The White House is trying to block a Freedom of Information Act request from a conservative group that seeks to find out who Joe Biden used to run a business with his son, Hunter Biden. The White House says no, citing executive privilege.
00:08:49.720And this isn't merely a way to get around the writer's strike and remain relevant and stay in the news and maybe make some money for the staff.
00:09:01.200This is why no one noticed that they were off air because their audiences, which used to be gigantic, have dwindled down to very, very little.
00:09:09.780Johnny Carson, on his last week on air, averaged 19 million viewers per show.
00:09:18.200His final show, Johnny Carson's final show had 50 million viewers.
00:09:26.520The U.S. population in 1992 was just north of 250 million people.
00:09:31.280Today, it's something like 330 million people.
00:09:33.160So the equivalent today to 50 million viewers, the last night of the Johnny Carson show, would be equivalent to 65-ish million viewers today.
00:10:26.560And this is important for our political order because the ruling class was able to exert a lot of soft power when everyone was tuned in, certainly to the three network television stations.
00:10:37.600And then even with cable, people were still watching a lot of the same kind of stuff.
00:10:42.240So you can exert a lot of soft power through propaganda and conditioning.
00:10:45.560But when that totally breaks up and everyone's just listening to their own podcasts, which get, what, a million views or even half a million views?
00:10:51.720Some podcasts get very fewer and still have a devoted following.
00:10:55.520Well, then the political order's got to get a little tougher.
00:10:58.220If they can't exert that soft power and people are starting to ask questions and people are starting to question things and people are starting to think for themselves, then the enforcement mechanism of the state is going to get a lot tougher and it's going to start cracking down on dissidents.
00:11:10.880It's going to start arresting people who question the ruling class as we are seeing every single day.
00:11:16.180That is the consequence of a breakdown of the common culture.
00:11:18.940Maybe it's a good thing because we're not all as hypnotized as we used to be, but now the bare reality of our political order and the coercion that it entails is becoming much clearer.
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00:13:47.580Speaking of live streaming and the judiciary, this is the most pathetic story of the week.
00:13:57.200A federal judge has just ruled that age limits on porn, on online porn, are unconstitutional.
00:14:05.100So some of us, conservatives, have said, just ban porn.
00:14:56.080That's a violation of the First Amendment.
00:14:57.600This weirdo judge, man, Judge David A. Ezra, senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, finds, quote,
00:15:09.000the court finds that HB 1181 is unconstitutional on its face.
00:15:13.960That's the law saying we're going to have some age limits on porn.
00:15:16.880Prohibited Texas from any further enforcement of this law pending further order or final judgment.
00:15:25.980They say the statute is not narrowly tailored and chills the speech of plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials.
00:15:34.600The law is not narrowly tailored because it substantially regulates protected speech, is severely under-inclusive, and uses overly restrictive enforcement methods.
00:17:18.680When I watch a movie, if I watch Citizen Kane, that is speech.
00:17:24.500If the court were to come in and say, you can't have Citizen Kane because we, the judges, don't like the movie, that would be a curtailment of speech.
00:17:34.540Citizen Kane and some hardcore porn on the internet are not the same thing.
00:18:10.700And you got this one too, Miller v. California, which modified the definition of obscenity from that of, quote,
00:18:16.960utterly without socially redeeming value to that which lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
00:18:23.800So this is a weakening of obscenity and therefore a weakening of the government's ability to enforce obscenity laws.
00:18:28.860Then in 97, we got, to my mind, the most egregious pro-porn decision that was in the name of free speech, but it was total BS.
00:18:37.700And in a way, it's kind of undermined free speech.
00:18:39.380The Supreme Court rules in Reno v. ACLU that the anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act were unconstitutional.
00:18:47.660So we talk about the Communications Decency Act.
00:18:50.040That often comes up as a way to regulate big tech because you hear about Section 230, which gives big tech platforms certain legal protections that have kind of screwed us over in the long run because it's allowed big tech to censor conservatives while receiving the protections of an online platform rather than a publisher.
00:19:06.320But the Communications Decency Act is really about decency and communications, and it was a law intended to address the new technological and social issue of online pornography.
00:19:16.600There was a similar law passed around this time called the Child Online Protection Act, and Republicans wanted to pass it.
00:19:23.780Even Bill Clinton, who was a little bit loose in that arena of sexual propriety, he signed it into law.
00:19:29.580And yet this ridiculous court says, no, you can't have anti-indecency provisions because that would be a curtailment of free speech.
00:19:36.820Porn is not free speech, and this is a reminder conservatives are never going to win by trying to split hairs and find some conciliatory middle ground with something as egregious as hardcore online porn, a ubiquitous social problem causing all sorts of psychological and spiritual and health issues among American people.
00:19:57.400Just go out there and be bold and ban it and appoint bold judges and don't do this to totally shred the Constitution or anything like that, what the liberals say.
00:20:06.780No, do that to return us to a time when we had a far more reasonable principle of constitutional interpretation and statutory interpretation.
00:20:16.580Before the 1970s, do you think things were more reasonable or less reasonable?
00:20:22.780Did the 1970s make things were better and better behaved and more conducive to flourishing?
00:20:46.360It has no socially redeeming value whatsoever.
00:20:50.940Now, speaking of speech, I'm going to shift gears hard here.
00:20:55.640Some people are voicing their opinion using their speech to say who they want to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024.
00:21:04.060And you know all of the polls, pretty much all of them without exception, have been overwhelmingly in favor of Donald Trump.
00:21:10.560But there's a new poll out that the people who don't want Trump to be the nominee are touting as evidence that maybe Donald will be upended as the frontrunner here.
00:21:21.520This is a poll from the Young Republican National Committee showing Donald Trump as the favorite to be the GOP nominee in 2024.
00:21:34.560Now, I hate to rain on this parade here for the people who are supporting Governor DeSantis, but I don't think this poll shows exactly what the anti-Trump crowd thinks it shows.
00:21:52.400Now, we could talk about this over a nice barbecue sometime if you invited me over to your house.
00:21:57.580But if you ever did that, you better make sure that you've got propane.
00:22:00.520That's why you've got to check out Cinch.
00:26:18.020Any candidate who wants to be able to compete seriously against Trump needs to be dominating among at least one of the factions of the GOP.
00:27:06.600The DeSantis campaign is obviously dealing with the lackluster poll growth, non-existent poll growth.
00:27:14.780So now the Never Back Down Super PAC, which is the DeSantis Super PAC, has upended its strategy.
00:27:21.880They've announced that they're going to stop door knocking in Nevada and California.
00:27:26.640The reason for this, according to the spokesman, is they want to focus on the early primary states.
00:27:31.360So Aaron Perrine, who's spokesman for the Super PAC, says, we want to reinvest in the first three, insinuating Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
00:27:40.660We see real opportunities in the first three.
00:27:42.580The first three are going to set the conditions for the March states.
00:27:44.600Now, what's weird about this is Nevada is the second state, as far as I know.
00:27:51.900I don't think South Carolina is in the first three.
00:27:55.180So I don't know what lines are getting crossed here, or if this is some spin, because maybe they're not doing as well in Nevada.
00:28:02.100Either way, a turning away from Super Tuesday.
00:28:05.620If you launch your campaign, you say, we're going to be in all these different states, and we're going to—forget about the first primary states.
00:28:10.260We think we're already going to do very well in Iowa and New Hampshire, and we're already looking ahead to the Super Tuesday states.
00:28:54.960And I think the analysis has been pretty close to accurate, and I think it's been proven right at pretty much every step of the way going back about six months now.
00:29:05.800If you're upset that Donald Trump is leading, then you've got to change your campaign strategy or perhaps just recognize that the conditions in this presidential race—we have not seen this kind of thing since, what, 1892, where a conservative—I'm sorry, where a president is running for a non-consecutive second term.
00:29:23.300Maybe the conditions are just such that it's not the year to challenge somebody.
00:29:27.920That's the conclusion that Glenn Youngkin, obviously, has reached in Virginia.
00:29:32.060He's a great-looking presidential candidate who just thinks he's not going to beat Trump, and so he's staying on the sidelines, at least for now.
00:29:39.480But if you're pegging your hopes on, well, my candidate is one point higher than the guy who's 40 points ahead in the national polls, and he's one point higher among the young Republican National Committee, that ain't going to cut it, man.
00:29:54.160And you're going to spin your wheels and spend a lot of money on a strategy that is going to continue not to work.
00:29:59.740Now, there is some not-so-terrible news for Ron DeSantis.
00:30:04.320There's something being reported as awful news for Ron DeSantis, which is actually fake news.
00:30:08.340And the story is that a pro-DeSantis super PAC, a $50 million super PAC, has shut down and has flipped sides and is now supporting Donald Trump.
00:30:15.720And as far as I can tell, that's just completely made up.
00:32:01.960Now, speaking of stories that seem like fake news, in this case stories that are not actually fake news, the White House wants to take away your beer.
00:32:11.900They want to limit you to two beers per week.
00:32:15.460Does President Biden want to limit Americans to two beers a week?
00:32:27.920All right, well, Dr. George Koob, who is the director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, says the U.S. may soon follow Canada and recommend just two beers a week.
00:32:42.380How do you guys think that's going to go?
00:32:43.840Let me tell you what I'm not going to get involved in, in that question right there.
00:33:08.420But because of what it tells you about the experts and what the conservatives think about the experts and even what the liberals think about the experts.
00:33:15.980When Peter Doocy asks this question, Corrine Jean-Pierre gets a little smile.
00:33:20.780She goes, oh, here we go, the beer question.
00:33:24.280Corrine Jean-Pierre knows this is ridiculous.
00:33:26.940She knows that there's no win answering this politically, but she also knows that two beers a week is ridiculous, and it's almost certainly a bogus study, and no one's going to pay attention to it.
00:33:42.880In a way, she is admitting the same thing about the experts that the conservatives have now long thought, which is the experts are often full of it.
00:34:06.080She's tacitly admitting that the experts are often wrong, but she won't go all the way.
00:34:16.420She's tacitly admitting it's ridiculous, but she's also, her substantive answer is, just listen to the experts.
00:34:25.440It's an amazing, very, very subtle admission and response.
00:34:31.340And what it comes down to, what the upshot of all of it is, I think, is that everybody knows the experts frequently get it wrong.
00:34:38.300The one thing I know about science is that statistically it's almost always wrong because scientific discoveries and innovations end up getting upended sometimes centuries later, sometimes generations later, sometimes weeks later.
00:34:50.540It's a tacit admission that our trust in science is misplaced, but it's also an admission that the political ruling class will wield the supposed credibility of science willy-nilly as a way to skirt responsibility, as a way to avoid democratic accountability, certainly.
00:35:13.060They'll just use them in a really arbitrary and capricious way.
00:35:16.440All of that contained in this silly little exchange about beer, because it's not going to be so silly when the exchange is about the next vaccine you're going to have to take.
00:35:24.840And it's not going to be so silly when the exchange is about how you're going to have to shut down your business and lock down and not go to granny's funeral, and you're going to have to vote by mail because COVID-23 has come around and the election's right around the corner.
00:35:37.480That's going to be a little less funny about beer.
00:35:39.460We're all going to be drinking probably significantly more when that happens, but it's going to be the exact same principle at play.
00:35:44.860Speaking of Joe Biden, the Democrat leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, has just come out, and he's on the defense against the rumblings that the Republicans are considering impeaching Joe Biden.
00:36:03.700They have nothing to show for their majority throughout the year, and so as a natural consequence of that, they just continue to take orders from Donald Trump, their puppet master in chief, who has directed them to persecute and to go after Joe Biden, which may take the form of an illegitimate impeachment inquiry.
00:36:26.340Pot, meat, kettle, yes, obviously very hypocritical, insane, that as they're arresting Donald Trump, after they impeached Donald Trump twice over complete nonsense, they're complaining that the Republicans are considering opening an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
00:36:46.840This started with Watergate when the Democrats were prepared to impeach Richard Nixon over nothing, and then it accelerated during the Clinton era when the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over perjury, and then they didn't impeach Bush.
00:38:01.020They're going to lock up hundreds of January 6thers who committed the heinous, traitorous, treasonous crime of wandering around the Capitol for a few hours and then going home.
00:38:10.160It's a sad state that our political order is such that we're always going to impeach the other guy now, or that that's at least the expectation.
00:38:18.880But the sadder fact is we're still trailing behind.
00:38:32.580They're going to put Trump in an orange jumpsuit for 700 years if they don't outright execute him.
00:38:36.340Okay, so maybe we should start engaging in lawfare a little bit more aggressively, a little bit more on par with what the Democrats have already been doing.
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00:45:39.400How long do you want to wait until you do get married?
00:45:42.640Do you want to play the field a little bit?
00:45:44.680I, you know, sweet little Elisa and I split up for college.
00:45:49.900And, you know, I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat thinking of how awful my life would be had I not married sweet little Elisa.
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