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Jan. 24, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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'We’ll Have So Much Winning, You’ll Get Tired of it.'
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and today is January 24th, Anno Domini 2025. And, as is customary, I'll begin with comments from listeners.
The first commenter writes, Please write a blog or article on repealing the Heart Cellar Act.
We must jump at this opportunity.
It might be our last.
Well, the Hart-Seller Act, of course, was the Immigration Act of 1965, which ended the Europe-based quota system that was designed to keep the United States white.
Yes, it would be wonderful if we repealed that, and this has been a subject already of considerable debate.
Within the staff of American Renaissance.
And I think, that listener, you can look forward to something on this very law.
Yes, indeed, that was a catastrophic law, probably the worst law ever passed in the entire history of the United States.
We will be on it.
Another comment.
I live in France, and I listen to the French Channel 2 News, but I had not heard a thing about the occupation of the Gaiete Lyrique Theater.
Before I heard about it on your podcast.
So thank you.
Well, for those who don't remember or weren't listening the last time around, this was a lefty theater that had a program on how we must welcome asylum seekers.
And they let in about 250 West African, mostly people sleeping on the streets in Paris, and they decided that once they were there, they would stay.
They camped out.
Six weeks later, they were still there.
And so the Gaete-le-Rique theater, hard lefty, is about to go out of business.
In any case, our listener goes on to say, one thing you should know is that in terms of evictions, that's to say of delinquent tenants or even of squatters, in France, evictions are forbidden for five months of the year, from November 1st to the end of March.
The idea, of course, is that the poor deers might get cold.
And a listener goes on to say, I don't know if theaters would be obliged to adhere to this rule, but the theater's reluctance to evict is pretty much in line with the general socialist way of thinking here in France, which, of course, drives landlords crazy.
Now...
I haven't looked into detail into these eviction rules and regulations, but my guess is the law applies only to landlords and not to operators of commercial enterprises.
I bet if you decided to camp out in the printon department store or the FNAC, which is a big books and electronics store, if you did that in the winter...
Management would give you the heave-ho in no time at all.
Wouldn't make any difference what the temperature was, but this is an excellent point about the socialist ideas that operate in France.
Another comment.
I'm a former designated level one reserve police officer in California.
I have the same training as a regular police officer, and I'm writing you about the current state of law enforcement agencies in this state.
First, LAPD is down approximately 1,500 sworn officers.
They're short on their staffing.
And the woke policies and low-IQ street officers have driven many to seek employment with other agencies that aren't quite as woke.
Yes, this is a big problem.
In all these big cities where they have hired bums, losers, psychopaths, the real officers say, enough, I'm clearing out.
A listener continues, the crime wave in Los Angeles due to the fires would really mirror Katrina.
That was, of course, the hurricane in Louisiana.
There was looting, arsoning, shootings, felony assault.
A listener goes on to say, many crimes will never be solved due to incompetence.
LAPD has hired so many people that can't properly speak English.
It's become a safety issue.
They have to repeat.
Messages on the radio traffic tying up the radio system as they try to make sense.
I encourage you and your listeners to visit the local police department's Facebook page and see how current police officers are dressed and how they act.
The disciplined, clean-cut, morally sound guy is gone.
They hire freaks that years ago wouldn't even have been given an interview.
They are not us.
They cannot be us.
They don't understand how our criminal justice system works.
In closing, it is safe to say crime in Los Angeles during the fires will have been as bad as Katrina minus the murder rate.
The listener goes on to say, Mr. Taylor, you are absolutely right to call for more death penalties.
These lowlifes have zero conscience, zero remorse.
It's a sad day when police departments hire degenerates and freaks.
Now this comment, it really set me back on my heels a little bit.
It is about the dilemma that I expressed about whether it is proper to punish the parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumley.
He went into school and shot the place up.
He killed four people and wounded seven.
And the question is whether he should be, whether the parents should be held responsible for the crimes of their son.
And they were held responsible by jury trial.
And the listener writes in and says this.
About your story regarding the Oxford school shooter, first one correction.
Oxford is 40 miles north of Detroit, not south.
Well, thank you for that correction.
I live in Oxford, and I know one of the victim's families very well.
Oxford is politically very right-of-center, very pro-gun and pro-Trump.
It's a small town.
Hunting and fishing are still common things for high schoolers.
Many people on the right are saying, if Ethan, that's the shooter, the 15-year-old shooter, if Ethan were black, his parents wouldn't have gone to jail.
Yes, I agree.
That's probably true.
However, the people of Oxford don't care.
The parents were tried by a jury of their peers, and I would presume this jury consisted of gun owners.
It's not about guns.
If we could have gotten away with lynching that family in the streets the day after the shooting, That's what we would have done.
You are overthinking it according to your own principles.
The people of Oxford wanted retribution, and I'm in complete agreement.
This is our town.
We handle things the way we see fit.
Old school justice.
If we could eradicate the Crumbly family to the seventh generation, we would.
Wow, that's real.
Old Testament justice.
Again, as I say, this is a perspective different from mine, but I do not find it incomprehensible.
And thank you very much for that comment, listener.
Here's another very interesting comment.
I am the white feminist leftist race realist who wrote to you a few weeks ago.
I don't really have any different perspective from yours.
I agree with your arguments.
I would only add that as a leftist feminist woman, I would want to live only in the kind of society Europeans build.
That's why I want to preserve that kind of society.
Our society has achieved the most moral progress abolishing slavery, granting women rights, abolishing child labor, stopping the prosecutions of gays and lesbians, enacting animal welfare, etc.
If you think All sensible people should be able to agree on race then.
I don't understand why you keep putting leftists down.
It's true that the incorrect ideas about race come mostly from the left, but that does not mean every leftist agrees with them.
If you want to convince someone of your ideas, it's not good to start by attacking people.
Attack leftists' ideas.
Don't attack leftists'.
Well, I like to think that I don't attack them personally and that I attacked only their ideas, but this is probably a good call to order.
She goes on.
Being liberal or conservative is largely determined by genes and less by choice.
Well, I don't know if it's less by choice, but there is definitely a genetic component to it.
She continues.
Being conservative or liberal are two different evolutionary strategies for survival.
The conservative strategy is to follow tradition, conformity, stability, and be risk-averse.
The liberal strategy is novelty-seeking, new experiences, creativity, and collective well-being.
Each of these strategies has its benefits and drawbacks, depending on the environment.
I would say, if it were not for liberals, Western civilization would look more like Eastern civilizations.
Well, I could do a whole podcast on the subject of the extent to which liberalism has made European civilization the civilization that it is and that's different from any other.
A very interesting topic.
She goes on.
I think you are a leftist.
You are pro-choice.
You are not a gun fanatic.
You accept the idea of social democratic governments as long as benefits are limited to native citizens.
You can't change your genes and change your political orientation just by changing your mind on one single issue.
She goes on to write, Until I was exposed to diversity at age 13, I thought all races were the same.
And that people who want to keep away from other races are immoral.
All that changed when I moved to the United States and was exposed to other races of people.
Well, I find this comment most intriguing, and I hope that I can learn more from this lady and from her perspectives.
Very, very interesting.
And now I have a few more comments on my co-host who has been on leave for a while.
Mr. Kersey, I have mixed reaction to Mr. Kersey's absence.
Your not exactly similar styles and your divergent ways of placing accents and the analogies you like to explore when digressing, and even your personalities do sometimes collide.
In a way, both you and your audience would benefit from the two of you not entangling as much.
At the same time, Mr. Kersey is a capable contributor.
He did a wonderful solo broadcast in early December.
How about produce separate episodes?
Mr. Taylor one week, Mr. Kersey the other.
Another comment.
I would like to offer my full-throated support for Mr. Kersey's return.
Without his exuberance to liven up the banter, I find the podcast a bit dry.
Well, gosh, I'll try to moisten it to the extent that I can.
All right, another comment.
My opinion on Mr. Kersey and the man are very high.
Who he is and what he stands for are exemplary, but on your podcast, I do get frustrated.
His answers are too long and too slow.
When finally he makes its point, it wasn't the answer to the question.
He would be an asset to the show if he just used simpler language and got to the point.
Okay, one last comment on Brother Kersey.
My wife and I have listened to Radio Renaissance every week for close to eight years.
Thank you very much.
I'm very pleased and flattered that that should be the case.
We think your incandescent, esteemed co-host, Paul Kersey, strays off topic too much.
But the podcast does benefit from having a co-host.
Well, I think in general it does too.
A little exchange, a little banter.
Now...
This is a change of subject from this listener.
We are expecting our first of hopefully several children.
We haven't decided on a name.
I like Edward.
She prefers George.
Do you have any suggestions?
Gosh, I've never been a baby naming consultant.
But I would say only stick with traditional names.
Don't go in for trendy or stylish nonsense.
And I'd say Edward or George, you can't go wrong.
However, if I do have a piece of advice in the baby naming business, I think it's always good to name a child for an esteemed relative or ancestor.
Please do consider that if you have not already.
I named both my children after family members that I greatly admire, and both they and my children and I are very happy with that result.
We very much enjoy hearing from listeners, especially corrections, especially different points of view.
And the way to get a message to me is to go to amran.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, the website.
Hit the Contact Us tab and send me your message.
I always look forward to them.
Now, of course, the big news, the big news of the week is all of these tremendous changes that have taken place ever since Donald Trump assumed office.
I don't know if you remember back in, I guess, 2016 it was, and he repeated this several times.
He kept saying, we're going to win so much, you'll get tired of winning.
I thought to myself, what a bragger.
Well...
I think there's something to it now.
This last week or two, it has just been marvelous.
I'm not tired of winning, but we really are winning.
And certainly when it comes to immigration, all of these executive orders, these immediate actions he's taken, have sent the message, Trump is serious.
He is serious.
Just a few of the things he's done.
He got rid of Joe Biden's catch and release policies.
I mean, the idea was, you find it illegal.
Give him a court date and turn him loose.
Crazy, crazy.
Also, another thing that hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves is that Donald Trump is going to apply what's called expedited removal to the entire country.
This is a way to take an illegal immigrant caught in the United States, and if he can't prove that he's been in the country for two years, then you boot him immediately.
No chance to go before a judge, appeal, try to say, oh, no, no, no, what I really wanted was asylum.
No.
Boom.
Finished.
Now, one of the reasons this is so important is, do you know what the immigration judge backlog is now?
The number of cases waiting for a hearing before an immigration judge?
Three million, ladies and gentlemen.
Three million.
Any way to completely avoid that tangled, clogged up, interminable process and get these people out is the way to do it.
So expedited removal heretofore has been applied by previous presidents only within a certain distance from the Mexican border.
Donald Trump is going to apply that to the whole country.
That is a great step forward that has not gotten the kind of attention it deserves.
Also, one of the things he did that I applaud from the bottom of my heart, he ended a crazy program for illegals from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
About the most awful of all the awful countries that we get people from.
This was called humanitarian parole.
And Joe Biden started up this scheme in early 2023. The idea is that these people who had otherwise no right to come to the United States could come and stay for up to two years.
Well, and then what?
Yeah, yeah.
They joined the three million queue of people who have yet to be dealt with by an immigration judge.
And this program served as one of two major legal pathways the administration put in place to try to discourage migrants from crossing into the country illegally.
Now this is such a spectacular slap in the face to the United States.
The way to discourage them for showing up at the border and trying to hop over illegally, the solution is to bring the very same people in.
Legally.
It was looking bad.
Remember, oh, maybe six months ago, a little bit more than that, there were all these photographs, all these moving pictures of hordes of people streaming across the border, coming across, wading across the Rio Grande, piling up as far as the eye can see.
And this looked bad.
So instead...
Alejandro Mayorkas found a way to let in the very same people, but do it in a way that was visually more appealing.
He admitted it.
He said, these processes, and there was another one, I'll get to it later, which are a safe and orderly way to reach the United States have resulted in a significant reduction in the number of individuals encountered at our southern border.
Well, what do you know?
What do you know?
Yes, just say, all right, we'll have these new programs for the very same people that were making such a bad scene on the TV news, they can come in legally.
Boy, oh boy.
The other trick, of course, was this thing called the CPB1 phone app.
CPB, that's the Border Patrol.
And this was a phone app that allowed over 43,000 people every month to schedule an appointment with immigration officials at points of entry and get a legal entry into the United States to claim for asylum.
Can you imagine that?
Here you are.
You are an utter foreigner.
No legal right to set foot in the United States.
And you show up and you've got an appointment.
On your phone.
And you show up to the Border Patrol and say, yep, okay, fine.
Come on in.
Come on in.
No problem at all.
What an outrage.
What an outrage.
Well, this phone app and these appointments.
Imagine.
I mean, really think about it.
You sashay across the border and say, hey, I got an appointment.
Okay.
Then you fill in a few forms and you get let loose into the country.
What a farce.
Well, something that happened.
The moment President Trump took office, January 20th, at noon, migrants waiting to enter using the CP1 app discovered that all their appointments had been canceled.
That app disappeared.
And here is the Washington Post writing about how one of them just broke into tears, broke into tears when she missed her appointment.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
It was scheduled for just one hour after the app's closure.
And it says she sobbed silently and slumped to her knees, while others stared despondent with tears rolling down their cheeks.
Well, so sorry.
So sorry.
What you were trying to do was against United States law.
And you were encouraged to do this by a president who was determined to help you break the law.
Don't blame Donald Trump.
Blame Joe Biden.
He was the swine who lured you into doing something that you in your heart know is wrong and illegal.
Coming to a country where you've not been invited, to which you have no rights, and that doesn't want you.
Cry all you want, but you're gone.
Now, believe it or not, since January of 2023, when the CP1 app started functioning on millions of telephones all around the world, more than 900,000 migrants have used it to come into the country, presumably in this sort of semi-illegal, semi-illegal, crazy way.
And the fact is...
Even though things have changed, the agents on the border are still catching about a thousand people trying to cross illegally every day.
One of the Border Patrol agents says, we have to fix open gaps on the border.
There are still gaps in San Diego they can walk right through.
Yes, indeed, we need to fix those.
And by declaring an emergency at the southern border, that is the way that Donald Trump will shake loose money that Congress has not appropriated.
In order to fix the wall, plug those leaks.
The other great thing that Donald Trump has done in the whole immigration arena is to get rid of birthright citizenship, or at least issue an order saying that it's gone.
However, of course, as was expected, a federal judge blocked the order temporarily, calling it blatantly unconstitutional.
John C. Kuggenauer signed a restraining order that blocks it for 14 days, renewable upon expiration.
As it had happened, 22 states, along with activist groups and expectant mothers.
That's right.
Pregnant illegals who were hoping to drop that invaluable anchor baby, they joined in the suit.
And the U.S. government, in filing, in issuing this order, calls the Order on Birthright Citizenship absolutely constitution.
Donald Trump's position is that illegals remain subject to a foreign power and therefore have no allegiance to the United States.
Now, there is some analysis from Tom Woods, a very smart guy.
And he quotes the 14th Amendment passage on this.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
Subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
The argument that Donald Trump is making is that these immigrants, they're not citizens, they don't have any legal attachment to the United States.
They are subject to a foreign sovereignty.
And therefore, they're not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
And Tom Woods goes on to quote one of the senators who, back, I guess, 1865, was it?
Who wrote and drafted the 14th Amendment.
He said this, what it meant.
This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
The idea, of course, the amendment was to legalize the slaves.
I wish it had simply said that those who have been freed from involuntary servitude are citizens of the United States.
That would have been so much clearer.
And Congressman John Bingham.
Who is sometimes called the father of the 14th Amendment itself.
He held that its meaning was, and I quote, every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States parents, not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty, is, in the language of your constitution itself, a natural-born citizen.
That's absolutely essential.
Someone born to someone.
Not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.
People who are citizens of other countries, they owe allegiance to a foreign sovereign.
So there you go.
We'll see how this fares.
And I suspect the current Supreme Court we have is about the best one we've had in a long time that will flop the right way on this question.
Let us certainly hope so.
Now here's another little, just an indication of the direction in which we're moving.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has directed employees to refer to foreign nationals as aliens.
Immigration advocates say that's offensive.
Of course, people with any brains defend using the term alien because that's what's used in the Immigration Nationality Act.
That's what the law calls them.
Of course, shortly after taking office, Joe Biden moved away from the statutory language, and he pushed for more inclusive language.
He insisted that they be called non-citizens.
Non-citizens.
That sounds like, oh, just, you know, any moment now.
They could become citizens.
Aliens.
Oh, that's no good.
That's no good.
It might hurt their feelings.
And this...
This return to the proper nomenclature reminds me of one of my favorite statements from Confucius.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.
That's right.
These are not just non-citizens.
They are aliens.
They're aliens.
Let's stick with the right words.
That is the beginning of wisdom.
Meanwhile, another change.
ICE can now raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants.
The Trump administration scrapped a policy that protected so-called sensitive places.
This goes back to 2011. There was a memo that directed officers to avoid arrests, interviews, searches, and surveillance at sensitive locations.
locations, schools, hospitals, churches, synagogues, mosques, and funerals or at weddings, marches, rallies, or parades.
This is Barack Obama who did this.
Now, sometimes they have these rallies and parades in which you have hundreds of Mexicans and Guatemalans and Haitians and who-know-what out there waving their own flags, insisting that illegals be allowed to stay.
A great opportunity to round them up and arrest them.
But no, Barack Obama.
These are sensitive places.
You can't disturb a funeral or a wedding.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Well, that regulation has changed.
Another great change.
No, I'm not tired of winning.
I like winning.
And likewise, the State Department canceled travel for thousands of refugees who are already approved to fly to the United States.
This, of course, is due to Mr. Trump's order that indefinitely paused refugee resettlement.
It ends the process of bringing them into the country.
This involves all these federal agencies and non-profits, all this huge machinery we have to settle these people we don't want in towns that don't want them.
This whole clanking, creaking machinery grinds to a halt.
There were more than 10,000 refugees already in the pipeline.
Yep, yep, yep.
They get to stay home after all.
The State Department followed the order with a memo at Tuesday that says, all scheduled travel to the United States is canceled.
No new bookings will be made.
Now, you won't be surprised to know the news shocked the leaders of non-profit organizations that are contracted by the State Department.
To help these newcomers.
Of course they're shocked.
It will hit them right in the pocketbook.
Some of them could go out of business.
If Donald Trump does what he says, let's hope that these executives end up on the breadline.
They won't have anything to do.
Let's hope that they all look for new jobs.
As it turns out, the president, he makes an annual determination of how many refugees the country is going to accept.
And the number, admitted, sank to the lowest on record of about 11,000 in 2020. That was Mr. Trump's last year in office.
Obama, President Obama, had it at 85,000.
He cut it to 11,000.
Now...
And, of course, Mr. Trump, he prioritized religious minorities, mainly white Christians from countries such as Moldova and Russia.
None of this mystery meat that has been coming in under the refugee program these days.
President Biden, of course, he upped the number to 100,000.
That's the most in 30 years.
He wanted $100,000 a year to come swooping in.
Well, sorry, sorry, Joe, that the window is shut for now, and we don't yet know how far Mr. Trump will open it if he decides to open it at all.
More good news, more winning.
The Justice Department has ordered the Civil Rights Division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration.
And to pursue no new indictments, cases, or settlements.
As you probably know, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is one of the worst busybodies in the entire federal government.
You can't operate a police department and make proper arrests without the Justice Department breathing down your neck saying, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, you mistreated this black person.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, you weren't nice enough to this Hispanic Spanish speaker.
And the directive...
The director suggests that police reform agreements that the department had negotiated with cities such as Minneapolis, Louisville, and Memphis could be in jeopardy.
The cases have not yet been approved by judges.
As I say, what they do is they make a city agree.
Yes, yes, you can look over our shoulders every move we make.
Look at all of our policies.
These things are absolutely outrageous, and these things will probably not come to pass.
They haven't yet been approved by the judges.
Now, Harmeet Dillon, she has been appointed to run the Civil Rights Division.
And within the Justice Department, the Civil Rights Division is typically the one that takes the sharpest shift in priorities, depending on who is at the top, Republican or Democrat.
And department officials that were interviewed before the election said they expected things could be even more dramatic.
Trump were to take over from Biden.
And boy, were they right.
Probably more dramatic than they even expected.
Now, here is the kind of mush you can expect from a Washington Post article.
And I quote, The appointment alarmed prominent civil rights leaders.
Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, This is so stupid.
This is so stupid.
First of all, the Justice Department was not.
It was created to protect civil rights.
It was set up in 1870 by Ulysses S. Grant, President Grant.
It centralized federal legal actions for prosecutions.
These had been scattered through various other departments, and it also set up legal counsel for the President of the United States.
Yes, it did enforce the Emancipation Amendments, but this was part of the reason that it was set up.
And the whole idea that this means nobody's going to be protected from discrimination anymore.
The idea is, oh gosh, this Harmeet Dillon, she's going to make sure that you can just discriminate against blacks and Hispanics and homosexuals and cripples and who knows what as much as you like.
And here goes NAACP President Derek Johnson.
I am concerned.
With the approach this nominee will take as it relates to protecting the rights of all communities and ensuring equal protection.
Of course, NAACP doesn't want equal protection.
It wants special favors.
It wants special treatment.
That's the crazy thing about all these reactions to the changes that Donald Trump is bringing in.
These people genuinely seem to think that DEI, all it does is...
Lower barriers to people who suffer from discrimination.
The downtrodden.
The marginalized.
No.
These are special handouts and they've got to stop.
And thank goodness Donald Trump recognizes that.
Now, who is Harmeet Dillon?
She is of Indian origin.
She is the president and director of the Lawyers Community for Civil Rights.
No, sorry.
That's somebody else.
She...
She has become a national figure by challenging the way public schools handle these sex identity issues and parents' involvement in them.
She has represented pastors and parishioners who fought Democrats, who banned in-person worship services during the pandemic.
A similar case went to the Supreme Court, which ordered California Governor Newsom to lift the prohibition on indoor worship services.
Yes, she's a great one for individual freedom, and she has been regularly in the fight to get rid of diversity efforts, which she calls discrimination.
I'm sure she'll do a great job, and I hope she won't be too badly sabotaged by the leftovers from the previous administration.
Now, let's see if I can find it.
We'll get to that later, I guess.
Now, here is the New York Times harrumphing about the ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion, these anti-white policies.
It points out that Donald Trump revoked an executive order signed in 1965 that prohibits discriminatory hiring.
For private government contractors.
The idea that he's revoked something that's supposed to have prohibited discriminatory hiring, that makes it sound as though Donald Trump wants discrimination.
He wants you to be able to discriminate against blacks or Asians or who all else.
In fact, this 1965 order, it's a very important one.
It was one of the first that spawned the idea of racial preferences for non-whites.
It was Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order No.
11246. It used the term affirmative action for the first time.
And this was the thing that got the ball rolling in terms of special preferences, not equal opportunity.
And when people talk about X company is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer, you've got to scream and say, make up your mind.
Either.
You believe in equal opportunity or you believe in affirmative action because affirmative action is explicitly and deliberately unequal opportunity.
Now, the New York Times goes on to say, all this is alarming for business leaders because Donald Trump is going to focus on private corporations whether they do business with the government or not.
The executive order says something very significant.
Each federal agency will identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations.
And the targets could include publicly traded companies, non-profits, and large foundations, among others.
So each federal agency is going to come up with outfits, good-sized outfits, that are potentially discriminating against white people or Asians or men, as it turns out.
Now, there's a fellow named Kenji Yoshino, a good Japanese name, a constitutional lawyer at NYU. He advises Fortune 500 companies on DEI. He says this, that discrete number, that's to say, he's got nine targets, is a way of striking fear into organizations.
They just don't want to be one of those nine.
I bet they don't.
And until the nine are announced, it's going to cause others to be risk-averse.
Yes, I suspect they will pull in their horns.
They won't be quite as flagrant about what fun they have discriminating against white men.
Because, after all, in 2023, a Supreme Court decision struck down race-conscious preferences in college administrations.
And then there have since been lawsuits against company race-conscious preferences.
And Mr. Yoshino, he goes on to say, Trump is putting the muscle of the executive branch behind that Supreme Court decision.
On the other hand, Mr. Yoshino thinks that there are some DEI programs that are legally safe.
This would include training on unconscious bias.
What a bloody waste of time.
He says also, fellowships or retreats that are dedicated to advancing employees of color, but that are open to anyone's participation.
Now, it seems to me, if you have got a retreat or you've got some sort of fellowship that is dedicated specifically to advancing non-whites, that should be off the table, too.
A managing partner of the law firm at Jenner& Block.
A fellow by the name of Ishan Baba, that's spelled B-H-A, B-H-A, good Mayflower descendant, I'm sure.
He said that since the executive order came down, he's been getting tons of calls from clients worried about whether they are in compliance.
Well, fact is, they're probably not.
But this just goes to show you how deliberately determined they are to keep up these discriminatory policies in the face of this very, very clear directive.
And the Washington Post goes on to say that the diversity leaders have begun to brainstorm ways that companies can keep up their efforts without attracting legal scrutiny.
I'm sure they are.
Denise Young, former worldwide chief of human resources at Apple.
Worldwide hiring at Apple.
She said she believes that most companies will find ways of continuing to bring in diverse talent because they know it's good for business.
She says it's the political environment we now live in, but it doesn't change the needs of business.
Talent comes in every shape of human existence.
Now, this is somebody who was running Apple's hiring worldwide, and she says, because talent comes in every shape of human existence, we need to keep up all these DEI things, as if Apple ever cared about what color you were, what sex you were, which sexual orientation you were, as if it ever cared about that, rather than how good you were at your job.
I mean, the whole thinking here, as I said before, it's this idea that somehow all these people have been facing terrible obstacles, terrible discrimination, and it was only these laws, only these practices that gave them a fair shot.
How can they be so stupid?
I'm absolutely certain without ever having spoken with Tim Cook, the homosexual head of Apple, that what they care about is getting the people who can do the job and then they overlay this nonsense about DEI.
But, nope, Denise Young, she says that, well, you know, we've still got to hunt hard for these people because, you know, they're still being discriminated against.
A few ideas about some of the Trump appointees.
I like their attitude.
Yes, I am enjoying the winning, and I'm not tired of it.
A guy named John Ratcliffe, he's appointed to be CIA director.
And there was a headline in the Daily Mail about him.
Trump's CIA director will take a wrecking ball to transgender lectures and pride events at Langley.
Langley, of course.
Langley, Virginia.
That's where CIA headquarters is located.
He says, no more politicized intelligence products.
No more social experiments.
He wants nothing and no one that distracts from the mission of collecting foreign intelligence and keeping Americans safe.
He is annoyed that at CIA headquarters...
There was a week of events to mark what they called Loving Day, the anniversary of the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that allowed interracial marriages in Virginia.
Now, what on earth does celebrating interracial marriages have to do with the CIA's mission?
Ratcliffe wants all this stuff out.
Orange Shirt Day.
You're supposed to wear an orange shirt to remember indigenous people affected by their experiences in residential schools.
Yes, the fact that somebody wanted them to teach English, understand the way Western civilization works, so that they can get jobs and function in the United States of America or in Canada.
That was such a horrible thing that to grieve over what was done to them, you have to wear an orange shirt to work.
Also, CIA officers are invited to join the Multicultural Inclusion Exchange.
And apparently Mr. Ratcliffe found right there in the lunchroom of the CIA a big banner that says DEIA, the A stands for accessibility, enables mission.
Of course.
Without DEIA, without people in wheelchairs, without people who are visually impaired, you just can't gather any intelligence.
So, yes, he's going to change all that.
Back to the real mission that matters.
Then there's Kristi Noem.
She has been nominated to be Department of Homeland Security.
Now, she, of course, is famous for having sent the South Dakota National Guard The governor of Texas guard the Texas-Mexico border.
She's all for mass deportations, all for the border wall, good for Kristi Noem.
And she is very closely going to monitor and possibly restrict immigration from countries that are considered potential terrorist hotspots.
And she, of course, would get rid of DEI at FEMA. I did a video on that at the time of Hurricane Helene.
All of this cuckoo stuff that FEMA was pushing, the idea that FEMA's job is to help get rid of inequalities.
And as a practical matter, it would mean you are supposed to send relief to people who are not white or people who are not heterosexual.
A completely biased approach to FEMA activities.
Nutty stuff.
And Kristi Noem will certainly get rid of that.
Now, another interesting thing about her, she was banned from several Indian reservations in South Dakota, where, of course, she's been governor, due to comments.
About drug cartels being active on the reservations.
And she also said that tribal leaders are more interested in their careers than in actually helping the Indians that they're supposed to be helping.
She's also said Indian families are weak and do not care well for their children.
Now, I'm not an expert.
On the Indians in South Dakota, but I suspect Kristi Noem was absolutely 100% spot-on correct about this, and the Indian reservation rulers were so cut to the quick by this that they insisted that they wouldn't even let her on the reservation.
You can't come help us.
No, we've never done anything wrong.
Now, this is on the principle of personnel is policy.
Back to the Justice Department, which will be under the firm jurisdiction of Harmeet Dillon.
The Justice Department has abruptly rescinded job offers that had made to dozens of recent law school graduates who were to be put into entry-level positions in its antitrust, criminal, and civil rights, immigration, and national security departments.
And at the FBI. Participants in this program, it's one of the oldest career development initiatives in the federal government, they got their acceptance letters in November and December.
These were invitations to take career-track jobs, and they were set to last two to three years, and if you did well, then you'd be a permanent civil servant in the Justice Department.
Many were informed in just the last few days that their offers have been terminated.
Too bad.
And, of course, they're now weeping and wailing and looking for new jobs.
The decision to rescind the offers is just the first in many moves that are expected to be made in the coming days geared at ridding the department, the Justice Department, of left-wing lawyers and freezing programs that select applicants using diversity rules.
Now, here are dozens of young lawyers that were set to go to work for the DOJ, and it would be nice to see a racial mix of these people.
It would be nice to see their curricula vitae.
It would be nice to see what their extracurricular activities had been.
And my suspicion that the Donald Trump administration is 100% correct in saying, nope, we don't want a single one of you.
Not one of you.
And I'm sure that the Trump administration will not get rid of this program.
Yes, they do need people.
They do need young people to fill jobs.
And if their jobs be filled, they need to be filled with people who are going to support Donald Trump's policies.
I think this kind of thing going on right from the start is a complete turnaround, a huge difference, a vast improvement over what happened Eight years ago, when Donald Trump first came into office, he just floated in.
He didn't know which way was up, really.
But now he surely knows which way is up.
And all of these directives going to all the different parts of government, it just goes to show you how carefully he and his advisors have prepared for the very moment when they would have their...
I love, for example, that at 12 noon sharp, the very moment he becomes president, the CPB1 app, which lets illegals get their nice little appointments to come be illegal residents in the United States, that went blank.
Wonderful.
Excellent timing.
Good planning.
And here's another little item.
The U.S. State Department has a new policy under the Trump administration.
U.S. embassies and outposts will no longer be able to fly the Pride flag and the Black Lives Matter flag.
We now have a one-flag policy.
That means only the American flag flown at U.S. facilities at home and abhorred, with two possible exceptions.
The POWMIA flag.
And the wrongful detainees flag.
Joe Biden, he loved the pride flag, as it's called, the homosexual flag.
He flew it during Pride Month and big celebration in 2023, right on the White House.
And, of course, there was a leaked State Department memo in 2021 that encouraged U.S. embassies to display the BLM flag at the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's overdose.
Now, this whole business of flying that multicolored homosexual flag, they were first flown at U.S. embassies under Barack Obama.
But then when Donald Trump came in, he banned that stuff, and of course, Joe Biden brought back the flag, that multicolored flag.
Now, of course, Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, Florida Senator Michael Rubio, he was unanimously confirmed to the Cabinet Post.
We are cooking with great gas, the State Department.
Now, of course, what appears likely to be the first piece of legislation to be signed by the new president will be what's called the Laken-Riley Act.
Congress has passed the bill, and it will require federal authorities to arrest migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
As Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama who helped push the bill through the Senate said, if you come into this country illegally and you commit a crime, you shouldn't be free to roam the streets.
Absolutely right.
Lock them up.
What the legislation does is require federal authorities to detain illegals who've been accused of crimes such as shoplifting and any offenses that might result in injury or death and then deport them.
No more catch and release.
Now, of course, as it turns out, deporting millions of immigrants or enforcing the Lake and Riley Act, because there are so many of these illegals walking around, committing crimes, it'll cost a lot of money.
But the amount of money just goes to show you how badly previous administrations have handled this business.
There are all of these illegals who commit crimes and who aren't being locked up.
And Republicans are debating how to get the money through With a process known as budget reconciliation that will let them squeeze it through Congress purely on party-line votes.
We'll see if they succeed.
Now, in January 22nd, it was sent Donald Trump for signature.
The vote in the House for this Lake and Riley Act, in other words, lock up these criminal illegals, was 263 to 156, pretty good margin, with 46 Democrats joining.
All Republicans voted for it.
The bill passed the Senate by 64 to 35 with 12 Democrat votes.
As it turns out, Democrats in competitive districts and states, they backed it because they can see the writing on the wall.
They understand that the country does not like illegals walking around, especially criminal illegals.
We want them either in jail...
Or preferably just gone for good.
And I'm happy to say Laken Riley's father, Jason Riley, said of this new legislation, We are very happy with the way things have turned out.
Well, I'm very happy too.
And I'm happy with you, Jason Riley.
What a horrible thing happened to his daughter.
And I will tell you about her.
Laken Riley, if you don't recall, she was a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student.
A lovely...
White student wanting to be a nurse and help people.
She was murdered while she was out jogging.
February 22, 2022, I believe it was.
Well, the perpetrator, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26-year-old Venezuelan, he had entered the United States illegally.
Yep, ICE knew about him.
ICE knew he did not belong.
They caught him under Biden, turned him loose, and then he went on to kill this lovely young American white girl.
And in just last year, November, he was found guilty on all charges, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I think that is far better than he deserves.
I think he should get the death penalty.
I do not like the idea of having to house these people, medicate them when they get old, worry about them, feed them, give them clothes.
No.
I want them off the planet.
And I don't understand why that can't be done.
And of course, one of the changes that Donald Trump has proposed is that if you're an illegal and you commit a capital crime, and of course murder is a capital crime, he has ordered.
All of the state attorney generals, all of the federal DAs, to vigorously pursue the death penalty.
That will learn them.
Let's see, what else have we got here?
Oh yes, this was quite a jolly little episode.
There was a Haitian illegal who was arrested in Boston, and Fox TV went along, and it was a ride-along with ICE, and they took a nice...
video of various arrests.
And this Haitian, as he's being bundled into the ice van, he shouts, showing a perfect understanding of American politics.
He shouts, fuck Trump.
Biden forever.
Thank Obama for everything he did for me.
Yes, this is a Haitian illegal who has committed many, many crimes.
One of the guys top on the list for Tom Homan, who is in charge of booting these illegals.
Top on the list.
Somebody we do not want in America.
As I say, he understands America perfectly.
He says, fuck Trump, Biden forever, and thank you Obama for everything he did.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Well, now, here is an interesting court case I'd like to mention to you.
A fellow named Edward St. John, first selectman of the town of Middlebury, and Joshua Smith, superintendent of the local school system, pointed a joint statement on the town of Southbury's Facebook page.
This is in Vermont.
Several community members expressed disappointment that the message in the statement was that all lives matter.
Instead of Black Lives Matter.
This is back in 2020 when BLM madness was cursing through the land.
And this led to a heated discussion among community members and comment sections on the post.
People were so upset that you could actually say all lives matter when the only lives we were supposed to worry about are Black lives.
And at one point a commenter called out one of the men as a white supremacist.
And the select one sued.
Now this is what a court found.
The use of derogatory remarks on social media and elsewhere has become commonplace, with words and phrases taking on different meanings depending on the context.
The primary issue on appeal is whether the characterization of the plaintiff as a white supremacist is standing alone on actionable fact constituting defamation per se.
The court went on to conclude.
We conclude.
As a result, we join numerous other jurisdictions that have included these terms are not objectively verifiable and do not imply the existence of undisclosed defamatory facts.
In other words, these expressions are meaningless.
I've been called a white supremacist and racist so many times, gosh, my head spins.
I believe the judge found correctly.
It's a matter of freedom of speech.
You can call somebody a white supremacist all you like, and if there are no other facts in the case, then all it is is as stupid and as meaningless as calling somebody a poo-poo head.
Let people shout about white supremacy.
All they like to the point where it becomes utterly, utterly meaningless.
And so, in this interesting case, I believe the courts ruled correctly.
Well, we've come to the end of our time, as we always do, ladies and gentlemen.
It has been an honor.
It has been a pleasure.
And thank you so much for spending this time with me.
And I look forward to spending time with you next week.
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