Is AOC The ONLY Face Of The Democrat Party? (Ep.49)

Summary

Nightly Scroll with Hayley - Episode 49: Is AOC The ONLY Face Of The Democrat Party?

Release Date: May 15, 2025

Introduction

In Episode 49 of Nightly Scroll with Hayley, host Hayley Caronia delves into the prominent role Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) plays within the Democratic Party. The episode examines recent polling data positioning AOC as the primary face of the party, critiques her policies and perceived hypocrisy, and explores broader themes such as Democratic Party dynamics, cultural shifts in media, and corporate responses to social movements.

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AOC as the Sole Face of the Democratic Party

Hayley begins by highlighting startling polling figures that suggest AOC is viewed as the only significant face of the Democratic Party. Referencing multiple polls, she emphasizes AOC’s rising prominence among Democrats, especially among younger voters.

• Polling Data Overview
  • Independent Poll: "AOC is the face of the party," reported at [04:15].
  • AP North Poll: "55% of Democrat respondents favor AOC as their pick for the head of the party" ([07:30]).
  • Data For Progress Poll: "75% of New York Democrats favored AOC over other candidates, including Senator Chuck Schumer" ([08:45]).

Hayley underscores that AOC’s youth and demographic attributes make her an appealing candidate for future presidential runs, noting her "primed and ready" status for the 2028 election ([05:10]).

Critique of AOC's Hypocrisy and Policies

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to critiquing AOC's policies and actions, which Hayley perceives as hypocritical.

• Green New Deal and Environmental Actions

  • Hayley points out that while AOC authored the Green New Deal in 2019—a policy emphasizing environmental sustainability—she has continued behaviors contradictory to these goals, such as traveling on private jets ([10:20]).

• "Tax the Rich" Stance

  • She references AOC's infamous "tax the rich" dress worn at the Met Gala, questioning the logistics of her funding given the high costs of such events ([12:00]).

• Shift from Tesla Ownership

  • Hayley notes AOC’s departure from driving a Tesla, suggesting this move undermines her pro-environment stance and could affect her standing with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ([09:50]).

Stephen A. Smith's Comments on AOC

The episode features a clip of sports commentator Stephen A. Smith offering his perspective on AOC’s role within the Democratic Party.

• Notable Quote from Stephen A. Smith ([11:52]):

  "If you believe that free market capitalism spearheaded by billionaires is not the way to go... AOC is your candidate. Most people in the country are centrist... She clearly is... if it equated to taxing Americans 70% of their income, she wouldn't be against it. That ain't gonna win you elections."

Hayley uses this to illustrate critical viewpoints within the media regarding AOC’s policies and their electability.

Border Security and Crime Reduction under Trump

Hayley shifts focus to contrast Democratic approaches with those of the Trump administration, particularly in border security and crime reduction.

• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Role

  • She praises Secretary Noem’s efforts in curbing illegal immigration, citing significant reductions in crime rates in areas like Denver and Aurora, Colorado:
    • Denver: "Homicides declined 58% during the first three months" under Trump’s policies ([23:10]).
    • Aurora: "Crime numbers overall, down 22.8%" attributed to aggressive ICE actions ([24:50]).

• Criticism of Democratic Stance on Immigration

  • Highlighting Democratic Congresswoman Delia Ramirez’s contradictory stance, Hayley criticizes Ramirez's condemnation of Noem despite her efforts to enforce immigration laws ([26:30]).

Criticism of DEI Policies in Education

The episode transitions to critique Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies within educational institutions, using Harvard as a primary example.

• Harvard’s DEI Policies and Financial Repercussions

  • Hayley discusses the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Harvard for alleged anti-Semitism and discriminatory admissions practices, resulting in significant funding freezes ([28:07]).

• Voluntary Pay Cuts for Harvard Leadership

  • She mentions Harvard’s President Alan Garber’s voluntary 25% salary cut as a response to the backlash, mocking the high salaries of university presidents ([29:10]).

Cultural Shifts in Media and Inclusion

Hayley explores how media representations are evolving, often favoring inclusivity over traditional standards of beauty and representation.

• Sports Illustrated’s Inclusive Cover

  • She critiques Sports Illustrated's decision to feature Lauren Chan, labeling it as pandering to LGBTQ+ movements rather than reflecting consumer preferences ([41:44]).

• Shift from Traditional to Diverse Models

  • Comparing past covers featuring icons like Kate Upton and Christie Brinkley to current inclusivity efforts, Hayley argues that such changes may alienate the traditional male readership ([42:16]).

Corporate Impacts and Brand Responses

The podcast also touches on how corporate brands are navigating social issues, often facing backlash for perceived missteps.

• Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light Controversy

  • Discussing Bud Light’s collaboration with TikToker Dylan Mulvaney, Hayley highlights the brand’s subsequent sales drop and market value decline ([50:36]).

• Versace’s Struggles with Brand Image

  • She critiques Versace’s partnership choices, suggesting that associations with controversial figures like Mulvaney may harm their brand identity ([54:10]).

Family Structures and Inclusive Language

Hayley addresses changes in familial definitions and the language used to describe them, emphasizing a conservative viewpoint on traditional family roles.

• Colton Underwood’s Family Announcement

  • She criticizes social media representations of non-traditional families, using Colton Underwood's announcement of his same-sex parenting as an example ([57:08]).

• Language Around Parenting Roles

  • Hayley argues that terms like "egg donor" and "surrogate" dehumanize traditional maternal roles, advocating for clear recognition of biological mothers ([51:32]).

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Conclusion

In this episode of Nightly Scroll with Hayley, Hayley Caronia presents a critical analysis of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s role within the Democratic Party, juxtaposing it against broader themes of political hypocrisy, policy effectiveness, and cultural shifts. Through polling data, media critiques, and examples from education and corporate sectors, Hayley underscores her viewpoint that AOC epitomizes the Democratic Party's current trajectory—characterized by polarization, perceived hypocrisy, and a move away from traditional values.

Listeners are encouraged to engage with the content through the show's social media platforms and to participate in the ongoing political discourse.

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Notable Quotes:

1. Stephen A. Smith on AOC ([11:52]):

   "She clearly is... if it equated to taxing Americans 70% of their income, she wouldn't be against it. That ain't gonna win you elections."

2. AOC’s Position ([24:50]):

   "Crime numbers overall, down 22.8%. There is no surprise why this is happening."

3. Ro Khanna on Drug Pricing Legislation ([28:07]):

   "Are we going to stand in this body with the $16 billion that Big Pharma spent on lobbying, or are we going to stand with the American people?"

4. David Hogg on DEI ([33:54]):

   "What's interesting is that's even more progressive than our vision... I want to focus on whoever's just best at the job."

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Final Thoughts

Hayley Caronia's episode provides a robust critique of AOC’s influence within the Democratic Party, intertwining it with broader societal and political observations. Whether agreeing or disagreeing with her perspectives, listeners gain insight into the host's conservative viewpoint on contemporary political and cultural issues.

Transcript

[Haley Carinia]

Hello. Hello. Welcome to Nightly Scroll. This is Haley. Carinia. Thank you so much for being here with me tonight. If you are part of my homies, you are scrolling in the chat. Thank you. If you want to join my homies by scrolling in the chat with me, you have to go to rumble.com rumble.com Haley, go to the Bongina Report channel. Make sure you subscribe. That's where you can watch Nightly scroll every night at 6pm Eastern Time or Monday to Friday, I should say. And then if you want to listen, go to your favorite podcast platform, search the Nightly scroll with Haley. And I will be there. And you should be there too. All right, I've got a big show on deck for you. AOC is apparently the face of the Democrat Party, the only face according to new polling. She's also the face of hypocrisy. That's all they got, really. I also predict that Democrat activist David Hogg may be joining Gen Z Men. Coming over to the good side. Not right away, but I'm sensing a red pill moment happening. I'll play the tape and then we'll discuss. Plus, Harry, Halle Berry doesn't give in to the woke leftist feminist mob in Hollywood. She says no, James Bond should never be played by a woman. Hallelujah. Bad news, good news, everything in between on this episode of Nightly Scroll. All right, this is strange new polling. And it's not just one poll. It's a lot of different polls that are putting AOC at the top of Democrats lists to run for office in 2028. I'm not joking. So this is just the headline from the Independent AOC or bust New poll finds New York Congresswoman or no one are the top choices for the face of the Democrat Party. So this for this poll that they're discussing in the headline here is a coefficient survey. They talked to 1400 voters. 26% of those voters say they thought AOC was the current and is the current face of the party. Another 26% said no one. It's no one else. There is no one else but AOC. That's wild. And she's 35, so she is well within her right to run for president in 2028. She's primed and ready to go. So then not only am I talking about this coefficient poll, but there's another poll. There was an AP north poll. 55% of those respondents, they're Democrat respondents, said that they favor Ocasio Cortez as their pick for the head of the party. So that's two polls Now a third, a data per data for Progress poll said that 75% of New York Democrats favored AOC over other candidates, including Senator Chuck Schumer. We know that Democrats are kind of souring on him. They're kind of souring on a lot of the older candidates and older congressmen, senators, et cetera. And they really are ushering in this new wave of younger, younger politicians and AOC chief among them, apparently. And she is a polarizing figure in the way that a President Trump is a polarizing figure. I feel like it's kind of you love him or you hate him, you love her or you hate her kind of a thing. There's really no in between. There's no independent AOC lover. So it'll be interesting to see if she can really get the momentum that she needs in order to secure the candidacy. First of all, she's going to need the DNC to back her and apparently she hasn't been able to secure any of these higher up positions on committees within her own party. So it'll be interesting to see if, if she can get the support in Congress, but also just the DNC support. I feel like, because she's this face and because, I mean, we know, you know, screw polling, we don't listen to polls, but it is a little concerning that she's the only person that they've got. So I could see the DNC thinking, okay, we're just going to go full steam ahead on aoc. She's young, she's a woman, she's a minority. I mean, she's literally like the Democrat Party's wet dream because she's got all the checkboxes. She's also a total hypocrite. She authored the Green New deal back in 2019, and just six years later, she's whipping around the country on a PJ with her fellow climate alarmist Senator Bernie Sanders. She claims she wants to eat the rich. Start with your buddy Bernie. Ask him why he has multiple houses on a public servant salary. Because that doesn't make sense to me. She even wore an eat the rich dress to the Met gala. When was that? What year was that? That's got to be 2020 or something. Or 2021. It was a while ago, I think I was living in New York City. 21, yeah, I was still living in New York City. I remember that. This is when she used to drive a Tesla. Remember she used to be a Tesla driver. I guess she sold her Tesla. She can't be seen driving in one of those nowadays. That would be bad for the brand. Certainly she would not get the DNC's nod to be the candidate if she was still driving the Tesla. It is so funny how they soured on Tesla so fast. It was a great electric vehicle. We want to save the plan planet. Now it's like, no, I can't be seated at Tesla. I got to. I've got to sell my Tesla. And I have to make sure that I'm setting my phone to record that I'm selling my Tesla. They want everyone to know that they do not stand with Elon Musk anymore. It's just crazy. Okay, so here's the video of. Or the picture, rather, of AOC back at the Met Gala in a really hideous dress. And it says, tax the rich in really ugly font. Red font on the back of her dress, it says, tax the rich. It costs $75,000 per ticket to go to the Met Gala. So it just. It begs the question, who covered her tab? Who paid the $75,000 so that AOC could go and, you know, carry out this stunt, making fun of rich people? I think other rich people probably paid for her tab, which is just funny. It's just. It's hypocrisy. But it's fun to point out. And who funds the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and AOC and all politicians? Rich people, for the most part. I mean, they're going to do some grassroots funding and fundraising and whatnot. Whatnot. But for the most part, they get these big dollar donations from rich people. The people that they claim to hate, the people that they claim to want to eat. But money makes the world go around. We know that. They just want you to give up more of your money to pay for their luxuries. And not just their luxuries, but they want your tax money to pay for all their crazy liberal wish lists that they have, like the Green New Deal and whatever else. I don't really even know what the Democrat Party stands for anymore. But they don't care about you. They're out for themselves, obviously, but I just want to take a quick trip down memory lane and expose who the Democrats want as their poster child. Exhibit A. I'm Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and I pledge allegiance to the drag. Cool. All right, all right, listen, all right, listen, listen, okay, listen. Donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, liable for sexual abuse. Of course, he's lying and abusing and manipulating the stock market, too. Uh oh, here she goes. She's fanning herself she's skipping. She's jumping, she's fist pumping. Let's go, Bronx. Now she's taking her hair down. Oh, she's letting her hair down. Are you ready to fight? I'm just reading the chat here. She's noisy. She's upper middle class now. Tax the rich. She also wanted help with student loans. She loves attention, and she's got more fake accents than Kamala. I did want to point that out. She loves to turn on the accent when it's convenient. When she's out in the field and she's got these rallies and she has this minority constituency that she's talking to, she becomes one of them. She is one of them. But when she's in Congress, all of a sudden the accent goes away. This is like Jasmine Crockett, too. And they're friends, they're buddies in the squad. Maybe they talk about it like, when should we turn on our accents or should we turn them off? I guess we can turn them on when we go home. And then when we're in D.C. all of a sudden they perfect their, like, white girl, just neutral. All of a sudden, they don't talk that way. They turn off the accents. It's crazy. Only Democrats do this, by the way. Maybe they all learned it from Hillary Clinton. I got hot sauce in my bag. Swag. You know, she likes to pander to the minorities. Joe Biden was dancing to Despacito Cse Padway, Jill Biden. I mean, this is all Democrats. Can anyone name a Republican who's turned on an accent like this? I can't really think of one. I mean, I'm thinking of all these Democrats are coming to the head, Beto o' Rourke, where he just turns on Spanish. All of a sudden, he's speaking Spanish. And they just love to sell this facade to the American people and to whatever their constituency is, like, yeah, I'm one of you. But they're really not. It's so phony. It's so, so phony. But you know who can see through it? Stephen A. Smith. And I don't know. I mean, we've talked about this on the show. Will Stephen A. Smith run for president one day? He might. Crazier things have happened. People keep asking him, are you going to run? He's, you know, he's thinking about it. But here's what Stephen A. Smith said about AOC Watch.

[Stephen A. Smith]

She will turn off Centrist. I am not casting any aspersions on this young lady. I think that if you are a Democrat, if you are a leftist, who rails against the system, who believes that free market capitalism spearheaded by billionaires is not the way to go. If you believe that not enough attention is being paid attention to the desolate and disenfranchised, if you believe that higher taxes is the way to go, that a focus shouldn't be on securing the borders. If you believe those kind of things, and that's where you stand ideologically, AOC is your candidate. Most people in the country are centrist, they're moderates, whether they're Republican moderates or Democratic moderates or just flat out centrist who are independents. That's most of the American population. They are not maga. Right. And they are not progressive left. She clearly is. And not to be literal, not to be taken literally, but she gives the impression that when you talk about universal health care and you talk about other things, if it equated to taxing Americans 70% of their income, she wouldn't be against it. That ain't gonna win you elections.

[Haley Carinia]

It's true. And when you think about AOC aside a President Trump, and we compare the two, they're polarizing, like I said before. But President Trump is able to get people in the middle over to the right because of the policies that make sense. People overwhelmingly came out to the polls to vote for Donald Trump because of the golden age of normalcy. Not only that, but the Republicans put up policies that actually would make a difference in people's day to day lives. Things that they could feel like gas prices, grocery prices, tax cuts, security. These are things that matter for people. You know, Democrats might think that the border issue is just. It's not that big of a deal. We can open the border. It doesn't impact anyone, but it certainly does impact everyone. It impacts everyone in every state because the Biden administration would just fly anyone wherever the hell they wanted. So the illegal migrant from Venezuela would end up in Colorado, which we'll get to later in the show, will send them to New York, we'll send them to anywhere. People don't like that. The American public doesn't like that. So when you think about a polarizing figure like a Trump, he got people in the middle because the policies made sense. Yes, he's polarizing. Yes, people hate him. But I think a lot of people who hate Donald Trump still voted for him because they believed in what he believed in. I don't think the majority of Americans believe in what AOC believes in. I think on a surface level, most people, even Republicans, want to save our planet. I recycle. I Don't want our, you know, we've only got one planet. I don't want to see it, you know, go up in flames, certainly. But normal people aren't climate alarmists. AOC is a climate alarmist. She's not speaking to the people in the middle who are like, yeah, I recycle. Yeah, I'm like a normal person when it comes to the climate crisis. I don't think that it's a crisis. I don't think that the world's going to end in 12 years. That's what AOC thinks. So when she puts up these zero emissions BS and then all of a sudden she's flying on a private jet, so it's like she doesn't actually believe in anything that she's saying. President Trump believes in what he's saying. That's the difference. So I say Democrats put up AOC as your candidate. The only thing Democrats stand for is hypocrisy, and she is perfect at it, so so be it. And here's another example of Democrat hypocrisy. Here is Democrat Congresswoman Delia Ramirez from Illinois. She's the daughter of illegal immigrants. And of course she thinks DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is just doing a horrible job ridding the country of illegal aliens. Watch this. You are not welcome. You corruptly used emergency authority to avoid procurement to make Trump's private prison donors richer. You have betrayed the sacred fundamentals of your oath. And I believe to my core that, that you are not fit to hold the office. And I again, why not to your face, demand your immediate resignation. And I put it and place it on the record for all of us to see. With that Chairman, I yield back. So dramatic. It is funny. She has a big, big problem with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. You're not fit for the office. I don't like you. You're not welcome in Illinois. Why? Because she's deporting illegal immigrants? That's like, quite literally her job. So she's actually doing a fantastic job. But of course, the Democrat, the, the DACA recipient is going to have a problem with that. But here are the kind of people that are coming across the border, and these are the kind of people that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is trying to get rid of. You'll probably remember these stories about the crazy Venezuela violent gangs that took over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado. This happened right before President Trump took office. I think this was like January 14th. But these apartment complexes in Colorado had to shut down because of the crime now they've deported a bunch of illegal migrants. And guess what, the murder rate has nosedived. Yeah. Because ICE is taking care of these trend Aragua gang members. So these numbers have taken a significant downturn in the first quarter. And this is all according to data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association. So homicides in Denver, Colorado declined 58% during the first three months. Over the same time last year under President Biden, Aurora, Colorado saw a 36% decline in homicides. Imagine that. That's a massive number. That's a huge difference for people living in that area. So Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain, he said that just crime in general, not just homicides, but crime in general is down in his city. He said there, they're actually in a really good spot right now. The crime numbers overall, down 22.8%. There is no surprise why this is happening. They didn't just clean up Aurora, Colorado and Denver, Colorado overnight with no changes being made. The changes that have been ushered in by the Trump administration, they made the Denver area a really important focal point for ICE. Once President Trump was inaugurated, ICE descended onto Denver. They arrested 538 illegal aliens. Yeah. So it just begs the question, what would Denver and Aurora, Colorado look like? What would those areas look like if President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem hadn't started cleaning up Biden's mess? I'd really hate to think of the potential American lives lost or burdened by gang related crime. But I don't have to think about that anymore because they're at the helm and they're actually enforcing the law. Here's another person, actually, I shouldn't even say person. A monster. This illegal alien is a monster. But Delia Ramirez, the congresswoman who thinks that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is doing such a bad job that she should resign on the spot. She's getting people like this, monsters like this out catching them. So this is an illegal alien convicted of sex trafficking her own 12 year old daughter. This happened last year. She's 34 years old, will not say her name. You know my role on this show, I'm just not giving these monsters the time of day. But she had just this week. The incident happened last year, but this week she had just pleaded guilty to trafficking a child, failure to protect a child, and misdemeanor bail jumping. So she will be sentenced and faces potentially more than 52 years in a Wisconsin prison. So last year she was arrested after she allowed her boyfriend, also an illegal alien, to pay her more than $250 to get alone time with her 12 year old daughter. She took $250 from her illegal alien boyfriend and let him have a loan time with her daughter, her minor daughter in the back of a van. These people deserve the wood chipper, they deserve the electric chair. They deserve everything that's coming to them. I believe in karma. I hope that being arrested and charged is, is one of the nicer things she has to deal with in her life. But the Trump administration has made it very clear if you so much as hurt a hair on a child's head, you're facing consequences. This is across the board. Dhs, the doj, FBI. The Trump administration is going after monsters like this. But these monsters are the people that left wing media want you to believe are coming here for a better life. Except exhibit A. This is the life that they're leading. If they're not murdering citizens by ramming their cars into them at double the speed limit or they're not raping them, they're sex trafficking their own children, this has absolutely no place in our society. I'm not sure why Democrats feel so comfortable to usher this kind of disgusting behavior into our country and make it part of their platform. They're going to, they're taking trips abroad to visit freaks like this in jail. Woman beaters, human smugglers, you name. Really makes you think what their priorities are. One of their priorities being lying, as we know. I covered in my monologue yesterday about how the Democrat Party when Biden was tripping up the damn stairs and he was shaking hands with nobody, they were like this. Oop, he was fine. According to the Democrats. Now that they don't have an election to win anymore, they're all coming to their senses. Senator Chris Murphy among them. He spoke to Politico. He said that there was no doubt that Biden declined cognitively during the presidency. Isn't it amazing how they're just coming to their senses all of a sudden? Because they don't have any. They have nothing to lose. They have nothing to lose anymore. 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Now Chris Murphy and all these other Democrats, they get to be the good guy. He gets to be on the right side of history for saying, oh, yeah, Biden was totally declining. Too little, too late. Everyone can see through the B.S. you lied then, you're being dishonest now. And I covered this earlier this week about some of these Democrats that are raising a lot of money. Chris Murphy's one of them. He's raising lots of money. What does he need this capital for? Maybe a potential run in 2028, I don't know. But I hope people remember how grossly dishonest these Democrats are when they're up for reelection. Now, I have to give Democrat credit where it is due. This is California Congressman Ro Khanna, and here he is on the House floor saying that he wants to codify Trump's latest executive order. Watch this.

[Ro Khanna]

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce as legislation President Trump's executive order for the most favored nation status on drug pricing. My legislation will codify President Trump's executive order, which basically says that Americans should not pay more for drugs than people in other countries and other parts of the world. Right now, we're paying two to three times more for our drugs than people in other industrialized nations. Now, this executive order, codified by the legislation, will allow our Cabinet secretaries to put pressure on Big Pharma and make sure that they are not price gouging and. And will allow for the importation of cheaper drugs. So you ask, why do we need the legislation? Because the reality is that Big Pharma will sue for the executive order like they did in the previous Trump administration. And in the previous administration, they managed to kill the executive order. The only way we can stand up to Big Pharma is to codify in legislation what the President wants to do and in an executive order. So here's the deal. If I can cross the aisle and support President Trump's executive order in legislation, every Republican should be willing to cross the aisle and support my legislation. It's a pretty simple test. Are we going to stand in this body with the $16 billion that Big Pharma spent on lobbying, or are we going to stand with the American people? We will know that answer based on how many co sponsors we get for my legislation that simply codifies Donald Trump's executive order.

[Haley Carinia]

Interesting. Come from a California Democrat. Unless there's some crazy woke Democrat pork that is stuffed into this bill and I don't know, I haven't read it yet, but I would say do it. House Republicans haven't done much. We covered this on the show yesterday. The least they could do is codify President Trump's policies into law. That would be awesome. Something else that President Trump is doing, he's fighting with Harvard. As we know, he's fighting a lot of these woke institutions, but the education institution is really failing in a lot of ways. And Harvard is leading the pack really with discriminatory DEI policies that prevent certain races from admissions because they want not the best of the best, not merit, but they want equity, not equality. They want equity. So this lawsuit is ongoing. The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in funding and now on top of that, another 450 million in funding has been frozen. So the National Institute of Health under the President Trump administration notified Harvard that grants were being cut over the allegations of campus anti Semitism. And the grants. According to this lawsuit, grants are typically suspended if Harvard shapes up, but in this case, if Harvard takes corrective action, it seems like it's not possible here. So I just wanted to point this out because I'm seeing headlines earlier today. Oh, you know, they're slashing the, they're slashing the salary of the, the president of Harvard. So I just have my tiny little violin here in case anyone feels bad that he's getting his salary cut. President Alan Garber, he has voluntarily agreed to cut his pay by 25% for the next school year. Now, we don't know what his salary is, but previous presidents of Harvard made over a million dollars. So let's just say that he, he's on par with them and makes a little over a million dollars. Okay, so are we going to cry at the fact that he's making $750,000 a year? I don't care. That's plenty of money. It's plenty of money to live off of. And now other leaders at Harvard are also making their own voluntary pay slashes, if you will. But the campus has totally gone woke. Not just Harvard, but a lot of them, the Columbia's of the world, a lot of these Ivy League institutions with their allegations of racial Discrimination in admissions. Their efforts of DEI have totally backfired. Dei, diversity, equity and inclusion is just racism cloaked in liberal virtue. That's all it is. But one of Harvard's finest, David Hogg, Democrat activist. He got the votes to be the next DNC chair, but he's a white dude, so they couldn't give it to him. And then he was on Bill Maher's show and Bill Maher was asking about this election. Hubbub. Here's what he had to say, part of the claim.

[David Hogg]

So I don't. Not to bore people, but to get into the bureaucracy of the dnc. We have a gender balance rule at the DNC because of course we do.

[Ro Khanna]

Okay, see right away, by the way.

[David Hogg]

The Republican Party does too.

[Ro Khanna]

If the chair is a male, then.

[Haley Carinia]

The vice chair has to be a female.

[David Hogg]

Well, what's interesting is that's even more progressive than our vision, which is that the chair doesn't count towards the gender balance rule that we have. Frankly, I don't even know if it makes sense for us to have the gender balance rule anymore in this day and age. Because I want to focus on whoever's just best at the job.

[Haley Carinia]

Great.

[David Hogg]

At this point, that's my own view.

[Haley Carinia]

Terrific. Oh, look who's anti DEI all of a sudden. Look who's pro merit. Merit based elections. Merit based. I mean, he's coming to the right side. Slowly, slowly. But can we see David Hogg maybe coming over to the Republican Party? I'm just joking. I don't think he ever would. Obviously he's a staunch advocate against the second amendment and I don't actually think that he would be a Republican anytime soon or really ever. But it is just funny to see the Democrats, they sometimes they go so woke, they end up realizing the truth and they just like, they come back around and sometimes they see the light. And it is very funny to see those moments in real time because he got shafted. I mean, he's a white man. So the DNC was like, sorry, we need a woman here. You need not apply. White men need not apply. I just think it's hilarious. Speaking of go woke, go broke, you know who's not going woke? Halle Berry. So Halle Berry was asked whether or not. Whether or not James Bond should ever be a female. Halle Berry has been in James Bond movies before. She's a Bond girl. And she does not think that making 007 a woman is the right thing to do. I mean, obviously. And I dare Hollywood to make a female Bond. I actually double dog dare them because it will be an abject failure of epic proportions. And they never learn their lesson ever. They just keep pumping out woke garbage. They make this white character black, they make this character in Asian. They make this. I mean, they're redoing the same movies and they're just race swapping. The entire world rejected a Snow White movie with feminist undertones. So imagine the visceral reaction people would have to a female Bond. And Halle Berry is totally right. She said that these movies are steeped in history and people would be upset if Bond was a woman, Bond is a boy. And she said that the movies, the character, all the actors who have played him, people are not going to want to see that change. You can't just gender and race swap everything. And Hollywood is, I would say they're learning the hard way, but they're not learning. They're not learning because all they're doing is taking a movie that was popular 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, 50 years ago. They're redoing it with a little spin. And the spin is that white people are no longer white or it's a live action version of something, or it's a prequel, or it's a sequel, or it's like some kind of a remake. And they always inject woke narratives into it. Political undertones. People don't want that. So in the beginning, I said, I actually dare them to make a James Bond movie with a female lead. But actually I dare Hollywood to come up with an original story. And they probably can't do it without asking AI for help. The writers are always on strike. I mean, it's just. They're a joke. It's a total joke. Also, speaking of jokes, Sports Illustrated has just put out their first cover featuring an out lesbian. Well, our first solo cover, I should say. So Lauren Chan is the first out lesbian to appear solo on a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover. I've never heard of Lauren Chan before. I went to her Instagram earlier today. She's all about pride. She's all about whatever. So this is her. She's getting her first out lesbian cover. This is what the caption says. Breaking molds, setting standards on her own terms. Lauren Chan is rewriting fashion's narrative as a model, activist and entrepreneur. Her why is about making people think of beauty in a way that's inclusive, genuine and empowering. As a writer, she challenges the industry's narrow standards, offering a new vision where all bodies and stories are celebrated. She spoke to People magazine about this honor. She Said I'm the first out lesbian on the COVID It means so much to me. And she said it's just been overwhelming. She said, I feel like I have tears of joy. I'm celebrating. There's this feeling of relief. So she's not the first out lesbian on a cover. That was Megan Rapinoe, the Olympic gold medalist and soccer player. She was the first out lesbian to pose for swimsuit, SI swimsuit back in 2019. But that didn't count because that was a, I don't know, like a dual thing. She was pictured with other people. It was a group shot. So I just think it's bizarre that sexual orientation has become not only your entire identity but, but this badge of honor if you're gay or trans or something. It's truly. It's like, hi, my name is. And I'm gay. Hi, my name is and my pronouns are xyzer, zip, zap, zop. Why is that? Am I supposed to be more impressed with her Sports Illustrated cover because she's a lesbian? Does that make her better in any kind of way? Does it make her cooler than everyone else? Does it make her more beautiful? No, but SI swimsuit gets to pat themselves on the back for being inclusive. And I don't think their target audience cares about inclusivity because I remember when Sports Illustrated used to cater to men, straight men, and they would put gorgeous women on the COVID The Kate Upton's of the world, the Kathy Ireland of the world. Who else? Just iconic. Like, who are your favorites? Sports Illustrated swimsuit models? Kate Upton.

[David Hogg]

It's just sad to see how much.

[Haley Carinia]

Sports Illustrated has changed. Like they used to have attractive women and now it's some lesbian girl who's kind of chubby. Yeah. It's like it's, it's all about body positivity. It's not about what the consumer actually wants.

[David Hogg]

You think it's Cindy Crawford and the Pepsi commercial.

[Haley Carinia]

Tyra Banks. Like, yeah, this was like the golden age. Yeah. Sports Illustrated. Yeah. Yeah. Someone just said Farrah Fawcett. Yeah. Christie Brinkley. Totally.

[David Hogg]

Model.

[Haley Carinia]

Yes. The most beautiful women in the world. And again, I don't know if we don't want to see Rosie o' Donnell in a swimsuit. Yeah. Tyra Banks, someone said. And they were physically fit. My arrow is Farrah Fawcett. Yeah, exactly. Pam Anderson. Exactly. So just picture the most gorgeous woman in the world. These are the women that were on the COVID They weren't given the COVID because they were straight. They weren't given the COVID because they were Gay or whatever, or that they had this like body, positive body. They were models, like actual models. I've never heard of this woman before. Maybe it's because I'm not like tuned into the gay model circuit. I don't know. But I think that Sports Illustrated now is telling their male audience, this is what we want you to think is beautiful. It's no longer we're not catering to the consumer, we're now telling the consumer what to think. And sex sells. Like, everyone knows that. This has been the saying in marketing for decades. There's no surprise that when you put beautiful women on a cover of something, it works. So I no longer think that Sports Illustrated caters to men. They're catering to the loudest feminist voices on the left who will bully them into submission if they don't platform women who look like them. This is how we've gotten to the point where anyone can be a model. You don't have to work on your body. You don't have to work on your looks. Just come as you are. Everybody is beautiful. Everybody is a beach body. Which is fine if you want to think that everybody is beautiful. And sure, but it might not be the COVID that sells the same way a more traditional model would. And I don't think women are picking up Sports Illustrated magazines, by the way. Not liberal women, certainly. I, I've never bought one. So if men aren't buying them, I don't think anyone's buying them. It's an obsession with diversity that has ended up tanking their business in years past. They had to get rid of like all of their editorial staff last year. That's not good. It's not a sign that your business is doing well. They laid off everyone, so they start including obese models. People that people you know don't tend to find that attractive. I'm not saying that these girls aren't beautiful, but the magazines are supposed to be for men. And I'm glad that we've moved away from like stick thin models who might be unhealthy. But now the pendulum has swung so far to the next extreme where now we're giving morbidly obese women in bikinis Sports Illustrated covers. Neither one should be the poster child for health and wellness and beauty. It just surprises me that these companies don't try to course correct. They just double down on woke and dei. Speaking of doubling down on bad decisions. So we all remember the Dylan Mulvaney debacle with Bud Light. Bud Light asked Dylan Mulvaney to post something on his Instagram story where he was drinking a beer dressed as Audrey Hepburn for March Madness. And he even said in his Instagram story, like, I don't even know what March Madness is. And very weird choice. Just because Dylan Mulvaney has millions of millions of followers doesn't mean he's the right person to sell beer. Obviously, he was not. So just two months after that whole thing came out with Dylan Mulvaney, Bud light experienced a 30% drop in sales and a $27 billion decline in market value. Now, Dylan Mulvaney was just asked to appear at a Versace event. So here is Dylan Mulvaney dressed head to toe in Versace. Watch. Quick update. I think this is the best I've ever looked. Pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Headed to a Versace event. And. Yeah, I. I think. I think this is it. Right? Okay. Okay. Love you. So he's running around there. This is how I used to run around in heels when I would try on my mom's heels when I was four years old or five years old. He's. It's kind of like watching a baby giraffe get their sea legs, if you know what I mean. Doesn't come naturally. But I just wanted to say, here's a photo of Melania Trump. We could just do like a who wore it better? But here's Melania Trump walking into Mar A Lago on New Year's Eve. So she wore it first. She wore it first and better, in my opinion. But this is a real woman modeling Versace. So it is unclear if Dylan was paid to go to this event. It doesn't seem like it was a paid partnership the way that Bud Light was. He was tagging Versace in some Instagram posts like, I'm wearing this dress. But Versace isn't making Dylan the face of their campaign or their brand. He. He was just invited to an event. And normally the brand will give you something to wear to the event. But Versace is not doing so hot. So back in February of this year, IT experienced a 15% drop in global sales in its third quarter. And according to Business Insider, based on an earnings call in February, the CEO of Versace's parent company basically blamed the tanking sales on reducing the number of entry level priced merchandise. Like, people can't really afford Versace like normal people. But yeah, I think having Dylan Mulvaney come to your events and wobble around in high heels and run around like a mockery of a woman probably isn't how I would want to turn my Market value around. I mean, they dropped 15% in global sales. I don't know if Dylan Mulvaney is going to be the right thing. It might be the touch of death, the kiss of death, but we shall see. On that note, it is time for scrolling time. All right. This first one isn't really fun. I just. It saw. I saw it and it kind of pissed me off. So this video is of Colton Underwood and his partner. So Colton Underwood was on the show the bachelor reality show. It's a hit show, very popular, where one man gets to date 30 women, except he went through the whole process and then came out as gay at the end. So he wasted his own time and he wasted the time of the 30 some odd women that signed up to go on dates with him and get basically humiliated on national television. Whatever. I actually think that if you sign up to be on a reality dating show, you are mentally ill. So maybe these are just all varying degrees of mental illness happening if you go on this show. I don't know. But Colton Underwood has now met a. A match and they have a baby boy together. So watch this. Yeah.

[David Hogg]

And you want to go to the next most popular thing. Yeah. He's arson and he doesn't have a mother. I think that is something. If I could scream it from the rooftop, I would. Our child has two dads. He does not have a mother. Sometimes it's rude and disrespectful, and again, other times it isn't. People, you know, some people don't know that. You know, there are comments sometimes of like, this child was ripped away from its mom. Not the truth. Not at all. Right. We made bishop because there was an egg donor who's a separate person from the incredible woman who carried him, who was our surrogate. And by the way, neither of them feels in their heart like he's their child. The term we use is he has an egg donor. Like that he doesn't have a biological mom. He doesn't have a mom. Like, he had an egg donor and he had a surrogate that brought him into this world.

[Haley Carinia]

He said it was disrespectful that people say that they're son has a mother. He does. So the change in language here might be uplifting to gay men and it might make them feel better, but it's demeaning to women calling a woman just egg donor and not biological mother, which is the truth. I mean, sure, she donated her egg. Yes, she's an egg donor. But it's like a dehumanizing language. In my opinion. And that's the issue with a lot of this inclusivity language, because it makes men feel better about themselves at the expense of women. We see this with gay men in this video that we just saw. We see it in the trans debate. It's men demeaning women, and it's at the expense of women, who are the only beings on this planet who can produce human life. So they can't answer the question, what is a woman? Because the answer, adult human, female, doesn't allow them to dehumanize them as just egg donors. This is like when Pete Buttigieg and they talk about chest feeding. You can't replace breastfeeding, but they try to. They use this language that makes them feel like. Like they're sufficient mothers. So their son has a biological mother. You're just choosing to call her an egg donor because it fits your narrative. He also tried to justify this by saying, well, the egg donor and the surrogate, they don't feel like the baby's mother, so therefore he doesn't have a mother. The surrogate isn't the baby's mother, but the egg donor certainly is, because that's how biology works. Someone in the chat said, how did they afford eggs during Biden's administration? It's a good question. It's a great question. And these eggs are way more expensive. All right, well, this next video is Harry Sisson. He's our favorite Democrat army propaganda arm. He used to stump for President Biden on Tick Tock. He got really famous on Tick Tock for saying that, like, the gas prices actually weren't Biden's fault, and he would just parrot anything that the DNC told him to say. But here he is, apparently on a date. Watch.

[David Hogg]

There's nothing manly about supporting Donald Trump.

[Haley Carinia]

What's manly is taking your girlfriend to a really nice restaurant, as I'm doing right now, and. And also voting for her and everyone else to have basic human rights. Oh, do we think that he's on a date with a woman? And is it manly to go on a date with a woman and then give her your phone and say, hey, film me as I trash Donald Trump for my Instagram and for my TikTok business, because I'm an influencer. That's not manly, in my opinion. Probably people in the chat would agree someone just said he took his mom out. Yeah, maybe. It's totally insane. This next one is even more insane. This person got on TikTok and said, well, they didn't say anything, but this tiktoker is ashamed to be an American.

[David Hogg]

I'm ashamed to be an American because.

[Haley Carinia]

God knows I'm not free. Free, not free. And I won't forgive the men who lied and took my rights from me. And I'll stand up against your throne and curse her to this day. Cause there ain't no doubt I used to love this land. But God, the usa. Okay, you might hate the usa, but you're never going to experience more freedom anywhere else. The. They obviously change the lyrics to the iconic song there, saying that, you know, this man took my rights away. What rights? What rights? You can go to a country with free health care, but you might not have the same freedom of speech, but that allows you to curse out your government with no consequences. And there aren't very many countries that allow women to off their offspring at nine months. There also aren't that many countries that give you a pat on the back when you want to chemically castrate yourself and convince yourself that you can change your biological sex. So I urge you to find a country more open, more accepting, and more free than the United States of America. I dare you. All right, should we just. I'm gonna skip to the end. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go to number 19 and save number 18 for tomorrow. But this one is funny. It says, on second thought, maybe I do want a kid. And here's a little baby. He's going into his sleeping dad's wall wallet as he sleeps, and he's handing all of the bills in the wallet over to his mom. Colton, there's a big one in there.

[David Hogg]

Get that one.

[Haley Carinia]

There's a big one in there. She says, good job, baby.

[Stephen A. Smith]

Thanks.

[Haley Carinia]

It's all fives and ones. And there's. I saw a 20 in there, but lots of fives and ones. Someone in the comments said, I think your husband was going to the strip club. Lots of small bills in there. Someone else wrote, technically, I didn't take your money. The baby did. And then someone else said, this is terrible parenting. You should be teaching them to grab more than one bill at a time. This actually reminds me. So my dad growing up, he never used a wallet ever, which was total chaos in his pockets. Just there was bills, change, whatever. And anytime he would take a nap on the couch, all the money would fall out of his pockets and slip into the couch cushions. So then he would get up, and then I would go right in. I'd go to the couch and I'd lift up the cushions, and then I would collect my. My nap allowance. So, anyway, that's everything that I have for you tonight. Thank you for scrolling along with me. I had a lot of fun. I hope you did too. In the meantime, you can follow me on social media aileycarania on all platforms. But I will see you right back here tomorrow, 6pm on Rumble. Bye.