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April 25, 2025 16 mins
The New York Times reports Democrats are now trying to be “dark woke” to be more edgy. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal calls J.K. Rowling a “heinous loser” after she celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding trans women’s legal identities.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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(00:36):
She was pretending to be a federal agent to briefly
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(00:57):
amiss after she was taken to an apartment complex and
she called the police. Battle is charged with kidnapping, robbery
by sudden snatching. I didn't even know there was a thing,
impersonating a law enforcement officer, and.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Felony violation probation.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh my gosh. A Florida man caught with a bulky
wallet full of cocaine at Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Was arrested. Was it bulky because of the cocaine? I
mean you know? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
He was banned from Walt Disney World because he snuck
a giant wallet full of cocaine into the park. Dustin
Lee Wallace, forty four, was arrested March twenty ninth, and
he got his court appearance.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Has just happened. That's why.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
According to Orange Circuit court records, he had gone in.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
The wallet was bulky. He was nervous around. When he
was checking in, they.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Observed a powery white substance coming out of his wallet,
and then they had to call in the sheriff's office.
And he said yes, and he used the cocaine to
manage stress. He said, did you see I have this
New York Times piece that I wanted to show you.
I'm trying to find out what the motivation is here
New York Times piece? What is dark woke? Have you

(02:07):
ever heard of that? I've never heard of dark woke?
The subhead Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It's provocative,
it's edgy, and it's perilously toeing the line of not
being too offensive. Basically, it's because they cuss, I think,
is what the point is said. They went back to
the presidential primary and they boil it down to quote.

(02:31):
It requires being crass but discerning, rude, but only to
a point. And it has a name called, excuse me,
called dark woke. How about just like assertive you vocabulary challenged,
feeble minded half wits? How about assertive Kurt blunt? No, no, no,

(02:54):
we're going to totally full on idiocracy. It's dark woke.
Doesn't that person look as start of No? That parson
done look dark woke. This is the dumbest stuff ever.
It started as a mean but now they're actually trying
to make it a thing. They say, this is just
the lack of awareness in this. Can I read this

(03:15):
graph to you? The lack of awareness. Democrats don't know
who they are. They don't even know how they act.
Listen to this quote. Outside the party, the dirtbag left
a term for a cohort of leftist provocateurs who iss
huge civility politics inspired headlines for their unrestrained derision of
conservatives and liberals alike.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
When have they never not been that? Right?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
When have they never not been that? What do you
mean that they've always is huge civility politics? When has
the left been super civil? I can't tell you how
the number of protests I've been to where I've seen
the left act they where is this? They act like
they've been just kittens in sunshine this whole time. Now

(04:05):
they're dark woke because damn it, Trump did it. Trump
made them a skew civility politics. That's what this is
building up to. They did this in twenty sixteen too.
Of course, they cite Jasmine Crockett and then they when
they highlighted her argument with Marjorie Taylor Green, when Green
was going on about fake eyelashes. Remember that was actually

(04:26):
a brilliant hearing, and it is true, girl, you need
to take them down a gauge. They don't all need
to be eighteen's. And they said that, they highlight Jasmine
Crockett as somebody who's dark woke. They listened to a
number of other lawmakers, and then I realized, I've seen
these lawmakers either they're on MSNBC or CNN cussing up
a storm, or they've got b roll of them acting

(04:46):
a fool at like some rally or speaking event, and
listen to this. They make this like this is all
the right that has corrupted the precious innocent left. Democrats
have embraced some aspects of the rights toolkit. Trump advisors
like Elon Musk have used slurs in profanity and now
they said, now Democrat politicians have encouraged or allowed more swearing.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
What that so?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
The way that this New York Times piece reads is
that the left was just they were all angels. It
was all kittens and sunshine, and they were all perfectly
well behaved people. They said yes ma'am and no, ma'am, Yes, sir,
no sir, And they were just they're so kind and
so nice, and they they they they prayed before every meal,

(05:37):
and they they went and they were very kind at
all their this nobody believes this. What in the world,
if anything, the right has adopted the left. I think
you have members of the woke. I think there is
a woke right right now. And I've talked about this before.
I actually have a chapter on it in the very
last book that I wrote. Identity politics being incorporated and
weaponized by some people on the right. There's different factions

(05:59):
of the right, but the left, for them to act
like they never ever were rude or aggressive. They've always
ever been aggressive, and it's one of the reasons that
certain Republicans got more aggressive, because they thought that they
had to in order to be able to compete with this.

(06:21):
It's just it's just it's un it's wild. And they
said that, oh, well, they're now becoming more authentic. I
think they're just evolving further. I mean in the past,
you know, when when you would have, like, you know,
James Carville, I'm gonna use him as an example, because
he's like one of the older old guards that's you

(06:41):
know out there on CNN et cetera. It just seems like,
you know, in the past, they were aggressive and they
would you know, all this to James Carvill's always cussed,
but he's always made a point. What is Jasmine Crockett's point?
She gets up there and she makes fun of people
in wheelchairs? What is her point? I don't get it.
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(10:36):
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last night because I saw this article as I was
getting ready to go to bed. I was reading this
and it has to do with Pedro Pescal. Do you
guys know who he is? Pedro Pescal was in Well,
my favorite role was as ober and whatever Martel oberon

(12:14):
Martel and Game of Thrones when he had his head
crushed in I thought that was his best role. I
was of my favorite scenes in all the TV. Popped
his head like a great the mountain did he fought
him anyway, So he has come out and he's attacking JK.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Rowling.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
As you know, they've had a massive legal fight and
they had a big win in the UK over defining
what you know, protecting women and defining what they are,
and he has come out and attacked her. He called
her a loser, among several other things. He was also
in Mandalorian and he was quiet when Gino Carrano was attacked.

(12:51):
Gino Carano just said he was pointing out some fascistic
elements of the left, and they went at her over
it and fired her from it. A Hollywood reporter says
Pedro Pascal blasted JK Rowling for her trans tweets. He
called her a heinous loser. He commented on Instagram, calling
her a heinous loser. He's also in the Last of Us,

(13:13):
which I don't watch, and he was responding to a
post by an activist who criticized her for celebrating the
UK Supreme Court. They had a big ruling last week
saying that trans women should not be recognized as women
and sex legally means biological sex.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Ralling was on her boat.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
She was with a cigar, and she said, I love
it when a plan comes together.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
She's gloating and she has every right to.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
And she goes, I get the same royalties whether or
not you read my books or burn them.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Enjoy your marshmallows.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
And he went off on her saying awful, disgusting, blank
is exactly right.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Heinous loser behavior. Now.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
One of the things that I've read his sister apparently
is he's got a well, he's got a brother who
pretends to be a girl.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's not like actually his sister.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
He's got a sibling who a brother who came out
and said that she was a girl. And that's he like.
He's gone to events with her with him before. He's
got taken his brother to events before. He has spoken
up in favor of trans issues before.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
That's why he was.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think that kind of gives you some insight as
to why I never said anything in defense of Gina Carano.
And also you get insight into this JK. Rowling thing.
He's making people mad too. Lorraine found this because he
called Rachel Zegler an icon. This is a throwback, well
not too much of a throwback. It's just March of
last year.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
But after all the.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Stuff with Rachel Zegeler after she ruined the Snow White movie,
he weighed in on it, and now people are are
kind of rolling their eyes at him. He called her
an icon. He's just he is. He will Pedro Pascal
is a pick me guy. He will say whatever he
has to say to ingratiate himself with Hollywood. Whatever he

(15:08):
has to do, he will do it. And it's really
one of the most emasculating things I've ever seen. When
I think of a masculation, I think of Pedro Pascal.
I thought this for a long time. Any man that
doesn't have the balls to stick up for his coworker,
watch as a female coworker when she's being savaged unfairly
and falsely in the press. You're just nothing but a

(15:29):
sack of low testosterone. That's all Pedro Pascal is. He's
a pick me guy. He will kiss whatever backside he
has to and possibly more, I think, in order to
get more traction in Hollywood. It's just it's cringe. He
tries so hard. If you've ever seen any video of him,

(15:51):
any red carpet, any red carpet appearance, anything like that,
that's exactly what he tries to do.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's really cringe.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
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