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We're going to be talking about everything that's going on anyway, because we don't need Glenn to do that.

Glenn could bring his amazing perspective later in the week, but today we're going to go into all of the craziness going on, particularly in the media today.

The way they're dealing with the CNN failure and the Washington Post failure from this week is incredible.

We'll get into that in 60 seconds.

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So can we take a moment and

talk about the last couple of years when it comes to CNN?

What an utter series of catastrophes we have seen from this network that used to be, you know, the name and news.

This is CNN.

James Earl Jones even said it.

He told us it was CNN.

And when James Earl Jones says something, he's either strangling you telepathically or he's telling you something important.

And for a long time, CNN was this network.

It would be a network that would honestly be a welcome addition to

the media landscape right now, if it existed in the form that it's supposed to.

And think about this.

We have a lot of great opinion out there.

If you're a subscriber to Blaze TV, I think you'll see perspectives from all across the right.

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And we do that pretty well, I think, here.

There's a lot of other services on the right that do that pretty well.

There's a lot of services on the left that give you left-wing opinion as well, and that's easy to find.

There are not a ton of places anymore that even attempt to do just down-the-middle journalism, right?

Something where they're just giving you the facts with no opinion whatsoever.

There's a there is, I'm in this business, I've been in this business for a long time now, there is real

utility

in opinion.

That's something that we need.

It can't just be boring news that nobody wants to watch.

I understand that people want passion.

They want to hear some actual perspective, something that means something about the news of the day.

What does it mean in the end?

I mean, you know, you can hear the facts facts all you want, but there is

a need for someone who's actually doing reporting.

Someone who is sending reporters into the middle of Ukraine, for example.

I mean, we're in the middle of a war, and we aren't, although we seem to be trying to get ourselves into it.

But in theory, we're not in the middle of a war, but there's a big war going on between Russia and Ukraine, and it's difficult to know what the hell is going on on a day-to-day basis.

What does this mean?

Who's advancing where?

We're looking at, you look at one map of where the Russians are, and another map of Ukraine looks like they're winning and pushing back.

Another map looks like Russia is just rolling over them.

It's almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is propaganda.

It's wartime.

These things happen.

People tell the truth.

They exaggerate the truth.

They do all sorts of things with the truth.

Many times, they don't stick to it, though.

So it would be nice to have an organization like CNN with a lot of resources

that could take some time

and tell us what's actually going on.

And then places like the Blaze and places like, I don't know, the Huffington Post can look at that information and see it through their lens and give you an idea of their perspective.

And then you can judge for yourself.

That's how this is supposed to work.

Well, CNN abandoned this a while ago.

They've always been, to be clear, always have been a left-wing, a left-leaning network.

A lot of times, though, they were a left-leaning network that attempted to do news.

It was news that was left-wing all that often, as we do this show on the premiere radio networks.

I remember Rush Limbaugh a zillion years ago talking about the Clinton News Network.

I mean, this was not

a completely balanced source at any moment in its history.

It always had a leftward lean.

But particularly

with the rise of Donald Trump,

this organization turned off any efforts to be fair.

They were broken.

I mean, look, Donald Trump broke a lot of people.

And they decided, for whatever reason, that this was too important.

They just couldn't maintain

the appearance of attempting to be journalists anymore.

And this doesn't go for every single person at CNN.

There are some exceptions to this, but generally speaking, as a network, especially with the arrival of Zucker, they decided to go down this road where they would become

to the left of the Huffington Post.

No matter what occurred, they would come up with somebody who would present it as a racist, homophobic, transphobic, phobic-phobic thing that the right had done somehow.

No matter what the story was, it would turn back to that.

And look, you know, MSNBC was already doing that.

There was no room for another network network to attempt to do the same thing.

And yet they decided this was just too important.

They had to do it.

And when Donald Trump won in 2016, they doubled down on it.

They decided this was the most important thing that anything that had ever occurred.

And they decided to double down on just

non-thinking critiques of Donald Trump.

You can't.

There was never any,

it didn't seem to ever be any information on it.

And like, look, you could be critical of Donald Trump.

I don't think anybody in this audience wants to hear somebody coming out and blathering and being a constant cheerleader for any politician.

Nobody wants that.

You can be critical.

You can even be left-wing critical of Donald Trump.

That doesn't mean you have to make things up.

It doesn't mean you have to create entire arcs of scandal to try to take him out because you don't like him.

Just be honest.

If he's doing a poor job, if you're honest about it, the American people will recognize that.

They're certainly doing this right now with Joe Biden.

CNN and many other news organizations have done nothing but present the best possible view of everything Joe Biden has done since the moment he became president of the United States, and he's still at 36 and 33 and 37% approval rating.

The guy can't even crack 40,

and that's with the entire media behind him.

Imagine if he didn't have that.

So, CNN goes down this road.

They started off with the Donald Trump era.

And even as an outsider, you'd have to recognize there were some high points here.

The high points certainly were not related to journalism in any way.

The high points were related to their ratings, which went up a lot.

And

I can give you some analysis from the utmost expert on this topic, Donald Trump, that Donald Trump brings ratings.

He's aware of it.

Everybody's aware of it.

So Donald Trump

is the singular focus of CNN for four years.

They talk about him all the time,

and they become completely obsessed to the point where a restraining order was probably necessary.

Every single topic would be spun to be related to Donald Trump in some way.

This was the only thing they were allowed to talk about for four consecutive years.

So, Donald Trump, after 2020, Joe Biden comes in.

He's the president of the United States.

And one thing that I don't think they thought out all that well was: if you can get Donald Trump out of the presidency and somebody else is president, then what do you do with your network?

Because they had gone through a complete revamp of not only just, I mean, we know, again, they were left-wing, but to take it to this degree and then remove all ties to the vision of what they were supposed to be as a network.

CNN no longer was, even early in the Trump days, they would say, oh, we're the apple.

This is an apple.

Remember these commercials?

This is an apple.

And we're going to call it an apple because we're brave.

Other people people are going to say it's a pear or a fruit,

you know, a fruit salad or a watermelon, but we are CNN.

And we will tell you that that is an apple because we are truth.

We tell you what truth is.

When you want truth, you come to us.

And if we don't say it's true, it's not.

That was the approach.

They went to initially.

Over time, it became clearer and clearer to even its own viewers that this was not the case.

So they just turned into a left-wing opinion network.

Now, look, you can make money on left-wing opinion.

People do it all the time.

You can usually raise a lot of money doing it, too.

There are reasons to do it.

The path,

if you choose the path of conservatism, you're not doing it because it's easy.

It's a lot easier to go out there and take the left-wing view.

Everyone praises you, everyone cheers you on, everyone throws money at you.

It's just the way it is.

It's just the way it is.

So it's easy to go that way.

And so they did.

And it worked for a few years.

The ratings were pretty good, especially for CNN.

But then Biden came in and everything has collapsed.

It has absolutely disintegrated over the past year, which is really incredible.

They had pretty good ratings for them, at least.

back in the day under Donald Trump when Donald Trump was president.

And now those have gone away completely.

They dropped dropped something like 80% of their audience.

Then you had the Cuomo scandals,

where we have now evidence that not only was the coverage of Andrew Cuomo

through COVID really, really terrible,

we now have evidence that the guy who heads up CNN

was

counseling

Andrew Andrew Cuomo on how to respond to Donald Trump in press conferences.

We know

that the first words you heard from Andrew Cuomo about his pending and building scandals when it came to his Me Too accusations against him, the first words in his defense were written by an anchor of CNN, Chris Cuomo.

who wrote basically an email outline of the speech that Andrew Cuomo wound up giving?

Then

CNN was forced to cover a speech written by its own anchor,

was forced to

cover press conferences based on guidance from CNN employees, the guy running it and the woman he was having an affair with, who was a former Cuomo aide.

We all know Andrew Cuomo steps down.

Eventually, so does Chris.

Now, Chris Cuomo is suing CNN.

That whole thing has collapsed.

And then you have CNN Plus.

And look, if you know anything about the last 20 minutes or so, you might sense

the slightest bit

of dislike from me towards CNN.

I don't love the network.

I'd love to see them.

I'd honestly love to see them be successful if they were doing their jobs.

But when they don't do their jobs, I don't wish success on them at all.

But even with that, it is hard to classify CNN Plus as anything other than the greatest media catastrophe that we have ever seen.

You want to compare it to something else.

Give me the comparison.

I don't know what it would be.

Quibi,

which if you don't know what Quibi is, a lot of people didn't.

And that was part of the problem.

That was part of the issue.

People didn't know what it was.

But

let's try to find something.

Quibi, I guess, is maybe the closest recent example of a media failure like that.

I will take a moment and try to find something that can compare, but I don't know what it is.

Maybe the greatest media catastrophe in the history of television and broadcast and journalism.

I don't know that anyone has ever seen anything like what we have witnessed with CNN Plus.

And in addition to that, CNN over the the past year or so,

say two years,

it has been an incredible fall from relative grace.

Again, their high points weren't exactly high points, but still, the fall from grace is spectacular.

We'll have more than that in about 60 seconds.

So, what do the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela all have in common?

Well, all of them ended up looking like our country is about to look if we don't turn things around.

It's going to, they all look like CNN Plus is basically what they had in common.

Inflation is running rampant in the United States right now, but those of us who look at history, and we talk about this often, I have a $1 trillion bill from Zimbabwe.

It's one of my prized possessions.

I am, technically, a trillionaire.

We all like to be a trillionaire, but you don't want to be a trillionaire like that.

If you want to be informed about inflation, if you want to understand why you don't want a $100 trillion bill of your own, you need to get informed.

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These kids beg me to read to them the Tuttle Twins books.

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We have spent so much time on the conservative side talking about universities.

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It's too late at the point of universities.

You need to talk to kids earlier about the foundations of what is important, not only of the country's foundations, but capitalism and, you know, even monetary policy.

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Is it The Monster of Jekyll Island?

I can never remember the name of it.

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So Quibby

is an app.

or was an app.

And it was launched with, I think, $1.7 billion worth of money.

And the idea here was people go to YouTube all the time and they want to watch short videos.

They're watching five minute and 10-minute videos.

What if

instead of the crap that's on YouTube sometimes, like, you know, Stew Does America, which is available Monday through Friday?

I mean, you got that going on there.

You want to avoid that, obviously.

And, you know, we'll go to Real Talent in Hollywood and come up with real shows that are designed to be 10 minutes long.

They're designed to be viewed on your phone.

We can do all sorts of things.

Like, you know how you have your phone and you're watching it, what is it?

Landscape?

I can't remember which one is which, but you're watching it landscape and you have your phone that is portrait.

You know, you turn your phone back and forth and then the shows get really small and you can't see them.

Quibi said, well, what if we customize the shows for that process?

We know people are watching them on their phone.

So you turn the phone the long way and it will zoom in to the best possible view you can see of the show.

In fact, they even had situations where you could see two different things of the same show.

You'd see two different views.

They'd actually customize camera shots for the long way and the wide way of your phone, portrait and landscape, as it were.

So kind of an interesting idea.

Then they said, hey, you know, when people are watching YouTube, they're watching it like when they're in the line at the grocery store.

They're getting groceries.

They're watching a few minutes of shows as

they're going through the process of getting food in their house.

And that's a good idea.

We'll give them shorter shows.

No one's going to watch a half an hour show like Netflix has.

Let's give them a shorter show.

Okay, you can kind of understand it.

They spend all this money, tons of money into marketing.

They get their last $700, I think it was $750 million of funding on March 10th, 2020.

And

guess what people aren't doing anymore?

People are no longer in the lines at the stores watching shows because they're all terrified they're going to die like a week later.

And that wasn't the only problem with Quibi as a as a service, but it was a pretty pretty big one.

They were designed for this idea that people were out all the time and they were watching shows while they were out, and then no one was out for a year.

So a real problem.

The launch was poor.

People didn't sign up.

It went away really quickly.

It's known as one of the biggest catastrophes in the history of media.

It lasted seven times as long as CNN Plus.

Seven times as long.

And they actually had at least a few good shows on Quibi.

That is not the case for CNN Plus.

They spent $300 million and didn't last

a month.

That is incredible.

If you designed a failure, you could not approach the levels of what CNN Plus has accomplished here.

New Coke lasted for, I think it was a couple of months at least with Coke off the market.

It lasted 17 years as a product, New Coke, but New Coke with Coke Classic off the market still was a few months.

CNN Plus has to be one of the biggest consumer failures in the history of consumers.

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Pat have been talking about the absolute and utter catastrophe that is CNN Plus.

I think, and we were trying to come up with a comparison, what is the greatest consumer catastrophe of all time?

You know, media catastrophe.

Quibi was an example we talked about.

It's not lasted seven times as long as CNN.

Yeah, many months.

It actually had some good shows.

There were some good shows, like the Reno 911 reboot they did on that was really funny.

I got to say, it was actually really good.

They had some good shows on Quibi.

It just was way too much money on a project that didn't make much sense when everyone was locked down to their homes.

You know, you couldn't watch.

When Quibi launched, you were not able to watch it on television.

It was so specific for people who were out and about at the grocery store, you know, watching their phones.

Did they fix that during the day?

They eventually did try to do it, but you know, after it was already a failure.

So, did you have Quibi?

I did, actually.

You did have a Quibi.

It sounds like you had it.

Yeah, it was good.

I mean,

it wasn't good.

But there were a couple shows that were good.

Okay.

And a couple funny shows, a couple good ideas.

It would have been an interesting thing to see played out to the end, to see what they could have done with it.

Yeah.

But, you know,

there's that.

There's Pets.com back in 2000 that was a spectacular failure, but that lasted, I think it was 262 days.

Much longer.

Much longer than CNN Plus.

And I can't.

We talked about New Coke.

Oh, New Coke.

Again, New Coke lasted 17 years.

It's kind of a success in comparison.

Oh, totally a success in comparison.

I mean, really, the only thing that they, the only mistake they made with New Coke was taking Coke Classic, which was actually just Coke back then, but taking Coke Classic off the market.

And people got annoyed that they took away the thing they liked.

People didn't get annoyed.

For example, Diet Coke was out and it was been out forever.

And they introduced Coke Zero.

People weren't like, damn you.

Why did you introduce the new option for me?

Like, people don't mind that.

Like, they just don't like you taking away the old thing.

Yeah, it didn't make any sense to take it away.

This is unless it was really a marketing ploy, which I kind of suspect all along that that's what it was.

There is that theory out there that this was actually a market.

Well, because it works so well.

I mean, the sales of classic Coke actually increased a lot when they brought it back.

So you think that might happen with CNN Plus?

Like, people will be so upset CNN Plus went away.

I'm not getting that vibe.

They might go back to regular CNN.

I'm not getting that vibe.

No, I don't think so either.

So I'm fascinated by this.

Now, there is some new analysis about this that maybe you have not heard from Brian Stelter, who works at CNN and was one of the centerpieces of CNN Plus.

Right.

Just to make, to be clear, one of the centerpieces of CNN Plus was Brian Stelter.

Now, look, Brian, I don't think you're going to make him a centerpiece because he's sucks.

That's just not a thing you're going to do.

He's terrible.

Now, Chris Wallace was another person they brought over, which, again, I...

Which I'm not very excited about that either.

No, I mean, Chris Wallace.

I didn't watch him at Fox.

Why would I watch him at CNN Plus?

But, like, the people at CNN probably did like Chris Wallace because he was the one guy over at Fox in their perception who would occasionally say critical things about Republicans, right?

So maybe you could understand him being a part.

But again, as the centerpiece, and he was, I mean, it seemed like their strategy with Chris Wallace was like, let's have him interview William Shetner.

Like, all right, okay.

Yeah, and didn't he make a statement kind of like, yeah, I don't want to do politics anymore.

Right.

Which is like, well, wait, that's what you're

known for.

So it was, again, a catastrophe from the start.

But Brian Stelter had some perspective on this.

And I hadn't really thought of it this way, I have to admit, Pat.

I mean, because I thought this is a complete failure.

and everything we know about it is a failure.

It's one of the greatest failures.

It's just a question is, is it number one or number two on the list?

Are we forgetting something from like the 1700s or something that could compare to this?

I don't know what it could be.

But Brian Stelter wants you to make sure you're taking your time in

how you think about CNN Plus and whether it was a positive or a negative.

Have you seen anything like this happen before in the media business?

No.

I mean, no.

And first of all, I think I'm making history right now i've never been on a program talking about the demise of that program

well we probably have more viewers now than ever before because there's so much curiosity and uh

let me try out a theory on

let me try out a theory on that which is it's too early to know if this product if this service was a success or a failure.

You know, you got all the haters today saying this thing was a failure.

I don't know if we can even ever assess that because it just simply didn't have enough time because of the management's change in direction.

And at the end of the day, if you buy something, if you buy a giant media company, you get to do whatever you want with it.

But it does mean there's a lot of suffering for employees and frankly, disappointment among subscribers as a result.

Just too early to tell, that's all.

Who could know?

You can't know.

You know?

I don't know.

I mean, it lasted less than 30 days or about 30 days.

Who can know if that's a success or a failure?

Yeah, and I said maybe unfairly that it didn't even last a month.

Technically, it did last one month and one day.

Yeah.

Or it will.

It's not even completely done yet.

They canceled it long before a month.

I mean, it wasn't even close to a month when they canceled it, but they're playing out the string until I think April 30th.

So

it isn't, I guess it technically lasted a month and a day.

But I don't know.

I feel like

when your service has already, after three weeks, been disintegrated, It's possible that is a failure.

You don't need more time to assess it.

Like, it's not in like in the year 2387, people are going to be looking back and be like, you know, that's CNN Plus.

You got to take a look at what happened there.

I think that was a success.

Huge.

They had 10,000 people.

Watch it.

10,000.

And I will say this.

I don't believe that number.

I don't even, I don't believe 150,000 people subscribe to it.

I don't believe they even had 150,000 total, let alone paid.

The Wall Street Journal has already come out and said they have insider information that it was less than 100,000.

And I agree with you.

I don't believe that.

I believe it was less.

I think it's less than 50,000.

Here's my theory.

They said 150,000 people subscribed to this thing.

I think it's closer to 150.

Like, I mean, 150, not 150,000.

Not 1,500.

150.

Now, it might be higher employees of CNA.

It was Brian Stelter and Chris Wallace and their families.

Yes.

I don't believe that number for a freaking second.

Now, that number would still be a catastrophe if you spent $300 million on the product and had a billion dollars to spend over four years.

You'd still be disappointed in $150,000 or 150,000 subscribers.

But like, I don't buy that for a second.

And 10,000 subscribers or 10,000 people watching video, maybe over the course of an entire day, maybe.

Maybe.

And I think that's what they were talking about.

Wasn't that 10,000 people reported a couple different ways.

Streamed it is what I read.

That's so

bad.

Really bad.

Again, they don't have people watching their main product.

You know, if you have a main product with a massive amount of viewers and

you want to have, like, you know, Fox and Fox Nation, for example.

I don't know.

I don't know how well Fox Nation does, but it's been in business for multiple years.

I mean, we could say that.

But, you know, they have

Fox News channel, which is a big channel with lots of viewers, and they kind of have this big idea.

And then they advertise Fox Nation all the time.

They say, hey, come listen to additional commentary from, you know, whatever, Tucker Carlson or whoever.

And, you know, I'm sure people.

Some people do.

I'm sure they do at some level.

Certainly much more than CNN Plus.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And probably CNN Regular.

And this thing has just...

Look, there are people, you know, look, there's people who do, you know,

they are electricians who work on the show and people who run, I i don't know cameras on the show and like you know these there are people who are going to get hurt by this and it sucks for them you know i mean it they lured people out of really good jobs to come to cnn plus with the promise they were going to run this thing and that's completely irresponsible by the people who did it what do you do if you're chris wallace and you left a really good job to go over there and be their featured person at cnn plus and now it's gone now wallace they'll probably stick somewhere on cnn right they will i thought the rumor is they're going to put him at nine with Brian Williams.

I've heard that, and that's kind of

an amazing

admission in some ways.

But he can't do his own thing.

He's not even strong enough.

They don't even trust him to

do a newscast for an hour on the primetime CNN, which has 85 viewers as opposed to 10.

Which is just, it's an amazing thing.

But I mean, okay, worst case for Chris Wallace, he probably goes and is just like a contributor and comments on the news of the day or whatever.

You know, a lot of these people left stable jobs.

And remember, CNN knew this merger was coming and they knew Discovery didn't want it.

Discovery was saying it publicly in the media that they didn't want this thing.

And they questioned whether it had utility.

It didn't.

And so these people

should have probably seen that coming, but if they didn't, they left good jobs to come over to this, you know, disastrous CNN Plus, and they're going to be out on the street, which is a completely irresponsible thing for CNN to do.

A disaster, though, I think it's too soon to tell.

You think?

Yeah, I do.

I probably jumped.

I picked on on that one.

I loved the Twitter responses to Brian Stelter over the weekend where

they had a flaming Hindenburg and said it's really too soon to tell if dirigibles are a good form of transportation.

Should hydrogen be what makes it float?

Who knows?

Who knows?

Who knows?

I mean, is it a little bit combustible?

Yes, but it's too soon to tell you.

Too soon to tell, really, whether it's too dangerous.

We don't know yet.

It's on the ground in flames.

It's already there.

Everybody aboard was killed.

Yeah.

I think it's

time.

Safe to say.

Let's make the call.

I mean, we have a phrase, oh, the humanity already.

People know the phrase, and it's specifically around this.

I got to say, which one is worse?

The Hindenburg or CNN Plus?

You have to say, the Hindenburg, I don't think that was its first flight.

I think it had a bunch of successful flights before that.

It did.

If I remember the history correctly,

I mean, it had a run.

There was plenty of hydrogen ships that got up there and were fine.

I mean, they adjusted the plan later, and blimps to this day still exist.

Very true.

You know, we see them over every football game in the NFL.

Yeah.

They switched the formula up a little bit.

But do you think CNN is going to switch up their formula when they learn that no one cares about what they're doing?

No.

No.

They're going to continue to...

I don't know.

Maybe Discovery.

Discovery is done with Brian Stelter at least.

And maybe the rest of the lineup, too.

The rumor is that the opinion people are going to go.

By the end of spring, they say the opinion people are gone.

That would be really a welcome change.

Wouldn't it?

Oh, man.

It's just, it really would be i thought of this when the ukraine russia thing broke out it would be really nice to have a network where we could go to trust some of the information yeah you know i mean look i is i there are a lot of places i like and look and trust but like you know we don't the blaze doesn't have reporters on the ground in ukraine like but that's not the type of organization we are uh you know it would be nice if somebody if there was someone out there who did that and did it responsibly yeah maybe cnn can recapture that somehow or capture it for the first time well there was a time when they were that.

Yeah.

You know, in the 80s?

There was always left-leaning.

Early 90s?

You know, they were always left-leaning.

But like when the first Iraq war broke out, like they had pretty good coverage.

All you had to do was, everyone was watching CNN.

It was your only option.

Yeah.

People were glued to it.

Even though you knew, yeah, sometimes they would go, they would take a left-wing position on things, and it was still mainstream media.

I mean, you still had that.

But at least...

Nothing like today.

Yeah, at least you believe the video they were showing was real.

Yeah.

At this point, I don't even know if you can do that on CNN.

I'm going to say no.

Okay.

You can't do that.

Yeah.

But it's, again, it's too early to judge.

Too early.

Yeah, way too early.

That's the summary of this hour.

It's too early to judge CNN Plus.

It could be successful.

It may, in time, be viewed as a massive success.

That's possible.

It's very, you know, very possible.

If 150 subscribers can be viewed as a success, what is that?

It's like $1,500

a month.

Yeah, it was only five bucks a month.

Oh, it was only $5.

Oh, that's right.

In fact, they cut it to three.

They cut it to three.

So it was $4,500 a month.

Which is, you know, not bad.

Not bad.

Not bad.

I mean, you could pay, you could pay, you get a one bedroom in New York for that.

You know?

It's so great.

A lot of revenue.

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Circular thermometers.

Yeah.

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Right.

And it really, you know, that's, they need to get rid of those.

That's the thing I would do immediately if I was made king is get rid of circular thermometers.

There's no real problems like snow in April.

Uh, because we can't have that, Pat, that's just part of the weather weirding process.

Oh, that's right.

That's that's just weather snow, whether it's snow or whether it's super, super bad heat, dry or wet, it's still still global warming, global warming, climate change.

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Meantime, in about 60 seconds, we've got to tell you about this California law.

Savannah Hernandez has gone out on the the street and asked some people about this law, which

covers perinatal abortion.

You might recognize perinatal as after the birth.

Hmm.

That's interesting.

Now, when you look up perinatal, that means like 28 days after birth.

A lot of the left are saying, no, no, no, it's only seven days after the birth.

Okay, so you can allow the baby to die just seven days after birth?

Huh.

Wow, that's

that's generous.

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We're talking about this California abortion law, which allows abortion anytime during the pregnancy, as most abortion laws do now, at least in blue states.

Red states are starting to fight back against that.

But in the blue states,

you can't be a Democrat anymore and say, yeah, abortion should be safe, rare, and

legal, safe, and rare, because they don't care about rare anymore, and they don't care when it happens anymore.

It could happen as the baby is being born.

That's the partial birth part.

Rare has gone the way of CNN Plus.

It is

no longer a thing.

And they're kind of proud of it.

They're saying, well,

if it's safe and legal, why should we worry about rare?

Yeah, they want it to be more common.

Safe, legal, and common is their new.

And I don't even know.

Safe.

They don't seem to care about much of that either, honestly.

Certainly not for the baby.

Yeah, they don't care about the safety of the baby at all.

The only thing they care about is legal, just let it happen anytime, anywhere.

You know, we should have abortion clinics inside 7-Elevens

because it should be that convenient.

It should really be just whenever they please.

But in California, they're passing this law about

perinatal abortions, which

allow the baby to die seven days after birth.

Very strange.

So Savannah Hernandez went out on the street asking people about this new law and what their thoughts were.

So basically, like if they have their baby, they can neglect them for seven days.

And if the baby dies, then they can't be held criminally liable.

What do you guys think?

Yeah.

I think whatever like helps women and helps them achieve their like dreams and wants that needs to like happen and definitely

acts to help that is helping all of us.

So I prefer that most women make their decisions at eight weeks.

Okay.

But I'm also in support of 10 months out of the womb.

So you think baby should be aborted 10 months after they're born?

If the mother wants to, yes.

I think

them kids.

So if

you want to get a late-term abortion, that's up to you.

You know, I've had an abortion too, and

it was my choice, and I'm happy I had that choice.

I've had an abortion myself.

Would you guys guys get an abortion again?

Yes.

100 times.

I do it multiple times.

Me too.

Until I feel that I'm Ready's parent.

That's a choice I'll continue to make.

Huh.

Wow, that's great.

I had 22 abortions last week, Pat.

Did you really?

Yeah.

22.

In one week?

Yeah.

Now I'm really happy about 21 of them.

You should maybe be a little more careful.

Is that too much?

Is that too much of me to ask?

Pardon me?

Is that too much to ask?

It is.

Wow.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Wow.

I can't believe you even said that publicly.

Don't be careful.

I've just changed my mind.

Thank you.

Don't be careful.

Get pregnant as many times as you want.

Yeah, not careful, care less.

Right.

Care less about your business.

That's what we need to encourage in this society.

More carelessness.

That's the,

I love that because that, when they say the don't say gay bill, and you know, there are the people oppose this bill.

And in the bill specifically, it says age-appropriate conversations.

So to oppose the bill, you are outwardly asking for age-inappropriate conversations.

The conversations must be inappropriate for the age, for your view of that bill, if you're on the left.

The same thing here.

Like,

if you say to someone, what if you're more careful, maybe don't do the impossibility

or protect yourself before you do

take some precaution.

I don't know, there's pills for that.

There's pills, there's condoms, there's all sorts of things.

Prophylactics, all sorts of things.

There's all sorts of ways to make sure this does not occur if you would not like it to occur.

That no.

That don't involve tearing the baby apart in the womb.

Yeah.

It just seems like a basic step.

And, you know, I understand sometimes the world can be a complicated place.

However, encouraging the opposite of being careful, which would be to encourage someone to be careless, is an odd choice.

for what we are supposed to believe is the responsible side of an argument.

Yeah.

Well,

could this have been precipitated by a guy who once said, I'm going to teach my children, I got two daughters, nine years old and six years old.

I'm going to teach them principles, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

I don't want them punished with an STD at 16.

Well, didn't you kind of set things up there for people to feel that way about being punished with a baby?

Now they consider it a punishment that that they just don't want to deal with.

And so they just eliminate it from their life.

It's incredible.

It really is incredible.

And this law goes even much, much farther

than this.

You know, talking about, you know, and Savannah, who, you know, was here with us at the place,

very nice and thoughtful person who's trying to actually get answers on these questions.

And

just asking questions, you know,

if you've never seen Savannah, she's young.

She's not an old white man.

Right.

And that is, of course, old white men have no, no knowledge, and we should obviously get rid of all of them from society.

She's not one of them.

And we should never comment.

No, of course not.

Abortion.

No.

Pregnancy at all.

Obviously not.

At all.

She comes, you know, it's a different package.

The people talking to her don't think she might be on the conservative side of the aisle.

They don't really consider that.

So

their guard isn't up.

They're just answering the questions as they feel.

Yeah, I had an abortion.

It was great.

I freaking loved it.

I would recommend everybody have about 10 to 12 abortions per month.

If you can do it, I highly recommend it.

That's the attitude from some of these people.

And, you know,

is there no limit?

What is the limiting principle, Pat, to the argument of women's choice?

What is the limiting principle of that argument?

To me, there isn't one.

There isn't one now.

That's a problem.

I mean, like the guy said,

he prefers that you only get an abortion within the first eight weeks.

But

he also supports 10 months after birth.

Right.

10 months.

If

the mother wants that.

Right.

He is not advocating that the dad should have an ER.

No, no.

But if the mother wants to kill the child, she may.

Yeah.

After 10 months.

Now, I don't know why the 10 months barrier.

Why not a year, two years?

Why not now?

Why not?

Why not his parent right now?

This is the problem with this argument.

If

his mother wants

to abort him now.

If his mother decided, you know, you know, who sucks is my stupid kid, who I just saw on television.

He's 28 years old and he's the dumbest person alive.

This is radio, but if you saw his haircut, you could understand an abortion request from mommy at this point.

Even at 28 years old,

he's got the dumbest haircut I've ever seen in my life.

And that guy,

that guy, maybe, you know, there's an argument to be made if mommy has a choice

that maybe he should be aborted at 28 years old.

And honestly,

when you adopt the left-wing view of this particular issue, why

not?

Why not?

It's the mommy's choice.

The kid doesn't get rights till when.

Whenever you're saying it is, it's arbitrary.

Yeah.

Right?

At least we had a line of the birth canal before where we could say, okay, you know,

Kermit Gosnell, we're going to put him in prison because he kept killing people after they were born.

Right.

That used to be, there was a time way back in like 2016 where we agreed with this.

At least we could acknowledge, okay, there's Peter Singer out there.

He's an ethicist at Princeton.

There was a few people out there who would argue for abortion after birth, but it was pretty rare.

Now it's not.

It's not.

It's becoming more and more common because, of course, when you say the fundamental, foundational truth of this argument when it comes to abortion is mother's choice, there's no limit to that.

As long as mommy's alive,

how do you draw this line?

How do you draw the line of it's mommy's choice so mommy gets to abort the fetus?

It's mommy's choice, and we have no respect for life anymore.

Just none.

And we, people, these, obviously, these kids are so desensitized to human life that they don't care anymore.

And they don't care.

You could put this, you could say, too, they've put no thought into it.

Even the people who have had abortions have put no thought into this.

And it's because they know the standard comeback to any given argument about abortion is, well, if the mom wants it, and that gets you off the hook for no matter what you say.

You'd be like, well, you know, wait a minute, but that woman was a dictator.

She committed genocide.

Well, yeah, but she was the mother of the country.

The mom wanted it.

Mother's choice.

They'll justify anything through that lens.

Because, of course, when it's arbitrary choice by a person,

you can justify anything, right?

You can justify anything through that lens.

You know, what was the case back in Houston?

You'll remember this, Pat, where the mom drowned five of their kids in the bathtub.

Yeah, Andrea Yates.

Oh, my God.

It was one of the worst stories I've ever heard.

Horrific.

And, but, like, why would a leftist oppose it?

Why would the people in that video oppose that her treatment in that story?

It was motherfucking.

I don't know if they would.

I don't know they would.

You just say, you know, well, look, you know, she made a choice there.

You know, she was my oldest was

seven, if I remember right.

So

I don't know if they would oppose that.

Do you think we could get

an on-record statement from like an AOC to oppose that case right now.

Do you think she would have, do you think, do you think she would say something to the effect of, look, it might not be my choice.

Right, but I'm not going to affect her choice.

I'm not going to affect her choice.

She's the mom.

She gets to make a choice.

Well, you might tell her what choice to make there.

I don't know.

She was stark raving mad.

If you might want to affect that choice.

If we are not at that point, we are close to it.

Yeah.

Yeah, we are.

We are close to it.

They're passing.

I mean, just when you think it can't get any worse, it does it gets worse

I never would have thought we'd get to a point where people would be saying 10 months after a birth of a of a human being that you can end their life

if the mother wants it.

Would you have ever thought that that was possible?

Never.

Just a few years ago.

I mean, other than like you said, Peter Singer, who has been saying this nonsense for a while, but nobody took him seriously at first.

Apparently they are now.

Yeah, it's similar to the CRT thing.

You know, CRT bubbled up in people like

the equivalent of Peter Singer

at institutions for a long time.

It sat there for a long time, growing and manifesting itself as they taught generation after generation this nonsensical ideology.

And now

here we are, right?

Like now we're at the point where something

pretty drastic has changed, where now that philosophy that was just in colleges is now being taught to your elementary school kids because their teachers went to college and learned it back 20, 30, 40 years ago.

And we're seeing this beginnings of that, I think, now with this extreme abortion and abortion argument.

And the only positive thing out of it is that it does highlight the craziness of the left in a way that maybe you couldn't.

You know, people,

when the argument was, okay, well, pre-viability, maybe it's okay, but we frown upon it.

We want to make it as rare as possible.

That argument, I think, makes sense to some people.

It doesn't make sense to me, I will say, but it makes sense to some people.

I don't think the argument of we can kill babies after they're born makes the sense to a lot of people, only the extreme left.

I hope that's true.

Because if it's not, we're lost, Pat.

We're lost.

It's over.

No question.

The civilization is over if people can't recognize that.

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It's Patton Stew for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

Former model Kathy Ireland is among the celebrities going after this horrific bill in California, trying to make people aware of it.

In fact, she tweeted out, I don't think I've ever seen Kathy Ireland say anything about politics,

but she tweeted out a new

iniquitous California bill, AB 2223, will legalize infanticide, killing babies up to 28 days old.

People of all faiths, no faith, every political party, race, gender, and sexual orientation are vehemently rejecting this.

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So

the left is completely denying that this legalizes infanticide, of course, because that's, I mean, that's horrific.

And some of them are saying, no, and it's only if the baby is born and you've got seven days to leave it to die, not 28.

So

that's much more sensible.

Isn't it, though?

Yeah, isn't it?

This is what they do.

This is Overton Window City, though.

This is what they do.

Okay, all of a sudden, hey, yeah, 28 days.

Come on.

And they say it won't.

This kind of thing won't happen.

But when you open it up like this and you make an allowance for perinatal abortion, what does that mean?

There's no such thing as perinatal abortion.

It's not a thing.

Right.

Abortion is murder

of an infant, which is where the infanticide situation comes in.

And then now the left claims that's extreme and it's nonsense.

And when you go and visit PolitiFact or whatever, they'll say it's false.

But the bill is worded.

such that it does seem to legalize that.

And

I don't know why you would have that in the bill if it's not going to allow that to occur.

So it's interesting that even some celebrities are starting to speak out about it.

Maybe there's some hope for humanity.

Because if

people are at the point where we just look the other way on infanticide, we just look the other way when you can kill babies who have not been aborted, but the mother doesn't want the baby after seven days after birth,

then we're done as a civilization.

I think we're just over.

Again, what's the point of having a civilization other than to protect the people who need it the most?

People who can't even feed themselves and that's what they're doing.

The most vulnerable among us.

It's why you do this.

It's why you build a society in the first place.

It's the most basic function of a society at some level.

And,

you know,

now we're at a point where they're admitting they don't want this to occur.

And you're right.

Like, this is the same thing Northam had as

his excuse when he was on a radio show and said, yeah, I mean, you know, if the mom chooses, you know, after birth, I mean, only if the mom chooses, obviously.

We're not going to force it.

Like, who was suggesting that we force it?

We were suggesting keeping the kid alive is what we were suggesting.

It's between keeping the kid alive and allowing it to be murdered.

Right.

And he was like, well, look, you know, if the mother chooses, we have to, you know, we're just going to go with that choice.

And it's like, afterward, they're like, well, it'll be rare.

And we don't really mean that it's going to happen all the time.

And you're blowing it out of proportion.

And yes, that's how it technically reads, but that's not really going to be the way it's utilized.

And they always have some excuse when they realize they've said too much.

That's when the arguments come out.

But left to their own devices, they just say this stuff now.

And mean it.

And do it.

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On Friday, Joe Biden said something interesting about the future of the U.S.

military.

I'm not convinced that this is something we should focus on, but here's what he had to say.

In the United States military, every vehicle is going to be climate-friendly.

Every vehicle.

We're going to go, no, I mean it.

Yeah!

We're spending billions of dollars to do it.

We're spending billions of dollars to do it, but

every vehicle is going to be climate-friendly.

I don't care about that.

What I care about is that the U.S.

military, and I bet they do too,

has the best equipment available to them.

Better than anybody else's equipment.

At any cost to the climate.

Yeah, whatever.

That's not something that we're even considering when thinking about the military.

Now, hopefully we don't have to use them.

Asinine.

But yeah, that's not a, that's not a.

By the way, watching the video, was he aware he was facing away from the podium and the microphone?

Probably not.

Probably not.

Because it just seemed like he was just now, I know there was people standing back there, but

I'm hoping that he heard a question from back there and he turned around.

Because if not, we're even deeper down

this problem area.

Watch him again and pay attention to that because I'm pretty sure nobody says anything to him.

In the United States military,

every vehicle is going to be climate change.

Why are you telling them?

No, I mean it.

No, he means it.

He's not joking.

Billions of dollars to do it.

He spent billions of dollars.

dollars.

Literally not a concern.

Not a concern.

The one thing that when you think about the constitutional limitations of government, the one thing that they actually should be doing is a military.

They should have a military to protect the country.

Okay.

And in addition to

that minor detail,

when you want the government to do something, you have to ask yourself a fundamental question.

Do I care about inefficiency?

And I mean that sincerely.

Like, there are things we want the government to do.

But if you can clear that basic hurdle in that you don't care about inefficiency, the government might have a role.

Like, for example,

it would be inefficient to store, let's say, tens of thousands of ventilators.

Right.

For no use, right?

However, when a pandemic occurs, it would be great to have them.

So you might be okay with the inefficiency.

No one can make money.

No business can be like, you know what?

I'm going to make some money.

I'm going to just store some ventilators for about 15 years until a pandemic might happen, right?

There's no way to, there's no way to make that into a business model.

So maybe the government steps in and has some of these around.

Now, of course, they tried to do that and failed.

So even when you are okay with inefficiency, they'll probably screw it up.

But if you can embrace inefficiency,

it might be okay for the government to be involved if there are no other constitutional concerns.

The military is a great example of this.

I am completely fine with the government blowing through a billion dollars trying to come up with a new weapon system.

Oh, yeah.

Totally fine with it.

I actually

encourage them to try.

Take billions of dollars and try a bunch of different crazy stuff that you think might turn into an incredible weapon system to defend us.

That is an okay use of taxpayer dollars, in my opinion.

It is okay to spend money training soldiers for wars they may never fight,

right?

I am fine with that.

Make them really strong, give them the best weapons, make them the best military on earth, and hopefully that leads to a complete waste of money because they never fight a war.

Totally fine with that.

This idea

is incredibly stupid.

The last thing you should worry about when talking about defending your country is

an impossibly small percentage of global emissions.

Right.

Impossibly small to the electric tanks.

Let's not worry about electric tanks.

Never think about it.

Never think of it.

Never think of it.

Especially when an electric car will only go 275 miles on a charge.

My tank, I want that to go as far as as it needs to.

Yeah.

And without stopping overnight and charging it for 12 hours.

Exactly.

You know,

if, you know what, if it's efficient and let's say the electric, because they usually do, the electric vehicle costs much more.

However, you found that it was a better way for a tank to operate.

And it'll last longer.

All of the money on that.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

But right now, we don't have that.

That's not possible.

For example, one of the things we've done is come up with nuclear submarines,

right?

Because we, now that is not,

that's not an efficient one.

We call it a nuclear submarine.

How could that possibly be?

Because we don't care about efficiency.

When you're defending the country, you take efficiency and you throw it in the garbage.

You don't recycle it.

You throw it directly into the trash.

You don't think about it.

Now, look,

that doesn't mean waste money on nothing.

No, when you're spending $600 for a toilet,

that's the dumb

inefficiency.

Should be at some level expected.

This is why you don't turn over large portions of your economy to the government because they're going to do things like that.

The military is going to buy $600 toilet seats.

They are.

Get used to it.

And, you know, I will, of course, if I'm in the military, if I'm advising military policy, which shockingly enough, at this point, I am not.

But if I were, I would advise against $600 toilet seats.

However, you have to.

I came across that line item, I might say.

You might say, not this.

Can we find something a little cheaper than that?

Right.

Like, I don't know, 20 bucks.

Right.

Is that possible?

But when they're like, you know, we are thinking,

can we have like $100 million to try to bounce lasers off of stars?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

You can have it.

Yes.

Yes.

Here you go.

Here's your money.

Bounce some lasers off of stars.

See if they'll come down in Moscow.

I don't know.

Try it.

You know what I mean?

Like,

when you're talking about the defense of the country, you don't care about these things.

And when you talk about, this is a,

it's remarkable people just don't think about it.

When you're talking about cutting emissions,

the decisions they ask you to make won't make a difference, even if they're totally right on the science.

Often, conservatives will say, wait a minute, will we quibble with you on this part of the science?

We quibble with you on that part of the science.

And that's important.

Of course, getting the science right is really important.

If you have

a disagreement, it's important to have that debate.

But like, it's also important to realize that if we lost, like, for example, if our entire transportation sector,

not just cars, not just your car, but cars, trucks, planes, your entire transportation sector went from what it is today to zero emissions tomorrow.

We would cut something like 4% of global emissions.

And that percentage would be made up by China within about two or three years.

So think of what a ridiculous standard that is.

Turning the transportation sector off,

not cutting its emissions, not making just our military use green vehicles, but turning our entire transportation sector off tomorrow would make basically no difference.

That's how grand a scale this issue is.

It's not the type of issue you could say,

your personal sacrifice is a giant zilch.

It means nothing.

It is just a signal.

It is just a way to play along, to tell everyone who you are, what you care about.

They are trying to influence not the climate, but your votes with this nonsense.

That is all it is.

It will not do anything.

You buying hybrids, even, you know,

there's a lot of affinity for our friend, Elon Musk, who has done more to affect this issue when it comes to the transportation sector than any individual human being.

And now the left hates him.

We should point out that they obviously don't believe that global warming is the

single most dire existential threat to our country because obviously Elon Musk, I mean, the guy's tweeted a couple things we don't like, so let's abandon him.

He's not getting, these aren't union jobs, Pat, so we don't care about his cutting of emissions.

But he's built an electric car company and actually made it something that people want.

And he's built rockets that can eventually get us to Mars.

Right.

Because he thinks we're going to need to live there someday.

Yes.

That's how

he believes in global warming.

Right.

but honestly taking even all these cars and going to electric will make no difference and this is not remember of course electric cars are not emission free they are built on a

on electricity that is that is largely coming from fossil fuels mostly natural gas but also some coal and and oil and other items

in addition to that there's a lot of emissions in the the process to put these cars together that are almost never included.

In addition to that, there's the battery that once it's done with its life cycle,

it's incredibly toxic to the Earth.

And the number one supplier for the nickel for these batteries comes from Ukraine and Russia.

So there's a lot of issues

associated with this.

That being said, even if it was perfect and it really did cut all of these cars to zero, it still wouldn't do anything.

It wouldn't do anything to solve this problem, even if their science is completely right.

So it shows how ridiculous this conversation can be.

And to take what I just described, the entire transportation sector going to zero emissions and think it should be a priority for our military to worry about electric tanks has got to be,

it is the most Joe Biden thing I've ever heard in my life.

Yeah, just plain dumb.

Dumb.

It's as if he is completely senile when it comes to thinking of these things.

That's a good point because he kind of is.

He's

kind of completely senile.

I mean, look at him on Friday when he did another Phantom Handshake.

This is kind of

another one?

Yeah, he offers his hand to the wall here in a second.

Hello.

Hello.

What are you...

What are you doing?

What?

And now we watch.

He goes the wrong way

because you're going to see the Secret Service Agent, which you never see.

Follow him in there because he went the wrong way.

That's why you see the Secret Service Agent because he's going the wrong way.

So he turns around.

Can we see that one more time?

He turns around and offers his hand to the wall or

something.

What are you doing?

Hello.

And then he realizes and turns around.

And then goes the wrong way.

And then goes the wrong way.

And almost tripped, I think, and fell on his face.

And then the Secret Service guy.

And there's the Secret Service guy.

Oh, my gosh.

You know,

I've been working on something, Pat, a scientific project of sorts

over the past few weeks for Studoz America.

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Make sure to subscribe to it or on youtube.com slash Studo's America.

is uh a the uh joe biden gaff emotional triangle and i've decided to to come up with this to understand the three types of feelings and emotions you have after watching a joe biden gaffe there is funny

there is

uh fear

and there is sadness yes and and each gaffe has a different profile on this triangle and it's plotted on this triangle to try to understand where it goes because sometimes sometimes I watch these and I'm like, oh my gosh, what an idiot.

Like that one, that's kind of how I felt.

Yeah, it was just funny, maybe a little sad, not necessarily scary.

When he says something about, like, hey, we might just nuke Moscow tomorrow.

That's in the scary section, and probably also sad, not quite as funny.

You know, these three distinct feelings you feel when watching Joe Biden screw up one of his 20 to 30 times a day,

you really need to

categorize them.

And I feel like we've had a

a movement if we were to plot these these gaffes over time we would see a movement towards scary

i feel like we you know it was funny at first and then it got kind of sad and now it really is like especially with this war stuff i'm getting to the point where i'm legitimately scared he is going to gaff us into world war iii i am legitimately scared of that he absolutely could he almost has done it multiple times saying we had troops in in ukraine right saying uh that it's okay A minor incursion probably won't do much of anything.

We probably won't react to that.

Ah, NATO might not stick together.

There's going to be a lot of disagreement if they do anything.

What was the other one?

There was another big one in there that I'm missing.

It was right around the troop.

It was in that speech that he made in Poland

where he

regime change in Russia.

Yeah.

Where he basically seemed to change the U.S.

policy on the fly for regime change.

He had another one where he was talking about gas prices and just blurted out another major change in U.S.

policy.

This is like, it's becoming an issue where Vladimir Putin's already not the most sane person.

He's already doing things that are pretty erratic.

And we're giving him excuses to justify that stuff to his own people.

He can play videos.

Like when, like, what's his dumb justification?

With the Ukraine thing.

He's like, oh, well, you know, basically this is

the United States and the West aiding Ukraine.

They want to come after us and Russia.

Let me show you the evidence of this.

Here's Joe Biden announcing $800 million of arms coming to kill your children,

Russian citizens.

And here's another video of, and that one's actually not a gaffe.

That's just for some reason our policy to just announce all this stuff.

But then, and then here he is talking about how he wants to make sure I can't be in power anymore.

He wants to change your leadership.

I'm, of course, the person you voted in so overwhelmingly so many times.

And now he wants to change that.

Does he have an argument to the Russian people about that?

Are they going to support that?

Probably.

Yeah, probably.

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So important to teach kindergartners about gender changing.

and about sexual orientation.

Nothing better than to tell a five-year-old about sexual preferences preferences and

exactly what people prefer and

do

in their private time, in bedrooms.

I think it's critical.

It's critical to teach that in schools, in kindergartens and to third graders.

But here's what Biden had to say,

because he has such a way with words.

I respect conservatives.

Yeah, no, he doesn't.

There's nothing conservative, though, about deciding you're going to throw Disney out of its present posture because

Mickey Mouse.

Anybody understand that particular sentence?

There's nothing conservative about deciding you're going to throw Disney out of its present posture because Mickey Mouse.

In fact.

Did he just see Mickey Mouse?

No.

Did he hallucinate that Mickey Mouse had walked in the room and he was calling him out?

No.

In fact, you think we should not be able to say, you know,

gay.

End of sentence.

That's pretty smart.

It's pretty powerful, isn't it?

Yeah, it's pretty powerful.

It is not the dumbest thing I've heard about that law.

That I can say over the past weeks.

I've heard a lot of really stupid stuff.

So just saying that is basically the level of MSNBC's analysis over the past several weeks.

That's about right.

Then he had this to say.

I mean,

what's going on here?

What the hell is going on here?

And it's just, it's so,

I don't think this is where the vast majority of the American people are.

He then went on to say,

and this is one of my pet peeves.

This is not your father's Republican Party.

Okay.

How many times have we heard how radical the Republican Party is?

He said, this is a different deal, not a joke.

Why does he always have to say that?

Why?

We know you're not joking about that.

Why would you joke about that?

This is a different deal.

Why would I even think that sentence is a joke?

What?

That's so weird.

This is a different deal, not a joke.

Yeah, I, okay, I wasn't thinking you were joking about a different deal.

That's so bizarre.

It's this weird tick he has.

Yeah, it is.

He's not even.

He almost says it in a point where he says something that's obviously wrong.

It seems like when he says that, he usually follows it up with that's not a joke.

That's not a joke.

Right.

Like when he's not a joke.

Like when he exaggerates something or says something really offensive.

That's when he says it's not a joke.

When no one was saying, no one says, nobody was saying it.

Nobody laughed.

Nobody guffawed.

Nobody smiled.

Nobody thought it was a joke.

Your president sees a joke.

Yes.

But we don't think what you just said is a joke.

And what was it?

This is a strange construct, and he's been using this a lot.

This, it's not your father's Republican Party thing.

Like, by all measures that you would look at and say, okay, these are important to Democrats.

whether it's like gay rights, trans rights, you know,

I mean, every one of their hot-button issues, you would say that the Republican Party has come the way of the Democrats.

Like,

the old school Republicans

were more restrictive on these things, on all these woke causes.

And so were Democrats.

So we're Democrats.

I mean, Democrats have come so far.

His own party has literally merged with the Communist Party.

So much so that during the last presidential election, the Communist Party USA didn't even run a candidate because they were so content with Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate.

They loved him, and so they didn't even run their own.

They're like, no, you guys got it.

Yeah, you're fine.

You're communist enough for us.

We love it.

This is, I believe, what's happening with Mike Lee in Utah now, where the Democrats are just like, yeah, let's just not even run anybody.

Evan McMullen's fine.

That's exactly what happens.

That's actually what's happening there, which is embarrassing.

And

Mike Lee should come out of that race okay, but I think he will.

Yeah, he's way ahead.

There's still this is the Democrats have basically given up the state.

They're like, well, we've already got

Evan McMullen running as an independent, and we think he's the best chance to take out Mike Lee, so let's not run anybody.

It's quite an admission on several different levels, I will say.

It is.

And I will say,

Evan McMullen fooled me for about five minutes.

And

I regret those five minutes a great deal.

But he is not who he claimed to be at first.

Yeah, unfortunately.

But again, like even if he was a

he basically presented as a

establishment Republican, that is not what he's attempting to do here.

No.

You know, I mean, I don't understand.

He's almost a Democrat now.

It's the same to be that there's a whole, there's a whole class of people, for whatever reason,

who

I guess Scott on the,

you know,

look,

the last few years have been very interesting the way it's scrambled politics.

And I can understand sometimes some of the strange things that have occurred, but there was a decent amount of people who were critical of Donald Trump who never were able to

not just look at him honestly.

Again,

I still have a lot of problems with some of the policies of Donald Trump and some of the actions of Donald Trump.

I don't think he's a perfect guy by any means, but I can say that I, you know, some of the things I expected him to do in 2016,

he performed much, he was much above my expectations.

Oh, yeah, my name is from that, from, from several policy standpoints.

And like, you know, if you can't sit back and say, okay, well, every belief I had in 2016 wasn't exactly, if you can't just admit to yourself that everything I thought in 2016 wasn't perfect.

I mean, I don't know, that's okay.

You know, I mean, I think everybody has had changes of heart on individual people.

I mean, you know, like Mitt Romney, I think, presents that same way.

Yeah.

Romney in 2012, I thought, you know, I wasn't like.

I liked him better than I do now.

Yeah.

That's for sure.

I wasn't thrilled with Mitt Romney as the presidential nominee in 2012.

But like, you know, I mean, I, I would have been, I wanted him to beat Barack Obama.

I'll tell you that much.

Oh, yeah.

In a big way.

Yeah, I did too.

And he didn't.

And like, he, but like, he said, he does seem to be.

a completely different person on several measures.

Not every measure, but on several measures, he seems to be a completely different person than the guy who ran in 2008 and 2012.

Definitely.

And I don't understand.

It's okay to change,

but like, it doesn't seem like these changes are driven by things at times.

It just seems like, well, you know, the people who used to like me

don't like me anymore.

So this new group of people who are on MSNBC all the time, they seem to like me.

So I guess I'll side with them on everything now.

It does seem like there's weird calculations that go on with some of these politicians.

I don't know, but I do find it amazing, though, that they're not even the Democrats are like, yeah, let's not even try.

Let's not even try to beat Michael Hill.

There you have

giving up.

It's incredible.

And again,

as far as it being your father's Republican Party or

anybody's Democrat Party,

these guys, Joe Biden wouldn't recognize Joe Biden of 1992.

There's no way.

Joe Biden 30 years ago was not the same guy he is today.

Chuck Schumer 30 years ago, not the same guy.

Harry Reid, when he was alive, completely different in the early 90s than he was around the time of his death.

All of these guys have changed and radicalized to the point where they've changed on everything from protecting the border to abortion.

I mean, they were,

some of them were practically pro-life back in the day.

But all of them, I mean, the worst that they would do is support Roe v.

Wade, which was, you know, really the first trimester.

I mean, we've gone so far past, so far beyond Roe v.

Wade

that you can't even see Roe v.

Wade from where the Democrat Party is today.

No.

Can't even see it from here.

I mean, it would be an incredible move.

toward conservatism and toward the pro-life cause if we just adopted Roe versus Wade at at this point.

Oh, yeah.

That's how bad the abortion laws are in this country.

If we just went to the point where Roe v.

Wade initially decided, which was, you know, first trimester, you can have abortions pretty much on, I mean, pretty much on demand.

But after that, states can start regulating it.

And, you know, when you hear a crazy law like they just passed a 15-week abortion restriction in, you know, Florida, that was, you know, a lot of that was allowed under Roe v.

Wade.

It depends.

The third trimester, they could

states could do pretty much whatever they wanted.

The second one, it had to do with life and health, and there were some other modifications.

Now, that got updated in Casey and has become more and more liberalized ever since, but by a lot.

But we're not even close to those initial days.

No.

And we're not even close to Europe anymore.

It used to be.

Well, in Europe, they're much more liberal than there are laws here.

Well, I think are there any countries that are as progressive with abortion as we are now?

I don't, I don't know of them if there are.

I mean,

I think most of the European countries ban abortion after a certain point.

Almost every European country has laws that are more restrictive on abortion than us.

Than us and like the state of Utah, right?

Like it's that

more restrictive than Utah.

Most do.

Most do.

It's incredible.

You know, the wow.

which is crazy when you think about it.

Yeah.

You know, and

some of these laws have changed over the past couple of years.

Obviously, there's a big push right now to prepare for a potential overturn of Roe versus Wade, which, you know, still to me never seems to be possible.

Well, I didn't think it was possible, but I don't know.

Things are kind of heading in that direction now.

This is exactly what it is.

Except for California, of course.

Yeah,

and to be clear, if they overturn Roe versus Wade, it will get a lot worse in some of these states because some of these states will use this as an excuse to open up to what California is doing.

Yeah.

You know, they're going to say, well, up to birth and then even after birth.

All these restrictions that we're seeing by these evil conservative states, we're going to open up even more.

And look, the people who want to get abortions, largely speaking, we've seen multiple studies on this.

This is happening in Texas currently as we speak.

Most people.

who want to get abortions get them anyway.

They're going to go to other states and they're going to get them anyway.

That doesn't mean you don't make the law correct, but it does mean that if you believe that overturning Roe versus Wade or passing abortion restrictions in red states is going to change

as much as you want it to change, it gets rid of this process, it's not going to happen that way.

You're going to have to change people's minds and hearts over a long period of time, which I do think, I do believe will occur.

We've talked about this over the years, Pat.

I do believe that history will look back on this period

with a really discerning eye.

Yeah.

That what you guys allowed, you guys guys allowed murder of babies like this?

63 million babies?

Seriously?

In 50 years.

It's unbelievable.

I think

it will judge us harshly,

and history should judge us harshly.

Well, not me, not you, because I'm opposed to it.

But I think the people who will like it, I think it will.

It's similar to slavery, right?

Not everybody had slaves.

It was mostly rich people, and it was not even all rich people by any means.

History correctly, I think, judges harshly those days, very harshly.

But I do believe that abortion will eventually come to a point where we look back at it like that, where we all look at it and say, wait, what the hell did we do?

You know,

obviously the left likes to use these things and say all these crazy things and compare every issue to slavery and this is what they do.

But every thinking American looks back at that age and says, well, why couldn't it have been different?

You know, I mean, you can,

yes, putting things in

proper perspective for the people at their time is important, but also like, come on, how did you just not know on the surface that enslaving a race of people was wrong?

It seems to me, it's hard to believe.

It's hard to believe.

I do think that's how people will look back at abortion eventually.

Wait, they did what?

What did they say was okay?

That, no, come on.

It's like we look back at

the actions of Russia, the Soviet Union, or other

countries like Germany.

You look back at them and you say, wait, what did they justify?

And a lot of people did come up with ways to justify those actions.

These were people, they were drains on society.

And it was easy.

When society allows it, it's easy to justify.

And so many people did.

I do think that we will look back at it the same way eventually.

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who was out speaking at a rally in Ohio over the weekend, Donald Trump, been making a lot of speeches lately.

You might think he might be preparing for something politically, but here's what he had to say this weekend: stolen, and now our country is being destroyed.

Country is being destroyed.

Our country is going to hell.

We've never had anything like this, and we have a president right now, sadly, who has absolutely no idea what the hell is happening.

Yes.

True.

He's shaking hands with the air.

He's walking around,

somewhat bewildered.

I'd say it's no good.

And taking orders from the Easter Bunny, you saw that one?

No, no, no.

You know, the Easter Bunny was a political operative.

He did a good job, actually.

That guy, we should hire that guy.

He was very good.

He said, no, no, don't talk.

Don't talk.

Don't talk to those people.

And he's doing all of this while Putin does nothing but talk about nuclear weapons and destroying the world.

We have our signals very crossed in our country.

We've never had a situation like this.

The choice this November is very simple.

If you want to keep America in a death spiral of crime, look at what's happening on crime with these Democrat-run cities.

Chaos, craziness, corruption, and historic national catastrophes, you must absolutely go out and vote for the radical Democrats.

If you want to have a country

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Thank you.

That's very good.

Very good.

I like that guy.

Again and again and again.

You know, we had it great again and then we said, I think we should do a comma, make America great again, again.

He's great.

He's just got a way about him.

I miss him like a dad right now because

the alternative has been so awful.

I never could have, I could not have imagined how bad it could be with an American president until now.

I thought things were bad with Obama.

Seriously.

I don't remember Barack Obama shaking hands with Air.

No, he never shook hands with Air that I can remember.

I mean, I honestly think some of the attacks on

Obama when he would make mistakes were sort of like funny, but

nonsense.

Like the 57 states thing.

It was obviously just a dumb mistake, and he looked like an idiot, but it was just a silly mistake.

It's not like he really thought 57 states were in the United States.

Joe Biden may very well believe that.

If he actually believed there were 57 states, I would not be surprised at all.

No.

At all.

And they would be like, you know what?

There are 57 states.

He was just predicting the future because

our new stance at the Democratic Party is we need 57 states.

I mean, I would not be surprised if they tried to justify it.

Oh, they would.

Because they try to justify absolutely everything he says.

It's a tough job.

But they keep trying to do it.

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Speaking of blowing people away, Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter, and apparently he's getting a little bit closer to being able to do that.

Twitter shares jumped more than 3%

on reports the company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk that could be announced as soon as today.

This is good for everybody.

It is.

It just is.

Musk earlier this month offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share.

And so you can't say he shortchanged everybody.

No, but

what is he putting $4.20 and everything?

I mean, come on.

It's the marijuana thing.

It's the marijuana thing.

Yeah, he's a fan.

He's a fan.

The social media company had been expected to decline a deal and had adopted a so-called poison pill to fend off a potential hostile takeover.

But Twitter became more receptive to the bid after Musk revealed he secured the $46.5 billion in financing.

That's pretty good.

And a lot of that's coming right out of his own pocket.

$20 billion, I think, is what he said came right out of his own pocket.

And what's amazing about him is doesn't really make a difference.

What is he at?

$180 billion?

$280 billion.

$280.

$280 billion.

I mean, think of how much money that is incredible.

I was listening to this

agonizing report from the New York Times over the weekend.

I don't know why I tortured myself with it.

I was on a flight

and it was about how many billionaires there are and how come there's so many more than there used to be and how bad and how evil it is.

I mean, it's incredible.

They don't even say there's another side of the argument.

It's like, it's just like, gosh, how do we stop this?

It's like this struggle.

How do we stop these billionaires from getting all this money?

It's like, why would we want to stop it?

Yeah, what?

These people employ other people and then they invest in other companies.

And what do I care?

Even if they don't employ anybody else, I don't care.

Even if the money doesn't trickle down to me, so what?

Yeah.

Their big thesis was that people no longer want to be found when they're billionaires.

Like, it used to be that people would, you know, they would angle themselves to get higher on the list of Forbes and I guess Bloomberg has a list now as well.

And people would try to get higher on the list because they wanted to show how great they were.

And now they're trying to hide.

First of all, I can't imagine why.

Why would you not want that incredible attention you get

demonized the entire lot of them?

You're basically saying they're all evil.

So that's what this article is about.

So I don't know why they would try to hide from that sort of attention.

But that is really, you know, what they're saying now is that there's more of them, but they're not, they don't want to be as public about it.

You know, you don't even know who these people are anymore.

We used to always know who these billionaires were, and they're like, how, like,

and we've struggled to figure out how we can know more about them.

Why do you need to know more about them?

How about letting them live their own freaking lives?

Live them alone.

Stop bothering them.

Let them do what they want to do with their own money.

You know, if they, if they're doing something like if they're funding international terrorism, then you can report on that if it's a crime.

But if they're buying nice boats, that's not a story.

They can buy as many boats as they want.

Leave them alone.

Yeah.

It's so weird.

What weird.

What a weird obsession.

And Elon Musk is jealous.

It's hard to lump into this evil group.

The guy's homeless.

He doesn't even have a home.

He lives right now at friends' houses.

Very strange, dude.

It's a real.

He's a weird cat.

I gotta say, I like him.

I love him, but he's a weird cat.

And I am rooting for him to get control of Tesla.

So am I.

Or excuse me, of Twitter.

Largely because I think, number one, he will improve it.

It will be a better service once he's running it.

I think so.

In addition, though, and I think what's been underplayed here is he sees this as a massive opportunity to make more money.

This is the most, there's so much influence, the most easily and most free advertising for any product in the history of the United States.

And they could barely make a profit if they can make one.

It's amazing.

All he has to do is put his business argument on the business.

It's been terribly run, Twitter, from the beginning.

you know look for all the stuff you could say about Mark Zuckerberg at least he's been able to make a lot of money off the thing yeah you know the same thing with some of these other big tech companies and look how influential it is I mean Twitter doesn't have anywhere near the reach that Facebook does

but

by perception Twitter is way more powerful than Facebook and it's because all the media people are there they're the ones there's no reason though you can't get people more involved if you weren't constantly censoring them, that would be a nice start.

You know, if every time someone said something relatively conservative, you didn't throw them off the platform, it would improve it.

And I think, I think, you know.

And I think Musk would definitely get rid of that feature where they're shutting down all conservative thought.

Yes, I agree with that.

I do think that the end game in one year from today, if Elon Musk takes over, one of the effects that will happen is conservatives don't like Elon Musk as much because he will eventually make some decisions on setups they don't like that we will not like yeah you know but he will be he will be better overall than it is now but I still think I mean he's not saying he's not going to censor stuff he's just basically saying like I don't think it should be as arbitrary yeah or as and he did say he was going to bring back Donald Trump and that would be big that would be big that'd be huge and look it's so obvious you have me you have world leaders from around the world that are literally killing people like it they're like they're posting pictures of like their beheaded enemies and they're like Twitter's like yeah they can stay on.

That's pretty, that's pretty cool.

Check that out.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, like he's like, hold him by the hair.

Look at all his entrails.

That's awesome.

Look at the blood dripping out of his neck or what used to be his neck.

And like Donald Trump, again, like you could criticize Donald Trump for what he's doing.

Well, sometimes

it's mean.

I don't know if you know that, Stukes.

He said mean things on Twitter.

It is the most ridiculous.

It is completely indefensible to not have a guy who may very well be running for president in a very short time, who it would immediately be.

I mean, right now, because of the job Biden is doing, he would not only be the favorite for the Republican nomination, he would be the favorite for the presidency.

I mean, now, once he's back in the public eye every day,

a lot of Democrats who say they don't like Joe Biden are going to find their love for Joe Biden.

I hate to break this to everybody, but that's going to happen.

It's not going to be a cakewalk, even if it is someone as completely incoherent as Joe Biden.

It's not going to be an easy road because, as we all know, the media will do what they do.

They will be unfair to whoever the Republican nominee is.

And even if it's someone like DeSantis, the media will do everything they can to remind you that

you don't like Republicans if you're a moderate, if you're a person who right now would say they disapprove of Joe Biden's job performance.

They're going to do everything they can to bring you back in the boat.

If it's DeSantis instead of Trump, all they'll say is that DeSantis is Trump.

That's worse.

That's all they'll do.

Usually it's worse.

Or worse.

I have never seen a Republican nominee in my lifetime that the media didn't tell me was worse than the previous one.

They always say

the new guy is worse than the last guy.

Even after they told you the last guy was Hitler, they will tell you the new guy.

Oh, do you remember how the media handled Ronald Reagan?

But by the time George W.

Bush was nearing the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan was like JFK to them, and they loved him.

And oh, if we could just get back to the days of Ronald Reagan, you hated Ronald Reagan.

It's just that you hate this particular guy even more.

So, yeah, that happens every single time.

MSNBC column, why Ron DeSantis is more dangerous than Trump.

Oh, geez.

That's already happened then.

It's already, it's already happened.

It's already begun.

Yep.

And they will do it no matter who it is.

It doesn't matter who it is.

If you picked, I mean, look, they did it with Mitt Romney.

George Bush was a terrorist, they told us.

Yeah.

A legitimate, they said he was a terrorist.

John McCain.

A war criminal.

John McCain was worse than Bush.

Romney was worse than Bush and McCain.

Combined.

Yeah, I mean, they did it over and over and over, obviously.

And then Trump.

Trump was worse than all of them, of course.

Antichrist.

But I mean, like, you'd think, okay, maybe Trump was a specific circumstance.

He obviously was a bombastic personality.

And, like, they're not going to try this again, are they?

Absolutely, they are.

They will tell you whoever is nominated was worse than Trump, if it's not Trump.

And then they will say, if it is Trump, they'll say 2024 Trump is worse than 2020 Trump.

They absolutely will.

There is not an exception to this rule.

It happens every single cycle, no matter who is involved.

And look, this is what they do.

Most parts of the mainstream media are an arm of the Democratic Party at this point.

And this is what they do.

They treat these stories as if they are opportunities

to

hurt the conservative cause.

This is what they do.

You know, their big thing, this libs of TikTok story with Taylor Lorenz in the Washington Post.

Taylor Lorenz was out this weekend, and she's like, look, people are criticizing me for trying to

out this person.

And what I said was, look, what if this was a foreign influence?

Like, what if this was a Russian actor trying to create chaos in the United States, right?

And you might say to yourself, okay, well, yeah, maybe it'd be worth to look into that.

I mean, once you found out it wasn't, I don't know why you were on the story.

Yeah.

But in theory, right, okay.

It's a moot point because these aren't.

Right.

And you found out, and even if you ran the story, you could have not named her and all of these things.

But it could be a foreign influence is both the reason that they say they can't, they had to cover the libs of TikTok story and also the reason that they couldn't cover the Hunter Biden laptop.

Could be a foreign influence.

Right.

They couldn't talk about that because it could be foreign influence, but they had to talk about Libs of TikTok because it could be foreign influence.

In other words, whatever point they have to make at any given moment that will help them one percentage point of the time, they will make.

Whether it makes sense as it relates to anything else they've ever said is not material.

It doesn't matter.

They don't care.

All they care about is advancing their cause and they will use any justification they can at any given moment to do it.

It's embarrassing, but it's so obviously true at this point.

Yep.

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We've been talking a little bit about Elon Musk and his takeover bid of Twitter that...

may resolve itself as of today, today or tomorrow, they think.

But some fascinating things about the way Elon Musk runs his businesses.

They seem to be fairly successful.

You notice that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They seem to do all right.

Tesla is now worth as much as the combined market cap of the nine largest car makers in the world, including GM, Volkswagen, and Toyota.

Wow.

Yet,

here's the thing: Tesla makes up less than 1%

of global car sales.

It's hard to justify when you say that way.

Yeah, it is.

But I mean, look, Tesla is

millions of miles ahead when it comes to technology on electric cars.

Even their competition, General Motors and Toyota, they're all saying all they're going to be making are electric cars by 2030.

Tesla's already doing that.

Why would we assume they're going to be better at it than Tesla is?

Right.

When Tesla's already doing it, and they're already already way ahead when it comes to technology.

And another thing I will say, and this one hits me personally, Pat.

One thing Tesla is doing right now is delivering cars.

When you order a car, they decide to send you the car.

So when you order the car.

I'm going to go to the next one within five years.

No, no.

Like, I could go on Tesla.com right now and order a car that will be here in six to eight weeks as I design it.

That is not what other companies are doing.

They are able to get their hands on these chips, and there's like five times as many chips as everybody else needs, and they are able to get them all.

They are able to actually get the car you ordered to the place you ordered it.

Strange.

It's an incredible new innovation in the car industry.

That's a great plan.

Yeah.

That's great.

So it's like.

Can you believe we're having this kind of discussion and this problem now?

It's amazing.

I never thought.

I never thought.

Pat, when this car that I ordered, when it came out initially, I was going to order one.

And I decided not to pull the trigger on the initial batch of them because I was so, in my head, I was like, this dealership is going to be calling me 50 times a day to make this, like, to pressure me into upgrades and all this other stuff that, you know, and I just don't want to deal with the hassle.

So I just didn't do it, you know, because I was so concerned I would be hassled by the dealership.

Now, when I call the dealership, they're mad at me.

Stop calling.

Stop asking about your stupid car.

When it comes in, we'll give it to you.

Maybe.

And we'll probably charge you more than we're telling you we're going to charge you right now.

That's kind of what I expect.

And it's like, geez, it's a totally different world.

Can you, I mean, you remember the days of like the, the, you know, the shady car salesman of being a joke, a trope in a comedy where they would always be like pressuring you and everything.

It's, that is not the case anymore.

They can't get these cars here.

They might be, they might want to be shady, but they can't because they can't sell you anything.

I get Matt every time I see a commercial for a car company.

Why are you advertising right now?

Turn your advertising off.

You don't have any cars to sell people.

It's so,

as you can tell, sort of infuriate.

It's a little frustrating.

But Elon Musk seems to be able to navigate these waters particularly well.

What he could do

for Twitter.

Oh, can you imagine?

As a money-generating machine, forget the free speech stuff.

I mean,

I wouldn't forget it.

It's important to me.

But as a company, you got to believe that's going to be set for a real takeoff after this, if it happens.

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