000And trying to blame all present evils on genealogy or trying to blame it on ancestry is a sign of a sick civilization.
00:46:51.000Instead, perhaps, Angela Davis might realize that history is complex and weird and ugly and strange and shocking.
00:46:59.000And that we should, instead of attempting to blame all problems in the United States on ancestry, we should attempt to figure out solutions for the here and now.
00:47:07.000So that is some pretty amazing stuff from Henry Louis Gates.
00:47:12.000Meanwhile, speaking of great moments in America's Racial conflagration.
00:47:19.000There's a teenager in Minnesota who confronted the Rosemount High School school board talking about the teaching of critical race theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and all of the rest.
00:47:33.000We need more people like this teenager.
00:47:34.000This has gone viral and it's well worth a listen.
00:47:37.000In another separate instance, I was told that writing All Lives Matter on the whiteboard was political and could be seen as offensive.
00:47:44.000When I questioned the teacher after class, she told me that she didn't have an answer and she just had to erase it, and it was quickly erased.
00:47:50.000There are political signs all over RHS about specific races that matter, specific sexual orientations that matter, and specific perspectives that matter.
00:47:59.000But when I questioned the RHS administration about how these signs were political, they told me that they were supporting human rights.
00:48:05.000So when I questioned why the equity statement couldn't represent all students, they told me that to even ask that question was outlandish and offensive.
00:48:13.000And when I asked why that was, they told me, quote, whites have a pretty good situation right now, unquote.
00:48:24.000Disregarding my question merely because of the color of my skin.
00:48:27.000To be honest, after enduring a year of the people in charge telling me that I'm a racist, and I'm privileged, and pointing out our irreversible differences, I've never noticed race more.
00:48:36.000And it's becoming the first thing I notice when I meet someone which has never before been the case.
00:48:43.000And all it takes is a little bit of courage to push back on these school boards, and the school boards very often collapse like a house of cards.
00:48:48.000Very, very good stuff there from that particular teenager.
00:49:15.000They must be pretty proud of that kid for actually saying the truth about these situations.
00:49:19.000And unfortunately, these situations are present in so many high schools all over the country, not just with racial theories that are insane, but also gender theories that are insane.
00:49:44.000It's called the Asbury Revival and it's drawn tens of thousands of people, like 50,000 people to this tiny Kentucky town over the course of 13 days just to pray.
00:49:57.000It's just a bunch of people who came to a church and then over the course of Two weeks, essentially.
00:50:04.000They just prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed.
00:50:06.000The fact that this is not drawn kind of intense media coverage is kind of shocking in the sense that it is a media story when 50,000 people descend on a very small town just to pray and find communion with each other and God.
00:50:19.000I guess it's not that amazing the media won't cover it because if they had been doing 50,000 people arriving for a 13-day orgy, then the media would be all over it, right? Then the media would be like, ah, this is what American society must be. When people show up to have some good, clean, wholesome prayer with one another and in conjunction with religion, that's a bad thing and we can't really pay that much attention to it. But it is an amazing, amazing thing. And the footage from the Asbury revival is incredible. According to Fox News, the marathon worship service at Asbury University that has drawn tens of thousands of participants from across the
00:50:48.000country is now being forced to downsize because school officials are saying that it's causing logistical issues for the surrounding area it's now going to need to move off of campus.
00:50:56.000The movement began after students actually refused to leave after a chapel service last Wednesday.
00:51:00.000The services have since grown to pack the school's chapel with worshipers from all over the country.
00:51:05.000No, apparently there is a history to this.
00:51:07.000There's a professor at Asbury who talks about, this is a piece over Christianity Today, talking about the situation over there.
00:51:16.000Apparently, students are required to attend a certain number of prayer services, religious school.
00:51:21.000This has happened before where people have shown up and then refused to leave because they were feeling the spirit so much.
00:51:28.000And here's how the professor describes it.
00:51:29.000Some were reading and reciting scripture.
00:51:31.000Others were standing with arms raised.
00:51:32.000Several were clustered in small groups praying together.
00:51:34.000A few were kneeling at the altar rail in front of the auditorium.
00:51:37.000Others were talking to one another, their faces bright with joy.
00:51:39.000They were still worshiping when I left late in the afternoon and when I came back in the evening.
00:51:43.000They were still worshiping when I arrived early Thursday morning.
00:51:45.000And by mid-morning, hundreds were filling the auditorium again.
00:51:48.000I'd seen multiple students running toward the chapel each day.
00:51:50.000By Thursday evening, they were standing room only.
00:51:52.000Students had begun to arrive from other universities.
00:51:54.000University of Kentucky, University of the Cumberlands, Purdue, Indiana Wesleyan, Ohio Christian University, Transylvanian University, Midway, Lee University, Georgetown College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, and many others.
00:52:05.000He said, some are calling this a revival.
00:52:06.000I know in recent years that term has become associated with political activism, but let me be clear, no one at Asbury actually has that agenda.
00:52:13.000Apparently Asbury does have a history with revivals including one that took place in 1905 and one in 2006 when a student chapel led to four days of continuous worship, prayer, and praise.
00:52:25.000The fact is that religion requires community.
00:52:28.000One of the things that we have done by reducing religion to spirituality is we have suggested that what religion really is about is your internal feeling of solidity with God.
00:52:35.000That is not really what religion is about.
00:52:37.000Religion does include that component, but that is not the entirety of religion.
00:52:40.000Religion requires you to commune with others.
00:52:57.000The idea that a community is built around a common cause is what has allowed the growth of civilization.
00:53:03.000So just evolutionarily speaking, human beings have a very hard time congregating above a certain number.
00:53:10.000You can't have that many people on the same page without a higher cause.
00:53:13.000Otherwise they tend to break down into tribes, they tend to break down into families.
00:53:15.000What religion did, historically speaking, is it allowed people to abstract up the chain.
00:53:20.000Because now you can get tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people on the same page because they were worshiping the same God and aiming for the same thing.
00:53:26.000And there is something euphoric about worshiping with tens of thousands of other people.
00:53:45.000And that hole in the spirit is filled in our society by either nothing, which is leading to rising tides of chaos, despair, loneliness, or it's filled with really bad causes.
00:53:56.000Politics tends to fill that void for a lot of people.
00:53:59.000And suddenly you're looking at political utopianism, which is why you see all of these sort of very radical political agendas that are driven forward by a feeling of community.
00:54:09.000That's why Bernie Sanders' rally, for example, turns into almost a religious revival worship service very often.
00:54:16.000People want to feel that feeling of belonging, a feeling of higher purpose, and a feeling they're part of something bigger than themselves.
00:54:21.000When that is oriented toward something proper, like a relationship with God, a God who calls on you to be moral and good toward your fellow man, that is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:54:29.000What I'm hoping is that what's happening in Asbury is the forerunner to a broader religious revival.
00:54:39.000The reason being, secularism cannot uphold the foundations of secularism itself.
00:54:44.000Secularism is rooted in certain preconditions that only exist because religion exists.
00:54:49.000Those preconditions include things like demographic growth, fundamental institutions like marriage, a belief in The rational ability to investigate the universe.
00:54:58.000These are all religious premises, actually, because you can't reason your way to them.
00:55:02.000And what that means is that if those things fall away, secular society just falls apart.
00:55:08.000Which brings us to the thing that I hate today.
00:55:14.000So the thing that I hate today is when you look at what's happening in Asbury.
00:55:19.000Let me just tell you about the rest of these people's lives.
00:55:20.000The people who are actually worshipping in Asbury.
00:55:27.000That's a thing that's going to happen because they have a common purpose.
00:55:29.000They know people who think like they do and who are oriented toward the same value system and then they're going to raise those kids within that value system.
00:55:36.000Because this is what religious people do.
00:55:37.000Religious people have a path that is laid out for them for their lives that is meaningful and purposeful and spiritually fulfilling.
00:55:44.000When that goes away, what you end up with is mass chaos and loneliness.
00:55:47.000And that is what this new poll is showing from Pew.
00:55:52.000According to The Hill, more than 60% of young men are now single.
00:55:55.000That is nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic, and sexual life of the American male.
00:56:01.000So we have to explain the discrepancy, why only 30% of young women are saying that they are single, but 60% of young males are saying they're single.
00:56:08.000So some of that is going to be a misalignment of women and men, what they think, right?
00:56:12.000So it may be that a woman is dating a man and he's like, well, I'm not really in a relationship.
00:56:15.000It's like, we are totally in a relationship.
00:56:17.000So it may be that there is a misalignment of what people think.
00:56:20.000And you see this in other polling data as well.
00:56:22.000It could be that young women are dating older men, which again is fairly typical.
00:56:27.000And men tend to marry a little bit later than women on average.
00:56:29.000I believe the average age of first marriage for men now in the United States is about 20, 29.
00:56:34.000The average age of first marriage for women is 26, 27 years old.
00:56:36.000So it's a slight mismatch in terms of age.
00:56:38.000But those numbers are just too large to really understand outside the context of young men are now isolating themselves.
00:56:47.000They don't have religious community, they don't have a place where they feel belonging, they don't feel embedded in a broader social fabric, and they're not finding mates because of that.
00:56:55.000Because if you think of the places where men used to find the women they would get married to, those places are all social institutions.
00:57:02.000The kind of TV version of how people meet, where the meet cute, you're walking down the street, you bump into somebody, you marry that person.
00:57:09.000Most people who get married tend to meet via church, they tend to meet via friends, they tend to meet at their workplace, right?
00:57:16.000All places where you have social connections with other people.
00:57:18.000As those social connections disappear, as you work from home, for example, or as you don't go to church anymore, as you interact with people over the interwebs, it turns out that human relationships just completely fall apart.
00:57:28.000And so young men are isolating themselves in extraordinary numbers.
00:57:32.000As The Hill reports, men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless, and lonely.
00:57:38.000They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality, and relationships that affects all of young America.
00:57:43.000Niobe Wei, a psychology professor and founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity at New York University says, This of course is going to have some pretty tragic results because young men commit suicide at four times the rate of young women.
00:57:59.000Young men are responsible for higher rates of crime, So, women are now collecting 60% of bachelor's degrees.
00:58:05.000Men aren't even going to college, which is where, again, many men used to meet women and get married to them.
00:58:10.000Women who are not looking for marriage, who have been told by the feminists, the matriarchy, they've essentially been told that the highest value in life lies in working 2,200 billable hours until you are 40, at which point you've frozen a couple of eggs and you try to find somebody to inseminate those eggs.
00:58:25.000That is the apotheosis of femininity and female achievement.
00:58:29.000And that's creating serious problems for both men and women.
00:58:35.000The idea that women have been liberated along these lines is belied by the fact that women are also experiencing record levels of depression and isolation.
00:58:42.000Not as bad as men are, but pretty bad.
00:58:46.000Again, all of this happens when you break down the intermediate institutions in society.
00:58:49.000The biggest intermediate institution in society has always been church.
00:58:53.000That has always been the intermediate institution in society.
00:58:56.000When you destroy that, a place where people share values and share a common orientation toward the good, and also share events and get together on a religious basis, when you get rid of those things, it turns out that you destroy all of society and that is what we are watching in real time right now.