The Vigilant Fox 🦊

LGBTQ activist has a deer-in-headlights moment when Piers Morgan asks her to explain what “non-binary” actually means. When she can’t, she calls it “uncomfortably personal.” Then Riley Gaines finishes her off. PIERS MORGAN: “I just want to ask, what do you mean by non-binary?” ACTIVIST: “Um when I say I’m non-binary, I’m expressing my identity in a way that I have the right to do.” PIERS MORGAN: “What does that mean? There’s only one of you.” ACTIVIST: “Actually, they/them has been the collective they has been used to refer to individual people for centuries and still is. So, um, I mean, if you don’t understand basic grammar, that’s on you.” PIERS MORGAN: “I’ve got to be honest with you, I don’t understand the concept of what non-binary means… There’s one of you sitting here, and you look to me female. You’re a female?” ACTIVIST: “If you don’t understand what non-binary means…” PIERS MORGAN: “Are you a female?” ACTIVIST: “…then I’m not sure you’re in a position to lead a debate…” PIERS MORGAN: “But if you can’t explain it in simple language, then what’s the point?” ACTIVIST: “I don’t think that I’m here to discuss the contents of my identity.” PIERS MORGAN: “You raised this whole thing. I didn’t mention anything about what you were. You did.” ACTIVIST: “This has really become uncomfortably personal.” PIERS MORGAN: “Has it? You said it, not me…” That’s when Riley Gaines dropped the hammer. RILEY GAINES: “If you think this is uncomfortably personal, try undressing in a locker room with a 6’4 naked man.”

Dan Bongino says he has never gotten more emails, texts, and DMs in 12 years on the air than after he told you to get prepared. Someone he had not spoken to in 40 years messaged him: “Are we all going to die?” BONGINO: “Folks, there’s nothing controversial. Yes, I’m a little worried about the potential for a cyber strike that could regionally lead to some brownouts and blackouts that could cause a lot of problems.” “The worst day of your life is, God forbid, something happens, and you turn on the tap water faucet, and nothing comes out after a week or two cuz chemicals run out, filtration plants, and you got no water. There is no downside whatsoever to a little bit of preparedness.” “I learned all of that as a Secret Service agent where you over-prepare so things don’t happen.” “I’m not telling you the world’s going to end tomorrow. Just telling you to be prepared.” “Be prepared for 30 days of being off the grid so you can support your family. It’s critical. Panic kills, as I said.” On top of Bongino, I’ve seen these podcasters issue similar warnings this week: • Glenn Beck: “I haven’t given a warning like this since 2007,” adding, “Prepare for impact. If you haven’t already, you need to start.” • Tim Pool: “Winter is coming, just be prepared.” • Mike Glover of Fieldcraft Survival: “If you’re depending on another man to come save you and your family, you’ve already lost.”

Adam Carolla says it took 10 DAYS before he heard about the concealed carry dad who ran into his daughters’ elementary school and took down the shooter. He thought about it, and he knows exactly why it didn’t get more airtime. “IT F*CKS UP EVERY THEME THEY HAVE ABOUT GUN OWNERSHIP.” CAROLLA: “That was the first time I’ve ever seen a picture of this guy [Kaylub Giamanco], heard him talk.” “He says, ‘I didn’t save enough kids, and I’m sorry to the parents of the kids who I couldn’t save.’ And now he can’t sleep at night because he can still hear the screams of the children begging for their lives.” This man should be a household name. A national hero. But as Carolla explains, his story wrecks the picture of gun owners the media wants in your head. “The theme of the dad who wanted to protect his kids ... and put an end to this school shooter is NOT a theme they like.” “MSNBC, CNN, LA Times, THEY HATE THIS STORY.” Daniel Penny, meanwhile? CAROLLA: “That guy is everywhere because they love the theme of a blonde-haired guy choking out a black guy.” When a story doesn’t fit the narrative, you never hear about it. When it does, it’s all you hear about.

Joe Rogan is horrified as Steve Hilton reveals where the 330,000 migrant kids Biden lost actually ended up. ROGAN: “Holy f*ck!” HILTON: “The way Bobby puts it is that Becerra turned HHS into the largest child trafficking operation in history.” A caseworker told Hilton they were ordered to ignore obviously fake IDs and get the kids out the door as fast as possible. Their directive was “Speed over safety.” If something happens to the kids, so be it. One girl was put on a plane, handed off to three strange men, and forced to work 20 hours a day. ROGAN: “Oh my God, it’s shocking. That’s so evil.” The kids were given a hotline to call if they were in danger. The problem was getting anyone to answer. HILTON: “There were 65,000 unanswered calls to the hotline.” And the people who flagged it? “FIRED.” ROGAN: “It doesn’t even seem like it could be real.” When Bobby Kennedy Jr. previously described what happened to these kids, he called it a “huge, huge tragedy.” KENNEDY: “One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids.” “There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot.” “A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves.” “It’s a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world.” And now Xavier Becerra, the man who presided over all of it, wants to be governor of California. Steve Hilton is running against him.

Caroline Sunshine backs CNN’s Karen Finney into a corner after her party got caught planting a “Decoy Dan” to rig Alaska’s Senate race. SUNSHINE: “If you believed in your female woman-of-color candidate so much, why did you have to go find a RANDOM WHITE MAN to help siphon votes? Can anybody answer that for me?” What are the odds of two Dan Sullivans running for the same Senate seat in Alaska? Pretty good when Democrats go looking for one.

Theo Von asks Sophie Cunningham what she thinks of WNBA players walking out during the national Anthem. THEO VON: “How do you feel about that, or do you have any thoughts on it?” CUNNINGHAM: “I mean, you know who you’re talking to? OF COURSE, I have thoughts on it.” Cunningham stopped short of bashing her peers, but she made it clear she’s PROUD to be an American and will always show love for our troops. Theo Von couldn’t understand why WNBA players making an average of $518,000 a year can’t show gratitude to the country that made their dreams possible. Funny how the league that never stops demanding respect can’t give its own country even 20 seconds of it.

Joe Rogan figured it might just be a conspiracy theory that AI companies were secretly buying millions of books, scanning them, and destroying the originals. Then Jamie looked it up. It’s 100% real. ROGAN: “Oh my god, it’s true.” The deeper they dug, the more upset Rogan got. Anthropic had an internal code name for the operation: “Project Panama.” THE INTERNAL MEMO SAID: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” ROGAN’S REACTION: “Meaning they know that they’re doing something that will cause people to f***ing freak out and revolt.” “The training data is other people’s work. It’s books. That’s what’s insane.” “The idea that you could… burn all the books so that your company succeeds and other ones don’t is the problem we’re talking about.” WHAT HAPPENED: Anthropic needed a mountain of books to train its AI. So it bought millions of them. Workers cut the spines off, scanned every page, and threw the books out when they were done. They wanted to keep this a secret, but then a group of authors sued in a case known as Bartz v. Anthropic. To Rogan’s dismay, the judge ruled the scanning was “fair use,” so Anthropic was allowed to do it. Where the company got in trouble was the pirated stuff. On top of the books it bought, Anthropic had downloaded millions more from pirate sites for free, and the judge wouldn’t let that go. That ended up costing them $1.5 billion, the biggest copyright settlement in U.S. history, or about $3,000 per pirated book.

Joe Rogan thought it was fake news when he heard Brazil bulldozed the Amazon rainforest to host a climate summit. ROGAN: “That sounds like horsesh*t.” Then Jamie pulled up the BBC… ROGAN: “Oh my god. It’s real!” Brazil cut a four-lane highway through tens of thousands of acres of protected rainforest so COP30 attendees wouldn’t get stuck in traffic. ROGAN: “You’re chopping down trees to protest chopping down trees.” Joe’s deep sigh at the end says it all.

Adam Carolla tells The Atlantic to “F*CK OFF” and “EAT SH*T” for demanding you forgive the people who tried to destroy your life over a COVID shot. He shows their previous headlines on the screen, and it’s not pretty. CAROLLA: “Of course all the people who wanted everyone drawn and quartered for not getting vaccinated or wearing a mask want a f*cking amnesty.” “Suck my dick, f*ck off, Atlantic, and eat sh*t, because you guys all deserve whatever the f*ck you’re getting.” “BUT THE MAIN THING YOU’RE GETTING IS NO ONE’S GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU EVER AGAIN.” THE ATLANTIC THEN: “The Anti-Vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America” “Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden” “Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore” “Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good” THE ATLANTIC, YEARS LATER: “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.” First of all, forgiveness comes AFTER you apologize. Your headline should be “We’re sorry. We acted like monsters.” Not “we were in the dark about COVID” and didn’t know any better. You didn’t know any better because you CENSORED people like us. Screw off Atlantic. No Amnesty.

A college student who calls himself a “future scientist” tells Joshua Haymes a baby in the womb is “not a human being yet.” So Haymes asks him to Google one question: “When does life begin?” He reads the answer out loud, and the debate is over. JOSHUA HAYMES: “My proposition is very simple. It is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being.” STUDENT: “It’s not a human being yet.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “When does human life begin?” STUDENT: “I think that’s more of a philosophical question… As a future scientist, even.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “You would say trust the science. You would agree with trust the science?” STUDENT: “Yeah, I would.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “Would you agree that it is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being?” STUDENT: “Innocent, yes.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “Now, you said you trust the science. Will you do me a favor and just look up on your phone right now: according to all of the available scientific data, when does life begin?” STUDENT: “It says at fertilization or conception.” That’s the moment his whole argument collapsed. JOSHUA HAYMES: “This is the consensus of all of the scientific community that life begins at conception. It’s not a future life. It’s a current life… If you trust the science, you have to say we must abolish abortion.” STUDENT: [laughing] “Aww man…” He laughs because he knows he just lost. Credit to him for admitting it. CONTEXT: The science the student looked up is not just a pro-life talking point. In 2018, a University of Chicago researcher asked 5,577 biologists from 1,058 institutions when a human life begins. 96% said fertilization. Most of them identified as pro-choice. In 1952, Planned Parenthood’s own pamphlet told women abortion “kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” The biology hasn’t changed since then. The marketing has.

Jon Stewart’s producer can’t stop smiling as she says Republicans are nervous about getting crushed in the midterms. Then Stewart brings her back to reality, and that smile disappears real quick. PRODUCER: “I’m feeling optimistic.” STEWART: “The national media is so disconnected from the reality of things that all they care about is the horse race and creating narratives around blue wave and not blue wave and tsunami.” “The polling is ALWAYS so f*cked and SO WRONG that I just really have no sense.” He’s got a point. In 2020, national polls had their biggest errors in 40 YEARS, overstating Democrats by an average of 3.9 points. Then Stewart mentions a commercial attacking James Talarico, and suddenly he’s having flashbacks to what crushed Democrats in 2024. He’s seen too many “blue waves” turn into blue puddles to fall for this one. Democrats might want to hold the champagne.

A college student tries to lecture Will Witt that capitalism and billionaires are the root cause of young people’s pain. Then he asks her to explain what capitalism is, and it’s over. WITT: “How does capitalism cause the problems that you’re seeing for young people in this country?” WITT: “What does capitalism do?” STUDENT: “I feel like I already kind of explained that…” WITT: “So what is capitalism?” STUDENT: “What do you mean what is capitalism?” WITT: “What would you define capitalism as?” He keeps handing her chances. She keeps refusing to take them. WITT: “Just a definition, so we’re on the same page, because definitions are important. What would you describe capitalism as?” Cornered, she tries changing the subject to immigrants. STUDENT: “No, I’m saying that it’s not immigrants that are causing the problems for America.” Witt drags her right back. “So what is capitalism? Just tell me what capitalism is.” STUDENT: “Okay.” Then she walks away. She’s not the exception. She’s the rule. A poll of 2,000 young Americans found most couldn’t define socialism or capitalism. And the more they learned about socialism, the less they liked it. These people can tell you exactly what to hate. Just don’t ask them what it means. CONTEXT: Capitalism pulled 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990. Worldwide, the rate fell from 43% to 10%. Nothing else in human history comes close.

Michael Malice is floored when Jamie confirms Zohran Mamdani's New York City budget is BIGGER than the entire state of Florida's. Florida has THREE TIMES the people, and NYC still outspends it. ROGAN: "You see, Mamdani is trying to figure out a way to use his budget. His budget is higher than the budget of the entire state of Florida, which has three times more people." MALICE: "No, it's not. Is it really?" ROGAN: "Yes, it is. Yeah." MALICE: "No way!" ROGAN: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look it up... New York City's budget... is more than the budget for the entire state of Florida, which has roughly three times as many people living in it." MALICE: "Holy… is that true, Jamie?" ROGAN (reading): "Eye-popping amount… insider called 'insanity'… a record $127 billion budget proposal... The socialist city leader's plan includes a whopping 9.5% proposed property tax hike on New Yorkers, which he claims would be a last resort, while allocating another $1.2 billion for migrants. MIGRANTS!" MALICE: "What's the Florida budget, Jamie?" [Malice sees the numbers] MALICE: "HOLY SH*T!" ROGAN: "Yeah, triple per capita. So the Florida House budget is $113.6 billion to $115 billion (proposed), and the New York proposal is $127 billion. So it is more." MALICE: "Holy crap!" CONTEXT: New York City's current budget is $125,800,000,000 for about 8.5 million people. Florida's is $117,600,000,000 for about 23 million. That's roughly $14,800 per New Yorker versus $5,100 per Floridian. Of that, the city budgeted $1,200,000,000 for migrants this year. That's about $45,000 per migrant for the 26,500 living off taxpayer funds.

Bill Maher makes Democrat Governor Andy Beshear go quiet after he complains Trump never does anything positive for Kentucky. Beshear tried to play the sensible Democrat who reaches across the aisle. Maher exposed the most basic form of diplomacy he doesn’t even try. BESHEAR: "If he [Trump] is doing something that’s positive for Kentucky, I need to give voice to that if I’m going to have any legitimacy opposing him when he does something negative for Kentucky. I just really wish he’d do something positive for Kentucky. MAHER: "Well, yeah. But honestly, having a personal relationship, I think, helps." "I’ll tell you something interesting. This time we were waiting outside the Oval Office... and there’s a table that a lot of places have where they put, like, publications... The one I noticed was not there was the New York Times." "Now, maybe it was 7 o’clock at night and maybe everyone had already taken one. I think it’s just that he does not read it. So you can put all the editorials you want in the New York Times. I just don’t think it matters." "You know what sentence never came up at the dinner? 'I read an interesting piece in the Atlantic.' ... So you have to go where the person is. This is a people person. 'People are saying.' You got to get in there and be one of the people saying because he’s not going to read it in the New York Times." It’s amazing how many Democrats still fail diplomacy 101: talk to the guy in charge. They claim to want change and screech to “oppose Trump,” yet never once attempt to be cordial or bother to pick up the phone to sway his decisions.

Karoline Leavitt reveals what President Trump told her when critics said she was too young to be the White House press secretary. MAHER: “So is there anything that could make you... not be loyal to whatever he was doing?” LEAVITT: “He was my boss, but to me, he’s also a friend, and he gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I mean, I don’t think I’d be sitting on your show right now if not for him giving me that chance.” “I’ve also seen him behind the scenes, as you have, and I know his heart... He’s been nothing but kind, uplifting, encouraging. He did name me the youngest press secretary ever, and a lot of people told him he shouldn’t.” “He told me that. He said, ‘Honey, lots of people said you were too young, and I told them I was building buildings in Manhattan when I was your age, and you can do it.’” [Applause]

Bill Maher admits Trump is a remarkable listener who never interrupts and values every opinion in the room. MAHER: "Remember, we were going to have a live execution of the Fort Hood shooter? Somebody talked to him. He DOES LISTEN when he’s in that White House. He never interrupts. He never gets mad. He listens." LEAVIT: "He does. And he surveys the room. Something that I find admirable about him is he’ll look around the room, and he’ll ask the opinions of everyone in it, whether it’s a low-level staffer or his chief of staff." MAHER: "True." LEAVITT: “He genuinely wants to know how people feel, what they think. He takes their counsel and advice, and then I think he makes the best decision that he believes is best for the country in that moment.”

Bill Maher admits he was amazed by Trump’s patience and says there are “so many moments” where he gets it. MAHER: “He’s just so imperious when he’s out of the White House, and when he’s there, the TOTAL OPPOSITE.” “He never pulls rank. No matter how flippant I get, he never goes, ‘How dare you say that in the White House?’” “I mean, I can talk to him just like I talk to any guy at a bar.” “There are so many moments where he gets it.” Stephen A. Smith described a similar experience about the dinner, saying Trump “could not have been nicer,” just weeks after taking a shot at his IQ.

Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reveals the only person who lacked etiquette at the Trump dinner was HIMSELF, and that Trump couldn’t have treated him any better. MAHER: “I’m glad that we talked. And by the way, if anyone lacked etiquette at that dinner, it was ME.” “I brought Stephen A. Smith. He was perfect, on point. ‘I give myself an A-plus for choosing him.’” “But me... Trump never lost his temper. He never yelled. He never interrupted. I did. I could not have been treated better if I was Russian.” Moments earlier, Maher told critics in the news media that he went face to face with the man and said the things they’re only brave enough to write in articles he’ll never read. His message for them: “You know what? F*ck you, I like these dinners!”