Well, Disney is trying to spin Dross into gold and the media are there.
They are eating it up.
According to our legacy media, Disney has heroically stood up to the predations of Governor Ron DeSantis.
Now, you'll remember that this whole fight started because last year,
Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature pushed a bill that said that you cannot sexually indoctrinate kids
up to the age of eight in the state of Florida.
That's now been extended all the way through high school, that you're not allowed to teach kids
sexual orientation and gender identity nonsense in the classroom.
And Disney put out a statement saying this was just terrible.
They opposed it with every fiber of their Mickey Mouse being
you must trans the kids.
It's very, very important that small children be told that boys can be girls and girls can be boys
and that wherever you put your dingleberry, well, you know, that's just the same.
It's all the same.
There's just pure moral equivalence between all forms of sexual activity and all the rest.
And Disney, Mickey Mouse is going to stand behind this particular form of morality.
It was very, very important that Disney take a stand.
And Ron DeSantis was like, well, so here's the deal.
If you guys decide to use the special privileges that we, the state of Florida, have given you to get involved in ultra crepedarian pursuits, in which you decide that you are going to simply sound off on everything that affects the state of Florida, but nothing that affects your business, well, you know, you don't need that special tax district anymore.
Because guess what?
You don't get to take the special tax benefits.
You don't get to take the carrot without the strings that are attached.
That's not how any of this works.
Now Disney is fighting back according to the media.
So how are they fighting back?
They are fighting back by pulling the plug on a $1 billion development in Florida.
According to the New York Times, in March, Disney called Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida anti-business for his scorched earth attempt to tighten oversight of the company's theme park resort near Orlando.
Last month, when Disney sued the governor and his allies for what it called a targeted campaign of government retaliation, the company made clear that $17 billion in planned investment in Walt Disney World was on the line.
Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people, and pay more taxes or not?
Said Robert Iger, Disney's chief executive.
Now, there are a lot of people in the state of Florida who voted for Governor DeSantis, including people like me and my entire family, that say, well, hold up.
So if the choice is between corporations that take special tax benefits and then use that largesse in order to press forward a bunch of social leftist garbage that undermines the standard of living in the state of Florida, keep your jobs in California, if that's the actual choice.
But as it turns out, that's not really what's happening here.
What's actually happening here is that Disney is now spinning the fact that they are in a state of economic freefall as a woke corporate stand.
On Thursday, Iger and Josh Damaro, Disney's theme park and consumer products chairman, showed they were not bluffing, pulling the plug on an office complex that was scheduled for construction in Orlando at a cost of roughly a billion dollars.
It would have brought more than 2,000 Disney jobs to the region, with $120,000 as the average salary.
According to an estimate from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the project near Lake Nona Town Center was supposed to cost $864 million.
Recent price estimates have been closer to $1.3 billion.
Disney had planned to relocate as many as 2,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney's movie studios to develop theme park attractions.
Now, here is the thing.
Disney was probably not going to do this.
Disney was probably not going to do this.
They announced the project in 2021.
That was not under Bob Iger.
That was under Bob Chapek.
You remember, Chapek got his ass scanned.
And then they brought back Bob Iger from retirement to try to get Disney out of the state of freefall that it was in.
Demaro said in an email to employees on Thursday, he cited changing business conditions as a reason for canceling the Lake Nona project.
He said, I remain optimistic about the direction of our Walt Disney World business.
He noted that $17 billion was still earmarked for construction at Walt Disney World over the next decade, growth that would create an estimated 13,000 jobs.
I hope we're able to.
The memo did not even mention Governor DeSantis.
But the company's battle with the governor and his allies in the Florida legislature figured prominently into Disney's decision to cancel the Lake Nona project, according to two people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Iger said he was not available for an interview.
So basically what happened here is that Disney does not have the money or the wherewithal right now to build a $1 billion project in Orlando.
How do we know this?
Because it is perfectly obvious to everyone.
They lost subscribers last quarter for the first time ever.
It was like 4 million subscribers they lost.
Meanwhile, Disney has had to lay off something like 7,000 people.
In fact, it was just a week ago or so that they announced that they were laying off a significant number of people.
That was CNN that was pointing out that Disney was in the midst of mass layoffs.
I mean, this is literally from March 27th.
Quote, Disney CEO Bob Iger on Monday said his company will begin laying off staff starting this week.
The first of three rounds of expected cuts following his announcement in February, the company would ax 7,000 jobs.
He put out a memo saying, quote, So that's about 3% of its global workforce.
Iger, by the way, back in November, actually announced that this thing was on the chopping block.
we must always do what is required to ensure Disney can continue delivering exceptional
entertainment to audiences and guests around the world.
So that's about 3% of its global workforce.
Iger by the way, back in November, actually announced that this thing was on the chopping
block.
Okay, so this notion that this is something new, like it's brand new, that they're deciding
to kill the project.
That is not true.
Again, he said way back when, in November, that they were thinking about killing this thing.
This is according to WDWNT, which is Walt Disney World News Today.
CEO Bob Iger is hosting a town hall meeting today, November 28th, to discuss the company's future and address the Lake Nona relocation.
At this time, Iger is not prepared to change the current plan, but the relocation was delayed already until 2026.
Iger said he had not made a decision and would look into the potential ramifications of relocating versus staying in California.
Now it is worth noting here that nobody seemed bothered by the fact that he was considering moving all these jobs from California.
California losing jobs is sort of the natural status quo.
It's the natural state of affairs.
It's when Disney doesn't move the jobs to Florida that all of a sudden there's a hue and cry.
So apparently California losing jobs is just the thing to be expected.
Florida not gaining jobs is supposedly a massive change to the status quo.
But as we'll get to in just one second, This isn't the whole story.
This is not even remotely the whole story.
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So Governor Gavin Newsom thanked Disney, quote, that's 2,000 plus jobs that will be welcomed back with open arms to the Golden State.
I love the fact that he has to rely on the largess of Disney just not to move the jobs in the first place.
Disney, of course, is trying to suggest that this is an act of heroism.
But here's the thing.
Buried way down in this New York Times article is the actual truth.
The Lake Nona campus, about 20 miles from Disney World, near the Orlando International Airport, had been championed by Bob J. Peck.
Iger, who came out of retirement to retake Disney's reins, was much less enthusiastic about the project, even before the company became mired in its battle with DeSantis.
As soon as he returned to Disney, Iger began telling lieutenants, for example, it made little sense to move Imagineering so far away from the Disney movie studios.
As he is fond of saying, creative teams need to be together.
And Iger has been systematically reversing Chapek's decisions since he joined.
In February, he announced that Disney would restructure its inner workings, ending a framework put in place by Chapek.
In March, as part of wide-ranging layoffs, Iger shut down a 50-person Metaverse project that Chapek had started.
Disney is in the midst of cutting $5.5 billion in cost.
In fact, Disney, just this week, ...announced that it would close an underperforming luxury hotel at Disney World.
That luxury hotel was the Galactic Star Cruiser Experience, which lasted for about five seconds.
It launched in March 2022, and its death date is May of 2023.
That was... All it was, essentially, was a hotel that looked very much like the inside of a Star Wars ship.
So if you like living on a submarine for $6,000 for a weekend, it was your kind of place.
It was a place where, like, the pictures look cool, but you actually wouldn't want to shell out that kind of money just to stay there.
And again, so is that also Ron DeSantis?
Or is it possible that Disney is having serious, real issues, business-wise, and they are seeing a very convenient way of spinning this into Bob Iger being some sort of hero of the left?
I think we all know the answer to this.
In fact, there is an account on YouTube.
All he does is basically cover what happens at Disney, his Mickey views.
He explained the cancellation, pointed out, guys, this is just the economics of the situation.
It has nothing to do with DeSantis.
For those of you who don't know, the Lake Nona project was previous CEO Bob Chapek's plan to build a new Disney headquarters inside of Florida in Lake Nona.
A very nice planned community that is up and coming that you have near the airport in Orlando.
It's a beautiful area.
We made a video here on the channel about two years ago taking a look at where this office was going to go, the land that Disney acquired.
The media is spinning this cancellation as being due to DeSantis and the hostile business environment which he helped to create with Disney.
I've been hearing for months that this is just a JPEG era project that Eider wants nothing to do with.
Look at how fast all these JPEG era projects are just crumbling, turning to dust.
You know, the reality is that Disney has huge bills coming due on the streaming side.
They're having issues on the earning side of things, paying to build a big new campus, a big new headquarters in Florida, making people move from California, which is very unpopular internally and part of why JPEG was so unpopular inside the company.
Iger's wiping his hands clean of this whole thing.
And here's the thing.
You can see this perfectly well.
You can see this perfectly well.
This has nothing to do with DeSantis.
Now again, even if it did have something to do with DeSantis, and if the choice for conservatives was between corporations that require the largesse of government, like special corporate favors, in order to then take that money and turn around and club you socially in the halls of government, then the answer would be no.
That is not a bargain that any conservative should stand for.
Businesses are free to speak about whatever they want.
They are.
They're free to speak about whatever they want in any realm.
But they are not free to take my money and your money and get special tax benefits and then to use that large ass in order to involve themselves in areas of the economy that have nothing to do with them.
Things that are not even economic in nature.
I think most conservatives understand this at this point, that if you leave the field completely empty for the left, that basically, corporations get to become tools of left-wing governments, taking the benefits and then pushing left-wing policy.
And meanwhile, the government is left-wing, pushing left-wing policy.
Then there is no point of actual opposition that can be formed.
And if the deal for Disney is, the minute that link is severed, the minute you lose the special tax benefit, and you lost it because you effed around and found out, That you all of a sudden are going to run some other state that's going to provide you with the largesse to be able to be as left-wing crazy as you want, including the transing of the kids, and you get the tax benefits, well then, good riddance.
Catch you later.
But that isn't the actual story here, again, as I keep pointing out.
As I keep pointing out here, Disney is doing this because they are losing money.
Disney has a problem.
Here is a chart of Disney's stock price.
Okay, Disney's stock price, starting in 2021.
Okay, look at that.
As of, like, February of 2021, it was trading at close to $200 a share.
If you look at that, the height of that stock price, it is now trading at some historic lows since, like, 2018.
In fact, apart from the brief period at the beginning of the pandemic, when all stocks crashed, what you see is that they're now at the lowest ebb in their stock price, on average, since, like, mid-2022, that they've been any time in the last five years.
They're losing subscribers.
The stock price right now is trading at like $93.76.
That's what it closed at yesterday.
At its height, it was trading at almost $200 a share.
So it is down by more than half in terms of its stock price.
So, I'll put it up to you.
Do you think that this was Bob Iger looking at the fact that they have been bleeding money and saying, we're not spending a billion dollars on a campus that just moves some employees from one state to another.
Do you think it's that?
The bleeding of the money?
Or do you think that he was just that invested in making sure that third graders could read genderqueer at the library?
Which one do you think it is?
The media, of course, are eating all of this up.
By the way, the hypocrisy of the media on these matters is truly astonishing.
So do you remember?
There was a time, it wasn't that long ago, it was like 2020, that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, irrepressibly stupid representative from Brooklyn, you remember?
That she almost single-handedly killed Amazon relocating a jobs headquarters in New York City.
It would have meant somewhere between, not 2,000 jobs like Orlando, 25,000 and 40,000 jobs in the city of New York.
And what was she angry about?
She wasn't angry that Amazon's some sort of right-wing corporation, because it's not.
It turns out that Amazon is a pretty left-wing corporation.
What she was really angry about was gentrification.
Oh no, people will move and bring jobs into New York City.
And so the project was killed.
And then AOC suffered zero media consequences.
Because the media said that she was some sort of hero for the little guy.
Nothing like losing jobs for no reason.
Not to protect children.
Not to actually fight back against some sort of ideological crusade.
Just because she was quote-unquote or anti-big business.
She was a heroine for killing, not 2,000, 25 to 40,000 jobs in New York City.
So the hypocrisy of the media knows no bounds whatsoever.
It's insane.
In just one second, we'll get to Donald Trump reacting to this.
And this, again, is going to, I think, illuminate the conflict in the Republican primary in some pretty significant ways.
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the thing about Trump.
The reason that his fans like him, like his uber fans like him, is because he will hit anybody with anything at any time.
As I've said before, he's basically like a Warren Brothers cartoon character.
There's a fight, Donald Trump reaches into his pocket, and you don't know whether he's going to take out a pincers, or whether he's going to take out a chainsaw, or perhaps a rubber hammer, or perhaps a fish.
No one knows!
No one knows.
Okay, so, people who love him, love him for this.
That he will hit anybody with anything, and that means that if he's on your side, he'll hit your opponent with anything.
Now, half the time, he hits your opponent, might actually be with one of those, you know, like, dinky party giveaway rubber hammers that squeaks, like... Or, sometimes, he actually hits somebody with, like, a 2x4, and you don't know what's coming.
But, that's what his fans like about him.
What his detractors, or people who are skeptical of him, don't like about him is that he has no principles.
So, When I say he has no principles, that doesn't mean that he won't do the right things from time to time or a lot of the time.
He did a lot of the right things when he was president of the United States.
But in this primary, because Ron DeSantis is presumably going to run to Trump's right on literally every issue, Trump has therefore been taking the positions that are mirror images of the Democratic positions.
They're indistinguishable.
So here is Donald Trump's statement about Disney shutting down this project in Lake Nona.
There are only two possible positions on this from a conservative perspective, truly.
Position one, from a conservative perspective, is it's pretty obvious Disney did this for the money.
Disney did this because they were losing money, they weren't going to do it anyway, and now they're trying to spin it into victory.
Position two, from a truly conservative perspective, would be if the choice is between corporate cronyism that comes along with left-wing values and no corporate cronyism that comes along with no left-wing values, I choose B. Okay, so what is Trump doing?
Especially Trump, who portrays himself as the enemy of corporate America, right?
This is one of Trump's big schticks.
I mean, it was one of the things that won him the nomination back in 2016, was Donald Trump coming out and saying, listen, I know how big business works.
I've worked with them all my life.
All my life, I've worked with them.
So I know where all the bodies are.
I won't be beholden to them in the same way.
No more corporate cronyism.
That was part of his schtick in 2016, and it worked.
Well now, he's apparently on Disney's side of this fight.
So, he put out a statement called, President Trump is always right.
I mean, I don't know anybody who's always right.
I mean, it's like, it's a short list.
Like, God, that's the end of the list.
There's really nobody else.
But President Trump is all, invariably, and always.
Okay, so, he put out a statement, quote, DeSantis is being absolutely destroyed by Disney.
His original PR plan fizzled, so now he's going back with a new one in order to save face.
Disney's next move will be the announcement that no more money will be invested in Florida because of the governor.
In fact, they could even announce a slow withdrawal or sale of certain properties or the whole thing.
Watch.
That would be a killer.
In the meantime, this is also a necessary political stunt.
Okay, that was from April 18th of 2023.
So now you're saying, I predicted that Disney wouldn't be spending more money there.
Okay, first of all, wow.
Nostradamus there.
Predict the next earthquake.
You mean that Disney had already said publicly that they were going to do this and then they did some of these things?
Wow.
Mind blown.
But beyond that, Trump put out a statement again that he is always right.
And then he just harkened back to this truth social statement on April 18th, 2023.
So now he's now taking the side of Disney.
So question to Republicans.
Who are you?
Are you on the side of Ron DeSantis or are you on the side of Disney?
Do you wish to have a president who's beholden to major corporations to the extent that they are allowed to get tax benefits like special tax districts while they promote leftism up to and including the sexual indoctrination of children?
Or are you on the side of not doing that?
Now again, I understand that for a lot of Trump supporters, they look at that and they're like, Trump doesn't actually believe that.
Like the fact that he doesn't have centralizing principles is the thing they like.
This is why it's so hard to run against Trump.
Because a lot of the people who love Trump, what they are relying on is that he will instinctively react in the same way that they would to a serious attack on the right.
And so if he's attacking DeSantis, it's because it's an attack of convenience.
And he's the guy that you need at the time because he's going to... So the idea that you're going to attack him on principle and then he's going to attack in unprincipled fashion, that's actually a... That's the feature, not the bug.
But for those of us who are trying to discern, you know, who is going to be more predictably conservative in fighting the left in a meticulous fashion, this is a pretty easy, this is a pretty easy and obvious solution, right?
I mean, DeSantis has been perfectly consistent along the line on this fight.
Trump originally was anti-Disney, then he was pro-Disney as soon as it became convenient for him to attack DeSantis over the Disney thing.
And this, by the way, has been the pattern for Trump in this campaign.
Trump has now sided with Disney at one point very early on.
He seems to side a little bit with Bud Light.
Whatever is convenient for him to do in order to attack DeSantis, he is doing.
I find that unprincipled.
But again, for a lot of people, the unprincipledness is the point.
He will do anything to win and that's exactly what we need at this time.
So, I understand the pitch.
I just don't agree with the pitch because I don't think that that's actually a pathway toward victory.
Now, as we'll get to in just one second, Ron DeSantis is planning on entering the race next week in all likelihood.
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Okay, so DeSantis is likely to enter the presidential race next week.
He's already made the requisite filings.
The polls right now show that Trump is the frontrunner and DeSantis is the guy trailing him.
Now, how durable those polls end up being is anybody's guess.
This is why I think that DeSantis' pitch to the donors, which again, I agree with it, is that Trump is a less sure candidate against Biden than DeSantis is.
Mainly because virtually everybody in the United States already has an opinion about Donald Trump.
Whereas there are a lot of voters who are undecided about Ron DeSantis.
And what that means is it's very, very difficult to get people to vote for you in 2016, and then against you in 2020, and then for you again in 2024.
Or, if you're trying to switch people who voted twice against you, against you in 2016, against you in 2020, for you in 2024.
Also, I don't know how Donald Trump plans to solve the dilemma of he says the election was stolen from him in 2020 through sheer voter fraud and corruption in states run by Republicans, Arizona and Georgia.
How does he plan to reverse that?
And if you just say, well, he'll run a better campaign, but he says that he won last time and he still lost.
So what, what exactly, what's the actual solution?
I agree with DeSantis pitch.
DeSantis has been telling a lot of the donor class that he is the most credible Republican to win, because if you look at the swing state polls, Trump is trailing in virtually all the swing state polls.
That happens to be true.
I don't think that's going to have a lot of play in the Republican primary for the voters.
The reason I don't think that's going to have a ton of play for a lot of the voters is because a lot of the voters are caught up in the fact that he won in 2016, Trump.
That everybody said he was going to lose, including me, in 2016.
And then he won.
He pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
So that means that if you say he's going to lose this time, well, you could be just as wrong as you were in 2016.
And while I think that is not a data-driven argument, I think that it is a fair emotional argument for people to make.
So that means that DeSantis is going to have to make a bit of a different pitch.
And the pitch that he's going to have to make is not about Trump's electability, because who the hell knows?
Who the hell knows?
I mean, that was Romney's pitch in 2012.
It's his electability.
So what exactly should the pitch be?
Well, the pitch really should be That he is going to be a much more effective conservative who is able to take on the media in a much more meticulous fashion than Donald Trump.
Now, that is wrapped up with electability.
The idea that if you are meticulous in how you approach the issues, you're more likely to wrong-foot Democrats than you are to spend your days talking about horse-faced army.
That's actually a pretty good electability pitch.
But the thing I think that's going to appeal to conservatives is going to be him pointing out that, for example, Donald Trump actually blew it on COVID because Donald Trump did blow it on COVID.
It was Donald Trump who was telling Ron DeSantis not to open up and Brian Kemp not to open up at the beginning of COVID.
He gave the Medal of Freedom to Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.
It was under Donald Trump that we were told the lie, I mean it was still the end of his administration, that we were told the lie by the CDC that those shots, I believe them because it was Trump's administration, why wouldn't you believe them, that the vaccine was going to stop transmission dead in its tracks.
And so, you know, those are all rich areas for DeSantis to mine.
And I assume that that is going to be the direction that DeSantis moves.
Again, he has a lot to criticize Trump about over this sort of stuff.
Trump has promised, for example, law and order.
Well, in 2020, I saw mass riots in the streets and Donald Trump was supposed to be captain of law and order.
Where is the National Guard?
People like Tom Cotton were calling for the National Guard.
Donald Trump was the president.
Could have called him out.
Didn't.
So that's going to be the line that I think DeSantis is going to use.
And that may be the area In which Trump's willingness to kind of throw everything up to, including the slop in the garbage pail at whomever he is fighting, actually does not benefit him.
Because if DeSantis' whole shtick is, I'm running to his right and I'm consistent, and Trump's whole shtick is, I'll attack you with anything, again, for his super fans, that'll work.
For everybody else, that opens some questions.
I don't think this primary is over, not by a long shot.
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You'll go to the gas station, and you'll be told that LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign is the most important thing happening in public life.
It is the most important thing for you to buy into the agenda.
You'll go to Target, and it won't just be them giving out swimsuits to kids that allow your son to tuck his penis underneath his undergarage, which is literally the thing that Target is doing.
You'll go there, and it'll be everything.
The rainbows will be everywhere.
Ford has now put out an electric Mustang, or an electric Ford F-150, with a giant rainbow on it.
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There is something called manufactured consensus.
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And this is what we are currently experiencing with regard to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign agenda.
Americans do not agree with the extreme agenda.
By polling data, Americans are now basically okay with same-sex marriage.
I disagree because I think that that is not actually marriage.
Marriage has a definition.
Same-sex marriage does not fit that definition.
Any more than a car fits the definition of a chair.
These are just two very different things.
But, most Americans have made their peace with that.
I think for worse, but many people think for better.
Alright, fine.
What Americans have not made their peace with is the idea that you get to indoctrinate all children with the idea that all of these relationships are morally equivalent.
You certainly don't get to indoctrinate the kids with the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
Most Americans are not on board with this crap, but the entire media, like as a wave, as like just a wall, are in favor of this notion.
And not just the media, this has now been infused into all of our government institutions up to and including the U.S.
military, which I'm sorry, is just ridiculous and pathetic.
So, according to Fox News, Representative Chip Roy on Thursday called for Republicans to drop support for a must-pass military funding bill after his office obtained an Air Force memo declaring June to be LGBTQ-plus Pride Month.
Because, remember, the way that this works is that if you fly the gay pride flag, then you're truly American.
If you fly the American flag, you might be a colonialist.
The May 3rd memo, shared with Fox News, approves observance of Pride Month in June and empowers installation commanders to plan and conduct appropriate activities in honor of Pride Month, the most holy time of the year.
Roy's office shared a flyer advertising Pride Month events at Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia, including a Pride game night on June 10th, a unity and diversity color run in June 16th, a panel discussion titled Our History, Our Time on June 28th.
The memo says, each June, the Department of the Air Force recognizes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month.
During this time, we celebrate the progress we have made toward inclusivity, commemorate the contributions of LGBTQ-plus-minus-divided-by-sign Americans, and recognize the obstacles they have faced and overcome.
Along the way, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alex Wagner, and Diversity and Inclusion Director Marianne Melizia.
So first of all, Diversity and Inclusion Director of the military is just the most Orwellian garbage I've ever heard of.
They say this is a time to reaffirm our total commitment to equality and reinforce the importance of a cohesive and total and diverse total force.
One team, one fight.
Yeah, nothing says one team, one fight like cramming down a version of morality that is widely disapproved of particularly by many members of the military.
So our military is moving in that direction and again you can look That meme online, you know the one that shows like Republican administration's just a bomb falling over a foreign country?
Democratic administration bomb falling over a foreign country but it has a gay pride flag on it?
That's pretty much where we are right now.
Meanwhile, the State Department has now required that people use the pronouns.
The AP's Matt Lee actually asked a State Department spokesperson, why are you using, why are you
like mandating that people put their pronouns in their questions?
The State Department's internal email system, and I tested this so I know that it's true,
has added pronouns to people's, not their signature, but to their, you know, where it
says from.
Mm-hmm, okay.
So it will say him, he, his, or her, you know, or she, hers.
Why?
This is not an optional thing.
This is something that has been just arbitrarily imposed, and I understand that People could have their pronouns attached, if they wanted them, to a signature before.
But this is not something that anyone has a choice about.
And so I'm just wondering why and who made this decision.
Can you look into it?
Because I'd like to know why.
I'm happy to look into it.
Why this would not be an optional thing for people to do.
But the problem is that a lot of them, or at least some of them so far, as far as I've been able to tell, are wrong.
Well, the State Department, of course, is trying to force this down literally everywhere.
So the entire agenda is not just being forced down domestically, it's being forced down in terms of foreign policy.
As I mentioned yesterday, that's really crappy foreign policy.
It turns out the vast majority of countries on Earth for all of time do not agree with this agenda.
It is the most radical part of the American agenda pushed by the left, and it's being pushed to foreign powers.
But this is all part and parcel of a broader battle that is kind of fascinating inside the Democratic Party.
So we've talked about a lot of ideological battles inside the Republican Party.
There's an emerging battle inside the Democratic Party, and that is a battle of intersectional victimhood.
And it's really manifesting as sort of the shadow battle that's happening behind the scenes over who is the heir apparent to Joe Biden.
Is it Kamal Harris?
Or is it Pete Buttigieg?
That battle is really quite fascinating.
We're going to get into that in just one second.
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We're supposed to behave according to the God who made us in his image.
Well, in the series Exodus with Jordan Peterson and a bunch of other experts on the Bible, they talk about this.
Here's what it sounds like.
And isn't there's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, The very foundation for that equality in Western culture, i.e.
the idea that human beings are made in the imago dei, in the image of God, has been lost, of course.
So it's almost as if, because of the erosion of this foundation, The drive for equality is stressed all the more.
That's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, particularly in Beyond Good and Evil.
He said that would be an inevitable consequence.
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Okay, meanwhile, while the woke brigade has, they've started a real battle and it's kind of fascinating because Who has the upper hand in this battle?
The Democratic Party has not yet decided.
They refuse to acknowledge that there's actually a conflict inside the Democratic coalition.
So on the one hand, Democrats suggest that the most important part of their coalition is people of minority status.
And by people of minority status, I mean racial minorities.
Blacks.
Hispanics.
Kind of.
Asians.
Mostly.
Their chief focus since 2020 has been Black Lives Matter because the idea in 2012, this is true, is that Barack Obama got an extraordinary percentage of the black vote and huge turnout in places like Ohio and it made the entire difference in his election.
And so they've been trying to duplicate that ever since.
And so Black Lives Matter was largely about that in 2020 on behalf of Joe Biden.
The fact is that without the black vote, Joe Biden probably is not the nominee in 2020.
He loses in Iowa.
He loses in New Hampshire.
But then he cleans up in South Carolina, largely thanks to the heavy share of black voters who are fond of Joe Biden, not because they love Joe Biden, but because he was Barack Obama's vice president and because he was also endorsed by Particularly strong members of the legislature in South Carolina, who are black.
That was the big thing.
So, on the one hand, inside the Democratic Party, when they look at this doddering elderly white man, he's sort of the figurehead.
But, you have an undercover battle.
And that battle is, quote-unquote, BIPOC people versus the radical left-wing gender agenda.
These two things do not live comfortably together.
If you poll black Americans about how they feel about transgendering the youth, not into it.
If you ask black Americans how they feel about gay marriage, significantly less likely than the general population to be in favor of same-sex marriage, for example.
The same thing is true among Hispanics.
These are much more socially conservative populations than white progressive liberals.
And by the way, those white progressive liberals are actually even more progressive on racial issues than black and Hispanic people are, by every available metric.
So you have a conflict.
You have, is the future of the party?
Minority-majority coalition in which the values and and social ideas of people who are black and hispanic sort of lead the way, or is it going to be the social values of the people who are progressive leftists?
Now, they've formed what they think is a durable coalition.
That durable coalition theoretically is Well, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours.
I'm in favor of Black Lives Matter, and you're in favor of transing the kids, and we'll all get together in the middle, and that will be our agenda.
And Joe Biden has sort of papered over that because, again, he's an elderly figurehead for a party that's just anti-Trump.
That is basically what the Democratic Party is at this point.
They just don't like Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is the point of commonality for all of these groups.
But if you were to suggest that the typical black voter in a Democratic primary in South Carolina has much in common with the typical white Democratic voter in Iowa, no.
No, sir.
The way that you can tell this, by the way, is by the South Carolina primary results back in 2020 on the Democratic side.
If you look at the actual South Carolina Democratic primary results there, Pete Buttigieg did not even chart.
So Pete Buttigieg wins Iowa, and then Pete Buttigieg does fairly well in New Hampshire, and then Pete Buttigieg, in that South Carolina Democratic primary, He shows up at 8.2%.
Elizabeth Warren, favorite of the far-left whiteys, 7.1%.
Biden got 48% of the vote in that particular primary.
Contrast that, by the way, with the results in Iowa, and you see that in Iowa, which is a very, very, very white state, Pete Buttigieg ended up with like 25% of the vote, 26% of the final vote.
Joe Biden ended up at 16%.
Same thing in New Hampshire.
In New Hampshire, Bernie and Pete, again, very white candidates, They won 25% of the vote and 24% of the vote, as opposed to Biden, who won 8% of the vote.
So, on the one hand, if you look to the future of the Democratic Party, you have Kamala Harris's side of the party.
Kamala Harris's entire appeal is not the social left-wing appeal.
Her appeal is basically, I am intersectional black woman.
Black woman vice president.
That's her entire appeal.
And on the other side, you have Pete Buttigieg, who is the representative of the college-educated white ladies who vote in Iowa primaries.
And that's going to be, honestly, a fascinating Democratic battle.
And it's starting to break out in the open now, and I don't think that that coalition is particularly durable.
What's amazing about the Buttigieg versus Kamala sort of shadow battle that's happening behind the scenes in the Democratic Party is just how obnoxious both of them are.
It really is truly an amazing thing.
So, Pete Buttigieg.
gave an interview to Wired Magazine.
This is, I think, the worst piece I have ever read.
I mean, it's by Virginia Heffernan.
I cannot believe how bad this piece is.
So, Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, you know his name for two reasons.
One, he is gay, and two, planes are falling out of the sky and trains are falling off the rails.
The piece is titled, Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang.
Sure, the U.S.
Secretary of Transportation has thoughts on building bridges, but infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.
Now, when I first read this, I was like, is this a parody?
It is not a parody.
This is how the media act— Again, this is how white, middle-aged, progressive ladies think about Pete Buttigieg.
They want him to be the standard bearer.
Why?
Well, because, you know, he went to Harvard, and then he worked at, like, McKinsey, and he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he learned Norwegian in very rudimentary fashion just so that he could read a book.
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
And, of course, he's extremely gay.
And he likes to talk about how his gayness is a facet of his spirituality and it has something to do with Christianity or something.
Pastor Pete likes to lecture everybody else who's been apparently misreading the Bible for the last several thousand years.
He has discovered new realms of imagination inside the Bible, inside his voluminous mind.
So here is Virginia Heffernan writing about Pete Buttigieg.
Quote, the curious mind of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve.
Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointless data that is his current stock and trade, the U.S.
Secretary of Transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret go habit, or a three-second Rubik's Cube solution, or a knack for supplying off the top of his head the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
I didn't make that up.
That's a thing a human wrote.
It's not written by like a progressive AI.
That is one of the worst paragraphs I've ever read.
And I don't know how she's going to be able to remove her head from Pete Buttigieg's colon after that.
That is, that is insane.
Mensa black card holder who might have a secret go habit?
But wait, it gets worse.
As Secretary Buttigieg and I talked in his under-furnished corner office one afternoon in early spring, I slowly became aware that his cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive powers.
Other mental facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad, Puritan historiography, and Nowskards at Spring, although not in the original Norwegian.
Slacker.
Fortunately, he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas about three mighty themes, neoliberalism, masculinity, and Christianity, intelligible to me.
Ah, he has emerged from on high.
He, in all of his great wisdom and intellect, has emerged from the cathedral apse of his mind in order to bestow upon us all of his wisdom, all of his wisdom.
By the way, what is the wisdom of Pete Buttigieg?
Uh, it's stupid.
So the wisdom of his cathedral mind includes the notion that the right is defined by two things, lowering taxes and stopping legal access to abortion.
Quote, those are kind of the two greatest pillars of the mainstream right now.
They're now the dog that caught the car.
And to switch metaphors, they rode a tiger to get there.
They made a lot of distasteful bargains in order to get there.
Wow.
Oh, the genius!
Wait till you get his take on masculinity, Pete Buttigieg.
I mean, should go back on paternity leave where he belongs.
Here's what he says, quote, Fears about masculinity are a way into the fear of displacement.
Masculinity establishes a default place, and that place is being shifted and threatened by modernity.
A man is the head of the household, the only one who earns income, the default leader in any social or political organization.
The politicization of masculinity is code for nothing in your life has to change.
The problem is, of course, lots of things has to change, either because there was something wrong with the old way or because even as the old way seemed perfectly fine, it's not an option.
This is true with the reality of climate change.
If you can't face that change, you might retreat to the default place of masculinity.
That's right.
So if you think that an entire political movement declaring that boys are girls and girls are boys, and that men have no place in the family structure, that single mothers are just as good for a child as a man and a woman, or that two men is the same thing as a man and a woman, you don't think that.
That is because you just fear change.
This is basically just a dumbed-down version of Barack Obama's bitter clinger's remark from like 2007-2008 where he declared that all of his political opponents were clinging to God, guns, and religion because they feared change.
It's the same exact crap that all of these pseudo-intellectuals on the left believe and it's just ridiculous.
But this is what the left loves.
They love it.
What they love most of all is Pete Buttigieg talking about the Bible.
They love when Pastor Pete starts breaking out the Bible talk.
Even though, again, he seems to ignore certain uncomfortable sections of the Bible.
My favorite part of this is where she asks him, Virginia Heffernan, she asks Pete Buttigieg about scripture.
There's just a lot in the scriptural tradition around journeys, around roads, right?
The conversion of St.
Paul happens on the road.
of transportation speak to your spiritual side?
Pete Buttigieg talking about Secretary of Transportation, quote,
there's just a lot in the scriptural tradition around journeys, around roads, right?
The conversion of St. Paul happens on the road.
I think we are all nearer to our spiritual potential when we're on the move.
Something about movement, something about travel, pulls us out of the routines that numb us to who we are, to
what we're doing, to everything from our relationships with each other to our
relationships with God.
That's part of the reason why so many important things in the Bible happen on highways.
And then journeys, they're also just marvels.
Oh, he's awful.
Oh, but they love it.
They love it.
So this is the side of it.
By the way, Pete Buttigieg does actually talk like this.
If you think Virginia Heffernan is just making this up, wrong.
Here's Pete Buttigieg actually talking about climate change.
You would not want to be at a dinner party with this guy, under any circumstances whatsoever.
Hello, I'm U.S.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and I want to thank the Austria World Summit for inviting me to say a few words today.
And I want to recognize all of the leaders who are gathered here for your continuing commitment to addressing the global challenge of climate change.
It's clear to all of us by now that climate change is a major threat to security and prosperity everywhere.
Now, stories of climate disaster have always been on humanity's mind in some fashion, dating back to ancient legends and scriptural traditions in nearly every faith, telling of floods, fires, and other calamities.
But the climate challenge in front of us is not some prophecy of cosmic doom.
It is a specific set of problems.
Now back in ancient times, when you read the Epic of Gilgamesh, you will see a flood story.
And that speaks to me as Secretary of... He's so awful!
He's awful!
They made him sort of the apex predator of left-wing radical gender ideology.
That's the only reason they're looking at this mediocre white guy.
Who is the poor mayor of a very small town in Indiana, and they're like, this guy should be president of the United States.
So he represents that, he's what the white progressive lady's like.
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Now, even among black Americans, black Americans are not like, I love Kamala Harris, she is just the best.
But, she's what a white progressive lady's idea of what black people want is.
It's really quite astonishing.
So we'll get to that in just one moment.
The other half of the intersectional battle happening inside the Democratic Party.
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So, the other half of the Democratic constituency, supposedly, and again, remember, the Democratic Party is an elite institution.
What that means is the people at the very top of the Democratic Party don't actually represent black Americans.
It's a bunch of white people in a back room somewhere who went to Ivy League colleges deciding what black people want.
So, they have a split.
One half of this white elite that runs the Democratic Party wants the Democratic Party to essentially be Pete Buttigieg.
The other half says, no, no, no, it's got to be Kamala Harris because she is so intersectional.
There's one problem.
Kamala Harris is totally bad at this.
I mean, here is Kamala Harris yesterday and she starts laughing.
Kamala Harris's laugh, man, that that thing could shatter glass.
It's like nails on a chalkboard.
Oof.
First question, let's start with your favorite song of all time.
Oh, my favorite song of all time.
I was going to say something from Bootsy, but We love it.
I mean, I don't know if your viewers know Funkadelic.
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, I am 28.
So she's terrible at this, but there is a So there are two, again, the Pete Buttigieg narrative is gay Americans are being victimized by the evil Bible thumpers.
Pete Buttigieg will vindicate them and their interests against the evil white superstructure.
He is a member of a victimized minority.
The other narrative is Kamala Harris is a member of a victimized minority.
She is a black woman who is only vice president because she's a black woman, but that's just evidence that America is a deeply racist and terrible place.
And this manifests.
in the repeated incidents that we are seeing literally every day online in which some random white person becomes the villain of the day for no reason that anybody can discern.
For no reason that literally anybody can discern.
So the latest example of this is there is a Bellevue Hospital employee who apparently rented a bike from City Bike and then a young black man tried to take the bike from her.
And she was upset about that.
And this turned into an example on social media of white people being quote-unquote Karens.
Meaning they're casually racist for no reason just because they're white.
Ben Crump, who is a racial ambulance chaser, all he does is he finds tragic situations or non-tragic situations to jump into the middle of and then pretend that America is a deeply racially biased and horrible place that he can get those big checks.
He started tweeting out about all of this, suggesting, of course, that this white lady is super duper terrible.
He tweeted out, this is unacceptable.
A white woman was caught on camera attempting to steal a city bike from a young black man in New York City.
She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat.
See, when white women cry because they're being victimized, it's not because they're actually being victimized, it's because they're weaponizing their tears.
This is exactly the type of behavior that has endangered so many black men in the past.
Oh, it's endangering the black man.
Right, when women cry because they're being abused, if the woman is white and the man is black, that's her weaponizing her tears and that could end with the death of the black man or something, says Ben Crump.
So here's the actual video.
So this is the video.
They're videoing her.
They're treating her like she's bad.
This is a nurse at Bellevue Hospital.
I got your video. So they're mocking her. They're videoing her. They're treating her like she's bad. This is a nurse
at Bellevue Hospital. Why? Alright, so why don't we reset the bike? It's his. It's his. You're an actor. This is my
big client. She's just sitting there. Hey, stop touching me.
Don't touch me. Hold up. Hey, stop touching me.
A bunch of young black men yelling at this white woman not to cry.
Stop crying.
By the way, they're stealing her bike.
Okay, that's what this actually turned out to be.
So they claimed that she tried to steal their bike.
They tried.
This is what they tried to claim.
Now, as it turns out, according to the New York Post, the lawyer for a Manhattan hospital worker accused of taking a city bike from a young black man who claimed that he paid for the two-wheeler provided receipts that he says show she was the one who purchased the ride at the center of the viral incident.
The Bellevue Hospital employee who was branded a Karen.
OK, so again, in America, the way that this works is that we are allowed to have racial terms for white women.
Who are apparently just guilty of being... They are Karens now.
They are Karens.
She rented the bike first, according to her lawyer.
He provided two city bike receipts from May 12th, which were time-stamped just minutes apart.
The first receipt, reviewed by the Post, shows the bike being taken out before it was re-locked one minute later, which Marino said is the bike seen in the video.
The second receipt shows another bike being taken out a minute later from the same docking station, and was the bike Marino said his client used to get home after being heckled and pressured to find a new bike by the group.
The hospital employee, who Marino says is a six-month pregnant physician's assistant.
But she's, she's bad, guys.
She's bad.
White lady tears.
White lady tears.
Was placed on leave.
On leave!
By New York City Health and Hospitals this week.
After her heated encounter with the men emerged online on Saturday and has been viewed tens of millions of times.
Marino called the caught on tape interaction incomplete and lacking.
By the way, even in the tape, what is she doing that's so wrong?
She's holding the bike, she's crying, and she's calling for help.
That's, that's the thing she did that's super duper wrong?
By the way, if all the youths were white and the lady was white, I don't think anybody would have any trouble identifying exactly what was going on.
Or if the lady were black and all the youths were black, nobody would have any trouble identifying what is going on.
It's a bunch of young men who are larger than the woman grabbing a vehicle from the woman.
Normally, this would fall under believe all women, would it not?
Typically, it would.
A six-month pregnant employee at a hospital versus a bunch of young men who are trying to grab the bike and filming her while doing it and she's crying.
But because she's white and they're black, this obviously changes everything.
According to her lawyer, he said, after the healthcare worker wrapped up her 12-hour shift, she got on an available bike, which no individuals were on or touching, and paid for it through the City Bike app on her phone.
As she backed up from the docking station, a group of five people approached her and claimed the bike was theirs, he said.
One or more individuals in that group physically pushed her bike, with her on it, back into the docking station, causing it to relock.
One of the individuals then covered the bike's QR code, stopping her from paying for it again, so she could leave.
In blocking the QR code, the individual's arm was touching my client's pregnant stomach, a condition of which she had made them aware.
Throughout this time and for the remainder of the video, roughly five individuals were telling her to get off the bike and heckling her.
The fact that anyone would treat another person like this is tragic, especially a visibly pregnant woman, he said.
The roughly 90-second clip that begins mid-confrontation shows the woman dressed in hospital-branded scrubs screaming for help as she tugs at the bike.
The young man kept his grip on the bike's handlebars and repeatedly told the woman he had already paid to use that particular bike and it wasn't yours.
Some social media users called the interaction racist.
And others compared it with the situation when Amy Cooper called the police on a black bird watcher in 2020 and lost her job over that.
By the way, that incident was also a bunch of crap, as it turned out.
a hospital worker appears to start crying as another man in the same scrubs approached the melee
to see what was going on.
Some social media users called the interaction racist and others compared it with the situation
when Amy Cooper called the police on a black bird watcher in 2020 and lost her job over that.
By the way, that incident was also a bunch of crap as it turned out.
In that particular incident, it turns out that the person Amy Cooper,
Amy Cooper called the cops on literally threatened to harm her dog to her.
You will recall.
But it didn't matter.
It didn't matter.
The idea was that she was a racist.
If you're a white person, then I guess the idea in the mainstream media and in social media spheres is that you have an obligation to be victimized by people of color.
By the way, this also ties into the Jordan Neely case.
Jordan Neely was actively threatening people on the subway.
And a white person put him in a submission hold, and then he died.
And the idea was that Jordan Ely apparently had a right to threaten people on the subway system.
Because no one could stop him, certainly not a white person.
So these are the dual moralities that the Democratic Party is going to have to choose, and they are mutually exclusive.
The upper class progressive mentality that says Pete Buttigieg ought to be your nominee is not the mentality, largely, by the way, not pushed by black Americans, largely pushed by progressive white people, that the way to victory is to racialize pretty much everything.
That story is insane and it demonstrates the, oh man, the pathetic nature of our politics.
It's just disgusting.
Okay, meanwhile, yesterday there was a whistleblower hearing on the Hill.
The way that this works is if you're a left-wing whistleblower, you are a hero.
A la the member of the national security team who is leaking information about Donald Trump's Ukraine phone call.
That guy's a hero.
Alexander Vindman, he was a hero.
But if you're a whistleblower and you are not in favor of left-wing positions, then this means that you are super duper bad.
So there was a hearing, an FBI whistleblower hearing yesterday at the House Select Committee on the weaponization of the federal government.
in which three suspended FBI agents, Garrett O'Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen,
testified to detail the alleged abuses of power by the federal government,
ranging from discrimination against conservatives to inflation of domestic terrorism statistics.
Democrats immediately started ripping into these agents and suggesting, of course, that they are corrupt.
So here's FBI Special Agent Garrett O'Boyle saying that the FBI is, in fact, systemically designed
to crush people who try to expose the truth.
If one of your really good friends, your former colleagues, came to you and said,
I have this thing that is being covered up, and I think the American people need to know about it,
what advice would you give them?
Thank you.
I would tell them first to pray about it, long and hard.
And I would tell them I could take it to Congress for them, or I could put them in touch with Congress, but I would advise them not to do it.
So you would legitimately try to protect one of your colleagues from doing what you have done?
Absolutely.
And how do you think that solves being able to shine light on corruption, weaponization, any kind of misconduct that exists with the American people?
It doesn't solve it.
But the FBI will crush you.
This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong.
And we are all examples of that.
Well, Democrats came in like a hammer here.
So Democratic Representative Plaskett, Stacey Plaskett, I believe her name is, she suggested that even investigating the weaponization of the FBI is a form of defunding the police.
You must trust the FBI, folks.
It's important, according to Democrats, that you now trust the FBI.
Less than two months ago, former President Trump, facing mounting investigations into his many alleged crimes, declared that, quote, Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and the FBI until they can come to their senses.
And we all know that when Trump says jump, the Republicans in the House say, how high?
So here we are, on Police Week, watching House Republicans jump to lay the foundation to defund law enforcement.
My colleagues on the far right are on a mission to attack, discredit, and ultimately dismantle the FBI.
This is defund the police on steroids.
Um, yeah.
So this is their take, is that the FBI is good.
Also, whistleblowers are bad.
According to Democratic Representative Sylvia Garcia, these are all political pawns if you're a whistleblower against the FBI.
More than that, this hearing is an insult to the brave whistleblowers out there who do risk their careers for the good of their country.
This circus of embedded secret accusations puts at risk the critical role whistleblowers play in holding the powerful accountable.
Most whistleblowers aren't interested in being political pawns in Congressional Republicans' games.
Playing politics is holding up the scheme as whistleblowers will make other public servants fearful of coming forward out of fear they'll just be used.
So, it is amazing.
Democrats will flip on a time.
Whistleblowers are bad now, depending on what exactly they're whistleblowing about.
Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
So, things that I like today.
So, Guy Ritchie has a new movie out.
It's called The Covenant.
It's great.
It really is a very, very good movie.
It's Jake Gyllenhaal.
The basic premise of the movie is that Jake Gyllenhaal is a soldier in Afghanistan, and his team is ambushed in a firefight, and his translator, his interpreter, an Afghan guy, saves his life.
And then he goes back to the United States as Jake Gyllenhaal, and his interpreter is now being hunted down by the Taliban.
He has to go back in and save his interpreter.
The whole thing is very clearly a metaphor for the situation that occurred because Joe Biden decided to, in cowardly fashion, empathetic fashion, not only withdraw from Afghanistan, but do so in disorganized, chaotic fashion that left tens of thousands of American allies to be slaughtered by the Taliban.
That's what the movie really is about.
It's really well shot.
Guy Ritchie is a very talented director.
The score is really an excellent score.
Here is a bit of the preview.
Hey guys, meet Ahmed, our new interpreter.
Why he wants this job?
I need the money.
Money isn't the reason he wants this job.
Miss Alabama killed his son.
We don't want to go down this road.
You're out of your bounds, Ahmed.
You're here to translate.
Actually, I'm here to interpret.
John, you have tell he's approaching.
The interpreter saved my life and now I have to go save his.
Ahmed ended up with a price on his head from the Taliban.
We can't intervene.
I am gonna have to get him out myself.
By the way, that's exactly what ended up happening in real life, is that you literally had ex- You had marine veterans and army veterans who were literally going to Afghanistan during the withdrawal from Afghanistan and having to set up, without the approval of the U.S.
government really, ways to get people out who would help them while they were soldiers in Afghanistan.
The great untold story of the 2024 election, if anybody has the balls to tell it, is going to be that Joe Biden's cowardly withdrawal from Afghanistan is the single sickest thing I've ever seen a president do in my entire life.
It is pathetic.
It was pathetic.
He left people falling off of wheel wells because they were interpreters from the American military.
It's truly, truly disgusting.
The Covenant, very good movie, definitely worth the watch.
Other things that I like today.
So today marks, in Israel, Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day.
It's the reunification of Jerusalem.
This, of course, is considered a supposed disaster by members of the left because it was much better when Jerusalem was divided down the middle and when Christians and Jews were barred from visiting holy places.
It is, again, an amazing thing that it should be in any way contentious that Jerusalem should be united and under the auspices of a government that allows people of all faiths to pray where they want.
Unless, apparently, if you're a Jew, you're not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount full-time.
But that is worth noting.
Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
Well, the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
If you're a well-connected lefty, the rules just don't apply to you, which is why the Washington Free Beacon reports that a California city is now going to make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef Jose Andres after the landlords for the chef's planned restaurant warned Andres may pull out over the regulation.
So just to point out the hypocrisy here, the entire media that is suggesting that Ron DeSantis is bad for business because he says that if a corporation takes tax benefits and then tries to trans the kids, that's bad, Ron DeSantis is bad?
None of them have anything to say.
It's left to the Washington Free Beacon to report on the fact that Palo Alto tried to ban gas stoves, but then Jose Andres was like, guys, I can't open a restaurant here, because guess what?
Gas stoves cook better than electric stoves.
And so Palo Alto was like, OK, fine.
We'll let you, Jose, you get the exception.
After the owners of the mall where Andres is set to open the restaurant threatened to sue the city, Palo Alto administrators will allow Andres' Mediterranean restaurant, Zaytina, to use natural gas lines, despite a new law this year that bans them in construction.
The restaurant relies on traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature complex flavors, said Anna Shimko, a lawyer representing the group that owns the shopping center.
The lawyer argued the building's plans were approved in 2019, years before the gas ban was actually imposed.
Now Andres not only has he earned Michelin stars, but he's also a wild leftist.
He actually got a medal from President Barack Obama.
He appeared as a guest on Michelle Obama's food show for kids on Netflix.
He's also a frequent advocate for fighting climate change, and he started a billion-dollar fund to fight climate disasters and teamed up with politicians to create other climate initiatives.
But apparently, that doesn't apply to him.
He's got to cook with the natural gas.
Very, very important.
Left-wing hypocrisy.
It knows very few bounds.
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