There s been a dramatic increase in violent incidents on airplanes. What does all this add up to? Also, Joe Biden continues to mentally decay in front of the world. Caitlyn Jenner says that he s the victim of transphobia from the left. Are the Dems, in fact, the real transphobes? And CNN s Anna Navarro defends public masturbator Jeffrey Toobin. Finally, in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the increasing efforts to normalize so-called sex work, a.k.a. prostitution.
00:05:14.300That figure leaped to more than 1,300 in the first four months of this year, according to the agency.
00:05:22.6601,300 in four months as opposed to 100 or so in a whole year.
00:05:27.920In fact, a BBC article says that U.S. airlines have reported 3,000 unruly passengers this year.
00:05:33.780Now, there might be a distinction being drawn here between dangerous and unruly, which may explain the disparity.
00:05:40.320But whether we're looking at 1,300 or 3,000, there's obviously something going on here.
00:05:45.400A part of the problem is certainly the masking policies, I would guess.
00:05:48.860A certain number of those unruly passengers may have simply been not wearing a mask or not wearing it correctly and were categorized as unruly and kicked off the plane.
00:05:57.160I don't know if all these toddlers we see getting kicked off planes because they're not wearing masks, do they go down in the books officially as unruly?
00:06:05.620And certain other instances, certain other passengers in these videos have become unruly because of disputes over masks.
00:06:14.320And in general, flying is a high-stress situation in a claustrophobic environment already.
00:06:19.660Maybe any additional annoyances or discomforts added, like having to wear a muzzle on your face the whole time, will only increase the likelihood of confrontations.
00:06:28.100So that must account for some of the rise in dangerous behavior on flights, but it probably doesn't account for all of it.
00:06:34.880Especially when you consider that this problem extends far beyond the airline industry.
00:06:38.700Every other day, there's another video circulating online of massive bras breaking out, sometimes in airports and on planes, but also in restaurants, malls, anywhere else.
00:06:50.800Add to that the much-publicized videos of people being randomly assaulted in the street.
00:06:54.960We hear about the Asian victims of these kinds of crimes, but the problem is not limited to Asian victims.
00:07:00.180And then, of course, there's the surge in violent crime across the country generally, as many of our biggest cities see record numbers of murders, assaults, robberies, etc.
00:07:09.840San Francisco has seen a rise in shoplifting that's so dramatic that it's putting many stores out of business.
00:07:17.660The Independent reports that Walgreens has had to close down 17 locations just due to so-called petty theft.
00:07:24.920Speaking of which, a video posted yesterday shows a shoplifter literally loading a garbage bag with stolen goods and then casually riding his bike.
00:07:34.640Yeah, he rode his bike into the store.
00:07:36.200Riding it out of the store while security guards look on helplessly, not doing anything about it.
00:07:40.660Let's watch some of that footage here.
00:07:48.440Now, the security guards are filming it.
00:07:52.220It looks like it's an employee and a security guard.
00:07:54.400He makes a kind of lackadaisical attempt to grab the bag, but then gives up and says, ah, never mind.
00:08:12.100And you can hear, I think it was the employee saying, should we call 911?
00:08:14.020And I don't know whether they called 911 or not, but they probably didn't because it's been made clear that the cops are not going to pursue criminals like this because they're not going to be prosecuted.
00:08:26.400Now, you think about San Francisco, between the homeless people defecating in the street, the heroin addicts throwing their needles all over the sidewalk, shoplifters strolling out of drugstores with garbage bags full of merchandise, San Francisco is just a lovely place to live.
00:08:41.380And by lovely, I mean it's a godforsaken hellscape, not unlike many other cities in this country.
00:08:45.620And so far, listing all of these things, we haven't said anything about the rioting which plagued our cities last summer and has now coincidentally tapered off now that there's a Democrat in office.
00:08:56.440But even so, the precedent has been set that mobs of opportunistic scumbags can pour into the street and set fire to random buildings whenever they're upset about something.
00:09:06.620And they'll face almost no consequence.
00:09:08.540Unless they're right wing, in which case, even if they're trespassing, they're going to be hunted down by the federal government and thrown in jail for 20 years.
00:09:17.480And all of this is to say nothing of the suicide epidemic among kids, which we discussed at some length yesterday.
00:10:01.020As for that, I think three contributing factors should be mentioned, though this is far from an exhaustive list.
00:10:08.440One, you know, it's not a coincidence that many of us predicted this sort of thing well over a year ago when the government locked us all in our homes.
00:10:18.720We were exactly right, but we didn't need to be profits or fortune tellers to see it coming.
00:10:22.880You cannot shut down a society of 330 million people for any length of time and expect it to start back up again like nothing happened.
00:10:30.960In sci-fi movies, you can cryogenically freeze an individual person for a year or 100 years or whatever and then thaw them out and they'll be good as new.
00:11:15.300Nobody trusts or respects our politicians, nor should they.
00:11:17.920But then police also have been demonized as departments are defunded and even the departments that aren't defunded have trouble recruiting new talent.
00:11:25.160Why would anyone want to be a cop with the knowledge that they'll be branded a racist murderer at the outset?
00:11:31.920And if they ever have to use deadly force, God forbid, they may well go to prison for it, whether it was justified or not.
00:11:37.160And even if they don't go to prison for it, their life's going to be ruined.
00:11:39.280And three, I think the final factor we should note, this is nothing new, but we should mention, combined with these other ingredients, there is the general lack of meaning and purpose among so many in our civilization.
00:11:54.540As the flight from God and religion, theistic religion, anyway, continues.
00:11:59.860So, we have a society of people already in despair, many of them, from their sense of meaninglessness, who are then torn out of their normal lives by the lockdown, which was unnecessary.
00:12:12.460And at the same time, the structures of authority are destabilized.
00:12:18.320Mix all that together, pour it in a pan, stick it in the oven, and this is what you cook up.
00:12:55.900It is nice to be inside air conditioning as much as possible, especially down here in Tennessee, where the humidity is like walking into a brick wall.
00:13:02.040But if I'm going to be inside in the air conditioning, I don't want to be walking around an auto parts store.
00:13:06.040That's not where I want to be inside my own house.
00:13:07.980And the great thing about Rock Auto is if I need auto parts, I can sit in the comfort of my own home and just pull out my phone, get on my laptop, and find all the parts I need.
00:13:17.020I don't need to walk aimlessly around that auto parts store, ask all these questions about my car.
00:13:21.860I can't answer any of them because I don't know a lot about cars.
00:15:22.920I mean, he has made clear that the answer is I believe he has in the past essentially acknowledged that he was there are certain things that he would do or did do.
00:16:05.060Well, there's no point in trying to dissect this or get into it.
00:16:07.820This is, again, someone who's experiencing rapid, rapid mental decline in front of the entire world.
00:16:16.160I think at this point, it's been very obvious all along, but now it seems all but certain that Joe Biden most likely is not going to be the president when we get to 2024.
00:16:32.880I mean, not even voting out of office, but he's not going to be the guy.
00:16:36.740It's going to be Kamala Harris by the time we get there.
00:16:41.260Now, it's really just a question of when.
00:16:54.840You know, and when it gets to the point where Joe Biden is completely unable to fulfill the duties of the presidency, you could argue he's at that point right now.
00:18:09.840And what makes this so frustrating is just like the consequences of the lockdown, this was so foreseeable.
00:18:17.320Of course this is going to happen when you elect a 78-year-old man who's already in cognitive decline.
00:18:25.300And then you take him and you put him in the most stressful job on earth.
00:18:30.180Unfortunately, most of us have, because Alzheimer's is so common, dementia is so common, most of us have had experience with seeing this with loved ones.
00:18:43.900And so you know, if you have, say, your grandfather or grandmother who went through this, you know how quickly.
00:18:49.320You start seeing the warning signs, and then it's kind of like they're gradually headed to this cliff, and then they fall off the cliff.
00:20:58.500It's not ageism to acknowledge the reality of age.
00:21:04.180It's not ageist to simply notice that age exists, and there are certain realities that come with it because we are mortal creatures living in a physical frame that deteriorates over time.
00:21:59.400Sharp as a tack for an 85-year-old means that they can hold a conversation and, you know, they can play with the grandkids and all that kind of stuff, which is great.
00:22:06.480I hope that I can do all that when I'm 85.
00:23:37.000California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner slammed late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after he called Jenner Trump in a wig.
00:23:44.900During his show on Thursday night, Kimmel celebrated the end of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which ran for 20 seasons across 14 years and inspired 10 spinoffs.