Ep. 1908 - Super Bowl: Bad Bunny Babbles, TPUSA Preaches Gospel
A Puerto Rican transvestite babbled in a foreign tongue during America’s favorite sporting event, team USA disses America at the unsurprisingly pagan Olympics, and Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend spills tea about luciferian child sacrifice.
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A Puerto Rican transvestite babbled in a foreign tongue during America's favorite sporting event while Kid Rock preached the gospel.
Team USA disses America at the Olympics, which kicked off typically in a pagan fashion with a pentagram suspended in a fiery monstrance.
That was a little much even for the Olympics.
And speaking of pentagrams, Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend supposedly spills the tea about Luciferian child sacrifice on the global elite's favorite Caribbean island.
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Did you watch the halftime show?
I did not.
I did.
Eventually, I did watch parts of the Bad Bunny thing, a little bit, tiny bit, and then I watched the whole TPUSA alternate, alternative halftime show, which was terrific.
And I wasn't totally sure what to expect.
I love TPUSA.
I think Erica Kirk is one of the great national heroes.
Obviously, Charlie was a buddy of mine, and I love TPSA, and I do a lot of work with TPUSA.
But I didn't know what to expect.
It's a big task to say there's going to be an alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show.
So I didn't know if they were going to stick the landing.
We'll get to how it went because it's got 26 million views and counting right now.
First, though, Bad Bunny.
I didn't watch it live.
I'm only seeing little clips because you can't watch the whole thing after the fact.
But from my understanding, correct me in the comments if I'm wrong.
From my understanding, a transvestite babbled in a foreign tongue during what is supposed to be America's favorite sporting event.
Is that right?
And I know some people are going to say, well, he didn't wear a dress to the performance, but that's not what I said.
He himself is a transvestite, right?
He wears dresses to various public events.
I guess he dressed in a slightly more masculine way to this performance.
Anyway, I'm gathering all of this from just a few clips.
Here is how the Bad Bunny halftime show opened up.
Actually, it wasn't even that, because you could understand what I just said.
Even people who speak Spanish couldn't understand what he was saying.
I think my inference was correct.
It was a transvestite babbling in a foreign tongue, a tongue that I'm not opposed to foreign languages.
I speak at least one of them, and I have a little touch of multiple foreign languages.
But most people watching the Super Bowl didn't speak Spanish.
And he does the whole show basically in Spanish.
And though he didn't wear a dress, he did make sure to insert some gay stuff.
I caught this little clip going around Twitter.
Do we have it?
Of a couple of fellas grinding on each other.
Do we have it?
Where's the clip?
Do we have it?
Yes.
So a couple of guys rolling.
Yeah, a couple of dudes.
Okay, all right.
That's enough.
That's enough of that.
And I have to say he did the show mostly in Spanish because at the very end, there was a tiny little bit of English.
And this was this really clever way that Bad Bunny, who hates America, was going to counter the protest that this was an anti-American halftime show because he ended it with the claim, God bless America.
Sort of.
You get it.
You get it?
You see what he did.
You see what he did?
He said, God bless America.
But he doesn't mean what you think he meant by America.
When you say America, you refer to our country.
But that's not what he did.
What he meant was the whole Western hemisphere.
He goes, God bless America.
Los Secho Gosso.
No, I shouldn't even say that.
Desi Arnaz was a great patriot.
He was, I don't, I, I can't.
I don't mean to accidentally compare Desi Arnaz or anyone with a Spanish accent to Bad Bunny, who is categorically worse.
He goes, God bless America, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador.
Oh, oh, you mean, we meant America like the country, but you, even as you say, God bless America, are finding a way to diminish this country that has been so good to you that puts you center stage for its biggest sporting event of the year.
Sports which are intrinsically patriotic.
That's what they're supposed to be.
That's the point of the sports.
One point of sports is to demonstrate athletic prowess, but even more than demonstrating athletic prowess, what the games are for, going back to antiquity all around the world, what public games are for is patriotism.
But this guy hates America so much so that he can't even say God bless America.
He's got to undercut America as he does it.
Ecuador.
And some of those, look, some of those countries I really like.
El Salvador, obviously.
Had Bukele done the halftime show, I would have loved it.
Cuba, the Cuban government is awful.
The Cuban people are great.
And when they come to America, they vote Republican and I love them.
They love cigars.
They're great people.
This was just awful.
It was at least as bad as we all feared it would be.
He didn't wear a dress, but he put some gay stuff in there.
So I feel like that just balances out anyway.
It was awful.
And we all knew it was going to be awful.
It was slightly worse, but we all knew it.
In fact, walking in to the Super Bowl, Logan Paul, the YouTuber, was asked if he was looking forward to the halftime show.
This was his answer.
Logan, are you excited for the halftime?
No.
I love it.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Are you aware of the halftime show?
No.
And he was right.
Logan Paul, totally, totally right.
So what were some of the reactions?
Well, there's Logan Paul's pre-action.
Elmo reacted.
And I think this is how you know the Libs realize this was not a good look for them.
Elmo, like Elmo, like, hi.
I know that sounds a little bit like Mickey Mouse, but it's, oh, I'm Elmo.
Like Elmo, like the character on Sesame Street, he reacted to Bad Bunny.
Why?
At Elmo says, Bad Bunny was amazing.
Elmo thinks he should be called quit bunny.
Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny.
First of all, Elmo, the Elmo songs are really pretty good.
Had Elmo just gotten up at the Super Bowl at the halftime show and done, you know, la Elmo song.
That would have been way better than all of that gibberish that Bad Bunny was jiggling around to.
But Elmo has to come out and support a Bad Bunny.
Why?
Because Sesame Street is super lib and it airs on public radio, public TV, which is super lib.
And I think that the Libs realized that they needed a little cultural reinforcement for this.
I think the Libs looked at the reaction to the Super Bowl halftime show.
It got great ratings.
A lot of people watched it.
It was just like a lot of people would watch a car accident.
A lot of people would watch any other manner of degrading behaviors as a circus, as a freak show.
They watched it, but it was getting pretty bad reviews.
Meanwhile, TPUSA offered an alternative that did bonkers numbers for an alternative show aired on YouTube and Daily Wire, by the way.
It got over 26 million views.
As of this morning, the numbers keep skyrocketing.
10 million concurrent viewers.
So I think what we should conclude from the Elmo reaction is, oh, the Libs need to start pulling out all of their cultural cachet, all of their institutional power from Hollywood, from the establishment media, from kids' shows on public television to try to make this thing seem better than it was.
That to me is a sign of weakness.
That's a sign of desperation.
Trump characteristically panned it.
He said, the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever.
It makes no sense.
It's an affront to the greatness of America.
It doesn't represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence.
All true.
This isn't even just sour grapes or I don't like the guy because he doesn't like me kind of reaction to Bad Bunny.
He's making a good point.
He says, this doesn't represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence.
It was bad.
The sets were kind of impressive, but the babbling, the nonsense, the anti-American politics, the total lack of musical skill and talent, it was sad.
It was depressing.
He goes on.
He says, nobody understands a word this guy is saying.
The dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the USA and all over the world.
This show is just a slap in the face to our country, which is setting new records every single day, including the best stock market in 401ks in history, on and on and on.
So true.
So true.
The point of these events is excellence, athletic excellence, cultural excellence.
That's what they're for.
And this was not excellent.
I didn't even watch the whole game, but or really much of the game at all, but I heard the game wasn't that good.
Halftime show was not excellent.
It was sad because it failed.
The Super Bowl, despite good ratings, failed to do what it's supposed to do, which is demonstrate excellence, specifically in service of patriotism and love of country.
A big, big flop.
Meanwhile, the TPOSA show, which I didn't know how it was going to go.
I thought maybe it was going to be kind of cringe.
I didn't, I didn't know.
I love TPSA.
As you know, I've worked with TPSA for years.
I'm friends with them.
I greatly admire, obviously, I was buddies with Charlie.
I think his wife is an absolute national hero.
I love them, but you never know.
I did an alternative Super Bowl show.
It could have been horrible.
It could have been.
And then I watched it.
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26 million Americans can't be wrong, huh?
The views for the TPSA halftime show, which was a big risk.
If this thing had flopped, it would look humiliating for an organization already reeling from the assassination by a sexually deviant leftist of its great founder and leader.
This could have been very embarrassing.
And they went for it anyway.
They were bold.
They took a big risk.
And it worked.
I think it was 10 million concurrent viewers, something like that.
When I wrote this story down this morning, it was, I think, 25 and a half million.
By the time I'm doing the show, it was well over 26 million, might be over 27 million viewers now.
There were 142 million viewers for the Super Bowl.
So look, you know, I'm not saying that these audiences are comparable, but to be able to pull 26, 27, we'll see how many views it gets by the end of it.
Million viewers for an alternative halftime show.
Alternative Halftime Show Success00:10:32
Very, very impressive.
And what was the show?
There were a lot of really good artists, some of whom you might not have even heard of before, but who did a great job.
For me, 1920s ukulele music is a little too modern and popular in some cases.
You know, I am not exactly the target audience for modern pop music.
However, there were a lot of really impressive performances there.
And one thing I loved about the TPSA show is it covered a lot of different bases.
The left is totally uniform, right?
On the left, there are the progressives and the more progressives.
The left loves modern, degraded, anti-American babble uniformly.
That's what they like.
Musically, they like degenerate music that degrades the sensitive soul, that is highly percussive and would make Bach turn over in his grave, of course.
But the right, because we are simply more diverse, ideologically more diverse, temperamentally more diverse, geographically more diverse, it's actually very difficult to play to the right.
Because some people on the right, they just want to sing country songs about fishing, fishing and drinking beer.
You know, some people like that.
That's the kind of more populist Middle America right.
And then there's the kind of edgy, young, cool right that likes, maybe likes naughty words and rap.
You know, they kind of like that like rap, rock kind of hip thing, tattoos, piercings, whatever.
Then there's the, you know, traditionalist tratty right that thinks that, that thinks that Bach is too modern, you know, because Bach was a Protestant.
You know, there's a kind of tratty, right, where basically every musical innovation after Gregorian chant was a mistake.
So you got to play to that right.
I mean, there's all that.
There's the very evangelical right that loves the kind of modern worship music with the hands in the air.
And it's actually very difficult to combine all of those things, to play to all of those audiences.
To play to the American right as a whole is much harder than to play to the American left.
And TPOSA pulled it off.
They pulled it off.
They had these kind of beautiful ballads that had a spiritual aspect.
They had the, you know, going fishing in my boots kind of songs.
They had Kid Rock.
They had the, they had hard rock.
It just opened up with a Jimi Hendrix style on the Gibson-Les Paul, you know, bam, ba-dam, bam, bam, bam, wow, you know, the kind of crazy guitar.
And they in the in the culmination of the show, they had Kid Rock personally playing to both big swats on the right.
So Kid Rock shows up.
And, you know, Kid Rock is not a kid anymore.
Kid Rock is in his 50s.
And so you don't know, is he going to be able to do all the crazy stunts and the moves and run around and all?
And he did.
The guy moves around like he's 25 years old.
So he opens up with the red, white, and blue.
Let's shotgun a beer and scream and screech, bada, bada, bang-de-bang-da.
I'm kid.
Here he is.
So this is what people were expecting, I think, for the whole show.
You know, Pyro, American flag.
Watching Kid Rock move around this way at like 55 or however old he is, he might be even older than that, is insane.
I don't think I've ever moved like that in my entire life.
Not that I'm the best athlete in the world, but he did a great job for what that was.
And I think there were some people who said, look, that's cool.
And it's a throwback.
A lot of Super Bowl halftime shows are throwbacks.
You know, you get the band that first came on the scene 20 years prior.
You don't always want the most up-to-date and freshest face on the block.
So even that actually is very fitting for a Super Bowl halftime show, or in this case, an alternative halftime show.
But he did that.
And I felt if they had left it at that, it would have been insufficient because it's just pure nostalgia.
I think it would have missed part of the moment, why TPSA is even putting on an alternative halftime show in the first place, why so much of the country feels alienated by the liberal culture.
It's not just because we want to go back to the 90s.
There's something else we want.
And what happened was after the Kid Rock, iconic Kid Rock performance, you had a cellist and a violinist come out on stage, dressed in a kind of funny throwback costume, but they played really beautiful music on a cello and a violin.
And I thought, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
Something different's happening here.
Now we're talking my language.
You bring the cello and the violin out.
What is this about?
Even that, you know, was playing to a different kind of conservative sensibility.
But then we realized there was a bridge between Kid Rock's first performance as Kid Rock to then the same guys who introduced him come out and they introduce him by his Christian name.
Not by Kid Rock, by his real name.
And then he comes out and he's not in the crazy outfits and there's not the crazy pyro with the flag and he's not screaming.
He comes out with a guitar and he sings this song till you can't.
And it's, which I wasn't even familiar with.
It was this nice song.
It was kind of wistful.
And it made sense of the whole event.
And it made sense really even of the moment, the circumstance of having an alternative Super Bowl halftime show.
Because old song was, look, you can give your dad a rain check on hanging out until you can't.
Because one day your dad's going to die.
And you're going to miss those moments that you could have done something with him.
You can put off doing this thing with your kids.
You can put off doing this thing for your career with your wife or with your family.
But then, you know, we live in time, guys.
And you're not, the lie that we tell ourselves as humans after the fall, and especially the lie of modernity, is that we're not bound by time.
We're not bound by history.
We can just upload ourselves to the clouds and we'll live forever.
We're going to cure death.
We're going to be kids forever.
That's one of the real lies, especially at this moment.
That's why people are putting off getting married, putting off having kids.
They've got the suspended adolescence.
And you have it in this person whose name is literally Kid.
He's a guy in his 50s who goes by Kid, but maybe not anymore.
He opens up the show as Kid Rock doing the song from 25 years ago.
And then there's this musical bridge.
And you see, Kid Rock has grown up as the country has grown up.
And it's all at this halftime show that is in part memorializing a guy who was really young, a husband and a father, a major political leader struck down in the prime of his life by a radical leftist assassin on a campus simply for speaking common sense and having conversations with people.
And you realize you're not promised tomorrow.
And the song, I guess Kid Rock didn't write this song.
It's a lovely little pop song.
But what he does do is come out at the end and he says, look, I was playing this song and I couldn't get it out of my head.
And God told me to write another verse.
There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
There's a man who died for all our sins to hang it from the cross.
You can give your life to Jesus and he'll give you a second chance till you can.
Take it.
If you got a chance, take it.
Take it while you got a chance.
It goes on.
I could listen to the whole rest of the song.
Wow.
I love this.
Not that I've followed Kid Rock's career all that closely, but I've paid attention to it over the decades.
And this was a career-defining performance.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
And I thought it might be kind of cringy going into it.
And this was excellent.
I mean, it was so mature.
It was artistically actually quite beautiful to go from the, you know, bang to bang, the, you know, you do that really properly.
And then this transition and into this song.
And then even the extra verse to this slightly sappy, but nice pop song.
Even that extra verse, I felt he really hit the mark because it could have been cringe, modern, saccharin, what passes for Christian art.
If he had just said, you know, you got to reach out, you got to read your Bible and you got to call on the name of Jesus.
And that's it.
And if he had just ended it there.
But that's not what the verse said.
It said, you can do this.
You are in a bad situation, you, my fellow man.
You are in a bad situation because you're going to die.
And we live in a fallen world and you can't save yourself.
And he just preaches the gospel.
He says, but Jesus Christ has come to save you.
That's the good news.
And you can reach out to him and you can cooperate with God's grace until you can't.
That's the key.
That's what distinguishes that verse from so many of the errors of modern sappy saccharine music, whether it be hymnody or whether it be secular music.
is that same modern error of pretending that we're not bound by time, that we're not bound by space and history, that we are just, you know, ethereal eternal creatures floating around in the ether.
He says, you can do this until you can't.
And the terrestrial pain that you feel in this world when you wish you had told your daddy you love him, the terrestrial pain that you feel in this world when you miss that chance, you don't take that opportunity, you put it off, put it off until it's too late.
Well, that can be an eternal pain.
You will be tortured in hell.
I don't mean to make light of it, but he's saying the con, you think those are bad consequences.
Well, there are eternal consequences here.
And the good news is that God's only begotten son has become incarnate, dwelled among us, was crucified, died, and was buried.
And on the third day, he was resurrected.
And you can reach out to him.
You can cooperate with his grace.
He's already reaching out to you.
And you can be saved until you can't.
And there will be consequences for your action.
This is even, you know, Kid Rock promotes freedom.
He's one of the more pro-freedom kind of pop figures.
And this is the fullness of freedom.
He's expressing that.
It's just, it was, it was so mature.
It was beautiful.
And it was a beautiful tribute at the end to Charlie.
There's a final little picture of Charlie, you know, in remembrance of Charlie Kirk at the end there.
And that assassination obviously drives home the point.
It was beautifully done.
It was beautifully done.
TPSA could not have done a better job.
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We turn, this is a big sports day, isn't it?
We turn from the Super Bowl and the halftime shows to the Olympics.
I just say something.
Can I say something without everybody getting mad?
I don't care for the Olympics.
I don't like them.
I don't really care that much about football either, but at least, you know, I go to the Super Bowl party at the very least to drink and smoke some cigars and hang out with some friends.
But the Olympics, I don't care for it.
The whole thing.
I just don't really like it.
Curling is kind of funny.
I don't, when I was a, when I was a teenage boy, I enjoyed watching gymnastics.
The ladies' gymnastics was very, held my attention a little bit.
But otherwise, I don't really care about the Olympics at all.
And I don't even really like the idea of it.
And I was proven right in this distaste because the Olympics opening ceremony this year involved a fiery pentagram monstrance lit up in red.
This is a weird one.
It's a pentagram, like the symbol of the devil, in fiery red, highlighted by an arch, which is why it looks like a monstrance with more red and fire lighting up the whole thing.
Seemed a little bit Luciferian, didn't it?
Seemed a little bit, at the very least, I would say we would say it seems a little pagan.
Now, I don't know what they were going for.
Were they going for like it's an atom or something or atoms surrounded by pentagrams?
I don't know.
But this isn't the first time that you've seen this weird satanic pagan imagery at the Olympics.
Wasn't it the last time they did that weird tranny Last Supper?
They did this tranny version of the Last Supper last time.
And it was pretty in your face.
But then the libs came out and the Olympics defenders came out and they said, that's not the Last Supper, you idiot.
That actually, that tableau was not referencing Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.
It was referencing Jan von Bailert's Feast of Dionysus, Feast of the Gods.
And you say, okay, first of all, I look at the Bailert.
I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that.
You look at the Jan von Bailert painting, Feast of the Gods, and then give me back the Da Vinci.
Yeah, okay.
The first thing that you would conclude, this is like the IQ bell curve meme.
It's like the low end of the IQ is they're clearly making fun of Da Vinci's Last Supper.
Then the midwit of the bell curve says, no, they're not.
They're actually referencing this Dutch painter's painting of Dionysus and the Feast of the Gods.
And then when you get up a little higher on the IQ curve, you say, wait a second, the Dutch painter in the Feast of the Gods is referencing Da Vinci's Last Supper.
So it's actually a moot point and it's a distinction without a difference, which is obviously what's going on there.
But beyond that defense falling flat, this always happens.
They always have weird pagan-y stuff at the Olympics because that's the point of the resurrection of the Olympics.
The resurrection of the Olympics, 130 some odd years ago now, was a resurrection of ancient pagan games.
That is essentially what the Olympics is.
And the creation of the modern Olympics was a culmination of a centuries-long effort that began in modernity and the Renaissance to resurrect pagan antiquity, specifically as a replacement for medieval Christendom.
That is one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance.
That is one of the hallmarks of modernity.
They'd come out of this roughly thousand-year period that we call Christendom, medieval Western Christian civilization with all the art and the crusades and the cathedrals and the monasteries and the learning and the theology and the political order.
You'd come out of this period.
And then in the age of the Enlightenment, especially, but even a little bit earlier in the beginning of the Renaissance, you see a resurrection of classical antiquity, which is to say pagan antiquity to replace Christian civilization.
And the Enlightenment tried to do this quite explicitly.
And then one of the parts of the culmination of that is the creation of the modern Olympic Games as this new great neo-pagan festival.
So it was always built in.
It was the whole point of it.
And so I just don't like it that much.
I don't like, I mean, I like classical antiquity for what it's worth, but I really like Christendom.
Christendom was pretty great.
When we were firing on all cylinders, building the great cathedrals, leading the world in learning and culture and theology and then political power.
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And that was it, man.
That was great.
I really like that.
The dark ages actually weren't so dark.
The modern ages are a lot darker than the so-called dark ages.
In any case, that's what they're for.
Now, some of you are going to say, Michael, that's all a little pie in the sky.
What the Olympics are really for is just, you know, some patriotism.
You get TPUSA to go out to not TPUSA, sorry, Team USA to go out.
TPUSA is the real Team USA.
Team USA to go out and support America at these world games and there's a little bit of this kumbaya world peace aspect, but we're rooting for our country, right?
So one of the points of it is like the point of all games, all public games, which is patriotism.
And then even on that front, the Olympic fails because Team USA goes out internationally and starts dissing America.
We'll get to that momentarily first.
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My favorite comment from Friday is from Martin Vera 4720 who says, quote, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death.
So there's just extra nooses laying around?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's kind of weird, huh?
They found a noose.
This was in the news reporting.
Not the news reporting, the news reporting.
They found a noose in Epstein's cell, but that was not the noose he used to kill himself.
What?
Where did he get the extra noose?
What?
A lot of questions.
And if we have time, I hope we have time.
We'll get to the latest with Epstein first, though.
Hunter Hess, I guess he is a skier for Team America at the Olympics.
He had this to say about our country.
It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think.
It's a little hard.
There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren't.
If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I'm representing it.
Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.
So yeah, I just kind of want to do it for my friends and my family and the people that support me getting here.
Hunter Hess is the absolute worst of America.
He's the worst of it.
He is the, this is, this is worse than a guy committing petty street crime.
It's worse because it's, it's an assault on our country and it's a betrayal of our country from a guy who has been entrusted to represent our country.
I love it.
Not that the guy's a road scholar exactly.
I don't think he's got a ton going on there in between the years.
But Hunter Hess comes and says, just because I wear the American flag on my uniform doesn't mean I represent America.
That's literally all it represents.
That's all it means.
Okay.
Do you think you're wearing the flag patch as a fashion statement?
The only reason you are wearing the flag patch is to signify something.
The thing that you are signifying by wearing the patch is that you represent America.
That doesn't mean just because I wear, just because I'm on a team called Team USA doesn't mean that I represent the United States.
And it does.
That's all it means, actually.
This guy is the worst of America, and he should be kicked off the team.
He should, I don't mean just hyperbolically or as a matter of retribution because I don't like something that he said.
He is undermining the very purpose of the U.S. Olympics team.
The U.S. Olympics team is not just to demonstrate athletic excellence.
That's part of the purpose, but there are a lot of good skiers in America.
There are plenty of people who could take this guy's spot and we would all be better for it, including him.
He is so put upon to have to represent America.
This poor guy, we should do him a favor, take him off the team.
But beyond athletic excellence, the point of being on the team is to support your country, to promote your country.
If you are doing the opposite, you are fundamentally undermining your purpose there.
You should be removed.
He's not the only one.
Amber Glenn is a skatrix at the Olympics.
Here's what she had to say.
It's been a hard time for the community overall under this administration.
It isn't the first time that we've had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights.
And now, especially, it's not just affecting the queer community, but many other communities.
And I think that we are able to support each other in a way that we didn't have to before.
And because of that, it's made us a lot stronger.
I hope I can use my platform and my voice throughout these games to try and encourage people to stay strong in these hard times.
Okay, this lady is a little more confused than the first guy because she doesn't really know what she's saying.
She's saying we need to be unified.
And the way we're going to be unified is by going to be by being divided.
So I, the representative of Team USA, am going to be divided against and be contrary to the United States.
So we're going to be divided, but we have to be united.
We have to come together.
Why do we have to come together for gay stuff?
No, lady, that was like five years ago.
Now it's the immigration is what you're supposed to be complaining about.
She didn't get the software update of leftism.
And we need to be strong and, but also divided and united and gay.
We have to be gay.
And she doesn't really know what she's saying.
The first guy, what's his name?
Hunter Hess.
That guy is clearer in his perversion.
When I say he's the worst of America, I'm being really specific.
Not just pointing out he's betraying his country internationally as he represents his country, that that's really bad enough.
But he's the worst of America in that he's the worst of America's bad inclinations.
One of America's virtues is a healthy individualism.
We don't just go along with the crowd.
We're not just part of the Borg.
We think for ourselves and we have individual virtues and courage and all the rest of that.
However, that virtue can become one of America's worst vices when we take it to a disordered extreme.
So having a healthy individualism is good.
An individualism that tells you to run away from your family or to attack your community or to try to emancipate yourself even from your own body, as we saw in the transgender ideology, that would be taking individualism to a very disordered extreme.
Well, that's what you're seeing with him.
He gets up there and in some ways it's so American.
He goes, I'm an individual.
But then it's very anti-American when he says, and I'm so individual that I'm going to diss my country and I'm going to put my team in a bad spot and I'm going to say, screw everybody else all around me.
I'm only going to look out for number one.
And I'm going to state my own malformed, nonsensical views that in many ways amount to a more kind of, I don't know, confused babbling than even bad bunny speaking gibberish at the halftime show.
That's like the worst inclination of America.
And we should correct it.
He should be called home.
Call him home.
I don't know what authority the government has here.
But you know, it's a national team.
He should be removed.
He's awful.
Okay.
Speaking of the worst of America, I tease this at the top of the show.
Representative Gene Wu, a Democrat from Texas, went full mask off in his contempt and his political party's contempt for white people.
I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning.
Because we are the majority in this country now.
We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.
But the problem is our communities are divided.
They're completely divided.
Yeah, one of our problems is our communities are completely divided when we should be totally united against the majority.
White people are still the majority of the country, probably not for long because of birth rates and migration.
But today, year of our Lord, 2026, white people are still the majority of the country.
And this guy comes out and he says, we need to stop being so divided.
We need to be united to go get rid of the majority.
Hey, everybody.
I just want to bring us all together here to say, kill Whitey.
Go kill Whitey, all right?
And this is only different in degree.
It's not different in kind from the other sort of rhetoric you hear from Democrats and the left broadly, calls to abolish whiteness, calls to minimize whiteness, to apologize for whiteness, the coalition of the ascendant, of the people of color who are perfect and the white people who can do no good.
This is just a more extreme version, which is to say the oppressor is whites, the oppressed are non-whites, and the non-whites need to overthrow the whites.
There's some people on the left, certainly, but even on the squishy right, who have complained in recent years about the supposed rise of white racial consciousness in America.
Now, I question the premise.
There's basically no white racial consciousness in America.
I've cited this Pew study from some years ago now.
Not much has changed.
Every racial group has a very high racial consciousness.
When asked, is your race important or very important to your identity?
Hispanics and Asians both say yes at a rate of over 50%.
Black people say yes at a rate of over 70%.
White people say yes at a rate of 15%.
White people have no racial consciousness.
Every other group has a racial consciousness that is significant, like majority racial consciousness.
White people had basically none.
But let's say the premise were true, even though it's not, that there is a serious uptick in white racial consciousness.
What do you expect?
Your politicians are going out on air saying we need to gang up on Whitey.
We need to target Whitey.
We need to overthrow him.
We need to punish Whitey.
We are demanding a racial consciousness for this group.
If there is an uptick in white racial consciousness, isn't that just a rational response to what you guys are doing?
I want to hear no apologies for this from the right.
No haranguing from the left is what did this.
The only thing, the only response to this, to this kill Whitey stuff, is to say, huh, well, I guess they consider us a racial group, and I guess we have to proceed accordingly.
In accordance with justice and the Constitution, all the rest of it.
All right, this is a story I really want to get to.
This is going to be a big tease for tomorrow.
Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, not quite wife, but ex-girlfriend, supposedly, according to reports, is tweeting the truth about Jeffrey Epstein.
Some people are saying Jeffrey Epstein might still be alive because of all the questions around his death.
She says no, supposedly.
He's dead, but he was a good guy.
You all think Jeffrey Epstein's a bad guy, but he's a good guy.
This is supposedly coming from the ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.
And the quote that's really making it around is, they sacrificed children to Lucifer.
It's an entire cult.
Jeffrey got involved in their operation for financial reasons and to obtain compromise, but he never participated in those rituals.
This, according to the supposed girlfriend, Karina Shuliak.
And this is all being reported.
It's going viral everywhere.
Now the Twitter account has been deleted.
Now, the question is, why is it deleted?
Are they shutting her up?
Are they censoring her?
Or is this not even real?
It might be real, I guess, but there's a lot of evidence that it's not real.
Brian Krassenstein is posting that this account for Karina Shuliak, Epstein's last girlfriend, is fake.
I have confirmed this.
Stop falling for lies and hoaxes.
Please stop sharing their claims about Epstein.
Apparently, the account might just be playing on the popularity and the fears to promote a crypto scam because there were these weird tweets about this crypto thing that they're trying to pump up a crypto coin or whatever.
I don't.
All of which reminds me.
When it comes to Epstein, everybody has their preferred little hobby horse.
Epstein is the avatar of the pedophile global elite.
Epstein is the avatar of Israel.
Epstein is the avatar of Russia.
Epstein is the avatar of the CIA.
Epstein is the avatar of the Illuminati.
Epstein is the avatar of cannibals.
Epstein is the avatar of Wall Street.
Epstein is the avatar.
List goes on and on and on.
Everyone has their preferred take on it.
And like a heresy when it comes to religion, they tend to just focus on their view to the exclusion of all of the other evidence and possibilities.
However, like heresies and religion, that can take a partial truth and turn it into a total lie.
Because the reality is, and I've been so consistent on this and I've been so vindicated on it.
You're never going to know everything about Epstein.
First of all, there is evidence for all of those things that I just said.
There actually is some evidence is better than others.
And some of the evidence I think is being misread and some ironies I think are being misread.
But there are some weird like code words and references to things that seem like they're code words and involve underage sex.
And it's all.
However, the Epstein thing is so dangerous because it encourages people to just follow whatever they want, to choose their own adventure.
And I think that can lead you off the trail of what's actually going on.
But the reality is either Epstein is just, you know, he's just a weird, rich sex freak with a lot of famous friends, in which case we know everything we're going to know about Epstein, or he's something more than that.
One or more of all those options that I just said.
In which case, you're not going to find out.
The idea that actual smoking gun documents would have survived, that could overthrow the entire global order, that they would have survived from 2007 until now, almost 20 years later.
They would have, you know, all the nefarious CIA, Mossad, MI6, Illuminati, pedophile, child sacrifice, Luciferians, that they were conducting this degree of evil that is almost unfathomable, but they would have said, well, I hope we never get found out because we definitely can't delete emails.
If only, ah, if only we weren't bound to keep all of these records.
If only, but we have to keep them because of a federal law or something.
So we have to, I hope they're not exposed 20 years from now.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
And if the, if this, look, maybe this chicky's account is real.
I'm a little skeptical.
Maybe it's promoting a crypto scam.
But I guess that's my little warning here is there could be a lot of scams.
The whole thing is a scam.
The whole Epstein operation is like very, very scammy.
And it clearly involves breaking lots and lots of laws and having major political figures subverting all the rules.
The whole thing is scammy in itself.
And there are going to be like a billion other political ops and scams built on top of it.
And we're probably seeing one of them play out right now.
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What was it like, Merlin?
To be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Maradin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
Who am I, father?
Other gods should war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the Bull God offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new pirate work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life.
Great Light, Great Darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew.
The sword of the High King.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.