00:01:18.020Today, I want to talk about something that is certainly very much related.
00:01:21.700As you know, I spent several years working on a movie that you may have seen called Am
00:01:25.500I Racist. It's about the corruption and moral depravity of the diversity, equity, and inclusion
00:01:30.340industry, which I infiltrated in the film. I donned a disguise so cunning and so mysterious
00:01:36.920that it fooled the brain trust of American DEI, including Robin DiAngelo herself. Very proud of
00:01:43.420the film, which quickly became the top documentary of the decade. We managed to condense the insanity
00:01:47.960of DEI into a concise one hour and 40 minute story, which seemed like quite an achievement
00:01:52.920at the time. After all, DEI is a sprawling industry with all kinds of fake lingo and
00:01:57.580bureaucracy, along with support from every major institution on the planet. How can you really do
00:02:02.920a comprehensive takedown on DEI in less than an hour and 40 minutes? We needed every minute that
00:02:10.260we had, or so we thought. In retrospect, maybe there was a way to shoot a much shorter film.
00:02:17.360This is footage you may have seen from New York following the Knicks victory in the NBA finals.
00:02:22.920in just about 10 seconds this footage does a better job exposing the absurdity of the DEI
00:02:30.080industry than anything I've seen since I'm a racist this is a tour de force it depicts a
00:02:35.380morbidly obese woman overturning a Knicks themed garbage can spewing trash all over the sidewalk
00:02:41.340before walking away with the garbage can uh looking like she's just carried out the heist
00:02:47.460of the century for the garbage can. Watch. Now, from the moment I saw this footage and I saw that
00:03:08.500specimen stealing the garbage can, I knew there were only three options.
00:03:14.780She could be unemployed, she could be a DEI executive, or she could be a government employee,
00:03:20.880probably a teacher, maybe a DMV worker. There was simply no other possibility. There's no chance
00:03:26.860that she was a functioning, productive member of society who had like a real job. The only question
00:03:33.360was what kind of leech was this individual exactly? And now we have our answer, courtesy
00:03:38.560of the New York Post. Quote, a woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street
00:03:43.560and stealing it during the New York City's Knicks Championship Parade,
00:03:48.000was a director at JPMorgan Chase, who was fired Tuesday over the incident, the Post has learned.
00:03:54.240Angie Baez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce
00:04:01.360at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.
00:04:05.500She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
00:04:09.320at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push
00:04:15.760into lifestyle and experiential content. Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the
00:04:21.200video surfaced, and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told the Post, this employee is no longer with
00:04:26.580the company. So if the choices were unemployed DEI executive or government employee, Angie Baez
00:04:33.920turned out to be the second option. Now she's the first option, and soon, presumably, she'll be the
00:04:39.820third option. So she'll run the gamut. She'll get the trifecta. As eager as J.P. Morgan was to fire
00:04:46.520this woman, and they were probably trying to do it for a long time, actually, the New York City
00:04:52.260government will be just as eager to offer her a job at City Hall. That's typically how things like
00:04:57.800this go. With qualifications like this, I mean, she could be running Mom Donnie's sanitation
00:05:03.620department in no time. This is one of those stories that even though everyone should have
00:05:09.640seen it coming, it does illustrate a very important truth about DEI. The job of DEI
00:05:16.180executives always and everywhere is to flood society with literal garbage. Their whole reason
00:05:23.080for existing is to walk into an orderly environment where everything is going fine, overturn the
00:05:29.140nearest garbage can, and force everybody else to deal with the results as they kind of saunter
00:05:35.300away or waddle away maybe in this case. They plunder everything they see and leave a mess
00:05:41.120in their wake without any shame whatsoever because their mission in life is to make the world as
00:05:45.400repulsive and dysfunctional as they are. What DI does in every case is elevate somebody who should
00:05:53.660be a DMV clerk into a position of power and prestige that dramatically exceeds their
00:05:59.540capabilities. This woman should not have been an executive in finance or any other industry
00:06:05.020any more than Kentonji Brown Jackson should be a judge or Kamala Harris should have been
00:06:09.520vice president. All of these women in a saner society would be scowling from behind their
00:06:15.300desk at random people who just want to get their driver's license renewed. They wouldn't dream of
00:06:20.180doing anything more because nobody would lie to them and tell them they're capable of it because
00:06:24.240they aren't. But as it stands, ogres like this, who this woman, by the way, identifies herself
00:06:30.340online as, quote, Dominican from the Bronx and first generation American, even though she's
00:06:35.860obviously not an American at all. They're being handed executive roles at J.P. Morgan. And we can
00:06:41.860assume, since she was based in New York, that she was being paid well over $200,000 a year at a
00:06:47.560minimum. Realistically, she was probably pulling in $300,000 or more than that. What value was she
00:06:55.520adding to the company in exchange for all that money exactly? In what ways will J.P. Morgan
00:07:00.340suffer now that a trash can thief is no longer a senior executive? Why are major corporations
00:07:07.540still employing these fraudsters at great cost, even as they're conducting mass layoffs.
00:07:14.620Imagine being a white guy who was just terminated in one of the latest JPMorgan layoffs,
00:07:19.140and then you turn on the television and learn that this woman kept her job.
00:07:25.460She had to be caught on camera stealing a trash can publicly in order to lose her job
00:07:29.720while you lost yours, even though you never did that. That should be an instant lawsuit,
00:07:34.940if any of those terminated employees are willing to roll the dice with a New York jury.
00:07:39.200I mean, it's not as though this woman had a good resume before this incident.
00:07:42.120Her whole career was selling the DEI scam from the moment she entered the workforce.
00:07:45.680Quote, in a bio on the Infatuation's website, Baez is described as someone whose dedication to making a positive impact shines in every aspect of her work.
00:07:55.500The publication adds that Angie's efforts have helped position the infatuation as a trailblazer in the pursuit of a more equitable and relatable food media industry, calling her one of the brightest voices in the space.
00:08:10.160Baez also appears to have co-founded a queer and black, indigenous and people of color owned talent agency, Same Page Company, which is focused on increasing representation and equity in media and industry.
00:08:21.300It works with artists, talent, on creative projects, photoshoot strategy, and business affairs.
00:08:26.440Earlier in her career, Baez worked as diversity and inclusion project lead at Squarespace
00:08:31.240and held a top job in diversity and inclusion at Saks Fifth Avenue, Hudson's Bay, and Saks Off Fifth,
00:11:27.160Now, today on the left, it's fashionable to describe Morgan as a robber baron.
00:11:32.160This is one of those pejoratives you hear all the time,
00:11:34.820although no one ever actually tells you what it actually means.
00:11:37.720They claim he sold defective rifles to the U.S. Army during the Civil War, although it was ever proven that he knew the rifles were defective.
00:11:44.520They claim he didn't earn his success because he was born into wealth.
00:11:48.160And in particular, they say that he extracted more from the economy than he contributed, which is the definition of projection, by the way.
00:11:55.320It's because of Morgan and the process of Morganization or consolidation that we have the railroad system, which obviously benefited the entire country.
00:12:03.200And as I mentioned, Morgan's bailouts of the U.S. economy didn't simply save his own business.
00:12:08.200The bailouts saved every business in the United States.
00:12:12.920Now, what we've lost over the past century are major private institutions with truly legendary leaders who inspire the country and care about the country.
00:12:23.340Bill Gates built Microsoft, one of the biggest companies on the planet.
00:12:26.380But he's a degenerate with a creepy personal life.
00:12:31.980He's repulsive and immoral. Tim Cook inherited Apple, proceeded to do nothing with the company,
00:12:36.940except release emojis of pregnant men who incidentally look a lot like Bill Gates.
00:12:41.560Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ran the Enron fraud. Elizabeth Holmes came up with Theranos.
00:12:48.340Dennis Muhlenberg, the CEO of Boeing, who blamed the pilots when two of his brand new jets flew
00:12:53.300themselves into the ground, received a massive golden parachute worth more than $60 million
00:12:57.620when he was fired. Marissa Meyer, the Yahoo CEO, made millions of dollars destroying the company.
00:13:03.080Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, was busy attending a yacht
00:13:07.860race while the spill was still active. He also said, quote, there's no one who wants this thing
00:13:12.380over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back. So when most Americans today think of the
00:13:18.700CEOs who are running major companies, these are the images that come to mind. People who become
00:13:22.520extremely wealthy without demonstrating any degree of competence or humanity or really skill.
00:13:28.820With only a couple of exceptions, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk being primary ones, the leaders of
00:13:35.340American companies very often don't seem very interested in America. This is a problem that
00:13:40.840creates a powerful downstream effect. Bad leaders tend to produce more bad leaders in the future,
00:13:45.660and that's exactly what we're seeing now. As morbidly obese morons who steal trash cans on
00:13:50.740camera are being handed executive-level jobs in finance. Dumb and corrupt people tend to hire
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00:15:27.000Now, originally, I was planning to do this monologue on the campaign, which has been going
00:15:33.380on for decades now, to drive white males out of the film industry. But then I saw this story about
00:15:39.840the obese female JP Morgan DEI executive stealing a trash can and couldn't resist it. But actually,
00:15:46.460the two things are related in obvious ways, because nowhere has the DEI phenomenon been
00:15:51.000more evident than in the creative fields over the past few decades. White men have been driven out
00:15:57.500of the film and television industries solely because of their skin color and their gender,
00:16:01.560as Compaq magazine has reported, quote, white men directed 69% of TV episodes in 2014 and just
00:16:06.82034% by 2021. But that remaining third went overwhelmingly to establish names, leaving
00:16:12.340little space for younger white men. Since 2021, 11 directors under 40 have been nominated for
00:16:18.440Emmys. None of them have been white men. Now, whenever this comes up, inevitably, the response
00:16:24.600you hear from the left is that plenty of the most successful directors are white men. That's true.
00:16:30.680They'll cite directors like Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood and Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese,
00:16:35.720George Lucas and so on. Never mind the fact that the youngest director on that list is in his late
00:16:40.24070s. And this gets to the heart of the problem, which is that to the extent that white men are
00:16:44.520still successful in the industry, it's because they were grandfathered in. And the compact piece
00:16:51.300has the data on this, quote, between 2004 and 2013, over 40 Gen X white men received Academy
00:16:57.740Award nominations for screenwriting. In the following decade, 2014 to 2023, more than 50
00:17:03.280Gen X white men were nominated alongside just six white male millennials. So they're pulling
00:17:09.060the ladder up behind them, in other words. The successful white male directors and screenwriters
00:17:14.080aren't going to surrender their positions in the name of DEI, but they're happy to sign off on
00:17:18.980the new diversity rules that punish up-and-coming screenwriters and directors for being
00:17:23.620white, in particular white males. And the results have been very evident. Spielberg was 28 when
00:17:30.100Jaws came out, there hasn't been a single major white male director born on or after
00:17:35.3401989, until very, very recently, which we'll get to. So that era's Spielberg would have been
00:17:43.980rising to prominence in 2017, which was around the time that anti-white male discrimination was
00:17:49.200peaking, just after Obama's first term, but also during the initial Trump backlash. Now today,
00:17:54.600instead of getting a new Spielberg, we're getting directors like, for example, Ryan Coogler, who
00:17:59.580produce, made films like Sinners, which is explicitly anti-white. That's why everyone
00:18:05.400pretended to like it. He also made Black Panther as well. Now, how did Ryan Coogler get his start
00:18:13.280in the industry? Well, it's an important question to ask, especially since filmmaking is one of the
00:18:17.380most competitive industries imaginable. Everybody wants to be a director. It's a dream job. So how
00:18:23.540did Coogler stand out from the crowd? Well, it turns out that he applied to something called the
00:18:28.080Sundance Institute. And back in 2012, he was accepted into the Sundance Screenwriters Lab,
00:18:34.500a highly competitive and intensive incubator that provided him with mentorship and most
00:18:39.020importantly, grant money to make his first film along with all the necessary staff.
00:18:43.760Actually, they provided a lot more than that. Watch here as Ryan Coogler explains
00:18:48.240what motivates him to make films and listen as he explains how Sundance basically made the film
00:18:55.140for him. Listen. Cinema is a format of telling a story that's so immersive that it works like no
00:19:01.340other medium. And through that storytelling process, human beings are able to connect with
00:19:07.420people that they never would have come in contact with their entire lives. That's why storytelling
00:19:12.000is so important. That's why making sure filmmakers that have different perspectives can get out there
00:19:18.140and get made and get seen. When I first wanted to make this film, I saw what happened to Oscar
00:19:24.700grand on videotape. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was shocked and hurt and afraid.
00:19:31.000And the best way for me to get that out was through using my filmmaking voice, I thought.
00:19:35.260The support from the labs was ongoing. Continued support. When I left the Sundance labs and I went
00:19:43.220back to continue to make my film, Michelle was constantly calling me to check in. Hey,
00:19:46.460what do you need? What do you guys got going? I was still living at home with my parents in the
00:19:49.960house with seven people. It was impossible to make a film in that circumstance.
00:19:54.700I love my family, but I get a call from Michelle, and she says, hey, man, we're able to support you through a grant process, and with this money, you know, you can get your own place.
00:20:05.200So I was able to get my own place to live.
00:29:31.140They even passed over a qualified half-black person for a promotion because they didn't look black enough.
00:29:38.500We wanted to hire somebody in the department a few years ago now who was half-black but didn't, like, appear half-black.
00:29:48.020And there was a creative executive who was like, we're not, like, that's not, that's not what's going on.
00:29:54.960They wanted somebody in meetings who would appear a certain way, and he wasn't going to bring that to the meeting.
00:30:01.920That video is from a couple of years ago.
00:30:03.740It was probably the most difficult period for white males to get into the entertainment industry,
00:30:07.160particularly if they weren't rich communists.
00:30:09.860But a lot has changed since that video was recorded.
00:30:12.540And it's now becoming more common for white males to do an end run around the typical Hollywood machine
00:30:19.120to bypass programs like the Sundance Institute or USC
00:30:22.820and reach audiences through independent distribution.
00:30:26.400distribution. This past month, the two biggest films in theaters were Backrooms and Obsession,
00:30:33.320projects made and conceived by young white guys on YouTube. Really, Backrooms began on 4chan.
00:30:39.320Backrooms had a $10 million budget, just surpassed $300 million worldwide. Obsession put up similar
00:30:44.020numbers with an even smaller budget. And this is extremely dire news for the Hollywood elites who
00:30:49.320have worked for so long to exclude white males from the industry. That group is finding their
00:30:55.580way back without Hollywood's help. I mean, without YouTube, uh, both of those guys would
00:31:01.380not have big blockbuster films because Hollywood would have snuffed them out because they're white
00:31:07.000males. And they're doing a lot better than the mainstream film, uh, films that the industry is
00:31:12.620producing. Now, Curry Baker, who's behind obsession is set to direct a remake of the
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00:33:50.340filmmakers bypassing Hollywood as well. Recently, this is from TechCrunch, quote,
00:33:54.340the two releases of Backrooms in a Session follow the surprise success of Iron Lung,
00:33:58.380a video game adaptation released earlier this year, directed by Mark Fishback,
00:34:04.360Better known under his YouTube account name, Markiplier, Iron Lung grossed nearly $41 million domestically.
00:34:12.600This explains why, as has been reported by The Hollywood Reporter, movie studios are now flocking to Reddit and YouTube to find IP for films.
00:34:22.860And there's a reason why those places, YouTube in particular, have suddenly become gold mines for creative ideas and creative talents.
00:34:32.860because those are places where talented people can find a voice without having to filter through
00:34:38.280Hollywood's diversity quota system. It's where especially young white males with talent and
00:34:43.600great ideas can go and be discovered and gain an audience on their own. So Hollywood is now
00:34:50.660doing an end run around its own diversity initiatives. And this is the second big factor
00:34:55.800in possibly bringing back white male directors. Audiences are tired of woke slop and want
00:35:01.180something radically different. That's why the new film Citizen Vigilante, which you may have heard
00:35:07.420about, is doing so well. I'm not going to spoil the film, but I think it's fair to say you've never
00:35:12.360seen anything like it. We're all conditioned to the modern Hollywood contrivance in which
00:35:17.640white actors are often cast as the villains, even when it makes no sense. In the movie The Joker,
00:35:22.860for example, which was actually applauded in some circles on the right, there's a critical scene
00:35:28.520early on where the main character is accosted by a bunch of white investment bankers on the subway.
00:35:36.200Everyone knows that if you're going to get roughed up by three people in the New York City subway,
00:35:41.760you know, the mob is not going to consist of three white investment bankers.
00:35:48.220Of all the people you have to worry about on the subway, it is not the white guy in a suit.
00:35:51.800but that's what the film went with because in hollywood depicting reality is considered deeply
00:35:58.700racist and along the same lines as we discussed the netflix show adolescence which became mandatory
00:36:03.600viewing literally in keir starmer's britain suggested that knife crime in britain is driven
00:36:08.740by young white boys who spend too much time listening to andrew tate's total nonsense but
00:36:14.560the british government saw the show's potential for use as propaganda so they invited the show's
00:36:18.420craters to parliament. They told every school to play the show in class. White people simply
00:36:23.900have to be the villains, even when, especially when it defies reality. Citizen Vigilante does
00:36:29.920away with that contrivance again and again. The film is explicitly dedicated to rape victims in
00:36:36.160Europe who are betrayed by our legal system. And in the film, white people are not stabbing
00:36:41.880innocent old ladies in the park. They're not sexually assaulting schoolchildren. Instead,
00:36:46.880the assailants in the film who are doing all the evil stuff are the same as they are in real life
00:36:51.800they are non-white foreigners who have invaded britain so while the film has some problems
00:36:57.200from a craft standpoint some of the scenes just don't work the writing is quite bad in places if
00:37:02.900we're being honest it does accomplish something unique and worthwhile watch what was it traumatic
00:37:10.020integration we're really getting mental help now and support we will be better
00:37:16.080in the future I promise that it's the right answer the only problem is that
00:37:22.520on your social media since the event I have not seen any regret or empathy in
00:37:31.980fact I think you said that she deserved to be raped what I mean is that they
00:37:37.340dress wrong and just make boys horny with their mini skirts they show their legs and breasts you
00:37:44.380wrote that she deserved it i will delete it are these the values you're teaching your children
00:37:54.060i teach him the values from quran and these values from our family
00:37:59.740well if these are your values that women in america and europe deserve to be raped because
00:38:06.940of a dress code why did you come here you know that we have several war in our country and we
00:38:13.960have a dangerous life that's why we are here and i think you know that do you know what i think
00:38:20.100why i don't think it was the good ones that got out of your country i think it was the bad ones
00:38:26.440and i think you brought with you your archaic value system and your commitment now scenes like
00:38:35.420this are why the film is over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, according to the audience score,
00:38:39.780which is really the only score that matters anymore. It's genuinely surprising this movie
00:38:43.420is available for streaming on platforms like Amazon, but as of now, you can watch it there
00:38:47.800and on Apple TV, et cetera. There have been some efforts to censor it. Germany is refusing to allow
00:38:53.200advertising for the film or public screenings, but in general, it's reaching a large audience.
00:38:57.420And that audience is ignoring critics who haven't exactly been kind to the film,
00:39:01.520as you would expect. One review reads, quote, Citizen Vigilante is a contender for the worst
00:39:05.880movie of all time. A 90 minute call to violence fueled by the director's racism disguised as a
00:39:11.840film. This is an abhorrent and dangerous mess. Now, these kinds of reviews are not deterring
00:39:19.020people from watching the film. Actually, those reviews are basically a recommendation. That's
00:39:22.520the kind of review you read and you're like, oh, I got to see this. Oh, really? I got to see this
00:39:27.660one. Nor did industry pressure prevent this film from getting made or from being available on
00:39:34.260streaming services. It's a pretty significant sign that the tide has shifted. And it's not the only
00:39:39.140sign. All this progress is infuriating leftists who were convinced that post-2020 they'd continue
00:39:45.400to have a stranglehold on all media for the indefinite future. Over at a website called
00:39:49.880The Ankler, they're panicking over charts like this one. Take a look. It purports to show the
00:39:55.820number of films made by non-whites each year out of the top 100 films. As you can see, the number
00:40:00.780peaked in 2021, and things have been downhill ever since. And the media journalists are not
00:40:06.300taking the news very well, to put it mildly. Quote, okay, not good. I mean, pretty terrible
00:40:11.220for only 17% to be directed by non-whites, given the makeup of the country, not to mention the
00:40:15.860world and Hollywood history we're supposedly overcoming. So the implication here again is that
00:40:22.120every demographic group needs to have proportionate representation among the top directors, even if
00:40:26.500they're not producing good content. They're not accounting for the quality of the films at all
00:40:30.280because they don't actually care about the films. Their only concern is to prevent white males from
00:40:36.080making them. Then there's this chart showing the number of black filmmakers out of the top 100
00:40:40.780films, which you can see here. It's also dire from their perspective. But worst of all is the
00:40:47.000representation of the Latins or the Latinx or whatever we're supposed to be calling them,
00:40:52.620they're really not performing well at all. Quote, since 2018, Latino directors have gone from zero
00:40:57.680films a year to one for a group that makes up approximately a quarter of the U.S. box office
00:41:02.940totals. And then the article ends with this paragraph, which I'm going to read verbatim
00:41:08.720because of the lack of self-awareness, which is truly extraordinary to behold. Quote, if you think
00:41:13.020that the direction of the film industry in the last decade represents any success commercially,
00:41:16.400culturally, culturally, you name it, and with the changes happening in the world, looking ahead 10
00:41:20.180years, how much do you think an industry making basically giant action films and sometimes horror
00:41:25.120films composed by a narrow demographic band representing, say, the most privileged 10% of
00:41:29.860the population is going to be relevant to anyone? We need to tell different kinds of stories in
00:41:34.400different ways. Well, this is all completely correct, but the author doesn't understand why.
00:41:39.700No, the direction of the film industry over the past decade hasn't been a success. It's been
00:41:44.480terrible precisely because of all the DEI mandates that have excluded young white males,
00:41:51.020particularly white males who aren't deranged leftists from the industry. That's why films
00:41:55.560are less creative. It's why no one's watching them anymore, and it's why all the stories sound
00:41:59.960the same. But the industry can obviously be relevant, as evidenced by backrooms and obsession.
00:42:06.180If young directors are making films that are bringing in $300 million on a $10 million budget,
00:42:10.700then the movie industry is not dead. It's just returning to what it was before the left began
00:42:14.940the coordinated effort to destroy it in order to advance their own political agenda.
00:42:20.240Because the fact is, no matter how you feel about it, white males have historically accounted
00:42:26.160for most of the greatest artists of all time in every artistic medium imaginable.
00:42:34.100And this is especially true for a film where any credible list of the greatest filmmakers ever will not just mostly include white males, but will basically be only white males, right? Spielberg, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Coppola, Kubrick, Lou May, the Coen brothers, Tarantino, Scott, Fincher, Nolan, Ford, Wells, etc. You name it.