by a day. What do you do? You sell all your stocks or do you buy? All right, I'm not going to give you any financial advice. This is not financial advice.

But historically, the very best time to buy stock is when all the stocks went down for a non-economic reason. Now, I consider the pandemic a reason, meaning that it was a near certainty that we would get through it and that stocks would go up. You know, we'd recover. Because even if it was bad and a lot of people died, the people dying were not the people producing economic activity. The people dying were the exact people who were expensive. I hate to say that because they're human beings. But in terms of just the cold hard cash of economics, it was obvious to me that if we didn't die from a supply chain problem, which I thought we could handle and we did, the things would go back. And sure enough they did.

So there aren't that many situations where you have a really obvious reason for the stocks being temporarily lower. But this would be one. This would be one in my opinion, since we wouldn't be unable to pay. We would simply be disorganized and miss a deadline. I'd be a buyer. But I don't recommend that you follow my advice on stocks because I do not have a Warren Buffett track record. If I had a Warren Buffett track record, you should definitely listen to me. I do not. So don't.

All right, let's talk about Target. So there was some murkiness on the question of whether Target had intentionally targeted youth with their tuck-friendly LGBTQ trans clothing line. And one report was, well it's not what you think. And I said this on the live stream. I said it's not what you think because they simply don't have children's sizes anymore. They just have small sizes and there are small adults. So they're not directly targeting children. But it is true that these are sizes children would wear.

So then I saw a video of a woman go into Target to actually point to the stuff. Oh boy, was I wrong. Oh man. Now, I like to take the position first of assuming innocence. So I was giving Target the benefit of the doubt. I assumed innocence. I assumed that maybe they just got caught in a situation where it looked exactly like they were targeting young people but maybe it was just a misimpression.

And then I saw the display of an actual Target store. Nope, nope. Those are targeted to the children. Yep, absolutely targeted children. No doubt about it.

And if you want a little background on it, a Twitter user Jewel Adora confirms that he has a lot of experience in the stores and that they have a planogram or something. So corporate offices tell you where all your displays are supposed to be relative to the other displays. So there's like a map of where you put everything. That doesn't come from the local store manager. That comes from headquarters.

So the way these things were displayed were adjacent to the children's sections. And they had children's sizes and the clothing looked like it was aimed at children. And there were some gingerbread things and some other kids things that are very much LGBTQ oriented.

Now, in case there are any people who are not regulars to my live stream, I'm very much pro-LGBTQ. So my ongoing belief of how things should be is that all adults should be able to do whatever they want as long as they're not bothering me. And LGBTQ is just more of that. I have no special feeling except that there are individuals doing what individuals can do. So good for them.

But when we're talking about minors, all those rules are gone. Do we agree? No disagreement, right? If you talk about minors, all of the adult rules don't apply. So as long as we agree with that, we're in good shape on agreement, right? Why don't they apply? I'm not even going to explain that. They have incomplete brains. This is, I mean, there's nothing else to explain. So if you're raising kids for the benefit of the children, you make the decisions for them until their brains are ready to do it on their own. That's the whole process.

So I think it's so simulation-like that the store that's being targeted is literally called Target. They're actually a target. I mean, it's a little too on the nose, isn't it? It's like the simulation is just screaming at you. I swear it's really a simulation. None of this is real. I feel like it's just screaming at me. I get it. I get it. The target is the Target store. I get it. All right, too on the nose.

All right. So it looks like Target's in trouble. I did notice that some of the southern stores decided to respond by moving the LGBTQ display to the back of the store so they could kind of hide it during Pride month. I'll just say that again so I don't have to explain the joke. They're actually going to hide the LGBTQ display during Pride month. Do I have to complete it? That's actually what's happening.

Now, I oppose that. I oppose that because that's just for the adults. Because I think Target has every right and I would say even responsibility to satisfy adults of all types. I feel like that's part of their mission. And there are certainly enough LGBTQ customers to merit their own section of clothes for adults.

But if you take the adult stuff and put it in the back of the shop during Pride month, you've got some explaining to do. You have a little explaining to do. This is the most hilarious corporate oops I've seen since Bud Light.

You know, I've noticed that there's an overall competence problem happening everywhere. Maybe it's confirmation bias, but it feels like something fundamental is happening everywhere from government to business. Have you tried to get tech support from any company lately? It's almost not a thing. It's almost non-existent. It's just like they put idiots in all those jobs and that didn't used to be the case. I used to be able to get, with a little work, you could get help from anybody. Now it's just, it feels like it's totally broken.

So the bigger story here is the massive incompetence of Anheuser-Busch and Target, almost independent of the fact that it's about LGBTQ. It's just it was horribly managed. It just feels like none of this was hard to do and they still got it wrong.

And now the LA Dodgers, they've got a problem too. So there's definitely a new force in the world, which is the, I think conservatives have figured out how much power they have or they've decided to use it. Maybe that's a better way. I guess they always knew, but Republicans have decided to actively use their power. And I don't think they had before. I think it was mostly just complaining. But now, if you do something that is deeply offensive to that part of the country, they're going to make you pay. And probably that's the only thing that can get things back to some kind of balance, because we're way out of balance at the moment.

All right. You had North Face. North Face has some issues.

All right. I saw Jordan Peterson was tweeting that the research is adding up that the people who are left-wing authoritarians — so authoritarians is important to the left-wing part. So we're not talking about just Democrats, right? So this is not about ordinary Democrats. It's about the left-wing authoritarian types, of which we know exist. But apparently the research is showing that these are not political people as thought about politics. They actually just want to break things because they're narcissists. They're just narcissists. They're actually just, it's a mental illness. So although narcissism I think they call a personality disorder, that's not a mental illness, but it really is. Yeah, so they're narcissists.

So I've been saying this for a while. There's some brand of politics on the far left as well as the far right. They should not be treated as politics. It's clearly mental illness in both directions. But it's just the little stripe at the end. The people in the middle are largely almost normal no matter what their opinion is.

All right. Apparently there's another issue with Target that Elon Musk has weighed in on. And Target is being accused of funding some group called GLSEN, which calls for gender ideology to be integrated into all classes, even math. Now this is a Fox News report. Now, do you believe that Target is funding a group who is promoting gender ideology in all classes including math? Well, Community Notes seems to think it's true. Apparently it is true. And Elon Musk tweeted this and said, is this true? Because it's almost too hard to believe, isn't it? It's almost too hard to believe. And so far it looks true. So Target's got some work to do.

All right. Here's the scariest thing you're going to hear today. And the reason I couldn't describe the content in my show today. We'll go out on a limb a little bit here, as you know I like to do.

How would you know if your country had already been taken over and you were no longer a democratic republic? How would you know? Because it's the same question with AI, right? What if AI has already taken over? Would you know?

So I would propose, let's forget about AI for a moment. How would you know if our country was no longer a democratic republic and really there was just a cabal of important people who were deciding everything? How would you know?

Well, I would suggest the following test. The test that people are in power and we're no longer run by the people, so to speak, is that the people in power could commit a crime in public and get away with it in public. You could all see it. Just everybody can see it and there would be no consequences.

And the second way, the second way is related. The second way is if the people they don't like, the people on the other side, can be observed not committing a crime and then be successfully convicted for it. They can be proven to not be doing a crime right in front of you. You can see it with your own eyes and your common sense. And yet they would be prosecuted.

We have both of those situations. So here's an example of obvious real crimes that somebody should go to jail for that we all know are crimes. It's been confirmed and nothing's going to happen. So there's Hunter's laptop, the Russia collusion. Now we know from the whistleblower the slow walking of the Hunter investigation, which clearly that's a crime to just ignore it. The entire Biden family crime enterprise of money from other countries. That's all confirmed stuff. You don't have to wonder. We know it now.

Black Lives Matter of course turned out to be a fake organization. Good point that we're making, but a fake organization. Antifa seems to be completely fake, you know, because they disappeared as soon as the politics no longer needed them. So these things are obvious to the public. It's obvious that these are manipulated by the people in charge. And they can primarily do it because they control the legacy media.

And as I've described, the legacy media's purpose is to prevent you from knowing what your government is doing. It's not the news. I don't know if they ever were. I really don't know if they ever were. But it's very clear at the moment. And we've seen example after example after example where the legacy news is in the business, primarily in the business, of preventing you from knowing what the government is doing.

Now I see exactly zero pushback on that reframing. That's exactly what you see, isn't it? There's nobody who disagrees. Their entire job is to prevent you from knowing the news and they do a good job. The other Rasmussen polls showed that very clearly. The Democrats are actually unaware of the biggest stories in politics. They're actually unaware. So they do a good job.

But what about, so those are crimes that one side is doing that are completely unpunished. But then you have the other side where people who clearly did not commit a crime are being punished or over-punished for small things. Yes, January 6.

Now, not to dismiss the fact that there were some real bad people who actually did have bad intentions. I don't care if they get prosecuted. But I think every reasonable person can see that most of the protesters were just exercising free speech and they're in jail. Would that have happened if the parties had been reversed? No, no that would not have happened if the parties had been reversed.

How about Tucker Carlson being kicked off of Fox News? Doesn't it look like you get punished for nothing? Am I wrong? Tucker Carlson got punished for exactly nothing. Exactly nothing. I don't even think there was anything really even alleged, at least nothing new. I mean everybody alleges that everybody's telling fake news.

How about Daniel Penny? Is it Penny, the guy who did the, who accidentally it looks like killed the Michael Jackson impersonator? Doesn't that look to you like it's obvious he's not guilty of everything? It's just obvious. But he will be punished in all likelihood. I mean I hope he's not.

How about Republicans being hunted just in general? Do you think Republicans are being hunted right in front of you and it's just obvious? Yes, looks pretty obvious to me.

All right. So but here's the one that I feel like was the canary in the coal mine. And I had to wait a while and get canceled before I could say this full-throatedly and out loud. And I'm going to come at it indirectly.

You know that there are a lot of people who are in the business of killing people like bad people, murderers, right? A lot of people want to kil