So folks, we'll get to all the news in just one moment, but I have to tell you that today is, for me, a sad day. So a couple of days ago, Facts, by my friend Tom McDonald featuring me, dropped from the top slot on iTunes right after the Grammys after 10 days of pure magic. It's still the number one rated hip-hop song in America on iTunes. But Rap Hanukkah is officially over.
And so, with tears in my eyes, I have a big announcement to make. To all the little homies who have been lifting me up since I began this journey, it was an inspiring moment. Some have called it a musical supernova. But now, the time has come for me to walk away from my art.
And so today, I have to announce, I'm retiring from rap to spend more time with my family. It's been real, dogs. And never forget, music never dies, so long as the beat is in your heart. R.I.P.
Dr. Gradle. I know, I know. I've been getting a lot of sad messages from people who grew up with my music.
People whose lives were changed by the beats and by the flow. But, you know, I've decided to leave the industry to a young generation of truly great artists. Of truly great rap artists. Artists like Ice Spice.
She of the rhyming name. So I've been informed reliably that Ice Spice is a human. And that Ice Spice also has a brand new charting the song out. No, she's not so passed back on the charts yet.
But we can only hope that for the sake of Western civilization, eventually, she is widely appreciated by the masses in the way that she so richly deserves. So Ice Spice has a brand new song out. And the nature of this song is, I think, quite deep and requires a bit of explanation. And we've deconstructed the culture on this show before.
In fact, it's probably my extraordinary rendition of Lap that led eventually to my hip-hop stardom. And then, of course, to my short-lived but brilliant career in the industry. And so we have to deconstruct a little bit of the culture that I'm now leaving. Because I've got to be honest, I was being fronted in that week, in that week, where I was the top charting rapper in America.
You know, I have to say, went to the clubs, sipping on some Henny. I was wearing the bling. My wife, she was really getting into the lifestyle as well. But again, I have to leave it to the pros.
Pros like Ice Spice. That's her given name, which came out of her mother. Her mother said, I shall call you Ice Spice. In any case, the name of her latest song is Think You the S*** Fart.
Yes, idiocracy is real. There are no words except for her own. And so I bring to you the future of the hip-hop industry now that I'm no longer a part of it. Ice Spice in Think You the S*** Fart.
Think you the s*** f***? You're not even the fault. She's flipping people off. She's just twerking and...
Okay, I just started twerking the whole video and another woman's banging her on the list. So, if you can't understand what she's saying, you're not alone. And so I will now do what I'm most famous for doing when it comes to rap. I'm going to read you the lyrics in a language we call English.
Okay, and here's what she's saying. Think you the s***. You're not even the fart. Gara.
I'd be going hard. Gara. I'm breaking they hearts like, f*** be quick, but I'm quicker. F*** be thick, but I'm thicker.
She could be rich, but I'm richer. Ah, the words of generation. I'm so glad that the industry remains in excellent hands like that of Ice Spice. But, you know, those words will live on forever.
And from now on, if anyone ever, ever, gets uppity with you, just tell them that if they think they the s***, they are not. Yeah, they are indeed. The fart. We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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Protect your data today. That was actually the worst song I got released this week, believe it or not, in the rap industry. Another one challenging us for top slot on the rap charts is a song that is called Bo Bo Bo, or Bow Bow Bow, F My Baby Dad. And apparently it's an older song, you know, a classic from our friend Sexy Red.
She has multiple STD bouts. And she apparently did a rendition of this rap, F My Baby Dad, at a hospital after having her latest baby. Because nothing says lucky child quite like you're pushed out of mom, and you're immediately making sexual videos in which you say F the dad of your child. That's a happy life for that kid.
Wow, wow. I'm just absolute cultural genius. I can't imagine why Tom and Tom are my rap about shortcomings of rap culture because it seems like it's doing well. It seems like it's really incentivized.
Excellent behavior. These pictures are insane, by the way. She's literally in the hospital bed, and she is posing like ass out and touching herself in the hospital bed. I gotta say that the definition of sexy has radically changed in America if people find this attractive in any way, shape, or form.
In any case, here is some of the video. She literally put a music video from her hospital room after having a baby about F the baby dad. Good stuff happening here. She's in a hospital room.
She's flinging around dollars in the hospital room. Presumably she's not covered by insurance. She's working on her hospital bed after having a baby. Points for durability, I suppose.
So there's a lot to say here. One thing I will say is that if this lady doesn't get to take maternity leave, then why does people check at three months off for a paternity leave? I'm confused about that. I mean, she's back to work in like seconds.
And by work, I mean W-E-R-K worked. So, yeah, this is solid stuff, guys. I know, I understand that I had a place in the rap culture. I understand that I was an inherently important part of hip-hop.
But as I say, I have to leave it to the pros. The reason I spend time on this stuff, by the way, is I think folks need to understand. You know, we talk about politics a lot on the show. The number of people who are drawn by pop culture is insane.
Pop cultural engagement in America is at levels not even remotely charted by politics. The number of people in America who watch politics is extraordinarily low. It's really, really, really low. In fact, if you look at the latest statistics with regard to, for example, news websites and political websites being visited, the answer is the numbers are way down, like way, way, way down since the last election cycle.
And if you look at big political events, for example, like the fifth Republican primary debate, that's where 2.5 million viewers. Trump's competing town hall had about 4.3 million viewers. Aggregate all that, and you're talking like 7 million viewers total. And then if you add in people on the other side of the aisle who are politically engaged, you're talking a maximum of 15 to 20 million people who are politically engaged in pop culture is so much wider and so much, I speak as a charting artist, as the number one rap artist in America, as a hot 100, number 16 recipient on billboard.
And without any radio plays, I speak as a great artist of my genre. And let me tell you, pop cultural engagement is so much more important in terms of how young people think and the values that are shaped than actual baseline politics. That's how you spend time on it. That's why we've done deconstructing the culture before and that's why it sort of matters that garbage is being pervaded every day by people like Ice Spice and Sexy Red as our culture gets dumber and dumber and stupider and stupider.
Okay, meanwhile, on the political side of the aisle, there's a lot happening. So I have to say, I have two examples from President Trump. Example number one, President Trump came out yesterday and he suggested that conservatives go back to buying Bud Light. Now, you'll recall that it was just last year that Bud Light decided that they were going to sponsor as a face of their brand, Billy Mulvaney, a man who mocks womanhood by pretending to be a girl.
And they made a Bud Light beer can and all this. And people like us at the show, Matt Walsh, the Daily Wear personalities, pretty much everybody on the right said, okay, well, we're not going to buy Bud Light. First of all, it tastes like Corse Piss. And then beyond that, it actually is promoting values that we don't like the great American brand Bud Light.
Not Anheiser Bush, which is now foreign-owned. But the actual Bud Light brand is a deeply American intertwined brand. And they are sacrificing their brand, which is basically blue-collar people in favor of upper-class trans politics. And it's stupid and it's bad and it's bad for the country and so we're not going to drink Bud Light anymore.
And Bud Light took it directly on the chin. Their sales went directly through the floor. And they were, in fact, reduced to not the number one beer, but the number two or number three beer. Modelo actually overtook them, for example.
Well, now President Trump is calling for an end to the boycott on Bud Light, which makes no sense. If you have a successful boycott, if you successfully destroyed a large brand in order to make a political point, you then don't undestroy the brand before they actually apologize for the thing. Now, Bud Light is trying to make some sort of a base dump to the other side of the aisle, to our side of the aisle, on the conservative side, by going and contracting with, say, Dana White over at GMA. I like Dana, I'm friends with Dana, but the attempt to throw a buyback and serve her love by hiring Dana, that doesn't make up for what you did in the first place when you spit in the face of all of your consumers.
Well, now Donald Trump is calling for an end to the boycott. He put out a missive last night on Truth Social. He said that Bud Light was a mistake of epic proportions. And for that, a very big price was paid.
But Anheuser-Busch is not a woke company. Anheuser-Busch is a great American brand that deserves a second chance. What do you think? Perhaps instead you should be going after those companies that are looking to destroy America.
Now, why would he do that? What would drive President Trump one of the most vindictive voices in the history of American politics? Do you suddenly decide that it's time for forgiveness? Well, it could be the fact that apparently he owns about $5 million in Anheuser-Busch stock.
It could also be the fact that a top Republican lobbyist for the company is hosting a fundraiser for Trump next month with some tickets going at $10,000 each. So maybe it's that. Donald Trump Jr. has also previously defended Anheuser-Busch, saying the company donated more Republicans than Democrats and helped Kevin McCarthy's effort to assume control of the House.
Now, as my friend Matt Walsh says, this is the most effective boycott probably in the history of conservative politics. Why would you end it on the basis of Donald Trump Jr. says so? We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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He says, quote, as someone that worked for this incredible American company and got to know them very well, I raised for Anheuser-Busch in the 80s. I agree with Donald Trump. Look at what the company does for so many Americans in the track record over the years. They made a huge mistake and paid a large price.
I think it is time to move forward. I'm saying you should focus on the big picture. Agreeing with 45. The big picture is 45, of course, is President Trump who's the 45th president.
The big picture is not agreeing with President Trump. It's never been agreeing with President Trump. I agree with President Trump when President Trump deserves to be agreed with and I disagree with President Trump when he deserves to be disagreed with. This would be one case where he deserves to be disagreed with.
There's another case where he deserves to be disagreed with and that was on Ronald Romney McDaniel. So let me tell you the tragic story of Ronald Romney McDaniel who now goes by Ronald McDaniel. The reason she goes by Ronald McDaniel, this is not a joke, is because Ronald Romney McDaniel, who is in fact related to Mitt Romney, of course, she used to go by, she's his niece, she used to go by ronald romney mcdaniel and then it turned out that when she became rnc chair and donald trump was the leader of the republican party she dropped to the romney because trump hated romney so much because that's the kind of obeisance that is demanded by many people who really love trump and trump himself is that you have to somehow drop actual parts of your name because he doesn't like your uncle which is wild it was wild it was just a good job or just a bad job and then it turned out she did a crappy job ronald romney mcdaniel is historically the single worst rnc chair of my lifetime the only possible exception to michael steele she's a terrible rnc chair truly a horrifyingly bad rnc chair in fact her tenure as rnc chair which began january 19th 2017 just preceded by ryan spreeves who ended up going into the administration briefly when she assumed office in 2017 she assumed office with donald trump having a house majority and a majority that was the state of play when she took office she then proceeded to lose the house in 2018 and she proceeded to lose the house and the senate in 2020-21 and then she proceeded to wildly underperform in the 2022 election cycle and now the rnc is flat broke the rnc has no money in bank so she sacrificed whatever principle she had including the political principle that the rnc should be involved in choosing candidates on the primary level who can win and then raising money for those candidates and then boosting them to victory instead she basically said that trump could have re-rated the place so much so that the rnc anytime there was a conflict inside the republican party between trump and any other candidate in the primaries not in the primaries with regards to the senate with regards to the house the rnc always sided with trump because mcdaniel knew where her bread was buttered and unsurprisingly a bunch of losses huge string of losses run around him down to the point where after the november 2022 elections where republicans by plane day were supposed to clean up republicans were supposed to win a broad majority in 2022 but the rnc didn't do its job the rnc is a vehicle for victory one of its jobs is to work with the senatorial republican campaign committee and the nrcc the national republican congressional campaign committee and all the rest of these groups in order to select good primary candidates particularly in purple districts and purple states in order to boost them to victory the rnc completely abdicated the rnc instead spent a bunch of money on perks and flowers and nice dinners and limos and then the 2022 elections were a full-scale area in which the republicans not only did not regain the senate they ended up retaking the house by like a handful of votes and that handful of votes is so small that republicans can no longer do literally anything in the house of representatives without making serious concessions to democrats that was all ronald ronald so in january of 2023 in the period between november 2022 and january 2023 there's a serious effort to out ronald ronald ronald in fact you already called it right after the election in november 2022 i only called on the show for the replacement of ronald ronald ronald because you don't get to lose this many times and still retain your job at any job if you if you fail over and over you fail once okay that's called like you fail twice okay maybe you need a serious corrective you fail three times now you're starting to look pretty bad you fail four times you should lose your job and she fell 20 18 20 20 21 21 22 she fell four times four separate times just complete failure and now no money in the bank and the nominee of the party for good or ill is the person who basically put her in place donald trump endorsed her again to become the rnc chair over harmy dylan who's a far more credible far more serious candidate you know full disclosure harmy dylan is our lawyer in suing the federal government for example here is a lawyer harmy is great there's some other people who have been talking about as rnc chair who'd be good so now donald trump a couple weeks ago after having boosted mcdaniel back into place just in time for the primaries where the rnc every time it could put some on the scale for donald trump now that she bent the need to trump every which way literally took wrongly out of her name bent the rnc to trump's will at every possible point now trump is going full job free and cutting off her head so now she's going to be out of a job again directly after she was endorsed by trump and won re-election as rnc chair so now ronna romney mcdaniel is uh is born she's expected to leave according to the washington post quote ronna ronnie mcdaniel is expected to leave her job this spring after former president trump had increasingly grown critical of her leadership according to people familiar with the matter Oh, did he? You mean after she ensured that he got everything that he could possibly want in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023?
So basically she did everything Trump could possibly want and now he's defenestrating her so that he can blame her for all the problems with the RMC despite the fact that he boosted her to that position. We can learn this in just one second. First, when you're running a business, your employees can create all kinds of interesting situations. Like somebody not showing up when they're supposed to or an employee filing a complaint for which you don't have a documented policy or procedure.
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She did a bad job. The only point that I'm making is that you should agree with Donald Trump when it's good to agree with him about ousting Bambi McDaniel. I also agreed about ousting her before she was even the RNC chair. And I disagreed with Donald Trump when he was attempting to force her in place.
The decision came as she visited Marlava and met with Trump on Monday, but the situation remained fluid according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The news of her departure was first reported by the New York Times, which reported it was likely to occur after the South Carolina primary on February 24th. She was expected to serve until 25th, but had considered leaving for months. Her relationship with Trump soured over the Republican primary debates featuring his challengers this past fall.
Trump wanted her to cancel them and she declined. So she provided so much guilty to him. I mean, she really did during the primaries. She didn't force him to sign any pledges saying he'd vote for the other candidates.
Despite the fact that she wanted all the other candidates to pledge to vote for Trump, if in fact he won the nomination, she made room for him at every possible turn, but she wouldn't just outright hand him the primaries and got pissed at her. And now he wants her out and now she's leaving. The point of the matter is that if you wish for good policy to emerge from Donald Trump or anyone else, that doesn't mean listening to Trump all the time. It doesn't mean listening to Trump Meanwhile, speaking of the consequence of having a very narrow house majority yesterday, the house voted on impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security.
Now, to be fair, to the Republican Congress who voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, no high crime misdemeanor was actually alleged. So there are some members of the house who argued against Donald Trump's impeachment, including Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, who's really representative. I know Mike, I like Mike. Mike Gallagher voted against impeaching Mayorkas.
Why? Because he said, listen, I voted against Donald Trump's impeachment because no crime was alleged. Here no crime was alleged. So I'm also voting against impeachment.
Now the reason I would have voted for impeachment if I were in the house is because impeachment is obviously a political tool. Impeachment has obviously become a political tool. Trump has impeached twice without any serious high crime or misdemeanor even being charged in the impeachment documents. And so now that that's what it is, everybody's fair game.
Because if the rules apply one way for Democrats and another way for Republicans, then there are no rules. No double standards. And so if impeachment is a political tool, then it should be a political tool all the way. And then we can make a deal.
We'll call that status quo empty where you only get impeached for actual impeachable offenses. But until then, you cross the line and we'll treat it just like a political remedy. In any case, the reason that the Republicans couldn't get together a house majority is because their house majority was so narrow. And then of course, George Santos was just ousted by Congress, which left them with one fewer Republican vote.
And so the House ended up voting 216 to 214 against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas. Only four Republicans voted in favor of keeping Mayorkas or not impeaching him. The Republicans who voted against the impeachment resolution said that Mayorkas conduct did not rise to the level of impeachable offense. This is what Tom McClendon said.
Tom McClendon, by the way, is a border hawk. Tom McClendon in California. He is not some sort of border dove easy on immigration or anything. He just said the same thing that Gallagher said.
He said the impeachment articles failed to identify an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has committed. Democrats were accusing Republicans of trying to score political points, which of course is true, but that's exactly what they were doing when they impeached Donald Trump twice. Representative Penn Buck of Colorado indicated another vote could take place. Once the House majority leader sees the police returns to work, the police has been working remotely as they undergoes cancer treatment.
In the end, probably, Mayorkas will be impeached. They do have enough votes to do it, but barely. So the Democrats did wheel in people who were literally sick to try to get the vote to turn in favor of Mayorkas. Representative Al Green tried to vote on a second resolution targeting Mayorkas, but he backed off after receiving assurances from House leaders that the earlier effort proceeded to committee level and then who's actually wielding to vote against impeaching Mayorkas.
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And yet another element of Republican stupidity, it turns out that banging your head against the wall does not end up being very good strategy. They got rid of Ted McCarthy, as I said at the time. Let McCarthy or hate McCarthy. McCarthy knew how to count votes.
You know what's happening now? Nobody knows how to count votes, and the deal's not getting any better. So slow clap. For all the people who talk getting rid of Ted McCarthy is going to fix the problems in Congress.
But in the end, do Americans, as we say, watch politics at this granular level, where they care about how the impeachment vote goes or anything. No, he's got a general sense. They get a sort of general gestalt of the election, and then they vote accordingly. And the general gestalt right now is that the border is a disaster area and Joe Biden is the president.
And so Republicans who are not passing this bad border bill, they are winning a political victory right now. The media are trying to turn this into Republicans who won't pass the border bill to give Joe Biden the authority he needs. But the border was considered a non-problem by Democrats until this very moment. So just to follow the Democrat logic for a moment, the border is not a problem at all.
But if you don't give Joe Biden extra power to strike down the border, that's when the crisis emerges. I'm going to need an explainer on that. If the border was in crisis, why isn't Joe Biden doing something about it? He has the authority to do so already, as everyone legally acknowledges.
Joe Biden, however, is trying to play the hand that he has dealt to himself. Again, he could just shut the border and take the issue away from Trump. But he's afraid of taking off that left-wing base. And so now he's trying to win Republicans for all this.
He says the border isn't secure because of Trump and his friends. This is not going to play at all in any way, shape, or form. This is why he's 30 points behind Trump on immigration. Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his maggot Republican friends.
So, no, that's not going to work. If you really think the MAGA is keeping the border open, that's wrong. Joe Biden is the president of the United States. Then Joe Biden is suggesting that Republicans need to show some fine and pass the bill.
We all know what's going to happen if that happens. If Republicans pass the bill, the border will remain largely open because Joe Biden will make sure that it remains largely open. And then he will claim that he's been able to create a bipartisan deal to create responsibility at the border. And then he will vote to his left and say that he basically put an over on Republicans and whatever other future border problems will be caught on by the Republicans.
That's the politics of this. Why do you think Democrats are desperate to pass this thing? The reason Democrats are desperate to pass this thing is because they see it as a political win. Here is Joe Biden trying to force Republicans into voting for it.
It's not going to happen. Now, all indications are this bill won't even move forward to the Senate floor. Why? A simple reason.
Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it's bad for him politically. Therefore, he doesn't even know it helps the country. He's not for it.
He'd rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it. So for the last 24 hours, he's done nothing, I'm told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal. And it looks like they're caving. Frankly, they owe it to the American people No joke.
Like Julian Glover as Walter Donovan at the end of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail. He looks like he drank from He chose poorly. Literally every video of him is a state of further physical and mental degradation. He's degrading before our eyes.
Everyone can see it. It's impossible not to see it. By the way, if Biden is admitting, by the way, the bill will actually allow people to enter the country more quickly. We all know what the real agenda is here.
Here's President Biden admitting this yesterday. This bill would also establish a new, efficient, and fair process for the government to consider an asylum claim for those arriving at the border. Today, the process can take five to seven years, as you all know. They show up at the border, we get a bracelet told we come back when called five to seven years now in the country.
That's too long, and it's not rational. With the new policies in this bill, an additional 4,300 more asylum officers who spend hours, I might add, with each immigrant to consider their claims whether they qualify, will be able to reduce that process to six months, not five to seven years. Okay, again, he's trying to reduce the time period between when you apply for refugee status and when you are granted refugee status. His goal is to get more people into the country, not fewer people into the country.
The only thing that the bill does that is presumably good is it changes the definition of asylum in order to have a legitimate asylum claim. You now not only have to claim that you fear go back to your home country, you have to have some sort of credible fear such that you cannot relocate inside your home country or in any country that you have passed through before. But how do you establish that sort of thing? Like seriously, do you think that Joe Biden and his processing centers, people are going to comment, they're just going to say that, they're just going to say, I can't move inside my home country because people are pursuing me.
How do you confirm that? Then they're going to say, Mexico isn't accepting me in order to live there and the gangs are following me and there's no place I can go and then they just say new match records. So listen, I get why border patrol agents, some of them, are in support of the bill, I think that it gives them some additional tools if they're allowed to do their job. But I think they're assuming that Joe Biden's going to allow them to do their job and that is an assumption as we say in the law, not in evidence.
And meanwhile, Joe Biden has tied all of these issues together. He has tied his version of the border bill together with Ukraine aid together with Israel aid, which is kind of amazing because he doesn't have to do that. It demonstrates his failure of the power of the bully pulpit. If Joe Biden actually had any level of popularity, he could probably force each of these issues through one at a time.
Let's say that he wanted Ukraine aid. He could probably force that through. He could make an argument to the American people. He could say, which is aid to Israel.
In fact, he came out yesterday and said he would not even sign off on an independent aid to Israel clean bill, which is totally crazy. He says he wants that. He's the one who proposed it. He's saying he wants $14 billion in military aid to Israel and $10 billion for the other side.
He wants $10 billion in so-called humanitarian aid to Gaza. I say so-called Hamas and terrorists hijack a huge amount of that and then use it for weaponry. That's what he says he wants. So the Republicans are like, okay, fine, we'll give you 14 bill for Israel and no 10 bill for Gaza and no 60 bill for Ukraine.
And Biden's like, oh, veto that. He has to tie everything together. He has to turn it into a crap sandwich. It's his only hope of passing his main priorities at this point.
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Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to be rather dire. Best reports suggest that Russia's going to mobilize another all-out assault on Ukraine sometime later in the year. And as Western support for Ukraine declines, Ukrainians are very much in fear that he theoretically could be overrun. According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian parliament has now passed a law approving a presidential decree to extend martial law in Ukraine for another 90 days from February 14th until May 13th.
Apparently, this is basically a unanimous legislative act because, of course, the country is still, in fact, at war. And all of this is, again, coming to a head not just because the United States is unlikely to rent $60 billion in Ukraine based on the current voting constituency in the House of Representatives. But also because Tucker Carlson is now jet-setting over to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. So here is Tucker confirming that he's interviewing Putin and here he was explaining why he's doing it.
We're in Moscow tonight. We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. We'll be doing that soon. Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.
They did this in order to stop the Putin interview that we were planning. Last month, we're pretty certain to get exactly the same thing once again. But this time, we came to Moscow anyway. We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.
We are here because we love the United States and we want it to remain prosperous and free. Okay, so the entire case that he's making is that you're not getting the full information and that we need to interview it with Putin. Okay, that's all fine and dandy. I mean, I'm fine with anybody interviewing Putin.
Hell, I love to interview Putin. Good for Tucker forgetting the interview. I will say that the only thing that's going to matter about this interview are the questions that he asks. Meaning that if he goes in and he basically just allows Putin to spout about denazification efforts in Ukraine and about how Ukraine is actually a country that is filled with wild left liberals for promoting LGBTQ values but they're also Nazis and that's why he's invading and that's why he needs to take out Vladimir Zelensky or whatever.
That will not in fact be a public service. That will not in fact be information that is added to the information that people need to hear. The questions that need to be asked are obviously what are the off-rams? Why are you holding American journalists like Emy Gershkovic in jail?
Why is that a thing? Well, Tucker says in the video that nobody has actually wanted to interview Putin. That's not true. I mean, a huge number of people who requested interviews with Putin in the legacy media.
Putin just hasn't granted any because he feels that the legacy media in the United States are very much opposed to him. And there's truth to that. I think for some pretty good reasons. Number one, that Vladimir Putin has sort of a nefarious history of having his political enemies jailed and or poisoned and or pushed off a building.
But in any case, if Tucker wants to provide another side to the conflict so that we can all get more information, that would be great. But we're only going to know exactly how that goes once the interview actually airs. I'm not going to prejudge the interview. I certainly have no problem with Tucker interviewing Vladimir Putin.
I hope he doesn't do the same thing that he actually did with Kanye West when he had on Kanye on his show and proceeded to cut out all of the craziest sections of the interview with Kanye, which he was doubting even at a time while Nancy Nettinett had his stuff and Tucker cut it out and then put out the interview according to DNYUZ, Carlson's trip is exciting a lot of people over at Kremlin. On Tuesday, Alexei Benedictov, the former editor of Echo Moscow Radio Station, said, as I understand, Tucker Carlson got what he wanted. Apparently, a source close to the presidential administration told him he had times what Tucker has been expected for a long time. He's welcome here.
So underscore the depth of Carlson's commitment to the Russian cause that state media programs pointed out in America. He's called that as a traitor and his trip is being compared to Jane Fonda's visit to Vietnam in 1972. Now, again, it's not like Jane Fonda unless he's actually a propagandist for the Kremlin. So, let's say, I don't want to prejudge anything until I've seen it.
I'm not going to prejudge Tucker's interview. I know a lot of media are already doing that. I'm not going to do that until I see the questions that he has. It's a massive opportunity, obviously.
Could it have an impact in theoretically opening eyes to the possibility of a future solution? Sure, could it also be a propagandist? I mean, presumably, that's why Putin is doing it. Apparently, during an interview with the evening with Vladimir Solviov, political scientist, Senator Gaten Hayev said, quote, a few words about Tucker since he's a popular figure.
He says if Tucker dares to broadcast this interview in the United States, first and foremost, this will blow up their informational blockade from within. He said that an interview with Putin will have some interesting consequences but it will blow them up into pieces. This is the United States. And then he said, God willing, there will be a civil war in the United States because of it.
Now, again, I think that's wishful thinking on part of some Russian propagandists, but it's worth pointing out that the only thing that's important about an interview is the content of the interview, not just the faces of the people who are in the interview. And by the way, the United States does have a very strong interest in Ukraine not actually just becoming a Russian protectorate. I said since the, since nearly the beginning of the war, that the solution to this conflict was going to be in simply recognizing the frozen battle lines that are already present in the Donbass and in Crimea, the areas of the Donbass that are currently occupied by Russia and in Crimea that are currently occupied by Russia are largely Russian-speaking. Those are areas in which Lomers-Lensky did not win when it came to the last election cycle.
And those are areas that didn't vote some of them in the last election cycle because they'd already not occupied by Russia in 2014. But those are areas that have not voted for the more European-minded Ukrainian politicians. They'd already voted for more pro-Russian politicians in those areas. Those conflicts are not likely to be undone.
Those areas are not likely to become sovereign Ukrainian territory again anytime soon. The battle lines have not moved for a year. And so the idea of the off-ramp is American and European security guarantees to Ukraine more military material put in to prevent a future invasion and setting up the final lines kind of where they are right now. Everyone knows that's a solution.
The question I hope Tucker asks Putin is, is that a solution for you? Right, because otherwise there's no off-ramp and it just continues. Putin is counting on the West to just get hired and eventually just give him to you. That's effectively what Putin is waiting for right now.
Okay, meanwhile, Gina Carano, our friend, who of course starred in Terror on the Prairie for us, we hired her after she was fired from the Mandalorian for the great sin of saying that people should not dehumanize one another. That's really why she was fired from the Mandalorian. She put up a meme saying essentially that othering ends with murder, which is, I thought, kind of a mainstream point of view. In any case, they fired her, we hired her, and she was in Terror on the Prairie and was sort of a big win for everyone.
Now, Gina is suing the Walt Disney Company. According to Deadline Hollywood, three years after Carano was asked by then Bob Shepard on Disney for comparing the political climate in America to Nazi Germany, that's not what she was doing. Carano sued Disney and the Star Wars shingle Lucasfilm for dropping her from the Bouncy Hunter series. And X is paying, Elon Musk is actually paying for her lawyers.
I love it. According to the complaint, quote, a short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, the defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy and thought speech or action was acceptable in their empire, that those who dared to question or fail to fully comply would not be tolerated. And so it was with Carano. The rule of law still reigns over the defendants' empire.
Carano has returned to man and they'd be held accountable for their bullying, discriminatory, and retaliatory actions that inflicted not only substantial emotional harm, but millions of dollars in lost income. Now, you'll recall that it was in February 2021, not long after she had been in the Mandalorian, that they put out a scathing statement on the business of her that said Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm, there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are important and unacceptable. By the way, there was no social media posts denigrating anyone based on cultural or religious identity at all.
So she says defendants also discriminated against Carano by treating her differently from her male co-stars who also made public political statements on social media. That, of course, is absolutely true. Pedro Pascal, who's the star of the Mandalorian, put out a meme about how basically the immigrants, illegal immigrants, were being held in detention facilities to those white concentration camps. He put out that tweet, nothing.
She prevailed postcards were not disciplined but alone terminated in a way to destroy their careers even though some would find their statements abhorrent. And she points out those statements by Pedro Pascal as well as Mark Hamill comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. So Carano is amplifying all that and then Elon Musk put out a statement saying anybody else wants to sue Disney, let me know. Revenge is best served cold.
He put out a tweet saying, if you were discriminated against by Disney or its subsidiaries just replied to this post to receive illegal support because you received an anonymous source that showed Disney general entertainment content and inclusion standards that violate basic civil rights law that basically create all sorts of racist hiring practices. And there are a bunch of people who are going to take him up on that. I would not be surprised to see Disney suit from a thousand different directions over that because DEI must, in fact, die and Elon is doing God's work on that one. Alrighty, folks, the rest of the show continues right now.
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