America's Economic Boom + Sydney Sweeney Sends Liberals Into a Rage Spiral
Charlie is joined by Stephen Moore to unpack the newest economic news on GDP growth and inflation, both of which came in stronger than expections, how President Trump has used the threat of tariffs to negotiate a series of historic trade deals. Charlie also speaks with Douglass Mackey on his pursuit of justice after being persecuted, and then vindicated, by his own government for posting a joke meme back in 2016. Finally, Charlie reacts to a viral controversy regarding a Sydney Sweeney that has sent unhinged liberals into a rage spiral. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Trump's economic boom.
Douglas Mackin nearly went to go to jail for making a meme.
And then what is this American Eagle ad all about Nazi propaganda?
We address that.
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Joining us now is Stephen Moore.
Talk all about Trump's economy, author of Trump's Economic Miracle and Senior Economic Contributor for Freedom Works.
Let's go to Stephen Moore.
Stephen, great to see you.
Thank you so much for the time.
Oh my gosh, what a day.
I mean, I cannot believe these numbers that came out today, Charlie.
Trump is just hitting it out of the park.
And do you remember five months ago when all the leftists said, oh, Trump is going to cause a second Great Depression.
He's going to destroy the economy.
The stock market's going to crash.
We got the news today of 3% economic growth for the second quarter.
That's higher than any quarter, I believe, in the four years that Biden was president.
This economy is cooking right now.
Yeah, so let's take a step back.
So the GDP comes in stronger than expected.
Again, the media is not covering any of this.
So let's go to cut 382.
Better than expected.
Let's go to cut 382, please.
Up 3%.
Up 3%.
Better than expected.
That would be the highest level since the third quarter of 24 when it was up 3.1%.
On the consumption side, up 1.4, very close to estimates.
Up 1.4 would be the best since the last quarter of 24.
And Steve, this is without the enactment of some of the additional Trump tax cuts like full depreciation.
And so it conceivably could get even better.
But Steve, one of the things that I think is important here is how wrong the expert class was on this.
Remember back in spring, they said that we're barreling towards a recession.
JP Morgan says odds of recession are increasing.
The credential class.
Your thoughts, Steve Moore?
No, that's exactly right.
I mean, we have something in our hotline today.
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But we had this great piece that Paul Krugman, who won a Nobel Prize, probably the leading economic voice on the left, who's saying Trump is going to crash the economy.
He's going to destroy the American economy.
And here we are.
I doubt he's going to initiate an apology for that.
But this, and by the way, I was wrong.
When I saw the economy in April, remember the stock market was bowing down by 2,500 points and it just looked kind of glum.
But Trump has pulled off all of these trade deals, one after another.
And you know me, Charlie, I'm not a big tariff guy, but he's been able to get all these countries to give America a freer and fairer level playing field, which is huge for America's farmers, our manufacturers, our car producers, our dairy farmers, our tech companies.
And I can't keep up with the guy, frankly.
So I want to actually zero in on that.
You're not a tariff guy, but do you now think differently about how Trump has used tariffs to get to a free trade aim?
How tariffs can actually be a tool?
Can you dive into that?
Spend some time, Steve, because you're not against tariffs in implementation, but are you now open to tariffs as a tool towards a freer market?
So that's a great question.
And so let me, I think we all know, if anyone who's an economist knows that trade is what economics is all about.
Charlie, if you and I trade voluntarily, by definition, we're better off.
I give you something you want.
You give me something I want.
That's the essence of what economics is all about.
And so, you know, Milton Friedman always taught us that free trade is critical, one of the most important things for an economy.
But what was happening is we were charging fairly low tariffs.
And all these other countries, as Trump was saying, were ripping us off because they were charging these very high tariffs.
And so what Trump was basically, remember, he said, oh, we're going to charge 50% tariffs on these countries.
That was prototypical Donald Trump.
He always opens with a big number.
And that scared the, excuse my language, the crap out of the Europeans, the Japanese, the Chinese.
I mean, they have to have access to America's markets because we're the alpha male economy.
We're the $20 trillion consumer market.
And he used these threats of tariffs in a very strategic way to force these countries.
I mean, do you remember Charlie three months ago when the Europeans said, oh, to hell with Trump, we're never going to make a deal with him.
Remember that?
Yeah, I do.
I do.
Yeah.
And then what happened two days ago?
They came to the negotiating table.
And so it's a perfect example of how Trump uses America's.
What he's doing, Charlie, is he is flexing America's economic muscle and putting the country first.
And that has a lot of these Europeans and the Chinese very indignant because, you know what?
It's like we took the kick-me sign off of us.
No, that's exactly right.
And so, Steve, the free trade dogma, though, they were so critical of Trump.
Do you see amongst the intellectuals, the intelligentsia, at least an admission That Trump was right and that his way of proceeding here was correct?
Are we going to see any contrition?
Good question.
It's a little early to say, but I have to say, I've seen a couple of, I think it was the New York Times of all places, don't quote me on that, because it was one of the more left-leaning publications saying, hey, you know, Trump's policies on trade seem to be working.
And I thought, wow, that's an admission.
But how could you conclude otherwise?
We have high growth.
We've got a record high stock market.
We've got 8 million surplus jobs.
We've got fairly low inflation.
It's a little higher than we'd like it to be, but fairly low.
You've got consumer confidence in an all-time high.
You got business confidence good.
I mean, Charlie, point to me one thing that's going wrong.
Yeah.
And so that's actually the good segue to the question I want to ask.
What, if any, is there an economic metric that has you concerned that could be a gateway to a recession, if not addressed?
What would have you concerned?
You know, I don't like trade wars.
So I still worry about that.
It keeps me up at night.
But Trump is winning on these things, country after country.
And incidentally, one of the things, again, this is so vintage Trump.
I've learned a lot from him, Cho, just watching him and being around him.
So what he's done is, you know, when he remember when Liberation Day came out, I mean, America crashed, everybody thought, oh my God, the world's coming to an end.
And then what happened is a few of these countries said, hey, we'll make a deal.
And then a few more countries said, we'll make a deal.
And as more and more countries came to the negotiating table, what did that do?
It put pressure on Japan.
It put pressure on Korea.
It put pressure on China and the Europeans, who, as I said, two months ago, they said, hell no, we're not going to make a deal with you.
And there they were yesterday signing on the dotted line.
So Trump is truly a master negotiator.
I do worry sometimes he might go too far on the tariffs, but so far it's been a home run.
You and I both worry about out-of-control government spending.
I think the thing that really worries me the most is we have, you know, we have a $7 trillion budget.
I give Trump some credit.
They cut $10 billion out of it.
Oh my God, the left went crazy.
Like everybody's going to die.
It is outrageous because I'm afraid that if there was any concern that I have, it's a debt crisis.
I think that the economy is actually, fundamentally, pretty good.
Employment's pretty good.
Growth is good.
Money velocity is good.
Consumer spending can get a little better.
But we could potentially see a debt crisis.
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Steve Moore is with us.
Steve, I'm not overly concerned about this, but can you at least go from a macroeconomic view that when we have a debt burden like we have, the only solution we have is growth plus some cuts.
We got some cuts in the one big beautiful bill.
I wish we would have gotten even more, but President Trump did not get what he wanted.
A lot of moderate Republicans blocked him.
So therefore, we have to go all in on growth.
Is that assessment one that you agree with?
I do.
I do.
And I've been saying this for the last five years or so to any Republicans or politicians who will listen that if we can get to 3% growth, in other words, if you look at those scary charts that show the debt going up and up and up and up and up into the stratosphere over the next 30 years, those are very, very frightening numbers.
They show our debt going to 200% of GDP, which would be ruinous for our country.
But they project 1.7% growth annual.
Well, wait, to that, I say, hell no.
The U.S. economy over the last 100 years has grown at 3% to 3.5% per year.
And Trump gets this.
You grow the economy, you get more revenues, you get less people collecting welfare, you get higher payroll taxes from people working.
And we saw that, by the way, you saw what happened in June, didn't you?
With the deficit actually fell in June because the economy is doing so well.
So you are absolutely 100% correct, my friend.
If we get to 3% growth and we stay on that path, which Trump has now put us on, we start bending that curve down.
And over the next 30 years, we actually alleviate the debt crisis.
Yeah.
And so let's also put 422 up on screen.
That is the debt will nearly double.
That's right.
The debt will nearly double in 30 years.
And so growth is the path forward.
Yes.
And yet getting Congress to be able to agree to cuts is basically impossible.
And I'm sure you can agree with that, Steve.
They seem so reluctant or recalcitrant to engage with any spending cuts whatsoever.
And so, Stephen, Steve, let's just kind of broaden this one final time here in the time we have remaining.
That the next 18 months to two years to have proper growth is essential.
And if we don't, we could have a European sovereign debt crisis.
So I'm going to send you a chart, Charlie.
I'm going to send it to you and a manager who manages this show.
And I want you to show it on the air tomorrow because I'm going to show you that chart.
You just put it.
Can you put that chart back up for a minute?
Yes.
Okay, because I want people to see that chart.
So here's the thing.
I'm going to send you a chart that's a variation of that that shows what happens if you have 3% growth.
And you know what?
That chart that's so alarming, it starts to bend down and it goes down.
By the way, if we got 3.5% growth in 30 years, we start paying down the debt.
So that's why growth is important.
One other quick thing because I know time is tight.
It was Ronald Reagan, and I'm very proud to have worked for Ronald Reagan.
I believe he belongs on Mount Rushmore for what he did for our country.
He used to say that the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a federal government program.
And I believed that for 30 years, but guess what?
Did you see what happened last week with Trump's rescission package?
He got rid of 20 programs.
What else is in that rescission package that we should know of?
Oh, we got rid of the corrupt foreign aid.
You know, we've spent a half a trillion dollars on foreign aid.
I don't think it's helped any person except the globalists.
We got rid of the, remember the electric vehicle mandate that Biden said everybody has to buy an electric car?
We got rid of that.
We got rid of PBS funding.
And by the way, I occasionally watch PBS.
I'll watch, but you know what?
Why can't people want to watch it?
Why can't they pay for it?
I mean, Elmo is one of the richest guys on the planet.
I think he's even richer than you are.
Why do we have to be subsidizing?
So we got rid of that.
We got rid of all these programs you never even heard of, all these global this, global that, blah, blah, blah.
Why are we sending all this money abroad when we can't pay our bills here at home?
Yeah, and by the way, NPR got a surge in private donations.
Good.
It shows that you guys could have been funding yourself without government money.
That's the whole point.
Go fund yourself through private donations like we have to do at Turning Point USA.
At Turning Point USA, we raise over $100 million a year, 500,000 donors.
We don't get any money from the U.S. Treasury.
And you have to prove that you deserve to exist.
And by the way, you get money because you provide a value-added to the American economy.
And that's why people fund you.
And that's fantastic.
Love what you're doing.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
It means a lot, Steve.
And I agree.
We do have a value add, whereas NPR, it's not going to have to justify its existence.
Same with PBS.
Thank you so much, Steve.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.
Me too.
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Joining us now is a great man who was persecuted by our own government.
This Douglas Mackey, remember, meme defensefund.com and also his lawyer, James Burnham, managing partner at King Street Legal.
Douglas, so glad to see you free and winning your case.
Douglas, take some time right now to tell this story to our audience in your own words.
What happened to you?
Thank you, Charlie.
I posted a joking meme in the 2016 election cycle saying that you could text your vote for Hillary Clinton, stay home, avoid the line, blah, blah, blah.
And I found this meme on 4chan and just shared it, thought it was funny.
Four years later, two days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, they got a warrant for my arrest.
Seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, I got the knock on the door from the FBI.
I got arrested.
I was convicted in 2023 for a conspiracy against Rice for posting this meme.
The judge said I should report to prison on January 18th of 2024.
We had to go to the appeals court just to get a bond saying that I should at least be able to wait for the appeal to go to prison for posting a funny meme.
They claimed it was a conspiracy to steal people's votes against their rights.
And we had a very strong appeal and a great legal team, including Jones Day attorneys.
And we just got the news a few weeks back that we won the case.
And the reason is because the government brought a case with insufficient evidence and no rational jury should have convicted me on these charges.
Maybe that's why they brought it in Brooklyn, New York, which is one of the most diverse and liberal left-leaning districts in the country, even though there was no connection to Brooklyn.
So I'm extremely grateful to be vindicated and very grateful for all the support I've gotten from everybody, from my family, friends, and the media, of course.
So, I mean, this is important.
I mean, telling jokes is a crime.
It was in the Soviet Union.
Telling political jokes under Stalin could land you in a gulag for 10 years.
In Nazi Germany, laughter was basically treason.
Jokes about Hitler were considered acts of treason and defeatist humor.
North Korea, comedy doesn't exist.
Xi Jiping, they have a ban in China on the Winnie the Pooh meme.
You cannot use the Winnie the Pooh meme in China.
It's true.
All Winnie the Pooh imagery of Xi Ji Ping has been banned from the internet.
Memes, jokes, or cartoons using the likeness of Xi Jiping as Winnie the Pooh is banned.
In Iran, humor is blasphemy.
Jokes about religion, the Ayatollah, or modesty can lead to imprisonment.
Cuba, well, only one part of humor only.
You can only have shows critical of America, but not of the regime.
Venezuela, comedians who mocked Chavez or Maduro were threatened, censored, or sometimes even forced into exile.
In East Germany, Stasian whisper jokes.
Same thing in Saudi Arabia or Turkey.
This is a primary attribute of a totalitarian country.
James, I want you to come in here.
You're managing partner at King Street Legal.
You represented Douglas.
Douglas, James, what did you learn about the government, their case, and the overextension of government power during Douglas' story?
Yeah, so I mean, there's like three things I think are worth highlighting.
So the first is just I want to emphasize the timeline because the timeline in this case is really, really deeply offensive.
Doug sent the meme in the 2016 election.
That's the Hillary Clinton election.
Okay.
The Justice Department lawyers in Brooklyn did whatever they did for the entirety of the Trump administration.
They investigated it, whatever.
They waited until the second day of the Biden administration to send a team of armed federal agents, guns, the jackets, the works, maximum intimidation.
They don't normally arrest nonviolent offenders in real cases, let alone fake cases.
They send a team of armed people to arrest Doug on the second day of the Biden administration.
You know, you talk about totalitarian regimes and totalitarian tactics.
That is maximum intimidation.
Biden won.
Now you're screwed.
We're coming after you.
That meme is making fun of Hillary and that's not acceptable.
So I just think that timeline is so important.
On the substance, look, the theory of the case is ludicrous.
They charged Doug under a statute that said that was passed after the Civil War to deal with the Ku Klux Klan blockading polling places in Alabama or whatever.
And lots of people conspire to forcibly deny the right to vote.
Okay, they did not pass the statute about memes.
Americans have a constitutional right to send memes.
Our founding fathers in the revolutionary generation were powered by memes.
The Gadson flag is one of the most famous memes in American history.
And so process and substance, just a horrible tragedy.
And then the last thing I want to say, just because I think it's a fun fact, the lawyer who actually won Doug's appeal in the Second Circuit, my former partner at Jones Day, I used to work there, Yakov Roth, is now the number two official in the civil division at the Justice Department.
So the president has brought in the people who overturned this injustice, and now they're working for him to defend him against all the people who are trying to stop his administration from making America great again.
So Douglas, what did this do to you personally?
I mean, again, you had the feds come raid you and come after you right after Biden wins.
And James is exactly right.
This is Moscow show trial stuff.
It's all about intimidation, show of force, trying to make an example.
If you dare criticize the regime, we will raid your home and we will put you in jail.
Douglas, what did this do to you personally?
The demoralization campaign?
All you did was share a funny meme and you were facing federal prison time.
Douglas.
Yeah, this has been the most difficult thing I've had to endure in my life.
You can imagine the effect it had on myself, but also my friends and family seeing me get arrested and then it's on the news.
They leaked it to Rachel Maddow.
I wonder how that happened.
So she led with it on her broadcast.
So you can only imagine and all the people, fortunately, as they saw the facts of the case, they realized that I was innocent.
But you can imagine federal criminal case, millions of dollars of legal fees.
I didn't have any ability to pay.
I said, how in the world am I going to pay for this?
Very fortunate that the American people rallied around me and helped me fund the case.
But even then, I still owe a lot of money on this case.
Those bills have not been paid in full.
And it goes, the list goes on and on, the stress of myself, my wife, who we got married during the middle of the case because we said, look, we can't wait forever to get married.
Who knows?
This could take 10 years.
So we got married.
Then right after we got the marriage date, then we hear the trial is going to be like six weeks after the wedding.
How's that for a honeymoon?
I found out that my wife was pregnant at the very beginning of the trial.
And I was sentenced later that year in October.
And so my wife was hospitalized with a difficult pregnancy.
I had to leave her at the hospital, jump on an airplane to go to my trial.
Excuse me, my sentencing.
As soon as I touch down in Brooklyn, New York, because I live in Florida now, I get the news that she has to have an emergency C-section 8 p.m. that night.
Can't wait.
So I had no choice but to just go to the sentencing in the morning and then go after to see my wife and new baby son.
And it was extremely difficult.
We were in the hospital for months in the NICU, all while dealing with a federal criminal case.
We had no idea if I was going to have to report to prison.
We had to, like I said, get a bond.
And you can imagine how much money it costs just to appeal a bond.
And to have this looming over my head for so long is extremely stressful.
And the personal cost, imagine all the people who think that I'm the kind of guy who would go steal people's votes.
I mean, the defamation.
So it's been extremely costly.
Yeah.
And so, James, what now is the legal path forward?
Is Douglas suing the federal government?
Because this seems like malicious prosecution.
Yeah, absolutely.
So justice for Doug has sort of two components.
The first one is to try the best we can to get the government to make Doug whole for what happened to him.
You know, no amount of money can ever give him those years of his life back, but hopefully we can at least get him some justice by suing the government.
Process-wise, the way that works, the district court is going to issue a definitive dismissal of the case soon.
He won the appeal.
It comes back.
The case goes away.
And then we go to the Justice Department and we file a claim on Doug's behalf with the department.
I have every confidence that the Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and the rest of the great Justice Department team are going to want to make this right and make things whole for Doug.
So that's one part.
But then the other part is making sure that there's accountability for the people that did this to him so that it never happens to anybody again.
And so that means making sure that there's a proper investigation into what happened.
We don't know what happened here.
The defendants in criminal cases have very few tools to get information from the government.
So we need to work with the Justice Department to do a real internal investigation into what happened here.
Was it all politics?
Was it just malevolent prosecutors?
What happened?
And then we need to find ways to hold them accountable.
And that could include suing them personally.
It could include misconduct complaints with the department.
And we're not going to stop at anything until we've both made this right for Doug and done everything we can to make sure that this never happens again in the United States.
Final thoughts, Douglas.
How can the audience support you and help you give some final marching orders here, Douglas Mackey, who nearly went to federal prison for a meme?
Thank you, Charlie.
You can follow me at Doug MackeyCase.
And, you know, like I said, there's still legal bills left over.
We don't Know what's going to happen with the settlement.
So, if anybody wants to chip in a few dollars, meme defensefund.com.
Meme defensefund.com.
Thank you guys so much, meme defensefund.com.
God bless you both.
Thank you so much, Douglas and James.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Okay, so this story just seemed kind of goofy, to be honest with you.
I kind of skimmed it, and the fact it's gone viral is just so stunning.
So apparently, an actress by the name of Sidney Sweeney did an advertisement for American Eagle jeans, and they did something kind of, you know, lighthearted.
Oh, she has great jeans.
And while she was wearing jeans, okay.
And everyone lost their mind now calling this Nazi propaganda, saying that this is fascism if you like Sidney Sweeney wearing jeans.
Now, first of all, the idea of like jeans mattering, isn't that the entire idea of 23andMe and Ancestry.com?
Haven't we had this entire like mass proliferation of you spit into a thing and you come back and you find out all about your genes?
But no, you can't talk about jeans because that's eugenics.
This is good morning America.
They've made this.
You want to know why young men are moving right?
Because young men, they're like, oh, wow, I like Sidney Sweeney or whatever.
You know, some of these Gen Z men, you're a fascist.
Oh, really?
You're going to call young men a fascist?
The best way I could put this, let's play cut 425 and I'll give you an example.
425.
We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign featuring actress Sidney Sweeney.
Yeah, the ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is Sidney Sweeney has great genes.
Now in one ad, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA being passed down from her parents.
The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda with racial undertones.
The pun good genes activates a troubling historical associations for this country.
The American eugenics movement in its prime between like 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Despite that backlash, American Eagle stock has been soaring.
I mean, you want to know why young men are moving to the right?
Here they are in ABC with some old crow saying that this is pushing forward eugenicism.
I want to just, for those in the older audience, imagine if they would have done this with like Brooke Shields or Kathy Ireland 30 or 40 years ago.
And the entire left is losing their mind.
They're saying that Sidney Sweeney is Nazi propaganda.
And honestly, the ad was like, okay, it wasn't like that unique.
It's not nowhere close to offensive.
They did the same ad with Brooke Shields, but we now have a bunch of what I call the Subaru gang.
You know what I mean by the Subaru gang.
PlayCut 427, chief leader.
She is the grand marshal of the Subaru gang.
PlayCut 427.
Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this?
Probably not, but it's still really shocking.
Like a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good jeans.
Like that is Nazi propaganda.
I don't want to insult people's looks, but it's obviously you're jealous.
That's just, that's the undertone of all this.
And what this 428, why do these women disfigure themselves with like this Ply Cut 428?
You guys are complaining about that Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, so I went and saw it.
That's Nazi propaganda.
Wow.
I thought it was going to be like kind of bad.
That's going to be in history, but okay.
Now the owner of American Eagle is like super Jewish, gives a lot of money away.
That doesn't even matter to these people, of course not.
And cut 426.
Hey, you want to go to American Eagle?
Oh, I can't go in there because I'm black.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's funny, I guess.
Look, you want to know why young men are moving to the right?
A bunch of these women, part of the Subaru gang, are screaming and yelling at them for being fascist.
Brooke Shields literally did an ad about this in the 1980s.
Brooke Shields kind of had a similar type of, let's just say, archetype as Sidney Sweeney does for young men.
You want to know why young men are moving to the right.
They look at a jeans advertisement and they're called Nazis and fascists and they say, forget it.
I'm not associating with you guys calling me names all the time.
So let's actually play the ad in question.
This is the Sidney Sweeney ad.
Again, I didn't find anything that interesting.
Like I saw, like someone sent it to me early on like, okay, whatever.
I got better stuff to do.
But apparently, this is the most important story for the American left.
It's pure Nazi propaganda.
One of my Jewish friends from Chicago said, I watched it.
It reacted, no big deal.
Like, what are you even talking about?
This is not like the rise of the Third Reich.
And they say, oh, well, how dare you say that genes matter?
Like, G-E-N-E.
Like, look, some people have good genes.
By the way, President Donald Trump has talked about genes forever.
President Trump has great genes.
He's able to stay up all night.
You know who else has good genes?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has good genes.
Kevin Garnett had good genes.
Michael Jordan had good genes.
Some people have high IQs.
Some people can run very fast.
Some people are very agile.
Some people don't require a lot of sleep.
It's a play on words.
This is a perfect example why I think the South Park thing is so funny.
Stop taking yourself so seriously.
But now they are going all in: ABC News, American Left.
It is a perfect, a premier example as to why the young men of the West have moved right so dramatically.
Okay, so let's play the Sidney Sweeney, then we'll play the Brooks Shields one.
Play Cut 430.
I'm not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans.
And I definitely won't say that they're the most comfortable jeans I've ever worn.
Or that they make your butt look amazing.
Why would I need to do that?
But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I'm not going to stop you.
But just so we're clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans.
Sidney Sweeney has very keen.
You see what I did there, right?
Okay, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's supposed to be a little bit, I guess, like enticing.
Okay, why is the just for the record?
How look, the Carls Jr. ad had like a woman like wearing almost no clothes.
Remember that whole thing?
what was the woman?
It was very...
Again, like this is kind of the way that advertisements are done.
Shouldn't like overly offend anybody.
It's kind of a boring commercial.
That's what fires up the American left.
And there's actually a more quote-unquote controversial version of the ad campaign.
But first, let's play Brooke Shields 429.
The secret of life lies hidden in the genetic code.
Genes are fundamental in determining the characteristics of an individual and passing on these characteristics to succeeding generations.
Occasionally, certain conditions produce a structural change in the gene, which will bring about the process of evolution.
This may occur in one or more of the following ways.
Firstly, by selective mating, in which a single gene type proves superior in transmitting its genes to future generations.
And by the way, all these people that are so angry about, oh, this is eugenics, they're probably almost all Planned Parenthood supporters, and that's actually how Planned Parenthood started, which is eugenics.
So they're mad at American Eagle for making a joke about genes, but they're fine with Planned Parenthood being an actual eugenics enterprise.
This is where we are as a society and as a culture.
But there's a lot of angry liberal women right now.
