Latest / V / Left Loses it Over a Cartoon - Early Edition With Evita (Ep.170)

Transcript

Left Loses it Over a Cartoon - Early Edition With Evita (Ep.170) · V

0:01
Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. Got
0:04
Speaker 1: some hot takes for you guys today. I told Michael,
0:07
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if the chat's going to
0:08
Speaker 1: love today's show, but I got to tell you what
0:11
Speaker 1: I actually think. Trump enrages the left with a cartoon.
0:16
Speaker 1: ICE detains another foreign-born pro-Palestine student. Tim Walz claims that
0:21
Speaker 1: he would have won with more wokeness. Wisconsin's crucial Supreme
0:25
Speaker 1: Court race nears its decisive moment. Canada's prime minister issues
0:30
Speaker 1: threats against the United States. Selena Quintanilla Perez's killer is
0:34
Speaker 1: denied parole. And Stanford scientists advocate for the development of bodyoids.
0:40
Speaker 1: We'll talk about what that really means. All this on
0:43
Speaker 1: Bongina Report, early edition. If you're on X, if you
0:57
Speaker 1: spend any time on X, formerly Twitter, you've probably seen
1:01
Speaker 1: a bunch of cartoon anime pictures. And you also may
1:06
Speaker 1: have seen that the Trump White House's official X account
1:10
Speaker 1: posted a cartoon of their own. And the internet is
1:14
Speaker 1: enraged by this. People are losing their minds. And if
1:18
Speaker 1: you're confused about what I'm talking about, do not worry.
1:21
Speaker 1: I'm going to explain exactly what is going on. This week,
1:25
Speaker 1: ChatGPT released a new feature, and it allows for users
1:29
Speaker 1: to turn photos, real photos that you would take, into
1:33
Speaker 1: Studio Ghibli anime. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio.
1:37
Speaker 1: It's very famous. It was founded by legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
1:42
Speaker 1: We've discussed Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli on this show before.
1:46
Speaker 1: If you don't remember, though, the studio produces incredibly creative
1:51
Speaker 1: children's animation. And it's breathtaking, this animation. Like really, it
1:56
Speaker 1: is truly something that's incomparable to what American studios are
2:00
Speaker 1: producing at, say, Disney, for instance. Here is just a
2:03
Speaker 1: glimpse of what that animation from Studio Ghibli looks like.
2:35
Speaker 1: So these are all just like slices of a bunch
2:37
Speaker 1: of different animated films from the studio. Really gorgeous animation.
2:41
Speaker 1: If you're listening, I'm so sorry. You have to go
2:44
Speaker 1: to the Rumble version to see what this actually looks like.
2:47
Speaker 1: I promise you it's worth your time. And you want
2:49
Speaker 1: to be here listening to the show in the video
2:50
Speaker 1: version because the video version is always better than audio only.
2:54
Speaker 1: But like I said, breathtaking. And actually, if you look
2:57
Speaker 1: on my laptop, four of my laptop stickers are Studio
3:01
Speaker 1: Ghibli related. I love the work. And I, yes, thank you, Michael.
3:07
Speaker 1: You can show everybody what my laptop looks like. This one, honestly,
3:11
Speaker 1: I'm doing it backward, but this one is Studio Ghibli.
3:15
Speaker 1: This one is, this one here is, this like dragon
3:20
Speaker 1: thing is, yeah. So a lot of them, Studio Ghibli related.
3:23
Speaker 1: Love the studio's work. So I've been excited about this trend.
3:27
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun
3:28
Speaker 1: to turn your real photos into anime photos. And here,
3:32
Speaker 1: I did this one of my little sister. It went
3:34
Speaker 1: a little viral last night on X. It's my little
3:37
Speaker 1: sister and President Trump when we visited the Oval Office.
3:40
Speaker 1: Very cute little animation of her and the president. People
3:44
Speaker 1: loved it. Of course, it's adorable. And I also did
3:47
Speaker 1: a version of my siblings and I during my dad's
3:49
Speaker 1: confirmation hearing. That was also very fun. You can see
3:52
Speaker 1: I'm in the red coat. The pink one is my sister, Marivy.
3:56
Speaker 1: The other little girl in the pink sweater is Maria
3:59
Speaker 1: Victoria with the braids. I'm sorry. That's Margarita in the braids.
4:04
Speaker 1: And then the little boy in my lap is Patrick.
4:06
Speaker 1: You can see Michael. He's in the back there next
4:09
Speaker 1: to like on the side of Marivy's shoulder. He's got
4:12
Speaker 1: his eyes closed for some reason. But there's Michael. He's there.
4:16
Speaker 1: He's made the case.
4:16
Speaker 2: It was a long day.
4:18
Speaker 1: Say that again, Mikey. It was a long day. It
4:20
Speaker 1: was a long day. It was a long day for
4:22
Speaker 1: the children too. I mean, that's why they were sort
4:24
Speaker 1: of sleeping on me because they had to sit through
4:27
Speaker 1: like a two-hour hearing. And they were exhausted from just
4:31
Speaker 1: traveling and events before. And so they were really well behaved, though.
4:35
Speaker 1: They were very well behaved. There are now memes being
4:38
Speaker 1: made of very famous moments in history, especially in the
4:41
Speaker 1: Trump admin or even moments of famous memes being turned
4:46
Speaker 1: now into Studio Ghibli style animation. If we could throw
4:49
Speaker 1: those up there, Michael, people can know what we're talking about.
4:52
Speaker 1: And by the way, at the end of the show,
4:54
Speaker 1: if you guys want, I will tell you how to
4:56
Speaker 1: do your own Studio Ghibli memes. styled pictures using ChatGPT
5:01
Speaker 1: if you would like to do it yourself and you
5:02
Speaker 1: don't know how. I did notice some people on X
5:05
Speaker 1: were asking, how do I do this? If you already
5:07
Speaker 1: know how, then I won't do it, but drop a
5:08
Speaker 1: comment if you want me to do that, and I will. Now,
5:11
Speaker 1: the official White House, like I said, posted their own
5:15
Speaker 1: version of the Studio Ghibli trend. This is what they posted.
5:24
Speaker 1: This is Tom Holman and a crying, obese woman being
5:30
Speaker 1: put in handcuffs by Tom Holman. Presumably she is being deported.
5:36
Speaker 1: And there's no comment from the White House with this photo.
5:39
Speaker 1: They just posted the photo, no caption, just the picture.
5:42
Speaker 1: So it's a deportation, Studio Ghibli-style meme. And the internet
5:46
Speaker 1: lost their minds over this. Specifically, left-wing Twitter lost their
5:50
Speaker 1: minds over this image. And even some right-wingers. Someone wrote
5:54
Speaker 1: in response to this cartoon, One of the more evil
5:57
Speaker 1: things I've ever seen. If you support this administration, you
6:01
Speaker 1: will not see heaven. Another person said, unfathomable cruelty from
6:06
Speaker 1: the official White House account. Another, Jesus Christ, we need
6:11
Speaker 1: to invent an entirely new category of cruelly malicious for
6:14
Speaker 1: these people. But no one on left-wing Twitter is even
6:19
Speaker 1: acknowledging who This cartoon woman is. It's not just some
6:25
Speaker 1: random AI-generated obese woman who's being featured in this cartoon.
6:30
Speaker 1: It's not a random person. This is a real person.
6:33
Speaker 1: The Trump admin's cartoon was attached to another tweet that
6:37
Speaker 1: nobody seems to be acknowledging or care about, revealing that
6:40
Speaker 1: the cartoon woman depicts Virginia Besora Gonzalez, a previously deported
6:48
Speaker 1: illegal alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking. who was deported
6:54
Speaker 1: by ICE under President Trump after she illegally reentered the
6:56
Speaker 1: United States. So let me just reiterate. This woman was
7:00
Speaker 1: trafficking fentanyl into this country. The number one killer of
7:05
Speaker 1: Americans under 40. Do you know what happens when you're
7:10
Speaker 1: addicted to fentanyl? Highly, highly addictive drug. Fentanyl addicts, they
7:18
Speaker 1: appear ghost-like. Sort of nodding off mid-sentence. Skin is pale
7:22
Speaker 1: or gray, eyes vacant, teetering between consciousness and overdose with
7:27
Speaker 1: every breath. These people turn into living zombies. It's horrifying
7:31
Speaker 1: to behold. And it's American citizens who are being turned
7:35
Speaker 1: into these zombies. This woman illegally trafficked fentanyl into this country,
7:41
Speaker 1: a chemical weapon inflicted on the American people. And I'm
7:45
Speaker 1: supposed to feel bad that the White House made a
7:48
Speaker 1: cartoon parody of her deportation?
7:50
Speaker 3: Nope.
7:52
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad. Virginia can get the hell out
7:56
Speaker 1: of here. And we have a right to make fun
7:57
Speaker 1: of her as she leaves. She's part of a multi-billion
8:02
Speaker 1: dollar drug trade that isn't just killing Americans. It's killing
8:06
Speaker 1: Central and South Americans too. She participated in the system
8:09
Speaker 1: that skins people alive to send a message. It's what
8:13
Speaker 1: the cartels do. It's one of the most evil regimes
8:16
Speaker 1: in human history, a demonic narco state. I'm not just
8:20
Speaker 1: saying colloquially demonic. No, they are actually demonic. We've covered
8:25
Speaker 1: this on the show. They explicitly worship demons as part
8:32
Speaker 1: of a religion for the cartels. I don't feel bad
8:37
Speaker 1: that Trump made a cartoon depiction of this woman's deportation.
8:41
Speaker 4: I don't.
8:43
Speaker 1: Now, I want to be nuanced here. Because some people
8:46
Speaker 1: who didn't recognize that this was a woman who was
8:50
Speaker 1: being deported for fentanyl trafficking had a sort of knee-jerk
8:53
Speaker 1: reaction that this was unnecessarily cruel. Some people were ignoring
8:56
Speaker 1: it on purpose and they knew the truth. Some people
8:58
Speaker 1: didn't realize who this woman was. They just thought it
9:01
Speaker 1: was a random illegal, just an AI generally generated image
9:06
Speaker 1: of an illegal migrant. And there are illegal aliens in
9:09
Speaker 1: this country who are not trafficking fentanyl, who are not
9:13
Speaker 1: part of Trend de Aragua. and who are not raping
9:15
Speaker 1: and murdering American women. They're people who work hard, go
9:19
Speaker 1: to church, raise families, have become a part of our communities,
9:24
Speaker 1: and those people are scared right now. They're terrified that
9:28
Speaker 1: ICE is going to come for them, tear their lives apart. Now,
9:34
Speaker 1: there's no real evidence that Trump is targeting anyone other
9:37
Speaker 1: than serious criminals, murderers, rapists, drug traffickers. I wish he
9:40
Speaker 1: would target more people because we have millions of unvetted
9:43
Speaker 1: individuals here in this country. But it seems to be
9:47
Speaker 1: very focused on violent criminals. And the effect of this, however,
9:50
Speaker 1: is the same for people who are here illegally. Nonviolent
9:54
Speaker 1: illegals are living in fear, probably both violent and nonviolent,
9:58
Speaker 1: but specifically I'm talking about nonviolent illegals. And I found
10:03
Speaker 1: out from someone close to me recently that illegals in
10:05
Speaker 1: the Bronx won't even leave their homes anymore. If they're working,
10:09
Speaker 1: they go to work, they come right home. They're living
10:12
Speaker 1: in a perpetual state of fear. They're terrified. And as Christians,
10:16
Speaker 1: we shouldn't take joy in that suffering. deportation and border
10:22
Speaker 1: enforcement are serious business. And yes, good people are going
10:26
Speaker 1: to need to go. That is the reality. That's what
10:30
Speaker 1: mass deportations entails. And it doesn't always feel good. Sometimes
10:36
Speaker 1: there will be stories. And in fact, there will be
10:38
Speaker 1: stories that pull at your heartstrings. People who want mass immigration,
10:43
Speaker 1: who prefer to focus on these really emotional stories from
10:50
Speaker 1: people who probably did not traffic drugs into this country
10:54
Speaker 1: or murder somebody or are part of Trend de Aragua.
10:56
Speaker 1: But we can't keep setting this precedent that people come
11:00
Speaker 1: here and assume they'll eventually be granted citizenship like they
11:04
Speaker 1: were under President Ronald Reagan. We can't send the message
11:09
Speaker 1: that there are no consequences for entering this country illegally. Yes,
11:14
Speaker 1: my heart does break for some of these people. But
11:19
Speaker 1: allowing them to stay, not enforcing any border laws whatsoever,
11:25
Speaker 1: that only encourages people to continue flooding this country. And
11:28
Speaker 1: what has the open border done? What has this incentivizing
11:33
Speaker 1: of illegal migration done? It's created a human trafficking crisis
11:36
Speaker 1: at the border, a drug crisis. It's created and emboldened
11:43
Speaker 1: the cartels in Central and South America, which is only
11:46
Speaker 1: then fueling people to have to leave. That's exactly why
11:52
Speaker 1: Kristi Noem posted this video from a prison in El
11:56
Speaker 1: Salvador to send a message. I want you to take
11:58
Speaker 1: a listen to this. I also want everybody to know
12:00
Speaker 1: if you come to our country illegally, this.
12:02
Speaker 4: Is one of the consequences you could face.
12:04
Speaker 1: First of all, do not come to our country illegally.
12:08
Speaker 1: You will be removed and you will be prosecuted. But
12:10
Speaker 1: know that this facility is one of the tools in
12:13
Speaker 1: our toolkit that we will use. So people were freaking
12:16
Speaker 1: out about that, just like nationally, just insane. And MSNBC
12:20
Speaker 1: analyst Tim Miller wrote, this is the sickest shit I've
12:24
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. Oh my God. That was
12:26
Speaker 1: his response to Kristi Noem. These are trendy Aragua MS-13 guys,
12:32
Speaker 1: among other violent criminals. And I'm supposed to feel bad
12:35
Speaker 1: that they aren't still on the streets in the United States, apparently,
12:37
Speaker 1: according to Tim Miller. Be so for real. And this
12:41
Speaker 1: sympathy for those who broker immigration laws is not fair
12:44
Speaker 1: to the American people. whether they're MS-13, Trend, or they're not.
12:48
Speaker 1: Maybe they're actually nice individuals who are here in this
12:51
Speaker 1: country who you might feel bad for, you might have
12:52
Speaker 1: sympathy for. It doesn't matter. It's wrong to the people
12:58
Speaker 1: who live here to continue permitting illegals to stay in
13:02
Speaker 1: this country, whether they're violent or not. Because even if
13:05
Speaker 1: some illegals aren't violent or dealing drugs, they are still
13:07
Speaker 1: driving wages down. They're still hurting working class Americans by
13:13
Speaker 1: saturating the workforce. So At some point, we have to ask,
13:17
Speaker 1: when do we start prioritizing our own people? When do
13:21
Speaker 1: we stop allowing ourselves to be emotionally manipulated left and right?
13:27
Speaker 1: Someone wrote an ex yesterday in response to the White
13:30
Speaker 1: House Ghibli deportation photo. It would rule if we had
13:34
Speaker 1: a government that just did the cruel but necessary things
13:37
Speaker 1: quietly and professionally instead of activating the opposition by bragging
13:42
Speaker 1: about how cruel they're being. You know, if this was
13:46
Speaker 1: a little woman who was selling tamales in Chicago's little
13:49
Speaker 1: village and the only law she was breaking was being
13:51
Speaker 1: here illegally and she sobbed as she was being deported
13:54
Speaker 1: and then Trump posted a cartoon about it, yeah, I
13:57
Speaker 1: might agree that that was a little too far. Maybe
13:58
Speaker 1: we shouldn't make a cartoon about it. Unnecessary. We can
14:01
Speaker 1: deport her, but we don't have to joke about it.
14:03
Speaker 1: We don't have to make a meme about this woman's suffering.
14:06
Speaker 1: But when the woman is here and she's guilty of
14:09
Speaker 1: importing the number one killer of Americans under 45, which
14:12
Speaker 1: is fentanyl, I don't have any sympathy. I have none.
14:17
Speaker 1: This user at Spirit of Pines tweeted something really important yesterday.
14:21
Speaker 1: He wrote, leniency towards fentanyl dealers is cruelty to the innocent,
14:27
Speaker 1: and the communications war is a big part of the battle.
14:31
Speaker 1: Deportation is the moderate option, by the way. I think
14:35
Speaker 1: we should be executing them quickly, but maybe you haven't
14:38
Speaker 1: had people close to you die from overdoses. No one
14:44
Speaker 1: is going to make me feel sorry for that woman
14:46
Speaker 1: in the cartoon who was brought into this country illegally,
14:52
Speaker 1: trafficking drugs that are destroying parts of this nation that
14:55
Speaker 1: I care a lot about. Fentanyl has impacted the entire country,
14:58
Speaker 1: but especially flyover country where I grew up. World drug
15:02
Speaker 1: crisis has impacted my own blood, my own family members. No,
15:08
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad in the slightest. We can be
15:11
Speaker 1: Christian and we can be compassionate when warranted, But we
15:14
Speaker 1: also can't sacrifice the health, safety, and economic security of
15:18
Speaker 1: the American people just because of emotional manipulation from the left,
15:23
Speaker 1: or even from the Catholic Church, for that matter.
15:25
Speaker 5: All right, we're.
15:26
Speaker 1: Going to take a quick break. When we come back,
15:29
Speaker 1: I'm going to have some hot takes for you guys
15:31
Speaker 1: on more immigration issues, this time with the Trump admin
15:34
Speaker 1: deporting students who are critical of the state of Israel.
15:40
Speaker 1: Foreign-born students, don't go anywhere. I want to keep talking
15:43
Speaker 1: about deportations because this week, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts
15:49
Speaker 1: University PhD student and Turkish citizen on an F-1 visa,
15:55
Speaker 1: was detained by ICE agents in Somerville, Massachusetts, while heading
15:59
Speaker 1: to an Iftar dinner. Here is the moment that this
16:03
Speaker 1: young woman was arrested. So a guy in street clothing
16:10
Speaker 1: comes up to her as she's walking. She's on the phone,
16:15
Speaker 1: and he starts to take her phone away. And then
16:17
Speaker 1: others start to crowd around her, again in street clothing.
16:27
Speaker 1: And she's taken away in handcuffs. Now, in other footage,
16:33
Speaker 1: I didn't get to that in this shorter clip, but
16:36
Speaker 1: Ramesa asks to call the police, and the ICE officers say,
16:40
Speaker 1: we are the police. There's no one to call. You're
16:42
Speaker 1: getting arrested. And she was detained allegedly for engaging in
16:46
Speaker 1: activities in support of Hamas. That's the quote, engaging in
16:49
Speaker 1: activities in support of Hamas. However, no charges have been
16:53
Speaker 1: filed yet, and there's no evidence that she engaged in
16:56
Speaker 1: violent activity while protesting last year in support of Palestine.
17:00
Speaker 1: A lot of people believe that she was actually detained
17:03
Speaker 1: not because she's supportive of Hamas or because she engaged
17:05
Speaker 1: in violent rioting, which so far we have no evidence of,
17:09
Speaker 1: but because of her public writings in support of Palestine.
17:13
Speaker 1: Here's why they are saying that. This is from Ron
17:16
Speaker 1: Paul's Liberty Chat just yesterday.
17:19
Speaker 4: This is what's really chilling, Dr.
17:20
Speaker 6: Paul.
17:21
Speaker 4: There are these NGOs that are probably affiliated with foreign
17:26
Speaker 4: governments that are keeping lists of people who say things
17:30
Speaker 4: they don't like. And they're giving that list to the government.
17:33
Speaker 4: Auster have been targeted by the Canary Mission, a pro-Israel
17:38
Speaker 4: group that doxes students and professors who are critical of Israel.
17:44
Speaker 4: The Canary Missions page on Ozturk lists only one example
17:48
Speaker 4: of her, quote, anti-Israel activism, and that is co-authoring an
17:53
Speaker 4: op-ed that called for Tufts University to divest from Israel
17:58
Speaker 4: and acknowledging the Palestinian genocide. No reason was given for
18:02
Speaker 4: her arrest. Her visa has been revoked, and she's about
18:07
Speaker 4: to be deported from the United States for writing an op-ed.
18:12
Speaker 1: So we're looking at an NGO allegedly acting in the
18:17
Speaker 1: interest of a foreign nation to deport or get fired
18:20
Speaker 1: legal residents from this country who criticize said foreign nation.
18:24
Speaker 1: This is alleged. This is alleged that this is why
18:26
Speaker 1: she was deported, this coordination between this Jewish NGO and
18:32
Speaker 1: the State Department. Here is Marco Rubio responding to this
18:36
Speaker 1: question of whether Ramesa was detained because she wrote an op-ed.
18:41
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
18:42
Speaker 7: A Turkish student in Boston was detained and handcuffed on
18:47
Speaker 7: the street by plainclothes agents. A year ago, she wrote
18:49
Speaker 7: an opinion piece about the Gaza war. Could you help
18:52
Speaker 7: us understand what the specific action she took led to
18:57
Speaker 7: her visa being revoked? And what was your State Department's
19:01
Speaker 7: role in that process?
19:02
Speaker 5: Oh, we revoked her visa. It's an F-1 visa, I believe.
19:06
Speaker 5: We revoked it, and here's why. And I'll say it again.
19:09
Speaker 5: I said it everywhere. Let me be abundantly clear. If
19:11
Speaker 5: you go apply for a visa right now, anywhere in
19:13
Speaker 5: the world, let me just send this message out. If
19:15
Speaker 5: you apply for a visa to enter the United States
19:17
Speaker 5: and be a student, and you tell us that the
19:20
Speaker 5: reason why you're coming to the United States is not
19:22
Speaker 5: just because you want to write op-eds, but because you
19:24
Speaker 5: want to participate in movements that are involved in doing
19:27
Speaker 5: things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating
19:31
Speaker 5: a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa.
19:34
Speaker 5: If you lie to us, and get a visa and
19:37
Speaker 5: then enter the United States and with that visa participate
19:39
Speaker 5: in that sort of activity, we're going to take away
19:41
Speaker 5: your visa. And once you've lost your visa, you're no
19:44
Speaker 5: longer legally in the United States and we have a right,
19:46
Speaker 5: like every country in the world has a right, to
19:48
Speaker 5: remove you from our country. So it's just that simple.
19:51
Speaker 1: Did you listen to his phrasing there? What did he say?
19:55
Speaker 1: If you apply for a student visa to come to
19:57
Speaker 1: the United States and you say you're coming not just
20:00
Speaker 1: to study, but to participate in movements that vandalize universities,
20:03
Speaker 1: harass students, take over buildings and cause chaos, we're not
20:06
Speaker 1: giving you a visa. to participate in movements that vandalize universities,
20:12
Speaker 1: harass students, take over buildings, and cause chaos, we're not
20:15
Speaker 1: giving you a visa. That phrasing doesn't necessarily mean that
20:20
Speaker 1: Ramesa was engaging in the violence. If she was, the
20:25
Speaker 1: admin needs to provide evidence that she was, but I'm
20:28
Speaker 1: not convinced that they will because so far Mahmoud Khalil,
20:31
Speaker 1: the former Columbia student green card holder, married to a
20:37
Speaker 1: US citizen who was detained by ICE earlier this month,
20:40
Speaker 1: is also still not facing any publicly known criminal charges.
20:44
Speaker 1: Neither of these students were involved in violent activity that
20:48
Speaker 1: we know of. And if they were, they would have
20:51
Speaker 1: been arrested prior by real law enforcement, but they were not.
20:56
Speaker 1: We don't even have evidence that either of these students
20:58
Speaker 1: verbally support Hamas. By the way, if you verbally support
21:02
Speaker 1: a terror organization in this country and you are not
21:05
Speaker 1: a legal citizen, You don't have a right to stay here.
21:08
Speaker 1: That's in federal law. But I haven't seen any evidence
21:12
Speaker 1: that either of these students openly support Hamas. I'm open
21:16
Speaker 1: to it. Please show me. There was one student who
21:20
Speaker 1: was detained, a female. I'm blanking on her name now.
21:23
Speaker 1: If Michael could look it up, that'd be great. There's
21:25
Speaker 1: one student who was here illegally and formally arrested for
21:29
Speaker 1: her role in the riots last year. She had to go.
21:33
Speaker 1: I 100% support the admin getting rid of that woman.
21:36
Speaker 1: But these other two, they're separate cases. They're more nuanced.
21:40
Speaker 1: And I say that because it would seem that the
21:42
Speaker 1: Trump administration is making support of Palestine synonymous with support
21:46
Speaker 1: of Hamas in justifying deporting people simply for espousing criticisms
21:51
Speaker 1: of a foreign government, potentially at the behest of NGOs
21:55
Speaker 1: acting in the interest of said foreign government. I don't
21:57
Speaker 1: like that. I don't like it because I'm concerned about
22:01
Speaker 1: what's happening here, the chilling effect on free speech that
22:05
Speaker 1: all of this is having on the United States of
22:07
Speaker 1: America and American citizens. We covered a while back how
22:13
Speaker 1: in the midst of these arrests, the Trump administration canceled
22:16
Speaker 1: $ 400 million in research funding for Columbia University on the
22:22
Speaker 1: grounds that the school had not done enough to combat antisemitism.
22:27
Speaker 1: So to resume the funding, the administration demanded Columbia adopt
22:32
Speaker 1: an expanded definition of antisemitism as defined by the International
22:37
Speaker 1: Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. So they basically said, you will get
22:41
Speaker 1: your funding back only if you install these speech codes
22:45
Speaker 1: in protection of Jews on campus. And here's some examples
22:50
Speaker 1: of antisemitism that the Trump admin demanded Columbia ban. Saying
22:56
Speaker 1: Jews control media, economy, government, and other societal institutions. Saying
23:01
Speaker 1: the Jews killed Jesus.
23:03
Speaker 3: St.
23:03
Speaker 1: Paul said that in the Bible. so I guess the
23:05
Speaker 1: Trump admin wants quoting St. Paul to be banned on campus,
23:09
Speaker 1: accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel and claiming
23:11
Speaker 1: the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavor.
23:15
Speaker 1: And since then, Colombia has since agreed to ban all
23:19
Speaker 1: these forms of supposedly anti-Semitic speech in order to regain
23:25
Speaker 1: its funding. And by the way, note that there's no
23:28
Speaker 1: rule against saying that America is a racist endeavor. And
23:33
Speaker 1: in fact, universities teach that explicitly every single day. It's
23:37
Speaker 1: no problem, according to the Trump admin. Just a problem
23:40
Speaker 1: if you criticize the state of Israel and smear the
23:42
Speaker 1: state of Israel as racist. Now there's a rule saying
23:48
Speaker 1: that you can't criticize a foreign country. And that rule
23:52
Speaker 1: exists at Columbia because of the Trump admin. And I
23:55
Speaker 1: don't believe the state of Israel is a racist endeavor.
23:59
Speaker 1: The state of Israel was created as a homeland for
24:01
Speaker 1: the Jewish people, following the horrors of not only of
24:04
Speaker 1: the Holocaust, but of years of suffering and persecution in Europe. However,
24:08
Speaker 1: if a student, an American student, wants to say the
24:12
Speaker 1: state of Israel is a racist endeavor, that is their right.
24:16
Speaker 1: We have this thing called the First Amendment. That's why
24:19
Speaker 1: these students are allowed to say America is a racist country.
24:22
Speaker 1: I don't like it, but they're allowed to say it
24:25
Speaker 1: because we have the First Amendment. And you see why
24:28
Speaker 1: I'm saying that this is not just having an effect
24:31
Speaker 1: on foreign-born students, but it's also having an effect on
24:34
Speaker 1: American students here in this country, on American citizens and
24:37
Speaker 1: our right to free speech. This isn't just solely about
24:41
Speaker 1: foreign-born individuals who participated in pro-Palestine protests. And even that
24:46
Speaker 1: biblical quote, the Jews killed Jesus, well, what do Christians believe?
24:50
Speaker 1: Christians believe that all people killed Jesus. Jesus died for
24:53
Speaker 1: our sins on the cross, of all of mankind, for
24:57
Speaker 1: all of human history. But that is a quote in
24:59
Speaker 1: the Bible from St. Paul. He's saying that The Jews
25:03
Speaker 1: killed Jesus. Well, are we not allowed to quote St.
25:05
Speaker 1: Paul anymore? I don't think we should have speech codes
25:09
Speaker 1: like this. It's not appropriate. We have a First Amendment.
25:13
Speaker 1: I can disagree. I don't think the Jews killed Jesus.
25:16
Speaker 1: I think we all killed Jesus. I don't think the
25:18
Speaker 1: state of Israel is racist. I think it was created
25:20
Speaker 1: as a homeland for the Jewish people. But I shouldn't
25:22
Speaker 1: not be allowed to say otherwise. And neither should other
25:27
Speaker 1: students should be allowed to say those things as well,
25:29
Speaker 1: even if I disagree with them. Why are we deporting
25:33
Speaker 1: people who protested Israel and not deporting the foreigners who
25:40
Speaker 1: participated in a violent assault on this country in 2020
25:45
Speaker 1: during the BLM riots? The people who torched our cities
25:49
Speaker 1: and toppled statues of the founding fathers. Why aren't we
25:52
Speaker 1: addressing those students as well? I have a lot of
25:54
Speaker 1: trouble understanding the priorities right now. Because, you know, J.D.
25:58
Speaker 1: Vance famously went to Munich and he gave this spectacular speech.
26:03
Speaker 1: shaming the Europeans for obliterating free speech. Yet now the
26:08
Speaker 1: Trump admin is forcing American universities to adopt anti-Semitism speech
26:12
Speaker 1: codes that target American citizens. Are criticisms of America banned
26:20
Speaker 1: in Israel?
26:22
Speaker 7: Are they?
26:23
Speaker 3: No, of course not.
26:25
Speaker 1: They're not banned here either. And I'll be clear that
26:29
Speaker 1: I hate violent criticism. the violent Columbia protests last year,
26:34
Speaker 1: these chaotic takeovers and disruptions, they crossed a line. I
26:41
Speaker 1: oppose speech codes not stopping students from violently blockading themselves
26:47
Speaker 1: in a school building. I don't want censorship on First
26:51
Speaker 1: Amendment protected speech, and I also don't think that students
26:54
Speaker 1: should be allowed to blockade themselves in buildings and take
26:56
Speaker 1: them over. I detest Jew hatred in the same way
27:00
Speaker 1: I detest all hatred based on immutable qualities. And that's
27:03
Speaker 1: all separate from an assault on constitutionally protected speech of
27:07
Speaker 1: American citizens. Deporting people like Rumaisa and Mahmoud Khalil without
27:14
Speaker 1: evidence that they committed any acts of violence or support,
27:16
Speaker 1: or even that they support Hamas, strong-arming universities like Columbia
27:21
Speaker 1: and speech into speech codes that stifle dissent and equating
27:24
Speaker 1: criticisms of Israel with terrorism, those all betray the First Amendment.
27:32
Speaker 1: Not only violates the First Amendment, but it has a
27:34
Speaker 1: broader chilling effect. And this is really what I'm trying
27:36
Speaker 1: to get at, you guys. I want you to understand
27:37
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If we criminalize protests of Israel for
27:40
Speaker 1: foreign-born students, and then we impose speech codes on American
27:45
Speaker 1: citizens and universities like Columbia, What happens if, say, there's
27:50
Speaker 1: a war or a potential war with Iran and students
27:55
Speaker 1: want to protest? The answer is there won't be any
27:58
Speaker 1: protests because the students are terrified to demonstrate and the
28:04
Speaker 1: universities are terrified of allowing it. And again, there aren't
28:11
Speaker 1: any universities losing funding for promoting anti-white hatred or anti-American hatred.
28:17
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying there should be. But the double
28:19
Speaker 1: standard is stark. I'm not here to defend foreign-born lawbreakers.
28:24
Speaker 1: I didn't defend the third Columbia student who was here
28:26
Speaker 1: illegally and who was arrested for violently rioting at Columbia.
28:29
Speaker 1: She needs to go. But I can't ignore this assault
28:33
Speaker 1: on the First Amendment and the chilling effect that this
28:36
Speaker 1: is having. And just adding salt to the wound is
28:39
Speaker 1: the government's ignoring of violent foreign actors who torched our
28:42
Speaker 1: cities in 2020 while jumping to silence criticisms of Israel.
28:46
Speaker 1: There are people who ransacked our cities in 2020, and
28:49
Speaker 1: the admin hasn't done anything about it. There's no sign
28:53
Speaker 1: they're looking into the foreign actors who participated in the
28:56
Speaker 1: assault on this country in 2020. None. And also consider
28:59
Speaker 1: how Trump has said he wants to give more green
29:01
Speaker 1: cards to foreign students educated in this country. So it'd
29:05
Speaker 1: be one thing if the admin was revoking countless student visas,
29:09
Speaker 1: irrespective of a student's stance on Israel, because we want
29:13
Speaker 1: to prioritize the education of American citizens. instead of importing
29:16
Speaker 1: all these people to get educated in our top tier universities.
29:19
Speaker 1: But that is not happening. No, instead, this admin has
29:23
Speaker 1: expressed a desire to increase permanent residency for students who
29:26
Speaker 1: are here on student visas. So all this clearly is
29:30
Speaker 1: part of an agenda to criminalize criticisms of a foreign government,
29:33
Speaker 1: something we don't even do for our own government, as
29:37
Speaker 1: well as chill the free speech of actual American citizens.
29:40
Speaker 1: And I'm not here for it. Yes, Mikey. Mikey, is
29:45
Speaker 1: this a... Yeah, a lot of people in the chat
29:48
Speaker 1: are saying that people... People who are here on green
29:50
Speaker 1: cards don't have the rights of US citizens.
29:54
Speaker 2: This is the case that proves they do.
29:55
Speaker 1: So for some context, Mahmoud Khalil is here on a
29:58
Speaker 1: green card. So this is different than the woman who
30:01
Speaker 1: was here on just a student visa who was recently arrested.
30:04
Speaker 1: So Michael says, in a 1953 decision, the Supreme Court
30:07
Speaker 1: maintained that once an alien lawfully enters and resides in
30:11
Speaker 1: this country, he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by
30:15
Speaker 1: the Constitution to all people within our borders. So what
30:20
Speaker 1: does that mean? That means that the Supreme Court said
30:22
Speaker 1: he's entitled to constitutional rights, including the First Amendment. There's
30:28
Speaker 1: a difference in Mahmoud Khalil's case. It's very difficult, I think,
30:32
Speaker 1: for the Trump admin to justify. And I'm not really
30:36
Speaker 1: that concerned about these foreign students. You know, maybe the
30:38
Speaker 1: Supreme Court was wrong with that decision. Supreme Court gets
30:41
Speaker 1: things wrong. Maybe these green card holder students should be
30:45
Speaker 1: allowed to be deported based on ideological reasons. I am
30:48
Speaker 1: concerned about the chilling effect that this has on American citizens,
30:53
Speaker 1: and not just the chilling effect, but the explicit speech
30:56
Speaker 1: codes that are being imposed by the Trump admin on
31:00
Speaker 1: Columbia University. Otherwise, they'll lose their funding. I don't like
31:05
Speaker 1: speech codes. I experienced them at UChicago. I know what
31:08
Speaker 1: it was like. As right-wingers, we should understand what's at
31:12
Speaker 1: stake here. We have been marginalized by the university system
31:17
Speaker 1: for way too long with safe spaces and DEI and
31:19
Speaker 1: told that our opinions are inherently racist, labeled domestic terrorists
31:22
Speaker 1: by just the last admin for our opinions, for our
31:26
Speaker 1: points of view. This is not appropriate. If you are
31:32
Speaker 1: a right-winger, if you believe in the First Amendment, you
31:34
Speaker 1: cannot defend this. I'm sorry, you can't. And I know
31:36
Speaker 1: you guys all want to disagree. I so disagree. Okay,
31:39
Speaker 1: that's fine. You can disagree. This isn't a show where
31:42
Speaker 1: I'm going to just say things because I think you'll
31:45
Speaker 1: want to hear them. I'm going to say what I
31:47
Speaker 1: actually think. And I don't like this. I don't like it.
31:51
Speaker 1: As somebody who experienced censorship on campus, as somebody who
31:57
Speaker 1: has experienced the safe spaces and the wrong think, has
32:02
Speaker 1: been targeted by ideological conformists and dogmatic leftists, I cannot
32:10
Speaker 1: support the chilling and the explicit limiting of free speech
32:14
Speaker 1: on American college campuses. I'm just not going to.
32:16
Speaker 7: Sorry.
32:18
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about something that we probably can
32:22
Speaker 1: agree on, and that is Tim Walz. And I'm sure
32:24
Speaker 1: you guys were hoping to be rid of this guy.
32:27
Speaker 1: We all were. But he said something yesterday that I
32:30
Speaker 1: can't ignore. Here is Tim Walz at a congressional town
32:32
Speaker 1: hall with Beto O'Rourke diagnosing why he lost in 2024.
32:37
Speaker 1: And the reason that he says he lost in 2024,
32:40
Speaker 1: I believe, Shocking. I can't even believe that these words
32:45
Speaker 1: came out of this man's mouth. Take a listen.
32:47
Speaker 4: That our strength is our diversity? We've been talking about
32:50
Speaker 4: this for years as a country of immigrants. And we
32:53
Speaker 4: let them define.
32:54
Speaker 1: The issue on immigration. We let them define the issue
32:57
Speaker 1: on DEI. And we let them define what woke is.
33:03
Speaker 8: We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold
33:06
Speaker 8: enough to stand up and say, you damn right we're
33:08
Speaker 8: proud of these policies.
33:10
Speaker 1: We're going to put them in.
33:11
Speaker 4: And we're going to execute him.
33:13
Speaker 7: And so.
33:15
Speaker 1: Do we have tampon Tim, Mikey? I thought we were
33:16
Speaker 1: going to get tampon Tim right away. There he is.
33:19
Speaker 1: There's tampon Tim. We did more tampon Tim in 2024.
33:24
Speaker 1: That would have made the Democrats win. That would have
33:26
Speaker 1: been an amazing thing for him. What is going on here?
33:29
Speaker 1: Is he insane? Is he completely unselfish? Basically, he just
33:36
Speaker 1: said that I would have won. If we just leaned
33:40
Speaker 1: harder into illegal immigration and wokeness and DEI.
33:43
Speaker 2: What?
33:46
Speaker 1: This man has apparently no political no's whatsoever because no,
33:50
Speaker 1: illegal immigration, wokeness and DEI is why you lost. And
33:56
Speaker 1: this I feel is confirmation. The entire Kamala campaign was
33:59
Speaker 1: just fake. This woman and Tim Walz were the figureheads
34:03
Speaker 1: for other forces who couldn't get the public enthusiastic about
34:06
Speaker 1: these two idiots. They just wanted to install these really
34:11
Speaker 1: stupid people into the White House to then be puppets
34:14
Speaker 1: for whoever was behind the Kamala campaign. Because I can't
34:16
Speaker 1: imagine that this guy, as stupid as he is, was
34:20
Speaker 1: actually running this campaign. Tim Walz was not driving anything.
34:24
Speaker 1: A total failure, but mostly completely unselfaware that he ran
34:28
Speaker 1: alongside a DEI VP running for president as the current
34:33
Speaker 1: borders are of an open border. She lost spectacularly because
34:39
Speaker 1: of DEI and because of legal immigration and because of
34:41
Speaker 1: her direct ties to both of those things. Americans are
34:46
Speaker 1: completely fatigued with wokeness. We're done with the Obama years.
34:49
Speaker 1: Do you want to know how unselfaware Tim Walz is?
34:53
Speaker 1: This is how completely unselfaware Tim Walz is. Well, Sammy,
35:03
Speaker 1: thank you.
35:04
Speaker 4: And to all the young people who are here, I
35:06
Speaker 4: just pause.
35:07
Speaker 2: For a moment and look around and.
35:10
Speaker 4: Look at, I'm especially talking about these old white guys
35:14
Speaker 4: who seem to disappoint us on a regular basis in
35:16
Speaker 4: this country.
35:17
Speaker 1: Okay, so he, has he looked in the mirror lately?
35:22
Speaker 1: He's slamming old white guys who disappoint Democrats. Thank you, Michael.
35:26
Speaker 1: He is the ultimate hypocrite. Old white guy who disappointed Democrats.
35:30
Speaker 1: He is an old white guy who lost his election
35:32
Speaker 1: for Democrats. He completely disappointed them. There is no self-awareness
35:38
Speaker 1: whatsoever with this man. And I just hope that they
35:40
Speaker 1: keep leaning into this kind of rhetoric. I hope Democrats
35:44
Speaker 1: just keep putting Tim Walz out there. Anybody like him.
35:48
Speaker 1: Because it is amazing for the political right. Just amazing.
35:51
Speaker 1: Democrats will never win an election again with this guy.
35:56
Speaker 1: That is, of course, if we stay on our toes.
35:58
Speaker 1: Which brings me to my next story. The upcoming election
36:01
Speaker 1: for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April
36:04
Speaker 1: 1st deserves everyone's attention. Wisconsinites in the chat, you guys
36:10
Speaker 1: listen up. I know you're in the chat. I see you.
36:12
Speaker 1: I see you guys talking about, you say, Oshkosh here,
36:15
Speaker 1: Wausau here. I see you guys. There are Wisconsinites in
36:19
Speaker 1: the chat. I'm also listening VOD. You guys got to
36:23
Speaker 1: get to the polls and vote for Brad Schimel. who
36:28
Speaker 1: was up against Susan Crawford. This race is so pivotal
36:32
Speaker 1: to the balance of power in the Wisconsin Supreme Court,
36:36
Speaker 1: but also in this entire country. If Susan wins, the
36:39
Speaker 1: congressional map will be redistributed in Wisconsin to limit Republicans
36:43
Speaker 1: in the House. Here is House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
36:47
Speaker 1: admitting the Democrats' plan to win control of Congress in
36:50
Speaker 1: 2026 is by installing this radical leftist woman in the
36:55
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Supreme Court. Take a listen.
36:58
Speaker 3: In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race because we know Wisconsin's
37:03
Speaker 3: a 50-50 state. And we have a strong Democratic candidate.
37:07
Speaker 3: Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority
37:12
Speaker 3: in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because
37:17
Speaker 3: there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's
37:23
Speaker 3: a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six
37:25
Speaker 3: Republicans in And only two Democrats out of an eight
37:29
Speaker 3: person delegation because the lines are broken.
37:32
Speaker 7: Right.
37:33
Speaker 3: And as soon as possible, we need to be able
37:37
Speaker 3: to revisit that and have fair lines. The only way
37:41
Speaker 3: for that to be even a significant possibility is if
37:47
Speaker 3: you have an enlightened Supreme Court. And so, you know,
37:50
Speaker 3: I think that's an incredibly important race.
37:53
Speaker 1: There he is, just admitting it. This is a record-breaking
37:57
Speaker 1: $ 100 million race. Crawford got $ 24 million, boosted by Soros. Spielberg,
38:06
Speaker 1: out-of-state cash. Brad Schimel's raised $ 10 million, plus $ 13 million
38:10
Speaker 1: from Elon Musk's PACs. Trump's backing Schimel. Obama's cheering for Crawford.
38:16
Speaker 1: You guys know I grew up in Wisconsin. These are
38:19
Speaker 1: really good people. The more that I travel to other
38:22
Speaker 1: parts of the country and the world, Wisconsin is always
38:26
Speaker 1: going to have a really special place in my heart.
38:27
Speaker 1: And I hate the cold, but one day I want
38:29
Speaker 1: to move back there. Like I just, I love it
38:31
Speaker 1: that much, especially the North woods. It's the most beautiful
38:34
Speaker 1: place in the country. You can fight me on that.
38:36
Speaker 1: Anybody who's from somewhere else, aesthetically beautiful in the country,
38:39
Speaker 1: but I think Northern Wisconsin takes the cake. And these
38:43
Speaker 1: are really tough, really hardworking community oriented people. That's, that's
38:48
Speaker 1: who Wisconsinites are. Midwest nice. It's not fake, but that's,
38:52
Speaker 1: that's a hundred percent real. Midwest nice is real. And
38:55
Speaker 1: you can feel it in the small towns, in the
38:57
Speaker 1: deer stands, the Friday fish fries. It's a quiet, steady,
39:02
Speaker 1: almost just natural conservatism that's carried Trump to victory twice
39:08
Speaker 1: in the state of Wisconsin. So working class individuals. I
39:12
Speaker 1: grew up in the number one most middle class town
39:15
Speaker 1: in America. That's where I grew up. And they had
39:21
Speaker 1: been abandoned by the Democratic Party. they are attracted to
39:25
Speaker 1: the populism, the working class populism of the MAGA movement
39:29
Speaker 1: and the values of the MAGA movement after Democrats have
39:33
Speaker 1: gone completely haywire and abandoned them with values that are
39:39
Speaker 1: completely contrary to Christian moral teachings. But with redistricting on
39:44
Speaker 1: the table, the Supreme Court race can really tip the scales.
39:50
Speaker 1: that the hearts won't show on the maps, won't show
39:54
Speaker 1: in the congressional results here. If Susan Crawford wins and
39:58
Speaker 1: the leftists hold the court, they could redraw the lines
40:01
Speaker 1: to drown out that red tide, carving up a 50-50
40:04
Speaker 1: state in favor of blue strongholds. And it's not that
40:08
Speaker 1: I believe that people will change so much, it's that
40:10
Speaker 1: the system will silence them. So if you are in Wisconsin,
40:13
Speaker 1: get out and vote. This is so, so important. I think...
40:19
Speaker 1: There's a lot of commentary on that. Elon Musk is
40:21
Speaker 1: getting involved. President Trump is getting involved. There are a
40:25
Speaker 1: lot of people on the ground, involved in national politics,
40:29
Speaker 1: who are paying really close attention to this race. If
40:31
Speaker 1: you are in Wisconsin, get out and vote. If you
40:33
Speaker 1: have family in Wisconsin, make sure to remind them to vote.
40:36
Speaker 1: I wish I could. I'm in Florida now, but I'm
40:38
Speaker 1: reminding my family members. This is so important. All right,
40:42
Speaker 1: switching gears here. Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced
40:46
Speaker 1: yesterday that that the relationship between Canada and the United
40:49
Speaker 1: States is over forever, or at least it's changing dramatically
40:54
Speaker 1: in a very negative way. Canada is furious at America.
40:59
Speaker 1: America has not really paid attention to this, but I'm
41:01
Speaker 1: going to pay attention to it because I found it
41:03
Speaker 1: very fascinating. Take a listen to Mark Carney.
41:08
Speaker 2: The old relationship we had with the United States based
41:11
Speaker 2: on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and
41:14
Speaker 2: military cooperations.
41:17
Speaker 1: Is over.
41:20
Speaker 2: What exactly the United States does next is unclear. But
41:24
Speaker 2: what is clear, what is clear, is that we, as Canadians,
41:29
Speaker 2: have agency. We have power. We are masters in our
41:35
Speaker 2: own home. We can control our destiny. We can give
41:44
Speaker 2: ourselves much more than any foreign government including the United States,
41:49
Speaker 2: can ever take away. We can deal with this crisis
41:54
Speaker 2: best by building our strength right here at home. It
41:59
Speaker 2: will take hard work. It will take steady and focused
42:03
Speaker 2: determination from governments, from businesses, from labor, from Canadians. We
42:10
Speaker 2: will need to dramatically reduce our reliance on the United States.
42:14
Speaker 2: We will need to pivot our trade relationships elsewhere. And
42:18
Speaker 2: we will need to do things previously thought impossible at
42:21
Speaker 2: speeds we haven't seen in generations.
42:24
Speaker 1: Okay, so this appears to be a pretty dramatic shift
42:28
Speaker 1: in North American relations. And President Trump's announcement of a
42:31
Speaker 1: permanent 25% tax on imported vehicles and parts said to
42:35
Speaker 1: take place April 2nd, 2025, so very soon, threatens Canada's
42:40
Speaker 1: auto industry. So naturally, Carney is facing a general election
42:44
Speaker 1: April 28th, and he is trying to appear very strong,
42:48
Speaker 1: and so he's vowed to hit back with retaliatory tariffs
42:52
Speaker 1: designed for maximum impact on the United States while urging
42:57
Speaker 1: for a fundamental reimagining of Canada's economic strategy toward the
43:00
Speaker 1: United States and the rest of the world, saying we're
43:02
Speaker 1: going to have to go somewhere else and find other partners.
43:05
Speaker 1: And this escalation comes as the U.S. has already imposed
43:08
Speaker 1: a 25% tariff on Canadian steel, aluminum, and other goods,
43:12
Speaker 1: prompting Canada to counter with $ 42 billion in tariffs on
43:16
Speaker 1: American products. Carney isn't even the most radical person here.
43:20
Speaker 1: Here is Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
43:24
Speaker 6: Not, but I can assure you one thing. We're going
43:27
Speaker 6: to make sure that we inflict as much pain as
43:29
Speaker 6: possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the
43:35
Speaker 6: Canadian population.
43:38
Speaker 1: Mikey, did you hear that? Without? Do the accent for me, Mikey,
43:44
Speaker 1: because I don't know if I'm saying it right. The
43:46
Speaker 1: moose is loose in the hoose. That's how you know
43:51
Speaker 1: it's a Canadian. Yeah, okay. So this is not going
43:54
Speaker 1: to work at all. This is a terrible plan for Canada. Like,
43:57
Speaker 1: it's just so bad. You can't make America hurt when
44:00
Speaker 1: your GDP as a country would only be America's fourth
44:03
Speaker 1: largest state. You can't. It's sort of incomparable how little
44:09
Speaker 1: leverage Canada has in a trade war with the United
44:12
Speaker 1: States of America. Hardly anyone is even reporting on this,
44:17
Speaker 1: by the way, because America is so preoccupied with ourselves
44:22
Speaker 1: and other things going on. So Canada's in this existential
44:25
Speaker 1: crisis right now. They're saying, we're going to sever ties
44:28
Speaker 1: with America and you guys are really going to feel it.
44:31
Speaker 1: And there's all this strong language and nobody's paying attention.
44:34
Speaker 1: I don't even think a lot of people in America
44:37
Speaker 1: knew that that was said. It was just like, okay, sure.
44:41
Speaker 1: But I'm listening. I'm listening to you guys, Canada. I'm listening.
44:44
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm here to listen to your grievances. And
44:47
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, this is a really bad idea.
44:48
Speaker 1: This is a very bad idea. This tariff battle is
44:54
Speaker 1: a test of Trump's promise to put American interests above
44:57
Speaker 1: all else, even if it alienates neighbors like America and Mexico.
45:01
Speaker 1: And Trump's going to choose America over Canada. I'm sorry, Canada.
45:04
Speaker 1: That's just what's going to happen. And America First Lens
45:06
Speaker 1: sees this as a necessary shakeup to reclaim economic dominance
45:11
Speaker 1: And Canada, they're not taking it well. And the way
45:13
Speaker 1: that they're handling this is going to go very poorly
45:16
Speaker 1: for them because, like I said, they wouldn't even be
45:19
Speaker 1: a top three state in terms of GDP if they
45:25
Speaker 1: were a state in the United States. They don't even
45:28
Speaker 1: compare to us economically. They don't have any leverage. It
45:31
Speaker 1: would really be much more wise of them to work
45:36
Speaker 1: peacefully and cooperate with President Trump. That would be putting
45:39
Speaker 1: Canada first. considering the position that Canada's in. So I'm
45:42
Speaker 1: listening to you, Canada, and I'm going to tell you
45:44
Speaker 1: this is not a good idea. All right, I do
45:47
Speaker 1: have some news, some good news to share with you all.
45:51
Speaker 1: Yolanda Saldivar, convicted of murdering Selena Quintanilla-Perez in 1995, has
45:58
Speaker 1: been denied parole by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles,
46:02
Speaker 1: and her next eligibility for parole review is scheduled for
46:05
Speaker 1: March 2030, when she will be 69 years old. marking
46:08
Speaker 1: over 34 years, served behind bars, and if she's released
46:14
Speaker 1: at that time. Now, you probably are asking, who is
46:17
Speaker 1: Selena Quintanilla Perez? Selena Quintanilla Perez, often simply known as Selena,
46:22
Speaker 1: was a dazzling Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and fashion icon. She
46:27
Speaker 1: was dubbed the queen of Tejano music in the 1980s
46:32
Speaker 1: and 90s. She blended traditional Mexican sounds with pop. She
46:37
Speaker 1: Started out by performing with her family band called Selena
46:40
Speaker 1: y los Dinos and eventually became a Grammy-winning superstar with
46:45
Speaker 1: hits like Como la Flor and Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.
46:48
Speaker 1: Here was Selena Quintanilla Perez live when she was still living.
46:55
Speaker 8: Michael's back there dancing.
47:06
Speaker 2: She's just so talented.
47:07
Speaker 8: Gorgeous woman, so talented, like an incredible singer, an incredible dancer.
47:12
Speaker 1: The song she was singing, It's called No Me Quedamos.
47:34
Speaker 1: If you want to look it up, you want to
47:36
Speaker 1: add it to your playlist. It was performed shortly before
47:38
Speaker 1: her death. And let's talk about her death. What actually happened?
47:43
Speaker 1: If you all don't know, there was a famous movie
47:45
Speaker 1: that portrayed her life after she died. Jennifer Lopez played
47:49
Speaker 1: the role of Selena. But if you don't know, March 31st, 1995,
47:53
Speaker 1: Selena Quintanilla Perez walked into the Days Inn motel ready
47:59
Speaker 1: to confront Yolanda. the woman who'd since been a close
48:03
Speaker 1: friend of hers and the president of her fan club
48:05
Speaker 1: and manager of her up and coming Selena fashion line.
48:10
Speaker 1: And the tensions had been simmering for weeks because Selena's
48:13
Speaker 1: family had uncovered evidence that Yolanda was embezzling money, siphoning
48:17
Speaker 1: thousands from Selena's business and fan club accounts, which was
48:22
Speaker 1: a real betrayal for Selena. I mean, she really considered
48:25
Speaker 1: this woman a friend. So that day Selena arrived to
48:28
Speaker 1: retrieve crucial financial documents, hoping to sever ties and reclaim
48:31
Speaker 1: control of her organization, unaware that this meeting would be
48:36
Speaker 1: spiraling into a death trap set by a desperate and
48:39
Speaker 1: clearly mentally unraveling Yolanda. So it began as a mission
48:43
Speaker 1: to right a wrong, ended in a single gunshot that
48:46
Speaker 1: silenced this music legend. Yolanda cornered and unhinged, pulled out
48:51
Speaker 1: a gun from her purse, and as Selena turned to leave,
48:54
Speaker 1: perhaps sensing the danger, I don't know, too late, Yolanda
48:57
Speaker 1: fired a single shot, A bullet tore through Selena's upper
49:00
Speaker 1: back and it severed a major artery near her right shoulder.
49:04
Speaker 1: And she was bleeding profusely. She fled the room. She
49:08
Speaker 1: staggered over 400 feet across the motel's parking lot to
49:11
Speaker 1: the lobby. And there she collapsed. She was gasping. Yolanda's
49:16
Speaker 1: name as her, you know, she was trying to tell people,
49:18
Speaker 1: this is my attacker. This is who killed me. And
49:20
Speaker 1: despite these, the frantic efforts from paramedics and surgeons, they
49:24
Speaker 1: tried to save her, but she was pronounced dead in
49:26
Speaker 1: the operating room. It was just a massive loss of blood.
49:29
Speaker 1: And she was, like I said, announced dead. And she
49:32
Speaker 1: was only 23 years old. She was married actually. And
49:36
Speaker 1: her husband and her mother said that She had been
49:38
Speaker 1: dreaming of having children and starting a large family. She
49:40
Speaker 1: was just at the height. You know, she was at
49:45
Speaker 1: her prime in life. She was married. She was going
49:48
Speaker 1: to start a family. She was at the top of
49:49
Speaker 1: her music career. And it was all gone. It was
49:51
Speaker 1: just done after a gruesome and really painful death. And
49:56
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that Yolanda is remaining in jail. I
50:00
Speaker 1: think the entire country is. And, you know, I felt
50:01
Speaker 1: compelled to share this story because, one, I love Selena
50:04
Speaker 1: and I love her music. And I hope that you'll
50:06
Speaker 1: check her out. if you have never heard of her,
50:09
Speaker 1: but also because it got me thinking about our first
50:11
Speaker 1: story today. Those who commit heinous acts driven by resentment, greed,
50:19
Speaker 1: a desire to just destroy, should not be met with sympathy,
50:24
Speaker 1: but with unflinching justice. Yolanda, who murdered Selena Quintanilla Perez
50:31
Speaker 1: in a calculated act of betrayal, embodies this unhuman impulse.
50:35
Speaker 1: Yolanda brought a gun to that meeting with Selena for
50:39
Speaker 1: a reason. Her embezzlement and subsequent violence reveals a conscious
50:44
Speaker 1: disregard for life, not just disregard for life. She murdered
50:48
Speaker 1: her friend. That is the ultimate betrayal. It's like the
50:52
Speaker 1: worst thing you could possibly do. She needs to stay
50:56
Speaker 1: behind bars. And this also applies to people like Virginia
51:01
Speaker 1: Basora Gonzalez, who trafficked fentanyl into this country. Probably responsible
51:07
Speaker 1: for the death of countless Americans. Forgiveness is necessary. People
51:12
Speaker 1: need to forgive in their hearts in order to move on.
51:16
Speaker 1: That's what we're called to do as Christians. But what
51:20
Speaker 1: else is necessary is just punishment and the protection of
51:25
Speaker 1: the vulnerable in society. These individuals, whether through a single
51:30
Speaker 1: gunshot or a flood of poison into communities, they chose
51:35
Speaker 1: destruction over humanity. And society's response should be clear. There's
51:39
Speaker 1: no leniency, only accountability for the evil that they've unleashed.
51:44
Speaker 1: Societies who compromise with evil always harm the innocent. The
51:50
Speaker 1: queen of Tejano music should be alive today. And her
51:54
Speaker 1: calculated killer does not deserve to walk free. Just like Virginia,
52:00
Speaker 1: a calculated killer who is responsible likely for the death
52:05
Speaker 1: of countless Americans via fentanyl. We can't compromise with evil.
52:09
Speaker 1: We can't compromise with unhumans. We can't have a society
52:14
Speaker 1: that way. By the way, speaking of not compromising with evil,
52:22
Speaker 1: in MIT Technology Review, researchers from Stanford University discussed the
52:26
Speaker 1: difficulty of translating medical breakthroughs from mice to humans and
52:31
Speaker 1: the low success rate of drugs in clinical trials and
52:36
Speaker 1: the long waiting lists for organ transplants. So the scientists
52:40
Speaker 1: say that these issues largely stem from a shortage of
52:44
Speaker 1: ethically sourced human bodies, which are essential for advancing medical science.
52:50
Speaker 1: And to address this, the article proposes the development of bodyoids,
52:55
Speaker 1: living human bodies that grown from stem cells outside of
52:59
Speaker 1: a human body, engineered without the neutral components that enable
53:04
Speaker 1: consciousness or pain. The recent advances in biotechnology, such as
53:10
Speaker 1: pluripotent stem cells, artificial uterus technology, and genetic technologies to
53:15
Speaker 1: inhibit brain development, make this concept apparently plausible. And these
53:19
Speaker 1: bodyoids would, per the scientists, provide an unlimited supply of organs, tissues,
53:24
Speaker 1: and cells for transplantation, reduce reliance on animal testing, and
53:29
Speaker 1: improve drug development by allowing personalized testing using a patient's
53:33
Speaker 1: own cells. And the article calls for investment and research,
53:38
Speaker 1: starting with animals, to explore the feasibility of bodyoids alongside
53:44
Speaker 1: public discussion to address the ethical and societal implications. So
53:47
Speaker 1: they're saying, let's talk about it. And I'm saying, okay, fine,
53:50
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Let's have a discussion here. No,
53:53
Speaker 1: let's not do this. That's what I have to say. No,
53:55
Speaker 1: let's not do this, please. This erodes, this idea of bodyoids,
54:00
Speaker 1: the very definition of humanity itself. If bodyoids blur the
54:03
Speaker 1: line between person and product, what's to stop society from
54:06
Speaker 1: devaluing the vulnerable? Those already unconscious, unborn, or disabled under
54:13
Speaker 1: the guise of progress. Already 90% of babies with a
54:16
Speaker 1: Down syndrome diagnosis are aborted. How much further could we
54:20
Speaker 1: go in dehumanizing people And do we really want to try?
54:26
Speaker 1: Life is not a commodity to be engineered or manipulated.
54:29
Speaker 1: Every human being, sentient or not, bears the divine image
54:33
Speaker 1: and possesses an inherent dignity that cannot be stripped away
54:37
Speaker 1: by science. So the idea of growing human bodies without consciousness,
54:42
Speaker 1: even for noble purposes like organ donation or research, is
54:46
Speaker 1: a grotesque violation of natural law. The body and soul
54:51
Speaker 1: are inseparable. And tampering with this unity especially by deliberately
54:55
Speaker 1: inhibiting the development of a mind, would be an affront
54:59
Speaker 1: to God's design, a hubristic overreach into the realm of
55:03
Speaker 1: the creator himself. The concept of bodyoids carries really a
55:07
Speaker 1: haunting dystopian edge. I think of like visions of a
55:11
Speaker 1: world where humanity's essence is distilled into soulless husks, grown
55:17
Speaker 1: in sterile vats of service to the living. Imagine a
55:20
Speaker 1: society where there's rows of mindless human bodies stripped of consciousness,
55:25
Speaker 1: yet pulsing with life. And they're harvested like crops, just
55:29
Speaker 1: like organs plucked to order, tissues sliced for silence, all
55:34
Speaker 1: while the line between person and product dissolve into a
55:37
Speaker 1: cold utilitarian haze. This could spiral into such a nightmarish hierarchy.
55:44
Speaker 1: The privileged few with access to perfect transplants and tailored
55:47
Speaker 1: treatments thriving atop a silent underclass of engineered flesh, their
55:52
Speaker 1: existence reviewed to just body parts. And then you think
55:56
Speaker 1: about humans merging with AI, achieving superintelligence, and then never
56:00
Speaker 1: dying with this endless supply of said body parts, becoming gods,
56:05
Speaker 1: lowercase g. It's a chilling prospect of consent slipping away,
56:11
Speaker 1: cells taken from the unwitting, bodyoids cloned from the masses.
56:14
Speaker 1: It's a future where Autonomy erodes in the powerful wheeled
56:18
Speaker 1: biology as a tool of control. And it leaves us
56:21
Speaker 1: wondering if we've traded our humanity for immortality. I don't
56:25
Speaker 1: want to trade my humanity for immortality. This is why
56:27
Speaker 1: faith matters. There won't be a line science is not
56:32
Speaker 1: willing to cross. We are going to continue to see
56:34
Speaker 1: stories like this. They're going to keep coming up. And
56:37
Speaker 1: there needs to be parameters. In a pagan society like ours,
56:41
Speaker 1: there seems to be none. I don't want to be
56:44
Speaker 1: all doom and gloom. I think there's a revival underway
56:46
Speaker 1: of right-wing traditionalist values. Beautiful things are happening in the culture.
56:51
Speaker 1: The vibe shift is real. I promise you guys, as
56:54
Speaker 1: a young person, I can tell you. My generation is shifting.
56:57
Speaker 1: But when MIT Tech Review asks for a public discussion
57:00
Speaker 1: on the ethics of things like body-oids, we have to
57:03
Speaker 1: discuss it. And don't let it be an empty ask.
57:06
Speaker 1: Let's have a real discussion. This is an abomination. We
57:09
Speaker 1: should not do it, definitely. should not allow our taxpayers
57:13
Speaker 1: to fund something like this because it is contrary to
57:16
Speaker 1: Christian moral ethics, but just basic human dignity. This is
57:20
Speaker 1: a dystopian path we don't want to go down. And
57:23
Speaker 1: that is all I have for you guys today. Thank
57:25
Speaker 1: you so much for tuning into this show. As always,
57:28
Speaker 1: if you want to listen to me in the Rumble version,
57:31
Speaker 1: the video version, you can go to rumble.com slash Evita.
57:35
Speaker 1: If you want to follow me on X or Instagram,
57:37
Speaker 1: my username is Evita Duffy underscore one. I will see
57:41
Speaker 1: you all next week. The Dan Bongino Show.
57:45
Speaker 8: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
57:47
Speaker 8: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
57:51
Speaker 8: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
57:54
Speaker 8: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
57:56
Speaker 8: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
58:01
Speaker 8: This is not a football game.
58:04
Speaker 3: If you vote, we will win.
58:06
Speaker 8: It is not complicated.
58:07
Speaker 1: The Dan Bongino Show. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.