On this episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, Meghan talks about the Diddy v. Combs verdict and why she thinks it's likely to be a no-guilty verdict. Plus, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez tie the knot in Venice, Italy in front of 200 of their dearest, closest, lifelong family friends like Oprah and Oprah Winfrey.
00:25:18.200You just have to stand in an elevator with Lauren Sanchez and you've gotten to second.
00:25:21.500I hope, by the way, that the Vogue cover of her is their first 3D cover because I don't think you can appreciate her figure without the 3D effect.
00:28:47.140The Steve Wynwood did sing Higher Love.
00:28:49.760He co-wrote and originally released it in 1986.
00:28:52.760But Whitney covered the song in 1990 for her album, I'm Your Baby Tonight.
00:28:58.240And that was the version that Lauren and Jeff wanted sung to them by their attendees and a gospel choir.
00:29:07.880So it was Whitney Houston's version of Higher Love.
00:29:10.560And by that, they mean love you find while you're married to two other people surreptitiously behind their backs when they're not looking or looking at your phone.
00:29:19.580That's the higher love that they found that they wanted us to sing about and think about as we celebrate their union.
00:29:27.280No, this was a celebration of lower love, the lowest love that exists.
00:29:31.940And that song, in fact, is about seeking a transcendent spiritual love above mere human love.
00:29:46.560Wrong song for a place that was for a wedding that was a celebration of jewels, $20 million outfits.
00:29:57.900I just hope they took all of these wardrobes, packed them into a giant trunk and have given them to a food bank in Newark, New Jersey, because they could keep it running forever.
00:30:10.320It's not that I think they spent too much money.
00:30:13.440It's just that I now think they should give away what's left over.
00:31:01.740And they help do like heart screenings at high schools to try to help this from to stop this from happening from up to other young boys or girls.
00:31:09.820And they do a bunch of different things and they raise funds to try to help other kids.
00:31:14.560Anyway, they gave some of the Blake gear that they had, which always has like the BB on it, Blake Barklage, to a homeless shelter.
00:31:25.160And Tom, the dad, was driving his car today.
00:31:31.660But he saw a guy out on the street who was clearly homeless or indigent with all this Blake Parklage gear on him.
00:31:40.520And it was like and he said, you know, this yeah, he said, you know, this guy's got a guardian angel up there right now.
00:31:47.160Blake's looking down at him right now, trying to figure out how to help this guy take his next steps.
00:31:51.500And I don't know, just as you see like the just the banality of people like Sanchez and Bezos, you you're reminded of the goodness of your fellow man by the family Barklage and stories like that, where it's like one small good deed.
00:32:07.180You know, you see it manifesting out on the road and you think right on, you know, right on.
00:32:12.120That's that's the kind of human most of us actually spend our days with.
00:32:15.400Yeah, it wasn't an inspiring example of human giving or human empathy.
00:32:24.680I don't expect to see a homeless person on the streets of San Francisco robed in one of these five million dollar pajama bejeweled pajama outfits.
00:32:34.740But, you know, what the final takeaway is, is that Donald Trump thought to be the most garish, gauche and vulgar American rich person is now now looks like Prince Edward or Cary Grant compared to these people.
00:32:51.000I mean, they have outdone him in the vulgar department by a factor of 10.
00:35:51.780Back when in the days, American socialism was based in the labor movement and it came from really rough guys who worked in factories and, you know, did that kind of thing.
00:36:14.400And he's so his mom has she's a relatively well-known film director who, according to him, was given the opportunity to direct according to her, she says, was given the opportunity to direct one of the Harry Potter films, which has made something like, I don't know, nine hundred million dollars.
00:36:31.380And he talked her out of doing it in favor of directing something that was more akin with, like, their values.
00:37:15.680So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam and then you have Palestine and you are really going for the trifecta.
00:37:28.920Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?
00:37:32.060When you grow up as someone, especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.
00:37:39.800So I don't know what's happening there, but somebody was defending him, saying he was using a piece of bread.
00:37:48.280He certainly looks like he's scooping his fingers into his food and shoving it into his mouth.
00:37:52.800And I actually don't really care if there was bread or not, but it's even worse if there's not bread.
00:37:56.640That's not how somebody who's an American eats, but it's him cosplaying third world person and understanding third world, even though his mother is this multimillionaire film director.
00:38:09.880And his father is a chaired professor at Columbia.
00:38:15.000Well, Americans always want their cake and eat it, too.
00:38:18.360They want to lose weight without eating less.
00:38:21.460They want to learn in their sleep and they want everything, you know, in its impossible form.
00:38:28.100And now we want socialism from the point of view of a Nepo baby, which is the only way you could still believe in it at this point, because if you've actually lived it, like many of the refugees and migrants to America, he's the kind of politician that has caused people to emigrate to America.
00:38:48.920Because leaders like him have impoverished the countries that they come from.
00:38:53.920They must be like looking at each other and going, oh, no, not this again.
00:39:04.100He just won the Democratic nomination.
00:39:05.360As a reminder, the actual general election is four months away in November for the mayor of New York.
00:39:09.420But while running, he made clear that he wanted to divide the city in terms of race, that that's how he was going to determine who to tax more, who was advantaged and who wasn't.
00:39:20.800And he was asked about this and his focus on whiteness when he went on Meet the Press.
00:39:28.280He's got a campaign platform that calls for the city's notoriously skewed property tax system in which ritzy brownstones are hit at lower rates than homes and rentals in lower income neighborhoods, which even some of his Republican competitors have acknowledged could be a problem.
00:39:45.320Like they're not it's it got this way through some wackadoodle policies, but even those who have been talking about this talk about it in terms of people who make a bunch of money shouldn't have a lower property tax than people who don't.
00:39:57.300Right. But what here's how he talks about it on his Web site.
00:40:00.580Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer.
00:40:07.700Wait for it. And whiter neighborhoods.
00:40:11.540Now, what does white have to do with it?
00:41:38.300And I challenge your listeners to do some research on that.
00:41:41.880But he's he's he's trying in all kinds of ways to be a mischievous revolutionary who we can love and hug and relate to.
00:41:55.940But he wants to signal at all times his absolute most venomous and aggressive radical base.
00:42:05.720The other thing that he's been doing is allowing leaks or I don't know if he's allowing them or if they're happening by themselves of past positions, which are even more horrifying than the ones he's holding presently.
00:42:21.380And I think the strategy there is to make himself look like he's moderated somewhat.
00:42:25.980You know, he's he's you know, you almost expect to hear that at one time he wanted the New York Stock Exchange to be turned into a, you know, a halal meat market for the homeless or something.
00:42:39.040And now he just wants to close it down.
00:42:44.300This I don't know whether he's moderated on this one or not.
00:42:46.680But here is an explicitly communist principle that he embraced on this podcast in SOT 7.
00:42:55.980What the purpose is about this entire project.
00:42:58.780It's not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism and obviously raising class consciousness is a critical part of that.
00:43:04.680But making sure that we have candidates that both understand that and are willing to put that forward at every which moment that they have at every which opportunity that they are given.
00:43:14.440We have to continue to elect more socialists and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
00:43:23.380There are also other issues that we firmly believe in.
00:43:25.980Whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production.
00:44:31.240If he came to my door, you know, I would slam it because I would be sure that he wanted my credit card.
00:44:38.720If he wanted to marry a relative of mine, I would sit him down and, you know, question him on his prospects because he's a little bit like the music man.
00:44:48.700He suddenly showed up in town with the answers to everything.
00:44:52.600And the simplest answer is that things should be free and that our big problem is that they aren't.
00:44:58.080But when he seizes the means of production, I wonder which institutional military force he's going to use since he wants to lay off the cops.
00:45:08.960Is he going to seize it with, you know, Antifa or is he going to seize it with, you know, these social workers with which he wants to replace cops?
00:45:21.220This is a disaster for New York because New York is actually a very hardworking town.
00:45:29.460Every time I go there, Megan, to stay in Midtown, I go on the Greg Gutfeld show.
00:45:35.640People are up at four in the morning putting out their food carts, cleaning up the streets, delivering furniture to office buildings, taking old furniture out of office buildings.
00:45:45.320And I wonder at how hardworking, how gritty, how commonsensical these New Yorkers are trying to put away a few bucks, driving their cabs, driving their Ubers, delivering furniture, you know, cleaning hotel rooms.
00:58:30.780And the same people make money on both ends of the proposition.
00:58:35.320Yeah, yeah, it's this is very connected to the woke DEI problem that we're dealing with in schools and colleges across the country where Heather McDonald's has documented this brilliantly.
00:58:46.440If you take a lot of these young men and women who get into these elite universities, so-called elite, you know, the Ivy League, who get in thanks to skin color or DEI related things.
00:59:00.340And you removed those preferences and just let them go to the colleges that their SAT scores and their non-inflated grades because now they're coming out of high schools that also inflate their grades based on skin color.
00:59:12.580But let's go back to the day where they were graded on what they actually did on the test and the SAT was whatever it was.
00:59:18.920And then they either got into a school or didn't, irrespective of skin color.
00:59:22.980They would go to those schools, those so-called lesser schools, and they would become engineers and mathematicians and maybe be on their way to doing like quant work that actually pays a lot.
00:59:36.520But what's happening instead is they're going to Harvard, they're going to Yale, where their test scores are two standard deviations, at least below the average student there who is Indian, Asian or white.
00:59:52.060And they're winding up in the African Studies Department or the Women's Studies Department because those are the only places where they can get an easy grade and still graduate and a totally useless degree that will not pay any of their bills.
01:00:10.160A lot of the people who are coming into those schools now, and I went to one myself, Princeton University, who are coming from new to college backgrounds, are studying things like engineering.
01:00:24.520They're filling the computer science programs at places like Harvard.
01:00:28.700In some ways, the liberal arts at those colleges, the English departments and so on, are starving for applicants.
01:00:40.920These colleges are filled with people who are attempting to join major corporations and so on.
01:00:49.060One, that we live in an incredibly competitive industrial world in which even these good jobs, though they are high paying by some, you know, absolute standard.
01:01:05.780Well, that won't get you much in New York City, given the taxes, given the, you know, cost of living and so on.
01:01:15.380But a lot of those problems have to do with how expensive New York is to do business in, and those are government programs.
01:01:26.980A lot of the high prices of New York and the high cost of New York are the result of programs like Zoron's, which aren't even as aggressive as the ones he's proposing.
01:01:39.760Look at Boston and San Francisco, same problem.
01:01:43.280Yeah, being a young person in America is a really tough proposition these days, because even when you do do the practical thing, even when you seek the professions that supposedly pay, you're in competition for housing and other things in a way that just doesn't allow you to get a leg up.
01:02:04.200And the solution to this that he proposes, which is a socialistic solution, higher taxes on those who have and so on.
01:02:13.180The problem with higher taxes is that you end up with less to tax because the people move away.
01:02:20.040The things you're taxing become less valuable.
01:02:33.400And I have a lot of empathy for the sensible young people of America, also those who have put themselves into huge debt.
01:02:44.260And one of the problems with student loans has always has been that you all that money goes to the university.
01:02:51.360They're able to charge higher and higher prices.
01:02:53.680Megan, I had I had I had a student at, you know, an Ivy League college during covid who we were paying, you know, eighty thousand dollars a year for.
01:03:04.760And he was getting he was getting he was getting he was getting Zoom classes that were recorded because, you know, the college was closed for a year.
01:03:14.100These these places are raking it in and their students are given these high expectations.
01:03:23.700They come out with incredibly high expectations.
01:03:27.200They think that somehow having graduated from these places and having good initial salaries and so on, they're going to be able to save.
01:03:35.160But their inability to save has something to do with factors that aren't aren't adjustable by taxation.
01:03:45.860And the problem he's addressing is a real one in the sense that there are people struggling, even those who shouldn't be struggling, given, you know, their aptitude and their accomplishment.
01:04:05.100And he's and he's what Friedberg says, Friedberg thinks that the solution in part should be the government should get out of the business of providing loans for college.
01:04:42.700What happens every time is the government just keeps increasing the number of loans you can get.
01:04:46.500Then the colleges increase the tuition that they're going to charge you.
01:04:50.800You get absolutely no additional benefit, but you have to pay back all those loans.
01:04:55.980Eventually, the university gets richer and richer.
01:04:58.080And then the university feels good about itself in some of these cases because they let in a DEI candidate who otherwise couldn't have gotten in.
01:05:05.300And they don't really give a shit whether you wind up with a job or not.
01:05:11.860And so many jobs in America are basically make work these days.
01:05:17.100You know, at a lot of these universities, they have more administrators than they do students.
01:05:21.760And then at a lot of corporations, the human resources department and the other sort of bureaucracies within the company that don't actually add to the bottom line are sucking up vast amounts of money.
01:05:37.680And those expenses are distributed throughout society.
01:05:44.980And we live in a world which is expensive in a lot of ways because it's not productive.
01:05:52.740It appears to be productive, but a lot of it's being sucked into a black hole of rulemaking and rule administering.
01:06:01.260And then, as I say, at these big cities, rents are incredibly high from millions of regulatory and other reasons.
01:06:17.280Yeah, and also because they're consolidating, you know, outside of the very big cities, a lot of the housing in America under giant corporate.
01:06:27.240You know, not to be a revolutionary myself here, but, you know, when BlackRock is able to buy up 60 percent of the housing in a certain area, it makes it very hard to compete.
01:06:39.020When when half of the apartments are being rented as short term housing or Airbnb, it makes it hard to get a start.
01:06:47.520What America needs and Trump is a populist, too, is a populism that has some common sense to it and looks at all the causes and includes the government among those causes and includes the regulation of the financial industry, which has run a bit of muck in a market where it probably shouldn't be.
01:07:09.380It probably shouldn't be that international capital is governing the ability of Americans to get a first home.
01:07:17.240And we haven't even touched on the illegal problem, too, which is all these big blue cities that we're mentioning are also funneling millions upon millions toward illegals when it comes to housing, health care and other public benefits that just that who pays for that?
01:07:33.460It's not free, as Zoran Mandami would have you believe. It comes from the workers, the actual citizens, the people who do get up and drag themselves out of bed every day, sometimes go to jobs that they can't stand because they're responsible and they wouldn't dream of letting somebody else, much less the government, cover for their bills.
01:07:51.620But they get stuck paying the bills of these other freeloaders who aren't even supposed to be here.
01:07:56.580Well, I mean, I made a joke to a young New Yorker the other day was complaining about, you know, whether he would be able to afford to live there under mom.
01:08:05.260Donnie, I said, you might not be poor enough to live in New York City.
01:08:08.700In other words, at some point, at some point, it will be the poor who have the advantage of all sorts of payments, discounts, programs and so on.
01:08:24.860You know, and then we know exactly what will happen. It will implode just like everybody else who's tried communism.
01:08:30.360Yeah, but but but but chasing employers out of the city is really it may cause rents to go down, but it will cause a lot of other things to go down with them.
01:08:41.500Yeah, because he's like, not only am I going to tax the businesses, he wants to raise the corporate income tax.
01:08:46.480But even if if a company moves out of New York and moves to Texas or Florida, I'm going to hike their taxes for doing business in New York.
01:08:55.820So I will get them one way or another. Great way to chase them out of doing business in New York altogether.
01:09:00.200Like the ones who can not everybody will be forced to do that. Some some will say, F you, New York.
01:09:05.080You ever get try to order something through the mail and they say does not ship to whatever state.
01:09:09.660It's because there's some policy in that state that makes it difficult or unpleasant or impossible for them to do business there.
01:09:15.500New York state just thinks it's above that. I would beg to differ.
01:09:18.240You know, and there's a tax that isn't financial. Let's call it the stress tax or the quality of life tax.
01:09:25.080I visit New York every few weeks as I have for years for business.
01:09:28.840So I get to see it, you know, in a staggered way.
01:09:32.600And the quality of life has deteriorated there.
01:09:36.840The street scenes are rougher, are rougher and more volatile.
01:09:40.860The expectations about crime and so on have have have have fallen.
01:09:48.260You know, you just don't expect the safe, civilized city that you did in the past.
01:09:54.200And if you're willing to go through all the struggles, financial and and career wise to stay and make it in New York.
01:10:01.760But you add this extra layer of just hassles and dirt and pot smelling on every corner and rats, more rats than you've ever seen in a city.
01:10:14.280And after a while you go, the mental tax is too much.
01:10:20.400And under Mom Donnie, I have a feeling it's going to be a more chaotic, a dirtier, a less pleasing and less peaceful city.
01:11:06.160Westchester is a tony community just north of New York City in between New York City and Connecticut.
01:11:15.920Westchester has got a lot of very well-heeled communities like Bronxville.
01:11:21.980That's where, well, I guess I shouldn't say, but somebody very famous who runs a very big sports organization lives and has raised his children.
01:11:29.560All sorts of lovely little pockets there.
01:11:31.760One half of it is on the water, the Hudson River, and overlooks that.
01:11:36.740And then on the other side, you kind of walk up and there's more water.
01:11:40.360Anyway, there's a beautiful little town called Yorktown Heights in Westchester.
01:11:45.740It's not the fanciest of Westchester towns, but it ain't the Bronx by any measure.
01:11:52.180And the reason this is relevant is because a congresswoman who you may know as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been telling us for years that she is from the Bronx.
01:12:03.560And recently she had a fight with President Trump over tweet, text, truth, whatever, and she played tough and said, oh, don't you mess with me.
01:12:13.660I'm a Bronx girl and we eat Queens boys for breakfast because that's where Trump was raised in the Queens and respectfully AOC.
01:12:22.260Well, that's real cute, except she only lived in the Bronx until she was age five, when at best you're in usually kindergarten, maybe first grade.
01:12:33.400And she spent the rest of her childhood, one through 12th grade in Yorktown Heights, which is Westchester.
01:12:42.080And by any measure, it is richer, nicer, and more white collar than the Bronx, with all due respect to my friends in the Bronx.
01:12:53.740She's pretending to be a Bronx girl because she wants this to be part of her origin story the same way as she wants now to be called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
01:13:04.660Meanwhile, everyone knew her as Sandy Cortez when she was growing up and her lies are coming to the fore.
01:13:12.760So among other things, Benny Johnson, who's hilarious and he's a great Twitter follow and has a great show, went to Yorktown Heights just to take a look and to talk to some folks there about AOC and what Yorktown is like and so on.
01:13:28.440And now some of her schoolmates, separate and apart from Benny, are weighing in on her claims.
01:13:34.520I'll get to the Benny thing in one second.
01:13:36.120But there was a piece in the New York Post talking about how she's embarrassing herself.
01:13:44.760She's embarrassing herself now with this Bronx girl claim.
01:13:48.900They went and tracked down Assemblyman Matt Slater, who's a Republican from Yorktown, New York State Assembly,
01:13:55.560and said he said, quote, she's embarrassing herself for doing everything possible to avoid saying she grew up in the suburbs instead of the Bronx.
01:14:04.840What she said now that people are starting to look at whether she's a Bronx girl, which she's not, is, quote,
01:14:10.560I'm proud of how I grew up and I talk about it all the time.
01:15:33.240This looks like an awesome place to be from.
01:15:35.180Get out of the car and you find something like this.
01:15:38.740Welcome to the capitalist horrors of AOC's Yorktown Heights Patriot State Park.
01:15:46.020You can see here a Veterans Memorial Circle that's been beautifully tended and groomed with a lot of American flags and a lot of honor for our great nation.
01:15:56.060Really, just a terrifying place to grow up here.
01:15:59.800Capitalist swine trying to sell me rhubarb at this beautiful Meadows Farm Farmers Market.
01:17:18.260I hate to tell you, when I was in Washington for the inauguration, I attended the hearing of RFK's confirmation hearing.
01:17:28.480And looking out at the horseshoe of senators, the side that was dominated by the Democrats, looked like a band that had been assembled for ethnic purposes.
01:17:40.980You know, we need the socialist Bernie.
01:17:53.620But here's what I hear from her story.
01:17:56.620Her parents took her from the Bronx, maybe a less nice, a rougher neighborhood.
01:18:03.080And probably through saving money and working hard and following what we used to call the American dream, were able to move to a nicer place.
01:18:11.880And should she not want that for all of us?
01:18:15.900In other words, should she not want that social mobility for all of us?
01:18:21.940My team's got the helpful map for everybody to see how far away Yorktownites is from Bronx.
01:18:27.080Why identify with the place that her parents worked hard to get her out of rather than the place that the parents worked hard to get her to?
01:18:40.500But what it really does is it obscures the fact that she's the product of people who are able to work, save, buy a home, and give their child an education.
01:18:51.480And it's that process that she should be protecting, not some fake revolution down on the street that her very mom and dad wanted her out of.
01:19:07.640You look at your circumstances and talk about them in the most dire terms possible to make yourself sound tougher than you are, to make it sound like you overcame more than you did.
01:19:19.100And in her case, to make it sound like you have street cred when you try to fight the oligarchy.
01:19:24.780I mean, honestly, I could I could sit here and say I was raised by a single mom who was a nurse who put me through college with their own blood, sweat and tears.
01:20:06.660Like leaving out the other part would lead you to think I had a much tougher childhood than I really did.
01:20:13.620And what she wants to do is she wants to inflate the Bronx, the five years of Bronx living when she was a toddler into her actual origin story.
01:22:27.480Is this the party of the dignity of labor or the party that's trying to, you know, get us all into office jobs?
01:22:36.280I can't tell who they're speaking to or what they're talking about anymore.
01:22:40.580If I wanted to list some of the worst jobs I've done and act as though, you know, I was trapped in them, I could tell a story of even harder knocks than she.
01:23:08.900They left New York City because when you go over into Westchester, the most important thing that happens is you leave the tax district of New York City.
01:23:18.520And so they went to a nicer neighborhood.
01:23:22.120Their child went to a private school in the capital of American East Coast Academe, Boston.
01:23:30.500Can't she be honest about her arc and her narrative, which is that of being lifted on the backs of hardworking parents who obviously saved, obviously wanted the best for their child.
01:23:45.400And then using education and other things, her maybe her natural talents, let's say, and even doing a little waitressing.
01:24:58.060This is this is an absurd way of looking at being a young person.
01:25:02.980That's that's what she's calling back on.
01:25:04.980Everyone's poor in their 20s unless they came from a family with privilege.
01:25:08.620And that's a very, very small percentage of Americans.
01:25:12.840I taught English as a second language to new migrants in a Times Square business school for ten dollars an hour out of Princeton University.
01:25:22.480OK, a ten bucks an hour in the Globe School of Business teaching Central American migrants to speak English.
01:25:31.640And I worked at a school that was supported by the government.
01:25:35.240And one day I came in and said, you know, the kids aren't showing up for class and I don't have enough textbooks and so on.
01:25:41.840And they said, all that matters is that you take attendance.
01:25:44.980All that matters is that you mark them present.
01:25:47.160I said, well, they're not present and I'm having a hard time teaching.
01:25:50.140And they said, but if you mark them present, then we get the payment from the government for their participation in the school, because our real client is the government.
01:26:00.120It was a real lesson in how you can be trying to do the right thing and you can be trying to help people and so on.
01:26:08.520And a government program didn't even care if they had textbooks and the school didn't either.
01:26:14.220It just mattered that I marked them present so that they could get that big whopping check in their name.
01:30:05.660Parents, too many kids today are not learning the real history of America.
01:30:09.620Schools are pushing revisionist narratives or skipping over key ideas altogether.
01:30:13.980That's why the Tuttle Twins America's history books are so important.
01:30:17.720These story based books bring our history to life, the good, the bad and the inspiring.
01:30:22.800So your kids can understand not only the truth about our founders and the Constitution, but also the ideas and values that made this country great.
01:30:30.460Give your children the education they deserve.
01:31:28.860Almost a million dollars got clipped because people are not into Pride anymore.
01:31:32.420And corporations are having having to answer for it when they get behind a event like this in which, I mean, so many disgusting things happened.
01:31:41.680Like the, a trans person wearing devil horns twerking on a police officer while holding a cross and a sign that reads Mary Magdalene.
01:32:02.360And this obvious man with fake boobs is twerking, shaking his butt in the face of NYPD's finest who somehow is maintaining his professionalism.
01:33:18.860This doesn't really represent the LGB people I know, but they do it every year.
01:33:25.400So I live in a little town, Livingston, Montana, that has a Fourth of July parade.
01:33:31.760People come from all around for all over the state.
01:33:34.980It's usually actually held on the 2nd of July to begin the rodeo.
01:33:38.740And children are thrown candy from floats and so on.
01:33:45.400And about three years ago, usually the floats are like Dodge trucks or, you know, representing the local bank or a charity.
01:33:54.780But a pride float came along and it was decorated with a grizzly bear that was down on, no, no, a man who was down on four knees wearing, I guess what you would call a kind of dungeon outfit, you know, leather straps and so on.
01:34:13.560And there was a grizzly bear standing behind him, a person in a grizzly bear costume, having anal sex with him, simulating anal sex with him for the kitties.
01:34:24.040And outside of any other judgment, it was not something kids wanted to see or needed to see in a parade.
01:34:32.420I don't know if they threw candy from that float.
01:34:34.400If they had, I would have warned people maybe not to eat it.
01:34:38.300But the whole thing got out of control.
01:34:42.020It got to a point where it was about competitive shock, competitive offensiveness.
01:34:51.520And now, for some reason, I don't know why, a little sanity has floated down from heaven and we are, you know, pulling back on it as a corporate, giant, funded affair.
01:35:07.940It will go on, I'm sure, as an expression of self, you know, you know, self-realization on the people who have all kinds of ways of thinking about themselves and their sexuality.
01:35:20.080But I think its demotion is welcome, frankly, because I can't think of any other month that is about this kind of thing and which is willing to shock children at this level.
01:36:29.540Well, it came to us blurred, but totally naked male dudes walking down the street and people are clapping.
01:36:37.600People have brought the family to stand and clap at the ding-dongs walking down the streets of Toronto.
01:36:44.100And that is supposed to make us want to embrace, you see, the LGBT community, Walter.
01:36:52.100First of all, I wouldn't want to see a straight pride parade, OK?
01:36:56.780I don't know that the celebration of a bold sexuality in the streets is something that we need to do in general.
01:37:06.880A straight pride parade in which guys with, you know, offensively exaggerated sex organs are taking on pneumatic Sanchez-like, you know, Bezos brides in their undies.
01:37:22.580I wouldn't want to see that either, to be honest.
01:37:25.180So I don't know what it really has to do with LGBTQ.
01:37:28.480It's just the bedroom as a public spectacle, and especially the bedroom, which involves a lot of straps and harnesses and other things, isn't one thing that I want to walk out my door and see.
01:37:41.400And I thought the whole idea of gay rights was to bring being, you know, having a different sexuality to parity, to equal in some ways, legally at least, and culturally even, the, you know, heterosexual so-called norm that preceded it.
01:38:02.420But this isn't doing that because this isn't something that I ever saw heterosexuals doing.
01:38:47.600Well, maybe the point has been proved.
01:38:50.300Is there such a thing as having proved your point and moving on?
01:38:54.520I mean, you know, and the circus element of it is one thing.
01:39:02.940But the fact is that legally and in many other ways, these rights battles have been won.
01:39:10.460And there is a new set of laws and set of sensibilities and sensitivities in society.
01:39:19.800Can the point now be proved so that we can move on to something more, I don't know, aesthetically pleasing, less divisive, more peaceful, less confusing to children, and just generally, I don't know, more civilized?
01:39:39.340Of course, there was a piece showing Zoram Mamdami jumping up and down while holding a trans flag at the New York City Pride Parade, hanging out with Tish James, just to put that cherry on top of the sundae.
01:40:06.020The Washington Post says he's a health and science reporter, and his name is Benjamin Ryan, who tweeted out this Pride Month,
01:40:12.860misgendering is cruel and rude, no matter how many edge cases or straw man arguments people cannot come up with to try and assert otherwise,
01:40:21.440in response to which I said the following, and I stand by it, and I want you guys to remember it.
01:40:25.560It is not rude or cruel to say what's real and true, or to refuse to participate in another person's delusion.
01:40:33.460Going along with preferred pronouns is dangerous.
01:40:36.060It forces us to cede entire arguments about who can play in which sporting event, disrobe in which locker room, and enter into which prison before we've even made our case.
01:40:44.860Preferred pronouns are meant to dull our senses, to get us accustomed to the gender-bending lies we're being told.
01:40:52.280It's an effort to override instincts that are there for good reason, including for women, their own safety.
01:40:57.080It can literally be a matter of life and death for a girl to learn to listen to her own instincts about when a man is present.
01:41:04.100Teaching her to force herself to lie about that is teaching her to dull her gift of fear.
01:41:10.260Don't let a man like Benjamin tell you that you're rude or cruel if you stand up for reality, as well as your, your daughter's, and all of our daughter's safety.