The biggest porn company in the world is closing up shop in Florida, and the reason why is really scandalous and tells you everything you need to know about the porn industry. Republican leadership in Congress just tried to pull a fast one on conservatives. They tried to bully and extort Republican legislators into passing a 1,500-page, $110 billion continuing resolution full of liberal nonsense that most Americans hate, or else miss out on disaster funding for their districts and Christmas dinner with their families. Happily, the plan did not work, and we ll get into why not.
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00:02:48.740The continuing resolution pushed by Republicans along with Democrats, pushed by leadership, the firm it's sometimes called, the firm of the GOP and the Democrats, getting together to disregard the will of the American people and to undermine conservatives.
00:03:06.600They have this plan to continue funding the government, to avert a government shutdown, to allow the members of Congress to go home for Christmas because, you know, the deadline was December 20th.
00:03:18.260And do you want to be the one responsible for making all these members of Congress skip out on their families?
00:03:24.580They don't get to see their kids open presents on Christmas.
00:03:26.840Daddy won't be home to slice the Christmas ham.
00:03:30.600No, no, let's just keep funding the government and let's give Democrats whatever they want.
00:03:34.820Until Elon Musk came out and he said, hey, any Republicans who vote for this should be primaried in two years.
00:03:41.980And then you already had a groundswell of grassroots activism, especially you saw this on X, owned by Elon Musk.
00:03:48.460Then you had President Trump come out and say, no, cut it out.
00:03:52.220J.D. Vance posted this statement from President Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
00:04:00.520If you're trying to figure out who wrote this, was it Trump or was it Vance?
00:04:03.760I think the diction will tell you the story.
00:04:06.000It says, the most foolish and inept thing ever done by congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025.
00:04:12.860It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.
00:04:15.400Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney.
00:04:22.940The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6th committee, which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day.
00:04:31.100This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.
00:04:36.800Increasing the debt ceiling is not great, but we'd rather do it on Biden's watch.
00:04:40.840So already there, you see Trump is saying, look, there's this awful stuff because of the policies that last three years, really policies last three decades.
00:04:47.480But make Biden hold the ball for that.
00:05:00.740We should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn't give Chuck Schumer and the Dems everything they want.
00:05:04.520Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, set up our country for success in 2025.
00:05:11.680The only way to do it is with a temporary funding bill and then in all caps, without Democrat giveaways.
00:05:18.200And we'll get into some of those Democrat giveaways combined with an increase in the debt ceiling.
00:05:22.920Anything else is a betrayal of our country.
00:05:24.700Republicans have to get smart and tough.
00:05:26.420If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them whatever they want, call their bluff.
00:05:31.520Democrats say, look, you don't get to go home for Christmas.
00:05:35.020All right, I guess we're not going home for Christmas.
00:05:37.380It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.
00:05:40.440This chaos would not be happening if we had a real president, which we will in 32 days.
00:05:43.700Okay, Trump said it better than anything I could possibly add to it.
00:05:49.040What do we mean by Democrat giveaways?
00:05:52.040There's money for all sorts of nonsense.
00:05:53.640The Democrats are pretending, even the establishment media, they're saying, this bill is all about funding the government and it's really about disaster relief.
00:06:02.280These nasty Republicans don't want to give out disaster relief.
00:06:04.860I promise you, Republicans are happy with disaster relief.
00:06:07.660We want to give as much disaster relief as you want.
00:06:10.760What we don't want is all the little pork for all the little Democrat projects.
00:06:15.220What we don't want is to continue funding a huge bloated government, the American people voted in large part in November, to have Elon Musk and Doge come in and gut a lot of the government bloat.
00:06:28.480So we don't want to increase the government bloat.
00:06:31.220And then there's even ideological giveaways to Democrats like this one.
00:06:36.520I have to give a hat tip to Benny Johnson who found it before I did.
00:06:39.580The continuing resolution wants to start redefining all sorts of terms, adding new euphemisms into the U.S. code like this one.
00:06:50.380Right now in the U.S. code, there's this term offender to refer to criminals.
00:06:54.440Well, this continuing resolution, the purpose of which ostensibly is just to fund the government, give out some disaster relief, this continuing resolution would change Section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U.S. Code 3102, to get rid of the word offender and replace it with justice-involved individual.
00:07:17.900It seems like a minor thing, but it's not a minor thing because, as I've mentioned for years, the Democrats control the culture in large part because they control people's minds and they control people's minds because they control the words.
00:07:30.120That's why Democrats are so insistent on euphemisms, on politically correct woke language, is by changing the words, you change people's perception.
00:07:37.960This example is one that I cited on page two of my book, Speechless, as a particularly egregious example of leftist euphemisms.
00:07:49.940Where is my bell? I said the word and my bell is not there. This is very unusual and I don't like it.
00:07:54.960Whatever, we move on in this. Thank you. I'm glad that our control room is asleep right now. I guess they've started their Christmas vacation early.
00:08:01.300Honestly, justice-involved individual is one of the most absurd euphemisms the left has used because a criminal, whatever you want to say about a criminal, is by definition someone who is involved in injustice.
00:08:14.440He's the opposite of a justice-involved individual. They want to put that in there. There are other euphemisms.
00:08:20.260The continuing resolution wants to strike the phrase homeless individuals and replace it with individuals experiencing homelessness.
00:08:29.420It seems like a minor point, but why are we having this fight over the funding of the government, a battle potentially that will lead to the shutdown of the government right before Christmas?
00:08:40.840We're fighting over the left's temper tantrum to include all of this gobbledygook nonsense euphemism?
00:08:49.860Out-of-school youth? Out-of-school youth is to be amended in the U.S. Code to opportunity youth.
00:08:55.520I guess you do. If you're out of school, if you're a dropout, if you're playing hooky, I guess you do have a lot of opportunity.
00:09:00.600You have the opportunity to go do drugs. You have the opportunity to go commit crimes.
00:09:03.520You have the opportunity to go back to school. I don't know.
00:09:07.980This is what they want. They're so—say what you will about the left.
00:09:45.620We have not held this many cards in 20 years.
00:09:48.360And the Democrats say, hey, even though you hold all the cards, you're about to take over the whole government, give us everything we want.
00:10:53.840This should not be allowed, the unknown reporter told the University of Illinois campus belonging team.
00:10:59.260If you pay taxes in Illinois, certainly if you send your kid to the University of Illinois, you're paying for something called the campus belonging team.
00:11:08.280This should not be allowed, the reporter said, referencing Knowles' hate-filled rhetoric around LGBTQ plus people.
00:11:15.660Notice, the unknown reporter is not citing any particular examples of rhetoric.
00:11:23.680I don't know what my hate-filled rhetoric is.
00:11:27.040I guess the one example they sometimes point to is when I, at CPAC, I said that for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who fall on prey to this confusion,
00:11:34.260transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level.
00:11:38.140Well, it's popped up in the news so much I've memorized that portion of the speech.
00:11:41.920But you couldn't say that's hate-filled.
00:13:20.460Allowing him to speak on campus creates unsafe environments for LGBTQ plus students, faculty and staff.
00:13:26.340Another person alluded to the Knowles event in a complaint to the university saying the Daily Wire speaker has a known history of discriminating against trans people.
00:13:54.160That's why they want to boot me off campus.
00:13:56.960That's why they want to whine about it.
00:13:57.820That's why a publicly funded, taxpayer funded university is trying to enshrine transgenderism as the religion that guides the vision of the whole campus.
00:14:08.580And so I would like to make an addendum to my view that transgenderism should be eradicated from society.
00:14:15.420Which is that, just from the perspective of the university, people who believe in transgenderism probably should not be in college.
00:14:25.960Because transgenderism is an absurd ideology that contradicts physical science and also the most basic aspects of philosophy and anthropology.
00:14:37.660If you believe in transgenderism, you probably shouldn't be in college.
00:14:41.400You probably need to go back to remedial biology, philosophy 101, which you probably didn't even get in your school, basic anthropology.
00:14:51.820I'm not saying you should never go to college.
00:14:53.620At some point, it's perfectly fine to be educated.
00:14:56.260But you're probably not ready for college if you don't know the difference between a man and a woman.
00:15:01.040Just like you're probably not ready for a college writing course if you don't know what a noun and a verb are.
00:15:06.160Certainly, if you believe in transgenderism, you should not be teaching at a college.
00:15:30.880And we, the people, whether we're talking about the trustees of private universities or whether we're talking about the taxpayer funders of public universities, ought to begin to insist upon that.
00:21:18.960Even if you don't want to go so far as to say the porn companies are happy to have kids look at their stuff.
00:21:25.300Well, let's take the porn companies at their word.
00:21:27.740Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:21:28.920They don't want kids to look at their stuff.
00:21:31.120The very fact that they say, we don't want even adults to have to submit this proof of age and identification tells you something about the product.
00:28:03.360And if you don't have that, if you don't have a strong grounding of faith and understanding that this world points to something beyond this world, then the more money you get, the more worried you're going to be.
00:28:16.700Speaking of money, Congress wants a raise.
00:28:20.560Congress currently has a salary of $174,000 per year.
00:28:23.780Congress used to get automatic raises to keep up with cost of living adjustments.
00:28:27.100In 2009, Congress voted to cut that off.
00:28:32.080So the current salary for a member of Congress or a U.S. senator is $174,000 per year.
00:28:38.580Part of this continuing resolution would allow automatic pay raises to come back in, which could give legislators a $6,600 raise next year, according to the Congressional Research Service.
00:28:50.100I have my absolute least popular take of the day, maybe of the year.
00:28:55.740We're closing out the year with maybe my least popular take.
00:28:59.180I don't care in principle if congressmen get a raise.
00:29:02.600There's actually a strong argument to give congressmen a raise.
00:29:05.000I'm not saying they should, but I don't bat an eyelash.
00:29:08.100I don't lose one second sleep about this.
00:29:10.040There are so many problems in that continuing resolution.
00:29:12.840Congressmen giving themselves more money is number 999,999 on the list.
00:29:22.200Because, look, there's an argument to pay congressmen very little, and there's an argument to pay them a lot.
00:29:29.120If you pay congressmen very little, then the people who you are going to attract are going to be people who are independently wealthy.
00:29:37.020President Trump doesn't take a salary to be president.
00:29:40.160What does he get paid, a dollar a year or something like that?
00:29:42.840He doesn't need the—he's not doing that job for the money.
00:29:46.440When Mike Bloomberg became mayor of New York, he took a dollar a year.
00:29:49.140These are very wealthy people, and so if you don't need the money, okay, pay them peanuts.
00:29:53.360Then you're going to attract rich people.
00:29:54.680But then don't complain to me when the government is run by rich people.
00:29:59.120You wanted that because you don't want to pay your legislators any money.
00:30:01.680On the flip side, if you pay a lot of money to your legislators, you will attract better talent that is not extremely wealthy.
00:30:13.600Look, there are members of Congress who couldn't get a job, you know, standing with a sandwich board on the side of the road.
00:30:19.500There are some people who are a little deficient in the IQ and hard skills category.
00:30:24.860But there are members of Congress who are talented, intelligent people with strong resumes.
00:30:30.040There are members of Congress who could easily make 10 or 20 times their current congressional salary in the private sector.
00:30:39.320There are some people who maybe would want to run for public life, but who say, look, I can't justify taking such a huge pay cut for my family.
00:30:49.620Especially for people who aren't super wealthy, but also aren't poor, the people who are kind of in the middle.
00:30:54.060If you want people who are in the middle class to be running your government, there's a strong argument to pay members of Congress more.
00:31:03.500Think about the fact that we pay the president of the United States $400,000 per year or whatever it is.
00:31:51.940Make it the handouts to Democrat pet projects that are contrary to our way of life and our rights.
00:31:58.360But giving members of Congress some money to keep up with expenses.
00:32:04.440For goodness sakes, Joe Biden has given us 23% inflation over three years.
00:32:08.900I don't know that to me, it's I know it's I know no one ever wants to stick up for the poor congressman, but that one is easy.
00:32:15.020Now, there are seriously dodgy things going on in the House.
00:32:18.960The House Ethics Committee is signaling that it might release its ethics report on Matt Gaetz, even though Matt Gaetz resigned the House when President Trump put him up for attorney general before Matt Gaetz withdrew for attorney general.
00:32:31.740Now, dizzying, what happened? Matt Gaetz is accused of doing all sorts of weird sex stuff and financial stuff, and he's accused of having a little bit of a dodgy past.
00:32:42.120And the House Ethics Committee looks into this.
00:33:18.020One, the Congress is being really petty here and they don't like Matt Gaetz and they want to ruin whatever future career he can have in the private or public sectors.
00:33:24.780Two, this means some Republicans knifed Gaetz because the Republicans have the majority in the House.
00:33:32.540The Republicans have the Ethics Committee.
00:33:35.420The fact that now a majority of members on the Ethics Committee are signaling to CNN and other outlets that they might release that report means that you need at least a couple Republicans, one or two, to come out there and knife Gaetz in the back.
00:34:28.400He was reelected to the next Congress.
00:34:30.740He has previously said he doesn't want to serve in the next Congress, but he could.
00:34:34.840If he wanted to, he could serve in the next Congress.
00:34:37.420So he's saying, all right, I'm going to show up, I'm going to participate in the Speaker's race, because I think he suspects leadership is trying to knife him.
00:34:46.840He said, then maybe I'll file a privileged motion to expose every Me Too settlement paid using public funds, even of former members of Congress.
00:34:54.500Five, resign and start my OAN program at 9 p.m. Eastern on January 6th, January 6th.
00:35:03.960If Congress is now in the business of airing the dirty laundry of former members, then it seems only right to apply that same standard to all of them.
00:35:17.780I have a number of friends who are members of Congress in both houses, or both chambers, rather.
00:35:23.840And I have it on good authority that many, if not half of members, are actively engaging in untoward activities, whether it be with members of their staff, whether it be with lobbyists.
00:35:38.720But they're doing naughty things that they shouldn't be doing.
00:35:43.100Matt Gaetz is saying there have been Me Too settlements paid out using public funds.
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00:36:54.720My favorite comment yesterday is from Autumn Endings, who says the really mind-blowing thing in regard to the murder of Brian Thompson is that a young liberal I know who is against the death penalty regards Thompson's murder as justified.
00:37:24.360They oppose the death penalty unless it's for innocent people who have not been convicted of capital offenses or babies.
00:37:32.180They support the death penalty for innocent little babies and civilians in the name of advancing a political ideology and anyone they don't like.
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00:38:20.880Now, speaking of the Ethics Committee, one last point on the Ethics Committee.
00:38:27.320Jordan Conradson, who is the chairman, sorry, Michael Guest, who is the chairman of the Ethics Committee,
00:38:33.320was just confronted by the journalist Jordan Conradson, and he was asked a series of questions about this move,
00:38:40.120maybe to release the Ethics Report on Gates.
00:38:42.920The final question that he asks him is the kicker.
00:38:46.620Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit.
00:38:48.920So, I wanted to ask you, why did the Ethics Committee vote in secret to release the Matt Gaetz Report?
00:38:56.320As you know, I'm bound by confidentiality.
00:38:58.820I can't talk about anything that happened within the confines of ethics.
00:39:03.300I can neither confirm nor deny anything.
00:43:09.040The purpose of it, though, is to say white people are bad and we should not offer them particular help.
00:43:15.680And all the other people are good and we should give them an advantage over the white people.
00:43:19.780Now, if one has a broad political imagination, one actually could see a case for discrimination in favor of certain races.
00:43:30.880In principle, I'm not saying you do, but in principle, the left's argument, you say,
00:43:36.640black people have been kept down for hundreds of years and they've been discriminated against.
00:43:40.900And as a matter of restorative justice, we need to discriminate in their favor,
00:43:45.220which means necessarily you're discriminating against other races.
00:43:48.320But that is the case that is made, at least in moments of candor, by the left.
00:43:53.860Is that it is moral, it is good to discriminate against certain races in favor of others.
00:44:00.680But no one in public life, no one in the political class really makes that argument because in America, that argument is considered distasteful and unpopular.
00:44:11.540And on paper, it's unconstitutional, even though it happens all the time.
00:44:16.000So they can't, on the one hand, they have to say, we don't discriminate against anyone on the basis of their race.
00:44:21.940We support Dr. King, who says, I have a dream that one day it won't matter if you're black, white, or brown.
00:44:25.920But what they really want to do is discriminate against white people or discriminate against men or discriminate against whomever in favor of other races.
00:44:37.320You've got a contradiction between the uppercase C Constitution and the lowercase C Constitution that actually embodies the way in which we live.
00:44:46.000You have two opposing views of morality, of ethics, and they don't make sense together.
00:44:53.220Which means that, getting back to the point on ethics, you don't really have a moral or ethical standard.
00:45:00.800You have unreasonable political action, usually for selfish interest rather than for the common good.
00:45:07.740But it's masquerading as some kind of highfalutin moral philosophy.
00:45:12.740Now, there's a story I mentioned yesterday, and I really want to get to it before we go, especially around this time of year, because people get a little sad and lonely around Christmas.
00:45:22.440Now, Christmas is also one of the happiest times of the year as we await the coming of our Lord.
00:45:27.360You know, we celebrate the central event in the history of the world.
00:45:30.100But, you know, people, they miss, you know, their grandma.
00:45:32.460You know, they miss, like, happy memories of childhood.
00:45:34.620They miss even unhappy memories of childhood.
00:45:36.160So, people get a little sad, a little bit lonely, and this is especially true today when people broadly are sad and lonely, they're getting more depressed, they're getting more socially isolated.
00:45:45.000That's especially true for people over the age of 50.
00:45:47.100But there's a new poll and some research out from the University of Michigan showing that friendship after the age of 50 can be a matter of life and death.
00:45:55.320According to this study, 75% of older adults say they have enough close friends, so that's good.
00:46:02.980But those who say that they are in poor mental or physical health are significantly less likely to maintain social connections.
00:46:12.520Among the individuals reporting fair or poor mental health, 20% say they have no close friends at all, which is double the rate overall.
00:46:22.720The people who are sick are much, much more likely not to have friends.
00:46:25.32018% of those with poor or fair physical health report having no close friends, suggesting that health challenges significantly impact social connections.
00:46:34.160Our culture is particularly at risk because we are so individualistic.
00:46:39.480We have, for a long time, but especially in recent decades, taken up an ideology of individualism.
00:47:09.880We need a fundamental shift in how we understand politics, society, and the human person away from the liberal idea that we're essentially individuals toward the classical idea that we're a social creature.
00:47:20.360That is no longer a matter merely of abstract political philosophy.
00:47:24.720That can be a matter of life and death.