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00:00:00.000New polling data shows Americans are in a terrible mood and the Democrats are set to pay the 2022 price.
00:00:05.000MSNBC and former top Obama official call for censoring this show and The Daily Wire, and Democrats plan a January 6th hearing extravaganza to try to stave off electoral doom.
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00:00:31.000First, you're spending way too much money on your cell phone bill.
00:00:33.000I mean, right now you're spending way too much money on everything because thanks Joe Biden, but your cell phone bill is one place you are definitely spending too much money because you're using one of the big guys, aren't you?
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00:01:34.000Well, all the news in terms of 2022 continues to be terrible for the Democrats, according to a brand new Wall Street Journal NORC poll conducted with the University of Chicago.
00:01:46.000The survey found Americans in a sour mood, registering some of the highest levels of economic dissatisfaction in years, according to the journal.
00:01:52.000The pessimism extended beyond the current economy to include doubts about the nation's political system, its role as global leader, and its ability to help most people achieve the American dream.
00:02:00.000When asked, would you describe the state of the nation's economy these days as excellent or good versus poor or not so good, 83%, 83% said poor or not so good.
00:02:11.000More than one third, 35%, said they aren't satisfied at all with their financial situation.
00:02:15.000This is the highest level of dissatisfaction since NORC began asking the question every few years, starting in 1972.
00:02:23.000Just over one quarter of respondents, 27%, said they have a good chance of improving their standard of living, while just under half of respondents, 46%, said they do not.
00:02:30.000That is a 20-point drop from just last year, which makes sense because when Joe Biden came into office, a lot of people were like, hey, this economy is going to recover.
00:02:37.000Hey, why would we expect a 40-year inflation rate?
00:02:48.000The share of respondents who said their financial situation had gotten worse in the past few years was 38%.
00:02:54.000This is the only other time than 2007 to 2009.
00:02:59.000And more than three in 10 respondents said their pocketbooks were worse off according to general social science data going back a half century.
00:03:08.000The survey results show high inflation in particular is driving the dim economic outlook.
00:03:12.000Inflation is running at close to its fastest pace in four decades, 8.3% annualized rate in April, and now households are digging into savings.
00:03:20.000The labor market continues to be strong, and two-thirds of respondents said it would be somewhat or very easy to find a new job.
00:03:25.000But the problem is, of course, that even if you find a new job, you are making less money because, again, inflation eats away at everybody's wages and everybody's savings.
00:03:32.000These are really, really bad numbers for Democrats.
00:03:37.000The journal NORC poll showed about a third of respondents were optimistic that people of different races or religions could come together and solve the country's problems.
00:03:44.000Just 13% of respondents said they were optimistic that was true for Americans who hold different political views.
00:03:49.00013% of respondents said they were optimistic that Americans who hold different political views could come together and solve the country's problems.
00:03:55.000And that is because of the polarization that has been generated by the wild social leftism of the Democratic Party, which has now embraced full-scale and intersectional view of the world in which races are to be seen as essentialist and in which we are supposed to believe as the basis for discussion that men are women and women are men.
00:04:12.000The survey found divisions between the two parties on a range of cultural issues.
00:04:15.000While about two-thirds of poll respondents said transgender people should be accepted by society, nearly 90% of Democrats agreed with that statement compared with 38% of Republicans.
00:04:23.000Just over half of Republicans said their local public schools focus too much on racism.
00:04:28.00059% of Democrats said schools focus too little on it.
00:04:30.000Two-thirds of Democrats said the country's diversity makes it stronger compared with 47% of Republicans.
00:04:36.000Trudy McClendon, 55-year-old DoorDash driver in Oklahoma, said, quote, There are people that have good Christian morals and those that want to live by their own rules.
00:04:43.000That, frankly, sounds probably about right.
00:04:46.000She said the country's racial diversity is a good thing.
00:04:48.000She pointed to the media for sharpening racial division.
00:04:50.000She said, I just think there's a lot of incidents that get made to sound a whole lot worse than they are.
00:04:57.000Social media companies are taking the heat as well.
00:04:58.000Nearly two-thirds of respondents, 64%, said platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are harmful for society because they emphasize differences between people.
00:05:06.000Just over one-third, 34%, said they're helpful because they provide a way for Americans to share their opinions.
00:05:11.000The thing that social media does more than anything else is nationalize every issue.
00:05:14.000So there's a local story and suddenly becomes a national issue, where before it just would have been a community issue that got solved inside the community.
00:05:20.000And that's a lot easier to do because you know your neighbors.
00:05:22.000You know the people who live around you, generally speaking.
00:05:25.000Those numbers are devastating for Democrats.
00:05:27.000Joe Biden came into office with the pitch that he was going to be the adult in the room.
00:05:50.000And instead, he came in and things are worse than they were under President Trump in terms of polarization, in terms of feelings about the economy, in terms of how Americans feel about each other.
00:05:58.000Joe Biden, he pitched himself as a moderate candidate who is also going to be not alive.
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00:07:37.000What happened when Putin started amassing troops on the border with Russia?
00:07:41.000The price of gas has increased by $1.51.
00:07:44.000And I also want to add, because this is really important so that people understand and flag that similar issues are happening around the world.
00:07:53.000In the EU, gas is $8.15 per gallon and has increased by $1.74.
00:08:55.000Since 1938, the Republican two-point lead on the generic congressional ballot is the best position for Republicans at this point in any midterm cycle in over 80 years.
00:09:07.000My estimate for the 2023 House makeup, if the election were held today, which again, it isn't, we still have five months, five months from tomorrow, would be Republicans 236 seats To 241 seats, Democrats 194 to 199.
00:09:23.000That's based off of a formula of seat-to-seat race ratings from both the Cook Political Report and Inside Election.
00:09:31.000By the way, that's Harry Enten actually being pretty cautious.
00:09:33.000Because when he says 236 to 241 for Republicans, Republicans currently hold 208.
00:09:37.000So you're talking about, on the lower end of that spectrum, less than the 30-seat pickup.
00:09:41.000Now that's because Republicans are in a pretty strong position going in.
00:09:44.000They picked up like 15 seats in the last election cycle.
00:09:47.000But, if this is a blowout election, it could easily be 245 or 250.
00:09:52.000If this really turns into a wave election where it's not Republicans plus 2, it's Republicans plus 8, Republicans plus 10, Republicans could have a historically large majority in the House of Representatives.
00:10:01.000And this is only exacerbated by the fact that the Democratic Party cannot hold it in.
00:10:05.000They cannot stop their left wing from running the party.
00:10:16.000If you have a party that is largely dependent on swing districts, why are you taking hints from people in Brooklyn who won like 16,000 votes in one primary, and now we're supposed to believe that this person is representative of the entire Democratic base, which she clearly is not?
00:10:30.000But unfortunately, the philosophy of the AOCs of the world rules the Democratic Party.
00:10:35.000So here she is explaining that even though no Latino person in the United States identifies as Latinx because it's the dumbest crap in the entire world, Latinx is predicated on the idea that somehow female Latinos, right, Latinas, that somehow they are offended by the fact that Spanish as a language is gendered.
00:10:53.000And so therefore, you have to get rid of the gendered aspect of Spanish by adding an X to the end of words, which You know how many Latinos and Latinas care about this sort of thing?
00:11:19.000If you said to Israelis, we are now starting to call people, the word in Hebrew is anashim, for people, because the suffix at the end of words in Hebrew, plural suffix, is yodmem, for male, and vavtath, for female.
00:11:37.000If you take those suffixes and you just remove them, and suddenly anashim becomes anashix, Everybody in Israel would laugh at you.
00:11:44.000And the same thing is true for anyone who is a member of a population that speaks a gendered language.
00:11:48.000Here's AOC, however, saying, if you think that this alienates Latino people, it's because you're intolerant and you're a bigot and you're stupid.
00:11:54.000Really, keep taking your hints from this.
00:12:13.000And like, it's almost as though it has not struck some of these folks that another person's identity is not about your re-election prospects.
00:12:28.000Second of all, if putting a little X on your campaign literature is what you think is the difference between winning or losing an election, you need to talk about healthcare more.
00:13:29.000But you are not a Democrat in a position of power who is desperate, desperate to redirect away from discussions of anything anyone cares about.
00:13:34.000So the American people are like, the economy sucks.
00:13:36.000We're deeply worried about our foreign policy.
00:13:37.000We're enmeshed in an endless war now in Ukraine, at least funding an endless war in Ukraine that has no clear exit strategy.
00:13:59.000Your plan for Americans is no one is happy with the economy.
00:14:02.000To the point where 83% of Americans are unhappy with the economy, according to that Wall Street Journal poll, and your plan is to talk about 200 idiots breaking into the Capitol building, being rousted from the Capitol building within two hours, and then the election being certified?
00:14:23.000Winking and nodding at large-scale riots, the most dangerous riots in American history.
00:14:29.000After you spend a year completely undermining the cops to the point that murder rates spike in every major city around the country to the point where Los Angeles and San Francisco are now looking at, in San Francisco, recalling a progressive prosecutor, and in Los Angeles, electing a quasi-Republican to the mayorcy.
00:14:42.000And your answer to this is, yeah, but you remember that one time?
00:14:46.000Where these idiots attacked some police officers and went into the Capitol building and were not actually a threat to the working order of the United States.
00:14:53.000They actually were rousted and the only person who died, not of a health condition, was Ashley Babbitt, one of the rioters.
00:16:25.000So, Democrats, along with some compliant Republicans who apparently are looking for the strange new respect have decided they're going to a primetime congressional primetime hearings.
00:17:04.000Their plan is they're going to have prime time congressional hearings about January 6th, in which we learn All the stuff we already knew.
00:17:10.000There are a bunch of people who are morons and criminals who decide to go into the Capitol building that presumably some of those people just kind of wandered in, which is true.
00:17:18.000That Donald Trump said bad stuff that day, although he also said that day to peacefully protest at the Capitol building, he did not in fact order people to go into the Capitol building and to wreck things.
00:17:29.000And you're going to hear that Donald Trump was derelict in trying to shut this thing down.
00:17:33.000That he should have done more in order to stop this thing earlier.
00:18:01.000If you're listening to the show, I assume you are more than one and a half years old, which means you remember all of this.
00:18:07.000So the idea that Democrats are going to drag all this up and then they're just going to be like, well, you know, this is why you should vote for us is because of January 6th.
00:18:55.000With their majority at stake, Democrats plan to use the six high-profile hearings to refocus voters' attentions on Republicans' role in the attacks.
00:19:02.00017 months after a mob of Donald J. Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol with false claims of a stolen election, House Democrats plan to use a landmark set of investigative hearings beginning this week to try to refocus voters' attention on January 6th.
00:19:14.000Aiming to tie Republicans directly to an unprecedented plot to undermine democracy itself.
00:19:19.000As we'll discuss in just a minute, Democrats plan to save democracies to burn down democracy.
00:19:24.000The idea is that your rights have somehow facilitated the end of democracy.
00:19:27.000Therefore, if we just end your rights and also end a lot of our democratic processes, then magically democracy will have been preserved.
00:19:41.000Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings to remind the public of the magnitude of Mr. Trump's efforts to overturn the election and to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it.
00:20:53.000And suddenly they're like, and now, Billie Eilish sings about the tragedy of January 6th.
00:20:58.000According to Axios, the committee has gained access to official White House photographs for January 6th that have never been seen publicly.
00:21:16.000At least two of the broadcast networks will interrupt evening programming for live coverage anchored by ABC's David Muir and CBS's Norah O'Donnell.
00:21:21.0001,000 depositions and interviews with more scheduled, received 140,000 plus documents and is following up on 472 tips received through the committee's online tip line.
00:21:29.000At least two of the broadcast networks will interrupt evening programming for live coverage anchored by ABC's David Muir and CBS's Nora O'Donnell. NBC is going to do the same thing.
00:21:39.000So just going to point out here that I have never heard of a hearing that has received primetime coverage like this.
00:21:47.000Not in modern American history, not in the last several decades.
00:21:50.000The notion that congressional hearings are going to have full wall-to-wall network coverage, this way this didn't happen with Benghazi for sure.
00:21:58.000I'm unaware of any congressional hearings that have had this sort of wall-to-wall meeting because, of course, they just made a few calls, and all of their friends are now going to cover this.
00:22:06.000They've got to shift the election narrative, and they're going to call their friends in the media to make the magic happen, and you will be told all of these things that you already basically know.
00:22:14.000You'll be told all these things that you already basically know, and you'll be told that it's the most important thing that has ever happened.
00:22:21.000Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, Democratic campaign chair, he said, When these hearings are over, voters will know how irresponsibly complicit Republicans were in attempting to toss out the vote and just how far Republicans will go to gain power for themselves.
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00:24:23.000Democrats are up against the reality that the raw emotions in the aftermath of the attack have faded, even among voters who care about the facts.
00:24:29.000As attention has turned to an ongoing war on Ukraine, gun violence at home, deep pessimism about the state of the economy, their task is to persuade voters that the January 6th attack revealed bigger and more important issues at stake, including the Republican Party's alignment with violent extremists and its decision to make adherence to the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen a test of membership.
00:24:47.000They're trying to claim that in order for you to be a good Republican, you have to claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
00:24:51.000Weird, because Brian Kemp just wiped the floor with David Perdue in Georgia.
00:24:55.000So that's actually a very hard case to make, because Donald Trump has endorsed a slate of candidates all across the country who have suggested that the 2020 election was stolen outright.
00:25:02.000And many of those candidates have gotten skunked.
00:25:04.000Most obviously in Georgia, where Donald Trump, in a fit of pique, basically threw two Georgia senatorial seats to the Democrats because he was so mad at Brian Kemp.
00:25:13.000And Brian Kemp just walked all over his chosen gubernatorial candidate, David Perdue, by a margin of like 50 points.
00:25:20.000So you don't have to be Liz Cheney in order to survive and suggest that the 2020 election was not stolen in the sense that it was all voter fraud and voter irregularity that made all of this happen.
00:25:34.000Liz Cheney, for her part, she's decided to just go all the way here.
00:25:37.000So she says that the Republican Party is in league with white nationalists and anti-semites and all the rest.
00:25:42.000And in order to show this, she's siding with the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:25:47.000Also worth noting here, it was Kevin McCarthy.
00:25:49.000and the House leadership that prevented Republicans from censoring Liz Cheney when she originally did this stuff. It was McCarthy who stepped in and said Liz Cheney should be able to say whatever she wants about President Trump and not get censured by her own Republican colleagues.
00:26:00.000So a little bit of ingratitude toward McCarthy here from Liz Cheney, but she's made up her mind.
00:26:04.000The strange new respect is very much worth it to her. And again, I'm a big believer that January 6th was a deep wrong, that it was one of the ugliest just visual spectacles that I've seen in modern American politics.
00:26:16.000That is not the same thing as suggesting the entire Republican Party is now in league with the white nationalists based on what?
00:26:23.000I mean, Kevin McCarthy came out and he's actually condemned people like Marjorie Taylor Greene for comments that she's made far more strongly than anyone in the Democratic Party.
00:26:31.000I mean, the Democratic Party, nobody will even say boo to the fact that they've opened anti-Semitic pro-terrorism people in their ranks.
00:26:38.000Like, on the cover of Rolling Stone with Nancy Pelosi.
00:26:42.000So she's siding with that party against the... Alright, here we go.
00:26:47.000What keeps Kevin McCarthy close to Trump?
00:28:01.000Her dad, they make movies about how evil her dad was.
00:28:04.000Hollywood makes giant mainstream films by Oscar-winning directors about how terrible and evil her dad is.
00:28:12.000So now that she's feeling this warm embrace, I mean, apparently she finds it very, very cuddly.
00:28:15.000So what exactly are these hearings going to focus on?
00:28:17.000According to the New York Times, a significant portion of the first hearing will focus on the Proud Boys, a far-right group whose members have been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the storming of the Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke about it on the condition of anonymity.
00:28:30.000And is scheduled to include testimony from a documentary filmmaker, Nick Quested, who was embedded with the group during the storming of the building and who was injured in an assault said to be triggered by the... Also, they're going to hear from a Capitol Police officer, Carolyn Edwards, who was injured in assault said to be triggered by the Proud Boys.
00:28:44.000The goal is to provide the public with a more in-depth portrait of what unfolded on January 6th than the images that played out on television that day.
00:28:51.000Norman Eisen, who was hired by the Judiciary Committee to serve as special counsel during the first Trump impeachment, said Democrats had learned from some of their successes and misfired during those hearings, but still faced challenges.
00:28:59.000He said, they need to have three things, the attention-grabbing power of new evidence, the spontaneous drama created by live witnesses, and the oldest trick in the book, telling a good story.
00:29:07.000The risk is there's an enormous amount of anticipation and buildup.
00:29:09.000No, the real risk is no one cares because everybody knows what happened because we were all there.
00:29:14.000Like, where's the big wave of support for the Proud Boys?
00:29:18.000Have they been taking in billions of dollars in donations?
00:29:21.000Where is the giant wave of Republican support for the events of January 6th?
00:29:26.000In an attempt to keep the hearing from becoming too dry and disconnected, the committee is tentatively planning to play video of the Capitol attack and considering airing clips of key testimony from high-profile witnesses like former White House advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
00:29:36.000Yeah, I'm sure that they're going to get Ivanka and Jared on tape talking openly about how actually they were in favor of the insurrection.
00:29:43.000I'm sure that's exactly what's going to be played.
00:29:45.000Or, alternatively, All of this is an attempt to redirect and misdirect away from the fact that Democrats are about to get just destroyed in 2022.
00:29:55.000And so they have to have an alternative plan.
00:29:57.000So if it turns out that their narrative is garbage and that all they have is Trump and January 6th and saying that kind of stuff over and over and over, they have to have a backup plan.
00:30:05.000Their backup plan, as always, is what if we shut down our political opponents and let them not talk?
00:30:09.000So, What Is A Woman is the brand new documentary with Matt Walsh.
00:30:44.000So, for example, Senior White House Communications Director under Barack Obama, Dan Pfeiffer, This guy was a senior advisor to the President of the United States.
00:30:53.000He was a head comms guy for Barack Obama.
00:30:56.000He was on MSNBC on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, where he was suggesting that the great danger to democracy is that alternative voices like The Daily Wire are being allowed out of the box.
00:31:23.000Hate to break it to you, but more people like watching dog shit dry than watching CNN.
00:31:31.000No one is interested in watching your... I'm sorry that people enjoy engaging with articles that provide an alternative to the vast mainstream media monopoly.
00:31:43.000But their solution always and forever is, okay, what if we just like silence it?
00:32:03.000If you go to Facebook on a daily basis, the most, the posts with the most engagement are from Dan Shapiro, or Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Candace Owens.
00:32:13.000Dwarfs progressive content and dwarfs mainstream media content which is actually should be the part that scares us the most that Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire has more followers and engagement many times more than the New York Times or CNN.
00:32:39.000Mika Brzezinski basically suggesting openly and Dan Pfeiffer saying that this is a cancer.
00:32:44.000Democracy can only be preserved if you shut down free speech and if you tell the social media companies to shut down the possibility of an alternative.
00:32:49.000By the way, the New York Times has 7 million paying subscribers.
00:32:53.000Hey, they're multiple times larger than The Daily Wire is.
00:32:56.000And when you actually weigh out, because we've done this sort of study, when you weigh out the engagement between right and left on Facebook in terms of news sites visited, it's about half and half, which makes perfect sense because again, the country is split about half and half.
00:33:08.000Now, that data matters not to them because again, the idea is that if there's anything that remotely resembles an alternative to a legacy media that is openly doing the bidding of the Democratic Party, then this must be shut down.
00:33:19.000The left-wing media today, they're very exercised about the fact that Fox News is not going to live stream the Democrats' congressional propaganda hearing.
00:33:26.000The reason they're upset about that is because, not because the other networks are doing something unprecedented.
00:33:31.000Again, I've never heard of primetime congressional hearings.
00:33:35.000Wall to wall on every network simultaneously.
00:33:38.000I've never heard of anything like that.
00:33:39.000It'd be one thing if President Trump had been subpoenaed and then he were going to come in and testify, then of course I understand it.
00:33:44.000But if this is just a recapitulation of all the stuff we saw January 6th, and it's just a propaganda hour on behalf of Democrats, why would Fox News broadcast that exactly?
00:33:52.000I didn't remember, like Fox News broadcast the Benghazi hearings.
00:33:56.000I don't remember NBC and CNN and all the rest of these guys going wall to wall on that stuff.
00:34:02.000But apparently that's very controversial, and the possibility of an alternative is very controversial.
00:34:06.000Which is why, by the way, you should subscribe over at Daily Wire, right?
00:34:10.000We need your subscriptions because their goal is to shut us up.
00:34:14.000Their goal is to prevent the distribution of messages they don't like.
00:34:26.000What is a woman is an amazing piece of content that would not be available if the Democrats had their way.
00:34:30.000And if and if, by the way, social media bosses had their way.
00:34:34.000One of the more amazing things about What Is A Woman, by the way, I should mention this here, because it really is incredible.
00:34:38.000So we sent out, because every major studio that produces a movie sends out the movie to critics and reviewers, they can actually post reviews.
00:34:46.000If you go right now to Rotten Tomatoes, and you look at the number of critic reviews on What Is A Woman, the answer right now, I'm looking at it right now, the answer is one review, one review on Tomatometer, Okay, zero actual critical reviews that have been posted by anyone in the mainstream.
00:35:06.000The only person who has posted a review is Christian Toto.
00:35:19.000You want to know why it has zero reviews?
00:35:20.000Have you ever heard of something that has a thousand plus audience score rating, nearly a hundred percent, and no reviews?
00:35:25.000The answer why there are no reviews is because when we sent this out, we immediately got back a bunch of responses from the reviewers cursing at us.
00:35:34.000Because this is the legacy media that we must be silenced on behalf of.
00:35:38.000So, for example, we sent it to a fandom reviewer.
00:35:40.000They responded, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, like one million times.
00:35:45.000Even asking people to watch things they don't like.
00:35:48.000Another writer-editor, unsubscribe, lose my email, forget my name.
00:35:54.000That person actually wrote, unscubscribe.
00:35:56.000A film critic, who's a member of the Critics' Choice Association, and a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Gallica, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, said, hard effing pass.
00:36:06.000I won't give that transphobic bigot a platform on my site.
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00:39:31.000When there's an alternative to the legacy media that people actually watch and engage with, it's very bad for left-wing narratives because sometimes it just exposes bad things that people on the left are doing.
00:39:40.000So, for example, now it's a national issue.
00:39:42.000Apparently, there was a Drag the Kids to Pride family-friendly drag show.
00:39:47.000Now, if you're wondering what the hell a family-friendly drag show is, the answer is it doesn't exist.
00:40:22.000Here's a child who obviously looks overjoyed to be at a drag show, walking alongside a man in women's clothing with fake boobs, walking alongside a small child.
00:40:32.000This kid, how old do you think this kid is?
00:40:40.000This is the Drag to Kids to Pride event at Mr. Misters in Dallas' Oakland neighborhood.
00:40:45.000Organizers promoted it as a family-friendly drag show where kids danced with the performers.
00:40:51.000I don't believe that I should be seeing signs advertising for children to be dancing on stage with men in thongs and in inappropriate clothing and makeup.
00:41:02.000The organizers say today was a family-friendly event with a safe environment separate from their normal operations.
00:41:12.000Okay, and if you can't see the video, this is a drag performer in what appears to be, like, a bondage stripper outfit, gyrating up and down, and behind this drag performer is a sign that says, it's not gonna lick itself.
00:41:27.000And so, people on the right, cover this.
00:41:33.000Because the legacy media will never cover this as a national news story.
00:41:36.000Even though the simple fact of the matter is, this sort of stuff is happening in areas all over the country.
00:41:41.000And we are to be told, we are told by the left, that don't worry, sexual indoctrination and confusion of children is not happening.
00:41:46.000And that if you try to bar it from public schools, this makes you a bigot.
00:41:49.000The right is covering this sort of stuff.
00:41:51.000No wonder they want to shut it down because any parent with half a brain, gay straight or otherwise, looks at this and goes, this is not appropriate for kids.
00:42:02.000This has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the parents or friends or what you think about things like gay marriage.
00:42:07.000Why are children attending a gay bar with men dressed up as women strippers in front of a sign reading, it's not going to lick itself?
00:42:17.000How is that possibly appropriate or okay?
00:42:20.000But this is why the media have to argue in favor of censorship of right-wing sources, because the minute that stuff becomes public, it gets very, very ugly for folks on the left.
00:42:30.000So this is why you should be deeply suspicious, by the way, when you see politicians like Kathy Hochul in New York making the case that social media should shut down, quote-unquote, hateful content.
00:42:39.000I think your definition of hateful content may be wildly different from my definition of hateful content.
00:42:45.000And in the state of New York, we're now requiring social media networks to monitor and report hateful conduct on their platforms.
00:42:54.000Thank you, Senator Anna Kaplan, and thank you, Assigned Member Patricia Fahey.
00:43:02.000So I'm just wondering what exactly the hateful conduct is.
00:43:04.000If we are talking about them monitoring people threatening to shoot people, all in.
00:43:08.000If we are talking about people saying, for example, that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, which is I think what Democrats are mostly talking about, I have suspicions about what exactly it is that you want to do with free speech.
00:43:17.000I mean, especially coming from Kathy Hochul, who has publicly said the First Amendment should be limited on behalf of quote unquote marginalized communities.
00:43:25.000Meanwhile, it's not just these power games the left is playing.
00:43:27.000Again, when they start to lose, they got to change the rules.
00:43:30.000So you got Eric Holder, the former Attorney General of the United States.
00:43:32.000Remember that it was supposedly Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions who were doing the dirty work of the President.
00:43:38.000This man, as Attorney General, not only covered up for a gun running operation in Fast and Furious, Eric Holder openly declared himself the wingman of the President of the United States.
00:43:46.000And that was considered totally appropriate by our legacy media.
00:43:49.000He was telling Jonathan Capehart on Washington Post Live, he said, you know, what we really need is for the political minority to have less power in this country because they're controlling everything.
00:43:57.000That means we're in danger of political apartheid.
00:43:59.000This sort of language, by the way, is insane.
00:44:18.000We are in danger of slipping into what I would call a political apartheid system, where a minority of the people in this country will have disproportionate amounts of power and be able to put in place things that are not supported by the majority.
00:44:37.000I do love the fact that Democrats are now very much in favor of majoritarianism when it was majoritarianism in certain areas of the country that led to actual apartheid.
00:44:46.000It was majoritarianism in the South that led to actual apartheid.
00:44:49.000The point is that individual rights protected by the Constitution of the United States and systems of checks and balances are supposed to protect minorities.
00:44:55.000That's like the historical ignorance of saying, what if a majority just said what it wants to do?
00:45:00.000But only if the majority is on our side.
00:45:01.000It's so, it's so governmentally ignorant.
00:45:17.000I've taken a position that the Electoral College is an undemocratic relic of the early Constitution, just like the state legislature's selection of U.S.
00:45:27.000senators, which is something we got rid of in 1913 with the 17th Amendment, just like the exclusion of women from voting, which we got rid of in 1920 in the 19th Amendment.
00:45:39.000But we do still have what I think are some obsolescent So it's time to get rid of those political practices, right?
00:45:54.000What if we just ban daily wire from social media or restrict social media more generally?
00:45:58.000What if we get rid of the Electoral College?
00:45:59.000What if we change the rules of the debate so the filibuster goes away, but only when Democrats are in charge?
00:46:03.000When Republicans are in charge, we put the filibuster right back in again.
00:46:06.000What if we do everything we can do to shift the rules of the game?
00:46:09.000And what if the compliant media do all of our dirty work for us?
00:46:14.000At this point, you should be thinking to yourself, wait a second, aren't they having hearings about threats to democracy?
00:46:19.000Aren't they suggesting that the gravest threat to democracy was a bunch of droogs who went into the Capitol building and held up the business of the government for approximately three hours?
00:46:27.000Aren't they saying that's the threat to democracy?
00:46:28.000And then simultaneously saying, what if we restrict free speech on social media?
00:46:31.000What if we get rid of the Electoral College?
00:46:33.000What if we go ahead and get rid of any sort of protections for political minorities in the country?
00:46:42.000One of the reasons that you guys aren't going to succeed with the case that you're making about January 6th is because people look at the way that you rig the institutions in this country.
00:46:49.000They look at the way that you try to change the rules.
00:46:51.000They look at the way that you try to target your political opposition for outright destruction and they say to themselves, wait a second, I don't think that you have any ground to stand on when you talk about threats to democracy.
00:47:19.000The takeover of every American institution and the attempt to change the rules to prevent these sort of political conversations that make for a working republic.
00:47:26.000That is a threat to democracy, and that's what you guys are pursuing each and every day.
00:47:30.000Speaking of which, one of my favorite things here is the way that the left suggests, the tacit suggestion is when they say that you should censor places like the Daily Wire, that the legacy media are doing it right.
00:47:38.000Let me provide you an example with how bad the legacy media are at this.
00:47:45.000So the Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness.
00:47:48.000This is a source that must be respected.
00:47:50.000The Washington Post, the historic Washington Post, Woodward and Bernstein, my God, the greatest journalism of all time.
00:47:55.000Okay, so the biggest controversy now engulfing the Washington Post is a hysterically funny controversy in which Dave Weigel, who used to be a member of what was called Journalist, okay, if you go all the way back, this is probably 15 years now, he was a member of a 400-person echo chamber called Journalist, where basically a bunch of journalists would get on there, they would talk to each other, and very often they would end up writing stories that very much reflected one another.
00:48:49.000It was a couple of columnists, one named Felicia Sonmez and the other, the egregiously awful Taylor Lorenz.
00:48:54.000So, according to CNN, the Washington Post has now suspended Weigel for one month, without pay, for retweeting a sexist joke.
00:49:00.000He didn't tell the sexist joke, he retweeted the sexist joke.
00:49:04.000Weigel did not respond to requests for comment, but an out-of-office reply from his post email address said he would not return to work on July 5th.
00:49:11.000That he would return to work on July 5th.
00:49:13.000Weigel apologized publicly last week for the retweet, saying he did not mean to cause any harm.
00:49:16.000Now, he didn't cause any harm, it was a retweeted bad joke.
00:49:20.000By the way, the entire joke was from a YouTuber named Kam Harless who said, every girl is bi, you just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.
00:49:34.000So Dave Weigel immediately got slammed by the feminist wave.
00:49:39.000So apparently, Felicia Sonmez, one of his colleagues, spotlighted this.
00:49:44.000She recently had a discrimination lawsuit against the paper dismissed.
00:49:48.000A decision her attorney says she plans to appeal, which means she now owns the paper.
00:49:51.000Because the way that you apparently earn the editorship of a major American newspaper is you call the paper racist.
00:49:58.000Nicole Hannah-Jones now owns the New York Times.
00:49:59.000The way she owns the New York Times is she basically suggests that any colleague who crosses her is a vicious racist and they can't fire her because then they'll get hit with a discrimination lawsuit.
00:50:09.000They basically turned over the editorial page of the New York Times to her.
00:50:12.000The entire reporting body of the New York Times.
00:50:13.000Nicole Hannah-Jones is the de facto editor of the New York Times, at least insofar as if she doesn't like somebody working for the New York Times, very solid shot that person no longer works at the New York Times.
00:50:21.000So now Felicia Sonmez has realized the same game.
00:50:23.000She filed a discrimination lawsuit against the paper.
00:50:27.000But now that she's done that, they know That if she gets fired, she's just going to file another lawsuit.
00:50:31.000So this means that if she finds someone at the paper who she can accuse of sexual discrimination, and the paper does not retaliate against that person, she will sue them again.
00:50:39.000So she now owns the paper by threat of lawsuit.
00:50:42.000So Sanma sarcastically wrote on Twitter on Friday, quote, it is fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed.
00:50:48.000She attached the screen grab showing Weigel's retweet.
00:50:51.000Sonmez apparently confronted Weigel in an internal company Slack channel.
00:50:54.000She tagged him and wrote, I'm sorry, but what is this?
00:50:57.000Sonmez added in the Slack channel that the retweet quote sent a confusing message about what the post's values are.
00:51:02.000So just to get this straight, if the post does not punish a columnist for his own Twitter feed, which the post does not run, retweeting a bad joke, then the post obviously embraces the joke.
00:51:14.000Now, we here at The Daily Wire, we don't control the Twitter feeds of the people who work for us.
00:51:23.000Is the idea that if I don't monitor everything that everyone who works at The Daily Wire tweets ever, and they retweet a bad joke, that it is my obligation to fire them?
00:51:35.000Others on Friday joined the discussion in the Slack channel, prompting national editor Mattia Gold to write, I just want to assure all of you that the Post is committed to maintaining a respectful workplace for everyone.
00:51:43.000We do not tolerate demeaning language or actions.
00:51:47.000The Post's chief spokesperson, Chris Karate, also issued a statement to the press saying, Editors have made clear to the staff the tweet was reprehensible, and demeaning language or actions like that will not be tolerated.
00:51:57.000According to CNN, the public and private admonishment of Weigel's retweet has failed to quell tension inside the Post.
00:52:02.000Jose Del Real, a reporter at the Post, responded on Twitter Saturday to Sonmez's initial tweet.
00:52:09.000Del Real said Weigel's tweet was terrible and unacceptable, but, he said, rallying the internet to attack him for a mistake he made doesn't actually solve anything.
00:52:15.000We all mess up in some way or another.
00:52:16.000There is such a thing as challenging with compassion.
00:52:21.000If you don't like a tweet, Then why don't you call up the person and be like, I don't like that tweet very much, and give them a chance to say, oh yeah, you know what, that was a dumb thing, I shouldn't have retweeted that and take it down.
00:52:32.000Sonmez responded saying, calling out sexism isn't cruelty, it is something that is absolutely necessary.
00:52:37.000Then Sonmez and Del Riel, who both work for the Post, decided to get into a bleep fight.
00:52:41.000They proceeded to engage in a back and forth over Twitter on Saturday.
00:52:44.000Del Rio ultimately moving to temporarily deactivate his account.
00:52:48.000Sally Busby, executive editor of The Post, tried on Sunday morning to rein in the newsroom by sending a memo reminding staffers to treat each other with respect and kindness, both in the newsroom and online.
00:52:57.000So basically, we're now in middle school.
00:52:58.000The principal has to come be like, guys, you have to stop hitting each other.
00:53:06.000Busby said the Washington Post is committed to an inclusive and respectable environment, free of harassment, discrimination, or bias of any sort, which is code for please don't sue us.
00:53:37.000Del Real reactivated his account and posted a statement on Sunday afternoon, saying he faced a quote, unrelenting series of attacks intended to tarnish my professional and personal reputation after tweeting at Sonmez.
00:53:47.000Sonmez then proceeded to call out Del Riel for blocking her, and said that instead of apologizing, he'd instead made a series of false accusations and mischaracterizations in his statement.
00:53:56.000Sonmez, for instance, said she saw no comments intending to harm Del Riel's reputation.
00:54:00.000Sonmez then tagged Busby and Gold on Twitter, and said she'd reached out to them to discuss a matter but that she hadn't heard back.
00:54:06.000Retaliation against a colleague for speaking out against sexism is never okay, Sanmez wrote.
00:54:10.000I hope the Washington Post leaders treat this as the serious issue that it is.
00:54:14.000So she went after, so this guy wrote back to her and said, you know, you could treat people with some compassion while still disagreeing with a bad tweet.
00:54:21.000And she's like, you're a bad person and I hope you burn.
00:54:25.000And he's like, well, that's, that's not very nice.
00:54:27.000And she's like, why isn't the Washington Post firing this one?
00:54:33.000This is what happens when you hire crazy people, and then when you let the crazy people run the asylum.
00:54:39.000By Monday morning, tension at the Post was still high, says CNN.
00:54:41.000Video technician Brianna Muir responded to Busby's all-staff email, applauding Sonmez for speaking out against harassment, discrimination, and sexism.
00:55:04.000And by so bad, I mean happy and gleeful inside.
00:55:07.000Because you spent years promoting people like Taylor Lorenz who targets people for destruction based on nothing.
00:55:11.000So you deserve every single iota of this.
00:55:14.000Every jot and tittle of this you deserve.
00:55:17.000Muir attached a tweet showing that Micah Gelman, the head of the Post video team, had once misidentified her as Breonna Taylor.
00:55:24.000Um, so you just messed up the name and that's harassment too.
00:55:28.000Muir said, if the Washington Post is committed to an inclusive and respectful environment free of harassment, discrimination, or bias of any sort, can someone please help me understand Micah Gelman and Dave Weigel's tweets and retweets?
00:55:38.000These tweets and retweets not only hurt women in our newsroom, but make it extremely difficult to do our best work.
00:55:42.000Ultimately, it creates a toxic work environment.
00:55:44.000Gelman had already apologized to Muir for misidentifying her.
00:55:49.000When the incident happened in February, he wrote on Twitter, in a long thread last night, thanking my staff for working exhaustive hours, I inadvertently misidentified Breanna Muir.
00:55:56.000He was thanking her in the tweet and messed up her name and she says that's harassment!
00:56:49.000So I will just point out at this point that the original tweet that was retweeted by Dave Weigel suggested that women are crazy and the way that these women at the Washington Post have decided to rebut that claim is by being as crazy as living hell.
00:57:02.000Weigel retweets something saying that women are bipolar or bisexual.
00:57:21.000These are the people they've decided, you know, it's the Washington Post should maximize its reach on Facebook.
00:57:25.000But Dan Pfeiffer says that if you view articles from the Daily Wire, this means that you're bad.
00:57:30.000And this is a cancer on our democracy.
00:57:32.000Meanwhile, the paper whose slogan is Democracy Dies in Darkness, initiated, of course, only after Donald Trump was president because he was the democracy.
00:57:41.000That paper is so it's a high school yearbook meeting.
00:57:46.000And that is the most respected paper in America.
00:57:48.000That and the New York Times, which is just filled with dullards.
00:57:51.000Yeah, I can't imagine why the Amer... Guys, I'm sorry, but your little cadre of morons who echo each other, except when they are busily burning witches in the Washington Post newsroom, you going in the back room with the Democratic Party and playing Seven Minutes in Heaven, that is not going to save you in 2022.
00:58:15.000And man, you're going to get punished, and you deserve to be punished by the American voter.
00:58:18.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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