Join us as we rewatch the House of Representatives as members of Congress go head-to-head in a heated debate about women in public service. Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett go head to head in a debate about whether or not a female congresswoman should be allowed to insult a male congresswoman's fake eyelashes. Join us in the latest episode of as we discuss the ridiculousness of the debate, and how we can all learn from the stupidity displayed by the three women in this episode. If you don t like your representatives, you can always change your representatives. But if you like them, you ll always vote for them, because we live in a representative democracy. And so when we see spectacles like the spectacle that we saw in committee yesterday, I would just like to point out that these are all elected representatives of the United States. We have filled Washington, D.C. with complete imbeciles. And this is our fault. And the fact is that, again, if you don't like your reps, you CAN'T always change them. And so, let's talk about it, shall we? in today's episode of Pure Pure Talk, hosted by Sarah Abdurrahman ( ) and Sarah Kelliher ( ), as we talk about the utter idiocy that was yesterday's spectacle, and why we should never happen in the first place! and why it's time to get back to basics! Thank you Sarah and Sarah as we do what we do! Sarah, Sarah, thank you so much for being a friend of the podcast and Sarah for being here! . . . and Sarah, you're a rockstar. Sarah is a rock star! Love ya, bye! Sarah, bye bye! - Sarah, Bye Bye. . Sarah Sarah - Sarah - Caitlyn, Caitie, Caitlyn - Caitlyn Jenner ( ) , , and Sarah ( ). Thank You, Sarah , Sarah, & Sarah, Maureen :) Thanks, Sarah ( ) . , Maia, Maia ( ) , and Maia for joining us in Pure Talk! , Caitlyn ( ) & Sarah ( ), and Sarah ( . . to Sarah as she talks about it!
00:00:00.000Early in the 20th century, there was a columnist known all over the country named H.L.
00:00:04.000Mencken, and he has two quotes I want to read to you right now.
00:00:07.000Quote number one, quote, democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
00:00:13.000Quote number two, no one in this world, so far as I know, and I've searched the records for years and employed agents to help me, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people, nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
00:00:27.000I point this out because we live in a representative democracy.
00:00:30.000And so when we see spectacles like the spectacle that we saw in committee at the House of Representatives who represent us in Congress yesterday, I would just like to point out that these are all elected representatives of the United States.
00:00:49.000And this is our fault, because we vote for them.
00:00:51.000The fact is that, again, if you don't like your representatives, you can always change your representatives, but it seems as though the American people increasingly like a Congress that is completely unworkable.
00:01:00.000A presidency filled with numbskulls, like the current president of the United States.
00:01:05.000Entire representative agencies of the federal government that are filled with people whose IQs, when combined, might be in double digits.
00:01:15.000If you think I'm being harsh, I present to you the following clip, which is not, in fact, from Jerry Springer.
00:01:21.000So yesterday, for some odd reason that no one can quite discern, a giant fight broke out between Marjorie Taylor Greene, noted intellectual congresswoman from Georgia, MTG, AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:01:36.000Of course, you can always tell this is like a WWE face-off when all of the Congress people are just known by their acronyms.
00:01:44.000I mean, shouldn't they actually have names?
00:01:46.000But MTG versus AOC versus Jasmine Crockett.
00:01:51.000And I have to say, the wattage displayed by these three ladies puts feminism back about a hundred years.
00:01:59.000Because, as we will talk about in a moment, Two of the men who are leading this committee, James Comer on the Republican side and Jamie Raskin on the Democratic side, they literally cannot help but laugh at the idiocy displayed by this coterie of crows.
00:03:32.000I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
00:05:44.000And the answer is because Congress and our representative government has become a performative spectacle for people who are hoping to get famous and rich outside of Congress.
00:05:54.000Yuval Levin over at American Enterprise Institute wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years about this, talking about how our representative institutions We're supposed to be institutions.
00:06:04.000They were supposed to shape the people who enter them because they are given a grave responsibility of representing the American people and taking care of trillions of our taxpayer dollars and figuring out our foreign policy and trying to rectify breaches in the social fabric and the social compact.
00:06:22.000But over time, as we have become a more populous and populistic country, Our representatives have basically just become stand-ins for our various gripes and grievances.
00:06:31.000And so what you end up with is the dumbed-down version of the American public.
00:06:36.000The dumbest version of the American public.
00:06:39.000Now again, I don't think that this is particularly partisan.
00:06:42.000I know a lot of people in Congress, Democrat and Republican.
00:06:45.000I can name the number of intelligent people that I know in Congress on less than two hands easily.
00:06:50.000And I'm talking about, like, I know probably hundreds at this point of members of Congress and the Senate.
00:06:56.000The fact is that the American people have chosen poorly.
00:07:00.000And there are a couple of aspects to this.
00:07:01.000One is, that it used to be, when government did not have insane levels of power over our life, that we didn't actually care who was in charge of the government nearly as much, because the government didn't have the power to control every aspect of our life.
00:07:13.000And so, politics was largely relegated to the local level.
00:07:17.000And when it came to federal politics, people who were very invested in federal politics tended to be the people who were the most knowledgeable, the people who actually cared the most, the people who were the most engaged.
00:07:28.000Well, now it's become a popularity contest.
00:07:31.000And thanks to the mass media, you can take Dullards and make them incredibly famous.
00:07:37.000And in fact, if you want to sell papers, that's exactly what you do.
00:07:40.000If you want higher ratings, what you do is you focus in on the Dullards in Congress, not the Congress person who's spending late nights pouring over the bills that are being created to shape your and my life.
00:08:14.000That's not good for America, and Americans ought to get off of this.
00:08:17.000But the reality, of course, is that this has pervaded American politics, and it has bled up.
00:08:23.000The quality of our public leadership is a reflection of the quality of our public conversations, and our public conversations suck because they are low IQ, because they do not involve any sort of actual knowledge base for the people involved.
00:08:37.000In fact, a quick insult is considered significantly more useful than an actual understanding of the issues at play.
00:08:44.000And the nuances of those issues, those things are not important.
00:08:46.000By the way, this is one of the reasons why you are seeing re-engagement online with like three hour long conversations, including people like Lex Friedman or Joe Rogan or that kind of stuff.
00:08:55.000That's because there is a hunger in a certain segment of the population for something a little more substantive, but that has completely gone away for the vast majority of the American public, which of course should not have to be engaged at this level in politics.
00:09:29.000And it doesn't matter one iota to at least half the population.
00:09:33.000This used to be a country where Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams.
00:09:39.000This used to be a country where Harry Truman ran against Thomas Dewey, and now it's a country where the three leading candidates for the presidency are Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:09:54.000Again, that just says something about the nature of the democracy.
00:09:58.000And it says something about the nature of the American public's engagement in these issues.
00:10:00.000I'm ripping on the public here because again, people voted for these people.
00:10:04.000I think most people look at this and they're a little bit ashamed of what they see in Congress.
00:10:08.000But frankly, we should all be ashamed of what we see in Congress because I'm just telling you, the level of intellectual achievement in our Congress, the level of true engagement with serious issues is so unbelievably low that you would get a better conversation about what goes on in our nation in a third grade social studies classroom than you would in a congressional committee like you saw yesterday.
00:10:31.000Now, speaking of truly pathetic, the President of the United States, of course, is no longer sentient.
00:10:37.000And the Biden administration made that absolutely clear yesterday when they decided via the DOJ to challenge the making public or even the giving to Congress of the tape of Joe Biden being interviewed by Prosecutor Robert Herr.
00:10:53.000Robert Herr is the prosecutor who is looking into the classified documents mess surrounding Joe Biden.
00:10:58.000Joe Biden, since he was a senator, has been taking home classified documents, stuffing them in his drawers, putting them in the garage next to his Corvette, and all the rest.
00:11:08.000This is very clearly illegal, by the way.
00:11:10.000He said, this is very clearly illegal.
00:11:12.000There's actually a reason why Joe Biden did it.
00:11:14.000He took home from the vice presidency a bunch of documents surrounding his opinions on Afghanistan that were totally classified, and he brought them home, and then he proceeded to convey them to his ghostwriter, which is a violation of the law.
00:11:26.000So, how did Robert Herr avoid prosecuting Joe Biden?
00:11:29.000He said that he was a well-meaning, befuddled old man.
00:11:33.000That was literally the rationale, that we would have prosecuted him, except that he's senile.
00:11:37.000And this of course, led to extraordinary amount of angst and heartburn on the part of the Biden administration
00:12:47.000Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, It wasn't any of their damn business.
00:12:53.000Well, actually, you're the one who raised it because Joe Biden raises his son Beau's death at literally every available opportunity.
00:13:00.000And then the transcripts came out and it turned out that it was, in fact, Joe Biden who raised Beau's death and did, in fact, screw up the date.
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00:14:08.000That was the same press conference where Joe Biden then proceeded to mix up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico and forget where his son's rosary came from.
00:14:16.000As you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in.
00:15:23.000います。 So the White House is now asserting executive privilege in order to protect the tape, which is wild.
00:15:31.000Why in the world would executive privilege apply to the president's criminal investigative interview with a prosecutor about his activities as vice president or senator and in his post-vice presidency?
00:15:46.000How does executive privilege even apply?
00:15:47.000Executive privilege isn't just anything that the person who happens to be president happens to have done or will do at any point in the future.
00:15:54.000Donald Trump is finding this out as well when he is trying to assert executive privilege with regard to classified materials in Mar-a-Lago, for example, and that's basically being ruled out of bounds probably by the Supreme Court.
00:16:06.000Executive privilege doesn't just apply to everything in the entire world.
00:16:09.000Why in the world would executive privilege typically mean that there are certain jobs that the executive can do that require that there not be any sort of knowledge of those activities?
00:16:20.000It usually applies to classified materials within the executive branch or internal discussions that are happening in the executive branch about policy.
00:16:27.000It doesn't apply to Joe Biden's visitor log, for example.
00:16:32.000It doesn't apply, certainly, to Joe Biden's interview for which the transcript is already available with Robert Herr.
00:16:41.000Well, the White House Counsel's Office notified House GOP investigators of the move before Republicans were expected to recommend holding AG Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over the audio.
00:16:53.000So Biden said, the White House counsel, Ed Siskel, sent a letter to the Republican House leaders who requested the tape, quote, So in other words, we are going to assert executive privilege specifically for political purposes.
00:17:02.000bear your likely goal to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes.
00:17:07.000Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally protected law enforcement materials from the
00:17:11.000executive branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.
00:17:15.000So in other words, we are going to assert executive privilege specifically for political
00:17:19.000purposes. That's what he's saying. He's saying you might use the tape for political purposes.
00:17:23.000Therefore, we will assert executive privilege for political purposes to protect Joe Biden from looking senile on tape.
00:18:03.000Because everyone in Biden's orbit keeps saying that Joe Biden is, he's sharp, he's focused, mental acuity, particularly in long meetings.
00:18:13.000The difference between what we see Joe Biden in public is that at most you're talking like an hour and a half during the State of the Union.
00:18:21.000When he's been pumped full of children's blood and amphetamines.
00:18:25.000And with Robert Herr, he's sitting there for like six hours at a time.
00:18:29.000Now, a normal person can do an interview for six hours and get through it.
00:18:33.000I really wonder what's on those tapes.
00:18:39.000I'm very curious as to the affect that Joe Biden was presenting to Robert Herr that led Robert Herr to the conclusion that he's a well-meaning but senile old man.
00:18:48.000So Garland has asked Biden, supposedly, to block release of the audio recordings, citing concerns that making them public could prompt high-ranking White House officials to be less cooperative in future investigations.
00:18:59.000So basically, Joe Biden went to Merrick Garland and said, Merrick, could you request that I don't release the tapes?
00:19:05.000And Merrick Garland's like, sure, Mr. President, sure.
00:19:08.000And so here he was yesterday announcing that he has asked Joe Biden to assert executive privilege To protect Joe Biden from tape the DOJ took of Joe Biden from becoming public where we already have the transcript.
00:19:21.000This is the most obvious political maneuver of all time, which suggests these tapes must just be absolutely devastating.
00:19:28.000In your professional capacity, you suggested to the President to invoke executive privilege.
00:19:40.000Look, the Justice Department is a fundamental institution of our democracy.
00:19:46.000People depend on us to ensure that our investigations and our prosecutions are conducted according to the facts and the law and without political influence.
00:19:59.000We have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the committees get responses to their legitimate requests.
00:20:44.000The answer is that the transcript, when it says dot dot dot, that is probably Joe Biden looking around the room, peeing in the corner and returning to his seat or something.
00:20:54.000It is likely Joe Biden pausing for 83 seconds in the middle of a sentence, just stopping that.
00:21:00.000Like that's the kind of stuff they have to prevent from getting out.
00:21:06.000It's one of the reasons why Donald Trump probably is going to request a drug test on Joe Biden before they do the debate.
00:21:11.000Because there is no question the president is being shot up with something.
00:21:14.000Again, my evidence of that proposition is the fact that the president will not release a tape of him doing an interview where we have already read the words of the interview.
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00:23:08.000You know, I will tell you again, I can only speak, Francesca, to my experience, and when I get out there and we talk to people about the amazing successes of the administration and the leadership of the President and Vice President, people are psyched.
00:23:22.000I mean, they're happy about these meaningful developments that are helping change the lives of people all across this country.
00:23:50.000Democratic Representative Dean Phillips, who ran in a primary against Joe Biden, he says, given the fact that there's so many disaffected radicals inside the Democratic Party, they may just want to cancel the convention outright.
00:23:59.000Obviously, these are the sorts of moves that a successful party makes.
00:24:05.000I'm afraid that this is looking awfully like 1968, with a lot of anger and angst and disenfranchisement that I think are going to play out on TV this summer, and it's going to be awfully contentious.
00:24:18.0001968 was in Chicago, the Democratic Convention.
00:24:21.000You think it could look a little like that?
00:24:23.000I think it can, and frankly, I think it would be in the best interest of the Democratic Party to forego the convention this year and focus on campaigning because I don't see any way it can be accretive to the mission of winning the next election.
00:24:34.000Yeah, things are certainly going well for the Democratic Party.
00:24:36.000Meanwhile, the only vice presidential debate in modern history that will matter is probably the one this year between Kamala Harris and whomever Donald Trump picks as his VP candidate.
00:24:45.000The reason being that everyone believes that Joe Biden will not make it through a second term.
00:24:50.000It would be shocking if Joe Biden made it all the way through his second term without some sort of full-scale mental collapse, again, given the fact that he will not even release tape of himself talking with someone for like five or six hours.
00:25:00.000So Kamala Harris confirmed on Thursday she will be participating in a July debate.
00:25:04.000Again, they're doing this early because they hope that if the Republicans shellax Kamala Harris, everyone will have forgotten about it by the election.
00:25:10.000Trump has yet to pick his running mate, obviously.
00:25:24.000I mean, I like Doug Burgum, but where's the Burgumentum?
00:25:27.000He got even less support than Tim Scott did in the Republican primaries.
00:25:31.000But Kamala Harris is announcing early that she definitely wants to debate somebody.
00:25:36.000And I'm sure a Republican definitely wants to debate her.
00:25:38.000That is definitely something that Donald Trump should be taking into consideration.
00:25:40.000Who is best going to debate Kamala Harris would be a big question because that's basically the only thing that matters.
00:25:47.000I have no doubt that if Donald Trump is reelected, he'll serve his entire term.
00:25:49.000I have a lot of doubt that if Joe Biden is reelected, that Kamala Harris won't be filling out that term.
00:25:55.000Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is running her own campaign.
00:25:58.000Her campaign right now is, what if we just shovel money at you?
00:26:02.000So the Democrats have run out of ideas.
00:26:03.000Their ideas now involve, what if we just throw money into an inflationary cycle?
00:26:08.000We will just literally pay people to vote for us.
00:26:10.000Now they've been trying this for a while here, with their student loan relief nonsense.
00:26:15.000They've been trying this with their green boondoggles.
00:26:18.000And here was Kamala Harris yesterday saying, we are dropping trillions on the streets right now.
00:26:24.000I was sharing with Mr. Phelps that we, the President and I, because of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, we are dropping trillions of dollars on the streets of America right now.
00:26:37.000To build back up our roads and our bridges, our sidewalks, to invest in a clean energy economy, to deal with the climate crisis in a way that is about building up adaptation and resilience.
00:26:51.000They've dropped trillions into an inflationary economy.
00:26:53.000And by the way, as the economy continues to stagger along at a 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 percent inflation rate, as it continues to stagger along at that rate, she says she now wants government subsidized $25,000 grants for first-time homebuyers.
00:27:13.000I mean, I feel like we did this before and it resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis because it turns out that when you pay people who can't afford a house to get a house, then when the real estate values drop, they go underwater.
00:27:24.000They can't afford to pay their mortgage and they can't afford to sell because they paid more than they would receive for the actual sale of the home.
00:27:32.000And then you get a real estate meltdown.
00:27:45.000We have now proposed that if you are the child of parents who, or you were raised in a family where the folks who raised you were not homeowners, when you want to go buy a home, you will be entitled to a $25,000 grant to award down payment for a home.
00:28:08.000Again, acknowledging the realities of it all.
00:28:12.000If your parents owned a home and then you as their child say, I want to go buy, then your parents will likely have the opportunity and ability to say, honey, you don't have to go take out that big loan.
00:28:24.000I'm going to take some equity out of my home to help you with that down payment.
00:28:29.000And that's how intergenerational wealth works.
00:28:33.000But if you start with nothing, How are we going to give people those opportunities?
00:28:39.000And so it's about acknowledgement, and then pushing through the actual policies that are not just about lip service, but actually making a difference.
00:28:47.000So we're just going to toss a bag of cash at you.
00:28:49.000And even if you can't pay your mortgage, it'll probably work out great.
00:28:52.000And this is literally how I got the subprime mortgage crisis in the first place.
00:28:55.000Subprime mortgages were subsidized by the federal government.
00:28:58.000And then when they all collapsed, that infected the entire system through credit derivative swaps and the like.
00:29:03.000So she wants to just repeat that all over again in the name of equity.
00:29:11.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:30:43.000I mean, not to be not to be too cynical about this, but if you allow all the young people to smoke all the pot, I don't think they're going to vote because they're going to be high.
00:30:51.000But in any case, Joe Biden is now attempting to loosen federal marijuana restrictions.
00:30:57.000Now, what's amazing about this is about 15 years ago, there was a lot of movement in favor of marijuana legalization or at least decriminalization.
00:31:04.000There was a lot of movement in favor of that.
00:31:06.000And then the consequences have been absolutely disastrous in every city or municipality that has tried it.
00:31:11.000It's been awful for cities like Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Denver.
00:31:16.000You can't walk down the street without smelling pot with your kids.
00:31:20.000You got people just lying out high in the roads.
00:31:23.000I mean, it's really, really bad in these cities.
00:31:26.000And that is a combination of two factors.
00:31:28.000One, when you make drug use more prevalent, bad things happen.
00:31:30.000Two, Because, just like anything else, a competitive market makes product more efficient and effective.
00:31:38.000Marijuana strains have become significantly more powerful over the years.
00:31:41.000The marijuana that people are smoking now does not resemble the marijuana that was being passed around the, like, 11th grade playground in 1994.
00:31:52.000But Joe Biden is ignoring all of that because, again, he's trying to buy off communities he thinks disproportionately use marijuana or will vote on that basis.
00:32:08.000Today, my administration took a major step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3 drug.
00:32:16.000It's an important move toward reversing long-standing inequities.
00:32:19.000Today's announcement builds on the work we've already done to pardon a record number of federal offenses for simple possession of marijuana.
00:32:25.000And it adds to the action we've taken to lift barriers to housing, employment, small business loans, and so much more for tens of thousands of Americans.
00:32:35.000Look folks, no one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana.
00:32:57.000But in any case, The entire policy predicate here is bad and wrong.
00:33:03.000Marijuana is currently a Schedule 1 drug on the Controlled Substances Act.
00:33:08.000The DOJ decision moves it to Schedule 3, a category that means it's determined to have both medical benefits and some potential for abuse.
00:33:16.000But again, the reality is that the marijuana that is currently being used is significantly more powerful than the marijuana that was being passed around decades ago.
00:33:28.000According to the American Psychological Association, a huge percentage of people using cannabis in the past 30 days meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, criteria for cannabis youth disorder.
00:33:44.000Kids who are using it, between 12 and 20, at least 23% of them are addicted to pot.
00:33:50.000That was one of the supposed great benefits of pot, was that it was non-addictive.
00:33:53.000It is in fact highly addictive for a certain coterie of young people.
00:33:57.000Not only that, it does significant damage to developing brains.
00:34:02.000According to Joanna Jacobus, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego, who did longitudinal studies on all of this, it turns out that there are biological brain differences that can increase the chances that an adolescent will start using cannabis, and it also increases their vulnerability to negative developmental incomes.
00:34:23.000Furthermore, it turns out that if you follow the cannabis use effect, what you see is that people have significant personality issues, memory problems, students who use cannabis regularly have trouble focusing, feeling motivated during school.
00:34:38.000It causes permanent deleterious changes in the brain for a lot of people.
00:34:44.000And of course, it is way, way, way more likely to exacerbate already existing mental health issues, which of course are incredibly prominent with young people right now.
00:34:52.000And as I say, the THC content in marijuana itself has multiplied radically.
00:34:57.000According to the NIH, marijuana potency as detected in confiscated samples has steadily increased over the past few decades.
00:35:03.000In the early 90s, the average THC content in confiscated marijuana was less than 4%.
00:35:19.000Well, that is not going to be wonderful as it becomes more prevalent in American society, but it is, again, another pathetic attempt to make society worse, but by votes from low-information voters who might be interested in smoking more pot.
00:35:31.000And Joe Biden's presidency is on the rails here, and he knows it.
00:35:35.000It's true kind of throughout his entire administration.
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00:36:54.000And those facts can't depend on the fact that you're you and I'm me.
00:36:58.000So we have to be able to have a conversation where we can disagree with each other, where no one by default trumps anyone else just by virtue of your skin color or your identity.
00:37:10.000And that's the only way that we can actually have a conversation.
00:37:21.000Meanwhile, in the grab bag of random news today, Scotty Scheffler, who is the best golfer living right now, he has won four of the last five tournaments in which he has played.
00:37:32.000He was heavily favored to win the PGA Championship this week.
00:37:35.000He was arrested by the Louisville Metro Police Friday morning after trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, which is the site of the PGA.
00:37:42.000According to ESPN, traffic outside the golf course had been stopped after a man was struck and killed by a shuttle bus around 5 a.m.
00:37:48.000Scheffler faces charges of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic.
00:37:56.000So there's an ESPN reporter named Jeff Darlington who was on scene.
00:37:59.000Apparently, there was this crash and Scheffler was trying to drive around the crash scene on a median so he could actually get to his tea time.
00:38:06.000A police officer then instructed Sheffler to stop.
00:38:08.000Sheffler continued to drive about 10 to 20 yards toward the entrance.
00:38:11.000I guess we're not talking about Rodney King taking off down a residential street 100 miles an hour.
00:39:15.000A point that I have frequently made on the program is that when a bad situation happens between a cop and a purported perpetrator, when that sort of stuff happens, everybody immediately rushes to ascribe motivations to the officer other than the officer is being a jackass.
00:39:31.000Sometimes officers are just being jackasses.
00:39:34.000Now it appears from this particular account what you have here is an overzealous officer who got real excited about his job.
00:39:40.000We are talking here about the leading golfer in the world trying to obviously get into a golf club on time so that he can go to his tee time and he stopped after like 10 or 20 yards and then he was trying to talk to the officer and the officer got overzealous, reached through the window, tried to open his door and was pissed off.
00:39:57.000At like 5 o'clock in the morning or something.
00:40:00.000And now he's gonna drag this guy off to jail.
00:40:04.000Let's just point out here, Scotty Shuffler is white.
00:40:06.000If Scotty Shuffler were black, if this were Tiger Woods, for example, we would get a three-year news cycle on why the police are racist, are systemically racist.
00:40:41.000And there are some cops who are having bad days.
00:40:44.000And there are some cops who kind of take a little bit of glory in the fact that they're pulling over a multimillionaire golfer and wrecking his day and maybe wrecking a tournament.
00:40:52.000Now again, unless something comes out about this incident that we haven't already seen, which would justify the cops' behavior here, I would say this is obvious jackass and silliness.
00:41:40.000And the idea that somebody like you could be sitting in a commencement ceremony, Or our daughter could be sitting there and somebody gets up and says that sort of thing to somebody like yourself or your daughter.
00:41:58.000For those who basically are saying, you know, he has his right to say, of course he has his right to say whatever he wants to say.
00:42:04.000And that, you know, that might be his belief system.
00:42:06.000But to say that people who are about to receive their diplomas are being lied to diabolically Because they are being told that some title that awaits them through their hard work isn't as rewarding as sitting at home and being a mother or being a homemaker.
00:42:52.000And I will venture to say that she works harder taking care of our kids and doing work in the community than she did as a doctor sometimes.
00:43:02.000Again, would Rich Eisen ever—this league, the NFL, will look the other way at people who play for the Kansas City Chiefs who strangled their pregnant girlfriend.
00:43:11.000That is less controversial than what Harrison Butker said, according to people like Rich Eisen.
00:43:15.000Meanwhile, the ladies of The View were also fighting mad at Harrison Butker.
00:43:24.000Men who say that men should be men and defend and protect their families and that women should be women and get married and have babies and if they want to have a career also that's fine but the most fulfilling part of being a woman is getting married and having babies which again was wildly uncontroversial until five seconds ago.
00:43:39.000What this man is doing is not just a devout Catholic.
00:43:42.000This is someone who's practicing something called the traditional Latin mass.
00:43:46.000Which is divergent from the majority of Catholics.
00:43:49.000It's compared to being cult-like and extremist like some religions in the Middle East and Asia.
00:43:54.000So this is a very extreme religion and what bothers me about that as a Christian is that when people abuse Christianity, they often not only cherry pick from the Bible, they misinterpret and lie by omission, by taking out parts that would have explained something a little better.
00:44:13.000So what I can say to him, as a Christian, is if you're using this to oppress the people or hold them down, you're not walking with Jesus.
00:44:19.000If you are using the religion, if you're more obsessed with the religious rituals and practices than you are with the word of Jesus, you're not walking with Jesus.
00:44:26.000And if you're using it for the judgment of others and as a weapon to beat people down, you're also not walking with Jesus.
00:44:32.000So I would really encourage him, really encourage him to find the best parts of faith and not diverge into extremists.
00:44:40.000Okay, there's so many insane things about what this lady just said.
00:44:43.000Okay, so first of all, I would love to hear the part of the New Testament where it says that the main priority for women should be to be in the workplace.
00:45:02.000When she claims that she's walking with Jesus by rejecting what Harrison Butker said, I'd love to see the part where Jesus said things that contradict what Harrison Butker said.
00:45:13.000Because from my read of the New Testament, as somebody who does not have a dog in intersectional fights, that's not what Jesus said, or anything remotely close to it.
00:45:23.000Beyond that, I love when she says, the Latin mass, extremist, extremist Latin mass, like some religions in the Middle East.
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00:47:31.000So, what is the alternative structure that is being performed by our media here to the attacks on Harrison Butker, who suggests that there are traditional definitions of male and female and masculinity and femininity?
00:48:53.000Number two, when they say that animals practice homosexuality, first of all, we should note at this point, very few species actually practice exclusive homosexuality, meaning like exclusive homosexual activity.
00:49:06.000It's extremely rare in the animal kingdom.
00:49:08.000There is homosexual activity that occurs among animals.
00:49:11.000It is generally by animals that also have sex with the other sex in order to reproduce and maintain the species, which is what happens in the animal kingdom.
00:49:20.000Because as it turns out, reproductive fitness is the basic category of survival for any species, and that generally involves, in the animal kingdom, male and female.
00:49:29.000But put all of that aside, why in the world are you taking your moral cues from rams This is the part that's truly astonishing to me.
00:50:46.000You should take your cues from gay giraffes or something.
00:50:48.000Okay, forgive me if I decide that I'd rather stick with the biblical moral code that has proved itself valuable and useful over the course of several thousand years, as opposed to, say, emulating gay penguins.
00:51:01.000Amazing, amazing high-level analysis there from NBC.
00:51:14.000So EcoHealth Alliance was the organization that was funding gain-of-function research over in the Wuhan labs.
00:51:24.000And they were brought under scrutiny because it turns out that they were funding all this gain-of-function research and they didn't know what happened with the money and anything like that.
00:51:30.000Well now, according to the Washington Post, federal health officials Wednesday suspended funding to a U.S.
00:51:34.000research organization linked to investigations about the novel coronavirus' origins, saying the move is, quote, necessary to protect the public interest, given the organization's failure to monitor virus experiments in a Chinese lab before the pandemic.
00:51:46.000Federal officials are seeking to block future funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, citing new evidence about EcoHealth's actions that emerged ahead of a contentious congressional hearing this month.
00:51:57.000Apparently, they failed to adequately monitor and report on risky virus experiments at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:52:04.000EcoHealth is now suspended from federal funding and will be potentially disbarred.
00:52:10.000Now, remember, EcoHealth Alliance was working with Dr. Anthony Fauci in order to shut down any sort of investigations or rumors about the possibility that the virus sprang from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:52:22.000They were also working with Dr. Fauci in order to shut down possible alternatives to the federal government's take at the time on handling of the virus from people like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford and the rest.
00:52:37.000So it only took a few years for their funding to be completely cut off.
00:52:41.000But don't worry, the Democrats will never apologize for what they did.
00:52:44.000The Secretary of the Navy was asked in a hearing yesterday about whether there were any regrets about firing service members who refused to get the COVID vaccine.
00:52:53.000But again, the only reason to get the COVID vaccine was to prevent yourself from dying if you were elderly or obese, as it turned out.
00:53:44.000You refuse to... You know what, Senator?
00:53:45.000You refuse to admit the DEI is a part of this.
00:53:48.000You're firing qualified people who are well-trained, and you sit here so smugly to act like none of that has any impact on the readiness of our Navy.
00:54:02.000Europe, it seems, is starting to find its footing at least a little bit.
00:54:05.000Dutch nationalist Gerd Wilders on Wednesday said a deal had been reached to form what was said to be the most right-wing government in the Netherlands in decades, according to Reuters.
00:54:13.000Wilders has influenced Dutch immigration policy for years from the opposition benches since 2006.
00:54:18.000He said they have an agreement among the negotiators.
00:54:24.000He's going to propose a prime ministerial candidate.
00:54:28.000A Labor Party veteran who led some of the coalition negotiations, a guy named Ronald Plaster, was named by Dutch media as a likely candidate to head a new government that has not been confirmed, but the main outcome here is going to be a major crackdown on immigration in the Netherlands, largely from extreme Muslim countries.
00:54:48.000Also, Bowser's new government announced very quickly they were going to move the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.