Why do we keep electing people who have been in the public eye for 50 years? And why do we continue to put them in positions of power when they are no longer capable of doing the job they were elected to do? Is it because we trust them too much? Or is it because they are old, senile, and growing more erratic the older they get? And what does that have to do with the current leadership class that we now have in place in the United States, which is comprised of people who are well into their 80s, 90s, and beyond? Why is it that we keep putting these people in office when they're no longer able to do the job? And how can we stop putting them in office if they are so old and senile and have no idea where they are going to go from here? The answer to these questions may lie in the fact that we are now living in a gerontocracy, a world where our entire leadership class is really, really old, and not only bad at their jobs, but not only not only old, but they re not even good at their job, they are not even GOOD AT their jobs? This is a question that needs to be asked, because if you can t trust the leadership class to lead the country forward, what are you going to do in the future of the republic if you don t trust them to lead us forward? What are you waiting for? to lead you to the country you want to lead it? or are you to a better place? and why are you not going to vote for someone who is 50 years older than you think you should vote for them? than you would vote for a person who s 50 years younger than you are 50 years old? And who s going to be better at the next person you would like to run for re-election? Why do you think is more attractive to you than someone who s 45 years old and has a better chance of getting re-elected than someone you think would be better than you re-electing someone who's 50? Well, you're going to have to be 50 or 75 years old, right? in order to have the same thing you like to be more attractive than you do you need to be older than somebody who's 25 years older and have more vitality than you're 50 or you're not getting any better at your current age, you have to have a better grip on your brain function?
00:00:02.000Our entire leadership class is really, really old.
00:00:04.000And not only are they really old, they're not even good at their jobs.
00:00:07.000It's one thing to say that the old man on the mountain, well, you know, at least he's good at his job.
00:00:11.000But if he's bad at his job and he is borderline senile, or he is already erratic and he's just growing more erratic with age, the question becomes, why as a population do we keep nominating these people?
00:00:23.000I mean, there are a few reasons why it might be A reality that we keep putting up in positions of power, really old people.
00:00:29.000One could just be the power of inertia that the person is in power.
00:00:33.000We just keep electing them because it's more comfortable to go with the devil we know than the devil that we don't.
00:00:38.000And that would be true for somebody like Joe Biden, who, of course, is a devil that we know since he was 31 years old, where he burst onto the American public scene when he ran for Senate at the age of 30.
00:00:48.000So he's been in the public eye for half a century.
00:00:51.000And so maybe the idea is, well, you know, we're comfortable with him, we know him, we know everything there is to know about him, and sure, he's a little senile, but that's better than that new guy down the block.
00:00:57.000What that really betrays is a lack of trust in the future of the United States.
00:01:01.000If the people that you keep nominating to high office are people who have been in the public eye for 50 years, and the idea is that these are the people who are best poised to lead the country forward, what you're really saying is, we don't know which direction the country is going, so we may as well just give it to this old guy who's basically dead.
00:01:14.000And this is true across our- I think that really is the rationale for why so many people seem comfortable with voting for people who are no longer with us.
00:01:21.000Joe Biden is clearly no longer with us.
00:01:23.000Mitch McConnell is apparently no longer with us.
00:01:25.000Dianne Feinstein is no longer with us.
00:01:27.000It's not just, by the way, elderly people.
00:01:28.000It's also people who are just stand-ins for general political parties.
00:01:31.000John Fetterman is clearly not with us, and he's sitting in the Senate of the United States right now.
00:01:36.000Okay, that makes three senators out of 100 who literally do not have full brain function.
00:01:44.000And two of those people are in significant positions of leadership, right?
00:01:48.000Dianne Feinstein sits on some of the most important committees in the Senate.
00:01:52.000Mitch McConnell is the Senate minority leader, and that's leaving aside Chuck Schumer, who's well into his 70s at this point.
00:01:57.000Meanwhile, you have the current president of the United States who's wandering around wobbling into trees, and everybody's just like, well, I guess that's totally fine.
00:02:04.000And the leader of the opposition party is 78 years old, was erratic when he was young, and has grown more erratic the older that he gets.
00:02:11.000So again, I come back to the question.
00:02:13.000Why is it that we, the American people, keep putting these people in a position?
00:02:16.000It's a question for us, not a question for them.
00:02:18.000I understand why old people want power.
00:02:20.000Old people want power for the same reason everybody else wants power.
00:02:23.000Power allows us to pursue the things that we wish to pursue or to maintain our importance throughout our lifespan.
00:02:31.000I even understand the idea that, you know, there are certain older people who are still fully functional.
00:02:36.000There are people who are well into their 80s who are doing just fine.
00:02:39.000Mick Jagger right now looks a lot better than the current president of the United States, which shows that a life of sex, drugs, and rock and roll actually apparently is very good for you.
00:02:46.000It's sort of a formaldehyde that preserves you forever.
00:02:48.000But when you look at the gerontocracy that now rules the country, what that really speaks to is the beginning of the end of the republic.
00:02:56.000Because again, if you can't trust the people who are 45, 50 to lead the country, If there's no vitality to the leadership class, what exactly are we doing?
00:03:05.000It's just a holding pattern and everybody knows it.
00:03:07.000Joe Biden holding pattern is so much more attractive, apparently, to a majority of the American people than anybody who is 50, that he is going to run for re-election not being there.
00:03:17.000So yesterday, again, he was, you know, he exited the crypt in Delaware for just a moment, the door popped open.
00:03:25.000And then he walked into public view and said, where am I?
00:03:30.000And then he is going back to Delaware is the answer for the weekend.
00:03:32.000He's going back to Delaware again so he can sit on the beach shirtless.
00:03:36.000Apparently, he has a weird habit of bathing in the nude, which, man, Secret Service, those people have a job.
00:03:40.000In any case, carrying around extra suits for the president in case he poops one and then making sure that the naked old man is protected from the various assassins in the trade.
00:04:09.000How many different videos do we have of the President of the United States not knowing where he is going?
00:04:13.000So, you have to assume one of two things.
00:04:14.000Either the advance teamwork is unbelievably crappy around the President of the United States, or the President of the United States literally doesn't know where he's going at least 70% of the time.
00:04:24.000Unless you think that I'm just ripping on Biden.
00:04:26.000I'll get to Mitch McConnell in just one second.
00:04:28.000Now, the media have a stake in just covering for this guy.
00:04:31.000Because, again, in a fully reactionary era, which is what we live in, it is totally reactionary, the normal American is not reactionary.
00:04:37.000The normal American just wants to be left alone.
00:04:38.000The normal American wants a predictable set of laws that they know the rules of the road, and then they want to be able to, you know, raise their family, go to their job, go to church, pay their taxes, and be left alone.
00:04:49.000That's really what most Americans want.
00:04:50.000They just want a predictable And so this means that you must protect the precious.
00:04:53.000Meanwhile, you have the people at the highest echelons of politics who are either utopian
00:04:58.000or destructive and they're bouncing off of one another in a variety of combinations.
00:05:03.000And so this means that you must protect the precious.
00:05:04.000I mean, if Joe Biden is clearly not with us, you've got the entire left saying the precious
00:05:28.000Instead, he just puts all of his Dumb false stories together in one story and then he's like, well, you know, he is really like a genial old man, but it turns out that a lot of his stories just aren't true.
00:06:08.000There are a lot of problems with Mitch McConnell.
00:06:10.000You can say that he hasn't stood up for principle as much as he should have, or that he should have pushed harder when he had a Republican Congress.
00:06:16.000But in terms of just pure Machiavellian politics, Mitch McConnell was great at it.
00:06:23.000He is not mentally... He is not mentally capable of holding down the Senate Minority Leader position, and he should hand off the position to somebody else as soon as possible.
00:06:31.000Sanjay Gupta, the doctor over at CNN, he says, well, you know, he's kind of freezing up, and then he's not freezing up, his freezing is... We should not be analyzing the people who lead the republic as though they are Alzheimer patients.
00:06:43.000There should be a bipartisan coalition saying this, by the way, but no one's going to say it.
00:06:46.000And the reason no one's going to say it is because for Republicans, must defend Trump, who's 78, and McConnell, who's 81.
00:06:51.000And for Democrats, must defend Joe Biden, who's 80.
00:06:53.000It used to be that there's broad spectrum agreement on things like, hey, maybe we ought to, you know, transition the leadership to a generation that is not independent.
00:07:02.000But no, we're all going to just go back to go back to our various corners.
00:07:05.000Here's Sanjay Gupta analyzing the health of the Senate minority leader.
00:07:13.000Well, first of all, let me just say that what Scott is describing is really important to know, because whatever this is, it comes and goes, and it seems to come and go quickly, and in the world of, you know, when you're looking at the brain, that's an important sort of clue.
00:07:29.000What I saw, and this is, I think, an appropriate term here, is the term freezing.
00:07:35.000That does that does sort of describe this freezing of his body freezing of his speech Freezing of his face his hands were very clenched to the side of the lectern Okay, I mean, well, no problem.
00:07:49.000I mean, after all, we have many non-functional members of our top level of government.
00:07:54.000In just one second, we'll get to, you know, the people who theoretically could take over for people like Mitch McConnell.
00:08:01.000And we'll get to more corruption in the Biden administration because Joe Biden is not... The argument against Joe Biden, by the way, is not that he's senile.
00:08:06.000The problem with Joe Biden is that he's been corrupt for 50 years.
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00:09:12.000Okay, so, there are people who are waiting in the wings for Mitch McConnell to step down.
00:09:17.000And contrary to popular opinion, even if McConnell steps down, Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, can't actually just appoint a Democrat.
00:09:23.000Beshear's a Democrat, but they changed the law in the state of Kentucky so that Beshear has to choose from the same party as the person who stepped down, probably in anticipation of all of this, and he has to choose one of three people nominated by the state Republican Party.
00:09:34.000So, That means that even if McConnell were to step down completely from the Senate, he would be replaced by a Republican.
00:09:41.000The same thing, by the way, is true of Dianne Feinstein.
00:09:42.000And this is the part when I get to the irritation that I have for the allegiance that people are having to these old fuddy-duddies.
00:09:49.000What it really comes down to is no one wants to establish a precedent that you should get rid of an elderly person in a position of power just because they're senile because there are too many senile people in their own party they want to maintain.
00:09:59.000And that's particularly true at the top of the ticket.
00:10:01.000If you get rid of Dianne Feinstein for not being fully functional, what's the argument for keeping Biden?
00:10:04.000He's got a Democrat backing him up in Kamala Harris.
00:10:06.000I understand that you'd rather have the dead old white man running for president than you would have the very, very unpopular black woman running for president.
00:10:12.000But is that really an excuse given that Joe Biden is not functional and everyone can see it?
00:10:17.000If they get rid of Dianne Feinstein, who legitimately cannot write her own name at this point, What happens if they get rid of John Fetterman?
00:10:25.000Now, all those people get replaced by Democrats, by the way.
00:10:27.000But this is how perverse and venal our politics has become.
00:10:31.000We're going to keep those people in place.
00:10:33.000We're gonna keep those people in mind.
00:10:34.000So the very idea that the leadership class even matters has kind of exploded.
00:10:38.000All that matters right now is the binary, the party binary.
00:10:41.000You're the Republican or you're Democrat and it doesn't matter who you are, apparently.
00:10:46.000Because we can just plug somebody else in.
00:10:47.000Or we can just leave you there being a dead person.
00:10:50.000We can manipulate your hands like you're some sort of weird marionette.
00:10:53.000And apparently we'll achieve the same exact result.
00:10:56.000Some of the people, by the way, who theoretically could just replace McConnell today are John Thune of South Dakota.
00:11:51.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be as venal and corrupt as he ever was, apparently.
00:11:56.000We now have news that Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm traded more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden's office while he was vice president.
00:12:03.000Hundreds of those remain hidden because of executive privileges sorted by the White House, documents released by the National Archives show.
00:12:08.000That is according to the New York Post.
00:12:10.000The 861 emails that reference Rosamond Seneca were sent or received by the office of the vice president between January 2011 and December 2013, according to America First Legal, which obtained the messages from the National Archives and Record Administration and released them on Wednesday.
00:12:23.000The White House is refusing to allow the release of 200 emails referencing Hunter Biden's firm, citing executive privilege.
00:12:30.000Nara said, quote, release would disclose confidential advice between the president and his advisors or between such advisors.
00:12:39.000So they're now asserting executive privilege to protect communications between Rose Monsonica, which is Hunter Biden's firm, and the Office of the Vice President.
00:12:47.000While Rose Monsonica was working with Hunter, who was working with Burisma, Andrew Biden was in charge of Ukraine policy.
00:12:53.000Hunter Biden and his business associates frequently use their direct line of communications with the Office of the VP to leverage access to the Obama White House.
00:13:00.000White House guest list, seating assignments, biographies of guests for various official events, including the 2012 UK State Dinner, the 2013 Turkey State Luncheon, and the 2014 France State Dinner were shared with Rosemont Seneca employees.
00:13:11.000Apparently, one email contains an invite forwarded to the White House for then-VP Joe Biden to attend an event at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.
00:13:18.000Another invites then-Second Lady Joe Biden to participate in a World Food Program campaign.
00:13:24.000In one frantic 2013 email, lobbyist Doug Davenport begs Hunter Biden's former business partner Eric Schwerin for tickets on short notice to the White House Christmas tour, indicating that Rose Montenegro's level of access to the executive mansion was well-known.
00:13:35.000But apparently, executive privilege is supposedly going to cover all of this.
00:13:51.000Meanwhile, apparently, GOP investigators are looking for a Boston connection in the Joe Biden pseudonym mystery.
00:13:57.000This is according to TheDailyWire.com.
00:13:58.000A pair of Senate Republicans want to know if nine boxes of materials retrieved from the Boston office of a personal attorney to Joe Biden contain any pseudonyms or personal email addresses.
00:14:07.000Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent a letter this week to NARA asking whether the agency had reviewed the contents of the boxes obtained earlier this year from Patrick Moore's law firm in Boston after allegedly being moved from Biden's former think tank in Washington, D.C.
00:14:20.000And then they asked if any of those boxes included pseudonyms and email addresses used by Vice President Joe Biden.
00:14:26.000So, again, there are a lot more shoes that are going to drop here.
00:14:30.000It is also true, as Kimberly Strassel writes today in the Wall Street Journal, That there will be more shoes to drop with regard to the Merrick Garland DOJ cutting its sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden.
00:14:41.000According to Kimberly Strassel, Merrick Garland is working hard to present David Weiss, who is the lawyer who cut the deal, he's the prosecutor who cut the deal with Hunter Biden's legal team, as operating independently, but the record is showing nearly every piece of justice, its political appointees, its tax division, senior officials, the FBI, had fingers in the Weiss probe.
00:14:56.000Should anyone have confidence this will change now that Garland has given Weiss the honorific of special counsel?
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00:17:01.000It's going to be nearly impossible for anybody to buy a house in the near future.
00:17:06.000People right now are holding on to the houses and they're trying to keep the prices up.
00:17:10.000But eventually, that dam is going to break and the real estate prices are going to have to come down because there just is no liquidity in the market.
00:17:17.000Taxpayers are exposed, according to the Wall Street Journal, public debt held by the public rocketed from 35% of gross domestic product at the end of 2007 to 93% in the first quarter of this year, as Uncle Sam borrowed first to bail out banks, then to prop up growth, then to cut taxes, then to cushion the economy from the pandemic, and now to support manufacturing.
00:17:34.000So the burden of the debt was relatively low because the interest rates were low.
00:17:37.000But now, a lot of those interest rates are not low.
00:17:40.00067% of the debt matures within five years.
00:17:54.000In the private sector, banks have been the first casualty.
00:17:56.000Three regional lenders collapsed earlier this year, squeezed between the falling market value of loans they made and bonds they bought when rates were lower, and depositors fleeing to higher-yielding investment alternatives in American corporations could be next, according to David Maracle, chief U.S.
00:18:11.000We had very unique circumstances where companies didn't know if the economy would be shut down for another year or how long the Fed's intervention in the corporate debt market would last.
00:18:19.000This has insulated them from the need to refinance as rates have risen in the past year, but that's going to change.
00:18:23.000Because as the debt is refinanced, corporate interest expenses will rise, and that means they're not going to have as much liquidity available for hiring and research and all the rest of it.
00:18:31.000Meanwhile, your rates on your credit cards have been rising as well.
00:18:34.000So eventually, as I've been saying a lot, what goes up is going to come down.
00:18:38.000You're already starting to see annual sales of existing homes in the U.S.
00:18:46.000Meanwhile, corporate borrowers are going to be in serious trouble because it turns out that people are just not lending at the same rate that they were able to lend a couple of years ago because of the easy money policies of the Fed.
00:18:56.000According to the Wall Street Journal, with market conditions where they are in higher rates ahead, you basically have to refinance now because one month from now could be even worse.
00:19:06.000Meanwhile, retirees living on a fixed income are in serious trouble because of course they're on a fixed income and their dollars are worth less now than they were before.
00:19:11.000So thank you to Joe Biden for his bang-up economy.
00:19:15.000I'm so glad that we decided to bet on the elderly generation because they obviously have done us great.
00:19:20.000Part of the problem here, by the way, is that because America is an aging country and because nobody had any kids for like a generation and a half, The largest voting bloc in the United States is above the age of 45 by far.
00:19:32.000Above the ages of 65, by the way, is right now the second largest voting bloc.
00:19:37.000In 2022, 37 million people voted who are above the age of 65.
00:19:38.00037 million people voted who are above the age of 65.
00:19:42.000Between the ages of 45 and 64, about 43.6 million people voted.
00:19:46.000Which means that if you're above the age of 60 or 55, you are now in sort of the plurality of the voting bloc.
00:19:52.000Now, as people age out of the population, that may change.
00:19:56.000However, the upside-down pyramid of our demographics is going to have a continued impact on how exactly people vote in terms of our elderly gerontocracy.
00:20:04.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the effects of Joe Biden's Rule.
00:20:09.000With regard to immigration, it continues to be very bad.
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00:20:54.000According to the Washington Examiner, the driver of a Honda Odyssey, who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022.
00:21:09.000Hermano Joseph of Haiti was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide yesterday in Clark County Municipal Court for the incident, which happened as the children were being bused to their first day of school.
00:21:18.000Joseph was arrested while illegally crossing the southern border on August 22, according to reports.
00:21:22.000He was not returned to Mexico, where he came from, or to Haiti.
00:21:25.000Instead, he was given a notice to appear, and then he was released into the general public.
00:21:31.000He gave everybody his Mexican driver's license, which is great.
00:21:35.000So he was living comfortably in Mexico, apparently, had an ID, and then decided to just pop over the border and apparently kill a child and injure 26 other children.
00:21:44.000Our border policies are a disaster, of course, but according to the Biden administration, all is well.
00:21:48.000Here is Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, pretending that Joe Biden has done a great job securing the border.
00:21:53.000The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else.
00:22:00.000June saw the single largest month-to-month drop in unlawful border crossing because of the policies this president put in place.
00:22:09.000Okay, so, as Bill Malugan, the Fox reporter, points out, there were more than 7,000 migrants apprehended by Border Patrol on Tuesday alone, after they crossed illegally.
00:22:18.000There was a brief lull in the weeks after the end of Title 42 in May, but illegal crossings are surging once again, so they're just lying about it, obviously.
00:22:26.000Meanwhile, Corinne Jean-Pierre says that Joe Biden won't even meet with Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York.
00:22:31.000She's been talking about the disaster of mass migration into New York, illegal immigrants descending on the state en masse.
00:22:37.000And she's like, no, Joe Biden doesn't have time for that.
00:22:41.000But when the governor of New York came by to discuss a very urgent matter in the state of New York and across the country, a lot of big cities, He did not meet with her.
00:22:50.000Well, look, as you just stated, there's a lot going on, and his Chief of Staff was part of that meeting.
00:22:57.000I believe Secretary Mario Arcas was part of that meeting.
00:23:01.000Some of his very high-level senior staff participated in the meeting with the Governor, which is, as you said, a very important meeting to have.
00:23:08.000He has a very good relationship with the Governor.
00:23:10.000We've been every time we're in New York.
00:23:12.000The president, practically every time, engages with the governors.
00:23:18.000Look, the president has a lot on his plate.
00:23:23.000Yeah, he has so much on his plate, which is why he's been on vacation for nearly the past six weeks with minor breaks to visit Maui and tell stories about a kitchen fire that he once had.
00:23:33.000Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, we're preparing for the Donald Trump trial in Georgia.
00:23:38.000Apparently, according to a Fulton County judge on Thursday, Judge Scott McAfee, he says that all court proceedings in the election interference case against Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants will be live streamed and televised.
00:23:49.000Which is going to be amazing for the country.
00:23:54.000I think the fact that we should have more transparency.
00:23:56.000If we don't trust our institutions, watching the institutions work would be the only way to restore trust in our institutions.
00:24:01.000So I'm all for more sunlight and more transparency.
00:24:03.000My guess, honestly, is that Team Trump I'm not sure how against the television they are, because the prospect of watching these people go after Trump in the dock may not be bad for Donald Trump in, say, the primaries.
00:24:15.000In an order issued on Thursday, McAfee said members of the media would be allowed to use computers and cell phones inside the courtroom for non-recording purposes during court proceedings.
00:24:22.000There will be pool coverage for television, radio, and still photography as well.
00:24:26.000So we're all going to get to watch the trial on TV.
00:24:30.000Is this something that they would contemplate if this were a Democrat in the dock?
00:24:35.000But for those who are hoping that Donald Trump is running a well-calibrated campaign that's taking advantage of all of this, some bad news.
00:24:43.000Apparently, his super PAC is almost broke.
00:24:46.000They've raised about $157 million and they've spent nearly all of it on legal costs.
00:24:50.000According to USA Today, Donald Trump is running out of other people's money to spend on his legal bills.
00:24:54.000His key fund has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised and is sitting on less than $4 million.
00:25:00.000He's already dug into his fund for 2024 ads and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia.
00:25:03.000Some of his allies are begging for a donation, saying that he is not paying their legal bills.
00:25:08.000They're saying that his legal bills will total millions of dollars, if not tens of millions of dollars.
00:25:13.000But that's blowing through an awful lot of money.
00:25:15.000I mean, $150 million that he has blown through at this point.
00:26:22.000There's no legal ground for impeaching Fannie Willis.
00:26:24.000Now, you can say, okay, well, there's no legal ground for her going after Donald Trump either, but it's not up to, it's not up to Brian Kemp.
00:26:31.000The state legislature is not going to do it, which means it's not going to get done.
00:26:35.000And it's just going to be a bunch of political posturing and theater.
00:26:39.000And so Brian Kemp, honestly, to his credit, is like, you know what?
00:26:51.000The bottom line is that in the state of Georgia, as long as I'm governor, we're going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically.
00:27:03.000Over the last few years, some inside and outside of this building may have forgotten that.
00:27:22.000We will uphold our oaths as public servants.
00:27:26.000And it's my belief that our state will be better off for it.
00:27:31.000He says we have a law in the state of Georgia that clearly outlines legal steps that can be taken if constituents believe their local prosecutors are violating their oath by engaging in unethical or illegal behavior.
00:27:39.000Up to this point, I've not seen evidence that DA Willis's actions or lack thereof warrant action by the Prosecuting Attorney Oversight Commission.
00:27:45.000Okay, like, again, a bad prosecution doesn't necessarily mean that Brian Kemp has the power or the ability, or should use that ability, to do this.
00:27:52.000Now, again, I totally get the reactionary sentiment, which is, Fannie Willis is doing something wrong, so violate whatever laws you have to in order to get rid of her, since she's violating whatever laws she has to in order to go after Donald Trump.
00:28:04.000The problem is that in the state of Georgia, the reason that Brian Kemp, the predictable result of this, like no one has any second order thinking ever, ever.
00:28:11.000Okay, so let's assume that Brian Kemp did what you want him to do.
00:28:13.000Let's assume that Brian Kemp and the state legislature in Georgia, which is a very purple state now, thanks to the administrations of people like Donald Trump, let's say that they went ahead and they moved for the impeachment of Fannie Willis.
00:28:30.000Or do you think that they might run into some issues?
00:28:31.000Brian Kemp stood up to the attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
00:28:37.000And then he won an overwhelming victory against Stacey Abrams.
00:28:41.000Stacey Abrams, lest we forget, was such an amazing goddess, according to the left, that they made her the empress of all the universe on Star Trek.
00:28:50.000And she was defeated solidly by Brian Kemp.
00:28:52.000Meanwhile, in that same exact race, Hershel Walker, Donald Trump's chosen pick for Senate, lost to Raphael Warnock.
00:28:58.000So, instead of fighting Pyrrhic victories that end up actually undermining the ability to win elections in the future, maybe we ought to use a little bit of political smarts here.
00:29:13.000Because you may not even get what you want.
00:29:15.000Or are you in the business of, you know, long-term building in order to stop the left's agenda?
00:29:19.000And it seems like everybody is a short-term thinker.
00:29:20.000This is one of the other reasons why, as to get back to the first topic we discussed, one of the reasons why you have 80-year-olds at the head of government is because you can only, it's like buying a short-term bond.
00:29:38.000We make short-term plays in the hope that the other side will make a bad short-term play.
00:29:42.000Which means, effectively, you're just waiting for the other side to do something truly egregious, or you're waiting for some sort of ground shift to happen.
00:30:33.000It's been the same for months at this point.
00:30:36.000It goes Trump, DeSantis, and then way behind the rest of the pack, you'll have a variety of Ramaswamy, Haley, Pence, and Christie.
00:30:44.000Those are the only candidates who are even on the stage, and all of them are running way the hell behind Donald Trump at this point in time.
00:30:52.000Now, in Iowa, it's possible that someone could score an upset victory.
00:30:55.000If you're looking at the polling in Iowa right now, Trump is up, but he's up by about 20 points, about half his national lead in Iowa.
00:31:01.000And as Henry Olson points out, Donald Trump has made a risky move in Iowa by pissing off a lot of the main leaders in Iowa.
00:31:08.000Henry Olson at the Washington Post says, It would be easy to conclude from the polls that Trump will cruise to victory in Iowa's caucuses in January, spend a week in the state, it becomes far less certain the former president will start off primary season with an early victory because Iowa's evangelical Christian community is not yet sold on him.
00:31:21.000He says, I talked to Iowa evangelical pastors and grassroots leaders who understand the nuances of their community better than any pollster.
00:31:26.000Their message was surprisingly uniform.
00:31:28.000Iowa's evangelicals have not made up their minds as of yet.
00:31:31.000Now, could Trump lose Iowa and still win the primary?
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00:33:38.000Also this week, I got the chance to sit down with Chris Rufo for an episode of the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special.
00:33:42.000In this episode, we discuss how to create a free society through duty and responsibility, and how leftist ideology has evolved and planted itself into our social institutions.
00:33:49.000Plus, we delve into how Chris transitioned from a young leftist to a force for good in the conservative movement.
00:34:25.000If these people are utterly amoral frauds, maybe there's something wrong with these ideas.
00:34:35.000Make sure you check out the latest episode of the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special this Sunday on Daily Wire Plus YouTube and anywhere you listen to podcasts.
00:34:41.000Meanwhile, you need to look at the other Republican candidates.
00:34:44.000Nobody seems to be gaining a ton of momentum.
00:34:46.000So Ron DeSantis handled the latest hurricane in Florida quite well.
00:34:49.000Everybody sort of understands that, except for, of course, President Trump, who's ripping on him consistently throughout the handling of the hurricane, because this is the way we do our politics now.
00:34:58.000DeSantis handled it pretty well, according to Politico.
00:35:01.000It showed why he's a darling of conservatives in the donor class.
00:35:09.000I mean, they can't really explain why he did a bad job, but they're saying that it exposes vulnerability mainly because in our stupid politics, if you're good at a job, that doesn't help you at all, apparently.
00:35:18.000The biggest thing is that other people can attack you with regard to your performance.
00:35:23.000Better not to be in office so you can attack everybody than to be in office trying to do the thing.
00:35:29.000Meanwhile, Never Back Down, which is Ron DeSantis' super PAC, they are shifting their resources to the early states, recognizing that they're going to need to win the early states early if they wish to carry on the campaign beyond that, right?
00:35:40.000Here's the simple math in the Republican primaries.
00:35:42.000It goes Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina.
00:35:45.000DeSantis basically has to win all three.
00:35:47.000If he wins Iowa and he loses New Hampshire to Trump, Trump is going to walk away with it.
00:35:50.000If he wins Iowa and New Hampshire and Trump wins South Carolina handily because the field splits, Trump is probably going to sweep.
00:36:13.000You have to concentrate them where you think Trump is most vulnerable.
00:36:16.000You got to knock him out of the box right out of the gate.
00:36:18.000That basically is the only way to win these primaries.
00:36:22.000Nikki Haley is starting to gain some credibility.
00:36:24.000It looks right now as though the rest of the fight, the rest of the field may consolidate down to DeSantis versus Haley, which would not be particularly shocking.
00:36:32.000Ramaswamy is running a self-funded campaign.
00:36:35.000He also is, I would say, the darling of a sort of elite in the Twitterverse, but he
00:36:42.000doesn't have tremendous grassroots support.
00:36:45.000He's not really building a grassroots organization.
00:37:10.000I don't think this time around he's going to be one of the top three candidates.
00:37:12.000It seems like right now the field seems to be consolidating around Trump-DeSantis-Haley.
00:37:17.000That's Trump by like a huge margin and then DeSantis and Haley after that.
00:37:22.000Mike Pence does not seem to be gaining any sort of momentum.
00:37:25.000He's still speaking to small crowds in Iowa.
00:37:28.000Again, the question as to why Pence is running remains at the tip of everybody's tongue.
00:37:32.000The truth is it probably is just a way to button up his legacy.
00:37:35.000Because the reality is that Trump is still very popular inside the Republican Party.
00:37:38.000Pence defending his own actions in January of 2021, I think is well worthwhile.
00:37:43.000Whether that has to happen in a presidential campaign, I am not certain.
00:37:47.000Meanwhile, in other political news, the White House is begging Congress to pass a short-term spending deal
00:37:53.000and boost food aid, according to the Washington Post.
00:37:55.000They're urging Congress to adopt a short-term measure to fund the federal government, a movement to buy time for lawmakers to craft a broader spending deal and avert another shutdown at the end of September.
00:38:16.000And if there is a massive government shutdown in which things just don't move forward, the people who are likely to bear the burden of that over time, it's just the way the political math works, are the people who are not signing the checks.
00:38:28.000So, Joe Biden wrong-footed himself last time in the showdown.
00:38:32.000He said, I'm not going to negotiate at all.
00:38:44.000Well, This is the way our stupid political math— Now, the way— Listen, in an idealistically pure world, the way that it would work is Republicans would say, here are the various departments funded as departments, right?
00:39:07.000We've been doing omnibuses for the last several decades in the United States.
00:39:10.000Okay, so, the normal way that would work is that they would then negotiate over each one of those bills.
00:39:15.000And that hasn't happened, because there's too much backscratching, and there's too much pork barrel rolling, and there's too much negotiation with the other branches of government and the other party.
00:39:23.000Okay, with that said, if Republicans take the up-front position, we are not negotiating whatsoever, they're gonna bear the political brunt if something does not go forward.
00:39:32.000You gotta get the best that you can get.
00:39:34.000It's my job to point out where that strays from principle, but it's the job of people in Congress to get the best that they can get, right?
00:39:46.000But Republicans should lay out a couple of key concessions they wish to win in the next spending battle, and then they should fight for those concessions.
00:39:52.000And they should say, listen, we're willing to give up a lot of stuff that we don't want to give up, but you got to give something too.
00:39:57.000That is the way that you win a government shutdown fight.
00:39:59.000Contrary to kind of talk radio opinion, the way that you win a government shutdown fight is not typically to shut down the government for prolonged periods of time.
00:40:05.000It doesn't seem to redound to the benefit of the party perceived as being more intransigent.
00:40:10.000Now, as I say, the Democrats can fall into the trap, right?
00:40:12.000The Democrats can say, we won't negotiate at all.
00:40:15.000Then they will pay the political price for their intransigence.
00:40:19.000The GOP demands mark a sharp break with the deal.
00:40:21.000Party leaders, including House Speaker McCarthy, worked out with the president this spring to raise the nation's debt limit.
00:40:25.000It was supposed to prevent another stalemate over spending this fall.
00:40:28.000Now the Biden administration is explicitly asking Congress to adopt what is known as a CR that's continuing resolution at this point.
00:40:35.000So, you know, we're going to have that battle next week.
00:40:38.000Earlier this month, McCarthy and Chuck Schumer each signaled early support for a continuing resolution that might offer lawmakers more time to craft a full-year spending deal.
00:40:47.000But Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, it's a pretty big mess.
00:40:50.000He predicted that lawmakers would adopt a short-term deal into December while they struggle to figure out exactly what the government spending level is going to be.
00:40:57.000The reason that I say that the split government works, that the split government between Republicans and Democrats means that Republicans are not going to get what they want out of the deal is because they won't.
00:41:07.000It's sort of like the quixotic quest, idealistically pure.
00:41:10.000But politically counterproductive attempt by Ted Cruz in like 2014 to defund the federal government to get Barack Obama to repeal Obamacare.
00:41:21.000Barack Obama was not going to repeal Obamacare.
00:41:24.000There are certain things that may help individual politicians because it makes them look purer to the base that don't actually achieve the thing.
00:41:30.000But there's a difference between that and actively stumping for things that you think you can achieve in a negotiation, right?
00:41:38.000He did that with regard to the budgeting process, and he also did that with regard to, for example, Kevin McCarthy's speakership itself, and he won some important concessions.
00:41:46.000So that should be something that is on the table.
00:41:49.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden trying to lock up the youth vote by giving them weed, apparently.
00:41:52.000According to Politico, the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the DEA significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, stop short of advising it should be entirely removed from the Controlled Substances Act.
00:42:02.000The health agency wants the drug moved from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 under the CSA.
00:42:06.000That is potentially the biggest change in federal drug policy in decades.
00:42:08.000So we already have a huge percentage of American youngsters who are toking and making nothing of their lives.
00:42:14.000So, first of all, we have now debunked in very thorough fashion The scientific community has debunked the idea that marijuana is non-addictive.
00:42:24.000First of all, it's significantly more potent than when you work it.
00:42:27.000Second of all, it is actually quite addictive for a large percentage of people who take it.
00:42:33.000The idea that it is completely benign, particularly for young people, is a complete lie.
00:42:37.000I don't know how culturally we got to the point where tobacco products are considered the great root of all evil, because you might die of lung cancer when you're 60, but marijuana, which makes you useless if you use it on the regular, is somehow considered, what, some sort of societal good?
00:42:52.000I mean, I know people, personally, who have serious problems with marijuana addiction, and it is a massive issue.
00:42:58.000And meanwhile, the Biden administration, seeking apparently to make everybody fat, stupid, and useless, is going to move toward more decriminalization on marijuana.
00:43:07.000Now, you can make the case the federal government is bad at the war on drugs.
00:43:10.000That's a case that I'm actually somewhat warm to.
00:43:13.000But that's not a case that Joe Biden has ever made.
00:43:15.000He's doing this on ideological grounds.
00:43:18.000So the HHS letter is part of an official review process initiated by Biden last October.
00:43:23.000It's sent to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the HHS.
00:43:26.000The HHS transmits a letter of recommendation to the DEA.
00:43:29.000The White House is refusing to comment on the review process.
00:43:33.000So this will lead to a federal-state conflict because the federal law has failed to keep up with massive changes over the past decades in state cannabis laws.
00:43:40.000By the way, it's worked out beautifully for California and for states like Colorado, where Denver is now basically an open-air drug market.
00:43:46.000So things are just working out absolutely beautifully.
00:43:49.000Decriminalization of marijuana, it might have been an idea that was humorable for a time, but the effects of it have been pretty, pretty bad.
00:43:57.000Meanwhile, Democrats continue to use climate change as their excuse for pretty much everything.
00:44:02.000So the governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, he was asked about whether Hawaii's electric company had been responsible for the complete destruction of Lahaina, which is one of the great tragedies of modern American history.
00:44:15.000And it's pretty obvious that probably Hawaii Electric should have shut down the electric substations, and they didn't, and it probably led to this fire in the middle of this giant, giant windstorm.
00:44:22.000And he was like, Well, I'm not going to say anything about the power company, but the sun.
00:44:47.000She's brought an outside investigator in from the mainland that has fire expertise.
00:44:52.000She's going to find out exactly how much.
00:44:53.000We do know that that early fire was sparked, as Hiko said.
00:44:58.000I don't want to jump to conclusions just because I don't think it's fair for me to do that, but we will hold everyone accountable 100% and we'll be very transparent about it.
00:46:29.000By the way, the notion that hurricanes are dramatically created by the global warming issue, that data is not particularly clear.
00:46:37.000As Bjorn Wallenberg points out, Atlantic hurricanes are not becoming more frequent.
00:46:41.000The frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental United States has declined slightly since 1900.
00:46:46.000Airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms scientists can spot at sea, which is why the frequency of landfall hurricanes, reliably documented back to 1900, is better stat than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes.
00:46:56.000There aren't more powerful hurricanes either.
00:46:57.000The frequency of Cat 3 and above hurricanes making landfall since 1900 is trending slightly down.
00:47:02.000You hear a lot about hurricanes getting stronger.
00:47:04.000A study in the Journal of Nature found that the increases are not part of a century-scale increase, but a recovery from a deep minimum in the 60s through the 80s.
00:48:09.000According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the number of vehicle thefts during the first half of 2023
00:48:13.000was 33.5% higher on average than during the same period in 2022,
00:48:17.000representing 23,974 more vehicle thefts in the cities that reported data.
00:48:22.000That would be Philly, Washington DC, Chicago, New Orleans, Buffalo, and Durham, North Carolina.
00:48:26.000Motor vehicle thefts this year have more than doubled relative to last year, according to stats collected by Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst.
00:48:54.000It's not the criminal, the car's just sitting there, and the criminal was not a criminal, it was just you.
00:49:00.000You were just walking down the street like a normal human, never having stolen a car in your life, and there you saw it, in the pure summer sunshine, a Kia Ultima.
00:49:09.000And you were like, ah, let's do this thing.
00:49:26.000For any of Kia's brands, their EV6 wasn't my bag, their Telluride wasn't my thing, but now that I see it, now that I see it gleaming in the summer sunshine and I know it's super easy to steal, I, a lifelong law-abiding citizen, have decided to steal this Kia.
00:52:54.000He's the guy from Richmond, north of Richmond, who's become sort of a national phenomenon.
00:52:58.000His song led off the first Republican debate.
00:53:00.000He says he's not a political figure, which is perfectly fine.
00:53:03.000I think like most Americans, he really doesn't follow politics all that closely.
00:53:06.000But his generalized annoyance at an elite class that seeks to control the lives of Americans and use its power to redistribute, as he says, from sort of the productive to the unproductive, That is inherently political, even if he doesn't wish it to be a partisan issue.
00:53:21.000Well, it was fascinating to watch him on Rogan because as a sort of blue-collar dude, he was able to say some things to Joe that a lot of people need to hear.
00:53:31.000Now, you know, I've quoted the Bible to my friend Joe Rogan before.
00:53:36.000It has, I think, a different impact when it comes from Oliver Anthony.
00:53:38.000Here's Oliver Anthony on with Joe Rogan yesterday.
00:53:40.000You know, like, there's things it says, like, and I'll be very brief with this, I promise, but, like, one thing.
00:53:46.000Ironically, it's Proverbs 420, which I thought you would like, so if there's anything better.
00:54:45.000Again, this is the part of American life, and he tells this story, by the way, and his story is really fascinating, because he basically says that he was involved in drug use, and he was involved in alcohol use, and he was basically falling apart in near suicide, and then he discovered religion, and just like a lot of other people who have discovered religion over the course of religious history, He then found inspiration there, and within six months, he was writing songs that people wanted to hear.
00:55:08.000And basically, his song is a plea for leave me alone and personal responsibility.
00:55:33.000Like, it's been around for several thousand years.
00:55:35.000And the fact that it used to be, like, the sentences that Oliver Anthony is reading there, these used to be the kinds of sentences that pretty much everybody in America had at the tip of their tongue.
00:55:43.000You could basically quote the book of Deuteronomy, and it would be a common point of reference, in the same way that in Britain, you could quote Shakespeare, and it was a common point of reference.
00:55:51.000The Bible was the text that everybody used for literally centuries.
00:55:56.000The text that was, for many people, the only text they knew was the Bible.
00:56:01.000There is a reason why the most printed book in human history is the Bible.
00:56:05.000And now, if you speak to like a regular person on the street and you quote the Bible, they don't know a damn thing about it.
00:56:26.000The basic notion that the morality of the Bible is available to everyone and that it's actually fairly understandable and fairly clear and that provides a basic guide to life.
00:56:35.000Like this was the thing that fell away in favor of this notion that you can define your own value system and that just follow your stars, follow what you feel in your heart, follow that is not.
00:57:07.000We live in a society where you're not allowed to say to people that they are the problem with their own life.
00:57:11.000But the truth is, 95% of the problems in your life are you problems.
00:57:13.000I mean, they're problems that you can solve or that you have to handle.
00:57:17.000And that in handling, your life gets better.
00:57:20.000That doesn't mean that horrible things don't happen to people financially, health-wise.
00:57:23.000Of course horrible things happen to people.
00:57:25.000But the only way that you can solve those kind of problems in your life, I don't mean fixing the external circumstance, is by how you approach that problem.
00:57:32.000This is a point that Viktor Frankl makes even with regard to the Holocaust.
00:57:34.000He says, even when you are put in literally the worst situation that a human being can put into, it is your measure of autonomy in dealing with that situation that makes you a human being.
00:57:43.000That's what biblical values used to teach, and it used to be ingrained from the time that you were very, very young.
00:57:48.000There are some people who lead that sort of life instinctively.
00:57:50.000Like, Joe is not a biblical liver, but Joe is the kind of person who approaches life that way.
00:57:54.000Like, if you actually know Joe, I'm friends with Joe, the way that Joe approaches his own life is in this way.
00:58:24.000Everybody's looking, as I said on Twitter today, everybody's looking for the deus ex machina, meaning the god outside the machine.
00:58:29.000There used to be something in Greek theater where basically the writer would run into a problem of his own making that he couldn't fix and suddenly a god would arrive from like the rafters, like Apollo would just show up and boom, fix the problem.
00:58:40.000It was the god outside the machine that was going to fix everything.
00:58:45.000Well, instead of looking, but now we've basically attributed those kind of powers to our elite, and then we're surprised when they can't fulfill it.
00:58:51.000How about instead of looking for a deus ex machina to fix everything, or a miracle to fix everything, how about we actually look to, you know, the set of values that built the civilization that we have garnered all benefit from while giving very little back?
01:00:10.000But the key there is that if you don't want to talk down to people who, if you're Rainn Wilson, you don't want to talk down to people who are living in Appalachia in poverty, then don't talk down to them.
01:00:19.000Meaning, they are human beings with equal worth and equal merit in God's view.
01:00:24.000As just human beings, you know, they're gonna have to earn, they're gonna have to earn, you know, their good in front of God, but the idea that they are of equal godly worth, that of course is basically biblical value, which also means they have equal responsibility.
01:00:39.000It's responsibility that has fallen away here.
01:00:41.000The Oliver Anthony appearance on Rogan is definitely worth the watch.