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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Joe Rogan Tells The Government To 'Figure Out What To Do With The Money They Already Get From Everybody,' Before They 'Tax The Rich People'
Joe Rogan and British comedian Jimmy Carr held nothing back in their latest conversation on 'The Joe Rogan Experience,' tackling outrage culture, taxes, and what they see as government mismanagement. Rogan and Carr criticized the modern trend of gaining attention through outrage or victimhood instead of talent or effort. 'This is a society that rewards outrage and that coddles people for the most preposterous beliefs,' Rogan said. 'It's a weird society of social media and the amount of attention you can generate.' Don't Miss: Deloitte's fastest-growing software company partners with Amazon, Walmart & Target – Hasbro, MGM, and Skechers trust this AI marketing firm — Carr referenced a bit from comedian Chris Rock, saying there are three ways to get attention: You could be brilliant, infamous, or a victim. Carr argued that the difference between ambition and entitlement comes down to responsibility. 'If you want to do something about it, that's ambition. If you think that's someone else's problem, that's entitlement,' he said. He said he has empathy for people dealt a tough hand but believes in empowering them to play those cards as best they can. Trending: One of the most passionate parts of the episode came when Rogan slammed the idea of simply taxing the rich to fix America's problems. 'What are you going to do? You're going to enrich [the government],' Rogan said. 'They're just going to get bigger and stronger and have even more power... It's not going to help you if they tax rich people.' 'Are the poor people going to get that money? No. Are their services going to improve? No, you're just going to get more government,' he continued. Then Rogan hit on what he sees as the real issue: government waste and mismanagement. 'Figure out what to do with the money they already get from everybody,' he said. 'And you're not doing a good job with it. That's the problem, the problem isn't that the rich people aren't paying their taxes.' Carr, who faced his own tax scandal in 2012, joked that you know you're in real trouble when 'the prime minister of the country that you live in breaks off from the G20 summit to come out and do a press conference where he talks about nothing other than your personal tax affairs.' 'It was tax avoidance, not tax evasion,' Carr clarified. 'There's a difference, and the difference is about 18 months in prison.'Carr pointed to Scandinavian countries like Norway and Denmark as examples where high taxes actually deliver real public services, without much public resentment. Rogan responded that these are smaller, more manageable societies. 'When you scale that to like hundreds of millions of people, things get really weird,' Rogan said. Carr also praised the European country of Estonia for offering a free, English-language medical school to attract foreign students. The idea behind it, as he says, is that some will stay, work, and contribute to the local economy. Read Next: 'Scrolling To UBI' — Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company allows users to earn money on their phones. UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily, plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? APPLE (AAPL): Free Stock Analysis Report TESLA (TSLA): Free Stock Analysis Report This article Joe Rogan Tells The Government To 'Figure Out What To Do With The Money They Already Get From Everybody,' Before They 'Tax The Rich People' originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Telegraph
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Trans children more likely to be ‘white and privileged', says Katharine Birbalsingh
Transgender children are more likely to be 'white and privileged', Britain's so-called strictest head teacher has claimed. Katharine Birbalsingh, 52, also said that they are searching for 'victimhood narratives', which she claims are 'admired' in modern society. The former government social mobility tsar, who is head teacher at the Michaela Community School in north west London, suggested she was 'unlikely' to have any transgender pupils because of the school's heavy ethnic minority intake. 'I think if one actually did a survey on this sort of thing nationally, I think you would find that white privileged kids would be more likely to be doing that,' she told The Standard. 'No question. 'Our society is such that victimhood is admired. And if you feel that you're white and privileged, then you don't have much of a victimhood narrative to embrace. 'So then you need to find something to embrace to be respected by your peers.' Ms Birbalsingh said she did not expect to be welcoming a trans pupil soon because much of the Michaela intake is from the inner city. 'That plays a huge part,' she continued. 'I think they'd be less inclined.' She added that she would want to support any child identifying as trans at the school and 'make sure they weren't just participating in a fad'. The head teacher said her school discourages children from doing anything 'performative'. 'Of course there are obstacles – racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, all that exists clearly,' she added. 'But how you react to that obstacle is up to you. We reject victimhood and embrace agency and personal responsibility.' 157 children under 10 await gender care New figures show 157 children awaiting gender care in England and Wales are aged 10 or under. The data, obtained following the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman last month, also show there were 6,225 children on the national waiting list at the end of March – up from 5,560 at the same point a year earlier. Although the court ruling does not directly affect pupils, as gender recognition certificates are only available to people aged 18 or over, experts have said it will have consequences for the school admission policies of single-sex schools. The Telegraph has previously revealed that the NHS is treating nursery school-age children who believe they are transgender after watering down its own guidance. Ms Birbalsingh, who is known for her strict, uncompromising rule, said her school's values 'encourage the kids to seek the truth'. She has already banned phones entirely at Michaela and encourages parents not to buy them for under-16s at all. In April last year, the High Court upheld her ban on Muslim prayers taking place during the learning day. A pupil claimed the policy was discriminatory and infringed her right to religious freedom. However, the court sided with Ms Birbalsingh who had argued the ban was vital to ensure 'children of all races and religions can thrive'.
News24
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News24
Prince Harry's childhood priest urges him to forgive and ‘stop being a victim'
A priest who once gave sermons at Eton College to a teenage Prince Harry has spoken out, saying the royal needs to 'shed the role of victimhood'. Angela Tilby (75) says the royal needs to 'forgive' in order to overcome his 'grief and confusion' and find freedom. In a piece for the Church Times called A Sermon that Prince Harry Should Heed, the canon shared her thoughts on the royal, who is estranged from his family due to his many public attacks on the monarchy. 'I grieve for that ginger-topped teenager I once preached to,' wrote Tilby, who is also a broadcaster and columnist. 'I believe he is a decent man. But, so far, he has found no way to switch off the trauma in his head.' Tilby, who attended Princess Diana's funeral in 1996, claims Harry's decision to blame an 'establishment stitch-up' for his recent court defeat to have private security in the UK is childish. 'The repeated demand for police protection and the insistence that his father [King Charles] could simply sort this out by ordering it sounds as though it comes from the 12-year-old who was required to walk behind his mother's coffin. What he might have picked up from attending morning service in Eton chapel was that forgiveness involves not only making peace with the offender but, eventually and at great cost, giving up the role of victimhood. Angela Tilby When he was a working royal, Harry had automatic taxpayer-funded security but when he and his wife, Meghan Markle, exited The Firm in 2020, it was removed. Tilby questions Harry's recent claims that he's forgiven Charles and the rest of his family over Megxit. 'He has said too much for relationships to heal. He claims to have forgiven his father and the royal family, but it is clearly a qualified forgiveness.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by BBC News (@bbcnews) In his recent explosive interview with the BBC, Harry claimed Charles isn't speaking to him and that he doesn't 'know how much longer my father has'. Some royal experts believe he went too far in his comments about Charles' health. 'I suspect that Harry said more than he had perhaps intended because he was consumed with anger that the court decision had gone against him,' former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond told The Mirror. 'When the court ruling didn't go his way, he was, in his own words 'gutted and devastated'. And he was clearly seething with fury. And that is rarely the best time to air your thoughts.' Simon Lewis, a former communications secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth, believes the timing was bad. 'The central tenet of PR is often timing – when you choose to do things, and secondly how you choose to do them.' He believes the duke should have waited before speaking. 'Perhaps he should have delivered some of his messages so much more elegantly. 'A less accusatory approach might have resulted in more sympathy.'
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE A sermon for Duke of Sussex from priest who preached to him at Eton: Harry, you must give up being the victim - and forgive from the heart
A priest who spoke from the pulpit to Prince Harry at Eton has urged him to shed the 'role of victimhood' in a sermon she has written to help him overcome his 'grief and confusion', MailOnline can reveal. Angela Tilby, who attended the funeral of his mother Princess Diana, believes the Duke of Sussex, 40, has warned him that his own actions have 'worsened his alienation from his family'. 'I grieve for that ginger-topped teenager I once preached to', she said, adding: 'I believe that he is a decent man. But, so far, he has found no way to switch off the trauma in his head'. Revd Tilby has written a piece for the Church Times entitled: 'A sermon that Prince Harry should heed'. She has urged him to follow Christ's teachings to 'forgive from your heart', saying it will be liberating. The Church of England priest claims that Harry's decision to give a BBC interview to blame an 'establishment stitch-up' for his Court of Appeal defeat, 'sounds as though it comes from the 12-year-old who was required to walk behind his mother's coffin'. Revd Tilby also questioned whether he has truly forgiven his family, as he claimed to the BBC. She wrote: 'He has said too much for relationships to heal. He claims to have forgiven his father and the Royal Family; but it is clearly a qualified forgiveness. 'What he might have picked up from attending morning service in Eton chapel was that forgiveness involves not only making peace with the offender, but, eventually and at great cost, giving up the role of victimhood. The latter is far harder, far more demanding, and, in the end, far more important. 'The logic of the Christian faith suggests that it is only when victims forgive 'from the heart' that they that they themselves can find liberation'. Angela Tilby, who is Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Honorary Chaplain at Portsmouth Cathedral, said she was invited to preach at Eton College in 2002. She wrote: 'I recognised the ginger top of Prince Harry, who appeared to be immersed in amused conversation with his neighbour, which made me smile. 'Five years earlier, I had been present at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and heard Earl Spencer berate the Royal Family for its treatment of Diana and promise to protect her two sons. 'Harry, with William, will have heard all that. He would also have heard the wave of applause from the crowds outside surge through the Abbey congregation. He may have felt, as many of us did on that day, as though a revolution was imminent. 'Yet the moment passed. Years intervened. Harry had his teenage follies and his first love affairs'. Revd Angela Tilby says she believes that some of the criticism he and Meghan have received has been 'cruel and vulgar'. She also said it is sad that he feels he 'will never feel safe enough to bring his family to Britain, even though it is his homeland'. But there are signs that he is struggling to shake the grief and victimhood he felt as a child, she suggested. 'His book, Spare, worsened his alienation from his family. He has seen his African charity fall apart amid acrimony. His BBC interview last week, in which he said that his security concerns had been dismissed by 'a good old Establishment stitch-up', reveal his ongoing grief and confusion', she wrote. 'The repeated demand for police protection, and the insistence that his father could simply sort this out by ordering it, sounds as though it comes from the 12-year-old who was required to walk behind his mother's coffin'. Speaking to the BBC after he lost a court appeal over his security arrangements on May 2, the Duke of Sussex launched a blistering attack on the King. He complained that his father 'won't speak to him' and that he doesn't know 'how much longer he has left'. Prince Harry also revealed he will not bring his wife or children back to the UK - and said he had had 'so many disagreements' with his family, some of whom 'may never forgive' him for writing a book. The comments on King Charles 's health are thought in particular to have raised eyebrows behind palace doors - given his treatment for cancer remains ongoing. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said: 'I suspect that Harry said more than he had perhaps intended because he was consumed with anger that the court decision had gone against him. 'When the court ruling didn't go his way, he was, in his own words 'gutted and devastated'. 'And he was clearly seething with fury. And that is rarely the best time to air your thoughts.' She added that she thinks Harry has now lost the support of the 'majority of the British public'. The Duke had been pursuing a case through the British courts after his level of security changed when he and Meghan stepped down as working royals. Howeve, Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, told Prince Harry his 'grievance' over downgraded security had not 'translated into a legal argument'. And he ruled the original security decision had been a 'predictable' and even 'sensible' reaction to Megxit – when Harry and Meghan stepped back from being senior royals and left Britain. The Duke, who claimed to be the victim of an 'establishment stitch-up', has now been put on the hook to pay £1.5million in legal costs after losing the case ten days ago.
