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There's now a very noticeable pattern that plays out every time we witness a colossal failure on the national stage. It happened after the Secret Service allowed Donald Trump to get shot in the head in Pennsylvania. It happened after Harvard's president was exposed for plagiarism, after Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. And here's how it usually goes.
Conservatives pointed out that DEI was involved in some way, and then everyone on the left acted with shock and indignation at the mere suggestion that DEI might have backfired. DEI, they tell us, is an essential mandate that always adds value. It's vital to every organization.
And then in the same breath, they tell us the DEI can't possibly be related to any failure by any organization or government agency that practices DEI. In other words, DEI is either critically important, fundamentally important, or not important at all, depending on how things are going.
As entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles are destroyed by fires, once again, we're seeing this very familiar pattern play out. As we talked about yesterday, conservatives have pointed out, rightly, that DEI has infected every aspect of the government of Los Angeles, in particular its fire department.
And in response, as they usually do, the left has insisted that DEI actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the fires or the disastrous response to them. And they're wagging their fingers at anyone who suggests otherwise because things have gone wrong. Therefore, DEI is now irrelevant. That's the way it goes.
Rolling Stone in particular was upset with my response to the wildfires and the response of others on the right. They published an article the other day entitled, Right-Wingers Are Blaming the LA Fires on Diversity. Here's part of it, quote, Close quote. Now, First of all, I had to look up who wrote this article because it reads like something our PR department would come up with.
The whole article is just a series of quotes from myself, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Megyn Kelly, and so on. And sure enough, the author is one Nikki McCann Ramirez, who's a former Media Matters staffer. And, you know, so she made her living doing unofficial PR for us. And now she's gone to Rolling Stone and she's doing the same thing.
She apparently found another organization that's willing to pay her to write articles about my tweets and the tweets of other conservatives after Elon Musk sued Media Matters into the ground. Now, the only original contribution that Nikki Ramirez made to this article is this line of commentary at the end. It reads, quote,
There's no evidence that the fire department's push for diversity has any effect on its ability to fight fires. It's a line that made me realize we need to do another deep dive on DEI and the Los Angeles Fire Department because it's completely false. But of course, a lot of people on the left are repeating it. And they're repeating this line because they think it's safe.
In their minds, it's impossible to find a smoking gun that proves DEI leads directly to failure. After all, DEI is a bureaucratic system, and the whole point of bureaucracy is to make it impossible to assign blame. Now, unfortunately for Rolling Stone and the rest of these activists,
the leaders of the Los Angeles Fire Department have not been subtle about their DEI policies and the impact that these policies have on their job performance. In fact, They've actually been quite direct about it. Here's a video of Deputy Chief Christine Larson, who's the head of the Fire Department's Equity and Human Resources Bureau.
And you may have seen a shortened version of this video online because it's going viral. I found a longer, unedited version of it. And it's worth watching because it implicates both the LAPD and the LAFD. And it also includes the context to the extent that you need it. Here it is.
The reality is you're not one of the boys, you never will be one of the boys, but you can be a good firefighter.
People see you and they're like, wow, look at you. You know, they're so excited. Here's a female black officer. Because it's not a lot of us.
You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. You can't be it if you can't see it. And so that's why it's important for young girls to see women riding around on fire trucks. Plus, it's fun.
Is she strong enough to do this? Or, you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire. Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire. I was the first African-American female promoted to the rank of battalion chief. With each promotion, more eyes come on you, more scrutiny. They want to know, does she know what she's doing? Does she keep her crew safe?
You know, it looks like some kind of AI-generated parody, but it's not. So let's review what we just saw. The first claim from the deputy fire chief is that when you have a medical emergency or when your house is on fire, all you care about is safety. Seeing first responders who look like you, you don't care if they're good at their jobs.
You're not worried about whether they could do CPR or whether they can actually put out a fire or whether they can pick you up if you're incapacitated and carry you out of a burning building. Instead, the most important thing is the appearance of the firefighter, meaning their skin color and gender. And the LAPD sergeant agrees with that.
Now, this is not a claim that needs to be broken down and dissected in a million different ways. I think to most sane people, the problems here are quite self-evident. But just for fun, let's analyze this a little bit. First of all, let's assume this is true. Let's assume that when white people call 911 in Los Angeles because their house is burning down,
They really don't want to see black firefighters show up. So when a team of all white firefighters show up in Christine Larson's worldview, it'd be totally normal and appropriate for the white homeowner to say, well, thank God they didn't send any black firefighters. After all, he wants to see people who look like him. What's wrong with that?
In fact, maybe if he is incapacitated and can't leave the building on his own, and he sees that these are firefighters that don't look like him, he might say, no, I'd rather burn to death. Send some white people or I'm not interested.
Now, of course, what Christine Larson really means is that non-white firefighters should want to see, rather non-white victims should want to see non-white firefighters respond to their house. But there's still a big problem here because I'd wager a lot of money that
There is not a single black person on the planet who would react with relief or joy if they called 911 and someone like Christine Larson waddled up to their door. I mean, that would be a moment of sheer panic for anyone, regardless of skin color. That would be the moment when they basically know their life is over.
But even if we assume that black people demand to be saved by overweight black lesbian firefighters like Christine Larson, there's still another problem with Larson's explanation, which is this. How exactly would dispatchers know what race of firefighters to send to a particular call? Should the dispatcher demand to know the caller's race?
Should they do a quick demographic poll to figure out who this is so they can dispatch race-matching fire crews? Is any of that happening right now in Los Angeles? By the logic of the deputy fire chief, it should be happening.
And then, of course, comes the second part of the video in which Larson responds to someone who's worried that as an overweight black lesbian, she won't be able to lift a man and remove him from a house fire. Which, of course, is true. When you talk about a man, even of average size...
There are almost no women on the planet who could successfully lift a man like that on their own and bring him to safety. Now, Larson's response is that the man shouldn't have put himself in that position in the first place. So it's his fault for being in a position where his house is burning down.
Now, she couldn't be making it any clearer that DEI hiring compromises the fire department's ability to do its job. She thinks it's like a laugh line, apparently. This is how DEI hires at the highest levels of the Los Angeles Fire Department are talking about the impact of DEI on their jobs. But Larson has never been disqualified or punished in any way.
She has a job paying well over $300,000 a year at the Los Angeles Fire Department, in which she enforces various equity mandates while she laughs at people who ask why she's so overweight. And part of that job apparently entails weeding out alleged bigots in the ranks of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Watch.
So I want to reach down and bring you up. And that's kind of something that stuck with me to this day. Part of that work means speaking up for those who can't. Over the last few years, LAFD has dealt with a fair share of controversy. And Larson, not afraid to sound the alarm. I chose to speak out pretty much by myself about the issues of sexism and racism within my department.
and the need for change. I don't think there's any question that our department is the best at fighting fires. We do it better than anybody in the world. But when it comes to the personnel side, we have some issues and they're not insurmountable, but they need to be addressed and fixed to the best of everybody's ability.
This is very reminiscent of Lloyd Austin's big plan to purge the Pentagon of extremist white supremacists, by which he meant white people who support Donald Trump and refuse to take the COVID shot. It's the kind of thing that no public agency in the United States should be doing for about a million reasons.
First of all, the idea of racism in fire departments and police departments has been stretched beyond all recognition to the point that it's completely meaningless. As we discussed earlier this week, fire departments all over the country are getting sued right now for racism because they attempt to enforce basic standards of literacy and competence in the admissions process.
Secondly, this is a department that's now very short of manpower during a historic crisis. Barring extreme circumstances, You know, you should not be weeding out any competent firefighters right now. The Los Angeles Fire Department should be focused on retaining as many firefighters as possible, not firing them for liking an offensive meme or something.
And if you doubt that, take a look at Ferguson or Minneapolis or Baltimore. Have any of these cities become safer after the BLM revolution? Of course not. And the real purpose of all these purges is to punish anyone who thinks an unapproved thought that also happens to be true. They don't want people to make obvious observations like this one. Women should not be firefighters at all.
Any effort to include more women is by definition an effort to make the fire department less equipped and less capable by definition. The same is true for police departments, which are being gutted all over the country in the name of equity. Just this week, the Maryland State Police agreed to a $3 million settlement with Joe Biden's DOJ over their hiring practices.
As one local news station reports, quote, the lawsuit claimed that the Maryland Department of State Police violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it used a certain physical fitness test and certain written tests to hire entry-level troopers. The lawsuit claimed the test disqualified more women and African-American applicants than others and were not job-related.
In other words, in the world of policing, physical fitness and literacy are no longer job-related. That's how these police departments and fire departments operate now. They know they have to hire and promote incompetent people. This is the kind of deliberate sabotage that has directly contributed to the disaster that's unfolding in Los Angeles.
No matter what anybody on the left says, no matter what anyone in the media says, these things are directly linked. They have to be. Instead of spending every moment thinking about protecting their state, the leadership of California has been busy appointing equity overseers. So when a disaster occurs, they have no idea what to do.
That led to this clown car performance from Gavin Newsom yesterday. He told a constituent that he was on the phone with Joe Biden. And then when she asked to talk to Joe Biden, he admitted he didn't have cell service. It's like something out of a sitcom, watch.
Governor, you got a second? Governor! Governor, I live here, Governor!
That was my daughter's school, Governor. Please tell me what you're going to do. I'm not going to hurt him. I promise.
I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter.
Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it.
I'm sorry. There's literally... I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around to make the call.
Why is the president not taking your call?
Because it's not going through.
Why? I have to get cell service. So let's get it. Let's get it. I want to be here when you call the president.
I appreciate it. I'm doing that right now.
Yeah, it's the classic blunder. I mean, if you're doing the thing of pretending to be on a phone call to avoid having a conversation with somebody. By the way, as far as that goes, who among us can throw stones? We've all done that. But classic blunder is claiming you're on the phone with someone that the other person might know, or in this case, at least know of.
So you want to be more vague than that. And, you know, if thousands of people weren't having their lives destroyed right now, the incompetence would be amusing. But instead, given the staggering nature of this catastrophe, it's infuriating. And people are very, very tired of this kind of thing. They want competence to make a comeback.
That would mean the Los Angeles Fire Department would have to fire some overweight lesbians who are making $300,000 a year. But it would also mean that the next time a massive wildfire engulfs the city, Los Angeles might actually have water in the fire dehydrants. Imagine that. They might have a mayor who's on the scene coordinating a response instead of pandering in Africa.
They might have enough firefighters to put out the blaze. That's a turn of events that outlets like Rolling Stone magazine desperately want to prevent. But at this point, it's looking more likely than ever. DEI has been tried. It has failed in spectacular fashion everywhere. And now it's time for competent people to take over, even if they happen to be white men, God forbid.
The residents of Los Angeles may have struggled to understand that up until now, but they understand survival. And at this point, that's exactly what survival will take. Now let's get to our five headlines. If you're a homeowner like me, when's the last time you checked on the title to your home? That's the legal document that shows that you own it.
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that may have been a premature declaration. What do you know? New York Post reports, one person has been taken into custody in connection to the Kenneth Fire, which broke out Thursday in the West Hollywood Hills, California. According to reports, LAPD has taken a person into custody for arson and Victory Trailhead, where the devastating fire broke out, is now being treated as a crime scene.
Kenneth Fire broke out just after 2.30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, spread over 800 acres already. Okay, so at least one of these fires is being investigated as possible arson. I think it's highly likely that there's more arson than just that going on. In fact, there are videos floating around of people lighting fires or appearing to light fires.
So it seems pretty clear that, again, at least some of this is arson. And when you've got these fires that are happening at the same time spread out over such a large area, now whether the first fire was arson, that's, I think, still unclear. But it is interesting that any time there's a major wildfire, it seems like,
the suggestion that it's arson is treated by the media in particular as initially treated as some sort of wild conspiracy theory. And we know there's a reason for it. We know there's a reason the media prefers not to talk about arson. That's because they prefer to blame climate change. And they'd always rather talk about that instead of the actual immediate human causes.
But in reality, arson is a cause. Mismanagement is a cause. Incompetence is a cause. Bad leadership is a cause. Lack of preparedness is a cause. DEI policies we've been talking about, that's a cause. Those things coupled with high wins, all that together. And the problem is that all of the things on that list, everything but high wins anyway, all the other items are solvable.
And you wouldn't think that's a problem. I mean, the fact that it's solvable, that would be a The fact that a problem is solvable is not in itself a problem, you would think, but it is for Democrat politicians because for one thing, it means we can blame them for not solving the problem. And for another, it puts the pressure on them to actually do something. And you really can't discount that.
Yeah, there are the ideological reasons why the left pushes things like climate change But also, the climate change narrative gives them an excuse to do nothing. It allows them to sit back and do nothing. That's why they always want to view every problem as some kind of huge, all-encompassing, systemic issue. Because the bigger and more abstract a problem is, the less you have to do.
And again, yes, there's the ideological and political component of this, but also it's just... It's pure indifference and laziness too. And that's why anytime something bad happens, whether it's a wildfire or a school shooting or anything, they always want to say, well, let's look at this from, what are the systemic causes?
Because they want to expand the problem and expand it and expand it and expand it so it gets to a point where there's really nothing that can be done. Or at least where all of the people on the ground who are supposed to be addressing these problems, there's nothing really that they can do.
Because they have to wait around for policies to be put in place and laws to be passed and all this kind of stuff. They don't want to get down to the actual everyday kind of work of governing and managing and leading. They don't want to have to do those things. Which is why it always helps to deflect to... Climate change.
I mean, climate change is when you talk about using, trying to expand an issue to use it as cover for your laziness and incompetence, you can't expand it any farther than climate change because now you've gotten to the point where you're not just blaming systemic issues and government or whatever, you're blaming the earth itself. And it just allows them to say, hey, there's nothing we can do.
Daily Wire has this, the Biden administration's attempt to rewrite Title IX to allow men and women's sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms has been struck down nationwide by a federal court.
26 states sued to stop the regulations from going into effect, and the Supreme Court in August provided a temporary stay of the rules, but now a federal court has blocked the regulations from going into effect for all states, even those that didn't sue to block the regulations. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita called the lasting ruling, the latest ruling rather, a huge win.
He said on X, Biden's radical Title IX rewrite has been defeated in court again. For now, Hoosier girls and girls nationwide are protected from biological males being able to infringe on their private spaces. Okay. This is a big win, another big win in this fight. It's pretty tremendous, really, the string of victories that we've had. Team Sanity has been on a pretty historic win streak.
We're winning in the courts. We're winning in the state legislatures. We're winning in the culture. We're about to win in the Supreme Court when the decision comes down, when their decision about the Tennessee law banning child mutilation comes down probably in June, I would assume. Now, as I've been warning, the gender ideologues, they're not just going to go away. They will regroup.
They'll continue to push their evil, destructive agenda. The question, though, is how much support will they have institutionally? You've got the true believer gender ideologues, the trans activists. They're not going to let this go.
But, and we know that, but then you have everybody else on the left, especially all the people in power who don't actually believe in transgenderism and never did, never believed in it, never thought that it was, you know, that the arguments for it were valid, but they saw it as a winning hand and as a useful tool. The question is, are they going to give up on it now?
Well, it seems they already have or are starting to, but will that trend continue? I'm not sure. I do think at least that they'll back away from some of the battlefields in the overall war. And I think this is one of them. I think the push to get men into women's sports is not totally over, but it's a losing hand for the left. And I think that they know it.
I think they know that it's a losing hand. And that's not going to change. So I think in a relatively short period of time, we will be in a situation where, although the trans agenda continues, things like having men compete against women in women's sports, I think that will be gone. Okay, here's this. Daily Wire is this.
An OnlyFans content creator was recorded propositioning a fast food employee for sex, but she was turned down after the worker told her he was a Christian man. Bonnie Blue, 25 years old, is a controversial OnlyFans creator. It's a very polite way of putting it, who targets 18 and 19-year-olds to have sex with her. I guess that's her brand. That's what she does.
Viewers had mixed reactions when Blue shared the video on TikTok account. We'll play the video. This is her walking into a Five Guys restaurant and propositioning this guy that's behind the counter. Watch.
I just wondered, I can't see it on the menu, but where do I get the Five Guys from? What? The Five Guys. I didn't know it feels like a special room where you can take me out back. No, I don't think that's up your alley. So that's a great response from that young man and this
You know, when you watch that, it brings to mind, if you remember, that OnlyFans creator, the OnlyFans prostitute a few weeks ago who had sex with 100 guys in a day, I think was the number. And now she wants to graduate to 1,000 guys in a day or something. Completely revolting and disgusting. And apparently it's not the same person.
At first I thought maybe this is the same person because it sounds like the same person, but apparently it's not. And if you remember, the conversation around that person at the time was that she was, and we talked about this on the show, but the conversation around that person was that she was a victim also. She was a victim in all of this.
And there were a lot of people, a lot of conservatives even, talking about how they felt sorry for her, you know, because she's a victim too. In fact, we heard the men who participated are more at fault than she is. That was the claim.
There was a lot of commentary saying, shame on these men, shame on these men for exploiting, for exploiting this poor woman who's clearly damaged and had a difficult childhood and all that kind of stuff. Well, this is not the same woman, but they're both British hookers on OnlyFans, different people. Yet I think the point can still be made that these women are not victims.
These are not desperate girls who've been trafficked by some street pimp. Now, that still exists in the world, obviously. Sex trafficking is a real thing. And so you still have that, but with only fans, there's a new kind of hooker that has emerged. These are, and it's, it's pretty like unprecedented.
We know that prostitution is one of the world's oldest professions, but this kind of prostitution is very different because these are perfectly comfortable, financially stable, often upper-class women who decide to do this. Not just upper-class, but the really successful ones, successful only in a financial sense, become wealthy. These are wealthy women doing this, and they're pimping themselves.
So if you want to say that we should put most of the moral blame on the pimp, fine. Well, in the case of OnlyFans models, quote unquote, the pimp is the woman herself. Now, you could argue that the pimp is actually the OnlyFans platform, the CEO, the parent company or whatever. And that's short. But in that case, then it's like a franchise system.
The OnlyFans executives are the, you know, top pimps. But these women are like the franchisees. They're like, you know, someone who owns a McDonald's franchise or whatever. But they're still pimping themselves out. So do I feel sorry for them? No, I got to be honest. I don't. Call me cruel and callous. Many people have. Maybe I am. Maybe I am.
But with these kinds of women, the ones on OnlyFans, no, I don't feel sorry for them at all. I don't look at that and say, oh, these poor women, they have difficult lives and they've been reduced to this. No, they deserve the same level of moral condemnation that we give to pimps. And nobody ever says that we should feel sorry for pimps. No one ever says that.
Even though, you know, when you think about a young woman on a street corner, you know, the kind of, I guess we would have to call it now, old-fashioned prostitution. And a lot of people would feel sorry for that woman and would say, oh, the pimps are these evil people. And they are evil. But like, You know, the pimp on the street corner probably lives a pretty miserable life too.
Probably had horrible things happen to him. You know, people that live good lives and are just like normal, well-adjusted people, they don't become pimps, just like they don't become prostitutes. Yet nobody ever looks at that guy and says, well, we should really feel sorry. I feel he's a victim too. No one ever says that. Not that they should. I'm not saying that we should.
Just like we should not see these women as victims. The women, the OnlyFans women. We should condemn their behavior and shame them for it. That's why this is an important point about how does society respond to this sort of thing. And now it's easy enough to say that and see that with this particular video of this particular woman. Because she's like the sexual aggressor.
She's the predator, in essence, going in and trying to. But all these women, our response should be condemnation of their behavior and shame and shunning. It is a disgusting, shameful, dirty, gross thing to make your living on OnlyFans. Or to be on it at all, whether you're making a living or not. It is a disgusting, gross thing. It shows a severe moral...
deficiency on your part and um you are disgusting for doing this and and like that that is the level of uh condemnation that we should have for this behavior um and because if we don't if we don't if instead we say well everyone you know it's they it's we can't judge we can't judge Well, when you say that, that's how you end up with prostitution becoming a normal, upper-class occupation.
That's how you end up with that. That's how you end up with seemingly normal soccer moms who become prostitutes. And they don't even need the money. You end up with that because society has not responded in an appropriate way to this kind of behavior.
Okay, Notre Dame beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl last night, and after the win during the post-game interview on the field, an ESPN reporter tried to play the race card with Notre Dame's head coach, Marcus Freeman is his name. He's a black guy, but he was not interested. Watch this.
You are the first black head coach to go to a national championship game in college football. Just hearing that response alone. How much does this mean to you.
You know I've said this before. I don't ever want to take attention away from the team. It is an honor and I hope all coaches minorities black Asian white then matter great people continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this. But this ain't about me, this is about us. And we're gonna celebrate what we've done because it's something special.
Well, that's a fantastic answer. And look, he didn't need to deliver some kind of speech against left-wing racial ideology. He didn't need to preach against DEI or whatever. I actually think that it's better that he didn't. It's better that he was just totally uninterested in the race angle entirely. and pivoted back to the team. He said that he hopes great people of any race get opportunities.
And that kind of sums it up. Now, it really is embarrassing. I know this ESPN reporter is probably incapable of feeling embarrassment, but she should. And she's not doing any favors for female sports reporters, by the way. This guy just had a huge win. He wants to celebrate with his players, and she's asking these utterly irrelevant, you know, vapid, vacuous, silly questions. Um...
But his response was great, and it goes to show what I've said before about football. This response from this football coach is not unique. Most guys in professional football and high-level college football, and really football at every level, are like this.
Now, you have your woke libs here and there, and maybe at an institutional level in the NFL, it's a corporation, so you're always going to have some of that kind of stuff. But The actual guys that are in football, whether on the sidelines or on the field, for the most part, they don't go for the woke stuff. And most of them have no time for the race baiting.
Most of them are actually very conservative, in fact. Now, I don't know if this Marcus Freeman is politically conservative. I'm not saying I don't know that. But I know that a lot of people in football are also very religious. I mean, I just saw a video of Ravens head coach John Harbaugh in the locker room after their last game of the season.
The whole team is together, locking arms, kneeling and saying the Lord's Prayer in the locker room, which is, of course, very common in football. I mean, those kinds of scenes are very common. And you constantly see that the most prominent, most influential figures in the sport are praying, glorifying God, talking about their love for Christ.
Oftentimes, it's not just a simple, oh, I want to thank God, and then moving on, like the cliched Oscar speech or whatever. Often talking about it in really personal, I think, compelling and profound terms, talking about their faith. I mean, talking about it in a way that you could tell they really mean it. So, Look, football is a conservative sport, and it's a great influence for young men.
That's why it always... Look, I'm not saying you have to like football. Everyone has their own tastes when it comes to recreation and sports, and some people don't like sports at all. That's fine. You don't have to enjoy watching it.
But when I hear from conservatives sometimes who talk about football like it's woke or like it's a bad thing, derisively say, oh, it's sports ball, you know, and it's a dumb... I just don't understand that attitude. I mean, football is, number one, it's America's sport. This is our thing. And these are oftentimes very religious, conservative people who get into this.
And again, it's a great thing for young men in particular. So you would think that we would all support it. It's a thing that we should all support, I would think. Okay, let's get to the comment section. Let's talk about something that affects all of us, responsible, hardworking Americans, and that is taxes. Now that it's the new year and tax season is upon us, are you prepared for what's coming?
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These are truly dumb people, a lot of them. And... often bad people, often very bad people. But sometimes I think we overstate the badness, which isn't to say that we're, yes, they're very bad. And the mayor of Los Angeles, clearly not a good person. But also, again, just these are not intelligent people.
Fact, if you stop consuming all dairy products for a few months, you become lactose intolerant. This is because we are not meant to drink milk for our entire lives, much less another animal's milk. Find me one single animal in the animal kingdom that drinks milk its entire life. While you're at it, find me one that drinks the milk of another species.
The fact that there's nutritional value doesn't make it nutritious altogether. There's nutritional value in tree bark and grass. If we were intended to drink cow milk over extended periods of time, humans would not all become intolerant to it upon ceasing to consume it. The conversation about milk continues. Milk, I never knew what a minefield the subject of milk is.
People have very strong opinions all over the place. All kinds of very strong milk-related opinions. And this one is interesting. I don't necessarily disagree with you. I haven't thought about it much, but I don't drink milk myself. I enjoy dairy products like cheese. Who doesn't? But I don't drink milk. I'm not just going to pour a glass of milk and drink it. So you raise an interesting point.
No other species on the planet drinks milk into adulthood. Maybe we're just not meant to. I don't. I don't think older people taking a driver's test would be too useful. Accidents will be more related to reaction time versus the rules of the road. Well, that's an argument for improving the driving test. And yeah, I think the driver's test should be improved in general.
I guess I don't know exactly what the current driver's test consists of because my kids are not old enough for that yet, thank God. And I took it 20 years ago. And I know, of course, it varies to some degree from state to state.
But when I took it, it basically just tested your ability to turn the car on, drive about a quarter of a mile at 15 miles an hour, stop at a stop sign, and then parallel park. And I assume the driver's test today is similar to that in most states. And if it is, then it's not extensive enough, in my opinion. It doesn't test for the right things.
And it puts way too much emphasis on parallel parking. I've never understood why parallel parking is even on the driver's test. Because, you know, first of all, most people are terrible at parallel parking their whole lives. It's not going to change. And... You can avoid it most of the time.
Especially if you don't live in a city, then you have very few, there are very few situations where you even have to parallel park. And even if you live in a city, you can still avoid it if you want to. Uh, so I don't care that much if you can parallel park or not, which most people can't.
What I care about is another driver on the road is whether you understand how to change lanes on a highway, um, how to enter the highway, how to merge, how to use a merge lane, you know, uh, how to keep up with the speed of traffic, like those kinds of things. Um,
Do you understand what to do if you are on the highway and you notice that you're just about to miss your exit, but you're three lanes over from the exit? What do you do in that situation? Do you slam your brakes and screech across three lanes of traffic so you can make that exit?
Or do you just continue up to the next exit and get off on that exit and then get back on the highway the other direction and get your exit that way? which will take you four or five more minutes, but that's the downside. The plus side is that you won't potentially kill yourself and 10 other people. So do you understand that? Those are the things that the driver's test should test for.
And at least when I took it, the driver's test didn't test for any of that. It didn't test for any of the situations where your life is actually on the line. Your life's not on the line with parallel parking, even if you do it wrong, like worst case scenario, you hit someone's bumper, not good. You're not going to kill anybody.
I don't think anyone's ever been killed in a parallel parking situation ever. So that's an argument for I think the driver's test should be improved. I think it should be more extensive. I think a lot more people should fail it.
You know, I mean, when you're out on the roads, and sure, there are people on the roads that don't have licenses and so on, but most of the people, when you're on the roads, all pass their driver's exam. And that should tell you something right there. Every time I'm on the road and I'm looking at all these moron drivers, and I just say, almost all these people pass the exam.
What does that tell you about the exam? So... The exam should be more extensive, should be more difficult, and you should have to take it more often. And I said, take it again when you're 70. I mean, you can make an argument you should have to retake your driver's exam, you know, every 10 years, every five years.
I mean, I shouldn't because I'm a perfect driver, but all the rest of you people, I should get an exemption, but the rest of you people should be, you should be taking that driver's test every year, okay? What is a Woman sparked the cultural conversation.
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It's a question that has profound implications for our country and indeed for our entire world and maybe even our universe. It brings me no great joy to report this, but it's true. The question is this, is it really possible for anyone with a pulse, regardless of talent, dignity, intelligence, to become a celebrity in the U.S. in the year 2025.
That we truly entered an age in which even the most talentless and unimpressive people on the planet are capable of making millions of dollars simply by behaving in the most annoying fashion imaginable. Now, if you spend any amount of time on TikTok or Instagram Reels or pretty much any social media, you've probably already concluded that the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
But allow me for a moment to be the voice of optimism. Just present a counter-argument. And that counterargument is named Meghan Markle, otherwise known as the fake Duchess of Sussex. As you probably know, Meghan Markle gave up royalty several years ago with the goal of becoming a social media influencer.
But in a turn of events that poses a very clear problem for her grand plan, it turns out that Meghan Markle has no influence. She is actually failing at becoming an influencer, which is something that up until her, I didn't know that was possible. I didn't know it was possible to fail at doing that because literally anyone can do it, it seemed.
Several years ago, when she and Prince Harry signed a $100 million deal with Netflix, a statement like that would have been unthinkable. But it's not unthinkable anymore. This deal recently produced a five-part documentary called Polo, which is either about horses or about collared short-sleeved shirts. I didn't check. Either way, every single reviewer panned it.
The Telegraph wrote that it was a dull indulgence about a rich person's pursuit. The Guardian called it unintentionally hilarious, saying that it, quote, feels like a spoof documentary designed to play on screens in the background of episodes of Succession.
An outlet called The Decider wrote that the documentary is, quote, a mostly boring look at a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in. Okay, so I guess it is about horses and not shirts. Anyway, these are the kinds of outlets that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have desperately tried to pander to over the years.
And it's not working well for them at the moment. In fact, the reviews were so bad that rumors began circulating about the future of that $100 million Netflix deal. A lot of people began wondering if Markle's follow-up show about cooking, gardening, and entertaining might be canned. One alleged insider told the Daily Mail, quote, There won't be another deal. There may be one-offs, but that's it.
A-listers are now actively keeping away from them and events that they're apparently going to attend. Apparently, according to this unnamed source, things are so bad that Oprah did not invite Meghan Markle to a surprise birthday party that she threw for Gayle King. That's a tragedy.
And I don't want to alarm anyone or make you relive any elementary school drama that you might have suppressed as an adult, but... It's a pretty big deal in the industry. That's a celebrity equivalent of, like, Oprah sending a drone strike against Meghan Markle. But Meghan would not be deterred. Nevertheless, she persisted.
Against all odds, at this hour, it does appear that Meghan's show about cooking and entertaining will indeed see the light of day. Netflix has been promoting it, seemingly to spike their own audience. And they've even released this trailer, which has already become one of the most panned trailers in the history of Netflix.
and you'll find Amy Schumer specials that have better audience reactions than this.
Here's a small part of it.
Let's go. I've always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it. Surprising people with moments that let them know I was really thinking of them. What? This is probably one of the most glamorous moments of my life. I'm going to share some little tips and tricks. I see what color I gravitate to, and everything goes from there. And how you can incorporate these practices every day.
That's what you want. You want that shape and texture. Come on. This is about connecting with friends. I love that we're doing this together for the first time. Making new friends. That is so good. We're family now.
The trailer assures us that the show is all about making friends and celebrating with family, two things that Meghan Markle is clearly incapable of doing. Her whole family hates her, and she's called her family racist. If Meghan could do a show about celebrating with family, then, you know, Hunter Biden can start a documentary about the virtues of monogamy and the importance of
securing sensitive data on your laptop. So we're approaching unprecedented lack of self-awareness over at Netflix, which is truly saying something. But there are a lot of layers to the lack of self-awareness here.
In case you've forgotten this whole episode, Meghan Markle famously claimed that she changed the course of history when she was an 11-year-old child by pressuring Procter & Gamble to stop running an allegedly sexist commercial for dish soap. The commercial stated that, "'Women are fighting greasy pots and pans with ivory clear.'"
And Meghan supposedly convinced the company to change the word women to people to be more gender neutral. And news crews showed up at her house and everything. She repeated this story again and again. She even mentioned it at the United Nations. Okay, this is what a big deal it was. It's clearly a lie, but that's not the point.
Now Meghan Markle, the noted feminist who's extremely sensitive to stereotypical portrayals of women in the kitchen, has tried to position herself as some kind of kitchen expert. She's making a show where she's a woman in the kitchen, going out of her way to promote the stereotype, the harmful stereotype that she found so offensive as a child.
All because her relevance is plummeting and she's desperately trying to produce something inoffensive that some woman somewhere might watch. But of course, you know, nobody's buying it. There's not a single positive comment underneath this trailer on any platform, as far as I can tell. A lot of the comments on this trailer were too... obscene for me to read, but I'll do my best.
On X, one person writes, all they wanted was some privacy and a Netflix deal. Another comment reads, thanks, I'd rather bathe in battery acid. And then there's this one, quote, nothing screams love in the air like using a fake house for your TV show. Now on YouTube, the trailer has a 90% dislike ratio.
And in a pretty conspicuous move, Netflix left the comments open, almost like they wanted the show to get panned before it comes out. That decision allows someone to write, quote, she doesn't throw on a pair of shoes when she hosts William and Catherine for their first dinner and meeting, but she's covered in gold and diamonds while making lunch for her friend.
Another person observed, I've been a chef for 30 plus years and I can tell by how she holds her knife. and her underproofed and undercooked focaccia that she has no idea what she's doing. Then it all goes downhill from there. Meghan's whole career has gone downhill. More precisely, her career never existed. Her career couldn't go downhill because there never was a career in the first place.
She gave up a life of royalty and ripped her husband away from his family all in the hopes of becoming basically a glorified Instagram influencer in the U.S., only to find out that nobody likes her, no one's interested, nobody wants to hear about her, see anything from her. She has no influence. It's a truly tragic story and also a pretty funny one.
Yet Markle still has some kind of contract, which was signed back when executives assumed that they could force-feed any fake influencer down our throats. Now, to be fair to those executives, that seemed like a reasonable position at the time. It even seemed reasonable as of last summer, when the Hot Tua girl exploded in popularity.
But based on the reaction that Meghan Markle's show is receiving right now, thankfully, it's not a reasonable position anymore. And that is why Meghan Markle and her new show about cooking... and making friends and loving her family, three things she clearly does not do, are today canceled. That will do it for today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care, it is mental health care, and it can actually be suicide prevention care.
I think I'm gonna take some medicine so I can kind of like transform into a boy, get surgery.
After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better. When it stopped being a thing for adults and it started to be a, let's teach this to kids. Total lie. Manipulation. It's gaslighting. Please stop.
He's a boy, not a girl. How could she do this to my son?
What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children. I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally, but of course I was wrong.
The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what happens to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious. Puberty blockers, surgeries, big money makers for hospitals, for physicians.
All I want to do is hold my son.
Are you asking me to lie to parents? And he said, yes.
This is an weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy your child. Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex. Maybe they actually are the opposite sex.
It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers or double mastectomies.
The left so badly wants to blur these lines. That's a five alarm fire. It's criminal.