1 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,359 Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome to the Kylie Cast. I'm Kylie Griswold, 2 00:00:16,399 --> 00:00:20,039 Managing editor at The Federalist. Please like and subscribe wherever 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,640 you get your podcasts, and if you're just listening to 4 00:00:22,679 --> 00:00:25,239 the show, be sure to check out the full video 5 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:29,039 version on my personal YouTube channel or the Federalists channel 6 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,399 on Rumble, and then of course like and subscribe there too. 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,119 If you'd like to email the show, you can do 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,600 so at radio Atthfederalist dot com. I would love to 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,039 hear from you. Well, another week has passed, but the 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,479 Democrat violence news cycle continues a pace because week after week, 11 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:48,880 Democrats just keep giving us more examples of violence, terrorism, 12 00:00:49,119 --> 00:00:52,520 and then this week murderous fantasies. It feels like much 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,320 longer because we've been through so much in the past month. 14 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:57,640 But it's only been a little over a month since 15 00:00:57,679 --> 00:01:02,240 a transgender identifying gunman attacked a Catholic school full of children, 16 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:05,719 killing two kids and injuring thirty other people, just a 17 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:09,159 tragic and targeted act of violence. Then just two weeks 18 00:01:09,159 --> 00:01:13,799 after that, a radical leftist assassinated Christian conservative influencer Charlie 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,480 Kirk in front of a campus full of students and 20 00:01:16,519 --> 00:01:19,519 the rest of the watching world, which then kicked off 21 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,760 weeks worth of many so called normy Democrats celebrating Charlie's death, 22 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:28,719 desecrating monuments in his memory, and then members of the 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:33,400 media and of Congress trying to justify that assassination. Then 24 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,000 just two weeks after that, another gunman opened fire on 25 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:41,159 an ICE facility, killing two detainees and injuring another. And 26 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,760 even though Democrats pretended, hmmm, we can't discern a motive here, 27 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:48,840 the shooter's bullets were inscribed with anti ICE messages and 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,040 that was the natural and dare I say intended result 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,640 of the non stop rhetoric from Democrats and the media. 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,040 But I repeat myself, demonizing Ice with extreme labels like Gestapo, 31 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:04,000 which is of course the Nazi secret police. And remember 32 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,359 that as all of this is happening, left wing think 33 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,639 tanks are turning out a bogus study after bogus study 34 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,400 showing that no, actually, it's Republicans causing more political violence, 35 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:18,319 even as they leave out some of the worst Democrat 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,240 attacks and then classify random acts of clearly non political 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,159 violence as right wing, completely dishonest. Well, then on Friday, 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,000 a little over two weeks after the Ice shooting, we 39 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:34,840 learned about the murderous fantasies of Jay Jones, the Democrat 40 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,639 candidate running for Attorney General of Virginia. And these texts 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,319 are truly something to behold, especially for the guy running 42 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,199 to be the chief law enforcer, the top cop of 43 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,000 the Commonwealth of Virginia. Here to discuss this crazy story 44 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:55,080 with me is my colleague Brianna Lyman, a staff writer 45 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:56,000 at The Federalist. 46 00:02:56,159 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. 47 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,319 Speaker 1: It's so great to see you. Thanks so much for 48 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,680 joining today. I think before we start, we should set 49 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:05,080 this stage a little bit for people who maybe haven't 50 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,919 seen the texts. They were reported by National Review on Friday. 51 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:12,560 These texts happened. They were sent in twenty twenty two, 52 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:18,599 right after a long time moderate Democrat politician in Virginia, 53 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:22,199 Joe Johnson, had died. He died at age ninety, and 54 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,400 then in response to his death, you had some Republicans, 55 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:29,080 including Todd Gilbert, who was at the time the House 56 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker in Virginia. They started saying some nice things, both 57 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,840 publicly and privately, about the deceased Joe Johnson, and so 58 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,439 enter Jay Jones, who had formerly served in the House, 59 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:43,439 but at this point he was he had resigned, and 60 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:47,159 he starts firing off some texts revealing his thoughts on 61 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:51,680 the republicans kind response to Johnson's death. He apparently realizes 62 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:55,360 that he sent these texts to Republican lawmaker Carrie Coinner 63 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:57,800 instead of who he actually meant to send them to. 64 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,840 But then instead of shutting the conversation down, he doubles down. 65 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,080 And here is how those texts went. He starts, if 66 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,840 those guys die before me, I will go to their 67 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:13,719 funerals to piss on their grapes, send them out a 68 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:17,600 wash in something, and Carry Corner, goes Jay Jones. J 69 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:22,360 Jones says, three people, two bullets, Gilbert Hitler and Paul 70 00:04:22,399 --> 00:04:26,560 pop Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. So, in 71 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,040 other words, he's saying, if you had two bullets in 72 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:30,319 the gun, and you had two dictators and this Republican, 73 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,399 I would put both of the bullets in. The Republican 74 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,480 he says, he receives both bullets every time, and Carry 75 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,720 Coyner pleads with him, Jay, please stop. He goes, Lol, okay, 76 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,319 So then he doubles down even more. Carry Coyner says, 77 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,720 you weren't simply asking questions and you know it, He says, 78 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:50,000 I genuinely was. I wasn't attacking you. I was trying 79 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,160 to understand your logic. She says, you weren't trying to understand. 80 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,399 You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert's children would die. 81 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,480 This is Todd Gilbert's wife and his children. And he says, yes, 82 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,959 I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain 83 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:09,199 personally do they move on policy. But he's still not done. 84 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:13,399 He says, I mean, do I think Todd and Jennifer 85 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:15,920 are evil and that they are breeding little fascists? 86 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:16,759 Speaker 3: Yes? 87 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: Absolutely insane things from Jay Jones here. So these texts 88 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,959 come out. Of course, Republicans are calling for him to 89 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,560 drop out of the race, and the firestorm starts, and 90 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,439 so Jay Jones issues some statements. Here is his first statement. 91 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,920 I've sent text messages that I regret, like all people, 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,600 he says, and I believe that violent rhetoric has no 93 00:05:41,639 --> 00:05:43,639 place in our politics. But then he goes, let's be 94 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,079 clear about what is happening in the AG race right now. 95 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,399 Jason miars his opponent is dropping smears through Trump controlled 96 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,959 media organizations to assault my character YadA, YadA, YadA. On 97 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,079 he goes and he talks about how Jason Mires will 98 00:05:56,079 --> 00:05:58,120 continue to be accountable to Donald Trump, not the people 99 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,800 of Virginia. This race is about whether Trump can control 100 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,800 Virginia or Virginians control Virginia. Not exactly an apologetic statement. 101 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,040 He pushes the blame and basically calls it oppo research 102 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:12,040 against him, but also doesn't deny the texts. And then 103 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,279 this was his ultimate statement that he issued. He says, 104 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:18,399 I take full responsibility for my actions, and I want 105 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:21,519 to issue my deepest apology to Speaker Gilbert and his family. 106 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:24,439 He says he's so embarrassed and ashamed and sick to 107 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,319 his stomach, YadA, YadA, YadA, all the performative things. And 108 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,079 then he says, Virginians deserve honest leaders who admit when 109 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:35,920 they are wrong and own up to their mistakes. Brianna, 110 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:38,879 I'm pretty sure Virginians don't deserve honest leaders who own 111 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,800 up when they're wrong. I'm pretty sure they deserve leaders 112 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,480 who don't wish that half of the voters were dead. 113 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,160 Your thoughts on this whole saga and specifically the statements 114 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:47,800 as well. 115 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, Kinie, there's so much I want to start back 116 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,360 with the text messages you showed now, one message he 117 00:06:52,439 --> 00:06:55,920 said to Carrie Coiner, like, yes, I've told you this before. 118 00:06:56,079 --> 00:06:58,480 Now new reports have come out. What he was referring 119 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:01,240 to when he says people only change when they feel 120 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,279 pain is he allegedly, in a separate conversation said that 121 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,519 if we kill more police officers, they won't shoot as 122 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,879 many people as if police officers are indiscriminately shooting against people. 123 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,639 So this is a man who not only has these 124 00:07:13,639 --> 00:07:17,680 fantasies about murdering Republicans, he also views law enforcement as 125 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:21,759 just this murderous, you know, entire group. As for his apologies, 126 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:26,079 it is egregious that he says, like all people, I 127 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,439 am a Republican, I'm a conservative. I should rephrase that, 128 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:31,639 I have never once considered or even fantasized or thought 129 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:35,480 about anyone on the political spectrum being murdered, because it's abhorrent. 130 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,399 So no, not like all people, because all people don't 131 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:41,160 actually do that. Only psychopaths do that. So you could 132 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,480 have like all psychopaths, I do that. And then I 133 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:45,800 think what's most concerning is that it's not just him 134 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:48,120 who's staying in the race, but it's his party that 135 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:50,759 is allowing him to stay in this race. If you 136 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:53,680 go back to twenty nineteen, when Governor Ralph Northam, you know, 137 00:07:53,759 --> 00:07:56,240 he had that decades old yearbook photo surface of him 138 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,879 in a bad Halloween costume, blackface, he was called to 139 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:01,959 step down by Demo. They were tripping over themselves, demanding 140 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,560 he was unfit to serve. Meanwhile, one of their own 141 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:08,839 is actually fantasizing about murdering Republicans and their children and 142 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:12,160 calling them fascists. And they're either completely stilent or they're like, yeah, 143 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:16,560 who among us hasn't called for Republicans murdered? That speaks 144 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:18,879 volumes about where the party is at, and I think 145 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,800 it does lead credence to the claims from conservatives who say, 146 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,319 how should we share a country and unify with a 147 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:27,560 country that, behind closed doors wants to murder us? 148 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,279 Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly right, and you brought it up. So 149 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,639 let's keep going on the train of Jay Jones's other 150 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:35,080 disqualifying behavior. 151 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: So you mentioned the police officer. 152 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,919 Speaker 1: Thing, the other conversation that he had with Kerry Coiner, 153 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,480 which is as appalling as his text about Todd Gilbert. 154 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,600 To be honest with you, he's basically saying the same 155 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:49,399 things about police officers that he was saying about Republicans, 156 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:51,759 which is just that well, if more of them just 157 00:08:51,799 --> 00:08:54,399 need to die and then we will get the policies 158 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:59,519 that we prefer as Democrats. Just a crazy, crazy, psychotic 159 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,799 way to think. And yet, like you said, something that 160 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,159 most people don't do, this is not actually normal. The 161 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,840 who among us phraseology is disgusting and a little concerning 162 00:09:08,919 --> 00:09:12,120 that they actually think people feel this way. But those 163 00:09:12,159 --> 00:09:15,960 are not the only examples. You also have his reckless driving. 164 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,480 I would love to hear your explanation of that, and 165 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,639 his calling for a police lieutenant to be fired. Brianna, 166 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,279 can you explain some of these other disqualifying behaviors from 167 00:09:25,919 --> 00:09:26,679 J Jones? 168 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, So for J Jones, a police officer who donated 169 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,399 to Kyle Brittenhous this legal fund, I believe it was 170 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,039 a twenty five dollars donation, that was enough for J. 171 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,960 Jones five years ago now to say that he should 172 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,600 be removed from his position as a police officer because 173 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,799 that was disqualifying. So again, donating to the legal defense 174 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,240 of someone who acted in self defense was disqualifying. Calling 175 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:50,120 to murder Republicans is actually not disqualifying because we all 176 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,759 think about it, right, Apparently to Jay Jones. As for 177 00:09:52,799 --> 00:09:54,840 his reckless driving, I believe he was going like forty 178 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:57,799 miles over the speed limit. And what's more ridiculous is 179 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,879 that not only was he going completely over the speed limit, which, 180 00:10:00,919 --> 00:10:03,440 as someone who's supposed to kind of be the standard 181 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,759 that everyone else should follow, not a good standard to set. 182 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,399 He was supposed to do special community service, he did 183 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,559 it for his own pack, according to Restoration News, which 184 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,000 is not allowed, so he didn't even complete the time served. 185 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:18,840 Then Liz MacDonald from Fox Business, she reported that he 186 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:21,639 has never actually tried a case. So here we have 187 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,679 a candidate who has never tried a case, fantasizes about 188 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:27,159 murder Republicans, does not know how to follow the law, 189 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,399 doesn't just speed, he speeds to speeds that could kill 190 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,320 someone on the spot. He thought that someone should be 191 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,759 fired for donating to the legal fund for Kyle Brittenhouse, 192 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:37,879 but that he shouldn't sit down for calling for people 193 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,279 to be murdered. And last, but not least, this is 194 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,360 a man who was being bolstered by the Democratic Party 195 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,919 and is now trying to make this a Donald Trump 196 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,320 is picking on me story. That's where the Democratic Party is. 197 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: Right, right, So the Donald Trump is picking on me story. 198 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,639 That is how the media are covering it. And so 199 00:10:56,799 --> 00:10:59,960 what we've seen is either media making it a story, 200 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,519 worry about Republicans pounce, which Brianna, is something that you 201 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:04,759 specifically wrote about. I want to hear about your story 202 00:11:04,799 --> 00:11:08,279 on that, and or they're just doing a complete blackout. 203 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,360 They're pretending that it didn't happen, or referring to the 204 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:16,679 text just by quoting Jones instead of actually like, for instance, 205 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,240 Political ran a piece and they called the text abhorrent, 206 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,039 the abhorrent texts in the headline, but they put abhorrent 207 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:24,480 in quotes because in his apology j Jones referred to 208 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,320 the text as abhorrent. But it's like the texts are 209 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,159 objectively abhorrent, Like you don't need to quote j Jones 210 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,639 to say this that the way that they are phrasing 211 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,759 things and what they're choosing to cover and not cover 212 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,159 is just exactly what we would expect from the media. 213 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,360 But the ap story, Brianna, can you tell us about 214 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:42,440 what you wrote about that? 215 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so they associated press I'm reading it here. Steve 216 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,879 Peoples and Olivia Diaz. They want people to know that 217 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,399 the real story isn't that J Jones is calling from 218 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,320 Republicans to be murdered, It's that Republicans notice the story. 219 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:01,320 So they write, Republicans are seizing on recent unearthed violent 220 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:05,639 rhetoric from J Jones to tarnish the Democratic Party nationally 221 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:08,559 less than a month before election day. So you see there, 222 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,840 their primary concern is how is this egregious story going 223 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:13,080 to impact election day? 224 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 4: Now? 225 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,879 Speaker 2: Because the Associated Press are just propagandists for the Democratic Party, 226 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,639 they know that this could actually impact Democrats' chances at Virginia, 227 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,159 which as of last week were pretty damn good. But 228 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,399 any sane voter who hears these text messages, I think 229 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,519 will have a hard time not only voting for J Jones, 230 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,080 but for voting for Abigail Spanberger, who was defending and 231 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,759 standing by J Jones. So what the Associated Press wants 232 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:38,159 you to know is that it's pretty bad that Donald 233 00:12:38,159 --> 00:12:42,279 Trump is escalating his campaign to cast his political opponents 234 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,679 as violent extremists. You see, Donald Trump is casting them 235 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,399 as violent extremists, as if J Jones himself did not 236 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:51,879 make himself a violent extremist. So the narrative that the 237 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:55,399 media constantly takes in these scenarios is deflect, blame it 238 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,519 on Trump, and that is why they have to be 239 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,600 referred to as the propaganda press. 240 00:12:59,759 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: Right, and the AP was not the only one. Let's 241 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,720 see here, Well, two days ago I looked. 242 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 3: On the New York Times. 243 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: I forgot to check this morning, but as of two 244 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:11,159 days ago, if you search for Jay Jones on the 245 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:14,240 New York Times, there were zero search results from the 246 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:16,759 past month. This is a story that broke on Friday. 247 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,240 They had Friday and all weekend and Monday to cover 248 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:23,360 this story, and there was nothing from the New York Times. 249 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,039 From the Washington Posts, they referred in their headline to 250 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:33,279 this giant scandal as quote twenty twenty two texts depicting 251 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:38,240 political violence, Brianna. Something depicting political violence could literally be anything. 252 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,759 We are talking about a candidate running for public office 253 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,879 who is publicly fantasizing about murdering his opponents, But the 254 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,679 Washington Post refers to it as just depicting political violence. 255 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,559 This is so classic. To make it the least salacious, 256 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,679 least clickable headline, give you the least amount of information 257 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,000 they could possibly give so you have to click in 258 00:13:57,039 --> 00:13:59,440 to find out what happened, and or not even find 259 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:01,120 out what happened, like if you're The New York Times 260 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,840 and not even covering it. And I think another thing 261 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:06,399 that's really important to remember here is this would be 262 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,080 disqualifying for any lawmaker, Like this would be disqualifying if 263 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,559 Jay Jones were once again running just to be another 264 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,240 member of the Virginia House of Delegate Delegates. 265 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 3: That's now what happened. What's happening here. 266 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: He is running to be the top law enforcer of 267 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,080 a state. This is a guy, like you said, who 268 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,039 is driving reckless speeds, could have killed people, who's fantasizing 269 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,159 about killing people, and who's all manner of other things 270 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,799 that could be disqualifying, like wishing death on police officers 271 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:36,639 so he can get his policy views enacted, and he is. 272 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,919 He's running to be the top cop. 273 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 3: Of a state. 274 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,919 Speaker 1: It just it makes this story so much worse. And 275 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,120 it's something that's being lost in the sauce of the 276 00:14:44,159 --> 00:14:47,279 media blackout and the media of the skating that's happening, 277 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,559 like like the AP did. 278 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you can only determine or assume that the 279 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,639 reason the media is either having a blackout or misrepresenting 280 00:14:55,679 --> 00:14:58,960 this is because they implicitly endorse violence against Republicans, because 281 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,320 this is part of the assassination prep campaign that Democrats 282 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,879 have launched against Republicans for years now, and the left 283 00:15:04,879 --> 00:15:06,679 wing media has tried to tell us for the past 284 00:15:06,759 --> 00:15:09,039 month that it's actually not really a left wing problem, 285 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,080 it's a right wing problem. I know you alluded to 286 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,759 that introduction. And so what the media is doing right 287 00:15:14,759 --> 00:15:17,519 now is they're trying to one shape that narrative off 288 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,360 of their party, the preferred party, which is the Democrats. 289 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,240 But two, they're also setting the signal that it's not 290 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,240 so bad if you fantasize about killing Republicans. When you 291 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:29,440 do that, you implicitly send the signal that any other 292 00:15:29,519 --> 00:15:32,000 talk like that is actually okay, it's not that bad. 293 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,720 And if talk like that is okay, eventually actions like 294 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:39,120 that become okay. That is called assassination premp. You are 295 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:42,879 justifying actions through language, and the media is complicit in this. 296 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,399 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, And it's not just the media, it is 297 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,559 the entire Democrat party. Brianna, you wrote a bit about 298 00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:52,080 the response from Democrats from Spamberger, from other Virginia groups, 299 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,240 can you give us just a sense of what has 300 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,559 the response from Democrats been to this abject scandal. 301 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:01,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, a group of Virginia commit Democratic committees basically said, 302 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,559 you know, let he who has not sendcast the first 303 00:16:04,559 --> 00:16:08,000 stone and trying to insinuate, as Jones did in his 304 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:12,279 own statement, who hasn't fantasized about murdering their political opponents? 305 00:16:12,279 --> 00:16:15,360 Which is actually extremely telling because they think that the 306 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,879 average person does fantasize about murdering their political opponents, when 307 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:21,919 the reality is most people don't because we are not 308 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,080 a country that's run by lawlessness. For a country of 309 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:25,960 law and order. If you don't like someone, you vote 310 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,960 them out, you don't shoot them or murder them like 311 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:30,600 Jay Jones apparently wants to do. But the fact that 312 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:33,960 Democrats think that that's normal shows that they think it's 313 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,360 normal and acceptable to fantasize about that and to believe 314 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:38,240 those things. 315 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:45,159 Speaker 1: Yes, Abigail Spanberger I think issued a statement or commented 316 00:16:45,279 --> 00:16:47,320 on the record to someone that she had talked to 317 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:49,919 j Jones in private, I think, and basically told him like, 318 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,759 we will not tolerate this type of behavior. 319 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 3: Whatever. 320 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: Well, unless you're calling for him to drop out of 321 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:56,720 the race, you are implicitly tolerating that behavior. In fact, 322 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,840 you're endorsing that behavior. But I think crats have boxed 323 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:02,919 themselves into a bit of a corner here, and you, 324 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:06,559 as a one of our elections correspondence from this past election, 325 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,279 can speak to this the danger of election day turning 326 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:12,680 into election season, because one thing that we're seeing here 327 00:17:12,759 --> 00:17:16,880 is Virginia voters. Early voting in Virginia started on September nineteenth, 328 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,920 I believe, and so Virginia voters have been voting for 329 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,680 weeks at this point. Many people have cast their ballot 330 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,720 before this scandal even came to light. I was looking 331 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,119 this week, and it looks like when the texts were reported, 332 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:36,119 about three hundred thousand Virginians had already cast their ballot, 333 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,119 And so I think it's safe to assume that north 334 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,799 of one hundred thousand of them would be Democrats, and 335 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,720 probably many more than that, because I mean, if tradition holds, 336 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:47,640 more Democrats will vote ahead of time than Republicans. Who knows, 337 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,480 but that's a pretty safe assumption. And then that's not 338 00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:53,359 even counting to people who voted by mail, whose ballots 339 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,200 came in after the third or whatever day. This story broke, 340 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,279 and so you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people 341 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:05,319 who voted without being informed about J. Jones's murderous fantasy texts. 342 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,200 I mean, this is a huge deal, and Democrats have 343 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:12,720 totally boxed himself into a corner because this is election season. 344 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:15,319 I mean, this is what happens. And so now, how 345 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,680 can Abigail Spanberger call on J Jones to drop out? 346 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,200 Because then what happens All of those people who voted 347 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,880 for him are disenfranchised? Like what do you make of 348 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:24,160 all this? 349 00:18:24,799 --> 00:18:27,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an excellent point because that is something that 350 00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:30,400 we see these past few election cycles with early voting. 351 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,039 I do think that the benefit of this story coming 352 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:34,680 out now is even though there may be a few 353 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,960 hundred thousand people that cast to vote for J. Jones 354 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,799 and maybe they would not have casts, Republicans are very 355 00:18:39,799 --> 00:18:42,160 difficult to turn out and off your election cycles. They 356 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,319 are low propensity voters. I think this story is big 357 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,440 enough and damaging enough to get Republicans who may have 358 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,400 been considering sitting this election out to turn out, and 359 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,359 now they have about a month to do so with 360 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,759 this knowledge. So on the one hand, this will actually 361 00:18:55,839 --> 00:18:57,960 encourage voters to make sure that they don't elect someone 362 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,119 who wants them dead. But to your point, look, I 363 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,200 think this is one of the reasons why early voting, 364 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:05,160 if we're going to have it at all, it needs 365 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,400 to be maybe three or four days before an election. 366 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:09,559 That's a small enough window. I still don't think so. 367 00:19:09,559 --> 00:19:11,480 I still think election should be held on one day 368 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:13,359 it's election day, and on election week or a month 369 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,559 or year. I think these voters may learn a very 370 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,920 valuable lesson if they voted for Jay Jones and are 371 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,279 now appalled, and that is try to make plans to 372 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:23,119 get to the polls on election day because you never 373 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,440 know what horrible news will come out about the candidate 374 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:26,519 you're supporting. 375 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,799 Speaker 1: Right right, and you actually, as a voter, it's beneficial 376 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:31,640 for you to kind of hold onto your leverage that 377 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,640 you have over candidates before election day. You shouldn't vote early, 378 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,400 because then what incentive do they have to appeal to 379 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,000 you as a voter, or to do the right thing 380 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,079 or to you know, it's like you are showing your hands, 381 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,039 You're giving the game away before you're making them less 382 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:49,799 accountable to you by voting early. And so, yeah, it's 383 00:19:49,839 --> 00:19:53,759 really interesting. I do not expect any Democrats to call 384 00:19:53,799 --> 00:19:56,680 on him to drop out. But it will be wild 385 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,240 if the top cop in Virginia turns out to be 386 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,200 a murder fantasizing man who went, as you know, forty 387 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,960 six miles per hour over the speed limit and is 388 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:10,960 just by all accounts, a complete lawless psycho. We'll see 389 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,599 if the story changes the tide or not. Brionn Alignment, 390 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,480 staff writer at The Federalist, thank you so much for 391 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:18,000 joining me today. It was great to see you. 392 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. 393 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:25,559 Speaker 3: Okay, so the j. 394 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:30,079 Speaker 1: Jones story is wild, but that is not even the 395 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,839 only story of Democrat associated violence that we got this week. 396 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 4: Should property taxes just come to an end? 397 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 5: The Watchdown on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every 398 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,160 day Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the 399 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,880 economy and how it affects your wallet. 400 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 4: Truly, owning your own home shouldn't be a piggybank for 401 00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:03,279 government to revenue. Property taxes will forever make you not 402 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,000 an owner, just nothing more than a serf on the 403 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:08,480 lord's manner. Whether it's happening in DC or down on 404 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:10,160 Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 405 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:10,759 Speaker 3: Be informed. 406 00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 5: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris 407 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,920 Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 408 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: On Friday, we also learned of the sentencing decision for 409 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,640 Nicholas Rosky, the now twenty nine year old who attempted 410 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,079 to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh back in twenty 411 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,519 twenty two. And I'll refresh your memory here's what happened 412 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:43,960 in that case. So, Nicholas Roski was mad about the 413 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,920 leaked Dobbs draft, which, if you'll recall, in twenty twenty two, 414 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:50,279 that was the year that the Supreme Court came out with. 415 00:21:50,279 --> 00:21:51,039 Speaker 3: The Dobbs vy. 416 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: Jackson Women's Health decision. That decision is the one that 417 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,799 essentially overturned Roe v. 418 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 3: Wade. 419 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: But before the actual decision came down, there was a 420 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,279 leak of the draft of the Dobbs decision, and of 421 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:08,880 course Democrats were I write about it, while Republicans where 422 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,759 I rate about the leak, but Democrats where I rate 423 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:14,680 about the decision itself, because they learned that the made 424 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,319 up right to abortion so called that was enshrined in 425 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,039 the Constitution via Roe v. Wade was about to be overturned. 426 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:24,160 And so Nicholas Roski was one of those people who 427 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,119 was mad about the impending Dobbs decision. 428 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:28,599 Speaker 3: And so what does Roski do. 429 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:33,039 Speaker 1: He makes a plan to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, 430 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:34,039 but not only Kavanaugh. 431 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,599 Speaker 3: He wrote in discord. 432 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: I could at least there is a quote, I could 433 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,400 at least get one which would change the votes for 434 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,000 decades to come. And I am shooting for three end quote. So, 435 00:22:46,079 --> 00:22:50,240 in other words, Rosky had stated intent to kill that one, 436 00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:56,640 but three conservative Supreme Court justices in order to change 437 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,079 the vote for decades to come. So, in other words, 438 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,960 this is explicit political terrorism. This is an effort to 439 00:23:02,079 --> 00:23:05,200 not only stoke fear, but to get an ideological and 440 00:23:05,279 --> 00:23:10,000 politically motivated result by carrying out violent crimes against your 441 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:14,799 political opponents. So Rosky researches, He researches mass shootings, he 442 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:19,279 researches the addresses of Supreme Court justices, he plans, he 443 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,920 buys weapons on nine different occasions, and then ultimately buys 444 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,240 a plane ticket and flies from California, where he lives, 445 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,759 all the way across the entire country to Virginia and 446 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:34,759 takes a taxi to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house 447 00:23:34,839 --> 00:23:38,119 with the intent of killing him. Rosky only stops his 448 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,079 plan after he arrives at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house. 449 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:47,440 There are US Marshalls stationed outside, so Roski's plan is thwarted, 450 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:51,279 and instead he takes off again and eventually calls nine 451 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,920 one one turns himself in, so Roski gets arrested. He 452 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:58,079 originally pleads not guilty, but then after he can't reach 453 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,720 a plea agreement, he eventually pleads guilty and the government 454 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:05,680 asks for thirty years in prison for Rosky. Now, the 455 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,519 maximum sentence for this would be life in prison, but 456 00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:12,039 the government asks for thirty years, the defense asks for 457 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,519 eight years, and Federal District Judge Deborah Boardman, who oversaw 458 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,519 this case, agreed with the defense and with Rosky and 459 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:25,680 gave Roski only eight years eight years for planning and 460 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,000 then traveling to go assassinate not just one, but potentially 461 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:33,960 up to three Supreme Court justices, only eight years in prison. 462 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,839 It is mind boggling how you can go from a 463 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,039 maximum sentence of potentially life in prison and instead be 464 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,200 sentenced to only eight years in prison. So how did 465 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,960 this happen? While first Judge Boardman gutted the terrorism enhancement, 466 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:51,640 not because Boardman disagreed that this was terrorism, she agreed 467 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,440 that it was domestic terrorism, but because she didn't see 468 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,200 a reason to believe that Rosky would recidivate based on 469 00:24:58,279 --> 00:24:59,440 the opinion of experts. 470 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 3: Oh okay, but that's not. 471 00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: The only reason that Boardman gave Rosky a light sentence. 472 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,599 The other one that played a major factor was Roski's 473 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,480 sudden transgender identity. So when Roski traveled from California to 474 00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:16,799 Virginia to commit this crime, he was Nicholas Roski born 475 00:25:16,839 --> 00:25:19,400 a male, He was a male. His chromosome said he's 476 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,160 a male. He gets arrested, and then somewhere along the 477 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,359 way he decides that actually, my name is Sophie. And 478 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,519 so the Biden appointed federal district judge factors in the transidentity. 479 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:37,319 She admits it into her sentencing because she's concerned about 480 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,880 Trump's executive order that requires male prisoners to be housed 481 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,240 with male prisoners and female prisoners to be housed with 482 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:48,759 female prisoners. These are this is actually a very important thing. 483 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,240 It's really important that female prisoners are not housed with 484 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:54,400 male prisoners and vice versa. Terrible things can happen there. 485 00:25:54,839 --> 00:25:59,039 But Judge Boardman is concerned that a male prisoner is 486 00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:01,839 going to be how with other male prisoners, and so 487 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,640 therefore she gives this attempted plotted terrorist eight years instead 488 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,920 of thirty or life in prison. Absolutely insane. But of 489 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,319 course the media, ever the duti full foot soldiers, parrot 490 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,720 the trans propaganda, and honestly, reading all of the corporate 491 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,799 media coverage, you would not even know that Roski is 492 00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:28,079 a man. CNN, AP, New York Times. They all refer 493 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,680 to Rosky as she, and many of them even omit 494 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,319 the fact that the original name is Nicholas Roski. They 495 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,200 all just refer to Sophie Rosky, who previously had a 496 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,720 male name, but she was sentenced to eight years in prison. 497 00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:48,920 MSNBC did not even bother with the euphemism of trans woman. 498 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,680 They literally in their headline just said woman, as if 499 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,559 this is just an indisputable fact that Sophie Rosky is 500 00:26:56,599 --> 00:26:59,039 indeed a woman, as much a woman as I am 501 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,599 or anyone else who has XX chromosomes. This whole case 502 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,319 communicates two very dangerous things, the first of which is 503 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,480 that identifying as transgender will get you off the hook 504 00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:16,400 in legal matters, just like identity politics have contributed to 505 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,640 some sort of trans contagion in this country, because in 506 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,359 the Marxist framework, where you view everything as oppressed or oppressors, 507 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,119 identifying as trans or identifying as some other rainbow identity 508 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,960 gets you more victim points than just being a person 509 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,759 with heterosexuality who is sis i e. You are a 510 00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:38,680 man who says you are a man, or you are 511 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,000 a woman who says you are a woman, that you 512 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,920 agree with your literal biological sex. Doing that doesn't get 513 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,400 you any victim points. But now we're also seeing that 514 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:51,519 not only can you get cultural brownie points by claiming 515 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:56,079 a trans or just LGBT broadly identity, but you can 516 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,519 actually count on getting a lighter sentence if you have 517 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:06,920 a rainbow identity. This just incentivizes more transmania, more biological 518 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,799 and reality denial, and frankly, more mental illness. But the 519 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,640 second thing that this case communicates is that if you 520 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:19,839 are a radical leftist with a conservative target, Democrats will 521 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,279 cover for you. This is nothing short of assassination prep. 522 00:28:24,599 --> 00:28:26,519 You know, we saw the same thing with Jimmy Kimmel 523 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:30,920 and commentators on MSNBC and elsewhere when they blamed Trump 524 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,400 supporters for Charlie Kirk's assassination. The message is clear. If 525 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,359 you kill conservatives, Democrat captured institutions will completely cover for you, 526 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:44,400 from Democrat politicians to the media, and in this case, 527 00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:47,279 even to judges. They might pay lip service, they might 528 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:49,799 have to give you a sentence of some sort a 529 00:28:49,799 --> 00:28:51,799 slap on the wrist. But at the end of the day, 530 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:54,440 you can count on the media to obfuscate, and you 531 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,160 can count on judges to give you light sentences, and 532 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,759 you can count on Democrats to cover for you, and 533 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:02,720 to use rhetoric that lets you off the hook time 534 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:07,119 after time after time. This is assassination prep is extremely dangerous, 535 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:10,480 and it sends the message that political violence will be 536 00:29:10,599 --> 00:29:14,200 tolerated and winked at. Michael Fragoso has a really great 537 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,880 piece at The Federalist this week on the Roski case, 538 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:21,160 and he writes, quote, Rosky's sentence isn't just about Roski. 539 00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:25,519 Among other things, criminal sentences serve both to deter future 540 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:30,400 criminals and to communicate society's values. We heard this regularly 541 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,119 from the judges in the District of Columbia as they 542 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,960 threw the book at January six rioters. For example, Judge 543 00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:40,319 Royce Lambert justified his actions while sentencing a man to 544 00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:43,559 a prison term, just shy of Roski's for using a 545 00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:46,839 megaphone to urge others into the capital quote. This cannot 546 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:49,480 become normal. We as a society, as a community, and 547 00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:52,359 as a country, cannot normalize the events of January sixth 548 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,519 end quote. It seems, though, that we can normalize the 549 00:29:55,559 --> 00:30:00,079 events outside Kavanaugh's house. Roski's sentence doesn't deter and and 550 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,519 it communicates that what matters isn't political terrorism but the 551 00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,759 transgender journey of self discovery. It's hard to explain just 552 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,720 how corrosive this is to our body. Politic democrats today 553 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,160 like to throw around the term fascism to describe conservatives 554 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,079 and Donald Trump in particular, but judges doling out soft 555 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,799 justice to terrorists they agree with is far closer to 556 00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:26,640 what led to fascism's rise in Germany than anything Trump 557 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:31,160 is doing. Fragoso is absolutely right here, and here's the 558 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,160 real kicker. US Attorney General Pam Bondi has appealed this 559 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,279 decision rightfully, So now it goes to the Fourth Circuit. 560 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,720 But the Fourth Circuit is a left wing court, and 561 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,039 if it does not reverse judge Boardman's decision, which who knows, 562 00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:48,920 but it may not. The next step would be appealing 563 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,960 to the Supreme Court, which is so crazy because the 564 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,200 Supreme Court was the target of the attack. Our three 565 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,839 conservative justices supposed to recuse because the defendant in the 566 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:03,640 case wanted to assassinate them. Are they supposed to determine 567 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,279 the punishment for the man, yes, man, who attempted to 568 00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:12,400 carry out an assassination plot against them. This, of course 569 00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:16,359 creates all sorts of problems, and so Fragoso goes on 570 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,640 to make the case that Congress needs to impeach Boardman 571 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,319 for essentially condoning terrorism. But this especially is important as 572 00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:26,079 it comes to the Supreme Court, he writes, quote, the 573 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,160 House will spare the Court from having to essentially sit 574 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,359 in judgment of its own case. If it moves to 575 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,440 impeach Boardman, it will send a message to other judges 576 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,039 that political violence is not to be excused. Indeed, this 577 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:42,200 should be a bipartisan message, because reasonable Democrats shouldn't want 578 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,119 Trump judges excusing, say, proud boys, anymore than we want 579 00:31:46,119 --> 00:31:51,799 Biden judges excusing trans identifying terrorists. Impeachment proceedings would helpfully 580 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:55,559 put democrats to that question. Even if impeachment or removal 581 00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,920 doesn't succeed, it probably wouldn't. It would set a good 582 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,599 precedent that judges to excuse political violence have to answer 583 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,039 for it to the people's representatives. And this part is key. 584 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,279 Judge Boardman may not be interested in deterring the next Roski, 585 00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:13,680 but the House has the power to deter the next 586 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:19,640 Boardman end quote, and it absolutely should. If Congress is 587 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,160 looking for ways to deter left wing political violence, and 588 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,440 especially after the past few weeks, it should be, then 589 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:34,839 impeaching Boardman is a great place to start. All right, 590 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,799 it's time for a little Kylie's culture cut because A 591 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,160 it's been a hot minute, and B I actually have 592 00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:44,000 been listening to and watching and reading some things lately, 593 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:46,039 so I'm here to tell you all about what's good, 594 00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:49,039 what's bad, and what's ugly. Let's start with the most wholesome, 595 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,440 which is the fact that I finished for the first 596 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,799 time reading Mere Christianity by C. S. 597 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 3: Lewis. 598 00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: I don't know why it took me so long to 599 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,559 read this book. Reading it on audiobook was fantastic because 600 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,039 it's only about a six hour listen. I listened to 601 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:04,119 it on a little bit faster speed, and so I 602 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,559 got done with it fairly quickly. It was a great 603 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:09,880 alternative to listening to podcasts or music when I've been driving, 604 00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:13,319 and it gave me so much to chew on. Truly 605 00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:16,119 an excellent book. I would recommend it to so many people. 606 00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:20,039 Whether you are not a believer or are Christian curious 607 00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:22,680 but not actually a Christian, you should definitely read it. 608 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,839 It tackled many of the objections to Christianity that I've 609 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,079 heard over the years, and it tackled them in such 610 00:33:29,119 --> 00:33:31,960 a logical and reasonable way that I think is very 611 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,440 persuasive and also just really good brain food. So I 612 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,079 would recommend it. If you're not even a Christian, you 613 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:38,759 should read Mere Christianity. If you are a Christian and 614 00:33:38,799 --> 00:33:40,480 you've never read it, you should definitely read it because 615 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,160 there's lots of good stuff in there, and it helps 616 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,880 give you language and verbiage to refer to basic Christian concepts, 617 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,720 but just new ways to think about them and new 618 00:33:48,759 --> 00:33:50,640 ways to explain them. So i'd recommend it if you've 619 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,880 never read it, and I would also recommend it if 620 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,599 you've read it before. Definitely something that I will listen 621 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,079 to again and again and or next time. I may 622 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,319 just read it in a hard copy, because I think, 623 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,400 you know, you pick up different things whether you're listening 624 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,799 to something or reading it, and so I would recommend 625 00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:08,800 it to truly anyone excellent. 626 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,679 Speaker 3: Book, as C. S. Lewis is. 627 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: I have a C. S. Lewis book on my shelf 628 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,559 right behind me. He's fantastic author, and everyone should read C. S. Lewis, 629 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:16,920 of course. 630 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,079 Speaker 3: So that's what I've been reading. What have I been watching? 631 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,519 Speaker 1: I mentioned this last week, but I'll expound upon it 632 00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:25,440 a bit. I finished watching The Paper, which is the 633 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:29,719 Office spin off show. It is on Peacock. You can 634 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,639 watch it there. The lead actor is from Harry Potter, 635 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,400 but in the show he plays a very different role. 636 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,440 I had exceptionally low expectations for The Paper. I thought 637 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,480 that it would try so hard to write the cotails 638 00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:44,559 of the Office and that it would just be super woke. 639 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,840 I just had that sense, and that it would just 640 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,760 completely flop. That it would maybe have a couple of 641 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,480 funny moments. But the trailer didn't look that funny. The 642 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:54,519 previews I saw didn't look that funny, and I just 643 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,320 I did not think it would be good, but I 644 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,559 was pleasantly surprised. There was an episode that was a 645 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:03,800 little bit slow. There were a couple of hints at 646 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,239 things that were a little bit woke, such as an 647 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,760 all gender restroom, you know, all gender things like that, 648 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,159 but none of that was dwelled on, and it was 649 00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:19,840 It was just fun. It made me laugh out loud 650 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,599 many times. There were a few office references because spoiler 651 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,840 Oscar is in the paper, and so especially through Oscar, 652 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,400 they make references to the office, and some of those 653 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,760 felt shoe horden, shoehorned, and they felt a little clunky, 654 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,920 a little bit forced, but they were few and far between, 655 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:40,599 and they were a little bit endearing, and I just 656 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,440 thoroughly enjoyed the show. I am really excited for the 657 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,639 next season to come out. Typically, you know, first seasons 658 00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:48,360 of shows are a little rough anyway, as they try 659 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,320 to establish the characters and get their feet under them, 660 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,800 and so my expectations are actually kind of high for 661 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,599 season two. Really really enjoyed it, So if you haven't 662 00:35:55,639 --> 00:36:00,159 watched the Paper yet, it's definitely something worth watching, even. 663 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,119 Speaker 3: If you don't end up enjoying it as much as 664 00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:02,440 I did. 665 00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:04,599 Speaker 1: I think it's ten episodes long and they're all a 666 00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:08,159 half hour a piece, So go watch the paper. But 667 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,760 what I really must talk about today is what I 668 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,239 have been listening to, and that is the new Taylor 669 00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:15,519 Swift album. 670 00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:16,559 Speaker 3: And I have thoughts. 671 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: If you've listened to my podcast before or read any 672 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,920 of my writing from years ago, you may or may 673 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,119 not know that I am on the record as being 674 00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:29,840 a swiftye. I have loved Taylor Swift since my days 675 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,320 of adolescence. I had her CDs. I had the karaoke 676 00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:35,760 version of her CDs so that I could put just 677 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:39,079 the backtracks in my karaoke machine and then I could 678 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:42,360 be the vocals. I truly loved Taylor Swift. My first 679 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,559 dance at my wedding was to a Taylor Swift song. 680 00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:47,159 You can ask Molly Hemingway because she roasted me a 681 00:36:47,159 --> 00:36:49,079 lot for it. We played a lot of Taylor Swift 682 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:53,360 at our wedding. I truly enjoyed early, earlier eras of 683 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,360 Taylor Swift, and many of Taylor Swift's albums felt like 684 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,840 they hit at the right point in my life where 685 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,320 what I was going through or the things I was 686 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,920 thinking about or dreaming about were similar to the things 687 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,679 that Taylor Swift was singing about. But this has all 688 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,559 started to decline an album or two ago, and with 689 00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:14,079 this most recent album, I must say my feelings on 690 00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:17,320 Taylor Swift have officially crashed and burned. I don't know 691 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,280 if Taylor Swift will be able to win me back, 692 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,519 and I'm just generally pretty salty about the album. I 693 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:23,440 kind of hate it. I have been listening to it 694 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,280 for the past couple of days to try to see 695 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,480 if my opinion changes, and there are some songs on 696 00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,400 it that I find catchy, but the second I tune 697 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,000 into the lyrics, she loses me again because the lyrics 698 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,239 are so bad now they should go without saying, because 699 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,360 I have long been a swiftye but I am not 700 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:42,920 one of those boomerie cantankeris gen xers who lives to 701 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,280 hate Taylor Swift and who thinks that music peaked in 702 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,800 the eighties and that it can never recover, and that 703 00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:51,320 you know, the best artists are all in the past 704 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,599 and they can never be rivaled because their coming of 705 00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,400 age was the only good music that has ever existed. 706 00:37:57,599 --> 00:37:59,920 Of course, I don't believe that. I think because everyone 707 00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:03,480 when they come of age. There's music that is popular 708 00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:05,840 or that is good when they are in their adolescence, 709 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,039 and that becomes defining music for them, and they think 710 00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:10,639 it's better than the music from when the next generation 711 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,480 comes of age. 712 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,800 Speaker 3: That's just how it goes. 713 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,519 Speaker 1: But I just can't get behind this Tailor Swift album 714 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:18,960 for a number of reasons. The first one is its 715 00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:24,760 lyrical trendiness. Just listening to the lyrics, it feels very trendy, 716 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,719 like a flash in the pan, like most of the 717 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,079 lyrics are just they have no shelf life. They are 718 00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:31,119 not timeless at all. Let me just give you a 719 00:38:31,159 --> 00:38:36,239 few examples that stood out to me. She says, we 720 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:42,079 looked fire. This isn't savage pledge allegiance to your vibes. 721 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:47,440 Glad he ghosted me spring Break that was effing lit. 722 00:38:48,039 --> 00:38:49,039 Speaker 3: You get the idea. 723 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 1: Very trendy, very ephemeral. Here's a stands up from her 724 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,480 new song, Eldest Daughter. Everybody's so punk on the Internet. 725 00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:02,559 Everyone's unbothered till they're not. Every joke's just trolling in memes, 726 00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:06,679 sad as it seems, apathy is hot. Everybody's cutthroat in 727 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,159 the comments. Every single hot take is cold as ice. 728 00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:14,440 This is just it's really sad. It feels like her 729 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,719 songwriting is Benjamin Buttoning, like she used to be better 730 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,480 at writing music before, and that was paired with the 731 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,400 fact that she was a precocious teen, so even her 732 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,039 like elementary lyricism made sense because she was elementary. Well, now, Taylor, 733 00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:31,800 you're thirty five. It's not cute to write like a 734 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:36,400 teenager anymore. So you have this elementary lyricism paired on 735 00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:39,840 the opposite end of the spectrum with this hyper sexualization. 736 00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:43,360 And that's another vibe that you get from her album. 737 00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:48,320 It starts with her very sexualized album cover. Shoot, I'm 738 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,320 sure you've seen the pictures and or the music videos, 739 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,039 but this sexualization just weaves throughout the entire album. Taylor's 740 00:39:56,079 --> 00:39:58,239 been trending a bit this way for a little while, 741 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,599 which in some ways makes sense because she's actually an 742 00:40:00,639 --> 00:40:04,360 adult now, but it felt really forced. Back in twenty seventeen, 743 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,599 she wrote the song dress and the point of the dress, 744 00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:08,480 the whole point of the song was that she'd only 745 00:40:08,519 --> 00:40:10,559 bought this dress so you could take it off, and 746 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,760 it felt kind of out of place, like she was 747 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,960 trying to sexualize herself. But it just kind of it 748 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,079 was a little bit jarring, and now you get that 749 00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:22,000 same feeling, except it is through the entire new album. 750 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:23,719 I'm not going to read many of these lines. You 751 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,679 can go find them for yourself. But one of her 752 00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:29,880 song titles is literally would I'll let you fill in 753 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,159 the blank with that. She writes in another song quote 754 00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:38,599 his love was the key that opened my thighs you. 755 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,239 And then in her song Father Figure, which had the 756 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,159 potential to be an interesting song, she includes the lyric 757 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,239 quote I can make deals with the devil because my 758 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,599 bigger I'm sorry what it's like. She's trying to be clever, 759 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,760 but it's just coming off as really forced and really icky. 760 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,400 I think maybe one of the reasons I'm really cranky 761 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,920 about Father Figure is the fact that, as I have 762 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,280 said on a previous podcast, John Bellion, who is one 763 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,360 of my favorite singer songwriter's producers, came out with an 764 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,039 album called Father Figure earlier this year, and not only 765 00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:14,800 unlike Taylor Swift, not only did he not rip off 766 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,599 the George Michael song, but that song and that album 767 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,480 are all about maturity and responsibility and faith and fatherhood. 768 00:41:21,519 --> 00:41:23,079 And you fill in the blank with all of these 769 00:41:23,199 --> 00:41:27,480 wonderful adult pursuits. And then you have Taylor Swift over here, 770 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:33,000 who's merging this weird gen Z trendiness with a forced 771 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:38,360 feeling hyper sexuality together in one album, and it just 772 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,280 comes off as so icky and force And it's especially 773 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,639 odd because you have Taylor Swift in the middle, who 774 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:48,800 has all of these millennial fans. Taylor Swift is a millennial, 775 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,800 and you've had all of these people who were following 776 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,719 her at the same age as Taylor Swift. Well, then 777 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,519 she gets to be thirty five, a lot of the 778 00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:59,400 millennials have jumped ship because again, her lyricism has sort 779 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,280 of Benjamin Button, and some of her albums recently have 780 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,920 been a little bit lackluster, and so she's trying desperately 781 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,559 to appeal to gen Z, or so it seems with 782 00:42:09,599 --> 00:42:12,079 the lyrics that I read before. But at the same time, 783 00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:15,679 she is so hyper sexualized that it's just this weird 784 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,480 marriage of vibes that do not work together anyway. You're 785 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,880 free to disagree. Everybody has a different opinion on Taylor, 786 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,360 but this is mine, and I just have to say, 787 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,840 as a former Taylor Swift fan, as a former Swift, ye, 788 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,360 could we please just get some quality over quantity. There's 789 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:35,320 a reason why most artists do not release six albums 790 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,760 in six years. So, speaking for burned out Taylor Swift 791 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,960 fans who are just sick of the instant gratification, Taylor, 792 00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:47,360 just give us quality, not quantity. People get so excited 793 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,079 when they hear that there's a new Tailor Swift album 794 00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:51,039 coming out. And I've gotten to the point where I 795 00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:54,199 just kind of grown because I don't want a quick 796 00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:58,079 new Taylor Swift album every year. I want a lull 797 00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:00,960 because I think in this case, absence would make the 798 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,000 heart grow fonder. I want to lull where Taylor can 799 00:43:04,079 --> 00:43:09,000 really work on new themes and new lyrics and new 800 00:43:09,199 --> 00:43:11,599 rhyme schemes and key signatures and all of the rest, 801 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,039 and come to us with something that is totally fresh, 802 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,400 that is totally new, and that has a long shelf 803 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:22,039 life and isn't this weird marriage of gen z slang 804 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,599 and hyper sexualization. Go back to the drawing board, come 805 00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:27,760 up with something that is good and lasting and better 806 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,280 and original, and get back to us in another five 807 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:31,960 or so years. 808 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 3: Okay, that would be my ideal. 809 00:43:34,039 --> 00:43:36,800 Speaker 1: All right, I'm sounding more and more like a curmudgeon 810 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,039 gen Xer by the minute. So that's going to do 811 00:43:39,079 --> 00:43:41,039 it for me today. Thank you all so much for 812 00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:43,800 tuning into this week's episode of the Kylie Cast. Remember 813 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,840 to like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and 814 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,400 I will be right back here next week with more. 815 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,679 Until then, I just remember through thirds, but all fail 816 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:59,679 you