00:01:33.560If you wanted to measure the extent of the Biden family's corruption, there are a lot of ways you could do it.
00:01:39.760You could take a look at the lavish properties Joe Biden has owned over the years,
00:01:43.240which seem a little out of place for a career public servant whose wife is a teacher.
00:01:47.740You can go back and watch those interviews in which Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family business partner,
00:01:52.240explained that indeed Joe Biden is the big guy for whom 10% of Hunter Biden's overseas business profits would be directed,
00:01:58.660according to emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop.
00:02:01.860You could recall the mad scramble by the intelligence agencies to pretend that everything on that laptop was,
00:02:07.940quote, unquote, Russian disinformation, a lie that Biden himself repeated multiple times, of course.
00:02:12.920You could pull up that video of Biden bragging about how he threatened to withhold more than a billion dollars of financial assistance to Ukraine's government
00:02:19.840unless they fired their top prosecutor who happened to be investigating Burisma,
00:02:24.020the oil company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year for a no-show job.
00:02:28.660As Biden put it himself, quote, if the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
00:04:20.400It's that you, the idea that you can't see it, or is that really what's going on?
00:04:25.420When you can see what he is actually living by is his own son is being prosecuted and he is allowing the norms that are required to live in a democracy to go forward.
00:04:39.320The norms, the rule of law that we heard so much about.
00:04:43.140Well, this fiction completely collapsed last night, as you probably heard, with the president's sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden.
00:04:49.760This is a pardon that's so expansive and so flagrantly self-serving that it has no precedent in American history.
00:04:57.720It's not just the fact that no president has ever pardoned his own son before.
00:05:02.520It's also that this pardon excuses Hunter from prosecution for any federal crime that he may or may not have committed or assisted with in the time period from January 1st, 2014 through yesterday, December 1st, 2024.
00:05:16.560Yes, that's immunity for more than a decade's worth of potential federal crimes, whether they've been charged or not.
00:05:25.880Now, for comparison, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he pardoned him for any crimes committed from 1969 to 1974, which is a period, of course, of five years.
00:05:35.860That was previously the record holder for the longest pardon by a president conferring blanket immunity.
00:05:40.840So with this pardon, Joe Biden has prevented the incoming Trump administration from bringing any charges relating to Hunter Biden's tenure at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company.
00:05:51.140Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014, which is the first year covered by this pardon, coincidentally enough.
00:05:56.860Just two years later, Joe Biden's urging Ukraine fired the prosecutor who was looking into Burisma.
00:06:01.140According to Biden family business associate, Devin Archer, that prosecutor, his name is Victor Shokin, was a threat to Burisma.
00:06:09.560As Archer put it, quote, he ended up seizing assets of Burisma's owner, a house, some cars, a couple of properties.
00:06:15.660And the owner actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets.
00:06:20.060And thanks to Joe Biden applying some pressure, that prosecutor was terminated.
00:06:23.040Now, those are facts that might naturally make you wonder whether Burisma was paying the Bidens in order to secure that result.
00:06:30.720That was certainly the thought that crossed Trump's mind, and they impeached him for it.
00:06:35.440And she impeached Trump, of course, not Biden.
00:06:38.080He suggested on a phone call that maybe it's not a good idea to send our money to a country that could be bribing the Bidens.
00:06:45.560And that was such a radioactive idea that they tried to have him removed from office for it.
00:06:49.640That was a pretty big hint that Trump was on to something.
00:06:54.400And those hints kept coming, especially after a longtime FBI informant named Alexander Smirnov claimed that Burisma had bribed the Bidens to the tune of $10 million in order to take out the prosecutor.
00:07:06.000The DOJ has accused that informant of lying as part of yet another Russian disinformation operation, which is extremely unusual because it's the kind of thing that might discourage more informants from talking to the FBI.
00:07:16.840But in this instance, probably because of the political ramifications, Biden's DOJ thought it was important to pursue the case.
00:07:23.660That would be an interesting series of events for Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to look into.
00:07:28.260But whatever they find, there's no way they can prosecute Hunter at this point.
00:07:32.760That's because in one of his final acts as president, Biden has effectively become an accomplice to his son's crimes, including crimes that we may never know about now.
00:07:41.860Now, you'd expect a lot of Democrats to run cover for this pardon, and indeed, that's exactly what's happening.
00:07:49.180But kind of remarkably, some Republicans are defending it as well.
00:07:54.200You know, I've seen even conservatives saying that, well, any father in the same position would do the same thing.
00:08:01.440Any father, supposedly, would ensure that his 54-year-old drug-addled son doesn't ever have to face criminal consequences for any crime he's committed, no matter how serious it may be.
00:08:15.060That's an argument that overlooks a few very important points.
00:08:18.980And this is important to understand if you are tempted to give Biden some benefit of the doubt here or some credit or to think that, well, he's just being a good father.
00:09:57.820So no matter how much you, for some reason, might want to defend Joe Biden for looking out for the crackhead he raised, you cannot justify lying like this.
00:10:16.080They just also knew that they had to get through a campaign where they claimed to be on the side of the rule of law, so they lied about it.
00:10:23.120They lied to the faces of the American people.
00:10:46.600No, instead, along with the pardon, Biden released a statement claiming that his son's prosecution was unfair and selective.
00:10:52.620He suggested that the prosecution was only undertaken because he's the president, even though the prosecution was conducted by Biden's own DOJ.
00:11:00.340And despite the fact that the pardon covers Hunter's activities from many years ago when Biden was vice president, the statement reads, quote,
00:11:08.620No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion that Hunter was singled out.
00:11:14.440So he claims that his guiding principle is to tell the truth, even while he goes back on his word that he has offered to the American people many times.
00:11:46.160So in other words, now that the election's over, you know, we're not pretending the DOJ is fair and impartial anymore.
00:11:51.120Now we're just admitting it's a corrupt and political enterprise with no legitimacy whatsoever.
00:11:56.320If Biden actually believed any of this, he'd immediately pardon Donald Trump.
00:12:01.480As well as the January 6th defendants and the many pro-life activists who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for protesting at abortion clinics.
00:12:09.060He'd instruct Merrick Garland to drop the charges against the whistleblowers like Ethan Haim who are being prosecuted for exposing the barbaric procedures being conducted at children's hospitals in the name of, quote, unquote, gender affirming care.
00:12:20.580Of course, none of that will happen because Biden doesn't believe a word that he's saying.
00:12:25.660He doesn't believe a word of the statement he put out.
00:12:27.220He's a complete fraud, which is one of the reasons this is so indefensible.
00:12:31.660It's also indefensible because he just gave his son a pass for every single one of the federal crimes he committed or may conceivably have committed over 11 years.
00:12:44.680Okay, it's not just for the gun charge and the tax charge.
00:12:52.240And insulating your adult child from rightful consequences to that extent is, among other things, enormously bad parenting.
00:13:02.620Because as parents, our greatest duty is to help our children to develop virtue.
00:13:07.320That is, your number one job as a parent.
00:13:11.380Giving them a hall pass for federal crimes obviously does the opposite.
00:13:16.560You cannot become a virtuous person if you're insulated from any and all legal repercussions for any crimes you committed.
00:13:24.260So a good father, a loving father, would not want to give that kind of get-out-of-jail-free card to his son.
00:13:33.800Because any chance that Hunter would ever become anything but a scumbag has now been obliterated.
00:13:41.840Now, I mean, obviously there was little chance of him regardless.
00:13:45.880But if there was any chance, it's basically gone now.
00:13:48.840He's going to live the rest of his life a scumbag and he's going to die a scumbag.
00:13:52.840Which, from the perspective of a loving father, is a fate far worse than prison.
00:14:00.480But it's not hard to see why Joe Biden's doing it.
00:14:02.600But he's clearly pardoning Hunter, at least in part, to protect himself.
00:14:07.680That's why this pardon is so unbelievably broad, both in scope and in length.
00:14:12.920Any prosecution of Hunter would almost certainly uncover more evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden and other Biden family members as well.
00:14:20.740And we know that because just based on what we have already, there's a lot of evidence that would seem to implicate those family members.
00:14:27.100For example, Senate investigators found that Hunter Biden opened a bank account with a deputy at CEFC, a Chinese energy firm that's closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:37.560And that bank account, according to Senate investigators, funded a $100,000 spending spree for the Biden family, including James Biden and his wife.
00:14:45.260These are the kind of payments that Senate officials were able to uncover with only a very limited ability to look into the Biden family.
00:14:53.600You can imagine what a full-fledged prosecution would uncover.
00:14:56.720But the Biden DOJ made sure that there would be no full-fledged prosecution of Hunter Biden.
00:15:01.340That's why they slow-walked the investigation of his abandoned laptop.
00:15:05.020They wanted the statute of limitations to expire on as many crimes as possible.
00:15:09.100When the FBI seized Hunter's laptop from the repair store, they sat on it for more than a year until the New York Post finally published its story.
00:15:16.500And even then, the FBI told Facebook in advance that the story was probably Russian disinformation.
00:15:21.780By shutting down any prosecution of Hunter, it becomes much more difficult to relaunch any of these investigations or to prosecute any other member of the Biden family, including Biden himself.
00:15:35.740That's another reason that this pardon is indefensible, even for a father who's trying to keep his son out of prison.
00:15:41.860At the same time, I'll concede that this story, from my perspective, would be completely different if Joe Biden had only pardoned Hunter for the gun and the tax crimes.
00:17:29.240And, you know, the tax charges were always just a surface-level allegation that obscured the actual underlying corruption.
00:17:35.280It doesn't really matter whether Hunter Biden paid taxes on all the foreign money.
00:17:38.960What matters is what exactly that foreign money was buying.
00:17:43.040That is the investigation that Joe Biden thinks he has just shut down.
00:17:48.100But there are a few elements here that should mitigate, you know, as conservatives, should mitigate our anger and frustration about the pardon.
00:17:56.920First of all, this is a clear win for the incoming Trump administration politically.
00:18:00.400I mean, really, it's more of a gift to Trump than Hunter, because it gives Trump a political green light to do what he should be doing anyway, which is to issue blanket pardons for all of the political prisoners of this administration.
00:18:14.200The pardon is also already leading to a lot of interesting moments on MSNBC, where an overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned audience is being forced to confront the fact that everything Democrats said for the past four years was a lie.
00:18:33.520So the next time any of us complain about anything Trump does, this pardon is just deflating.
00:18:41.680For those of us who have been out there for a few years now yelling about what a unique threat Donald Trump is, for Joe Biden to do something like this, Trump, nobody's above the law, we've been screaming.
00:18:56.340Well, Joe Biden just made clear his son Hunter is above the law.
00:19:01.120Donald Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, we've been screaming.
00:19:18.880So a realization like this, as basic and as probably inauthentic as it is, still represents progress.
00:19:26.720This is the first time that a lot of Democrats watching MSNBC are realizing the extent to which they've been lied to.
00:19:33.360And that's obviously a major win for Republicans as well.
00:19:37.040Additionally, this pardon might actually simplify future investigations into the Biden family, at least until more pardons are announced.
00:19:43.180Now that Hunter can't be prosecuted for any crimes, he can't, he also can't assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid responding to subpoenas or testifying.
00:19:53.680So Republicans in Congress and the DOJ can and should use that fact to their advantage.
00:19:59.100But the most consequential point is that with this pardon, Democrats have once again proved their own willingness to wield their power to the fullest extent possible, no matter how their opposition feels about it or what they say about it.
00:20:15.660Democrats are as ruthless as they are shameless.
00:20:19.480And there's no way to look at this pardon and come to any other conclusion.
00:20:23.300They will spend years telling you one thing only to do another thing.
00:20:26.340All without any degree of remorse or self-awareness.
00:20:30.900They'll extol the virtues of the rule of law and democracy and et cetera and so forth, only to admit on their way out the door that actually none of that was ever remotely important to them.
00:20:41.080This is the lesson that Trump needs to keep at the front of his mind for the next four years as Democrats repeatedly try to use conservatives' values against us.
00:20:48.900That's the strategy they've been using for many years to great effect.
00:20:53.100And they're going to keep on doing it.
00:20:54.680So Trump just has to ignore them and say, you know, you were wielding your power to whatever extent you could to advance your agenda.
00:21:06.680And you can cry about it all you want.
00:21:09.680But now the Democrats have admitted that they have no values themselves.
00:21:13.920There's no reason for Trump or any elected Republican to listen to a word they say.
00:21:17.380And if most Americans come to that realization, then Hunter Biden's pardon will probably on balance be a net positive because it means that no family as corrupt and power hungry as the Bidens will ever control the White House again.
00:22:18.640All right, staying on the subject of family drama, the New York Times has just published what may be the most disgusting New York Times piece in at least the past day, at least.
00:22:30.820As the smear campaign against Pete Hegseth continues, here's the latest headline.
00:22:44.100And just based on that headline alone, and of course the Times knows that most people will only read the headline, you know, that's the point.
00:22:51.760But based on that alone, it sounds like Hegseth's mom just came out against him publicly and denounced him.
00:22:58.660That's what you, you know, if you're just looking at the headline, that's what you would think happened.
00:23:01.500And if she had, you know, that would be legitimate news.
00:23:06.460And you couldn't complain about the New York Times publishing an article about that.
00:23:12.500The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.
00:23:25.540Quote, on behalf of all women, and I know it's many, you have abused in some way.
00:23:29.320I say, get some help and take an honest look at yourself, Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him.
00:23:36.360She also wrote, I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
00:23:43.220You are that man and have been for years.
00:23:45.280And as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it's the sad, sad truth.
00:24:03.240Mrs. Hegseth, in a phone interview with the New York Times on Friday, said that she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email at the time apologizing for what she had written.
00:24:11.300She said she had fired off the original email in anger with emotion at a time when he and his wife were going through a very difficult divorce.
00:24:16.900In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women.
00:24:36.440Well, the New York Times somehow got a hold of this private email that Hegseth's mom sent to him six years ago.
00:24:43.240She didn't give them that email, obviously.
00:24:47.140Pete Hegseth, we can assume, did not give them the email.
00:24:50.720So someone else who had access to it did, and we don't know how that person had access to it, but someone else sent this email to the New York Times.
00:25:03.080His mom, though, says that she apologized for it at the time.
00:25:06.220She disavowed it at the time and now and made it clear that she didn't want them to publish it, and they did anyway.
00:25:14.360Now, if you're in the news media and you wonder why people hate you so much, you wonder why the public has a higher opinion of cockroaches than of you,
00:25:29.280Publishing a private communication between a mother and her son, one that she has long since taken back and apologized for and doesn't want made public,
00:25:39.660that is, it's just, it's just wrong, okay?
00:26:01.900Now, all that said, now that we know that this email exists, even if we shouldn't know it, but now we do,
00:26:11.840does it tell us something troubling about Pete Hegseth?
00:26:16.300Should it change our opinion of him or of him being nominated for that position?
00:26:22.000And I would say no for a couple of reasons.
00:26:23.640First of all, you know, if we're going to take his mom's word for what sort of man Pete is, you know, if we're taking her testimony,
00:26:32.980well, why would we take her word from that email in 2018 and not her word from the apology email or from what she's saying right now publicly?
00:26:40.980And second, one of the reasons why publishing something like this is so sleazy is that obviously it's a single snapshot being ripped out of years and years of context, right?
00:26:57.180We have no idea what was going on behind the scenes.
00:26:59.900We have no idea what or who prompted his mom to say all that to begin with.
00:27:04.660But all we do know is that people who love each other, people who are, you know, families, parents and children, spouses, siblings, et cetera,
00:27:14.480they can sometimes say nasty things to each other.
00:27:19.020It's this is not a revelation to anybody, to any human being who's lived a human life.
00:27:26.040They can say nasty things to each other.
00:27:27.740They can launch accusations that are untrue or only partly true or, you know, it's.
00:27:44.760And before you judge Pete for this, think about like, think about the worst thing.
00:27:53.300That someone you love has ever said to you or about you.
00:27:59.920Like the worst accusations they've ever, the worst characterizations they've ever made of you or of your behavior or, or, uh, or whatever it may be.
00:28:18.620Um, you also probably have an email or two that you sent or that was sent to you that you wish you didn't send or you wish hadn't been sent to you.
00:28:47.560Just like for ethical and moral reasons, but even just basic self-interest.
00:28:56.300We all have a self-interest in not setting precedents like this because we should all agree that private communications are off the table, off limits.
00:29:10.200They shouldn't be up for public discussion unless, unless they indicate that some kind of crime has been committed or, or something scandalous is going on that may have some kind of impact on the public, uh, beyond the people involved in the communication.
00:29:25.380In, in, in that kind of scenario, you can justify it.
00:30:43.420It's like, just imagine what it's going to be a month or two from now.
00:30:47.660All right, here's an interesting story from the New York Post.
00:30:49.920It says, the lead singer of the rock band Life of Agony is detransitioning more than a decade after coming out as transgender.
00:30:56.420Mina Caputo, 50, revealed that he'll be living a life as a male again, citing his gender dysphoria has been cured and announcing he's already started the process.
00:31:05.680Uh, he said in a video, surgery has been booked to remove my fake breasts.
00:31:09.400I'll be lovingly living in my divine male self.
00:31:13.040Caputo was born Keith in December 1973 and began identifying as Mina in 2008.
00:31:17.820Musician publicly came out as transgender in 2011.
00:31:20.860He posted the announcement in response to his followers and began leaving comments about his appearance and claiming he looked like a man.
00:31:27.060Uh, and he confirmed that he is, uh, well, he was always a man, but he said he's off, off, uh, hormones and he's going to get the surgery to reverse.
00:31:34.220He's tried to reverse what has been done to him.
00:31:38.000Um, now I've never heard of this band before.
00:31:41.880The point isn't that this guy is super famous.
00:31:44.620I don't, I don't think he is, but he is still part of the kind of anti-gender ideology avalanche that's happening right now.
00:31:51.180And as more and more people come out against it, um, and he had some words to say, not just about his own experience, but also about how kids are getting wrapped up in this.
00:32:00.440And, uh, let's, let's watch a clip of that.
00:32:04.300Now, suddenly I'm anti-trans, um, because, um, I refuse to, I absolutely refuse to buy into the psychotic narrative that children need hormones and irreversible surgeries.
00:32:20.000That's, that's the furthest thing from care in my eyes.
00:32:24.740And I'm going to prove it to everyone.
00:32:27.080I got about 60 books, 60 books that I have, that I've collected over the years before I came out.
00:32:34.100It took me almost 30 years to come out.
00:32:37.740I went to three years of gender therapy before any hormone was administered in my body.
00:32:44.640Now, these days, people are just taking their little ones, little spirits.
00:32:50.580You're robbing the, the, the right for your child when, when you're, you're, he or she grows up, when your child grows up, you, if you bring your child and put them on puberty blockers and irreversible surgeries and all this that's going on in this psychotic world,
00:33:11.460you are literally stripping them, their rights, their adult rights to make decisions for themselves.
00:34:38.820And this has always also been the irony, or at least something that might be mistaken for irony,
00:34:42.780which is that those of us on the, quote unquote, conservative side of this issue actually have a much more, to use the left's phrase here, expansive.
00:34:52.280We have a much more, if you, if you would like to say, gender expansive view, uh, than the other side.
00:35:00.020Because we are the ones who will say that being a girl or being a boy doesn't put you in a tiny box
00:35:05.780where there's only one set of behaviors, one set of interests, uh, one set of hobbies, one mode of being that is accepted.
00:35:15.500You know, that's, that's, we're the ones saying there's, there's a lot of different ways to be a girl.
00:35:19.220There's a lot of different ways to be a boy.
00:36:00.040Um, the point is that my wife and I don't look at that and then bring, break out the decoder ring to try and figure out if that makes her a girl or a boy or maybe non-binary.
00:36:14.580No, there's not, there's nothing to even, it's, it's not confusing.
00:36:17.380It's, there's, there's no, uh, equation here.
00:36:20.080There's no calculus that she's a, she's a girl, but she's a girl who has interests and, uh, and, and has a certain personality.
00:36:31.440It's who she is, uh, is what makes her unique and interesting.
00:36:35.900And this is also, by the way, yet more evidence that, which is something that every parent knows or every parent should know that, that kids will tend to develop interests and a sense of identity based.
00:36:49.520At least in part, in large part, on how the parents lead them.
00:36:54.520So the real reason that my daughter wants to come out and play football with us is that I'm playing and I love football.
00:36:59.700She wants to be a part of that because I'm her dad that, you know, that's obvious.
00:37:03.280But what does that say about kids who develop an interest in being trans?
00:37:07.760Well, often that's the child trying to participate in something that the parent is interested in, um, which is all the gender nonsense.
00:39:10.340The sad truth is that we might reach a point as a culture where we can say, okay, well that, that's, that's behind us now.
00:39:21.280And it's, it's, it's, it'll, it'll become a bizarre, dark period in the history books that, that years from now people will read about and they'll be totally baffled by it.
00:39:34.900And those of us who lived through it still don't quite understand how this happened.
00:39:39.420I mean, we, we could only have theories about how society lost its mind to this extent that it started doing this to kids.
00:39:49.220But even when we reach a point, I think in the not too distant future where this stuff is behind us as a culture, it's, there are a lot of people who for them, it's never really going to be behind them.
00:40:05.040They're going to have to live with it forever.
00:40:09.460They're not going to have the option of just closing that chapter in the book and saying, well, that's over because things have been done to them that they're going to have to live with physically, emotionally, spiritually forever.
00:40:26.620And that's, and that's also why we can't just move on.
00:40:40.820I just, I was thinking about recently going back to this example of my daughter and how she'll participate in some of the more masculine things that's, uh, that, that I do and that her brothers do.
00:40:50.260Um, I've often wondered if this is one of the reasons why gender dysphoria so-called is more common in girls than boys.
00:40:58.740And there are, you know, as you know, it's, this, this, it has much more often been girls who have fallen into this, um, especially in adolescence.
00:41:10.600And there are a lot of theories to explain that dynamic.
00:41:13.740I've offered different theories through the years.
00:41:15.680And I think that all the theories are true to some extent, you know, but it's not a one size fits all kind of answer.
00:41:22.500And, uh, and there's, there's, there are many different answers, I think.
00:41:28.220And there's an element of the issue that I've never heard anyone discuss before, or if they, if they have, I haven't heard it.
00:41:35.240And that is that in my experience, and this is entirely anecdotal, I'll admit, but in my experience, girls are much more likely to want to participate in, you know, stereotypically masculine things like football, like whatever else.
00:41:47.300And to adopt some stereotypically masculine interests than boys are to do the opposite, to adopt feminine interests and to want to participate in stereotypically feminine things.
00:42:02.980And it's a, it's, it's much more common for girls, you know, for it to go that way with girls, but, but not, but not necessarily in the reverse for boys.
00:42:10.120And that's not because all these girls are tomboys.
00:42:12.920Um, my daughter is not, as I said, she's a very girly girl.
00:42:16.560In almost every imaginable way, but she likes to, you know, go out and play football and that sort of thing.
00:42:21.180She'll go out in the woods with us and shoot pellet guns.
00:42:23.420Like, she likes to do that kind of stuff.
00:42:25.100And this seems to be common for girls.
00:42:26.400Almost any dad of girls that I've talked to will say something similar.
00:42:30.540Um, and boys, again, in my experience, aren't usually like that in the reverse.
00:42:34.980Um, my sons like all the typically boyish stuff.
00:42:39.000They don't mix in any girly stuff at all.
00:42:43.020They're, they're not interested at all in any of that.
00:42:45.340Um, they're not going to go play with dolls occasionally or express any interest in ballet or what have you.
00:43:04.780Girls seem much more likely to mix in some of the masculine interests than boys are to mix in some of the feminine interests.
00:43:12.260And I think the reason for that is that girls are more social, the more communal by nature.
00:43:17.180So they're much more likely to become interested in the things that the people around them and close to them are interested in for the sake of socializing and bonding with those people.
00:43:27.260Like the fact that someone close to them loves something makes them love it too.
00:43:33.360Um, and, and not just, not just as a put on, not as a show, but they, they actually are interested in it.
00:43:39.380Um, I remember once, for instance, being over at my in-laws and, uh, they're big hockey fans and they were watching hockey.
00:43:46.560And my wife was watching it too and getting really, really into it, like really into it, really emotionally invested in this hockey match or hockey game, hockey match.
00:44:00.440Never watched it one time, no interest.
00:44:02.880But for a couple of hours on that particular day, my wife was truly invested in it, truly interested because her family was, and it was a communal experience.
00:44:12.320Um, now on the other hand, I'm not interested in hockey.
00:44:15.420So I just went off and did my own thing because I don't care.
00:44:18.160I'm not, I'm not going to suddenly care about it because other people do.
00:44:23.500We're interested in what we're interested in.
00:44:25.160It doesn't matter who else shares that interest or wants to participate in it.
00:44:28.420It doesn't, doesn't really matter to us.
00:44:30.820And I think this could partly explain why girls are more likely to exhibit, you know, in these kinds of moments, these so-called masculine tendencies, which, which are then misinterpreted or have been misinterpreted by crazy people.
00:44:44.320And abusive people to be a symptom of gender dysphoria and a sign that the girl is transgender or whatever.
00:44:51.980Boys are less likely to exhibit those kinds of signs, those signs, because they tend to stick with what they like.
00:44:58.580And they're less prone to change or adapt for the sake of being communal or, you know, bonding with people or what have you.
00:45:05.340Um, which is just adds to the tragedy because that, that is a positive sort of attribute of, of, of being a girl and being a woman.
00:45:15.380Uh, this wanting to be communal with other people and, and adapting their interests, you know, that's, that's a good thing.
00:45:22.780It's a positive thing, but it's been twisted against them, uh, by these gender ideologues.
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00:46:16.360For our Daily Cancellation today, we return to the viral YouTube series called Surrounded, produced by Jubilee.
00:46:21.620When we last checked in with this series, Ben Shapiro was facing down a ragtag collection of blue-haired leftists.
00:46:27.620They didn't all actually have blue hair. In fact, I think none of them did.
00:46:30.060But blue hair at this point is as much a spiritual state as a physical one.
00:46:34.320In any case, it was not a fair fight. All the blue hairs took turns embarrassing themselves, as you would expect.
00:46:40.200Now, it turns out that Pete Buttigieg, our soon former transportation secretary, did his own Surrounded episode a day before the election.
00:46:47.720Buttigieg was surrounded by 25 alleged undecided voters, and his task was to defend Kamala's policies against their extremely softball questions and challenges.
00:47:00.560Apparently, he didn't do a great job because Kamala went on to get totally demolished the very next day, as you probably recall.
00:47:06.240I don't think that was entirely the fault of Buttigieg's poor performance in this video.
00:47:12.780But there's one clip that, several weeks later, is just now going viral.
00:47:17.980Leftists on Twitter are passing it around with glowing praise for Buttigieg.
00:47:21.700They think one answer in particular was so brilliant and so incisive and so profound that it points the way forward for the Democratic Party in the future.
00:47:33.820Somebody named Micah Erfan initially posted a clip.
00:47:36.340It got 15,000 likes, almost 4 million views.
00:48:40.740So there's actually very direct research that shows that if you have more kids exposed to lead,
00:48:46.440you run the clock out 15 years, you'll see higher crime rates.
00:48:49.720Because the developmental issues that they experience through lead poisoning lead them to be more likely to be justice involved.
00:48:55.960There's like a hugely strong correlation.
00:48:57.580So replacing all the lead pipes as not sexy, I think is actually one of the best things we can do that will lead to a safer society and less crime.
00:49:07.240Granted, that's not something you're seeing in the data, like, you know, from one year to the next year.
00:49:12.080But I do think, you know, by the time my kids are entering the workforce, like that will have had a big impact.
00:49:17.220So these are things piece by piece that you think about when you come into office and get up every day trying to make other people better off.
00:49:38.320OK, so Buttigieg says that the way to reduce violent crime is to get rid of lead pipes, which, by the way, have been banned for use in residential plumbing since the year I was born.
00:49:50.340Is there possibly some theoretical indirect link between lead poisoning and a greater propensity to commit violent crimes?
00:49:57.400Maybe. Is this a major factor to consider when explaining crime rates or figuring out how to reduce them?
00:50:05.220In fact, there was an analysis, as I discovered when I looked this up, there was an analysis of over 20 studies published a couple of years ago on this topic that found exactly this.
00:50:17.040According to the analysis, there may be some sort of correlation between getting rid of lead pipes and reducing crime rates, but it is likely not a significant factor.
00:50:25.560Especially now, considering that lead pipes haven't been used in homes since 1986.
00:50:31.820Yet, in spite of the fact that the link is not significant and also not relevant in the modern age, still it's the only tangible thing Buttigieg mentions in the clip to explain violent crime.
00:50:44.260Now, this was part of a slightly longer conversation about violent crime and how to reduce it.
00:50:49.180Before this detour into lead pipes, he mentions gun control and then also legalizing marijuana.
00:50:58.320When explaining how do we get rid of violent crime or reduce it, he says, well, we got to get rid of lead pipes, gun control, and legalize marijuana.
00:51:10.120Somehow, he completely misses by far the two biggest and most obvious factors.
00:51:15.380He makes it to lead pipes before saying a single thing about either of the two major overriding factors.
00:51:25.340So he never says that we can decrease violent crime by arresting violent criminals, putting them in prison, and keeping them there.
00:51:33.500And he never says that the number of violent criminals can be drastically reduced if fathers get married to the women who birthed their children and then stay married to them.
00:51:44.260Those two simple steps could rescue every community in the country from the grip of the violent crime epidemic.
00:51:53.380Now, they're not going to eliminate all crime.
00:51:55.960Nothing can eliminate all crime save the return of Christ and the end of days.
00:51:59.800But it could make every single neighborhood in the country safe and livable.
00:52:06.680It's close to a utopian vision as you can get.
00:52:11.680You know, it's just fathers, have kids, stay home.
00:52:19.320And also, if people commit crimes, put them in jail and keep them there.
00:52:22.960Do those two simple things in every community in the country.
00:52:25.760Every community becomes at least livable.