Trump is indicted once again. This is all part of the left s plan to criminalize their political opposition. And the conspiracy goes far beyond Donald Trump. A new poll shows that high school boys are becoming more conservative. Why is that happening? We ll discuss. And Michigan moves to abolish the First Amendment once and for all by passing a hate speech law. And our daily cancellation.
00:02:14.140They jail their opponents when they can't beat them.
00:02:16.060Now, the situation I just described is unfolding right now in the West African nation of Senegal.
00:02:22.560The government in that country is eager to throw an opposition leader, someone named Osomein Sonko, who I'm probably mispronouncing, in prison.
00:02:30.280He organized a mass protest in Senegal's capital, Dakar, but it was quickly shut down.
00:02:35.180And now the government is seeking to disqualify him from office by bombarding him with criminal charges.
00:02:39.960Now, if you read press reports, there have been a few.
00:02:42.300You'll find that most of the Western media that's paying attention to this story claims to be disturbed by all of this.
00:02:48.080Quote, Senegal authorities arrest opposition frontrunner, reported The Guardian.
00:02:51.960Human Rights Watch called the developments an assault on democracy ahead of elections.
00:02:56.760NPR complained that, quote, in Senegal, the government is cracking down on human rights.
00:03:02.240And they're doing that, NPR explained, by criminalizing political dissent, which NPR insists is a very bad thing to do.
00:03:20.480As you've heard by now, yesterday, the DOJ again indicted the leading political opponent of the conspicuously wealthy career politician who runs the DOJ, Joe Biden.
00:03:29.340This is the third indictment that's been brought against Donald Trump this year, and the second that's been brought by Joe Biden's DOJ.
00:03:35.100And yet, curiously enough, of the human rights defenders in the media, none of those reporters who wept for Senegal were concerned by this latest development.
00:04:14.800He's so orange that he must be kept out of office at all costs, even if it means the total destruction of those democratic norms, quote, unquote, that the left once pretended to care so much about.
00:04:26.220Now, if all those claims about Trump were true, you'd think that the indictment against Donald Trump would be convincing and thorough, unimpeachable.
00:04:35.040You'd expect that the indictment would be premised on a reasonable application of a law with airtight precedent backing it up.
00:04:43.980What we have is somehow even flimsier, arguably, than that indictment out of New York, the one that accused Trump of committing multiple felonies because his accountants made a bookkeeping error seven years ago.
00:04:53.460Essentially, the latest indictment from Joe Biden's DOJ accuses Donald Trump of lying about election fraud, which is not illegal, by the way, as the indictment itself admits.
00:05:03.100The document goes on to say that Donald Trump didn't really believe the election was stolen because other officials told him it wasn't stolen, so therefore he must be lying.
00:05:10.660And then the indictment suggests that Trump somehow broke the law by using various levers of government to contest the election results on the advice of his attorneys.
00:05:18.340This legal theory, if you can call it that, criminalizes political speech.
00:05:24.940It justifies locking up Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi for lying about Russian collusion for four years and pursuing investigations and impeachments based on that fraud.
00:05:35.360It justifies imprisoning every Democratic Party lawmaker, and there have been a lot of them, who ever objected to the certification of election results.
00:05:42.580It justifies throwing all those Democrats in jail who tried to seat alternative slates of electors both times George W. Bush took office.
00:05:50.540It justifies imprisoning Stacey Abrams, who still pretends to be the rightful governor of Georgia.
00:05:55.520But the really incredible thing about this indictment is that it justifies jailing Trump, even if you concede that he was right about election fraud in the 2020 election.
00:06:06.480The premise of all the charges against Trump is that it's illegal for the president to reject the electors that are submitted to Congress under any circumstance.
00:06:14.700So the DOJ isn't just objecting to Donald Trump's claims about the voting machines, but not just denying his argument that with COVID as a pretense, Democrats perverted the entire system of elections in this country to such a degree that Joe Biden, a senile old man who can campaign from his basement, somehow received 10 million more votes than Barack Obama.
00:06:32.300Now, the DOJ is saying that even if Donald Trump was right about everything and the 2020 election was rigged, then he still has no right as president to do anything about it.
00:06:43.640Which is pretty shocking, or at least it would be shocking if we weren't already so used to this level of corruption.
00:06:48.960And that might be why in announcing the charges, the special counsel, Jack Smith, didn't talk about the specifics of his indictment at all.
00:06:55.180Instead, he talked about all the brave officers at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:06:59.520Even though Trump is not accused in any way of causing those officers harm or of inciting violence against them, still, that was the focus of his press conference.
00:07:11.920Charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding.
00:07:25.180The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here in the District of Columbia, and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail.
00:07:34.160I encourage everyone to read it in full.
00:07:38.860The attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.
00:07:49.040As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies.
00:07:52.520Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.
00:08:06.260The men and women of law enforcement who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th are heroes.
00:08:15.900They are patriots, and they are the very best of us.
00:08:19.400They did not just defend a building or the people sheltering in it.
00:08:23.460They put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people.
00:08:32.720First, we have, once again, the grotesque charade of Democrats pretending to care about the well-being of police officers.
00:08:38.640These are the same people who, as we remember, cheered as rabid mobs bashed cops over the head with bricks and set police stations on fire during the BLM riots.
00:08:50.420For another thing, this is an awfully convenient political distraction for the government.
00:08:54.360Just a day before Trump was indicted, a business partner of Hunter Biden testified that Joe Biden was on the phone with Hunter while his son was peddling his father's influence while he, Joe Biden, was vice president.
00:09:04.680And the defense from the Biden team and the Democratic Party is that Joe Biden, well, he was just on the calls to talk about the weather.
00:09:11.080He was just a proud father who wanted to, you know, check in with his son's business partners for no reason other than to just talk about the weather.
00:09:19.700Which, as we discussed yesterday, would not absolve Joe Biden of the influence-peddling accusation, even if it were true that he only talked about the weather.
00:09:28.380Because that's how influence-peddling works.
00:09:30.240It doesn't matter what Joe Biden says to Hunter Biden's business associates.
00:09:33.400The point is to just make the connection.
00:14:30.280Republicans watched as Joe Biden purged the military of wrong think.
00:14:34.240They did nothing as he sent grandmothers with cancer to prison for the crime of walking around the Capitol building.
00:14:41.520They went on TV for meaningless three-minute hits as the FBI rounded up Donald Trump's aides one by one in parking lots and fast food drive-thrus.
00:14:49.460Try asking someone from Senegal when precisely their democracy failed.
00:14:55.680Ask them when exactly their system of representative government became a global laughingstock.
00:15:01.140You could pose the same question to someone from, say, Venezuela or any number of other countries that have devolved into tinpot dictatorships in just a few years.
00:15:12.020Now, the odds are you'll never get a precise answer.
00:15:15.240There will be no singular prosecution that they'll point to.
00:15:18.220Instead, they'll point to systemic failures like complacency, corruption, incompetence from people who are supposed to keep their system of government intact.
00:15:55.600And they're taking full advantage of the opportunity.
00:15:57.620If all they get in return are more harshly worded letters from Republican lawmakers, then pretty soon, we're not going to have to ask Venezuelans or people from Senegal how it's possible for a democracy to fail so quickly.
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00:17:28.420A popular narrative suggests young people are reading now from the article are liberal and getting more liberal.
00:17:32.660Thus, social media buzzed when a chat surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest 12th grade boys have become overwhelmingly conservative.
00:17:39.340As with many Reddit posts and viral tweets, the tweet was more complicated.
00:17:42.620The truth was more complicated, but the numbers do say this.
00:17:45.42012th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal, according to a respected federal survey of American youth.
00:17:52.120In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or very conservative on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s.
00:18:04.400Only 13% of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years.
00:18:08.660The figures represent a striking shift in the political views of boys.
00:18:11.260As recently as the late 2000s, liberal boys occasionally outnumbered conservatives.
00:18:16.480Back in the Carter era, both boys and girls lean liberal.
00:18:20.100Nowadays, it's girls who are drifting to the left.
00:18:22.220The share of 12th grade girls who identified as liberal rose from 19% in 2012 to 30% in 2022.
00:18:29.260Only 12% of girls identified as conservative in the last year's survey administered by the University of Michigan.
00:18:35.660Young women, too, are trending liberal.
00:18:37.320Young women ages 18 to 29 are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any time in the past two decades, according to Gallup surveys.
00:18:44.700Young women are also almost twice as likely as young men to claim the liberal tag, a widening gender gap in political beliefs.
00:18:53.860That you've got overall young men and boys are trending conservative.
00:19:00.660And when you narrow it down to 12th grade boys, they're twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal, which is a striking difference from the past, as they point out.
00:19:10.720Now, I think there are a few things happening here.
00:19:13.800A few reasons why teenage boys and young men are increasingly becoming conservative.
00:19:18.480And the first is that conservatism is rebellious, okay?
00:19:27.660By our culture standards, it's the rebellious, edgy, offensive thing.
00:19:31.900And if you have that kind of renegade instinct, that desire to rebel, as many young people do, especially boys, then this is where you go.
00:19:41.080So, as I pointed out before, if you're a kid in high school and you want to be edgy and cool, you can't do that by adopting the same position as your middle-aged math teacher.
00:19:52.080Like, the moment that your math teacher starts waving a pride flag and talking about how the Bible is evil is the moment that it becomes extremely uncool to love the pride flag and hate the Bible.
00:20:03.380So, this drives towards, you know, there's a drive among the youth, obviously, towards rebellion.
00:20:13.140And historically, it's been harnessed by the left against the right.
00:20:16.660And that's the reason why, if you go back, as they point out, you go back to the 60s and 70s, you're going to find that the situation is completely reversed, where young boys are much more likely to identify as liberal versus conservative.
00:20:25.760That's because that was the rebellious thing at the time.
00:20:28.380For a long time, you know, what we consider now to be conservative ideals were the popular mainstream ideals.
00:20:38.960The conservative position, as we consider it now, was the dominant cultural position, which is not the case anymore.
00:20:55.160Like, even if they pretend to still have it, which they do, so you end up with, like, aging punk rockers still going out and pretending to rage against the machine by saying everything that your HR rep at work would say.
00:21:58.440And I can still remember that as a teenage boy, you have a very outrageous, offensive, kind of morbid, aggressive sense of humor.
00:22:09.120Teenage boys amused themselves by insulting each other, like among friends, just insulting each other in extremely vulgar and personal ways.
00:22:18.880And to some extent, you never grow out of that.
00:22:21.440Even as you become a man, as men, we never quite grow out of that.
00:22:24.880We still think it's funny to, like, make fun of each other and stuff.
00:22:27.340But there's no room for that on the left at all.
00:22:30.900I mean, you cannot have a man's sense of humor on the left.
00:23:24.860You're thinking of conservatives who are supposed to be these humorless scolds, don't have a sense of humor, they're offended by everything.
00:23:30.200Writing angry letters because they're offended by this and that.
00:24:27.220Except you can't be more like them because that would be appropriation.
00:24:31.440And I think teenage boys hear that and they respond exactly as you would expect them to.
00:24:35.880Which means that, again, on the right, the goal here is to harness this to our advantage.
00:24:44.440And ultimately the advantage of the culture and truth.
00:24:46.740Because the really good thing is that in this case, it's not just that going over to the right is now rebellious and edgy and all the rest of it.
00:24:56.900But that's also where the truth is on all these issues.
00:25:00.980When we see these, what I find to be extremely encouraging videos of, again, high school boys, you know,
00:25:08.800tearing down the pride flags and mocking attempts by schools to, you know, groom them into the LGBT cult.
00:25:16.740And these videos come out, very encouraging.
00:25:22.000But it's not just because it's politically advantageous for us.
00:25:25.700It's because they are rejecting falsehood in favor of the truth.
00:25:31.920And the question is, how are we going to harness that on the right?
00:25:38.740And there hasn't been nearly enough of that.
00:25:40.240All right, Daily Wire has this report.
00:25:44.040A Michigan hate speech bill that has passed the State House and is now in the hands of the Senate is alarming conservatives, people of faith, and legal experts.
00:25:51.500The bill, HB 4474, is part of a package of legislation that would replace Michigan's existing Ethnic Intimidation Act and make it a hate crime to cause someone to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.
00:26:06.180Under the bill's framework, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression are included as classes protected against intimidation.
00:26:12.500If passed, the hate speech legislation would make violators guilty of a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
00:26:20.180Many conservatives have voiced concern that the bill infringes on Americans' First Amendment rights.
00:26:40.340It is the abolition of the First Amendment in Michigan if it passes.
00:26:44.380So that's effectively what's happening is we are abolishing the First Amendment.
00:26:51.140It doesn't exist in Michigan if a bill like this passes.
00:26:54.460And if it does pass, there's no way that it doesn't ultimately get struck down by the Supreme Court as the Supreme Court is currently assembled.
00:27:03.660But still, it shows where the left wants to take us.
00:27:07.280And if they can flip the court back their way, these laws will be passed everywhere and affirmed by the Supreme Court, and it'll be codified into law on a federal level, and that's what's going to happen.
00:27:19.780If you don't have the right to say things that make other people feel bad, then you don't have free speech.
00:27:27.060Your speech is controlled by the feelings of other people, which is to say that it's not remotely in any way, in any sense, free.
00:27:38.120It's a basic fact of free speech that shouldn't need to be explained, which is that we don't need free speech rights to protect speech that everyone is okay with.
00:27:48.180You don't need a First Amendment for that.
00:27:49.620But you can go anywhere in the world and say things that the dominant culture and the people in charge agree with and like.
00:27:59.460You can go to North Korea and do that.
00:28:04.020Now, those things are going to be different depending on where you are, but you can go anywhere and say things that the dominant culture approves of.
00:28:11.560The way you detect free speech rights, the way that you know that a place has free speech rights is if you can go there and say things that the dominant culture does not approve of and not face any legal persecution for it.
00:28:27.560So the goal here is to get rid of that, and this was always inevitable.
00:28:31.780I mean, it was inevitable that it would go this direction, and the stage was set for this in two ways, really more than two, but there are two main things here.
00:28:40.120The first is when we decided as a culture, and I say we as a universal we.
00:28:47.480I don't include me in that or probably you.
00:28:50.040But when we decided as a culture that the listener, not the speaker, gets to determine the motive and meaning behind the speaker's own words.
00:29:03.880So many examples of somebody getting canceled and then they apologize because they said something that wasn't supposed to be offensive at all.
00:29:10.580And somebody was offended by it, and then they apologize.
00:29:13.640And the person who was offended, what do they always say?
00:29:16.260They say, well, you know, it doesn't matter how you meant it.
00:32:32.060And those crimes are a lot worse in many cases.
00:32:34.640And people like that are much more dangerous.
00:32:38.440You know, I'd rather have a culture full of people.
00:32:41.180I'd rather have a society full of people who have hate in their hearts than a society where everyone's just, like, indifferent to human life.
00:32:49.540That's what you find when you go into the cities.
00:34:07.040There is one expert on the subject of what's going on inside my mind and my heart, and that's me.
00:34:11.080And nobody else, when you criminalize, when you have hate speech and hate crimes, that puts other people, the court system, in charge of, like, peering into your soul and determining what's going on in there.
00:34:51.320So really, when you have hate speech and you criminalize hate speech, you're putting yourself in a position to judge what's in someone else's heart.
00:34:59.460Putting yourself in a position to decide if someone else has hate in their heart.
00:35:02.060And then, you're also putting yourself in a position of not only determining what's in someone's heart, but then to decide what kind of hate is good and what kind of hate is bad.
00:35:10.120Here's the hate you're allowed to have, and here's the hate you're not allowed to have.
00:35:13.980The whole thing is, but as I said, this, the groundwork has been laid for a long time with all of this.
00:35:26.680Barbenheimer isn't the only phenomenon at the July box office.
00:35:30.960Over the last four weeks, Angel Studios' Sound of Freedom, an indie film that has drawn the support of former President Donald Trump and other conservatives, has captured nearly $150 million in domestic ticket sales.
00:35:41.180The figure may seem small against Hollywood blockbuster performances from Warner Brothers' Barbie, Universal's Super Mario Bros., each of which have grossed several hundred million dollars.
00:35:50.000But it's a solid theatrical run for a film that only costs $14 million to make.
00:35:55.380$150 million from a $15 million budget is, I mean, extraordinary.
00:36:02.960It's especially impressive considering Paramount's Tom Cruise vehicle, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, has tallied less than $140 million since its July 12th release.
00:36:13.020And DC Comics tentpole, The Flash, barely topped $100 million domestically.
00:36:19.200So, I saw this, I first saw this headline, and I actually thought that, I didn't quite believe it at first, that this film, that Sound of Freedom, has outgrossed Mission Impossible.
00:36:33.880When I first saw the headline, I thought, okay, well, you must mean, like, profit-wise.
00:36:40.920The profit is greater than Mission Impossible, and that I would certainly believe.
00:36:48.060I know what they're saying is just, no, when you stack up how much they've made, period.
00:36:52.520Overall gross of the films, Sound of Freedom has made more than Mission Impossible.
00:36:57.660And, of course, when you factor in profit, the differences are even more stark, because Mission Impossible has not turned to profit, and probably never will at this point.
00:37:05.980I don't know what Mission Impossible's budget was, but it was more than $150 million, that we could be sure of.
00:37:14.020Now, talk about people having a hate in their hearts.
00:37:19.360This just shows you how much Hollywood hates conservatives and people of faith.
00:37:26.180That you see these kinds of movies, a movie like Sound of Freedom.
00:37:57.160So you can make a movie on that kind of budget, reap enormous profits from it, the audience is interested, and yet Hollywood still will not make these films.
00:38:10.320I mean, Sound of Freedom is made by Angel Studios.
00:38:13.780And every time there's another success with a so-called faith-based film, and you start to think, well, you know, next thing you know, Hollywood's going to start churning these movies out.
00:38:24.660Over the next 10 years, we're going to see like 20 Bible movies.
00:38:27.940And it just doesn't happen because they hate us.
00:38:33.480They hate us so much that they don't even want our money.
00:38:37.940You know, you can dangle bags of cash in front of their faces, and they won't take it.
00:38:43.820These money-grubbing bastards who care, you would think, care for nothing but money.
00:38:48.820They don't want our money because it would be very easy for Hollywood to attract, you know, the audience that goes to watch Sound of Freedom.
00:38:59.440It would be very easy for Hollywood to get that audience back into the theater like once a month by just putting out films that actually appeal to that audience.
00:39:10.860And they could start by going, go to the Bible.
00:39:17.180You know, think about the Bible as the best-selling book of all time.
00:39:20.640And there are many stories in the Bible that are, that, I mean, aside from the, from the incredible, the truth and the spiritual significance as people of faith,
00:39:30.420there are also just great stories as well that have, of course, more than stood the test of time.
00:40:24.060So my, my prediction is that even though this should be for, for Hollywood, maybe like a literal come to Jesus moment for them, where they stop and think like, wow, we're putting all this money into these franchise films.
00:40:36.540It's supposed to be blockbusters, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible.
00:40:39.500I mean, these are, these are franchises that in the past have made billions of dollars for us.
00:40:45.020And, and it's getting beat by sound of freedom with a, with a pocket change budget.
00:40:52.320And you would think they would stop and say, well, we got to, we got to make some changes.