Ep. 986 - Twitter Will Be Woke Or Die Trying
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The Twitter board of directors is threatened to trigger an economic poison pill in its jihad to prevent Elon Musk from taking over the company and letting conservatives speak freely in the digital public square. This is terrible for shareholders. Their stock is just not going to be worth as much. But the board seems to think that it is worth it to stop Musk from bringing free speech back to the company.
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The Twitter board of directors is threatened to trigger an economic poison pill in its jihad to
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prevent Elon Musk from taking over the company and letting conservatives speak freely in the
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digital public square. The poison pill involves flooding the market with discounted shares of
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Twitter stock available to all shareholders other than Elon Musk and any of the associates that he's
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working with to take over the company. This is terrible for shareholders. Their stock is just
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not going to be worth as much. But the board seems to think that it is worth it to stop Musk from
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bringing free speech back to Twitter, especially since it turns out that the board, now with the
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departure of Jack Dorsey, who helped found Twitter, the board owns virtually no stock in Twitter
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themselves. So the board is destroying shareholder value to push its own woke agenda, a woke agenda
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that happens to be shared by Twitter's largest institutional investors. I'm talking about
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BlackRock. I'm talking about State Street. I'm talking about others, which in recent years
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have leveraged their tens of trillions of dollars in assets under management to pressure companies
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to adopt woke policies, specifically on ESG, environmental, social, and governance issues.
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Elon Musk still has several options with the takeover of Twitter. He could team up with other
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investors to purchase the company even at the higher price. He could instigate a revolt among
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shareholders who could sue the board for destroying the value of their stock. He could drag this thing out
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and pressure a change in the board members themselves. But even if that doesn't work,
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Elon Musk has already scored a major win. He's pulled back the curtain on the stinking corruption
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at Twitter. Until last week, I never even asked myself who owns Twitter. BlackRock, Saudi Arabia,
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never occurred to me. Until last week, it never occurred to me that Twitter leadership was so,
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I knew they wanted to censor. But it didn't occur to me that they were so hell-bent on censoring
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conservatives that they would destroy the value of their own stock just to keep doing it. It never
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occurred to me, even me, even someone with a pretty dim view of our ruling class, never occurred to me
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just how hideously corrupt the whole system is. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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out Birch Gold today. Elon Musk has already won. I want him to win more. I want the Twitter board to
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be brought to heel. Okay, I want not just Twitter. That's the smallest of the social media giants.
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I want Facebook. I especially want Google. I want all of these guys to be brought back under some
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semblance of democratic rule or to be brought back into some semblance of virtuous leadership.
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But what they're doing now is so corrupt. And I want Elon and other people to bring them down.
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But I will say he's already won in many ways by exposing just how desperate these guys are
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to maintain their power, to keep conservatives out of the public square,
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to control the whole narrative and to peddle lies and to censor true information that threatens the
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ruling class and to promote false information, misinformation, you know, the worst thing in
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the world that we've heard over the past five years, to peddle that kind of misinformation when
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it's to their benefit. There's a clip going around the internet right now. It's a clip of Mika
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Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC discussing how it's a grave threat that someone wants to take
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over and control the narrative because the point of telling people what to think or the people who
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have the right to tell people what to think are the establishment liberal media. And there's a little
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bit of fake news here because Mika is not talking about Elon Musk, even though a tweet suggesting that
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she was had had gone viral. She's actually talking about Donald Trump here. Take a listen anyway.
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Well, and I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he's trying to undermine the
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media, trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy
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worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what
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people think. And that is the, that is our job. Oops. That's the part she's not supposed to say,
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but that's what all of them believe. And now I love it. Now you've got the left wing fact checker
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types, the blue check saying this clip is fake news. She's not talking about Elon Musk. She's talking
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about Trump. Who cares? She's making the same point. The point is no less valid than when she's talking
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about Donald Trump years ago than if she were talking about Elon Musk today. And it's just as
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scary and it's just as corrupt. These hacks at the liberal establishment media are saying we have,
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we have the right to tell people what to think. That's always why they were throwing this
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misinformation, disinformation label at Donald Trump. No one pushes more misinformation and
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disinformation than MSNBC and CNN. And sure, Republicans sometimes push their own talking
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points. I think the conservatives have been much more accurate, much more faithful to the truth
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than the people who tell you that men are not women, that men are women rather on the left,
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than people who tell you that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, than people who push just
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completely made up storylines. People that tell you half the country are neo-Nazi white supremacists,
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people who tell you that, that parents are domestic terrorists. I think the conservatives are a lot
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more faithful to the truth than the libs are in this case. But what the libs are really upset about
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is that someone is threatening their ability to control the entire message, to control all speech,
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which in a republic is the government, is the political order, because we govern ourselves by
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persuading one another and debating and getting information out to the public. That clip should
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go viral. People should know this is exactly what these people think. And Elon Musk is going in and
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saying, look, we're not going to stand for that anymore. And the libs are going after him with
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everything they've got. They're willing to destroy Twitter to prevent this guy from letting conservatives
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speak on Twitter. It just shows you everything you need to know. And we're not only talking about a
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handful of purple haired activists at Twitter HQ. We're talking about big institutional power
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that controls trillions and trillions of dollars. Why are they so focused on this? Because this is not
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just about some fashionable social movement or the sincerely held transgenderist views of the radical
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left. This is about a liberal ruling class that is not going to give up its power and that is going to
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make noises about their great respect for democracy. But really, they don't have any respect for
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democracy at all. And they simply want to control their power just like every other corrupt regime
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in the history of the world. And so are they going to win? Is this one eccentric billionaire who owns
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an electric car company and a rocket company, is he really going to be able to crack that regime?
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Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. But at the very least, you do have a big win here. He is exposing
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the rot, not just the crazy, kooky kids on college campuses. We're talking about the political
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corruption and rot that goes all the way down to the most powerful interests in our political systems,
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in our financial, in our global financial system, in our media institutions, not just in the United
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Look at what's happening right now in just one agency of the government.
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Story came out, you probably didn't even see it. ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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ICE blew $17 million on hotels for illegal aliens. That's the headline. It's actually a lot worse than
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that. We're in the throes of the worst migrant surge in American history. It's going to be,
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last year, we took in 2 million illegals, 1 million legals. This year, we're going to take
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in way more than that. So last year, among the crazy migrant surge in March of 2021, ICE entered
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into an $86.9 million contract with the nonprofit Endeavors for a six-month period. $87 million for
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six months for what purpose? To house illegal aliens. Must be nice. Must be nice to be put up
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at a hotel. So the money was for 1,239 beds and other hotel services in Texas and Arizona.
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Now, this was a sole source contract. So it wasn't really open to bidding. ICE just gave the contract
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to this nonprofit Endeavor. Why? Why did Endeavors get this contract and it wasn't open to negotiation
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and bidding in the free market? Unclear. Probably there was some corruption.
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Then, this sole source contract spent approximately $17 million for hotel space and services at six
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hotels that went almost entirely unused. So they spent 17, you have the government gives this contract
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to this one group. Then this one group gives a bunch of contracts to hotels that never have to
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use the space. $17 million. Why? If it were me, I don't want to sound cynical. I would assume it's
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because there was some corruption along the way. And it exposes something about the illegal immigration
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problem that it's so basic that we almost overlook it. We say, why is there a major illegal immigration
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problem? Why won't either party do anything about this? Why? Why? What's going on? If only I get
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elected to office, then we can change this problem. No, the reason that illegal immigration continues
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today. It's really basic stuff. This is not, sometimes we make politics too complicated and we get lost in
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the weeds of the abstractions of the ideology and the this and the that. A lot of politics just comes
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down to dollars and cents. Why is illegal immigration allowed to continue? Well, because the
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libs get more votes because corporations that are sort of on the Republican side, but more on the
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chamber of commerce, just cut my taxes and let me get richer side of the GOP. They make a lot more money
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because they get cheap labor. The government has a lot of grift in it and a lot of people are making
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a lot of money. Big politics attracts big money, period. That's always true. Oh, we've got a major
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crisis down at the border. Hey, federal government, give my organization some money and don't let anyone
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else bid on it. And then, oh, hey, hotel groups, I got a lot of money from the government. Here's
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a lot. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. This is basic stuff. It's unfortunate, but it's basic.
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There's a lot, a lot of corruption here. You want to talk about corruption? The lieutenant governor
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of New York, he was just arrested. What was he arrested for? Corruption. And by the way, he is not
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the first major New York politician to be arrested for corruption in recent years. It seems like every
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few months there is a major New York politician who is exposed for corruption. The last governor
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of New York, Andy Cuomo, resigned in disgrace because of corruption, because of his mismanagement,
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then his cover-ups, then his financial corruption, taking millions and millions of dollars for this
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book that didn't sell anywhere near, nearly well enough to justify that kind of an advance.
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Andrew Cuomo, he becomes governor after who? David Patterson. David Patterson also had a ton of
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corruption in his past. He was not able to continue his political career. David Patterson took over for who?
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Elliot Spitzer, super corrupt governor who got caught paying zillions of dollars to high-class
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hookers. Elliot Spitzer, just on and on and on. I haven't even touched the state Senate yet.
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Albany, New York, the state capital of New York, is one of the most corrupt places in America. It
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probably rivals Illinois. And so when we talk about ideology, we focus a lot of our political debates
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in this country on just left versus right, Democrat versus Republican, progressive versus conservative.
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And that matters, obviously. We talk a ton about political philosophy on this show. But all the
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political philosophy in the world is not going to give you a good, flourishing, virtuous country
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if you've got corruption everywhere. This is one of the arguments as to why we've got to get a
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little bit tougher on just the kind of ugly, dirty, vicious stuff in our culture. A country that is
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saturated, for instance, this is a good example because it's actually happening today. A country
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that is hooked on a ton of drugs and porn and weird sex stuff generally and corruption and laziness
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and selfishness and a country that's hooked on all that is not going to be a good place to live.
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It's not going to be a leader. It's going to have declining global influence. It's going to have
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internal rancor. It's not going to be unified. It's that basic John Adams stuff. The country is
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built for moral and religious people. The Constitution is not going to work for any other
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kind of people. It's really that simple. You can have the greatest, most precise political
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philosophy in the world. If you're not practicing that stuff, it's not going to matter. Well, it's true
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of our elected officials. If our elected officials are all on the take and they're all crooks,
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then the country is just not going to work because the incentives are not going to be aligned to allow
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it to work. When I use the political order, I'm not just talking about the government. I'm talking
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about Twitter. I'm talking about Facebook. I'm talking about Google because those are political
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entities that are controlling speech in our country. There have been periods in American history
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where the politics, the political debate becomes less about ideology, less about philosophy and more
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about just anti-corruption. Clean it up. You got to do it every so often. And we're in a period
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of real corruption. J.D. Vance, he's running in Ohio. He's been on this show before. J.D. Vance is not
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running a traditional Republican campaign for Senate. He's not running a talking points, mid-2000s,
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cut our taxes and have a strong national defense kind of Republican campaign.
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His campaign, it's hard to even call it a Republican campaign because he's so critical
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of Republicans as well as Democrats. What he is running is a throw the bums out
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anti-corruption campaign. This ruling class got stinking rich off the back of ordinary working
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class Americans. He's running a campaign that comes naturally out of his book. J.D. Vance is the
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guy who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, which became very, very popular at the beginning of the Trump
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administration, turned into a big movie. And J.D. Vance is running in a pretty tight primary now,
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notably against Josh Mandel and a couple other people as well. So Trump just came out and endorsed
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J.D. Vance. Trump said, like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not so great things about me in
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the past, but he gets it now. And I've seen that in spades. He's our best chance for a victory in what
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could be a very tough race. I love how Trump has to address this at the beginning. He says, look,
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J.D. Vance has said things about me that I don't like, but nevertheless, I'm going to endorse him.
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And it's true. The knock on J.D. Vance is that he's held lots of different positions over the years.
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He has seemed significantly more liberal at other times. He was against Donald Trump in 2016.
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So does that mean he is a liar? I guess it could. Does that mean that his political views have just
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changed over time and circumstances have changed? That's true too. It depends if you want to have
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the really negative view of him or the more positive view. Certainly people's politicals,
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my political views have changed over time. I suspect yours have too. The reason this really
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matters though, is this race in Ohio is going to show you which way the Republican Party is moving
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and potentially which way the country is moving. Ohio is a state that is a little bit of a bellwether.
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Kind of shows you which way the winds are blowing. And in Ohio right now, you're going to actually see
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a hint of what's going on in 2024 because you've got Trump endorsing J.D. Vance and you've got Ted
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Cruz endorsing his opponent, Josh Mandel. Josh Mandel is running a little bit more of a traditional
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Republican type campaign. I mean, they're both speaking in populist terms. But J.D. Vance is
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running a much more eccentric campaign probably than Josh Mandel. And so you've got Trump versus
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Cruz. You are now seeing in these Senate races, in these House races too, a shadow campaign playing
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out. Yes, it's about 2022, but it's also about 2024. You've got to look at which politicians are
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backing which politicians who are up right now. And it's going to show you who's got more steam
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rolling into 2024. Is it going to be Trump? Trump is the leading Republican right now in the 2024
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Republican nomination contest. Ted Cruz is the leading Senate Republican in the 2024 Republican
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presidential nomination contest. Ron DeSantis is the leading gubernatorial candidate in the 2024
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Republican nomination process. And you are seeing them all come out and endorse different candidates.
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Donald Trump right now endorsed Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania. We'll get to that in a little bit
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or maybe later on this week. Maybe you'll see Ron DeSantis come out and endorse a different guy.
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Maybe you'll see Ted Cruz come out and endorse a different guy. Right now, those are probably the
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three guys to watch. Which way is the party going? Which way is the country going? I suspect this
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corruption issue is going to be a big issue. And on the anti-corruption issue, Trump is the leader.
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Trump was the one who ran in. He said, I'm not a politician. These guys are all talk, do nothing,
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throw the bums out. Now, another major issue is going to be education. And this is where Cruz and
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DeSantis are really going to shine. Ted Cruz has been a major supporter of, he's probably been one
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of the leading voices in the country for school choice. Ron DeSantis right now is having a huge
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moment on education because he signed the parental rights and education bill in Florida. And that's
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going to be a big issue too. It's amazing how corrupt our educational and scientific institutions
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have become. There was a tweet I saw over the weekend from one of my least favorite blue checks
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on Twitter. He's one of my favorite in the sense that I get a kick out of him, but he's one of my
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least favorite in that he's so, he's just so awful. I mean, the things that he is proposing for the
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country are so awful. I think we should bring back formal ostracism to get this guy out of our country.
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That's how awful his ideas are. His name is Jack Turbin and he's a nasty fellow, but he's got a
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lot of credentials. And so he really sums up the ruling class. He's got the stupidest ideas. He
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doesn't know, he doesn't know S-H-I-T from Shinola. And yet he's got all of these kinds of degrees.
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I think he was a fellow or something like that at Harvard. He's now a child psychiatry fellow at
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Stanford and he's actively pushing puberty blockers. He's actively explicitly pushing
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transing the kids. He says, quote, puberty blockers, temporary, reversible, are more benign
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than going through a puberty that can't be undone. If you can't see that, then you really need to
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reflect on your biases and whether you consider hashtag trans people at all when you form your
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opinions. So here we are, we're almost at the bottom of the slippery slope.
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Several decades ago, people said, if you don't stand by traditional values and traditional sexual
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morality, why pretty soon you're going to have men pretending to be women. And they all were laughed
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at. And then when that came to pass and that then men were pretending to be women and we all had to go
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along with it, they said pretty soon you're going to have men walking into the girl's bathroom and the
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The lies that the ruling class are pushing about puberty blockers and transing the kids are so
00:28:21.300
hideous. I can't even read it without my blood pressure going up. I'm a pretty cool guy. I'm pretty
00:28:26.700
much cool as a cucumber. This stuff. I read this tweet from this guy, Jack Turbin, who is just such
00:28:32.200
a creep. It's just a nasty little creep. It's hard to read what he is trying to do, which is effectively
00:28:40.660
to abuse little kids. Let's call it what it is. I know there's a debate over can we use the term
00:28:45.880
groomer or not groomer. We'll leave that for another day. There is no way you can read this. This guy wants
00:28:50.740
to trans little kids and put them on cross-sex hormones and mutilate their bodies. That is child
00:28:56.020
abuse. That's all it is. And this guy, Jack Turbin, he's a child abuser. And maybe he doesn't think he
00:29:01.080
is, or maybe he knows he is, or I don't know. I don't really care how he views himself. That is what
00:29:05.420
he is doing. And he's pushing lies about this process. It's really dangerous because there are
00:29:11.400
probably parents out there who are going to be confused, whose kids are going to be convinced that
00:29:15.980
they're transgender because of social movements and because of creeps in the public schools and
00:29:20.060
lots of other factors in our society. And they're not going to know what to do. And they're going to
00:29:23.820
want to do what's best for their kids. And they're going to inadvertently pump their kids full of
00:29:27.360
poison. It's horrible. This guy, Jack Turbin, says that puberty blockers are temporary and reversible.
00:29:33.020
It's just not true. I've got here a report about a study. It's come out in the New Atlantis Journal.
00:29:41.540
It's called Growing Pains, Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Transgender Dysphoria.
00:29:45.980
This is co-authored by very serious scientists. Paul H. Ruse, a professor at Washington University
00:29:51.900
School of Medicine. Lawrence S. Mayer, a scholar in residence at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
00:29:57.480
which, let's not forget, Johns Hopkins pioneered the transgender surgery and then ended up shutting
00:30:03.100
it down because it wasn't helping anybody. But this is probably the top medical school in the
00:30:08.340
country. This guy, Lawrence Mayer, is also at Arizona State. And Paul McHugh, who was at Johns Hopkins.
00:30:15.200
He's a distinguished professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University of Medicine,
00:30:18.540
former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins, also who pioneered this transgender surgery.
00:30:23.280
These guys are all pointing to a huge increase in young people getting these kind of transgender
00:30:29.060
experiments being done on them. And they're saying this is really dangerous. This is really bad.
00:30:35.000
First, the paper says that the treatment is not necessarily reversible. That actually,
00:30:42.840
what the scientists point out is, quote, there are virtually no published reports,
00:30:47.500
even case studies of adolescents withdrawing from puberty suppressing drugs and then resuming the
00:30:52.280
normal pubertal development typical for their sex. So while creeps like this guy Jack Turbin say,
00:30:58.120
oh, just put your kid on puberty blockers. If your little boy reaches for a Barbie doll,
00:31:03.780
better to just delay puberty than to have him discover he's transgender after he's gone through
00:31:10.340
an irreversible puberty. And don't worry, the blockers will be temporary or reversible.
00:31:15.900
There's no evidence of that. Second, these scientists take on the idea that treatment is harmless.
00:31:22.320
Now, puberty blockers, what they do is they pump you full of hormones and they suppress secondary
00:31:30.280
sex characteristics from developing. What these guys write is puberty suppression hormones prevent
00:31:38.300
the development of secondary sex characteristics, arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion,
00:31:44.140
prevent full organization and maturation of the brain, and inhibit fertility. We're talking about
00:31:49.300
really, really dangerous stuff. There's so many cases of this. One of the main puberty blocking drugs
00:31:56.980
is Lupron. Many patients are not exposed to, or they're not told about the full side effects of
00:32:04.800
these. The extreme side effects that you can have from Lupron, from the puberty blocking,
00:32:10.620
just temporary reversible stuff, joint pain, severe joint pain, osteoporosis, compromised immune systems,
00:32:16.440
severe mental health issues, such as depression, and even suicidal ideation. The FDA has received
00:32:22.060
24,000 reports of adverse reactions, half of which the agency itself has admitted are quite serious.
00:32:28.740
Just to give you an example of some cases of this, and you can just Google it, adverse side effects
00:32:38.120
from puberty blockers. One person suffered not only constant pain, but strange rashes, severe osteoporosis,
00:32:44.240
and multiple surgeries. Expert witnesses in court cases brought here have concluded that plaintiffs
00:32:51.100
in these cases have suffered extreme bone density loss and other symptoms as a result of Lupron
00:32:55.900
beginning at age 17. The most important finding of these reviews shows that 62.5% of patients treated
00:33:04.440
with Lupron, and Lupron can be used for completely different conditions, endometriosis, other conditions
00:33:10.060
like that, had not regained baseline estrogen levels by one year after stopping. So the idea
00:33:15.440
that, oh, don't worry, you go off it, you'll go right back to normal, that's just complete BS.
00:33:19.740
And then finally, the idea that puberty blockers are cautionary is absurd. The argument that creeps
00:33:27.100
like Jack Turbin and these other weird, creepy, child-abusing, call them groomers, if you want to,
00:33:32.620
people are doing, is they're saying, look, it's better for your kid to go on the puberty blockers
00:33:38.520
now than to let puberty set in. Because if the puberty sets in, then their depression, their anxiety,
00:33:46.140
their suicidality is going to get much, much worse. There's no evidence of that. Actually,
00:33:52.960
in most cases, gender confusion before puberty is going to just go away after puberty. The authors
00:34:00.180
write, gender identity for children is elastic. That is, it can change over time. And plastic,
00:34:05.140
that is, it can be shaped by forces like parental approval and social conditions.
00:34:10.740
And unfortunately, what they point out is this transgender treatment, it's not treatment,
00:34:16.460
it's child abuse, will actually harden feelings of gender dysphoria. So not only will it not make
00:34:23.160
it better, it'll actually make it worse. So that those rates of suicide, anxiety, depression,
00:34:28.360
they're going to stick around in there. I really encourage you to read up on this sort of thing.
00:34:36.540
But when I think about, just at a very human level, when I think about people like Jack Turbin,
00:34:43.180
when I think about these creeps, with positions of authority, with the white lab coats, sitting there,
00:34:49.180
talking to a confused and desperate parent of a kid who maybe has some sexual identity issues,
00:34:54.320
and saying, what we recommend, if you really love your kid, if you really love your kid and you don't
00:34:59.700
want your kid to die or kill himself, then what you need to do is mutilate his body and pump him full
00:35:05.520
of cross-sex hormones. And don't worry, if you want to reverse it, it'll be fine. And then these parents
00:35:11.540
do it. They fall into the lives of these predators like Jack Turbin. And then their kids end up with
00:35:18.600
massive bone density loss on walkers with horrible psychiatric conditions. It's sick. It's child abuse.
00:35:25.320
People like this guy, Jack Turbin, and others who are pushing this, these quacks, these psychopaths who
00:35:31.380
are pushing this, should at the very least be imprisoned for life. There should be a law against this.
00:35:37.960
They should be prosecuted. And they should face the consequences for these prosecutions. I can think
00:35:43.480
of few things worse than child abuse, abuse of confused, vulnerable little kids,
00:35:50.760
the regret that their parents are going to feel after they've been lured into this. And these sickos
00:35:56.220
need to be brought into line by our law. No question about it. It's so corrupt. It's so corrupt
00:36:03.800
because we covered this a week or two ago. Even the government is coming in and saying, no, parents,
00:36:09.620
it's really good. You need to trans your kids. It's really important. That's what the science says.
00:36:12.620
And where are they getting that from? They're getting that from organizations such as the
00:36:15.960
Trevor Project, which are conducting studies and surveys on the effectiveness of transgendering
00:36:22.060
the little kids. And where's the Trevor Project getting their money from? The Trevor Project is
00:36:25.760
getting their money from the pharmaceutical companies like AbbVie that are producing the
00:36:29.700
drugs to trans the kids. It's so freaking corrupt. And we should not stand for this. Someday,
00:36:36.660
you're going to have generations from now, let's say 100 years from now, 200 years from now,
00:36:40.280
you are going to read about, you're not going to, you're going to be dead. But you're going to have
00:36:44.600
future generations reading about what we did to little kids with this insane sexual psychosis
00:36:51.440
fetish, whatever the hell this transgender thing is. We are going to see future generations read about
00:36:58.140
this and say what sickos those people were in the 2020s, in the 2030s, that they would conduct these
00:37:05.480
kind of medical experiments on little kids that were so abusive. A lot of it, a lot of it stemming
00:37:12.080
from confusion. A lot of it stemming from corruption. You see corruption all throughout
00:37:17.240
the educational institution. There was a math assignment in Pennsylvania. This is the math
00:37:23.300
assignment. I'm reading this from Snopes, by the way. So don't accuse me of misinformation or
00:37:28.080
disinformation. Here's a math question. This is a math question from an assignment from a math teacher
00:37:36.500
in a Pennsylvania school. Y equals X plus two. Okay, that sounds like a math question. 3X plus 3Y
00:37:48.280
equals 12. Okay, now I could probably solve that math question. And then here's the third part of the
00:37:56.380
math question. Maya Angelou was sexually abused by her mother's blank at age 8, which shaped her career
00:38:02.960
choices and motivation for writing. A, boyfriend. A, 0-2 boyfriend. B, 4-6 brother. C, negative 3,
00:38:10.620
negative 1 father. When I saw this, there are others. Another question. X equals Y minus 1. Y equals
00:38:20.480
negative 4X plus 21. And then the third part, trying to support her son as a single mother. Maya Angelou
00:38:25.680
worked as a pimp prostitute and, and then it says bookie, drug dealer, nightclub dancer. These are
00:38:29.940
math questions on a math assignment. When I saw that, I said, that's fake news. There's no way that's
00:38:35.660
real. There's no way. That's just some conservative hoax. There's no, no, it's real. Even this liberal
00:38:41.620
site, Snopes, admits that this is true. And they basically just defend it. In January 2017, a high
00:38:49.540
school in the suburbs of Philadelphia began the subject of international headlines after a math teacher
00:38:54.880
gave students a homework assignment that made references to sexual assault and prostitution.
00:38:59.400
But they say, no, it's okay because it was just as part of this series of assignments to celebrate
00:39:06.240
the Maya Angelou, who's this extremely leftist writer, a absolutely terrible poet. I know it's
00:39:12.760
not, it's not politically correct. Everyone, we've all got to talk about how great Maya Angelou is.
00:39:16.740
She's now taught in a lot of schools. She's a horrible poet. She's, it's, every second you spend
00:39:21.360
reading Maya Angelou's crappy poetry would be, is just wasted. You would be much better spent
00:39:26.000
reading a good poet. Read some Keats. I don't, read, read, I don't know, Coleridge, Shakespeare,
00:39:34.800
Dante. Don't read Maya Angelou. It's such a waste of time. And, but they defend it and they all blend
00:39:39.920
it together. And so that even in math class, you have to focus on the weird life of a radical
00:39:49.380
leftist poet. Why do they do that? They do that because kids' minds are plastic and elastic,
00:39:57.440
just like those authors said in the transgender study. And kids' minds are plastic and elastic
00:40:02.880
and they want to shape them. And they want everything to be about leftist politics, not
00:40:07.460
just in civics class, not just in history class, not even just in literature class. They're doing it
00:40:15.160
in math class too. That's not some innocent, though perhaps misguided educational theory that
00:40:24.740
is supposed to improve. No, that's a political agenda being taught in math class. This is why
00:40:30.220
it's so funny when the libs in Florida say there is no transgenderism being taught in kindergartens,
00:40:37.600
or when the libs say there is no critical race theory being taught in schools. Of course,
00:40:42.220
of course there is. There's no critical race theory class. No, you're right. There's no
00:40:47.220
critical race theory class. Critical race theory is in every class. There's no transgenderism class.
00:40:52.220
No, you're right. Well, there sort of is because there's sex education, comprehensive sex education
00:40:56.660
in schools, which is teaching a very leftist view of human sexuality. But beyond that, it's being taught
00:41:02.320
in every class. When there's a math problem, Johnny, Johnny wants to become Jane and he's going 60 miles
00:41:10.940
an hour leaving St. Louis. I'm using a kind of silly example. But when you read these actual math
00:41:16.280
problems from Pennsylvania, it seems a lot less silly. And the schools are a source of corruption
00:41:21.780
because it's where the government can really exercise and expand its power. This is why right
00:41:26.780
now, amid the worst inflation in 40 years, at least, Jen Psaki, White House spokesman, just in a podcast
00:41:33.600
with those those lib guys on the on the Pod Save America show, is now calling for the cancellation of
00:41:44.940
Is the president taking executive action to cancel some level of student debt still on the table?
00:41:54.040
Yes, still on the table, still on the table. So just to play out what Ron Klain was talking about.
00:42:01.460
So as you said, it ends August 31st. We have to then decide whether it's extended. And what you look
00:42:07.040
at is, even though the economy is very strong, we created more jobs last year than any year in
00:42:12.280
history. Even though that's the case, we know, as we've been talking about, costs are too high.
00:42:18.200
And certainly not having to pay back student loans. Nobody's had to pay a dollar, a cent,
00:42:23.220
anything in student loans since Joe Biden's been president. And if that can help people
00:42:28.480
ease the burden of costs and other parts of their life, that's an important thing to consider.
00:42:33.400
That's a big part of the consideration. So between now and August 31st, it's either going to be
00:42:37.900
extended or we're going to make a decision, as Ron referenced, about canceling student debt.
00:42:43.240
Okay. So economically, this makes no sense. But the Biden record on the economy makes no sense
00:42:49.600
either. Her claim, we in the Biden administration created more jobs than ever last year. That's just
00:42:54.320
a lie. What you did was you let people go back to work. You didn't create any jobs. You previous,
00:43:03.360
and actually at the end of the previous administration, the government said, you can't
00:43:06.760
work. You can't go to work. We're going to shut down huge segments of the economy.
00:43:10.240
And we're going to just force you to stay at home. And then Biden comes in and slowly he says,
00:43:16.980
okay, some of you can go back to work. That's not creating jobs. That's just lifting an extremely
00:43:22.060
burdensome regulation that allows people to go back to the things that already existed long before
00:43:27.180
Joe Biden got into office. But the explanation of the student debt policy is not economic at all.
00:43:34.360
It's not that it'll fight inflation. It's that it is corrupt. It's that it's a payoff. It's that
00:43:39.480
it's going to give the Democrats some at least temporary political advantage.
00:43:45.020
When you are in a period of high inflation, it does not make sense to just start forgiving
00:43:53.800
huge amounts of debt. It doesn't make sense for a whole host of reasons. But one of the reasons is
00:44:00.440
then you're just flooding the economy with more money. But you don't want to flood the economy with
00:44:06.080
more money. That's not going to help the inflation. That's going to make inflation much worse,
00:44:09.980
actually. Even Larry Summers, who is Obama's chief economist, said that these sorts of schemes
00:44:16.280
that the Biden administration is cooking up don't make economic policy sense. So then how do we explain
00:44:22.060
it? Furthermore, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense because something like a quarter of Americans
00:44:28.720
graduate from college. And it tends to be the people who graduate from college generally make
00:44:34.700
more money and generally have higher social outcomes. Not always because the value of a
00:44:40.340
college education is very much in question these days. But so now you've got a situation where
00:44:44.580
you've got the entire American tax base paying to send statistically rich kids to college.
00:44:54.940
Why would you do that? That seems like a very regressive tax from the so-called
00:44:59.020
progressive administration. Well, it's a payoff because college graduates are more likely to
00:45:05.380
support Democrats. So if you pay off their debts, they're going to like you even more. They're going
00:45:11.540
to be even more likely to support Democrats. So it's a payoff to the base. But two, it's going to
00:45:15.200
create incentives for kids to go to college where they're going to learn all sorts of insane
00:45:19.060
underwater basket weaving and lesbian dance theory. And just broadly, they're going to learn the
00:45:24.180
leftist view of the world and they're going to be indoctrinated there. And so then, just again,
00:45:29.980
just statistically, they're going to be more likely to vote for Democrats. So it creates an incentive
00:45:33.360
to get more Democrat voters. Why not pay off the, why not forgive business loans? Wouldn't that be a
00:45:40.480
better way to help the economy? I don't think that's a good idea either, by the way. But if you're
00:45:44.320
trying to rev up the economy, why are you forgiving the loans of sociology majors at Brandeis or at
00:45:52.460
Hamilton, when you could be forgiving certain business loans where businesses actually incurred
00:45:57.600
really difficult costs, especially during COVID-19 and the lockdowns? Because that's not going to be
00:46:05.240
quite as politically effective. Maybe they'll do a little bit of that too, but it's not going to be
00:46:08.020
as politically effective for the Democrats. It's just corrupt. And on this show, I've never listened
00:46:16.400
to an episode of the pod Save America show. It's all these old Obama bros. They're kind of a contrived
00:46:23.760
thing and they were really being peddled very hard by Hollywood for a while. There's a big billboard of
00:46:29.000
them right on the Sunset Boulevard. But despite their best efforts, it hasn't ever really become
00:46:35.560
the broad cultural megaphone that I think the libs want it to be. It's just, it's kind of like The Daily
00:46:41.880
Show, back when The Daily Show was being run by Jon Stewart. It doesn't have a huge, it's not the
00:46:47.760
hugest audience, but it is listened to by all the right, influential, liberal people. And so on this
00:46:53.760
show, Jen Psaki remains on, they're having a casual conversation, and she ends up calling Peter Doocy
00:46:58.640
at Fox News, a stupid SOB. Because we have to talk about Peter Doocy for one second. Sure. Okay. Okay.
00:47:09.460
Is he a stupid son of a bitch? Or does he play a stupid son of a bitch on TV?
00:47:16.580
Okay. Okay. Um, well, um, he works for a network. Okay. That, um, provides people with questions
00:47:31.100
that nothing personal to any individual, including Peter, Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound
00:47:37.600
like a stupid son of a bitch. So. Well handled. Well, here's what I, can I tell, can I, I don't
00:47:43.720
know if this is not going to be popular in this crowd, but can I tell a nice Peter Doocy story?
00:47:47.480
A very quick one. I mean. Okay. Come on. People are attacking Jen Psaki for this. I actually really
00:47:53.900
have no problem with Jen Psaki's answer. I find the question from the Pod Save America guys to be
00:47:59.360
like nails on a chalkboard. It's just so soy, I guess is how you, it's so, oh, Jen, Jen, what do you
00:48:08.940
think he sounds like a stupid SOB? Oh, gosh, these people are just awful. And I actually thought Jen
00:48:17.320
Psaki answered it well. She gives her answer and go, oh, what a good answer. Catty. But Jen's answer
00:48:23.480
was fine. They're really quoting Joe Biden. Joe Biden referred to, to Peter Doocy this way. And she
00:48:28.840
says, well, it's not Peter Doocy's fault, but I hate, I don't like Fox News and Fox News would make
00:48:33.640
anyone sound like this. And so, okay, now they're saying this is disrespectful from the press secretary.
00:48:40.100
Well, look, the press secretary is the spokesman for the president. If the president's going to say
00:48:43.360
it, blame the president. I don't blame Jen Psaki for this. I don't blame the staff member. I do blame
00:48:48.420
Joe Biden, who is just as tough on the press as Donald Trump. Don't forget, Donald Trump would go to
00:48:53.260
these rallies and he'd point back at the CNN booths and the MSNBC booths. And he'd say, look back there,
00:48:59.600
look at that slime, look at those scum, that dirt back there. And I thought, that's great. That's
00:49:05.200
true. First of all, it's true. I had no problem. I don't think it's a horrible assault on journalism
00:49:10.180
and the intrepid independent reporters. No, I think the establishment media are shills and
00:49:18.100
propagandists for the ruling class. It is very good to point that out. It's very good to insult them as
00:49:25.500
an institution. That's not quite as true of conservatives because conservatives have
00:49:29.720
relatively very, very few outlets, very little place in the establishment media.
00:49:35.220
I don't take issue with Jen Psaki. I take issue though, with the liberal journos who defend her.
00:49:42.080
Brian Stelter comes out and Brian Stelter said, absolutely. Go after that, Peter Doocy.
00:49:46.560
The point she's trying to say there is that Fox pushes storylines that are sometimes nonsense.
00:49:55.280
Doocy does that in the briefing room, but still she did it in a way playing to a liberal audience
00:49:59.780
that certainly is going to cause a lot of outrage from Fox probably for the next few days, right?
00:50:04.560
Here's what the network says in a statement. Fox telling me, quote, in his role as White House
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correspondent, Peter Doocy's job is to elicit truth from power for the American public. His questions,
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they say, are his own. He's a terrific reporter and we're extremely proud of his work. So basically,
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Fox is saying, hey, we don't provide him questions. He comes up with it himself. So they're defending
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his honor. I think Jen Psaki is kind of like, remember in senior year, spring of your senior
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year, you're about to graduate and you're just tired of all this. I think we're seeing that from
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Jen Psaki. She's about to leave the White House. She's going to go to a job likely at MSNBC.
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So she's kind of relaxing and maybe to sharing how she really feels.
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So it's the same answer that you heard from the Pod Save America guys. They're saying,
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ooh, go get him. You drag him. Yes, Queen, slay. But this is very silly coming from Brian Stelter.
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One, I hate to even say it, if the show were on the other foot, don't you? Imagine if the
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roles were reversed. But of course, whenever Donald Trump attacked the media, you would hear this is,
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he's putting journalists in danger. Jim Acosta, Brian Stelter, this is an attack on our democracy.
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And then Jen Psaki and Joe Biden use language that's at least as aggressive as Donald Trump.
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And it's all funny and it's all catty and it's whatever. And then they go after Fox News for
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pushing fake stories. I have no desire or responsibility to defend Fox News. Fox can
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defend itself. But it is pretty silly to have CNN accusing anyone else of pushing fake stories. CNN,
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which pushed the Russia hoax, which pushed, then I guess, the Ukraine hoax,
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the second reason they impeached Donald Trump some years ago. Then they pushed this hoax. Then
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they pushed that hoax. Then they pushed so many lies for so many years at a time that it's not an
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accident. It's not that they just got a story wrong. It speaks to deep rank corruption within
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the system. That system includes the media and that system includes the government and that system
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includes the administrative agencies and that system includes the nonprofits and that system
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includes the corporations and that system includes big tech and that system includes Twitter. And
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it's why Elon Musk is doing us such a public service by exposing it. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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