Ep. 1746 - “I'm Not Gay No More” - Pop Star Ends Pride Month
JoJo Siwa is no longer a lesbian, Boise cancels its Pride kickoff, and Tinder lets women filter out short kings.
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I need someone to explain to me how Jojo Siwa is not today a lesbian.
Jojo Siwa is an actress and a singer, apparently.
I'm not well acquainted with her work, but she's quite famous.
And four years ago, she came out of the closet and declared that she's a lesbian.
But today, she's dating a guy.
And the guy looks like a guy.
He's not even one of these margin cases.
So how is that possible?
Being a lesbian?
Because I was told, I was reliably informed that that is impossible.
The LGBT ideologues told me that sexual orientation is immutable.
So was she just wrong when she identified as a lesbian four years ago?
Because I was told, I was reliably informed that that's impossible too.
The LGBT ideologues say a person cannot be wrong about her sexual identity.
That a person's sexual identity is whatever she says it is.
And you can't question it.
But also it can't change.
So how?
I repeat, how is Jojo Siwa not today a lesbian?
The LGBT movement cannot explain it.
Any way it tries to, it is going to contradict one of its own principles.
Which is why, I think.
That aforementioned LGBT movement is cratering in popularity.
It is collapsing under the weight of its own incoherence.
And now, on the first day of Pride Month, one of its top celebrity promoters has decided to switch teams.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is revoking the visas of foreign, specifically Chinese students.
Long, long overdue, if you ask many people.
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Pride is really taking L's in the first few days.
This is really tough.
You're getting a little bit of corporate pride.
Some brands are posting, but then they're immediately downplaying the rainbow stuff.
You've got a prominent LGBT actress, singer, lady who's leaving the team, going straight, dating a guy who just looks like a guy.
And in Boise, you have Pride being canceled.
At least the Pride kickoff being canceled because of low attendance.
Here you go.
Got it right here.
KTVB.com reports Boise Pride cancels June kickoff event due to low attendance despite strong online support.
And that's the key here, I think, politically.
Organizers said the initiative aimed to increase visibility and create additional opportunities for celebration throughout Pride season, but apparently no one wants to go.
I think that's true.
I think we reached peak gay sometime in, what would you say, 2019 or so?
And as I predicted, it started to unravel.
Once you start pulling on the trans kids, it's difficult to stop the momentum of unraveling the whole LGBT LMNOP movement because it all partakes of the same false anthropology.
That includes feminism, too.
The false understanding of human nature, once you start unraveling that little knot, it just keeps going.
But to me, the politically most important part here is this apparent contradiction in the headline.
Boise Pride cancels June kickoff event due to low attendance, despite strong online support.
In other words, there is a chasm between the real world, And we try to remind ourselves this.
We say Twitter isn't real life.
And we say, you know, don't believe everything you read on the internet.
But people get confused.
They get pulled into rabbit holes.
They get pulled into distraction on the internet.
Devil loves distraction.
And it confuses us about what is really going on in reality.
I'm not sure if that will be true tomorrow or the next day or the next day.
But at least as of today, Boise Pride's cancellation shows us.
There is a distinction between what is being said on the internet and what is going on in real life.
The internet is still super gay and trans and weird and everything, and real life is not.
It is increasingly less so.
I think that's true with a lot of political issues, though.
Things that people focus on all the time on the internet, that still is not really necessarily what moves people's heartstrings in the real world.
Positions that people take on various issues on the internet, I don't think are exactly reflective of people in the real world.
I think this is borne out by public polling.
I think this is borne out by elections.
And in this case of LGBT pride, it's a really good sign.
The internet can be all rainbows, but reality, people just aren't showing up.
Now, speaking of reproductive parts, Michelle Obama has made a curious claim.
She just argued on a podcast.
That reproduction is the least important part of a woman's reproductive system.
But women's reproductive health is about our life.
It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life.
It's a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that's producing it, if you want to whittle us down to a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way.
Why would you ever think there's a connection between the reproductive system and reproduction?
Where'd you get that crazy idea?
Reproduction's the least of what the reproductive system does.
What did you ask?
Why is it called the reproductive system?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I thought it was because that's what it's for.
But I kind of see what she's saying.
And the philosophical errors she's making, I kind of see how she fell into them.
Because from a certain vantage, reproduction is the least thing that the reproductive system does.
Inasmuch as people aren't constantly pregnant.
Now let's say a woman has, these days, a woman maybe has one kid.
In the old days, maybe a woman has four or five kids.
Could be six or seven kids.
But let's say, today, a woman has one to three kids, on average.
That means that for the vast majority of her life, her reproductive system is not actively creating another person.
So, from that vantage, you'd say, well, that's the least thing that the reproductive system does.
But what if I asked you about a guitar?
What does a guitar do?
What's the nature of a guitar?
What's the essence of a guitar?
You would say, well, it's to create music.
But no, I'd say, nah, nah, create music.
That's the least thing that my guitar does.
Most of the time, my guitar is sitting in its case.
Well, yeah, I guess that's true.
just from in terms of time, the guitar is mostly sitting in its case.
But what a guitar essentially is, That's what it's for.
It's not for sitting in the case, even though that's what it does most of the time.
It's for making music.
And a woman's reproductive system is for making babies.
And we know things by what they are for.
And everything is for something.
And that is a fact that we forget in the modern world.
We get very philosophically confused, which is why we ignore what things are for, and we use all sorts of things for things that they're not for at all.
A very relevant topic during Pride Month.
But we need to get back to the old, sturdy way of understanding things, because without that old, sturdy way of understanding things, the world doesn't make any sense.
And we don't know what we're doing, and we don't know what we are for, and we don't know what life is for, we don't know what political communities are for, and we suffer existential ennui, and we get depressed, and we overdose on drugs and kill ourselves.
If taken to its logical conclusion, that's how dark it gets.
We need to get back to asking, what are things for?
We need to remember...
Nothing is for nothing.
Things are known by what they are for, and we should use those things for what they are for.
So when we ask ourselves, what is the country for?
The Libs would say, it's whatever we want it to be, and it doesn't have to be for any, it's just whatever we want.
There's not even any such thing as a country, man.
But I would say, no, a country is for the common good of its citizens.
Okay, well, if you have the lib view, you understand how we get open borders and knocking down our history and crime on our streets and letting the criminals out of prison.
You understand.
If you don't have a sense of what the country's for, you see how you get there.
If you know what the country's for, the common good of the citizens, all of a sudden, all the other political issues fall into place.
I know there are a lot of people in politics who say, I only want to focus on action.
I don't want to focus on philosophy.
I don't want to focus on principles.
I don't want to focus on this abstract stuff.
But if you go wrong in the first principles, you're going to go wrong in myriad other ways all the way down the line.
If we cannot understand, if the former first lady of the United States, first lady, can't understand that the reproductive system is for reproduction.
That there's at least a connection between the two.
Then we are suffering from a serious crisis of ignorance.
We are suffering from a serious political crisis.
We need to get right or we're going to go wrong in everything else as we currently are.
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Speaking of reproduction, I got bad news for all the short kings out there.
Tinder is implementing a height filter.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, fellas.
Well, I actually have some good news.
I think there's a silver lining here.
It's being reported.
I happily have never been on Tinder.
I'm not saying that to brag.
I'm very happy about it.
But sweet little Elise and I, you know.
We were dating before dating apps really became a thing, so I never had to deal with them.
Tinder is now making it tougher for all the Napoleons of the world out there because they're going to let users set height preferences.
Now, right now, it's only Tinder Gold and premium subscribers.
People pay for Tinder.
That's interesting.
It's the higher tiers.
That can access this feature.
And it's more a preference, according to the company, than a hard filter.
But still, it's going to whittle down the pool.
So, should the short kings despair?
You're not going to be able to even have the opportunity to demonstrate your riz on a Tinder chat because the women are just going to filter you out in the first place.
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According to the CDC, just 14.5% of men are at least 6 feet tall.
What's the average height?
The average height is like 5 '9", or something like that.
5 '8", 5 '9".
So it's only 14.5% of men who are 6 feet tall.
Now, I looked not only at the CDC, but the FDC.
Which is something that Mr. Davies turned me on to.
It's called the Female Delusion Calculator.
And you can set all these parameters for like, I want a guy who's 6 '3 and makes $150,000 a year and does this and went to a top school and blah, blah, whatever.
You know, and you set it and you figure out just what tiny percentage of the population actually matches all these women's delusional criteria.
So according to the CDC...
According to the FDC, under 11.5% of men are 6 feet tall when you add in the filters that they have to be between the ages of 20 and 40 and unmarried.
This is really the unmarried thing, I think, that does it.
So, what does that mean for the guys who are under 6 '1 or whatever the women are going to set as their filters?
What does that mean for those fellas on Tinder?
It means...
Because even if the women on these apps are delusional about their dating prospects, reality gets the final say.
Reality always gets the final say.
This is the great conservative consolation.
Reality reasserts itself in the end.
So you're going to get fewer matches if Tinder implements this policy.
It's probably better not to meet your future spouse on Tinder.
I understand that's just how people date today, so I'm not exactly knocking it.
I've seen marriages come out of Tinder.
I get it.
But maybe this is an opportunity to go out there, try to meet people the old-fashioned way.
We've got a lot of old-fashioned stuff coming back.
Don't we?
Pride Month is out.
In clothing, you get more classic cuts of clothing or back in.
The gods of the copybook headings are returning, okay?
And so maybe you could meet people the old-fashioned way, but in any case, hold strong, short kings.
You'll get your Tinder matches again soon enough.
Now, speaking of making children, speaking of the next generation, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has just made good on a promise that he made to me, personally.
When I was interviewing him at the White House a month ago, six weeks ago, something like that, I asked Secretary Kennedy, I said, hey, I know we're not supposed to talk about this or whatever, but is anything going to change about vaccine policy on your watch?
You've been very anti-vaccine for much of your public career.
Now you're in government.
The government's super pro-vaccine.
You've got a lot of political forces.
Are you going to change anything?
And his exact words to me were, Everything's going to change.
Everything's going to change.
Then we waited, we waited, nothing really changed.
Well, now Secretary Kennedy has made good on that promise.
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I'm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your HHS Secretary, and I'm here today with NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary.
I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.
That ends today.
It's common sense and it's good science.
There's no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most countries have stopped recommending it for children.
We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America healthy again.
This is a great sign.
It was always completely insane to give this untested shot, this barely tested shot, to pregnant women and little kids.
It was completely insane.
It was always contrary to any scientific fact that we knew about COVID.
But the reason this is a great sign politically is it shows that Kennedy is really willing to take on entrenched interests.
It was unclear.
You know, people, they run on one thing, they have a whole public life saying one thing, but the minute they get into power, and it's not even all their fault, the minute that they see the great forces that they're up against, usually they change their tune.
Usually they say, look, I've got to kind of go along to get along if I'm going to get anything done here.
Kennedy is signaling, no, I am going to take on one of the toughest entrenched interests in Washington, the pharmaceutical industry, on one of the toughest, most entrenched issues, vaccines.
That's impressive.
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Because this is impressive stuff.
Even I was skeptical that we would see Bobby Kennedy actually go after vaccines.
As he said, I don't even have a particularly strong view on vaccines.
Putting the substantive matter of the vaccines aside for a second, it's the political courage it takes to actually make good on a thing you've been promising and campaigning on for years.
That is very impressive.
Now, speaking of things that came from Wuhan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is revoking the visas of Chinese university students.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio just tweeted out the U.S. We'll begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
This is probably long overdue.
There are a lot of Chinese students at US universities, especially the top universities.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford.
There's a lot of Chinese students.
A lot of foreign students, generally.
What did Harvard say in their new class?
Something like 31% foreign students.
But a lot of them are Chinese, and we have a hostile relationship with the Chinese at the moment, a largely hostile one.
And we know that the Chinese have a lot of spies in the United States, and this is a really easy way to get spies in.
I was speaking with a spy on the Michael Ann series, Jack Barsky, former Soviet spy who lived in the United States for many years, many decades, actually.
And I said, has spying changed much from when you were a spy in the Cold War to today?
And he said, oh yeah, it's changed a lot.
You don't really need to have these illegal alien spies like we used to, because you can just send kids to the universities.
Now they'll just go to Harvard or something like that.
So Rubio is saying, we're going to revoke these visas for good reason, because it's a national security matter.
Part of a broader strategy to, one, clamp down on foreign countries preying on our country and taking advantage of us.
Two, clamping down on foreigners being in our country, period, because we have massive cultural problems caused by an influx of foreigners.
And three, clamping down on the universities is a particularly weak point for our political order because it's where radical ideologies come in, it's where radical sexual behaviors come in, and racial hostilities crop up, and apparently where spies come to.
So it's all really smart stuff.
To play devil's advocate here, the argument against rescinding the visas is that foreign students going to our elite universities is one way that America maintains cultural hegemony around the world because of our soft power.
We bring in the top students from all around the world.
We educate them at our most elite institutions.
Then we send them out to do what we taught them to do.
And this is a great way that America, as the global empire, can flex its muscle without actually having to send the Praetorian Guard to enforce its policies all around the world.
I get that idea in theory.
I get...
The problem is, what we are actually teaching these people, the supposed interests that we are actually defending, no longer serve the United States.
Maybe they used to, they don't today.
Because what are these foreigners being taught when they come to Harvard?
They're being taught that America's terrible.
They're being taught that it was founded by white men and evil racists and terrible sexists and phobes of all sorts.
They're being taught that America's empire should be dismantled.
They're being taught that America owes something to everyone around the world.
They're being taught things that are contrary to American power.
Well, the globalists who...
It'd be one thing if that were serving America's interests, but all it ever seems to do is bleed us dry, throw open our borders, undermine our country, undermine the common good.
That's the problem.
It's kind of like, I was explaining this once to a member of my family about how, And this member of my family is a little more secular, all the rest.
And he said, well, I said, no, no, no, I'm not like the Taliban.
The Taliban are Muslims.
In other words, the problem with the Taliban is not that they believe that there's a connection between morality and religion and politics.
The problem with the Taliban is they have the wrong morality and religion.
Same thing here.
The problem with the globalists is not that they think that America should flex its muscles all around the world.
Donald Trump wants to annex Greenland and Canada and Panama again.
Okay, so it's not that America has interests around the globe and we're going to assert our interests.
The problem with the globalists is the kind of stuff they want to implement.
That's the problem.
And so when Rubio says, all right, we're done with this.
This isn't working for us.
I think he's totally right.
Speaking of the Trump administration and kids, Speaker Mike Johnson, this story is of...
Here is Mike Johnson on what he's discovered about Medicaid.
I've said the same.
We are not cutting Medicaid in this package.
There's a lot of misinformation out there about this, Jake.
The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our work to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse.
And what do I mean by that?
You've got more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.
Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S.
citizens.
It's intended for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers, the disabled, the elderly.
They are protected in what we're doing because we're preserving the resources for those who need it most.
You're talking about 4.8 million able-bodied workers, young men, for example, who are on Medicaid and not working.
They are choosing not to work when they can.
That is called fraud.
They are cheating the system.
When you root out those kinds of abuses, you save the resources that are so desperately needed by the people who deserve it and need it most.
1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.
A program that is designed only for American citizens, and specifically only the most vulnerable American citizens.
That's a problem.
So when you say, well, the new Trump bill might end up cutting healthcare for all these people.
Hold on.
It's not cutting healthcare from anyone.
It is correcting the way that laws are being enforced to how they're supposed to be enforced.
It is correcting a wrong that currently exists in this country.
The government is violating the law by offering certain resources to people who explicitly are not supposed to have them.
But this shows you another deeper, pernicious problem with illegal immigration.
Namely, we're not going to let people die on the streets.
Far from.
We're not going to let people die on the streets.
We're going to do our best not to let people die on the streets.
And we're not going to let people go hungry.
We're not going to let people go without clothes.
So when you have millions and millions of foreign peasants welcomed into this country, contrary to the law by Democrats, even if it's against the law, we're going to give them health care and we're going to give them a lot of great stuff.
And you want to do it too.
And we all, at some level, even though we know it's wrong in principle, at a human level and at the level of charity, we're a very charitable country, we're going to do that.
So the way to avoid that, the way to avoid further corrupting the law in our political order, is not to break the law in the first place.
Not to throw open our borders and invite foreign criminals into our country in the first place, as the Democrats have done.
That's the issue.
The other point on illegal immigration that I want to remind people of right now, so that you're not complaining in two months or six months or a year is...
I think there's some people out there, even on the right, who believe that when we deport 11 million illegal aliens, that's just going to make things uniformly better.
That's going to make things so much better, and there's going to be all upside and no downside.
That is not true.
Everything in life comes with a cost.
So we are now quite conscious of the costs of illegal immigration, namely American citizens, young girls getting raped and murdered left and right, and the drugs and the fentanyl killing 75,000 people a year, and the cartels getting their clutches into America, and the press two for English, and all the terrible stuff that's come along with mass migration.
We know that.
But there have been benefits too.
And certainly benefits to certain groups and elites, but also benefits to people generally.
By bringing in millions and millions of illegal aliens, we have imported a class of slave to, at the very least, indentured labor that we don't have to pay a lot of money to.
So that brings costs down.
Costs of things like house cleaning, getting your lawn mowed, getting your grapes picked.
It reduces labor costs.
That really happened.
You can say, well, that's bad.
We're just importing a bunch of quasi-slave labor.
Yeah, yeah, that's what they're doing.
But people are enjoying those lower costs.
When you deport 11 million people, your costs are going to go up.
That's true.
One of the downsides of importing that cheap labor market is it's reduced wages for blue-collar workers in America.
That's true.
But other people have benefited from the prices going down because the labor has decreased.
Prices are going to go up.
There is always a cost to everything.
There is going to be some kind of balance, okay?
And so we need to be aware of that going in because the present situation is unsustainable.
Part of the reason we've imported millions and millions of people is because Americans aren't having babies anymore.
But one of the reasons Americans aren't having babies anymore is because we're importing millions and millions of people.
And that's tightened up the labor market and it's made our streets less safe.
And it's made housing more expensive and it's discouraged people from having kids.
But also one of the reasons that we have mass migration in the first place is because people aren't having kids because they're using condoms and not getting married and engaging in selfish And everything in life has a cost.
That's what we have to remember.
Because one thing I fear is that when the costs of deportations kick in, if the deportations ever really ramp up, when the costs kick in, people are going to get cold feet and they're going to want to reverse it.
Know what you're getting going into it.
Everything in life has a cost.
And right now, it seems to me, the costs of mass migration are simply too high.
I think we're going to lose our country.
So, increasing the cost of grapes and getting your lawn mowed and your house cleaned, I think, is a worthwhile tradeoff.
For having a country, having a coherent country that is oriented toward the common good, that makes sense, that is a real people.
I think it's worth it.
But don't think Trump is going to go in and wave a magic wand.
You don't wave a magic wand.
We didn't elect him to wave a magic wand.
We elected him to do hard things that other people are too cowardly and weak to do.
But you've got to let him do it.
You've got to be aware of what that's going to look like.
There's going to be a little pain going into it.
Every day, it seems like the world's going further off the rails.
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Okay, my favorite comment yesterday is from Luisa Johanna Petruska, 3654, who says, I knew with a name like that, I knew this would be the first line.
As a Hungarian, I love that you asked Orban those questions.
I'm glad our small nation is getting so much recognition lately.
Would have loved to meet you.
Maybe someday.
Big fan.
Oh, thank you very much.
It's very kind.
I was really touched, actually, by how many listeners to the show there are in Hungary and Europe more broadly.
That was great.
Even though I know the show has a global reach, I sometimes just think of it as, you know, it's mostly Americans.
But there are a lot of people from all over Europe who listen.
So I appreciate that.
And I definitely appreciate Hungary.
You know, Orban...
That's a very thoughtful man who has led the way on a lot of these questions, especially migration.
A lot of people don't know this.
Hungary has effectively zero migration.
Not zero illegal immigration.
Zero migration, period.
And Hungary is a coherent country where I was saying this to a colleague of mine.
I could walk around Budapest at 3 o 'clock in the morning in my boxer shorts with five gold Rolexes on each wrist.
No one would look.
That is a safe place.
It's a great place to be.
It's a flourishing community, given that it is a small country.
Doesn't mean there aren't problems there, problems in all these countries, but it's very impressive.
And we could learn a lesson or two from Hungary, no question about it.
Now, speaking of the Trump administration taking on entrenched interests, speaking of Harvard, we were talking about Harvard a little bit earlier, President Trump is ramping up his war.
On Harvard University.
And Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them.
They're hurting themselves.
They're fighting.
You know, Columbia has been really, they were very, very bad what they've done.
They're very anti-Semitic and lots of other things.
But they're working with us on finding a solution.
And, you know, they're taking off that hot seat.
But Harvard wants to fight.
They want to show how smart they are, and they're getting their ass kicked.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you, guys.
Even that line.
I love how he opens it.
He says, look, I'm not trying to hurt Harvard.
I'm not being vindictive or something like that.
I'm just, I'm saying, help me help you.
But Harvard won't do it.
They want to show everyone how smart they are, and they're getting their A-double-S kicked.
Okay, good night, everybody.
That was it.
That was the sign-off from the stand-up bit.
That was the sign-off from the late-night show.
That is Trump being a showbiz professional.
To the way he ended that little set, all the way back to casting his perfect enemy, Harvard University.
Trump is so good, not only at doing the show, but at casting the show.
He's very good at casting.
And he casts, as the villain in this little show, Harvard.
Perfect enemy for this moment.
A populist moment where the GOP has become the party of the middle class and the working class.
That wasn't true in my lifetime all the time.
When I was a kid, the Republicans were the party of rich Uncle Pennybags.
Democrats were the party of the working man.
That has flipped.
Now, Republicans are the party of your average Joe.
And so what does that mean?
Your perfect enemy is going to be Harvard.
And Trump's going to remind you of why Harvard's the perfect enemy, because they're going to show everyone how smart they are.
Oh, they think they're smarter than you.
They think they're better than you.
Well, guess what?
We're kicking their derriere.
That's what we're doing.
So right.
So right.
And Harvard is a good enemy, because Harvard legitimately produces many, if not most, of the elite Democrat politicians, business leaders.
Deep state apparatchik, NGO leaders, professors.
Harvard produces some of the top powerful leftists in the country.
So if you have this power center just churning out powerful leftists and you're a conservative politician, you've got to go after them.
And there are plenty of good justifications for going after them.
Trump mentioned the anti-Semitism, the fact that Harvard permitted Jewish students to be harassed by frothing, keffia-wearing Muslims.
But there are plenty of people who don't care about Israel, don't care about the Jews, don't care.
It's just not a top issue for them at all.
And frankly, I don't even think that's the chief reason to go after Harvard.
Harvard also...
The truth, God, reason, you know.
The list goes on and on.
And Harvard has been effective at producing these leftists.
So it makes perfect sense to go after Harvard and to use any excuse you can to do it.
Even when those excuses are legitimately good justification.
Perfect casting.
Perfect casting for the midterms.
And perfect casting for 2028, too.
Hey, guys.
Who do you want to vote for?
Trump?
Or Harvard?
Hey, average Joe, whose side are you on?
Do you want to be on the side of the Harvard faculty lounge that sneers and looks down at you all the time, calls you deplorable and irredeemable?
Or of Trump, that guy who says that you're great and wants to help you and wants you to be rich and successful and have a good family?
Which one?
Who do you think?
Even Bill Maher.
Who is still a lib.
I know there are many conservatives who say, you know, Bill Maher is really on our side now.
I don't really view it that way, but he's an interesting guy, and he's still a lib, and he's a decent bellwether for a certain kind of voter.
And Bill Maher says, yeah, Trump's Harvard policy is great.
Trump has declared full-scale war on Harvard, and like so many things he does, there's a kernel of a good idea there.
I mean, I've been on Harvard long before he was.
Oh, you went to Cornell.
That's not why.
No.
It's because Harvard is a factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking faces.
Okay.
Harvard is an a-hole factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking F faces.
Show me the lie.
Show me.
Fact check.
10,000% true.
And Bill Maher, you know, I thought Bill Maher was Jewish.
I don't know why I thought that.
Maybe because he talks kind of like a New Yorker, L.A. He's an atheist.
He's kind of a lib.
I don't know why, but apparently he was raised Catholic.
He might have a little bit of ethnic Jewish ancestry, but apparently he was Catholic, now he's an atheist.
And he's definitely a big lib, and then kind of a libertarian.
So even he, even a guy who's pretty different from Trump in most ways, he says, man, I support that Trump policy.
Bill Maher's not the only one saying it.
Gavin Newsom, the fact that Gavin Newsom launched that podcast, and the first guests he invites on are people very close to Trump and tries to make buddies with them and tries to appeal to them, shows you Gavin Newsom's thinking, shoot, man, I should be more like Trump.
I should get on board with Trump.
Some of Trump's policies are probably pretty smart.
Trump has attacked Newsom personally many times.
He says, shoot, I've got to be more like Trump.
You know why?
You know why?
Because Trump won the popular vote.
And Democrats got so shook by that, they said, yikes, man.
We got it.
Trump is mainstream.
Mass deportations, mainstream.
Kicking out Chinese university students, mainstream.
Mainstream position, majority position.
Attacking Harvard University, mainstream.
So what are they going to do?
Are the Democrats going to follow the Bill Maher route, the Gavin Newsom route, and try to be more like Trump?
Or are they going to double down on being the thing that they have even often admitted is one of their big weaknesses, namely appealing to the Harvard faculty lounge?
Trump has set this trap for them.
And most of them, as far as I can tell, they're going with Harvard.
Okay, good luck.
Fine by me.
Even CNN is admitting that the people...
This is how Americans sort of see the parties.
Which party is better described as the party with strong leaders?
Look at this.
Wow.
16% of Americans say Democrats.
40% say that of the Republican Party.
Now, overall, no party's doing great.
Lots of Americans say neither of these qualities apply to either party.
But look at how much worse off the Democrats are.
A party that gets things done.
Only 19% of Americans say that about the Democrats.
36% say it about the Republicans.
In fact, the only place that the Democrats are numerically ahead, party of the middle class.
This is basically a tie, though.
34% say that of Democrats, 32% say Look at this.
Wow.
You see red here is a place that Donald Trump improved his performance from 16 to 20 to 24. Now, he lost some of these counties.
He didn't win all of them.
But you see how much more red there is than blue.
Now, even, it's funny, even as CNN is admitting that the Democrats are just totally cooked, even there there's a little bit of dishonesty.
Because you see in the map, the basic color of the map is a kind of a blue.
But it's not really showing.
This is based on the same kind of triple trend data that was in that New York Times report.
And so the guy is saying, he's like, look, most of this is red.
There's a ton of red.
There's very little blue.
But even still, CNN is trying to suggest that most of the country or half the country is blue.
But that doesn't really show that.
Where the enthusiasm is, where the counties are moving, even if the counties didn't officially go one way or the other in any discrete election, the momentum of the country.
It's almost entirely for the Republicans.
It's the old Trump tweet, despite the constant negative press, despite all the headlines you're seeing, Trump's Iran policy, Ukraine policy, immigration policy, people, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Nah, man.
The public opinion polls show, the people are still broadly on Trump's side.
And basically, no one is on the Democrat side.
And what are the Democrats doing about this?
This is going to be my little tease.
This will be my tease into Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, because this is pretty hilarious.
There's a big Democrat activist, this woman, Olivia Juliana, who is saying, look, we need to appeal to men.
We lost, like, all the men.
We lost all these different races of men.
This is bad.
And we've got to appeal to men.
And the way we're going to appeal to men is by recognizing that most guys are...
Can I get a fact check on that, fellas?
Okay, great.
If that's your strategy, good.
Appeal to the Harvard Faculty Lounge and gay black baby killers.
