EPISODE 488: BREAKING - ELITES PLAN TO INDICT TRUMP AS HIS POLLS CONTINUE TO RISE IN KEY STATES
On today’s episode of Human Events with Jack Posobiec, Poso breaks down the Democrats’ strategy to repeatedly indict Trump. Will that strategy succeed or actually make Trump MORE popular? Jack is also joined by Richard Baris where they dissect the latest Republican primary polling out of Florida. Libby Emmons also participates in a fascinating discussion with Poso about the latest updates surrounding Pride Month in America. All this and more on today’s Human Events w/ Jack Posobiec!Here’s you...
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition human events.
Today is June 5th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
So we're watching the cold open there.
There's a lot of stuff going on in the world, whether it be from China to Ukraine, whether it be to Russia.
Whether it be to many of these fronts.
North Korea.
We're going to talk about North Korea today.
We're going to talk all about North Korea.
Also, President Trump's lawyers just finished.
This is huge breaking news.
We're going to see if we can get to it.
We have Libby Emmons coming up later in the hour to talk about this.
Trump's lawyers have asked the Department of Justice not to charge President Trump in the classified documents case.
That's the latest out of the Washington Post.
Trump's lawyers just met with the Department of Justice.
We know that Jack Smith, this guy Jack Smith, who's running the special counsel's office out of the Department of Justice, their main justice downtown right here in Washington DC, they are working very closely together because you have to remember folks, you have to remember, this isn't about hypocrisy, it's about hierarchy.
We understand That Obama did the same thing.
We understand that Joe Biden had however many thousands of documents in his garage in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
It doesn't matter, folks.
It doesn't matter.
Because this is what our system is now.
The two-tiered system of justice.
So I'm going to cut to the chase.
I would absolutely Be so surprised, I'd be shocked.
I'd be honestly shocked if they don't charge President Trump for this.
Because I'll tell you something, Tanya Taylor said this to me very early on in the whole thing when they went down in Reda Mar-a-Lago last August, almost a full year ago now, if you remember it.
Almost a full year ago.
That when they raided him, she said, you know what?
I've seen this movie before.
I've said before, my wife was born in the Soviet Union.
Okay?
She didn't choose to be.
Nobody chose to be born in the Soviet Union.
That's not how that kind of stuff works.
But you see here in Washington DC, They look at all Trump supporters the same way the Bolsheviks looked at the Kulaks.
The same way that you're looked at.
You're looked at as a serf.
You're looked at as a peasant.
You're looked at as a deplorable.
Someone who doesn't matter.
Okay, we just played a video At the very end of our cold open there.
And this video is going viral over the weekend.
And it was a couple of Trump supporters.
I have no idea where they are.
And they're listening to some country music.
And they've got a cardboard cutout of President Trump.
Dancing a jig.
Down by the old holler.
And it's funny.
They're just a couple of people.
A couple of regular, normal people having a good time.
And you saw the entire media, all these people on the left, all these people, even some of those Washington DC style, Peter Strzok style Republicans coming out and attacking these guys for just having a good time.
I'll never forget Peter Strzok's text message when he said, I can smell the Walmart on them.
That's how they view you.
That's how Republican elitists view you.
And I saw these groups like Republicans Against Trump coming out against them.
You know something, folks?
Please continue.
Please continue attacking working class voters in this country.
Please continue attacking them.
Please call them all a bunch of white trash cultists.
Because say what you really believe about them.
Why don't you say what you really believe?
Why don't you just come out and say it?
Because that's how you view everybody who voted for Trump.
That's how you view people who live in the middle of this country.
That's how you view people who are your own fellow citizens that might just possibly have a difference of opinion.
But you'll care so much, you'll care.
You're so much, you're gonna fly the Ukraine flag.
I care so much about the Donbass.
I care so much about the Rose Rohingya.
I care so much about the Uyghurs.
I care so much about every single other group everywhere in the world.
The Kurds!
Remember the Kurds, the Kurds, the Kurds, the Kurds, the Kurds!
We have to care so much about the Kurds!
And yet, you are the same elitist, smug jerks that will look down on your fellow countrymen.
In parts of this country that have been economically depressed by US federal policy.
By the same elitist policies that were grown out of the blood of Tiananmen Square.
Yeah, that's right.
We talked about that.
Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of Tiananmen.
And now Human Events take on this, and we played the China Files episode, I believe it was part three, where we got into Tiananmen, and I pointed out That the United States elite governments, the D.C.
Republicans, what do they do in response to that?
They said, here's what we're going to do, CCP.
And George H.W.
Bush, remember, he's the respectable Republican, the respectable conservative, respectable neocons, respectable neocons.
They went over and said, we're gonna have a secret deal now with the CCP.
The jobs are gonna go over there.
The jobs are gonna go far away in the middle of this country, the Rust Belt of this country, which didn't used to be called the Rust Belt, by the way.
I think we need to remind people about how the Rust Belt came to get this name.
Because it wasn't always the Rust Belt.
Because it wasn't always rusted out.
It was industrialized.
The Midwest, the South, et cetera, et cetera.
It was done by policy.
So the D.C.
elites, the bi-coastal elites in this country, they got rich.
They got filthy rich.
And people that lived in the middle of the country got screwed.
And their future, their economic well-being, and their descendants got screwed in the midst.
And you know what, folks?
America First and Make America Great Again means we are taking all of that back.
I wanted to talk about that with Libby Emmons when we get a chance.
But next, I want to tell you that we are going to have Richard Barris on The People's, pundit himself, because folks, he's got a new poll out, out of the key state of Florida, which will be a key state going forward, not just for the general, but also for the primaries.
Richard Barris, hot off the press, is going to have some new numbers for us coming up right now.
Stay tuned as Human Events rolls on.
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And we've got on the great Richard Barris, the People's Pundit himself has come on today.
One of the best pollsters, by the way, to understand the state of Florida.
And why do I say that?
Because if you were listening to Rich Barris back in 2020, in fact, even late 2019, he was one of the first places that I 100% credit.
The very first place I ever heard that Hispanics in Florida were swinging to Trump and that they were trending Republican.
Rich, you've got a new poll out today from Florida, but I want you to give me that understanding.
How was it?
That you could find this in Florida, that you saw that trend, which later became, I mean, we now all take it as an article of faith.
We all believe it.
We all 100% believe that this happened.
How was it, though, that you at the granular level, at the research level, were able to pull that out early on?
I think there are two things that we did and we saw and we really wouldn't have been able to see it without them.
One is we use different vendors than a lot of the other people.
We have our own database relationships.
We're updating a lot more frequently.
It's just a lot more granular data than other people have.
That's just a fact.
And it's just the way we've been arguing polling should be done.
And then in Florida, we always have minimum sample sizes even before other pollsters got into bigger sample sizes.
We always had minimum standards.
Florida was one of the highest because Hispanics are not monolithic in Florida at all.
And what we saw were two things.
One, Trump was bringing back the Cubans in South Florida that Romney lost.
I mean, him and Obama, he carried them a little bit.
Him and Obama largely split Cubans in 2012.
And Trump had been bringing them back going into the 2016 election, and then his policies, he really courted them, and he blew that margin wide open.
Even people who voted Democratic in prior elections for Barack Obama, he was bringing them back.
Secondly, the naturalization of the new Venezuelan votes that really are enclaves that parked right next to the Cuban communities in South Florida, the Gold Coast, and Miami.
Uh, we saw that before others.
So, while everybody was focusing on Hillsboro as the bellwether, we were saying, you know, that's the one last bastion for liberal Hispanics, and they were Puerto Rican descent.
ethnicity.
And we were telling people it was Pinellas.
And then by the time people caught on to that, we were saying that actually you could lose Pinellas as a Republican because of the shift in South Florida.
So, you know, they've been one, two election cycles behind us the whole way, Jack.
And we said that Miami-Dade was at the presidential level.
Would be close.
Exactly.
And that's why I wanted to set this up now because, you know, people are coming and saying, hey, you know, who is this guy, Barris?
You know, he's kind of hot on the scene now, but where was he before?
Did he get all the stuff right?
I said, look, this was the guy who called that swing early on in Florida.
You are someone that I put on my radar to say, look, this guy understands the state of Florida.
You got a new pullout on Florida right now.
Walk us through what you're seeing in Florida as of 2023, the same way you did in late 2019, early 2020.
Yeah, and just so people know, it was August, early September.
We did the last poll in Florida and we took it off the table, Jack, because it was a waste of money.
We knew Trump had a lead and it was going to be a solid lead that was not going to be overtaken.
So we already moved that one in the Trump category and moved on to other states we thought would decide the election.
Today, what we're seeing, and yeah, you have it up right now, and this is up there.
People want to go and check it out.
It's all over my locals, my Twitter feed.
You can actually drill down into this map I just tell everybody, bring your attention to the Gold Coast.
I just tell everybody, bring your attention to the Gold Coast.
Look at Miami.
There are a lot of votes there.
And the primary electorate for Republicans is getting much more non-whites.
So once upon a time, Hispanics could be 14 to 18 percent of the overall general election electorate, and that they weren't shifting all the way right at that point.
Now, last election, they were about one out of every five votes, and in a Republican electorate, they could be up to 15 percent.
This support for Trump in the southeast region of the state is a big part of his lead in the poll that we did.
Because he's winning with Hispanics last month, it was 56-33.
This month, it is 61-22.
So he just blew it wide open.
He's got a very big lead with Cubans, a very big lead with Venezuelans, and again, most of those newly naturalized registrations since 2020.
are very Republican, but they were Trumpian Republican.
And this polling proves that.
Would they vote for another Republican?
Sure.
Not in as high numbers.
They want Trump.
And he's got the lead in this state, largely because of his strength there.
So you've got six, seven points with Hispanics, and you're walking us through the different Tell us, before we get into the granular level, what's your top line?
What's your top line for GOP primary as it stands right now in the state of Florida?
Yeah, Trump's ahead 52.5 to DeSantis, who has about a third of the vote, 32.9.
So most, again, interestingly, white voters, Trump is winning with 51%, but DeSantis has got 35%.
So it's actually a little bit closer with white voters, white Republican voters.
And remember, this is a closed primary state.
So if DeSantis was able to have independents and moderates vote in the primary.
This would be a closer race.
And we actually tested that.
But it's not.
It's a Republican.
You get a different ballot depending on what primary you're registered to vote in.
So a close primary is working towards Trump's favor and Biden's favor, by the way, against RFK.
This is one of Biden's strongest states because his base is the Democratic Party.
RFK's built support largely among independents and moderates.
Things like that.
You can't vote in Florida.
So RFK is doing fairly poorly in this state.
But that works both to Trump's favor and to Biden's favor.
And right now, I mean, Jack, this again, the headline really is here that the share of the Republican electorate that's going to be non-white is going to be bigger than ever before.
You know, I mean, they already make up about 15% of the Republican registrations and they can, they're going to vote, you know, at least as of right now.
And so, Rich, we got about a minute until break here.
What I want to explain to people that you're going through and you're modeling out, you're talking about the turnout pattern for the primary.
You're also showing what the support level is.
Obviously we know, we see the fact here, that this is a closed primary.
That means if you're registered independent, and this by the way goes for there's a lot of states that are like this, that if you are registered independent, you are not going to be able to have your say.
Look, you might be a huge DeSantis booster, you might be a huge Trump supporter, but if you're registered independent, you are not going to be able to meaningfully have a say In that case, one way or the other.
Now, here on Charlie Kirk Show, we were talking about that the other day.
This also plays a role in those ballot chase operations that Turning Point Action is focused on.
That if you are not registered, it becomes much harder to be able to participate in some of those things if you're not registered in one of the parties, certainly for the party.
Stay tuned.
Coming back, breaking this all down.
out Richard Barris.
Alright, Jack was up.
We're back here.
Rich Barras, the people's pundit, you're breaking down these numbers, Rich.
I mean, you're saying Trump 52, Ron DeSantis 32 in the state of Florida, the state that knows Ron DeSantis the best, the state where he obviously has the highest name ID, the state where he just won a major campaign in, what, the state where he just won a major campaign in, what, six months ago, seven months ago, where he spent a ton of money out So the fact of the matter is that if you're looking at this and let's say you're overshooting by 10%.
I'm not accusing this, but let's say you're overshooting.
You're still talking about a 20 point margin, even if you take away 10% of that.
So if you are that campaign, if you're that campaign right now, what are you telling donors when they look at numbers like this, when they look at numbers?
Look, Rasmussen's got the numbers out today.
Showing a huge lead CNN's CNN even has the same story as you and I I don't think that the people's pundit is Coordinating very much with CNN because they have the headline up this morning I actually saw this after I read your poll over the weekend that said Republican challengers to Donald Trump are having trouble winning their own states And it did I'll admittedly have more of a focus on like New Hampshire.
We just saw Sununu bowed out actually if he'd been There's been a lot of talk about him potentially running.
He wrote an op-ed today saying that he's not getting in.
But we're also seeing Haley.
Obviously, Haley and Tim Scott are from the same state, so they're splitting that.
This idea that if you're running for president and you can't win your own state, now Mike Pence is going to get in with Indiana.
But again, I'd like to see those Indiana numbers!
What do you do?
What are you telling supporters?
And is it, as I think a lot of people suspect, that they are just banking on more indictments of President Trump?
Well, one, you'd be surprised at what we get accused of colluding with CNN and others.
It's ridiculous.
But also, too, you know, also to Florida Atlantic University a couple of weeks ago, they they came out a couple of days after our first poll in Florida, which showed a tighter race.
But Trump was still up.
They had a 30 point margin.
And I was it was like 60 30.
And I was thinking maybe I didn't pull into, uh, you know, enough to maybe, maybe something happened, uh, almost a week after we came out of the field.
So I was really excited to get back in the field to see, and we did find a bigger margin, not as big as Florida Atlantic, but a bigger margin.
I will say this after this poll came out, uh, yesterday.
Donors call me all the time and ask what I think about stuff, and there are calls going out because people were talking about the poll.
There are calls going out saying, you know, don't worry, when he's indicted, things will change.
And their pollster does show them different numbers than the public polls are showing, which is a Mitt Romney kind of bubble we saw in 2012.
You know, you can believe your own pollster more, but the fact is we are in the universe with most other pollsters.
So, it's a bit of a bubble, but they are in fact banking on Donald Trump being indicted, and what they were asking me was, do you think if and when he's indicted, which I do think he will be, looking at these numbers, they have to do something.
They have to.
So, looking at these numbers, they're not going to beat him at the ballot box.
You know, not like this.
So I do think he will probably.
I think it's more likely he will be.
And they're telling basically donors to calm them.
He's going to be indicted.
And when that happens, the support will crack.
And so I'm getting asked all the time, do you think it will?
The answer is, Jack, at this point, if Alvin Bragg went first, I think that was a stupid move.
Maybe they should have waited for the special counsel.
Would have been more effective, but I don't know.
At this point, it appears they're making a martyr out of this guy.
Could it change?
I always keep my mind open in politics, but right now, it looks like they're digging their heels in.
I gotta point this out.
Last month when we polled Florida, it was, I like him, Uh, but I don't want him to be the president.
Trump is my guy.
Now, this month, we didn't hear, uh, that as much.
We heard a lot more negative stuff, and it goes with what Rasmussen found, and they're out with this morning.
People are, now, Republicans are starting to look at Ron DeSantis as some kind of vehicle by the, whatever you want to call it, the establishment, the Uniparty, you know, however Republicans view the world.
They're starting to look at him as the vehicle to take out Trump, and they don't like it.
So his negatives are rising, even in his own state.
By the way, he fell here.
This 33% is down from 38% last month.
He fell five points.
Trump went up from 47% to 53%.
So there's a negative reaction happening here.
So you could wait for this indictment and hope it answers all your prayers, but it could also backfire.
And I'm thinking, with everything we're seeing, it's very likely it's going to backfire.
And Jack, just for a second, the I would not vote if you take out Trump with lawfare is growing every week.
So even if that works, it's a flawed strategy because you're going to end up with a huge chunk of Republicans who will refuse to vote in the general election.
Or they'll write in Trump.
I really think that'll happen.
You heard Robert Kihaly from Trafalgar.
He's trying to get some of these people to pick a second choice.
And they keep saying Donald Trump.
We get this all the time.
We get it all the time.
We chuckle when we heard it because it happens to us.
Well, and it's interesting too, because a lot of these questions, this by the way, and I'll break this down for folks later as well, is this is why they really want to not just get Trump on classified records, that if you want to get him actually knocked off the ballot, then what you've got to do is hit him With insurrection, maybe espionage might be something because you've got to get judges to then trigger these post-Civil War laws.
They tried this with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
They tried it down in North Carolina as well.
They were trying to get people kicked off because of January 6th.
They showed their cards.
They want to use this lawfare, by the way, not to knock them off the election because Eugene Jebbs Actually, there's Supreme Court precedent that you can run if you've been indicted, and by the way, the guy was in federal prison and still ran back during World War I. It has to do with getting you kicked off the ballot.
I mean, it's crazier than the moonshot, but it actually does seem to be something that what drives me a little crazy, and Rich, I'll give you the last thing.
We got a minute here.
Did you ever think that you'd actually hear Republicans saying this about one of their own candidates?
Nothing ever surprises me anymore.
I think I would say I'm surprised by somebody who wants to to occupy the MAGA lane doing this and thinking that it's going to work.
I mean it really I mean Jack it really is a bubble.
They've always thought that somehow the Trump voter will forgive them for this and they hate Biden so much that they'll vote for him.
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of Of where the Republican base is, where this new, cause the MAGA voter is, is separate.
It's separate.
They may not even vote.
I mean, there's a good likelihood.
So I think it's really just this misunderstanding is leading to all these flawed assumptions and those flawed assumptions are leading to bad decisions.
And you know, the Republican party is really in great risk of fracturing themselves.
Where can people go to get more info?
Where can people get all the data from the big data poll?
Yeah, the Central Hub Jack, peoplespundit.locals.com.
We're all over Twitter, Getter, everywhere, and Ntruth, but if you go to locals, peoplespundit.locals.com, you'll get it first, and you'll get more of it.
So, that's definitely the place to go.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rich Barris, The People's Pundit.
Libby Emmons up next.
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Before we bring Libby Emmons in here, and I want to get her take on this as well, because I really do think that this is the question that matters the most.
I know that right now we're looking at RFK Jr.
He's got his, you know, he's got the space, he's got all this other stuff, and Libby, before we get into, I know we have, we're going to talk about pride, et cetera, and else.
But I'm fascinated by this question of will Trump supporters double down or will, do you think there'll be people that back away from support it for him, given that we're looking at potentially this indictment because Jack Smith given that we're looking at potentially this indictment because Jack Smith is now coming Guys, do we have Libby?
Yeah, I'm right here.
Libby, so what do you think?
Do you actually think that this is something that Trump supporters will double down, or do you think that it's something that would actually cut his support?
And I ask you because, as somebody out of New York originally, that I don't necessarily consider you someone who's like a, you know, a dyed-in-the-wool, you know, gung-ho, massive Trump supporter.
I think of you as more of someone who's fighting these culture wars.
Yeah, so I will say over Trump's term in office, over his four years, he earned my respect and he earned my appreciation for his policies and the way that he handled federal government.
So yeah, I do think that I'm a little bit objective in that.
I waited to see how he was doing before I No, I don't think so.
a verdict on my opinion.
Will Trump supporters be persuaded to no longer support him after all of these political prosecutions?
No, I don't think so.
I think it's so obviously partisan political hackery that is being waged against Donald Trump.
And I don't think that much of this will actually sway voters.
It's clear from the 34 counts of felony falsification of documents in New York, which is obviously absolutely absurd These are misdemeanor charges.
Bragg still hasn't said what the felony could possibly be.
That's absurd.
This whole DOJ prosecution of the classified documents, they went in there, they grabbed a bunch of boxes, they took them away, they didn't find anything.
And then they said, oh, you obstructed our investigation and they're trying to do this.
It's all so clearly designed to keep Trump out of office and to make sure that he cannot run again or cannot attain the presidency.
And I don't think anybody is fooled by that.
I don't even think Democrats are fooled by that.
It's just so transparent.
So you think just on its face, it just because the reason I ask you this stuff, Is that you know when I want to make sure that I'm not talking to just people that I agree with and I do view you as someone who's objective on this and it's it's this idea that okay you know it to me it's very obvious what they're doing but I want to make sure that do other people look at it that way or other people saying you know Oh, it's like the Trump hoax of the summer, right?
Scott Adams is saying that.
The Trump hoax of the summer is this new, you know, he talked about a document that he had on the golf course, but then, like, they actually looked in and they can't find any evidence that the document actually existed, or that he had a copy of the document, so it could have just, it literally just could have been him bragging about something on the golf course, and that turns out he didn't actually have the document, which I think is
The whole idea of the FBI digging through the stuff at Mar-a-Lago to only realize that Trump was just joking, basically, or bragging about having a document that he didn't actually have is kind of hilarious to me.
Does it actually look that stupid from the outside?
Is that how dumb it looks?
I think it does look really just that dumb.
However, there are certainly people on the left and there are certain Democrats, probably Adam Schiff among them, who still think the Steele dossier was real and still think that, you know, that whole thing was accurate despite the persistent disprovals of that at the federal level and by prosecutors.
So yeah, do I think that there's still people who believe that Trump is guilty of all of these things?
Yeah, they probably still believe that whole beat tape nonsense as well.
And those people are going to be dyed in the wool anti-Trump voters no matter what, and there's no way to sway them either.
So are we looking at some kind of matchup where it's half the country versus half the country again?
And if that happens, you know, it's really going to get down to that same nitty gritty that we saw in 2020, where every single vote needs to be tallied from every single American who voted.
So it's going to be all about, what's that like?
You talk about this a lot, voter registration and making sure that votes get out, votes get collected, and that people aren't, yeah, swayed by, you know, nonsense.
Look, people say what they want to say about 2020, but we actually crunched the numbers.
It's 45,000 votes across three different states, really only about 40 different counties that you actually need to focus on.
And that's why, you know, when we look at these ballot operations, I keep saying, If they bring 2,000 mules, I want to bring 10,000.
All right?
And it's got to be this way.
It's got to be this way going forward.
Because they've changed the way, they've changed the entire process on this, and we need as a country, we need as a country to have elections where people actually do feel like their vote matters.
Because if people start feeling like their vote doesn't matter, And if people start feeling like they aren't able to vote for the candidate that they want to vote for because they were removed from the process because of some, you know, obscure Byzantine arcane rule that you pulled up from 1867 in the aftermath of the Civil War and you brought it forward and said, oh, well, you know, we passed this thing and then we passed this thing and now Trump can't run again.
Do you understand What a pressure cooker that will turn this country into.
Do you understand the long term damage that will do to whatever you want to call the system or the legitimacy of what we have today?
We're fighting to restore the republic while these people are tearing it apart at the seams.
And they're all doing so.
And I see Republicans playing into this.
They're doing so in the name of We're defending democracy.
We're defending democracy by taking away democratic choices.
But there's even worse that's going on.
Libby Emmons, we're going to stay tuned with you because I want to have an update on Pride Month.
I'm very excited.
Stay tuned, folks.
Come back.
Libby Emmons.
This is what we mean.
This is what we mean.
He was laughing at something homophobic.
He was being homophobic.
He was laughing at a liberation fight.
I told him he shouldn't be there.
I told him that he's no cops at pride.
And then they're detaining me.
I only said three, four words.
And they snuck up on him.
Did you see that?
they snuck up on him okay so libby emmons we're looking at we're looking at footage right here out of the la it looks like the la Pride March there, West Hollywood.
That's the L.A.
sheriffs.
They're making several arrests of activists at the event.
Walk us through what we're watching.
Why are they arresting people at the L.A.
Pride March?
Yeah, so this was a guy, there's a warrant out for his arrest for stealing a cell phone back in April at some sort of pride protest at a library about books and things.
And so here he is getting arrested, warrant out for his arrest, and he's screaming that his arrest is transphobic and homophobic, as are the onlookers.
So, yeah, and they're pretty sure that the LA cops are horribly transphobic, even though You know, we know for sure that they've marched in pride parades and things like this.
It's pretty shocking to see something as simple as an arrest be, for a warrant, be reframed as, what, like a hate crime?
Wait, wait, wait, so it breaks out, wait a second, let me make sure I have this clear.
This is basically a left-wing activist who had outstanding warrants, right?
It's like the old Chris Rock bit, like, if your friend gets in your car, make sure they don't have any warrants first.
They go to the Pride March because the LA Sheriff's Department knows that they have outstanding warrants and basically they just waited for the left-wing activists to show up because they knew, of course, that they'd be showing up to the Pride.
They were staging raids for people with outstanding warrants and priors at the Pride March.
Yeah, they were checking it out, and there were probably more of these.
Absolutely amazing.
Yeah, and this guy goes by the name Zodiac Rose.
There's a fundraiser launched.
Zodiac Rose.
Zodiac Rose, that's the one.
Zodiac Rose, so potentially related to Ted Cruz there, of course, the Zodiac.
Yeah, probably, I'm sure.
Going back to our 2016 meme folder, everybody.
So, when you're looking at stuff like this, though, where are we, Libby?
We've got a couple of minutes left.
Where are we as it stands on the culture war front?
We're in the midst of Pride Month.
We're five days in.
My thesis has actually been, it feels like Pride Month is kind of in a tactical retreat.
Because, yes, they are still doing the marches and the rallies, and Drew Hernandez has some great footage.
Not great footage, but some horrific footage.
Yeah, I think you're right.
But you're noticing on the corporate front, specifically Target, the Ellie Dodgers.
Now, they're still out there.
We're going to talk about that later.
But the Bud Lighting that we've seen going on, that's what the USA Today called it, Bud Lighting of these corporate brands.
I feel like a lot of the corporations are pulling back on this.
What do you think?
Yeah, I think you're right.
And if you go to Twitter and check out some of the logos of the big corporations that usually emblazon their normal logos with big rainbow flags or what have you, they're not quite doing that this year.
Walmart isn't doing it this year.
But we do have the federal government going all in.
The Department of Agriculture has changed their logo to be all rainbow-centric, as have some of the other agencies.
But is Pride necessarily in retreat, or is it just an?
Amping up and arming up to a certain extent.
We see in Tennessee, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is planning to bring arms with them to a protest of a General Assembly in August, a special session there.
We are seeing also that a lot of the Pride stuff is pivoting full trans in Boston.
There was a trans resistance march over the weekend where Boston Medical was handing out what are called packers, fake penises so that women can stick them in their pants and make it look like they have one of their very own.
I wonder what Virginia Woolf would have said about that.
You know, a packer of your very own.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
We also have in Washington State, in Olympia, we have instead of Pride crosswalks, you know how they were crosswalks in Rainbow, now they're being painted in baby pink, baby blue, and white for the trans colors.
A lot of this stuff is just going full trans.
We see in Canada, also, they're doubling down on the drag queen stuff.
So there's kids are forced to celebrate pride at a Canadian elementary school in Newfoundland in St.
John's, complete with drag queens.
We see drag queens for kids out in Tempe, Arizona that Drew was covering for sure.
And that was not only sponsored and paid for by the city of Tempe, but you had drag queens out there telling everyone to go vote Democrat and get the Republicans out of office.
So that's what Tempe, Arizona thinks of the GOP vote.
Yeah, across the country, this is what this is what's going on.
You have drag queens, the whole thing going there with in Tennessee, you had a federal judge has He said that Tennessee cannot ban drag performances for kids.
His take was interesting.
He said that the law, as it was written, was incredibly too broad.
So that's something for lawmakers to consider.
Just be specific in the legislation that you're writing so that federal judges don't say that it is in violation of the First Amendment, which of course is not something that anyone wants to be violating.
Libby Edmonds, the editor-in-chief of both the Postmillennial and HumanEvents.com.
I have a question for you.
My thesis has been lately that the 80s and 90s church moms were right about the slippery slope.
What do you think?
Yeah, I think that's pretty interesting as well, and I've been giving some thought to that in terms of the Obergefell decision that legalized marriage for everybody, and basically that decision Well, looks like the deep state found me, guys.
Go ahead, Livvy.
We can mute my side for a second here.
It said that an individual had the right to marry, but it did not specify what marriage was.
And I do think that that was a mistake by the Supreme Court because it didn't say that marriage is between two people.
It said that an individual has the right to marry.
So then we have in Somerville, Massachusetts, essentially the legalization of domestic partnerships of up to six people at a time.
So that's certainly some slippery slopeness.
I would say for sure.
And that's a shame because that's basically about how the decision was written.
But yeah, there's definitely some, I think some of those church moms had some things probably correct.
And it's interesting now in the Catholic churches you're seeing veils come back, you're seeing I'm Libby Emmons filling in while a fire alarm is going off at JAG Studio.
And I'm going to keep giving you this update on Pride.
It's been really fascinating what we've been seeing.
There has been a lot of pushback, as Jack has suggested.
Over the weekend, we saw Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson both come in and start talking about how sex changes for children are actually mutilating procedures.
And we have seen them talk about how anyone who puts through sex changes for kids from doctors could be criminalized.
Elon Musk has said that parents should be held accountable for these kinds of things.
And there's really been a lot of pushback going on in this space.
And it's been pretty interesting to see it.
In the UK, with the National Health Service, a man called Richie Heron, who underwent gender transition, he underwent the full range of surgeries, and he is now taking a suit to the NHS to demand that there are not only safeguards for children, but safeguards for adults as well, as he was over, I think he was about 25 when he had that surgery.
And he has had nothing but complications since then, including excruciating pain and difficulty.
And there's also a father who has joined him in that fight to take it to the NHS and try and get safeguards in place.
And he's essentially trying to prevent his child from undergoing these procedures.
And his child is, I believe, of age.
And that father is anonymous and discussing that.
We've also seen so much pushback from women athletes.
Riley Gaines has really given women a voice to speak out.
And the situation with Riley Gaines, who speaks out against men in women's sports, and also the situation with J.K.
Rowling, who still refuses to shut up despite everyone coming at her literally all the time, shows how much good one person speaking up can really do.
It gives everybody else so much courage to jump in there And give an indication of where they stand as well without worrying that they're doing it all by themselves.
So I love to see that.
What else has been going on?
The thing in Tennessee I think is pretty fascinating.
This concept of overturning the law that was put into effect.
Before it went into effect on the eve of that was there was a temporary stay put on it back in April.
And now a federal judge has determined fully that it cannot go forward.
And the reasoning behind that was that it was overbroad, that it took too many liberties in light of the Second Amendment.
I mean, First Amendment.
I'm sorry, not the Second Amendment.
Although Tennessee is really overboard on that one as well.
We've seen a lot of protests.
We saw three members of the House there come up on disciplinary action because they had been so violently opposed to guns and had You know, that was in the wake of the Nashville school shooting.
Another thing that we've seen is in Montana, there is a trans lawmaker, one of the only ones in the country out there, who is speaking out in favor of child sex changes and declaring that this is actually life-saving.
This person's name is Zoe Zephyr.
Zephyr talked about how anyone who opposes children getting sex changes has blood on their hands.
And I think it could very easily be said that anyone who's in favor of it has substantially more literal blood on their hands.
And I think we have a clip of Zoe Zephyr saying that.
Do we have that?
Do we have that clip?
It's pretty intense.
The only thing I will say is if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments, I hope the next time there's an invocation, when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands.
Zephyr was disciplined, in fact, for this comment, which I think is probably, probably pretty key.
This was in Montana.
And there have been a host of states that have pushed forward bills that are not getting that much attention.
These are bills that say teachers and educators should keep students' gender identity secret from parents.
Bills that say kids can access so-called gender-affirming care Without parental knowledge or consent.
Gender-affirming care, of course, is a complete and total lie.
It's a total fabrication.
The Biden administration uses this term all the time.
It's a lie.
I just wrote about this in Human Events over the weekend.
You can go check that out.
But California, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and a host of other states are putting forward these kinds of legislation, Vermont as well, that allow this to go forward.
One thing that I find really fascinating about this, in fact, is how linked abortion and child sex changes have become in laws and Democrat legislation.
Oh, Jack is back!
That's fun.
But I find that really fascinating.
Hey Libby, so appreciate that there.
We actually had a pre-scheduled test.
This is not a Joy Reid situation where I forgot the smoke alarm batteries, by the way.
I was going to say, I would like that I'm not doing that.
But I'm going to have to talk to them not to test it during the actual show, ladies and gentlemen, not during the actual show.
But the Libby Emmons event, by the way, was fantastic.
Did everybody like that?
Was that amazing?
We've got like thousands of people commenting in the chats.
They're saying, wait, I'm even seeing people saying Libby should host the show regularly.
No, ban that person from, you're not allowed to comment anymore.
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People are saying that Libby can co-host.
You guys saw what happened with promo code Tanya.
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All right, Libby Emmons doesn't even have a promo code to begin with.
How much we'd like to know.
Well, I guess Post Millennial does, don't they?
Post Millennial does, that's good enough for me.
So technically, so technically there is a post-millennium.
Libby, you are fantastic for your coverage.
The post-millennials coverage of all of these things has been incredible.
We do bring Libby Emmons on.
We're going to continue bringing her on for regular updates when it comes to this cultural war, specifically on the trans issue, because this is something where Libby Emmons has become, I really think, one of the preeminent voices in the country at understanding what's going on here.
And what is the future for all of these movements?
Libby, where can people go to follow you, get more information on your work?
So you can check me out on Twitter at Libby Emmons and you can check out thepostmillennial.com and humanevents.com.
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God bless.
Thank you so much, Libby Edmonds.
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