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Now, in fairness, I will say she was in the shot. So, you know, you can't wander into the shot like that. But her reaction was obviously unhinged and disrespectful. And again, I go back to two things. First of all, just how sheltered and coddled Katie Porter has been as a Democrat female congresswoman. That, you know, and that not only explains why she treats people that way, but also why she felt comfortable lashing out like that on camera. I mean, she was sitting there on camera cussing out her staff. Obviously not live. Whatever they were doing was not a live shot. So she had total confidence that she could do that and the video would just never come out. And, and if it was leaked to the media, that the media would just bury it for her. And, and that's what they. And that's the level of confidence she had. And you know what? If she had stayed in Congress, I think what happened is she ran for Senate and Law, so she decided not to run for reelection in as a representative. She ran for Senate and she lost. If she hadn't done that, if she just stayed where she was, then that video never would have seen the light of day. And she also wouldn't be catching any flack from the left for the interview that we played yesterday. And that's because, you know, she would have been useful to the left in her position, and so they would run cover for her. But now she's running for governor and she's running against other Democrats, and that makes her an inconvenience. And so the moment they decide that you're not useful anymore, same thing happened to Andrew Cuomo. He was the. The left. I mean, it's weird to think of there's a lot of things from the last five years that are weird to think about now, especially from 2020. But back in 2020, he was the. He was. Not only was he in the good graces of the left, but he was their hero. I mean, he was. They wanted. They wanted. They actually wanted to give him a Nobel Peace Prize. They were. He was a. He was their. Their. Their favorite. And. But as time went on, he became less useful to them, and so they decided to throw him to the wolves. And same thing's kind of happening with Katie Porter. Should have just stayed where she was. But the problem is that these people, of course, have egos the size of Jupiter. They all think they should be president. You know, Katie Porter wants to run for president. We can assume this is all part of her plan. Become governor and then try to run for president. What she doesn't realize, Kamala didn't realize this, you know, a lot of these people don't realize it, is that if you're a miserable, charmless, like, viscerally repugnant, unpleasant person, there's just a limit to how far you can climb in politics. It's not. Doesn't. It doesn't. It's not going to kill your political dreams entirely. You can still have a long career in politics. You can get into Congress, definitely. Congress is. Is a congregation of some of the most repulsive and tiresome people who have ever lived on the planet. I mean, you could be a really awful and like, the kind of person that nobody likes or could ever like. You could be the biggest loser on the planet. Still get into Congress. You don't need to have any political skills. You don't need to have any interpersonal skills, any social skills to make it into Congress. You don't need to be smart. You don't need to be skilled at all. I mean, look at, you know, Jasmine Crockett. So then you get all these, like, dull, tiresome bastards who make it into Congress, and then they come to believe that they're the second coming of JFK or something, so they try to keep climbing. And the problem is that, generally speaking, to get any higher to become governor, certainly to become president, you know, that's where you have to actually have something like, you've got to be mildly attractive. You have to be a mildly attractive person in some way. You have to be somewhat appealing at least. And that's where it all falls apart. Also, by the way, I wanted to mention on this Katie Porter thing that as this video has been going around of Katie Porter, the video from yesterday, where she's chewing, where she's storms out of interview. There are also these AI videos that are also making the rounds, and they're. It's a joke. Like, people are posting it as a joke, saying, oh, well, you didn't. You haven't seen the full version of that, of that video. And then the AI video is Katie Porter, like, lunging at the reporter and strangling her or something, you know, or slapping her. That's clearly AI, But. And, you know, it's kind of funny for what it is. It's funny because it's obviously AI and the people that are posting it are not claiming otherwise. They're not actually trying to fool you into thinking that she assaulted the reporter. It's just a joke. But look, not to hop on this. Up on this soapbox again. Being on a soapbox is the whole point of the show, I suppose. But I, I look at those videos and I think, well, that's funny, but is not going to be funny soon. We're. We're getting to a point where this is not going to be funny anymore. Because you look at those videos, they're still. They're still pretty clearly fake. They look a lot more real now than they did two years ago. And we are rapidly getting to the point, I mean, within the next two years, certainly probably within the next year, where these AI videos are not. Are no longer distinguishable, where they are indistinguishable from. From reality. We are. We are very, very quickly getting. We are almost. I'd say we're about 85% there, I think. You know, just like roughly looking at these, these AI videos, I think they're about 85% of the way there. There's about 15% of. Of kind of uncanny valley that you still see in these videos. Once you get to 95% now, you've got problems. And then eventually you're at 100%. And what does 100% mean? Well, 100% means that we will be at a point where anyone who doesn't like you can go and put in a prompt and generate a video of you doing or saying something awful, the worst kinds of things you could possibly imagine. And they could just post it on the Internet and it will be. So it'll be totally indistinguishable from a real video completely. And so there will be no way for you to prove that it's fake. And even if there is, like, the best you'll be able to do is. Is if someone's really an expert if you have some kind of program you can run that detects. But by that, by that point, the damage will be done reputationally. And there will always be, you know, once those kinds of videos are circulating and you've got a video of yourself out there like that, even if you say, oh, was AI there's always going to be in back of people's mind, like, they were very visual. We're visual creatures. And once that. Here's what I'm saying, that even you know, of course you're going to come out, you're gonna say, that's AI and there'll be some people who will believe you. But we're so visual that once we're able to create that visual of you doing right, like that someone makes a video of you drowning a cat in a river, whatever, or something even worse than that when it looks totally real. Now, you've been in people's minds once they've seen it, they've seen you do it. And even if they know you didn't really do it, they've still seen you do that. And so this association kind of is locked in, even if you don't want it to be. And that's where we're heading. Like, this is gonna happen and we all know it. And what. And what is so crazy to me is that nothing is being done at all to stop this. We. We have just accepted that this is going to happen and nothing is being done. Now you could say, well, there's nothing we can do. Look, we haven't tried. We haven't tried to do any. So we're waltzing into this future where anyone who hates you can generate any video that would be totally indistinguishable and it'll just be out there forever. I mean, do we understand what a nightmare that is? We're not doing anything, though. There are no laws that are seriously being proposed. Like, no one is doing anything. No one is trying to do anything. At least we could at least try. We could at least try to put some barriers in place. Something, anything. Because what's going to happen is three years from now, we're going to. It's going to be chaos. I mean, three years ago, it's going to be the scenario I just described. And people are going to be looking around like, why didn't we try to stop this? We can't stop it now. Why did we do nothing at all? To try to do anything to prevent this. Very. Like, we all know that it's happening. We can see the train, we can See that we're on the train, we can see the tracks going over the cliff. Maybe we're too close to stop it, but we could at least try. And we're not trying. And that, I mean, it's, it's terrifying. It should terrify everybody. I don't know, you know, and of course, if you're just a normal private person, you're, it won't happen to you. First, like, first it's going to be, it's going to hit the politicians. You know, it's going to be a thing like political campaigns are going to be destroyed by, by these AI videos. That's going to be the first thing. And then it's going to make it the public figures. It's going to start with public figures who are partisan, who have enemies. So, you know, me and, and people in, in my line of work, it's going to hit us real hard. And, and, and, and in that case, we're pretty much screwed because there's a whole group of people, 50% of the country is going to be incentivized to, to believe whatever the video is. And, and so that's going to be a bloodbath. But then, you know, pretty quickly, I mean, it's all gonna happen very quickly, pretty quickly it makes it down to just like normal people who, you know, if you have anyone who doesn't like you, and a lot of everyone does, you know, it'll make it there. And, and I'm, and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the most worried about that because at least if you're in my position and that starts happening, you have a megaphone where you can say, oh, this is fake. But what happens when you're just a normal person who works a normal job and someone creates a video like this and just puts it out there, what do you do? How do you address it? You know, you don't have the megaphone, so I'm very worried about it and I wish that we were doing something about it, but we are not. This month, Daily Wire plus members are getting more than ever before. From USS Cole, Al Qaeda strike before 911 to the 1916 project, the Halloween thriller Nefarious Hiding in plain sight. It's another one. 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That was about two months ago. And now, belatedly, I have to do something I almost never do, which is admit that I made a mistake. I must issue an unequivocal apology to that giggling CBS reporter. Take it all back. I had no way of knowing that in retrospect, I'd realized that her response was actually the single most dignified way that a self described Swifty could handle the fact that Taylor Swift was planning on getting married and having kids. Everyone else in this illustrious community would ultimately take the news far, far worse. It's not an overstatement to say that at the moment there is a full fledged mutiny among Swifties now that her new album called the Life of a Showgirl has just been released. This album contains a few songs, apparently about Taylor Swift's personal life, focusing on her engagement, as you might imagine, and the fans. Many of them are not taking it well and and their response actually tells us something important about our culture at the moment. So we'll we'll start with this TikTok, which features a small segment from the most controversial song on the album. And as the song plays for our audio podcast listeners, there's a white woman who scowls through the whole thing, along with a caption calling the song racist propaganda. So here it is. Watch.