The Megyn Kelly Show - Biden has COVID Not Cancer, and Green Policy Consequences, with the Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 362

Episode Date: July 21, 2022

Megyn Kelly is joined by the hosts of the Ruthless Podcast, Comfortably Smug, Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook, to talk about the breaking news that Biden has COVID, his comments yesterday about oil in his youth causing cancer, the current focus by the left on climate change, the consequences of green policies, AOC trying to explain her fake handcuffed incident, Biden's MBS fist bump, what Chris Cuomo's up to now, COVID vaccine and mask mandates back in the news, Starbucks going through the consequences of its woke policies, the story of one woke coffee shop's destruction, the latest uproar surrounding Dave Chappelle, overreach and backlash by the progressive left, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. President Biden, fully vaccinated, twice boosted, has tested positive for COVID. The White House says he is experiencing mild symptoms and he will, quote, work in isolation until he tests negative. One year ago, this was the president at a CNN town hall. You're OK. You're not going to you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. Yeah.

You're not? Well, you did. And you're mandating that millions of Americans who don't want this thing get it or be fired, get it or be expelled from their schools. That's per the school mandates from coast to coast. You can get it. Millions of people are getting it post-vaccination, post-double booster. And you're still threatening people's livelihoods and education if they don't get this double jab. I accept that the vaccine, the boosters, etc., will likely lower the severity of your case. That's between you and your doctor. That's between you and your doctor, how sick you may get. That's not for the school to worry about, it's not for your employer to worry about. It's not for your employer

to worry about. That's between you and your doctor. The vaccines do not prevent the spread of COVID. If it was once true, it isn't any longer. And you need to look no further than the White House for proof of that. So it's COVID he has, not cancer. We think, even though he says he has cancer. We're going to explain in one minute. Joining me now for the full show to discuss the president's diagnosis and so much more, the great guys from Ruthless. And there's a new guy. He's not really a new guy. He's an old guy, but he's joined the cast. He was a sub. Now he's a full-time cast member. And those who know Ruthless from our show know him as John Ashbrook. John's here along with Michael Duncan, Josh Holmes, and the man known to his Twitter minions as Comfortably Smug. Together, they are Ruthless.

Welcome, guys. Great to have you. It's so good to be back, Megan. Great to be back. All right, John, you folded right in there. How's it going for you so far? Oh, it's great. It's great. You know, we're going to get Smug to tweet about this episode right after we finish. I think it's going to work just fine. You notice, though, Megan, we brought him on in large part because of that voice timber.

You hear that? I mean, that is some bass right there. It is good. I wonder, Michael, how did you feel about losing third bass? Well, you know, I mean, John was always sort of our like wizard of Oz behind the curtain working the soundboard. It just didn't seem fair, you know,

to have that great timber voice not have a permanent mic. You can't lock that up. You can't lock that up. Yeah, you can't lock that up. You got't lock that up. You can't lock that up. You got to use all your tools. Well, the White House is using all of its tools

right now to try to spin after days of trying to obfuscate on where the president was. Where is he? The reporters were asking. Is he a little tired after Saudi Arabia? Oh, no, he's having

important meetings. Important meetings. I think we've got that where they're really trying to tell us it's co-press secretaries now did you know that by the way carine jean-pierre has been such a disaster that they had to bring in john kirby formerly the pentagon uh and now he's basically got her back and already the woke is like why is a white man trying to cover for the black woman

you know but the woman sucks she's not good so whatever you want to back her up with somebody to be there. And here's what they had been saying the president was up to in SOT6. I noticed on the president's schedule the last two days, there have been no public events. Is he resting after the large international trips? The president's been busy. Just because you don't see something necessarily on the public schedule doesn't mean that there's not a lot of work going on. What exactly has he been doing yesterday and today? So he's been in meetings. I was scheduled to meet with him today in the Oval Office. So he's been meeting with his senior staff.

I think some of you may have seen him when the First Lady of Ukraine was visiting with our First Lady. I believe you saw him very briefly. So he's just been very busy dealing with the issues of the American people and meeting with his staff and senior staff the last two days. Really? You were scheduled?

You didn't say you actually did meet with him. So what? They've been lying. They've been lying. They lie about his health to us every day. It's a day ending in Y. So we got another one. What do you make of it?

Oh, I mean, look, yesterday was cancer. Today it's, you know, COVID. I'm glad it's not monkey pox. That's probably on the way. I mean, like, in all honesty, it's father time, right, Megan? I mean, that's the issue that we're dealing with here. It's not like this is going to get any better for him anytime soon. He could be fit as a fiddle, but you just can't deliver even when he's feeling great.

What I what I love is, you know, every day at the White House is now where's Waldo? It's like, oh, yeah, you saw with, you know, the first lady of Ukraine. He was there in the background somewhere. If you squint really hard, you know, you're, you saw very briefly at somebody else's meeting. Wait a minute. Who's the president? You know, like, so now we know he had he has COVID. It's amazing how quickly like expectations have just gotten lowered to it's expected every time he speaks, there's going to be a cleanup effort. You know, Glenn Kessler is going to come out and try to fact check and be like, he didn't actually say he has cancer.

Then people reply with the video and he's like, OK, on reevaluation, he said he had cancer. That's fine, guys. That's totally normal for a president in a very advanced age to claim he has cancer. Let me play that. Now he's got COVID. Like, what is this? Like, what is this? Diabetes? I don't know. This little from a president? We have to play that so people know what we're talking about. Yesterday, he was trying to make a comment about the environment and how climate change is an emergency, which we'll get to in one second as a bigger topic.

But he slipped this in about him allegedly having cancer and maybe even having gotten it from an oil spill on his mother's windshield when he was a boy. OK, I don't, watch. I just lived up the road. I just, an apartment complex when we moved to Delaware. And because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us, rather than us being able to walk. And guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening.

You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer. That's the way, you hear it? That's why I and so many damn people with whom I grew up have cancer, have cancer, have. Then the White House came out and said-

I mean, when you think about it, it kind of makes sense. You didn't mean to use present tense. Snows, oil cancer falls on your car and gives you cancer. Have. Then the White House came out and said, I mean, when you think about it, it kind of makes sense. You didn't mean to use present tense. Snow's oil cancer falls on your car and gives you cancer. Oil, oil, snowy oil cancer.

Yeah, it gets every time. It is a very dangerous epidemic. You should, and it's particularly endemic to Delaware. You wonder, like, that's exactly right.

How many of us can relate? You drive on the highway, oil cancer's snowing. What are you going to do about it? What am I going to say? 10 years of my life in the first 10 and then another four in Syracuse, New York. They only get 100 days of sun. All right.

It's very snowy all the time and they never cancel anything. And I never once saw an oil snow. Not one time. I also grew up with my mom driving me around. I mean, maybe I should be worried about the skin cancer from the oil snow. I don't know. But nonetheless, the White House now saying, no, he doesn't have, he meant had, had cancer, skin cancers. And that before he went into office, the White House doctor said he had some skin cancers, non-melanoma, and he had Mohs surgery to get them removed. And it's because of

all the time he spent in the sun. So which is it? It's sunny oil snow cancer, Megan. I don't know why this is so difficult to follow. You're so critical. And I just wish you could see the clear diagnosis that he's been provided here that the American people, frankly, should look out for, because this is the kind of thing that could really take hold of the community. It's like when you get the rainbow after both sun and rain, you get the skin cancer after both snow and oil. I mean, I do think it'd be fair to say that you would think he spent too much time in the sun. Like anytime you hear him speak, there's a possibility that the guy's had heat stroke when he's coming up with these ideas. But like we're having a president try to declare a climate emergency and execute powers that he absolutely should not be. That should be left to

the legislature. Like we still have a government, you know, even though our president clearly isn't all the way there. But he's declaring a climate emergency based on his belief that as his mother drove them on a highway, it snowed oil cancer. And everyone's acting like this is normal. Like we were told so many times we have under President Trump, we had a great economy. Right. Everything is going great. This is not normal. Well, this is not normal. I mean, inflation's going up. Well, the president's concerned about snow oil cancer. It doesn't make any sense.

And also, if you go back to the quote, one of the things I think is the funniest is like, he's got this unique experience where his mom drove him to school. Yeah. I mean, wow. That is really something. Most of us just went uphill both ways in the snow. Like, what is this, 1926? I guess it is.

Yeah, that's next level. It used to be uphill both ways in the snow. Now it's oil cancer was snowing. I can write up you. But did you have oil cancer snow? Ah, so he's he was making those remarks because he's trying to alarm people about climate change. And it was sort of a want want in terms of actual prescriptions, because on Tuesday, the Washington Post had said he's going to come out and declare a national climate emergency. And that, of course, as we know from covid emergencies, opens up a whole

host of executive powers where he could sort of require all this stuff of the energy industry that would have been very controversial and would have hurt inflationary policies and would have hurt gas prices and so on. But nevertheless, the far left wanted him to do it. Well, he didn't do it. So his rhetoric sounded very much like he was about to do it. He ratcheted up the rhetoric about we're all going to die, basically. And then he put on a little bandaid or two at the end with like, we're going to try to help you have more air conditioning, which makes sense. That actually makes sense. But it wasn't the prescription for what he was saying we're going through. Here's how he talked about it yesterday on climate. As president, I have a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear

and present danger. It is literally not figuratively a clear and present danger. The health of our citizens and our communities is literally at stake. The UN's leading international climate scientists call the latest climate report nothing less than, quote, code red for humanity. And our economy is at risk, so we have to act. Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world. for humanity and our economy is at risk. So we have to act. Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world. Folks, when I think about climate change, and I've been saying this for three years, I think jobs and the world is counting on us.

Okay. No, it's clear and present danger. He sounds like Haroldold hill from the music man to be honest with you i mean this guy and i don't know one of the best pictures that somebody caught video of his full motorcade rolling up to this climate press conference and it's like 30 cars blowing smoke out of the tailpipe over a dirt road did you see the place where they picked to do it looked like it was it was in Afghanistan after the Air Force One ride. Exactly. It's just it's so bizarre, right? When they kind of sort through their priorities, the entire country is screaming at a decibel level that is deafening. Our prices are too high. Our gas prices are too high. Inflation is killing us. Please, for the love of God,

focus on the economy. And he's like, yeah, I got a good idea for that. I'm going to actually implement some climate change things that makes all of that stuff worse. And oh, by the way, when I hear climate change, I hear jobs. Yeah, that's what the same people think too, but it's not creating jobs. It's losing them. Talk to people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, talk to them about losing jobs. Man, this guy them. Talk to people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia. Talk to them about losing jobs. Man, this guy's done more to do that than anybody else. You know, and I think that's the entire Biden presidency in a nutshell is you have him surrounded by these far left activists who are now in the administration and they are pushing

concerns like climate change and wokeness when the American people are suffering through a terrible economy. And again, you can see he's surrounded by only Democrat consultants who are saying, oh, this is a comms issue. This is not a policy issue. And so he thinks if he can go out and trot, you know, get trotted out and give a speech, that's going to solve the problem. Meanwhile, what he has done is he's crippled American energy independence. He goes to Saudi Arabia to beg for oil, catches COVID, doesn't get the oil, comes back and says he's going to make it worse for American energy independence. It's unbelievable. The prices are going to keep going up because of his policies.

He is upset, and so are the other Democrats in the press, that Joe Manchin killed his smaller version of Build Back Better on climate change. That was a one point eight billion dollar spend, which Manchin said no to sorry, trillion one point eight trillion. Manchin said, no, I'm not voting for that. Now they shrunk it to three hundred billion for climate change measures. And Manchin said, we're not doing that. I don't know what how to make it clearer that now is not the time for additional federal spending when we've got record inflation at nine point one percent. It's not a good idea, fellas. And they're freaking out. I mean, just a bit of sampling from

the Democrats and some in the media, too. But this is Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey. Rage keeps me from tears after the Manchin thing. Leah Stokes, she's a professor of environmental policy at UC Santa Barbara, who's been advising the congressional Democrats. It is just infuriating that he, Manchin, is condemning our own children. You got Democratic Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. This is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic and costly effects of climate change ever. David Axelrod, we are fiddling as the world burns. OK, so the American public doesn't see it that way. At the New York Times poll last Monday said one percent think climate change is the top issue facing the country, just 1%. But the absurdity of this, like, I love Michael Schellenberger. You guys know him, right? He wrote Apocalypse Never. He was this left wing activist who worked for Greenpeace, who just devoted his life to fighting climate change and preserving the environment. And Solyndra, the solar panels, the whole bit, he was totally in it under Obama.

And then he came to realize none of this is working. None of this is doing it. In fact, we're doing more harm than good. And we need to take a look at that. He's he put out a bunch of facts. First of all, even The New York Times is admitting this week solar panels require 300 plus times as much land as conventional energy sources and could, quote, contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium. So they're contaminating the groundwater. They're taking up way more land than conventional energy sources were. They also require solar panels, forced labor, toxic materials and have terrible land use impacts. And as far as the natural disasters go, it doesn't pan out because they're looking at the heat wave right now saying Biden has to act. Look, people are dying. We're getting these record high

temperatures. He's got to do something. So I like the air conditioning stuff that actually does save lives. Charles Cook was saying, I don't know his first name, but Mr. Carrier should have his face on Mount Rushmore. The guy who invented air conditioning. But here, let me give you a couple more stats, and then I'll give you the floor. Natural disasters have actually decreased 10% over the last two decades, not increased, right? Because the left is like, the heat wave and the wildfires and the earthquakes, it's all climate change. Natural disasters have decreased 10% over the last two decades. Deaths from natural disasters have declined dramatically. Hurricanes, while becoming slightly more intense,

are becoming 25% less frequent. Floods, deaths, and damage has been steadily decreasing. Droughts have not been increasing in the United States or nationally. And on I could go. So the media and the Democrats mislead us about the severity of the problem and then come out

with the wrong prescriptions for America and lament people like Joe Manchin who want to say that's not the right prescription. And if I go with your false prescription, I'm only going to hike up inflation.

And the media just marches to the drum saying, yes, yes, yes. OK, that's my long wind up. What do you make of it? So I think the most important stat there was the New York Times poll, which said that 1% are concerned with climate change because this is an issue of the 1%ers. They can take their

private jets. They can go to their climate meetings and say, oh, we're so concerned. The world's on fire. But it's the 99%, the rest of us are expected to have your paper straws, stop eating meat, eat bugs, you know, turn off your air conditioning. Everyone else suffer while they can have their private chats and go to their meetings. Like how long is the Democrat Party going to allow itself to become completely controlled by the wealthiest Americans and corporations that their concern at this point is what the jet set class is worried about and not

what the rest of Americans are concerned about. The rest of America has to pay high gas prices. The rest of America has to try to make ends meet. And they're telling us that the prime thing we need to be worried about is the same alarmism they've been pushing for over 30 years, over 30 years at this point. We were told that the ozone layer is going to open up and that we're all going to die and get cooked. That didn't happen. Every time you hear these climate emergencies, when AOC says, oh, we've got three years to live, we've got five years to live. Every time when Al Gore had his inconvenient truth, he was like, in 10 years, if we don't reverse this, we're all dead.

We're all still here. We're all still here. That's why the left wingers inside his administration are telling him to do this Harold Hill routine. They're telling him, Biden, we need trouble. We got to say there. That's why he's saying we got trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C and that stands for climate. He has to make trouble. Nobody else is going to pay attention if he doesn't. It would be funny if they actually got it done, though, for for one reason, if you're like a frontline Senate Democrat, like a Maggie Hassan, right, or a Catherine Cortez Masto, And you're dying for some accomplishment,

right? And we're almost at the August recess. You're going to have August town halls. You're going to have to meet with constituents. These people are running for reelection. And to be able to go into that room and be like, best I can do is more expensive gasoline. Yeah. That's right. The backwards nature of how they formulate a climate emergency with your stats that you just read is amazing. But their solution, we talk a little bit about this on the program from time to time, their solutions are equally insane. I mean, you mentioned the solar panels and the batteries and everything. Well, you know where we get all that?

We get it from China, right? So you're taking these American jobs and you're transferring them over to China. You're making us not only energy reliant on the rest of the world that, by the way, doesn't have EPA standards. They don't have any sort of regulatory development for clean energy. You're kidding. And then we take their stuff, buy it, put it in our infrastructure. Well, I can't imagine how that would be a bad idea, right? I mean, these guys, it's like if you intentionally made a prescription for what is worse for America, you wouldn't change a single thing. Well, the New York Times has finally come around to Schellenberger's

articles from a year plus ago saying, you need to understand that solar panels and batteries have a lot of toxicity associated with them. And guess what? Guess what happens to the solar panels after 30 years? They get dumped because of their toxicity on a bunch of third world countries. There was just a big article about how the Europeans have been doing that. So you can feel really good about yourself out in California that you put solar panels in. And then you killed a bunch of poor people 30 years later quietly while patting yourself on the back for being a kinder, gentler person. It's like they don't

want to pay attention to the long-term impact of these things, which by the way, don't work. Unless the sun is shining, the solar panels don't work. The batteries of the cars run out and by the way, need to be powered by conventional energy sources and fossil fuels. Like they don't want to tell you the rest of the story. Yeah, you quoted Ed Markey, who said, think about the kids. Well, I'll tell you a group of kids he doesn't think about is kids in West Virginia, kids in Kentucky whose families had their jobs and their livelihoods absolutely stripped because of the ideology of these people, just because they're creating trouble because they want a different system. Or the poor kids in Africa and these mines who are digging out rare earths and getting cancer to put a battery in a Tesla.

Which also brings you back to the whole corporate nexus of all of this, right? Because the administration itself and the left in general have put an entire amount of pressure on corporate America to implement these like ESG standards, they call it. Right. Which is basically you can only finance certain things that ultimately fit their green energy agenda. Right. And at the same time, they then are making America reliant on what you just said, right? Kids mining in Africa, Chinese solar panels, buying, trying to go to Saudi Arabia of all places to get the fuel that we need in America. I mean, it's the most anti environmental thing you could come up with, right? Yeah, that's right. And now, and that's the thing, we don't have cheap energy as a result

of these crazy policies, which makes people not have things like air conditioning. And that actually does lead to these deaths. So it's like I appreciate FEMA stepping in to help people. But there's an easier way if you could lower their energy costs, you could make Mr. Carrier's great invention even more ubiquitous and we could help people out that way. But instead, we look at high temperatures and then wildfires, which result from poor forest management and say, climate emergency. Everybody get rid of their gas guzzling SUV, except for Joe Biden and Prince Harry. And the thing is, is that, you know, when Holmes brought up ESG, it's a perfect encapsulation of this because this is a left wing, money driven, corporatist idea where they're using this alarmism, which is not which is based on emotion, not on fact. You never hear any of these Democrats or leftists discussing nuclear energy, which you can put a nuclear power plant anywhere.

You can put it in West Virginia, you can put in Kentucky. And the vast majority of jobs in a nuclear reactor are blue-collar jobs. And it's been shown that it's safer and cleaner than any of these alternatives that they're trying to put forward. Meanwhile, they're putting forward only ideas of, oh, why don't we import Chinese solar panels made with slave labor? Why don't we import rare earths in Africa, which are causing kids to get diseases and to die and be killed?

And Boko Haram is running these camps and forcing kids. in Africa, which are causing kids to get diseases and to die and be killed and be and like the Boko Haram is running these camps and forcing kids like this is like terror groups who are involved in this. I don't think all of that meets the standard for ESG. Yeah, you know, if you want to know what ESG leads to, just look at what's happened in Sri Lanka. And I don't know if folks have paid close attention to what's happening in Sri Lanka, but they implemented ESG and they basically canceled all fertilizer. So there's not as much food as there was. And now people are hungry

and they're, they're like rioting through the government. They were through the government. I mean, that's look at these people. I mean, for most of us, we thought when Joe Biden was elected, we lamented it because we knew we weren't going to make any, any actual progress on enhancing the economy. But I think most of us thought like, all right, this old dude's going to sit behind his desk and process social security checks for like four years, right? And it's the exact opposite. I mean, we're getting ideological, completely brainless shit out of them that is making people's lives demonstrably worse. This administration is like far to the left of the Obama administration, which is stunning.

Yes. Which is stunning. What did you guys mean? You mentioned the trip to Saudi Arabia and the meeting with MBS and the fist bump. And, you know, this is because I don't know why we don't just get our own oil because we're more than capable of producing it here. But we had to go bend the knee to the Saudis, try to try to get them to produce more. And we walked away with as let me just check my notes, nothing.

Oh no, Megan, Megan, he walked away with the new variant of COVID. Biden's like the Capuchin monkey in the Outbreak movie. He's brought it back for all of us to enjoy. So what did we go over there and embarrass ourselves for? You know, some pariah. I don't fist bump pariahs and I get the poor and palsy complications of dealing with the guys are bad, but I'm not the one who said I'm going to make a pariah out of him. That was Joe Biden. So he fist bumped the pariah. He went over there on bended knee, humiliated the United States and so far appears to have gotten a bunch of bupkis for it.

And it's such an indictment on the media where a great example is the Washington Post in their endorsement of Joe Biden when he was running for president. They said that he's going to hold Saudi Arabia and dictatorships accountable for what they've done. And what does he do? He goes and fist bumps the guy who they say is, oh, he bonesawed one of our journalists. And then you see a Washington Post opinion saying like, sometimes you got to deal and what does he do? He goes and fist bumps the guy who they say is, oh, he bonesawed one of our journalists, and then you see a Washington Post opinion saying, sometimes you got to deal with dictators. It's incredible.

It's incredible. It's also just like the total idiocy of progressive left policies, right? You have to deal with Saudi Arabia at some point. What you'd like to do when you're dealing with Saudi Arabia is have maximum leverage, right? You want it with any country, but particularly one that has some hostilities towards us. You want to have maximum leverage. What gives you maximum leverage is energy independence. That's right. Right. When you go over there and all of a sudden

your gas prices have hit a maximum high and you need something out of these people. Now, now you got a problem, right? I mean, and that's the way these guys operate. It's just so dumb. Yeah. And we know that now speaking of dumb, let's shift gears and talk about AOC. Great tag. She's defending herself today and her ridiculous fake handcuffs act that she did and basically saying that it's just best practices to put your hands behind your back when you are arrested. She made sure she was arrested by blocking traffic at a Supreme Court demonstration over Roe versus Wade being overturned. Here she is acting as if the police have her handcuffed and they do not. And then she forgets she has the handcuffs on and she puts her fist up and forgets, you know,

like when you're going to go method, you got to go full method. You got to like immerse yourself in a real, you are handcuffed, live it, live it, own it. Anyway, now she's mad that people are calling her out for her hypocrisy. She and Ilhan Omar, who was even worse, Ilhan's acting was even worse than AOC's and and saying it is misogynistic to suggest that she would fake handcuffs on her. That is what what is what people do to undermine women trying to make their point. What do you make of that? That's a ping pong ball. I'm glad you mentioned that they were blocking traffic because this was really a two part ruse there. They you are very familiar with how much space there is to demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court to demonstrate in front of the Capitol.

But if you're going to stand in the middle of the street, the police are going to have to move you out of the way. So they literally stood in the street knowing that they were going to moved out of the way so they could pull the handcuffs con. And and it's a complete they're just a complete joke. And I think this is the thing is there's a couple of layers to this. So what the Dobbs decision basically states is the letter of the law, the constitution is going to be followed. If you want to have a law, you have to pass legislation, plain and simple. So what does the legislator do?

Well, they stand out in the middle of traffic instead of passing a law, you have to pass legislation, plain and simple. So what does the legislator do? Well, they stand out in the middle of traffic instead of passing a law. This is not how you do something or accomplish anything. As a legislator, write a bill, pass a bill. You've got the majorities in the House and the Senate. You've got the White House. And instead of that, they want to demonstrate. And here's the other thing is what they're trying to do is they're trying to normalize these attacks to undermine the Supreme Court. You had a month ago an attempted assassination of a Supreme Court justice. A crazy guy tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And what is what has happened in the aftermath?

You've got left wing lunatics who have continued to show up outside the houses of Supreme Court justices, which is illegal. You can't intimidate justices. You can't intimidate judges in this country. You're not supposed to. We don't have an attorney general who cares about the laws. We don't have a president who cares about the laws. We have legislators who clearly don't care about the laws. And they're trying to normalize undermining the Supreme Court, trying to say that, oh, this is the Supreme Court. All the Supreme Court has said is that you have to pass laws to have laws. It's a very simple thing. It's so misogynistic of you, Sma.

Yeah. That's your misogyny rearing its ugly head. Remember, this opinion was leaked months ago. And the best they could come up with as a response to that is to fake protests in the middle of the street. Right. Doing some protester cosplay. So true. At what point do progressives look at their legislators and they're like,

dude, seriously? And I think that's just telling of the left is like, these are people who are not interested in legislation. They are not interested in governing. They're interested in chaos. They want to have their way

by show of force. We saw it through a summer of riots of BLM. We saw it right now where legislators are getting arrested, fake arrested, trying to put on a demonstration instead of actually do that.

You don't understand that this is the new way of legislating. It's yeah, it's an Instagram based form of legislating. You don't pass laws. You get likes. That's how they don't want chaos. You're being too kind. That's what Putin wants. She's no Putin.

She wants to be on camera. Ilhan Omar is so dumb. Her office tweeted out before she even went there. Often the protesters who block traffic get arrested. Can we go back to something you said at the beginning that I missed in this entire controversy, Megan, is that did she say honestly that she did it because that's the right way to like a police protocol? She's having a Twitter fight with Nancy Mace, another congressional representative who said you're faking it. You were faking, you know, handcuffs. And she was like, not faking any anything. Everyone knows that best practices when one is arrested.

Place one's hands. So it's not to escalate the situation. Right. So she's like a couple of days ago, she's complaining that the Capitol Hill police won't arrest some guy who's just using unkind words toward her. And now she's suggesting she's going to get a beating if she walks with her hands down by her sides by these cops. I mean, I expect a lot of things out of AOC to be an expert on police protocol is not one of them, right? This is not a lady who I think has a lot of insight into law enforcement in this country, but it's demonstrated by the, she literally led the defund police crowd, right?

So she's like, no, no, no, this is what you do. This is how they makes the officers. She used to be a bartender. I don't need to how to make a Harvey Walldanger. I'll listen. Yeah. I don't need to know from her how to place my hands as though she's had it done to her so many times. All right. So we've got, we have so much more to get to with you guys.

I mean, like, I don't know where to begin, but we're going to get to Chris Cuomo trying to be a firefighter until he realized how hard it was. I've been dying to talk to you about that. I knew you were coming on today. So we saved it for you more with Ruthless crew coming up right after this.

So, I mean, I'm torn whether I ever want to talk about Chris Cuomo, but this is too good. It's just too good not to go there. So he got booted from CNN after crossing several ethical lines in defense of his embattled brother, Andrew Cuomo, who was the governor of New York until he got ousted over sexual harassment. And we found out after the fact that Chris Cuomo was doing all sorts of things to help him that he had denied to his employer and to the public that he was doing. So he got ousted, too. And now the daily beast, Lachlan Cartwright over there, gets this scoop. Okay. So in his downtime, he's not working at the moment. He applied to be a firefighter in East Hampton, which is the shishy town out in the Hamptons. It's a volunteer

firehouse. But then he thought the better of it when he discovered the time commitment required. He found out it's really hard to be a firefighter, and he withdrew his application after learning more from multiple fire chiefs. East Hampton Fire Department Chief Dwayne Forrester told the Daily Beast that the volunteer commitment includes monthly meetings and drill exercises, and each volunteer is required to answer a certain threshold of emergency calls. Forrester told the Daily Beast, quote, that's why we don't have many celebrities. Great quote. So this guy goes out there thinking he's going to make himself look good because everything with him is how do I make myself look good? And he couldn't even manage to accept the training obligations because though

he's unemployed, it was too much of a time commitment. I actually think he's pretty well qualified for this. He's got a lot of experience putting out fires for his brother. Don't forget Jeff Zucker at CNN. He's doing a lot of work on that, too. It's a natural transition in many ways. Well, he's also got some experience on the other side as an arsonist, trying to burn down CNN from the outside now. I think he's immensely qualified for the position. It's like backdraft. You have to

know the fire. That's right. You have to know the fire. See it. Look at the face. And then he found out you actually had to help people. And he was like, ah, shit, I got nothing on that. forget that oh it's so it's just so classic right and it's like it's kind of an insult to real firefighters to think like i can just phone this one in maybe i could get in the calendar you know maybe the chicks will swoon it's like you know what you actually have to risk your life it actually takes a ton of training um it takes a certain mental

toughness that he definitely does not have and uh as soon as they showed him the list, he was like, oh, forget about it. Hell no. And probably wasn't thinking it would come out. But God bless these actual firefighters who appear to have leaked it. If you can't make the cut in the Hamptons, I'm just saying like, you know, not that it gets the Hamptons, but like if you can't make the cut there, my guess is like that's pretty much the end of the Hamptons. I'm just saying, like, you know, not that it gets the Hamptons, but like, if you can't make the cut there, my guess is like that's pretty much the end of the rung, right? Right. Yes. Now, I'll take you guys back

to a kinder, gentler version of Chris Cuomo. When he was at CNN, his BFF was Don Lemon and their sick little love fest on air there were just absolutely nauseating to the audience, judging from the numbers.

And now in his latest filing against CNN, because he's still suing them for tens of millions of dollars saying he was wrongly terminated. He's completely thrown his old buddy under the bus. The love fest is no more because he's pointing to Don Lemon as an example of somebody who's absolutely awful when it comes to journalistic ethics who never got touched by CNN management. They didn't punish him. So just to walk you down memory lane, here's the two of them in kinder, gentler, more loving times. I see you tomorrow night. Not at all. Did you just... You are so weird. Whatever, but it's weird because you know me. I mean, you're worse than me.

You're a bigger hugger and kisser than I am, right? It's true. It is true. Sometimes I'm like, Chris, stop. When were we ever greater than we are today? More free, more inclusive. Songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Songs that made the hit parade.

Guys like us, we had it made. I have a card for you. And there you go. It's beautiful. Oh, my God. I knew you would think it was beautiful because you're surrounded. One of the things I love most about what people take from our friendship, I mean, we're friends anyway.

If it didn't work on TV, we'd still be friends often. Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. That's exactly what this is. Those were the days. Oh, my God. There are people who are blowing in my mouth. Well, not many. Not many. No.

I'm like, I'm actually sort of speechless. I don't know what to say. I'm so gross. I mean, I'm grossed out by what we just saw. It's just proof that, you know, how just what a bunch of phonies they are. Just vacant human beings. I think Cuomo also kind of thinks himself

a tough guy, but then he, you know, tries to sign up to be a firefighter and suddenly it's too much work. I mean, that's the thing is who would have thought someone like that doesn't have actual skills that can be used outside. I can't believe you guys are like talking like we didn't just witness what we just saw like i don't you need a moment to recover i'm ready to go on honestly i'm still working on it maybe it's like that is really rough

what that what was that i i can't believe it's no thank god jeff zucker's fired and and cuomo's fired and don lemon should definitely be fired soon. That was disgusting. It's no wonder nobody watches them. And so now the flip, okay, the flip. In his latest filing, he points out that Zucker and his lover Gallist, who worked for him too,

who he promoted up the ranks year after year after year. And according to many people, including the Rolling Stone, they were having an affair for decades. Zollis and Zucker, Gallis and Zucker. They were willing to overlook major transgressions by CNN personalities such as Don Lemon, who was even who was eager to engage in blatant misconduct. He goes on to say this is Chris Cuomo's filing, saying, for example, in November 2021, Empire actor Jussie Smollett testified that Lemon personally warned him that Chicago police did not believe his false accusations of a hate crime. Lemon's consulting with the embattled actor

constituted a flagrant breach of journalistic ethics, Cuomo's team wrote uh intervening in the ongoing investigation by texting uh smollett was an inexcusable breach of ethics the filing argued that cnn did nothing lemon was not disciplined in any way a far cry from this one where don lemon learned that chris cuomo had COVID-19. Sorry, I said I wasn't going to do this. Jesus. He's probably sitting at home laughing at me. So here's the thing.

I have to, when I walk into work every day, and Chris and I are really good friends. We live near each other. And so when I walk into work every day, I have to walk by where Chris is. So I usually go to his office and I say, you know, what's doing. Sometimes I bring the dogs and we just say hello. Anyway, he's just not here. And we have this great relationship.

Oh, my God. He's holding the tissue, dabbing his eyes. Who would have guessed that's a dysfunctional workplace? How did he stop? How did he stop with Lemon? Right. I right i mean like where's the potato in that transgression that he was filing but i did like when i heard the filing what you were reading off and the jesse smollett thing and everything else like what's that meme of the dude who's like the worst person in the world just said something i agree with like that's the only thing i can think

of but like he could put the entire primetime set of CNN for the last four years on that same filing. And I'm sure it would probably prop up his case. Jeffrey Toobin, how you doing? Meanwhile, you say he likes to be seen as a tough guy, 100%. So he's tweeting or, I don't know, Instagramming. My team finds this stuff. I do not follow this man. Instagram about some sort of a comeback. And would you, I'm going to describe this for the audience that's listening. But again, you're going to, what does it say on the screen there? Okay.

He's got a cigar. He's showing his muscle. Something's coming. He's showing his muscle, his muscle, his cigar, his muscle, his cigar. Something's coming. There's his muscle in a cigar again. Honestly, I've never. He's run with a two bins catch line. This is just incredible divorce dad energy right now. This man has no testosterone in his body. There's no testosterone. There's nothing I'm going to go ahead and say

right now. He's a horrible lover. There's just no way anybody who has any sort of testosterone and is able to perform in bed does not put out muscle, muscle, muscle. They don't do it. I'm saying it. It's clear. It's an overcompensation. Megan, you're saying that he put this out himself. Like he like this isn't something that the show made up.

This is something he did himself. He I'm telling you, he thinks he's hot. He thinks something sexy. He thinks those ridiculous barbell videos and that stupid cigar muscly thing is actually going to turn somebody on. I've got. Hold on, Megan. I have a very, very important PSA for your staff. When you're following a Cuomo on Instagram, close the DMs. I feel like we have ample proof that there is danger there.

I'm glad you don't follow this man, but the staff, I know they're just doing their jobs, but head on a swivel out there. It's true. It's a big risk. Well, who knows whether he's going to stay independent or sign on with one of these lesser known cable competitors. But I have zero desire to see the Chris Cuomo act return to town. And as I have no problem with him trying to make a living, everybody should be should try. But there's not going to be any audience for him there. That's clear. There's a reason. I mean, it's just so clearly the Fredo of that family. So clearly the Fredo, like his brother was governor.

His dad did it. He's the leftover. So you had to grow up and they had to find a role for this dummy. CNN's like, okay, we'll take him. You can do PR for your brother and they'll give us access to the governor's mansion.

But he has absolutely zero skillset. It's so clear. Poor guy. I mean, he looks awful. This video, the video she just showed reminds me. Remember when he,

his other comeback, when he emerged from the basement after COVID? Do you guys remember this? Well, so that reminds me. So the Cuomo sort of drama over COVID, which was clearly an act. I mean, obviously, that was an act emerging from the basement. And his night terrors where he lost a tooth. I mean, give me a break, right? It's like, lost a tooth. I mean, give me a break. Right. It's like what a joke, especially with some 2020 hindsight. You know, it's like that's a joke.

He was a young, healthy man, very fit, as you'd be sure to point out. There's no way any of that stuff happened. So anyway, but COVID is making a comeback, as you may have seen this sub sub variant of Omicron. And now not just are they pushing for more mask mandates, but once again, out in San Diego, okay, California, the school board president has a message for the students who don't want to wear the masks. And it's basically, take your story walking. Bye, get out, listen to this woman.

Parents who don't want to wear a mask indoors in school, are there any other options for them? For the fall, there are some options. They can go to our school that's online. They can opt not to return to the regular school, but to go to the school where they don't have to go to school at all other than via Zoom. And that's the easiest way for folks. What about the summer school? What if they were already enrolled in the summer school and now they get this mask mandate and they're not comfortable with wearing a mask? They really should wear the mask. But if they're not comfortable, what should they do? They should just make it known that they don't feel comfortable at that point.

Just not return. Just don't come back. Don't come to school. OK, public schools, children don't come if you're wearing the mask. That just shows the absolute need for the funding that goes towards education should be the student and not the institution. The money should follow the kid. The parents should have the ability to put their children in a school, whether it's homeschooling, whether it's a private school, the funds should be directed at the child, not at the institution,

because these people have a monopoly. They feel so comfortable being like, well, just don't show up. We'll still get the tax money. Who cares? How do you get the job of being one of these people? Like, honestly, I, I, I, I guess ostensibly they're supposed to be an expert in education at some level. Right. But we're now what, two years into this situation, there is, I'm not an expert on education, but occasionally you run, you run into stats, right? They just hit you in the face. And it turns out that the education gap of people who had to go to schools like this monster is presiding over is absolutely horrible for the children. Their achievement gaps have widened predominantly in low income and minority districts. They have online classes do not work. They have never worked for kids that are under college age.

And you have a question about that even above. What it's done to our society is horrific. Now, if you just stop the education component, how about we look at some COVID stats? The president of the United States is four times jabbed. You just got COVID, right? What the hell is a mask going to do for that? Absolutely nothing. Like we already know what COVID is. COVID is a coronavirus that has been around for a millennia.

Like we understand what COVID is and how it makes a variant like that's what the seasonal flu is. You jackass. Like I don't understand how they get into a place where they still feel comfortable mandating these kind of things with a body of evidence all around them, like just wake up a goddamn book. And not just the education performance, but just the mental health of these children. I mean, the depression, the social skills that aren't developing. It's it's I mean, it's monstrous is what it is. Well, I'm glad you mentioned the president, because while they're making these kids wear masks, the White House just released a photo demonstrating that Biden is still at work now that he has covid. He's not wearing a mask in the picture. So so he wears a mask every day except for the day he has covid masks. The kids don't wear covid. The vaccines don't prevent covid. You can wear a

N95 mask if you want to protect yourself from some droplets. But school mask mandates don't work. And they've done study after study that show that, including the CDC. But the media buries it. The Ruthless hosts will be right back with us after this quick, quick break. So, OK, guys, there is an issue with Starbucks. Now, I never go to Starbucks. I don't like Starbucks coffee. I never have. It's too, like, guys, there is an issue with Starbucks. Now, I never go to Starbucks. I don't like Starbucks coffee. I never have.

It's too, like, bitter. Just not my cup of tea, so to speak. Dunkin' Donuts, getting closer to what I like. New York City Deli coffee, boom. That's the one. That's the best, better than any of the other nonsense, and cheaper, too. And I don't want to buy coffee in any place that requires me to say the size of the cup in a different language. Screw you. I think it's a small, a medium, a large, take your highfalutin attitude and take a walk. So I'm not a huge Starbucks fan

to begin with. But a couple of years ago, while I was still at NBC, they announced a new policy whereby they were going to allow anybody to come into Starbucks, even if it wasn't a paying customer, and use Starbucks and use the bathrooms and do whatever the hell they wanted in Starbucks. And for those of you who think that I didn't speak my mind while I was at NBC, go back and look at my coverage of Brett Kavanaugh and look at moments like this one where I raised on a panel of people who are maybe differently aligned ideologically, the fact that this was a disaster in the making. And I went on after this clip that you're going to see. But watch the part of this that's getting lambasted is now you don't have to buy anything

to go into the Starbucks. You don't have to buy anything to use the restroom. And so paying customers are now. And here's here's the issue. Compl complaining. I see the other side of it. I mean, I think some of these people don't have places to go. I've seen people sit in our local Starbucks here in New York City that that are homeless, that don't have another place. But that's not the solution. But there are places for the homeless. Of course, it's not a solution, but it's also compassionate. And there's a question about whether a commercial establishment is that place. Yeah establishment is that place for the paying customers who go in with their kids. And do you really want to deal with a mass of homeless people or whoever's in there could be drug addicted? You don't know. Well, I mean, I'll get to the answer because it's been answered this week about whether people do

want to deal with that. But can I just spend one minute on the reaction to that segment? It went totally viral. My producers pulled just a couple of headlines for you. Salon, Megyn Kelly slams Starbucks for allowing non-customers to use bathroom and the body of the piece was not that flattering. You'll be shocked to hear. Bustle, Megyn Kelly's not happy that Starbucks will let, quote, a mass of homeless people use its bathrooms. Daily Beast. Megyn Kelly frets that the homeless could take over Starbucks. Newsweek, same. On and on it goes. And now, today,

we get the announcement from the Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz. They are closing 16 profitable stores. Profitable stores all in left-leaning cities like L.A., Philly, Portland, Oregon, Washington, D.C., Seattle and so on. Howard Schultz, the president of Starbucks, saying America has become unsafe. And my employees in these stores feel unsafe as a result of his dumb ass policy.

Listen, I don't have to spend too much time on what's going on in the country and how America has become unsafe. It has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety. And then we heard the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms, the issue of mental illness, the issues of homelessness and the issues of crime. Welcome, Howard. Come on in. The water's fine. If you just keep your eyes open, it's very clear what these stupid left-leaning woke policies are going to lead to. Closure of profitable stores. They're reversing the policy. They're not going to require this anymore. And they said, quote, the bathrooms have in large part, this is from an article writing it

up, but based on what he said, devolved into dens of debauchery regularly used by vagrants and homeless to do drugs and engage in other illicit behavior. The company will now give staffers discretion to deny free access to the store's bathrooms. What do we make of this? My first observation, Megan, you're absolutely an agony of defeat gal as we do in our podcast, because like all the amazing things that you do in your career, you don't even talk about for a minute, but you remember every single time they came at you. I love it. It's so perfect. I love that. I mean, obviously you were right. I was a little, a little shocked. You didn't even get any backup

from a Bush on that deal. It's like you versus the world on, uh, on that panel. Jenna's not conservative. She's not a conservative. She's no George W. Bush. I think that's a fair assessment, but I mean, obviously, right. I mean, that's what you were pointing out. Obviously this is like when you don't enforce crime, crime happens. When you let homeless people into your store, substandard stuff happens. But for the left, and you saw it there in the clip, their solution doesn't actually have to work. It just has to be compassionate.

That's the only thing they care about. And it's the same thing we're seeing with the southern border right now. Well, now that crisis of all of these migrants who've been shipped all across the country are now on the doorsteps of Mayor Adams in New York City. And now suddenly their policy of compassion has come to their front doorstep and they don't like it so much. And I think that's the heart of the issue is that their belief that this kind of allowing this to happen is compassionate. Allowing and enabling addiction is somehow compassionate. This is that's not compassionate at all. Letting people suffer through drug addiction rather than, you know, you see it in New York City, you see in all these woke cities where they think the solution is you let the homeless do whatever they want, let them succumb further into addiction, let them start assaulting people.

That's compassion. It's completely misguided. These people need help. They don't need to be in a commercial area. Taxpayers are already paying for homeless shelters and services that can be provided to these individuals, why should it be upon private businesses to have to carry the workload for misguided government policies from these woke people who think they're compassionate when they're just neighbors? I would like to augment this policy. I would like to augment this policy a little bit.

You know, be able to deny entry to people who are going to shoot up drugs in your bathroom, but also kick out the grad student working on his 10th rewrite of his screenplay. It's not happening. It's not happening. It's not happening. It's so true. Get out. Like, I want to sit there for five minutes when I go into these stores, not Starbucks. But yeah, they sit there all day. It's like, get a damn office space for the love of God or work in your mother's basement. But Howard Schultz and George Soros both made the same mistake. They looked around at their beautiful, well-heeled neighborhoods and they

were like, yes, let's do something to help, you know, but they don't have to live with the consequences of their decisions. And so I'm going to guess that a fair amount of the baristas who take a job at Starbucks are pretty woke and pretty left. And even they having to live it on the front line said, this is insane. And honestly, having lived in New York City for the past 17 years, I walked many times by homeless people who were obviously dangerous. And my kids, you know, you'd hold their hands a little tighter. You'd walk a little faster. You'd say, don't don't make eye contact because they'd be yelling like, motherfucker, you know, like at your kid, like, you know, I'm going to get you. You're like, just walk, just walk. And now they're going to bring it into this to the Starbucks. And my little kid's going to have to use the restroom. And I'm going to have to say, just step over that man and his needle.

And you don't know what's going to happen. These guys are strung out on drugs. Not every one of them, but fair enough. One guy chased us through the park, like chased us. And we were running. It's like you don't know what you're welcoming in. OK, so you can be in your ivory tower saying how kind and, you know, compassionate this is going to be all you want. It's not kind and compassionate

to my then five year old who got the daylight scared out of him where he had to run. He had to run because some homeless person had been allowed into a space he should not have been allowed. Oh, 100 percent. Also, there's a real blind spot for mental health with the left. You notice that? Yep. It's the one thing they never want to talk about with any of these situations, whether it's homelessness, violence in schools, I mean, you name it. Mental health is just something that they can't grasp. Well, if they actually tackled mental health, there wouldn't be a left. So I

think that's probably- Well, compassion might be one part of it, but I think that there are some people that subscribe to this woke ideology that literally just want to tear our society down. They see something that's working well and they don't want it to work well anymore because they hate America. They literally want our country to be a terrible place. So on this front, OK, the woke eating its own. My producer, Debbie, Canadian Debbie, has been trying to get me to talk about this for, I don't know, five days now. And you guys are my victims. There is a woke coffee shop. All right. That is now had to close down.

It's in Philadelphia. It's called Mina's World. I think it's Mina. It's M-I-N-A. Mina. OK, sorry, Deb. It opened in just 2020 and it was known for its lgbtq brand identity tons of great reviews over the years you got 2020 bon appetit calling it a hangout spot for people of marginalized identities uh complex which i guess the magazine mentioned mina's world as a lovely and queer and trans owned and celebrated it You've got two owners, Sonam Parikh and Kate Eggert, who claim this is the city's first coffee shop

owned and operated by queer trans people of color. All right, this is important for some people to just state all of their identities so that they can lure in the groups that they want. Parikh said, I've worked in coffee since I was 18. Most of the workplaces were really toxic in the sense that workers were not being paid well and the white ownership neglected to protect their black and trans employees.

I knew there needed to be a space where you could have an amazingly made cup of coffee that's not whitewashed. But then the mutiny began because no one is safe and the woke love to turn on their own. It started last month. An Instagram page called the Mina's World Workers began posting accusations against the ownership. Quote, we are facing systemic employer opposition, manipulation, abuse of power, exploitation, anti-blackness, ableism, hostility, and complete disregard for our livelihoods. A list of grievances included anti-blackness in a multitude of forms and occasions, ableism in the form of inaccessibility, et cetera, et cetera, manipulation, tokenization

as a way to appear safe by association. Now here's the list of demands. Okay. Public acknowledgement and accountability for grievances and harm caused. The second, immediate payment to staff that have had payment withheld, including back pay. And here's the capper. The owner must redistribute

the business and begin the process of transforming the business into a cooperative. So you no longer get to own it. We need to own it. And then comes the hostage video from Sonam Parikh and Kate Eggert, who completely capitulate. Watch. We are complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence, as well as our workers. The workers of Nina's World deserve so much more.

And our ultimate goal is to return the space to them. We can raise the funds to turn over the space to them and to make sure that they get to have Mina's world in the way that they have envisioned it and rightfully should have it. Totally folded. Okay, and here's the postscript. Here's the postscript. It's a Maoist struggle session. You actually just saw a Maoist struggle session. The building where Mina's world, and for those of you listening, I mean, the two owners look like they're straight out of central casting with a different color hair and the weird like

whatever the effeminate man. Now, if there's anything wrong with that, the building where Mina's World was located was owned by Kate's mother. OK, so she wants to Kate wants to read this. Great. Go to mommy. Tell her to redistribute. Mommy was like, hell no. The mom owns not only the building, but 18 percent of Mina's world. And now, according to Sonam and Kate, the mom refused to redistribute the business and wound up listing the building, selling it.

It's done. No more non-whitewashed coffee for you. It's done. And I love everything about this story. The grownups are back in control. What an amazing story. That is fantastic. Your producer deserves an incredible amount of credit for coming up with that.

The two people who run the joint, I mean, fantastic. You couldn't cast them in years. I mean, that's what I mean. It's like if you actually tackle the mental health crisis, there will be no less. Look at what these people are doing to themselves, look at what they want to do to us. The list of demands is just like lib, you know, mad lips. Yes, it's literally mad lips. But then you get to the end of it. Right. And it's like, oh,

it all needs to be redistributed. Right. And then you realize all these people are just Marxists and they dress up Marxism as they have for the last hundred years with the terms of the day, tokenization or anti-blackness, whatever it is. But at the end of the day, they're just like socialists who want to take everybody else's stuff. It's as simple as that. If you build it, they will come. Yeah. Right.

And they came and they took the shit away from the store. Also, I've never heard of whitewashing coffees. You just put a little cream in it or what? That is the most ridiculous accusation. I like my coffee black. It doesn't need pro now. And I think that's a prime example of if you give these crazy people an inch, they will take everything that you can. You can't you cannot in any way humor any of this ridiculous madness like the pipeline from from professors coming up with these crazy ideas at Oberlin to becoming mainstreamed in the media starting to repeat and parrot these crazy ideas at Oberlin to becoming mainstreamed in the media, starting to repeat

and parrot these crazy ideas. It's like at light speed at this point. All of this is just absolutely ridiculous. We have a country that's almost 300 years old that's founded on these principles that have worked and who someone with purple hair who's 18 is going to explain to us like actually everything you've been doing is wrong. You can't let these people get anything. I got two years until those people are daily listeners to Steve Bannon's podcast. This is more, more direct pipeline than you think. So there you're right. Cause if you give these woke activists an inch, they will take a mile.

And we saw that just last night. I'm sure you guys have heard about what happened to Dave Chappelle, who was booked to perform in Minneapolis at a venue called First Avenue. And it's not like the Dave Chappelle controversy with his comments about the trans community has been a little scene news item, right? Like nor has like the J.K. Rowling tweets, you know, like people know Dave Chappelle, most anybody paying any attention to that. He got into some trouble for those Netflix specials where he he made some jokes about trans people, made some commentary about trans people. And Netflix stood behind him and he makes 20 million dollars a special and he's doing just fine. But nonetheless, someplace called First Avenue, a venue, booked him. And good for them, right? We like that.

Free speech. Let him do his thing. You don't want, you don't like his jokes. Don't show up. Nope, that wasn't enough. They were pressured into canceling the comedy show last night. I think it was last night after backlash. And now First Avenue has posted the following Instagram message to the staff, the artists,

the community, blah, blah. We hear you and we are sorry. We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards and we know we let you down. We are not just a black box with people in it. And we understand that First Ave is not just a room, but meaningful beyond our walls. We and you have worked hard to make our venues the safest spaces in the country, and we will continue with that mission. We believe in diverse voices and in the freedom of artistic expression, but in honoring that, we lost sight of the impact this would have. Oh, my God. We know there are some who will not disagree. We welcome your feedback. I'll give you a little background on first Ave was one of the primary primary concert venues for Prince when he first started and came up through the music ranks.

And when I was a kid living in a suburb of Minneapolis, that place was like a mecca of bringing in all kinds of different music, everything from like country and southern rock to, you know, Prince and, and, you know, anything else that was driving the day was kind of grunge back when I was growing up was their thing. And so like for a venue, that's as well established as that to then get to a place where they are booking Dave Chappelle, which I'm not surprised by, because I mean, that's a, it is an important venue, but then to cancel it with words like that. I mean, that's it is an important venue. But then to cancel it with words like that, I mean, that is the saddest deterioration of a once great institution that I've heard in a long time. That's the safest space. We've worked hard to make our venues the safest spaces in the country. That sounds horrible. It's unreal. I mean, this is dave chappelle like for them to put this kind of thing like

you're not letting a comedian tell jokes it's really gotten to that point where you can't express any sort of humor these people have no humor they like we just saw in that earlier segment they just want to destroy things they want to come in they want to take over they want to destroy it and it's unbelievable that they can't they literally can't take a joke. It's just so it's just so dramatic. I mean, it's got a great history, obviously, but it's a it's a concert venue. And they're writing a press release like it's a civil war or something like that. I mean, for crying out loud, it's so dramatic. It reminds me a little bit of the Ilya Shapiro thing at Georgetown Law, where they let him come to work there because his tweet criticizing Biden for saying, I'm only going to pick a black woman for this new newly vacated Supreme Court seat. He had an ill worded tweet and they punished him with some investigation into him.

And then they let him come to Georgetown Law because they said the tweet wasn't when you were working for us. And Ilya wound up saying, you know what? No, I'm not doing it. This is quicksand. No. But in their explanation about like where they stand on all of this, they basically said we are committed to free speech and the freedom to express one's opinion. But it has to be done sensitively. It has to be done with, you know, sort of these woke concerns in mind. That's my paraphrase. And listen again to this statement that they that they made in this First Avenue statement. They write, we believe in diverse voices and the freedom of artistic expression. But but in honoring that, we lost sight of the impact it would have. So, no, you don't believe in the freedom of expression because your real mission is to have, quote, the safest spaces in the country.

The two things are indeed incongruous. And we really are at a tipping point for America, for businesses, for citizens where we have to choose. You are going to have to choose. Yeah, and I don't think we're afraid of it anymore. You know, I mean, the rest of us who are sitting around, I think spent the last part of the 20 years watching the progressive left march into this situation. And all of us, you know, look, we focus on our own lives and our own stuff. And so like, you know, you want to go do what you do. That's fine. But now it's gotten to the point where they're actually like first have here. So it's supposed to celebrate art, supposed to celebrate free speech. And they're driving that down your

throats. I think the vast majority of the American people are like, go fuck yourself. I'm not interested in any of that shit anymore. And now I'm actually going to speak out about it for the first time. I mean, you can see people rising up who you never thought would have strong opinions on any of this. Who've just any of this who've just had it. They've just had it. And these people are the ones that are creating this larger rift because it is, I mean, look, we're going to have an election in a few months. And I think the cultural issues that we're talking about, in addition to the economy, are going to play a central role. We're not interested in the progressive left's view of America anymore.

And I think that's key. And that's a very important thing to say is that for a while now, conservatives have thought, okay, I just want to be left alone. I just want to be left alone. And that's kind of been the current, but now it's like in nature, if a deer wants to be left alone, a wolf's not going to leave it alone, right? And the left has become a wolf. They want to impose their will, whether you want it or not. And now's not the time to be like, well, I don't, you know, I just want to be left alone at this point. They're taking over institutions. You know, if they're deciding what a commit, where a comedian can perform. Yeah. If they're trying to, they're even taking over a coffee shop because the people with purple hair aren't woken up.

I like, I actually like our odds because these people are just absolutely ridiculous. You'd mentioned J.K. Rowling earlier. I don't know if anybody's seen this news, but Quidditch, the fictional made-up game from these Harry Potter books that she wrote, they're going to rename the game Quidditch because J.K. Rowling said something insensitive to transgender people or something like that. You would think that adults playing a made up game from books for 10 year olds would be embarrassed by that. But no, they can't be associated with J.K. Rowling, the author. That's how ridiculous these people are. And we got to point that out every time something like this happens. Totally. The Randy Weingarten headed teachers union, right? Second largest union in the country just did a study.

I think it was of 1700 people. And it showed that the Republicans now have a one point edge on education. OK, this is her group. This is her group far left. Democrats used to have double digits lead over the Republicans on the generic ballot when it came to education. The Republicans are now leading by one point. But the fact that they're leading is a major news headline. And one of the

things that they're saying that the voters are saying is enough with a constant focus on social issues. Right. And I think that's what the electorate is saying to enough with a constant focus on social issues. Like, I don't think they want to see Dave Chappelle punished for having a view that most people have, which is a biological man cannot be a woman. There is a difference. There's a difference between a trans woman and an actual woman. And they're meaningful differences, right? And we can still be respectful, but we don't have to ignore the meaningful differences. Just today, the Women's March, which is a joke of an organization. What women do they stand for? Not me. I guarantee you I've done more for women than

the Women's March has. Guarantee you I've lived a life that's helped a lot more people than they have but do you have a hat do you have a hat no no i don't i don't wear a dumb ass hat and i don't even normally say the p word but they made me um their tweet is as follows trans women are women. That's it. That's the tweet. No, they're not. They're biological men who have gender dysphoria and have chosen to live their life trying to appear as and act as women. And I can be respectful of that choice, but I don't have to deny science and reality to do it. They're not women. They're biological men who want to live as women. OK, that's fine. No problem. That doesn't make them women. And I just think like this for office and win. You know, the people responding to the American Federation of Teachers, the union saying, no, I'm sick of you pushing this on our kids. I think you're right. The Dave Chappelle stuff, people have had it one by one. More and more people are going to be on the Steve Bannon podcast or something like it because they they're sick of this narrative. Yeah, no, I 100 percent right. It's it's completely absurd. I mean, just to go back to the transsexual tweet, I mean, to personalize that, anybody with a daughter who's interested in participating in sports, that's now now you have a whole nother subset that is winning. And you've got magazines that are saying that people are women of the year, that are actually

biologically born men. I mean, how can you be any more anti-woman than that? And I just don't think it's a stretch. I just don't understand it. Well, there was this great tweet yesterday from Omri Sarin, who works in Ted Cruz's office, where he had a screenshot. The National Women's History Museum, the top three biographies that they feature are all trans men to female, male to female individuals. The top three women. Trans women. Trans women. I'm sorry, Rosa Parks. You don't belong on this website. Seriously, like that's the most offensive thing about all of this is that celebrating

trans women has to come at the expense of women. Why is that? You know? Well, I mean, that's that's the real irony, because if you think about it and and I if I picture a trans woman, I picture a woman. I picture somebody who looks like a woman. But the truth is, it's a biological man. It's a man. You know, I mean, it's somebody who's got male gametes, sperm and so on like that's that you can't that can't be undone. And so what the people really pushing this messaging are biological men at the expense of biological women. Right.

And then when biological women stand up and say, shut the hell up, you may not compete in our swimming or our soccer or wrestling, whatever the tournament is. It's really a biological man on the other side saying, yes, I can. Right. And they're weird, woke, Upper West Side biological women allies who've abandoned the real differences between the sexes when they count. Yeah. And I just don't know how you can shame them into doing anything else. I mean, Slug, you do a pretty good job. Every time a biological male wins a female event, you basically tweet out, dudes rock. And I thought maybe that would do the trick, but it's not. I mean, it's, it's literally, it's gone so far left that it wraps around and actually becomes the most

misogynistic thing you could ever do. Right. I mean, it's wild. It's, it's infuriating and I'm sick of it. And that's really Dave Chappelle sin is calling attention to that. That's JK Rowling sin is calling attention to this and you know, right. Qu Rowling's sin is calling attention to this. And, you know, right, Quidditch has to go away. And Dave Chappelle, probably the best paid comedian in the world right now and most famous,

he can't perform at this storied venue, right? But even though they knew very well what he said prior to booking him. Look, I want to end it on a positive note. And that is you guys may or may not be aware of.

I had some drama with Air France. My family and I went to Italy and they lost not one, not two, not three, not four, but all five of our bags, all five. They didn't get one to us. And I did a big talking points on it. And lots of people laughed. And it's online right now. People want to see it at YouTube. Anyway, they slowly but surely over the weeks that followed, they got one to us and they got two and they got three and then they got four. And when I did my talking points memo, that's all I had four to five. And I was waiting and waiting. Nobody, I still never spoke to a human. That was my big lamentation. I couldn't speak to one damn human. There wasn't a human available. There was only fake news, Guillaume and fake human Lewis who kept trying to DM artificial intelligence. And shortly after I did

my little talking points memo, publicly shaming Air France for its terrible, terrible customer service and behavior. Guess what I got on my phone. Okay, I was missing five. They had delivered four. I was waiting for the last one. And up popped a text telling me that my remaining two bags would be delivered tomorrow. What a deal. Hopefully you get some good stuff. Yeah. hopefully you get some good stuff yeah i did get the fifth bag and i continue to await the delivery of the sixth and what let us know i'd love to i'm curious hopefully they spent a lot of time in the duty free

yeah exactly get some italian wine you know maybe some food product. I will 100% be opening that thing on the air, if indeed it shows up. The message is carry on your bags, folks. Carry them on. It's time for another edition of You Can't Say That, or Think That, or Do That. Oh, wait, this is America. And here in America, we are about to enjoy our first summer in a while without having to think very much about pandemics. But wait, just when you thought you were free, enter monkeypox. Thankfully, monkeypox has not made too much of an impact

here in the United States, but our friends at the World Health Organization have their eye on the ball when it comes to what truly matters with this potential pandemic. The name monkeypox, you see, is very offensive, and they have announced that they will be changing it. A group of scientific researchers and biologists recently wrote a blog post about how the disease unfairly was associated with the continent of Africa, where the disease is

endemic. They wrote that in the context of the current of Africa, where the disease is endemic. They wrote that in the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate, but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing. The blog post also took issue with the media's use of photos of African patients when discussing the disease. The World Health Organization has responded. Just as they responded to the COVID outbreak in Wuhan, China, by ensuring we didn't call it the Wuhan virus. Now they are responding to this monkeypox outbreak by promising they will have a new name as soon as possible. Yes, clearly we have learned so much

about prioritizing what matters during a pandemic. Let's make sure we don't further any harmful stigmas. The scientific researchers had a suggestion. They would like us to call monkeypox HMPXV. HMPXV, which really rolls off the tongue. That'll make it easier. So far, no announcements from the WHO, but we'll be waiting

because if you think you're just going to go around and call a disease that everyone has called monkeypox for decades by its original name, well, it's 2022 and you can't say that. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.