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The FBI raid on President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, which was personally authorized by Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, apparently included the authorization to use deadly force.
We are now learning this fact thanks to unsealed court filings brought to light by the conservative journalist Julie Kelly.
I have just two of them here, obviously there are many more.
But the first one says very clearly in the raid that according to an operations order, that was the name of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Or rather, that was the name of this particular document pertaining to the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
This was produced in Discovery.
The FBI believed its objective was to seize classified information, NDI, and U.S.
government records as described in the search warrant, and therefore, law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary.
The agents planned to bring standard-issue weapons, ammo, handcuffs, medium and large-sized bolt cutters, and they were told not to dress in uniform.
They were told to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law enforcement equipment concealed.
Okay, so then what happens if they get to Mar-a-Lago?
Let's say they meet the president.
Let's say they run into Trump.
Let's say they run into the U.S. Secret Service who are there to protect the president.
Well, according to all these contingencies here, should the former president arrive at Mar-a-Lago, FBI, MM, EM, and OSCs, all different initialisms for the jackbooted thugs that Biden sent down to rob the all different initialisms for the jackbooted thugs that Biden sent down to rob the president, will be prepared to engage with the former Secret Service team.
Engage with them?
What does that mean?
Should the U.S. Secret Service provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses, FBI MMM will engage with, and then some of this is redacted, and they will engage with the U.S. Secret Service POCs per existing liaison relationships.
And then furthermore, the FBI search team will knock on each guest room door to determine occupation status.
FBI will request a map, list of rooms, and skeleton keycard for all the rooms.
So, the operations order here says that the FBI is going to show up armed to the teeth, they're going to try to blend in with everyone else, and they're going to be authorized to use deadly force, and then if they have to, they're going to engage with U.S.
Secret Service and Trump himself.
Some Biden apologists are trying to argue that this kind of language is routine in FBI raids.
It is not.
It is not.
There is nothing routine in the FBI sending in heavily armed agents to raid a former president and current opposition leader's home with specific instructions on how to engage with the former president and U.S.
Secret Service should either quote provide resistance or interfere.
What conclusion is one to draw from these facts other than that Powerful people in the government want to assassinate Trump.
It seems crazy to say, I will be the first to admit, this seems crazy to say.
You asked me five years ago, could this ever be the sort of thing that one would suggest?
I would say no.
But then again, you asked me five years ago, it seems crazy to think that the President of the United States would send Jack Booted Duggs to raid the home of his predecessor and current political rival.
Our political reality has become crazy.
So what other conclusion are we supposed to draw?
I'm Michael Knowles.
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Meanwhile, turning to another co-equal branch of government, you have a justice of the Supreme Court being called a traitor and an insurrectionist for flying an American Revolutionary War era flag.
This is the latest update to Alito Flaggate.
You remember the non-troversy last week was that Justice Alito, actually I guess it was Justice Alito's wife, after she had been harassed and called all sorts of terrible names by her neighbors while just out going for a walk in the neighborhood, this was after the libs, presumably, leaked The Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade, forcing the Alitos out of their home because the Democrats kept threatening to murder Justice Alito, as well as other conservative judges.
And they really tried to murder one of them, Justice Kavanaugh.
And luckily, the murderer Lib, who traveled from California to D.C., was stopped because some U.S.
Marshals happened to be on the scene.
After all of this, Mrs. Alito flew an American flag upside down.
Which is a symbol of distress.
Specifically, it's a maritime symbol.
If your ship is going on, you fly your flag upside down, you say, we're in distress, and then hopefully you get rescued.
So, for an hour or two, she flew the flag in distress.
We were told that this was an insurrectionist January 6th symbol.
It's not.
It's a very long-standing distress signal that applies to all sorts of flags, including the American flag.
Well, now they got a new one.
They got an update.
The Alitos had the audacity to fly the pine tree flag.
This is a flag, if you haven't seen it, it's a white standard with a pine tree in the middle and it says, an appeal to heaven.
According to New York Times reporting, another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home.
So the Alitos, I guess, have this other house and this is where they flew that flag.
This time it was the Appeal to Heaven flag, which, like the inverted U.S.
flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
The worst day in the history of this or any republic.
Also known as the Pine Tree Flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity in recent years, and is now a symbol of support for Donald Trump, for a religious strand of the Stop the Steal campaign, and for a push to remake the American government in Christian terms.
Okay, okay.
The New York Times doesn't know anything.
I used to think they knew stuff, but they lied.
Now I think they lie, and they also don't know stuff.
I have.
Hello, fellow Insurrectionists.
I, too, have an Appeal to Heaven flag here on my desk.
I have this Appeal to Heaven flag next to a lot of other Revolutionary War flags.
In fact, one of the longtime listeners to this show and participants in the Member's Segmentum, AC Cactusflower, recently sent me this Bedford flag, which is far more provocative than any of these other flags.
The Bedford flag, which was, according to tradition, flown at Lexington and Concord, has an arm, like a coat of arm wearing knight's arms, holding a sword that says, Vinci out Morire, win or die.
Could you imagine if Alito had flown that?
But it's got other flags here.
It's got the Betsy Ross flag.
We were told the Betsy Ross flag was racist a few years ago.
Nike wanted to make shoes with the old Betsy Ross flag.
You know, it looks like the American flag, but the stars are in a circle.
Colin Kaepernick said that was evil and racist, so they canned the shoes.
It's got the Grand Union flag here.
This was the first naval flag of the United States.
Looks like an American flag, but it's got kind of a little British flag up in the corner there.
We've got the Gadsden flag.
We were told that's racist and evil and terrible and terrorist.
It's usually used by libertarians.
It's the yellow flag with the snake, don't tread on me.
We have another version of that.
It's on the red and white stripes.
Don't tread on me.
I've got some more.
I have had this little desk flag set up since I started here at The Daily Wire.
Going back to my earliest on-camera days here, when I was the cultural correspondent on The Andrew Klavan Show.
You can go back at the tape.
I have had this Collection of flags, absent my recent acquisition of the Bedford flag.
I had it on my desk.
This was before, certainly before Donald Trump was the nominee, right?
This was before Stop the Steal and January 6, 2021, by what, six years or something?
And it had the Appeal to Heaven flag.
It has fallen, the Appeal to Heaven flag has fallen into obscurity.
Among liberals, just like all of the early American flags have fallen into obscurity among liberals, just like the current American flag has fallen into obscurity and disuse among liberals.
Because liberals hate the American flags, because liberals hate the country.
I don't want to be hyperbolic or needlessly provocative about it, but they do.
Which is why it was so preposterous when the Libs attacked Alito for flying the American flag upside down as a symbol of distress.
The Libs do that at virtually all of their protests.
When they're not setting the flag on fire, they're flying it upside down as a symbol of distress.
Frequently they don't fly that flag because they don't like the American flag because the flag is a symbol of the country and they don't like the country.
So they fly other flags.
They fly the Antifa flag, they fly the gay flag, the pride flag, because They want to fly symbols of things that are not the country because they like things that are not the country.
They like things that the country could be.
They like alternatives to the country, but they don't really like the country.
The appeal to heaven flag particularly arouses their ire because it's an appeal to heaven.
Sometimes the text on here is an appeal to God, but usually it's an appeal to heaven.
They say this is a symbol of Christian nationalism.
Well, it's a symbol of the American Revolutionary War, and the American Revolutionary War did appeal to Christianity.
John Adams, our nation's second president and a founding father, said the Christian morality is the morality of the country.
It couldn't be founded on any other morality.
John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, one of the authors of the Federalists, a founding father, he said the same thing.
It's a Christian country.
Thank goodness.
Thank God that providence has provided that we're a Christian country.
That's what he said.
And so this kind of Christian language comes from the American Revolution.
It goes back further.
It goes back to the Mayflower.
Which, by the way, if you're thinking of Father's Day gifts, I don't know what I'm allowed to say on certain social media platforms.
Let's just say, Mayflower is a good thing to keep in mind if you're looking for Father's Day gifts.
But this Christian language was always there.
My least favorite part about the Appeal to Heaven flag is that that text actually doesn't come from the Bible.
It doesn't come from the writings of the Church Fathers or the Saints.
My least favorite part about it is that that text actually comes from John Locke in the Second Treatise of Government, and it is an argument for the right to revolution because Ultimately, the final stage in your appeal process to rectify political wrongs is not just to appeal to your senator or your member of parliament or to your king even, it's to appeal to heaven, to God.
Which is a little bit lib revolutionary language for me, but the underlying principles, I think there's a lot to recommend them.
And certainly, Those principles were present at the time of the revolution.
They're deeply embedded in the American tradition.
The Libs are going after Alito and the other judges that they have tried to kill in recent years, not because the judges are somehow anti-American.
It is because the Libs are anti-American, and they hate people who defend the legitimate, enduring traditions of this country.
And they hate the symbols that represent that country.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Providence has provided for us a video of some crazy lib going viral because he flew into a fury when he noticed that there were people flying American flags on the beach.
I'm here enjoying a nice day at the beach with my kids and I turn around and I got these flags planted here on the beach by these mother f***ers.
Listen, this is all America we know.
You didn't storm the beaches to stake out your territory on the beach.
This isn't the f***ing moon.
I get it.
This is America.
But I'm sick of my flag.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of you people who want to sit here on the beach with your families and enjoy the sun and a wholesome time using my flag.
My flag is supposed to represent Transgenderism and abortion and open borders.
Okay, that's my country.
And that's why I, a big lib, want to reclaim the American flag.
Well, the problem is, big lib, that's not what the American flag stands for, which the wiser libs have understood.
The libs are, this is the subject of my book, Speechless, this is the subject of a lot of, thank you, this is the subject of a lot of political conversation in recent years.
The libs are always trying to take symbols, be they words, be they flags, be they images, and reappropriate them and transform their meaning.
The rainbow, for instance.
is a symbol that God gives to man to say that he'll never again destroy the world in a flood.
That's where the rainbow comes from.
And the libs take that and make it into a defense of really weird sex stuff.
And they did.
They appropriate on similar topic.
They took the word gay, which meant happy, and they use that to apply to decadent sex stuff.
But it's not just on those social issues.
Even terms like illegal alien.
We've now made that term taboo.
The term you have to use is undocumented American.
But the problem with illegal aliens is that they're not Americans.
That's what distinguishes them from everyone else.
That is their political identifier.
But if you erase that and you say they're undocumented Americans, well all of a sudden they're just another type of American.
So obviously they do have a right to be in the country.
If you take young criminals, juvenile delinquents, and redefine them justice-involved youth, well, they're involved in justice.
They're pretty good.
You can't punish them, right?
And then the list goes on and on.
So that's what they've tried to do.
That's what that guy wants to do with the American flag.
This American flag doesn't stand for you Christian evil conservatives!
Uh-uh!
It stands for me, Big Lib, who basically stands for murdering babies and doing weird sex stuff.
That's my flag.
But the thing is, it doesn't.
It's very difficult to transform the meaning of symbols.
And so it can be done.
The Libs have done a pretty good job of it over the years.
But with the symbol of the country that everyone has rallied around for a very, very long time, it's going to be much more difficult, which is why another group of Libs, they just have their own symbols.
They say, no, okay, you conservative, probably Christian or Christian-friendly, Americans, you can have your American flag, and we're going to have our flag, which is the gay flag.
And that's going to be the flag that we salute, and it's going to be the flag that we fly in parades, and it's going to be the flag that we consider to be the representation of our country.
And what we're going to just try to do is marginalize your flag, and say that it's evil and racist, and we're going to take it off of sneakers, and we're going to tell justices of the Supreme Court to get rid of the flags of America, of the traditional American country, and we're going to transform it into something totally new.
Speaking of people spouting off really dumb views, like that guy in the video, the NFL is walking back its criticism of the great Harrison Butker.
Harrison Butker gives his excellent speech, best commencement speech of my lifetime, at Benedictine College.
This is a Catholic guy talking to Catholic students at a very Catholic college about living a Catholic life, and somehow that created a lot of controversy.
It should not have.
Nothing in Harrison Butker's speech could not be found in many catechisms and perennial teachings of the Catholic Church.
Nothing.
Not one sentence.
It was totally uncontroversial from the perspective of a practicing Catholic who believes what the Church has taught for 2,000 years.
It didn't cause controversy among those people.
It didn't cause controversy among the students in the crowd.
We kept hearing all these liberal women be offended on behalf of the girls in the crowd.
The girls weren't offended, they were all applauding.
It was the libs who were shocked and offended.
It was the women on The View.
It was the New Republic.
It was CNN.
It was all these people who couldn't stop.
And it was the NFL!
A spokesman for the NFL Senior VP Jonathan Bean said, Harrison, Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity.
His views are not those of the NFL as an organization.
The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.
We love abortion and weird sex stuff and feminism.
We're the NFL.
I am so happy.
Oh, this whole Butker commencement speech episode makes me so happy.
That I am a baseball fan and not a football fan.
Because even though baseball got, during BLM, they went a little bit squishy, and it kind of drove me crazy, and I canceled my MLB TV subscription for a long time.
But generally, baseball kind of keeps it together, and they don't spit on the American flag.
Generally, there was like one baseball player who did that during that whole episode.
And generally, they're kind of normal.
To hear this from the league, this is so pathetic.
Jonathan Bean.
I thought the NFL was run by men.
Are you kidding me?
We don't support this.
We don't want any of our players articulating traditional Christian views about anything.
We're the NFL.
Just go wave the rainbow flag, Mr. Bean.
So anyway, Roger Goodell.
You had to correct this, because it turns out NFL fans and viewers don't agree with Mr. Jonathan Bean over that mean Mr. Harrison Butker.
So, Goodell says, finally, and Goodell, you know, he's a treat in his own right, but even Goodell realized, he says, listen, we have over 3,000 players, they have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just like America does.
I think that's something we treasure.
That's part of what ultimately makes us as a society better.
We are not going to go much beyond the statement we made last week.
But you did just go beyond the statement.
Because the statement you made last week was, we hate Christianity!
And then now you had to come out and do damage control, and you had to override your VP, Jonathan Bean, and just say, no, no, no, we like diversity of opinion.
We're not gonna keep attacking Harrison Butker.
All right, white flag.
Not the appeal to heaven flag, the NFL would never wave that.
But the white flag, you know, the flag of the French Army.
That's the one they're waving, the surrender flag.
Why?
Because they know that normal people, men, women, white people, black people, old people, young people, they know that normal people, and especially NFL fans, are on Harrison Butker's side.
They are not on the side of the libs.
The institutions, the elites are on the side of the libs.
But if they don't want to totally lose the common sense and totally lose their audience, they got to keep their mouth shut with their stupid ideas and allow Mr. Giga Chad football player to say his piece, which most people agree with.
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I come home from a lovely backstage We hadn't had backstage in quite a while.
It's available now if you want to watch it.
And so I come home, we have a nice time, had a couple of Coca-Colas, you know, a cigar.
I'm just finishing up, writing the little script for today's show.
I come across this, this headline.
Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations?
This was, this was trending news.
Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations?
And I didn't, I knew exactly what they were referring to.
Because Charlie, and just like all of us in conservative media, we sell all sorts of different products, and those advertisements are what keep us on the air.
It's not just true of conservative media, that's true of all of the media, forever, for all time.
And one of the things we sell are, you know, emergency preparedness kits, certain types of food, you know, the liberals sell food too, we sell some food.
And so I knew the topic, I said, why is this news?
Then this is what they said.
This reporter turned into the Charlie Kirk Show for, I guess, the first time ever.
Said, the ads on the show espouse conservative values and talking points, mostly in service of promoting brands such as Blackout Coffee, which sells a Second Amendment medium roast blend, and Covert Op cold brew.
The commercial breaks sounded like something from an alternate universe.
The more I listened to them, the more I came to understand that was the point.
So put a pause here.
Charlie Kirk sells coffee from companies that support the U.S.
Constitution.
That's it.
It's a coffee company that supports the Second Amendment.
It's not even one of those later amendments like the 14th or the 15th.
It's the second one.
Charlie Kirk selling coffee that is pro-Constitution.
It's like something from an alternative universe.
What?
Where are we?
I'm used to only hearing ads from companies that hate America and hate the Constitution.
But then I came to understand that was the point.
This author goes on.
Some brands, of course, speak the language of Democrats, touting their climate commitments and diversity efforts.
But when I listen to left-of-center podcasts, like Pod Save America, Michelle Obama, The Light Podcast, put a pause there, no one has ever listened to Michelle Obama's podcast.
I refuse.
This is how I know this article is fake news.
Some people, I think, listen to Pod Save America, Beltway, Establishment, Democrat types.
Not one person has ever listened to Michelle Obama's podcast.
Probably as many people have listened to Michelle Obama's podcast as have listened to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's podcast.
Namely, zilch.
Zero.
Anyway, goes on.
MSNBC's Prosecuting Donald Trump podcast.
I mostly heard ads from an assortment of non-partisan brands, such as Ford, Jefferson's Ocean Aged at Sea Bourbon, eHarmony, and SimpliSafe.
The Right, meanwhile, has long hawked products that you don't typically see advertised on mainstream outlets and shows.
Okay, I'm gonna put a pause here.
There are two explanations for this.
The explanation, two explanations for this and an explanation for why this is news.
The first explanation is liberals and conservatives have different priorities.
Yes, conservatives like brands.
We like coffee, which is normal stuff that normal people drink.
And we like brands that support our country, the Constitution.
Liberals like nonsense, like diversity and environmentalism and, you know, the sun monster is going to kill us all.
They like that, so they're drawn to that.
So that's partly why you're hearing different products advertised.
The second reason, why is it that the mainstream brands tend to be on the liberal channels?
Because these supposedly non-partisan companies are pretty partisan.
Think of just the big corporations, Ford, Target, Procter & Gamble, Nike, Budweiser.
I'm just pulling these off the top of my head.
They're not nonpartisan.
They've all gone woke.
For many years now, they have trended to the left.
Some have trended very, very far to the left, like Nike canceling a shoe because it has an American flag on it.
Because some radical NFL activist and a malcontent Colin Kaepernick bullies them into it.
Or Bud Light, which decides it's going to be a really smart idea to do an endorsement deal with a man whose entire career is mocking women and pretending to be a woman, and peddling this insane ideology on everyone in the country, including children.
That's not just left of center.
That is radical leftist.
That is 20 years ago Democrats would have agreed with Republicans that you should be deported if you push those kinds of views.
Clinton Democrats, mainstream Democrats, today that is mainstream on the left.
And mainstream in corporate America.
Because the liberals have captured all the institutions of power.
So yeah, that's why the powerful mainstream brands advertise with the left.
They won't work with the right.
So the right does have to work with smaller companies.
Many of those smaller companies are terrific.
We work with these brands who are filling a market gap because the mainstream, super big, powerful corporate institutions have gone so far to the left.
That's why.
And why is this news?
This is news because the libs have no idea how we think, and the libs have no idea or refuse to acknowledge how our political order really works.
I know what they're going to say on Pod Save America.
I know what Michelle Obama is going to say, even though neither I nor anyone else has ever listened to her podcast.
The libs don't know what I'm going to say.
Or what Ben is going to say, or what Matt is going to say, or what Charlie Kirk is going to say.
They don't know.
The way that they know who we are, they certainly know who we are because they publicize us all the time through their operative networks like Media Matters and Right Wing Watch and all of the groups that exist to get us taken off the air because they're so afraid that our views will reach people and they're so afraid that we'll sell food rations or whatever, coffee.
And so they see the little clips, usually taken out of context, Almost always taken out of context.
And that's why they're familiar with who we are.
But they've never listened to any of our shows.
They didn't listen to Rush Limbaugh's show.
None of these people did.
So they don't know what we think.
They don't know what we believe.
They don't know why we believe what we believe.
And we do know what they think.
So they just don't.
They're just shocked.
Why is it that Ford won't work with Charlie Kirk?
Because you guys won't let them.
That's why.
Why is it that the conservatives don't seem to have much political power?
Well, it's because the liberals have won virtually all of the political power in the country, and that's a little bit your fault, because you libs are just awful, and really powerful, and you've just squeezed us out of the public square.
But it's also our fault, because we've let it happen, and we've been weak, and we haven't fought back in a very effective way.
But that's why.
And at least we know it.
At least we get what's going on.
You guys, you're just, like, befuddled.
You're standing there, scratching your heads, drooling.
Why is it that Nike and Procter & Gamble and Bud Light don't want to advertise on the Michael Knowles Show, or the Ben Shapiro Show, or the Matt Walsh Show, or the Charlie Kirk Show, or the Dan Bongino Show?
Yeah, gee, I don't know.
Have you guys looked around our political order once in the last 50 years?
Good grief.
Now, speaking of consumer choices, this is a tough one.
This is a tough one.
You know I'm not the biggest fan of the devil's lettuce.
I'm not saying it's the single worst thing in the world.
I'm just not a big fan.
I might have, on occasion, given it a little try.
It's not my thing.
However, my view is not typical of America these days, I guess, because daily and near-daily marijuana use is now more common than similar levels of drinking in the U.S., according to an analysis of national survey data over four decades.
Gone are the days of Don Draper.
Sitting back, having a drink after work, or a drink during work, as was the case of a lot of those guys back then.
Gone is the America of Don Draper.
In is the America of Seth Rogen and Cheech and Chong.
So what I'm going to ask you, even if you love The Sin Spinach, even if you think there's nothing wrong with it or whatever, Do you think America was better, or would be better, if it were the America of Don Draper?
If it were the America of men like Winston Churchill?
I know Winston Churchill was British, though he had an American mother and was actually a descendant of the Mayflower.
But, you know, men who, after work, maybe they like a drink.
And maybe you don't like a drink or a smoke, but if you're going to pick one, America that, you know, has a little whiskey after work?
Nice glass of red wine, maybe?
Or the America that rips a bong hit out of the Peruvian parsley?
I, you know, I have my view of it.
I don't think, I think if America becomes a bunch of Seth Rogans, the conservatives are never going to win an election again.
And I think Don Draper, he probably voted Republican a lot of the time.
Not Jon Hamm, but Don Draper probably did.
And I think that's borne out by how the elections went.
Now, furthermore, in addition to pot smoking outpacing drinking, a good 40% of current marijuana users are using it daily or near daily.
Now, this blows alcohol out of the water.
This is more like cigarette smokers.
If you're a cigarette smoker, You very likely are having a cigarette every day.
Or many cigarettes every day.
That's not necessarily true for people who drink.
I don't drink alcohol every day.
I drink a lot of days.
I'll have a little drink, you know, at the end of the day.
But not every single day.
Even cigars.
I'm a cigar smoker.
I own a cigar company.
And still, I don't have a cigar every day.
40% of marijuana users, and marijuana is different from cigars in that marijuana goes into your lungs, so it wreaks certainly more havoc there.
And unlike cigars or even cigarettes, it changes your mind.
It's mind-altering, right?
It's more like alcohol in that way.
And 40% are ripping this stuff every single day, which shows that it is more addictive.
A lot of my friends who are fans of the ganj They all say it's not addictive.
It obviously is.
If 40% of users are smoking every single day, that's addictive.
And I got friends, especially, you know, I lived in LA, kind of a chooming capital of America.
I had friends who were professionals, who would go to work, who were wake and bake kind of guys, you know?
Multiple friends, not just in LA, in New York, in all over the place.
So I'm just saying, I know, I see the trend line, so I know I'm on the losing side of this for now.
But in the long run, it will be proven.
Mark my words, this is a Nostradamus prediction.
I'm so furious about it that I'm knocking my microphone over.
It will be shown that marijuana is very bad for your health, for your physical health, like your lungs, and for your mental health.
It will be proven that marijuana is obviously addictive.
At least habitually if not physically.
And it will be proven that as more and more people smoke marijuana, more and more regularly, America becomes more and more liberal.
It will be proven.
We might not be able to stop it.
I'm just...
Bookmark this and check back in 10 years, and I will, at that point, hate to say that I told you so.
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That we say do not miss backstage.
We promised a big surprise from Jeremy Boring, and he didn't realize that we were promising that.
So I asked, I said, what's the big announcement?
He said, I don't have a big announcement.
I said, what?
He goes, yeah, I don't know.
He said, I don't know, the marketing department must have made that up.
I didn't say that.
I said, well, you got to give them a big announcement.
They said, I don't know.
Well, I got some stuff in the pipeline.
I'll tell you what, let's premiere.
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That's right.
So we didn't, we promised a big announcement.
He didn't have a big announcement, but then we got a big announcement anyway.
If you missed it, take a look right now. - Oh, hey, I'm Jeremy Boring, CEO of Daily Wire and founder of Jeremy's Razors.
Woke razor companies love to take your money while trampling on your values.
Me?
I just love your money.
Cut!
What the hell is this?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Nobody calls cut on my set but me.
What, are you running Hollywood now?
Two on the nose.
What is this?
We're filming the commercial for the brand new second-generation Jeremy's razor.
Yeah, I get it.
We moved our manufacturing out of China.
Plus, with the new Sprint 3 and Precision 5 blades, you can shave like a man, not a manifesto.
But who's he?
I'm Black Jeremy, huge fan.
Do you mind if we get a selfie?
Oh, yeah, come on.
Look, we talked about this.
Customers want diversity.
Customers want inclusion.
Customers want... Black Jeremy.
And for the commercials to be less macho.
Can we please lose the flamethrower and the car?
It's overcompensating and we need... Who are you?
I'm Deska.
I've been following you around half-naked for two years.
Oh, but that makes you some kind of expert on advertising.
Besides, don't you think it's a little insulting to black people?
Oh, we prefer people of color.
Don't you think it's a little insulting to black people of color that instead of giving them their own roles to play, you just recast them as a beloved white character?
Hell yeah it is!
We don't do it for people of color.
We do it for liberal white women.
I'll spell it out for you.
Liberal white women make most of the purchasing decisions for the family, so happy commercials with people of color smiling at each other make them feel hella virtuous.
Bitches love to feel virtuous.
They do!
That's why there's no white people in commercials anymore?
Exactly.
But that's so... Gay?
Sorry, I'm the body positivity hire.
You are so brave.
What is even happening right now?
Think of all the razors you'll sell.
And don't forget Jeremy's shampoo and conditioner.
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Hey, what if I play your character a little less bitchy?
Unbelievable.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Dennis, 1111, who says, They never ask about female imams.
I wonder why.
It's so true.
That's true.
Now, don't forget, when the liberal journalist asked Pope Francis, Do you think we'll see female deacons and priests ever?
Pope Francis responds, No.
No.
You will not hear ever from those things.
You will never see those things.
No.
I added, it was just one word answer, no.
But why?
Why do they care?
Why not just be Episcopalian or Methodist?
Because they want to destroy the Catholic Church and they think that they have a chance of infiltrating and really weakening it.
I think they know if they ask that question of the Muslims.
First of all, they don't really care because it's a different civilization and a different culture.
But two, I think they realize that if they ask that question, they will very quickly become disconnected from their heads.
It's not, ain't gonna happen.
You're not gonna see imamresses anytime soon.
Speaking of different cultures, I have to make a big retraction.
I have to, it takes a very big man, a very big, handsome, sexy man to admit when he was wrong, and I was wrong.
Now, I was wrong.
I didn't err in that I made the right decision given the information I had at the time, but later information proved that what I advocated was not correct, and so I'd like to just clear the air.
A few days ago on the show, I endorsed Yusuke.
Yasuke is the black guy.
My producers insist that this man's name is pronounced differently.
I heard Yasuke and then now they're writing in my teleprompter it's pronounced Yasuke.
I don't care, nerd, Professor Jacob.
I'm calling him Yasuke because that's what it's spelled like.
So anyway, I endorsed Yasuke and I said, Yasuke, even though he's a black guy in the Japanese samurai story, he's a real character.
He went over to Japan with an Italian Jesuit missionaries and they go over there and he impressed some of the imperial people and ends up becoming a retainer in Japan and so he's a type of samurai.
I think that's historically interesting and so I think I endorsed him being in the video game.
And then they had to make him gay.
And it's not even, look, had Yusuke been gay, I'd say okay, include it.
It's history and history is kind of interesting and weird sometimes, but I don't think Yusuke was gay.
Okay?
And I know there are going to be all sorts of Jesuit jokes and all sorts of Italian jokes that pop up.
But back in those days, the Jesuits were really, really solid.
Things went a little bit wrong in the intervening years.
There's no evidence that Yusuke was gay.
And yet, according to new reporting on this from all sorts of outlets that I've never heard of before, because I don't play video games, according to this reporting, the company itself, Ubisoft, wrote in a blog post Naomi, I guess that's another character, and Yusuke's disparate personalities also lead them to have different relationships and rapports with other characters.
And they don't always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same way about them.
Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people.
Through the pair, players will get to experience a multitude of relationships, and this is There is a lot of other evidence in this article that I won't finish reading that suggests that they're going to make Yusuke gay.
Because they've got to make everything gay.
Because it's 2024 and everything has to be, not even gay.
Gay is sort of conservative and traditional now.
By the standards of today.
Now it's all got to be like three genders and pansexual and you've got to be into like polycules with billy goats.
I formally withdraw my endorsement of Yasuke, not of the person Yasuke, he seems kind of interesting, but of the video game.
They took a very interesting historical story and they made it much lamer by imposing an anachronistic and historically unsupported lavender coating to the whole thing.
It's out.
Now I'm never going to play Assassin's Creed.
Not that I was going to before.
Speaking of disreputable digital things, the feds have just charged a man for making child pornography, which, you know, not exactly a man bites dog story, as you know, most people who do that, all of them should be charged and many of them are.
What was different here is he made the pornography with artificial intelligence.
You know, just like in movies, it'll say, no animals were harmed in the making of this movie.
I guess, in a very literal sense, no children were harmed in the making of this AI pornography.
In a deeper sense, everyone is harmed.
But federal prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man for using a popular AI service to create thousands of explicit images of children, marking what appears to be the first federal charge of creating child sexual abuse material.
Applied to images entirely through AI.
This is some 42-year-old guy in Wisconsin.
13,000 fake images doing all sorts of sick stuff.
How are they prosecuting him?
A lot of people are gonna say, well, this isn't, is this even illegal?
Certainly it would be illegal if he had done this with actual children, but if it's just images, is that illegal?
It is, thanks to a 2003 Bush-era law banning photorealistic fake and obscene images.
And they're saying, the prosecutors are arguing, that this 2003 law, which is a very good law, and was a good step in restoring traditional speech standards that the Libs opposed under the, because to the Libs, you know, kiddie porn, I guess, is free speech or whatever.
The Bush administration, the conservatives said, no, it's not.
And now they're applying this law to the new technology, which is artificial intelligence.
What does this show us?
Let's zoom out from the particularly disgusting details of this crime and just zoom out to the principle involved.
What this shows you is a very important principle, which is that criminal prosecution is at least as much about reforming the perpetrator as it is about protecting the victim or the potential victims.
It's about reforming the perpetrator.
Because in this case, there is no direct human victim.
These images were just created by a computer, or by a human being through a computer.
And yet, this guy is still going to be charged, and I hope he goes to jail for a very, very long time.
Because criminal justice is not just about protecting victims.
Criminal justice is not just about getting revenge, or justice for victims.
Criminal justice is about justice, period.
Criminal justice is about retribution, primarily, but even secondarily, it's about rehabilitation.
This is what the libs always say, too, right?
It's about rehabilitation.
This is why we call prisons now correctional institutions.
Who are they correcting?
They're not correcting the victims, they're correcting the perpetrators.
So, even if there is no direct victim, You still gotta correct the perp.
So you send this guy to prison for committing a crime that was a crime committed between him and a computer.
Because it will harm people broadly.
And the reason it will harm people broadly is because we don't live in a libertarian utopia, we live in a society.
And we don't live in a world where Freud is correct, we live in a world where Aristotle is correct.
So we don't live in a world where if you have disordered desires you should vent them and exercise them, we live in a world in which you should Reorder your desires toward good things.
So, let's say this guy just got to keep doing what he's doing.
He's going to cultivate more and more lust for this heinous and disordered act that is going to make him much more likely to carry it out.
Or he's going to send these pictures to people on the internet and he's going to inflame the lusts in them and one of them is going to carry these acts out at a certain point because We're incarnate creatures, and the digital and the virtual only goes so far.
For incarnate creatures, there's no substitute for the real thing, and that can lead to really terrible consequences.
So, you got to correct this guy.
Well, good.
Then we have to apply this to other crimes, too.
The reason when the young man goes in and robs a liquor store.
The reason not to let him off the hook is not only to protect the liquor store employee, it's not only to protect the people walking down the street in the city.
It's to help him, to correct him, because there's something wrong in him.
And if that is not corrected, he's gonna only get worse, and that will harm him.
And it's gonna harm all of society because he's part of society.
This was common sense from antiquity until about five minutes ago.
Now we forget all of that.
We let the criminals off the hook, and that is cruelty to innocent people, but it's cruelty to the guilty too.
Because you abdicate your responsibility as a society.
You abdicate your responsibility as a civil authority to help people flourish, which is the point of government to do good and to avoid evil.
There's more to it than that, but that's the basic argument.
The rest of the show continues now.
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