Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress is getting a mixed reaction from Democrats. They can't even clap for a kid who survived a brain cancer battle. The Supreme Court says Trump should pay back the $2B he got from USAID. And West Virginia wants to ban artificial dyes in food products.
00:02:51.000So long as Democrats keep losing their minds, refusing to clap for children who survived brain cancer, then I think we're going to win this one.
00:02:57.000Now we're seeing Nicole Wallace from MSNBC. She said something so vile and disgusting.
00:03:02.000It needs proper context, so I'm not going to...
00:03:05.000But she basically said she hopes this child doesn't commit suicide, and it's disgusting.
00:03:09.000And Rachel Maddow called it disgusting that Trump would actually celebrate this child and prop him up because he had nothing to do with the kid surviving brain cancer, which is nuts.
00:03:20.000Democrats couldn't even clap for this kid.
00:03:22.000The only time they clapped together was when Trump said we had been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Ukraine.
00:03:38.000Basically, the story's complicated, but they're saying Trump's got to give $2 billion away that we can never get back, and it's taxpayer money effectively being stolen from you.
00:03:47.000Donald Trump says we're going to freeze these payments from USAID. A lower court said, no, we're putting a temporary restraining order right now, which means make those payments.
00:03:59.000Trump's response was, how is it temporary?
00:04:01.000If we make the payments, the money's gone forever.
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00:11:11.000When you take a look at how CBS did a poll almost a year ago about the State of the Union and not the speech from Joe Biden, they actually if you look at the crosstabs, you can see they chose to actually pull a nationally representative sample of the demographics, meaning they got where's you can see they chose to actually pull a nationally representative sample of 755 Dems, 721 independents and 603 Republicans.
00:11:36.000I argue if they really wanted to, they could have pulled a politically representative sample of speech watchers, not just we generally asked people and here's how it turned out.
00:11:46.000That metric is fine if they said, we asked general people and got this, but if they wanted to do a poll on how people feel about this, wouldn't it make more sense to say, We asked a politically representative sample of people what they thought of Trump's speech, and then you'd see it's probably closer to 50-50, tracking more with Trump's approval ratings, perhaps.
00:12:52.000Would they not be paying attention to his rhetoric and his plans for the country?
00:12:56.000Like, I was just, I came across these local protesters the other day, and I decided to go up to them and, you know, start chatting.
00:13:04.000And I took pictures of all of their signs.
00:13:08.000They, I don't think these people who are protesting on the street are representative of where most Democrats are at, but they say, stop Project 2025. When has trusting the billionaires ever helped us?
00:13:22.000With fear for our democracy, I dissent.
00:13:44.000There's no Project 2025. Our democracy is at stake, blah, blah, blah.
00:13:48.000So they all basically, and I spoke to them, I was being very polite, and I asked them how they feel about this administration, and they were all saying, like, yeah, we have a fascist dictator in office, and we're going to be protesting.
00:14:50.000It's not because the substance of it was something that I personally find compelling, but the substance of it was a demonstration of the civil war going on in the Democrat Party.
00:15:05.000It sounded like she was a late 80s, early 90s Republican.
00:15:46.000Most Americans want to still support Israel.
00:15:50.000The culture war issues that the Democrats have attached themselves to are terribly, terribly unpopular.
00:15:56.000The American people want the border closed.
00:16:00.000Trump has taken up all the 80-20 issues where 80% of Americans agree and 20% don't, and basically you can find 20% of the people that will disagree with Republicans for literally anything.
00:16:15.000And I think that it's emblematic in the fact that they're talking about, they're in agreement that it's okay for children to cut off their genitals.
00:16:24.000I think it's TDS, it's Trump Derangement Syndrome, you know?
00:16:28.000And to go back to the protests, I've been covering protests ever since Trump got in.
00:16:32.000And I've been talking to these people and it's fascinating what they're saying because I was just in San Diego.
00:16:38.000Somebody told me they think Elon Musk is actually the president.
00:16:41.000They were fully convinced that he was the president.
00:17:18.000But I don't even think it goes that hard, and I think it's probably way more mundane than even you're describing, in that there's a batch of government employees.
00:17:28.000They work for the United States Digital Service, which they jokingly renamed Doge Service.
00:17:32.000These young men are going in and doing audits as government employees.
00:17:38.000And then someone probably, like Elon probably says, you know, let Trump's assistant, like, let a staffer know what we're looking at.
00:17:47.000Trump probably passively looks at a piece of paper and goes, huh, look at that.
00:17:51.000Yeah, sure, we should end these programs.
00:18:26.000Well, and the reasoning that I heard from this protester was that he said that this conspiracy was that Elon Musk stole the election using satellites.
00:18:36.000And so Trump owes him everything for that.
00:19:05.000I mean, the other problem, too, is that the story from the Supreme Court, which we'll get into in a second, where I don't want to jump the gun on the rest of these stories, but the Supreme Court forcing Trump to pay $2 billion.
00:19:16.000And it's a weird story because they're not forcing Trump to do anything.
00:19:19.000Basically, a lower court, district court, said, we are pausing Trump's order to halt payments temporarily.
00:19:26.000Which means the final payments will be issued.
00:20:22.000And then when it came to this 13-year-old boy who survived brain cancer, who was being made an honorary Secret Service agent, heartwarming moment.
00:20:28.000And do you know the story of this kid?
00:20:37.000MAGA loses its mind over MSNBC host Nicole Wallace's sickening comments about Trump honoring young cancer survivor.
00:20:45.000Quote, MSNBC should fire Nicole Wallace, disgusting far right pundit, disgusting, comma, far right pundit Charlie Kirk raged following Nicole Wallace's remarks.
00:21:25.000He was being made fun of and mocked in a viral video because he dressed in his little police officer uniform because he wanted to be a cop.
00:21:30.000He was made an honorary officer after surviving brain cancer, and a bunch of other young people started filming him and making fun of him.
00:22:05.000So let me, where is that stupid, where's that video at?
00:22:08.000Well, it was artful too how Trump, he went straight from DJ to RFK. I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel.
00:22:28.000And I let myself feel joy about DJ. And I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right?
00:23:18.000New York Post reports Nicole Walls and Rachel Maddow blasted for politicizing Trump's honor of a 13-year-old cancer survivor, DJ Daniel, sick and twisted.
00:23:25.000So let's pull up the Rachel Maddow quote.
00:23:28.000Maddow bizarrely accused Trump of being disgusting for spotlining DJ's heroic battle with the disease, for which the youngster had initially been warned would kill him in months.
00:23:39.000Quote, for the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who has thus far survived pediatric cancer as if the president had something to do with that.
00:23:51.000Yo, kid was getting bullied because he wanted to be a cop.
00:25:41.000I think the one point at which they actually clapped was in order to cut Trump off mid-sentence when he said something about funding Ukraine.
00:25:59.000And then the rest of the time, they're staring at their phones, pretending to fall asleep, and holding up stupid signs like they never grew past student counseling.
00:26:09.000That's like, it's student council, teacher's pet energy.
00:26:13.000To be fair, some of them also stormed out in protest, and we only found out because they told us.
00:26:19.000I mean, this kind of falls in line with the thing that we've talked about before, which is if the Democrats would have been complimentary to Donald Trump in 2016 when he first got in, they could have had anything they wanted.
00:26:34.000He would have done all kinds of things.
00:26:36.000I personally think that Donald Trump is more concerned with the way people treat him and with people liking him.
00:26:41.000So I think that he would have been significantly more inclined to do whatever they wanted if they'd have treated him nice, if they'd have kissed his butt a little bit, treated him like the president.
00:27:19.000And so they freaked out because the left freaks out whenever they lose any institution, any amount of political power.
00:27:27.000They drop the ball and they can't do anything other than just be against whatever Donald Trump says.
00:27:34.000Yeah, and well, Donald Trump has said he wants to reach out his hand and bring the other aisle in, and they keep slapping his hand down and saying no.
00:27:42.000But watching Rachel Maddow in this situation, too, when this was live, Rachel Maddow was fuming with anger about the speech, saying there were so many fact-check mistakes that she could not list them all in one show.
00:28:30.000I was having a conversation about this earlier, and we talked a little bit about it before the show.
00:28:35.000But I think that this is not of all atheists or agnostics or whatever, but I think when an individual lives only in their own existence...
00:28:46.000When they don't care about others around them and how others feel, and when they don't care about – there's a couple ways you can phrase this.
00:28:53.000Either God's will or the structure of the universe and our place in it is one way to phrase it for those that are secular.
00:29:00.000These people live entirely in the self-gratification universe.
00:29:03.000The only thing that matters is they get what they want.
00:29:23.000Liberals advocate for a lifestyle that is destructive to the ends of civilization.
00:29:26.000And currently the right as a whole, largely Christian, is advocating for things that are protective and expansive to creation.
00:29:32.000And I think the component is, the question you ask yourself is, do you consider, when you take actions, your place in the world and what the world is and does?
00:29:43.000For Christians, the question is actually much more simple.
00:29:46.000You know, are you adhering to God's will?
00:29:47.000I think liberals are absent of that largely.
00:29:50.000Yeah, well, because the core idea of Christianity and Catholicism is taking yourself off the throne of life and putting God there.
00:29:57.000And that changes how you organize your entire life.
00:30:11.000Do you consider yourself or do you consider everything else?
00:30:15.000It's weird because everyone circulates that heat map meme where you see liberals have an outgroup bias and their last priority is people who are related to them or people who are in their community.
00:30:31.000Their first priority in terms of care and concern is...
00:30:35.000People on the other side of the planet, basically.
00:30:40.000And that heat map goes around, and then J.D. Vance was also referring to it in terms of Ordo Amoris, the order of loves.
00:30:50.000And what is properly ordered is that you first prioritize your family, and then you go to friends, larger community, society as a whole, your nation, and then the rest of the world.
00:31:05.000I have a correction for you, and it only makes your point better.
00:31:09.000There's the graph, which shows liberals have an outgroup preference, but the heat map you're referring to shows that Democrats' first order of their first priority is inert objects.
00:31:54.000I also deeply care about rocks and trees and all that stuff.
00:31:58.000Jeremy Boring made a really great point on this show a couple years ago.
00:32:03.000He was saying that obviously we want to be good stewards of the earth, but everything is within the human perspective.
00:32:11.000If there are no humans, what are we protecting anything for?
00:32:14.000I mean, it is for the sake of humanity.
00:32:16.000That is the order of what we care about, and it's a great point.
00:32:19.000I think liberals do not exist largely within a...
00:32:23.000How do my actions play into the bigger scale of things?
00:32:26.000They're basically just, wake up and I want to feel good.
00:32:30.000I would wonder, do you think that liberals actually feel like what they do matters?
00:32:36.000And the reason I say this is because, you know, if you're a secular person, if you don't have any foundation in religion or anything at all, any kind of spirituality, and you think, well, you know, eventually the sun's just going to burn out and all the stars are going to burn out, so nothing I do actually matters.
00:32:54.000We've had a couple of people on the show, because obviously not everybody on the show is religious.
00:32:58.000We have actually quite a bit who are not.
00:33:00.000And one of our guests said he was completely atheist.
00:33:03.000And I think anybody who is completely atheist and unwilling to even have the philosophical conversation is misunderstanding what atheism means or the bigger picture.
00:33:17.000We recently talked about this on Pop Culture Crisis.
00:33:21.000There was this clip going around of Grimes talking about the decline of religion and how she thinks that's a bad thing, that killing God was a mistake.
00:33:29.000And someone replied to that and said, this is such a sociopathic self-report.
00:33:35.000Basically meaning if you think that anyone's moral framework should derive from religion, you're admitting to the world that you're a sociopath because you should just be born knowing how to live and what's right and wrong.
00:33:51.000And this person is basically saying I'm high born and I was just innately...
00:33:55.000Created better than you religious people.
00:33:58.000I just know right from wrong inherently.
00:34:02.000That's an incredibly common perspective when it comes to atheists.
00:34:08.000Spending a lot of time in the music industry, a lot of people have that kind of opinion.
00:34:12.000They look down on people that have any kind of religion.
00:34:16.000They make the whole, oh, the spaghetti monster in the sky comment and stuff.
00:34:20.000And it's like, religion has been with human beings forever.
00:34:25.000There's always been some kind of religion in every society ever studied, no matter how distant they are in time or space, there was religion.
00:34:35.000And it's likely that there was religion in other types of homo sapiens, not homo sapiens, other types of, like Neanderthal and other, if you believe in evolution, other types of hominids, right?
00:34:51.000To think that it's useless or you can just decide you don't need that anymore in a generation or two, that's the stupid take.
00:35:02.000It's something that's so deeply ingrained in human beings that you think you can just walk away from it because, look, I watch the Nature Channel, man.
00:35:19.000And the proof of humans' higher thinking in that the basis of the thought is what exists beyond known reality.
00:35:32.000When you're asking questions about what exists and what is that we could not touch, smell, see, or hear is what sets us apart from literally every other animal on the planet.
00:35:41.000That's where humans are just discernibly above.
00:36:13.000He doesn't like me, I'll tell you that.
00:36:16.000And Frank Luntz explains why he's angry with Democrats after Trump address.
00:36:21.000This is good news for everybody who is concerned the Democratic Party has lost their minds because this is a guy who does, he does panels where he convenes a bunch of people, asks them what they think.
00:36:30.000And here he is basically saying the Democrats' tantrum.
00:36:33.000And reaction to Trump is manna from heaven for Donald Trump.
00:37:15.000Whether you had Democrats sitting on their hands or Republicans jumping up, you saw, you knew exactly who was who based on the view on television and based on being in the chamber.
00:37:25.000And fourth, it was the most disruptions by the minority party ever.
00:37:31.000Whether you're holding up those placards, whether you're yelling at him, as the congressman did, and being unwilling to keep quiet when he was called on it, if you're a Republican, that was arguably, and I've been doing this now for decades, if you're a Republican, that was manna from heaven.
00:37:47.000That was exactly what you wanted to hear, and you're shocked that he was saying it so bluntly.
00:37:51.000If you're a Democrat, it was sheer hell.
00:37:54.000Because it tells you that this is going to continue.
00:37:57.000And if you're an independent, you agree with the policies, but you don't agree with the tone.
00:38:02.000This was the best thing that could have happened to the Republican Party and Trump's coalition.
00:38:09.000The big concern most of us have is how much can Trump get done before the midterms?
00:38:15.000Because that's when squishy Republicans will bow out and stop supporting his agenda.
00:38:20.000And that's when, if Trump loses the midterms, he either gets impeached or gets obstructed, and then nothing else can happen for the remainder of his four years.
00:38:27.000But with actions like this from the Democrats, booing, jeering, or whatever, screaming and constantly just jeering, Al Green getting thrown out.
00:38:38.000Did you guys hear that they're drafting a censure of Al Green over this?
00:38:54.000I mean, look, I personally have said multiple times, we need to see more things like censure because a lot of times there's really egregious behavior by people in Congress.
00:39:06.000And I honestly, this is one time where I'll say both sides.
00:39:10.000There's egregious behavior by people in Congress.
00:39:11.000And because of the way that our political system works, there's not often...
00:39:18.000They don't get voted out of office, etc., etc.
00:39:21.000So there's got to be something to say, look, this guy's kind of a scumbag.
00:39:24.000And I think that censure, you know, because removal from office is so difficult, censure, you know, give it to him.
00:39:31.000At least let the record show that this person's trash.
00:39:35.000Yeah, well, and Al Green's been in public office since like the 70s.
00:39:38.000So he's one of those swamp creatures, if you will.
00:39:41.000And the liberals, they should lead by example.
00:39:45.000You know, they always say Trump needs to be better at reaching the hand over the aisle.
00:39:49.000They should lead by example and actually clap when we want to reduce cancer rates in children.
00:39:54.000I mean, you could argue that if Democrats deviated from their standard play, which they can't, but if they did for some reason, they'd have cheered for Trump when Trump did good things.
00:40:04.000And it would have given more arguments to their positions in other areas.
00:40:09.000I was talking about this this morning because they were holding up the sign saying save Medicaid.
00:40:12.000And they've not made a single argument other than don't trust Trump.
00:43:33.000Yeah, and it was funny because I had a tweet get picked up.
00:43:37.000Someone said the first racial slur of the night, and I said, well, Elizabeth Warren's not an American, so it's not a racial slur, it's just a regular slur.
00:45:42.000I mean, for now, we just wrap up by saying thank you, Democrats, because, you know, if you weren't insane, it would be very hard to make an argument against you.
00:45:54.000And your policies are bad, but you're not smart enough to make good arguments.
00:45:59.000So I don't need to steel man the Democrat position.
00:46:02.000I can literally just play the video of them.
00:46:04.000Screaming like banshees and be like, that's the argument.
00:46:07.000And it's like, well, okay, I guess we just vote for Trump and the Republicans, I guess.
00:46:12.000And, you know, it's because of the Democrats' insanity.
00:46:15.000We got this coalition with RFK Jr., with Tulsi Gabbard, with Elon, and it's been swimmingly.
00:46:22.000It's really actually kind of remarkable that the left doesn't see that.
00:46:29.000The Democrat Party doesn't seem to grasp that they've lost the moderates in their party to the Republicans because the average American has rejected the far left.
00:46:41.000And the far left, whether or not those are the policies the mainstream Democrats, if there are mainstream Democrats, whether or not those are the policies that the Democrats actually want to institute, that's what people hear.
00:46:53.000The Republicans have capitalized on it.
00:47:29.000SCOTUS rules on nearly $2 billion in frozen USAID payments.
00:47:34.000The case came after Trump froze nearly $1.9 billion in aid.
00:47:40.000The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to block a lower court's order.
00:47:44.000For the administration to pay nearly $2 billion foreign aid money, delivering a near-term reprieve to international aid groups and contractors seeking payment for previously completed projects.
00:47:54.000I want to pause and just say, I do not believe it's fair to call them previously completed when we learn that a lot of these projects were nonsense in the first place.
00:48:02.000And I would call them spiritually fraudulent, in that literal fraud requires deception to extract funds, and the Biden administration and government was well aware of what they were doing.
00:48:14.000But I call it spiritually fraudulent because the American people would never approve of these expenditures at their cost.
00:48:20.000In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said that the February 26th deadline imposed by a lower court for the Trump administration to pay the funds had already expired and directed the case back to the district court to clarify any additional details on payment.
00:48:31.000Given that the deadline in the challenge has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the district court should clarify What obligations the government must fulfill to ensure compliance with a temporary restraining order with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines?
00:48:48.000U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, for his part, moved quickly Wednesday to take action on the matter, ordering both parties to appear in court Thursday to consider plausible repayment schedules.
00:48:56.000So let me just give you the quick gist.
00:49:11.000In one instance they found, I don't know where this payment came from, but there was a story of a child center or some facility was built getting $18 million per month with no one in it.
00:49:23.000There was one story about the Biden administration started funneling money through the EPA to various climate change groups that previously had no money on the books.
00:49:33.000In one instance, an NGO had made only $100 the year prior and received a multi-million dollar grant.
00:49:40.000So, basically, the gist of this is with USAID, Trump's like, no, no, no, we're freezing this.
00:52:54.000Trump as the executive branch, if he truly believes this is illegal and it's not been ruled on the merits, whether it is or is not, a legitimate legal payment, maybe it is fraud, who knows?
00:53:04.000And a lower court says, you can't pause because it has to get paid.
00:53:08.000Can a lower court instruct the executive branch to commit illegal actions or commit actions it believes to be illegal?
00:53:20.000So this kind of does harken back to the question about whether judges have the authority to prevent the president from, or the executive office, from making decisions.
00:53:33.000Because this was, initially, it stemmed from a U.S. District Court, Amir Ali, on February 13th, barred the administration from suspending foreign aid payments.
00:54:19.000I know that the left hates to hear it, but it was clear that the United States, the people, did not like the way the country was going.
00:54:28.000You look at polls, the right track, wrong track, the whole country felt like we were on the wrong track when President Biden was in.
00:54:37.000Now that President Trump's in, they feel like the country's on the right track.
00:54:42.000So this – again, this – I do agree with people that say that the SCOTUS should not be making decisions based on what the people think they're doing.
00:55:19.000We've seen over and over again that many of these payments were going to nonsense, ridiculous organizations that were doing nothing, gender studies in Pakistan, whatever it might be.
00:55:30.000So Trump says, let's not give this money away.
00:55:32.000How can you how can a court instruct Trump to break the law?
00:55:37.000And BT dubs, this is who we're being told as a fascist dictator.
00:55:41.000And as for what you said about a popular mandate, I don't know why, but they had Stephen A. Smith on The View like a day ago, and he was trying to explain to these mentally disturbed women what a mandate means, and they couldn't quite grasp it.
00:55:57.000He said he won the popular vote, and they were like, oh, but only by a little, though.
00:56:30.000Well, he put a 90-day freeze on this, and there is some nuance, because the $2 billion isn't all USAID payments, so it's only some existing contract.
00:56:39.000So he still has frozen some, so there's a little bit of nuance to it, but it's still not great.
00:56:45.000I mean, what would happen if Trump just says, we ignore you, we're going to do whatever we want?
00:57:00.000I was talking to Will Chamberlain a while ago, and he's a lawyer, for those who don't know, a friend of the show.
00:57:05.000He was on recently, I believe, when I was out.
00:57:07.000And I asked him, why doesn't the Supreme Court just take the obvious positions that are correct?
00:57:13.000I think we were talking about Texas v.
00:57:15.000Pennsylvania in 2020, and he said because they have no enforcement mechanism, and if they make rulings that are too, let's just say, strong, That people are going to reject, then it's revealed the emperor has no clothes.
00:57:28.000So the Supreme Court tries to make rulings that they feel are in line enough with the current social fabric so that they will actually happen.
00:57:38.000If the Supreme Court comes out and issues a ruling, say, like in 2020, that Trump actually won or something, then the blue states are going to say, enforce it.
00:57:46.000And then people realize Supreme Court rulings don't mean anything.
00:57:49.000So they try and keep things a little tempered, as it were.
00:57:53.000And then that basically means they don't issue the rulings where they need to be issued.
00:57:56.000I mean, I suppose that does make sense.
00:57:59.000But it is true that the SCOTUS doesn't have any means of enforcement.
00:58:22.000Let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen.
00:58:24.000This is a bombshell report from West Virginia Watch.
00:58:28.000Now, what's fascinating is this is a local news story to West Virginia, but I'm going to tell you this is one of the biggest stories in the nation right now.
00:58:35.000West Virginia Senate passes bill banning artificial dyes in food.
00:58:56.000Is that like Ohio County or something?
00:58:57.000The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning synthetic dyes in food after Republican lawmakers stressed that it would make food healthier for West Virginians, who have some of the worst health outcomes in the country.
00:59:07.000The measure House Bill 2345, which already cleared the House.
00:59:10.000Would prohibit the sale of any food with certain types of yellow, blue, green, and red dyes, including red 40, that helps give candy its cherry red hue.
00:59:18.000And I believe it's made from those little mites.
00:59:21.000They have like an aluminum substance in them that is bright red, and they mush the little mites, and then it makes red.
00:59:59.000Let's say toaster pastry of some nondescript brand.
01:00:02.000And they've got blue, red, and yellow dyes in them because the sprinkles on their strawberry toaster pastry nondescript item.
01:00:10.000That company now can't sell in the state.
01:00:12.000They're going to say you can't sell those here.
01:00:14.000They've got a banned substance in them.
01:00:16.000This company is going to now have to do a cost-benefit analysis where they say...
01:00:19.000How much will it cost for us to shift into a non-synthetic dye to use natural dyes like banana, carrots, or blueberries, which is, I believe, what Canada does.
01:00:59.000I also wonder what that means for us going to the grocery store in West Virginia because literally every food item has these chemicals in them.
01:01:39.000And then when they're back, we're going to make ice cream sandwiches out of Pop-Tarts.
01:01:43.000Listen, RFK Jr. eats cheeseburgers sometimes.
01:01:46.000Being healthy doesn't mean only eating carrots like a rabbit.
01:01:50.000I think this is one of the best things we have seen in the country, and I'm glad it's happening in West Virginia.
01:01:55.000Now, if only they would get rid of that crackpot Uber law where they ban independent contracting, maybe we could have something going good here.
01:02:02.000I gotta be honest, this is a grand slam from West Virginia.
01:03:06.000The tastes are changing, I think, especially among young people.
01:03:10.000I noticed that Sweetgreen, this really trendy, fast, casual salad chain, just introduced new French fries, which they fry in avocado oil instead of seed oils.
01:03:23.000And you're paying a premium, of course, but you're paying it so that you can follow the trend of against not eating seed oils, which is like...
01:03:32.000Kind of it's interesting like how the fashions of food change because I remember like five ten years ago everyone was going vegan and everyone was drinking oat milk and eating all these weird boutique vegan Yeah, and Spindrift!
01:04:35.000A bill to amend and reenact 1672, the Code of West Virginia, 1931, is amended relating to the prohibiting certain products that are injurious to health.
01:04:46.000Any drug or article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this article, for the purpose of the article, in the case of drugs, if, when sold under or by a name recognized by the U.S. pharmacopoeia official at the time, it differs from standard strength, quality, purity laid down therein.
01:05:04.000Let's just say blah, blah, blah in the pharmaceuticals.
01:05:06.000They're basically saying, like, if we already think these things are bad, which includes heroin, blah, blah, blah, we're including that.
01:05:11.000But let's scroll down, because it is actually, this bill is actually more pronounced than just dyes.
01:05:19.000If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it, if any, oh, I should start with the food or drink, right?
01:05:27.000In the case of food and drink, confectionery or condiment, if any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity, that's insane.
01:05:56.000If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it, so like non-dairy cheese maybe, if it is an imitation of or is sold in the name of another article, whoa, if it consists wholly or part of disease decomposed, yeah, we get that, if it is colored, coated, polished, powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, Fine.
01:06:20.000Or if any means is made to appear better or greater than the value than it really is.
01:06:25.000If it contains any added substance or ingredients which are poisonous or injurious to the health, including butylated hydroxyanisole, propylparaben, FDNC blue number one, FDNC blue number two, green number three, red number three, red number 40, yellow number five, and yellow number six.
01:06:48.000If it's sold under a coined name, it does not contain some ingredient suggested by such name or contains blah, blah, blah.
01:06:53.000There's a couple in there that are pretty massive.
01:06:56.000And it goes on to add, And then it adds, an elementary, middle, or high school may permit the sale of food items that do not comply with this section as part of a school fundraising event if the sale of those items takes place off of and away from school premises or the sale of those items takes place on the school premises at least one half hour after the end of a school day.
01:07:26.000That's a ridiculous exemption at the bottom, by the way.
01:07:30.000Regardless, RFK Jr. should be invited to West Virginia when the governor signs this, and he's gonna.
01:08:03.000There's going to be a lot of big companies pissed off because they're going to be like, We're going to have to change so much of what we do to accommodate this food.
01:08:11.000Do you guys assume that this is going to be something that other states are going to take up?
01:08:14.000Do you think that the federal government is going to jump in on this?
01:08:17.000Yes, I think I'd like to see RFK Jr. start lobbying Congress.
01:08:23.000It's narrow and it's going to be tough because big companies, you're going to have a big cereal producer.
01:08:29.000And they're going to lobby the member of Congress who's going to be a Republican because they're going to be in some rural place in Oklahoma and they're going to be growing corn and they're going to say, this is going to cost us an insane amount of money to make this change.
01:08:51.000There's a lot of arguments against it that you're going to get from small government conservatives, right?
01:08:56.000Anytime the government says you can't do this, you can't do that, there are small government conservatives that are like, no, this is bad on principle.
01:09:31.000My point only being that there are going to be people that are going to make those arguments.
01:09:35.000I do think that it's good to say, look, these type of substances, you shouldn't be using them in foods.
01:09:43.000The things that Trump laid out in the speech last night, the instances of child cancer, the instances of obesity, I think it's 75% of America is overweight with 40 being morbidly overweight.
01:09:58.000There's no reason for our country to be like that.
01:10:00.000And I do think that it has something to do with a sedentary lifestyle, yes, but I also think that it's the food we eat and the things that are put into the food.
01:10:08.000I think that we should get rid of corn subsidies and stop having everything be made with so much sugar.
01:13:00.000I hear that they're doing a—this might not be in West Virginia, though it might be down in Winchester.
01:13:05.000I hear there's a Publix coming, which I really hope.
01:13:08.000Well, in West Virginia at least, all of these supermarkets are now—their regional managers are probably saying, OK, we can't carry any of these products starting in 2027, so we need to start weaning off of them.
01:13:19.000They're going to start going to the manufacturers and saying, heads up.
01:13:23.000Come January 1st, 2027, we won't be selling your products.
01:13:59.000People are going to travel to neighboring states that they know regulate food dyes and seed oils, pay a premium for those foods because that matters to them.
01:14:11.000People who live in the tri-state area, which is Virginia and Maryland, I guarantee you, the hippy-dippy Loudoun County people are going to be like, we drive into West Virginia because they don't have Kellogg's, they have bell rugs.
01:14:24.000And those fruity groups don't have weird dyes in them.
01:14:30.000And you're going to see weird new products, and there's going to be a cereal called Slaps, and it's going to have a toad who's like, puffed rice is good.
01:15:18.000And this shift where crunchism is now a symbol of being right-wing instead of left-wing.
01:15:25.000I noticed the change and it's a little bit...
01:15:28.000They can get a little bit annoying and they can get a little bit preachy about it.
01:15:31.000But aside from that, it is a status symbol to get health food nowadays.
01:15:38.000Also, with the popularity of something like Erewhon, which is known for $70 smoothies in L.A., they also sell just normal groceries at an extremely premium price, and it's seen as a status symbol to eat healthy these days, and that's kind of a sad thing.
01:15:56.000I want to know what you guys think of the EBT idea, banning...
01:16:02.000Banning the purchase of artificial foods with BT cards.
01:21:10.000I mean, I don't know what this is going to actually turn into because I feel like he's made these comments multiple times.
01:21:17.000Like he said, let the hostages go by the end of the weekend and let them go by this date.
01:21:23.000Nothing's actually come of it, so I don't know what this means.
01:21:27.000I'm not sure what kind of policy the United States is going to actually implement, and it's not like Israel actually needs the U.S. help to do anything.
01:21:40.000They've managed to destroy Gaza without the U.S. being involved, really, so I'm not sure what Trump's doing other than maybe just doing a...
01:21:52.000Kind of a placating kind of gesture towards Israel, maybe?
01:21:56.000I mean, this could be powerful, because when have we ever seen a president make threats like this?
01:22:01.000I've never seen a president say something like this.
01:22:04.000And I think there's some strength behind it.
01:22:07.000You know, it might actually make Hamas think twice.
01:22:50.000Not all of them, but puts them back under occupation, militaristically destroys all political leadership or whatever structures they have, absolutely flattens the grid, the economy, the structures, and then just reoccupies.
01:23:33.000And so they're like, all right, we're just going to go and destroy everything and, you know, see how that works.
01:23:38.000I don't see a two-state solution at all.
01:23:43.000I think that it's probably going to be occupied by the Israelis for the foreseeable future.
01:23:48.000I only see more problems unless they actually do remove the Palestinians and send them to Egypt or Jordan or whatever, but the Jordanians don't want them.
01:24:01.000The Egyptians don't want them either, because it seems like everywhere there's a significant population of Palestinians, they try to take over the government.
01:24:10.000The crazy thing, too, is you're asking, there's a larger population in Gaza than there is in West Virginia.
01:24:16.000So you're asking for like 2 million Palestinians to be moved.
01:24:56.000that it looked to me like a normal city on the Mediterranean I don't you know I don't know what the limitations were I know there were things that they couldn't have but I don't know exactly what those things were and all appearances were it was gorgeous and the the people of Gaza had relatively normal lives in Gaza it I don't buy for a second the whole Outdoor prison BS that the left in the U.S. has globbed onto.
01:25:24.000That seems to me to be BS. But, you know, now it's just, you know, rubble because that's what happened, you know?
01:25:49.000I think ultimately, and it's funny because basically everybody agrees on this, even people who are pro-Israel, there has to come a time where Israel can take care of itself, and that means we should be working towards that goal immediately.
01:26:01.000So does that mean two, three, five, six years, whatever?
01:26:05.000I don't think ten years, I think it's way too long.
01:26:08.000But I think what we don't want is Afghanistan times 300. If we just said tomorrow we're out, goodbye, good luck, then...
01:26:15.000We'd have a very, very bad circumstance, for sure.
01:26:18.000But I think there's a reasonable thing in, you know, I don't know, between five and ten years of slowly reducing the amount of foreign aid to Israel so that they can start supplementing it on their own.
01:26:27.000It doesn't sound like we want to reduce it, though, with Trump's grandiose new Gaza plan, which I don't know about you guys.
01:26:33.000I think he's going to have to bring transplants in because I can't imagine Palestinians working at restaurants and hotels that, you know, Israeli people are going to.
01:31:03.000Do we actually want to be involved in these wars?
01:31:06.000And I think the challenge Trump has is that Hamas probably knows we don't.
01:31:10.000To be fair, Trump is dumping money into Israel, and he's not going to back away from that.
01:31:14.000But considering his stances on Ukraine and other places, they may make the bet that he's got a limit.
01:31:19.000Well, I mean, it's really the American people that have the limit.
01:31:24.000And I think that even the people that are – that have a positive view of Israel, they don't want Americans going and fighting in Israel or in Gaza at all.
01:31:36.000That is, I think the unpopularity of that question would be somewhere in the 80s.
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01:32:18.000All right, the deplorable Mrs. Drake Super Chat saying Greenland was named to trick people into going there.
01:32:23.000After we acquire it, let's change it to Red, White, and Blueland.
01:32:27.000Isn't it fascinating that Greenland is just ice?
01:32:30.000Actually, what we should call it is what it really is.
01:33:36.000I think that the impression that I got from taking it wasn't that the U.S. is going to actually just annex it, but it's going to be like, look, we've got a military base.
01:33:45.000We're going to have military bases in Greenland because it's necessary for global security.
01:36:37.000Also, another interesting story we didn't get into was the criminal investigation into the Tate brothers in Florida.
01:36:43.000And Byron Donalds came out in support of it.
01:36:46.000I'm actually largely freaked out by it.
01:36:50.000Because I feel the only reason they're going after him is because he's famous.
01:36:53.000I get that he said a bunch of really awful things on camera on various shows several years ago about something he did years prior.
01:37:00.000So you could make accusations against him, but there's something that's kind of just, like, by all means, if you committed crimes, go after him.
01:37:05.000If he's admitted to it, then investigate those things.
01:37:08.000I'm just saying, it kind of freaks me out that some dude, he flies to Florida and then immediately they're like, we have launched a criminal investigation or executing search warrants against them.
01:37:56.000I've seen only a bunch of viral clips that people have shared, but the problem I have with that always is that people take things out of context all the time.
01:38:04.000There's certainly a litany of videos of him saying things like...
01:39:15.000I mean, that's legitimately how I feel.
01:39:18.000I know I'm being a little bit tug-in-cheek, but, like, we should have obscenity laws and moral policing and seduction should be a crime on the books.
01:40:28.000The issue I see with it is that, at this point, the dude clearly is not going to be holding any evidence or have any proper in him that's going to be any evidence for any crime.
01:40:35.000After the Romania thing fell apart, which is weird, how does the Romania case against him fall apart?
01:40:41.000I'm pretty sure they didn't drop the charges, though.
01:41:38.000Admittedly, I did not watch the clip, but the caption said he claims men went to Epstein Island because they're not allowed to have multiple wives.
01:42:32.000But I do think that the Christian moral tradition is the superior moral tradition, and I believe it is the most likely to lead to a prosperous and beneficial future for all of mankind.
01:42:42.000But that's a logical system, and I, you know, we probably need to go—I need to sit down with Jordan Peterson.
01:43:31.000And they did not explain it very well.
01:43:34.000Which led to my family, well I should say me personally, becoming a teenage angsty atheist.
01:43:40.000Only for a few years though, until I actually started reading about quantum physics and philosophy.
01:43:47.000And then spoke with a few individuals and said, oh wow, okay, I do believe in God.
01:43:53.000And I do believe that there is like divine will and things like this.
01:43:57.000But I don't understand how that then confers to a mandate in the Bible or, like, that Scripture as the structure of what is true and blah, blah, blah.
01:44:05.000So what I can say is I think that God is observable.
01:45:11.000I can see the logic in the moral structure and why I view it as largely superior.
01:45:15.000The Constitution, the moral framework of the United States, the success the United States has had, and the vision we as a nation...
01:45:22.000And the good people of it, not everybody, have for the world and what we're building and hoping to create.
01:45:26.000I can look at the past and I can look to our plans for the future and say, I believe largely the Christian moral tradition has led us on the right path.
01:45:33.000And its current structures, particularly the Ten Commandments, are the simplest way to explain the best logical path forward for a sound system that will bring us to prosperity.
01:45:45.000I can look at other moral traditions and say, wow, they do really bad things we don't like.
01:45:51.000But I don't know if it's ever possible to convince me of a faith-based system just to believe in it.
01:45:57.000And again, I'm not going to pretend that you could.
01:45:59.000If someone came to me and said, read this book, with all due respect, I'm going to read the book and say, that's a really interesting opinion from a guy who experienced something I did not.
01:46:30.000No, everybody, I don't know if I believe in the traditional Christian's view of a heaven and a hell, but I think when you have conversations about religion with theologians, it goes from a more simple view to a more philosophical, expansive view.
01:46:49.000And so talking with Seamus about it, The way he described it, and I don't want to cite Seamus, because I could be getting this wrong, and I don't want to imbue beliefs on him that are not correct.
01:46:59.000But I've had people explain to me that the perception of hell as like caves with fire is overly simplistic, and meant to describe a phenomenon to people who were, at the time, illiterate or incapable of understanding.
01:47:12.000And that what you're actually saying is that you will be separate from God and outside of his warmth, his love, his creation.
01:48:51.000Certainly, Christianity has strong and good moral traditions and structures.
01:48:55.000The Ten Commandments are largely, I would say, a great logical system for a prosperous society.
01:49:01.000And there are evil people who would claim to be divine or prophets or whatever to push people into dark paths to manipulate them.
01:49:09.000Evil people doing evil things does not inherently mean that a belief structure or moral tradition is a bad thing.
01:49:14.000So some religions are bad and have bad moral traditions, and some are good and some are the best.
01:49:22.000All right, we got a lot of religion ones today.
01:49:25.000Druish says, God created us with a desire for him and something greater than ourselves.
01:49:29.000All of us try to fill it, but only those seeking God will accomplish it.
01:49:33.000I do believe that there is divine mandate from God, and I believe that we must be dutiful to Him.
01:49:42.000Probably largely because I grew up Catholic, but I don't, again, like, I'm not going to pretend that I read the Bible and said, wow, I believe this.
01:49:52.000But I believe that there is a reason we are here, and we have duty and obligations that must be fulfilled.
01:49:59.000And that's why I have large disdain for many liberals.
01:50:02.000Because they live only for themselves in the moment.
01:50:04.000And that's why also these red pill dating bro guys largely exist the same way.
01:50:10.000Although many of them might be more anti-woke to a certain respect because they don't like how feminism attacks masculinity, they're still largely living in this world of everything for me and of me.
01:50:33.000I particularly don't like the bang as many women as possible and have as many kids.
01:50:37.000Western civilization was built on monogamy.
01:50:40.000I know there's bad people who did bad things and they created divorce and there's no-fault divorce.
01:50:45.000That doesn't mean that we abandon a strong moral tradition which helped build prosperous families and civilization.
01:50:53.000Also, the guys who are saying things like, don't marry women because the state is bad and women might do bad things to you.
01:50:59.000They might divorce you and take your money.
01:51:00.000And I'm like, first of all, who are you dating, right?
01:51:06.000For the Christians out there who are going to church and meeting good Christian women of actual moral virtue, they have a lot less to worry about.
01:51:13.000And Catholics have substantially lower rates of divorce than any other denomination.
01:51:18.000We talked about this on the culture war last week when we were debating, can the West survive without Christianity?
01:51:23.000And it was funny because it was like, you know, the fellow who was making the argument against Christianity as a strong world tradition, like as a requirement, said Christians have comparable rights of divorce to secular individuals, except for Catholics who have like a ridiculously low rate of divorce.
01:51:37.000And that's like fertility among Christians is only slightly higher than liberals, except for Catholics who have substantially higher fertility rates.
01:51:45.000And so I'm like, you know, practice preach, man.
01:51:48.000Anyway, let's grab some more Super Chats and...
01:51:51.000Maybe we're going to talk about the religion all the time.
01:53:29.000Did you know that it is impossible to be depressed if you have chickens?
01:53:34.000I'm not a doctor, and I have no scientific evidence for this, but I have to imagine anybody who's depressed, who just simply watches chickens, could not help but laugh.
01:56:10.000There's a family sitting at a table and a rogue wave hits and water breaks through and the dad just jumps up and runs for it and leaves the family behind.
01:56:24.000And then you have stories of a pizza delivery man who saw a burning building and ran in to rescue two children and suffered burns to his arms.
01:56:31.000Because there are strong men out there.
01:56:37.000We call people chicken when they're cowards, but roosters are less likely to engage in cowardice, in my opinion, at least from what I've seen, than a lot of humans.
01:58:28.000One could argue the American – America, the United States became an empire after World War II with the creation of liberal economic order, but we have digital communications, so that rapidly speeds up social development, for better or for worse.
01:58:58.000Trump will become Emperor of America, conquer Canada and Greenland, and subjugate Europe, and everyone will live in prosperity with wealth for 200 years until the empire collapses.
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