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The Great Truth I’ve Learned From Megan Thee Stallion | Ep. 1275
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Megan Thee Stallion teaches me a lesson about true equality and female empowerment.
Joe Biden is in Europe, but he has no idea he's in Europe, and the Chinese and Russians are about to eat Biden's lunch.
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Get to all the actual news in just a moment.
But first, I rarely do this, but today I have a really important confession to make.
I've rethought my entire perspective on equality, femininity, female empowerment.
See, I used to believe that women deserved respect because of all the incredible things they do and accomplish.
I looked to my wife as a model for a woman who deserves respect.
A wife, a mother of three, doctor, community member, a wonderful person.
But I have rethought all of that because of a new Megan Thee Stallion video, brilliantly titled, I was made aware of this video because some of my viewers notified me.
The reviewers of the video had said that the song, Thought, was directed at me.
To which I responded, what does Thought mean?
And also, isn't Megan Thee Stallion, the woman who for some reason has a middle name that means you, when it should actually just specify the definite article?
But then I watched her stunning music video and whole vistas of philosophy were made available to me.
New revelations with regard to human excellence were divulged.
The light shone forth.
I was converted to Megan Thee Stallion's brilliant worldview.
As Balaam's ass made to him known the wishes of the divine, so too did Megan Thee Stallion's ass make known to all of us the platonic meaning of true womanhood.
For truly, civilization has rarely been graced with a poet of such magnificence, a genius of such magnitude, an icon of such genius.
I could go on, and I will.
But first, I wish to share her revelation, and it is a revelation, with us all.
For Megan Thee Stallion, yes my friends, Thee Stallion is not the mere definite article, but within you, comes to share a message.
And we can do little but gape in awe at her astonishing, inspiring intellect, insight, sagacity, Ah, ye gods, that we should have twerking among us such a paradigm of sheer perspicacity, sophistication, and enlightenment.
Grateful we all should be to live in such a glorious time.
Now, to our extraordinary, incandescent, resplendent music video.
Hello?
Look, motherf***er!
The women that you're accidentally trying to step on are everybody that you depend on.
They treat your diseases.
They cook your meals.
They haul your trash.
They drop your ambulances.
They guard you while you sleep.
They control every part of your life.
Do not f*** with them.
By Odin's Beard, the heartbreaking wisdom.
Can't nip the beat live, you no lil' chump.
Hands on my knees, shaking ass on my thigh.
Post me a pic, finna make me a profit.
When the h*** hits, then the f*** get toxic.
Why the f*** you in the club when n****s wild?
I been lit since brunch, that's order 42 for the table.
That's posse, missionary or a raki style.
On my top, f*** the ass, hey, know me from the closet.
by Zeus' anvil, the Aristotelian insight.
By Thor's Great Hammer, the extraordinary non-objectification and empowerment.
by Thor's great hammer, the extraordinary non-objectification and empowerment, the originality, the virtuosity, the percipience, the praise.
It is all too little.
We must investigate the supreme quality of Megan Thee Stallion's groundbreaking work within E!
The true Shakespearean artistic fluidity, rhyming thought with both profit and toxic, but also rhyming venom with dinner, and also somehow finding the room to use the word twelve times, forty-four times, twenty-four times, five times, and the n-word seven times all in just under three minutes.
And, in this song, we learn that Megan Thee Stallion will soon, at the shockingly prodigious age of just 26, graduate from the prestigious Texas Southern University with a degree in Health Administration.
As she says, 2021, Finnick Graduate College.
The true empowerment of this song, hands on my knees, shaking on my thoughts, Post me a pic, find to make me a profit.
Yes, true female empowerment is to be found in profiting from your thought.
The true beauty which lies within exposed in this song.
I walk around the house butt naked and I stop at every mirror just to stare at my own posterior.
Yes, meaning is to be found in gazing narcissist-like into the gaping maw of your own The true honor and love.
We ain't even speakin' if the n-word ain't spendin'.
Yes, indeed, true love and honor can only be found in having sex with men based purely on the amount of lucre they spend on you.
Yes, a thousand times yes.
Hands on my knees, shaking on my thoughts.
Indeed.
Indeed.
After seeing this unbelievably brilliant music video, I actually respect my own wife less today, because she decided to be an actual doctor, and went to college, and medical school, and residency, rather than going to Party City, buying a hot doctor outfit, and then twerking for the pleasure of millions of men, while reserving her sexual favors only for those who pay her the most money.
My wife, she just did not understand the true uniqueness of womanhood.
Instead opted to get married, bear children, care for those children, hold a job, rather than dressing up in a slutty public sanitation worker outfit and running over fake conservative senators in a garbage truck.
Truly, Megan Thee Stallion has set forth an awe-inspiring vision of femininity and womanhood.
May we all remember her contribution to humanity as we forge forth to ever greater civilizational heights.
Alrighty, we'll get to all the news in just one moment.
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The big problem is Joe Biden doesn't actually know he's abroad.
Essentially, Joe Biden's tenure thus far is a lot like the Anthony Hopkins movie, The Father.
He's just wandering around, not knowing where he is and confused all the time.
It's essentially an outtake from the Super Bowl of the weekend, wandering through mirror lined hallways, weirdly bumping into things.
That is Joe Biden abroad.
And we were told, of course, that Donald Trump had shamed America on the world stage, and now America is back, baby!
America's back!
In fact, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he says, the foreigners love us again!
The Europeans, they love us.
They love us so much.
Yeah, you know what the Europeans love?
They love when you give them what they want.
Because politics is a power game.
And the reality is, the Europeans know that Joe Biden thinks more like they do.
Here is Antony Blinken.
There was a major poll that just came out that showed that across those countries, 75% of the people on average now have confidence in American leadership and in President Biden.
That's up from 17% a year ago.
So we're now in a position where when it comes to dealing with Russia and the challenges it poses, or dealing with China and the challenges it poses, we can come with a much more united front.
Oh, is that what's going to happen?
A united front?
Or maybe it's that the Europeans are comfortable that we have a doddering old fool in the White House who is never going to challenge any of their preconceived notions about either Russia or Iran, about the Middle East.
They're just going to do whatever the Europeans would like them to do.
And why exactly would they feel threatened by Joe Biden?
I mean, this is the this is the key to Joe Biden.
He is perfectly unthreatening because again, near corpses are not threatening.
This is why the right is not really glomming on to attacking Biden because how do you attack a house plant?
As I've said many times before.
So Joe Biden over and over on this trip, he demonstrated that he is in fact barely sentient.
I mean, it's embarrassing.
There are folks in America who said that Donald Trump was an embarrassment on the world stage because he was so brusque and because he said crazy things.
Fine.
It is embarrassing to have a president of the United States who is wandering into walls.
Okay, that is... We've gotten to a certain point in American life when these are the people that we choose to be presidents of the United States.
Okay, so Joe Biden led off the G7 by mixing up Libya with Syria three times.
He was trying to talk about how he was standing up to the Russians, and also we're going to work with the Russians to end the bloodshed in Syria, but he missed.
By 1400 miles, Libya is nowhere near Syria.
In fact, it's not technically even on the same landmass.
Syria is up there in that Middle Eastern landmass, and Libya is down there in Africa.
Here is Joe Biden missing the mark by, oh, about 1400 miles.
Three times.
In Libya, we should be opening up the passes to be able to go through and provide food assistance and economic assistance.
For example, the rebuilding of Syria, of Libya.
They're there.
So I'm hopeful that we can find an accommodation where we can save the lives of people And for example, in, uh, in Libya.
Okay, so, um, here's the thing.
That's the wrong place.
Indy!
They're digging in the wrong place.
So Joe Biden doesn't know where he is and he doesn't know where Syria is.
Also, he gets very angry when you ask him simple questions.
So Joe Biden was asked about what he is going to do to stand up to the Russians and the Chinese, and Joe Biden was, like, growling at the reporters.
He's like, I need more time.
I mean, first of all, I don't know what happened to his voice here.
Suddenly he became one of the demons from Poltergeist.
This is real weird stuff.
You've kept in place some Trump-era steel and aluminum sanctions.
And I wanted to ask you, when you're having these conversations with European allies, who are very concerned about these sanctions, how do you justify that?
And what are your plans?
120 days.
Give me a break.
I need time.
120 days.
Give me a break.
Need time.
Dude, what is going on?
What is happening right now?
Hey, and it was consistent like across the entire G7.
So first of all, the G7 is always weird, right?
You always get these weird pictures of these world leaders awkwardly associating with one another.
This time, they opened their picture.
Their opening picture was of the G7 leaders in Cornwall, like on a beach in Cornwall, and they look like they just beamed down, except that Angela Merkel is wearing a red jacket, so she's the one who goes first, right?
Is usually the way that this works.
But Joe Biden, just he's not with us.
In the middle of one of his press conferences, he starts talking again about how he's going to get in trouble with his own staff if he answers unapproved questions.
He does this all the time, by the way.
He's saying the quiet part out loud.
He's actually reading the stage direction from the teleprompter.
So here is Joe Biden doing that again.
I'm sorry, I'm going to get in trouble with staff if I don't do this the right way.
Jennifer Jacob Bloomberg.
I have to, I have to, I only answer questions from the people my staff tells me to answer.
Broccoli.
And then, he, um, he tried to introduce the president of South Africa after Boris Johnson already had, leading the entire G7 to laugh at him.
Things are going swimmingly.
The president, I suppose, the president of the moon, he just did it.
And the president of South Africa.
and the president of South Africa, as I said earlier.
I did, I certainly did.
So.
When you get an exit voice.
Joe, they're laughing at you, not looking at you.
Let me tell you, when, do you like it, I'll, this president, I'm glad to hear it.
So Boris Johnson reminds Joe Biden, the President of the United States, that he already introduced the person that Joe Biden just tried to introduce.
Everybody starts laughing at Joe Biden, and Joe Biden awkwardly starts laughing along.
Yes, all is well on the international stage.
Joe Biden got lost in the wrong cafe and had to be ushered away by a young female aide, apparently.
This was put out by ITV News.
So he's just walking around the G7.
He's supposed to be in a particular place.
Where is his staff?
What are they doing?
He just wanders into a cafe and everybody's looking at him like, what is going on?
Why is the president of the United States wandering around in this cafe asking for toilet paper or something?
Here is the president of your United States wandering around in a cafe before being led away like a small child by an aide.
How are your meetings going in Cornwall, Mr. President?
How are your meetings going here in Cornwall?
They all are laughing at him.
There comes his aide.
She's like, she's like, come on, Joe.
Come on.
Come on.
Unbelievable.
Un-be-lievable.
And then there were his, I mean, his aides have a rough job.
I mean, it's a tough job.
I understand.
I have children of my own.
His aides were trying to shoo away the press.
There's a Biden-Macron photo op.
And his aides are like, we need the cameras to go away because we need to get Joe.
Joe needs a nap.
Joe needs a rest.
Joe's a little fussy.
Gotta get him his bottle.
Here are his aides trying to shoo away the press.
Thank you.
All the press are shouting out questions and his aides are like, get out of here!
Go!
Leave!
Now is not the time!
All the press are shouting out questions and his aides are like, get out of here!
Go!
Leave!
Now is not the time!
Joe needs to lie down!
My god.
Yes, yes, things are great.
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The G7, what happened there?
A few things.
Well, one, the United States basically asked other countries to tax American-based corporations.
Now, you don't have to love the big tech companies to understand that these are America-based corporations.
And the fact they're based in America means a lot of the jobs exist here in the United States.
And that we take, for whatever taxes they pay, we take the chief margin of those taxes because they are based in the United States.
Okay, well now, the United States government, under the auspices of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen, wishes to announce a global tax on tech companies.
The goal is to tax American tech giants, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
New rules would allow jurisdictions where global companies earn revenue, market countries, to tax a portion of the resulting profits.
This would upend a century of global standards that tax companies where their headquarters are based.
The G7 makes it sound like this would apply to all large global firms.
One might even think it's an improvement on the patchwork of digital services taxes the G7 promises to replace.
But Janet Yellen and her peers didn't devise this idea in a vacuum.
Their proposal builds on negotiations already underway at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, for taxes that would apply specifically to digital companies.
So in other words, you might think that their new rule, which taxes profits where they are earned, would be good for the United States.
We're a giant market.
That means that a bunch of businesses selling their product over here, we'd get to tax that.
Except for the fact that this is explicitly designed in order to tax only giant companies based in the United States.
The exemption of profits up to a margin of 10% is the clue, and only a few industries do companies consistently achieve profit margins above that threshold.
Digital services is one such industry.
Negotiators are carving out exclusions for other industries that otherwise would have to pay the tax.
A few non-tech companies may eventually get caught, but witness the efforts to minimize their numbers.
One step is Ms.
Yellen's offer this spring to limit the new tax to companies with revenue above $20 billion, which captures most American tech firms and excludes the vast majority of the world's other multinational companies.
So basically, we're going to allow everybody to tax America-based companies, but we are not going to be able to tax their companies in return.
Amazing work.
I can't imagine why the G7 loves Joe Biden so much.
Why?
Why?
I mean, clearly Joe Biden is a leader.
Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, there are cracks in the coalition.
President Biden and fellow Western leaders issued a confrontational declaration about Russian and Chinese government behavior on Sunday, castigating Beijing over its internal repression, vowing to investigate the pandemic's origins, and excoriating Moscow for using nerve agents and cyber weapons.
Concluding the first in-person summit meeting since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, the leaders tried to present a unified front against a range of threats, but they disagreed about crucial issues, from timelines for halting the burning of coal to committing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to aid to challenge Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative.
Still, as they left Cornwall where they had met at a resort overlooking rocky outcroppings in England's far west, almost all of the participants welcomed a new tone as they began to repair the breaches from four years of dealing with Biden's predecessor, Donald J. Trump.
President Emmanuel Macron of France said, Yes, I've noticed.
to have a US president who's part of the club and very willing to cooperate.
Yes, I've noticed. I've noticed.
Yes. So basically, the United States is going to get nothing out of this.
Instead, what's going to happen is that the United States is going to cave to everything that Europe wants, which means that the United States will look the other way and actually actively promulgate Iranian involvement in the world economy.
The United States will green light things like the Nord Stream 2 pipeline while killing Keystone XL.
The United States will look the other way as China rolls over countries in the surrounding regions.
The fact of the matter is this administration has zero interest in facing up to Russia or China.
This administration has demonstrated very little willingness to actually take harsh action with regard to either the Putin regime or the Xi Jinping regime over in China.
It's pretty obvious that they wish to do exactly what the Europeans want to do, which is dither around until these regimes continue to gain strength.
Which is kind of amazing because we were told for years that it was Donald Trump who was a cat's paw of the Russians.
And then Donald Trump, you know, he was just, he was racist against the Chinese.
That was the big problem.
He just kept being racist when he said things like Wuhan virus.
Now, in reality, when U.S.
leadership is soft, the Europeans like to, the Europeans are all for soft U.S.
leadership until we have to come in and save their asses every 40 years.
But the reality is that a soft United States means a more powerful China, more powerful Russia, actors on the world stage getting aggressive.
And that's about, that's what we're about to see.
We'll get to that in just one moment.
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Okay, so when it comes to foreign policy, this administration has essentially no interest in doing anything about China.
So the G7 put out a statement about how we need to hold China accountable.
Here's what their statement said, quote, strengthening transparency and accountability, including reiterating our commitment to the full implementation of and improved compliance with the international health regulations of 2005.
This includes investigating, reporting, and responding to outbreaks of unknown origin.
We also call for a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened phase two COVID-19 origin study, including as recommended by the experts' report in China.
So, the G7 is like, we're gonna hold China accountable by going to the World Health Organization, the Chinese-run organization that covered for China's malfeasance in the early months of the pandemic, that lied to the world at China's behest in late January and said that COVID-19 was not human-to-human transmission.
The WHO is a Chinese tool.
And now you got the entire G7 being like, you know what, let's let the WHO do its work.
I mean, it's gotta be the WHO here, right?
Joe Biden called for transparency from China.
I mean, or he was eating oatmeal with a fork, one of the two, here he was.
I think China has to start to act more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights and transparency.
Transparency matters across the board.
We have to build a system whereby we can know when we see another lack of transparency might produce another pandemic.
We have to have access.
Yes, he is definitely going to be able to stand up to this Chinese authoritarian regime when he cannot make it through a sentence.
And also has sort of a congenital unwillingness to face up to the threat that China represents.
I love this.
Senior Biden officials, according to Politico, have said investigations into the pandemic's origins should be shepherded by an independent international body like the WHO.
But the WHO's first crack at the investigation, released in March, called the lab leak, quote, extremely unlikely after an investigation.
Here's the parenthetically, ready?
However, China did not share QLab data and records.
Oh, so you mean they came up with a finding that's completely not grounded in any sort of data because the Chinese wouldn't provide the data to the all-knowing, all-seeing WHO?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked about this.
So you guys keep saying you want to hold China accountable and you want to get to the bottom of this, and then you're kicking it over to the WHO.
So, um, you got any idea, like, how you're going to pressure China to be involved in investigating itself here?
Here's Antony Blinken, inspiring stuff from the Secretary of State.
We need to get to the bottom of what happened.
We need accountability, but we also need to understand what happened, why it happened, how it happened, if we're going to be able to put in place the necessary measures to prevent it from happening again, or at least to be in a better place to mitigate the next pandemic if we can't fully prevent one.
And so we need this transparency.
We need this information.
The WHO, you're right, the first study that they put out was highly deficient.
The leaders of the G7 have come together insisting that China cooperate with the so-called phase two study by the WHO to really get to the bottom of what happened.
Oh, so that's very, very encouraging.
I feel secure in their hands.
Things are going to go absolutely spectacularly well here.
So I'm so glad they've called for a probe of China.
Everything's going to be great.
Just great.
Meanwhile, how's it going on Russia?
So Joe Biden is supposed to meet with Vladimir Putin.
And he knows he's about to get his lunch eaten publicly by Putin because Putin is still very much with it.
Putin is out there wrestling bears and icy rivers and crap.
Also as a murderer.
Okay, so first of all, you have to admire Vladimir Putin's commitment to being a Bond supervillain.
Like, have you ever seen his house in Sochi?
You're gonna have to get a picture of his house in Sochi.
It looks like a Bond super lair.
A supervillain super lair.
It's pretty spectacular.
And of course he murders enemies and or jails them.
So Vladimir Putin was asked this straight up by a reporter from NBC News.
So are you a killer?
And Putin's like, Mr. Bond, it's pretty.
His commitment to the role is pretty spectacular.
Mr. President, are you a killer?
Over my tenure, I've gotten used to attacks from all kinds of angles and from all kinds of areas under all kinds of pretexts and reasons and a different caliber and fierceness.
and none of it surprises me.
So as far as harsh rhetoric, I think that this is an expression of overall U.S.
culture.
Of course, in Hollywood, there are some underlying deep things in Hollywood, macho, which can be treated as cinematic art, but that is part of U.S.
political culture where it's considered normal.
Okay, and then you cut to the postscript where that reporter is dead in his room at Vladimir Putin's hands and poisoned with uranium or something.
In any case, Joe Biden is supposed to face up to Vladimir Putin.
Now, there was a lot of talk about how Donald Trump was enthralled to the Russians, right?
He was a Russian tool.
They had twisted the election in favor of Donald Trump.
There's only one problem, which is that Donald Trump was a lot harsher on the Russians than Barack Obama was.
Barack Obama handed Syria over to the Russians, handed part of Ukraine over to the Russians, with pretty much no repercussions at all.
Okay, so Joe Biden was asked about, you know, are you going to do like a joint presser with Vladimir Putin?
How's any of this going to work?
And give credit to Biden, at least he's sentient enough to know that he's not sentient.
He's like, I'm not going to do a presser with Vladimir Putin, because if I do a presser with Vladimir Putin, he's going to look alive and I'm barely alive.
This is not a contest about who can do better in front of a press conference or try to embarrass each other.
It's about making myself very clear what the conditions are to get a better relationship are with Russia.
We're not looking for conflict.
We are looking to resolve those actions which we think are inconsistent with international norms.
We're not looking for conflict.
We're looking to be friends.
Yes, this is going to go extremely well.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, another geriatric daughter, explains that Vladimir Putin is going to meet his match in Joe Biden.
Yes, yes, I'm sure.
I mean, I'm sure that Putin isn't just going to deceive him and lie to him and be exactly the sort of evil dictator he's been for, you know, 20 years at this point.
He's probably, probably this guy, Joe Biden, this houseplant over here is going to stand up to Vladimir Putin in magnificent ways.
Again, I'm rooting for the president of the United States to do better here.
I'm rooting for him to stand up to China and rooting for him to stand up to Russia.
He is not congenitally disposed to do this, nor is he, I think, mentally capable of standing up to Vladimir Putin at this point by all available indicators.
But here's Nancy Pelosi assuring us that probably we should take her at her word.
The former president of the United States, for whatever reason, whether the Russians had personal, political, or financial leverage over him, just kowtowed, catered to Putin in a way that was humiliating to the United States of America.
And when Putin hears about some of the violations of the rights of his own people, he laughs.
This is a thug.
This is a thug.
But he is the head of an important state.
In terms of the issues you raised, the president should meet with him.
And I think he's going to meet a very different president than one who was at the mercy of Putin.
Mm.
So yes, I'm sure, yes, Nancy Pelosi is the kind of person who definitely would stand up to bad actors, right?
I mean, she's assuring us here that Joe Biden will stand up to bad actors.
And Donald Trump was weak.
But Nancy Pelosi herself is the kind of person who would stand up to bad actors, right?
Yeah, not so much.
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So meanwhile, while Nancy Pelosi is explaining that Joe Biden is going to stand up to Vladimir Putin, a couple of things. One, One, Joe Biden is not, in fact, standing up to Vladimir Putin.
In fact, how much is he not doing so?
Well, President Biden apparently said over the weekend that he would be doing swaps of cybercriminals with Moscow.
He said, well, if Moscow catches American cybercriminals and we catch Russian cybercriminals, maybe we'll just swap them, you know, like we'll just swap them out.
And then the White House is like, not, you know what, we're not going to do that.
The White House is like, pay no attention to Grandpa over there because he doesn't know what in the world he's talking about.
Biden had entertained an idea Putin floated in a TV interview about x-rating criminals who engaged in ransom hacking either against the United States or Russia when he was asked about it at a press conference.
Biden was like, you know, maybe, maybe we could talk about swapping criminals.
And then, and then the White House is like, yeah, don't pay attention to him because he's crazy.
So that's going well.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi saying that Joe Biden is definitely gonna stand up to Vladimir Putin.
Nancy Pelosi cannot stand up to a mild wind.
I mean, we know that Joe Biden can't either.
Like, he falls down Air Force One stairs if there's a breeze that's above seven miles an hour, apparently.
But Nancy Pelosi cannot stand up to her own party in the slightest.
You'll remember the last week, there was a large-scale conflagration when 12 House Democrats condemned Ilhan Omar and asked her to clarify her anti-Semitic and anti-American comments.
And then, she sort of walked him back a little bit, and then Nancy Pelosi was like, I guess we're done here.
So over the weekend, she was asked about this.
And she was asked, you know, have you chided Ilhan Omar at all?
And Nancy Pelosi was like, everything's fine with Ilhan, she's great, she's just... Here we go, Nancy Pelosi, you know, the person who was saying we need to stand up to Vladimir Putin, she can't even stand up to the anti-American wing of her own party.
Congresswoman Omar is a valued member of our caucus.
She asked her questions of the Secretary of State.
Nobody criticized those about how people will be held accountable if we're not going to the International Court of Justice.
That was a very legitimate question.
That was not of concern.
Members did become concerned when the tweet that was put out equated the United States with the Taliban.
And Hamas.
Rashida Tlaib is accusing them of policing them in a car.
And, and, then she clarified it and we thanked her for clarification.
So do you want people to just let it go and move on?
They can say whatever they want, but what I'm saying is, end of subject.
She clarified, we thanked her, end of subject.
Oh well, she clarified, we thanked her, end of subject.
Yeah, except for, you know, that little calendar from Futurama that says days since Ilhan Omar said something terribly anti-American and or anti-Semitic, and now it's reading like two.
It's been like two days.
Yeah, that calendar has never gotten to more than about 20.
Okay, so we'll just be right back here in a couple of weeks and Nancy Pelosi will surrender to the squad once again.
Meanwhile, the squad continues to feel its oats.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez out there in public ripping this Democratic leadership.
So meanwhile, while the Democratic leadership is like, Oh, Hannah's doing great.
We love her.
She's leader on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Here is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a full scale dullard, slamming the Democratic leadership for rebuking Ilhan Omar.
How dare they?
Like, like, it's just all like, like, wow.
We know that, you know, these very intense news cycles, which, by the way, started this whole hubbub started with right wing news outlets taking what she said out of context.
And when we feed into that, it adds legitimacy to a lot of this kind of right-wing vitriol.
It absolutely kind of increases That target.
And as someone who has experienced that, you know, it's very difficult to communicate the scale and how dangerous, you know, that is.
Oh, it's so dangerous.
Her life is so tough, Alexandra.
Weep for her!
It's just, it's unbelievable.
Right, so Nancy Pelosi's kowtowing to these folks.
And meanwhile, you got AOC out there.
Like, you know, it started with the right- Really?
Were all those Jewish Democrats right-wingers?
I missed it.
They're all registered Democrats in the Democratic Party.
Elected Democrats.
Who are ripping on Ilhan Omar.
And yet it- So there she is.
How could- And Nancy Pelosi clearly is a right-winger.
Secretly, she's a right-winger, according to AOC.
Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn't- Here's Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez using her strategic mind.
I mean, she's so strategic, guys.
She's brilliant at this.
She's Von Clausewitz-like.
Democrats because it turns out that the smartest way to ensure that your radical legislation gets passed is by crapping all over Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
That's definitely going to work.
Here is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez using her her strategic mind. I mean, she's she's so strategic, guys. I mean, she's brilliant at this. She's she's von Clausewitz like here she is.
I do think that we need to talk about the elephant in the room, which is Senate Democrats, which are blocking crucial items in a Democratic agenda for very, I think, for reasons that I don't think hold a lot of water.
And for folks saying, OK, you know, we need where are you going to get these 50 votes?
I think we really need to start asking some of these Democratic senators where they plan on getting 60 votes.
Um, so, yeah.
So she's attacking the House Democratic leadership and the Senate Democratic leadership.
Here's the thing about the Democratic Party and their majority right now.
It is a fragile coalition.
It's a coalition of people like Joe Manchin, who has nothing in common with AOC, and Kyrsten Sinema, who has very little in common with AOC, and then AOC.
And the House Democrats have decided that they need to cater to the most woke among them, the most progressive members of their own party, which is silliness.
Those are the people you need to cater to the least.
Seriously, they're going to vote with your progressive priorities when you actually encode those in legislation?
When's the last time that these votes were the swing voters?
Really, if you want your party to be able to pass anything, you need to be looking to placate the blue dogs.
You don't need to be looking to placate your far left wing.
But Nancy Pelosi is so scared crapless of the squad that she continues to just feed them more rope.
They're going to hang her with it.
I mean, it's amazing.
It's amazing to watch.
Meanwhile, AOC also had words about whether Justice Breyer should retire.
I'm sure that Justice Breyer is sitting there just on tensorhooks waiting to hear what AOC has to say about whether he should leave his position on the Supreme Court.
Just to be clear, you do think that Justice Stephen Breyer should retire at the end of this term?
You know, it's something I'd think about, but I would probably lean towards yes.
But yes, you're asking me this question, so I would give more thought to it, but I'm inclined to say yes.
Yes, and I'm sure that Justice Breyer will take that under advisement.
Also, AOC said the quiet part out loud.
She said that we have to rig the election processes from now on.
We can't just rely on winning elections anymore, she says.
Especially if Senate Democrats are not going to pass reforms on H.R.
1.
We cannot rely solely on a wish of winning elections.
Particularly in the Senate, when voting rights are under attack in Georgia, Arizona, and Texas, across the country, and if we're not going to pass H.R.
1 with the preemptive clauses that can roll some of that voter suppression attacks back, yeah, I believe that we should protect our Supreme Court, and I thought that should absolutely be a consideration.
Mm, mm.
Yeah, I mean, we can't rely on winning elections anymore.
It's probably better if we just rely on rigging the strategy by which we vote in the first place.
Meanwhile, democratic governance in the city continues to be absolutely terrible.
Statistics out of Atlanta demonstrate massive increases in homicides.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after historically deadly 2020, Atlanta homicides are up nearly 60% in 2021.
It turns out radicalism has consequences.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta police have investigated 64 homicide cases in 2021, a 58% increase over this time last year.
The surge follows a historically deadly 2020, when authorities investigated 157 homicide cases, the most in more than two decades.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has referred to the spike in violence as a COVID crime wave.
But the city's death toll continues to mount as more Georgians get vaccinated and life returns to normal.
Because it wasn't a COVID crime wave, gang.
It was a BLM crime wave.
We all know when the crime wave began and it wasn't with the beginning of COVID.
As of June, Atlanta's murders are up and shootings have increased by 40% according to the latest data.
Meanwhile, overall arrests are down by about 43% as Atlanta's police force remains more than 400 officers under its authorized level.
More than 200 officers quit the force in 2020, many after criminal charges were filed against the two officers involved in the deadly shooting of Rayshard Brooks and other officers who used their tasers on two college students during last summer's protests downtown.
Another 75 Atlanta police officers have left since the start of the year, records show.
But department leaders say that morale is stabilizing.
They plan to hire 250 new officers in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1st.
Except for how that's not going to work at all, because it turns out that when you take up radical grievances and destroy the law enforcement community, it's very difficult to restaff.
Dr. Karen Sullivan, Fulton County medical examiner, said her office conducts death examinations from cities across Fulton.
Most of the homicide victims they encounter are killed in Atlanta.
Remember, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was widely considered a final possibility for Joe Biden as his VP candidate.
And she's presided over this mass murder increase in her city.
city. Anecdotally, it seems as though the complexity of the homicides is increasing, said Sullivan. Years ago, the vast majority of homicide cases due to gunshot wounds were one, maybe two, rarely three gunshot wounds. Now it's quite common for people to have been shot 10 or 12 times. So things are going great in Atlanta.
Crime in Atlanta has become a central issue in this year's race for city hall, especially after Bottoms announced she would not seek re-election in the fall.
Some have called for Buckhead residents to break away and form their own city.
State officials have started stepping in to address Atlanta's rise in crime.
Homicides are up in many cities across the nation, yet critics believe Atlanta has not done all it could to stem the rise in violent crime.
Many saw Bottoms as slow to respond to the surge in killings.
Momentum was building for opposition in November's election, even before she dropped out of the race.
And this is happening in major cities across the country, because the radicals are in control.
And now the Democrats wish to extend that radicalism across the spectrum.
Make no mistake, the DOJ policy pursued by the Biden administration, which is directed against police departments across the nation, will result in fewer officers working, it will result in less policing by the officers who do work, it will result in more crime.
It's amazing how good intentions are, for the left, invariably paired with crappy results.
Meanwhile, you have the entire Democratic Party circulating around the idea now.
The economy is falling apart, right?
We can see that the economy is in serious trouble right now because we have something like 9 million open jobs and 3.5 million people applying for those jobs.
We only gained 3.5 million jobs since this pandemic effectively ended.
And that is because of the bad economic policy pushed by the Biden administration.
And yet every day we hear how they're going to double down.
Every day.
And in fact, now, they're beginning to change their messaging.
They've got Ezra Klein over at the New York Times.
He put out a piece today, literally talking about how it's good that we are paying people to stay out of the job market.
It's good now.
They're always going to move the goalposts.
The goalposts used to be, look how many jobs we're creating.
Now it's, look how many jobs we're not creating.
Because, you know, if we pay people to stay out of the workforce, then maybe we'll raise wages as a result.
Good luck with all of this, Democrats.
You break it, you bought it, and you don't have Trump to kick around anymore.
So at a certain point, you're going to have to start to govern.
Good luck to you.
Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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