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00:01:34.000First story, it's coming out of Michigan, a state that gives us many bad things, like Detroit Lions football most years, and the Detroit Tigers, and, you know, Gregory.
00:03:08.000She gave him a gun is a big key thing that they claim they claim she knew or should have known that he was showing bad, unstable tendency minors.
00:03:28.000And despite there were being warning signs of him being a dangerous person, and I'd have to check specifically, but I think it was literally something like she and her husband gave him the gun as a gift literally a day or two before he goes on this shooting.
00:03:47.000And then was there evidence presented that he was going to be violent, that she knew that he was making so there was definitely things where he'd written statements or sent text messages that in a vacuum sounded violent, but she argued, and I think it's other than the fact that he did become a shooter, the plausible argument like, oh, he was kidding around, you know, the way teenagers say insane sounding things to be crazy, except this one was crazy and shot people.
00:04:18.000I don't know off the top of my head, but I don't think they did.
00:04:22.000I don't think that actually there was, so this all comes to a head.
00:04:26.000Now, I'm sure you're going to get to this, Blake, but this comes to a head where there's like a school, they actually had pulled the parents into the school on the morning that the shooting took place, obviously before the shooting, and had said they had found some.
00:04:39.000I mean, the fact pattern is really, really bad in this case, right?
00:04:49.000And the parents, we don't know exactly what the disposition was, but the parents sent him back to school rather than like pulling him out immediately.
00:06:25.000And the family dog died, causing him to become depressed.
00:06:28.000As early as March 2021, he had been sending his mother disturbing texts about his state of mind, which included claims about demons and ghosts being inside the home.
00:06:38.000I mean, I got to be, I mean, Jack, if you disagree, I don't hate this.
00:06:47.000Remember, remember, we were very quick during the Sandy Hook tragedy to blame the parent for not locking up the weapons, right?
00:06:55.000That was a big part of the talking point.
00:06:57.000Why shouldn't there be a statement that parents, if you have a potentially lunatic child, you know, if they're a minor, now, if you're dealing with 19 or 20-year-old, Jack, am I wrong?
00:07:52.000And it is a precedent that has, and all of media, you know, it's sent this way out.
00:07:56.000And I certainly don't think that these are sympathetic parents.
00:07:59.000And I think that we see this from sort of the liberal legal establishment or liberal legal complex, whatever you want to call it.
00:08:07.000They always use unsympathetic characters, unsympathetic targets to push new precedents.
00:08:12.000And so even though we can certainly agree that the facts of this case do warrant some kind of accountability for the parents, we should also, I think, take a step back to say this is a new precedent.
00:08:25.000The Overton window is being moved in one direction, and this will certainly only be used against, I would say, a certain class of people.
00:08:34.000But is it really that crazy of a precedent?
00:08:37.000If I'm not mistaken, there's been criminal convictions of people for manslaughter when someone says they're going to commit suicide and they encourage them to do that.
00:08:56.000And we're talking about a minor here where there were multiple warning signs and they did supply the murder weapon.
00:09:01.000And it's very, very old-fashioned, I would say, that, you know, children are kind of their parents are responsible for their children and what they do to some extent.
00:09:45.000Yeah, I mean, I'm all for gang, you know, if there's a gang kid in Chicago and the mom is like, yeah, you know, go shoot up the rival gang and hands him a gun and hands the gun, like, you know, go teach the crips a lesson.
00:09:58.000Or even, but what if it's something in the middle?
00:10:00.000What if the kid just has friends who are obviously criminals, gang members, and the parent doesn't take action to say, these people aren't allowed in our house.
00:10:10.000If they come here, we will call the police.
00:10:13.000If they're negligent in that sort of way, and then that person becomes a criminal, a violent criminal, should they be responsible for that?
00:10:19.000Yeah, but that's why it's up to a jury at that point to, but I think, I think what we're talking about here is that.
00:10:27.000I mean, I think we're saying this jury was for some basic facts here, which is if you hand a crazy person a gun that you're responsible for in your household that you claim on your taxes.
00:10:46.000So if you let your minor child have access to a car and then they go and kill someone, you will become an accessory for sure in that case for murder.
00:10:57.000And that's probably, I don't have an example of it, but I guarantee that's happening.
00:11:00.000Jack, but I want you to, Jack, what is the precedent?
00:11:23.000Well, Charlie, it's not about the fact pattern.
00:11:25.000It's about the precedent of a someone connected to someone else, in this case, a child, then commits a crime, and then the person connected them associated with them becomes liable for the crime.
00:11:41.000So in this fact pattern, you've clearly got a direct line from the actions of the people to the crime being committed or the actions or I guess the inactions as well in this case.
00:11:52.000But at the same time, I would also point, and I remember saying at the time, looking at the case, looking at the same fact pattern when I said, wait a minute.
00:11:58.000So the parents were called into the school and they were asked about the child.
00:12:05.000They were shown some violent, I guess, drawings and writings that the student had made.
00:12:10.000I shouldn't say child, it's 15, that the student had made that seem very violent, asking for getting help and saying, you know, and saying, I need help.
00:12:24.000At the same time, the school, the student resource officers, they had an officer, security guy at the school, didn't never check the backpack of the kid, never once checked the backpack of the kid after seeing something like that.
00:12:37.000The teacher never checked the backpack.
00:12:38.000The principal never checked the backpack.
00:12:40.000Nobody checked the backpack to see if there was a gun in there.
00:12:43.000And so I guess my question is when we're talking about these issues of legal liability, you know, why would you not find any liability for the school given the situation that, again, how many times do we talk about, oh, the FBI had someone on their radar, but then didn't do anything about it?
00:13:01.000And the FBI is never found accountable for any of these things or many cases where, you know, the FBI was, you know, working as an informant with somebody and directly tied to some crime that took place and they're trying to get them or, you know, they don't end up catching them.
00:13:16.000And so the crime actually takes place.
00:13:18.000But they, again, they were on the FBI's radar.
00:13:20.000Should the FBI be found accountable for not arresting them?
00:13:23.000In a weird way, though, Jack, this ruling.
00:13:27.000This ruling actually uses TradCon conservative belief that a parent is responsible for the kids as long as they're a minor.
00:13:35.000Doesn't it invert our own value system against us if we find it disagreeable, right?
00:13:40.000Because our own belief system, for example, we're the ones crying foul that a parent should know if their 15-year-old is going to transition.
00:13:48.000Parent is in charge, parents in charge.
00:13:50.000So just to be consistent, if the parent's in charge, that comes with responsibility, right?
00:13:57.000Because security resource officer isn't their parent.
00:14:00.000They might be guilty of gross negligence or, you know, civil responsibility, civil type action.
00:14:06.000So I'm just thinking out loud because we're the ones, the left would be the ones that actually would say, no, the parent has nothing to do with the kid.
00:14:16.000The kid can get their genitals chopped off.
00:14:18.000This is where I start having practical worries, I suppose.
00:14:21.000Something about this doesn't sit right with me.
00:14:23.000And I think it's the fact that we aren't starting, we aren't having an up or down vote on should parents be responsible for this whole gamut of crimes that kids can commit.
00:14:32.000Instead, what we're doing is we're giving the state a new tool to prosecute essentially political targets, I think.
00:14:41.000They chose this case specifically because it's a gun case, a shooting case.
00:14:46.000So they want to basically send the message, don't allow your kids to be around guns because anything that happens with it could get you in trouble.
00:15:11.000Think of also how we see this on other cases.
00:15:13.000So, you know, Trump, they're going to say, well, Trump should have known that what he said, even if it wasn't normally criminal, what Trump said on January 6th, because he's Trump, he should have known it would have driven his followers into a frenzy and they storm the Capitol.
00:15:29.000They really like, the left really likes the idea of transferring blame for one person's actions onto another person.
00:15:57.000And it goes hand in hand with Dan Crenshaw Land, which is this is where this plays into what the left wants to this point is really on the red flag law point, which is not just if you have any kind of mental disorder that you shouldn't have a gun, that someone in your household that has an issue means that you shouldn't have a gun in your household.
00:16:19.000And that's the only place like I generally think that parents should be totally responsible for parents that do.
00:16:25.000So if you can prove that I gave you the gun or gave you open access or you're messing around with a gun and I knew you had issues, then yeah, you're going to be held liable for this.
00:16:35.000But red flag laws, what the left wants to initiate is that if I have someone in my household that potentially has issues, then maybe I can't even own a gun.
00:16:45.000And that's probably that's the angle here in this conversation that is probably we haven't discussed yet.
00:16:52.000That's the only issue that I have with that.
00:16:55.000Now, the facts of the story are it's pretty clear that the gun was basically essentially provided to a game.
00:17:01.000Which is like the worst fact pattern for this woman, you could imagine.
00:17:04.000So I think there's a happy medium, which is like, I don't want red flag laws, but I also want people to know that if you have someone that's sick in your household or you're sick and you do something, you're going to go to jail.
00:17:36.000And do we just say there's the law just as indifference to, I mean, but the other, it might not be the right criminal code, but we punish parents for being bad parents.
00:17:45.000Like you can go to jail for abusing your kids.
00:17:48.000And to your point with gangbangers, a lot of parents should go to, like, we're dealing with this in Arizona with like the Gilbert Goons thing, right?
00:17:56.000Like, I don't, we don't know the facts of this yet, but some parents should have to be responsible for things that kids do.
00:18:02.000And you can kill people a lot of different ways, right?
00:18:04.000Like you can curb stomp someone, you can knife someone, you can shake someone, you can shoot somebody.
00:18:09.000Parents that let this action happen and they enable it, you know, should be held responsible to a certain extent with minors.
00:18:30.000But at the same time, you can't divorce this from the culture war that we are currently in in the lawfare situation that we are currently in, where one side has the initiative and one side is constantly on the defensive or counteroffense every once in a while, where we know that every new precedent that gets set by the people who are anti-gun, by the people who are on the left,
00:18:56.000by the people who are coming after our rights is going to be used against a specific class of people.
00:19:02.000And this is what I was getting to earlier.
00:19:04.000We do live in a three-tiered system of justice.
00:19:07.000We don't live in a flat, balanced system of justice.
00:19:11.000So, yeah, by the way, if this were going to be the new president and we were going to put this up to a vote in every state, I'd probably be for it.
00:19:40.000And so you can't divorce these new precedents that are being set from the context and the general trend and the tenor of the culture war in which we are currently in or soft cultural revolution, whatever name you want to use for it, the quasi-communist uprising, proto-communist uprising that we're living through.
00:19:57.000This precedent will be used against us.
00:20:00.000And it's part, I would say, it's also part of the left's wider understanding and their new conception using red flag laws and other types of judicial punishments to, because they understand that they can't get rid of the Second Amendment with the new Supreme Court.
00:20:16.000There's no way they're going to be able to get rid of the Second Amendment in really our lifetimes.
00:20:43.000Again, these completely superfluous and trivial arguments that actually had nothing to do with the legality of the case or the facts of the case.
00:20:50.000But again, they're still trying to criminalize the use of guns.
00:20:55.000I'm not saying they were used rightly in this first place, but I want people to understand that the left's anti-gun matrix has shifted on an operational base point the same way that they've shifted the operational matrix on our elections to the operational situation.
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00:25:22.000Matt Walsh, our friend over at the Daily Wire, kind of got a lot of heat because of how he responded to this extremely upset Zoomer.
00:25:30.000And I thought we should talk about it because there was actually a very strong split between myself and a lot of friends and a lot of conservatives on X.
00:25:38.000It's a bit of a long clip, but this is basically some Zoomer.
00:25:41.000She's about 22 and she's complaining about her life.
00:28:42.000Of course, the reason you see women in these videos so often is that most women don't actually want to work professional careers at all, but they've been pushed this direction by society.
00:28:53.000But even so, we should be clear that taking care of children will mean working more than 40 hours a week.
00:30:36.000And this actually goes back to the argument we make all the time, at least when I was at the TPUSA side of things, we talk with young people.
00:30:43.000Young people should be working in high school.
00:30:45.000I worked a full-time job in high school where I got paid the equivalent of that.
00:31:51.000Well, one, if you're throwing people out to sink or swim right away, the answer that a lot of them do is they become huge liberals because they're cut off from all existing strategies.
00:32:19.000So I do think that a lot of people who are kicked out of their house do become liberals, but then they more quickly and more rapidly become conservatives again because they have to figure their own lives out.
00:32:29.000Now, I've seen just as many people in my life who have lived in their parents' home until they're 35, who have become the most obnoxious liberals because they've never had to leave.
00:32:41.000They've never had to do anything on their own.
00:32:43.000And then they end up inheriting the family business or some large sum of money from a family member when their parents die.
00:32:49.000And then they never learned any life skills their entire life.
00:32:53.000And so I think no matter what, we have work to do on both sides of it.
00:32:57.000But I do think that the entire concept of having a bigger family where you're forced to kick kids out of the home is ultimately better for society than having fewer kids that live under your roof until you die.
00:33:11.000Well, definitely not live until you die.
00:33:13.000I think you can easily coddle kids too much, or you're Italian and they have their kids live with them until they're 35.
00:33:31.000You do not need to race into your own place.
00:33:33.000But you should do that in high school.
00:33:34.000I mean, the argument I would make to you is like, that should happen in high school.
00:33:38.000You should have garbage jobs in high school.
00:33:41.000You should flip burgers and scoop ice cream and work at Target in the checkout line and have to dig ditches and do stupid stuff when you're a high schooler instead of running around, you know, doing bad stuff, you know, that high schoolers are doing now because they're coddled too much in high school or playing full-time sports, which I don't, I actually think that that's a horrible thing is that we should be like, like I see every kid, when I was in high school, kids played one sport in high school or,
00:34:09.000or they played multiple sports when they're growing up.
00:34:11.000Now we've got kids like doing travel, like they're like going to be the second coming of Wayne Gretzky or something, and none of them are that good.
00:34:18.000And then they turn into bad kids because they have all this free time because they're focused more on sports and like a half-ass, half, you know, I guess we can cuss on this, right?
00:34:35.000And so then they end up in college and they never learn anything.
00:34:38.000But I think if you put kids to work, you know, and the family business doesn't count, by the way, you should force kids to go out, have to work for someone else, learn real valuable lessons, get fired from a few jobs, do that at an earlier age, and they're probably going to be more successful.
00:34:52.000Jack, I want to get Jack's opinion here.
00:34:55.000Yeah, I think the boomer take on this is really bad.
00:34:58.000I think it's like politically stupid, number one, in an election year to tell people that like, oh, you should, you should all work until you die and you should be like Nikki Haley, raising the retirement age to 70.
00:35:11.000I mean, go take a look at five seconds of TikTok and see how Nikki Haley is just getting destroyed on there for that take, saying that like every, you know, work is the only thing that's worthwhile in life.
00:35:24.000Specifically, work at a job, by the way, work at a job, work at an occupation, work at work for some, whatever it is, right?
00:35:30.000You know, defining yourself by your work is something that's just politically, I think, suicide.
00:35:36.000I think it's actually suicidal for a movement to embrace that as their as their mantra.
00:35:42.000I mean, it's just the political instincts of like someone who probably backed the wrong horse in the primary earlier this year.
00:35:49.000It's just really, really, really not smart.
00:35:53.000And so, no, I mean, I think if you want to be out there and you want to actually make sense, talk about the fact that, hey, why aren't we all working four hours a week or excuse me, four days a week and living off of our Chinese tariffs?
00:36:04.000Why aren't we doing something like that and saying we can make things so much better for our people?
00:36:09.000Like the goal of a political movement should be to make things better for your people, not worse, and telling them that you're forced to work more, you're forced to do more.
00:36:17.000And to the part where I do agree with Walsh, though, is that it is society that pushes these things.
00:36:24.000It is society that pushes us to overwork.
00:36:33.000You can see if she goes to some therapist, the therapist is never going to say, like, oh, you should work less or you should, you know, try to find a less stressful job.
00:36:41.000The therapist is going to say, here, take this, take this medication, take whatever benzodiazepam, whatever it is, to beta blockers to make yourself feel better and then go about your day.
00:36:51.000So you're going to drug you up rather than saying, hey, you should find some work-life balance.
00:36:55.000It is just interesting to me how hostile it was.
00:36:58.000Like, I'm friends with a lot of people who work hard and they were pretty negative about it.
00:37:02.000And you can put up 72 some of the things.
00:38:17.000So these same people that don't want to work have no idea what's coming for them when we actually get to the American Soviet rule, which is what we're trying to avoid for all.
00:38:42.000But I mean, this is this, for me, it's, you know, you're going to have jobs in your life where you're not the boss and you're going to have jobs in your life where you become the boss.
00:38:51.000And some people never get to become the boss because they don't ever figure out how to become the boss.
00:39:03.000If you're not in control of certain things, if you're not creating, you're not doing things that you enjoy, you're probably not going to love that job.
00:39:10.000Every job where I wasn't creating and being the boss, I didn't enjoy it, but I learned something from each of those things.
00:39:14.000So I could hopefully at some point in my life become the boss.
00:39:16.000Am I the only one that enjoys work days more than weekends?
00:40:59.000You have these workplaces that spy on you and they penalize you if your bathroom break is two minutes too long.
00:41:06.000And I think that can be really oppressive and draining to people.
00:41:09.000And it is something for conservatives to think about because if we are pro-work, we should want work to be something that people will, if not enjoy, at least understand and appreciate creation.
00:41:21.000Because we're made in the image of God and God creates.
00:41:24.000Work is a bad word for it because it feels like toil or it feels as if it's just kind of digging a ditch to fill it back in again, which is a form of hell.
00:41:33.000What I'm advocating for is creation, building new things and innovating and being creative about different problems.
00:41:42.000And by the way, that is that you could be, you could do creation in the family unit too.
00:42:35.000Sometimes I'm like, I would love to be an Uber driver and just spend all day long chatting with people, living like my, yeah, do that whole thing.
00:42:41.000And some people think that that's miserable.
00:42:43.000I talked to some Uber drivers who are like, man, I hate Uber.
00:42:47.000I'm just doing this for a short period of time.
00:42:51.000And it's, and it's just to that point that Charlie said is that you can make anything great.
00:42:55.000The beauty of America is that no one is stuck with, there's a, there's a lot of different jobs that you can find a lot and you can hop around to a lot of those different jobs.
00:43:05.000Right now, we have a problem in America where we don't have enough of these jobs filled.
00:43:10.000And that's part of the problem that we have because we aren't training our people at a younger age to take these jobs, learn something from them in advance.
00:43:20.000And that's part of why I think society is collapsing a little bit is because we're trying to force 45-year-olds to learn things they should have learned when they were 15.
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00:45:47.000It's all live sports, and the only live sport that really dominates is football and its ability to just, now it's sucking in all the gambling money.
00:46:21.000No, but I just want to say, I think that also the fact that it's in Vegas, I think people are getting free hotel rooms, basically, like 30 bucks a night.
00:46:28.000So maybe there's more demand to go to the Super Bowl and cheap flights to Vegas.
00:46:31.000Like every place flies to Vegas in America.
00:46:33.000Yeah, I just want to gaze upon the sphere, which we must all bow towards.
00:46:36.000You know, by the way, have you seen that thing?
00:46:56.000Who wants to, Jack, do you want to drive on the bus here?
00:47:00.000Do we have something written or do you guys want me to kind of explain it?
00:47:03.000We have a ton of photos, so you can describe it and they'll just put them up while you talk about it.
00:47:07.000Yeah, so we finally found a proper use for AI.
00:47:11.000And so, for all of the thoughts out there who are attempting to use OnlyFans or social media to reel in their catch, their prey, their simps, their betas, whatever you want to call them.
00:47:28.000Basically, what 4chan has developed, and there's this great guy on Twitter, has created the account at Dignif AI.
00:47:38.000It's called Dignify, and it exists as this really interesting tool where it's going through these pictures of scantily clad women and also women with egregious tattoos or any tattoos and cleaning them up, just absolutely making women look more beautiful, more dignified.
00:47:58.000And it's really speaking to something in our culture where this Miley Cyrus from the Grammys, where it almost seems like the women look better when they are dressed more dignified or attired more dignified.
00:48:13.000And it speaks to something in our culture, I think, where these women who, and by the way, so this one right here, for example, I actually kind of disagree with in a sense because, you know, it's funny, right?
00:48:28.000Obviously, but I do think that you can go a little bit too far with these things, where I don't think that she's, you know, dressed like a hussy walking around in or trying to, you know, use her looks to generate money on the internet.
00:48:44.000I think that she's just a model dressed as, you know, I guess like a Greek, you know, a Greek kind of figure here, like Helen of Troy or whatever.
00:48:52.000And so I do think there's a tendency for Dignify to go a little bit too far, but where it's most effective for is for is for trolling the thoughts and patrolling the thoughts.
00:49:02.000And the thoughts, like this one right here, will absolutely be patrolled.
00:49:07.000And anytime you can do this, I was a huge supporter, by the way, of the thought audit.
00:49:11.000Do you guys remember the thought audit?
00:49:12.000I remember we were just talking about taxes.
00:49:14.000They should have given her something she was lifting here, though, to make it more.
00:49:39.000And then getting them to say something like, oh, I don't report it.
00:49:42.000And then taking their information and reporting that to the IRS because 4chan found out that apparently you can receive a bounty, like a percentage of the taxes that aren't being paid if you find someone who's not paying their taxes.
00:49:55.000And so it became called the thought audit.
00:49:57.000And I actually coined that term thought thought audit when it was going on back at the time.
00:50:01.000And it seems like we should bring it back.
00:51:21.000Chud is some, is this kind of slang term for kind of right-wing dudes?
00:51:26.000Well, this interconnects everything with the girl that wanted a better job, too, because maybe I don't know what she's doing out there to make up for the disparity in her income because she only had two live off of.
00:51:41.000But some of these, I know people are using AI for better headshots that they're putting on their applications to places, like on their resumes.
00:51:52.000Some of these pictures that Dignify is doing are really great for resumes.
00:51:58.000So, you know, maybe it'll get him a better job, even.
00:52:00.000Yeah, just go on your Instagram, take your sauciest photo, and then just, oh, now you're in a suit.
00:52:06.000Now you're in, now you're people want to hire people with kids and wear crosses.
00:52:17.000You know, let's create an entire account around your Dignify pictures.
00:52:23.000Jack Pasobic, a far-right influencer, excuse me, not far-right, you mean right so far, who on Friday posted four examples of the tool being used on what he referred to as e-girls, a derogatory term for women with front-facing personae on the internet.
00:53:23.000And this is all because yesterday, he's been on a bit of a warpath.
00:53:26.000So yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted, an anonymous source just sent me this from Disney.
00:53:32.000It is mandatory institutionalized racism and sexism.
00:53:35.000And before we show the image, I just want to say this has been seen 43 million times, has 186,000 likes, 44,000 reposts.
00:53:44.000This has been seen by a huge number of people.
00:53:47.000And it's Disney's general entertainment content inclusion standards, as they call it.
00:53:54.000And so they have four different categories here that apparently within Disney, you have to fulfill at least three or two or three criteria in each standard.
00:54:05.000And they're trying to hit all of them to hit this.
00:54:07.000So for example, standard A, on-screen representation, A1 characters, 50% or more of regular and recurring written characters must come from underrepresented groups, which they put in capital letters.
00:54:21.000Or, you know, A4, series premise, meaningful integration of underrepresented groups in overall themes and narratives, and similar stuff for actors, secondary characters, and episodic storytelling.
00:54:33.000And you need to get three out of five of those to fulfill standard A.
00:54:44.000And then below the line, which is production staff, crew members.
00:54:49.000And then finally, industry access and career development.
00:54:53.000And this is paid employment opportunities such as apprenticeships.
00:54:56.000It's the vendors you're hiring, the contractors you're hiring.
00:55:00.000And all of these are based on increasing representation for so-called underrepresented groups.
00:55:09.000And then, you know, obviously there's other groups that are going to lose out purely based on identity categories.
00:55:13.000And Musk has been getting more and more vocal about this just over the past year.
00:55:18.000He kind of starts off, oh, that's interesting.
00:55:21.000And he's getting more and more aggressive about this.
00:55:23.000And now he's just, he's straight up saying, if you feel you've been discriminated against by Disney, contact us and we will try to provide you legal help.
00:55:31.000I'm not sure why he's at war with Disney specifically, but I think we can all agree the House of Mouse might be Elon.
00:55:40.000Well, no, I think it's clear why he's in war with Disney because if you look at what he's doing with X, he's trying to position X as a streaming service.
00:55:51.000And I think Disney Plus, outside of, you know, sort of in like normie world, is one of the top streaming services against Netflix.
00:56:02.000Keep in mind, you've got, you're not just talking about Disney Plus, you're also looking at ESPN, ABC, all of their, all their Corollary networks, Marvel, et cetera, et cetera.
00:56:11.000And so anything that he can do to take, to me, it just shows Elon getting more into that entertainment media space the same way that obviously he's.
00:56:22.000You know he's promoting Tucker for coming on, I think what's his name from.
00:56:29.000Don Lamond is coming on X, so he's it.
00:56:32.000It seems to me as a way of him going after a competitor.
00:56:35.000Very good, all right, until next week.