Latest / V / Kamala Schemes War on Meat for AFTER the Election (Ep.77)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungie in a Report Early Edition.
- 0:03Speaker 2: J.D.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Vance tackles biological reality on the Joe Rogan podcast. A
- 0:09Speaker 1: trans-identifying man reports hooters for not hiring him. J.D. criticizes
- 0:16Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan's amnesty law. The Biden-Kamala admin plans to declare
- 0:20Speaker 1: war on meat after the election. Dairy farmers in Denmark
- 0:25Speaker 1: are forced to pay a carbon tax. Mark Cuban insults
- 0:29Speaker 1: MAGA women. Late night comedy fails to ever make fun
- 0:33Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris. Joe Scarborough uses an Elmo accent while
- 0:38Speaker 1: ranting about Trump. Sony loses millions on a woke gaming studio.
- 0:43Speaker 1: And the Vatican unveils the controversial anime mascot Luce for
- 0:48Speaker 1: the upcoming year. All this on Bunch Unit Report Early Edition.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So the J.D.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Vance, Joe Rogan episode was released yesterday evening, and it
- 1:10Speaker 1: was truly fascinating. J.D. was smooth. He was personable. I
- 1:15Speaker 1: think Joe Rogan clearly liked him. And here's what I
- 1:20Speaker 1: loved about it. Politicians tend to be really careful. They're slick.
- 1:25Speaker 1: They're polished. They don't want to put their foot in
- 1:27Speaker 1: their mouth. And that works for a lot of people.
- 1:30Speaker 1: It's not authentic, but it can get you pretty far
- 1:33Speaker 1: in politics. But if you want to be a true leader,
- 1:38Speaker 1: if you want to inspire people and get them really excited,
- 1:41Speaker 1: create a movement of passionate people, you have to be
- 1:46Speaker 1: able to tap into the zeitgeist. You have to be
- 1:48Speaker 1: brave enough to tell the truth, even if it isn't
- 1:51Speaker 1: culturally kosher. And that's what JD Vance did throughout the
- 1:56Speaker 1: entire Joe Rogan interview. JD and Rogan actually openly discussed autogynephilia,
- 2:02Speaker 1: which if you don't know what that is, I'm going
- 2:05Speaker 1: to let Joe Rogan explain.
- 2:06Speaker 2: The problem with that is there's a psychological condition called autogynephilia.
- 2:12Speaker 2: And autogynephilia is where men are sexually aroused by the
- 2:16Speaker 2: idea of dressing and behaving like a woman, but they're heterosexual. Now,
- 2:20Speaker 2: all of a sudden, these people with this known psychiatric
- 2:23Speaker 2: disorder are allowed to just identify as a woman and
- 2:27Speaker 2: you're a bigot if you don't let them change in
- 2:29Speaker 2: the women's room.
- 2:30Speaker 3: And you're expected to empower them at the expense of
- 2:33Speaker 3: young women who are very often much more vulnerable for
- 2:36Speaker 3: obvious reasons than young men.
- 2:40Speaker 1: That conversation could never be had via a corporate media platform.
- 2:48Speaker 1: And it's true. There are cases of transgenderism in men
- 2:51Speaker 1: that's actually true. A fetish that we've known about for
- 2:54Speaker 1: a long time. The Daily Wire did some reporting on
- 2:57Speaker 1: Leah Thomas a while back, the individual who swam against
- 3:00Speaker 1: Riley Gaines, and it appeared to suggest from the reporting
- 3:05Speaker 1: that he has autogynephilia. But again, this is something that
- 3:09Speaker 1: we aren't allowed to openly talk about. But it needs
- 3:13Speaker 1: to be discussed because of stories like this one. A
- 3:16Speaker 1: trans-identifying man is suing a Hooters franchise... for discrimination because
- 3:23Speaker 1: they refused to hire him based on his quote image.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Drop a comment. Can you understand why Hooters wouldn't be
- 3:30Speaker 1: interested in hiring a man identifying as a woman? Now,
- 3:35Speaker 1: the man has filed a claim with the New York
- 3:37Speaker 1: State Division of Human Rights who investigated and found evidence
- 3:42Speaker 1: that his so-called rights may have been violated. Now, before,
- 3:47Speaker 1: and this is important to understand about this case, before
- 3:50Speaker 1: openly identifying as a woman, this man went to the
- 3:54Speaker 1: specific hooters pretty frequently. And according to the hooters, he
- 3:59Speaker 1: frequently harassed the female waitresses and reportedly asked servers to
- 4:05Speaker 1: marry him, discussed masturbation. So after harassing staff as a man,
- 4:11Speaker 1: He turns up to the restaurant, dresses a woman, and
- 4:14Speaker 1: demands a job, and then reports the establishment when they
- 4:16Speaker 1: refuse to hire him. This is why we have to
- 4:19Speaker 1: be able to have frank conversations about this issue. You
- 4:24Speaker 1: don't have a human right to work at Hooters after
- 4:27Speaker 1: harassing female staff. That's absurd. And America is sick of
- 4:31Speaker 1: being speech policed on this topic.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Now, J.D.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Vance discussed something else that is pretty taboo, this time
- 4:39Speaker 1: among Republicans. He talked about how destructive Ronald Reagan's amnesty
- 4:45Speaker 1: law was to this country. Take a listen.
- 4:48Speaker 4: These states blew forever.
- 4:51Speaker 2: The same way they've done California.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Exactly. And we saw this.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Look, I'm like a Reagan guy, right? I'm a conservative Republican.
- 4:57Speaker 3: But Reagan screwed up a lot. He screwed up mental
- 5:00Speaker 3: health in this country. People don't talk nearly enough about that.
- 5:02Speaker 4: The amnesty thing he really screwed up. The amnesty thing
- 5:04Speaker 4: he really screwed up. Yeah. And people always say, well,
- 5:07Speaker 4: you know, Ronald Reagan, you know, when they.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Critics of Donald Trump will say, well, look at how
- 5:11Speaker 3: Reagan talked about immigration. Because of what Ronald Reagan did
- 5:15Speaker 3: at the 1986 amnesty, California is now effectively a permanently
- 5:20Speaker 3: blue state.
- 5:21Speaker 4: Except when Arnold won. But Arnold ran as.
- 5:25Speaker 1: A super moderate Republican.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Arnold does endorse Kamala, by the way. He was a
- 5:27Speaker 4: major celebrity, right?
- 5:28Speaker 3: He was at the height of his celebrity power, and
- 5:31Speaker 3: he still won barely, even though California had been mismanaged.
- 5:35Speaker 4: California is a one-party state. Because of Ronald Reagan's amnesty.
- 5:39Speaker 2: And that's the fear, is that the entire country could
- 5:41Speaker 2: become one party.
- 5:41Speaker 4: The entire country becomes that.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Now, like J.D., I don't hate Ronald Reagan. I don't
- 5:47Speaker 1: think he was a bad president. Got really bad presidents.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan is not one of them. But we should
- 5:53Speaker 1: be allowed to evaluate Ronald Reagan holistically. Legalizing 2.7 million
- 5:59Speaker 1: people was a bad move.
- 6:01Speaker 3: And J.D. is right.
- 6:01Speaker 1: It lost us California forever. And Republicans lost a ton
- 6:06Speaker 1: of power in Congress. because of the changing demographics thanks
- 6:09Speaker 1: to the amnesty bill. And I know what Reagan defenders
- 6:13Speaker 1: always say. Well, the Democrats promised Reagan immigration reform.
- 6:17Speaker 5: Yeah, they did.
- 6:19Speaker 1: And you know what?
- 6:20Speaker 5: They lied.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Because legal immigration and mass amnesty only benefits Democrats. That's
- 6:26Speaker 1: Reagan's bad. You never trust the left. And you especially
- 6:30Speaker 1: don't trust them to fulfill a promise that's beneficial for
- 6:32Speaker 1: them to break. Another controversial topic that JD openly discussed
- 6:38Speaker 1: was that he was apparently injured by the COVID vaccine.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Take a listen.
- 6:43Speaker 3: I took the vax and, you know, I haven't been
- 6:46Speaker 3: boosted or anything, but the moment where I really started
- 6:49Speaker 3: to get red pilled on the whole vax thing was
- 6:52Speaker 3: the sickest that I've been in the last 15 years
- 6:55Speaker 3: by far was when I took the vaccine. And I,
- 6:57Speaker 3: you know, I've had COVID at this point five times.
- 7:00Speaker 3: I was in bed for two days. My heart was racing.
- 7:03Speaker 3: I was like, the fact that we're not even allowed
- 7:06Speaker 3: to talk about that, even, you know, no, no, like
- 7:09Speaker 3: serious injury. But even the fact that we're not even
- 7:11Speaker 3: allowed to talk about the fact that I was as
- 7:13Speaker 3: sick as I've.
- 7:14Speaker 4: Ever been for two days.
- 7:15Speaker 3: And the worst COVID experience I had was like a
- 7:18Speaker 3: sinus infection. I'm not really willing to trade that. And
- 7:22Speaker 3: you don't even, you know, everybody that I know or
- 7:25Speaker 3: a lot of people I know, they talk about the
- 7:27Speaker 3: second shot that they got of the vaccine was really
- 7:29Speaker 3: that made them really, really sick. Well, that's a side
- 7:33Speaker 3: effect and not a side effect that we even talk
- 7:35Speaker 3: about enough.
- 7:35Speaker 4: In this country.
- 7:38Speaker 1: So many Americans, people that I know, friends of mine
- 7:41Speaker 1: who went to college, who wanted to play in sports
- 7:45Speaker 1: and not deal with the vax mandates, they were bullied
- 7:49Speaker 1: into taking the COVID jab. And then they were bullied
- 7:54Speaker 1: into silence when they were injured by it. I know
- 7:56Speaker 1: people who were injured by it. It was just horrific.
- 8:01Speaker 1: And here is our VP candidate validating this for all
- 8:06Speaker 1: of us in spite of all the gaslighting from the government,
- 8:09Speaker 1: Big Pharma, the corporate media, which by the way, the
- 8:12Speaker 1: corporate media is bought by Big Pharma. You know who
- 8:15Speaker 1: else has been willing to talk frankly about Big Pharma
- 8:18Speaker 1: and health and COVID? RFK Jr. And the media has
- 8:23Speaker 1: come after him so hard and it's no wonder why.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Every time you see an ad for some drug on
- 8:29Speaker 1: a cable news channel, They aren't selling you the drug.
- 8:34Speaker 1: They're buying the TV stations. So the corporate media has
- 8:38Speaker 1: smeared RFK Jr. as a nutcase and a fear monger
- 8:42Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is going to make him some sort
- 8:44Speaker 1: of dictatorial health czar. And yet no one is discussing
- 8:49Speaker 1: how the Biden Kamala admin couldn't be more anti-science and
- 8:54Speaker 1: anti-human health. Per a report from the Washington Examiner, the
- 8:58Speaker 1: USDA Nutrition Guidelines Committee is secretly planning to declare a
- 9:03Speaker 1: war on meat after the election. And by the way,
- 9:08Speaker 1: the panel's members are funded by Coca-Cola, Nestle, you know,
- 9:13Speaker 1: companies truly, truly committed to human health. Not. And Bill
- 9:18Speaker 1: Gates also happens to be funding this panel. And this
- 9:24Speaker 1: war on meat infuriates me because humans need protein. Literally nobody,
- 9:30Speaker 1: nobody disputes that high-protein diets are ideal for human flourishing.
- 9:34Speaker 1: And yet our ruling class continually demonizes meat, particularly red meat,
- 9:39Speaker 1: which happens to have all the essential amino acids present
- 9:42Speaker 1: for a complete protein source. Steak is a superfood. But
- 9:47Speaker 1: to appease the climate hysterics, the Biden-Kamala USDA is willing
- 9:52Speaker 1: to sacrifice human health. And it's incredible. that the media
- 9:58Speaker 1: is getting away with this demonization of RFK Jr. because
- 10:02Speaker 1: what he's promised to do under a new Trump admin
- 10:05Speaker 1: is incredible and should be completely bipartisan.
- 10:09Speaker 6: Take a listen.
- 10:10Speaker 5: These agencies, the FDA, USDA, CDC, all of them are
- 10:14Speaker 5: controlled by giant for-profit corporations. 75% of the FDA's funding
- 10:20Speaker 5: doesn't come from taxpayer. It comes from pharma. And pharma
- 10:24Speaker 5: executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of
- 10:27Speaker 5: these agencies with President Trump's backing. I'm going to change that.
- 10:32Speaker 5: We're going to staff these agencies with honest scientists and
- 10:37Speaker 5: doctors who are free from industry funding. We're going to
- 10:41Speaker 5: make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are
- 10:45Speaker 5: informed by unbiased science. A sick child is the best
- 10:49Speaker 5: thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children or adults
- 10:53Speaker 5: get sick with a chronic condition, they're put on medication
- 10:58Speaker 5: for their entire life. Imagine what will happen when Medicare
- 11:03Speaker 5: starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $ 1, 500 a month, and
- 11:08Speaker 5: it's being recommended for children as young as six, all
- 11:13Speaker 5: for a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable. and barely
- 11:16Speaker 5: even existed 100 years ago.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Who can argue with that? Stop incentivizing our federal agencies
- 11:24Speaker 1: to promote bad health advice and standards because they're funded
- 11:28Speaker 1: and staffed by Big Pharma and Big Food, which makes
- 11:31Speaker 1: money off of sick people and food addiction. And if
- 11:36Speaker 1: we had a healthy media apparatus, everyone would realize how
- 11:40Speaker 1: deeply corrupt the Kamala Biden admin is, how corrupt the
- 11:44Speaker 1: Kamala campaign is. Kamala is on the side of the
- 11:48Speaker 1: climate cult, which is destroying farms. And that brings me
- 11:53Speaker 1: to my next story. Dairy farmers in Denmark now have
- 11:57Speaker 1: to pay the world's first carbon tax on their livestock
- 12:01Speaker 1: beginning in 2023, all in the name of the climate
- 12:04Speaker 1: crisis that does not exist. And like here in America,
- 12:09Speaker 1: small and mid-sized farmers are already struggling in Denmark. So
- 12:13Speaker 1: what this measure will do is ensure that farms shut down. Now,
- 12:18Speaker 1: Kamala won't admit this on the campaign trail, especially because
- 12:21Speaker 1: she has to win over capitals of meat production like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan,
- 12:28Speaker 1: all swing states. But she would love to do what
- 12:31Speaker 1: they're doing in Denmark here in America. We can't forget
- 12:34Speaker 1: about who Kamala Harris is. She was the co-sponsor of
- 12:38Speaker 1: the Green New Deal. Here she is on camera saying
- 12:43Speaker 1: that she wants to limit meat consumption.
- 12:46Speaker 7: In terms of creating incentives that we will eat in
- 12:50Speaker 7: a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that
- 12:52Speaker 7: we will be educated about the effect of our eating
- 12:56Speaker 7: habits on our environment. And we have to do a
- 12:58Speaker 7: much better job of that, and the government has to
- 13:00Speaker 7: do a much better job of that.
- 13:02Speaker 5: Yeah. So, I mean, I'm just saying you love cheeseburgers.
- 13:04Speaker 3: I mean, we all do.
- 13:05Speaker 7: I don't know whether you try the Beyond Burger, the
- 13:07Speaker 7: Impossible Burger, right? They try, but it's.
- 13:09Speaker 6: Not quite the same.
- 13:10Speaker 8: That's my personal opinion.
- 13:12Speaker 7: But would you support changing the dietary guidelines?
- 13:15Speaker 5: Yes.
- 13:16Speaker 6: You know, the food pyramid.
- 13:17Speaker 7: Yes.
- 13:18Speaker 8: To reduce red meat specifically.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Yes, I would.
- 13:22Speaker 3: Yes, she would.
- 13:24Speaker 1: This is who Kamala Harris is. This is what a
- 13:27Speaker 1: Kamala admin is all about. She's aligned with the WEF
- 13:32Speaker 1: and the UN, all these globalist organizations, which again, on
- 13:37Speaker 1: a global scale, are fighting a war on meat, fighting farmers,
- 13:41Speaker 1: saying that you should replace amazing animal-based protein with bugs,
- 13:48Speaker 1: with fake meat, lab-created meat. That's not good for humans.
- 13:53Speaker 1: We've never eaten like that. And this, again, like I said,
- 13:58Speaker 1: it should be a bipartisan issue. And it's incredible that
- 14:02Speaker 1: the media is getting away with this. But the positive
- 14:05Speaker 1: thing is that we have alternative media outlets like Joe Rogan,
- 14:08Speaker 1: like this podcast, like Dan Bongino, to talk about things
- 14:12Speaker 1: honestly because we're not bought out by Big Food and
- 14:14Speaker 1: Big Pharma. We're going to switch gears here. The Kamala
- 14:18Speaker 1: campaign is truly hellbent on insulting voters. Yesterday, Kamala supporter
- 14:25Speaker 1: and billionaire Mark Cuban went on The View where he
- 14:29Speaker 1: said that MAGA women... are not strong and not intelligent.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Take a listen.
- 14:34Speaker 5: Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women.
- 14:38Speaker 4: Ever.
- 14:39Speaker 8: It's just that simple.
- 14:42Speaker 1: So MAGA supporters are garbage and now MAGA women are
- 14:45Speaker 1: stupid and weak. It's like they can't help themselves. They
- 14:49Speaker 1: can't mask their elitism. Even one week before the election,
- 14:54Speaker 1: just keep your mouth shut. Don't insult the voters just
- 14:57Speaker 1: for this week. And they can't do it. They can't
- 15:00Speaker 1: hold back their disdain for the masses and their hatred
- 15:04Speaker 1: for half the country just for a few days. They
- 15:07Speaker 1: can't do it. Speaking of the elites, Scarlett Johansson, Robert
- 15:12Speaker 1: Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, some other celebs, all
- 15:17Speaker 1: Avengers actors, they made a campaign ad for Kamala and
- 15:21Speaker 1: it was pretty cringe. Take a listen. Hi, you guys.
- 15:26Speaker 4: Hi, Avengers.
- 15:27Speaker 6: Hey, Scarlet. Jumping on the cold.
- 15:30Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 15:31Speaker 8: I think you mean assembling.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Don, that's pretty good.
- 15:36Speaker 4: No, that was funny.
- 15:37Speaker 8: Scarlett, it is our pleasure to come together and to
- 15:40Speaker 8: get the vote out this election.
- 15:42Speaker 4: Yeah, how can we be of service?
- 15:44Speaker 6: How about we start with what our voting plans are
- 15:46Speaker 6: going to be, who we're going to bring to the
- 15:48Speaker 6: polls with us, that sort of thing.
- 15:50Speaker 2: I think Kamala Harris needs a catchphrase.
- 15:53Speaker 4: Oh, yes, definitely a catchphrase. How about this? I'm just
- 15:57Speaker 4: off the top of my head. I can do this
- 15:59Speaker 4: all day. Shut up. I hate it.
- 16:02Speaker 5: Did he?
- 16:02Speaker 6: I mean, it's original, but.
- 16:04Speaker 2: What about something punchier, like.
- 16:05Speaker 1: All right, we're good with that.
- 16:07Speaker 4: You looking for this?
- 16:08Speaker 1: Michael just said that Robert Downey Jr. did a movie
- 16:11Speaker 1: in blackface, which is pretty interesting. Pretty ironic here. The
- 16:16Speaker 1: rules don't apply when you're a left-winger. That video was
- 16:19Speaker 1: very cringe. It just keeps getting more cringe as you
- 16:21Speaker 1: go along. And I have to be honest, it kind
- 16:24Speaker 1: of reminded me of another time celebrities got together and
- 16:29Speaker 1: made a video. Do you all remember when our government
- 16:32Speaker 1: forcibly shut down businesses, locked everyone in their homes, and
- 16:36Speaker 1: forced them to take an experimental vaccine? And then all
- 16:39Speaker 1: these celebrities made a video to a communist song as
- 16:43Speaker 1: if this was some sort of all-in-this-together moment, when in reality,
- 16:48Speaker 1: it was grotesque and unprecedented oppression. Does anybody remember that?
- 16:54Speaker 1: Here's a reminder.
- 16:55Speaker 7: There's no heaven.
- 16:58Speaker 4: Easy if you try no hell below us.
- 17:05Speaker 6: Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Someone comments, stop the pain. Okay, stop the pain, stop
- 17:25Speaker 1: the pain. I'm sorry, chat. We had to go back
- 17:29Speaker 1: and revisit the Imagine video. And these people, they really
- 17:35Speaker 1: make me sick. And many of them were paid by
- 17:37Speaker 1: the federal government to promote anti-science COVID propaganda. And by
- 17:42Speaker 1: the way, the song choice is very telling. a world
- 17:47Speaker 1: without borders, religions, or possessions. This is exactly what the
- 17:50Speaker 1: left wants. And it's terrifying. It's grotesque. They are elitist.
- 17:55Speaker 1: They are rallying for the system of oppression while the
- 17:59Speaker 1: rest of us suffer during COVID. And the rest of
- 18:02Speaker 1: us overwhelmingly oppose, or at least half the country overwhelmingly
- 18:06Speaker 1: oppose a Kamala admin. But they force their Hollywood, New
- 18:14Speaker 1: York City politics on the rest of us. And they're
- 18:16Speaker 1: fine either way. It doesn't matter if Kamala wins, if
- 18:19Speaker 1: Trump wins. They're still going to be rich either way.
- 18:23Speaker 1: They're still going to have a mansion in, where do
- 18:26Speaker 1: they live in California, Mikey? They're still going to live
- 18:32Speaker 1: very wealthy, very privileged lives. Somebody comments, if the Great
- 18:37Speaker 1: Reset was a pop song. Yes, it's the anthem for
- 18:41Speaker 1: the Great Reset. That's 100% true. And it just, I'm
- 18:46Speaker 1: just sick of it. And I don't know why they
- 18:47Speaker 1: keep making these terrible videos. Nobody likes them. It's not
- 18:51Speaker 1: going to change anybody's votes. Speaking of the celebrity class,
- 18:58Speaker 1: I'm sure that this will surprise no one. But according
- 19:01Speaker 1: to the Media Research Council, hosts of late night comedy
- 19:05Speaker 1: shows told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump
- 19:12Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris this campaign cycle. But 1,428 of them
- 19:17Speaker 1: were about Trump and 35, 35 were about Kamala Harris,
- 19:25Speaker 1: which is a 40 to one ratio or almost 90%
- 19:30Speaker 1: to 2%. It's crazy that these people are so ideologically
- 19:37Speaker 1: committed to Kamala that they refuse to tell jokes about
- 19:40Speaker 1: her because she's just a joke herself. She's constantly generating
- 19:44Speaker 1: new material that could be used by comedians, and yet
- 19:47Speaker 1: they won't use it. J.D. Vance is not a comedian.
- 19:51Speaker 4: He doesn't have a.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Team of writers and numerous rehearsals like SNL, and yet
- 19:55Speaker 1: here he is making the perfect Kamala impression.
- 19:58Speaker 4: The only way I can describe it is she talks
- 20:00Speaker 4: in circles.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Tim Dillon says it's like she does gypsy curses because
- 20:05Speaker 2: she speaks in gypsy curses.
- 20:06Speaker 4: That's very good.
- 20:10Speaker 3: We need to build an opportunity economy because if Americans
- 20:13Speaker 3: don't have opportunity, then they're not going to have the
- 20:16Speaker 3: opportunity to be American.
- 20:18Speaker 1: That's exactly how she talks. Total word salad idiocy. But
- 20:24Speaker 1: SNL would never do that because they're committed to Kamala winning.
- 20:29Speaker 8: And by the way, late.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Night shows were paid tons of money by our federal
- 20:34Speaker 1: government to push COVID vaccine propaganda and to make fun
- 20:37Speaker 1: of the unvaccinated. And people are sick of this. Meanwhile,
- 20:42Speaker 1: the Democrats are just absolutely losing their minds. They're lashing out.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Here is Joe Scarborough switching to an Elmo accent while
- 20:52Speaker 1: ranting about Trump.
- 20:54Speaker 3: Hypocrisy, Mika, over over a misstatement by Joe Biden, which
- 20:59Speaker 3: he quickly corrected, is so laughable because this guy does.
- 21:04Speaker 8: This every day.
- 21:05Speaker 2: And then you turn on Fox News again. Oh, how
- 21:08Speaker 2: could anybody do this?
- 21:10Speaker 6: I've never seen this before.
- 21:14Speaker 8: Despite the fact.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Notice how Mika is trying to get him to stop.
- 21:20Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, well. Because he actually does sound like
- 21:25Speaker 1: Elmo there. You guys tell me this isn't just like Elmo.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Hi, this is Elmo's World.
- 21:33Speaker 8: Yeah, Elmo is very happy to see you.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Can we go back to J.D. Mike, or not to J.D.,
- 21:39Speaker 1: to Joe Scarborough?
- 21:51Speaker 4: The hypocrisy maker, oh, she quickly corrected.
- 21:54Speaker 8: And then you never seen this before.
- 21:57Speaker 2: It sounds just like him.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Forget with that, Mikey. But in all seriousness, Trump has
- 22:03Speaker 1: literally broken this man. Trump has broken all of them.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Not just politically. He's stolen their power. They're influencing power.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Joe Rogan is far more famous and influential than anyone
- 22:17Speaker 1: on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC combined. He's more powerful than
- 22:22Speaker 1: any of the left-wing columnists. Frankly, he's more culturally influential
- 22:27Speaker 1: than President Biden, than the President of the United States.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Trump tore down traditional power structures in this country. And
- 22:36Speaker 1: this coincided with a monumental shift in the media landscape.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Our institutions, our elites have lied to us so often.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Weapons of mass destruction, COVID vaccine efficacy, even the flipping
- 22:50Speaker 1: food pyramid. But people are now going to different sources.
- 22:56Speaker 1: They trust alternative media, independent journalists, reputable podcasters. And it's
- 23:03Speaker 1: hard to be in a position that's supposed to be
- 23:08Speaker 1: prestigious and powerful, like Joe Scarborough's job, and then realize
- 23:14Speaker 1: you're a joke. And ultimately, it's increasingly not cool to
- 23:20Speaker 1: be woke. Case in point, Sony lost over $ 200 million
- 23:26Speaker 1: with a DEI game studio, Firewalk Studios, that pushed morbidly
- 23:31Speaker 1: obese women and robots with pronouns. Sony purchased Firewalk Studios
- 23:37Speaker 1: back in 2023, but its output was so bad and
- 23:40Speaker 1: so expensive, it's already been shut down. Firewalk Studios created
- 23:45Speaker 1: a game called Concord. We've covered it on the show before.
- 23:48Speaker 1: Concord is a space-aged first-person shooter game that had excessive
- 23:54Speaker 1: and forced diversity themes. Here are some of the characters
- 23:58Speaker 1: in this game. If you're listening, you see this very
- 24:02Speaker 1: fat black woman, another very fat black woman, all... Right,
- 24:10Speaker 1: Michael says, I don't know if it's a woman because, again,
- 24:12Speaker 1: they all have bizarre pronouns. Obese queer ladies. I can
- 24:17Speaker 1: see why the gamers aren't interested in that. And I
- 24:19Speaker 1: can see why a lot of young people are sick
- 24:22Speaker 1: of this. And with so much rot in pop culture,
- 24:26Speaker 1: it can really feel demoralizing, especially if you are a
- 24:30Speaker 1: young person. And there are very few things out there
- 24:33Speaker 1: that Gen Z and Gen Alpha Christians can really love
- 24:36Speaker 1: and embrace, which is why I want to share with
- 24:39Speaker 1: you all this next story. And beware, but I'm about
- 24:43Speaker 1: to tackle one of the great internet controversies of the week.
- 24:47Speaker 1: And my take here is probably not what most of
- 24:49Speaker 1: you would expect. So ahead of the Catholic Church's 2025 Jubilee,
- 24:54Speaker 1: the Vatican launched a cartoon mascot to be the face
- 24:58Speaker 1: of the church's upcoming Holy Year and the face of
- 25:02Speaker 1: the Holy Seas Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
- 25:07Speaker 1: And the mascot's name is Lucey. And if you're listening,
- 25:11Speaker 1: Luce is a cute little anime girl with blue hair,
- 25:14Speaker 1: a yellow raincoat, a rosary around her neck, and a
- 25:18Speaker 1: walking staff. Oh, and muddy boots. Now, Luce, which means
- 25:24Speaker 1: light in Italian, is intended to engage with pop culture
- 25:28Speaker 1: and guide young people through the whole year. Her yellow
- 25:31Speaker 1: sailor raincoat is a nod to both the Vatican flag
- 25:35Speaker 1: and to journeying through life's storms. The mascot's muddy boots
- 25:39Speaker 1: represent a long and difficult journey, and her staff symbolizes
- 25:45Speaker 1: the pilgrimage toward eternity. And Luce has caused a major
- 25:50Speaker 1: rift in the Catholic Church between the young and the old.
- 25:54Speaker 1: A lot of older Catholics seem to hate Luce and
- 25:58Speaker 1: have called her everything from ugly to demonic. Here is
- 26:03Speaker 1: Catholic podcaster Taylor Marshall expressing strong disapproval in a recent
- 26:08Speaker 1: video of Luce.
- 26:09Speaker 8: I was going to pass over it. I was like,
- 26:11Speaker 8: that's cringe. And then all I see in my timeline
- 26:14Speaker 8: on Twitter is this. And let's be honest, anime is
- 26:17Speaker 8: a huge market. Bigger than Marvel. It's bigger than Spider-Man.
- 26:21Speaker 8: So I can see why they do it. But again,
- 26:23Speaker 8: it just seems to me as a gimmick. So someone
- 26:26Speaker 8: in the Vatican said, you know what? We need a mascot,
- 26:30Speaker 8: like a NBA guy running around doing flips, slam dunks.
- 26:34Speaker 8: They're like, no, we're thinking more anime. Big in Japan, too.
- 26:38Speaker 8: This guy here, he was like, that's brilliant. And I
- 26:41Speaker 8: have just the guy. You mean like a Japanese artist?
- 26:44Speaker 8: And he's like, no, a gay Italian guy. The Catholic
- 26:48Speaker 8: Remnant says, I like anime, but this is gay. What
- 26:52Speaker 8: I'm trying to say is Catholicism is so true, so beautiful,
- 26:56Speaker 8: so good, so amazing.
- 26:58Speaker 4: We don't need a gimmick.
- 26:59Speaker 8: We don't need a blue haired anime doll. Bring back St.
- 27:03Speaker 8: George slaying the dragon as a mascot.
- 27:09Speaker 1: I can empathize with some of Taylor Marshall's criticisms. But
- 27:16Speaker 1: the thing is, traditional Gen Z Christians, they love Luce.
- 27:22Speaker 1: And they've turned her into an inspiring character to rally around.
- 27:27Speaker 1: And I just want to quickly address his point about
- 27:29Speaker 1: it being created by some pro-LGBTQ artists. The answer to
- 27:34Speaker 1: that is to pray for this man. Pray for him.
- 27:37Speaker 1: That's all you should do. And the reason that I'm
- 27:40Speaker 1: pretty sympathetic to Luce is the fan art has been incredible.
- 27:44Speaker 1: She's calling for crusades. She's saving babies from abortion clinics.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Young people have been making really awesome edits of Luce.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Here's one great example. And there are tons of examples
- 28:19Speaker 1: of that all over the place. And now I'm going
- 28:23Speaker 1: to say for myself, I am a Gen Z Catholic
- 28:25Speaker 1: who wears a chapel veil to mass. I love the
- 28:28Speaker 1: Latin mass. I'm not interested in modernizing or updating the liturgy.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And I don't see luce as a threat to the
- 28:36Speaker 1: church at all. Historically, Christians, particularly Catholics, have effectively evangelized
- 28:42Speaker 1: by translating Christianity into terms accessible to people steeped in
- 28:46Speaker 1: pagan traditions. St. Augustine of Canterbury reframed Anglo-Saxon festivals to
- 28:52Speaker 1: coincide with Christian feast days.
- 28:54Speaker 5: St.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Patrick blended Celtic symbols with Christian teachings, like creating the
- 28:59Speaker 1: Celtic cross to make the face more relatable to the
- 29:02Speaker 1: local culture. Our Lady of Guadalupe herself appeared to Juan
- 29:07Speaker 1: Diego as an Aztec princess. So in our current cultural climate,
- 29:12Speaker 1: which is increasingly neo-pagan, an anime mascot is actually very
- 29:17Speaker 1: clever and frankly on brand with the Catholic Church. There
- 29:20Speaker 1: are already tons of non-religious Japanese anime art accounts discussing
- 29:25Speaker 1: the rosary and all the Luce symbolism. That's huge. And
- 29:31Speaker 1: it's also worth noting that Pope Francis has not been
- 29:34Speaker 1: supportive of traditional Catholics Particularly here in America, I would
- 29:38Speaker 1: argue that, frankly, he's abandoned us.
- 29:40Speaker 5: Us.
- 29:40Speaker 1: And it's possible that Luce's critics are right, and perhaps
- 29:43Speaker 1: the Pope envisioned Luce to make the church less traditional.
- 29:48Speaker 1: If so, it's completely backfired. Instead, Luce has been embraced
- 29:53Speaker 1: by traditional Gen Z Catholics, and Luce herself has embraced
- 29:58Speaker 1: become based in a symbol of traditional Catholicism. And it
- 30:02Speaker 1: makes sense why many young people are drawn to her
- 30:04Speaker 1: because anime aesthetics are very prevalent in young trad Catholic
- 30:08Speaker 1: corners of the internet. So it's entirely logical that many
- 30:12Speaker 1: young people would love Luce while older generations may struggle
- 30:16Speaker 1: to understand her appeal.
- 30:18Speaker 7: And that's okay.
- 30:19Speaker 1: She's for young people and she's drawing people to Christianity.
- 30:23Speaker 1: So I support Luce. I think she's awesome. And I
- 30:27Speaker 1: think Luce serves as a powerful reminder of the formidable
- 30:31Speaker 1: presence of right-wing voices and the kind of power that
- 30:35Speaker 1: they wield in the digital realm. When platforms like X
- 30:40Speaker 1: or Rumble embrace genuine freedom, the right always flourishes and
- 30:45Speaker 1: the cultural tide shifts in our favor. The adage that
- 30:49Speaker 1: the left can't meme is really true. It's never rung truer.
- 30:54Speaker 1: Unlike SNL, we embrace humor. and don't fear the truth.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Unlike our left-wing counterparts, we openly discuss vaccine injuries and
- 31:03Speaker 1: the realities of biological sex. And though Trump may be
- 31:07Speaker 1: an older guy, he's really young at heart. He understands
- 31:10Speaker 1: pop culture. He knows how to break the internet with
- 31:13Speaker 1: a McDonald's visit or a fiery tweet. And this underscores
- 31:18Speaker 1: the critical battle that we face today, the most important battle,
- 31:23Speaker 1: which is the fight for free expression. Who could forget
- 31:27Speaker 1: when Trump was booted off of every single platform after
- 31:31Speaker 1: January 6th. With authentic freedom on the internet, we always win.
- 31:37Speaker 1: It's similar to why when mothers contemplating abortion undergo an ultrasound,
- 31:42Speaker 1: they often choose life. When people are presented with the
- 31:46Speaker 1: truth and sincerity, hearts and minds change. And we have
- 31:51Speaker 1: people on our side like J.D. Vance who are willing
- 31:53Speaker 1: to tell the truth. It's just a matter of making
- 31:56Speaker 1: sure everyone else can hear it. And that's all I
- 31:59Speaker 1: have for you guys today on this Friday. As always,
- 32:02Speaker 1: thank you to my husband, Michael. If you are listening
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