Vladimir Putin has endorsed Joe Biden for president in the 2020 election. And a mass shooting at a Chiefs Super Bowl parade in Kansas City leaves at least 20 dead. Plus, a group of men are using artificial intelligence to communicate with their ex-girlfriends.
00:03:12.240These are the guys who are now, according to reports, creating AI avatars of their ex-girlfriends so that they could keep talking to simulacra of their former lovers even after those girlfriends dumped them.
00:03:28.120Super, duper creepy and super, duper sad.
00:03:54.000The media usually love to spread stories of mass shootings everywhere.
00:03:57.660The reason, though, that they're not going to spread the story of this mass shooting is because it doesn't fit the narrative they want.
00:04:03.060If the mass shooting were some angry white man who went into a school and shot up the school or something, that, of course, would be plastered everywhere.
00:04:11.920Joe Biden would have already given a speech about it.
00:04:13.940But because in this case it appears that the shooter was a black guy and it was in a crime-ridden city, the story is probably going to disappear.
00:04:25.000As of now, I think 20 people injured, one person very sadly is dead, a number of others are in critical condition, really, really awful.
00:04:33.300And the shooting appears to have been stopped not even by the police but by some fans who saw this happening.
00:04:39.960And some courageous fans went in and tackled this guy, which is a very courageous act these days.
00:04:44.720In part, not just because the shooter has a gun and could kill them, but because now if you stop violent attackers from committing crimes, especially if those attackers are black, especially if you're in major cities, you could find yourself in prison for life.
00:05:01.300I mean, this is what that poor Marine discovered on the New York subway.
00:05:04.520There was a crazy guy who was threatening women, who was really harassing people, and a Marine comes in and stops him from doing it.
00:05:16.040The good guys so often get prosecuted.
00:05:17.720So it appears there were some real acts of bravery here and typical cowardice from the establishment media who aren't going to tell you very much about this.
00:05:25.400Because even beyond the racial component, which the libs are always so big on puffing up, there is the simple fact that these kinds of shootings, this kind of crime, is a choice.
00:05:39.240We talked about this yesterday on the show.
00:05:42.3602023 was the deadliest year in Kansas City history.
00:05:46.260Kansas City has, depending on the rankings, the eighth to the fifth worst murder problem of any city in the United States.
00:05:54.440And Kansas City isn't even all that big a city.
00:05:57.420And they have one of the worst murder problems, and it's getting worse, totally predictable.
00:06:02.840You have crime spikes all over the country.
00:06:04.760We talked about this with regard to Ecuador and El Salvador.
00:06:08.240How is it that in these places, in the case of El Salvador was the most dangerous country on earth,
00:06:13.600and then within a year or two, it becomes the safest country in the Western Hemisphere?
00:07:00.020Crime goes up and it's totally predictable.
00:07:02.080And the people who call for that have a little bit of blood on their hands.
00:07:05.040So that's another reason you're not going to hear very much about that story.
00:07:09.460Terrible news for the governing class, up to and including Joe Biden.
00:07:14.860Now, there's even more bad news for Joe Biden, which is that the big case that everyone is focusing on in Georgia to prosecute Trump under RICO statutes,
00:07:26.060the kind of laws that were put in place to prosecute the mob, they're going after Donald Trump in Georgia.
00:07:31.760It's specifically a district attorney named Fannie Willis.
00:07:35.940And Fannie Willis, this very day, might be thrown off this case because Fannie Willis, it turns out, allegedly hired her lover to be the special prosecutor in this case,
00:07:49.080this unprecedented case of prosecuting the leader of the opposition party in the United States,
00:07:55.680the presumptive nominee for president of one of the two major parties, and a man who already was the president himself.
00:08:34.660He's completely unqualified to prosecute the case.
00:08:36.980He gets paid more than other prosecutors.
00:08:38.820And then he takes the DA girlfriend on a ton of super fancy trips all over America, beyond America even.
00:08:46.660Taxpayer dollars that are already being misused because they're being misused to prosecute the leader of the political opposition on bogus, trumped-up, pun-intended charges.
00:08:58.460Those taxpayer dollars then being funneled back to the woman who picks the prosecutor so they can go have nice massages on a Caribbean island somewhere.
00:09:08.660We knew that this woman was guilty as sin because when these allegations came out, what she did was not necessarily deny that they happened.
00:09:17.660She didn't provide some legal justification for her actions.
00:09:21.080No, she went to a black church and played the race card.
00:09:23.460And she said people are only going after her because she's a black woman and it's impossible for a black woman to get ahead in America.
00:20:25.860Like, if Joe Scarborough wants to just spout Democrat talking points as a fake Republican and make that his career, okay, that's one way to earn money.
00:20:34.300I'm not even going to really knock him for it.
00:20:36.140But, man, how can you keep a straight face when you tell me that, that, when you cannot remember the death, forget the death of a loved one generally, the death of your parents, the death of, when you're talking about the death of a child, which is unnatural, which is so traumatic,
00:20:53.140it's so much more traumatic than the death of a parent or the death of a grandparent?
00:20:57.580And you're telling me you can't remember, even within a few years, the details of that?
00:21:01.180And put aside the death of a family member, Joe Biden couldn't remember when he was vice president.
00:21:05.900I think that if you serve as president or vice president of the United States and your brain is even semi-functioning, you should probably remember when that occurred.
00:21:16.820And Joe Scarborough, with a straight face, is actually going to, he's going to look at me and he's going to tell me, oh, no, that's crazy.
00:21:22.020Why would anyone remember when he was vice president of the United States?
00:21:32.040This is the difference between the leftists and the honest liberals, with whom I disagree, but who, you know, are at least sincere in their beliefs, and the establishment hacks.
00:21:44.500And I'm sorry to say Joe Scarborough is clearly revealing himself to be an establishment hack, just like those ladies on The View, just like everyone who is defending Joe Biden's vigor, virility, and intellect right now.
00:21:59.900But these guys' livelihoods, these guys, the job of these people is to say that the emperor is wearing a big, beautiful coat and gown and wardrobe, even though the emperor is wandering around naked because the emperor is obviously senile.
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00:23:26.380Speaking of Democrat, or rather Republican congressman and former Republican congressman, Mark Green, a Republican congressman whom I very much like and admire, a man who was House Homeland Security Committee chairman, he is resigning.
00:23:46.100Why is another Republican leaving Congress?
00:23:49.160No, we have a razor-thin majority, and we keep losing or coming very close to losing on really tight votes.
00:23:56.040Why are we losing a good Republican congressman?
00:23:58.180Well, here's what Congressman Green says.
00:23:59.900At the start of the 118th Congress, I promised my constituents to pass legislation to secure our borders and to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable.
00:24:09.160Today, with the House having passed H.R. 2 and Secretary Mayorkas impeached, it is time for me to return home.
00:24:14.040In the past few months, in reading the writings of our framers, I was reminded of their intent for representatives to be citizen legislators, to serve for a season, and then return home.
00:24:23.040Our country and our Congress is broken beyond most means of repair.
00:24:27.200I have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington.
00:24:36.320The one point I would dispute here is the citizen legislators are supposed to go and finish their terms and then come back.
00:24:43.560I agree they're not necessarily intended to be in the same political office for their whole careers as many members of Congress do.
00:24:49.780But, you know, I'm not even going to knock Congressman Green for this because he's right about Congress being totally broken and distorted.
00:25:00.140And he's right about it being largely a pointless job.
00:25:05.500You could not pay me enough right now to be a member of the House of Representatives, not because I don't think that people who run for that office can have noble motivations, not because I think public service is not a worthwhile thing, but the Congress has no power.
00:25:20.400For goodness sakes, the Senate barely has any power.
00:25:22.680Remember Jim DeMint, great conservative congressman, or great conservative senator, rather.
00:25:29.420Jim DeMint left the Senate not too far into his term to go run the Heritage Foundation, and he did it because he realized he'd have more power at the Heritage Foundation than he does in the United States Senate, supposedly the most important deliberative body in the world.
00:25:45.460That came to be because the power of the Congress, of the House, and of the Senate has been diminished greatly in recent decades.
00:25:54.100Part of that is because they gave their power away to the administrative state.
00:25:57.320Part of that is because the government just kind of runs on its own.
00:26:01.480Part of that is because the two parties are in constant gridlock, so even if the Congress were inclined to exercise power, they're just not institutionally capable anymore of doing so, so the power is naturally going to flow to other agencies.
00:27:28.820It's a bad sign right now that even strong, serious, conservative politicians are saying, yeah, there's really no place for me in the House of Representatives.
00:27:40.620There's really no purpose to being here.
00:27:43.000Speaking of leaving jobs, Rachel Dolezal, the most famous transracial woman in America, has lost her job.
00:27:51.660She obviously previously lost her job as a major black rights activist because she lied about being black and she's actually white as the freshly driven snow.
00:28:00.860So she lost that job and then she fell into some financial hard times.
00:28:04.740And then she got a new job working at an elementary school and she's lost that job.
00:28:08.900And I feel a great deal of pity for Rachel Dolezal in part because she's got to screw loose, in part because whatever the cause of her madness, certainly part of that cause was our society, our social madness that says that white people are evil and black people are angelic.
00:28:27.580And therefore, if you're a white person, you might want to just try to pretend to be black because it's the only way to have any virtue whatsoever.
00:28:35.200And she really took that lesson quite to heart.
00:28:37.440I have a great deal of pity for her, but she should have been fired, obviously.
00:28:46.800The story here with Rachel Dolezal is that she lost her job at Catalina Foothills School District.
00:28:54.180She was an after-school instructor and she lost that job because she has an OnlyFans account.
00:28:59.600Yeah, schools should have the right to fire you from working with little kids if you are a prostitute or a pornographer or otherwise doing creepy, immoral things.
00:29:46.960They encourage weird adults to talk about sex to little kids, including here.
00:29:53.160I guess Rachel Dolezal did not—she went a bridge too far and so she lost her job.
00:29:56.680There will be the argument that, well, Rachel Dolezal, look, she keeps that part of her life private and that when she's not doing porn when she's at the elementary school, that's one kind of life.
00:30:07.740And then she has her other—her side hustle and those things are totally separate.
00:30:14.700The story with regard to Rachel Dolezal is really apt because it's indicative of our broadly schizophrenic culture.
00:30:21.240We all believe that we can just neatly compartmentalize all these different aspects of our lives.
00:30:27.680We think that we can divide everything from everything else.
00:30:30.580We can divide the individual from the family.
00:30:33.260We can even divide the body from the soul.
00:30:35.200My true self can be different than my physical self.
00:30:37.500We can divide what I do at work from what I do at home.
00:30:39.860We can divide my marriage from my, I don't know, affairs or something.
00:30:45.560We can divide—but you can't divide those things.
00:30:49.360We can divide my religious life, that's what I do for an hour on Sundays, from the rest of my life.
00:30:54.700We can just privatize and compartmentalize everything.
00:31:58.300The reason for that is that the liberals in America are Marxists and the conservatives in America are liberals.
00:32:04.480And so your real battle is between liberals and Marxists and that fight is going to pull you to the left.
00:32:12.340There's no one who's really all that conservative.
00:32:17.220There are a handful of people in public life, and that is increasing to some degree.
00:32:21.360But broadly, if you want to know why we lose, that's why we lose.
00:32:26.500And even here, when you're arguing about something like why shouldn't we have weird sex stuff in schools for kids, even the way that conservatives argue is so liberal.
00:32:36.700They'll say, well, because this bad consequence could occur.
00:32:40.240We shouldn't let men into the women's bathroom because a woman might be raped.
00:32:42.900We shouldn't let men compete against women in sports because the girls might lose their trophies.
00:32:48.460We shouldn't let – we shouldn't – I don't know.
00:32:52.940We shouldn't even raise taxes because it could lead to this bad economic consequence.
00:32:57.200We shouldn't open up our borders and not enforce our immigration laws because it leads to more crime and it leads to more drugs and it leads to more – but it's – all of that reasoning is consequentialist reasoning, which is fundamentally a left-wing kind of ethical view.
00:33:11.040The real answer to all these things, why shouldn't we have pornographers in our elementary schools, why shouldn't dudes use the women's bathroom, why should we enforce our immigration laws, is because allowing pornographers in schools is intrinsically wrong.
00:33:30.400There's no right to pornography in elementary schools.
00:33:32.920The reason we should enforce our immigration law is because that is the law, and that civil law derives from natural law, and the natural law is correct because the actions in themselves are good or bad.
00:33:44.640That's conservative reasoning, but no side even talks about that.
00:33:49.300Big wonder that conservatives continue to lose the culture, and the Republicans who do take the plunge to try to work things out in politics often get so discouraged that they say, I'm going to come home, I can do more good from my own home.
00:34:03.280Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, really creepy story.
00:34:07.580Dudes have made AI avatars of their ex-girlfriends to get them through lonely nights.
00:34:23.520On the app Talk to Your Ex, you can create an avatar that looks kind of like your ex-girlfriend,
00:34:29.320and then you upload chat logs to the app.
00:34:33.560It's a language learning model, and then the app learns to talk like your ex-girlfriend.
00:34:40.080And the more chat logs you upload, and look, everybody now has every word you ever utter to another person on permanent record on their phone.
00:34:46.640You just upload that, and then you get to talk to your ex-girlfriend who dumped you again.
00:34:50.800Really sad, really pathetic, obviously super creepy.
00:34:57.440Can you imagine even these poor women who dump these creepy dudes, and then they've got a fake version of themselves?
00:35:04.000Like, the guys just say, no, you can't dump me.
00:42:30.240Or you go on a social media app, and you read some tweets, and you kind of feel like, but it's not, people are really alienated.
00:42:38.560And not merely coincidentally, when people are alienated in this way from the physical world, they start to get all sorts of ideas about how their bodies really don't have anything to do with who they are.
00:42:50.160They start to get all sorts of ideas about how their families and communities don't have anything to do with who they are.
00:42:56.240You see even the breakdown of the family, of course, and then even the breakdown of the human person, a division between body and soul, if that were possible, at least an imagined division of those things.
00:43:11.080Because no matter how hard we try, no matter how advanced the glittering screens get and the technology and the chatbots and everything else, we are incarnate beings.
00:43:24.640We are flesh and blood and soul and spirit, but flesh and blood too in time and space and history.
00:43:34.040This is why COVID made everyone really depressed and rates of suicide skyrocketed and rates of drug use skyrocketed because Zoom calls are not enough.
00:43:50.380And so long as we remain human beings, as long as we don't have the chip fully in our brain stems and we're not totally plugged into the matrix, and frankly, even once we are, we're still going to be bodies.
00:43:59.620And you can't have a virtual wife, and you can't even really have a virtual friend.
00:44:10.380Maybe you meet your wife on some dating app.
00:44:12.620Maybe you make a friendship over the internet, but unless that relationship ceases to be mediated by technology and screens and develops into a fully human relationship that involves body and flesh and blood, and you can hug your friend and give him a high five and sit together and spend time in a real physical space.
00:44:33.380You are going to feel less and less human, no coincidence, another related story, less than half of Americans today feel very satisfied with their own lives.
00:44:50.220You might say, well, isn't that just always the case?
00:44:56.300No, actually, this is just the third time in more than two decades that less than half of Americans say they are very satisfied with the way things are.
00:45:06.86047% of U.S. adults express high satisfaction with their lives.
00:45:11.520That's dropped three points over the past year, and it's only one point higher than the 2011 record low for that trend.
00:45:20.580Is it just that these snowflakes, the typical right-wing, cheap, kind of boomery right-wing responses, these snowflakes don't know how good they've got it.
00:45:32.220You know, they've got iPads, for goodness sakes.
00:45:34.380We didn't have iPads when I was a kid.
00:45:35.540We had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to go to school.
00:45:54.460It's actually really—I know you're miserable, and your, like, relatives are killing themselves on fentanyl, and your wife left you, and your kid thinks that she's a dude, and the country's been flooded by people who don't speak your language, and you've got to press 4 for English when you call the bank.
00:46:08.080No, but actually, you're really happy.
00:46:20.580The leftists are going to say, well, you know, the total tanky communists are going to say people are unhappy because of capitalism, and there's a little truth to that, but these guys are total left-wing lunatics, and they're unhappy because of the bourgeois values, and we need revolution and blood in the streets for them to be happy.
00:46:35.300None of that is quite accurate, I think.
00:46:40.420People are less satisfied with their lives because they are living less human lives.
00:46:47.600The issue isn't that people need more psychiatric drugs.
00:46:51.220The issue isn't that people need more money.
00:46:53.200You know, Barack Obama saying if we just give iPhones to everyone in Syria, that's going to have them—convince them to stop being jihadis.
00:46:58.940Frankly, you give iPhones to everyone in Syria, they're going to be less happy if you ask me to make a bet about it.
00:47:03.240It's not because we need to overthrow the bourgeoisie and have blood in the streets and have a communist revolution.
00:47:08.240It's not because we need to just buck up and have a stiff upper lip entirely.
00:47:11.560It's because your satisfaction is going to come from your happiness, from your happiness in the ancient Aristotelian sense of that term, eudaimonia, flourishing, from doing excellent activity in virtue over an extended period of time.
00:47:30.800That's what's going to make you happy.
00:47:33.560And this is ultimately the measure of the political health of a society.
00:47:37.840The ultimate measure of the health of a society is not GDP, it's not freedom, you know, it's not—hey, I have the right to have orgies every Thursday night, and I can chop off my appendages.
00:47:50.360The measure of it is not total autonomy.
00:47:54.240The measure of the political health of a society is satisfaction, happiness, eudaimonia, really basic stuff, folks, because the major charges of a society are do good and avoid evil, just as those are the major charges of individuals as well.
00:48:09.420And when you see numbers like this, that should give everyone pause, and that should—your first reaction should not be denial, and your first reaction should not be to just continue pushing the same old nonsense you've been pushing forever that has led us nowhere.
00:48:22.840If you want to be happy, then you've got to take happiness seriously.
00:48:27.140My friend Dennis Prager has said, happiness is a serious business, and the people who took happiness seriously were the ancients.
00:48:35.860The people who took happiness seriously were great men like Aristotle, okay?
00:48:40.680And then you baptize that kind of pagan concept of happiness in the church through St. Thomas Aquinas.
00:48:46.860Something very important to think about as this Lenten season has us giving up all the glittering material things to more or less degree and focusing on what really counts.