Chucky Schumer Is Proud To be America LAST!? - Scrolling w/ Hayley (Ep. 244)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Scrolling with Hayley

Episode 244: “Chucky Schumer Is Proud To Be America LAST!?”

Host: Hayley Caronia
Date: February 26, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Hayley Caronia delivers her trademark conservative take on the news cycle, focusing on Democratic reactions to President Trump’s marathon State of the Union, Democratic leaders’ controversial stances, local California controversies, and recent developments in healthcare and culture wars. With sharp critiques, humor, and cultural commentary, Hayley dissects headlines ranging from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s post-SOTU spin to California's ongoing dysfunction, knee pad jokes from Gavin Newsom, cultural skirmishes over whole milk, and Vanderbilt Medical Center’s dramatic end to adult gender-affirming surgeries.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Democrats' Response to Trump's State of the Union

[00:29 – 04:17]

• Hayley sets the stage with Trump’s 1 hour 48 minutes State of the Union, commending his energy compared to past presidents.
• Focuses on Trump's dramatic challenge: “Stand if you believe American citizens should come first.” Democrats refused.
• Quote:

  “Come on. This is not a hard question to answer. The answer should be obvious. Your allegiance should be obvious.” – Hayley Caronia [01:34]

• Chuck Schumer defends Democrats not standing, criticizing ICE as “reckless.”
  • Quote:

    “So, yes, we want to protect Americans. [Trump’s] not doing it…so it was legitimate and right not to stand.” – Chuck Schumer [03:34]

• Hayley rebukes Schumer’s ICE criticism, referencing deaths of activists:

  “It’s pretty easy to not get killed by law enforcement…just abide by the laws on the books.” [05:05]

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2. Pelosi & “America Last” Attitude

[06:45 – 07:10, 07:19 – 08:01]

• Pelosi criticizes Trump for focusing on American patriotism instead of Ukraine.
• Hayley points out inconsistency: Democrats champion Ukraine publicly, but can’t support American victims.
  • Quote:

    “They’re angered by President Trump making America a great place again…they're angered by his patriotism.” – Hayley [08:01]

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3. Media Narratives and Misrepresentation

[12:34 – 13:07]

• Hayley plays CNN/ABC commentary claiming Trump “snubbed” Justice Barrett at the SOTU, then immediately debunks it with video proof.
  • Quote:

    “We have the proof…That is a false reality that they concocted in their Trump deranged brains.” [13:07]

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4. CNN’s Post-SOTU Poll: Positive Response

[16:08 – 17:11]

• CNN forced to acknowledge viewer support for Trump’s agenda:
  • 64% say Trump’s policies “move the US in the right direction” (up 10 points post-speech).
• Hayley discusses the "Trump effect" at rallies and the power of his communication:
  • Quote:

    “President Trump is a master communicator and people really respond to it and they like what they hear.” [17:11]

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5. Patriotism vs. Left-Wing Cynicism

[17:56 – 18:31]

• Hayley highlights 10-year-old Everest New Vermont, a SOTU guest, representing youthful optimism and patriotism, in contrast to dour Democratic leaders.
• Celebrates kids chanting “USA!” for the men’s hockey team, reflecting hope for the country’s future.

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6. Gavin Newsom's "Knee Pads" Stunt

[24:05 – 27:53]

• Newsom’s ongoing knee pads joke (red knee pads with Trump’s signature), virtue signaling on global and NYC stages.
• Hayley ridicules the sexual innuendo and questions who would buy such merchandise:
  • Quote:

    “Gavin Newsom says that they're sold out, but he's just using them all for himself…he's probably projecting as Democrats do.” [27:04]

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7. California: Disaster and Dysfunction

A. Pacific Palisades Fire Fallout

[27:53 – 34:20]

• Fire victims charged “brush clearance” fees despite nothing left on their lots.
• Hayley criticizes California’s city policies, mockingly comparing government to a bad HOA.
• Lawsuit: Former LA Fire Chief versus Mayor Karen Bass over fire mismanagement and staff cuts.
  • Quote:

    “...they're making the American citizens whose houses burned down pay to make it all clean and nice, and then they're going to...make housing for all the illegals that they let in.” [31:53]

B. Registered Sex Offender Running for Office

[34:20 – 38:41]

• Coverage of Fresno candidate with a conviction for possession of child sex abuse materials.
• Hayley decries the normalization (“MAPs,” minor-attracted persons), warning of Democrat leniency.

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8. Culture Wars: Whole Milk, Crime, and Schools

A. Portland: "Whole Milk Is White Supremacy"

[38:41 – 42:06]

• Rep. Maxine Dexter links whole milk, RFK Jr.’s food recommendations, and white supremacy in a counter-SOTU protest.
  • Quote:

    “Please ask for the science-based regimens…whatever whole milk, white supremacy, dog whistling…” – Maxine Dexter [40:00]

• Hayley lampoons the logic, drawing links back to food industry corruption and government nutrition guidelines.

B. CVS Store Closes Amid Crimewave

[42:19 – 45:29]

• Reports on Portland CVS shutting down due to crime, Hayley’s “locked up” shopping experience in blue cities.
  • Quote:

    “If you go to a CVS… in a blue city, you will see… you can't get anything without having to push a button, ask for assistance. It’s ridiculous.” [43:07]

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9. Nashville & Transgender Medical Care

[55:49 – 59:17]

• Vanderbilt Medical Center ends all gender-affirming surgeries for adults (minors banned since 2022).
• Hayley acknowledges activists’ frustration, contending the root issue is untreated mental illness, not lack of surgery.
  • Quote:

    “The issue is the mental illness doesn’t go away…nothing you can do to your body surgically…will get you to your destination.” [59:06–59:17]

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10. Quick Hits & Cultural Commentary

A. Taylor Swift's “Songwriting”

[50:34 – 55:49]

• Hilary Duff compares Taylor Swift’s cultural impact to Christ; Hayley sarcastically recites Swift’s lyrics to mock the claim.
  • Quote:

    “Why are we pretending that Taylor Swift invented thoughtful songwriting? … That’s the songwriter of our generation, apparently before and after Taylor Swift. I’m not buying it, and I think it’s demonic.” [54:33]

B. Social Media & “Trans Euphoria”

[60:53 – 62:20]

• Reaction to a viral clip of a transgender individual claiming catcalling as proof of “passing,” but displaying contradictory feelings in the video.

C. “Everything Is Political”

[62:20 – 65:21]

• Hayley mocks the left’s claim that “working out is political” and “exercise has white supremacist origins,” citing previous Time Magazine coverage.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Republicans are so staunchly America First…How do we make us strong again on the world stage? President Trump is doing those things. He’s making America a great place to live again.” – Hayley Caronia [08:01]
• “Their knee-jerk reaction is to assume the worst of President Trump…That was not the reality playing out in real time for viewers.” – Hayley [13:07]
• "Everything healthy is white supremacy. Whole milk, back squats, everything is white supremacy." – Hayley [63:24]
• “Gavin Newsom…it's obvious he has ulterior motives…he's running in 2028. Why else would he be selling this kind of merch?” – Hayley [27:04]
• “Once a freak, always a freak…And do you think that Democrats will vote for a known pedophile? If there's a D next to his name, they're all in.” – Hayley [37:37]
• "It's pretty easy to not get killed by law enforcement...abide by the laws on the books." – Hayley [05:05]
• “Do not get me started on the song she wrote about Travis Kelsey’s genitalia…let me know if you think that all of that songwriting is worthy of Before Christ. After Christ. Because I’m not buying it.” – Hayley [54:33]

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Important Timestamps

• [00:29] – Episode theme & main stories preview
• [03:34] – Chuck Schumer explains Democrats’ non-stance at SOTU
• [06:45] – Pelosi’s slurred post-SOTU Ukraine comments
• [12:34] – Media “fact-checks” Trump’s handshakes
• [14:17] – Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls SOTU an “award show”
• [16:08] – CNN’s positive polling on Trump SOTU
• [24:05] – Gavin Newsom’s “knee pad” campaign
• [27:53] – Palisades fire victims fined for “brush clearance”
• [34:20] – Registered sex offender runs for public office
• [38:41] – Portland Rep. says “whole milk is white supremacist”
• [42:19] – CVS closes in downtown Portland due to crime
• [55:49] – Vanderbilt bans adult gender-affirming surgeries
• [60:53] – “Trans euphoria” and the validation cycle
• [62:20] – “Working out is political”
• [65:21] – Show’s lighter end: viral videos and closing remarks

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Tone & Language

• Candor, biting wit, and overt conservatism shape Hayley’s commentary.
• Frequent sarcasm and mockery of Democratic talking points.
• Invokes cultural callbacks (“America First,” “virtue signaling,” “Trump derangement syndrome”) and direct engagement with the podcast chat audience.

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Conclusion

This episode encapsulates Hayley's unapologetically conservative analysis, covering political theater and cultural conflicts with a lively blend of critique and humor. From dissecting media spin to lampooning progressive causes and celebrating traditional American values, Hayley delivers a thorough conservative roundup for listeners who want opinionated, punchy commentary on the news of the day.

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[Haley Karania]

Welcome to Scrolling with Haley. I am Haley Car. Thank you for being here. This is my housekeeping that I do off the top of the show every day. You might be watching on a different platform. Right now we only get little clips. The only place to watch in full is on rumble so rumble.com Haley brings you to the bunch, you know, report channel. Make sure that you are subscribed if you haven't already. I know everyone scrolling in the chat has already gotten that done. So I applaud all of you and that's the only way that you can scroll with everyone live. So I get that. If you can't watch live at noon Eastern or almost noon eastern, that is a okay. You can watch whenever you want or listen on your favorite podcast platform. And all I ask is that you tell a friend so Chuck Schumer was pressed on all of that Democrat virtue signaling at the State of the Union and he has no regrets. Also, Gavin Newsom's obsession with with knee pads is getting to a concerning point. I think he might be projecting. Also, LA Mayor Karen Bass is being sued by the former fire chief over her mishandling of the Palisades fire. This all comes by the way as fire victims are being charged for brush control by the city despite having no brush or anything on their properties. And Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Medical center is finally halting transgender surgeries. They banned them for minors back in 2022. They are just banning it for adults now. Inside the Reasons why and so much more. Put your phones on. Do not disturb Scrolling with Haley starts right now. So Democrats are still reeling from President Trump's marathon State of the Union speech. Again, it was an hour and 48min. Absolutely clearing the competition. Bill Clinton was, you know, somewhere an hour and 29 minutes. So President Trump is in the lead, as he is with most things, but they are still virtue signaling and defending the indefensible. Remember, President Trump asked the room stand if you think that American citizens should come first, before illegal immigrants. And all of the Democrats were just parked. They parked their booties down on their seats. They did not get up. Come on. This is not a hard question to answer. The answer should be obvious. Your allegiance should be obvious. I mean, you, you swear on a Bible, you say that you're going to defend your, you're going to uphold the Constitution, you're going to protect the interests of your constituents. And I guess Democrats, that's just a tall order for them. I don't know why they can't get it done, but they can't. And the Democrats will just defy Trump always. That's the name of the game. So no matter what President Trump said, hey, stand if you stand. If the sky is blue, they probably would stay sitting anyway. And you know, Chuck Schumer, he said that sitting during this moment was the right decision. Here he is defending the indefensible watch.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Is it what should be asked? Bottom line is very simple. We agree we need to protect Americans. He's not. By his reckless ICE agency in Minnesota, two Americans were killed. Americans are being pulled out of their cars and beaten. Americans houses, the doors are being knocked down, you know, without a warrant. And no other police department in America run by Americans has, has done what ICE has done. So, yes, we want to protect Americans. He's not doing it. And that's why the American people are against what ICE is doing. So it was legitimate and right not to stand.

[Haley Karania]

It was legitimate and right not to stand. Of course, they point to ICE as if this is Trump's secret police. They love hearkening back to that Nazi Germany era terminology. As if this isn't a longstanding agency that's deported illegals in every administration, including Obama's, which deported 3 million. And they didn't complain then. Democrats weren't agitating ICE agents and poking the bear and filming their every move and doxing them and threatening them. Under any other administration, just Trumps. And this is the Democrat leader. He has no regrets about sitting and putting illegals ahead of American citizens. He claims that Trump is killing Americans. No. Renee Good and Alex Preddy got themselves shot. You could protest peacefully and make it home safely. That's not what they did. They were not just legally observing the situation. Renee Goode drove her car into agents after ignoring their many warnings and commands. She threatened their lives and they took hers out of fear. It didn't have to be that way. It was a tense situation. It didn't have to end the way that it did. If she didn't insert herself into ICE efforts and defied those orders from law enforcement. Renee Good would probably still be here today. Same with Alex Preddy. He spent weeks agitating ICE officers and going so far to attack their vehicles, to get in their faces and obstruct their duties. Alex Prady didn't have to die either. And Democrats cannot come to terms with that reality. It's pretty easy to not get killed by law enforcement. It's pretty easy to not even have to deal with law enforcement so long as you just abide by the laws on the books. These American citizens have been lied to about ice. They feel like they are defending these victims, helpless victims, and they're helping by making themselves human shields for whatever reason. All of these deaths, totally preventable. And for the illegals, you know, them being detained, deported, having their houses searched and all that, that's also totally preventable, by the way. So Chuck Schumer defends the Democrats antics and Nancy Pelosi is up to her old antics as well. I don't know what it is about Democrat women. You know, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala, they sound drunk. And Tuesday night was no different. Here's Nancy Pelosi on the news following Trump's address that she may or may not have pre gamed. Listen,

[Nancy Pelosi]

some foreign policy after drifting and all the rest. Some foreign policy. Did he spend a sentence and a half on Ukraine where democracy is at stake, where the American people want us to be there on the side of democracy.

[Haley Karania]

And it's the four year anniversary of the invasion today.

[Nancy Pelosi]

Today is the four year anniversary. You think he would have risen to the occasion, but his occasion, as I said in that picture in the.

[Haley Karania]

Yeah. Why are we talking about Ukraine? It's so weird. Do you guys have video 1.5 the. Let's play that one. This is where. Where she sounds really like her speech is very slurred.

So thank you so much for joining us.

You have sat through a great number

of State of the Union addresses, some of them behind the president. What was your reaction to what you heard this evening?

[Nancy Pelosi]

Well, first let me say that I think that Governor Spamberger did a remarkable job just insisting on the truth, which is what we have to do when we're dealing with this president. I thought the speech was lazy. You know, it's one thing to acknowledge patriotism and people getting well and everything when you have absolutely nothing to do with their courage or the rest, but you spend an hour and a half doing it. What is the state of the nation?

[Haley Karania]

Trump just spent way too long being patriotic. He spent way too long loving his country. How dare he? How dare he? This is what I was saying yesterday. The stark difference between America first and America last. The Republicans are so staunchly America First. That's all of our policies really hearken back to how do we make America great for everyone? How do we bring back manufacturing to America? How do we make us strong again on the world stage? How do we make sure that we're not getting ripped off on the world stage? And President Trump is doing those things. He's. He's making sure that we are strong again on the world stage. And not only that, that living in America day by day is safer. He made crime a huge policy platform this time around. Trump 2.0 crime and this crackdown. I mean, again, this was. The left was all upset about this, too. I mean, how dare President Trump clean up crime? But I think it's interesting that the Democrats, they're angered by his patriotism, they're angered by President Trump making America a great place to live again. And then I just think it's odd that Nancy Pelosi brought up Ukraine again. They're all wearing Ukraine pins on their lapels, which we talked about yesterday, but they couldn't stand for the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered in Charlotte. So what Nancy Pelosi is saying is total nonsense. You can't tell me that Ukraine is still top of mind for Democrats. That was so last year or the year before. The year before that. Zelensky stopped pedaling for money as soon as Biden left office. And Nancy Pelosi didn't just sound drunk, she also looked at this went viral. Watch this now. 5%, then they're paid. And everything we send over to Ukraine is sent through NATO. And they pay us in full. They pay us totally in full. Every branch of our armed forces is setting records for recruitment. This is so exciting. And every service member recently. Maybe she was just tired. I mean, I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. It seems like she's drunk, but maybe she's just tired. When did the speech end? Like 11pm 10:45, 10:48. It's not that bad. It's not that bad if Joe Biden can stay up. Where was Joe Biden, by the way? Was he there?

Not that I saw. I don't know.

That's weird. Is it not?

Or I guess that's like way past his bedtime.

No, I know that, but is that typical? I don't even remember if former presidents go to this thing or if they don't I guess they don't probably.

I mean, I'm no expert. I would guess if they're not holding office or invited. Huh, we're on the case.

Makes you think.

I got the research team on it.

All right, Our research team. Andy number two is on it. So we'll see if it's typical for presidents, former presidents, to go, but. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. Joe Biden, he must be, you know, sleeping or someone in the chat said. Why would a former president be there? I don't know. It seems like it's a who's who of American politics. Like, why not everyone else is there. I don't know. Anyway, he was probably having a very nice night in his retirement. Maybe he was on the beach somewhere. Maybe he was having some ice cream. So whatever. Whatever he was doing, I'm sure he was happy. But the GOP X account posted this, which I thought was absolutely hilarious. This is Nancy Pelosi's pov. Allegedly. Allegedly. For legal reasons. This is a joke. Very spinny. Tunnel vision view of the room, the chamber. Yeah, this is probably exactly what she was seeing. Especially when we play that video of Nancy and her. Her eye is kind of drooping. One eye is half open, the other's closed. I don't know. It's not looking so good for her, I don't think. And if the Democrats lips are moving, we can assume that they are lying. And we can assume the same for the mainstream media. On abc, David Muir and Jonathan Karl didn't want you to believe your own eyes. They couldn't even believe their own. Here they are claiming that President Trump snubbed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, even though he didn't. And we can all see it. Watch. Priest was seated.

[Reporter/Guest]

We just saw the President obviously shake the Chief Justice's hand. There's Justice Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett. Of course, he chose Amy Coney Barrett for the bench.

[Haley Karania]

Was seated. Kavanaugh obviously shakes the hand.

[Reporter/Guest]

There's justice just shook her hand.

[Haley Karania]

We have the proof.

[Reporter/Guest]

Justice's hand. There's Justice Elena Kagan. We just saw the President obviously shake the Chief Justice's hand.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

There's.

[Haley Karania]

So there's the proof. Do you have the rest of the video where you have Jonathan Karl and David Muir that are saying, well, Trump snubbed Amy Comey, Amy Coni Barrett. He didn't even shake her hand. What are you talking about? I mean, you're crazy. You're just crazy. They're. They're lying. And I feel like their knee jerk reaction is to assume the worst of President Trump that he snubbed Andy Coney Barrett because she didn't vote the way that Trump wanted to on some issue or some case or what have you. They let their minds wander to that place. That was not the reality playing out in real time for viewers. That is a false reality that they concocted in their Trump deranged brains. The same way that Trump Chuck Schumer defended his poor behavior by sitting for illegals instead of standing for Americans. Here is Debbie Wasserman Schultz on News Nation directly after calling President Trump's State of the Union an award show. Listen, heckling the President and now you calling handing out the congressional or awarding

[CNN Panelist]

a Congressional Medal of Honor to undoubtedly

[Haley Karania]

a heroic helicopter pilot and then a fighter pilot an award show. I'm wondering if the President could have

[CNN Panelist]

said anything that you'd be okay with.

[Haley Karania]

There are numerous times that I stood up during his speech and I stood up for each of the individuals whose valor was worthy of the praise that he met it out. But I can tell you why call

[CNN Panelist]

it an award show and be so dismissive.

[Haley Karania]

I brought a guest tonight. I, because I brought in a guest tonight from my district. Really? Thank goodness Leland Vitter called her out. What do you mean it's an award show? If it was an award show, every joke would have been made at Trump's expense. That's, that's how we know it would have been a left wing award show. Some celebrity would be putting on some satanic performance and elites would be patting themselves on the back. That's what award shows are these days. So no, the State of the Union was not an award show but a time honored tradition in which the President of the United States honors certain guests. And this year's guests were more deserving of those honors. Military heroes being honored. And in that moment, Debbie Wasserman Schultz could have backed down, but instead she doubled down and then she started kind of rambling, coming up with some kind of an excuse, but she didn't really have one. Like, oh well I, I brought a guest so that you brought a guest and that's why it's an award show. That makes no sense. And how is what President Trump did any different than what Biden or any other Democrat presidents have done in terms of honoring people? It's not like President Trump reinvented the wheel by having special guests. But over on cnn, they were forced to report that viewers liked what they heard from the President of the United States.

[CNN Panelist]

Watch among speechwatchers tonight, 64% say his policies will move the US in the right direction. And look at the growth President Trump made over the speech. So pre speech it was 54% of speech watchers said his policies will move the US in the right direction. After the speech, that number goes up 10 percentage points. So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself. And that 64% number, that's pretty much in range across all of his State of the Union addresses in his first term last year, the joint session, that's about what we've seen is roughly 2/3 have walked away from his speeches thinking he's going to move it in the right direction.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

So a lot of red meat for the base.

[CNN Panelist]

Yeah, there's no, no doubt about that. I, if you're a Republican on the ballot in 2026, I think you leave this speech being as happy as you could possibly be that he sort of stuck to the script on the economy and he gave the red meat to the base on immigration. And they can leave the hall tonight and sort of take that out on the campaign trail.

[Haley Karania]

This is the Trump effect. It's the Trump effect. If you've ever been to a Trump rally and maybe some people in the chat have, and if you have, let me know if you have felt this experience as well. But it is a very moving experience, especially when you're in a room packed full of people, like minded people. President Trump starts speaking, you can feel the energy. It is palpable. You can almost feel it like the, the rally that I went to was indoors. So you could kind of feel like the, all of the movement on the floor, like everyone's feet and you could just feel the energy. It's kind of hard to describe. And maybe it feels different when you see him in a field or in an outdoor venue, but especially when you're indoors and you're just in this contained space, there's just something very moving about it. And then, not to mention just President Trump in general is very moving when he speaks and he's real and he's genuine. And when he speaks and he cracks jokes, people, they respond to that in such a positive way. President Trump is a master communicator and people really respond to it and they like what they hear. And especially with his State of the Union address this week, it was so effective. He had so many good things to talk about, too. It's not like Biden or someone in the past where they didn't really get anything done. I mean, President Trump has done so much, he's pissed off the liberals quite a bit. But you know, to the CNN panel's point about giving the base some red meat, I mean, he really did. It was everything that we voted for, we have gotten. And this was President Trump's moment to really bring it home. And he was able to kind of pat himself on the back and say, yeah, this is what we were able to deliver in just this first year. And look how great it is. Look how much better America is, look how much better we are for it. And I think that that's really special. And it's gotta hurt CNN when they're forced to read the facts and admit that voters indeed voted for everything that President Trump was proclaiming on Tuesday night. They hate to admit that people who voted for Trump don't actually have the buyer's remorse, as some Democrats claim. And CNN was also served a pint sized reality check when they had on first lady Melania Trump, special guest for an interview. This is 10 year old student AI advocate Everest, New Vermont. And this is what she had to say about the State of the Union watch. It was incredible to be there and like see everybody, see the president talking like these are like almost all the most important people in politics these days. And I was like right there in the middle of it and it was amazing. She's so cute, isn't she? The cutest. With her little purple blazer. She looks great, she's well spoken, she's excited. Absolutely gushing over her experience at the State of the Union. And why wouldn't she? I mean, that's such an amazing experience, especially to say that you've been invited to the State of the union at 11 years old. That means you're doing something right. Right. If you've gotten the attention of your teachers and your community and the first lady of the United States, let alone that, I mean, that's a pretty huge accomplishment. And she's just so grateful to be surrounded by the biggest names in politics. While adult Democrats scowled and protested and stomped their feet and hung out with criminals and the Portland flag frog brigade and other Trump deranged celebrities, this 10 year old or 11 year old was the real adult in the room. So I just have to say, well spoken, just inspiring. And bravo to her parents for raising such a wise and gracious and polite young lady. She is going places the Democrats are not. But there were a lot of other young boys also inspired by the State of the Union, specifically the US Gold medalists who were honored. And here they are engaging in their own usa usa. USA Chant. Just like their role models. Watch. They're all cheering for the men's hockey team. So excited. Usa. I love it. I love to see this. I just, I saw this video on my timeline. It brought a smile to my face because we see so much negativity about kids in school than being indoctrinated by woke teachers. And then this clip just kind of reminds me of my childhood when none of that was happening. You weren't talking about politics in school. There wasn't some secret agenda. We learned about America in school, but from a lens that didn't hate America. Hating America wasn't even a topic of conversation. And this video gives me hope there. There are more conservatives procreating than there are liberals, right. Who can raise their kids to love the country and will grow up to be patriots. February has a way of separating good intentions from the real habits, right? January comes in strong and then real life pushes back. 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[Haley Karania]

All right, we need to talk about Gavin Newsome's obsession with knee pads. This is some kind of a joke that he thinks is funny, but he's beating a dead horse. So at the World Economic Forum last month, Gavin Newsome debuted his knee pads for CEOs that were kneeling to Trump or sucking up to Trump. So look at this. He's here on the world stage and he's got these knee pads that he thinks is funny. He's throwing them out to people, and they're. There are these red knee pads, and he has Donald Trump's signature on them. So he's doing this little virtue signal thing, which is so embarrassing. Just, just to think there's, you know, this meeting of world leaders and, and you're making this kind of, like, sexual joke and you're disparaging the President of the United States. Just makes you look really dumb. So he seems to think that this joke, or it is a joke, I guess that he's going to keep running with it despite being a total embarrassment on the world stage. So then he posted this and he's. He's still going with it. He's right outside Trump Tower. He's got a whole truckload of these. Donald Trump signed red knee pads. What the heck do you have his tweet, what he said? Wow. Stopped. Stopped by after Don's big speech. Trump's signature knee pads now in Trump Tower nyc. Just such a loser. Insinuating that Trump is selling these in his own Trump Tower. And I think this is pretty key because it's obvious that Gavin Newsom has ulterior motives. He's. He's running in 2028. Just because he hasn't officially thrown his hat in the ring doesn't mean that he's not gearing up for that. Because why else would he be selling this kind of merch? Why else would he be virtue signaling like this? Unless he's concerned that come 2028, he won't have a job and he'll be broke. I can't imagine that. But I don't know if the knee pad grifter industry is hiring, but Gavin Newsome sure is trying to make a good impression. And my question is, do people think that this is funny? And if so, who is actually buying a pair of Donald Trump signed knee pads? And when I say Donald Trump signed knee pad, obviously he didn't sign them. That's fake. But Gavin Newsom claims that he's selling these knee pads are for sale and that they've sold out. Like, to who? Show yourselves. If you've purchased a pair of fake Donald Trump signed knee pads from Gavin Newsom. I, I need photo evidence. I need a photo of you wearing them. Actually embarrass yourself. No, no, show yourself. If you've bought some of these, show us you're proud of this purchase. Put on those knee pads and show us how it's done. Because why did you purchase that? Where are you putting them in your house? Are you displaying them somewhere or are you making use of them somehow? I think Gavin Newsom, he says that they're sold out, but he's just using them all for himself. They're like his favorite 100 pairs. And he's so obsessed with the knee pad joke, I think he's probably projecting as Democrats do. So, Gavin, I will say get your mind out of the gutter and start, start helping Californians instead of fining and taxing them. Look how ridiculous this is. A hundred dollars. Campaign for Democracy. A hundred dollars.

[Reporter/Guest]

Somewhere out there, there's a travel volleyball team with the freshest knee pads of all time.

[Haley Karania]

I don't know if, if they would have Donald Trump's signature on there. Can you look up who is behind Campaign for Democracy? I'm sure all of this is going

to the URL is gavin newsom.com.

okay, so it's going to Gavin Newsom then. $100 apiece. That's pricey these days, especially because, you know, this took, I don't know, 20 cents or something to make in China. Dang, that doesn't even really look like Donald Trump's signature. There's too many. There's too many, like, ups and downs, I don't know. Anyway, that's what Gavin Newsom's up to. And over a year ago, the Pacific Palisades burned in a tragic fire that took the lives of 31 people. Houses were reduced to rubble and ash. People's livelihoods, all of their belongings gone. And now people are just starting to rebuild, if they even can, if their insurance wasn't canceled, which is the case for many Californians, leaving them in alert with no money, no assistance to rebuild their lives, their homes. So imagine you are Reeling from that loss and then you get this fine in the mail. These are charges by the city and they are requesting something like $31 for brush. It's a brush clearance inspection. They're getting non compliance notices in the mail and it's from the city of Los Angeles and this brush brigade is, is coming for them. Homeowners in fire ravaged Pacific Palisades. Why would they have to pay this? As their burned lots sit empty again, they're waiting to rebuild. There is no brush to clear in many of these lots. There probably was brush at some point and it burned away a year ago. Like I said, reduced to ash. 20, 25 brush clearance, initial inspection, non compliance fee. So what does this mean? Does someone from the city go to the house and realize that nothing's there and then they say hahaha, I'm going to go send them a bill for $31 or is it just okay, here's an address that we have on file and we do this every year. Let's just send it out and not, not think about the fact that these houses are no longer there.

[Reporter/Guest]

I mean I know here like there's like city ordinances that you can't have like a ton of brush like stacked up by the side of the road. But that would require a somebody from the city or be your neighbor like complaining about you, which is bogus both ways.

[Haley Karania]

Yeah. Which I wouldn't put it past Democrats to point and you know, point something out for some wrongdoing by their neighbor and go tell on them.

For the government, whole California government is just a big hoa basically.

Basically it's like living in the worst community with an HOA ever.

But the HOA doesn't control the druggies or the poop on the sidewalk, just the brush.

It's the worst ever. And then this thing that you really can't control because it's, that doesn't exist anymore. They're like, hey, can you really, can you do your part, can you do your part to make this a better place to live? Don't mind the syringes on the ground and the human feces, but yeah, your, your lot, that doesn't exist anymore. Can you, can you make sure that, can you swipe a lawnmower through there and make sure that the brush is gone? You have to give me a break.

Don't worry about old Jim Bob Fent leaning in the corner over there.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. The government has the audacity to charge the families $31 non compliance. Like what did they not comply with. I just don't understand.

[Reporter/Guest]

Feels like there should be a little bit of a grace period there, I would think.

[Haley Karania]

So. This is just, to me, this is just government tape stuff where this is how the mail in voting happens in, in L. A and in California as well. It doesn't matter how many people have lived in this house, they send you a ballot for everyone who's lived there in the last 20 years, just in

case we're going to have burnt down houses voting in the next 100%.

100% illegals. You know what they probably. They're like, you know what would be great here? Illegal housing. That's what they're doing with all this. They're making the American citizens whose houses burned down pay to make it all clean and nice and then they're going to remove their insurance so that they can't rebuild. And then the government's going to retake the land and then they're going to make housing for all the illegals that they let in. That's the dream. And they're going to what, vote? Oh, yeah, well, yeah, obviously. Obviously, yeah. Burnt houses voting in 2028, 2026 and 2028. That's something to look forward to. My goodness. My goodness. All. Well, climate alarmists didn't want to clear the brush because they decided that it was actually not going to help. Experts said that clearing the forest would actually make matters worse. And I guess we'll never know. You know, the neighborhoods were burnt to the ground, but I guess it could have been worse. According to the wildlife experts, this is exactly their mentality with the vaccines. Like, well, if you don't get the vaccine, your symptoms would be worse. How could you even tell that? How can you even tell? You wouldn't know.

Trust the science.

Just trust the science. Just trust us. Just trust the government. We have your best interest at heart, clearly. But Californians are starting to point fingers at leadership, as they should. And there is a big old lawsuit against Karen Bass, the LA mayor, from former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristen Crowley. She is suing her, Karen Bass over this mishandling of the Palisades fire. And Crowley and Bass were beefing publicly because the former fire chief blamed the mayor for budget cuts that led to staffing issues, less fire engines. Then Bass fired her, saying that Crowley didn't properly brief her on how damaging a windstorm could be during a wildfire. I mean, who would have thought, right? Did the fire chief really need to spell that out? Really nice and slow for Karen Bass. Karen Bass didn't think that maybe, maybe a windstorm could be pretty detrimental when a fire, a wildfire, multiple wildfires are already, already burning.

Well, if everyone just cleaned out their brush in compliance, we wouldn't have fires, obviously.

But then the wildlife experts said, no, don't clear the brush because it's actually going to be worse.

So now a scam so they find people for not clearing the brush that they can't clear?

No, it's not that they can't clear it. It's that it would make it worse if they did clear it. But that's in the.

But pay $30 anyway.

No, no, that's in the government owned forests. But in your land you have to take care of that. They're not going to take care of the. Where the wildfires start. They're just. Yeah, so their, their hands are clean. They don't really have to do anything so ridiculous. So the lawsuit seeks an unspecified monetary damages and they want to hold Bass accountable for these efforts to basically punish the LA Fire Department. They wanted to protect, they wanted to have people out there, but they didn't have the staff, they didn't have the, the engines. And now they want to expose the truth about this cover up. Karen Bass responded to this saying, oh, well, this lawsuit has no merit. She's not worried. I think it does. I think it does have merit. And I think it's high time that people start pointing fingers and asking questions and demanding better of these so called leaders because I don't see California getting better leaders anytime soon. Here is a registered sex offender who is running for office in California. Watch. I believe Fresno deserves leaders that are honest from the very beginning, not the end. So going into this, I am putting my life out there up front. About his status as a registered sex offender, Renee Campos is not running from his past as he runs for office. I've been given the chance to rehabilitate through the courts and back into the system. Charged with being in possession of child sex abuse material back in 2018, the Fresno native says he pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge. Now launching his campaign to represent District 7 on the Fresno City Council, he says his focus is on safety. So I say let's choose somebody outside the box, somebody who knows the system from inside out. Because me, I've experienced the laws that we are trying to reform right now. Fresno county clerk and registrar voters James Coos says state law does not prevent a registered sex offender from running for officers. Once you leave prison, you're on probation. You actually are allowed in California to reapply and become a registered voter again, which would then make you eligible to

[Reporter/Guest]

be able to run as long as

[Haley Karania]

you are living in the proper jurisdiction with a straight face. That freak of nature said to the camera, we need to start thinking of thinking outside of the box. And by that he means electing a pedophile, a known pedophile to office. Once a freak, always a freak. And that guy gives me the creeps. You could just tell. And he says that his past has nothing to do with who he is today. I don't think you can all of a sudden not find kids attractive if that's something that used to get you off. You're sick, and you're sick for life. And if you noticed in that interview, he said that he was trying to reform the laws, he wanted to reform this process. What does that mean? You want lesser sentences for sex offenders? Because I can't imagine he'd be upping them. And do you think that Democrats will vote for a known pedophile? I'll throw that question out, out to the chat. Do you think the Democrats will vote for him? Because I think if there's a D next to his name, they're all in. They claim to care so much about accusations against Trump and the Epstein files and all this stuff would not put it past him to elect this guy.

Don't you mean map?

Minor attracted person.

Excuse you?

Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry. Not trying to mince words here. Yeah, no, it's. They're pedophiles. I. There's no way to sugarcoat it or make it sound nicer or better. And I. I really don't believe that this guy went through the system and he's been totally rehabilitated and he deserves a second chance. And I don't think that the community should give him that second chance. He's already just defiled.

We know what office he was running for.

City council. Do they have anything to do with School District 7? Yeah, it's a good question.

Because. Because that's next level. I mean, that's like making him treasurer would be one type of evil. Putting him in charge of schools.

City council. Honestly, I don't know. People in the chat are saying yes. I don't know if they're saying yes to that or if, yes, they think the Democrats will vote for him, but I don't know. Do we know if they have an

indirect supporting role in schools? So not nothing. But that's gross.

Too close for comfort for me.

Wait. I mean, everything is way too close

like, yeah, I don't think so. And here's some more west coast weirdness. This time from Portland. I played a video of this woman, Maxine Dexter. She's a representative in the Portland, Oregon area. And she was the one at the State of the Swamp counter protest outside of the State of the Union on Tuesday night. And she was flying flanked by the Portland Frog brigade. So here she is saying that whole milk is white supremacist. Please ask for the science based regimens, not whatever RFK Jr is getting kickbacks on or, you know, whatever whole milk, white supremacy, dog whistling that's happening right now. I'm getting a little too political, but. Sorry. Whole milk. First of all, I think that their issue is with raw milk. Whose issue has ever been with whole milk? Whole milk is like part of a balanced diet. There's commercials about whole milk. I mean, what's wrong? Whole milk is catching strays for no reason. Whole milk, they're like white supremacists. I don't know. What about whole milk is white supremacist other than the fact that it's white? I don't know.

[Reporter/Guest]

I like that she thinks people are getting kickbacks from whole milk.

[Haley Karania]

Big whole milk is the lobbyists for big old milk. No, I mean, I think it's true that people in the. Or not that I think. I know it's true that people in the food industry are getting kickbacks for certain things. And you know, last Friday, I think it was, I had the documentary makers, filmmakers of that big food documentary, Breaking Big Food. And if you haven't watched it, I would encourage you to watch it because it's fascinating. It's fascinating and scary to think of how these lobbyists have control over the information that our government basically disseminates to the American people. With the food pyramid, it was all ass backwards. You know, big bread came out and said, you know, the American people should really be eating 11 servings of bread for day per day. Could you imagine that? That's an absurd amount of bread. We don't need to be eating that many bread grains, rice, things like that. Not that it's bad, not that you need to cut it out, but it certainly shouldn't be this hallmark of the food pyramid and our and our daily diet. So finally, for the first time, we have HHS Secretary RFK Jr coming in and saying, hey, what we've been telling the American people for years now is wrong. It is quite literally upside down. And they unveiled an upside down food pyramid, shaking this entire thing up, saying, no, you actually should eat red meat. And it's okay to eat eggs and butter and oils and other healthy fats like avocado. And all this needs to be part of a balanced diet. And for Maxine Dexter to say that people pushing whole milk are getting some kind of a kickback. That's what the industry had been doing for so long. And finally, RFK Jr. Is putting a stop to that, and now they have an issue with that. Now the corruption and the lobbyists are not. They don't have their grubby hands in the food industry. Now they have a problem. Now it's white supremacy.

You know who's getting the kickback? So the guys who are making the food.

Right, right.

The farmers.

Yeah. So she should be more concerned, by the way, with rising crime in her area. This is a news report about a Portland CVS that unfortunately has to shutter its doors because it's not safe. Watch.

[Reporter/Guest]

A CVS spokesperson told me March 5th will be the last day for this story here, right across the street from Pioneer Square. People I spoke to today who were going in and out of the store tell me they're frankly not surprised it's closing. It's hard to miss the appointment. Abandoned storefronts and four lease signs near Pioneer Courthouse Square. The vacancies leaving the area around Portland's Living Room feeling rather empty. In less than two weeks, this CVS store will also be gone.

[Haley Karania]

It would be sad because I won't be able to come here and get my water and my supplies and whatever else we need.

[Reporter/Guest]

People we spoke with weren't exactly shocked to hear the store is closing its doors.

[Haley Karania]

I'm not surprised. Surprised. And everything's locked up in there. Like you want certain things.

[Reporter/Guest]

They're under lock and key.

[Haley Karania]

You're like, oh, my God.

[Reporter/Guest]

Similar problems cost the area one of its other retailers. Just a few years ago, this little.

[Haley Karania]

I love the. The shot there of this mop head walking down the street. I don't know if that guy has anything to do with the fact that everything is locked up in a cvs, but if you go to a CVS or a Walgreens or one of these convenience stores or for pharmacies in a blue city, you will see that that woman is totally correct. You can't get anything without having to push a button, ask for assistance. It's ridiculous. And if you want deodorant, if you want mouthwash, if you want shampoo, conditioner, if you want anything, you need to have someone come and get it for you. I remember in I was in New York City, this was probably last summer, and I wanted to go get some snacks. I was staying at my friend's apartment and I just wanted to have some stuff there. And I wanted to get goldfish. The goldfish were not under lock and key, so I could go grab those. But then I wanted to get like a Gatorade of water or something like that. Everything's locked. There's little zip ties on everything and you have to press a button and wait for someone to come. Was anyone coming to my to help me? No, I was waiting there just trying to get a water bottle. Again, it's just not efficient and they're making these places just ridiculous. It's not a, an efficient way to run a business. They're, they're running it out of fear of being robbed. And that's no way to run a business. And it doesn't make your law abiding customers any happier. I mean, I just wanted to get in and out and grab my goldfish and my water bottle and get out, get on my way. I could have been in and out of there in two minutes, but I was in and out of there in 15, 20. Because I'm sitting there waiting for someone to get this and then it's like, oh, I also need deodorant. Then you have to sit and wait for someone to come and grab. You know, you basically have to have someone, a personal shopper, go around the whole store with you to open up all of the things and unlock it. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. So, you know, while Maxine Dexter, I'm not blaming this CBS closing on her specifically, but Democrat policies in general, you know, you see these businesses closing, they're, they're, it's, this area is not ripe for business. And she's worried about how whole milk is white supremacist. So priorities, man.

I know. That was a killer sequence. In like 5 seconds she said whole milk. White supremacist kickbacks was the last one. I was just like, just all time. The jumps were. I mean, I was caught off guard three times in a row.

Yeah, it's whiplash.

That's what I'm getting too political. White milk.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, milk white supremacy. And now I'm in politics.

Oh my gosh. You guys hear me what I, when I laugh, this is my extra exercise induced bronchoconstriction that I'm dealing with right now. Because if you follow me on Instagram, you saw that I posted the video of my challenge today. But my Gym is doing this StairMaster challenge, which I've talked about on the show before. But all month, everyone in the gym is trying to get the most steps on the StairMaster in five minutes. So each week, everyone does it once a week. And the only rule is that you have to do it for five minutes and you have to beat your own number. So you're not really in competition with anyone else in the gym. You're just in competition with yourself. But I'm a crazy person, so I wanted to win. I'm also the youngest person in the gym, so if I didn't win, that would be a real problem. Like, a real, real problemo. So I had to show up and show out. So of course, the first week I was like, well, you know, don't go crazy, because you're gonna have to beat it three more times. So 514 steps. Then I think it was like 560 something. 5 84. And today I did 620 steps. When I get off of the StairMaster now, I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I'm so close to death without being actually in. In a bad place that my lungs, I can feel them constricting. And if you ever run outside in cold weather, that feeling of when your lungs kind of have this like weird tickly feeling and you just breathe in and then you cough. That's what I'm dealing with. And I googled it. And they say that this, this basically exercise induced asthma is only supposed to last for about 12 hours. Mine's 24. So I'm really giving my lungs a good ass beating. So anyway, but I get an oxygen

tank is like a fire.

I do I need an oxygen tank or something or an inhaler. It's bad. But anyway, I. I do recommend anyone, if you want to try to beat 620, I would be very, very impressed. But this next story, it. I have an unpopular opinion about this. And I was on Newsmax last night and we were asking about this, this churchgoer suing Don Lemon. And you all know how I feel about this church storming. I. I'm not a fan of Don Lemons. You all know this. I think that Don Lemon is a total loser. He's a virtue signaler. He claimed that he was doing journalism and he was just boots on the ground, guerrilla journalism, following these, you know, ass hats into a church, and they were intimidating the churchgoers. I think all of that is disgusting. You all know how I feel. But now one of the churchgoers is suing Don Lemon, and she's also suing some of the other protesters as well, claiming that she has suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the incident. And she is suing for an unspecified amount of money. She claims that she has suffered anxiety, severe emotional distress, fear, and trauma because of the protesters misconduct. And here's where I'm going to probably piss some people off. I feel like suing doesn't really do anything. It doesn't really change anything. Obviously, we want Don Lemon to be held accountable in the court of law. I think he broke the law, and I think these protesters certainly deserve to be held accountable. And I think a lot of them were, or some. I think five of them were arrested and then let go. And I do hope that they're held accountable. And obviously, she has every right to sue. I just feel like it's very litigious. And suing Don Lemon doesn't really undo what happened. It's not going to make her emotional distress go away. It's not going to make the trauma go away. The church was going to be stormed whether Don Lemon was there or not. You know, I think obviously she's going after him. It's opportunistic because he has money. And I think if this woman does get any money from Don Lemon, she must give all the money back to the church community. I. If she doesn't, then I'm like, this is. You're a fraud. I mean, you. I just think that's the only way to go about this, where you're. You come out on top. I just think if the church community was under distress, then I think you. If you get any money out of this, you get money from Don Lemon, certainly give it all back to the church community. I. If she keeps it for herself, I feel like. I don't know. She has nefarious.

She should make a class action. Get everyone who's there in on.

Right.

Everyone gets a payout.

Yeah.

Everyone gives some to the church. Everyone wins. Except for Don Lemon.

Right.

Who should lose.

Right. I agree. As long as Don Lemon loses, then I'm fine with it. So that's all. I saw this on Instagram because Hillary Duff is making somewhat of a comeback. She is my era, actress, singer. She was very popular in the show Lizzie McGuire and some other Disney Channel shows, and she became a singer, but she's kind of fallen off. You know, she's been a mom, and she's just kind of doing her own thing. Hasn't been in the spotlight, but she's making a comeback, making new Music. And this is what she had to say about Taylor Swift, actually. She said, I don't think it's. The intent back then was to make sophisticated songwriting. There was no Taylor Swift yet. It's like before Christ and after Christ. She's comparing Taylor Swift and her songwriting as something that is so monumental that it is comparable to Christ. Jesus. This doesn't really make sense to me. And I don't know if she was kind of defending the fact that her songwriting was lame and now she's trying to be better at it because Taylor Swift inspired her or something. But why are we pretending that Taylor Swift invented thoughtful songwriting? Why do we think that Taylor Swift is a thoughtful songwriter anyway? This is an insult to anyone who came before Taylor Swift also. And I'm going to read you some Taylor Swift lyrics and you tell me if you think this is deserving of this before Christ, after Christ distinction in songwriting. Because the player's gonna play, play, play, play, play and the hater's gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake I shake it off, I shake it off Woohoo. Heartbreaker's gonna break, break, break, break, break and the faker's gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake I shake it off, I shake it off Woohoo hoo. What do you guys think? Do you think this is. This is good songwriting? Do you think this is very moving? I don't. Here's another one. Because karma is my boyfriend Karma is a God Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend. Karma's a relaxing thought. Aren't you envious that for you it's not sweet like honey? Karma is a cat purring in my lap because it loves me flexing like a goddamn acrobat. Me and Karma vibe like that. That's Taylor Swift, everyone. That's the songwriter of our generation, apparently before and after Taylor Swift. Here's another one. Let me know when you guys are impressed. I'll stop when you guys are impressed. Everybody's so punk on the Internet Everybody's unbothered till they're not Every joke's just trolling and memes Sad as it seems Apathy is hot Everybody's cutthroat in the comments Every single hot take is cold as ice here's another one. Her name was Kitty Made her money being pretty and witty they gave her the keys to this city and they said she didn't do it legitly oh, that must be the worst One that's so bad. These are. Some of these are off of her new album. It's not like you could, you know, explain this away. Like, oh, well, she was 14 when she wrote that. No, she was 35 when she wrote that. And I know you think it comes off vicious, but it's precious. Adorable. Like a toy Chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse. That's how much it hurts. And do not get me started on the song she wrote about Travis Kelsey's genitalia. She went there. I will not. I will not. But if you're curious, the song is called Wood, so you can look it up. But let me know if you think that. That all of that songwriting is worthy of Before Christ. After Christ, because I. I'm not buying it, and I think it's demonic.

Now, I don't want to call him out, but somewhere Andy is upset with you for saying Taylor Swift's music is not well written.

I just disagree.

That was his take, right? I'm not misrepresenting.

Andy used to say that Taylor Swift was a good songwriter. I think she's a successful businesswoman. I'm not sure why, but, like, I don't really know what she's putting out there that's so groundbreaking that people become so obsessed with her, but she charges thousands and thousands of dollars for tickets, and for what? She's not a good singer. She's not a good songwriter, and she's not a good dancer. She's not a good performer. She's very lanky and awkward. So I don't know what you're paying thousands of dollars for. I guess there's a lot of bells and whistles and costume changes and stuff, but I think if you need all of that, you're compensating for something. You're overcompensating. Because I've seen Billy Joel live, and that was incredible. All he has out there is a microphone and a piano, and that's it. I've seen John Mayer. All he has out there is a guitar and a harmonica, and it's incredible. You know, you don't need all of these bells and whistles. And I think when you suck, you need the bells and whistles to carry you, and people are falling for it. It's Taylor Swift propaganda. I'm not falling for it. I'm just not Before Christ. After Christ. Give me a break.

We've. I would never describe Taylor Swift and her fans as compensating for anything.

No, no. All right, I. I have one more. What time is it? How should I get into scrolling time? I'll do this last story and then we'll. We'll get into scrolling time. I feel like I have so many fun videos to get to. Okay. All right. Vanderbilt Medical center, they are making a big change. They have ended gender affirming surgeries for adults. And of course, trans activists in Tennessee are just reeling. They are very upset. And this comes as in 2022, the Vanderbilt University Medical center paused gender affirming surgeries for minors. And that came before state law. Republicans in Tennessee said, hey, let's not be experimenting on minors. That's crazy. And that came in 2023. So now it's illegal in, in the state of Tennessee to operate on minors in transgender surgeries. And now they are not going to do it for adults either. And, you know, they interviewed some trans activists who say that to stop doing trans surgeries when it's not illegal in the state is a gut punch. And they basically said that due to operational limitations and lack of surgical coverage, Vanderbilt Health will cease pro providing gender affirming plastic surgeries for adults. Vanderbilt Health continues to provide non surgical gender affirming care for adults 19 years and older. Not even 18. 19. And Vanderbilt Health does not provide any gender affirming care for patients younger than 19. We are in the process of contacting our patients regarding these changes. Interesting. So. So according to advocates, they're all upset. Trans advocates, they're upset because they say that this is limited access to surgeries. They're saying that this could have severe mental health impacts on them. And they interviewed a trans activist who said this, which kind of cracked me up. Low key. Even though it's kind of dark. The thing that kills me is that the suicide rate for the trans community is around 60% in attempts and around 40% of that actually committing suicide. And that number is just going to start up. It's just going to start going up. And I want to make this distinction. That's pretty obvious. Obviously, suicide is not funny by any means, but I think it's quite hilarious, actually, that these trans activists, they acknowledge that people in their community are committing suicide. They think that access or a lack of access to care is going to make the problem worse. I argue that it's the opposite, that the less you lean into this gender affirming care, the better you are. The more you lean into mental health to fix this mental illness that you're dealing with, the better you will be, the better off you will be. And I feel like they're so close to understanding, but so far, at the

same time, I believe I've seen studies saying that the actual physical surgery, the gender. Gender affirming care surgery, the suicide rate is. The change is negligible before and after.

Well, the issue is the mental. The mental illness doesn't go away. Obviously, going through some kind of a surgery doesn't fix that, nor does it

make them feel better.

Right. Well, that's the thing. I think they think, and they're sold by big Pharma and doctors that are bought and paid for by big Pharma that getting this surgery will make you feel better. It'll make you feel more affirmed. If you think that you're a woman getting a boob job when you will make you feel like more of a woman, this will help you. But they get the surgeries, they get a fake penis or a fake vagina, and they're all discombobulated and dis. Disfigured. And they realize, well, I'm still a man or I'm still a woman. I can't actually change. There's nothing that I can do to my body surgically or with drugs and other therapies that will get me to my destination. And I think that's the trigger for them when they realize, oh, I've spent all this money, I've spent all this time, I've ruined my body, and nothing that I've done is going to help me get to where I want to be, and they never will. And I think that's the realization for them that makes them so upset and take their lives, which is tragic. It's absolutely tragic. So let's get into scrolling time because my first video is a transgender, which proves my point that this is a mental illness that really does need to be addressed. All right. This is a transgender who gets catcalled on the street. Apparently, he claims that he's getting cat called. I don't know who would have done that, but watch.

[Reporter/Guest]

I got catcalled twice on this walk. It's not a compliment. It's constant. It's exhausting. And it happens to all of us.

[Haley Karania]

It happens to us all.

Who's us.

We're all in this together.

[Reporter/Guest]

Dead silent in that video, too.

[Haley Karania]

I'm dying. I'm dying. I think it's hilarious that this guy is smiling ear to ear in this video. He's so they call this. I've covered this on the show before. I forget what it's called. It's like trans euphoria or gender euphoria or something. And it's when Other people affirm the transgender in their surgery or in their transition. So if someone says, good morning, ma', am, to a man who's wearing a dress, that gives them this, like, elation, they're so excited because they're thinking, okay, it's working. I look like a woman. So for this guy, he's walking around in a. Literally in a transgender knit hat. I'm pretty sure it's the transgender flag and the hat. And he just has some lip gloss on or lipstick on or something. He claims that someone cat called him. Again, I know that, you know, men can be dogs, but I don't really know if this guy is getting cat called on the street. I don't buy it. It picture didn't happen. Video proof or it didn't happen.

It's like the. The training from the other day that claimed to have periods, right? It's like, why do they want women's problems?

So I don't. I have no idea. Again, these are things that women don't like about being women, but they want to experience it so badly so that it can also prove to themselves that they are women. They're experiencing this womanhood or what they think is womanhood. And he's saying in the video, because he's heard this narrative over and over again that women don't like being catcalled. So he's smiling in the video, but then the voiceover on top is, we hate this. Oh, we hate this. This is so bad. He's smiling ear to ear. He loves that he got catcalled, but he has to do the. The womanhood thing or the womanly thing and be against it. So it's just. He's a liar. He's a liar. All right, this, what this next woman, this is a liberal. She says everything is political, even working out. Working out is political. Working out is absolutely political. You can't work out if ICE murders you. Facts. I mean, facts are facts. You cannot work out if. If ICE murders you. That is true. When you're right, you're right. When a broken clock is right twice a day, I'll give them the credit for it. But here's the thing. Like I said in my monologue earlier, it's very easy to not get killed by law enforcement. You really have to be agitating them or doing something wrong. And you can avoid getting in this situation by just abiding by the laws. It's really easy to avoid law enforcement, and it's really easy to avoid dying by law enforcement. So you can keep working out Girlfriend, it's okay. You can do your. Do your back squats. You're. You're a. Okay. No one's coming for you. But I do think it's funny that the left says that everything's political, even working out is political, because I remember this is back in 2020, 2021. Lunacy. Just like peak Covid lunacy. And. And George Floyd lunacy. And Time magazine came out with an article that said said exercise has white supremacist origins. So again, everything healthy is white supremacy. Whole milk, back squats, everything is white supremacy. And I will end the show on this video of this. This woman. She's proud of her liberal husband. I don't know why, but she is. When. What an absolute flex it is to have a husband who doesn't support this POS administration. And in this video, he's. He just looks like a total loser. Not really very athletic, although he is carrying her bag in the airport, which is a gentlemanly thing to do, bare minimum for a husband, I would say. But he jumps over the. Not very smart, but he jumps over the. The. What is that called? The conveyor belt. What is that called? The luggage. What the hell?

[Reporter/Guest]

If it makes you feel any better, in the notes, I was like just put luggage thing. I had no idea.

[Haley Karania]

Called the baggage claim, but it's not. That's not baggage claim. What is that called? Conveyor belt.

This is the baggage claim.

Someone said turnstile. No, it's not a turn.

The mechanical component is a conveyor belt.

Can I think it's a conveyor belt. Carousel. Carousel. Thank you. Bad carousel.

I think both are. I think both are apt.

Thank you. It's a synonym, but I was thinking of the word carousel. Thank you. So he's jumping over the carousel. His man boobs are flopping. His man boobs are flopping. And I like that he's making brownies. And, you know, to each their own. I'm not gonna yuck your yums. If that's your. If that's your man, that's your man. I'm glad that you're happy with him, but thank you for scrolling along with me today. You can follow me on social media at Haley Karania, H A Y L E y on Instagram, TikTok, Truth, Social X and Facebook. And I'll see you right back here tomorrow.