The Megyn Kelly Show - Dems Try To Storm Building, CNN Panel Melts Down, and Rise of ＂Tech Right,＂ with Victor Davis Hanson and Mike Solana

00:00:00.600 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.

00:00:12.160 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.

00:00:16.660 We're going into Super Bowl weekend, everybody.

00:00:19.640 I told you Doug and I are going to go. This is the first time we've ever been.

00:00:23.180 We were invited by the CEO of YouTube and we said yes.

00:00:27.840 I met him when I was in Washington for the inauguration. I didn't know him.

00:00:33.020 And I think we had met one other time, but, you know, obviously we're not on a first name basis exactly.

00:00:39.720 And it was actually a very productive meeting.

00:00:42.840 I told him the things that I would love to see YouTube change.

00:00:47.240 And you guys know me. I was very frank and he was very respectful.

00:00:50.800 And I did acknowledge to him what you guys know is true, which is with our show, they have been very fair.

00:00:56.980 We've only gotten clipped a couple of times and I raised the specific issues.

00:01:00.500 And you guys know what those are, too, because I'm not shy about it.

00:01:02.440 I don't like the fact that you can't describe what's being done to so-called trans children as mutilation.

00:01:07.880 And YouTube will potentially demonetize your show, will pull your show.

00:01:11.940 So we talked about that.

00:01:13.200 And I am hopeful about progress in the free speech lane now,

00:01:18.680 because all of big tech, I think, is reevaluating life under Donald Trump, right?

00:01:22.700 Anyway, we're going to go and it'll be my very first Super Bowl.

00:01:25.660 I'm very excited to do this.

00:01:27.560 I'm grateful for the invitation and I don't know what to expect.

00:01:31.820 Like football, but it's supposed to be like a big, you know, extravaganza the whole weekend.

00:01:37.160 And I will have a full report for you guys of the behind the scenes happenings when we get back to the show on Monday.

00:01:44.380 And we will have a show on Monday.

00:01:45.960 I think Abby will correct me.

00:01:47.800 I think it might be one of those that's going to have to drop later in the day.

00:01:51.140 Anyway, yeah, yeah, 6 p.m.

00:01:52.920 Steve Krakauer tells me because we got to fly back that day.

00:01:55.460 Anyway, we'll talk in a minute about what Trump is saying about the Super Bowl, because he's going to.

00:02:00.640 And I'm actually hoping I'm going to be able to see him while he's there.

00:02:04.800 And what the ads, because you always get the preview of the ads that they're going to drop,

00:02:10.080 what they tell us about where America is in 2025.

00:02:14.100 I mean, it's very telling and it's very interesting.

00:02:18.440 Gosh, there's so many punctuations on storylines we've all been talking about together for the past couple of years.

00:02:27.580 It's just such an inflection point right now in our society with Trump taking over in the two weeks.

00:02:32.340 Everything's on fire in a great way, unless you're a leftist, in which case you're still crying in your soup.

00:02:36.840 I can't help you.

00:02:37.640 Oh, well, anyway.

00:02:38.340 And they're getting really upset about the spending cuts.

00:02:44.100 You know, we're going to have a guest, a first-time guest on the show today named Mike Solana.

00:02:47.520 He's after VDH, who's up first.

00:02:49.440 He's the editor-in-chief of a publication called Pirate Wars.

00:02:52.640 And his target audience is like, why is it, I mean, guys in their 20s and 30s who are in tech.

00:02:59.880 And he makes a really interesting point.

00:03:03.760 He dropped this great piece.

00:03:06.260 And in his piece, he raises the point that, boy, they're really freaking out over the cuts to USAID.

00:03:14.840 And they're really freaking out over possible cuts to the Department of Education.

00:03:19.520 I'll tell you in a second what they're doing there today.

00:03:21.080 Well, they're not really seeing the protests in the street about deporting the immigrants, about closing the border, about the trans executive orders, about the DEI executive orders.

00:03:35.500 And he's so right.

00:03:37.580 Where did they draw the line in the sand?

00:03:40.260 Do not fire the federal bureaucrats.

00:03:43.580 The deep state must stay.

00:03:46.140 Now it's war, right?

00:03:48.060 All this bullshit that they say to, like, pander to their far left base about, like, oh, the wokes, oh, the trans people and the DEI.

00:03:56.000 No, it's, wait a minute.

00:03:58.220 You're cutting federal bureaucrat fat cats jobs?

00:04:02.280 It's on.

00:04:03.800 And that brings me to the Department of Education this morning, where the Democrats get a little insurrection-y this morning over there in their fight, not just with Trump, but with Elon Musk.

00:04:15.540 Like, they try to, like, storm the building.

00:04:18.580 But meanwhile, it's like, we don't even have a Trump-appointed DOE chief.

00:04:24.020 You know, it's Linda McMahon, but she hasn't even had her confirmation hearing scheduled.

00:04:27.520 So, like, who exactly are you going to go tear down when you get in there?

00:04:30.480 Like, what's your plan exactly if you do get through the door?

00:04:34.540 Maxine Waters, who, of course, was there.

00:04:39.900 She, the leftists, they're very upset.

00:04:43.840 Not about Trump.

00:04:44.520 You don't even hear Trump's name that much.

00:04:46.500 But about Elon.

00:04:47.520 And there is a brand-new cover of Time magazine, which will show you exactly that, not to mention the ridiculousness on CNN.

00:04:55.200 Okay, so we're going to talk all about that and much, much more with VDH.

00:04:59.380 Victor Davis Hanson is here.

00:05:00.840 He's senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of The End of Everything, How Wars Descend Into Annihilation.

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00:06:05.460 VDH, welcome back.

00:06:07.020 Thank you for having me, Megan.

00:06:09.640 So my next guest will forgive me for stealing his point for the top of the show, but I think it's a really good one, don't you, about this is where they really did get upset and it's actually causing protests in the street.

00:06:22.820 Not all the other stuff that they've been whining about for four years.

00:06:26.660 Yeah, I think so.

00:06:27.380 But the problem they're having is that in almost every one of these issues, there's 70% approval rating on Trump.

00:06:35.100 He's picked these issues primarily for that reason.

00:06:37.820 The border and energy and cutting waste.

00:06:41.800 There's overwhelming support for it all.

00:06:44.000 So every time they say they're going to have a big protest or Haykum Jeffries says he's going to go in the street, he's not going to go in the street.

00:06:52.860 Cory Booker's not going to go in the street.

00:06:54.460 There's no support for it.

00:06:56.820 If they've cut Social Security, yeah, or Medicare, yeah, but he's not going to do that.

00:07:00.840 So this is a slow motion suicide of the Democratic Party.

00:07:05.480 They're screaming and yelling on the confirmation.

00:07:08.700 You've aired probably the voting at the DNC, that crazy, I don't know what you would call it, quotas on which candidate was of which sort of sexual orientation.

00:07:19.120 It's just a litany.

00:07:20.300 Non-binaries represented equally.

00:07:21.900 Yeah, and then this meltdown over Elon Musk.

00:07:26.540 Elon Musk, I mean, the National Security Advisor of the United States doesn't have to be confirmed.

00:07:31.080 He serves at the wish of the president.

00:07:33.900 So Elon Musk, he's the same category.

00:07:36.820 And, you know, during World War II, FDR really turned over his foreign policy to Bernard Baruch and Harry Hopkins.

00:07:45.140 They had no DOJ, no DOJ type affiliation.

00:07:49.760 They were just, I don't know what you'd call them, senior counselors.

00:07:53.600 They didn't even work for the government.

00:07:55.340 And Harry Hopkins moved in for four years into the White House.

00:07:58.480 And Republicans say, this guy's running all the foreign policy during the war.

00:08:02.760 And then if you think about the scientific stuff that Elon's trying to do and bring coding and everything in for efficiency,

00:08:11.040 they just turned over the war effort on the war production board.

00:08:14.240 These guys weren't elected.

00:08:15.280 They were not confirmed.

00:08:16.640 Henry Ford, Henry Kaiser, William Knudsen.

00:08:19.460 And they just rebooted the entire American economy.

00:08:22.780 They were geniuses at what they did.

00:08:24.440 But this is not new to have an advisor.

00:08:27.040 What's new is that he actually has a statutory authority in this new agency of DOJ.

00:08:33.540 But I don't know whether it's a, he's an apostate and they're furious at him because Tesla and his wealth was used on their behalf.

00:08:43.500 But they're just committing suicide.

00:08:46.920 And they're down to 31%.

00:08:48.860 That's the lowest in my lifetime they've ever been, an approval rating.

00:08:52.120 And I guess they want to go down to 20%.

00:08:54.580 And they will get there if they keep this hysteria up.

00:08:57.260 Here is how it looked outside of the Department of Education today where they try to get in, but the security would not let them.

00:09:04.380 Were you told to stand here or did you decide to stand here and block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education?

00:09:10.840 We're allowed in there.

00:09:17.700 So do you, do you understand who members of Congress are?

00:09:20.840 And you don't care.

00:09:21.820 Who are we then?

00:09:23.420 You don't care.

00:09:24.220 We have a job in here.

00:09:25.200 We're not dangerous people.

00:09:26.740 We're not, I don't know, we're security.

00:09:29.860 There are no thieves and thugs out here.

00:09:32.620 We're members of Congress.

00:09:33.980 With identification.

00:09:35.140 We're teachers.

00:09:36.240 We were elected.

00:09:38.180 This is our job.

00:09:39.780 This is our job.

00:09:40.660 We're doing our job.

00:09:41.660 We're trying to request a meeting and they won't, they have a private security contractor who on his own is making decisions on behalf of the Department of Education.

00:09:51.180 Look them in the eye.

00:09:52.480 Come on, hold your face up.

00:09:53.980 Look out.

00:09:54.380 Let him see you.

00:09:56.020 This is him.

00:09:56.940 Look at it.

00:09:57.640 What's your name?

00:09:58.800 Tell us your name.

00:10:00.100 Give me that ID again.

00:10:01.800 I'm giving you the ID.

00:10:02.600 I showed it to you.

00:10:03.280 Say what?

00:10:03.940 I showed you the ID.

00:10:05.480 You do what?

00:10:06.520 I showed you the ID.

00:10:07.740 Could you let me see the ID again?

00:10:09.840 No.

00:10:10.340 Huh?

00:10:10.860 No.

00:10:11.540 No?

00:10:12.080 Will someone else ask him for the ID?

00:10:16.060 I think I speak for everyone when I say we're on his side.

00:10:18.540 I mean, can you imagine if the dynamic were reversed there, Victor?

00:10:22.280 And if it were a white man saying the Maxine water, get your head up.

00:10:28.120 Look at me.

00:10:29.240 Give me your ID.

00:10:30.120 Show it to me again.

00:10:31.240 Get it out.

00:10:31.940 She can be as disrespectful as she wants of him, though.

00:10:34.480 Yeah, I mean, this is the first time during the first term she told everybody to bird

00:10:39.680 dog and harass and get in the faces and follow Trump supporters into restaurants and stuff.

00:10:44.680 And then we had Al Green.

00:10:46.020 I think this is the fifth time he's been screaming about impeaching Donald Trump.

00:10:50.720 And I come Jeffries, who says he's a moderate, but he's not.

00:10:54.520 He was telling everybody to go out in the streets.

00:10:56.580 It's Cory Booker is replaying the Spartacus role of the confirmation hearing of Kavanaugh.

00:11:03.840 He's screaming and yelling about as if he's Winston Churchill.

00:11:06.700 We're going to fight on the beaches and all this.

00:11:08.960 It's insane.

00:11:10.180 And they don't understand that most people, I'd say the vast majority of people are so

00:11:15.520 sick of it.

00:11:16.400 And they just want to cut the size of government.

00:11:19.900 They don't want to give the BBC 8% of its budget.

00:11:22.960 They really don't want to do that.

00:11:24.080 They don't want to pay for the subscriptions of bureaucrats to Politico.

00:11:28.220 That's beside all the trans and gay stuff.

00:11:31.620 And another thing they don't mention is we're spending a lot of money to go into traditional

00:11:36.240 fundamentalist societies in the Middle East and Asia.

00:11:40.140 And then almost as if we're 19th century pith hat British imperialist and starting to,

00:11:46.500 you know, pride flag.

00:11:47.580 And you think that after Kabul, when the pride flag was on the embassy and George Floyd murals

00:11:53.980 and the gender studies, they would have learned their lesson that if you really want to alienate

00:11:58.260 a traditional society, you don't bring in trans and gay and all of these crazy ideas, you know,

00:12:04.540 politically correct sesame on the street on Middle East TV.

00:12:08.300 But they're really cultural imperials.

00:12:11.240 That's what's so ironic about it.

00:12:12.700 And they turn off people overseas.

00:12:14.340 So when Elon says get rid of it, it would be better for foreign relations, I think he's

00:12:19.680 right.

00:12:20.420 It's not just the 50 billion, we'd say, but we wouldn't be we wouldn't appear so obnoxious

00:12:25.180 and sermonizing and arrogant to all of these societies that purportedly were helping.

00:12:30.580 The pushback, I mean, I don't know what she thought she was going to accomplish just because

00:12:36.400 she's a member of Congress that she can just show up and announced barge into the DOE with

00:12:40.280 a bunch of civilians they don't know they haven't cleared their intent once they get

00:12:44.420 into the DOE is unclear.

00:12:46.100 Can you imagine what that guy, what the kind of hot water he would have been into if if

00:12:50.020 they just let them all in?

00:12:51.160 Just come on in.

00:12:51.800 I mean, now I guess this is the new standard on Capitol Hill in the wake of January 6th.

00:12:55.340 If you're a Democrat, it's fine.

00:12:56.560 You can storm the building.

00:12:57.720 You can blow past security.

00:12:58.900 You can harass the officers.

00:13:00.660 That's that's all good.

00:13:01.800 I mean, I was told that was really bad and insurrection.

00:13:03.760 But I guess Maxine Waters can get away with it.

00:13:07.360 So that's one thing, because they're going to cut federal jobs.

00:13:11.260 And that's what she's really upset about.

00:13:12.920 But there is, meanwhile, some civil disobedience.

00:13:17.420 I don't know what you want to call it in response to some of Trump's reforms.

00:13:21.280 And it's starting to crop up already.

00:13:24.220 Yesterday, we talked about how in New York state, the attorney general

00:13:27.860 ordered hospitals not to comply with Trump's executive order banning these trans procedures

00:13:36.840 on minors.

00:13:37.880 He said, you cannot give the puberty blockers and the cross sex hormones and you cannot do

00:13:41.320 the surgeries.

00:13:41.840 And she said, if you don't do all those things, NYU Langone, which stopped doing it in the

00:13:48.640 wake of Trump's order, I'll sue you for a violation of our anti-discrimination, anti and pro equal

00:13:54.680 protection laws.

00:13:55.660 So far, they appear to be holding the line, complying with the president.

00:13:58.940 Um, now today you get, uh, well, yesterday you had Trump's executive order on banning boys

00:14:05.620 from girls sports and California has come out today to say, we won't comply.

00:14:11.120 We're not, we're not following that.

00:14:12.920 We don't believe in it.

00:14:14.160 We want the boys in the sports and we're going to keep doing it.

00:14:17.020 And then on top of all that, you have Tom Homan trying to go city to city, get out the worst

00:14:24.740 of the worst immigrants, illegal immigrants for which there's overwhelming support by

00:14:29.220 both parties to deport the criminally illegals, the ones who have committed additional crimes

00:14:32.640 in addition to being here illegally.

00:14:34.120 And, and he's trying to get out Venezuelan gang members out of this Colorado town and somebody

00:14:40.820 leaked that he was about to be there with his deportation force.

00:14:44.980 And they went apartment to apartment in this building and they were empty.

00:14:49.020 And Tom Homan says heads will roll, but clearly there is subterfuge afoot here, Victor, amongst

00:14:55.540 many, both in official positions and not to try to stop the people's mandate.

00:15:02.040 Yeah.

00:15:02.660 The problem with this is say here in California, we're no different.

00:15:06.680 If you look at polls on, you know, trans women and female sports, it's about 70% against

00:15:13.920 it.

00:15:14.120 If you look at trans surgeries for minors, it's about 80% against it.

00:15:19.340 If you look at deportation of criminals, it's about 70% for it.

00:15:24.440 So in almost every one of these issues, they're on the wrong side.

00:15:27.920 And then when they, what they're really frustrated about, Megan, is they don't have the White House.

00:15:32.680 They don't have the House.

00:15:34.020 They do not have the Senate.

00:15:35.300 They do not have the Supreme Court.

00:15:37.020 They do not have public support on any of these issues.

00:15:39.340 They have no power of subpoena.

00:15:41.540 They can, no, no power to block confirmation.

00:15:44.160 They're completely impotent.

00:15:46.180 And that was their own doing.

00:15:47.720 And they're very frustrated because they have given a sample paradigm blueprint through Joe

00:15:54.900 Biden's executive orders and his pressing the limits of what a president can do.

00:15:59.880 And it came right into Trump's hands.

00:16:02.840 And he said, you know, Biden did all of this stuff.

00:16:05.300 Then I guess he set a precedent.

00:16:06.800 And they've really shot themselves in the foot.

00:16:10.440 And this is not going to go well because we have federal laws.

00:16:15.680 And this is Confederate nullification.

00:16:18.180 We have 600 sanctuary jurisdictions.

00:16:21.320 And technically, they're all breaking federal law.

00:16:25.660 And the Constitution is very clear.

00:16:27.920 A state law does not surpass a federal law.

00:16:30.640 And they can't defy it.

00:16:32.140 We settled that in the Civil War.

00:16:33.820 And believe me, Megan, if a county in Wyoming or Utah said, you know what, we are a sanctuary

00:16:39.940 gun city and we're not going to require any federal handgun registration and the Endangered

00:16:45.660 Species Act does not apply here, they would go crazy.

00:16:48.540 They would say, that's neoconfederate.

00:16:50.140 You're defying federal law.

00:16:51.580 So because he has this power and they have none, Trump can just say, pick which federal

00:16:58.100 program you don't want.

00:16:59.300 But you're breaking federal law.

00:17:00.460 Also, I have no intention of extending federal money to you until you comply.

00:17:06.120 And I think the courts will probably back him up on that.

00:17:09.660 Well, the other question is, in California, exactly what program, what college program

00:17:14.720 are they funneling these trans students into?

00:17:17.680 Because the NCAA came out after Trump's executive order saying, we will comply 100%.

00:17:22.680 Boys are no longer welcome to play in girls sports under the moniker trans.

00:17:27.620 Sorry, but we're complying.

00:17:28.840 And they seem to me relieved to finally have had somebody at the federal level give very

00:17:33.940 clear guidance before it was, okay, let each individual sport decide whether it's fair

00:17:39.300 or not.

00:17:39.740 You could see that these athletic organizations like the NCAA were tying themselves in knots,

00:17:44.480 trying not to be the one to say, we want a blanket ban.

00:17:48.680 I mean, within two seconds, this guy said, yeah, we'll do what Trump said.

00:17:52.260 So think of it.

00:17:54.460 You're out in California.

00:17:56.100 You're on a girls' volleyball team.

00:17:58.120 Half the team is boys posing as girls.

00:18:01.820 And the college recruiters come.

00:18:05.180 Well, guess what?

00:18:06.180 Not a single one of those boys is going to be able to play college volleyball for girls.

00:18:10.160 Not a single one.

00:18:11.660 So what does that mean?

00:18:12.560 Are they more likely to go visit your team?

00:18:14.140 I would venture to say no.

00:18:15.580 They're actually probably not that interested in you because they know you're mostly boys,

00:18:19.060 not girls, and they're out recruiting for girls.

00:18:21.500 And what happens to those trans kids, those so-called trans kids?

00:18:24.960 Nothing.

00:18:25.640 They won't be playing college athletics if they don't do something to just activate a lane

00:18:30.320 for trans people.

00:18:31.320 That's what they should be working on, a meaningful lane for trans people to play sports in their

00:18:35.280 own lane, or they can play as what they are, biological boys.

00:18:39.540 But instead, we have this defiance, which makes them feel good, Victor, but sets no one up

00:18:44.920 for success.

00:18:45.520 Yeah, I mean, here in California, we've got about a $100 billion bill minimum to get Los

00:18:52.260 Angeles ready for the Olympics, and they're going to need a massive infusion of federal

00:18:57.980 money.

00:18:58.680 And you can see Gavin Newsom.

00:19:00.200 He bent the knee almost immediately when he saw Trump.

00:19:03.080 They understand that.

00:19:04.180 Trump doesn't have to make a big deal of it.

00:19:05.860 He just has to say, if I'm going to give you this federal money, I'm going to send Rick

00:19:10.040 Grinnell out.

00:19:10.620 He's going to watch over it.

00:19:12.560 And he's got public support.

00:19:14.420 There's such a backlash right now about the DEI and what happened in Los Angeles.

00:19:19.320 I don't want to prejudge what happened at Reagan Airport, but there's enough information to

00:19:23.920 suggest that there was non-merocratic hiring in the FAA.

00:19:28.540 And they're on the wrong side of every one of these issues.

00:19:31.700 And now people are starting to get really angry about it.

00:19:34.280 And I think what's also missed here is when Donald Trump came into office, they were very

00:19:41.080 confident because they thought that they could infiltrate the administrative state.

00:19:45.180 As we remember, Anonymous said he was going to stop Trump from the inside.

00:19:48.980 We had Venman doing it.

00:19:50.800 We had Rex Tillerson calling Trump stupid.

00:19:53.440 We had Jim Mattis.

00:19:54.520 We had all of these guys.

00:19:57.300 And Trump got wise.

00:19:59.340 And he said, you know what?

00:20:00.140 I'm not going to have any of them.

00:20:01.380 I'm going to have people that are more MAGA than I am.

00:20:03.720 And I'm going to turn them loose.

00:20:05.880 And they can't handle that.

00:20:07.520 They're looking for some interior person.

00:20:10.340 Maybe the Secretary of State.

00:20:12.320 Maybe the Secretary of Defense can sabotage it like we used to do.

00:20:16.180 But there's no one there.

00:20:17.920 And so they don't have any power now.

00:20:19.980 And I've never seen such asymmetry.

00:20:22.500 And they're just getting angrier because they're used to being coddled.

00:20:26.240 And they're losing the media now.

00:20:28.040 They don't know what to do with your podcast, Joe Rogan's.

00:20:31.640 They have no idea how to compete with that.

00:20:34.140 They're losing lawsuits for the first time, big lawsuits.

00:20:37.740 And it's like that whole revolution is now meeting a counterrevolution, cultural, social,

00:20:44.620 economic, political, kind of like the reaction against the Jacobins and Robespierre

00:20:48.820 and the French Revolution.

00:20:50.100 All of a sudden, people said, you know what?

00:20:51.840 I'm not going to change the date of the French Republic.

00:20:54.380 I'm not going to tear down statues.

00:20:56.280 I'm not going to behead anybody anymore.

00:20:58.340 And the people who did it are going to account for this.

00:21:00.640 And the whole country rose up within a matter of weeks.

00:21:04.100 And it's kind of like this was all a mystique, a bad dream we'd been in, a coma.

00:21:09.040 And now we're waking up and people said, I can't believe we did that.

00:21:12.280 I can't believe we had these crazy pronouns on email.

00:21:15.860 I can't believe we had this trans 0.001 of the population.

00:21:21.400 We claimed 20% of kids want to transition.

00:21:24.260 This was a collective madness.

00:21:25.840 And now we're waking up.

00:21:27.660 And I think the only thing I don't know, I don't know how far rightward the counterrevolution

00:21:33.640 is going to go.

00:21:34.360 But people, it hasn't gone, it hasn't really fully expressed itself yet.

00:21:38.460 I agree.

00:21:39.260 Oh, I love what you said.

00:21:40.620 It's like the fever broke.

00:21:41.820 That's how it feels.

00:21:42.700 You know, like we're all in this horrible, sick period.

00:21:45.900 And now the fever broke.

00:21:47.520 And we're out.

00:21:48.620 And we can live normally.

00:21:50.080 And but there's hangers on, hangers on who enjoyed the fever.

00:21:53.500 You know, the ones who love misery.

00:21:54.900 They're miserable.

00:21:55.600 And they want you to be too.

00:21:57.460 And most of them are at MSNBC and CNN.

00:22:00.380 And so there's you can see them holding on to the last vestiges of wokeism like, no,

00:22:04.440 I won't let it go.

00:22:05.320 It made me feel superior and better than you.

00:22:08.080 And I'm going to give you a couple of examples of that just to prove my point.

00:22:11.100 I'll start on CNN, where a trans athlete activist named Chris Mosier had the following

00:22:20.200 to say in Sot 13.

00:22:22.060 There's no evidence that trans athletes have an advantage over anyone else in sports.

00:22:28.860 Trans athletes play sports for the same reasons as anybody else, for our love of the game,

00:22:34.200 to be a part of a team, to challenge ourselves, and most of all, for the youth level, to have

00:22:39.480 fun.

00:22:40.260 And every young person deserves that opportunity to be their authentic self and to play the

00:22:44.640 sports that they love without compromising any part of who they are.

00:22:48.020 Okay, so there's no evidence that trans athletes have an advantage.

00:22:52.040 That's a pathological, yeah, that's a pathological lie.

00:22:55.840 He knows well that a trans woman that was a biological male has not only hurt people, but

00:23:03.100 wins records they otherwise would not in a male.

00:23:06.220 And he knows that women who transition into men have no record of consistent success against

00:23:13.560 biological males.

00:23:14.880 They don't win anything.

00:23:16.340 So when we talk about trans sports abuses, we're always talking about biological males

00:23:23.220 that say they're women and they're competing against women.

00:23:26.920 We're never talking about women who say, now they're males and I can beat regular males.

00:23:33.480 It doesn't happen.

00:23:34.760 If it does happen, it's almost so rare that nobody even knows about it.

00:23:38.620 So when he says there's no difference, he knows.

00:23:40.660 If there was no difference, we would have this argument right now.

00:23:43.600 Oh my God, we've got all of these transitioning males that have female bodies and they're just

00:23:49.060 sweeping all of these swimming and track contests.

00:23:52.120 Never happened.

00:23:53.760 Look at Leah Thomas towering, towering over his competitor.

00:23:58.460 I can't, is that Riley?

00:23:59.400 I can't even tell.

00:24:00.480 Yeah, that is Riley Gaines with whom he tied for fifth place in that infamous race in which

00:24:04.760 they let him hold the trophy, not her.

00:24:07.320 But look at this guy.

00:24:08.420 I mean, he's, look at this, Victor.

00:24:10.400 This is from the NCAA championships a couple of years ago.

00:24:13.120 He's towering over them.

00:24:14.360 He was in the 500s in his ranking as a male the previous season.

00:24:19.540 He crossed over to female.

00:24:21.220 They let him play without doing anything.

00:24:23.460 And he dominated.

00:24:24.760 He won.

00:24:25.260 He was in first place in many of these races, just not for nothing, but female athletes

00:24:30.540 have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender rivals competing against them in women's sport.

00:24:37.200 According to the United Nations, the study called violence against women and girls in

00:24:41.760 sports stated that more than 600 female athletes have been bested at various events by competitors

00:24:45.660 born male.

00:24:47.320 Let's say 600 in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different

00:24:53.540 sports.

00:24:54.540 And yet CNN wants to let this person get on there and say, there's no evidence that trans

00:25:00.720 athletes have an advantage over any, I mean, our eyes belie the claim.

00:25:05.860 So why would CNN do that, Victor?

00:25:07.780 Why are, why are they doing that?

00:25:10.180 Right.

00:25:10.580 They can't let go.

00:25:12.600 They can't let go.

00:25:13.860 And they know they're like addicts.

00:25:15.600 They know that the fix that they're getting is destroying them.

00:25:18.480 It's killing them.

00:25:19.340 And they know every time they put that person like that on, they lose market share.

00:25:23.240 They lose money.

00:25:24.360 They've settled these defamation suits that, but they, they have people still working for

00:25:29.740 them that think I'm going to put these people on makes me feel good.

00:25:34.020 I get high on it and I know it's going to end nowhere, but to bankruptcy and destroying,

00:25:39.000 but I can't stop.

00:25:40.200 And that's what MSNBC and CNN, Los Angeles times, they're all the same and they can't

00:25:46.340 stop.

00:25:46.740 And, uh, so it's, you know, there's, there's another example I want to show you while we're

00:25:51.760 on the subject of CNN, I could be doing this all day on MSNBC too, but CNN at least is trying

00:25:56.000 to claim that they're more fair and balanced, which is not true.

00:25:58.660 Um, they're really not letting go of the race thing.

00:26:02.420 So they've got this show on hosted by Abby Phillip, who is as woke as they come on every

00:26:08.260 issue.

00:26:08.640 She thinks she's downtrodden, poor her, uh, because she's a black woman and therefore

00:26:13.780 we're supposed to be, be feeling sorry for her.

00:26:15.620 She made that very clear in a segment the other night, but she makes it clear in pretty

00:26:18.940 much all of her segments.

00:26:19.980 So this is a segment in which she had on two black women as guests.

00:26:25.880 She is a black woman and two white men as well, along with one white woman.

00:26:31.440 And the two white men are names that our guests are, our audience probably knows Scott Jennings,

00:26:35.820 who's the only fair guy over there on CNN and a Republican and our pal, Arthur Idala,

00:26:40.620 who's a lawyer.

00:26:41.920 I mean, he doesn't often do political commentary, but he's doing some over on CNN.

00:26:46.020 He got completely ambushed as these, I mean, honestly, all of these women are extremely

00:26:50.700 successful.

00:26:51.600 You would have thought that it was 1949 America, the way this thing went down.

00:26:58.120 Watch this.

00:26:59.760 We live in different realities.

00:27:01.420 That's right.

00:27:01.940 I live in a reality where I know I do not have the same opportunity as you.

00:27:07.640 I know I don't.

00:27:08.840 And you know that too.

00:27:09.580 And I know, let's go.

00:27:10.080 I got it.

00:27:10.400 And you know that.

00:27:11.180 Let me, let me, let me just tell you about me.

00:27:13.300 I got a law degree, a master's and two bachelors, probably more education than all y'all added

00:27:18.820 up together at this table, right?

00:27:20.180 Fine by me.

00:27:20.580 And I have always been the least paid person on payroll at every institution I have worked

00:27:26.640 in.

00:27:27.120 And it's not because-

00:27:27.600 Even in the White House?

00:27:28.680 Even in the White House.

00:27:29.800 Well, whose fault is that?

00:27:31.240 I don't think he worked for George W. or Trump.

00:27:32.840 Well, guess what happened when I was there?

00:27:34.860 DEI.

00:27:37.140 Scott.

00:27:37.580 Look, but I think you made it and you are the most respected voice often at every room

00:27:42.660 or every table you're in, not because of anything other than your talent and your work ethic.

00:27:49.940 I have faced this.

00:27:51.000 I just said I was the least paid person, even in this moment sometimes, to my counterparts.

00:27:57.320 I do believe I'm qualified.

00:27:58.680 I know I'm qualified.

00:27:59.900 You won't ever tell me I'm not qualified.

00:28:01.680 But the system that I live in doesn't matter about my qualifications.

00:28:06.580 I'm jaded.

00:28:06.940 I am the attorney general as a black woman.

00:28:08.780 The mayor's a black man.

00:28:10.160 The head of the Senate is a black man.

00:28:11.240 Okay, New York is a small representation.

00:28:13.100 Well, small.

00:28:13.800 New York is not that small.

00:28:15.160 But the numbers also show black women are one of the most educated demographics in this

00:28:19.920 country and one of the least paid.

00:28:21.620 Why would that make any sense?

00:28:22.500 Why would that make any sense?

00:28:26.120 It's incredibly frustrating to watch that kind of thing, Victor.

00:28:29.400 I mean, I guarantee Abby Phillip was out there just as bad as the other two.

00:28:33.140 I guarantee you she's making over a million dollars.

00:28:36.220 And yet she's still, like Michelle Obama, wants us to think this is a racist, sexist country

00:28:42.240 that won't reward her adequately for her talents.

00:28:45.440 And then you got this other girl over there.

00:28:47.240 Her name is Carrie Champion.

00:28:50.100 No, sorry.

00:28:51.640 It was Ashley Allison, Abby Phillip, and Carrie Champion.

00:28:54.100 All three of them were giving them the business.

00:28:56.120 And she's going, I don't have the same opportunity.

00:28:59.720 I've been the least paid in all my jobs.

00:29:02.440 How do you know that's due to your color and your gender, right?

00:29:06.940 Maybe you were the youngest.

00:29:07.900 Maybe you had the least experience.

00:29:09.220 Maybe you didn't.

00:29:09.800 And you actually just weren't that talented.

00:29:11.320 I've seen you on TV.

00:29:12.280 You're fine.

00:29:13.140 You're not a star.

00:29:14.180 You're never going to get your own show.

00:29:15.360 There's a reason they haven't offered it to you yet.

00:29:16.880 And it's not because you're a black woman, because you're on the show of a black woman.

00:29:19.620 Clearly, CNN doesn't have a problem with that.

00:29:21.600 Maybe you're just not that talented.

00:29:23.060 Maybe you're not quite as good on television or in the White House for Obama, who I don't

00:29:27.820 think has a bias against black women, as you think you are.

00:29:31.240 But this is their chance to get out there, even though the nation has just issued a referendum

00:29:35.760 on the nonsense around this kind of thinking, to say, you're all wrong.

00:29:41.080 We're victims.

00:29:43.400 Yeah, well, on all these things, again, I go back to reality, not what they say, but what

00:29:48.060 they do.

00:29:48.660 I've been in academia 50 years.

00:29:50.480 I've probably chaired 20, maybe 40 search committees.

00:29:55.600 In not one case did I ever have a problem with getting a qualified black, Hispanic, and

00:30:03.360 mostly female into graduate school, law school, or medical school as underdog.

00:30:07.400 If I had a white male, I figured that he had to have 40 to 100 points at least higher in

00:30:15.240 the sat, perfect, and I still couldn't get them in.

00:30:17.560 And I must have had 100 calls in my life when I would complain from these Ivy League schools

00:30:23.420 that say, we do not want any more white males.

00:30:26.080 That's just a fact.

00:30:27.380 And when you apply for college, Megan, there is no instance of any African American or Hispanic

00:30:35.620 who is applying for college who says, no, no, I'm going to lie and say I'm white so I

00:30:41.020 can get advantage.

00:30:41.780 There is a whole pathology of people who are white claiming, like Elizabeth Warren, that

00:30:48.300 they're one-sixteenth, one-tenth Native American, Hispanic.

00:30:51.980 That was my biggest problem.

00:30:53.260 I get calls and the people say, Victor, this person says he's one-eighth black, he's one-fifteenth

00:30:58.320 Cherokee.

00:30:58.920 Can you verify that?

00:31:00.040 And so why would people do that if what she said is true?

00:31:05.000 And the fact is, for the last 40 years, being a person of color is an advantage.

00:31:10.920 And what's getting people very angry is that when Barack Obama came in, he got rid of the

00:31:16.000 old binary, affirmative action.

00:31:18.300 Black, 12 percent.

00:31:19.720 White, 88 percent.

00:31:21.200 Special consideration because of slavery, Jim Crow, income disparity.

00:31:25.520 He said, no, no, no, no, it's now going to be diversity and we're going to define that

00:31:29.220 as anybody who's not white.

00:31:31.500 And all of a sudden, people from India, from China, and it was like, all of a sudden you

00:31:37.520 see somebody coming from the Punjab who makes $150,000, he's a minority, or she's this.

00:31:44.160 And then the white working class finally rebelled against it.

00:31:47.480 They said, you know what, this has nothing to do with oppression.

00:31:50.560 There's no history of racism or culpability in many of these groups.

00:31:54.340 They have a higher per capita income than whites do, 16 different ethnic groups do, and

00:32:00.200 yet they're getting this diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:32:03.320 And that's what broke the back of it.

00:32:05.400 It was completely absurd.

00:32:07.880 People were willing to say, because of the historic racism toward blacks, they were willing

00:32:12.380 to support affirmative action for a while.

00:32:15.500 But after 50 years, they said, at some point, when do we stop violating the Constitution by

00:32:21.860 having racial preferences?

00:32:23.340 But they never supported diversity, equity, inclusion, because it was a complete fraud.

00:32:29.500 And the other thing about it is, the old Rainbow Coalition of Jesse Jackson, intersectionality,

00:32:36.640 we're going to make this great non-white complex of Hispanics, Native Americans, blacks, trans.

00:32:43.160 And there was no evidence ever that any of these groups had more affinity with each other than

00:32:48.720 they did for whites.

00:32:50.100 Many of them just identified as people.

00:32:53.380 And she should ask herself why 48% of the Hispanic vote went for Trump.

00:33:01.420 And Hispanic males were 54%, so-called people of color, intersectionality.

00:33:07.860 Hey, what happened?

00:33:09.240 They voted against a black woman.

00:33:12.220 And they are people of color.

00:33:13.980 She should ask why that is.

00:33:15.580 And the answer was, they said, we're no longer going to identify as essentially a particular

00:33:21.660 race.

00:33:22.120 It's going to be incidental.

00:33:23.320 We're more worried about human concerns like inflation or energy prices or crime.

00:33:28.100 And that's what frightens them, because they can't get off that fixation.

00:33:32.780 And she knows the more she talks like she did on the air, the more she turns off, not

00:33:38.160 white males alone, but Hispanic, everybody.

00:33:40.820 And she can't stop.

00:33:42.460 She's so used to being given deference, she cannot stop.

00:33:46.540 Same thing with the view.

00:33:47.900 If you just change it around like you said, you flipped it over, and a white person was

00:33:51.760 talking about blacks and collective stereotypes, you would have a, I don't know, they would

00:33:58.020 be, they'd be off the air in a nanosecond.

00:34:00.080 Oh, yeah.

00:34:00.700 Oh, look what happened.

00:34:01.700 So this Jasmine Crockett, she's a representative out of the state of Texas, she went on TV the

00:34:07.080 other night.

00:34:07.660 This is CNN too.

00:34:09.040 And she was responding to the fact that the Trump administration hired in some lower level

00:34:15.340 capacity, a guy who had sent out some racially charged tweets about how, if you really want

00:34:20.980 things done, you should hire white men.

00:34:23.320 They were not good tweets.

00:34:25.700 So, okay, fine.

00:34:26.860 She can criticize this guy, but listen to the language in which she does it.

00:34:31.200 And you ask me whether anybody could get away with doing this, exchange the races, a white

00:34:37.100 person talking this way about black commentators.

00:34:40.580 Here it is.

00:34:41.620 No, it doesn't change my opinion because we saw what he literally recently just posted.

00:34:46.920 And the coddling is for the white boys.

00:34:49.360 That's what's happening right now.

00:34:50.760 I am tired of the white tears.

00:34:52.440 Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned.

00:34:55.940 When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you

00:35:00.460 can't make me doubt who I am?

00:35:02.680 It's because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into

00:35:06.980 the seat.

00:35:07.700 When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there

00:35:12.140 is no comparison.

00:35:13.140 And that is the life that we have always lived.

00:35:16.200 So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out

00:35:20.400 by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder.

00:35:24.700 They don't want any more Kamala Harris's.

00:35:26.720 They don't want any more Jasmine Crockett's, but I got news for them.

00:35:29.760 I don't care what they do.

00:35:31.160 We will fight to the end to make sure that we get our due.

00:35:34.660 Because again, if you want to talk about the people that shouldn't be in this country,

00:35:38.140 you probably need to look in the mirror because the last time I checked the Native Americans

00:35:42.500 whose summer ice have been rounding up or the Puerto Ricans who are absolutely Americans.

00:35:48.380 Listen, the only people that came and colonized this place are your ancestors, Trump.

00:35:54.480 Okay.

00:35:55.300 Just to, just to reiterate.

00:35:56.880 So picture this picture, a white person sitting there saying coddling is for the black boys.

00:36:03.580 I'm sick and tired of the black tears.

00:36:05.960 I had to work 10 times harder than any of the black people.

00:36:09.520 I'm sick of these mediocre black boys.

00:36:13.040 It's obviously offensive.

00:36:14.420 It's racist.

00:36:15.240 It's incredibly racially charged.

00:36:17.160 She's so deeply offensive.

00:36:20.220 Total pass.

00:36:21.740 You can talk like that.

00:36:23.280 No problem on CNN because you're ripping on whites and white men in particular.

00:36:30.020 And because they teed it up with one guy's racist tweet.

00:36:33.140 So you can just go off and be as equally or more racist as you want.

00:36:39.420 And why, but the thing she doesn't understand is if you look at Asians, they went from about

00:36:45.180 30% for Trump in 2020 to almost 45%.

00:36:50.060 Hispanics, as I said, they were 48%.

00:36:53.560 They went up 15 points.

00:36:55.080 Hispanic males went up 20 points.

00:36:57.040 According to her idea of intersectionality, why would a person that she would consider, and she mentioned Native American, but Native American vote went for Trump.

00:37:06.340 That was really shocking.

00:37:08.060 But why would all of these groups that are so-called non-white vote for a white male other than a black woman?

00:37:16.040 You know what they say.

00:37:16.900 You know what they say, Victor?

00:37:17.880 They say that the Hispanics are white adjacent, or those are black people who want to be white adjacent and sort of be near the circles of power.

00:37:26.100 Well, I live here in the San Joaquin Valley, and this is not the first diaspora from northern Mexico where people came in the 1950s and 60s who were indistinguishable from Italians.

00:37:39.280 These are people coming up that are indigenous, and they're from Oaxaca, Chiapas, Michoacan, and they are distinctly identifiable as indigenous people.

00:37:50.880 And that is the new influx of the last 30 years.

00:37:54.440 That is the demographic, not the so-called northern Mexicans of 50 years ago who were more or less the bulwark of the Democratic Party.

00:38:04.800 The people who are voting Republican are first-generation Mexican-American males from the deepest part of Mexico, the most impoverished.

00:38:15.640 Some people, Spanish is their second language.

00:38:18.520 They speak an indigenous mixotech.

00:38:21.540 Why would they vote for Donald Trump over a black woman?

00:38:25.940 Nobody forced them to do that.

00:38:27.340 It's not Marx's false consciousness or what's wrong with Kansas and all that crap that intellectuals try to say.

00:38:34.340 They do it because they're sick and tired of someone talking nonstop like Representative Crockett about race.

00:38:41.980 And they think that people who deliver the goods, cheaper gas, cheaper energy, more jobs, safer streaks, they want to live in a world like that.

00:38:52.520 That's why they left Mexico, not to recreate Mexico.

00:38:55.500 And so she has no support.

00:38:59.880 And I think the longer that she talks like that and the longer the people in The View do and the longer Representative Warren or, I mean, Senator Warren or Hirono screaming yell or Cory Booker keeps yelling and screaming, it's going to drive down the Democratic Party into nothing.

00:39:18.540 They should go back, Megan, and look at the 92 and 96 Democratic Convention statements.

00:39:23.920 They were written by Doug Schoen and Mark Penn.

00:39:26.200 I could not believe them.

00:39:27.360 I went back and looked at them.

00:39:28.500 And after being in the wilderness for 12 years with Reagan and Bush one, even with Ross Perot, they won the election.

00:39:37.180 And you look at it, it says, we, the Democratic Party, are for our tough crime.

00:39:41.780 No exemptions given to youth.

00:39:43.540 We want to balance the budget.

00:39:44.980 We want to close the border.

00:39:46.220 Legal only immigration.

00:39:47.500 That's what they talked about.

00:39:49.320 And they won.

00:39:50.600 And they've never, and then, and Obama mouthed that for one, four years.

00:39:55.320 And then he went full Jacobin, just like these people.

00:39:59.260 And they're not going to win.

00:40:00.500 And she's, the militant black or any militant that puts race as the essential characteristic of somebody in a multiracial society, a postmodern race, they're not going to win.

00:40:13.620 People are sick of it.

00:40:15.320 Look at the military.

00:40:16.340 They have, they're having record.

00:40:18.600 They are getting almost 10,000 recruits in December and January.

00:40:22.440 They're going to meet their goal for the first time.

00:40:24.860 The Pentagon's not going to have to lie.

00:40:26.540 For the last three years, they're short 40, 50.

00:40:28.560 And they say, well, kind of, sort of.

00:40:30.460 We really didn't have that goal.

00:40:32.360 So they lowered the goal.

00:40:33.360 We met it.

00:40:33.840 But now there's people rejoining because they think it's going to be less race obsessed and less DEI and more meritocratic.

00:40:41.600 It's a really, it's kind of a renaissance.

00:40:44.320 And she's on the losing end.

00:40:45.600 And I expect them to get small, that group cadre to get smaller and smaller and louder and louder and meaner and more, more racist.

00:40:55.140 And I think because they're losing and they're going to be completely impotent if they continue.

00:41:00.460 The numbers with the military are amazing.

00:41:05.340 Pete Hegseth tweeted this out the other day.

00:41:07.420 In December, the U.S. Army had its best recruiting number in 12 years.

00:41:11.740 Obviously, this is post-Trump's election.

00:41:13.700 In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 years.

00:41:19.640 Bottom line, America's youth want to serve under the bold and strong America First leadership of real, at real Donald Trump, of Donald Trump.

00:41:27.080 And Pete Hegseth, too, who's getting all the wokeness out of the military.

00:41:31.400 I just wanted to make a couple points on this.

00:41:35.200 So in that debate, the annoying debate with the three women against Arthur and Scott Jennings, one of them, you know, she's asking for like, you know, where are all the black women?

00:41:47.340 And Arthur, who's a lawyer, says, look at the Supreme Court.

00:41:51.480 And on the Supreme Court, we have a black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and we have a black man, Clarence Thomas.

00:41:56.080 And we have four women, by the way.

00:41:58.420 We have four women on there, three libs and Amy Coney Barrett.

00:42:02.680 And so he says, look at the Supreme Court.

00:42:04.520 And they say, but how many?

00:42:06.240 And he says, I mean, there's two black people on the Supreme Court, two out of nine, which is greater than the population level.

00:42:13.060 And they say, but how many?

00:42:17.160 And he says, well, there's a there's a one black woman and there's a black man, too.

00:42:21.000 And he said, well, look at the population percentage.

00:42:24.340 Right.

00:42:24.520 Black women are six percent of the population.

00:42:26.800 But I don't know what's what's one out of nine.

00:42:29.840 It's it's more than 10 percent.

00:42:33.140 And so he says, you know, look at the pot.

00:42:35.520 And they say, oh, then they say, don't don't go to numbers.

00:42:38.840 Why?

00:42:39.340 Stop doing numbers.

00:42:40.260 Meanwhile, they brought up numbers.

00:42:41.600 They say, how many are on there?

00:42:43.140 He's like, well, look, what's the population number?

00:42:45.140 They said, well, don't bring up numbers.

00:42:46.340 It's like they don't want to go there.

00:42:48.160 Right.

00:42:48.400 It's like, wait, you're so oppressed.

00:42:50.880 Black women can't get anywhere in America, you know, just because they're black and they're women.

00:42:56.220 Did anybody mention Kamala Harris?

00:42:58.620 Like the Democrats just had a black female presidential nominee.

00:43:04.960 They had a black president, but that's none of they had a black female vice president in the last term.

00:43:11.860 Like none of that counts.

00:43:13.380 You see, the numbers are never good enough, even when they're greater.

00:43:16.680 Then the population share.

00:43:18.480 There's always something you can say if it's not parity, if it's not 50-50, even though that's not what the population is, there's something wrong with America.

00:43:26.760 There is.

00:43:27.600 I mean, does anybody want to say, let's not make let's get rid of merit and we're going to have 15 percent of the Super Bowl teams are going to be Asian and we're going to insist on 20 percent are Hispanic and they have to have 68 percent white.

00:43:41.740 And the NFL and the NBA.

00:43:42.800 Maybe women.

00:43:43.960 Yeah.

00:43:44.640 And women.

00:43:45.180 NFL and the NBA range from 65 to 70 percent African-American.

00:43:50.660 Same thing with the federal works of postal service is about 28 percent black.

00:43:54.820 And so whenever you get to those numbers and here I where I work at Stanford University for the last four years, they let in nine percent white males.

00:44:05.160 White males constitute about 33 percent of the population.

00:44:08.460 And they waive the SAT and all of a sudden now, Megan, they say, oh, wait a minute, we're going to go back and have an SAT from now on.

00:44:17.800 Oh, wait a minute.

00:44:18.480 We're going to start comparatively ranking your GPA on the quality of your high school again.

00:44:23.360 Oh, wait a minute.

00:44:24.100 There's no more Hamas camps out screaming and yelling.

00:44:27.560 Oh, wait, they're not breaking into the president's.

00:44:30.060 And you know why?

00:44:31.120 Because Donald Trump, like some fearful colossus, is telling them and they get the message.

00:44:36.940 We may tax your endowment.

00:44:38.960 You may have to pay on your endowment another billion and a half dollars.

00:44:42.580 Oh, by the way, if these people commit a felony on your campus, whether you suspend them or not, we might yank their green card.

00:44:49.520 And it's had a catastrophic effect on the left.

00:44:52.920 It's so weird.

00:44:53.880 It's almost as if they said, well, for all just forget all the stuff I said, just forget about all the windows, just Judge Duncan.

00:45:01.300 I ran out of the law school and humiliated him.

00:45:03.300 I'm not going to do that anymore because I am a careerist and I don't want a felony on my record.

00:45:08.440 And the one thing I do not want to do is go back to Gaza, Syria, Iran, Iraq, whatever.

00:45:15.160 And the same thing with the people that shut down the 101.

00:45:17.940 All these people were waving the flag of the country under no circumstances for those undocumented they ever wanted to go back to.

00:45:28.360 And they were burning in the middle of 101, the flag of the country they're insisting on staying.

00:45:33.620 That is so incoherent.

00:45:35.520 It makes no sense blocking commuters of the middle class trying to get to work.

00:45:40.400 That type of performance art doesn't work.

00:45:44.900 It just turns people off.

00:45:46.200 I work with all liberal people at Stanford University.

00:45:51.180 I cannot tell you that people will come up and they'll whisper to you and they'll say, oh, what do you think about this DEI thing?

00:45:58.980 I said, what do you think?

00:45:59.880 I think it's time.

00:46:02.500 It's time to go.

00:46:04.320 I think it's time to go.

00:46:06.240 I think we need the SAT again.

00:46:07.960 I think we don't need the DEI czars, you know, looking at the percentage of race and grades on my grade cards and going over my syllabus and telling me I can't teach.

00:46:20.420 So everybody is sick of it, even the people on the left.

00:46:23.620 And it's like, I don't know what it is.

00:46:25.800 It's kind of like that scene in The Wizard of Oz when they pull back that curtain Toto does and you see this little man with these gears and everybody thought he had this big, scary face.

00:46:34.720 The Wizard of Oz was so scary and he was just this little nothing.

00:46:38.760 And I think that's what happened with the DEI and the woke and the Green New Deal.

00:46:43.280 We were all bullied.

00:46:44.800 They said, you can't say this.

00:46:45.980 Don't do that.

00:46:46.700 They'll ruin.

00:46:47.160 They'll deplatform you.

00:46:48.200 They'll shadow ban you.

00:46:49.580 They'll cancel culture you.

00:46:51.040 And then all of a sudden enough people said, go ahead.

00:46:53.600 I don't care.

00:46:54.340 And then it just shattered.

00:46:55.380 It was all smoke and mirrors.

00:46:58.420 And now, because it wasn't based on reality.

00:47:01.460 And now on energy and everything.

00:47:04.380 And it's based on something so anti-American.

00:47:06.280 It was.

00:47:06.900 And so unfair in the case of the sports.

00:47:09.300 One other point on that, Megan Rapinoe, famous women's soccer star.

00:47:14.960 Again, she's just like Abby Phillip and those panelists.

00:47:18.140 She's just like Jasmine Crockett.

00:47:20.020 Only in her case, it's even worse because what she's looking to do is pull up the ladder after her.

00:47:25.060 Like she, she got through women's soccer, having to only compete against women.

00:47:29.900 And she became a star and a multimillionaire, multimillionaire off of Americans and their love to watch her play.

00:47:37.340 And now she wants my little girl to compete against boys.

00:47:41.380 Who am I?

00:47:42.060 My girl is a soccer player.

00:47:43.520 My girl is very talented.

00:47:44.900 And she wants my girl to play against fully intact biological males who have gone through male puberty.

00:47:53.900 Here she is with her, is this her wife, Sue Bird, the basketball player who we, yeah, talking on their podcast about this push to protect girls in sport just the other day.

00:48:06.180 I think the main question out of this that I have is like, how prevalent is the issue of trans athletes?

00:48:13.660 This whole thing has really just been this effort to, you know, for politicians mostly, but for people to scare people, for people to tap into the unknown.

00:48:23.560 And they're using this guise of protecting women and girls in sports.

00:48:26.940 And really just, it's like fear mongering.

00:48:28.880 It's just like, you know, all of the instances that we hear about, it's like one or two kids or one kid, or, you know, there's less than 10 athletes, as Charlie Baker was saying, out of 510,000, you know, they're taking over women's sports and we have to protect women from women's sports.

00:48:47.880 I mean, I've always just thought that that was very laughable to hear.

00:48:52.440 It's amazing.

00:48:54.140 Now she says it's over.

00:48:55.520 It's exaggerated.

00:48:57.700 And when all the scientific, all the scientific studies showed it was 0.001.

00:49:03.680 And then all the campuses were saying they were lying.

00:49:06.060 It's actually 20% of all youth want to transition.

00:49:09.040 They can't figure out whatever argument is convenient for the moment, but they know what they're doing.

00:49:16.200 And they have no purpose.

00:49:17.160 What she knows for sure is that she's, any girl who has to compete against a biological boy is in danger.

00:49:23.260 She just doesn't care.

00:49:24.400 It's more important to her to seem like a good person than it is to her.

00:49:29.400 What happens to my kid or somebody else's kid listening to this show?

00:49:33.540 And all of us have risen up and elected Donald Trump who has told her she can pound sand.

00:49:38.960 We care more about these girls' safety than we do about Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, her fiancé, feeling good about themselves as virtuous people.

00:49:47.680 Those days are past.

00:49:48.800 We know they're not.

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00:50:51.620 So, Victor, this week we finally saw the transcript from CBS News of that infamous Kamala Harris sit-down right before the election.

00:51:06.240 They were forced to turn it over to the FCC after a complaint was filed by Team Trump about possible deception in advertising and dealing with the public.

00:51:17.000 And what we saw was that terrible answer that she gave to Netanyahu's not listening, which had one answer on 60 Minutes and a different answer in the teaser clip that aired on Face the Nation.

00:51:31.540 Got no better behind the scenes.

00:51:33.380 It was really just those two answers melded together.

00:51:36.260 That's all that was there.

00:51:37.300 But what was more interesting was some of the stuff they omitted, they cut from the interview.

00:51:42.280 And nobody's obligated to air the whole interview.

00:51:43.900 It doesn't always happen that you air the whole—60 never airs the whole interview.

00:51:47.900 But it was very interesting what they chose to cut out, including inanity like this.

00:51:55.380 We are people who have ambition and aspirations and dreams and optimism and hope.

00:52:07.780 If you look at the character of who we are and how we have achieved the strength that we have achieved, I believe in large part it is because of our character and our belief in the promise of America.

00:52:21.500 And I'm running for president because I want to do everything that is possible to create an opportunity for people to achieve those goals, those ambitions and those dreams.

00:52:33.940 Oh, my God.

00:52:36.620 Now there is reporting today that CBS staffers are reportedly becoming increasingly upset about the drama unfolding over at 60 Minutes,

00:52:47.420 that Puck News reporting about the mixed emotions from staffers following comments made by 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens,

00:52:54.920 who told his colleagues at Monday's meeting that the editing was, quote, perfectly fine.

00:52:59.340 Is the edit fine? One CBS News Insider asked rhetorically.

00:53:03.780 It's obviously an unforced error.

00:53:06.480 And now they are upset at the possibility of CBS News settling the $10 billion lawsuit that Trump filed against them down in Texas,

00:53:18.280 alleging fraud in their editing.

00:53:20.880 And this is something that we expect they are going to settle because their parent company, Paramount, is trying to get a merger approved by the Trump administration.

00:53:30.400 And CBS News is, you know, the vaunted journalists there don't want to pay him one dime.

00:53:36.780 And even internally, though, are questioning whether they did the right thing in that ridiculous interview they aired.

00:53:43.840 Yeah, I think Corinne Jean-Pierre would call that a cheap fake when the edited version, because they don't even make an argument anymore.

00:53:54.200 They used to say that she was Socrates or Cicero or something.

00:53:57.340 But, you know, James Carville the other day said we lost because we had the seventh string as our candidate.

00:54:04.320 And then when she gave a talk, I don't know if you saw that clip about the L.A. fires.

00:54:07.880 It was even worse.

00:54:08.700 So I guess when she talks like this, even her own supporters will say they cringe and they'll say, we've got to edit this or we've got to keep her off the stage.

00:54:18.220 And the question is, how did she ever get where she was getting back to Representative Crocker's, you know, I mean, she's she had everything entitled from her from the very beginning.

00:54:29.100 And from the very beginning, she had one card.

00:54:31.560 And we saw that in the debate in 2020 with Joe Biden when she called him a racist.

00:54:36.120 You I was a little girl and you were the racist that stopped me from, you know, going you I had to take a but all that stuff.

00:54:43.680 And and I won't even get into Willie Brown, but she was a mediocrity.

00:54:48.620 I don't mean that in a mean way.

00:54:50.140 She just was.

00:54:50.980 And she was way over her head.

00:54:52.600 She knew she was over her head.

00:54:54.560 They knew she was over their head.

00:54:56.120 And now the other day, Nancy Pelosi basically said we decapitated our candidate and Joe Biden and his enfeebleness was a better candidate than Kamala Harris.

00:55:07.040 And so they they know what they did.

00:55:09.740 That was the worst campaign, I think, in my lifetime.

00:55:13.180 It really was.

00:55:14.720 It was the most and they had everything going.

00:55:17.060 They had the money.

00:55:17.900 They had the media on their side.

00:55:19.780 They had they they had the administrative state on their side and they still lost.

00:55:25.900 And she was.

00:55:26.440 Victor, did you see Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC sitting there with all of the people running for DNC chair?

00:55:32.460 And he's like, raise your hand if you think she lost because of racism and sexism.

00:55:35.460 Every single person raised their hand.

00:55:37.080 And he said, that's the correct answer.

00:55:39.740 She lost because of racism and sexism, even though she had the likes of 60 minutes running cover for her.

00:55:46.480 And let me just show you something and I'll give you the floor back to your point about how she's not beloved.

00:55:52.920 She doesn't inspire anyone.

00:55:55.800 This was an AstroTurf campaign.

00:55:58.500 She and Doug Emhoff, her husband, swung by the L.A. Lakers game.

00:56:03.300 That's where she lives, California, where she's from.

00:56:06.620 They swung by the game this week.

00:56:09.680 And look at the welcome.

00:56:16.480 Literally, no one is even noticing them.

00:56:22.980 Whatever cheers you hear for what's happening around them.

00:56:26.940 There are no cheers.

00:56:28.800 No one cares.

00:56:30.100 No one cares.

00:56:31.640 And when when when they all said on that stage that it was racism and misogyny that that got Trump elected because he was running against a black woman.

00:56:41.840 Why was she polling better than Joe Biden, who was a white male?

00:56:45.700 Do they really believe that if they had like Nancy Pelosi does, if they had put a white male against Donald Trump, he would have he would have won.

00:56:53.560 He wouldn't have won either.

00:56:54.660 The problem wasn't the sex or the gender.

00:56:56.720 It was the message.

00:56:57.720 And the message repelled people.

00:56:59.920 Didn't just not energize them.

00:57:01.940 They were sick of it.

00:57:03.120 They were sick of the open border.

00:57:04.440 They were sick of the five hundred thousand criminal illegal aliens.

00:57:08.060 They were sick of the trans thing.

00:57:10.000 They were sick of D.I.

00:57:11.320 And they it wouldn't they could have had second coming.

00:57:15.200 You know, they could have a deity run and they wouldn't have won with that message.

00:57:18.640 And they keep thinking, oh, it's a messenger or it's this or it's that.

00:57:22.720 No, it's you.

00:57:23.640 It's what you stand for.

00:57:25.420 And you hijacked the Democratic Party and ruined it.

00:57:28.280 And you gave us a neo-socialist revolutionary party.

00:57:31.720 And no one wants it.

00:57:33.280 Nobody wants anything to do with it.

00:57:35.520 And and they can't accept that.

00:57:37.940 And people who are not afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome see all of this clearly.

00:57:43.600 You know, it's like it really is like a disease.

00:57:45.400 You know, it's like syphilis where it just infects your brain.

00:57:48.060 You can't think straight anymore.

00:57:49.600 And you can tell when somebody has it's obvious.

00:57:51.480 And that leads me to my next subject, which is the treatment of Melania Trump versus Bianca

00:57:59.080 Sensori.

00:58:00.200 OK, bear with me.

00:58:02.380 I'm going to tie it together.

00:58:03.980 So Melania Trump puts out her new first lady portrait and she looks like a million bucks.

00:58:10.620 She's wearing a tuxedo jacket and she's got her hands on a like a shiny desk.

00:58:17.120 She it's a power shot and it's in black and white.

00:58:19.420 And she looks absolutely stunning, as she always does.

00:58:23.480 But I I love it.

00:58:24.480 And she's she just looks like a boss, frankly.

00:58:27.800 OK, so here's Vogue reacting to it.

00:58:30.520 Melania Trump looked more like she was guest starring on an episode of The Apprentice than

00:58:34.980 assuming the role of first lady.

00:58:36.900 Trump's clothing certainly didn't help the boardroom pastiche.

00:58:40.240 The choice to wear a tuxedo as opposed to a blazer or blouse made Trump look more like

00:58:44.740 a freelance magician than a public servant.

00:58:47.340 It's perhaps unsurprising that a woman who lived in a gold encrusted penthouse whose fame

00:58:51.800 is so intertwined with a reality television empire would refuse to abandon theatrics, even

00:58:58.720 when faced with 248 years of tradition.

00:59:02.660 And then they talk about how she sort of tried the first time around in 2017 with her first

00:59:07.920 portrait, which was in color, with her face airbrushed into oblivion, something they would

00:59:13.980 never say about Jill Biden.

00:59:16.940 And now they write they conclude with now attempting a no nonsense businesswoman approach in her

00:59:22.320 situationally inappropriate tuxedo.

00:59:25.360 It seems that Melania Trump still struggles with sartorial messaging.

00:59:29.820 Now, the woman who wrote this, I mean, she must be a style icon, right?

00:59:33.400 It's got to be somebody who's like been on the cover of Vogue herself, who's in charge of

00:59:37.500 their product line.

00:59:38.780 No, it's a 26 year old named Hannah Jackson, who's a fashion writer for Vogue, who lives

00:59:44.760 in Brooklyn, New York, who writes here she is.

00:59:47.500 Look at this.

00:59:48.000 This is the woman who thinks she's in the position to judge Melania.

00:59:51.740 She says she when she was offered her job as a fashion writer at Vogue a year and a half

00:59:55.300 ago, she was a part time dance teacher who had just emptied her savings to move across

00:59:59.460 the country.

01:00:00.780 This woman's done nothing.

01:00:02.280 Do you hate Melania?

01:00:03.380 Melania, you're hired.

01:00:05.000 You're the one for us.

01:00:06.560 OK, I'm almost done.

01:00:07.800 Now, contrast that.

01:00:08.860 It's not the same writer, but the same magazine to what they wrote about Bianca Sensori, the

01:00:15.400 literally naked wife of Kanye West, Ye West, at the Grammys.

01:00:21.420 She literally wore nothing and they were there for it.

01:00:27.240 This writer is named Raven Smith, and she writes all about how somehow this was empowering.

01:00:35.900 She describes it as a slip so sheer, so without undergarments that it exposed her uncensored

01:00:41.540 nudity beneath.

01:00:42.620 So a slip.

01:00:43.500 OK, she writes about how, look, fashion for me has always celebrated a body's sensuality

01:00:51.280 rather than the unimaginative base level provocation of a woman's nakedness.

01:00:56.820 But she goes on to say, while I'm not necessarily advocating for snatch on the red carpet, it

01:01:02.080 could also be argued that it's Bianca's body and therefore Bianca's choice.

01:01:06.740 I hate to state the obvious, but a woman can wear whatever she wants.

01:01:11.220 A woman can wear as many sheer body suits and thongs as she likes.

01:01:13.900 A woman can court the male gaze.

01:01:16.020 A woman can make a zillion choices we wouldn't personally make ourselves and still not have

01:01:20.180 that mean she's being coerced or a victim or that something predatory has happened.

01:01:24.620 And then she writes that because Bianca's not speaking up, because we're bereft of any

01:01:30.300 deeper motivations, the silence has us scrabbling for answers of our own.

01:01:34.840 But maybe that's exactly what Bianca wanted.

01:01:38.580 You see, that that was empowering.

01:01:41.460 But Melania Trump is a pathetic magician who is performing theatrics and is situationally

01:01:51.400 inappropriate, but Bianca is totally appropriate and a badass girl boss.

01:01:58.380 You know that I think everybody understands that Melania is the most photogenic fashion

01:02:05.400 conscious, but also in a very positive way since Jackie Kennedy.

01:02:09.620 We've never seen the last time we had it with fair or not.

01:02:13.180 The last time we had anybody that glamorous, attractive, knowing about fashion, good taste

01:02:20.200 was Jackie Kennedy.

01:02:21.320 And they went crazy over Jackie Kennedy.

01:02:23.380 I can remember as I was a kid, every magazine had Jackie Kennedy.

01:02:28.120 Jackie did this.

01:02:28.960 Jackie wore this.

01:02:29.900 And she actually dressed a lot like Melania.

01:02:32.740 And then when they talk about the body, it was just five years ago, Megan, we heard about

01:02:37.860 objectifying women during the Me Too thing, that you don't objectify a woman by just gazing

01:02:43.640 at her body, or you don't do that, you male predators.

01:02:47.440 And so the problem with all of this is that that writer can't decide whether feminism is

01:02:55.060 a Victorian prudery, that you look at a woman or you touch her shoulder and that is a mortal

01:03:02.080 sin and you're going to destroy your career, or you can get naked and you can be more

01:03:07.760 provocatively sexually than any time in the history of America, the way young girls dress

01:03:12.160 today.

01:03:12.440 You know that better than I do.

01:03:13.540 Everybody knows that.

01:03:14.980 They're the most provocative dress.

01:03:16.600 They're being encouraged to dress like that.

01:03:19.880 At the same time, the feminist movement was saying to men, if you dare look at that, and

01:03:25.600 they want you to, and this writer is saying that now she wants the male gaze, but if she

01:03:30.360 actually got the male gaze, then that person could be, he would be canceled.

01:03:35.380 Like me too.

01:03:35.900 It's not okay for the woman to want it, but it's not okay for the men to do it.

01:03:40.100 Yes.

01:03:40.740 And that's what, that's what destroyed me too.

01:03:43.640 And that's what's destroying the whole, all these internal contradictions, because they're,

01:03:47.980 they're all contrary to human nature.

01:03:49.440 We have rules and laws against people walking around naked for a very good reason, because

01:03:55.000 we don't want people to provoke people sexually, and we don't want to see people's private

01:04:01.860 parts in public.

01:04:02.880 No one wants to see that.

01:04:04.540 And that's why for centuries, there's been laws against nudity.

01:04:08.960 And all the, as revolutionaries, they think they can break these ancient customs and traditions

01:04:15.160 that were never based, they think, on anything other than oppression, when they were all based

01:04:19.660 on human nature.

01:04:20.460 And we inherited all of this, this tradition and it, it's served us very well.

01:04:26.920 And, you know, the final thing I say about, you know, when getting back to Elon Musk, I

01:04:31.840 have never thought, I was thinking that when you, you, we were talking about the hatred

01:04:37.240 of Elon Musk, we have never seen anybody, whether you like him or not.

01:04:40.480 We have never seen anybody like him in our lifetime that broke into the big three auto

01:04:45.280 industry.

01:04:46.620 No one is there.

01:04:47.400 They've tried to do that.

01:04:48.720 Studebaker, American Motor, nobody could do it.

01:04:51.040 He did it.

01:04:52.140 Nobody has supplanted NASA like he did.

01:04:55.280 He's a one man NASA.

01:04:56.500 He saved NASA.

01:04:57.640 He's probably going to save these poor astronauts that were abandoned by the Biden space program.

01:05:02.840 And then he just revolutionized social media.

01:05:06.220 Had he not bought, bought X, I don't think Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, all those tech

01:05:11.200 giants would have defected to Trump.

01:05:13.420 They would have censored the news.

01:05:14.900 They would have had the FBI.

01:05:16.400 He is, he's, he isn't Michelangelo.

01:05:19.380 He's really a Renaissance person.

01:05:21.400 And for them to, I say that because AOC said, I think yesterday that of all the billionaires

01:05:26.800 she met, he was the dumbest or he was very unintelligent.

01:05:30.160 Yes, she did.

01:05:31.360 I think of all the dumb things she said.

01:05:35.860 Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:37.420 So.

01:05:37.900 Yeah, no, it's shocking.

01:05:38.800 I mean, her, her cluelessness and I mean, the emptiness of her insults.

01:05:43.300 Okay.

01:05:43.860 While we're on the subject of salaciousness, I am happy to tell you it's back in Super

01:05:50.060 Bowl ads.

01:05:50.880 And I think America is just fine with that.

01:05:54.700 Now, I do think it's interesting.

01:05:55.940 You get a preview.

01:05:56.800 You know, the big game is this Sunday.

01:05:58.420 It's going to be Chiefs versus Eagles.

01:06:00.220 And these things can be a bit of a cultural touchstone, right?

01:06:04.860 Like just where are we as a nation?

01:06:07.420 They are removing from the end zone the end racism signs.

01:06:12.640 That's big, right?

01:06:13.900 Because we've been subjected to those lectures from the NFL for four going on five years now.

01:06:19.240 Um, they are not eliminating the so-called black national anthem.

01:06:24.640 We're going to have that thing, which is divisive in this context.

01:06:28.700 Yes, it is.

01:06:29.580 But there's they're doing it.

01:06:31.760 Um, we are going to get a halftime interview of President Trump, unlike Joe Biden, who wouldn't

01:06:37.620 sit for one because he couldn't.

01:06:39.240 Uh, Trump has weighed in on the Super Bowl where he will be attending and let me see

01:06:45.680 if I can find what he said.

01:06:46.780 He posted two great quarterbacks in this game.

01:06:49.360 Also, an unbelievable running back and the absolute best tight end in football.

01:06:54.280 Now, we think that's a reference to Saquon Barkley on the Eagles and Travis Kelsey on

01:06:58.840 the Chiefs.

01:06:59.900 Incredible coaching.

01:07:00.860 If they would only get rid of that really weird looking new kickoff deal, which actually

01:07:05.100 makes football more dangerous.

01:07:06.320 There's some new kickoff at the NFL.

01:07:07.780 They would be doing everybody, especially the fans, a big favor.

01:07:11.440 Anyway, it will be a great game.

01:07:13.080 I'll be doing the interview before the game at 3 p.m.

01:07:15.700 There hasn't been one in four years.

01:07:17.700 Gee, I wonder why.

01:07:19.080 Okay, so that's Trump.

01:07:21.160 And then you tell me, you know, like all over Twitter the past two weeks, anything that happens,

01:07:26.160 you see like a Trump thing or Trump dance or, you know, girls celebrating Trump and you

01:07:31.560 see the line.

01:07:32.100 We are so back.

01:07:33.360 We are so back.

01:07:34.460 That's kind of how I feel looking at this Carl's Jr. ad.

01:07:39.220 We are so back.

01:07:40.380 It's featuring an influencer by the name of Alex Earle.

01:07:45.160 Watch.

01:07:46.300 Let's be real.

01:07:47.340 Everyone's going to be a hot mess after the big game.

01:07:50.400 Been there.

01:07:52.300 Done that.

01:07:53.300 And I've got just what you need to cure that post-party bug.

01:07:56.560 The Carl's Jr. hangover burger.

01:07:58.160 Egg, double bacon.

01:07:59.420 Yeah, you need that double bacon.

01:08:01.240 Charbroiled beef, hash rounds, cheese and sauce.

01:08:03.640 Just the way I like it.

01:08:15.680 And guess what?

01:08:16.660 It's free.

01:08:17.340 The day after the big game.

01:08:18.520 You just have to download the Carl's Jr. app and sign up for my rewards.

01:08:24.220 So get your free hangover burger on Monday, February 10th.

01:08:28.220 He'll definitely need one.

01:08:29.160 Okay, now, Victor, Alex is a very attractive woman in a bikini with an enormous burger, and there are guys drooling over her.

01:08:39.100 It's been eight years since Carl's Jr. did this.

01:08:42.800 And she had a gas-guzzling sports car, not an EV.

01:08:46.100 Yeah.

01:08:47.240 And, you know, it kind of reminds me of during the Reagan years.

01:08:50.880 You remember the 1984.

01:08:52.900 You're too young, maybe.

01:08:53.760 But they had that great scene where the woman runs in with the ball, and she throws it into the screen.

01:08:59.720 It's Orwell's screen, and that's supposed to be a competition for Apple.

01:09:03.440 Apple was coming in.

01:09:04.540 Everybody said IBM or Microsoft would crush Apple, and this woman runs into this Orwellian crowd that's mesmerized by these dictators, and she just throws a ball into the screen.

01:09:16.500 It shatters.

01:09:17.180 It was very famous, and it was kind of an epitome of the age that Reagan was kind of – that whole period of 84 to 85, 86, it was like, we don't have to do any of that stuff anymore.

01:09:29.180 And that was a very liberating period when he came in.

01:09:32.360 He just – and he hasn't done – with all due respect to his memory and legacy, which was wonderful, he hasn't done – I don't think he's – he did as much in eight years as Donald Trump has done in four years in one month.

01:09:46.260 I really don't.

01:09:47.380 Especially the last one month.

01:09:49.400 The last – it's not even a – I don't know.

01:09:51.680 It's just not even a month yet.

01:09:53.860 It seems like a year.

01:09:55.700 It does.

01:09:56.220 And he's not done yet, and he's indestructible.

01:09:58.180 It's indestructible, and everybody –

01:10:00.900 Don't you think there's something to it?

01:10:01.960 Like, I feel like there is something significant to the fact that the obvious nature of men and women is back on screen and being celebrated.

01:10:11.200 That women love to be sexy where appropriate.

01:10:14.840 And in a Carl's Jr. ad, it's totally appropriate.

01:10:17.200 And men love to fawn over them.

01:10:19.060 And that's a dynamic that actually leads to the continuation of humankind.

01:10:23.020 And it's fine.

01:10:24.040 But we went through this crazy period.

01:10:25.740 It's no accident that it's been eight years, right?

01:10:27.800 Eight years ago, we were at the height of the Me Too era.

01:10:30.120 Now it's like, you know what?

01:10:32.000 It's fine to show off the female form and have guys drooling over her instead of the stupid Gillette ad, which was like some self-flagellating guy trying to show us what a feminist he was, right?

01:10:43.820 Like, something's changing.

01:10:46.480 We are so back, baby.

01:10:47.940 And you can see it with comedians now.

01:10:50.840 Comedians are dropping all of the self-censorship.

01:10:53.480 They're talking about everything.

01:10:55.180 Chris Rock, it's back to where it was.

01:10:57.860 It's almost there.

01:11:00.060 And I think it's going to be good.

01:11:01.360 You know, I think it's going to be one of the most wonderful things for so-called minorities.

01:11:06.700 Where I work, I think maybe the four most accomplished people that where I work were Shelby Steele, Tom Sowell, Condoleezza Rice, and Kyron Skinner.

01:11:17.360 And they're all African-American.

01:11:19.040 But race was always incidental.

01:11:20.940 It was never essential to them.

01:11:22.140 And they competed, and they all grew up in a period of, not Kyron, but the other three grew up in a period of Jim Crow.

01:11:29.940 And yet they were spectacular scholars, and they never, and I think now that that's the model.

01:11:37.280 And I think if African-American people, they'll realize that this DEI was a hindrance because it unduly stigmatized everybody, in many cases unfairly.

01:11:50.860 Because, as I said, I went to lunch twice a month for 15 years with Tom Sowell, the two of us.

01:11:58.320 Oh, you're so lucky.

01:11:59.820 Yeah, it was like Tom was like a genius, and Shelby was the same way.

01:12:05.660 And I talked once in a while.

01:12:06.960 Carol Swain, too.

01:12:07.540 She's actually coming on next week.

01:12:08.800 Yeah, Condoleezza Rice.

01:12:09.680 Yeah, I mean, African-American people have excelled in so many fields, and they don't need DEI.

01:12:17.180 And the people who are the mediocrities of all races, I think, and a lot of the DEI is promulgated by white virtual signaling, performance art, guilty whites that feel that that's going to make them somehow feel good about themselves in lieu of actual accomplishment.

01:12:37.560 It's ridiculous.

01:12:38.160 When I'm in academia, unfortunately, I'm still in it.

01:12:42.000 But most of the people who are DEI who are white are mediocre, and they just want to hammer that, hammer that, look at me, look at me, and you want to say, well, what are you publishing?

01:12:52.560 What are you writing?

01:12:53.700 What are you teaching?

01:12:54.900 And they're all not preeminent.

01:12:58.360 And so we've got to get rid of this comissar system because if we don't, and I think we've almost got rid of it, what we see in the FAA or the Los Angeles Fire Department, it's going to be endemic, and all of our institutions are not going to work anymore.

01:13:11.500 And we're going to be like the former Soviet Union, our third world country.

01:13:15.140 But I think we've been saved in the nick of time.

01:13:17.980 If Trump had not been elected, I'd just shudder to see what would have happened the next four years.

01:13:22.880 Mm-hmm.

01:13:24.280 No, totally.

01:13:25.300 The back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Sean Duffy, I don't know if you saw it.

01:13:32.580 It's the greatest thing.

01:13:33.680 I did.

01:13:34.400 I'm going off of the Super Bowl for one second because this is just too good.

01:13:38.360 Okay, where is that post?

01:13:39.460 I've got to find the Hillary Clinton, the original, and the original packet.

01:13:42.580 Hold on.

01:13:44.540 Yeah.

01:13:45.160 Oh, it's the Solana packet.

01:13:46.260 Okay, sorry.

01:13:47.000 That's Mike.

01:13:47.400 He's coming up next.

01:13:48.200 All right, so here is the Hillary.

01:13:50.700 She tried to troll Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and Duffy tweeted out the following

01:13:59.420 on X.

01:14:00.560 Big news.

01:14:01.280 Talk to the Doge team.

01:14:02.680 They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.

01:14:06.400 Hillary Clinton decides to weigh in.

01:14:08.640 They have no relevant experience.

01:14:10.360 Most of them aren't old enough to rent a car, and you're going to let them mess with airline

01:14:14.280 safety that's already deteriorated on your watch?

01:14:17.340 Duffy.

01:14:17.780 Hillary, Madam Secretary, with all due respect, experienced Washington bureaucrats are the

01:14:23.560 reason our nation's infrastructure is crumbling.

01:14:25.960 You need to sit this one out.

01:14:27.680 Hillary, U.S. airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes.

01:14:31.800 Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened

01:14:36.740 air traffic controllers with layoffs.

01:14:38.900 Now there have been two fatal crashes.

01:14:41.160 Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast.

01:14:44.480 I thought he was just going to walk away because she was being so obstinate.

01:14:47.700 No, he didn't.

01:14:48.980 He came back at her.

01:14:50.760 Duffy.

01:14:52.020 I know you're lashing out because Doge is uncovering your family's obscene grifting via USAID,

01:14:58.380 but I won't let you lie and distort facts.

01:15:01.200 The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the

01:15:06.500 air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump's civil service buyouts.

01:15:10.720 The previous administration shamelessly used U.S. Department of Transportation as a slush

01:15:15.320 fund for the Green News scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental

01:15:19.880 and social justice projects, rather than updating our nation's antiquated air traffic control

01:15:24.480 systems and other critical infrastructure.

01:15:26.660 I'm returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology and

01:15:30.880 transportation and infrastructure.

01:15:32.920 Your team had its chance and failed.

01:15:35.340 We're moving on without you because the American people want us to make America's transportation

01:15:40.000 system great again.

01:15:41.060 And yes, we're bringing the 22-year-olds with us.

01:15:44.900 Oh, shots fired.

01:15:47.340 She's never recovered from the 2016 defeat.

01:15:50.880 She really hasn't.

01:15:51.620 She's been crushed.

01:15:53.020 She used to be kind of a normal person, and she had some respect, bipartisan.

01:15:57.660 But after 2016, she joined the resistance, and she was just a crushed person.

01:16:03.980 And she's very lucky.

01:16:05.300 You know, Megan, if you look back, she's a very lucky person because she destroyed classified

01:16:12.480 documents that were under federal subpoena and 30,000 emails in total, and then destroyed

01:16:18.900 the devices under which they were written.

01:16:21.300 And if Donald Trump had done that, I mean, he wouldn't have been given.

01:16:25.760 And they let her off.

01:16:27.360 She's been given a pass her whole life.

01:16:30.160 And I don't know what the degree.

01:16:32.620 I don't think Chelsea Clinton got any money, but I don't know why you'd give any money to

01:16:37.440 a Clinton initiative, given the record of that.

01:16:42.220 Anything with a Clinton name on it, going back to Clinton speaking, you know, and the mayor

01:16:47.520 of Moscow, giving them $500,000, and then suddenly Hillary ceased to release North American

01:16:53.560 uranium to a Russian company, and the foundation got, you know, money from Russian oligarchs.

01:17:00.800 So that whole Clinton enterprise is corrupt, and it has been for years, and she knows it.

01:17:08.100 It stinks.

01:17:08.980 I think they're really upset about all this stuff coming out.

01:17:11.160 I've got to do one more Super Bowl ad with you.

01:17:12.900 One more.

01:17:13.820 Yeah.

01:17:13.980 For my cultural commentator here, BDH.

01:17:15.960 Um, this one, you mentioned comedy and how it's coming back.

01:17:20.560 Well, Shane Gillis was a comedian who got canceled during the height of the wokeness because he'd

01:17:25.200 got hired by SNL, and then it emerged that in one of his comedy routines, he did an Asian

01:17:30.180 accent.

01:17:30.920 So they canceled him on SNL for doing an Asian.

01:17:34.320 It was just absolutely absurd.

01:17:36.480 He's back, too.

01:17:37.600 He is starring in the latest, this is no accident, Bud Light ad, which is all testosterone here.

01:17:45.960 You want to go fishing tomorrow?

01:17:48.160 I got a colonoscopy tomorrow.

01:17:52.020 Fellas, I accidentally threw a lame party.

01:17:54.440 Okay, Ted.

01:17:55.620 They're on their way.

01:17:59.560 Big men on cul-de-sac, please.

01:18:01.400 They're here.

01:18:02.520 You call this a party?

01:18:04.620 Cul-de-sac party.

01:18:06.140 Lunch.

01:18:07.220 Lunch.

01:18:08.140 Beers are a metaphor for an invitation.

01:18:10.240 Is that our leaf blower?

01:18:11.080 Party in a sec.

01:18:17.040 You are cordially invited to the end of the cul-de-sac.

01:18:21.900 This is incredible.

01:18:23.720 Your mower smokes meat?

01:18:25.560 No, a smoker cuts grass.

01:18:26.900 Hell yeah.

01:18:27.460 I spent most of my money on this.

01:18:29.140 New rig?

01:18:29.780 Fully custom.

01:18:30.900 How many Bud Lights can you fit in that puppy?

01:18:32.580 As many Bud Lights as it takes.

01:18:34.160 A lot of Bud Lights.

01:18:36.860 This cul-de-sac's popper.

01:18:38.320 Yeah, I heard.

01:18:39.720 Powerful.

01:18:40.560 I'm out of bed.

01:18:41.920 Bill, get off the boat.

01:18:42.980 The HOA's already breathing down my neck.

01:18:45.760 Don't take...

01:18:46.600 It's bearded men, guys with baseball caps, party at the sack, smoking meat with the women.

01:18:56.040 And I didn't see any fake women by the name of Dylan Mulvaney.

01:19:00.500 This company has heard us.

01:19:02.980 It's obvious.

01:19:03.660 Yeah, I think they don't hire any more Harvard graduates to be their ad czars, and they decided

01:19:10.160 that the zero, zero, one percent of the population is not as profitable as white male working class,

01:19:17.260 I guess, or any working...

01:19:19.220 Their base.

01:19:20.140 Their bread and butter.

01:19:21.640 Yeah, that's their base.

01:19:23.980 And so I guess they figure they're not going to commit suicide anymore.

01:19:29.340 And I don't know.

01:19:31.260 It's all the thematic.

01:19:32.960 It's all thematic that we're waking up.

01:19:35.540 As we said before, it's just incredible that one guy with executive orders and fearlessness like Trump.

01:19:42.640 You know, I was thinking just very quickly, if we had any other Romney-esque type or McCain or Paul Ryan president right now,

01:19:50.720 and he was elected, he would get a committee to examine DEI, or he would say, on the one hand, on the other hand,

01:19:57.280 I don't know what to do about cutting USAID.

01:20:03.940 It wouldn't be like this.

01:20:05.580 It really wouldn't.

01:20:07.240 Trump is super generous.

01:20:08.720 Without him, we wouldn't be doing any of this.

01:20:10.920 A typical Republican Orthodox approach to this would be to get a committee

01:20:15.720 and then maybe compromise the force of it away with the Democrats, just like we saw.

01:20:21.520 But this is different.

01:20:22.620 This is a really true counter-revolution.

01:20:27.040 The whole theme of our discussion is sort of what's happening to the country versus where the Democrats are.

01:20:33.260 And I'll end with this.

01:20:35.600 Fetterman said the following to Puck News.

01:20:39.140 He was commenting on that new DNC leadership, you know, where they were so worried about they don't have enough non-binaries.

01:20:45.100 And everybody agreed Kamala lost because of racism and sexism.

01:20:48.540 And then they had the nerve to elect a white male as head of the DNC.

01:20:51.500 And as the vice chair, they elected another white male, David Hogg, one of the people who is a student at that school in Parkland, Florida, where there was a mass shooting.

01:21:02.580 And he's been just truly one of the most vicious leftists ever since.

01:21:06.420 So Fetterman says the following, the new leadership of the DNC, the vice chair, David Hogg, called for abolishing ICE and defunding the police.

01:21:17.820 I'm concerned we haven't paid attention to what happened.

01:21:22.460 And boy, does that ever sum it up.

01:21:25.740 VDH, I got to run.

01:21:26.700 Thank you for spending your Friday with us.

01:21:28.620 Always a pleasure.

01:21:30.080 Thank you for having me, Megan.

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01:23:25.720 My next guest has been called the most opinionated man in America.

01:23:29.760 I like that.

01:23:30.620 And that's saying something considering our political and media landscape.

01:23:33.540 But his message is resonating in particular with young American men.

01:23:36.920 His name is Mike Solana.

01:23:39.300 He's a protege of Peter Thiel and eventually became the chief marketing officer of Thiel's

01:23:43.560 venture capital firm Founders Fund.

01:23:46.160 He now also runs a news outlet called Pirate Wires, where he recently wrote an article titled

01:23:52.320 We Are the Media Now.

01:23:54.380 He's the perfect guy to talk to as Democrats and legacy media absolutely lose their minds

01:23:58.720 over Elon Musk and his young Doge engineers kicking the tires at various federal government

01:24:04.560 agencies.

01:24:05.520 Mike, thanks for being here.

01:24:06.260 Thank you for having me.

01:24:07.260 Great to have you in the red studio.

01:24:08.440 Great to be here.

01:24:09.180 So I'm just going to give folks a feel for what's happening in reaction to Elon's, I don't

01:24:14.840 know, like six gunslingers who are going into USAID and going into Treasury, although those

01:24:20.560 are two like actual special employees at Treasury.

01:24:23.980 Anyway, it's Elon's team trying to figure out where we can find these efficiencies and total

01:24:29.020 meltdown on the left and the media.

01:24:31.160 But I repeat myself.

01:24:32.160 Here's a sampling.

01:24:33.340 I apologize to the saints out there.

01:24:36.020 And we know a lot of the saints listen to the show.

01:24:37.880 He called himself Big B-A-L-L-S.

01:24:41.340 So Big B-A-L-L-S has all of our social security data and maybe downloaded it, maybe didn't share

01:24:48.460 it.

01:24:48.740 Maybe this is a 19 year old high school graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname Big

01:24:54.920 Balls online.

01:24:55.960 So that would be one way that we could refer to him, is that this individual has founded

01:24:59.460 multiple companies, including one with another unfortunate name, Tesla.Sexy LLC.

01:25:06.240 He's young as 19, the Big Balls here.

01:25:08.560 Tim Wired has done an astonishing job here.

01:25:11.220 You know, I could make a joke.

01:25:12.460 That's probably why he was hired for all this ridiculous nonsense.

01:25:16.920 Karis, wish you there at the end.

01:25:19.560 One of my faves.

01:25:20.760 Oh, great.

01:25:21.220 One of my muses, I think.

01:25:22.220 I mean, she's just like perfectly emblematic of the buffoonish media, I think.

01:25:25.620 Thank you.

01:25:26.100 Also, here she is talking about Elon Musk.

01:25:27.800 I love how every single one of these clips opens up whenever she's sort of on a CNN or

01:25:32.260 whatever it is to talk about Elon Musk.

01:25:33.560 And she's brought on as this Elon Musk expert.

01:25:35.760 She has not talked to Elon Musk in years.

01:25:38.000 I think there was an interview she did with him like four plus years ago.

01:25:41.240 That's what it said there.

01:25:42.000 The chyron has interviewed Elon Musk.

01:25:44.400 I agree with her on one point, though.

01:25:45.720 She said, Wired had done an amazing job, I think, was what she had said, something like that.

01:25:50.060 I agree it's an amazing job.

01:25:51.180 I just don't think it's an amazing job for them in the way that they want.

01:25:54.300 The Wired has.

01:25:55.000 Wired is the one that outed the names of the staffers.

01:25:57.080 They broke the story.

01:25:57.920 Yeah.

01:25:58.160 So they all six of them or something.

01:26:01.640 And then they've been teasing out like new stories every day.

01:26:04.680 There's a new story.

01:26:06.160 The big balls one is, I mean, the headline was crazy.

01:26:08.660 It was like, like teen entrepreneur builds sex.

01:26:12.180 Or what was it?

01:26:12.640 It's Tesla dot sexy LLC and hires convicted hackers, which says to me, like, so they're

01:26:20.580 not actually in prison.

01:26:21.800 He's a criminal justice reform kind of kid.

01:26:24.020 By the way, he's got a heart of gold.

01:26:25.480 That's what you, a lot of people hire the black hat hackers and the white hat hackers.

01:26:28.960 Right in tech.

01:26:30.100 My husband used to run a security firm for online, you know, properties, and they loved

01:26:35.300 hiring the black hack hackers because they knew what they were doing.

01:26:38.280 Yes.

01:26:38.740 And it was like every beat though in that line, it's like, he's a multiple entrepreneur.

01:26:42.100 He's a teen genius.

01:26:43.660 He then goes by the name big balls.

01:26:46.140 Okay.

01:26:46.380 So like, it is what it is.

01:26:48.360 He's 19 and he's like a genius and he's working in the government.

01:26:51.340 Do you want like really brilliant 19 year olds or do you want a really sort of old dumb

01:26:55.760 person?

01:26:56.360 Right.

01:26:56.620 I don't know.

01:26:57.560 I mean, I do know what they want, but it's not what I want.

01:26:59.800 So I am, uh, I stand with big balls and, uh, I'm fighting for big balls.

01:27:04.800 I'm rooting for big balls.

01:27:05.800 I hope he doesn't, doesn't, uh, doesn't make me regret it, but I, if he does, I'll probably

01:27:10.920 forgive him.

01:27:11.400 I'll forgive big balls.

01:27:12.480 I'm making it sound like Elon is in there with his team of, you know, six gunslingers

01:27:16.500 looking up our social security numbers so he can open up a credit card in our, in our

01:27:20.620 name, right?

01:27:21.160 Like this is, there's some nefarious purpose.

01:27:23.140 He has competitors.

01:27:24.380 He could be spying on their data.

01:27:26.180 It's like, meanwhile, what Elon has wanted to do, he's made very clear what he, what,

01:27:30.380 what he wants to do, which is find efficiencies in each of these agencies.

01:27:33.640 And they're overstating the extent of his access.

01:27:37.300 Like, for example, they wanted us to believe that these, these hackers had access to

01:27:42.280 change code or change data at treasury, but Scott Bessent came out here and said, that

01:27:48.300 is not true.

01:27:49.040 Here he is, um, in part and sought 33 in an interview with Bloomberg.

01:27:53.240 First of all, when you say the Doge team, these are treasury employees, two treasury employees,

01:27:59.660 one of whom I personally interviewed in his final round.

01:28:03.660 There is no tinkering with the system.

01:28:06.560 They are on read only.

01:28:09.140 They are looking, they can make no changes.

01:28:11.640 It is an operational program to suggest improvements.

01:28:15.740 The ability to change the system sits over at the federal reserve.

01:28:19.340 So it doesn't even lie in this building.

01:28:22.220 So they could make suggestions on how to change the system, but we don't even run the system.

01:28:30.020 Okay.

01:28:30.780 So what, who are we to believe?

01:28:32.380 Wired that they're having access and they can actually change code or Scott Bessent who

01:28:36.560 says they can only read it.

01:28:37.580 Yeah.

01:28:37.860 I mean, I think that the wires just, and all the media, they're going to say whatever they

01:28:41.380 have to say to make this seem more terrifying than it is.

01:28:44.560 Because if you just break it down into its basics, you have the duly elected president

01:28:48.860 of the United States has hired a person to do a job that the American people knew about

01:28:52.960 before he was hired.

01:28:54.480 And now he's doing it and we're glad.

01:28:57.520 And there's just like not a lot of ways you can make that sound scary.

01:29:00.560 So, I mean, it's like, again, it's like, I know, I know what I think.

01:29:03.840 I know what they're going to think.

01:29:05.000 I think they're kind of going to stay in their little corner and keep making stories or whatever.

01:29:08.700 But, um, yeah, I mean, I want to see these people.

01:29:11.260 I want to see the, the bureaucratic state slimmed.

01:29:15.000 And, uh, and I'm, I'm enjoying this.

01:29:16.880 I know.

01:29:17.040 And who would you hire to, to actually go through code and go through efficiently young,

01:29:21.240 energetic men who understand how to code.

01:29:24.460 Elon sent some tweet out the other day saying, it's so great how my opponents, all these

01:29:29.320 bureaucrats take the weekends off.

01:29:31.220 Right.

01:29:31.600 He's like, it's like playing an opponent who leaves the field for two days.

01:29:34.840 They don't know what they're dealing with.

01:29:36.460 Right.

01:29:36.680 The man is tireless.

01:29:37.740 He moved a cot into one of these government buildings and they're all sleeping there.

01:29:41.520 I mean, I think they do know what they're dealing with, which would account for

01:29:44.700 how much they focused on Elon from the moment that he started working with Trump.

01:29:49.520 It was, I think, really scary to them.

01:29:51.400 I think they do know that, uh, he's a very powerful person.

01:29:54.800 He is relentless.

01:29:55.740 He just will work and work and work.

01:29:57.840 And, uh, and also he just did this.

01:29:59.800 He just ran this game back over at Twitter.

01:30:02.300 Um, and we saw the exact same reaction from the media then, uh, also hiding behind the

01:30:06.280 lie that it was going to collapse.

01:30:07.360 It was like, oh, imminent, imminent Twitter will shut down.

01:30:11.040 It will be, it will just sort of like burn to the ground.

01:30:13.520 And of course they never really believed that what they were most afraid of was not

01:30:17.060 Twitter collapsing, but Twitter surviving under new leadership that didn't censor.

01:30:21.700 And I think that's what you're seeing now, um, in the government.

01:30:24.740 It's a fear.

01:30:25.120 Here is a walk down that memory lane, media and Dems, but again, same thing, uh, on Elon's

01:30:30.140 Twitter experiment when he found efficiencies there.

01:30:32.560 Musk has turned X, formerly known as Twitter, into a cesspool of hate speech and extremist

01:30:40.880 incitement.

01:30:41.620 It's a shithole, right?

01:30:42.620 Elon fucked that shithole.

01:30:43.740 There's better engagement on threads.

01:30:45.800 Instagram is a really terrific product.

01:30:48.900 And Twitter is awful.

01:30:51.160 I know sodomy when I see it.

01:30:52.460 Because Elon Musk is, I mean, he's the worst.

01:30:54.480 Please.

01:30:54.940 F*** off.

01:30:55.900 Is that why he's often compared to a Bond villain?

01:30:57.700 The guy's, the guy's a joke, right?

01:30:59.540 He really is a joke.

01:31:00.520 Now, Musk is just one of the dangerously weird and extreme cranks.

01:31:04.300 Astonished at how dumb Elon Musk is.

01:31:06.820 And he is as crazy as he seems on Twitter.

01:31:09.900 This dude tripped over his dick and became successful.

01:31:14.540 Hmm.

01:31:16.740 I mean, again, it's like, they're just terrified.

01:31:20.220 Twitter was crazy because, I mean, I wrote about that a lot at the time.

01:31:23.200 Uh, everybody understood that Twitter was controlling the discourse in the country.

01:31:28.800 All of the journalists lived there.

01:31:30.040 The censorship was the, the, um, politics were completely constricted around this one

01:31:34.800 narrow opinion.

01:31:35.700 They were also amplifying content, um, on the sort of Twitter, uh, what was it back then?

01:31:40.200 It was the trending topics.

01:31:41.240 So you had both censorship and propaganda pushing, pushing a narrative.

01:31:45.840 Uh, and everybody kind of understood immediately that once Elon took over, that was going to be

01:31:51.180 gutted and we would actually have something like free speech.

01:31:54.580 Now there are bad things about that, like, or not bad things about that, but there are

01:31:58.720 nasty things that happen in an environment of freedom, but also the truth.

01:32:02.820 And, uh, and that's very, that was terrifying to people like, you know, the MSNBC talking heads.

01:32:06.840 Yesterday, we ran a soundbite from Harry Enten on CNN showing how the numbers jacked up in

01:32:11.820 support of a ban on boys participating in girls sports just in the past couple of years.

01:32:16.860 You know, it was like 63% and now it's 79% just in the past couple of years.

01:32:22.160 And I attribute that to Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter because he completely took off the

01:32:27.940 caps on what we could say about that.

01:32:29.900 The conversation completely changed.

01:32:31.480 People could say what was real.

01:32:32.680 You were not allowed to say that men cannot become women when Jack Dorsey had it, when the

01:32:37.560 previous ownership had it.

01:32:38.840 And it, once you say the truth, people know it in their bones, it's liberating.

01:32:43.520 He completely changed the national conversation on it.

01:32:45.760 Yeah, I agree.

01:32:46.900 I think that the average person probably doesn't, um, think much about these ideas and they're

01:32:52.700 just kind of looking around for a sense of what is acceptable to say in society.

01:32:56.460 And they maybe have this opinion themselves, but they're not going to share it.

01:32:59.640 If it seems artificially like everybody agrees that boys should be fighting girls in combat

01:33:06.820 sports or something.

01:33:07.580 You're like, man, that sounds crazy, but I'm not going to get involved.

01:33:10.040 The moment, as you mentioned, yeah, the moment people are allowed to express themselves,

01:33:13.600 actually, you get a different sense for where the bounds of culture actually exist.

01:33:17.560 Yeah.

01:33:17.880 He didn't have to push it.

01:33:19.060 He just had to take the cap off.

01:33:20.400 Yes.

01:33:20.720 And people would say how they felt.

01:33:22.000 Which is so interesting because people say that he's pushing a narrative on Twitter,

01:33:25.040 but that's not true.

01:33:26.760 He's just not.

01:33:27.840 It's the absence of a narrative.

01:33:29.400 Now, I do think there's been some, um, changing of the culture there as things like blue sky

01:33:33.620 open up and threads.

01:33:34.740 Uh, and there are just these people who really can't be around other people who disagree with

01:33:38.200 them.

01:33:38.380 And they have found those places where they're, you know, constantly screaming and crying blue

01:33:42.320 skies, especially interesting because it's a place where words are considered violence,

01:33:45.980 but you can also call for violence against people who are bad.

01:33:48.840 It's the strangest place.

01:33:50.000 All they do is keep censoring each other and reporting each other.

01:33:52.280 This is, this tweet has been censored.

01:33:53.540 This post has been censored for insensitivity, unless you're calling for the death of a Republican

01:33:57.860 or Elon, and then you're good.

01:33:59.320 Elon especially.

01:34:00.280 Yeah.

01:34:00.440 That's the green light.

01:34:01.300 So we, you weren't here yet, but we opened the show today talking about you and your piece

01:34:04.600 about how you argued, okay, he Trump with his EOs on gender and his EOs on DEI and the law,

01:34:11.140 the Lincoln Riley act and his EOs on the border.

01:34:13.000 And they don't like any of that.

01:34:14.260 And you can see the media still holding on like, no, everyone's racist.

01:34:17.260 No men can be women.

01:34:19.640 But the thing that really got them out in the streets was the cutback of federal bureaucrats

01:34:25.700 jobs, including today at the DOE.

01:34:27.820 They're very upset about USA ID.

01:34:30.140 Now magazines like Politico are seeing their, their subscriptions from these federal government

01:34:34.160 offices, you know, pulled because the government doesn't want to pay taxpayer dollars for these

01:34:38.940 things.

01:34:39.480 Now they're pissed.

01:34:40.940 Yeah.

01:34:41.120 I was surprised.

01:34:41.940 I would love, I would love to say that I wasn't, um, that I wasn't surprised that I saw

01:34:46.100 it coming, but I really was surprised.

01:34:47.580 I expected much more on the stuff that you just mentioned, even the gender stuff, especially

01:34:51.380 the immigration stuff.

01:34:52.760 Uh, but it is, it's, it's the firing of the federal workers.

01:34:56.920 And I think that they're correct.

01:34:58.200 I think that what they're realizing or what I'm realizing is that Elon and Trump or Trump through

01:35:02.700 Elon is now over the actual target, which is, I mean, I think we had this idea that the

01:35:07.220 deep state, which is the scary kind of, um, conspiracy theory sounding thing was like

01:35:11.940 the smoking man from the X-Files, like this guy in the shadows who was really competent

01:35:15.760 in pulling the strings, but it actually is like this gender queer librarian who works

01:35:20.240 in the federal government.

01:35:21.500 And there are thousands of them and they just best case scenario, it's a jobs program and

01:35:25.600 they don't do much of anything, but worst case scenario, there's a small minority who

01:35:29.180 are totally radical.

01:35:29.940 And they're opposed to any time a Republican gets in office, they're opposed to everything

01:35:33.700 they do and they get in the way and they muck up the gears.

01:35:36.200 And you wonder, like, we voted them in to do these things.

01:35:38.680 Why aren't they doing anything?

01:35:39.640 And it's because of this, it's because we actually, I think we do have a deep state.

01:35:43.900 It's like, what I mean by that is an unelected class of bureaucrats who are controlling the

01:35:48.460 government.

01:35:49.260 And, um, and now we're being told that dismantling that is akin to anti-democracy.

01:35:53.440 And it's like, actually, president Trump was elected and this is what he was elected

01:35:58.920 for and you're standing on the side of what the state department.

01:36:01.980 Did you see that where they pulled up that upside down American flag outside of the state

01:36:05.660 department?

01:36:06.240 And you mean to tell me that like the QAnon shaman with his spiky little hat is somehow

01:36:10.520 more dangerous than that.

01:36:11.940 That's much more frightening to me.

01:36:13.640 And I think that everybody on the, on the left really does have an intuitive sense of this.

01:36:19.180 Even the center left, even the more reasonable people.

01:36:21.160 I think that they felt comfortable knowing that a Republican couldn't actually do much

01:36:26.180 given this thing that's in place.

01:36:27.920 And I've, in my life, never seen a Republican go after it like this.

01:36:33.040 Uh, even Trump didn't go after it like this round one.

01:36:35.720 He didn't understand it.

01:36:36.560 I don't think he did.

01:36:37.180 I mean, I didn't understand.

01:36:38.060 No one maybe fully understood it.

01:36:39.720 And yeah, you're right until he got in office and it was suddenly like, holy crap, I can't

01:36:44.120 do anything.

01:36:44.640 Well, look at us here now, four years later from the end of Trump's presidency where, you

01:36:48.340 know, when he ended, it was late 2020 COVID.

01:36:52.020 We were being told everything was a conspiracy theory, lab leak.

01:36:55.180 That's a conspiracy theory.

01:36:56.780 All this stuff that, you know, I can't talk about, um, you know, the medicines that could

01:37:00.740 treat COVID and a COVID hydroxychloroquine and all that stuff.

01:37:04.820 And you're a conspiracy theorist.

01:37:06.260 If you think the vaccines might injure you, et cetera.

01:37:09.040 Well, now here we are four years later, he's back in office and deep state starting to look

01:37:14.380 a lot more real, even to people who never do conspiracy.

01:37:18.220 Right.

01:37:18.440 It's like, well, you know, that t-shirt, like all my conspiracy theories have come true.

01:37:23.160 Right.

01:37:23.340 I mean, it's like, it just depends.

01:37:24.960 They, they apply this scary framing to it, but if you just break it down into what people

01:37:30.360 mean by the deep state, it's the blob, a thing that governs, that it's not elected,

01:37:34.100 that is more powerful than the president.

01:37:35.760 I mean, at the end of the day, Donald Trump was erased from the internet at the end of his

01:37:39.880 presidency.

01:37:40.300 The first time around it was, and then we're, we're supposed to believe there's not this

01:37:43.700 like all these powers rising up against him or something.

01:37:46.100 It's it's, if you just break that down, it's like, that was the state working with the tech

01:37:50.780 industry to do something that was really crazy and frightening to me at the time.

01:37:54.860 That was way scarier than anything that happened on January 6th was the ability to just snuff

01:37:59.660 out a politician who had a lot of support in the country.

01:38:02.920 Um, and I think that that is over and there are a lot of reasons that that's over, but they're

01:38:06.500 going down swinging.

01:38:07.520 I just want to say like a minute, we'll say goodbye to our series XM audience, but we're

01:38:11.180 going to continue the discussion on pod and youtube.com slash Megan Kelly, but they're

01:38:15.100 not going down without a fight because they filed a lawsuit to try to stop these terminations.

01:38:20.120 What's really happening is they're offering buyouts.

01:38:22.100 They're saying, if you want to leave the federal government, go ahead and leave and we'll give

01:38:25.540 you eight months salary, which is much more generous than they would get otherwise.

01:38:29.800 And please go.

01:38:30.860 And some 50,000 reportedly have said, okay, we'll go not just out of, uh, you know, department

01:38:35.880 of education, but just across the government.

01:38:37.940 But now these unions have come in, filed lawsuits saying you're not allowed to do that.

01:38:43.000 Right.

01:38:43.260 These salaries are only funded through March.

01:38:45.520 Don't believe them.

01:38:46.580 You're not going to get your eight months like on a technicality.

01:38:49.340 Like you can't trust them.

01:38:50.340 They're not going to give you any money past March.

01:38:51.760 Don't take the buyout because they make their business and their bones by keeping all

01:38:56.540 the stuffing in the system.

01:38:59.040 Yeah.

01:38:59.100 They need as many numbers as they can, as they, as they can hold on to, to exercise power over

01:39:04.320 the U S taxpayer.

01:39:05.260 I mean, I think the concept of just a government, a government union in general is kind of crazy.

01:39:10.080 Like a private union is one thing, but a government union is essentially government workers bargaining

01:39:15.340 with government workers against the taxpayer.

01:39:18.140 It's not there.

01:39:18.940 Like they're always going to side with the worker.

01:39:21.060 That doesn't make any sense at all.

01:39:22.360 I just don't understand that conceptually.

01:39:23.900 And I mean, this stuff, I was actually wondering what your take on this one, because I don't fully

01:39:27.660 understand the lawsuit part and kind of what the odds are there and how.

01:39:30.680 Well, they stopped it for now, but I think that they're going to lose that lawsuit.

01:39:34.820 I think Trump absolutely has the power to reduce the federal government and to reduce

01:39:37.840 the money that he's paying in the federal government.

01:39:39.380 That is 100% within the function of the executive.

01:39:41.760 So he had a Clinton appointee who struck it down for now, but, but that will be reversed.

01:39:46.540 So I like this, that you're targeting a group of, I think, young men who are feeling

01:39:50.720 kind of disaffected, unloved, undervalued.

01:39:54.700 And you're very open about the fact that they should be catered to.

01:39:59.400 And actually I heard in your, in your article, something I didn't know existed, which was

01:40:03.640 the tech, right?

01:40:05.520 Oh yes.

01:40:06.380 I think that that was a phrase I, who knows who coins these things.

01:40:09.320 People always claim, you know, ownership of a coinage, but I started referring to it

01:40:13.180 that, uh, referring to it as that recently.

01:40:15.500 I mean, I think that it just became very obvious that that was what was happening.

01:40:18.400 Once Elon took Twitter, um, and the sort of censorship ended and the false amplification

01:40:24.420 of different stories ended and people just started talking more, uh, and I, I'd been

01:40:28.740 sort of saying a bit more before that feeling sort of isolated, but suddenly it was very

01:40:32.160 apparent there were, there was a lot of support and, um, and it was not, it was not what we

01:40:37.460 previously thought.

01:40:38.960 And you need an aim for it, especially now that it's in the white house.

01:40:41.100 Did we think tech was all left?

01:40:42.820 I think that, I think tech employees definitely skew left.

01:40:46.220 You can just look at the numbers in terms of political donations and things like that.

01:40:48.840 It definitely overwhelmingly skews left, but among the people who actually built things,

01:40:53.960 so like founders of companies, both at the startup level, and then at the sort of, uh,

01:40:57.860 executive level of the, um, giant companies, the publicly traded companies, there's just

01:41:02.500 plenty of support for, I would say, um, common sense, pro-business, pro-technology type,

01:41:08.180 uh, policies, which we just didn't really see any of under the Biden administration.

01:41:12.080 In fact, you saw really, um, while Elon took over, uh, over Twitter, took it, uh, private,

01:41:17.660 you saw the Biden administration really kind of go after the technology industry.

01:41:23.140 And once that happened, it was like, well, where do you go?

01:41:26.520 And I think that you had people like David Sachs out there waving his flag and, um, Peter

01:41:32.140 Thiel, uh, my boss previously, like for years, like kind of, he was, he put himself out there

01:41:36.940 early on.

01:41:37.500 Yes. And then you had, and then you had Elon and it was just like very easy suddenly or not easy,

01:41:42.960 but much easier than ever before for someone who disagreed with a lot of the, um, sort of

01:41:47.340 deranged exces of the far left that you had seen before that to stand up and say, I don't agree with

01:41:51.840 that shit. That's not what I'm here for. I'm what do you make? Oh, so this reminds me, not,

01:41:56.120 I am fascinated by the fact that of course all the tech executives showed up to the inauguration,

01:42:00.760 but did you see my Mark Zuckerberg's comments about Sheryl Sandberg? Oh, blamed her for the

01:42:06.400 wokeness at meta. Yeah. Reportedly. And said she was the one responsible for tampons in the men's

01:42:13.080 room and all that shit is done. You know, he's doing the jujitsu. He grew the hair out. He's pro

01:42:19.180 Trump. Like what a shift, by the way, there's a report in the news today that some rogue employees

01:42:24.960 at Facebook or meta did put tampons back in the men's room, but it's no longer company sanctioned.

01:42:31.240 Yes. It's their one, it's their act of civil disobedience. Um, but I thought that was actually

01:42:35.700 very interesting. I mean that those two, they were very tight for a long time and they're, you know,

01:42:39.540 it is interesting. I think a lot of people want to not believe that. And they want to believe that

01:42:43.440 Mark's lying or something. I, and I understand it. It's like, well, he was in charge. He could have just

01:42:48.520 changed things or whatever. He was a young guy when he met Sheryl, who was much older and wiser,

01:42:54.240 you would think. Um, who knows? I don't know him and I don't know what was happening with them.

01:42:58.820 I know that I believe that I believe where he is right now. I believe that when I first started

01:43:03.500 writing pirate wires, um, before it was a company back when it was just me writing,

01:43:06.700 I covered the, his hospital. He donated a lot of money to a hospital in San Francisco

01:43:11.000 and the city government had, uh, decided to rename. It was named after him. They were going to take it

01:43:16.840 back at the height. It was 2020. It was like the country had de facto legalized writing. It was like

01:43:21.200 at the height of the insanity at that point. And, um, I think that really was a pilling moment for

01:43:29.300 him. It was that plus he had people inside of, uh, his, the Zuckerberg Chan, uh, I think it's

01:43:35.200 called the initiative. It's their, their, uh, nonprofit who were, who demanded that he resign

01:43:39.300 at that point over whatever invented crimes of racism had existed at that time. He had never done

01:43:43.520 anything. He was just this guy trying to run his company. Um, and I think that was the beginning,

01:43:47.880 but he had no friends. I mean, everybody was isolated back then. Uh, my sense as someone

01:43:52.100 who talked to a lot of people was that everybody sort of agreed, but nobody would say anything.

01:43:56.540 And he was one of them. And he also had the pressure of the entire state bearing down on

01:44:01.420 him because he was seen as the speech platform, I think seen correctly as this very important

01:44:05.400 speech platform. So I think he was maybe scared and I want to give him some grace. I think at the

01:44:10.360 end of the day, what he stands for now publicly I am aligned with and I'm rooting for him.

01:44:15.180 And we need him. Yes. We need him. Yes. Many strong soldiers on this side of the aisles we can

01:44:20.000 get. Yes. You know, it was interesting. I went off to the, um, all in summit in September,

01:44:24.340 late September, and Elon was there and all the guys were there from the all in podcast.

01:44:29.160 And it was all tech guys in the audience, some gals, but it was mostly male young, you know,

01:44:35.200 I would say mostly in their young thirties, mid thirties, maybe. Uh, and I couldn't believe

01:44:40.380 how right leaning they seemed. Yeah. I was saying all the things I say, you know, on gender,

01:44:45.660 I ripped on Kamala Harris's intelligence, you know, like all the stuff I defended Trump on the law

01:44:50.940 fair. They kept clapping like a lot. I had the support of the crowd and I was like, what is this

01:44:57.140 place? What's happening out here? Like this is supposed to be tech, which I think Kara Swisher

01:45:01.720 tells me she's got her finger on the pulse and she's as left as they come. She knows nothing. She has no

01:45:06.140 idea what she's talking about. You're exactly right about the all in crowd. And the thing about that

01:45:10.260 show is those are very intelligent men. Um, Saks, I think especially is an intellectual and you,

01:45:17.600 this attracts a sort of smart crowd of people, not just this, like, it's not just like this rah,

01:45:23.100 rah sort of right-wing podcast at all. It's like a kind of thoughtful tech business show. And I always

01:45:29.100 had good experience with people in San Francisco. It's like this kind of strange idea that people find

01:45:34.140 surprising. I think there were a lot of people in San Francisco who just like an intellectual and

01:45:38.420 that's what they gravitate towards. And they're going to listen to people. Um, and they weren't

01:45:42.980 really visible because nobody was allowing them to speak before. And nobody was producing content

01:45:47.820 for them. When I started writing, I wasn't looking for a male audience. I was just like, I can't stand

01:45:52.840 what I'm seeing anymore. And I need to say something. And I was protected because I worked and still work

01:45:58.220 for Peter. And it's like, well, if I have this much protection and I'm not saying anything,

01:46:02.180 like who is going to say something, I have to say something.

01:46:06.080 But it's sad to me to think of, by the way, my EP wants me to remind everybody that Jason

01:46:10.120 and Chamath are going to be on the podcast a week from today.

01:46:12.440 Let's go. Um, but I think it's sad because when you're in Republican circles, it's hard enough,

01:46:17.760 you know, before let's, let's go before the election, before Trump won again. And before

01:46:21.100 Elon came out on the campaign trail, it's hard enough if you have a big business or you're an up

01:46:25.760 and comer in a very left leaning industry to share, show your politics or be open at all about what

01:46:31.460 your political leanings are. But it's gone beyond that for so long to where, you know, young men,

01:46:38.200 um, not only had to say the right things, right? Like I had to hide their politics if they were all

01:46:42.940 right leaning, but had to be shamed just for being male. Yeah. That's it. And nevermind if you're white

01:46:49.020 male, forget about it. And that, you know, we can laugh like, Oh, it's so stupid, but it actually

01:46:53.480 really has done a number on like an entire generation. And it's such bullshit.

01:46:59.500 Yes. Yeah. It's male behavior specifically. So you could see people starting to freak out

01:47:04.020 about a character who was getting more attention online. Maybe it was Elon Musk or something before

01:47:09.000 Elon was revealing any of his politics, just because of there's like a cadence to the way he

01:47:12.980 speaks or he's using some words like that are kind of bro-y anything that was masculine coded was

01:47:18.040 attacked. It was considered suspicious immediately. Um, even just competitiveness. I think back to

01:47:22.860 Travis Kalanick who got railroaded at a time when he had no support in the technology industry. I

01:47:28.600 mean, I, you can look back, I was tweeting about it, but I had no followers back then. So sorry,

01:47:32.880 Travis, I wasn't, give me one. He, he wrote that women engineers, he didn't write anything. He,

01:47:38.220 Travis, um, Travis had Travis ran Uber. Oh yeah. Sorry. I'm confusing him with James Damore.

01:47:43.360 Yeah. Okay. Hashtag fired for truth. He was just in a very Asperger way, kind of like

01:47:49.180 talking about, um, the bell curve of distributions or something. Okay. Yeah. No, no, Travis, I watched

01:47:54.260 the Uber. But, but, but, but, but so, but so Travis, I mean, he gets railroaded, uh, I think

01:47:58.700 really for acting like a man, like he, he was considered too aggressive and things. And it was

01:48:04.460 very weird kind of following that, uh, just the unapologetic maleness of him at a time when you did

01:48:10.640 have people who were much softer and acting much softer. And, um, I think, uh, that's just at this

01:48:17.840 point, I don't know if it's over. I just know that you're allowed to be a guy now. And, um,

01:48:23.900 okay. When I started writing, yes, it was like a lot of men started following me, but I didn't,

01:48:27.580 I wouldn't set out to do that. And I don't even now. But it's innate, it's innate. And that when

01:48:31.820 they saw you saying the things and writing the things that they knew to be true, it would be a

01:48:36.720 natural gravitation to, to hear more of it, to read more of it. And now I feel like they've been

01:48:42.100 empowered. And there are some women who are like, well, we don't want them to be empowered to the

01:48:46.280 point where they're all Andrew Tate. Right. Right. Like that's too far. Andrew Tate was only

01:48:51.280 popular because nobody else was saying the few reasonable things that he was saying. So he's

01:48:55.340 this, I think, very bad person actually agreed. And, um, he would also say things like wokeness

01:49:01.120 is stupid. And everyone's like, yes, well, thank, thank you for someone for saying it. And so he was

01:49:05.120 rewarded because no one else, none of the good men would say anything. And so this, I have to,

01:49:10.920 I'm like, real, that's the, that's the reason. And I think that actually he'll probably,

01:49:14.520 the star will continue to diminish now that the overteen window has broadened enough where

01:49:18.140 the things that he was saying that were actually important can be said by anybody.

01:49:21.400 I was just talking with Victor Davis Hanson about this change in the Superbowl ads, you know,

01:49:24.800 like back in the era. And remember the Gillette ad with like a super soft guy. Like I, I defend

01:49:30.920 Justin Baldoni in this lawsuit with Blake Lively. Cause I think she's horrible and she's made up this

01:49:35.400 whole thing. Cause she tried to steal his movie, but he is the most overly feminized man I've had to

01:49:41.520 endure in recent history. Everything he says is self-flagellating over the fact that he's a man.

01:49:46.240 Every sentence is his declarative sentence. Yeah. They're, they're, they're couched in a million,

01:49:51.540 like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Uh, but he's to me is sort of the embodiment

01:49:55.600 of what happens when you totally emasculate a man. And then she continued, you know, she,

01:50:00.720 she took that stiletto and stuck it in his heart when he was down there, self-flagellating,

01:50:05.080 being so sorry for anything having to do with his testosterone. And so that's what happens to you,

01:50:10.080 right? You, then you want, want, run into somebody who seems like a witch who will take

01:50:14.200 advantage of you and hurt you until finally, even that kind of a guy rises up. Now he didn't do it

01:50:20.280 himself. Exactly. He hired a bad-ass named Brian Friedman and he has bad-ass women like me defending

01:50:25.280 him, but the slowly, but surely I think the male class is learning down on the floor, squirming and

01:50:31.400 apologizing for being a man is not the way. No, you're, you're hated at that point. You're hated by

01:50:37.060 women and men. Men quietly see that and they're like, Oh, like, why would you do that to yourself?

01:50:42.460 And women don't respect that. So if it's like, if you don't act like yourself unapologetically in

01:50:47.620 the world, there is no upside ever. Um, so you have to just speak. And fortunately we're in a place now

01:50:53.040 where you can do that. And I also, that makes me sort of not want to, there's this whole class of

01:50:58.380 people now who are trying to kind of like ride the coattails of that. Um, people who maybe just

01:51:03.340 discovered the anti-wokeness stuff a year ago for what is the Bill Ackman, for example,

01:51:08.000 like it seems like a nice guy thinks that he invented this late to the party. It's like very

01:51:12.860 late to the party. And like, you don't get a medal now for saying that, you know, racism is bad,

01:51:19.000 uh, even when it targets white people and that like the sexes exist. Like, I don't, I don't need

01:51:24.780 you now. And we didn't really need them now this last time, maybe for the Harvard stuff, but how

01:51:28.580 important was that in the grand scheme of things? Like probably not. So I'm just over that stuff.

01:51:32.560 I, I hear you. I've had Bill on the show and I appreciate his same. Like with the Zuckerberg

01:51:36.960 will take you welcome aboard. Love it. Um, but yeah, late to the party for sure. And you know,

01:51:43.040 for those of us who, uh, had real skin in this game for a long time, it is funny to see the Johnny

01:51:47.260 come lately. He's like, I have saved the day. You're like, yeah, it's like, it's nice, but have a seat.

01:51:53.260 Yeah. Have you really? So what is the next four years hold? Because under Trump wokeism grew,

01:52:01.220 you know, the resistance they grew, they, they had their boogeyman and under Biden,

01:52:07.000 they tried to make it explode. You know, they tried to have, you know, they're so upset about

01:52:11.420 big balls, but let's not forget who they brought to the white house to the white house. Actually,

01:52:15.760 we have this queued up because I knew you were coming and I baked this cake, but this is what

01:52:19.940 Biden did in sought 31. Yeah. This is a man named Rose Montoya who showed his fake boobs on the front

01:52:35.980 of the white house. So this was pushed on us by the white house, but I think the culture was

01:52:41.440 swinging the other way as this became more in your face. Yeah. So what happens now under these next

01:52:46.740 four years? Well, I think unfortunately for anyone right of center, it's going to play a lot

01:52:52.220 differently than the left. The thing about the left is that I think it's super coherent and the

01:52:56.320 constellation of kind of leftist ideas are all targeting the same stuff. Um, what you're seeing

01:53:01.400 now on this sort of massive alliance, something kind of like anti-woke side, it's a lot of people

01:53:05.600 who believe a lot of very different things, including many center leftists who are aligned against a lot

01:53:09.760 of this stuff. And, uh, I think it's really unclear what the kind of philosophical disposition of the

01:53:17.000 right even is right now. Certainly to me, I mean, I remember people talking about things like taxation

01:53:20.940 and healthcare on the right people talking about like how important, not like that's just a very

01:53:25.300 different conversation and Trump is an economic populist. So I have a question mark there. I think

01:53:29.800 that they will be effective. I'm hopeful that they will be very effective at cutting out a lot of the

01:53:34.600 rot inside of, um, the bureaucratic state and getting things to move more efficiently and cutting

01:53:38.860 out a lot of the waste. Uh, and then I think it will come down to just the American people and

01:53:43.860 deciding what they want to be. I don't think that anybody knows right now. I think that we all agree

01:53:47.700 on what we don't want to be. Um, and that was important and it is even important kind of now,

01:53:54.200 but it's about to be a lot less important and, and I don't, I just don't know. Yeah. It's like when

01:53:59.220 you look around at your life and you realized you put on an extra 200 pounds, um, and you're not

01:54:05.020 married and you don't have kids and you've been drinking too much and you feel gross and you've

01:54:09.760 been having bad visits with doctors, you need you to lose weight. You know, you need to lose weight.

01:54:14.500 You got to get on the treadmill. You should stop drinking so much. You should try to get a job. You

01:54:20.300 should maybe throw your hat into the dating pool, but that's a process. And then when you're healthier

01:54:25.720 and you feel better and you look better, then you can ask yourself the question of what do I do now

01:54:31.300 that I'm, I'm well again, what do I do? And we're, we're at the, Oh my God, I've gained 200 pounds

01:54:35.380 phase of it. Yeah. I feel like we're on the treadmill now, you know, we're walking on the

01:54:39.080 treadmill, but we got some miles to go. Mike, what a pleasure. Please come back. Yeah. I would love to

01:54:43.940 come back. Thank you for having me. Really enjoyed it. Mike's a lot. Everybody check it out.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - February 07, 2025

Dems Try To Storm Building, CNN Panel Melts Down, and Rise of ＂Tech Right,＂ with Victor Davis Hanson and Mike Solana ｜ Ep. 1003

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