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Let’s Go, Brandon! | Ep. 1366

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	A Southwest pilot finds himself on the hot seat after allegedly speaking the most vulgar of all phrases.
	Let's go, Brandon.
	Plus, Joe Biden's polls are in the toilet and Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine to actual slavery.
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	Here's the thing.
	Democrats have a real problem on their hands because Joe Biden has pursued radical policies that no one wanted for him.
	And again, I can't say it enough.
	His mandate coming in was one, be not alive, and two, be moderate.
	And he has achieved only one of these things.
	He is a zombie wandering around doing the work of Bernie Sanders.
	And this is like the worst combo because you've got a guy who's not alive, But also, he's scaring you.
	He's not like an inanimate object that's not scary.
	He's not just a jug on the floor or something.
	Instead, he's actually wandering around searching for brains in the mold of progressive radicals.
	And so, Americans are increasingly not liking this at all.
	Right now, there's an NBC poll.
	It shows 71% of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track.
	Uh-oh.
	Biden's approval rating stands at 42%.
	That is down seven points from August.
	That's the last time their survey was taken.
	The poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of the president's job performance.
	54% giving Biden a thumbs down for his first nine months in office.
	Only 37% of Americans believe Biden is competent and effective compared with 50% who don't believe that.
	Only 37% believe that Biden can handle a crisis with 47% saying he cannot, which means his actual floor is not 42.
	His actual floor is like 37%, which is just horrific for him, especially because the hopes of the Democratic Party are so pegged to him personally.
	Nobody's big on his agenda.
	But the idea was that he was going to be personally a popular guy, right?
	He's inoffensive and he's sympathetic, empathetic Grandpa Joe, right?
	He's the guy who's going to come in.
	He's going to comfort you and tell you stories about Beau.
	And then it turns out that Afghanistan killed all of that.
	He didn't seem empathetic anymore.
	He seemed like a jerk.
	He seemed like a belligerent jackass.
	And because of that, Americans were like, OK, he's belligerent and he's nasty.
	And he's incompetent.
	And he's senile.
	So that is a very, very bad combination for Joe Biden.
	And you're seeing it reflected across the board.
	The polling numbers for Democrats right now are just brutal.
	Issue by issue, Republicans have massive advantages.
	Issue by issue.
	Right now, Republicans are up by 27 points in terms of who you trust to deal with border security.
	In dealing with the economy, Republicans are up by 18 points in dealing with the economy.
	That is the biggest number in the, I'm looking at it right now, that is the biggest number in the history of the NBC News poll, that number.
	Republicans up by 18 points.
	Huge, huge advantage for Republicans.
	Dealing with immigration, again, they're up by a huge, a huge number.
	When it comes to education, Democrats, who traditionally have been up by like 20 points in that area, are only up by about 10.
	Democrats are up a lot in global warming, but here's the thing, no one cares about global warming, so who cares?
	When it comes to every major issue that Americans care about, Republicans are up big in this new NBC News poll, and that is a disaster for them.
	Republicans are up massively when it comes to controlling inflation.
	24 points with regard to controlling inflation.
	Dealing with crime.
	Republicans are up by 22 points.
	Dealing with crime.
	Dealing with national security.
	Republicans up 21 points.
	Dealing with national security.
	How about election security, right?
	Now we're talking about the January 6th stuff.
	Democrats are only up one point.
	So that whole January 6th talking point that elections are going to be stolen by the evil Republicans, no one actually thinks that's true and no one cares.
	It's a basically even split.
	Democrats are ahead on one issue and one issue only by any significant margin.
	And that, of course, is climate change, which no one has a top priority in the United States right now.
	Not just that.
	New poll from ABC News shows roughly 7 in 10 Americans know virtually nothing about what exactly Democrats are negotiating about.
	But of the Americans who do, more Americans say that they don't like the bill than say that they do like the bill.
	The new ABC News Ipsos poll found a plurality.
	32% of Americans think the bills would hurt people like them if they became law.
	Only 25% think it would help them.
	About 2 in 10, 18%, said that they think the bills will make no difference.
	24% said they didn't know.
	Even among Democrats, fewer than half think the two bills would help people like them.
	47%.
	A quarter of Democrats think it'll make no difference.
	22% don't know how it would impact their lives.
	Okay, so these are just disastrous numbers for Democrats across the board.
	So if you believe that them passing this bill is going to save them, wrongo!
	It is not.
	Them passing Build Back Better will not save them, it will harm them.
	Because they are throwing money at an inflation problem.
	Okay, only about half of independents approve of Biden's handling of climate change.
	Okay, but on other issues, economic recovery, gun violence, crime and taxes, independents approval hovers around 4 in 10.
	He is below 40% on gun violence, Afghanistan, and immigration.
	He's at 31% on immigration.
	Fewer than two-thirds of Democrats approve of Biden's handling of gun violence.
	Why?
	Because crime has spiked in the major cities.
	Only 62% of Democrats approve of Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
	This is the ABC News poll.
	Again, separate poll.
	On immigration, only 54% of Democrats approve of Biden on immigration.
	These are abysmal numbers.
	I mean, honestly, these are numbers that are way worse than what Trump had.
	Because Biden ain't even holding his own base.
	His own base is looking at him cross-eyed.
	And Joe Biden has no good answer on this.
	So he was at this G20 summit.
	So he decided to cross the seas and spew a bunch of carbon in order to jabber about climate change to a bunch of other people who aren't going to do anything about climate change.
	And then apparently be looked askance at by Greta Thunberg, who will be very disappointed in Joe Biden.
	So here is Joe Biden, a decrepit, doddering president, a top-aged, decrepit, doddering, authoritarian presidency, saying that he has no good answer on these polls.
	The polls are going to go up and down and up and down.
	They were high early, then they got medium, then went back up, and now they're low.
	Well, look, this is, look, look at every other president.
	The same thing has happened, but that's not why I ran.
	I didn't run to determine how well I'm going to do in the polls.
	I ran to make sure that I followed through on what I said I would do as president of the United States.
	Yeah, man.
	No, not everybody's polls look like this.
	Obama's polls didn't look like this.
	They didn't.
	His predecessor in the Democratic Party, his polls did not look like that.
	OK, so this is what is underlying the media's sudden obsession with the fact that people really don't like Biden to the extent that they are now chanting, let's go, Brandon.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	As you all know, as I'm sure you have heard, the chant, let's go, Brandon, has become very common across the country.
	Now, you'll recall the reason that let's go, Brandon, went viral in the first place is because there was a NASCAR race in which a driver named Brandon Brown won the race.
	And he was being interviewed after the race by a sports reporter.
	And in the background, people were not chanting, let's go, Brandon.
	They were chanting bleep Joe Biden.
	F Joe Biden.
	This is what they were chanting.
	And the reporter trying to pass this off as a non-obscene chant said, listen to that crowd, Brandon.
	They're all saying, let's go, Brandon.
	And it was super funny because you can hear right in the background, the people chanting F Joe Biden.
	You can hear it, and then you can hear the media in real time trying to spin it as like a pro-Brandon Scheer.
	So this has become sort of the more innocent meme of F Joe Biden, right?
	When you want to say F Joe Biden, but you don't want to be vulgar, instead you say, let's go Brandon.
	It also happens to be kind of a hilarious in-joke about the incompetence and stupidity of an insular media that are constantly attempting to spin away the fact that people do not like Joe Biden.
	And this is the whole thing, guys.
	If for the media, for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden must remain personally popular or the Democrats are toast.
	Remember, the entire 2020 campaign was not run on issues.
	On the issues, Donald Trump won.
	On personality, Joe Biden won.
	Not because people love Joe Biden, but because he's not Donald Trump.
	And so ever since then, Democrats have basically been relying on two things.
	Not being Trump, and maybe, maybe you'll develop a certain sense of warmth for Joe Biden.
	Well, here's the thing.
	Nobody has a sense of warmth for Joe Biden.
	Nobody thinks that Joe Biden is what he was billed as, this empathetic elderly statesman who's going to massage your shoulders while he comforts you about your life issues.
	Nobody thinks of Joe Biden that way.
	And so when the ire raises with Joe Biden, it scares the living hell out of the Democrats, as it should, especially because they don't have anybody waiting in the wings.
	The person who is next in line is even more unpopular than Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
	The cackling politician who literally begins laughing randomly if asked a difficult question and is so fake that she makes I Can't Believe It's Not Butter seem like the genuine article.
	She airsats authenticity and very clearly so.
	She's the spam of breakfast mates.
	I mean, nobody likes Kamala Harris.
	So you got Joe Biden here and then behind him, you got Kamala Harris.
	And they're like, oh, my God, really?
	And then they were trying to prop up Pete Buttigieg.
	But it turns out that guy went on paternity leave for two months for who knows.
	And and then no one even noticed.
	So Democrats have a real world of hurt coming for them.
	It's not as though they have a deep bench here.
	And so this scares them.
	Let's Go Brandon is scary to them.
	You have to understand that Let's Go Brandon is even scarier to them than the time that that rodeo clown...
	Don's an Obama mask and the entire media activated because here's the other thing about Joe Biden.
	If Joe Biden is not personally popular, if people don't like Joe Biden, the Democrats cannot claim it is because of racism.
	When people didn't like Barack Obama's agenda, the Democrats kept claiming and so did Obama that it was because the American people are actually secretly racist.
	When it was Hillary Clinton, the media had a convenient excuse.
	It turns out that you are a vicious, brutal sexist.
	In fact, the media would have an easier time with people not liking Kamala Harris and not liking Joe Biden.
	Because if people don't like Kamala Harris, the media just says that you are racist and sexist.
	But if you don't like Joe Biden, who is whiter than the back of this sheet of paper, I mean, Joe Biden makes me look like a person of color.
	If you don't like Joe Biden, it turns out maybe you just don't like Joe Biden, and you don't like his agenda.
	And this is scary for Democrats, because if you don't like Joe Biden, and you don't like his agenda, what's the alternative?
	Okay, so all of this came to a head over the weekend, because allegedly there was a pilot on Southwest Airlines who came on the loudspeaker and, as a joke, said, let's go Brandon, which is just horrific.
	I mean, just brutal and horrific.
	And how could it happen?
	Okay, so, according to a reporter from the Associated Press named Colleen Long, this is the only allegation we have.
	On Friday morning, on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers.
	People just audibly gasping.
	The pearl clutching.
	They're clutching those pearls so hard, they actually turn them into pearls, they clutch them so hard.
	They turn them into diamonds, they clutch them so hard.
	Southwest said in a statement, the airline quote, takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable and respectful environment and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned.
	Veterans GOP ad maker Jim Enosensi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it hilarious.
	But again, Democrats in the media, they can't have a sense of humor about this thing.
	So it's very bad.
	Okay, so first of all, we don't know this actually happened because there's no tape of it that has emerged so far.
	It's literally just the word of a person who's on a flight.
	It's going to be really, really funny if it turns out that all the pilot said was prepare for landing.
	And this person was like, did he say, let's go, Brandon?
	Apparently she then charged up to the cockpit and started pounding on the door, which is a great tactic, by the way.
	That's not an FAA violation at all.
	So but even if that's true and it could be.
	The reason I know it could be is because last week I was flying and the pilot, it was a private flight, and the pilot said, would you like to get on the radio and radio all the other pilots and say, let's go Brandon.
	So apparently this has in fact become somewhat of a thing among pilots, which is super funny.
	And, um, this is the end of the world.
	Okay, so one pilot gets on the intercom, and apparently, allegedly, says, let's go Brandon, and the media lose their bleep.
	They just go ape bleep.
	Which, of course, is exactly the way to get people to stop doing a funny thing.
	If you really want to get people to stop doing something, make a huge deal out of it.
	If you've ever had children, and your children have cursed, the smartest thing to do is make a huge deal out of it, because then they'll never do it again.
	Or alternatively, you're really stupid if you do that.
	But the media can't help themselves.
	We'll get to this in just one second because it's great.
	And it is indicative again of the fact that the double standard when it comes to vulgarity, the double standard when it comes to how you're supposed to feel about particular politicians is so unbelievably glaring when it comes to the media.
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	Okay, so Southwest Airlines has now released a statement.
	And so we know many of you have heard about recent statements that may have been made on a Southwest flight.
	We wanted you to hear directly from us.
	So they can't even confirm, by the way, that this happened.
	So it will be hysterical if it turns out this is all a figment of an AP reporter's imagination.
	I will laugh.
	Very hard.
	It wouldn't be rare.
	The media do this kind of stuff all the time.
	The media are constantly reporting incidents that are supposedly damning of American right-wing culture, and then it turns out that it never happened.
	That kind of stuff does happen.
	But here's what Southwest says, quote, The Southwest team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, safe, and respectful environment for the millions of customers who fly with us each year.
	Southwest does not condone employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job, serving our customers, and one employee's individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 employees.
	Southwest is conducting an internal investigation into the recently reported event and will address the situation directly with any employee involved, while continuing to remind all employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable.
	Southwest does not tolerate any behavior that encourages divisiveness as it does not reflect the Southwest hospitality and inclusiveness for which we are known and strive to provide each day on every flight.
	Ah, the end of the world has arrived.
	Somebody said, let's go Brandon on a flight.
	Oh, just just horrific.
	Just horrific.
	OK, so Southwest is apparently addressing it internally.
	According to the Washington Post, the phrase has been used as a code by conservative critics of the president since a chant of F Joe Biden broke out among a crowd at Alabama's Talladega Super Speedway in early October.
	The story also became a rallying cry for those defending the pilot's purported remarks, with some saying it would in fact encourage them to fly southwest.
	First of all, that would be great.
	Harvard professor and CNN analyst, Juliette Kayyem, had a tweet.
	Okay, so there are a lot of tweets from a lot of blue checkmark people who are super upset.
	So for example, expert on everything Tom Nichols, who writes books on expertise, because he's an expert on expertise.
	He's so expert-y that he doesn't know things.
	So he tweeted out, maybe for a flight attendant this would have been okay, but the pilot announcing his political feelings with a slogan like that strikes me as kind of loopy.
	If F.A.
	gets off the handle, yeah, but the pilot?
	He knows he's risking getting fired.
	I'm not good with trusting a guy like that with my life.
	So expert Tom Nichols is now worried that, what, the guy's going to, like, fly the plane into a building because he said, let's go, Brandon.
	These people are insane.
	I'm sorry.
	They're just crazy.
	They're just crazy.
	Tristan Snell, who is a person who, I guess, comments for CNN.
	That's literally the only reason anyone has ever heard of him.
	He tweeted, Let's Go Brandon has become the MAGA version of Sieg Heil.
	Oh, has it?
	I spot some differences.
	I'm spotting some differences.
	Like, for example, I, an Orthodox Jew, not big with the Sieg Heil.
	However, Let's Go Brandon is hilarious.
	Let's Go Brandon is great.
	Then you have Asha Rangappa, who's another CNN commenter.
	I don't know what's in the water over at CNN.
	People are higher than their own supply.
	Asha Rangappa, she tweeted, as an experiment, I'd love for a Southwest pilot to say long live ISIS before taking off.
	My guess is one, the plane would be immediately grounded.
	Two, the pilot fired.
	And three, a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours.
	Long live ISIS?
	And let's go Brandon.
	Again, not the same.
	Like, not the same thing.
	I noticed because ISIS cuts the heads off people or puts them in cages and sets them on fire or, you know, bombs American service people in Afghanistan, whereas Let's Go Brandon is a bunch of people who think it's funny to say F Joe Biden because he's the worst.
	Then she followed up.
	She couldn't let it go.
	And somebody tweeted back.
	Right, because supporting terrorists that have run planes into buildings is atrocious.
	And not at all like saying, let's go Brandon.
	If you were a former FBI, it does explain what's wrong with the FBI.
	That is a fair critique.
	And she wrote, ISIS didn't run planes into buildings.
	They didn't exist in 2001.
	Oh, well owned, pawned.
	MAGA did attack the Capitol.
	Attempt to overthrow the government of the United States and threatened to hang the vice president.
	So.
	Oh yeah, so let's go Brandon is the same as breaking into the Capitol now.
	You wonder why the right thinks the left is loony and these people cannot be let anywhere near power?
	It's because of this kind of crap where you suggest that if I don't like Joe Biden because he's a bad president, that it's the equivalent of me rushing into the Capitol and threatening to hang Mike Pence.
	And then Juliette Kayyem, as I mentioned before, she tweeted, if Southwest Air doesn't do anything, every passenger on that flight has standing to file a complaint with the FAA and they should do so.
	Southwest will then be compelled to investigate or defend it.
	Have fun with that.
	No messing around in the air.
	Bright line rule.
	And somebody wrote back, not being flipped, but a complaint for what?
	Is he in violation of an FAA rule or regulation?
	And she said, yes, pilot conduct.
	His words reflect the possibility of anger management or substance abuse.
	It is worth asking.
	So now, if you say, let's go, Brandon, publicly, by the way, I bought a shirt that says, let's go, Brandon, one of my favorite shirts, a great shirt, available from Daily Wire.
	If you if you say that now, maybe you're on drugs or drunk while flying.
	Okay, maybe you shouldn't get drunk before tweeting, Juliet Kayyem.
	Dino Badaya tweeted, Southwest Airlines is now the pro-January 6th terrorist attack airlines.
	Man, again, all these folks who comment for CNN, they are so crazy.
	By the way, just a quick note here.
	It would be crazy, right?
	I mean, totally nuts, if it turned out that pretty frequently these airlines allow people to say political things.
	Say, for example, that the American Airlines crew had been allowed to wear Black Lives Matter pins on their uniforms last year, which is what they did.
	Quote, American Airlines believes in equity and inclusion for all.
	Fundamentally, we believe Black Lives Matter is an expression of equality, not a political statement.
	It doesn't mean other lives don't matter, rather that in our society, Black lives should be mattered and be valued the same as others.
	Also, American has already allowed employees to wear pins representing recognized groups, including religious faith, nationality, military service, and LGBTQ pride.
	Flight attendants can wear three pieces of flare on their uniform.
	Don't worry, it's all—this is the rule for the left.
	It's apolitical when they say it, but so political that maybe you should get fired if you say it.
	And everybody can see this crap.
	Everybody can see it.
	In just one second, we'll get to the hilarity of all these folks on the left being very upset about the vulgarity.
	Ah!
	The vulgarity.
	This is what they care about deeply now.
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	Okay, so.
	The left is going to pretend that they're very angry at the politicization of anybody who's involved with the corporation after spending a year bullying and cuddling corporations into doing precisely their bidding.
	Remember, the worst thing in the world is that MLB was going to have the all-star game in Georgia.
	They moved the all-star game because some Democrats pretended to be offended by Georgia's voter law.
	Remember that Coca-Cola made statements about this and then had to back off of them.
	Remember that every major corporation in America has endorsed every woke point of view for the last several years.
	Everything from branding all of their products for LGBTQ Pride Month to BLM.
	Any corporate leader, by the way, who spoke out about the 2020 election ripped on Trump.
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	So the entire corporate culture, the entire institutional corporate culture is biased to the left because they know where their bread is buttered.
	But if one pilot says a thing on a plane, bad, he's probably a drunk, he's probably a drug user, you got to get him fired.
	Really, really important.
	Are they really that concerned about the pilot?
	No.
	They're concerned that people don't like Joe Biden.
	End of story.
	Okay, so then they have a second pitch.
	Okay, and their second pitch is that anybody who doesn't like Joe Biden is actually in league with January 6th or that sort of crap or must be fired.
	And this is real politicization.
	How dare you polarize America with your Let's Go Brandon chant?
	Oh, so that's one.
	The other is it's so vulgar.
	Guys, the reason we say Let's Go Brandon is because it is not vulgar.
	Like, I'm not going to say F Joe Biden in front of my kids.
	I will 100% say Let's Go Brandon in front of my kids because it doesn't mean anything.
	It's a euphemism for F Joe Biden, obviously.
	But that's the whole point.
	That's why we use euphemisms.
	The point of euphemisms is so that you're not vulgar.
	It's a deliberately non-vulgar statement.
	But the media are like, be still, they're beating hearts.
	You said Let's Go Brandon and we know secretly what you mean is F Joe Biden.
	And that's vulgar.
	It's vulgar and terrible.
	So you end up with foolishness like this from Dana Milbank over at the Washington Post.
	Let's Go Brandon is Republicans vulgar, vulgar governing agenda.
	At 7.30 a.m.
	Thursday morning, White House officials rolled out President Biden's roughly $1.75 trillion framework to cut taxes for ordinary Americans and make it easier for them to afford health care and housing, send their kids to pre-K and college, and adopt clean new power for their homes and cars.
	Was that all it does there, Dana Milbank?
	An hour later came the Republican response from the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
	It was succinct and to the point.
	F. Joe Biden.
	Technically, the message, a tweet from McConnell press secretary Doug Andre, showed a photo of a roadside sign that said, Let's Go Brandon.
	For the uninitiated, that's a MAGA meme, in which the phrase stands for the slightly homophonous F. Joe Biden.
	It's a way to flip the bird at the president without running afoul of technology censors, as the right-wing Washington Times put it.
	First of all, it's not a MAGA meme.
	Okay, like, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump particularly.
	As y'all know, I voted for Donald Trump in the last election.
	I didn't vote for him in the first election.
	Guess what?
	Doesn't have to do with Trump.
	Joe Biden's a terrible president.
	Let's Go Brandon just means you don't like him.
	A lot of people feeling Let's Go Brandon right now who didn't vote for Trump.
	Which is why Joe Biden is in the toilet in the approval ratings.
	It's why on particular issues he's down at 37%.
	Like, is he competent?
	The substitute phrase has been chanted at rallies for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, used by Senators Ted Cruz, Republican Representatives Bill Posey of Florida on the House floor, Jim Banks of Indiana, and Donald Trump Jr.
	On Thursday, adopted by Trump himself, he offered Let's Go Brandon t-shirts for those sending at least $45 to his organization, Save America.
	Think about that!
	Could the contrast be any greater, says Dana Milbank?
	Half of America's leaders are trying to govern.
	The other half are hurling vulgarities.
	Oh, the vulgarities.
	You know, what's amazing was those four years where there were no vulgarities.
	There were no vulgarities for four long years when Donald Trump was president.
	America was just filled with a spirit of goodwill and tolerance from Democrats who never had anything vulgar to say about Donald Trump.
	And in fact, were utterly intolerant of any vulgarity directed at the President of the United States for four years.
	They hated vulgarity, Democrats.
	If there's one thing Democrats hate, it is vulgarity.
	I mean, sure, they're into there being no social standards whatsoever on anything ranging from I'm gonna say one thing.
	your kids in school to curse words in music like that's all fine.
	WAP is a great song for you to play to your seven-year-old, but they are very worried about vulgarity generally and they are specifically worried about vulgarity that is directed at the President of the United States, which is why they were, you remember this, Robert De Niro, he went out at the Tonys, you remember, and he was so, you remember the blowback?
	Remember how angry Democrats were when Robert De Niro said this?
	I'm going to say one thing, f* Trump. It's no longer down with Trump, it's f* Trump.
	Oh, and everybody, standing ovation, standing ovation from the crowd, but secretly in their heart they were upset about the vulgarity. That's what we're led to believe. They're literally standing and cheering for f*** Trump there.
	And the media are like, oh, Robert De Niro, what a hero.
	I mean, there's nothing quite as heroic as standing up in front of a bunch of people who totally agree with you and saying F Trump.
	Resistance heroes!
	Oh, you remember?
	But the truth is, deep down in their heart, they were very upset with the vulgarity.
	Now, remember, he actually said F Trump.
	He didn't say, let's go Trump or let's go Brandon or let's go Tony or something.
	Okay.
	And it wasn't just, it wasn't just Robert De Niro.
	Of course we all know this.
	Okay.
	We, we were here for four years while you use vulgarities that are honestly unprecedented in American life with regard to Trump.
	Like whatever you think about the vulgarities directed at Barack Obama by public figures, they were nothing compared to what public figures said about Trump and his family and anything associated with Trump, his supporters, like not close, not even remotely close.
	Many of us really thought that Barack Obama was a terrible president and did great damage to the country.
	There were no public figures who were saying this kind of stuff about Barack Obama.
	He's certainly not celebrated by the mainstream media.
	And if a public figure was saying it, he was pretty quickly taken to task.
	Not so on the left.
	For four years, the greatest way to fame and fortune was to say F Trump and F his family.
	I mean, you remember Samantha Bee literally went on air and she called Ivanka Trump, right?
	Not even Trump himself, Ivanka Trump, she called a feckless C word.
	Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week.
	You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c**t!
	He listens to you!
	OK, yeah, and people cheering wildly, right?
	But it's the vulgarity.
	If there's one thing Democrats are known for is their objections to generalized vulgarity.
	They hate generalized vulgarity.
	It's just the worst for them.
	Now, play that latest Cardi B song again.
	Here's Jim Gaffigan, you'll remember, in middle of August last year.
	He wanted to demonstrate because there are a lot of right wingers who kind of like Jim Gaffigan's comedy.
	For reasons that partially elude me.
	Anyway, Jim Gaffigan tweeted out, I don't give a bleep if anyone thinks this is virtue signaling or whatever.
	We need to wake up.
	We need to call Trump the conman and thief that he is.
	And then somebody wrote back to him and he said, oh, F you.
	That is moronic, but dare you got me to respond, idiot.
	He's just a genius.
	And then he says, remember, everything Trump accuses the Democrats of, he's guilty of.
	Don't let the socialist name calling distract you from the fact he's a fascist who has no belief in law.
	And someone wrote back, you probably just lost a lot of followers for this one.
	Stick to comedy.
	And he wrote back, hey, F you, Karen.
	But he was cheered for this, right?
	Heroism from Jim Gaffigan.
	Oh, Jim Gaffigan.
	That's what they'll say.
	The gaslighting is insane.
	It's insane.
	You want more Trump?
	This is how you're going to get more Trump, guys.
	This is how you're going to get more Trump.
	Seriously, because eventually the right is just going to be like, OK, we're not going to say let's go Brandon anymore.
	We're just going to say, Joe Biden, right?
	We're all going to say that we're just going to say that because if you say that we can't even use the euphemism for we don't like Biden without us being accused of unprecedented vulgarity and terrorism, we're all just going to be like, you know what?
	Screw it.
	We're going to say exactly what we mean.
	Remember that for four years wearing a hat.
	A p***y hat, which was specifically supposed to be a reference not to a cat, but to female genitals, was considered a wonderful thing.
	It was considered a sign of resistance heroism.
	Even NPR noted at the time that it was meant to be a reference to vulgarity.
	Here's NPR way back when.
	McGovern acknowledges some may find the name of the hats vulgar, but... I feel like we kind of had to take it back, make it a feminist word.
	A 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women by their genitals inspired the hat's creation.
	Deepthi Sethi marched with her mom and sister, all wearing the hats.
	She says it's empowering to re-appropriate the word.
	I think sitting there and saying, I'm wearing a hat, and not having it reflect something vulgar, something that you should shy away from.
	Okay, so they were literally putting f***ing hats on children.
	How dare you with your vulgarity, with your let's go Brandon vulgarity?
	Honestly, f*** off.
	I mean, come on.
	It's absurd.
	The whole thing is absurd.
	Okay, and the vulgarity is not, on the left, the vulgarity is not restricted to the kind of language they use with regard to Republicans.
	It's expansive.
	That vulgarity exists in the entire approach to America and public life.
	They engage in the kind of polarizing, insane activity that is way worse than anything remotely, like Let's Go Brandon.
	Just to take the latest example.
	So in Virginia, it looks very much as though Terry McAuliffe may go down to flaming defeat tomorrow in Virginia.
	Right now in the RealClearPolitics poll average, McAuliffe is trailing.
	The enthusiasm in Virginia by all accounts on the ground is not for McAuliffe.
	The enthusiasm is for Junkin.
	By the way, all the polls nationally are showing that Republicans are far more motivated to vote in 2022 than Democrats are.
	So this early bellwether is a disaster for Democrats.
	So over the weekend, right before the weekend, there was this picture that came out.
	Okay, the picture that came out was a picture of five people standing in front of a Glenn Youngkin bus.
	They were wearing Charlottesville outfits.
	They were wearing outfits from Charlottesville, from the white supremacist rally, like khakis and white shirts, and they were carrying tiki torches.
	Now it was pretty clear, and they were talking about how they supported Junkin, it was pretty clear from the get-go that this was a phony, right?
	That it was an op.
	It was pretty clear from the get-go.
	Why?
	Well, because one of the people who was carrying the tiki torch was black.
	My favorite thing about this...
	Is that the leftists who wanted to make it seem as though a bunch of white supremacists were supporting Glenn Youngkin?
	They were like, but you know what?
	We still have to pay attention to our own diversity requirements.
	So we can't just have a bunch of white guys go out there and pretend to be white supremacists supporting Glenn Youngkin to make Youngkin look bad.
	That would violate our own strictures and sense of propriety about diversity.
	So they sent a black dude and a lady as well.
	We'll send this transgender little person to pretend to be a white supremacist youngkin supporter.
	Geniuses.
	Geniuses all.
	Okay, so this became a big thing.
	So on Friday, there were a bunch of people on the left who were tweeting this out.
	Look at these white supremacist youngkin supporters.
	And everybody on the right was like, yeah, this is bulls**t. I'm sorry, this is not real.
	Everybody on the right was like, this is just nonsense.
	It's pretty clear what you guys are doing.
	It is clear this is not true.
	And as it turns out, it wasn't true.
	The Lincoln Project then had to claim responsibility.
	So you remember all those idiots at the Lincoln Project who, when they are not busy covering up their founders, reaching out?
	I'll put that mildly.
	reaching out to underage men, that when they're not busy doing that, and then disbanding, then rebanding, they're committing ops like this.
	Remember, this was supposed to be, these are the true believer, anti-Trump Republicans, right?
	Except they vote for every Democrat across the country, including people who have no relation to Trump.
	So they're just Democrats who grift and grift hard.
	This is grift hard too, grift harder.
	So they put out a statement.
	Glenn Youngkin has said, President Trump represents so much of why I'm running.
	Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words like critical race theory.
	The Lincoln Project has run advertisements highlighting the hate unleashed in Charlottesville, as well as Glenn Youngkin's continued failure to denounce Donald Trump.
	Today's demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago.
	We will continue to hold Glenn Youngkin accountable.
	Until then, we'll be back.
	Okay, so yeah, it was a complete backfire.
	And I do appreciate that the Lincoln Project continues to use minors for their own perverse purposes.
	That's fun.
	Apparently these were members of the Young Democrats.
	So using young people for their own perverse purposes and ruining their lives is apparently, like, these people will now be searchable for the rest of time and memeable for the rest of time.
	That was a genius move.
	And this is the entire Democratic shtick in Virginia right now, is to try and accuse Glenn Youngkin of racism without any evidence.
	This is a form of political vulgarity that really is damaging to the country.
	By the way, critical race theory is written into many of the standards for the Virginia Department of Education.
	Chris Ruffo has the receipts over on Twitter.
	But this is part of the pitch.
	And the same people are like, don't say let's go Brannon, too vulgar.
	They will go out there and just lie about their political opponents by calling them vicious racists.
	This is Terry McAuliffe's game because he's losing.
	Here is Terry McAuliffe over the weekend.
	He wants to ban Toni Morrison's book, Beloved.
	So, he's going after one of the most preeminent African-American female writers in American history, won the Nobel Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and he wants her book banned.
	Now, of all the hundreds of books you could look at, why did you take the one black female author?
	Why did you do it?
	He's ending his campaign on a racist dog whistle, just like he started the campaign when he talks about election integrity.
	Okay, that's just a lie.
	It's just a lie, okay?
	This has been debunked by the Washington Post.
	It's not true.
	But he's going out there and he's just yelling about how Glenn Youngkin is a racist.
	That's much more vulgar to me than just saying you don't like who the current president of the United States is.
	That is a slur on character.
	It's a slur on Youngkin.
	It is overtly false.
	Again, it's been fact-checked by people on the left.
	It is not true.
	But that sort of vulgarity is endemic to the leftist view of the United States more broadly.
	And it's really harmful, like much more harmful than you don't like the current president.
	It turns out pretty much half the country at all times doesn't like the current president.
	Doesn't matter who the current president is.
	That is not the true vulgarity.
	The true vulgarity is calling your fellow citizens vicious, brutal racists.
	And then being taken seriously.
	That's the vulgarity.
	Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second because it really is.
	It's true gaslighting and Americans know it and it's driving the wedge.
	It's driving the polarization.
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	Alrighty, so when I talk about the vulgarity that's endemic in American life right now, I'm not talking about F Trump or F Joe Biden.
	I'm talking about the vulgarity of particular narratives.
	I mean, first of all, there's just the bad treatment of people.
	The notion that you can just treat people badly based on their politics.
	So, for example, Kyrsten Sinema has been raked over the coals by the radical left Who have suggested that she is very, very bad because she wasn't going to sign off on $3.5 trillion in spending.
	She's only going to sign off on probably $3 trillion when you actually do the math.
	$4 trillion when you actually do the math and extend these democratic programs that are greenlighting over the course of actually 10 years as opposed to false sunsets.
	But anyway, a bunch of protesters showed up at a wedding that Kyrsten Sinema was actually officiating.
	And they ruined the wedding.
	They ruined the wedding.
	Okay, so this is apparently not a national story.
	It is a national story if a pilot says, let's go Brandon, which ruined nobody's day and ruined nobody's life.
	Here's somebody actually trying to ruin a wedding and Kirsten Sinema like comes out and she's like begging with them.
	Please don't do this.
	Could you just go down to the corner for an hour?
	It's my daughter's wedding.
	Just for an hour.
	Just let her get married, please.
	This person is not my daughter.
	My daughter's getting married.
	Will you tell her that... Did you even invite Senator?
	Is Senator really here?
	I don't want to tell her that we don't like what she's doing to our country.
	I want you to invite this woman.
	You know what?
	Tell her!
	Tell her!
	Okay, that's the mother of the bride comes in and is begging with these people not to ruin the daughter's wedding.
	And they're like, the person officiating the wedding is like, you wanna know what's undermining American life?
	Like that kind of stuff.
	You know what else is undermining American life?
	Is the generalized left-wing take on race.
	So Colin Kaepernick is just a giant con man.
	Like one of the great con men of our time.
	He's a failed NFL quarterback.
	He had like a couple of good seasons and then he started to fail.
	And so they benched him for the immortal Blaine Gabbard.
	And then he decided it's time to kneel for the national anthem because America is deeply racist.
	It wasn't racist until he got benched.
	Then he got benched and then America magically became racist and he was wearing socks with pigs as cops on them on the basis of the lie that the police are systemically shooting black people for no reason.
	This has won him accolades.
	He got a Nike deal.
	The only failed quarterback to win a giant Nike deal, right?
	With slogans saying things like you have to risk everything.
	Well, he's risked nothing.
	He risked zero things.
	He waited until he was a backup quarterback, then he knelt for the national anthem, and then the entire left wing ran to his defense.
	And then he spent the last few years saying he wants to play in the NFL while avoiding anything that would actually get him back into the NFL, because it turns out he kind of sucks.
	He's not a very good quarterback.
	Hey, so now, Netflix, remember, the way the corporations work is that if you work for Southwest and you say, let's go Brandon, it's a fireable offense.
	But all of Netflix, well, Netflix will just churn out democratic propaganda day after day after day.
	They'll put out propaganda, a Pete Buttigieg documentary about how he changed the world.
	And now we've got Anna DuVernay, who of course is the woman who has made other propaganda films about race in the United States.
	Now she's making a propaganda film with Colin Kaepernick Talking about how Colin Kaepernick changed the world is called Colin in Black and White.
	Here's a clip from it.
	You want to know what ruins the country?
	This kind of crap.
	So here is Colin Kaepernick talking about how the NFL Combine, which is a place where players show up to demonstrate their skills in front of coaches so that they will get drafted higher and be paid more millions of dollars.
	He compares this, millionaire Colin Kaepernick, Compares this to slave auctions in this film.
	Backed by Netflix.
	Backed by corporate bucks.
	But that's not a problem.
	Let's Go Brandon is a problem.
	You want to know which is more vulgar in the broader sense of the world?
	Not a question.
	Here's Colin Kaepernick doing something morally despicable, but he's fond of doing that for cash.
	Before they put you on the field, teams poke, pry, and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance.
	No boundary respected.
	No dignity left intact.
	Okay, and then, if you can't see this, there's a bunch of guys who are getting checked out at the combine with their shirts off.
	And then, they walk out of the combine and into a graphic of them with chains on them being auctioned off as slaves.
	I'm not kidding.
	This is what Netflix is producing.
	And people bidding on them.
	Okay, I can spot a few differences.
	One, slaves were called slaves because they were not paid.
	Because they were literally enslaved.
	Not they volunteered into an NFL combine, where they then got paid millions of dollars based on their physical abilities.
	But Colin Kaepernick conflates the two.
	Which is more vulgar for the United States?
	Saying that the NFL combine is equivalent to actual honest-to-God slavery?
	Or saying, let's go Brandon?
	But you know what the real vulgarity is?
	It's not that.
	That's not real vulgarity in sports.
	The real vulgarity is that Donald Trump went to a Braves game and did the tomahawk chop.
	That was the end of the world.
	Over the weekend, Donald Trump went to a Braves game.
	By the way, there's great irony to the fact that Texas and Georgia are the two states competing in the World Series after the MLB decided to cave to the Wokescolds.
	So Donald Trump went to the Braves game, and he was doing the tomahawk chop.
	And this was the end of the world.
	Okay, because the tomahawk chop is supposedly racist.
	Now, if you're gonna talk about which is more racially problematic, comparing the NFL combine to actual honest-to-God slavery, or a non-offensive symbol at a Braves game, where nobody is saying, I hate Native Americans, therefore I'm doing the tomahawk chop.
	They're saying that this is a symbol of Native American culture that we wish to co-opt because it's awesome, and they're doing the tomahawk chop.
	But Donald Trump is the real threat to American mores.
	He's the threat.
	He's the threat.
	And the grift is so unbelievably strong.
	And this is why Americans are rebelling against this kind of crap.
	Let's Go Brandon is going to become more ubiquitous, not less.
	Because it's not just that Joe Biden is pursuing radical economic policy.
	It's that Joe Biden is pursuing radical social policy.
	It's that he has bought into a vulgarization of the idea of America, broad scale.
	And if you note that, using any language whatsoever, this makes you bad.
	If you note that, using euphemistic language, because you don't even want to curse.
	That's apparently super duper bad.
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