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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, Cameron talks about the latest news narratives around the big drug boat scandal in the caribbean after various boat bombings that killed innocent survivors, the democrats reminding military members not to follow illegal orders and the extreme power of the Presidency. Then we talk about a student in Oklahoma that was failed for citing the bible as a source in a paper about gender identity in her psychology course. Of course, the professor was trans and now TPUSA has made this into a national scandal and the professor has been removed from the course.
Then we wrap up the show with video of the White House Christmas decor and the narratives around that. It's an exciting (but tiring) post-Thanksgiving show!
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Then we wrap up the show with video of the White House Christmas decor and the narratives around that. It's an exciting (but tiring) post-Thanksgiving show!
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00:02:59Welcome to the Cameron Journal NewsHour.
00:03:03This is so exciting.
00:03:05I hope everyone had a really great Thanksgiving.
00:03:08I hope you got some time off to rest and relax this weekend.
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00:04:28Um, also thank you, everyone, for watching all of our shorts and reels and videos.
00:04:32Views are up, and that is a really amazing thing to watch so many people interacting, leaving
00:04:37comments, engaging, all this type of thing.
00:04:39I have struggled with engagement forever, until about the last six months or so.
00:04:44Then, and especially the last, like, couple months, engagement really has started to happen,
00:04:50which is really exciting.
00:04:51So thank you all for continuing, um, to, to, and to engage.
00:04:59We have a bunch of news stories tonight.
00:05:01There is so many just crazy things happening in the world.
00:05:08We're going to get into Pete Hegseth and, um, and the, uh, Pete Hegseth and the boat scandal,
00:05:19which is interesting.
00:05:23Um, and we're also going to get into, um, a, a kind of a brewing scandal in Oklahoma about
00:05:31a transgender professor who was fired because they failed a girl who used the Bible as a
00:05:40source for why gender is not fluid and there's only two genders, um, and kind of failed to
00:05:47engage with an article around the subject.
00:05:50And as someone who went to college and was conservative and went to college in a small
00:05:55college in a rural area in the reddest of red, deep Trump land, I have thoughts about all
00:06:02of that.
00:06:04So we're going to get into all that.
00:06:05We're also going to get into a little bit of foreign policy.
00:06:08So I have a bunch of news stories tonight.
00:06:09So we're going to move quickly.
00:06:10We're not going to waste time here.
00:06:11We're going to dive right in to the headlines.
00:06:15And we're going to start with this rather odd video, we'll say, about a man kind of freaking
00:06:23out in the subway in New York City.
00:06:26The focus is on the man freaking out.
00:06:28The focus is on the narrative and the framing.
00:06:32Re, Mom Donnie's election to New York City, Trump's seeming embrace of him, and how this
00:06:39is going to be talked about moving forward, because you're going to want to watch out for
00:06:42this.
00:06:43Here we go.
00:06:44So let's do this, and let's do this, and let's go.
00:07:00Bearing in mind, this dude is white, and it's obviously a black woman, like, is recording.
00:07:11Go ahead.
00:07:13Go ahead.
00:07:13Go ahead.
00:07:14Go ahead.
00:07:14Go ahead.
00:07:15Go ahead.
00:07:16Go ahead.
00:07:17Go ahead.
00:07:17Go ahead.
00:07:18Go ahead.
00:07:19I want you to.
00:07:19Try me.
00:07:21Yeah.
00:07:22Come on.
00:07:24The fuck?
00:07:25And so when the interaction goes on, obviously the other passengers, these two dudes, are trying
00:07:47to get him to calm down to calm down.
00:07:49It's obviously this man has drugs or mental health issues, but here's the log line, and
00:07:57it says here, I don't understand why anyone would want to take the NYC subway.
00:08:02It's like one big cesspool of wild zoo animals.
00:08:06Not wrong.
00:08:07And it's just going to get worse under Mom Donnie when it's free for everyone.
00:08:11The homeless will live on it.
00:08:13And everyone's like, oh yeah, it's too dangerous to take the subway anymore.
00:08:19This is such a disappointment.
00:08:22Does that man is a danger to be locked up in a psychiatric hospital?
00:08:25True.
00:08:26This person points out, the subway won't be free.
00:08:29Not sure where you get that idea.
00:08:31Also, good luck on making the buses free.
00:08:33He can't just snap his fingers and do that.
00:08:35He still needs it approved by the governor and the state legislature.
00:08:37Not sure why they'll be on board with how he wants to do it.
00:08:39But, um, and, um, and it's, you know, and someone's saying, no, it's not that bad.
00:08:49Um, and it says here, bridge and tunnel guy came to NYC to get wasted.
00:08:53You see a lot of these people at Penn Station waiting for their trains back to New Jersey
00:08:57on the weekend.
00:08:59Um, and someone's saying nonsense from someone who clearly doesn't live in the city.
00:09:03I take the subway maybe half a dozen times a week.
00:09:05It's mostly rather boring.
00:09:07Um, and, uh, it's, you know, yeah, it's a crazy, you know, a crazy thing, a crazy situation.
00:09:17Um, but again, you're gonna start seeing this type of thing a lot more.
00:09:22So from a narrative perspective, it's really important to understand, like, this is going to be,
00:09:30especially as Mom Donnie goes along, you're gonna see more of this from accounts like this
00:09:35and people responding.
00:09:37The reason I kind of stopped at it is because, honestly, I'll be honest, it's usually a black
00:09:42person freaking out on the subway, and the fact that it's a white dude in a quarter zip
00:09:46who clearly has some sort of mental health problem or is so drunk, he's gonna be really
00:09:52worried about this coming, getting passed around for 116,000 views on just this one account.
00:09:59I'm sure it's elsewhere, um, is gonna be a big problem, big problem for him.
00:10:06Um, you know, I just, it was a good entree, but I thought it was interesting because you
00:10:13don't usually see this dynamic, and it's still blaming Mom Donnie, it's still blaming free
00:10:17transportation, and a lot of people will say, you know, this is why we can't have nice things
00:10:21in this country, and this is something where, you know, having transit police on trains to
00:10:28deal with this sort of thing and not the passengers, especially on the lines where there's the most
00:10:33incidences, is still not a bad idea.
00:10:36It was probably one of the better things that Eric Adams did in terms of putting the police
00:10:40on subways and all this type of thing, but I am a fan of transit security.
00:10:45When you go visit other cities around the world that have transit, there's usually someone
00:10:50to call.
00:10:52It's not the passengers, you know, dealing with guys like this.
00:10:56But the unfortunate thing is there's gonna be this narrative, you know, this continuing
00:11:01narrative that everything in the cities is crazy, it's all burning down, there's too many
00:11:07crazy people all out of fear.
00:11:09So, just wanted to put that out there, just wanted to kind of start us off with, you know,
00:11:17because again, these things, people don't understand that in the minds of people, this stuff adds
00:11:25up, it creates an impression, it creates an idea, it's very important to understand that
00:11:32this is not a typical experience, but it is being used to enforce a certain narrative.
00:11:38And remember, this account, which I don't think it is real, but literally the bio is
00:11:46Patriot America First, MAGA Trump Supporter, 1A, 2A, you know, all this sort of thing.
00:11:52It's always the same accounts, pushing the same narrative, watch out for it, look for it,
00:11:57understand it, moving on.
00:11:59Now, we're gonna dive right into the middle of the Pete Hegseth boat scandal situation.
00:12:09Do I want to start with that one or do I want to start with this one?
00:12:13I think I might want to start with this one because it includes the boat footage.
00:12:16So, in case you hadn't heard, and we're gonna watch here in a minute, is that we've been
00:12:25doing missile strikes against narco-terrorists in Venezuela, even though the evidence that
00:12:31any of these boats are actually carrying drugs is a bit weak, interestingly enough.
00:12:35That deserves a little bit more look into before we really say that that's true, but for those
00:12:41who have a little bit looking into it, it seems like there's not necessarily a big group of
00:12:48evidence.
00:12:48But either way, we've been doing these bombings.
00:12:49Okay, sure, we're stopping the flow of drugs into the country.
00:12:52That's fine.
00:12:53Um, the issue is with this particular one, and we'll see this in a second, um, is you've
00:13:00had, you know, you'll have these, they bombed a boat, the boat was only partially destroyed,
00:13:06there were survivors, things hanging on, it is illegal due to international law and military
00:13:13law to, you know, kill survivors sort of thing.
00:13:16They're supposed to be arrested and taken in, the order was given to, um, blow them up
00:13:22anyway.
00:13:22Anyway, following that, six Democrats, including Senator Mark Kelly, who we talked about last
00:13:27week, and who actually, I heard a great interview on with Rachel Maddow on Monday, um, made a
00:13:34video reminding U.S. multi-members that they were allowed to refuse illegal orders.
00:13:40And so, I, I was kind of wondering with all of this, what constitutes an illegal order, and
00:13:46how does the person on the ground decide that?
00:13:48So this afternoon, I gave my buddy Jeremiah a call, and I called him because he was in
00:13:54the military, in the army, I believe, and, um, and he was in a, in a proper war in the
00:14:01sandbox.
00:14:01And I said, how would you make that decision?
00:14:05He's like, well, here's the sad part.
00:14:07He's like, it's a very hard thing to do.
00:14:09There's all these rules, and there's general standing orders, and all this sort of thing.
00:14:13He's like, but here's the stupid thing.
00:14:14He's like, the person actually doing it might not even know what they're doing is illegal.
00:14:18And, he's like, here's the other problem.
00:14:21A lot of people, your common everyday sailor, individual, and all this type of thing, doesn't
00:14:28necessarily want to deal with the paperwork and the issues that come from refusing an
00:14:35illegal order, and will do it anyway, just because the minute you do that, it starts a
00:14:40whole bureaucratic and legal process that can jeopardize your whole future, and you can
00:14:45go to jail if you're not right, and all this type of thing.
00:14:48And so, he's like, it's a really hard thing.
00:14:50And then he had to go, because he was going to a meeting.
00:14:52So, he didn't get to talk, talk, talk.
00:14:54But it was, because I was looking at him kind of like, I'm a pretty smart person.
00:14:58And I'd be kind of like, oh, we're firing on this, we're in a war situation.
00:15:02I don't have time to check my law book, you know, to find out if what you're doing is
00:15:07illegal.
00:15:08I, too, would probably just press the button and fire.
00:15:12Now, I understand for, like, Admiral Bradley, who's in charge of South Con, and who is overseeing
00:15:17all these operations, he does have time to go consult the law book, all this sort of
00:15:22thing.
00:15:23But that's being held at the high level.
00:15:24So, like, how do you really do this?
00:15:27And out of that, Trump has called that video reminding, by Democrats reminding soldiers and
00:15:36military members they don't have to follow illegal orders, has called that seditious.
00:15:39And so, Eric Daugherty, which is a right-wing grifter, he's the chief content officer at
00:15:47Florida Voice News, and he does this posting all day, every day, breaking news, blew the
00:15:55whistle, blah, blah, blah, all of a sudden, and he's a MAGA supporter, like, because, you
00:15:59know, Florida.
00:15:59So, um, so that gets us to this tweet, which is, Senator Eric Schmidt just blew the whistle
00:16:05that elected Democrats are fomenting a color revolution after urging sedition, threatening
00:16:10prosecution if they take power.
00:16:13Now, here's the reality.
00:16:14When you are killing survivors in a war zone, that's considered a violation of international
00:16:19law.
00:16:20People at Nuremberg were prosecuted for that after World War II, and the defense of it
00:16:25was, I was just following orders, was not a defense.
00:16:29And we're already kind of getting into that line.
00:16:33Now, here's the other thing.
00:16:35If you're unfamiliar with what a color revolution is, um, I looked up kind of the origin of the
00:16:41term.
00:16:42I don't know what the ultimate origin is, but its most recent use was after a series of
00:16:48non-violent protest revolutions, um, in some various former Soviet countries, and they would
00:16:54use colors to symbolize the protest of the revolution, and it ultimately changed several
00:17:00governments after they lost any and all popular support.
00:17:03Hence the term color revolution, because they would go outside with flags, other colors, they'd
00:17:08wear them on their face, all this type of thing, and that, that, the, the largesse of that,
00:17:13um, organized protest toppled governments in former Soviet republics like Georgia.
00:17:18And so, um, Eric Schmidt was on Fox News talking about this and says, this is the language
00:17:24of a color revolution, when you, where you're calling on military men and women to disobey
00:17:28orders, and you put that on top of firebombing Tesla dealerships, the riots you see in the
00:17:32streets, the persecution of a political opponent.
00:17:34The Democrats have completely lost the plot here, and the American people, I think, see
00:17:37that, but it's a very dangerous road to go down here to say you should just be disobeying
00:17:41orders because we don't like Trump.
00:17:44That's not what Democrats are saying, but let's watch the full clip for context, shall we?
00:17:48Let's do.
00:17:50We'll point out, though, Harris, one of the crazy things that happened over the weekend,
00:17:54the Democrats, elected Democrats, not some online troll, elected Democrats have been saying
00:17:59it's okay to disobey orders.
00:18:01That's the first step.
00:18:02But what we saw happen this weekend, uh, through some of those same elected officials was to
00:18:07say basically to military men and women, look out, you might get prosecuted.
00:18:12This is not the language of we'll beat, you know, them in the next election or we'll win
00:18:17the argument.
00:18:18This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women
00:18:23to disobey orders, um, and you put that on top of the firebombing of Tesla dealerships,
00:18:28the riots you see in the streets, the prosecution of a political opponent.
00:18:32The Democrats have completely lost the plot here, uh, and the American people, I think,
00:18:36see that, but it's a very dangerous road to go down here to say you should be disobeying
00:18:39orders because we don't like Trump.
00:18:40I will point out though, Harris, one of the crazy-
00:18:43Okay, that was a very accurate running of what he said.
00:18:46Um, this is a very interesting situation.
00:18:52There's more information on this.
00:18:55I don't want to break this down at this angle because I have a couple other clips.
00:18:58So let's, let's move on to the next one.
00:19:00So this was a CNN situation and, um, retired U.S. Colonel Cedric Layton is making the argument
00:19:09that their obligation was to disobey that order.
00:19:12Um, so let's look at it from the other angle.
00:19:16But if they did see, if they were aware, uh, or if they understood that there was even
00:19:20a possibility of, uh, of survivors from this, uh, their obligation was to disobey that order.
00:19:26So disobeying that order.
00:19:28So in other words, if they went ahead and obeyed that order, uh, supposedly, presumably,
00:19:33they might be committing a war crime and could be punished even though their superior officers
00:19:37had ordered them to do so.
00:19:39Yes, that is correct.
00:19:40Uh, so that, that is one of the, uh, problems that you have when it comes to actually handling
00:19:44the, uh, laws of warfare because, uh, sometimes in the fog of war, you don't necessarily see
00:19:50all the things that are going on.
00:19:52Uh, so a lot will depend on exactly what the responses are to the investigations.
00:19:57Like Congress has talked about, both the House and Senate have talked about investigating
00:20:00this matter.
00:20:01Uh, they absolutely need to do that because this is critical to the way in which not only
00:20:06we fight wars as the United States of America, the types of, of, uh, ROEs or rules of engagement
00:20:11that we follow, but it's also critical in terms of, uh, protecting the lives of the people
00:20:16at sea, both U S people, as well as, uh, as well as foreigners.
00:20:20Well, while I have you, uh, Colonel turn to Ukraine as well, lots going on.
00:20:25Yeah.
00:20:25We don't need to hear about all that.
00:20:28It's, and that definitely, I mean, that kind of sets a different, I would say a different
00:20:35tone, um, especially with it coming from someone of the military and it has, and I mean, based
00:20:43upon that, you can say, okay, this doesn't really necessarily have anything to do with
00:20:47any sort of color revolution or, you know, nonviolent pros, but rather a very practical
00:20:52idea of if you're doing things that are illegal, you're putting yourself in danger because of
00:21:00the actions ordered against you could be against the military code of justice.
00:21:03It could also be against international law.
00:21:06There may be prosecutions for that.
00:21:08The last time I heard a lot of talk about this was a long time ago during Iraq and, um,
00:21:15the, uh, it was very interesting because there was a lot of talk about, you know, oh, who's
00:21:21going to prosecute the war crimes in Iraq, all this sort of thing.
00:21:25Um, and it, this is probably, we're, this is probably getting a louder calls than anything
00:21:31we did in any of the sandboxes, which I find interesting.
00:21:35Um, oh, and this is a really good comment from YouTube.
00:21:39Um, perception is reality though.
00:21:40And based on the Democrat party rhetoric, it's not a far leap.
00:21:44Yes.
00:21:45I mean, that, that, that's kind of, that is kind of the, the problem.
00:21:48And that's why I thought these two clips were so important is because it's like, okay, that's
00:21:53one idea of looking at it.
00:21:55But then there's kind of also this deeply practical and pragmatic thing, as I always
00:21:59say, there is a delta between the reality and the truth.
00:22:07And we try to stay in the middle space where we can actually talk about this stuff in some
00:22:14ways that same.
00:22:15I mean, and I agree with the comment here, you know, for the median voter.
00:22:19Yeah.
00:22:19I mean, here's the reality is like, and I always talk about this where, you know, someone's
00:22:25going to see their, their exposure to this story, their only exposure to the story, maybe
00:22:31the clip of this show where I'm talking about it.
00:22:36And that could be the only thing they're really aware of because they're not a news
00:22:40junkie.
00:22:40They're busy.
00:22:40They have bills to pay.
00:22:41They have children to look after all this sort of thing.
00:22:45And so, yeah, when you have elected Democrats coming out and telling the military, oh, hey,
00:22:51we got your back.
00:22:52Don't obey illegal orders.
00:22:53It's like, well, that seems funny.
00:22:55Isn't that kind of part of the whole military thing?
00:22:56You obey orders sort of thing.
00:22:58And then you have these elected Democrats being like, eh, well, maybe not so fast because
00:23:01of this really odd situation about small boats in the Caribbean sort of thing.
00:23:07I think they're definitely, I mean, and this gets into the failures of the Democrat brand,
00:23:12the failure, you know, the, the perception issues with, with Democrats that will not be
00:23:18fixed overnight.
00:23:19It may not be fixed for a generation.
00:23:21Um, all of this adds up to this kind of very difficult situation.
00:23:26And I think a lot of people for better or for worse are probably not going to see the
00:23:31practical side of it.
00:23:32Like you retired U S Colonel Cedric Layton talks about, but rather it's going to seem
00:23:38a lot more, oh, Trump is doing something.
00:23:40The Democrats are complaining again, or the Democrats trying to do an end run around the
00:23:44president, you know, all this sort of thing.
00:23:46Like, even though there's something very real here and that gets me in to the third clip,
00:23:52which ironically came from Fox news and ironically came from a woman named Jessica Tarlov.
00:24:01Um, and, and let's just listen to this cause this is really interesting.
00:24:06Well, I think that there's always a choice and you're right about the demand issue.
00:24:12And I wish that we could do more about that.
00:24:15And this has been going on forever that we have a drug consumption problem here and a drug
00:24:20supply problem coming from South and Latin America.
00:24:24So I, I totally get that.
00:24:26But when you're looking at how this fight is being executed at this particular moment,
00:24:31it doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:24:34First and foremost, the fact that no one can confirm that we've actually been taking out
00:24:39narco traffickers or huge drug traffickers, however you want to say it.
00:24:42And last week when we were talking about this, Dana had just seen the alert that the admiral at
00:24:48the, that the admiral in charge of the Southern command had resigned and he was the one who was
00:24:53in charge of this and the reporting is, is that he wasn't comfortable with the mission
00:24:58and had been pushing back within the Pentagon.
00:24:59And do you think he would have resigned if everything was by the book?
00:25:03So we have 32 people that have been killed so far, seven individual strikes.
00:25:07We know that the Colombian president is alleging at least that an innocent fisherman was murdered.
00:25:12We know that there's a family from Trinidad who's saying that a member of their family was
00:25:17killed.
00:25:18And then it is really important that we have repatriated two people, one to Colombia, one to
00:25:23Ecuador, because that indicates that we don't have any evidence to prosecute them, that we
00:25:27didn't know who these guys were, because if you did have evidence, you would bring them before a
00:25:31court.
00:25:32And I know that you're going to make fun of me and I am prepared for it each and every
00:25:36day, but drug traffickers also have rights.
00:25:40The law applies.
00:25:42We should have the evidence, they should be charged with something and they should come
00:25:45before a court of law.
00:25:47And Rand Paul was on the Sunday shows this weekend and he said to Kristen Welker, when
00:25:51you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, which we are not, Congress with the war
00:25:55powers, you really need to know someone's name at least.
00:25:58You have to accuse them of something, you have to present evidence.
00:26:02So all these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime.
00:26:05They're also saying that it's about fentanyl and people who analyze the area are saying
00:26:11that there are drugs that go through, but it's mostly cocaine and marijuana that are headed
00:26:15actually to Europe and to Africa.
00:26:17So the government story is not adding up.
00:26:20And so that, that, this one, and I kind of wanted to, um, great comment.
00:26:29They were into education.
00:26:30They love music and helping us out.
00:26:31I mean, yeah, I mean, there always is that narrative about these kind of ne'er do well
00:26:35people sort of thing.
00:26:36And I think that's rather, I think there's an interesting, um, uh, an, an interesting sort
00:26:44of idea about, you know, the lack of evidence, the government's right.
00:26:51And I honestly thought it was interesting that this was on Fox news.
00:26:54And so I was kind of preparing for today's show and I watched this video.
00:26:58I was kind of like, I mean, this is an interesting thing to be on Fox news.
00:27:02This is an interesting thing that even Rand Paul's kind of like, Hey, maybe we should have
00:27:07a little bit more evidence, a little bit more information, you know, and we're basically
00:27:12doing, you know, sort of extrajudicial killing.
00:27:16Brian Allen here describes it as state sanctioned killing dressed up as counterterrorism.
00:27:20And they're hoping you don't ask why the courts were never involved, um, sort of thing.
00:27:26Um, it's a very interesting, you have sort of around the story, these three very interesting
00:27:31narratives.
00:27:32You have the Democrats saying, Hey, military, don't follow illegal orders, which one could
00:27:37describe as trying to undermine the military operation at a, at a level.
00:27:41You then have this idea that, Oh, we're trying to stop drug traffickers in the Caribbean.
00:27:46And these guys don't have, you know, any rights because they're drug traffickers and Oh, but
00:27:51wait, they do.
00:27:52And the evidence for all of this is rather weak anyway.
00:27:56And you have this very practical thing of being like, yeah, you know, shooting them twice
00:28:00was possibly illegal.
00:28:01You have all of these kind of different narratives around this story and to kind of sum it all
00:28:08up and bring it all together, which I don't think that, yeah, the next clip, that's a
00:28:11different, um, a different, but related thing from Fareed Zakaria.
00:28:16Um, this is a very interesting, perilous thing.
00:28:20And honestly, this is why, and this gets into the Fareed Zakaria clip.
00:28:23Now I know why this one is next.
00:28:24This is why when you have people, institutions, and you have divided power, that also brings
00:28:33accountability.
00:28:34Is it harder to get stuff done?
00:28:36Absolutely.
00:28:38Does it take more work to move things forward?
00:28:41Absolutely.
00:28:42Is our government more abundant due to a variety of factors, especially corporate donations
00:28:47and Congress people who spend all their time raising money?
00:28:50Also, yes.
00:28:53But the advantage is you also get accountability for these types of actions.
00:28:59You get, people get to set standards of what is and is not acceptable and what can and
00:29:04cannot be done.
00:29:05And the reality is we are, it appears, somewhat out of bounds, especially given that the authorizations
00:29:14for military force, AUFMs, from the global war on terrorism were canceled years ago.
00:29:20And now they're just doing this, you know, on, you know, without a lot of evidence on, you
00:29:28know, the kind of very odd legal situation that I'm sure can be solved and without a lot
00:29:35of evidence.
00:29:35And I think it's a very interesting, it's an interesting dynamic, it's an interesting
00:29:41problem.
00:29:42I don't necessarily think the Democrats have their messaging right on this.
00:29:46I think, you know, leading the charge with the video saying, oh, don't follow legal orders
00:29:52is maybe not so good.
00:29:53You perhaps need a different video kind of explaining what it was and what the liabilities
00:29:57and problems were.
00:29:59But unfortunately, them calling for the military not to follow legal orders is their addition
00:30:06to the conversation.
00:30:07And so now the narrative about this war on boats in the Caribbean, that's now the other
00:30:14half of it, which makes posts like Eric Daugherty saying, oh, this is a color revolution sort
00:30:18of thing, makes sense, narratively speaking, because Democrats don't lean the charge by saying
00:30:25this should not be happening, which actually gets into this clip from Fareed Zakaria, which
00:30:32I think is the cherry on top of this lovely dessert.
00:30:34We're not going to watch the whole thing, we're just going to watch the first bit.
00:30:37My friend replied, we're just following in America's footsteps.
00:30:49Didn't your Supreme Court rule that the president could kill his political opponent and yet be
00:30:54immune from prosecution?
00:30:57Welcome to America's new democratic export, the unchecked executive.
00:31:02If America's founding fathers were to come back and look at their legacy, what would
00:31:08stun them, without a doubt, is the modern presidency.
00:31:13They designed the American political system explicitly to fragment power.
00:31:18They were reacting against a monarch and the accumulation of all powers in the same hands.
00:31:24That's a quote from Federalist 47.
00:31:26They purposefully conceived of a decentralized and restrained executive, described in the
00:31:33notably brief Article 2.
00:31:35The presidency was an office for faithfully executing the laws, bounded by carefully constructed
00:31:42checks from the legislature and the judiciary.
00:31:45Congress, by contrast, was named the first branch of government, invested with a lion's share
00:31:51of authority, the powers to tax, spend, declare war, and regulate commerce.
00:31:57James Madison, the de facto author of the Constitution, explicitly acknowledged this fact in Federalist
00:32:0351, writing that in Republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.
00:32:12So, I will say, and this kind of makes the point, if you haven't gone and read Federalist 51, you need to, I have been meaning to make a video on Federalist 51 forever.
00:32:24Of all the Federalist papers making the arguments for the Constitution in the early republic, Federalist 51 is by and large and by far the most important.
00:32:32Um, so, I, yes, you should, of all of them, you should definitely go read Federalist 51.
00:32:39It is the most important.
00:32:41And, for the reason, the card clip is very well taken.
00:32:44The point of all of that is very, very simple.
00:32:47And it's this.
00:32:48That when power is decentralized, you tend to have a lot less of these problems.
00:32:53A lot of what we're seeing now is the very typical reaction to a regime that is moving in an authoritarian direction.
00:33:01What we're seeing now is the reaction to high concentrations of power and the lacking of institutional accountability that we're used to in this country.
00:33:10There has been conversations about the imperial presidency for a long time.
00:33:14This is not new, and this is a uniquely Trump problem.
00:33:17I would say Trump's contribution is that he's moving the bar rather quickly down the field sort of thing.
00:33:25You know, he's lowering it and shoving it down the field kind of at the same time.
00:33:30And so, now all these sort of very gnarly constitutional questions are starting to pop up.
00:33:35And the question at the center of them all is, does the Constitution still apply?
00:33:41Are we still following the shared rules, norms, and values?
00:33:45Trump certainly has not given a care about any norms.
00:33:50I think he does care about a certain set of values that happen to be very opposite from the party opposite.
00:33:56And so far, I think there's a lot of lip service being paid to the Constitution.
00:34:00But it's quite obvious coming out of this boat scandal, they kind of want to do what they want to do.
00:34:05And to be very honest, I think a lot of the outrage in our current society is because we're not used to that.
00:34:10We've had institutional transparency for so long.
00:34:13We've had other people involved for so long.
00:34:16It's required consent of others for so long that we're not used to dealing with an executive who comes in and just does stuff.
00:34:24Now, my MAGA colleagues would say, yeah, we're not.
00:34:28And that's a good thing.
00:34:29And thank God we're at a place where we can have that.
00:34:31And I would say, hmm, maybe not so fast.
00:34:38Let's call our friends in Eastern Europe and see how that's going.
00:34:41Let's call some of our friends in Asia and Africa and see how that's going.
00:34:46Living under a regime like that is really hard day to day.
00:34:51You know, it's not a fun thing to do.
00:34:53It makes interacting with the government in any capacity incredibly difficult.
00:34:58Ask anyone who lives in an HOA.
00:35:00Like, you don't necessarily want large concentrations, especially of national power.
00:35:06And, indeed, you know, with this, you know, in this situation, in this time, we have a lot of power and a lot of capability increasingly being consolidated into one person.
00:35:19And that's going to reset the expectations of the American presidency moving forward.
00:35:24Biden tried to bring back the norms and values from the pre-Trump era.
00:35:30Didn't really work.
00:35:32And he only lasted one term.
00:35:34So, obviously, people weren't necessarily too enthusiastic about that.
00:35:40The reality is in 2028, whoever wins is going to end up with a whole lot more power and a whole new set of norms that we are not used to dealing with.
00:35:54And whether we're looking at bombing boats in the Caribbean or tariffs over here or whatever have you, the reality of the American presidency is changing.
00:36:05And we're living under a national government that increasingly is not as small-D Democratic or small-R Republican as it used to be.
00:36:18And that puts our lives as Americans and the type of lifestyles we've gotten used to, the type of access to capital markets we've gotten used to, the type of economic situation we've gotten used to, in deep, deep peril.
00:36:34Those types of regimes are not exactly known for their robust economies, their wonderful economic growth, or much of anything else.
00:36:43They're known for a lot of stagnation, a lot of poverty, and a lot of other issues.
00:36:48And a lot of concentration of wealth in the hands of a connected few people.
00:36:54That's the road we're now heading down at a pretty nice clip.
00:36:58And that should give us all a great deal of pause.
00:37:02You should go watch the rest of this Fareed Zakaria clip.
00:37:05It's on YouTube and it's on his Twitter page.
00:37:09Because it's quite good.
00:37:10I love Fareed Zakaria.
00:37:11Don't always agree with him, but I like him.
00:37:13Let's move on from bombing boats in the Caribbean, because there's been a lot of time on that.
00:37:19Let's get into the latest updates on the Epstein situation.
00:37:24We do not have files yet.
00:37:26There's still days and weeks to go.
00:37:28I think the 20th of December is the final, final deadline.
00:37:31This guy, Representative James Comer, from Texas, is, oh, I'm sorry, no, he's from Kentucky.
00:37:41There's another guy with that name, I think from Texas.
00:37:44This guy's from Kentucky.
00:37:46And he is, this tweet is a bit disingenuous.
00:37:51They're trying to say that there was, you know, it was all the Democrats closing up with
00:37:56Jeffrey Epstein, and this guy has a fundraising email from Hakeem Jeffries to Epstein to prove
00:38:05that it was all the Democrats' fault when we don't have that evidence yet.
00:38:09Watch.
00:38:09We're going to watch 30 seconds of this.
00:38:11Let's watch.
00:38:12So let's read it to make sure.
00:38:15To Jeffrey Epstein, and that's the real Jeffrey Epstein, not Jasmine Crockett's Jeffrey Epstein.
00:38:23This is the real Jeffrey Epstein.
00:38:24From Hakeem Jeffries' campaign, Dear Jeffrey, we are thrilled that we are working with Congressman
00:38:32Hakeem Jeffries, one of the rising stars of the New York delegation, sometimes referred
00:38:36to as Brooklyn's Barack.
00:38:38Hakeem is committed to electing a Democrat majority in 2014 and is encouraging his friends
00:38:45to participate in a DCCC fundraising dinner with President Obama and Hakeem Jeffries.
00:38:50It ends with a number for Jeffrey Epstein to call to go to the dinner and, quote, get an
00:38:56opportunity to get to know Hakeem better.
00:39:02Here's the evidence.
00:39:04The email speaks for itself.
00:39:06It's a fundraising email.
00:39:11That email was sent out to a lot of people.
00:39:14I'm not, I don't have solid proof of that.
00:39:16It reads like a fundraising email.
00:39:18It doesn't read like a regular, ordinary, garden variety, you know, personal email or anything
00:39:29like that.
00:39:29It's a fundraising email.
00:39:31Epstein was well known to be a donor for Democrats and others.
00:39:38He gave a lot of money to politicians, which was definitely the nature of his business.
00:39:43That's why he's photographed with so many of them, is because he went to a lot of fundraising
00:39:47dinners.
00:39:47Um, so I, I would fully anticipate this, but I do, I do laugh that the narrative from, again,
00:39:54another MAGA and Texan AF, Patriot and the Deep State, military police supporter, god
00:40:00country family, um, type of account, and some of these are even, not even American, they ran
00:40:07from India for clicks and monetization.
00:40:09Um, uh, you know, is all posting, looks like this is some sort of, you know, big information
00:40:17figure thing out, drop, whatever have you.
00:40:19And it's not, it just, it just isn't.
00:40:23Um, and, uh, that, that is, it's a kind of sad, sad thing because the reality is when we
00:40:33get the actual files, not a fundraising email from the Jeffrey Epstein emails, which were a
00:40:39separate drop, not connected with what the DOJ is coming out with.
00:40:42We've had this information, Bloomberg wrote an article about it, I talked about it on
00:40:45this show, this isn't new.
00:40:48Um, when we get the actual DOJ investigation that actually points names and fingers, that
00:40:53will be actual interesting evidence, not whatever email some Congress critter, backbencher from
00:40:59Kentucky managed to figure out.
00:41:02The point being is, be careful when you see this stuff, be mindful of what it is, listen
00:41:08to it, and then most importantly, think and engage your brain.
00:41:12By the way, if you find something on social media that you don't understand or are trying
00:41:17to figure out more about, I love to take reader requests.
00:41:20So, make sure to shoot me an email, just email at CameronJournal.com, send that over to me,
00:41:27and then I will address it on the show, the next one that I do.
00:41:30So, um, I just wanted to stop here to say, yeah, this is cute, but it doesn't tell us
00:41:37anything.
00:41:38When the final Epstein files come out and we figure out the responsible parties, we can
00:41:42then prosecute them at this time.
00:41:44This is a bit disingenuous.
00:41:46This is just playing politics with it as a distraction.
00:41:49As one does, not saying that's a bad thing, as one does, that's how the game's played,
00:41:52but that's what it is.
00:41:53So, before you get all verklempt about the whole thing, let's make sure to remember to
00:41:58engage our brains.
00:41:59Because in this day and age, when you have these types of news narratives running around,
00:42:03and you have everyone trying to get a gotcha moment, or trying to shift public opinion,
00:42:08which can happen with a video that's already been viewed 80.7 thousand times, all this type
00:42:12of thing, you have to really learn how to think for yourself.
00:42:15You really have to engage your brain with what's happening here, otherwise you'll be angry
00:42:20all the time, which is great news for tech companies, and it's bad news for your mental
00:42:24health, and it's bad news for your understanding of the world, a sober understanding of the
00:42:28world going on around us, and that's what we're offering here at the Cameron Journal.
00:42:31Now, I want to get into our final kind of big story of the evening before we do some
00:42:37cleanup at the end, and this gets into, actually, I have these out of order.
00:42:42Let me start with the actual, the story story.
00:42:47So, um, this, uh, so the big story, and this has been promoted by Turning Point USA, um,
00:42:56this transgender professor failed a student for quoting the Bible in her essay.
00:43:03Professor Mel Kurth at the University of Oklahoma said, Samantha, uh, failed Samantha Kaye
00:43:07over quoting scripture in a essay about gender roles.
00:43:11This isn't quite true, and we actually have a copy of the paper, um, and this person says
00:43:20here, I would have failed, I was a team in women's studies, I taught two courses, I had
00:43:2465 students, my courses were writing intensive, I read her paper, I would have failed her too,
00:43:28this has nothing to do with the professor being transgender, she didn't engage in the article
00:43:31in question, she attempted to replace empirical evidence with theology, she continually restated
00:43:36religious dogma in a secular course, and lastly, she said many things that even a cis person
00:43:40would find to be discriminatory, she's allowed to disagree with the article, but if she wants
00:43:43good grades, she needs to engage with the course material, she needs to think critically about it.
00:43:47And we have screenshots of the paper in, in question, and it does have him, have, it does
00:43:56seem like she's going into, into all of, all of this, and quoting the Bible directly, um,
00:44:05rather than engaging with this article in a psychology course about gender roles, and, uh,
00:44:13her paper says here, this article is very thought-provoking and causing me to thoroughly
00:44:16evaluate the idea of gender roles, gender and the role it plays in our society, this,
00:44:20the article discussed peers using testing as a way to enforce gender norms, I didn't necessarily
00:44:24see this as a problem, God made male and female and made us differently from each other on purpose
00:44:29and for a purpose, God is very intentional with what he makes, and I believe trying to change
00:44:33that would only do more harm, gender roles and tendencies should be not considered stereotypes,
00:44:38women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with these womanly desires in our
00:44:41hearts, the same goes for men, God created men in the image of his courage and strength and he
00:44:46created women in the image of his beauty, he intentionally created women differently than
00:44:49men and should live our lives with that in mind, and it gets into this God making woman to be a
00:44:55helper and all this sort of normal, if you, if you've been to a church in the south in the last 35
00:45:01years, nothing she's saying here is surprising, um, and it says here, I do not think men and women
00:45:07are pressured to be more masculine or feminine, I strongly disagree with the idea that the article
00:45:11is that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions could improve students' confidence,
00:45:15society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone might be whatever they want
00:45:18to be is demonic and severely harms American youth, I do not want kids in school to be teased
00:45:23or bullied in school, however, pushing the lie that everyone has their own truth and everyone can do
00:45:27whatever they want and be whoever they want is not biblical whatsoever, the Bible says that our
00:45:31lives are not our own, that our lives and bodies belong to the Lord for his glory, I live my life
00:45:35based on this truth and firmly believe that there would be less gender issues and insecurities in
00:45:39children if they were raised knowing that they do not belong to themselves, they belong to the Lord.
00:45:45Again, I mean, none of this is surprising to me, I grew up with this, I get where she's coming from,
00:45:53and the reason I wanted to talk about this is because I kind of was this student, um, I was very
00:46:05conservative when I was in college, I went to a small, a relatively small school in a very, very red
00:46:14Republican area of the country, and this, um, this type of discussion and this sort of struggle in
00:46:25writing about stuff was not uncommon and that was almost 20 years ago, because I started in 2007
00:46:31and I graduated in 2009, it was college was a long time ago, um, and this was a thing back then,
00:46:38especially in a place like that where a girl like this who would just say, well, the Bible just
00:46:45doesn't tell me to do that, I'm sorry, it's Oklahoma, in the South, that's an acceptable answer,
00:46:50like, I, I get where she's coming from, but I also understand the professor being like, okay, well,
00:46:57that's not evidence, like, sorry, but that does not, I mean, and that probably doesn't even
00:47:04go with the academic standards of the department at, in Oklahoma, and so, and I was kind of like,
00:47:11huh, okay, let's look into this more, so the Oklahoma Freedom Caucus, um, has gotten involved
00:47:22in all of this, um, and are making a First Amendment issue, and so it says here, the University
00:47:28of Oklahoma says it's open an evaluation process and that is appropriate, but we should be honest
00:47:32about what their statement deliberately avoids, this is not just a process issue, a student
00:47:36at a taxpayer-funded university was given a zero because her biblical convictions offended
00:47:41an instructor, that is a First Amendment concern on its face, and OU does not need to wait for
00:47:45a review to affirm the principle, OU could say today without compromising any investigation,
00:47:51the students may not be penalized for sincerely held religious beliefs, the professors cannot
00:47:55grade on ideology, and the biblical reasoning is not disqualifying in a reaction paper, they
00:48:00did not say any of that, instead they relied on procedural language, isolated the problem
00:48:04to one graduate student, and avoided acknowledging the deeper issue, a culture where some faculty
00:48:08believe they can use state authority to punish dissenting worldviews, the reality is a review
00:48:13may resolve one incident, but it does not fix a system drifting away from the values of
00:48:17Oklahoma's people, integrity requires acknowledging the underlying problem, not just managing the optics,
00:48:22and this is, I, before I even read this this morning, I already knew the position that they were going
00:48:30to take, obviously Oklahoma Freedom Caucus is very conservative, they're supporting, you know,
00:48:35their MTG Lauren Boebert, the whole crew, um, and I laugh because, again, if you're from the South,
00:48:43saying, well, the Bible just doesn't, tells me not to do that, or that's not biblical, is a complete
00:48:48sentence, like, I get it, I get where they're going from, and, and they're, they're not wrong, if you
00:48:53stopped 10 Oklahomans in Tulsa on the street, and said, hey, the Bible told us not to do this, should
00:49:00we do it, I guarantee you 7 out of 10 would nod and say, nope, then we shouldn't do it, and tell you to
00:49:05have a nice day, and proceed on with their lives, um, the, the statement says here that, um, the, of, the
00:49:14college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student, college leaders
00:49:18contacted her on the day her letter was received, and have maintained regular communication throughout
00:49:21the process, as previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted, the process resulted
00:49:26in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments, second, the student
00:49:31reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate
00:49:34university office, OU has a clear process for reviewing each, for reviewing such claims, and it
00:49:39has been activated, the graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the
00:49:43finalization of this process to ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving
00:49:48as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester, OU remains firmly committed to
00:49:52fairness, respect, and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs.
00:49:58Um, and you can see my comment right there, quoting the Bible is not evidence, I was a student
00:50:03like her too, back in the day, and would have been failed, and rightly so. If you're gonna take that
00:50:09track on an issue like this, um, there's a way to do that. But you can't just be like, well, the Bible
00:50:19tells me that that just ain't right, and we're supposed to be this way. There's actually, there's a
00:50:23different way to approach that, where you can get that in, but you have to say it the right way, and you
00:50:29have to approach it the right way, to kind of get past people's natural aversion to it. And she didn't
00:50:35really try to do that. And I understand why the professor was kind of like, well, you're not quoting
00:50:40anything from the article, at least in the screenshots we saw. You're not explaining it beyond, well, the Bible
00:50:45just told us that's not the way it's supposed to be, sort of thing. That's, I mean, especially when you're a
00:50:50psychology major, and presumably going to become a therapist, and you may be having someone who's struggling
00:50:56with their gender identity walk into your office, or your practice, or your medical facility, or whatever have
00:51:02you. You've got to be able to, you know, understand that if they're a young person, you know, struggling
00:51:09with sexuality, or gender identity, to be able to handle that, and deal with that without, you know,
00:51:13just kind of dogmatically being stuck in a Bible sort of thing. And I'm not saying that's necessarily
00:51:18where she was going, but I think that's where the professor maybe was going, was to understand
00:51:25the psychology, because it was a psychology course, behind it all. And there was kind of this
00:51:32religious, you know, religious dogma sort of thing. And I haven't read the comments in a minute.
00:51:43It's like, delusional much? Theology was not relevant to the course. Oh well. Don't know what
00:51:48to tell you, Mary Sue. Yeah, like, I mean, yes. And I'm not going to read another comment,
00:51:55because that's an inside joke. But yes, I mean, that is, I mean, and again, I was the conservative
00:52:00student on campus who was doing this. I know where she's coming from. I get it. But the reality is,
00:52:05if you're going to be a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, or I'm sorry, a therapist, rather,
00:52:10you know, you're working in the psychology field, this is going to be something you're going to
00:52:14confront. And you can't just beat them over the head with a Bible. You've got to actually engage
00:52:17with it. And that's why, if she had been clever, she could have gotten her way in a very clever way,
00:52:25and gotten a good mark on the paper. But she's not that clever, you know, sort of thing. But you
00:52:30can't fall back into religious dogma in those moments. You have to engage, especially if you're
00:52:34going to be a therapist. Even a Christian therapist, I guarantee you, if you're a Christian therapist,
00:52:41people are going to walk into your office with gender expression issues, and sexuality expression
00:52:47issues. And even if you're engaging that from a biblical perspective, you have to understand that.
00:52:52And her failure to engage is the real reason why that paper didn't make it. And then finally,
00:53:00just to remind you how this whole thing was started, and why we're even talking about it,
00:53:05it has to do with the professor watch list as launched by Turning Point USA. Now,
00:53:12the way this person talks about it is a bit caustic, so forgive that. But it was reminding of the fact that
00:53:20Charlie Kirk launched the professor watch list, which is a blacklist that conservatives still
00:53:25use today to relentlessly harass professors and ruin their careers. Charlie Kirk didn't fight cancel
00:53:29culture. He professionalized it, monetized it, and weaponized it. If the left had created professor
00:53:34watch lists to target conservative professors, would Republicans still call it free speech, or would
00:53:38they be screaming censorship? Well, there's very few conservative professors, so we're never going to have
00:53:43to worry about that. But I wanted to save that to point out that the reason this is a national scandal
00:53:50and the reason we're talking about it is because of that right there. This was first promoted by a
00:53:56Turning Point USA Oklahoma University chapter. And that this sort of thing in academia has been going on
00:54:04for a while. It predates Turning Point USA sort of thing. The pot calling the callback. I mean, yeah, kind of.
00:54:12This tension between professors and like conservative or Christian students long predates
00:54:23Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk. There was a scandal several years ago. I need to do a special video on it.
00:54:29The University of Colorado at Boulder, which is very liberal, hired so they could have ideological
00:54:37diversity in their department, hired a conservative professor, and oh my god. It caused a huge scandal.
00:54:47I'm not saying that, you know, that this is, you know, all being handled the right way or all this
00:54:53type of thing. But we do end up with this kind of weird situation where people get targeted. New
00:55:00stories that would have not gotten national attention get national attention because of this. We need to
00:55:04kind of need to understand the system, you know, sort of behind all of this and why we're even
00:55:11talking about this sort of thing. And I'm not necessarily saying this is a bad thing. These sorts
00:55:15of stories come up from time to time and they're usually promoted by somebody for a certain political
00:55:19game. I think the interesting thing about this whole narrative is the idea that sincerely held
00:55:26religious beliefs are as valid in any given situation as anything else. And this gets into
00:55:37the bakers that don't want to make the cake for the gay couple. This gets into, you know, the wedding
00:55:45planner that doesn't want to work with the two gay dudes, the venue that refuses them. It essentially
00:55:50gets into a certain right to or to not discriminate based upon certain things. And there is this idea,
00:55:57particularly in the more red, more conservative America, that if that's just your biblical belief
00:56:03and all this sort of thing, then you should be able to discriminate people based on it. And
00:56:07I, I, I mean, I'm sorry, that doesn't carry much water with me. Um, especially if you are a professional,
00:56:16if you're a master's degree in psychology and you're going to be a therapist and helping people,
00:56:20um, you can send me to a different therapist that might be a better fit or whatever have you,
00:56:24but you shouldn't be able to just bludgeon your way with your religious dogma over someone's head.
00:56:29The same thing with a lot of these other cases. I've owned small businesses with physical locations,
00:56:34um, and I do believe in the small business person's right to be able to, uh, refuse business to any
00:56:41person they don't want to do, want to do business with. Um, I think it should be done in a very polite
00:56:47way as possible. If the professor really wanted to help this student, I would have taken some time
00:56:53before the failing grade to sit down and be kind of like, you can make your point, but you've got
00:56:59to be clever. You know, and sometimes you don't necessarily have time to do that in a big graduate
00:57:04seminar. If you have a lot of students, you don't have time to do that, but that was a different way
00:57:08to handle this. Unfortunately, it's now turned into a national scandal. Turning Point USA is definitely
00:57:12a part of that. No surprise there. They've been doing this for a while. This type of story has been popping
00:57:16out time and again for 20 years. Um, I'm very sympathetic to the girl who wrote the paper. Don't
00:57:22misinterpret this that I think she's terrible, whatever have you. I'm very sympathetic to her
00:57:26cause cause I was that student at one time too. I grew up in a world where the Bible said it. We
00:57:32shouldn't do it. That's say nothing more. That's all I needed to hear. Um, there's a way to do it.
00:57:38That's clever. She failed to be clever. Um, unfortunately this professor is being targeted
00:57:43because they're trans and it was a paper about gender identity. It's the perfect storm. It's the
00:57:49perfect situation to unfortunately have this story be, um, taken advantage of by a certain news
00:57:58narrative. Both sides are guilty of this sort of thing. This is how our news politics are now.
00:58:04It sucks. It does. But you know what? It keeps us here every Monday night talking about it. And I think
00:58:11there's some value in, in having these discussions and really understanding what free speech actually
00:58:17means from a practical perspective. Um, what our expectations of institutions are, what our
00:58:22expectations of people are. Um, I think you also have to understand this is set in a secular setting.
00:58:27I grew up in Christian schools. Um, that's okay at a Christian university or college. And perhaps you
00:58:32should have been pursuing a graduate degree at one of those institutions. There are many.
00:58:36Um, she could have gone to Brigham Young in Utah. Um, or she could have gone to Oral Roberts,
00:58:42which is just down the road from OU, by the way. She could have gone to Oral Roberts and done the
00:58:47same thing and she would have been fine. Um, you know, to keep talking and understanding what this
00:58:53means in practical terms, but also to understand that people are going to get targeted for this
00:58:57stuff increasingly. And this is part of a lot of the social changes we're seeing, uh, in America today.
00:59:04And I think that's of, of vital importance, um, to, to, to us, to us all. Um, I want to wrap up
00:59:12quickly with a couple fluff stories. One, this is funny. Uh, Gen G shoppers aren't spending like
00:59:19retailers need them to. And I, when I saw this this morning, I laughed out loud because they said the
00:59:29same thing about millennials. They're not buying napkins. They're not buying this. They're not buying that.
00:59:34They're not buying houses. They're not buying. Well, who has money and jobs? Like it says here,
00:59:39more than other generations, 20 somethings are tightening their holiday season budgets because
00:59:43of economic pressures because they don't have any money. And if you want to find out why Gen Z
00:59:50doesn't have any money and millennials don't have a lot of money, you need to check out my new book,
00:59:55America's Lost Generation. Um, in fact, I think I have it right here. Um, America's Lost Generation,
01:00:04right here. Um, you need to check this book out simply because, um, the reason why Gen Z does not
01:00:10have any money and isn't spending the shopping season is because of the economic factors contained
01:00:15within this book. It looks at this problem through the lens of Japan and it is, this is the story
01:00:21behind this headline. And, and I just kind of laugh because they're doing it again. They're doing it
01:00:27again. Millennials went through this same dumb stuff and they're doing it to Gen Z. It's spend,
01:00:34spend, spend, spend, make the economy work. It's like, will you pay us good wages? Will you make
01:00:39jobs available? Well, no. Well then what are we supposed to spend? They never have an answer for
01:00:45that. This is the story behind it. I wanted to stop and mention that story mostly because I could
01:00:50mention my book. But also to be outraged, um, that this was happening again to Gen Z. And Gen Z,
01:00:59I feel so sorry for you. Um, because this definitely sucks. And thank you, Tyrone, for buying the book.
01:01:08I appreciate every single order. There's a lot of great people who bought the book lately and I
01:01:12appreciate everybody who's buying. If you want to pick up a copy yourself, you can head over to Amazon.
01:01:17You can also head right to CameronJournal.com and click on Shop Cameron's Books. It's right at the
01:01:23top. It's the big long one, Shop Cameron's Books. And you can place an order with me directly as well.
01:01:27I love direct orders because I make more money. Um, but you can also get it on Amazon. It's on
01:01:32Kindle Unlimited, all that type of thing. And it's great for the holiday season. So make sure to check
01:01:36that out. Um, the other one I also love, we have the, uh, the Christmas, um, uh, the Christmas video
01:01:45from, uh, Melania Trump, um, and what the White House is going to look like for Christmas this year.
01:01:52Um, so I just kind of wanted to gloss over that because Benny Johnson was trying to say that Jill
01:01:57Biden's tap dancing, multiracial holiday extravaganza was bad and that Melania was bringing
01:02:03class back to the White House sort of thing. Um, you know, again, a completely dumb narrative.
01:02:12But I thought we would look at what the Christmas thing was doing and happening and all this sort of
01:02:18thing. Um, it looks cute. It looks fine. It's, it's very typical hairstyle. It's very stressed.
01:02:25It's very dressed down. It's very simple. Not a lot of muss and fuss. Um, I mean,
01:02:31this is the woman who doesn't really care about any of this stuff. So I didn't expect an extraordinary
01:02:35effort, but here we go with the gingerbread house and the little holy family and all this sort of
01:02:42thing. So they released this video today for the White House. So I thought that'd be a fun thing
01:02:49to just kind of look at and dash by, um, on the way thing. This is a big foreign policy discussion
01:02:55about Japan and I will save that for the newsletter. Um, because we're not getting into that right now.
01:03:01And also they're selling off all the art, um, and murals. Um, and we'll, we'll talk about that in the
01:03:06newsletter or next week. So, um, yeah, so it's, it's fun. We have fun here. Um, my name is Cameron
01:03:14Cowan. This is the Cameron Journal News Hour. We're here every Monday at seven. Please catch me online
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