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Just when the wily coyote libs thought they finally had roadrunner Donald Trump.
And New York Attorney General Letitia James was bragging about how she was about to take one of Trump's buildings from him to pay off a ridiculous civil judgment.
Just when all hope looked lost, President Kofefe scored a major legal win.
An appeals court just lowered the impossible $464 million bond that Trump was supposed to come up with to a still insane, but actually doable if you're Donald Trump, $175 million bond.
The court also ruled that Trump can continue to run his business in New York, and it gave him extra time to come up with that money.
For what is, by my count, the, I don't know, 5,358th time, I'm approximating here, that Trump has evaded the schemes of the liberals he took the opportunity to celebrate.
And that was done by Biden and his thugs also, because they can't win an election because of the borders, because of energy prices, because of inflation, because of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country.
He can't win because of Russia, Russia, Russia, because of all the problems, because of Ukraine being attacked by Russia.
And he can't win because of the October 7th attack of Israel, which he should have never allowed to happen, would have never happened if I were president.
Ukraine would have never been attacked if I was president.
And you wouldn't have inflation if I was president.
We didn't have inflation.
So all of these things.
So what they do is they do election interference, which is court cases.
And let's try and tie him up.
And let's take as much of his money as possible.
I respect the appellate division for substantially reducing that ridiculous amount of money that was put on by a corrupt judge.
Election interference, that's the key phrase.
He took a great opportunity here to just punch Biden, and they knew all the cameras would be on Trump.
So instead of just talking about the judgment, he just kind of throws it away as an aside.
And I wanna thank that judge, I appreciate what he did there.
But anyway, the inflation, Gaza, Ukraine, and so he's just taking all the cameras, all the attention that he attracts, like a light attracts moths.
He is just using that opportunity to bash Biden.
But the key phrase here, and I think the phrase that will resonate with a lot of people, is election interference.
All the prosecutions.
All the civil rulings.
The liberals think that all of those things are going to really hurt Trump's campaign.
What he's saying is, no, they're going to help my campaign.
Because people know it's unfair.
They know that all this is really about is election interference, all the spying, all the investigations, all the voting rule changes, all the attempts to bankrupt him.
All of it is about stopping Trump from getting elected.
If this guy weren't running for president, again, if this guy had not run for president the first time, if this guy were not the kind of Republican that the liberal establishment hates in particular, none of this would be happening.
So they throw everything in the kitchen sink at him.
Some of their efforts have been more successful than others.
But this tactic, at least, has failed.
And it failed spectacularly.
Because on the same day that they lowered Trump's bond to a manageable amount, Trump also received some more good news.
Within 24 hours, his net worth is expected to increase by $3 billion.
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Uh, Trump's net worth is increasing by about $3 billion within the next 24 hours.
How is that possible?
Because Truth Social, which is Trump's Twitter alternative, starts trading today.
If you're looking for the stock price and how the thing is going, it's a little confusing because TruthSocial is going public through a SPAC, this Special Purpose Acquisition Company, which is a holding company, a shell company, that was able to raise money but it didn't have any underlying company.
The whole point of the SPAC is to just go and acquire another company.
So they're acquiring TruthSocial and shares of that holding company Have been all over the place.
On Friday, after this merger was approved, this stock fell.
It fell 13.7%.
But then in afternoon trading yesterday, the stock jumped up 22%, jumped up to over $45 per share.
And then I don't know where it ended.
I mean, it was kind of all over the place.
But at one point yesterday afternoon, it was about $51 per share.
So, in any case, Trump's net worth is going to be fluctuating wildly, but Trump's shares could be worth $3 billion or more.
It's really unclear.
We'll wait to see where the price finally settles.
It's just a rabbit out of a hat for Trump, though.
He already had the backup plan, which is the judge reduced that civil fraud settlement You got the four prosecutions where the Democrats are trying to throw Trump in prison.
But then there was also this civil judgment, which said that a million years ago Trump, you know, didn't fill out Form 57B totally correctly when he was getting a loan.
And because he may have misvalued his properties, he now owes almost half a billion dollars to The New York Attorney General who campaigned for office specifically on destroying Donald Trump is so totally ridiculous.
So an appeals court judge came in and said, all right, we're substantially reducing this fee that the corrupt AG in New York is trying to charge him.
Even if that judgment had not come in, which now allows Trump to pay the bond, which then prevents the New York Attorney General from seizing one of his properties, such as Trump Tower, such as his building on Wall Street, which you know the New York Attorney General wants to do.
She openly talked about it.
But even if that had not happened, Trump just pulls this rabbit out of the hat, which is he sells his social media company for a substantial amount of money and increases his net worth by $3 billion.
How is Joe Biden responding to this news?
That just when they think they've got Trump, that dastardly Trump got away from us again.
The way Biden is responding is by trying to come up with a new nickname for him.
That's it, that's about all he's got left.
Biden tested out this nickname, not that Biden even really knows what this nickname is, not that Biden knows what his own name is anymore, but the Biden campaign tried this out.
They sent out an email referring to Trump as Broke Don.
It's kind of funny too.
You know, Biden can't win for losing.
They try out this new nickname, Broke Don, and then five seconds later, Trump doubles his net worth, well more than doubles his net worth.
What is he worth now?
Probably half a billion dollars, at least according to him in cash, plus all of the properties.
Right when it looks like Trump is all out of money, his wealth increases a lot.
Broke Don was the name that they use in this Biden-Harris fundraiser email.
It's so cringe.
It's so obviously not true.
And even if the nickname were apt, Biden is not the kind of guy to do it.
This has never worked.
Trump is good at nicknames.
Low energy Jeb, Lion Ted, Little Marco, he's got a nickname for everybody.
Trump's very good at them.
They tend to be evocative.
They tend to stick.
Then his opponents try to slap him with a nickname.
They try to do the comedy routine with him.
You remember Marco Rubio did this whole Don Rickles bit, basically, in the 2016 race, where he was insinuating that President Trump is not well endowed because his hands are small or something.
And it just flopped.
It doesn't work.
You can't.
Never get into a debate with a comedian is a lesson that I've learned in show business and politics.
Never.
Not because the comedian is necessarily smarter.
Maybe the comedian isn't.
Not because the comedian is better educated.
Often he would not be.
But because you can't beat a comedian, man.
You know, he's going to be funnier.
He's going to have the audience more on his side.
And Trump is the best living comedian in the United States.
So, and certainly don't try to play his game.
It's not just me saying this, by the way.
Obviously, I have a great deal of affection for President Trump.
There's even an anonymous, wishes-to-remain-anonymous Democrat strategist told The Hill that this is a terrible strategy.
He said, Very true.
Mimicking Trump has been done before has never really worked.
You can't out-Trump Trump because he's the original version.
I would say they need to be more creative in producing their own original and unique strategy to bring him down a peg that shocks and awes.
Very true.
This is the kind of thing I've been saying for years now and especially said during the Republican primary.
You can't out-Trump Trump. - Yeah.
If you're running to be, I'm the better, bigger, faster Trump, I'm the more disciplined Trump, I'm the Trump without the baggage, it's not going to work.
Or if you're a Democrat, you say, yeah, I'm going to be just as nasty and tough and funny as Trump.
No, you're not, especially not if you're Joe Biden and you can barely walk anymore.
No, it's not going to happen.
So you need to come up with your own original strategy, but you can't because you have nothing to sell because the country's falling apart around you.
So what are you going to do?
You just have to try to get this guy to just grab him by the cuff of his trousers and just hold him down, but you can't.
He just keeps slipping away from you.
And that is causing the Libs to collapse.
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Speaking of attacking Republicans, the former chairman of the RNC, Ronan McDaniel, is out.
Trump replaced her with people who are more tightly associated with his campaign.
Even though Ronna was something of an ally to him when he was in the White House.
She's out.
She needs a new job.
And there are a few ways that former top-ranking political staffers can go when they leave office.
They can either go to a think tank.
That's not usually what the operatives do, though, because the operatives are not scholars.
They're not policy wonks.
They're campaign guys, so think tanks are probably not the main spot.
They can become lobbyists if they have enough pull.
But again, if you're just working for the committee, if you're a former member of Congress or something, maybe you do that.
Even if you're a top staffer for Congress, maybe you do that.
If you're just working for the committee, if you're working more on the campaign side, that's probably not going to work.
So then you can become a commentator.
You can either become a media consultant, sometimes they do that, or you become a political commentator.
That's the more tried-and-true route.
And if you're going to become a Republican political commentator, you have to make a choice early on.
Are you going to be a commentator among your fellow Republican and conservative outlets, or are you going to be the token Republican on the liberal outlets?
And it's just totally different routes.
It kind of depends on your perspective of politics, what you hope to accomplish in politics.
Obviously, in as much as I am in conservative and Republican politics, I'm more the conservative's conservative.
I'm more the Republican's Republican.
I'm kind of with my own team.
I would be more than happy to go on CNN.
I would be more than happy to go on NBC and, you know.
Shed a little light on things that they seem to be confused by but they don't invite me on.
They don't want a conservative to come on and articulate the conservative point of view in a way that can't be mocked or dismissed or invade against.
So there's a different type of conservative who goes on those channels.
That's the squishy kind, the one who can go on there and say, well, look, I'm a conservative, but I totally hate Donald Trump and I hate all the elected Republicans.
And I'm totally in favor of abortion and redefining marriage and opening up our borders and on and on and on and on.
And so they're really just fake Republicans.
They're the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism.
And that can work.
Joe Scarborough does that.
Ana Navarro does that on The View.
They pretend to be conservatives, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, but they always just agree with the liberal hosts.
Where things get really messy is when a conservative goes on, as a conservative, Says, no, I support Trump.
You know, I like when Republicans win.
I want the party to become more conservative.
And when the conservatives go on the liberal networks, the networks lose their minds.
It usually doesn't work.
That's what happened to Ronna McDaniel, who took a job at NBC.
And in her first day of appearances, she gets absolutely grilled.
I mean, I won't even show you the clip because it's not even in the top Three most interesting clips, probably, that came out of that day, her first time at NBC.
But she goes on, the host of Meet the Press is very, very rude to Rana, asks her an apology to the American people.
And then, if that were not enough, Chuck Todd, who used to host Meet the Press, comes on as a guest to continue attacking his new colleague at NBC, Rana McDaniel.
Let me deal with the elephant in the room.
Yeah.
I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation, because I don't know what to believe.
She is now a paid contributor by NBC News.
I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract.
She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for her.
So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with.
Yeah.
Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who's paying her?
Once at the RNC, she did say that.
Hey, I'm speaking for the party.
I get that.
That's part of the job.
So what about here?
I will say this.
I think your interview- Put a pause here.
I'm sorry.
You have to put a pause here.
I was going to wait till the end of the clip, but what is this man saying?
Saying she has real credibility issues here because she's being paid to speak on television.
So how do we know she's not parroting the views of her employer?
Yet, Chuck, so are you.
So is that lady who took your show, who's currently hosting Meet the Press.
So is Michael Steele, the former head of the RNC, who had Ronald McDaniel's job.
He became an NBC contributor after that.
But he's a liberal Republican, so you never really hear too much about his credibility.
So is every commentator and host on this network.
They're all being paid by NBC, so do they all have the same credibility issues?
He says, no, no, no, but you don't understand.
Yeah, sure, okay, now she's being paid by NBC, but before, she was being paid by the Republican National Committee.
Yeah, right.
Doesn't Jen Psaki host a show for you guys?
Jen Psaki, the former White House Press Secretary, the spokesman for Joe Biden?
She hosts a show.
We don't hear about her credibility issues.
But you all do.
If you work a job, you get paid by somebody.
Ironically, what Chuck Todd is really upset about here is That Ronna McDaniel is not just parroting the views of the people who pay her.
She's doing the opposite.
She's contradicting the views of the people who pay her.
The people who pay her hate Donald Trump and want to banish him to St.
Helena so he can die in exile.
Ronna McDaniel likes Donald Trump and worked with Donald Trump and wants to see him re-elected again this year and you can't stand that.
So you, I can't tell if he's playing dumb or if he is dumb.
I guess the, and I don't know what the more charitable view is.
Is he a liar or is he just that dense that he doesn't understand what a political commentator does?
He doesn't understand what a TV presenter does.
Does he really?
That's been his whole career.
Or is he just being obtuse?
Or does he just hate Ronna McDaniel because she's just a stand-in for Trump and the Republican Party that Trump leads?
And so he's just very disingenuously attacking her for doing her job in a much more credible way than he does his job.
Keep going.
Did a good job of exposing, I think, many of the contradictions.
And look, there's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.
So it is, you know, that's where you begin here.
Well, he's almost being honest there.
It's really rich to hear an NBC News propagandist accuse others of gaslighting.
These people who pushed every ridiculous hoax about Trump and the Republicans of the last eight years.
Every hoax cooked up by the intelligence agencies or the Hillary Clinton campaign or actual foreign intelligence like the Russians that they accused Trump of colluding with.
It was actually they who colluded with them.
To accuse others of gaslighting, it's very, very rich.
But he does get a little bit to his real problem with Ronald McDaniel, which is he says, I hate the Republican Party.
We dealt with the RNC, and the RNC pushed back on us.
And the RNC didn't just roll over, and the RNC had the audacity occasionally to win.
And so we here, we journalists at NBC, we hate that.
Cuz we hate the Republican Party, cuz we hate Trump and Republican voters, and we want them to shut up.
And not only are they not shutting up, but now we're paying them to speak, and we can't have that.
We cannot have an actual Republican, whatever you think of Ronna McDaniel, I think she did her best, she tried, she wants Republicans to win.
We can't have an actual Republican trying to win and articulate their views and persuade people on our network.
This is a journalistic outlet for goodness sakes.
This is a news channel.
We can't have Republicans speaking on here.
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Speaking of whining, a lot of whining over at NBC News, Boston race hustlers are now shaking down the city and specifically white churches for $15 billion.
Here's why.
We call on the white church in Boston to join us in supporting a black reparations movement.
Standing in solidarity, clergy leaders from across the city of Boston gathered for an interfaith, multiracial meeting at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Roxbury, Nubian Square.
They're here to ask the religious community to atone for black Boston suffering and support black reparations.
And we are coming, as Dr. King said, Organizers from the Boston People's Reparation Commission say they're also following up on their demand on the City of Boston for a $15 billion initial payout to begin the process towards repair and reconciliation to the city's black community.
$5 billion as initial payment around cash payouts.
$5 billion around strengthening our financial institutions, creating a new black bank.
Wow.
Wow.
Boy, oh boy.
I guess they got some accountant in there.
the education achievement gap between blacks and whites.
In 2022, the Boston City Council and Mayor Michelle Wu offered an official apology for the city's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
Wow.
Wow.
Boy, oh boy.
I guess they got some accountant in there.
They said, okay, because of the transatlantic slave trade of 300 years ago, you owe and you carry the interest rate.
This is some like New York Letitia James kind of math.
You owe $15 billion.
And it's got to come out of the taxpayers of Boston for some reason, and specifically out of white churches.
So says Reverend So-and-So, that young guy.
I guess he's the new black race hustler.
I don't know his name, but I saw he reverend something.
So he's the new Jesse Jackson.
He's the new Al Sharpton.
It's a pretty lucrative job.
I think it's undignified work, but it can definitely be lucrative.
Al Sharpton's worn a lot of nice suits for many years now, just trying to stir the pot on race relations and demand endless money.
In this case now from from white churches and it's sad to me.
As a mackerel-snapping papist myself, a member of a church that is called the Universal Church, the Catholic Church, it's very sad to see these terms like white churches, black churches, because, you know, for the Catholic Church, we don't really view things that way.
I guess with some of the immigrant groups in America, you'd say, oh, it's an Irish parish, that's an Italian parish, but the church broadly, you know, encompasses All races, you go to Mass, you'll see people of all different races and they're all kind of mixed up together.
The churches had white saints and black saints and Asian saints and all sorts of saints for a very long time.
The fact that certain sects can divvy themselves up and say, we're the black church and you're the white church, and so the white church has to give us $15 billion, that opens the door to a lot of really terrible actions.
Politically terrible, spiritually damaging, just ultimately wrong.
The reason I bring it up though is not because some race hustler guy who calls himself a reverend is, you know, running a racket.
That's been going on for many decades.
It's to remind people For even these, you know, the black activists demanding this, who call themselves reverend, or the white churches who might acquiesce and just give money to black people as part of some kind of shakedown scheme.
The greatest saints could have been the worst sinners, and the worst sinners could be the greatest saints.
This is a fact observed by many religious people over the years.
People have a great capacity.
Some people have the capacity for more acts of greatness and greater acts of greatness than others.
And they can turn this to good ends or they can turn this to evil ends.
So when the church does what it's supposed to do, It's really, really great, and society flourishes, and souls are saved, and people live in accord with reason, and all of that leads to the flourishing of the common good.
When the Church goes wrong, when the Church splinters up into a lot of pieces, when the Church promotes vice, when the Church even promotes one virtue to the exclusion of the other virtues, which is probably an even better definition of heresy.
When the Church falls into the trap of the fashions of the age and the racial ideologies that are so popular today.
When the church marries herself to the spirit of the age, which will leave her a widow in the next, you know, not the church church, but all these little splinter groups.
When all of that happens, the churches can be real, real bad.
Can go really, really bad.
And the salt loses its saltiness and it's good for nothing.
Something to watch out for.
I mentioned yesterday, we're in Holy Week.
This is when the devil's working overtime.
This is when you gotta watch out and pray that you fall not into temptation.
Very easy to do and then the churches become absolute caricatures.
Speaking of sinners and saints and religion, some sad news but it's interesting and maybe provides a little hint of what the solution can be.
Church attendance is way down.
Over the past 20 years it has declined in most U.S.
religious groups.
The most religious groups in America in terms of regular attendance at religious services is the Mormons.
The Mormons have kind of kept it together.
67% of Mormons regularly attend religious services.
We have a few.
A few charts here.
Oh, apparently none of my charts printed out.
That's cool.
Great.
Well, in any case, I'll just kind of do it from memory.
You see a big division between the Jews and the Christians, and then even within the Christians, the Catholics and the Protestants, and the Muslims and the Mormons.
Jewish attendance at religious services was pretty low.
It was lower than other groups 20 years ago.
But it's increasing, and it's increasing by a lot.
The Muslim attendance at religious services was somewhat higher than the Jews, and it's increasing by a little bit.
Basically, every other group is decreasing.
Mormon church attendance was very, very high, and it has decreased but barely, I think by like one point.
Catholic regular church attendance has collapsed.
Protestants have declined too, but the Catholic church attendance has collapsed.
It went from something like 45% to 25%.
I'm getting the numbers a little bit off, but it's been brutal.
So what's the determining factor here?
Because we're not just focused on Christian groups.
We're not just focused on, you know, the Catholics or the Protestants or the Mormons who would call themselves Christian probably.
Some Christians would say they are not Christian.
Not even wading into that.
We're also talking about the Jews and the Muslims.
So what is the common factor here that leads to increased attendance at religious services, or at least is correlated with it?
Seems to me it's community cohesion.
For the Jews, it started out low, it's increasing significantly.
The Jews have a lot of social cohesion, especially during periods where they perceive a threat, or even an existential threat.
The cohesion comes back in.
There are all sorts of Jews who believe all sorts of things.
Very often you see the caricature of the self-hating Jew who wants to disassociate from being Jewish or anything like that.
But during periods where they're perceived to be persecuted, you get more social cohesion.
The Jews refer to themselves as a tribe, as the tribe.
So obviously you have a lot of community cohesion there.
You have a similar degree, though a little bit less, of community cohesion among Muslims, particularly in the United States, because Muslims in the United States tend to be relatively recent immigrants, or first-generation, maybe second-generation immigrants.
So there, still, you have a ton of community cohesion.
The Mormons, obviously, you have a ton of community cohesion.
They all descend from this one particular religious movement that moved out west.
They descend from the same families.
They look very similar.
They talk very similar.
They behave very similarly.
For the Catholics, not so much.
So the Catholics, especially recently because you've got the influx of mass migration, there's not a ton of community cohesion.
There's been a lot of upending of Catholic norms and practices in recent years, particularly in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
That community cohesion is kind of collapsing.
This is a broader point even just for politics, putting religious questions aside for a second.
We have this phrase that has crept into our politics because of an offhand comment by Vice President Dan Quayle to a reporter in Japan in the early 90s, you know, which said, diversity is our strength.
That isn't true.
That's never been true.
Variety might be the spice of life, but diversity is not strength.
Strength comes from unity.
This doesn't mean that we have to kick out people who are of different races or different religions or whatever, but it means that we need to find something that unifies us nationally.
We have to share some kind of unity.
If we don't, as in recent years we do not, it's actually been discouraged to find any unity, then it's going to collapse.
The country is going to collapse.
Even beyond the question of are you regularly attending church, which is related to national strength, by the way, but even putting that aside, if you don't have social cohesion, strong bonds that begin with the family, which is the bedrock unit of society, and expand outward in priorities of charity from there all the way up to the national level, which is an extension of filial piety, the love that you have for your parents, for your family, if you don't have that, the country's going to collapse.
And when we then pair that, not only with loosening those bonds of social cohesion, but actually intentionally attacking the family, then you're in trouble.
The church attendance declining is troubling to me because I care about people's souls and I think it's just...
The most important thing in life is obviously to have a relationship with God because God is the source and summit of all being and your maker and love himself and, you know, he sends his only begotten son to die such that whoever believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.
Obviously, we're in Holy Week right now, so I mean that, you know, as an intrinsic matter, this headline really bothers me.
But also, even if it didn't, even if I never went to church, As a political matter, the trend lines are not great here.
And it shows us that other national trends are a real danger.
And you want to talk about community cohesion.
Sometimes, communities come together in the face of a political threat to do things that are very good.
You're seeing this now throughout the United States, most recently in Wyoming.
If there's one political issue that I think has united all sorts of people, certainly the conservatives, but even a lot of independents, even liberals in recent years.
It's the observation that transing the kids is bad.
It's just bad.
Castrating little children, putting them on drugs that will probably reduce the length of their lives, that mess up their bones, that sterilize them, that lead to all sorts of problems, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
It That is bad and we shouldn't do it.
So now, Wyoming has just passed a law banning it, which makes Wyoming the 38th state To outlaw transing the kids.
We were told that the transgender issue, this is just a thorny social issue and you conservatives should lay off.
The transgender issue might be the single most effective political issue for conservatives in the country today.
Maybe it might be more powerful and lead to greater unity and political persuasiveness.
Even then immigration.
We'll get to that in one second.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from MKBubblehead.
It's an interesting name.
He says, can an eco-sexual be a mine-attracted person?
Wow, man.
That is deep.
That is calling on other crazy terms.
It's got some pun to it.
It's really...
That's a chef's kiss favorite comment for yesterday.
Wyoming, not Wisconsin.
I sometimes confuse those two.
Wyoming becomes the 38th state to ban transing the kids, this legislation.
Was signed by Governor Mark Gordon.
It prohibits, quote, physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment.
This is just happening.
This is happening not only in the, the red states, it's happening around the country, not only around the country, but around the West.
You remember a week or two ago, the NHS, National Health Service in the United Kingdom, somewhat quietly stopped transing the kids.
They said, we're not, after reviewing this, we're not going to trans the kids anymore.
That's over.
France is moving toward that now.
Even France, which is crazy and revolutionary and chops people's heads off.
They want to stop chopping things off children because they realize it's totally gross and evil.
And America, too.
The left has lost this issue.
Period.
It's amazing how it happened, too.
Because this is a little bit of the secret story of this, but apt during Holy Week.
A friend of mine discovered that The Vanderbilt Gender Clinic here, whatever, Vanderbilt Hospital, was trans and kids.
And he mentioned this to me.
And he said, yeah, I've been going.
I just pray a weekly rosary over there because I discovered this is really bad.
And I said, we got to shut this down.
We got to stop this.
He goes, yeah, yeah, no, we do.
We need all political action.
And so the first thing I'm doing, though, is I'm going with some friends of mine.
We're praying a weekly rosary.
And to shut down the Vanderbilt Gender Clinic.
I said, oh man, okay.
And then we're chatting.
He might have said it directly to Matt, who at the time was doing the big What is a Woman movie and all this.
Maybe I mentioned it.
But in any case, we all start to get to talking, and then Matt starts digging into it a little more, finding out stuff about it, and then there's a, he posts a big thread about it, it becomes a little bit of a national political issue, Matt holds a rally for it, so suddenly governors, state legislators are getting involved, and in no time, it was actually not that difficult.
Because the people were on our side to shut that down, and now they're being shut down all around the country.
Libs of TikTok, Kaya Raychick was on this issue, and it just spread very, very quickly.
I love the kind of secret part of the story that people haven't talked about, is it kind of began with a relatively private person just praying a rosary.
It's just really great, but it becomes a big political issue, and it's a total winner.
It's a total winner, and it's over.
On a lot of political issues, I would say, you never know if we're going to win.
These are eternal questions.
No, castrating children is not really one of the eternal recurring things.
I guess it pops up every so often over time, but it's one where we actually can win, and on this issue, we have won, and that is very good.
You see it in France now.
When I say it's already starting to happen in France, I mean a group of senators has reacted to a report.
That shows how awful transing the kids is.
It's not even the far-right group of senators.
It's the center-right group.
It's not the Front Nationale, which I think is called National Rally now.
That's the one led by Le Pen that's considered far-right.
You know, I think a ridiculous term, but that's what it's called in the press.
This is just the Republicans, which is more the center-right party in France.
This is a centrist issue and it's a total winner.
Speaking of protecting kids, Beyond the trans stuff, Florida, under Governor Ron DeSantis, just passed a law banning social media for kids.
I love this story.
I love it.
This is a great law.
This is a great idea.
Every Republican in the country should follow it.
Florida will now have one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors.
DeSantis just signed it yesterday.
It will ban social media accounts for children under 14.
And it will require parental permission for 15 and 16-year-olds.
DeSantis actually had a, there was a proposal that DeSantis vetoed earlier this month.
It was a little tougher, but this is still pretty tough.
No social media if you're under 14, and parental permission if you're under 17.
It was the top priority for the Republican Speaker Paul Renner.
Takes effect January 1st of next year.
This is totally right.
This is great legislation, and it will separate the conservatives from the libertarians.
The libertarians will say that, you know, we just need individual rights.
We don't need the big government passing any more restrictions.
Sure, big tech might be against us, but, you know, what's the... If we empower the government to restrict them, then, you know, what's the limit?
They're gonna go and, I don't know, they're gonna take your guns and, I don't know, they're gonna say the government can do anything.
No, this is a conservative wielding political power in Florida with a targeted piece of legislation to stop kids from using social media, social media which can poison their minds.
There have been plenty of studies on this.
Social media use can lead to increased anxiety, depression, suicidality, even in kids.
The left pretends to care about this when it comes to the sexual confusion that they implant in the children, often.
But when it comes to social media, they don't want to do it.
They don't want to touch it.
Because social media is a great vessel for indoctrinating kids in all of the crazy theories that the left promotes.
So, the Republican governor comes in, he says, Not doing it, kids.
Sorry.
I mean, I totally... The thought of giving your kid a smartphone seems to me so crazy.
My kids are very little right now.
Maybe I'll cave when the time comes, but I don't think I will because those smartphones are like portals to hell and you need to be able to have some discipline whatsoever.
Thirteen-year-olds sure don't have that.
This is great stuff.
The conservatives will say, yeah, social media, very bad.
Children not capable of using their reason in its totality.
Not particularly disciplined.
We need to restrict that.
Love it.
I'm getting breaking news now.
I mentioned earlier, I said yesterday in Afternoon Trading, that Trump's Truth Social Company was trading around $45 a share.
It was insane.
I mean, that was an amazing story in itself, because some analysts thought it would hit at like $14 to $17 a share.
Wow, $45, that's crazy.
Then, at one point in the afternoon, it was trading at about $51 a share, but still, that was way too high.
It was obviously going to come down, right?
No.
The new company, which is trading as DJT, Donald Trump's initials for the Trump Media Group.
It just opened up at about $78 a share.
As the libs are doing their best to bankrupt Trump.
Broke Don, Biden says two days ago.
Trump is now richer, maybe than he's ever been in his whole life.
This guy's been This guy's been a billionaire playboy for many decades now, and just when they think they steal all his money because he had the audacity to be a Republican president, he's now richer, potentially, than ever before.
Okay.
That's a great story.
I do have to get to a really, really sad story, because it's also breaking—a lot of breaking news, I guess, today, and really, really disturbing news, which is that The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has tumbled down.
The water is, I think, about 47 degrees.
It was checked and it's unclear, according to the rescue operations, how many people are in the water, how many people have been rescued, how many people died.
Beyond the human tragedy, which is so awful, you've got this major piece of the Baltimore skyline and infrastructure just collapsing.
We don't really know the cause.
I've got some news here that was updated this morning.
It's a cargo ship, a very large cargo ship.
It hit around 1.30 in the morning, and then the bridge just collapsed.
I mean, the ship started smoking, and then the bridge just went straight down.
The mayor said it looked like something out of an action movie, which some will say is a kind of callous way to talk about it, but I'm sure he was just saying that from pure shock, and it's obviously true.
a dire emergency.
The ship was headed from Baltimore to Sri Lanka, and it was flying under a Singapore flag.
So I know there are going to be all sorts of theories about, was this a terror attack?
Was the ship hacked?
Was it sabotaged in some other ways?
And I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure there will be an investigation, and I'm not counting that out.
I guess that could be possible.
Also, unexpected things just happen.
Unexpected major events, like the collapse of this very famous bridge, just, it just happens.
Sometimes a ship crashes into a bridge.
And when that happens, sometimes it's sabotage or conspiracy, and sometimes it just happens.
Unexpected political events just happen.
Because one problem with falling into, you know, Conspiratorial thinking.
I know these days that the difference between a conspiracy theory and reality is about six months, but not all of them are true.
A lot of them aren't true.
The impulse to believe in all those things comes a little bit from the comfort of believing that everything's predictable, everything's in control.
Even if we personally are not in control, someone's in control.
But that really isn't the case.
We human beings, much as we flatter ourselves otherwise, much as our pride would like to tell us otherwise, we don't control everything.
Crazy unforeseen events just happen.
And as the election year heats up, those unforeseen events, with or without the cooperation of human free will, can happen more frequently.
And the only thing to expect in a life where we do not ultimately have control, ultimately is going to be the unexpected.
You can count on that with certainty.
So anyway, praying for everybody involved.
And if any more updates come in during the Member Block, we will let you know.
The rest of the show continues now into the Member Block.
