Ep. 1940 - Oklahoma Democrats: Let's Turn Your Dead Granny Into Fertilizer!
Oklahoma legislators debate whether or not to legalize human composting, a lady becomes the head of the Church of England, and pro-Iran protesters storm the streets of the birthplace of the Constitution.
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One-third of the world's fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
So the Straits closure amid the Iran war is creating a major problem for agriculture.
But Democrat lawmakers in Oklahoma are taking that problem as an opportunity to legalize the composting of human bodies.
Turning family members into mulch is not typically what we think of as a kitchen table political issue, but I suppose literally it is.
If you live in Oklahoma or in 14 other Democrat-controlled states, you could soon be eating fruits and veggies that sprouted from Granny's rotted corpse.
We will get to the political and religious confusion that has led to human composting.
And then speaking of religious confusion, the Church of England, the Church of England, is officially, for the first time ever, led by a priestess.
And speaking of political confusion, a bunch of pro-Iran Muslims take to the streets of Philly, the birthplace of the Constitution, to protest America.
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Left-wing streamer Hassan Piker has just clarified that he does not support the terrorist state of Israel or the terrorist state of America, which has me wondering why we don't prosecute him and ideally denaturalize him.
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We'll get to that in the context of this pro-Iran Muslim protest in Philly.
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Nice little transition from America's ranchers to human composting.
That was a good ranchers is the good way to grow food in America.
Human composting, I dare say, is a bad way to grow food.
Here we have an Oklahoma legislator discussing the debate.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative, I just got to ask, do you believe, do you really believe that human remains or even my favorite subject, human poop, are okay as compost or fertilizer?
Do you really believe that?
In this situation, yes.
Yes, I do.
So that's Shaw for Oklahoma.
You can go follow him.
He asked that question so that there's no confusion.
You hear this story.
You say, surely there's some misunderstanding.
Surely they're not talking about grinding granny into mulch so that I can grow tomatoes or something like that.
No, that's exactly what they're talking about.
Then you have to ask yourself, okay, I don't know very much about agriculture.
I'm not a farmer.
Is that normal?
Is that something we've done, we've ever done in America?
No, your intuition would be correct.
That's not something that we've normally done in America.
In fact, the first state to legalize human composting was Washington state in the year of our Lord 2020.
So it's a little over five years old.
Now, 14 blue states in America, obviously all blue states, all states run by Democrats, are the ones that have legalized human composting.
Why?
How has this happened?
This is one of those great political issues.
I mean, it's a bad political issue.
It's super gross and horrifying and inhuman and suggests that our civilization is on the very brink of collapse.
But it's one of those great political issues in the sense that it shows you the connection between deep philosophical principles, anthropological principles, religion, and practical politics.
I know there are a lot of people who are more kind of meat and potatoes politics people, not granny tomatoes, but meat and potatoes.
And they say, look, I don't want to hear all this highfalutin nerdy philosophy.
I don't want to hear about John Locke or Aristotle.
I don't need too much religion with my politics.
Okay, can we just have a normal country?
Can we just get some, can we cut taxes and have, well, I agree, the political nerds, they're sometimes a little annoying, but you can't do regular normal politics without religion and philosophy because politics rests on a moral order.
Even, well, obviously it rests on a moral order, but it rests on moral principles, our understanding of the moral order.
And that presumes all sorts of things about who we are human beings, about where we fit into the world, how we can come to know anything, what existence even is.
And ultimately, when you get down to it, it gets down to religion.
All human conflict ultimately is theological, as Cardinal Manning tells us.
And this is a clear example of that.
Because let me ask you, ordinary, well, not you, maybe, but the ordinary liberal, not all that seriously religious person, just kind of goes about his day.
What's wrong with composting granny?
What's really wrong with it?
You could probably tell me what's wrong with it.
You could probably tell me that this is contrary to human dignity, that this diminishes our own humanity, actually, when we treat our corpses in this disrespectful sort of way.
That actually we treat the body with some kind of reverence because we recognize that human beings have dignity.
We want to treat them with reverence.
And we recognize that human beings are not merely spirits flitting in outer space, but that we are in a real way our bodies, not merely souls imprisoned by some husk that is evil, but we are in a real integrated way our bodies.
And this teaches us something about our place in the world.
It allows us to think about what happens after we die.
It leads us to think about what comes next, potentially even the resurrection, yes, the resurrection of the body, which is what we have believed in traditionally in the West, once known as Christendom.
You could probably tell me all that.
But the ordinary lib for whom morality begins and ends with, well, was it consensual?
That kind of lib can't tell you why it's wrong.
We all know it's wrong because we all have something that the bioethicist Leon Cass described as the wisdom of repugnance.
We all know, to use an example, I think I mentioned this earlier in the week as an example of this very same principle.
We all know that it's wrong for a brother and sister to get married.
We all know that's wrong.
But if you take all the externalities out of it, if you say the brother and sister are 65 years old, they're not going to have kids, there aren't going to be birth defects, but they are going to bump uglies and get married and share a house.
And it's just gross, right?
And it's just gross and is obviously immoral and certainly should be illegal.
We all say that.
But if your whole moral understanding begins and ends with, well, was it consensual?
Now you're not able to articulate a reason why that's wrong.
So if Granny says she wants to be ground up into mulch, shouldn't she be allowed to do it?
You know, you do you.
It's a free country, right?
Now, of course, the people who gave us our free country, the founding fathers, the framers, the settlers, none of them would have been okay with grounding up granny into mulch.
They all would have probably vomited at the very thought of that.
But this is where liberalism and the liberal understanding of freedom has led us to.
Now let's take it a step further.
Beyond the political moral reasoning, you know, we used to think of things including consent, but beyond consent, there's more to morality than mere consent.
Now we ask, well, why would Granny want to be turned to mulch?
I don't want to be turned to mulch.
I don't want to be ground up and thrown into a garden when I die.
I would like to be buried in a coffin, maybe a mausoleum.
I don't know, depending on how extravagant my family feels.
But I definitely don't want to be thrown out to the dogs and I don't want plants to spring from my body for you to eat.
So why would Granny want to?
Because we no longer broadly practice the religion that treated the body with reverence.
Now, if people have any religion at all, it's some kind of woo-woo, abstract, new age nature worship.
And that's what this is.
This is a nature cult.
The idea that some good can come from my body.
I'll never be resurrected.
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
Imagine there's no heaven.
But you know, some good can come of it.
If a little flower springs from my corpse in that way, man, it's kind of like I'm living on, you know, when I take a dirt nap and turn to worm food, man.
You know, but so that's, that's a religious point of view, and that's inescapable.
And our political order reinforces or suppresses various religious views.
That's inescapable.
So the question is, what kind of culture do you want to live in?
You want to live in the Christian culture that gave us our country and all the glories of our civilization and led us to be the greatest country in the world and led to so much flourishing?
Or do you want to be like a bunch of primitive knuckle-dragging nature worshipers who are ghastly pagans who turn their granny into food?
What do you want to be?
You can say, oh, I don't want to choose freedom of religion.
Do whatever you want.
You do you.
Well, okay, that is a decision.
That's the kind of liberalism that led us to multifying granny.
Which do you want to live in, really?
Have the courage to tell me.
You know the answer.
Have the courage to tell me.
You want to live in the Christian civilization.
Okay, well, let's act like it.
And let's limit people's choices, especially when those choices are super duper gross.
Speaking of confusion, the Church of England now has an Archbishopris as its clerical leader.
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For the first time ever, the leader, the clerical leader of the Church of England, the monarch is actually the leader of the Church of England, but the clerical leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
is a lady.
I solemnly commit myself before you to the service of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, and the whole Church of Christ throughout the world.
That together we may proclaim the gospel of Christ, who reconciles us to God and breaks down the walls that divide us.
Let us greet our newly installed Archbishop.
I'm such an Anglophile.
I love the UK, but man, the Brits are cooked.
This is just, there's the lady sitting there pretending to be the Archbishop of Canterbury, just all smiles and let's cheer on our lady.
Now, look, I'm not a theologian.
The vast majority of you listening to this are not theologians.
Did you catch the one problem with this installation?
You see the one problem with this person being the Archbishop of Canterbury?
She's not a bishop.
And she's not a bishop in part because she's not a priest.
And she's not a priest because she's not a man.
Because she might be a nice lady.
She has a nice accent.
She seems perfectly lovely.
But what she's definitely not is the Archbishop of Canterbury because ladies can't be priests.
And I know that there are various Protestant denominations that think that ladies can be priests.
There are plenty that do not, but some do.
There's a wide diversity among Protestantism, but they can't be.
They can't be for a few reasons.
One, in the Bible, all of the priests in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, all of them are men.
And I guess that could just be an accident.
That could just be a quirk.
But I don't really think it is.
The 12 apostles are men.
Our Lord socialized with women.
He held women in very, very high esteem.
Catholics believe, and traditional Protestants believe that Our Lady is assumed bodily into heaven, that she was conceived without sin.
She is the very queen of heaven.
It's no knock on ladies.
We love our ladies, folks, and we especially love Our Lady.
We have Our Lady right here.
Someone gave me a little Mary statuette to go next to the Christ statue.
In any case, ladies can't be priests.
What are the odds?
As our Lord is choosing the apostles, what are the odds that he would have just accidentally only picked men?
You know, 50-50 chance for the first one, and then another 50-50 chance for the second and second.
Pretty soon you get down to an infinitesimal likelihood that it was all just an accident.
Then Judas betrays our Lord and they cast lots to figure out who will replace Judas.
And guess what?
A man, there was two men who were up for it and one man got it, Matthias.
Then you have Paul on the road to Damascus.
He's another man.
And then all the priests for the entire history of the church, all men.
But then also, furthermore, it's in scripture.
1 Timothy 2, 12 says, I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men.
She has to keep silent, speaking of women teaching in the churches, in the synagogue.
And in any case, it can't happen.
So I don't mean to beat up on this lady too much, but this is the consequence of liberalism.
We were previously talking about political liberalism, which ties into religion, and this is theological liberalism to the point that now you have, they say it's the first archbishopris of Canterbury in 1,400 years.
First of all, that seat is not really the same seat that existed 1,400 years ago.
But even if you just date it back about 500 years, that's not valid.
It's not valid.
And so I don't think this is going to bode very well for the Church of England, which is already collapsing.
It's already in free fall in terms of membership and participation.
And I think this will only accelerate that.
Which in the long run, maybe is okay.
Who knows?
Maybe even Rome will get some of those churches back.
We'll find out.
In any case, speaking of religion and politics, there's a major, major pro-Iran rally at the birthplace of our constitution.
This is in Philadelphia.
So it's not just pro-Iranian people.
It's not saying, you know, we want to free the Iranian people.
This is pro-Islamic Republic.
This is pro-Mullahs, pro-Ayatollah, and anti-American.
This, as the Iran war, is in its third week.
Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees, let us not lose sight of the enemy.
For every U.S. military base that crumbles and for every U.S. soldier who returns home in the casket, we cheer.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Osral, all of the religious voices we celebrate.
These popular voices on the ground spend every waking moment in direct confrontation with Zionism, and they rely on a strong Iranian state to maintain their fighting capacity.
Do you hate America?
May Hamas!
Okay, so there are a fair number of people here, a bunch of weirdos marching in defense of the Iranian regime against the American regime, saying they celebrate the death of American servicemen and want the destruction of America.
So I think the question that's on most reasonable people's minds is, why are they here?
Why are these people here?
I'll tell you why, which is that the Supreme Court made it difficult to arrest people for speech, which the free speech absolutists cheer on.
I point out, I actually think it was a little smarter.
I think the earlier Americans actually had it right on the free speech issue.
But regardless, used to be relatively easy to arrest people for this kind of seditious activity and even to denaturalize people.
And then the Supreme Court weakened the ability to denaturalize people.
But does this mean that we just have to tolerate this?
You have a bunch of Islamic radicals in America openly celebrating the death of American soldiers, calling for the destruction of the American government, and we just have to take it.
Why can't we just round these people up and at the very least arrest them, if not denaturalize them or deport them if they're not citizens already?
I'm sure we can do that.
I'm sure these people have all committed a bunch of crimes.
I don't think it'd be that hard to find a crime to pin on them.
I would much rather do it in an open, transparent way and say, you are being seditious, and therefore I'm going to arrest you for that and ideally denaturalize and deport you.
But even if we have to do it a trickier way, which is just to find out all the other crimes that they've committed, we should do it, right?
We cannot tolerate this.
It just feels so weak.
We feel so helpless and vulnerable.
And this is where I'm really a glass half-full kind of guy.
This is where I think there is a silver lining, even amid all of the debate over the Iran war.
The Iran war is quite controversial.
Most Americans are opposed to it.
Most Republicans today are for it.
I think that support is a little soft, such that, well, basically, those people are all in the position that I am with regard to President Trump, which is we trust the guy.
He's got a really good record.
He's got a lot of credibility.
And so if it wraps up, it could be a great foreign policy feat, or at the very least, it could be pretty good.
But if things start to go south, I think those 90% numbers are going to are going to crater.
And it's a very controversial war.
This, however, is an unambiguously good thing to come out of the Iran war, which is it shows us the enormity of our immigration problem.
The fact that any of these people are permitted in the United States is a national disgrace.
It is a scandal.
And we should muster all of the resources available to us, the federal government, to get all of those people out of the country.
If all we can do is arrest them for something, great.
Like do that.
They shouldn't be on the streets.
They're clearly a danger.
But ideally, just get them out.
We don't want them.
They're bad for the country.
They have no ultimate right to be here.
Liberal jurisprudence has given them a lot of excuses to stick around the country over the last hundred years.
But whatever we can do, get them out.
People who hate the country and who are actively seeking its destruction and who are openly seditious should not be here.
And the Iran war, regardless of what you think about the Iran war, is giving us an opportunity to identify that problem.
Another reminder, too, for those who are skeptical of the Iran war, I know there are plenty of people who are skeptical of it.
Maybe who would say they outright oppose it.
The legitimate way to express skepticism or disapproval of the Iran war is not that.
I think there are plenty of people who say, well, actually, I don't think that the costs of this war are really worth the potential benefit.
I don't think the benefit is all that likely.
I don't think we're going to have regime change.
Actually, I think the tyrant we deposed might not be as bad as the tyrant we end up getting.
And here's why it might damage American prestige and the petrodollar.
And now, okay, there are all sorts of great discussions to have.
That is still, though, beginning from the premise that we want America to succeed, that we don't like the Iranian Islamic regime that we've been fighting for 50 years, that we are on our own side.
That line from Robert Frost, I love to go back to it, a liberal is one who can't take his own side in a quarrel.
That's the position.
If you find yourself, probably not yourself, but if you find yourself listening to people who are in favor of the Islamic regime, who are suddenly very favorable toward Islam as a religion,
toward Islamic law, if you find yourself in that position where your opposition is actually to the United States, to American victory, where your support is really for longtime enemies of the United States,
not even just 50-year enemies, but like 1,400-year enemies of the United States, something's gone wrong.
Can't be having that.
Certainly not on the right or in the middle.
You do get that from some prominent leftists, though.
So we'll get to Hassan Piker momentarily.
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So it's not just the weirdos and the wackos.
I should clarify that.
It's not just the unknown weirdos and wackos who are now openly advocating for the destruction of the United States, siding with our Islamic enemies and opposing the United States.
You're also getting that from some prominent weirdos and wackos, namely Hassan Piker, who had this to say.
Literally doesn't matter.
He can prep with whoever he wants.
He can prep with Benny Morris if he wants.
There is no, there is no way, you support terrorism question mark.
No, I don't.
I don't support the state of Israel and I don't support the state of the United States of America.
There you have it.
There you have it.
And this, frankly, I think, is the most persuasive argument to be broadly supportive of the state of Israel.
And Israel is a real hot button issue, has been for, well, for like 70 years, but especially for the last couple of years.
People make all sorts of arguments for why they support Israel or don't support Israel.
They make arguments from scripture, which I don't buy that novel theology.
They'll make arguments from nationalism, the ideologies of nationalism and Zionism.
I don't buy those arguments either.
Do you know the most persuasive argument to me that Israel is broadly worth supporting?
The Hassan Pikers of the world hate it.
That's the most, I know you're not supposed to appeal to authority or the opposite of authority in this case, I guess, but to me, that's kind of what works.
The fact that Greta Thunberg really hates Israel and really likes radical Islam in the Middle East.
I don't, that signals to me, to my simple brain.
You know, I'm a simple man.
That signals to me, I probably am on the opposite side.
Because look what he does here.
Look what Hassan Piker does.
He says, I don't support the terrorist state of Israel.
Okay, all right.
There are all sorts of reasons to criticize the state of Israel.
I get it, whatever.
He says, just like I don't support the terrorist state of America.
Oh, okay.
All right.
That's what we're doing.
That's what we're talking about.
You're saying the reason you oppose Israel is because Israel is like America.
Oh, then I guess I like Israel because I like America, because I like my country.
This is it.
This, the pro-Muslim stuff really codes left.
It codes left.
And it codes left because Islam has been in tension with and sometimes outright at war with the West for 1400 years.
And the leftists hate the West because they hate their countries because they hate their dads.
And so they, because they hate themselves, ultimately, and they hate God.
So they side with enemies, even if the enemies of the West disagree with them ideologically, which is how you get, you know, queers for Palestine or whatever.
In any case, I don't like the way this guy's talking, Hassan Piker.
And I mentioned after Charlie Kirk died and after he was murdered by a leftist and after the left broadly excused, justified, and even celebrated Charlie's murder,
I said, we don't need to just double down on the free marketplace of ideas.
That's what a lot of people were saying on the right, classical liberals.
I said, guys, that doesn't make any sense.
You can't have a free marketplace when bandits keep coming in and shooting up the marketplace.
Marketplaces require rules and regulations.
I said, we need to get tough on this stuff, guys.
This is not, the law is a teacher.
And so when people are calling for violence, Hassan Piker has called for violence against conservatives multiple times, pretty explicitly.
He should already have been prosecuted.
But this kind of stuff, look, he's seditious.
He shouldn't be in the country.
If there is a way to denaturalize him, that should be done.
And if there's a way to prosecute him, I'm sure there is.
He just admitted to a crime on air like a week ago because he went down to Cuba and very directly and explicitly violated U.S. law by staying at one of the government hotels.
It's the one thing you're told not to do when you go to Cuba.
So anyway, he should be prosecuted.
I know that the free speech absolutists and the liberals and the classical liberals and the libertarians are going to disagree with that, but I don't see the alternative, guys.
You know, the laissez-faire attitude that leads to a religious indifferentism, a political quietism that abandons institutions and issues political power,
that has let the left take over our country so that you have pro-Mullah people chanting in the street of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution, death to America.
You get this somewhat popular left-wing streamer calling America a terrorist state, brazenly violating U.S. law.
The only way they're going to stop doing that is if the government comes in, if the law comes in and makes them stop.
Need a little muscle in the law, I think.
A little less laissez-faire, a little muscle.
A little less invisible hand, a little more visible hand.
I support the visible hand of the law and the state and punishment for crimes.
Speaking of Muslims on the left and in public life, this actually, this story has really nothing to do with religion at all, but it's just, it involves Zorhan Mamdani.
He did something and it makes me cringe as a New Yorker.
You know, I am a New Yorker by birth, by upbringing.
I lived, what, half my life in New York?
Little, eh?
Yeah.
Yeah, I actually lived most of my life in the tri-state area within a train ride to the city.
And he did this thing that's so, that's like the worst of New Yorkers.
He posts a picture of an iced coffee at some kind of bodega or corner store.
Picture of an iced coffee in a plastic cup with a cup holder and a straw.
And he says, nothing like it.
Nothing like what?
That's all it is.
It's a picture on a counter where they're selling chewing gum underneath and it's in front of a coffee machine and a cashier.
And it says, nothing like it.
On the contrary, on information, in fact, there are many things like that.
Not only is that not unique, that is one of the most common objects in America.
An undistinguished cup of coffee that you buy at a convenience store.
That is one of the most basic.
It is a ubiquitous commodity in America.
There is nothing unique to it.
And New York, my fellow New Yorkers, this actually makes me feel better about Mamdani because he's behaving like a New Yorker, albeit an annoying New Yorker.
The New Yorkers like to claim that everything is special.
And some things genuinely are better in New York.
The pizza is better.
There's good pizza elsewhere in the country.
But some things are better.
Some of the foods, some of the bars, though they're more expensive.
Some of the bagels are better in New York.
Better bagels in New York than in Palocaville.
That's true.
Chinese food's better in New York than in most places.
Okay.
But a cup of coffee, it's the same.
A convenience store run by Pakistanis or Guatemalans.
That really, increasingly, you can get that anywhere in America.
It's really, ah, it just, I don't, I don't really have a point.
I don't have a conclusion.
I just, it makes me like Zorhan Mamdani even less than I already did.
And it's confusing me because in this case, I, what is leading my dislike, what previously made me dislike him is he's so unlike real New Yorkers.
But in this way, it makes me think he actually is kind of a real New Yorker.
Nothing like it.
I guess it's, yeah, it's that preening superiority that sometimes is merited in New York when we're talking about, we're talking about certain food, certain parts of culture, but nothing like it.
You know, I have these, I have friends.
I still have a lot of friends in New York.
And they say, oh, how could you move out of New York?
Oh, man, I love spending $8,000 a month to live in a shoebox where it's garbage day every single day, where my roommate is a rat.
I can't raise kids.
I can't afford anything.
And I have criminals stealing my stuff and hassling me on the subway when they're not lighting women on fire there.
How could you leave?
Now, truly, there's nothing like that in the developed world.
In the third world, people are set on fire on trains a lot.
But how could you, how else could you get a cup of coffee at the convenience store?
Gee, I don't know.
I don't know.
That's crazy.
Let me see if there's any convenience.
Is there any coffee in Tennessee?
I think there might be.
Can I say the good thing?
I actually do have a point to make on this after that whole rant.
The good thing that Mamdani is getting to here is that there's no place like home.
That's really the nice thing.
There's nothing that differentiates that cup of coffee from anything else other than it's home, other than you get it at home.
That's a beautiful thing.
The meaning of that cup of coffee is in part from the real world, and it's in part constructed by our minds.
And that's good.
And we should, the lesson we should take from Momdani's stupid, trivial coffee post is that it's nice to love your home.
The philosopher Roger Scruton called this oecaphilia, love of one's home.
And we should focus our immigration conversations.
We should focus our cultural protection, our even religious conversations around that observation.
People like their homes.
And something very conservative is we want to conserve our home.
We like the things that are near to us.
Do you see why we don't want to flood the country with foreigners?
Do you see why we don't want to upend all of our traditions?
You think that a stupid cup of coffee is so special to you?
Now think about all the things that are truly unique about our culture.
Mamdani, there's a lot of depth, weirdly, to Mamdani's trivial coffee post.
Okay, speaking of tri-state mayors, we got a new candidate for the Democrats in 2028.
He's running, whether you like it or not.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Gabrielle Baez, 8034.
It says, I didn't pick this one.
The producers picked this one.
We'll see if it's good.
Gaznell has now since met the judge of all.
He now knows when life begins.
He knows the source of life now for sure.
I think he always probably knew, though.
I don't think you can chop up a lot of babies and not know the reality of abortion.
I think some women who are led into abortion either don't really know or at least convince themselves that they don't know.
They try to turn away from it.
But I think the abortionists know.
I think it's pretty clear that they know.
Speaking of tri-state mayors, we have a new candidate for president running.
That would be former Newark mayor, current New Jersey senator, Corey Booker, given this glowing profile on CBS Sunday morning.
The best mayor ever.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you.
Appreciate you so much.
Love you, man.
Thank you for that.
Oh, my God.
Do you have a crystal ball?
Is he going to run?
There will be no announcement here.
New Jersey Senator Corey Booker hasn't been the mayor of Newark since 2013.
But when he walks around his neighborhood, you'd never know it.
How did you know that you could go right up to your senator and give him a hug?
Because it's him and he's always like that.
You're still the mayor, no matter what.
The best compliment people give me is when they call me mayor.
What are the odds?
That wasn't a Corey Booker campaign video.
I mean, it was effectively, but that was CBS Sunday morning.
They're just going to go walk around Newark, where, you know, some 10 years ago or 13 years ago now, Corey Booker was mayor.
They're just going to walk around, walk around the old neighborhood.
Oh, and what do you know?
Just out of the blue, a constituent comes up with socks that say Booker 2028.
And then all these other people come up.
So we love you, Corey Booker.
You're the best.
We hope you run for president.
What are the odds?
Surely no one tipped those people off.
Surely they weren't planted there with props for CBS.
Why was CBS doing that profile anyway, by the way?
And why is Booker leaning into this mayor thing?
He's not mayor.
He's a senator.
It's way cooler to be a senator than a mayor, right?
Well, not if you're running for president.
Very Booker typically is smart, so he can see things.
He can come to interesting conclusions in theory, but he's just too clunky and weird to actually carry it off.
He can't really execute on his grand political designs, but he's intelligent.
He's a smart guy.
So he gets it.
He says, hold on.
The president is an executive.
So being a senator doesn't really prepare you for being president.
But a mayor is an executive.
This is why traditionally being a governor or even a mayor was a better launching point if you wanted to have a presidential career.
So you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to go back to this town that I was mayor of, and I'm going to have everybody talk about what a great mayor I was.
And then I'm going to say it's the greatest compliment in the world to be a mayor.
He's too clunky about it.
It's too obvious that this was a setup.
Even down to trying to pander to Hispanics.
Someone comes up, hey, holo, hola, Corey Booker.
And he's, oh, it reminds you of that at the time at the presidential debate where Curry Booker wanted to pander to Hispanics and his jumbled, pathetic Spanish came out.
He tried, it was so sad because he's trying to pander to them, and he doesn't really speak Spanish that well.
Because he goes, well, I just want to say to all the Hispanics out there whose votes I want, Donde Esta La Biblioteca.
Gracias!
Vota por me!
Please o, el plezo?
Gracias, thank you, thank you o.
And it just didn't work at all.
But you see why it would work.
Oh, well, if I speak Spanish, maybe that'll appeal to Hispanics.
Yeah, it would if you could do it convincingly.
If I lead CBS News all around my old neighborhood and they just randomly asked me to run for president, that could look really good.
Yeah, if it didn't look so clunky.
Anyway, he's running.
He's running.
That's funny.
I hadn't really considered that, but I should because he ran last time.
He didn't do very well, but he wants to be president.
He's wanted to be president forever.
He's a total showboater.
He's not a master of self-promotion in that he's kind of bad at it, but he does it a lot.
He does it really glaringly.
So that race is going to be 500 people.
Everyone is going to run because the Democrats don't have a message.
They're not unified.
For all the problems among the Republican electorate right now, the problems are magnified by a thousand among the Democrats.
They have no idea what they believe.
They don't have a clear leader.
They have all sorts of racial and sexual problems because they're hung up on those woke ideologies.
They don't know what to do.
They clearly want to elect just an old white guy, but they have to be feminist and racial and all that.
So you had USC canceling the California gubernatorial debate because it was too white.
But the people who were polling high were white.
So the voters wanted the white person, but they don't want to admit they wanted the white person.
And the whole thing is going to be hilarious.
And Booker certainly will not be president, but he will be very funny to watch.
So gracias, gracias, Mayor Booker.
Andalay, Andalay.
Speaking of the horse race for president, I don't know if you've noticed this.
I've noticed this recently.
There's a lot of anti-JD Vance campaigning going on.
Have you noticed that?
Not among ordinary people, but among the political operatives, among the squishes and never Trump especially and all the kind of less savory elements of the Republican Party.
And there's been a lot of anti-Vance campaigning in the media, on social media.
They clearly don't like Vance.
And this has been clear for a while because the vice president, who I'm no secret, I'm a great admirer of, is quite conservative.
He's very thoughtfully conservative.
He's very intelligent.
He was clearly selected as the heir apparent by President Trump because he was picked for a non-consecutive second term.
So when he was picked, unlike when most presidents pick their running mates, where you say, you got, okay, you got two terms ahead of you.
In this case, he was picked knowing this was going to be the end of the line for President Trump.
And so the vice president is all the more important.
And the Never Trumpers didn't like that.
The squishes in the party, the people who backed other people in the primaries, they really didn't like Vance.
So I've noticed all this anti-Vance campaigning.
I think that's part why you're seeing a lot of pro-Rubio for president activity going on right now.
Don't forget, Trump has effectively endorsed Vance and Rubio has endorsed Vance.
So among the administration, there's total unity.
Among the operatives and the different factions of the GOP, they're trying to split these guys apart.
So you've seen a lot of pro-Rubio.
I mean, it's just that it's an avalanche of pro-Rubio and pro-Rubio for president propaganda that's been coming out from very, I don't even think it's from coming from the Secretary of State's office.
He's a little busy running a bunch of wars and becoming El Comandante of Cuba and all, but from various factions of the GOP.
And yet, what has that done to the polling?
People have noted, they made a lot of hay out of the fact that Vance's numbers have decreased a little bit and Rubio's numbers have increased a little bit.
And that's what they want the headline to be.
But then I look at this poll.
This is from Janelle Partners reported in Daily Mail.
Just came out a day or two ago.
Right now, national GOP primary 2028, JD Vance, 50%.
Marco Rubio, 17%.
That's with the plus three and the minus three.
Ron DeSantis comes in at 9%, Haley at 4%, Cruz at 4%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 2%.
So after this big push in a news cycle dominated by foreign affairs, all of which has gone relatively well so far, and the Venezuela operation was just immaculate.
All of this where the vice president doesn't have all that much of a public role, the Secretary of State is really helping to lead the show.
Even after all of that, all of this concerted campaign, you telling me that the worst they could do is leave the vice president at 50% in a national GOP primary.
with Rubio at 17%.
He's a number two guy.
DeSantis at number three, at 9%, all the rest in low single digits.
Guys, there is unity in the administration.
There's unity in the party at the electoral level.
By the way, then, you say, well, what happens when you take out Haley and Cruz and Bevec and DeSantis?
Head to head.
According to this poll, which is supposed to be bad for the vice president, it's 62% JD, 27% Marco Rubio in a fictitious matchup because Rubio has already endorsed JD.
Silly stuff, guys.
You're going to see a lot.
You're going to see a lot of battles take place.
Obviously, we've seen a lot of them taking place among the podcast class over some issues that do pertain to politics, over some issues that are just completely far-flung and irrelevant from actual practical politics, a lot of personality battles.
So you see that.
You're going to see it play out with the operatives and the activists, but among the actual electeds and voters, a lot of unity here.
This is good news.
I mean, it's not good news if you want this to be a 50-person Republican primary, like we're going to see with the Democrats.
But if you want there to be some unity, some real shot to do something to carry on the legacy moving into 2028, these are good numbers.
Okay.
I really want to get to the Exorcist summit that just took place at the Vatican, but I don't have time because I got to go.
I got to go.
And I'm sorry to tell you, there will be no membranum segmentum today.
I have got to go.
I've got a number of speeches and there's going to be CPAC coming up.