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The Lion Week in Review
Rising Democratic Socialists and AI Price Discrimination
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Michaela Estruth discusses her interview with Senator Josh Hawley conducted the day after nationwide primary elections. Hawley describes the Democrat Party’s sharp leftward shift, the rise of woke socialist candidates who favor government control, gender ideology in schools, and chemical abortions, and contrasts Missouri’s rejection of a more radical progressive with Michigan’s nomination of a Democratic Socialists of America candidate for Senate.
The conversation turns to Hawley’s push to ban corporations from using AI and personal data to set individualized prices that charge customers differently for the same product or service. Additional topics include Hawley’s “trust but verify” stance on attorney-general nominee Todd Blanche, particularly enforcement against illegal mailing of abortion drugs into states with bans, and his efforts to keep Farm Service Agency offices open across rural Missouri, where agriculture remains the state’s top industry.
Adam Wittenberg joins to examine the broader surge of overtly socialist candidates, a former Democratic operative’s book explaining why she left the party, ongoing debates over men in women’s sports highlighted by Riley Gaines and a satirical all-trans WNBA proposal, an investigative report on last-minute Biden-administration changes that routed nearly $3 billion in green-energy funds to Wall Street-managed vehicles, and a disbarred immigration attorney’s alleged large-scale fraud scheme.
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:22 – Hawley on Democrat Shift
00:00:49 – Rise of Woke Socialists
00:01:40 – Primary Results Overview
00:03:46 – Michigan Versus Missouri
00:05:38 – AI Pricing Practices
00:06:30 – Ban on AI Price Setting
00:08:10 – Economic Debate on Pricing
00:11:29 – Todd Blanche Nomination
00:11:53 – Abortion Drug Enforcement
00:13:24 – Missouri Farm Offices
00:14:38 – Agriculture as Top Industry
00:16:35 – Democratic Socialists Surge
00:18:27 – Young Voters and Affordability
00:19:50 – Francesca Hong Controversy
00:20:46 – Nothing Left Book
00:22:19 – Democrats Abandon Heartland
00:23:05 – Riley Gaines and WNBA
00:24:32 – Trans Team Proposal
00:25:25 – Green Energy Giveaway
00:26:26 – Immigration Attorney Fraud
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