The families of 13 Gold Star Family members who were murdered in a terrorist attack at Kabul Airport in 2021 held a press conference with Rep. Daryl Issa (R-CA) and other members of Congress to demand answers from the White House about what happened to their loved ones and why Joe Biden failed to pay proper tributes to them at the time of their deaths. President Joe Biden is a person who cares first and foremost about himself, and that is perfectly evident in the way he treated these Gold Star family members at this press conference. And the media did not pay this anywhere near as much attention as they would have if the president of the United States were Donald J. Trump, because he is not a candidate, he s currently the President of the U.S. and the media don t care. These are not people you see on the nightly news, these are people you only get interviews with if they are wounded, and the only interviews with them are with wounded soldiers, and you get no coverage of them if you go to them if there s a peculiar belief that there's a president who has done something really bad. Let's go back to the Atlantic article by Jeffrey Goldberg where he says that during the Trump presidency, "He didn't pay proper homage at Normandy. He didn't go out onto the beach at Normandy because it was raining. And this was raining without any real support, because it had nothing to do with it." And this is widely reported by the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, and this is not even close to being a proper t tribute. to the president who did something that should have been done at D.C.'s Normandy at the D-Day ceremony in honor of the fallen soldiers in Normandy in the late in the early 90s and early days of the day after 9/11, in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in D.D.C. in 2015, in 2016, Jeffrey Goldberg at The New York Times on the cover of The Atlantic on the front page of The Daily Mail, in an article by the New York Magazine, in which he wrote a piece called "D.J. Goldberg's D.J.'s thoughts on President Trump's lack of a proper homage to the fallen heroes. and how he should have paid proper homage. at Normandy, not on the beach in Normandy, in the Oval Office in the wake of the D.O. and in the streets of New York City. And how the media didn t cover it.
00:00:00.000So yesterday in Escondido, California, the families of 13 service members who were murdered in a terrorist attack at Kabul Airport in 2021 held a press conference along with the senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Daryl Issa from Orange County.
00:00:15.000Well, they appeared at Escondido City Hall and they called on the Biden administration to give them some answers and inform the public as to how their loved ones actually died in this terrorist blast.
00:00:24.000This is still the single most egregious act I've ever seen a president undertake.
00:00:28.000The cowardly, pusillanimous, and disgusting pullout from Afghanistan without any plan whatsoever.
00:00:32.000The complete collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
00:00:53.000And Joe Biden has never paid the political price for it.
00:00:55.000Joe Biden's approval rating dumped into the 40s at that point.
00:00:57.000It has never quite recovered, but he has never played a real political price for it simply because In 2022, the election became all about various Senate candidates who were hand-chosen by his political opponents.
00:01:10.000But the real story of Joe Biden's presidency is not about the economy.
00:01:15.000The real story of Joe Biden's presidency is encapsulated in the arrogance, the egotism, the disgusting self-involvement of the President of the United States in presiding over the greatest foreign policy disaster of my lifetime.
00:01:28.000And then just blithely talking it away.
00:01:32.000And the way that this person, who was perceived as warm and generous and fuzzy and cuddly, the guy who nuzzles small children for no reason that anyone can comprehend, the fact that this person was so cold and calculating, not just about the The running away from a 20-year commitment and the sacrifice of a country to the Taliban.
00:01:53.000Not just that he was cold and calculating about that, but that he really did not care what happened to the people who got left behind, including American soldiers, could not be more evident.
00:02:02.000And that was certainly evident from the testimony of the Gold Star family members and wounded soldiers who actually were at this press conference yesterday.
00:02:10.000And the media did not pay this anywhere sort of attention.
00:02:12.000They would have if the president of the United States were Donald J. Trump.
00:02:16.000Because, again, it underscores what kind of person Joe Biden is.
00:02:21.000Joe Biden is the kind of person who ignores a four-year-old grandchild for four years if he thinks it's politically beneficial for him to do so.
00:02:27.000Joe Biden is the kind of person whose entire career has lied about others.
00:02:32.000Who slandered a man who was involved in a car crash with his wife, in which his wife and one of his children were killed.
00:02:40.000And he slandered that person as a drunk driver for like 30 years.
00:02:43.000That's the kind of person that Joe Biden is.
00:02:44.000Joe Biden is a person who cares first and foremost about himself.
00:02:48.000And that is perfectly obvious in the way that he treated these Gold Star family members.
00:02:51.000Remember, in 2015, 2016, when Donald Trump was running for President of the United States the first time, He got into a widely publicized spat with Kaiser Kahn, who's a Gold Star family member, who was actually a speaker at the Democratic National Convention talking about how much he disliked Donald Trump and all the rest, and how Donald Trump was a racist and a xenophobe and all of this.
00:03:11.000And Donald Trump went at him, and this became a major issue of contention in the 2016 election campaign.
00:03:16.000Joe Biden is currently, he's not a candidate, he's currently the President of the United States.
00:03:20.000He was the President of the United States when 13 American service members were murdered in Kabul.
00:03:25.000And the treatment of these Gold Star family members was egregious and disgusting and the media don't care.
00:03:36.000These are not people who you're going to see on the nightly news.
00:03:38.000You're not going to see interviews with wounded soldiers.
00:03:40.000Those wounded soldiers, you only get interviews with them if there's a peculiar belief that Donald Trump has done something really, really bad.
00:03:47.000You remember during the Trump presidency, supposedly he didn't pay proper homage at Normandy.
00:03:53.000He didn't go out onto the beach or something because it was raining.
00:03:55.000And this is widely reported by Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic without any real support.
00:03:59.000And it turns out the story really had nothing to it.
00:04:01.000Where's Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic on this?
00:04:04.000Let's get into some of the things that the Gold Star family members actively said at this California press conference yesterday, paying tribute to the victims of the Afghanistan terror attack that claimed the lives of 13 American service members.
00:05:12.000Again, if Donald Trump were president and this were the sort of press conference that were being held by the families of dead soldiers, it would be front page news all over the country.
00:05:21.000I remember because in the 2004 election campaign, I'm old enough to remember that one, I remember the attempts to paint George W. Bush as responsible for the death of American soldiers and it became like a real major political issue for George W. Bush.
00:05:33.000So again, the rule is when a Republican is president and troops are either put in danger or not even in danger, proper homage isn't paid to the graves of soldiers.
00:05:43.000When a Democrat is president, we just pretend it doesn't exist because the mainstream media are so dedicated to the proposition that Democrats don't have to care about people like this.
00:05:51.000Democrats, after all, are peace-loving people.
00:05:53.000I mean, sure, they preside over many of America's biggest wars, but they are the most peace-loving people.
00:05:59.000They're the people who we should give all sorts of faith and credence to, even as they participate in, again, what is the blackest spot on America's foreign policy record, certainly of my lifetime.
00:06:10.000We'll get to more of what the Gold Star family members and wounded soldiers had to say about Joe Biden and his personal interactions with them.
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00:07:57.000And he says, oh, and like kind of stands up, and then like goes over to reach for my fingers, because about An inch of my fingers are showing and just like grabbed my fingers.
00:08:08.000Doesn't say, doesn't greet me or anything.
00:09:23.000In tragic circumstances, he goes right to his son, Beau Biden's death.
00:09:27.000Which, at the beginning, you understand.
00:09:29.000But when he's gone that well, hundreds of times at this point, and he's done so in the most inappropriate possible circumstances, at that point, it becomes a political parlor trick.
00:09:37.000At that point, he's pulling that card out of a hat like a rabbit.
00:09:45.000Beau Biden did not die because he died as a member of the military.
00:09:48.000But Joe Biden has tried to suggest that his son Beau's death, which is tragic and terrible, is somehow the equivalent of people being blown up in combat.
00:09:57.000And in fact, this was his go-to card during the Afghanistan debacle, is that because his son died of cancer, apparently he didn't have to pursue policies that would not get American soldiers blown up in Afghanistan.
00:10:07.000In fact, Gold Star Mom Sheryl Rex talked about how Joe Biden had invoked Beau and suggested that Beau had died in circumstances similar to her own son.
00:10:17.000When he approached me, his words to me were, my wife Jill and I know how you feel.
00:10:24.000We lost our son as well and brought him home in a fog-draped coffin.
00:10:30.000My heart started beating faster and I started shaking knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side.
00:10:37.000Also wondering how someone could honestly, sorry, be so heartless.
00:11:17.000He's never held a real job outside of the federal government.
00:11:21.000And he's going around telling people who just lost family members, who were blown up, that he knows how they feel because he had a son who died of cancer in circumstances entirely unrelated to his military service.
00:11:33.000Gold Star father, Darren Hoover, called for the immediate resignation of Joe Biden and Tony Blinken and all the people who presided over Afghanistan, not without good cause.
00:11:41.000In closing, I'm calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley, General McKenzie, Lieutenant Colonel Whited, who could not give the order to the snipers to take out the bomber before he detonated his vest, and ultimately the President.
00:12:39.000No one lost their job, I repeat again.
00:12:41.000In just a second, we're gonna go through, just for a quick review, the timeline of all the lies that Joe Biden told, the consistent gaslighting of the American people, the attempts to paint the pullout from Afghanistan as a success.
00:12:54.000While Americans were left behind, Afghans were falling from wheel wells and Americans were being blown up in Kabul.
00:13:00.000It is still the fact that this president is treated with any modicum of respect after what happened in Afghanistan is absolutely beyond me.
00:13:06.000I understand that in politics we have a memory that's about five seconds long.
00:13:29.000The pullout from Afghanistan, again, the single most disastrous foreign policy decision and plan of my lifetime has been completely whitewashed by the American media.
00:13:38.000And the people who suffered during that plight and continue to suffer today because of it have been completely silenced by the media or ignored.
00:13:43.000We'll get some more on that in just one second.
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00:13:48.000So we have some pretty great employees here at Daily Wire.
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00:15:08.000Okay, so just to remind you, Joe Biden being an abject liar and a fool and a blowhard and an arrogant liar, fool, and blowhard all at once.
00:15:17.000On April 14th, 2001, Joe Biden said that we were leaving Afghanistan, we were doing it not hastily, we were doing it responsibly.
00:15:26.000It was just weeks, just weeks after the terrorist attack on our nation that killed 2,977 innocent souls.
00:15:37.000that turned lower Manhattan into a disaster area, destroyed parts of the Pentagon, and made hallowed ground of a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and sparked an American promise that we would never forget.
00:15:55.000So in keeping with that agreement and with our national interest, the United States will begin our final withdrawal, begin it, on May 1 of this year.
00:16:05.000We'll not conduct a hasty rush to the exit.
00:16:09.000But we'll do it responsibly, deliberately and safely.
00:16:33.000Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling?
00:17:36.000Still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport.
00:17:38.000Well, there is, but look, but no one's being killed right now.
00:17:42.000God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now.
00:17:48.000No one was being killed right then, he said, at the airport, not across the country.
00:17:51.000Across the country, thousands of people were being murdered by the Taliban, like dragged out of their house and killed, but he doesn't care about that.
00:17:57.000That same day, he said, don't worry, we're not going to leave our Afghan allies behind.
00:18:00.000By the way, spoiler alert, we left tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind.
00:18:05.000We're going to do everything, everything that we can to provide safe evacuation for our Afghan allies, partners, and Afghans who Who might be targeted because of their association with the United States.
00:19:46.000We made clear to the Taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with swift and forceful response.
00:19:59.000We're also keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport.
00:20:19.000The fact that the media have, again, basically shoved this entire incident back into the shadows is demonstrative of just where their allegiances lie.
00:20:26.000And it is not, apparently, with sympathy for American troops.
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00:21:34.000Okay, so just to get back to our timeline, just two days before the bombing at the Kabul airport, Jen Psaki was saying that everything was a massive success.
00:21:46.000Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen, by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded?
00:22:04.000We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
00:22:07.000We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans Okay, that lady now has a show on MSNBC.
00:22:43.000The bombing of course took place on August 26th.
00:22:46.000The administration was openly saying at this point that they were relying on the Taliban to provide security at the airport, which is legitimately the worst idea in human history.
00:22:54.000Here is General Ken McKenzie of CENTCOM saying that they relied on the Taliban for security at the airport where the bombing took place.
00:23:04.000Do you still trust the Taliban and is it possible that they let this happen?
00:23:11.000So as to whether or not they let it happen, I don't know.
00:23:13.000I don't think there's anything to convince me that they let it happen.
00:23:16.000As to whether or not I trust them, that's not necessarily a word I use very carefully.
00:23:22.000You've heard me say before, it's not what they say, it's what they do.
00:23:26.000They have a practical reason for wanting us to get out of here by the 31st of August.
00:23:30.000And that's that they want to reclaim the airfield.
00:23:33.000We want to get out by that day too, if it's going to be possible to do so.
00:24:03.000On August 26th, according to USA Today, 11 Marines, one Navy Hospital Corpsman, and an Army soldier were killed in bombings and gunfire at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
00:24:15.000Biden said during remarks, the American service members who gave their lives, they were heroes, heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others.
00:24:22.000Biden met with service family members and attended his first dignified transfer as president.
00:25:20.000We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history.
00:25:24.000with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety.
00:25:29.000That number is more than double what most experts felt were possible.
00:25:34.000No nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history.
00:25:39.000Only the United States had the capacity and the will and ability to do it, and we did it today.
00:25:46.000The extraordinary success of this mission Never forget how this man sinned against the American people, against our Afghan allies, and against soldiers and their families.
00:26:08.000By the way, just as a capper to all of this, after the bombing, Joe Biden then proceeded to drone, randomly, an entire family in Afghanistan.
00:26:18.000According to the New York Times, almost everything senior defense officials asserted in the hours and then days and then weeks after an August 29th drone strike turned out to be false.
00:26:26.000The explosives, the military claimed, were loaded in the trunk of a white Toyota sedan struck by the drone's Hellfire missile or water bottles.
00:26:32.000A secondary explosion in the courtyard in a densely populated Kabul neighborhood where the attack took place was a propane or gas tank, according to officials.
00:27:18.000You won't hear a damned word from now until the election from the mainstream media about the debacle of the Afghanistan pullout that ended with at least 13 American service members dead, hundreds of Americans left behind, thousands of Afghan allies left behind, and 38 million people under the tender mercies of the Taliban.
00:28:19.000By the way, when you want to talk about Joe Biden and his corruption, leaving aside all the Hunter Biden corruption, which is still going to haunt the rest of his campaign, we should point out at this point that Joe Biden and the FBI and law enforcement officials crammed censorship down on the American people in the early years of his administration, including on The Daily Wire, We now know that the FBI, under the auspices of Joe Biden, was doing that sort of stuff.
00:28:49.000That members of the FBI were cracking down on the Joe Biden, Hunter Biden laptop story during the election cycle itself.
00:28:57.000These are the conditions under which we labor to have a fair election in this country.
00:29:01.000Under a condition of censorship where the biggest stories get downplayed, smaller stories get upplayed, and certain stories get buried absolutely completely.
00:29:10.000There's a reason why Joe Biden never feels the necessity to answer questions, and that's because nobody in the media actually wants to ask him a tough question.
00:29:15.000Yesterday, he was back from his vacation.
00:29:17.000He spent pretty much half his presidency at this point in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,
00:29:21.000where he sits on a beach doing nothing and ignored questions from the press, obviously.
00:29:43.000Gotta lean forward because if he stands upright for even a hot second, he will be on his butt in a matter of moments.
00:29:50.000Even NBC News at this point is recognizing that his brand is tarnished and it should be tarnished.
00:29:54.000Quote, President Joe Biden's brand as a family-oriented public servant has been a signature political asset that for more than 50 years has helped him win the argument that when judged up against the alternative rather than the almighty, he stacks up pretty well.
00:30:04.000But the burnish on Biden's brand is being tested like never before ahead of a close 2024 election.
00:30:08.000Some of the president's Democratic allies are worried about potential fallout from a confluence of family drama that spilled into public view and from Republican attacks that cut at the bedrock of Biden's longtime political appeal.
00:30:18.000The GOP-led House is investigating the extent of Biden's role in helping his son Biden, Hunter, earn millions of dollars from foreign business interests during his time as vice president.
00:30:27.000In a matter of much more personal nature, Biden recently acknowledged for the first time that he has a seventh grandchild, Navy Joan Roberts, a four-year-old daughter of Hunter Biden.
00:30:35.000And again, this is all leaving aside the fact that the man doesn't care about anything that is not in his immediate purview.
00:30:45.000And we should remember that because again, the attempt by the media to paint him as some sort of genteel elderly fellow is so far from the reality of who Joe Biden is that it beggars the imagination.
00:30:56.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest cultural hero of the day.
00:30:58.000I know it's gonna be somebody who I never heard of in one second.
00:31:01.000An actual rapper, I believe, who is a cultural hero of the day.
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00:33:06.000Alrighty, meanwhile, we have our hero of the day.
00:33:09.000I've been reliably informed by Producer Savvy, who would know because I have no idea, that Neo is not just a character from the Matrix.
00:33:16.000Neo, spelled N-E-Y-O, is an R&B singer.
00:33:23.000But, this Neo person, not from the Matrix again, not Keanu Reeves, He is saying true things and then defending himself saying true things, which is like, this is good stuff, okay?
00:33:34.000This stuff doesn't happen very often in pop culture.
00:33:35.000So, Neo, again, not Matrix guy, the R&B singer.
00:33:41.000He was on a show in which he committed the grave sin of suggesting that five-year-olds should not be picking their own gender.
00:34:23.000And the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign rainbow mafia came for him.
00:34:28.000And they said that he was very, very bad.
00:34:30.000And then he put out a statement on his Twitters.
00:34:32.000The statement on his Twitters was an apology tweet.
00:34:35.000And it said, quote, after much reflection, I'd like to express my deepest apologies to anyone I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity.
00:34:41.000I've always been an advocate of love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI plus community.
00:34:45.000So I understand how my comments could have been interpreted as insensitive and offensive.
00:34:48.000Gender identity is nuanced, and I can honestly admit I plan to better educate myself on the topic so I can approach future conversations with more empathy.
00:34:55.000At the end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone's freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness.
00:35:10.000It was they who decided that Neo, not the guy from The Matrix, the R&B singer, had to walk this one back.
00:35:16.000Because, obviously, it was terrible that he had suggested that five-year-olds cannot, in fact, choose their own gender, and it's bad parenting to suggest that they can.
00:35:23.000Well, yesterday he was getting ripped up and down by a lot of people on the interwebs, pointing out that what he said in the first place was not wrong.
00:35:29.000And he did something that you almost never see.
00:35:32.000He came out and he walked back the walk back.
00:36:27.000I definitely plan to educate myself a little bit more on this matter.
00:36:30.000However, I doubt that there's any book anywhere or any opinion that somebody's going to tell me that's going to make me okay with letting a child make a decision like that.
00:36:39.000That's just period point blank. And that's how I feel.
00:36:52.000And really good for him because let's be real about this.
00:36:55.000When you just say no to the mob, the mob has no power over you.
00:36:58.000It's only when you don't say no to the mob, when you cave to the mob, they have endless power over you because the moment you show them your throat, they just have you by it.
00:37:05.000They have you by the throat and then they just choke the life out of you.
00:37:07.000And the next time you step out of line, they club you.
00:37:08.000And the next time you step out of line, they club you again.
00:37:11.000What Neo did here by basically castrating his own managers and saying, no, this is not how I feel.
00:37:26.000Instead, what he actually did is he said something that everyone in America knows to be true.
00:37:30.000And those who say that it's not true, they're pretending and lying for the sake of political correctness and for political alliance and convenience.
00:38:15.000Okay, meanwhile, We are still awaiting more charges for Donald Trump because today ending in Y. Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, already facing three criminal indictments, Donald Trump is now bracing for a fourth in Georgia that is likely to come with a legal twist he hasn't faced yet.
00:38:32.000This is one of Fannie Willis' favorite charges.
00:38:34.000Fulton County DA Fannie Willis is a prosecutor who made a name for herself bringing charges like this in high-profile cases.
00:38:39.000Lawyers who have followed the investigation, including some who have worked with Willis in the past, expect her to invoke Georgia's RICO Act That is the Racketeering Influence and Corruption Organization Act, modeled after the Federal Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970.
00:38:53.000Signs are certainly pointing in that direction, said Anthony Michael Kreese, a law professor at Georgia State University.
00:38:58.000Within the next couple of weeks, a grand jury is expected to consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for Trump and his allies, all the people who supposedly intervene in the Georgia election.
00:39:07.000Trump has pled, of course, not guilty in both Washington, D.C.
00:39:10.000and Florida to all federal charges and to that separate case in New York surrounding campaign finance.
00:39:15.000George's Recode Law is a powerful tool for Willis.
00:39:18.000The state code is modeled after a federal statute which was designed to help take down the mafia.
00:39:23.000Under both the federal and George's Recode Law, prosecutors show there's an organization of people who commit crimes together on a recurring basis.
00:39:28.000Members can be prosecuted for crimes that the group committed together.
00:39:33.000So, this is supposedly the way that Willis is probably going to go about it.
00:39:37.000The RICO statute lends itself well to the Georgia investigation because Trump allies around the country tried a range of tactics to keep him in power according to legal experts.
00:39:43.000Andrew Fleischman, defense lawyer in Atlanta, says it gives prosecutors lots of choices as far as venue goes, at least to very long, complicated trials that wear down defense attorneys.
00:39:51.000Critics of the RICO laws say it allows the government to join defendants with little connection to each other into a single prosecution.
00:39:56.000So in other words, Rudy committed a crime, so now we wrap in John Eastman, and now we wrap in Trump, and then we just wrap it all up with a bow.
00:40:03.000Willis says that she likes the RICO sort of stuff.
00:40:06.000She says, I think jurors are very, very intelligent.
00:40:09.000They want to make an accurate decision about someone's life.
00:40:11.000And so RICO is a tool that allows the prosecutor's office and law enforcement to tell the whole story.
00:40:15.000So we are awaiting presumably racketeering charges against Trump coming in Georgia.
00:40:19.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump is, as you would imagine, again, I understand it.
00:40:23.000He's distracted with these legal cases as he will be all the way up until the election.
00:40:26.000So instead of talking about Afghanistan and Joe Biden being a bad person, instead what we're going to get is a lot of talk about Jack Smith and maybe some sideswipes at St.
00:40:54.000Okay, so this is going to be the campaign.
00:40:59.000And by the way, even if he's right, this is still going to be the campaign.
00:41:03.000He did take some time off yesterday from doing that to sideswipe Mitch McConnell for a reason I cannot discern, considering McConnell has been one of his less vocal critics over time.
00:41:12.000He got booed, Mitch Connell did, at an event.
00:41:22.000Donald Trump's chief achievement as President of the United States was putting three conservative justices on the Supreme Court.
00:41:27.000There's only one man he has to thank for that, it's Mitch McConnell.
00:41:30.000Mitch McConnell is the reason that Donald Trump has a judicial legacy at all.
00:41:33.000It was Mitch McConnell, not Donald Trump, who stopped Merrick Garland, the current Attorney General, the corrupt Attorney General, from being on the Supreme Court in the first place.
00:41:40.000It was Mitch McConnell who basically ensured that Brett Kavanaugh got on the court.
00:41:45.000It was Mitch McConnell who ensured that conservatives entered the Supreme Court of the United States as Donald Trump picked them.
00:41:53.000And that is how Donald Trump treats his friends.
00:41:57.000This is, again, we can run this campaign.
00:42:03.000Meanwhile, the media doing their best to take out the only plausible rival to Donald Trump at this point, Ron DeSantis.
00:42:09.000Yesterday, they went after DeSantis because DeSantis did an interview with NBC.
00:42:13.000DeSantis claimed correctly that Democrats want abortion to be legal through all nine months.
00:42:17.000And Dasha Burns tried to fact check him.
00:42:19.000Saying that it's a misrepresentation of what happening.
00:42:21.000Just 1.3% of abortions happen in 21 weeks or higher, which still is like 12,000 abortions a year.
00:42:26.000But yes, Democrats openly admit that they are in favor of abortion up till point of birth.
00:42:31.000This is particularly true in New York, where literally the Empire State Building was lit up pink after a piece of legislation signed by Andrew Cuomo that legalized abortion through all nine months in the state of New York.
00:42:45.000The simple fact is that DeSantis is right on that.
00:42:50.000On the one hand, they're trying to undermine him with debates by suggesting that he said the election was all on the up and up in 2020, which is not what he said.
00:42:57.000What he actually said is that Donald Trump lost, but that there are plenty of factors stacked against Donald Trump.
00:44:07.000Why did a well-trained fighting unit ignore the rules of engagement when their orders were simply to protect and, if necessary, evacuate the embassy?
00:44:26.000It's Ben Kingsley as an ambassador in an unnamed Arab country, and the embassy is being overrun, and Marines are sent in to protect the evacuation, and there is firing from the crowd, and the Marines fire on the crowd, and Samuel L. Jackson's the person in charge, and they bring him up on charges of human rights violations and massacring civilians, supposedly, and Tommy Lee Jones is the lawyer who has to defend him.
00:45:10.000Again, that is William Friedkin, who passed away yesterday.
00:45:13.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:19.000So, shortly after the New York Times decided that it is no longer racist to sing a song called Kill the Boer, the person who was singing that, the head of a group called EFF in South Africa, he then came out and was like, oh no, no, I was pretty serious about that.
00:45:41.000A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.
00:45:51.000So, um, presumably that sort of genocidal language is totally okay.
00:45:55.000I mean, the New York Times is downplaying Kill the Boer as, you know, just an old rebellion song.
00:46:00.000Julius Malema, apparently it's totally fine what he is saying when he uses genocidal language because obviously he's a man of the left and of the racial left.
00:46:07.000And so that's the thing that really matters in the end.
00:46:31.000Megan Rapinoe is the kind of person who kneels for the national anthem while benefiting more richly than pretty much anybody in human history from America's freedoms and liberalism.
00:46:40.000It is totally incredible that a person who is truly as privileged as Megan Rapinoe, who makes lots of money for playing a sport no one has ever cared about or watched, and pretending to be a rebel in a culture that celebrates her, That she is so championed by the establishment.
00:46:57.000So a lot of people were like, you know what?
00:46:58.000This women's national soccer team, which has boycotted the national anthem and that champions people like Megan Rapinoe talking about how terrible and racist America is.
00:47:18.000It's certainly Megan Rapinoe and the people who are most valorized by the media.
00:47:22.000Well, now the media are very angry that people are kind of chortling over the fact that Megan Rapinoe and her team are out and that she's the one who really blew it.
00:47:30.000The Washington Post Candace Buckner says it's America first, unless the U.S.
00:47:55.000But, says Candace Buckner, they waited four long years for this, stocking up on antiquated ammunition and preparing their muskets for the most pointless fight.
00:48:03.000Well, I noticed you're writing about it.
00:48:04.000When Megan Rapinoe, the lion-hearted heroine for one side and a woke traitor for the other, missed the target on her penalty kick, her enemies prepared to take long-range shots from across the globe.
00:48:13.000Theirs is a thousand-year culture war with no end in sight and no purpose beyond stirring the pot.
00:48:18.000Oh, we declared the culture war, did we?
00:48:20.000I noticed she's the one who's kneeling for the national anthem, convincing her fellow teammates to do so, whining about a non-existent pay gap, and then proclaiming that she was a victim in a society that turns her into one of the most prominent people in America and has her getting medals from the President of the United States.
00:48:36.000Honestly, the left is constantly playing the game that older siblings play with the younger siblings, where they grab the younger sibling's arm, hit their younger sibling with their own arm, and go, stop hitting yourself!
00:48:49.000You start the culture war, and you declare the culture war, and then when we notice it, and we say, no, we don't like these people, like, ah, because I hate America.
00:48:58.000All conservatives have been doing for my entire lifetime is saying things that were true for all of human history with regard to the culture war.
00:49:23.000It's amazing that you say things that are perfectly obvious, like two plus two equals four.
00:49:27.000They're like, whoa, that's a culture war.
00:49:29.000That's a culture war, because there are people out there who say it isn't.
00:49:32.000And until five seconds ago, everyone thought two plus two is four, but now that's now become an absolute hallmark of thinking that is biased and terrible and patriarchal.
00:49:44.000This comment says, if for a moment we can ignore the throbbing migraine and mental fatigue caused by the vitriol and take this bottom feeder conversation at face value, we are surmised the U.S.
00:49:52.000women lost to Sweden not because they could not score a goal through 120 minutes, but because the players were anti-American.
00:50:12.000The under-15 football club of Dallas beat the women's soccer team like 5-1 or something.
00:50:19.000But, says this columnist, they exited the World Cup in the round of 16 because the majority of starters were too busy protesting the military to mount the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner before marches.
00:50:28.000Most of the US players are new to the team and new to this liberal versus conservative conflict that grips the nation they are supposedly to proudly represent.
00:50:34.000They were not part of the core that won the program's fourth World Cup in 2019, while also carrying the burden of calling out its own federation and fighting institutionalized gender discrimination.
00:50:43.000Through it all, the team's lightning rod of a spokesperson, Rapinoe, wanted to smoke on any social and cultural matter she could find.
00:50:49.000For her rainbow pride, for her right knee that at times remained on the grass during the national anthem, for a gut reaction about potentially accepting an invitation to be honored by the former one-time president, I'm not going to the effing White House, Rubino became the representative of the national team and the right's enemy of the state.
00:51:03.000Again, she declared these positions and we said we didn't like them.
00:51:07.000And she was the person you touted as the most important soccer player in human history.
00:51:20.000Following the loss, Alexi Lalas, a former men's national team player, current Fox analyst, and well-known provocateur, called the team polarizing and unlikable to a portion of America.