Latest / V / Bernie Gets Mauled by His Own Side—Again (Ep.183)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungie in a Report, early edition.
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- 0:19Speaker 1: for America. All right, let's get to these headlines this morning.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Trump freezes Harvard funding and demands the end of D-E-I.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Trump also bars illegals from obtaining Social Security benefits. Bernie
- 0:33Speaker 1: Sanders rally is interrupted by pro-Palestine fanatics. A Georgia man
- 0:38Speaker 1: is arrested for threatening to kill Tulsi Gabbard and her husband.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Democrats plan a trip to find the MS-13 gang member
- 0:47Speaker 1: who was deported to El Salvador and bring him back
- 0:49Speaker 1: to America. Love on the Spectrum moms are attacked for
- 0:53Speaker 1: voting for Trump. and the Gen Z modesty trend is
- 0:57Speaker 1: angering a lot of feminist millennials. All this on Bongino Report,
- 1:02Speaker 1: early edition.
- 1:12Speaker 2: To the American people right now, I said, well, we're
- 1:14Speaker 2: just not going to make it as a country unless
- 1:16Speaker 2: we give $ 9 billion to Harvard that's sitting on $ 53 billion.
- 1:19Speaker 2: You'd get your ass kicked, I imagine, in a political campaign. Now,
- 1:22Speaker 2: Don't misunderstand. I wish Harvard would actually work something out here.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I do agree that these universities are important. They do
- 1:28Speaker 2: important work. But I don't agree that we need to
- 1:31Speaker 2: continue to fund people who won't listen to us when
- 1:34Speaker 2: we say, you have problems. I would argue that it's
- 1:37Speaker 2: a national security problem that these Ivy League colleges are
- 1:39Speaker 2: turning out people who fundamentally hate Western civilization.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And that's the fundamental question, right? These universities churning out
- 1:46Speaker 1: people who hate Western civilization. Once the great universities of
- 1:52Speaker 1: the West were cathedrals of the mind, born from the
- 1:56Speaker 1: Christian conviction that truth exists and is worth pursuing. The
- 2:00Speaker 1: medieval university was built on a theological foundation anchored in
- 2:04Speaker 1: the belief that reason and revelation were not at odds
- 2:07Speaker 1: but intertwined. To be educated meant to be formed intellectually, morally,
- 2:13Speaker 1: and also spiritually. Oxford, Harvard, and Yale did not just teach.
- 2:19Speaker 1: They catechized. Their mission wasn't job training or activist grooming.
- 2:24Speaker 1: It was the cultivation of wisdom and the search for
- 2:27Speaker 1: truth grounded in the dignity of man made in the
- 2:31Speaker 1: image of God. But that vision has collapsed. Today's universities
- 2:34Speaker 1: are no longer centers of truth, but fortresses of ideology.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Post-structuralist thought hollowed out the curriculum. Replacing beauty and order
- 2:46Speaker 1: with critique and deconstruction, objective truth became a colonial artifact,
- 2:52Speaker 1: logic a tool of oppression. The humanities were gutted and
- 2:55Speaker 1: replaced with grievance studies. Meanwhile, the institutions themselves ballooned into
- 3:00Speaker 1: tax-sheltered hedge funds, harvesting billions in endowment profits, often with
- 3:06Speaker 1: more investment managers and full-time faculty. Harvard's endowment, exceeds $ 50 billion.
- 3:13Speaker 1: It's managed by a sprawling investment office that channels billions
- 3:17Speaker 1: into private equity, hedge funds, global markets, reaping enormous tax-free
- 3:23Speaker 1: returns under the legal shelter of its nonprofit status. And
- 3:28Speaker 1: despite this immense wealth, Harvard continues to receive billions in
- 3:32Speaker 1: federal funding through research grants, contracts, student aid, amounting to billions.
- 3:40Speaker 1: As of yesterday, however, the funds were frozen. Yet yesterday,
- 3:44Speaker 1: the Trump admin froze over $ 2. 2 billion in grants and
- 3:49Speaker 1: $ 60 million in contracts to Harvard University. And the Trump
- 3:54Speaker 1: administration's letter to Harvard is an unprecedented move. It's part
- 3:59Speaker 1: of ideological correction that has needed to happen for a
- 4:04Speaker 1: long time, an institutional reckoning. It demands the shutdown of
- 4:10Speaker 1: DEI offices, a return to merit-based hiring and admissions, audits
- 4:16Speaker 1: of viewpoint diversity across departments, and the dismantling of activist
- 4:21Speaker 1: programs like the Religion and Public Life Program and the
- 4:24Speaker 1: Carr Center for Human Rights. And it even proposes banning
- 4:28Speaker 1: face masks and defunding student groups like Students for Justice
- 4:32Speaker 1: in Palestine. Now, I'm going to be straight with you guys.
- 4:37Speaker 1: This is not a cookie-cutter issue. I'm not going to
- 4:40Speaker 1: pander to anyone. You're here, and I'm going to give
- 4:43Speaker 1: you my honest, nuanced opinion about what's happening here in
- 4:47Speaker 1: this latest Trump move. Most of these demands are incredibly reasonable,
- 4:53Speaker 1: and not only reasonable, but essential and long overdue. One
- 4:57Speaker 1: of these measures, I think, goes a little too far,
- 5:00Speaker 1: especially those that risk policing student speech. like the banning
- 5:05Speaker 1: of certain student groups. And I want to address that
- 5:08Speaker 1: first because I love a lot of things about this.
- 5:10Speaker 1: It's just this one issue that I have to address.
- 5:14Speaker 1: So let me be clear. I believe in radical free
- 5:19Speaker 1: speech in general, but especially student-free inquiry. College campuses need
- 5:26Speaker 1: to be open to the freedom of thought and expression.
- 5:30Speaker 1: They have to be. You can't learn unless you're allowed
- 5:34Speaker 1: to explore every possibility. And that includes a student's right
- 5:39Speaker 1: to criticize Israel, a foreign government, I might add. Students
- 5:43Speaker 1: are allowed to have these conversations. It even includes the
- 5:46Speaker 1: idea of free speech, believe it or not, supporting Hamas. Yeah,
- 5:50Speaker 1: I know that this may be a shock to some
- 5:51Speaker 1: of you, but American citizens on American college campuses are
- 5:57Speaker 1: allowed to say that they like the horrific things that
- 6:02Speaker 1: Hamas has done. By the way, I've seen very little,
- 6:05Speaker 1: if any, evidence that a lot of students are saying
- 6:08Speaker 1: they love Hamas. Certainly some of them are. It's not
- 6:10Speaker 1: the majority of them, at least by my observations. But
- 6:14Speaker 1: even if they were the majority saying that they love
- 6:17Speaker 1: Hamas and they love terrorism, which again is obscene, these
- 6:21Speaker 1: students are allowed to say horrible things. The First Amendment
- 6:25Speaker 1: is here to protect disfavorable speech. Favorable speech doesn't need protection.
- 6:33Speaker 1: It will never need protection. That's not the point of
- 6:37Speaker 1: the First Amendment. And I'm never going to cheer on
- 6:41Speaker 1: silencing or punishing students for their politics, no matter how
- 6:45Speaker 1: much I disagree with them, because this is a principled stand. Now,
- 6:52Speaker 1: taking over college campuses and occupying buildings and preventing people
- 6:57Speaker 1: from attending class, that's one thing, and it should not
- 7:01Speaker 1: be tolerated. Simply having a justice in Palestine group where
- 7:06Speaker 1: like-minded people get together, that should be allowed. There's a
- 7:10Speaker 1: difference between these two things. One is breaking the rules,
- 7:13Speaker 1: potentially breaking the law. The other is just expressing free
- 7:17Speaker 1: inquiry ideas that may be repugnant but are allowed under
- 7:21Speaker 1: the First Amendment. Again, there is this thing called free
- 7:25Speaker 1: speech and freedom of thought that in America we generally
- 7:28Speaker 1: protect and care about. And it applies even if you
- 7:31Speaker 1: don't like what's being said. Now, at the same time,
- 7:34Speaker 1: I'm also not going to pretend like Harvard is a victim.
- 7:39Speaker 1: There's a huge difference between messy campus speech and entire
- 7:45Speaker 1: academic departments being run by ideologues instead of scholars. And
- 7:49Speaker 1: when the administration demands that Harvard reduce the power held
- 7:52Speaker 1: by faculty more committed to activism than scholarship, it's targeting
- 7:56Speaker 1: a real and festering problem. fields captured by neo-Marxism. I'm
- 8:01Speaker 1: talking about CRT, gender theory, fat studies. They've replaced truth-seeking
- 8:06Speaker 1: with activism, and it's time to draw a line. And
- 8:09Speaker 1: of course, the administration is right to insist that the
- 8:13Speaker 1: university cease all race-based diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in
- 8:20Speaker 1: administration and admissions. This is just a no-brainer. You can't
- 8:24Speaker 1: be deciding who gets a promotion, who gets a job,
- 8:27Speaker 1: who gets into the university based on immutable qualities. It's
- 8:30Speaker 1: an absurd anti-American thing to do. Again, I'm glad that
- 8:34Speaker 1: this is being addressed by the Trump admin. Again, Harvard
- 8:38Speaker 1: operates like a $ 50 billion tax-exempt hedge fund, bloated with
- 8:42Speaker 1: prestige and federal money, while rejecting any accountability to the
- 8:48Speaker 1: society that funds it. The government isn't required to bankroll
- 8:53Speaker 1: any of that. An investment is not an entitlement. the
- 8:58Speaker 1: letter from the Trump admin rightfully states. If Harvard wants
- 9:02Speaker 1: total independence, it can decline the money and live off
- 9:06Speaker 1: its endowment. But as long as it's feeding at the
- 9:10Speaker 1: taxpayer trough, it's fair for the public to demand reforms.
- 9:14Speaker 1: So no, it isn't a clean or comfortable take here.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I realize that. You guys are used to that. Usually
- 9:20Speaker 1: I have a very strong opinion on these things, and
- 9:23Speaker 1: I can give you a very cookie-cutter take where It's
- 9:26Speaker 1: all cut and dry, black and white. No ifs, ands,
- 9:29Speaker 1: or buts. This takes some nuance. I oppose censorship of
- 9:33Speaker 1: student protest, but I support gutting the activist bureaucracies that
- 9:38Speaker 1: have corrupted the mission of higher education. Free speech must remain.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Ideological capture must end. Now, Harvard has, of course, hit
- 9:47Speaker 1: back at the Trump admin. The school wrote yesterday, the
- 9:51Speaker 1: university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself
- 9:58Speaker 1: to be taken over. by the federal government. So Harvard
- 10:02Speaker 1: is very upset. I think Obama, who is, of course,
- 10:04Speaker 1: a Harvard Law grad, also weighed in in support of
- 10:07Speaker 1: his former school. So Obama is against the Trump admin.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Obama is playing like he cares about free speech now.
- 10:14Speaker 1: And to that, I say, good. The Trump admin has
- 10:19Speaker 1: hit back in a really great way and threatened to
- 10:22Speaker 1: take away their tax-exempt status. And I also want to
- 10:25Speaker 1: point out, again, this is a nuanced take. I'm not
- 10:27Speaker 1: trying to leave anything out here. I want to be honest.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Has Harvard been open to the free inquiry of ideas?
- 10:35Speaker 1: Are they an institution that really has cared about free speech?
- 10:39Speaker 1: And the answer to that is, of course, no. This
- 10:42Speaker 1: is a left-wing steeped campus. They have previous hate speech
- 10:47Speaker 1: codes and safe spaces and have discriminated against conservative students
- 10:51Speaker 1: left and right. So I am being intellectually consistent here
- 10:55Speaker 1: and saying we have to support free speech across the board.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Harvard is using free speech now as an excuse to
- 11:01Speaker 1: defend itself when it has never in the past cared
- 11:03Speaker 1: about free speech. I think it's important to know that
- 11:06Speaker 1: context and to acknowledge that as we talk about this.
- 11:09Speaker 1: These schools are are cynical shells of their former selves.
- 11:13Speaker 1: This is why I don't feel so bad for Harvard.
- 11:15Speaker 1: This is why they don't have a lot to stand
- 11:19Speaker 1: on in this fight. It's prestige without purpose, wealth without wisdom.
- 11:25Speaker 1: The universities no longer form thinkers. They fund bureaucrats and
- 11:30Speaker 1: they create agitators. It enforces conformity while posturing as a
- 11:36Speaker 1: marketplace of ideas. And it clings to its federal subsidies
- 11:40Speaker 1: and moral preening. And it forgets the one thing that
- 11:43Speaker 1: made it great, the humility to seek truth rather than
- 11:46Speaker 1: to invent it. And in trading truth for power and
- 11:50Speaker 1: virtue for vanity, higher education is not only betraying its roots,
- 11:54Speaker 1: it has destroyed itself from within. We're going to take
- 11:58Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back, I'm going to
- 12:01Speaker 1: talk about some things that Trump has done that are
- 12:03Speaker 1: quite amazing. And for some reason, getting pushed back by
- 12:06Speaker 1: the political left, that was a little more of a
- 12:08Speaker 1: nuanced take. The next thing that Trump has done, you guys,
- 12:10Speaker 1: I promise, this is a black and white issue. Don't
- 12:13Speaker 1: go anywhere. This is pretty incredible. All right, so yesterday,
- 12:16Speaker 1: President Trump signed an order that will bar illegal immigrants
- 12:20Speaker 1: from obtaining Social Security benefits. I can't even believe this
- 12:23Speaker 1: was happening in the first place, but apparently it was
- 12:25Speaker 1: because there had to be an order addressing it. So
- 12:28Speaker 1: the order expands the Social Security Administration's fraud prosecutor program
- 12:33Speaker 1: to at least 50 U.S. attorney offices, and establishes a
- 12:38Speaker 1: Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecution program in 15 U.S. attorney offices. Additionally,
- 12:44Speaker 1: the order requires that the Social Security Administration Inspector General
- 12:48Speaker 1: investigate earnings reports for individuals aged 100 or older with
- 12:53Speaker 1: mismatched Social Security records to combat identity theft. Because again,
- 12:57Speaker 1: this is something that Doge uncovered, that we have all
- 12:59Speaker 1: these people who are very obviously dead, who are seemingly
- 13:03Speaker 1: on these social security roles potentially taking social security benefits somehow.
- 13:08Speaker 1: There's a fraud, there's fraud happening potentially. We don't really
- 13:11Speaker 1: know all the details, but the point is that there
- 13:13Speaker 1: is clearly problems happening within this department, a very bloated department,
- 13:17Speaker 1: I might add as well. Now, earlier this year, Doge,
- 13:21Speaker 1: of course, like I said, identified Americans who were marked
- 13:23Speaker 1: as alive in the social security database. They were above
- 13:27Speaker 1: the age of 100, some of them, some of them
- 13:29Speaker 1: over the age of 150. Obviously, these people aren't dead. Now,
- 13:32Speaker 1: we haven't heard from our pal Joe Biden lately, who,
- 13:36Speaker 1: by the way, did not deal with this issue at all.
- 13:40Speaker 1: He has decided to, he decided to give a speech yesterday.
- 13:43Speaker 1: It was his first since leaving the White House. And
- 13:45Speaker 1: it was, there was a lot of incoherent yelling and
- 13:48Speaker 1: some just, you know, Joe Biden mumbling side by side
- 13:52Speaker 1: with the yelling. He started saying some things that were
- 13:54Speaker 1: a little racially insensitive. This is very Joe Biden-esque. But
- 13:58Speaker 1: he did at one point attack Doge and the Trump
- 14:00Speaker 1: admin for firing Social Security bureaucrats. I want you to
- 14:04Speaker 1: take a listen to this.
- 14:08Speaker 3: Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so
- 14:15Speaker 3: much damage and so much destruction. It's kind of breathtaking
- 14:19Speaker 3: it could happen that soon. They've taken a hatchet to
- 14:22Speaker 3: the Social Security Administration, pushing an additional 7,000 employees. 7,000.
- 14:30Speaker 3: out the door in that time, including the most seasoned
- 14:34Speaker 3: career officials. Now they're getting ready to push thousands more
- 14:38Speaker 3: out the door.
- 14:39Speaker 1: I think it's funny how Democrats just consistently rally to
- 14:43Speaker 1: defend the federal bureaucracy, reacting with just utter outrage to
- 14:48Speaker 1: any attempt to cut spending or reduce the size of
- 14:51Speaker 1: the government workforce. whether it's layoffs at the Social Security
- 14:54Speaker 1: Administration or rooting out Social Security fraud, their instinct is
- 14:58Speaker 1: always to protect the system, not the taxpayer. And there's
- 15:02Speaker 1: a reason for that. They show virtually zero concern for
- 15:07Speaker 1: the waste, inefficiency, and political activism embedded in these institutions.
- 15:12Speaker 1: And that's because the bureaucracy is the Democrats' power base.
- 15:17Speaker 1: a permanent ruling class that advances their agenda regardless of
- 15:21Speaker 1: who is elected. So by protecting the bureaucracy, they preserve
- 15:25Speaker 1: a mechanism of control that operates outside of democratic accountability.
- 15:31Speaker 1: For them, bloated agencies aren't a problem. They're the plan.
- 15:37Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, I America dodged a bullet,
- 15:40Speaker 1: I think, with Joe Biden. You can see where his
- 15:43Speaker 1: priorities are. It is always with the state. There is
- 15:46Speaker 1: never sympathy for the taxpayers. President Trump posted this last night.
- 15:52Speaker 1: This is from Joe Biden's speech. Again, I can't believe
- 15:55Speaker 1: that this guy was even president of the United States,
- 15:58Speaker 1: potentially even the Democrats nominee for the second run. Take
- 16:02Speaker 1: a listen to this.
- 16:03Speaker 3: And I had never seen I'd never seen hardly any
- 16:07Speaker 3: black people in Scranton at the time. And I was
- 16:10Speaker 3: only going in fourth grade. And I remember seeing the
- 16:13Speaker 3: kids going by at the time called colored kids on
- 16:16Speaker 3: a bus going by.
- 16:17Speaker 1: So what is this? I've never seen colored kids. You're
- 16:21Speaker 1: not allowed to say these things anymore. What is this
- 16:24Speaker 1: a symbol of? What we all already know. And now finally,
- 16:28Speaker 1: after years, Democrats are admitting it is a glaring reminder
- 16:32Speaker 1: of Former President Joe Biden's glaring cognitive decline and his
- 16:39Speaker 1: growing disconnect from the cultural norms of the very left-wing
- 16:43Speaker 1: coalition that he claimed to lead. In an era where
- 16:47Speaker 1: progressives obsessively police language, Joe Biden is just blissfully unaware
- 16:53Speaker 1: that various terms like colored people, we don't use that
- 16:56Speaker 1: term anymore. No one uses that term. It's now deeply
- 17:00Speaker 1: out of bounds. And his inability to keep pace with
- 17:04Speaker 1: these ever-shifting standards of political correctness exposes a president who
- 17:10Speaker 1: is adrift, who is actually propped up by a party
- 17:14Speaker 1: that demands sensitivity from everyone but its figurehead because its
- 17:17Speaker 1: figurehead is not all there to follow the rules. By
- 17:22Speaker 1: the way, like I said, he also started yelling at random.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
- 17:26Speaker 3: That's what the legislation is about.
- 17:28Speaker 4: It's about dignity.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Simple dignity. Everyone, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,
- 17:38Speaker 3: regardless of their standing, regardless of their economic status, regardless
- 17:41Speaker 3: of who they are. Making sure that more than 60
- 17:45Speaker 3: million Americans who are living with disabilities are treated with
- 17:49Speaker 3: dignity is who we are as Americans. That's what it's about.
- 17:57Speaker 1: He's mumbling through the whole speech. And then suddenly, just
- 18:02Speaker 1: Flip a switch. He starts shouting. He starts screaming at
- 18:07Speaker 1: the audience. And he's done this thing before. It's like
- 18:10Speaker 1: he's reading the prompter. He's barely making it through this speech.
- 18:14Speaker 1: He's like falling asleep at his own words. And then
- 18:16Speaker 1: like he just kind of wakes up. He gets like
- 18:18Speaker 1: a little rush. And then he starts just yelling. Like
- 18:20Speaker 1: he's clearly not there. And also think about what he's saying.
- 18:24Speaker 1: He's like, we all deserve dignity. It's like, okay. Like
- 18:29Speaker 1: there's never substance to this. Like it's just like, lies
- 18:33Speaker 1: on the prompter, or he's yelling incoherently about nothingness. Like
- 18:38Speaker 1: there's no point. There's no deeper message behind the words here.
- 18:43Speaker 1: It's just word salad. It's just, it's saying nothingness. And
- 18:48Speaker 1: it's kind of startling to think that he was president,
- 18:52Speaker 1: almost a Democrat nominee for the second time in a row.
- 18:57Speaker 1: And there's a reason everyone seems to be asking the
- 19:00Speaker 1: question of, who is the leader of the Democratic Party?
- 19:04Speaker 1: Who's in charge right now? It's obviously not Joe Biden.
- 19:09Speaker 1: He's completely not there. It's not Kamala Harris. Nobody wants
- 19:12Speaker 1: this woman. She's completely failed. But it doesn't seem to
- 19:16Speaker 1: be apparent to anyone who exactly is the future of
- 19:20Speaker 1: this party. Who's going to carry, who's going to take
- 19:22Speaker 1: up the mantle? Who is going to lead? Now, I
- 19:25Speaker 1: would say The only clear answer for Democrats facing off
- 19:29Speaker 1: against right-wing populism is to counter with left-wing populism. Now
- 19:34Speaker 1: that would be Bernie Sanders and AOC. A lot of
- 19:37Speaker 1: Democrats seem to agree with this. There's not full consensus,
- 19:41Speaker 1: but there seems to be a growing movement of people
- 19:43Speaker 1: who believe that Bernie Sanders and AOC or people like
- 19:46Speaker 1: them are going to be the replacement for the Nancy
- 19:50Speaker 1: Pelosi's and the Joe Biden's and the Chuck Schumer's. The
- 19:53Speaker 1: problem is the left can't help but cannibalize itself, especially
- 19:59Speaker 1: as you go further left in the AOC and Bernie
- 20:02Speaker 1: Sanders route. I want you to look at what happened
- 20:05Speaker 1: at one of Bernie's rallies this week when pro-Palestine protesters
- 20:10Speaker 1: unfurled a free Palestine flag at his rally and all
- 20:16Speaker 1: hell broke loose. Take a look at this. So they
- 20:24Speaker 1: put the free Palestine flag with the fist over the
- 20:27Speaker 1: American flag at his rally. And then security comes in
- 20:34Speaker 1: and tries to take away the flag. Protestors are fighting back.
- 20:38Speaker 1: They're keeping the flag up there. And now the crowd
- 20:43Speaker 1: is beginning to boo this confrontation between the security and
- 20:48Speaker 1: the Palestine people. And it's unclear, like, whose side the
- 20:51Speaker 1: crowd is on. If I had to guess, they're probably
- 20:53Speaker 1: on the side of the Palestine protesters.
- 21:03Speaker 5: In America today.
- 21:04Speaker 6: In America.
- 21:04Speaker 7: In America today.
- 21:06Speaker 8: We have more income in.
- 21:10Speaker 6: America today.
- 21:14Speaker 1: The protesters are being let out. It's getting kind of physical.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Throwing their fists in the air.
- 21:22Speaker 7: We have more income in.
- 21:30Speaker 9: America today.
- 21:39Speaker 1: So he can't finish his speech. And this is something
- 21:45Speaker 1: that continues to reoccur for Bernie, but the left in general.
- 21:51Speaker 1: He can't lead a party that is insistent on fighting
- 22:02Speaker 1: amongst itself constantly. A minute earlier, Bernie Sanders had said,
- 22:07Speaker 1: Israel has the right to defend itself. That's what he
- 22:09Speaker 1: said in the speech. Bernie can't scream from the river
- 22:13Speaker 1: to the sea because that would be a very radical
- 22:19Speaker 1: thing for him to say, a very alienating thing for
- 22:21Speaker 1: him to say. But there's a not so small portion
- 22:25Speaker 1: of the political left, especially among young leftists, who will
- 22:28Speaker 1: not tolerate anything less than from the river to the
- 22:31Speaker 1: sea from Bernie Sanders. They demand it. He can't win
- 22:35Speaker 1: with them. It's an impossible situation that Bernie Sanders and
- 22:40Speaker 1: AOC and anyone else who tries to pick up the
- 22:42Speaker 1: mantle will find themselves in with the political left. Who
- 22:46Speaker 1: remembers this clip? This is Bernie trying to give a
- 22:50Speaker 1: speech and these black BLM women just snatch the mic
- 22:55Speaker 1: away from him, shut the whole event down. Take a
- 22:59Speaker 1: look at this.
- 23:00Speaker 6: They just pushed him aside. We had to cut out
- 23:02Speaker 6: some copyrighted music here. Maybe we can just skip the
- 23:06Speaker 6: copyrighted music.
- 23:06Speaker 10: Okay.
- 23:28Speaker 11: All right, so we are trying to be reasonable.
- 23:32Speaker 1: We are trying to be reasonable.
- 23:36Speaker 12: We are trying.
- 23:38Speaker 11: We're going to give you, we're going to let you
- 23:40Speaker 11: on the mic. We are going to give you the mic.
- 23:43Speaker 1: We will. After Senator Sanders. After Senator Sanders. After Senator Sanders.
- 23:49Speaker 1: After Senator Sanders. Do not tell me what to do.
- 23:51Speaker 5: Sit down.
- 23:59Speaker 3: After Senator Sanders.
- 24:00Speaker 4: Okay.
- 24:01Speaker 6: All right.
- 24:02Speaker 8: All right.
- 24:05Speaker 3: We're shutting it down.
- 24:08Speaker 1: You are shutting it down. Speech was shut down. The
- 24:12Speaker 1: activists took the stage. They seized the microphone. They started
- 24:15Speaker 1: screaming in order to prevent Bernie Sanders, who's as far
- 24:19Speaker 1: left as you can possibly go. Like he's their guy.
- 24:21Speaker 6: Don't be in.
- 24:21Speaker 9: The far left.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Like you got Bernie. Preventing him from speaking, the whole
- 24:26Speaker 1: thing ended with a four and a half minute silence
- 24:29Speaker 1: for Michael Brown, after which the event was effectively shut
- 24:32Speaker 1: down without Bernie Sanders giving a speech. Bernie Sanders could
- 24:38Speaker 1: be incredibly effective at bringing together a coalition of people
- 24:43Speaker 1: irrespective of race and sex. Theoretically, he could bring in
- 24:46Speaker 1: this giant working class revolution. But it's impossible to achieve
- 24:51Speaker 1: because the left always cannibalizes itself. Once the revolution begins,
- 24:56Speaker 1: no one is ever radical enough. The oppressed must always
- 25:00Speaker 1: find new oppressors, even within their own ranks. The goalposts
- 25:06Speaker 1: shift endlessly because the movement thrives not on unity, but
- 25:10Speaker 1: on perpetual grievance, purification, and power struggles. That's why the
- 25:15Speaker 1: left inevitably turns on itself. It's not about justice. It's
- 25:19Speaker 1: about dominance. Even young leftists are coming out and realizing
- 25:25Speaker 1: what is happening. I want you to take a listen
- 25:27Speaker 1: to this young left-wing woman talk about how she was
- 25:31Speaker 1: canceled at her liberal arts college and the way that
- 25:35Speaker 1: it changed her forever. Take a listen.
- 25:38Speaker 12: I got canceled on my liberal arts college campus in 2017,
- 25:40Speaker 12: which first of all, if you were on a liberal
- 25:43Speaker 12: arts college campus in 2017 and you didn't get canceled,
- 25:46Speaker 12: You're probably boring. And it was for literally the stupidest
- 25:50Speaker 12: reason imaginable. Like when I tell my friends who I
- 25:53Speaker 12: met now why I was canceled, immediately the response.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Is laughter and like, what the f * * *?
- 25:59Speaker 12: But at the time, it was the most traumatic thing
- 26:01Speaker 12: that I could possibly imagine having happened.
- 26:03Speaker 11: So here's what it was.
- 26:04Speaker 3: I am mixed.
- 26:05Speaker 1: My dad is Chicano. My mom is Irish.
- 26:07Speaker 12: And somebody started a rumor that I had taken an Ancestry.com
- 26:11Speaker 12: DNA test and discovered that I was Spanish.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Not mixed and that.
- 26:18Speaker 12: I was lying to everyone about my racial and ethnic identity.
- 26:23Speaker 12: It's just like, people heard this and they believed it
- 26:29Speaker 12: and were like outraged. Leading up to that, I had
- 26:33Speaker 12: been like very, very steeped in just the identitarian social
- 26:37Speaker 12: justice worldview, like a hundred percent bought in. And that
- 26:40Speaker 12: happening to me, I'm actually really grateful because it was
- 26:43Speaker 12: the moment that I had to stop and was like,
- 26:46Speaker 12: if this could happen to me, then none of it
- 26:49Speaker 12: is true. Because I played by all of the rules.
- 26:54Speaker 12: I stayed up to date on all of the language
- 26:56Speaker 12: stuff and said all the right words and had all
- 26:59Speaker 12: of the right, perfect politics.
- 27:03Speaker 1: And this still happened to me.
- 27:05Speaker 12: And that was the start of me leaving that worldview,
- 27:08Speaker 12: which I'm very, very grateful that I did. So if
- 27:10Speaker 12: you too have been canceled for real- reasons or you're
- 27:13Speaker 12: just sick of that worldview.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I'm teaching a workshop. I'm going to address this. I'm
- 27:20Speaker 1: going to dissect this, but you guys are all coming
- 27:23Speaker 1: at her for the nose ring. And I just want
- 27:26Speaker 1: to tell you guys that I actually thought about getting
- 27:28Speaker 1: a nose ring. It was like recently. I think it
- 27:31Speaker 1: was like a couple of weeks ago.
- 27:32Speaker 10: I said she wasn't allowed to.
- 27:33Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael said you're not allowed to. So I was like,
- 27:35Speaker 1: just a stud, like not a crazy one. I was like,
- 27:37Speaker 1: just a stud. Maybe it's a generational thing where you
- 27:40Speaker 1: guys are all like, no, Evita, you could never get
- 27:42Speaker 1: a nose ring. But Michael put his foot down. He
- 27:43Speaker 1: was like, no, you're not getting a nose ring. So
- 27:47Speaker 1: I'm not getting a nose ring. Michael vetoed it. So yeah,
- 27:50Speaker 1: you guys are all like, no, good husband. Yeah, I
- 27:53Speaker 1: get it. I'm not going to do a nose ring. Okay,
- 27:55Speaker 1: but let's dissect what she said here because this is
- 27:57Speaker 1: an incredible video. Now, she's saying she is no longer
- 28:02Speaker 1: part of the mainstream identitarian left. And now, this is
- 28:06Speaker 1: not in the video, but she says this in the comments,
- 28:08Speaker 1: that she now identifies as just purely a socialist. Unfortunately
- 28:13Speaker 1: for this young woman, trying to leave the modern identitarian
- 28:17Speaker 1: left for a more classical or economic-focused socialism is as
- 28:22Speaker 1: some kind of refuge, probably is not gonna pan out
- 28:27Speaker 1: for her. Under Marxist regimes, ideological purges were not a bug.
- 28:32Speaker 1: They were the system functioning as designed. The moment a
- 28:36Speaker 1: comrade deviated even slightly from the dogma of the hour,
- 28:40Speaker 1: they became the enemy of the revolution. Just look at
- 28:44Speaker 1: what happened to the fate of the old Bolsheviks. Many
- 28:48Speaker 1: of Lenin's closest allies, Trotsky, Bukharin, Khamenev, they were eventually smeared, exiled, imprisoned,
- 28:57Speaker 1: or even executed by Stalin's regime. Their crime? Disagreeing with
- 29:03Speaker 1: the direction of the revolution, even if they helped birth it.
- 29:07Speaker 1: Marxism demands... perpetual revolution and to justify that endless upheaval,
- 29:13Speaker 1: it must constantly produce new traitors to eliminate. So when
- 29:16Speaker 1: someone leaves the identitarian left for better socialism, thinking that
- 29:21Speaker 1: they'll finally be safe, they won't be because the logic
- 29:25Speaker 1: hasn't changed. The movement still eats its own. It has to.
- 29:30Speaker 1: This is what always happens. Another hallmark of the left's
- 29:34Speaker 1: is also, of course, violence. And I wanna get to
- 29:37Speaker 1: this story because I am such a fan of Tulsi
- 29:40Speaker 1: Gabbard and just felt so enraged by this latest story.
- 29:44Speaker 1: A Georgia man, Ali Akbar Mohammed Amin, was recently arrested
- 29:49Speaker 1: after allegedly sending completely unhinged and frankly terrifying messages threatening
- 29:55Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard and her husband, the 24-year-old, has been charged
- 29:59Speaker 1: with transmitting interstate threats, sending Tulsi's husband messages like, Prepare
- 30:04Speaker 1: to die, you Tulsi and everyone you hold dear. America
- 30:07Speaker 1: will burn. And also, I will personally do the job
- 30:11Speaker 1: if necessary. Ahmed also reportedly warned that their home was
- 30:16Speaker 1: a legitimate target and that it would be attacked at
- 30:21Speaker 1: a time of his choosing. So this is just brazen
- 30:24Speaker 1: threats from this guy. In addition to the text, Amin
- 30:27Speaker 1: allegedly posted threats on social media, including a very scary
- 30:31Speaker 1: image of someone aiming a gun at a photo of
- 30:35Speaker 1: Tulsi and her husband. The firearm was later recovered from
- 30:39Speaker 1: this man's residence during a search by federal agents. And
- 30:42Speaker 1: this is what the left does. Many of these people
- 30:46Speaker 1: are seriously deranged, but it's also sort of inherent to
- 30:50Speaker 1: the movement. All violence is justified. in the name of
- 30:55Speaker 1: the revolution, in the name of so-called progress. This was
- 31:01Speaker 1: at that Bernie AOC rally. And by the way, before
- 31:05Speaker 1: we play this, note that there has been zero condemnation
- 31:09Speaker 1: of any of this rhetoric from Bernie and AOC. Take
- 31:14Speaker 1: a listen.
- 31:15Speaker 7: Beheaded donald trump are you calling for his death.
- 31:18Speaker 13: I am yes i believe it's time that the people
- 31:21Speaker 13: straight cut his head off i.
- 31:23Speaker 7: Believe that the minute that donald trump decided to start
- 31:26Speaker 7: ignoring judicial orders he gave up the right to be
- 31:28Speaker 7: the rightful president of the united states he's an enemy
- 31:30Speaker 7: of the nation and yes i'd like to see him
- 31:32Speaker 7: hung by his feet by a lamppost.
- 31:34Speaker 14: Well you wouldn't necessarily call for violence would you are
- 31:36Speaker 14: you supporting violence.
- 31:38Speaker 9: Um i think there's the people in power, that's all
- 31:42Speaker 9: they're going to listen to at this point. I feel
- 31:44Speaker 9: like we've done the rallies. We've done all these things
- 31:46Speaker 9: and they don't listen. And that was something that finally
- 31:48Speaker 9: got people to listen.
- 31:49Speaker 7: Only way we're getting Donald Trump or J.D. Vance or
- 31:52Speaker 7: his ilk out of power is having tens of millions
- 31:55Speaker 7: of people in the streets. And probably we're going to
- 31:58Speaker 7: probably have to have a few thousand people die at
- 32:00Speaker 7: the hands of cops and soldiers before people get outraged
- 32:03Speaker 7: enough to actually force the government to resign.
- 32:07Speaker 1: During the French Revolution, the the cry for liberty quickly
- 32:11Speaker 1: descended into godless bloodlust. What began as a revolt against
- 32:16Speaker 1: monarchy spiraled into the reign of terror, a campaign of
- 32:21Speaker 1: mass executions, drownings, purges that turned the streets of France
- 32:25Speaker 1: into rivers of blood. The guillotine stood not just as
- 32:29Speaker 1: a tool of justice, but as a new altar, replacing
- 32:33Speaker 1: the cross with cold steel. Entire crowds would gather to
- 32:36Speaker 1: cheer as heads rolled into baskets, not just of kings
- 32:40Speaker 1: and nobles, but priests, mothers, nuns, even children. Revolutionary leaders
- 32:45Speaker 1: chained hundreds of clergy and counter-revolutionaries together and sank them
- 32:50Speaker 1: into the Loire River. These weren't executions. They were human
- 32:55Speaker 1: sacrifices offered to a false god of ideological purity. Christianity,
- 33:01Speaker 1: once the moral compass of French society, was violently erased.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Churches were vandalized, scripture burned, and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame
- 33:08Speaker 1: was transformed into a temple of reason. Priests were hunted,
- 33:13Speaker 1: crucifixes torn down, the holy days replaced with secular festivals.
- 33:18Speaker 1: By rejecting the Christian truth that every soul bears the
- 33:21Speaker 1: image of God, the revolution created a vacuum filled by terror,
- 33:25Speaker 1: and forgiveness was cast aside for vengeance, the belief in
- 33:28Speaker 1: eternal dignity replaced with mob justice. So when someone says today,
- 33:33Speaker 1: like in that video, that the only option left is
- 33:36Speaker 1: to hang President Trump, They aren't making a political point.
- 33:41Speaker 1: They are resurrecting the same demonic spirit that once drowned
- 33:45Speaker 1: France in innocent blood. It is not justice. It is
- 33:50Speaker 1: a rejection of Christian mercy, of moral order, of civilization itself.
- 33:55Speaker 1: The lesson of the French Revolution is clear, that when
- 33:58Speaker 1: God is cast out, the guillotine takes his place. They
- 34:03Speaker 1: want to do that here. That's the goal. It always
- 34:06Speaker 1: has been. Here's Steve Bannon about the moment we're currently in.
- 34:11Speaker 10: And this is what's so amazing to watch about their
- 34:14Speaker 10: turning on Elon Musk and the danger, particularly the danger
- 34:19Speaker 10: I think Elon Musk is in and the danger that
- 34:21Speaker 10: the Tesla dealerships are in, the people driving Teslas. Because
- 34:25Speaker 10: they have turned on them like if you've studied revolutionary movements,
- 34:29Speaker 10: they've turned on them like the most dangerous elements of
- 34:33Speaker 10: the French Revolution are. and the most dangerous elements of
- 34:37Speaker 10: the Bolsheviks. It's brutal. It's just one slight notch down
- 34:45Speaker 10: from gunning down what the head of UnitedHealthcare, shooting him
- 34:49Speaker 10: in the back after laying in wait, jumping out and
- 34:52Speaker 10: shooting point-blank range in the back, and being celebrated by
- 34:55Speaker 10: that same crowd as a hero.
- 34:59Speaker 1: Steve Bannon always puts it into such perfect terms, but
- 35:03Speaker 1: He is 100% right to point out what we're living through.
- 35:06Speaker 1: The moment that we're in that is so, so dangerous
- 35:13Speaker 1: and echoes horrifying past histories of left-wing or Marxist revolutions.
- 35:22Speaker 1: We talked yesterday about the left always siding with the
- 35:24Speaker 1: criminal because there's also some systemic excuse because that they
- 35:30Speaker 1: can project onto evil behavior. If the person is part
- 35:35Speaker 1: of a minority group, if they had some sort of issue,
- 35:39Speaker 1: anything that they can come up with as an excuse
- 35:42Speaker 1: for evil behavior, they will use that excuse. And they
- 35:46Speaker 1: just keep proving my point on this. Because according to Axios,
- 35:50Speaker 1: dozens of House Democrats want to take a trip to
- 35:53Speaker 1: El Salvador to, I guess, rescue Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, member of MS-13,
- 35:59Speaker 1: and bring him back to the United States. Here is
- 36:02Speaker 1: Senator Chris Van Hollen saying he'll travel to El Salvador
- 36:06Speaker 1: to fight for Kilmar Abrego-Garcias if he is not back
- 36:10Speaker 1: in the U.S. by midweek. Take a listen.
- 36:13Speaker 14: I saw the comments of President Bukele, and I look
- 36:17Speaker 14: forward to meeting with him. I've requested to meet with him.
- 36:19Speaker 14: I reached out to the ambassador here to ask to
- 36:21Speaker 14: meet while he's here. But I've also made clear if
- 36:24Speaker 14: we can't meet here, I do intend to go to
- 36:26Speaker 14: El Salvador to discuss the release of this individual who
- 36:31Speaker 14: is illegally detained. A Maryland man who's the father of
- 36:35Speaker 14: three in a notorious prison in El Salvador. And I
- 36:39Speaker 14: believe the president of El Salvador will recognize why it's
- 36:43Speaker 14: important to allow him to return to the United States
- 36:48Speaker 14: of America, because it is It is absolutely unjust and
- 36:53Speaker 14: illegal to have this Marylander detained one more day in
- 36:58Speaker 14: a notorious prison in El Salvador.
- 37:02Speaker 1: This is what they're fighting for. Illegals in this country,
- 37:07Speaker 1: not regular Americans, not good people, not citizens. No illegal
- 37:13Speaker 1: MS-13 gang members should be defended by U.S. senators. Their
- 37:19Speaker 1: priority should be American citizens, but that's not what's happening. Literally,
- 37:23Speaker 1: they are trying to bring an MS-13 gang member back
- 37:26Speaker 1: to the United States. For what reason? What are these priorities?
- 37:31Speaker 1: Cory Booker is apparently also considering leading a trip of
- 37:34Speaker 1: congressmen to El Salvador to demand this MS-13 gang member
- 37:38Speaker 1: come back to the United States. And Booker, along with
- 37:41Speaker 1: the House Democrats, House Democrats Robert Garcia and Maxwell Frost,
- 37:44Speaker 1: are part of this little plan. And again, according to
- 37:47Speaker 1: Axios dozens are planning this trip. Abrego Garcia is, of course,
- 37:51Speaker 1: an El Salvadoran citizen and a member of MS-13. I
- 37:54Speaker 1: want you to take a listen to how Cory Booker
- 37:57Speaker 1: frames this entire situation and what he says about the
- 38:01Speaker 1: Supreme Court specifically. Take a listen. Do you think the
- 38:05Speaker 1: Trump administration is defying a court order?
- 38:11Speaker 4: It certainly appears that they are, and they're trying to
- 38:14Speaker 4: play too cute with parsing words. The court has ordered
- 38:18Speaker 4: the return of this person and that the Trump administration
- 38:21Speaker 4: should do it. They're paying an authoritarian leader in El
- 38:25Speaker 4: Salvador to hold people in the worst imaginable types of
- 38:29Speaker 4: prisons that he has sent there without any due process.
- 38:33Speaker 4: And this isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about
- 38:36Speaker 4: every American understanding that that this president is making an
- 38:39Speaker 4: assault on the due process rights that are afforded to
- 38:42Speaker 4: people in our country. Everybody from Anton Scalia to other
- 38:46Speaker 4: conservative think tanks have said very clearly, you cannot disappear
- 38:50Speaker 4: people off American streets. We are a nation of rules,
- 38:54Speaker 4: and due process is clearly one of them. And to
- 38:57Speaker 4: erode the due process rights of anyone is a threat
- 39:00Speaker 4: to the due process rights of everyone. This is a
- 39:04Speaker 4: democratic slippage, and we all should be speaking out against it.
- 39:07Speaker 1: OK, so the Supreme Court did not demand that the
- 39:10Speaker 1: White House return Abrego Garcia. And I'm going to let CNN, yeah,
- 39:14Speaker 1: CNN do the fact checking here. Here is CNN legal
- 39:19Speaker 1: correspondent Paula Reid.
- 39:21Speaker 15: And President Trump and President Bukele made it clear that
- 39:24Speaker 15: Abrego Garcia will not be returned to the United States,
- 39:26Speaker 15: despite this U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying that Trump had
- 39:29Speaker 15: to facilitate his return. So are they just ignoring a U.S.
- 39:34Speaker 15: Supreme Court ruling or is the fact that the ruling
- 39:38Speaker 15: was so mushy, in your words, giving him an opening?
- 39:42Speaker 16: It's a technical term I learned in law school, Jake. Look,
- 39:45Speaker 16: they're working within the ambiguity that the Supreme Court justices
- 39:49Speaker 16: gave them. They did not order the administration to return
- 39:53Speaker 16: him to the United States. They said that they need
- 39:55Speaker 16: to facilitate this return. They could have said we order
- 39:58Speaker 16: him returned, but they didn't do that. So you heard
- 40:01Speaker 16: the attorney general. She was being very careful in the
- 40:03Speaker 16: Oval Office when she was asked, you know, would you help?
- 40:05Speaker 16: She says, of course, we'd provide a plane.
- 40:07Speaker 3: Right.
- 40:08Speaker 16: Thereby facilitating whatever El Salvador is doing. The Supreme Court
- 40:12Speaker 16: appeared to defer to the executive branch, given that this
- 40:14Speaker 16: is an international matter. And you see, yes, it does
- 40:17Speaker 16: look a little bit like a semantic game, but they
- 40:20Speaker 16: are playing within the bounds of what the Supreme Court ruled.
- 40:23Speaker 16: So no, they are not defying this order.
- 40:26Speaker 1: So the White House is playing by the rules here.
- 40:28Speaker 1: The admin isn't defying the Supreme Court, as many are alleging.
- 40:32Speaker 1: And we have all these media narratives about Trump potentially
- 40:36Speaker 1: deporting citizens right now. Like, oh, if you're an American citizen,
- 40:40Speaker 1: nobody's safe now because the Trump admin deported Abrego Garcia,
- 40:45Speaker 1: who is an El Salvadoran citizen and part of MS-13. Like,
- 40:48Speaker 1: these are completely different situations, but they're saying, oh, he's
- 40:51Speaker 1: a Maryland man. He's a Maryland man, and he has
- 40:53Speaker 1: every right to be here. And this could happen to anyone. Like,
- 40:56Speaker 1: the narrative is insane. And so even CNN came out
- 40:59Speaker 1: and said, no, the Supreme Court has not demanded the
- 41:03Speaker 1: admin bring this man back in any literal sense. There
- 41:08Speaker 1: is a gray area that the admin is operating in
- 41:11Speaker 1: right now. The Supreme Court demanded the admin return Abrego Garcia,
- 41:16Speaker 1: and this idea is just a lie. And it's also
- 41:19Speaker 1: sort of to be expected from the left, because let's
- 41:25Speaker 1: not forget about what is happening right now. What is
- 41:29Speaker 1: the source of all this? It's not the media narratives,
- 41:32Speaker 1: although those are very annoying. It is the activist judges.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Why don't you take a listen to Representative Laura Friedman
- 41:39Speaker 1: admitting that House Democrats are meeting every single week behind
- 41:43Speaker 1: the scenes with left-wing attorney generals to employ lawfare against
- 41:48Speaker 1: President Trump's agenda. Take a listen.
- 41:51Speaker 13: Every single week, we have a litigation working group where
- 41:53Speaker 13: a large group of us, and I'm talking there's maybe
- 41:56Speaker 13: 75 members of the House, sit down every single week
- 41:58Speaker 13: with the AGs to talk about legal strategy. This is
- 42:02Speaker 13: all going on every single week behind the scenes. It
- 42:06Speaker 13: is nonstop, nonstop talk, nonstop introduction of bills and legislation,
- 42:12Speaker 13: nonstop being on social media as much as we can
- 42:16Speaker 13: without being throttled and without the crazy analytics and doing
- 42:19Speaker 13: all these things.
- 42:21Speaker 1: So the left doesn't revere institutions. And this is the
- 42:25Speaker 1: point that I want to get at. They occupy and
- 42:27Speaker 1: weaponize institutions. From the DOJ to the intelligence agencies to
- 42:31Speaker 1: the courts, they'll corrupt every pillar of government if it
- 42:34Speaker 1: means getting what they want. The hypocrisy is staggering. The
- 42:38Speaker 1: same people who cry about norms are the first to
- 42:41Speaker 1: break them when those norms get in the way of progress.
- 42:45Speaker 1: This isn't about the rule of law. It is about
- 42:47Speaker 1: the rule of ideology. You guys know I talk a
- 42:51Speaker 1: lot about the left and who are they really and
- 42:53Speaker 1: what is motivating them. And because on this show we
- 42:56Speaker 1: are constantly asking that question, it's not just look at
- 43:01Speaker 1: this crazy thing that they're doing, but why are they
- 43:04Speaker 1: doing it? And how it's consistent with leftists throughout history.
- 43:09Speaker 1: This is kind of what I like to do with
- 43:12Speaker 1: the current events that I cover during the day. So
- 43:15Speaker 1: we're usually... never too shocked with what comes next from
- 43:18Speaker 1: the left. We usually kind of see it coming on
- 43:21Speaker 1: this show. But I have to tell you guys that
- 43:23Speaker 1: this next story did have me a little shocked. Horrified
- 43:27Speaker 1: is really a better word to describe it. How many
- 43:29Speaker 1: of you have seen the show Love on the Spectrum?
- 43:33Speaker 1: It is on Netflix. It's a very sweet dating show,
- 43:36Speaker 1: and it features autistic couples on their journey to find love.
- 43:40Speaker 1: And two of the most lovable characters on this show
- 43:43Speaker 1: and their beautiful families are currently under attack because the parents,
- 43:49Speaker 1: it is believed, it is suggested online, voted for President Trump.
- 43:55Speaker 1: The two families I'm talking about, the mothers of Connor
- 43:59Speaker 1: and Tanner on Love on the Spectrum. And just for
- 44:03Speaker 1: some context, so you know who I'm talking about, this
- 44:07Speaker 1: is an interaction between Tanner and his mom.
- 44:10Speaker 5: Hello, great morning, Mom.
- 44:11Speaker 8: I mean, hello, great morning. I was so excited to
- 44:13Speaker 8: come see you and hear about your date.
- 44:15Speaker 5: I'm excited to tell you all about my date, Mom.
- 44:17Speaker 8: Her first name is Kelly.
- 44:18Speaker 3: Kelly. Yes, I'm Kelly.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Hey, I love it.
- 44:21Speaker 11: I love it too.
- 44:22Speaker 8: It's so exciting.
- 44:23Speaker 6: So tell me, what did you think of Callie?
- 44:25Speaker 17: Did you guys have a nice time?
- 44:26Speaker 6: Was she easy to talk to? Yes, ma'am.
- 44:28Speaker 14: We had a nice time.
- 44:29Speaker 4: Callie was easy to talk to.
- 44:31Speaker 6: That is amazing.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Do you guys have a lot of things in common?
- 44:34Speaker 4: Yeah, we do, like, a lot of the same things.
- 44:36Speaker 18: That is so cool.
- 44:37Speaker 11: We like pizza, hamburgers, chicken tenders.
- 44:39Speaker 6: Oh, so she likes all your favorite foods.
- 44:41Speaker 3: Yeah, and ice cream. And we dance.
- 44:42Speaker 11: We got to dance, Mom.
- 44:43Speaker 6: You and Callie dance?
- 44:44Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am. We dance good. We dance good.
- 44:46Speaker 3: Show me how.
- 44:48Speaker 5: Is that great? Yeah, we dance like this too.
- 44:50Speaker 4: We dance like this too.
- 44:52Speaker 8: Oh my goodness.
- 44:53Speaker 6: It sounds like it went really well. Okay.
- 44:55Speaker 1: So just for some context, right? This young man is
- 45:00Speaker 1: like the sweetest character on the entire show. And his
- 45:03Speaker 1: mom is so beautiful. Like they just have this infectious positivity.
- 45:08Speaker 1: Like they're deeply Christian. They are like super big Clemson fans.
- 45:12Speaker 1: very genuine, lovable. Just the simple joys in life are
- 45:16Speaker 1: so important to Tanner, especially his job. He just takes
- 45:20Speaker 1: it so seriously. He's just so wonderful. If he doesn't
- 45:24Speaker 1: like someone that the producer on the show sets him
- 45:27Speaker 1: up with, he's so sweet that he's worried he's going
- 45:29Speaker 1: to hurt the producer's feelings. Just a very beautiful, a
- 45:33Speaker 1: very warm soul. I want to show you then again
- 45:35Speaker 1: for some context. Here is Connor, and he's pretty dramatic
- 45:39Speaker 1: and hilarious and also an old soul. has no filter,
- 45:44Speaker 1: which is kind of a, oh, we don't have that one? Oh,
- 45:46Speaker 1: no worries. He's just another great character on this show.
- 45:51Speaker 1: Look him up on TikTok or YouTube or watch the
- 45:53Speaker 1: show on Netflix. Again, Connor is like a fan favorite.
- 45:57Speaker 1: And so I want to play a video for you. Well,
- 46:02Speaker 1: first I'm going to just say that these are, of course,
- 46:04Speaker 1: two of the sweetest, funniest families on the show. The
- 46:07Speaker 1: siblings and moms clearly love each other. It's very beautiful.
- 46:10Speaker 1: It's very sweet. And yet there is this effort underway
- 46:14Speaker 1: to cancel them. I want you to take a listen
- 46:16Speaker 1: to Tanner's mom. She's pretty emotional in this video. And
- 46:20Speaker 1: I think the context here and why she's sort of
- 46:23Speaker 1: emotional as she's talking about some of the negativity she's
- 46:26Speaker 1: received online is this overwhelming hatred of people who are
- 46:29Speaker 1: assuming that she voted for President Trump. Take a listen.
- 46:32Speaker 5: And today I'm starting the conversation about some of the
- 46:36Speaker 5: moms of the cast members.
- 46:38Speaker 1: If we can pause it. This is actually a video
- 46:40Speaker 1: of somebody trying to get them canceled. So we can
- 46:43Speaker 1: play this video. Take a listen.
- 46:44Speaker 5: Members of Love on the Spectrum, particularly Tanner's mother and
- 46:52Speaker 5: Connor's mother, who may... possibly be voting against their own
- 46:56Speaker 5: children's best interests. Like I said, it's all speculation and
- 46:59Speaker 5: it's the beginning of my digging. From what I've seen,
- 47:02Speaker 5: only by looking at who they are following on Instagram,
- 47:05Speaker 5: it could possibly give us a little bit of insight
- 47:08Speaker 5: into where they fall on the spectrum, the political one.
- 47:12Speaker 5: Starting it off with Tanner's mother, some of the notable
- 47:15Speaker 5: people that she follows are the real Donald Trump, official
- 47:19Speaker 5: Ben Shapiro, House Inhabit, aka Jessica Reed Krause, who didn't
- 47:23Speaker 5: vote in the 2024 election, and Jason Elliott, who is
- 47:27Speaker 5: a Republican for South Carolina Senate District 6. I also
- 47:31Speaker 5: looked into Conor's mother. Some notable people that she's following
- 47:35Speaker 5: are Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Keith Hexeth, and that American dreamer.
- 47:43Speaker 5: His profile picture is an American flag with Donald Trump
- 47:47Speaker 5: in it. Those were My initial finding, what do you
- 47:50Speaker 5: think this means, if anything? And if you don't already,
- 47:53Speaker 5: be sure to hit that follow button. I'm going to
- 47:55Speaker 5: be doing more digging and there will be a part two.
- 47:58Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're just going through what these, who these
- 48:01Speaker 1: women follow on Instagram to try and decipher whether they
- 48:04Speaker 1: are Trump supporters. They've deemed them Trump supporters. And now
- 48:08Speaker 1: these women are being flooded with all of this hate
- 48:12Speaker 1: from the political left. So Conor's mom's account full of negativity.
- 48:16Speaker 1: Tanner's mom's account full of negativity. They're demanding that they
- 48:20Speaker 1: explain themselves. Here is Tanner's mom. Again, like I said,
- 48:26Speaker 1: I teed it up before. We didn't play that video.
- 48:28Speaker 1: I'm going to play it now of Tanner's mom sort
- 48:31Speaker 1: of emotionally reacting to a lot of the negativity that
- 48:34Speaker 1: she's received and understanding that the negativity is all about
- 48:38Speaker 1: her being a Trump supporter.
- 48:39Speaker 6: Take a listen.
- 48:41Speaker 8: So I haven't posted anything personal on my own page
- 48:44Speaker 8: in several weeks because The last couple weeks in our
- 48:48Speaker 8: family have been intense, to say the least. That's kind
- 48:52Speaker 8: of the understatement of the year.
- 48:53Speaker 17: 95% a really good intense and an exciting intense, but
- 48:59Speaker 17: intense and exhausting. And I'm driving up to Clemson today,
- 49:04Speaker 17: and I was thinking about a conversation.
- 49:06Speaker 6: That I had with a friend yesterday.
- 49:08Speaker 8: And I find myself driving along crying.
- 49:11Speaker 5: My God.
- 49:15Speaker 8: And I just had a realization that I thought I
- 49:18Speaker 8: should share because it might be helpful. to somebody else
- 49:21Speaker 8: who's in a different season of life than me. When
- 49:25Speaker 8: Tanner was a little boy, one of my greatest fears
- 49:30Speaker 8: was that he was never going to have a friend.
- 49:33Speaker 8: And I was so afraid that he would never be happy.
- 49:37Speaker 8: that he would never find peace, that he wouldn't feel
- 49:40Speaker 8: a sense of purpose in his life. I was so
- 49:43Speaker 8: worried that autism was going to take all that from him.
- 49:47Speaker 6: And to be honest, I didn't have a lot of faith.
- 49:49Speaker 6: I was just scared. And last night, his follower count
- 49:57Speaker 6: on TikTok went up to a million people. He's at
- 50:00Speaker 6: 600 and something thousand on Instagram. And I know that's
- 50:03Speaker 6: just social media.
- 50:06Speaker 8: But what it represents to me is that God is
- 50:10Speaker 8: so faithful and that he really can do immeasurably more,
- 50:16Speaker 8: immeasurably more than you could ever ask or even imagine.
- 50:20Speaker 8: Because our family, not me, not Mark, not even we
- 50:22Speaker 8: never imagined anything like this.
- 50:25Speaker 6: We didn't even ask for it. I just wanted him
- 50:28Speaker 6: to have a friend. I wanted him to be loved
- 50:31Speaker 6: for who he is. I wanted him to have purpose.
- 50:39Speaker 1: She's just like a really a good mom, like clearly,
- 50:41Speaker 1: like she just she loves her son. She is very,
- 50:45Speaker 1: very supportive and kind to him and understanding of him
- 50:49Speaker 1: on the show. So is Connor's mom. And again, they're
- 50:52Speaker 1: just being attacked for who they voted for. Some of
- 50:55Speaker 1: the comments are poor Tanner. He has a mom who
- 50:57Speaker 1: voted against his own interests. How can you support a
- 51:00Speaker 1: president who would make fun and dehumanize your own son?
- 51:02Speaker 1: Did you truly vote against yourself, your daughter, and your son?
- 51:06Speaker 1: Then somebody says on that video that I just played
- 51:08Speaker 1: of Tanner's mom, they said, watch this comment go away
- 51:16Speaker 1: and I get blocked, but you are making your son's
- 51:18Speaker 1: life worse by who you voted for. The risk for
- 51:21Speaker 1: all of this, meaning disabilities programs, to be taken away
- 51:24Speaker 1: was always there by voting for him. So then Tanner's
- 51:28Speaker 1: mom replies to this comment and she says, don't worry.
- 51:31Speaker 1: I will leave your comment right there so people see
- 51:34Speaker 1: who the online bullies are. You obviously did not listen
- 51:37Speaker 1: to one word of this video. Just know you will
- 51:39Speaker 1: not intimidate me, which I love that response from her.
- 51:43Speaker 1: But know that several members on Love on the Spectrum
- 51:48Speaker 1: are openly left-wing. And one woman in the Australia season
- 51:52Speaker 1: explicitly talked about how much she hates President Trump. None
- 51:56Speaker 1: of these cast members who are left-wing have been subject
- 52:00Speaker 1: to massive online harassment campaigns by Republicans or conservatives. This
- 52:05Speaker 1: has not happened. And the reason is because the right
- 52:08Speaker 1: doesn't treat a dating show with autistic people as a
- 52:12Speaker 1: political battleground. The politics are irrelevant. But for leftists, nothing
- 52:17Speaker 1: is ever apolitical. Culture, relationships, even neurodivergence has to be
- 52:23Speaker 1: subordinated to the cause. And this behavior reflects a deeper
- 52:27Speaker 1: Marxist principle, the belief that all culture is a front
- 52:30Speaker 1: in the political struggle. And Marxists thought there is no
- 52:34Speaker 1: such thing as a neutral space. Art, family, entertainment, all
- 52:40Speaker 1: are either tools of liberation or they're instruments of oppression.
- 52:43Speaker 1: And that's why they demand total ideological conformity, even in
- 52:47Speaker 1: non-political contexts. So even mothers of sweet autistic men on
- 52:51Speaker 1: a reality show about love can't escape scrutiny. Not for
- 52:55Speaker 1: what they say or do because they're great mothers, but
- 52:59Speaker 1: how they voted. All right, speaking of TikTok, you guys
- 53:03Speaker 1: will like this next story, I think. Millennials and Zillennial,
- 53:08Speaker 1: so that means like older Gen Z millennials, kind of
- 53:11Speaker 1: people in the middle, they are on TikTok and noticing
- 53:15Speaker 1: something about younger women, like women that are in their
- 53:19Speaker 1: late teens, early 20s. Younger women are not dressing like sluts, apparently.
- 53:25Speaker 1: And these older women, sort of the ones who are
- 53:27Speaker 1: like in their late 20s, early 30s, they are not
- 53:30Speaker 1: happy about it. Apparently, the young women are wearing more
- 53:34Speaker 1: elegant clothing to the club, which, like I said, is
- 53:38Speaker 1: something that's deeply disturbing to women in their late 20s
- 53:40Speaker 1: and early 30s for some reason. Take a listen.
- 53:44Speaker 18: The young girls are wearing milkmaid dresses to the club
- 53:46Speaker 18: nowadays because y'all have successfully bullied them into submitting to misogyny.
- 53:51Speaker 18: I've said this various times before in plenty of other videos,
- 53:54Speaker 18: one that I made very, very recently. But when other
- 53:57Speaker 18: people try to determine what your self-respect is, that is
- 54:00Speaker 18: no longer self-respect. Because self-respect is about the perception of yourself.
- 54:05Speaker 7: Self.
- 54:05Speaker 12: Self.
- 54:06Speaker 10: Self.
- 54:07Speaker 6: And you mean to be shitting me?
- 54:08Speaker 8: Who gives a fuck.
- 54:09Speaker 5: About a perception? A perception?
- 54:11Speaker 6: Your perception?
- 54:12Speaker 18: I will shit on the perception that you have of me.
- 54:15Speaker 18: And I will wipe my ass with the very eyes
- 54:17Speaker 18: that precede me.
- 54:20Speaker 6: Facts. Facts.
- 54:22Speaker 18: And that's the thing. If you are a person who
- 54:24Speaker 18: wears make dresses and wants to dress like a house
- 54:25Speaker 18: n * * * a, that makes you feel good.
- 54:27Speaker 18: And that makes you, you know, feel like you're more
- 54:30Speaker 18: of a woman. Do, by all means, because your heart
- 54:32Speaker 18: is in the right place. It's about you. That's about you.
- 54:35Speaker 18: But majority of these women, they get on here preaching this,
- 54:37Speaker 18: you know, modest, modest this, modest that. It's always about
- 54:40Speaker 18: the way other people will receive them and perceive them.
- 54:43Speaker 18: And honestly, if your whole mentality is not, if you
- 54:46Speaker 18: don't give a f * * *, dress how you
- 54:47Speaker 18: want to dress.
- 54:48Speaker 5: Look how you want to look.
- 54:49Speaker 18: Please, I'm advising people, everyone.
- 54:52Speaker 4: To do that.
- 54:53Speaker 1: Okay, so what's fascinating about this is she's saying, look
- 54:56Speaker 1: how you wanna look. But it doesn't feel like she's saying,
- 55:00Speaker 1: look or dress how you wanna look or dress. It
- 55:02Speaker 1: seems like she's had a very visceral negative reaction to
- 55:05Speaker 1: young women not dressing like sluts in the club. And
- 55:08Speaker 1: she's immediately declaring misogyny because she doesn't understand what's going on.
- 55:12Speaker 1: Now for some context here, younger women are dressing more modestly.
- 55:16Speaker 1: This is actually happening. Slutty online fast fashion stores like
- 55:19Speaker 1: Pretty Little Thing have totally rebranded and are now selling
- 55:21Speaker 1: trad-looking elegant clothing. And that is what young women want
- 55:26Speaker 1: right now. This is why they're making the rebrand. Men are,
- 55:29Speaker 1: of course, more right-wing than young women. However, all Gen
- 55:34Speaker 1: Z demographics— men, women, black, white, brown, doesn't matter— all of them
- 55:38Speaker 1: are trending more politically right than their millennial counterparts. They
- 55:42Speaker 1: are more right-wing than their millennial counterparts. So this is
- 55:45Speaker 1: a real thing that is happening. But I want to
- 55:47Speaker 1: talk about this reaction from older women. And I don't
- 55:51Speaker 1: mean older women, but older young women, so millennial women.
- 55:55Speaker 1: Because it's so interesting, this knee-jerk accusation that the modest
- 56:01Speaker 1: club look is somehow internalized misogyny reveals more about the
- 56:05Speaker 1: insecurities of the older generation than it does about the
- 56:09Speaker 1: younger one. Gen Z girls have watched the wreckage of
- 56:12Speaker 1: radical feminism with clear eyes. They've grown up amid broken homes,
- 56:17Speaker 1: the mainstreaming of hookup culture where women are expected to
- 56:20Speaker 1: give everything and get nothing in return. They've seen abortion
- 56:24Speaker 1: held up as empowerment only to realize it's often a
- 56:28Speaker 1: tool to prop up a system that treats women like
- 56:30Speaker 1: disposable flesh. This generation has witnessed the glorification of OnlyFans,
- 56:36Speaker 1: the erasure of womanhood in the name of gender fluidity,
- 56:39Speaker 1: and the rise of antidepressants as the default prescription for
- 56:45Speaker 1: female unhappiness. We have hit rock bottom, in other words.
- 56:49Speaker 1: And there's a growing movement of young women who are
- 56:51Speaker 1: rejecting it all, rejecting these fruits of the sexual revolution.
- 56:55Speaker 1: And these young women are not oppressed. They are waking up. Meanwhile,
- 56:59Speaker 1: the millennial feminists, who once shouted liberation, are still performing,
- 57:04Speaker 1: still conforming just to the dogmas of the sexual revolution.
- 57:09Speaker 1: They don't actually want women to be themselves. They want
- 57:13Speaker 1: them to follow the orthodoxy. one that treats feminine beauty,
- 57:16Speaker 1: especially when directed toward men, as shameful. But this is
- 57:20Speaker 1: one of the most damaging lies on the left, that
- 57:23Speaker 1: there is something wrong with wanting to look beautiful for men.
- 57:28Speaker 1: And in fact, it is natural and good and rightly
- 57:33Speaker 1: ordered to want to look beautiful. Beauty can elevate, attract,
- 57:38Speaker 1: and even inspire virtue. The disorder comes when beauty is
- 57:41Speaker 1: weaponized for attention, for power, or validation. So ultimately, the
- 57:45Speaker 1: reaction from millennial women isn't about concern for Gen Z.
- 57:49Speaker 1: It's about fear. Fear that younger women have found something better.
- 57:55Speaker 1: Fear that their own sacrifices at the altar of feminism
- 57:58Speaker 1: weren't worth it. So rather than cheer on this quiet,
- 58:02Speaker 1: modest revolution, they attempt to drag Gen Z down. mistaking
- 58:06Speaker 1: rebellion against dysfunction for regression. But the truth is that
- 58:10Speaker 1: modesty isn't repression. It's often the first sign of healing.
- 58:14Speaker 1: And there's a powerful thread running through the modesty shift,
- 58:17Speaker 1: the Gen Z women and Gen Z women to the
- 58:20Speaker 1: ideological capture of Harvard and the canceling of the sweet
- 58:23Speaker 1: moms on Love on the Spectrum. The war on normal
- 58:27Speaker 1: is so pervasive in the left. That's what this is.
- 58:32Speaker 1: It's a war on normal. Every one of these moments
- 58:34Speaker 1: reveals a culture that punishes deviation, not from truth, but
- 58:38Speaker 1: from dogma. Whether it's young women daring to reject pickup culture,
- 58:42Speaker 1: love on the spectrum families voting their conscience, or the
- 58:46Speaker 1: democratic crusade to bring back an MS-13 gay member, the
- 58:50Speaker 1: war on normal persists. Ordinary families, moms who love their sons,
- 58:55Speaker 1: girls who want to look beautiful and dignified, Americans who
- 58:57Speaker 1: believe in borders and law and order are relentlessly vilified.
- 59:01Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Violent criminals like Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, our confirmed MS-13
- 59:06Speaker 1: gang members, are treated like victims worthy of rescue missions.
- 59:11Speaker 1: And Democrat lawmakers are literally flying to El Salvador to
- 59:14Speaker 1: fight for him while smearing hardworking Americans as bigots and fascists.
- 59:19Speaker 1: It's not about justice. It is about power. And to
- 59:22Speaker 1: preserve that power is The left will side with anything
- 59:25Speaker 1: that subverts the natural, the rooted, the good. This is
- 59:28Speaker 1: what happens when ideology replaces morality. When the sexual revolution
- 59:33Speaker 1: told women that self-destruction was empowerment. When Marxism taught activists
- 59:38Speaker 1: that families are fascist. And when identity politics twisted compassion
- 59:43Speaker 1: into a weapon. It all led here. A regime where
- 59:47Speaker 1: disorder is protected and order is punished. And yet something
- 59:50Speaker 1: is shifting right now. Young people are waking up. They're
- 59:54Speaker 1: rejecting the lies. That quiet rebellion from the club to
- 59:58Speaker 1: the ballot box is the left's greatest fear. Because once
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: you realize you're not crazy for wanting to live a good,
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: normal life, you become a lot harder to control. Make
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: sure to like and follow this podcast if you are
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- 1:00:19Speaker 1: I'll see you all tomorrow. The Dan Bongino Show.
- 1:00:22Speaker 11: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
- 1:00:25Speaker 11: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
- 1:00:28Speaker 11: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
- 1:00:31Speaker 11: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
- 1:00:34Speaker 11: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
- 1:00:39Speaker 11: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
- 1:00:42Speaker 11: will win. It is not complicated.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: The Dan Bongino Show. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.