The Michael Knowles Show - October 30, 2023


Ep. 1360 - Disney Panics After South Park's Mockery


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

170.60234

Word Count

7,870

Sentence Count

570

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

53


Summary

Disney has delayed the release of its much-mocked, cartoonishly-lived live-action remake of Snow White, or Sandbeige, as I call it, given the emphasis on diversity casting. And then the final nail in the coffin of this remake came by way of South Park.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Disney has officially announced that it will be delaying the release of its much-mocked,
00:00:04.700 cartoonishly-lived live-action remake of Snow White, or Sand Beige, as I call it,
00:00:11.060 given the emphasis on diversity casting. I'm not saying that Jeremy Boring is single-handedly
00:00:17.400 responsible for Disney's delay. I don't know that he did it single-handedly. But I'm quite
00:00:22.700 confident that if, say, seven hands were involved, at least six of them were Jeremy's.
00:00:30.620 For a comparison, here is Disney's new Snow White.
00:00:34.480 You said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage. What do you mean by that?
00:00:38.540 I just mean that it's no longer 1937, and we absolutely wrote a Snow White that is-
00:00:44.620 She's not going to be saved by the prince.
00:00:45.960 She's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's not going to be dreaming about
00:00:48.940 true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.
00:00:53.600 Sounds great. Here's our Snow White.
00:00:56.660 By 2030, it's predicted that 45% of women will be unmarried and childless. And why do you think
00:01:02.420 that is? Well, it's because we've been told that, you know, men are trash, and that our
00:01:06.360 career is the only thing that matters, and that marriage and children will inhibit that,
00:01:09.880 which is unnatural. That is biologically unnatural for women.
00:01:14.620 That does sound great. I mean, what's happening is really bad, but the fact that
00:01:18.100 our Snow White realizes that that's a problem, and the girls actually do want a prince, and they do want
00:01:22.540 normal stuff, that's a good sign. Disney is obviously reacting to the Daily Wire announcement
00:01:29.560 that we will be releasing our version side-by-side with theirs. And Disney is also reacting to the
00:01:36.140 terrible reaction that their remake has been getting among the public. And then the final nail
00:01:40.480 in the coffin of this remake's release came by way of South Park just last week.
00:01:44.900 I keep having the same dream. Everywhere I look, people are being replaced.
00:01:51.520 Okay, and who do you think is going to have you replaced?
00:01:54.820 Them. The Puppet Masters. The last time I had the dream, I was walking down the school hallway.
00:02:04.120 And then I see Butters, and he's like,
00:02:05.780 Hey, Eric, you want to see what my mom packed me for lunch?
00:02:08.700 And that's when I start to notice that something's wrong.
00:02:10.740 Everyone I cared about has been systematically replaced.
00:02:13.200 And finally, I want to scream, and I'm like,
00:02:15.100 Why are they replacing every single character with someone who is diverse?
00:02:18.300 But then Kenny's like,
00:02:19.240 It's not our fault, it's because of Kathleen Kennedy.
00:02:21.340 But then Kathleen Kennedy's just like,
00:02:22.820 F*** it, make it more lame.
00:02:24.360 And everyone in town is like,
00:02:25.620 No, please, Kathleen Kennedy, stop ruining everything.
00:02:28.060 But Kathleen Kennedy is all like,
00:02:29.340 Put another gay-diverse woman in it, make it more f***ing lame.
00:02:32.200 And the Disney stock just keeps going down and down and down.
00:02:35.300 And then Bob Iger is all like,
00:02:36.580 No, what's going on with my stock?
00:02:38.880 No, I can't be kidding.
00:02:40.160 No, make it more lame.
00:02:43.520 That is exactly what they're doing.
00:02:46.320 And that is why we hate the diversity, equity, and inclusion,
00:02:51.640 casting and writing in movies.
00:02:53.860 We don't hate it for the reason that the libs think.
00:02:56.880 It's not that we conservatives, or forget conservatives,
00:02:59.300 that we normal people are opposed to diversity exactly.
00:03:04.820 What we oppose is dishonesty.
00:03:07.660 The reason that we don't like it,
00:03:09.360 when Hollywood replaces every white guy with indigenous black lesbian pygmies,
00:03:14.300 is that that is not how the world really works.
00:03:17.320 In the real world, not every white man is an idiot or a villain.
00:03:22.020 Most white guys are actually pretty decent fellas.
00:03:24.400 In the real world, not every woman or person of color
00:03:28.320 or other type of self-styled, aggrieved minority is perfect.
00:03:32.940 Some of them, believe it or not, actually have complexity of character.
00:03:36.640 In the real world, not every single romantic couple is interracial.
00:03:41.440 It happens.
00:03:42.460 I'm not opposed to it when it does.
00:03:44.280 Some of my best friends are interracial couples.
00:03:47.220 But it's rare.
00:03:48.780 I looked it up.
00:03:49.600 It's like 8% of marriages.
00:03:52.400 In movies and TV today, it's like 80%.
00:03:55.500 In the real world, most people don't consider themselves gay or trans.
00:04:01.680 In the real world, conservatives, believe it or not,
00:04:04.620 are not always ignorant, stupid, malevolent hicks.
00:04:07.980 Sometimes those things happen.
00:04:10.220 So it's fine to depict it sometimes.
00:04:13.220 But the problem with the new representation in Hollywood
00:04:16.420 is that it doesn't represent reality.
00:04:19.560 More often than not, it totally flips reality.
00:04:22.240 And that is super duper lame.
00:04:26.060 And so people tune the fantasists out.
00:04:28.660 And they start to tune into alternatives.
00:04:30.840 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:31.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:04:32.480 Welcome back to the show.
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00:05:17.480 We'll get into Good Ranchers more a little bit later.
00:05:19.480 We will also get into the New Yorker
00:05:20.880 who has gone viral for bullying a pro-Hamas guy.
00:05:25.060 And everyone likes this clip,
00:05:27.220 especially people on the right.
00:05:28.340 But people on the right are having trouble articulating
00:05:32.620 why they like this clip
00:05:33.940 because it contradicts a lot of things
00:05:35.620 that we have been saying in recent years
00:05:38.280 that were kind of BS, cancel culture and all that.
00:05:40.940 We'll get into it.
00:05:41.820 First, though, speaking of costumes and diversity,
00:05:45.700 Halloween is upon us.
00:05:48.800 And a New Jersey school district
00:05:50.180 has canceled Halloween celebrations.
00:05:53.080 This New Jersey school district
00:05:54.360 has banned costumes from the schools
00:05:57.520 because of concerns over diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:06:03.420 The decision was made by Superintendent Ronald Taylor
00:06:06.380 of the South Orange and Maplewood School District
00:06:08.640 just west of Newark.
00:06:11.000 The costumes will be banned.
00:06:13.760 There will be no Halloween celebrations during school hours.
00:06:19.220 Here's why.
00:06:19.640 Each year, questions arise from families, students, and staff
00:06:22.820 about what SOMSD schools will be doing regarding Halloween.
00:06:27.580 Is promoting school-sponsored Halloween activities
00:06:30.420 creating indirect and unintentional financial hardships
00:06:33.940 for students and families?
00:06:35.160 Okay, first of all, you can throw a sheet on,
00:06:37.000 cut out a couple of eyes,
00:06:38.540 put a little spooky mouth on it or something,
00:06:40.640 and you're a ghost.
00:06:41.420 Or you could just draw a little scar on your face
00:06:46.100 and put a couple fake nails in your neck
00:06:47.880 and your Frankenstein.
00:06:48.780 It's not that expensive to do some kind of costume.
00:06:52.220 Do school-sponsored Halloween activities
00:06:54.040 violate the dignity of some of our students and families,
00:06:57.760 either culturally or religiously?
00:06:59.280 Okay, that's actually what they're concerned about.
00:07:02.520 If a white kid wears a sombrero,
00:07:04.600 is it going to be an international incident
00:07:06.120 and everyone's going to get fired and canceled for it?
00:07:08.360 Does the promotion of school-sponsored Halloween activities
00:07:11.240 create tensions with the equity
00:07:13.940 and access values of SOMSD?
00:07:17.120 I don't even know what that means.
00:07:18.760 That's just like blah, blah, blah,
00:07:22.300 gobble, gobble, goobity-gook,
00:07:24.280 nonsense, gibberish to follow their actual concern.
00:07:28.220 This is actually, slight digression,
00:07:30.180 this is what happens in Washington
00:07:31.440 when staffers are presenting policy options
00:07:35.920 to a principal, to a congressman or a president
00:07:39.180 or something, is they'll give three options.
00:07:41.420 And the first one is not a good option.
00:07:43.620 The second one is the only workable option.
00:07:46.040 And the third option is also not workable.
00:07:48.280 It doesn't make any sense.
00:07:49.460 And so it's like a policy sandwich
00:07:51.120 where the person has to pick the one in the middle.
00:07:53.300 That's like here.
00:07:54.160 They say, well, maybe it's too expensive,
00:07:55.800 but no, that's not a good excuse.
00:07:57.180 And well, it violates multiculturalism
00:07:59.440 and DEI and political correctness.
00:08:01.560 That's what they're actually concerned about.
00:08:03.020 And then the third one,
00:08:04.420 it creates tensions with equity and access values.
00:08:07.160 That's not even, that's barely English.
00:08:08.780 That's barely a semantically meaningful sentence,
00:08:13.340 but it's about DEI.
00:08:16.160 And why is it about DEI?
00:08:18.060 It does go beyond just wokeness.
00:08:21.120 It does go beyond just political correctness here.
00:08:23.720 It actually starts to hint at a problem
00:08:26.640 with diversity as the highest possible value.
00:08:30.520 Because if you have nothing holding you all together
00:08:34.920 as a society,
00:08:35.840 then you're not going to be able to have shared festivals.
00:08:40.040 You're not going to be able to have
00:08:41.580 any shared ritual at all.
00:08:43.840 It'll be misinterpreted.
00:08:45.620 You won't have the ability
00:08:46.880 to interpret anything you're saying
00:08:48.460 because you're going to be speaking different languages.
00:08:50.260 You're going to have totally different sets of beliefs.
00:08:51.980 You're going to value totally different things.
00:08:53.880 That is actually a problem with diversity.
00:08:57.040 So in the United States,
00:08:59.060 it used to be the case
00:08:59.880 that when we would take people in,
00:09:01.240 we would just insist that they assimilate to our culture
00:09:04.120 and share our beliefs
00:09:05.620 and just get with the program
00:09:06.640 and drop their native languages
00:09:07.980 and drop their native traditions
00:09:09.760 and just get on board with what we're doing.
00:09:12.520 And if that's the case,
00:09:13.640 then you don't need to worry about
00:09:14.720 potentially offending the indigenous black lesbian
00:09:17.500 Muslim pygmy
00:09:18.440 that doesn't like your Frankenstein costume
00:09:21.580 for whatever reason.
00:09:22.580 Because you say,
00:09:23.280 look, this is what we do.
00:09:24.240 You come to this country.
00:09:25.420 You get on board.
00:09:26.300 You do what we do.
00:09:26.800 You don't like it, leave.
00:09:27.600 Then don't come.
00:09:29.000 We're not begging you to come here.
00:09:30.980 You're the one who begged to come.
00:09:31.920 So, you know, get on board with the program.
00:09:35.400 But if your country exalts diversity
00:09:37.960 as an end unto itself,
00:09:39.620 if your country believes that any kind of conformity,
00:09:44.420 especially a conformity to the native culture,
00:09:46.720 is a bad thing,
00:09:47.880 then you're not going to be able to do that.
00:09:50.580 And then it's just all going to be super lame.
00:09:52.500 It's not even that you're going to
00:09:55.320 just come to a new agreement
00:09:57.660 on what costumes are acceptable.
00:09:59.140 You're going to just completely obliterate
00:10:01.260 the old festival.
00:10:02.700 And what you will replace it with
00:10:04.280 is not new forms of Halloween costumes.
00:10:07.820 You'll replace it with new festivals.
00:10:10.240 So we no longer have Halloween.
00:10:13.180 We no longer have Thanksgiving.
00:10:16.020 That's an indigenous people's day.
00:10:18.140 We no longer have Columbus Day.
00:10:19.260 That's another indigenous people's day.
00:10:21.360 We no longer have Christmas.
00:10:23.420 That's not allowed now in the public square.
00:10:26.300 Or at least the liberals really want to keep it
00:10:27.940 out of the public square.
00:10:28.600 And instead, what do we have?
00:10:29.920 We have Pride Month.
00:10:32.840 We have Earth Day.
00:10:34.240 We have all these other festivals
00:10:35.600 that the liberals insist upon.
00:10:38.120 Which is super lame.
00:10:39.560 It's just as lame as everything
00:10:40.700 that Disney is doing.
00:10:42.720 Now, speaking of ending things,
00:10:45.660 there is a candidate who has finally dropped out
00:10:48.820 of the presidential race.
00:10:50.480 Who is it?
00:10:50.940 Is it Asa Hutchinson?
00:10:52.580 Is it Doug Burgum?
00:10:54.520 Is it Chris Christie?
00:10:55.560 No, it's the former vice president
00:10:58.860 of the United States, Mike Pence.
00:11:01.300 I just couldn't sit this one out.
00:11:05.360 But the Bible tells us
00:11:07.040 that there's a time for every purpose under heaven.
00:11:10.580 I'm traveling across the country
00:11:13.760 over the past six months.
00:11:16.360 I came here to say it's become clear to me.
00:11:20.400 This is not my time.
00:11:21.740 So after much prayer and deliberation,
00:11:27.480 I have decided to suspend my campaign
00:11:30.760 for president effective today.
00:11:32.580 This is the mature thing to do.
00:11:36.640 Pence was giving a speech
00:11:37.700 in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
00:11:39.580 There were a lot of other candidates
00:11:41.020 who were speaking before that group.
00:11:42.940 And so Pence says,
00:11:44.200 okay, this is as good a time as any
00:11:45.500 to say I'm dropping out of the race.
00:11:47.960 The fact that Doug Burgum
00:11:50.960 has made it longer in this race
00:11:52.640 than Mike Pence has is a scandal.
00:11:56.080 But neither of them are going to become president.
00:11:58.260 And so what Mike Pence is doing here
00:11:59.640 is what Scott Walker did in 2016,
00:12:01.220 which is to say,
00:12:03.420 okay, I gave it a good shot.
00:12:05.420 I was in early,
00:12:06.800 but there's no path to victory here.
00:12:09.840 And so I could drag it out
00:12:11.160 and get more publicity time
00:12:12.680 and take a few more shots at Trump
00:12:14.060 and maybe audition for a cable news gig
00:12:16.940 or something.
00:12:17.560 But no, I don't want to do that.
00:12:18.920 If I'm not going to be president, I'm out.
00:12:20.660 And that's what Scott did in 2016.
00:12:22.240 That's what Mike Pence is doing here.
00:12:23.740 A very mature thing to do.
00:12:25.620 What a lot of anti-Trump Republicans
00:12:30.140 are hoping for here
00:12:31.280 is that this will be the beginning
00:12:33.260 of the other also-rans dropping out
00:12:37.700 and therefore consolidating support
00:12:40.080 against Donald Trump.
00:12:42.100 But there's a little problem
00:12:43.240 with that strategy,
00:12:44.260 which was proven on the very same day
00:12:46.740 that Pence dropped out.
00:12:47.740 And we'll get to that in one second.
00:12:48.620 First, though,
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00:12:51.760 And I'm a pro-life guy.
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00:15:01.220 So the theory is
00:15:02.600 Pence drops out.
00:15:03.760 Pretty soon,
00:15:04.240 all the other also-rans
00:15:05.200 are going to drop out
00:15:06.060 and that's going to consolidate
00:15:07.160 the race down to just one
00:15:08.720 or two or maybe three
00:15:10.040 anti-Trump candidates.
00:15:12.520 And then with all that
00:15:13.560 extra support,
00:15:14.180 they're going to bring
00:15:14.620 a real challenge
00:15:15.380 to Donald Trump.
00:15:16.380 They're going to kick him out
00:15:17.340 of his top spot
00:15:18.220 for the Republican nomination
00:15:19.400 and then everything
00:15:21.880 will be hunky-dory.
00:15:23.440 The reason I'm skeptical
00:15:24.680 of that strategy is
00:15:25.960 Pence wasn't the only person
00:15:27.120 to drop out of the race
00:15:27.940 over the weekend.
00:15:28.920 Our pal Larry Elder
00:15:29.960 also dropped out of the race.
00:15:31.780 Larry failed to make it
00:15:33.920 to the debates.
00:15:35.520 He almost made it
00:15:36.260 to the first debate.
00:15:37.940 Unfortunately,
00:15:38.600 the poll that had him
00:15:39.960 above the threshold
00:15:41.120 did not count
00:15:42.260 because it had done work
00:15:43.260 with Donald Trump.
00:15:44.180 So Larry was excluded
00:15:46.040 kind of on a technicality
00:15:47.700 and the campaign
00:15:48.860 wasn't going to go anywhere.
00:15:49.960 So Larry drops out.
00:15:51.580 But when Larry dropped out,
00:15:52.740 unlike Mike Pence,
00:15:54.760 Larry endorsed Donald Trump.
00:15:57.760 He says,
00:15:58.340 it is time to unite behind
00:15:59.540 real Donald Trump
00:16:00.380 to beat Joe Biden.
00:16:03.020 So, okay, Pence is out,
00:16:04.220 obviously not endorsing Trump.
00:16:06.440 Larry is out.
00:16:07.480 He's endorsing Trump.
00:16:08.400 The question is,
00:16:10.440 who will the other candidates
00:16:11.640 endorse when they
00:16:12.840 inevitably drop out?
00:16:15.360 Chris Christie's not
00:16:16.440 going to endorse Trump.
00:16:18.520 What about Doug Burgum?
00:16:20.900 I don't know.
00:16:21.520 I don't know who Burgum's
00:16:22.340 going to endorse.
00:16:23.260 What about Asa Hutchinson?
00:16:26.340 Probably he won't endorse Trump.
00:16:28.600 So he could give his support
00:16:30.240 to the non-Trump candidate.
00:16:32.200 What about,
00:16:33.440 oh, I don't know,
00:16:35.340 Tim Scott?
00:16:36.040 I don't know
00:16:36.680 who Tim Scott's
00:16:37.460 going to endorse.
00:16:39.480 Look, maybe Tim Scott
00:16:40.480 gets the nomination.
00:16:41.340 Probably unlikely.
00:16:42.560 I don't know.
00:16:43.940 Would he,
00:16:44.320 if he were to drop out,
00:16:46.060 would Tim Scott
00:16:46.720 endorse Ron DeSantis?
00:16:48.440 Would Tim Scott
00:16:49.260 endorse Nikki Haley?
00:16:51.600 Or would Tim Scott
00:16:52.560 endorse Trump?
00:16:54.180 You don't really know.
00:16:55.440 What about Nikki?
00:16:56.660 If Nikki were to drop out,
00:16:58.520 would she endorse
00:16:59.100 DeSantis or Trump?
00:17:01.880 A lot of people say,
00:17:02.840 oh, she would endorse DeSantis.
00:17:04.380 I'm not so sure about it.
00:17:05.400 She worked for Donald Trump.
00:17:06.220 She said very nice things
00:17:07.320 about Donald Trump.
00:17:08.140 She said she wouldn't run
00:17:08.900 for president
00:17:09.320 if Trump were running
00:17:09.980 for re-election.
00:17:12.880 If Trump is looking
00:17:14.040 like the stronger candidate,
00:17:15.820 a lot of the also-rans
00:17:18.000 are going to endorse Trump.
00:17:21.340 As of now,
00:17:22.520 Nikki's going to run
00:17:23.100 hard against Trump
00:17:23.860 because she wants to take
00:17:24.600 the nomination from him.
00:17:25.560 But if it ever came to the point
00:17:26.760 where she says
00:17:27.180 she's not going to win,
00:17:28.820 I don't know.
00:17:30.160 DeSantis obviously
00:17:31.300 cannot endorse Trump
00:17:32.280 because he has made himself
00:17:34.220 the chief anti-Trump candidate
00:17:35.820 in the race.
00:17:37.260 But if the DeSantis campaign
00:17:39.240 is counting on
00:17:40.740 the other candidates
00:17:42.380 dropping out
00:17:43.220 and just one by one
00:17:44.160 endorsing him,
00:17:44.900 I'm not convinced
00:17:45.620 that's going to happen.
00:17:47.300 Because what would happen
00:17:48.740 is, especially if Trump
00:17:49.600 is still looking dominant
00:17:50.380 in the polls,
00:17:50.940 he'll just offer them something.
00:17:52.160 He'll say,
00:17:52.480 oh, you could be
00:17:53.060 this cabinet position.
00:17:54.560 You could potentially
00:17:55.100 be my running mate.
00:17:56.040 You could do this,
00:17:56.600 that, or the other thing.
00:17:57.340 And politicians
00:17:59.380 are very good
00:18:00.240 at pursuing
00:18:00.720 their own interest.
00:18:02.900 And
00:18:03.200 if they're getting
00:18:05.660 a good offer from Trump,
00:18:06.760 they're not going
00:18:07.180 to endorse DeSantis.
00:18:08.120 So now probably
00:18:09.120 the DeSantis campaign
00:18:10.020 is going to be working
00:18:10.580 behind the scenes
00:18:11.240 trying to get these candidates
00:18:12.400 to drop out to say,
00:18:13.340 if you endorse me,
00:18:14.860 I'll make you
00:18:15.340 Secretary of State
00:18:16.040 if you do this,
00:18:16.660 that, or the other thing.
00:18:17.460 But it's going to be
00:18:18.400 much more persuasive
00:18:19.340 if his polling gets better.
00:18:20.500 So it's a little bit
00:18:21.420 of a catch-22
00:18:24.360 for Ron DeSantis
00:18:25.480 right here.
00:18:26.560 He needs the other
00:18:27.680 candidates to drop out
00:18:28.700 and endorse him
00:18:29.320 for his poll numbers
00:18:30.060 to go up to beat Trump.
00:18:31.540 But the only way
00:18:32.200 he's going to convince them
00:18:32.960 to endorse him
00:18:33.500 is if his poll numbers
00:18:34.180 already start to move up
00:18:35.100 and they think
00:18:35.800 that they've got
00:18:36.220 a surer bet
00:18:37.300 in DeSantis
00:18:38.100 than with Trump.
00:18:39.500 Is that strategy
00:18:40.500 going to work?
00:18:41.000 I'm not convinced.
00:18:41.840 But that is the last-ditch
00:18:43.420 strategy for any
00:18:45.180 anti-Trump candidate
00:18:46.120 is, okay,
00:18:46.980 the anti-Trump candidates
00:18:47.880 need to drop out,
00:18:48.680 consolidate the field
00:18:49.400 around one anti-Trump candidate.
00:18:51.040 I just don't know
00:18:51.980 that that is going to happen.
00:18:53.980 Now, as for the other
00:18:54.820 candidates still in the race,
00:18:55.600 as for Nikki Haley,
00:18:57.480 Nikki just came out,
00:18:59.000 big shot at the
00:19:00.680 educational establishment.
00:19:02.740 She said
00:19:03.160 that these schools
00:19:04.980 that are supporting groups
00:19:07.180 that are supporting
00:19:09.040 Hamas
00:19:09.660 and terrorism,
00:19:10.760 we're going to defund them
00:19:12.280 when I'm president.
00:19:13.160 Here's what she said.
00:19:14.340 You can't fight
00:19:15.320 anti-Semitism
00:19:15.940 if you can't define it.
00:19:18.320 Joe Biden and the left
00:19:19.140 refused to call
00:19:19.760 anti-Zionism
00:19:20.720 anti-Semitism.
00:19:21.900 So belief,
00:19:24.380 opposition to the belief
00:19:25.720 that the nation-state
00:19:26.780 of Israel
00:19:27.340 has a right to exist
00:19:28.220 where it exists.
00:19:30.520 If a school
00:19:31.680 won't call that
00:19:33.520 anti-Semitism,
00:19:34.740 so just overt,
00:19:36.120 bigoted Jew hatred,
00:19:37.640 then,
00:19:38.180 as president,
00:19:38.860 I will change
00:19:39.500 the official federal
00:19:40.400 definition of anti-Semitism
00:19:41.800 to include denying
00:19:43.240 Israel's right to exist.
00:19:44.760 And I will pull
00:19:45.620 schools' tax exemption status
00:19:47.180 if they do not combat
00:19:48.620 anti-Semitism
00:19:49.280 in all of its forms
00:19:50.540 in accordance
00:19:51.380 with federal law.
00:19:52.620 College campuses
00:19:53.240 are allowed to have
00:19:53.920 free speech,
00:19:54.660 but they are not free
00:19:55.940 to spread hate
00:19:56.980 that supports terrorism.
00:19:58.240 Federal law requires
00:19:59.060 schools to combat
00:19:59.740 anti-Semitism.
00:20:00.720 We will give this law
00:20:01.500 teeth and we will enforce it.
00:20:02.920 The United States
00:20:03.680 of America
00:20:04.100 will not use taxpayer dollars
00:20:05.340 to fund anti-Semitism,
00:20:06.400 period.
00:20:06.980 The October 7th massacre
00:20:08.100 in Israel
00:20:09.300 and the ensuing weeks
00:20:10.400 have proven
00:20:10.960 what many of us
00:20:11.560 have long known.
00:20:12.040 There is no difference
00:20:12.780 between anti-Zionism
00:20:13.900 and anti-Semitism.
00:20:15.700 In order to combat
00:20:16.660 anti-Semitism,
00:20:17.440 we have to define it.
00:20:18.440 And that starts at the top.
00:20:19.920 So she's saying
00:20:20.700 opposition to the
00:20:23.840 nation-state of Israel,
00:20:27.460 existential opposition,
00:20:28.840 is tantamount
00:20:29.640 to any other kind
00:20:30.820 of Jew hatred
00:20:31.260 that we've seen
00:20:31.740 throughout all of history.
00:20:32.760 And as president,
00:20:33.520 I'm going to use
00:20:34.460 federal law
00:20:35.160 to stamp that out.
00:20:37.220 And a lot of people
00:20:38.240 are attacking
00:20:39.300 Nikki here
00:20:40.100 for opposing
00:20:41.720 free speech
00:20:42.640 or violating
00:20:43.180 the First Amendment
00:20:44.000 or whatever.
00:20:45.000 But then other people
00:20:45.860 are saying,
00:20:46.180 no, look,
00:20:46.740 it's a school,
00:20:47.560 it's a university,
00:20:48.520 people have free speech,
00:20:49.560 but they don't have
00:20:50.260 the right to federal funding
00:20:51.220 for their free speech.
00:20:52.320 They don't have a right
00:20:53.100 to materially support terrorism,
00:20:55.840 as some people
00:20:56.580 are calling this.
00:20:59.680 I love the idea
00:21:01.580 in principle.
00:21:02.280 This is exactly
00:21:03.060 what I was talking about
00:21:04.200 in my book,
00:21:04.960 Speechless,
00:21:05.560 Controlling Words,
00:21:06.200 Controlling Minds.
00:21:06.960 My only problem
00:21:08.100 with what Nikki
00:21:08.800 is proposing here is,
00:21:10.520 why stop here?
00:21:12.520 My only problem
00:21:13.780 with what Nikki
00:21:14.300 is proposing here is,
00:21:15.280 it doesn't go
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00:23:52.640 So Nikki Haley is saying,
00:23:54.780 anti-Zionism,
00:23:56.440 opposition to the historical
00:23:57.820 movement of Zionism,
00:23:59.440 and the return of Jews
00:24:01.700 from all around the world
00:24:02.660 to the Holy Land
00:24:03.680 and the establishment
00:24:04.240 of the State of Israel,
00:24:05.200 that that is tantamount
00:24:06.000 to Jew hatred,
00:24:06.860 and it's going to spill out
00:24:08.060 into horrific events
00:24:09.160 like we saw on October 7th
00:24:10.560 when Hamas comes over
00:24:12.040 and exercises a pogrom of Jews,
00:24:15.880 just slaughters people,
00:24:16.920 rapes, pillages,
00:24:18.340 kills, and burns.
00:24:19.460 And the fact that this
00:24:20.880 is being celebrated
00:24:21.580 on American university campuses
00:24:22.860 means we need to defund
00:24:23.940 these campuses,
00:24:24.960 we need to pull the grants,
00:24:26.740 it's not a curtailing
00:24:29.180 of free speech,
00:24:29.960 rather it is a refusal
00:24:31.760 to pay for the support
00:24:33.320 of terrorism,
00:24:34.100 we're going to enforce
00:24:34.740 the law to do it.
00:24:35.500 Okay.
00:24:36.580 Tim Scott said a similar thing.
00:24:38.100 Tim Scott said the same thing
00:24:39.000 about Pelgrance
00:24:39.880 and anti-Semitism.
00:24:42.960 My only issue with this
00:24:45.280 is why stop at anti-Semitism?
00:24:50.560 This is the thesis of my book,
00:24:53.800 the book with words.
00:24:54.820 Why?
00:24:57.220 Yes, of course,
00:24:58.520 we have the right
00:24:59.360 to set standards.
00:25:01.080 Yes, of course,
00:25:02.640 we, the people,
00:25:04.060 through our elected representatives,
00:25:05.580 have the right
00:25:06.260 to set norms and standards,
00:25:07.760 and we don't need to tolerate
00:25:08.820 pro-Hamas clubs
00:25:09.760 at universities.
00:25:10.840 Duh.
00:25:12.200 But if we're going to
00:25:12.880 wield this power,
00:25:14.360 why would we not also wield it
00:25:16.060 against the anti-white
00:25:17.380 indoctrination
00:25:18.160 that takes place
00:25:19.040 on every university campus
00:25:20.260 in America
00:25:20.800 that tells students
00:25:21.820 that whiteness is evil,
00:25:23.640 that being a white person
00:25:25.760 is a social pathology
00:25:27.340 that needs to be abolished,
00:25:28.660 that white people are evil?
00:25:30.200 In some cases,
00:25:30.960 you've had professors
00:25:31.920 describe white people
00:25:33.220 as the ice people.
00:25:34.360 I'm thinking of
00:25:34.740 Professor Jeffries,
00:25:35.600 infamous at CUNY,
00:25:38.160 who's actually,
00:25:38.760 whose nephew is,
00:25:39.780 Hakeem Jeffries now,
00:25:40.620 who's the Democrat leader
00:25:41.680 in the U.S. Congress,
00:25:44.200 that white people
00:25:45.280 are the evil ice people,
00:25:46.740 and black people
00:25:47.300 are the people of the sun,
00:25:48.340 and that's why
00:25:48.780 we need to abolish whiteness.
00:25:51.020 Why not,
00:25:51.480 if we're going to wield
00:25:52.140 government power
00:25:52.940 to curtail people's opinions
00:25:54.760 and discourage them on campus,
00:25:56.380 why would we stop
00:25:58.200 at anti-Semitism?
00:25:59.740 Certainly,
00:26:00.320 we should keep going
00:26:00.980 to the anti-white indoctrination
00:26:03.200 that is evil
00:26:04.500 and base
00:26:05.380 and obviously racist
00:26:06.720 and not fit
00:26:08.480 for a proper education.
00:26:09.620 What about the anti-male
00:26:10.640 indoctrination?
00:26:12.160 All of these university campuses
00:26:13.560 teach people
00:26:14.200 that masculinity is toxic
00:26:15.960 and men need to be feared
00:26:18.280 and frankly gelded
00:26:19.740 if we're going to have
00:26:20.560 a good society.
00:26:21.620 What about the anti-Christian
00:26:22.720 indoctrination
00:26:23.380 that takes place
00:26:23.900 on every university campus
00:26:25.240 in America?
00:26:26.340 How about we start pulling funding
00:26:27.520 because of that, too?
00:26:30.100 While a lot of people
00:26:31.460 on the right
00:26:32.020 are criticizing
00:26:32.880 Nikki and Tim Scott
00:26:34.100 for curtailing free speech
00:26:36.740 in the effort
00:26:37.460 to oppose anti-Semitism,
00:26:39.200 I think we need to recognize
00:26:40.180 that all societies
00:26:41.200 have standards,
00:26:42.100 all societies have norms,
00:26:43.700 and here,
00:26:45.500 while we should obviously
00:26:46.320 oppose anti-Semitism,
00:26:48.280 we should also oppose
00:26:49.440 anti-whiteness,
00:26:50.560 we should also oppose
00:26:51.540 anti-masculinity,
00:26:53.920 anti-manliness,
00:26:54.820 we should certainly oppose
00:26:55.760 anti-Christianity.
00:26:58.600 Let's start,
00:26:59.180 we're going to wield that power,
00:27:00.300 let's wield it, baby.
00:27:01.200 Let's not wield it
00:27:01.940 just a little tiny bit,
00:27:02.820 let's wield it,
00:27:04.640 let's do it with our whole chests.
00:27:06.340 Let's wield it in a way
00:27:07.240 that is in line
00:27:08.980 with the American political tradition
00:27:10.400 and that is conducive
00:27:11.360 to virtue and human flourishing.
00:27:13.520 Now, Governor DeSantis
00:27:15.180 has said a similar thing.
00:27:17.620 He's come out and said,
00:27:18.980 we need to defund
00:27:19.680 these pro-Hamas groups,
00:27:21.060 pro-Palestine groups
00:27:22.240 on college campuses.
00:27:23.220 They're providing material support
00:27:24.500 to terrorism.
00:27:25.760 And that is why
00:27:26.720 when we use the government
00:27:28.400 to shut them up,
00:27:29.820 it's not cancel culture.
00:27:31.920 This is not cancel culture.
00:27:33.600 This group,
00:27:34.900 they themselves said
00:27:36.340 in the aftermath
00:27:37.100 of the Hamas attack
00:27:38.460 that they don't just
00:27:39.780 stand in solidarity,
00:27:41.600 that they are part
00:27:42.720 of this Hamas movement.
00:27:44.680 And so, yeah,
00:27:45.900 you have a right
00:27:46.480 to go out and demonstrate,
00:27:47.700 but you can't provide
00:27:48.500 material support to terrorism.
00:27:50.520 They've linked themselves
00:27:51.740 to Hamas,
00:27:53.060 and so we absolutely
00:27:54.520 decertified them.
00:27:56.080 They should not get
00:27:56.980 one red cent
00:27:57.920 of taxpayer dollars.
00:27:59.540 And we also have
00:28:00.580 strong laws in Florida
00:28:01.600 against fundraising
00:28:02.540 for groups like Hamas,
00:28:03.840 and we are enforcing
00:28:04.880 those vigorously.
00:28:06.000 That's not a First Amendment issue,
00:28:07.420 that's a material support
00:28:08.620 to terrorism issue.
00:28:09.580 Governor DeSantis
00:28:12.380 is a very smart man.
00:28:13.820 He's generally right
00:28:14.900 on virtually all of the issues,
00:28:16.460 and he's a politician
00:28:18.240 running for president.
00:28:19.940 And so sometimes
00:28:20.880 politicians oversimplify.
00:28:24.440 Sometimes,
00:28:25.280 for the sake of expedience,
00:28:27.220 politicians say things
00:28:28.800 that are not exactly true,
00:28:30.320 but they broadly get
00:28:31.480 the point across in the end.
00:28:33.060 And I think this is
00:28:33.820 one of those instances.
00:28:35.320 I think conservatives
00:28:36.380 are going to twist themselves
00:28:38.580 into a hundred logical knots
00:28:40.680 over trying to explain
00:28:43.360 how wielding government power
00:28:45.420 to censor pro-Palestine
00:28:47.760 liberation groups
00:28:48.840 is not cancel culture.
00:28:51.200 Of course it's cancel culture.
00:28:53.580 If this is not cancel culture,
00:28:55.060 I do not know
00:28:55.680 what cancel culture is.
00:28:57.640 And that's fine.
00:28:59.120 It's fine, guys.
00:29:01.520 The reason they have to
00:29:02.580 twist themselves into knots
00:29:03.500 is because they spent five years
00:29:04.440 talking about how terrible
00:29:05.140 cancel culture is.
00:29:06.380 But some of us,
00:29:07.140 you know I hate to say
00:29:07.720 I told you so,
00:29:08.260 some of us did not
00:29:09.620 spend five years
00:29:10.660 talking about how terrible
00:29:11.900 cancel culture is.
00:29:12.940 In fact, some of us
00:29:14.020 spent a lot of time
00:29:15.580 talking about how cancel culture
00:29:16.860 is perfectly fine.
00:29:18.420 It's ordinary.
00:29:19.520 It's normal.
00:29:20.660 Cancel culture is just
00:29:22.040 a part of human behavior
00:29:23.580 and political society.
00:29:26.240 That it is not the act
00:29:27.900 of canceling people
00:29:28.940 that is good or bad,
00:29:30.320 but it's what you cancel
00:29:31.520 someone for.
00:29:32.840 If you cancel somebody,
00:29:34.360 if you ruin their reputation,
00:29:35.740 you ostracize them
00:29:36.780 from society,
00:29:37.560 you persecute them,
00:29:39.700 you drive them out
00:29:41.000 of polite company
00:29:42.160 because they say
00:29:43.620 that men and women
00:29:44.340 are different
00:29:44.880 or because they say
00:29:45.840 that they love their country
00:29:46.880 or because they are Christian,
00:29:49.240 that's bad.
00:29:50.360 But if you ostracize someone
00:29:53.620 and you cancel them
00:29:55.580 and you make them face
00:29:56.960 professional or academic
00:29:58.100 consequences
00:29:58.840 for saying evil things
00:30:00.900 and for doing evil things
00:30:03.000 and supporting,
00:30:04.300 I don't know,
00:30:05.640 terrorists
00:30:06.080 or something like that
00:30:06.760 in this case,
00:30:07.480 that's not a bad thing.
00:30:09.580 That's called
00:30:10.380 having standards.
00:30:11.580 That's called
00:30:12.100 being a society
00:30:13.860 that discerns
00:30:14.600 between good and evil
00:30:15.400 like all societies must.
00:30:16.600 So they're all going
00:30:18.860 to twist themselves
00:30:19.840 into knots.
00:30:20.360 No, no,
00:30:20.780 this isn't cancel culture
00:30:21.960 because when the
00:30:23.640 pro-Palestine liberation groups
00:30:26.080 speak out,
00:30:26.780 their very speech
00:30:27.620 is providing material support
00:30:29.480 to Hamas.
00:30:30.060 Okay, whatever, sure.
00:30:31.460 Whatever helps you guys
00:30:32.720 sleep at night.
00:30:33.280 But it is cancel culture
00:30:34.260 and you're seeding the argument
00:30:37.260 that it's sometimes good
00:30:38.500 to cancel people
00:30:39.280 and frankly,
00:30:40.360 it is.
00:30:40.940 You're right.
00:30:41.260 I'm glad that it eventually
00:30:44.920 after five years,
00:30:46.120 conservatives have come
00:30:46.920 to admit this fact.
00:30:49.740 So now let's discern
00:30:53.380 between good and bad
00:30:54.280 and right and wrong
00:30:55.060 and true and false
00:30:55.820 and let's wield that power
00:30:58.100 in a just way.
00:30:59.560 The left wields that power
00:31:00.720 in a bad way
00:31:01.660 toward ends
00:31:02.540 that are destructive.
00:31:03.860 We should wield it
00:31:04.880 in a good way
00:31:05.740 toward ends
00:31:06.280 that are edifying.
00:31:07.480 Great example of this
00:31:08.340 just came out
00:31:08.840 of New York City.
00:31:09.480 Here is the classic
00:31:12.480 New Yorker
00:31:13.420 taking umbrage
00:31:15.440 at the fact
00:31:16.340 that some guy
00:31:16.900 was tearing down posters
00:31:18.640 of the missing hostages
00:31:21.440 who were taken by Hamas.
00:31:23.900 I'm telling you.
00:31:24.780 All right.
00:31:25.080 Don't work out.
00:31:25.680 I'm not Jewish.
00:31:27.040 He's not Jewish.
00:31:28.040 I don't know if he is or not.
00:31:29.040 It doesn't matter.
00:31:30.620 This is US.
00:31:31.800 This is New York City.
00:31:32.800 You don't have a right
00:31:33.860 to touch that.
00:31:35.080 This is a free country.
00:31:36.380 You can wave
00:31:36.800 your Palestine flag
00:31:37.760 and say death to the Jews
00:31:38.780 or America whenever you want.
00:31:40.120 But we can put a
00:31:40.860 f***ing sign.
00:31:41.940 Okay?
00:31:43.340 Then don't rip that down.
00:31:44.760 You are doing something.
00:31:45.640 You're offending us.
00:31:46.500 Yeah, you are.
00:31:48.880 When you throw that
00:31:49.360 on the floor,
00:31:49.840 you're littering the city.
00:31:50.720 In a minute,
00:31:51.340 I'm going to litter
00:31:51.800 the f***ing floor with you.
00:31:53.660 So move the f***ing on.
00:31:55.100 You have proof
00:31:55.700 they're not kidnapped.
00:31:56.820 No, so shut the f*** up.
00:31:58.240 I know that's what you want.
00:32:01.400 No way.
00:32:02.020 Dying the f***ing way.
00:32:03.640 Come on.
00:32:03.920 Maybe it's because
00:32:07.240 I am a New Yorker myself,
00:32:08.500 but this kind of reaction,
00:32:10.060 I love it.
00:32:11.600 Now, you know what the nerds
00:32:13.560 and the eggheads
00:32:15.460 and the ideologues
00:32:16.220 are going to say.
00:32:17.020 Even on the right,
00:32:17.700 they're going to say,
00:32:18.420 actually,
00:32:19.880 that man is threatening
00:32:21.180 that other man's free speech.
00:32:22.760 He's actually,
00:32:23.600 we should be able
00:32:24.220 to have a reasonable debate
00:32:25.400 in the free marketplace
00:32:26.120 of ideas.
00:32:26.860 Yeah, shut up, nerd.
00:32:28.900 I like that guy's argument more
00:32:30.560 when he goes,
00:32:31.300 yeah, you're offending me
00:32:32.640 and I don't like that.
00:32:33.900 So you stop ripping
00:32:34.900 those signs down
00:32:35.820 and on top of offending
00:32:37.280 all of us,
00:32:38.000 you're littering
00:32:38.640 and in a minute,
00:32:39.380 I'm going to litter
00:32:39.760 your face on the floor
00:32:40.900 if you don't put it back
00:32:42.240 and get out of here.
00:32:43.100 I love it.
00:32:43.940 That's a beautiful thing.
00:32:46.200 That's cancel culture.
00:32:47.600 That's the good kind
00:32:48.440 of cancel culture.
00:32:49.340 This goes so much deeper
00:32:50.640 than the war
00:32:51.840 in the Middle East.
00:32:52.560 Put the war
00:32:52.980 in the Middle East.
00:32:54.020 Put the horrific terror attack.
00:32:55.820 Put the terrible situation
00:32:57.180 where hostages
00:32:57.940 are still being held
00:32:58.780 by Hamas.
00:33:00.640 Put all of those
00:33:01.520 particular circumstances
00:33:02.620 aside for a second.
00:33:05.320 This is about
00:33:06.640 the right of communities
00:33:08.420 to set and enforce
00:33:10.340 their own standards.
00:33:12.160 The best thing
00:33:13.020 that guy said there
00:33:13.720 was he goes,
00:33:14.160 you're offending us,
00:33:15.300 mother effer.
00:33:16.880 And so many conservatives
00:33:18.140 are going to say,
00:33:18.720 well, you know,
00:33:19.920 I don't have an obligation
00:33:22.220 to respect your feelings
00:33:23.360 and actually I can say
00:33:24.620 whatever I want
00:33:25.300 without consequences
00:33:26.060 because we need to just
00:33:27.080 have debates all the time.
00:33:28.480 No, that's not really
00:33:29.400 how political society works.
00:33:32.300 We have the right
00:33:33.200 to sensibilities.
00:33:34.460 We have the right
00:33:35.320 to preferences,
00:33:36.080 not just individual preferences
00:33:37.260 and sensibilities,
00:33:38.260 but communal preferences
00:33:39.600 and sensibilities.
00:33:41.100 We have the right
00:33:42.020 to standards
00:33:43.900 and behavior.
00:33:46.020 And that guy,
00:33:47.100 that classic New Yorker
00:33:48.760 just coming out,
00:33:49.920 he's like,
00:33:50.140 keep it up,
00:33:50.740 watch,
00:33:51.120 one more time,
00:33:51.900 I'm going to show you
00:33:52.460 what I'm going to do.
00:33:53.820 That is actually
00:33:54.960 the right attitude.
00:33:55.900 It reminds me
00:33:56.480 of that base level
00:33:57.740 of conservatism
00:33:58.700 that even,
00:33:59.840 we think of New York
00:34:00.520 as being very left-wing.
00:34:02.320 There is a base level
00:34:03.500 of conservatism
00:34:04.360 to a lot of New Yorkers.
00:34:07.880 You see it right now.
00:34:10.420 In New York,
00:34:12.180 immigration is threatening
00:34:13.620 the whole city
00:34:14.240 because as this flood
00:34:17.220 of migrants comes across,
00:34:18.480 as we're going to take in,
00:34:19.220 what,
00:34:19.320 three,
00:34:19.540 four million illegal immigrants
00:34:20.580 this year,
00:34:21.020 a lot of them
00:34:22.380 are going to New York
00:34:23.120 and even the liberal
00:34:23.780 Democrats are saying
00:34:24.560 this is a big threat
00:34:25.340 to the whole city.
00:34:26.940 There was a poll
00:34:27.380 that just came out.
00:34:29.140 A large and growing
00:34:30.460 majority of New Yorkers
00:34:31.660 say that the illegal immigrants
00:34:33.640 pose a,
00:34:34.640 quote,
00:34:34.700 serious problem.
00:34:37.280 Almost 60% agree
00:34:38.740 with the mayor,
00:34:39.980 liberal Democrat mayor
00:34:40.920 Eric Adams,
00:34:41.860 who says that
00:34:43.080 the migrants
00:34:43.980 could,
00:34:44.840 quote,
00:34:44.940 destroy New York City.
00:34:46.640 This is according
00:34:47.060 to a Siena College poll.
00:34:48.820 And this shouldn't
00:34:51.320 be all that shocking.
00:34:53.000 One,
00:34:53.460 New Yorkers have
00:34:54.000 a base level
00:34:54.500 of conservatism
00:34:55.240 largely because
00:34:55.900 of foul-mouthed
00:34:57.100 Italians.
00:34:58.100 But two,
00:35:00.600 immigration
00:35:01.120 was always
00:35:01.780 a bipartisan issue.
00:35:04.260 It's only become
00:35:05.420 hyper-partisan
00:35:06.740 in the last
00:35:07.320 10 to 15 years
00:35:09.020 where you had
00:35:10.120 the Democrats
00:35:11.000 saying that
00:35:12.340 we need no limits
00:35:13.060 on immigration
00:35:13.600 whatsoever.
00:35:14.680 We need totally
00:35:15.960 unrestricted
00:35:16.960 legal immigration.
00:35:17.740 And frankly,
00:35:19.300 we need totally
00:35:19.880 unrestricted
00:35:20.640 illegal immigration
00:35:21.760 too.
00:35:23.260 And the Republicans
00:35:23.880 saying,
00:35:24.560 well,
00:35:24.680 actually,
00:35:25.000 the best the Republicans
00:35:25.800 could muster was,
00:35:26.520 hey,
00:35:26.680 stop that illegal
00:35:27.440 immigration,
00:35:28.200 but we can still
00:35:28.740 take millions
00:35:29.220 and millions
00:35:29.580 more legal immigrants.
00:35:30.980 But you still
00:35:32.160 have that problem
00:35:32.700 of assimilation.
00:35:33.720 So now things
00:35:34.360 are finally
00:35:35.040 getting back
00:35:35.540 to normal.
00:35:36.460 Back in the 1990s,
00:35:37.560 Bill Clinton
00:35:37.980 was,
00:35:39.560 at least he talked
00:35:40.500 very tough
00:35:41.300 on illegal immigration.
00:35:43.240 So this is
00:35:43.560 obviously terrible.
00:35:44.480 But Republicans
00:35:44.900 and Democrats
00:35:45.320 agreed.
00:35:46.160 And then it
00:35:46.520 became a partisan
00:35:47.160 ideological issue
00:35:48.020 for a while.
00:35:49.120 And as long
00:35:50.040 as the consequences
00:35:51.660 of mass migration
00:35:52.940 were only being
00:35:53.780 felt in those
00:35:54.260 border towns,
00:35:55.120 only in those
00:35:55.620 awful red states,
00:35:57.140 the Democrats
00:35:58.080 didn't care.
00:35:59.020 Now that the
00:36:00.100 illegal immigrants
00:36:00.780 are being sent
00:36:01.440 by people like
00:36:02.120 Governor Abbott
00:36:02.580 of Texas
00:36:03.000 or Governor
00:36:03.400 DeSantis
00:36:03.780 of Florida,
00:36:04.580 being sent
00:36:04.940 to Martha's
00:36:05.440 Vineyard,
00:36:06.120 being sent
00:36:06.520 to New York
00:36:06.840 City,
00:36:07.520 being sent
00:36:07.860 to Chicago,
00:36:09.360 being sent
00:36:09.780 to Rehoboth
00:36:10.140 Beach,
00:36:10.500 Delaware,
00:36:11.120 now all of a
00:36:11.880 sudden,
00:36:13.100 the majority
00:36:13.720 of everyone
00:36:14.400 is agreeing,
00:36:15.660 oh,
00:36:15.800 wow,
00:36:15.900 this poses
00:36:16.360 a serious
00:36:16.900 problem.
00:36:17.560 Of course.
00:36:19.500 Of course.
00:36:20.340 This actually,
00:36:21.180 I know we
00:36:21.600 consider immigration
00:36:22.520 now to be a
00:36:23.300 really hot-button
00:36:24.260 issue that no
00:36:24.840 one wants to
00:36:25.320 touch.
00:36:26.040 There has,
00:36:27.100 for most of
00:36:28.100 American history,
00:36:28.720 been broad
00:36:29.540 bipartisan
00:36:30.240 consensus on
00:36:31.660 how too much
00:36:32.280 migration is a
00:36:33.120 very bad thing.
00:36:33.980 And it seems
00:36:34.520 that that
00:36:34.820 consensus is
00:36:35.560 coming back
00:36:36.100 again.
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00:37:55.560 My favorite
00:37:56.020 comment on
00:37:56.640 Friday is from
00:37:57.180 Ulysses Sterling
00:37:58.040 8659 who says,
00:37:59.520 the silly thing
00:38:00.260 about the
00:38:00.660 Greta AI
00:38:01.820 is that it's so
00:38:03.220 silly that her
00:38:05.040 followers would
00:38:05.680 agree.
00:38:06.040 That's so true.
00:38:06.800 The Greta AI
00:38:07.880 was where she,
00:38:08.940 you know,
00:38:09.140 was developed
00:38:09.680 just by some
00:38:11.020 random computer,
00:38:11.820 but it looked
00:38:12.200 real and convincing,
00:38:13.340 and she said,
00:38:14.000 we need,
00:38:14.460 when we supply
00:38:15.160 the people in
00:38:15.860 war,
00:38:16.460 we need
00:38:16.880 vegan grenades,
00:38:18.340 we need
00:38:19.180 low emission
00:38:20.200 tanks,
00:38:22.160 we need,
00:38:22.860 and you're so
00:38:23.980 right,
00:38:24.580 that it took me
00:38:25.640 about halfway through
00:38:26.360 to realize it was
00:38:27.060 fake,
00:38:27.700 but what's even
00:38:28.340 spookier is that
00:38:29.080 some of her
00:38:29.460 followers might
00:38:30.880 not have known,
00:38:31.500 because they would
00:38:31.840 probably say those
00:38:32.640 things earnestly.
00:38:33.840 speaking of guns
00:38:35.540 and weapons,
00:38:37.600 The View,
00:38:38.220 the ladies of
00:38:38.780 The View,
00:38:40.120 have an important
00:38:41.080 lesson to teach
00:38:41.840 you about the
00:38:44.340 power of the
00:38:45.740 AR-15 and its
00:38:47.820 uses in hunting.
00:38:48.900 I would love to
00:38:49.660 see an assault
00:38:50.200 weapons ban.
00:38:50.900 Like President
00:38:51.700 Reagan,
00:38:52.020 I don't believe
00:38:52.700 they're a sport
00:38:53.380 or hunting
00:38:53.960 instrument.
00:38:55.900 It's like shooting
00:38:56.380 fish in a bucket,
00:38:57.220 but that's my take.
00:38:57.940 But also,
00:38:58.420 if you shoot
00:38:58.880 with an AR-15,
00:38:59.940 let's say you
00:39:00.380 shoot a deer,
00:39:01.120 you can't eat it,
00:39:02.400 because you
00:39:03.180 basically demolished
00:39:04.120 the animal.
00:39:04.340 In addition to
00:39:04.480 that,
00:39:04.700 but the hunt
00:39:05.120 is about
00:39:05.640 an actual
00:39:06.240 difficult process,
00:39:07.160 not massacring
00:39:07.960 bodies of any
00:39:08.740 kind.
00:39:09.240 But my point
00:39:09.920 is I'd love
00:39:10.360 to see that.
00:39:12.140 Joy Behar
00:39:12.800 seems to be
00:39:13.500 confusing
00:39:14.020 an AR-15
00:39:15.580 with a rocket
00:39:17.260 launcher.
00:39:18.200 She seems
00:39:20.120 to be confusing
00:39:21.060 an AR-15
00:39:22.840 with a landmine
00:39:24.500 that would
00:39:25.640 just explode
00:39:26.400 the deer.
00:39:28.620 Ironically,
00:39:29.260 she's somewhat
00:39:30.520 correct in what
00:39:31.540 she said.
00:39:32.140 She said,
00:39:32.460 if you shoot
00:39:32.800 a deer with
00:39:33.160 an AR-15,
00:39:34.200 you won't be
00:39:34.760 able to eat
00:39:35.200 it.
00:39:35.800 And that
00:39:36.280 might be
00:39:36.920 true,
00:39:37.540 because the
00:39:37.980 deer might
00:39:38.380 get away,
00:39:39.380 because the
00:39:40.980 AR-15 round,
00:39:42.200 the 223,
00:39:43.480 is probably
00:39:45.000 too weak
00:39:46.360 to at least
00:39:47.660 to humanely
00:39:48.340 hunt deer.
00:39:49.820 And actually,
00:39:50.460 certain places
00:39:50.880 have restrictions
00:39:51.460 on the AR-15
00:39:52.420 for hunting
00:39:52.720 deer for
00:39:53.000 precisely that
00:39:53.640 reason.
00:39:54.180 Not because
00:39:54.680 it's going to
00:39:55.060 explode the deer,
00:39:56.140 not because
00:39:56.560 it's,
00:39:56.920 I don't know,
00:39:57.720 it's like
00:39:58.120 a heat-seeking
00:39:59.260 missile that
00:40:00.100 just explodes
00:40:01.620 and splatters
00:40:02.260 venison all
00:40:03.240 over the
00:40:03.500 place,
00:40:04.000 but because
00:40:04.760 it's a little
00:40:06.860 weak.
00:40:07.200 It's a lot
00:40:07.520 weaker than
00:40:07.960 these people
00:40:08.340 think.
00:40:08.560 They have
00:40:08.780 no idea,
00:40:09.920 which gets
00:40:11.140 to what I
00:40:11.780 think is
00:40:12.580 beneath a lot
00:40:13.680 of the political
00:40:14.180 dysfunction that
00:40:14.820 we have right
00:40:15.240 now,
00:40:15.560 which is not
00:40:16.840 just evil
00:40:17.880 ideology or
00:40:19.660 the tolerance
00:40:21.640 and encouragement
00:40:22.560 of vice and
00:40:23.280 sin,
00:40:23.620 all of which
00:40:25.200 contribute to
00:40:25.880 our political
00:40:26.280 problems.
00:40:27.960 But the
00:40:28.640 problem of
00:40:29.140 blithe
00:40:29.720 ignorance,
00:40:31.080 the fact that
00:40:32.100 people are
00:40:32.520 just so
00:40:33.060 casually,
00:40:35.520 happily,
00:40:36.960 indifferent
00:40:37.400 to knowledge
00:40:39.280 and the
00:40:39.880 truth and
00:40:40.940 skill,
00:40:41.960 it's astounding.
00:40:45.020 You can't,
00:40:45.560 you can't run a
00:40:47.980 society on bad
00:40:49.280 ideology.
00:40:49.760 It's not
00:40:50.200 going to work
00:40:50.560 out in the
00:40:50.900 end.
00:40:51.620 You also
00:40:52.220 can't just
00:40:53.140 run a
00:40:53.500 society on
00:40:54.020 ideology.
00:40:54.780 You need
00:40:55.360 to possess
00:40:56.000 some degree
00:40:57.500 of technical
00:40:58.700 knowledge and
00:40:59.880 competence to
00:41:00.920 run a society.
00:41:02.160 It's not
00:41:02.980 enough just
00:41:03.660 to read
00:41:04.100 Karl Marx or
00:41:05.680 just to
00:41:06.180 read Edmund
00:41:07.600 Burke or
00:41:08.280 Aristotle for
00:41:09.080 that matter.
00:41:10.000 You also need
00:41:11.160 to know how
00:41:11.760 to do
00:41:12.800 plumbing.
00:41:13.840 You also
00:41:14.700 need to
00:41:15.160 know how
00:41:16.180 to grow
00:41:16.560 food.
00:41:17.660 You also
00:41:18.240 need to
00:41:18.680 know how
00:41:19.740 to
00:41:20.340 perform the
00:41:22.860 basic functions
00:41:23.600 of a society
00:41:24.300 and a
00:41:25.440 society that
00:41:26.420 doesn't know
00:41:27.220 how guns
00:41:27.900 work,
00:41:29.160 a society
00:41:29.680 that doesn't
00:41:30.320 know how
00:41:31.460 human beings
00:41:32.260 relate to
00:41:32.880 animals,
00:41:33.820 certainly as
00:41:34.740 it regards
00:41:35.300 food production,
00:41:36.460 that society
00:41:37.140 is not going
00:41:37.600 to do well.
00:41:39.600 And you
00:41:40.380 add on top
00:41:40.960 of that
00:41:41.480 bizarre
00:41:42.560 ideologies.
00:41:43.460 Well, I
00:41:43.680 guess actually
00:41:44.240 the Blythe
00:41:45.520 ignorance is a
00:41:46.360 consequence of
00:41:47.200 the ideological
00:41:48.340 age.
00:41:49.740 which tells
00:41:50.420 people that
00:41:50.920 when they
00:41:51.400 go to
00:41:51.660 school,
00:41:51.920 they don't
00:41:52.120 need to
00:41:52.400 learn anything
00:41:53.360 real or
00:41:55.580 substantive.
00:41:56.680 They can
00:41:57.400 just read
00:41:58.220 a bunch of
00:41:59.980 theories
00:42:00.400 disconnected
00:42:00.960 from reality.
00:42:02.480 They can
00:42:03.120 just major
00:42:03.700 in gender
00:42:04.420 studies,
00:42:04.900 to use an
00:42:05.460 oft-cited
00:42:05.980 example,
00:42:06.700 and that
00:42:07.160 will prepare
00:42:07.680 them for
00:42:08.360 life.
00:42:08.840 It will
00:42:09.400 not do
00:42:10.620 so.
00:42:12.280 That's what
00:42:12.860 we get on
00:42:13.280 The View.
00:42:14.080 Now, speaking
00:42:14.520 of what people
00:42:15.140 watch on TV,
00:42:16.340 there is a poll
00:42:17.080 that is surprising
00:42:17.700 some people,
00:42:18.260 but not me,
00:42:19.120 that shows
00:42:19.460 that Gen Z,
00:42:20.540 the Zoomers,
00:42:21.600 want fewer
00:42:22.800 sex scenes
00:42:23.780 in movies
00:42:24.280 and TV.
00:42:25.760 What's wrong
00:42:26.400 with these
00:42:26.700 kids?
00:42:27.280 They don't
00:42:27.620 want to see
00:42:28.220 a bunch
00:42:28.600 of sex
00:42:29.040 and stuff?
00:42:29.620 No, they
00:42:30.000 don't.
00:42:30.500 You fuddy
00:42:31.140 daddy kids.
00:42:32.560 You can just
00:42:32.980 hear the voice
00:42:33.780 of Gen X
00:42:34.960 and the
00:42:35.740 boomers,
00:42:36.260 and maybe
00:42:36.540 even the
00:42:36.880 millennials now.
00:42:38.240 You can hear
00:42:38.660 that voice
00:42:39.280 of the
00:42:40.180 perpetually
00:42:40.840 cool,
00:42:41.720 you know,
00:42:42.380 everyone from
00:42:42.960 the Woodstock
00:42:43.500 generation
00:42:44.080 down to my
00:42:44.920 own generation.
00:42:45.520 They say,
00:42:45.940 man,
00:42:46.300 you don't
00:42:46.540 want to
00:42:46.800 see sex?
00:42:48.060 Man,
00:42:48.420 sex is cool.
00:42:49.200 You guys
00:42:49.560 are square.
00:42:51.100 What do you
00:42:51.780 mean?
00:42:52.080 Why don't
00:42:52.360 you want
00:42:52.580 to see
00:42:52.800 that?
00:42:54.000 I'll tell
00:42:54.360 you exactly
00:42:54.760 why.
00:42:55.760 So this
00:42:56.040 poll finds
00:42:56.700 that in a
00:42:58.580 survey of
00:42:58.920 1,500
00:42:59.320 students,
00:43:00.400 almost half
00:43:01.100 of Zoomers
00:43:02.020 aged 13
00:43:02.780 to 24
00:43:03.320 said sex
00:43:04.040 is not
00:43:04.620 needed for
00:43:05.140 most TV
00:43:05.580 shows and
00:43:05.940 movies.
00:43:07.040 A significant
00:43:07.680 amount of
00:43:08.580 people,
00:43:08.860 44%,
00:43:09.620 said that
00:43:10.320 romance is
00:43:10.960 overused
00:43:11.880 as a plot
00:43:12.540 device.
00:43:14.460 Why is
00:43:15.140 that?
00:43:15.320 Well,
00:43:15.520 I'll give
00:43:15.740 you a
00:43:15.960 related
00:43:16.400 note from
00:43:17.980 that same
00:43:18.340 study,
00:43:18.740 and that
00:43:18.900 might explain
00:43:20.220 what's going
00:43:20.560 on here.
00:43:22.700 In 2023,
00:43:24.180 more participants
00:43:25.300 in the study
00:43:26.280 wanted to
00:43:26.880 see a
00:43:27.880 white man
00:43:28.640 as the
00:43:29.160 hero.
00:43:29.760 Now,
00:43:29.960 it's different
00:43:30.220 from last
00:43:30.680 year.
00:43:31.300 More
00:43:31.480 participants
00:43:31.940 in the
00:43:32.280 study
00:43:32.540 said they
00:43:33.200 wanted to
00:43:33.500 see a
00:43:33.720 black man
00:43:34.260 as the
00:43:34.560 hero in
00:43:35.300 movies and
00:43:35.700 TV shows.
00:43:36.360 Now,
00:43:36.720 they're saying
00:43:36.960 they want
00:43:37.140 to see a
00:43:37.360 white man
00:43:37.660 as the
00:43:37.860 hero.
00:43:38.020 Why?
00:43:38.240 What's
00:43:38.400 going on?
00:43:38.960 Do these
00:43:39.280 kids hate
00:43:39.800 sex?
00:43:40.200 They hate
00:43:40.460 romance?
00:43:41.020 They hate
00:43:41.400 black people
00:43:42.340 or something?
00:43:43.060 No.
00:43:44.220 It gets
00:43:44.560 to exactly
00:43:45.240 what we
00:43:45.540 were talking
00:43:45.920 about at
00:43:46.200 the top
00:43:46.500 of the
00:43:46.740 show.
00:43:49.440 People are
00:43:50.120 being deprived
00:43:51.080 of an
00:43:51.740 important aspect
00:43:52.660 of reality
00:43:53.420 by movies
00:43:54.960 and TV,
00:43:55.600 which are
00:43:55.880 supposed to
00:43:56.400 tell us
00:43:56.840 something about
00:43:58.080 our culture.
00:43:59.660 And because
00:44:00.380 they're being
00:44:01.140 deprived of
00:44:02.200 that aspect
00:44:02.780 of reality,
00:44:03.540 they want
00:44:04.120 more of it.
00:44:04.620 It's not
00:44:04.900 that they
00:44:05.160 don't want
00:44:06.000 relationships.
00:44:07.700 Even that
00:44:08.260 term is so
00:44:08.800 silly.
00:44:09.200 It's so
00:44:09.400 clinical.
00:44:10.140 It's not
00:44:10.460 that they
00:44:10.680 don't want
00:44:10.960 love.
00:44:11.340 It's not
00:44:11.560 that they
00:44:11.760 don't want
00:44:11.980 romance.
00:44:12.400 It's not
00:44:12.600 even that
00:44:12.860 they don't
00:44:13.080 want sex.
00:44:14.100 But they're
00:44:14.620 inundated
00:44:15.160 with it.
00:44:15.480 It's
00:44:15.680 everywhere.
00:44:16.420 Everything
00:44:16.780 is sexualized.
00:44:18.560 There's
00:44:18.880 ubiquitous
00:44:19.540 porn.
00:44:20.420 People
00:44:20.640 dress like
00:44:21.460 they're
00:44:21.900 auditioning
00:44:22.580 for a
00:44:22.820 strip club
00:44:23.340 everywhere
00:44:24.100 in public.
00:44:25.500 And even
00:44:27.400 in the
00:44:27.680 elementary
00:44:27.980 schools now,
00:44:28.540 you've got
00:44:28.800 sexual
00:44:29.120 indoctrination.
00:44:30.500 You have
00:44:30.740 actual pornography
00:44:31.720 in elementary
00:44:32.440 school libraries
00:44:33.040 now and being
00:44:34.060 assigned by
00:44:34.560 teachers.
00:44:36.100 So we
00:44:37.420 got that.
00:44:37.960 That's taken
00:44:38.420 care of.
00:44:38.940 You know
00:44:39.740 what we
00:44:40.020 don't have
00:44:40.400 in this
00:44:40.640 culture?
00:44:41.900 Any
00:44:42.300 emphasis on
00:44:43.700 friendship.
00:44:44.360 Any emphasis
00:44:44.780 on any
00:44:45.400 kind of
00:44:45.780 non-sexual,
00:44:47.180 non-erotic
00:44:47.900 relationship.
00:44:48.860 And so the
00:44:49.340 Zoomers,
00:44:49.900 who grew up
00:44:50.420 in this
00:44:50.640 stupid
00:44:50.880 culture,
00:44:51.720 come out
00:44:52.020 and they
00:44:52.180 say,
00:44:52.360 yeah,
00:44:52.460 we'd like
00:44:52.780 to see
00:44:53.060 that.
00:44:53.260 How about
00:44:53.440 just like
00:44:53.720 friendship?
00:44:54.200 What is a
00:44:54.740 friend?
00:44:55.820 People are
00:44:56.280 so lonely.
00:44:56.940 They're not
00:44:57.280 lonely because
00:44:57.860 there's any
00:44:58.280 lack of a
00:44:58.780 hookup
00:44:59.020 culture.
00:44:59.580 It's easier
00:45:00.200 to hook
00:45:00.520 up today
00:45:01.000 than it ever
00:45:01.660 has been.
00:45:02.540 But it's
00:45:03.000 very hard
00:45:03.460 to make
00:45:03.720 a friend.
00:45:04.960 That's why
00:45:05.340 they want
00:45:05.580 to see
00:45:05.820 that.
00:45:06.760 Why do
00:45:07.100 more study
00:45:07.520 participants
00:45:07.920 want to
00:45:08.180 see a
00:45:08.360 white man
00:45:08.640 as the
00:45:08.860 hero?
00:45:09.240 Because now,
00:45:10.500 coming out
00:45:10.920 of Hollywood,
00:45:11.580 you never
00:45:11.900 see a
00:45:12.220 white guy
00:45:12.520 as a
00:45:12.820 hero.
00:45:13.060 The white
00:45:13.300 guy is
00:45:13.500 always the
00:45:13.840 bumbling
00:45:14.160 idiot or
00:45:14.840 the villain.
00:45:16.700 They're only
00:45:17.500 vicious and
00:45:20.280 persons of
00:45:21.520 color are
00:45:22.080 perfect and
00:45:22.560 they have no
00:45:22.860 character flaws
00:45:23.400 and they have
00:45:23.640 no complexity
00:45:24.100 of character
00:45:24.500 whatsoever coming
00:45:25.400 out of
00:45:25.640 Hollywood.
00:45:26.900 So when
00:45:27.240 people see
00:45:27.760 that,
00:45:27.940 they say,
00:45:28.140 wait,
00:45:28.240 that's not
00:45:28.520 really how
00:45:29.020 reality works.
00:45:30.060 Reality is,
00:45:30.560 I think,
00:45:30.820 a little more
00:45:31.260 complex than
00:45:31.880 that.
00:45:32.380 And they
00:45:32.720 desire
00:45:33.480 something else.
00:45:34.740 This is the
00:45:35.060 great conservative
00:45:35.680 consolation,
00:45:36.540 as I pointed
00:45:37.080 out before,
00:45:37.640 which is that
00:45:38.120 reality doesn't
00:45:39.620 go away.
00:45:40.700 Even when you
00:45:41.440 live in a
00:45:41.800 highly ideological
00:45:42.640 age,
00:45:43.060 reality is still
00:45:43.860 there and
00:45:44.540 people at
00:45:45.020 least occasionally
00:45:45.680 brush up with
00:45:46.300 reality and
00:45:47.180 they begin to
00:45:47.740 desire some
00:45:49.500 connection between
00:45:50.720 their political
00:45:52.160 order, the
00:45:52.640 entertainment,
00:45:53.860 the laws,
00:45:55.280 the everything,
00:45:56.680 and reality.
00:45:58.740 That's happening
00:45:59.360 again.
00:46:00.900 It's Music
00:46:01.300 Monday, baby.
00:46:01.780 The rest of the
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