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00:00:00.000President Biden's policies blow up prices, panic buying hits the southeast as the gas runs out, and Liz Cheney's firefight with the GOP is everything the media could hope for.
00:00:21.000Slash Ben will get to all the news in just one moment.
00:00:23.000First, you've heard it said there are only two sure things in life, death and taxes.
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00:01:42.000economic recovery kicked into gear and energy prices jumped higher, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday, the Consumer Price Index, which measures a basket of goods as well as energy and housing costs, rose 4.2 percent from a year earlier.
00:01:55.000A Dow Jones survey had expected a 3.6% increase.
00:01:58.000The month-to-month gain was 0.8% against the expected 0.2% excluding volatile food and energy prices.
00:02:05.000Core CPI increased 3% from the same period in 2020 and 0.9% on a monthly basis.
00:02:10.000So all you have to do to get to that Slightly less alarming number is exclude the two biggest costs that people generally take on, food and energy.
00:02:18.000The respective estimates were now 2.3% and 0.3%.
00:02:22.000The increase in the annual headline CPI rate was the fastest since September of 2008.
00:02:27.000Well, the monthly gain in core inflation was the largest since 1981.
00:02:30.000Okay, so this is the largest core inflation that we've had, month over month, in 40 years.
00:02:36.000And we're supposed to be like, okay with this, apparently.
00:02:38.000Energy prices overall jumped 25% from a year earlier, including a 49.6% increase for gasoline and 37.3% for fuel oil.
00:02:46.000That came even though most energy categories saw a decline in April.
00:02:48.000Prices at the pump, which fell 1.4% in April, have resumed their climb in May, with the national average eclipsing $3 a gallon.
00:02:54.000And remember, this was All before the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.
00:02:58.000Okay, so that massive increase in energy costs was before the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.
00:03:04.000Used car and truck prices, which are seen as a key inflation indicator because, frankly, the prices generally stay pretty stable with used cars and trucks.
00:03:10.000Instead, they surged 21%, including a 10% increase in April alone.
00:03:15.000Shelter, another key CPI component, was up 2.1% year-over-year and 0.4% for the month.
00:03:22.000In addition to rising prices, one of the main reasons for the big annual gain was because of base effects, meaning inflation was pretty low in 2020 because of the shutdown of the U.S.
00:03:30.000But if you look at the chart, what you see is this radical increase over the last couple of months.
00:03:34.000Not a steady increase, this radical increase over the last couple of months in the inflation rate.
00:03:39.000And this is accompanied by the fact that federal taxes, spending, and the deficit all set records through the first seven months of fiscal 2021.
00:03:47.000Federal tax revenues have hit a record $2.1 trillion for the period.
00:03:51.000Federal spending climbed to $4 trillion just for the last seven months, resulting in a federal deficit of nearly $2 trillion over the last seven months alone.
00:03:59.000While the historical October through April tax revenues are adjusted for inflation into April 2021 dollars, the second highest tax revenues of the October through April period came in fiscal 2018.
00:04:09.000That year, the Treasury collected $2.1 trillion in total tax revenues in the first seven months.
00:04:15.000When you actually adjust those numbers, the October through April spending numbers, into April 2021 dollars, the second highest spending during that period came in fiscal 2020.
00:04:24.000So we are just blowing out the spending, we are blowing out the taxation, and we are blowing out the deficit.
00:04:30.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden has no idea what the hell is going on.
00:05:19.000And incompetents who have been boosted in their incompetence for literally their entire lives.
00:05:23.000I mean, Joe Biden has not spent a moment outside of elected office, except for when he was in VP for like five minutes, since he was 30 years old.
00:05:32.000Okay, which means that he has been on the taxpayer dole.
00:05:34.000He is significantly less useful as a person than many people who are on welfare for that period of time.
00:05:39.000He's on taxpayer dollars too, and he's been useless that entire time.
00:05:42.000When he's not reversing himself or pushing bad policy, he just is running around incompetently flailing.
00:05:47.000Okay, so that's what he was doing yesterday.
00:05:48.000We've got inflation that is starting to kick in.
00:05:50.000It is purely due to the fact that he's blowing money into the U.S.
00:06:26.000If you are going to measure tax revenues against the spending, you have to take the same period of time.
00:06:31.000That's like saying, well, you know, I'm really not blowing out the deficit because in the next six months, I'm going to spend a million dollars.
00:06:36.000But you know, in the next five years, I'm probably going to make a million dollars.
00:06:39.000Yes, but there's that intervening period between six months and five years where you're going to continue spending money.
00:06:45.000It's not going to be through tax money.
00:06:46.000It's going to be through financing via the Federal Reserve.
00:06:49.000OK, all that is happening right now is that the United States is blowing out the deficit and the Federal Reserve is blowing credit into the system.
00:06:55.000We have maintained a zero percent interest rate despite the fact that we are now in a growth period.
00:07:01.000We are superheating the American economy, we are superheating the American dollar, and we are inflating prices.
00:07:06.000That's all that is happening right now.
00:07:07.000And we are creating an artificial scarcity of labor.
00:07:12.000So Joe Biden, this incompetent boob, yesterday he was asked about inflation, and he just ignored it.
00:07:17.000I mean, I don't know whether he heard it.
00:07:19.000There's not much going on upstairs anymore for Joe Biden.
00:07:21.000There never was all that much going on upstairs for Joe Biden, but even Joe Biden of 2021 is not the same as Joe Biden of 2015, for example.
00:07:27.000And again, in 2015, Joe Biden was no Great Shakes.
00:07:30.000I mean, Barack Obama thought that Joe Biden was a dullard.
00:07:33.000What are the rest of us supposed to think?
00:07:56.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:09:12.000Even Democrats are now looking askance at Joe Biden's big spending plans.
00:09:16.000According to Politico, Senate Democrats are signaling they are unlikely to extend a $300 federal weekly unemployment benefit past September, especially if the economy continues to recover.
00:09:25.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at a Tuesday press conference there was overwhelming support among Democrats to keep providing the additional money to existing unemployment insurance.
00:09:33.000But not every member of his caucus is on board, particularly after last week's weaker-than-expected April jobs report.
00:09:38.000Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, is already making it clear he will not support extending the benefits past September 6th.
00:09:44.000He said, I'll never vote for another extension as long as I know that with the vaccines, there's not an excuse for no one to be vaccinated. I understand there's millions of jobs in America we can't fill right now. We need people back to work. There's more and more people understanding they are in trouble. Manchin had previously expressed hesitation over the benefit.
00:09:59.000In a vote earlier this year, he backed only extending the added money until mid-July, but then he voted for the so-called American Rescue Plan, which was just blowing money into the economy for no reason.
00:10:08.000Now, Manchin is far from alone in his concerns.
00:10:10.000Senate Republicans won't support another extension.
00:10:12.000I would expect that Kyrsten Sinema would be not particularly warm toward another unemployment extension.
00:10:19.000Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, of course, is a radical leftist and chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
00:10:24.000He said there had been report after report indicating it wasn't accurate that the benefits discouraged work.
00:10:28.000Oh, weird, because actually, when you pay people to stay home, they stay home.
00:10:32.000I mean, I know it's a giant shock to folks, but when you pay people to stay at home, they stay at home.
00:10:38.000Meanwhile, there are other Democrats who are a little bit skeptical.
00:10:44.000Several Senate Democrats said they were taking a wait-and-see strategy on the issues, adding they would need to assess the economic situation this summer and noting potential regional differences.
00:10:53.000So that would include people like Angus King in Maine or Jon Tester in Montana.
00:10:58.000Hey, notice that this runs very much counter to the new democratic agenda point of universal basic income.
00:11:04.000If you felt that paying people to stay home didn't discourage work, then you would be on board for permanent extension of increased unemployment benefits.
00:11:11.000You are not, because the reality is we don't have the money for this, and you are artificially decreasing the supply curve.
00:11:17.000And when you do that, you're artificially increasing the price of goods.
00:11:22.000And even Democrats in the media are starting to realize that austerity may be on the table.
00:11:27.000Noah Smith, who writes for Bloomberg Opinion and is certainly no right-winger, he is now pointing out that there are a lot of people who are worrying about overheating of the economy.
00:11:35.000Warren Buffett recently called the economy red-hot, said he's seeing higher prices.
00:11:38.000Some wealth managers are starting to tell clients inflation is on the way.
00:11:41.000Some economists like Larry Summers and Mohamed El-Erian are giving the exact same warning.
00:11:45.000Again, all of this is what happens when you artificially decrease the labor supply and artificially increase the monetary supply.
00:11:52.000And now, the Fed could start reining this thing in.
00:11:55.000But they have no interest in reining this thing in.
00:11:57.000Janet Yellen has made clear that her priorities are not keeping inflation low and keeping unemployment low.
00:12:03.000Those were supposedly the priorities of the Federal Reserve.
00:12:08.000So long as there are certain groups in America that are less employed than other groups in America, she's just going to keep blowing money into the system.
00:12:14.000It well turns out that the easiest way that you reach equality of outcome is by depressing everyone.
00:12:19.000It is much harder to make everyone succeed at the same level than to depress everybody to the same level.
00:12:23.000And that is precisely what is happening.
00:12:25.000Meanwhile, this utterly incompetent administration has no answers with regard to the colonial pipeline debacle.
00:12:33.000According to the Washington Post, a sudden fuel shortage worsened across the eastern half of the United States on Wednesday after a cyber attack crippled a major pipeline as long lines, sharp boards, and pumps gone dry greeted unhappy drivers from the Alabama foothills to the Chesapeake Bay.
00:12:46.000I know in Florida, there are a lot of gas stations that have been running out of gas.
00:12:49.000People have been driving gas station to gas station trying to find gas.
00:12:52.000People across the southeast and now up into the northeast have been waiting in fuel lines very reminiscent of the 1970s.
00:12:58.000There's a ridiculous There's a ridiculous video of a woman attempting to take plastic bags and fill them with gasoline, which prompted the transportation department to tweet out, please don't fill plastic bags with gasoline.
00:13:10.000It's like, come on, man, this is America.
00:13:12.000We can fill whatever we want with gasoline.
00:13:14.000But although government and industry officials said the nation had plenty of fuel and the pipeline was set to resume operations in the evening, Nervous drivers clogged gas stations and created shortages in parts or all of 11 states.
00:13:24.000At least 12,000 gas stations reported being completely empty.
00:13:27.000The squeeze pushed the price of a gallon past $3, its highest in years.
00:13:31.000Now, the Colonial Pipeline hack isn't Biden's fault.
00:13:34.000Colonial Pipeline's a private company.
00:13:36.000Sure, our cyber defenses need to be better.
00:13:39.000But you can't really blame Biden for that.
00:13:40.000What you can blame Biden for is that his basic policy has been anti-gas and oil since before he took office.
00:13:46.000He's been pressing forward with this Green New Deal nonsense.
00:13:49.000Which substitutes significantly inferior forms of energy in terms of efficiency for things like gas and oil.
00:13:56.000And yesterday, you had Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm openly stating that, you know, this shortage of oil might not be a bad thing because maybe people will buy Teslas.
00:14:04.000Yeah, it turns out not everybody can afford a Tesla.
00:14:07.000It turns out that electric cars are very, very expensive, especially decent ones.
00:14:12.000Hey, meanwhile, Joe Biden, for some odd reason, again, he is just not with us.
00:14:45.000What does education have to do with the colonial pipeline problems?
00:14:50.000I think what this shows is that I think we have to make a greater investment And education as it relates to being able to train and graduate more people proficient in cyber security.
00:15:35.000It's a take that makes no sense, but That's the president of the United States, man.
00:15:40.000Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg, the greatest of all transportation secretaries, a very important person who is excellent at transportation because the dude loves choo-choo trains.
00:15:48.000He talks all the time about how much choo-choo trains are, you know, they make him happy.
00:15:51.000He likes when they go choo-choo, particularly.
00:16:05.000Shoot your trains in airports, for our transportation secretary who couldn't fill potholes in South Bend, but is now the transportation secretary for no reason anyone can discern.
00:16:21.000Of course we understand the concern in the areas where people are encountering temporary supply disruptions.
00:16:27.000But hoarding does not make things better.
00:16:29.000And under no circumstances should gasoline ever be put into anything but a vehicle directly or an approved container.
00:16:38.000You can see even Pete Buttigieg is sort of embarrassed by the fact that he has to say this sort of stuff.
00:16:41.000Okay, first of all, when he says hoarding is not good for anybody, well, it's kind of good for the person who has the gas when nobody else has the gas.
00:16:46.000I mean, to be fair, hoarding isn't bad for that person.
00:16:49.000And meanwhile, what is the alternative that's being proposed by the Biden administration?
00:16:53.000They have so many wonderful alternatives to oil and natural gas.
00:16:55.000Like, for example, solar panels, right?
00:16:57.000Solar panels have been proposed as a solution to our energy crisis.
00:17:13.000Xinjiang province not only produces some of the solar panels that we believe are being in some cases produced in forced labor by Uyghurs, but also there are a significant amount of rare earth mineral that's used in the solar panels themselves.
00:17:35.000It is my understanding that the Biden administration is right now in the process of assessing Whether or not that will be the target of sanctions.
00:17:48.000So, you know, sure, the solar panels we love are made by forced labor in China, but you know, you know, man, this administration, they're just a bleep show.
00:18:16.000In the first hundred days, you have massive inflation under Joe Biden.
00:18:19.000You have a Middle East that is blowing up, thanks specifically to Joe Biden's policy.
00:18:23.000You have unemployment that is setting in in the middle of what should be an easy, natural economic recovery.
00:18:29.000And you have tremendous vaccine hesitancy because these morons can't trench out their information about the vaccine properly.
00:18:36.000Okay, the amazing thing about all of this, which I'll get into in just one second, the most amazing thing about all of this, truthfully, is that this administration, their policies, they are completely dependent, completely dependent on the old coots who can't speak three sentences.
00:19:07.000He is the most relevant figure in the sense that were he to go a way tomorrow, were he to retire, were he to step down, God forbid something were to happen to him, the Democratic Party would be in such significant and immediate trouble.
00:19:17.000Everyone inside the Democratic Party knows this.
00:19:20.000First, let us talk about the fact that you don't wanna be spending your time at an auto parts store like now or ever.
00:19:25.000Why would you wanna wait in line, you finally get to the front of the line, and then they search for the part that you need and then they order it online and they upcharge you.
00:19:31.000Or you could just go directly to the source, rockauto.com.
00:19:35.000It's much easier than walking into a store and someone's demanding quick answers to specific questions like whether your Odyssey is an LX or an EX.
00:20:46.000They're just wheeling him around on a gurney.
00:20:48.000And he says a couple of things, then they wheel him off slowly.
00:20:51.000It's the weirdest, it's the weirdest presidency.
00:20:53.000I mean, you thought the Trump presidency was weird, just on a raw level, because Donald Trump was a reality TV star who tweeted like whatever random crap came into his brain.
00:21:03.000I'm not sure that this is not significantly weirder because Joe Biden, every time he speaks, it's like the door to the Crypt Keeper opens like, Oh, I don't know.
00:22:16.000Here is the president of the United States completely forgetting Kevin McCarthy's name.
00:22:21.000I'm encouraged not just because of a solid meeting with with the Republican leader in the House and with with Mitch or He does this all the time.
00:22:41.000You remember, he forgot the name of his own defense secretary.
00:25:02.000Who cares who the number three is in the House Minority Party?
00:25:05.000You're not even talking about the House Majority Party.
00:25:07.000You're talking about the House Minority Party.
00:25:09.000But Liz Cheney is getting all sorts of press because yesterday, Liz Cheney was voted out of her position as the number three.
00:25:15.000Not the number two and not the number one.
00:25:16.000She was voted out as the number three in the House Minority Party, specifically because the Republicans in the House were getting frustrated with the fact that Liz Cheney seemed to have a peculiar predilection for the strange new respect offered by the media.
00:25:30.000Two months ago, they voted on whether Liz Cheney should stay.
00:25:33.000She had exactly the same position on January 6th then, that she does now.
00:25:36.000She had exactly the same position on Donald Trump then, that she does now.
00:25:40.000She had exactly the same position on the veracity of the 2020 election then, as she does now.
00:25:44.000But she withstood the vote and did so pretty easily.
00:25:47.000With the support, by the way, of Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader.
00:25:51.000She decided, you know, it'd be a great idea.
00:25:53.000I'm going to go into the media and pretty much every day I'm just only going to talk about how Trump sucks and how Republicans who supported Trump kind of suck and how the 2020 election is legit and January 6th is the worst thing that ever happened and all of this.
00:26:06.000Now, when you're the house minority leader, when you're the house number three, I should say, you have a couple of jobs, okay?
00:26:13.000And those jobs are sometimes in conflict.
00:26:16.000Your job as a congressperson is to vote on issues.
00:26:18.000Liz Cheney, when she votes, is quite good.
00:26:21.000She voted like 94% of the time, by the way, with Donald Trump when Trump was president.
00:26:25.000So, she actually had a better record of voting with Trump than the new House No.
00:26:28.0003, who is the kind of aspiring House No.
00:26:34.000Cheney is much more conservative in voting record than Stefanik, bar none.
00:26:38.000But, it's not just about your voting record.
00:26:40.000It's about can you raise money for the party, and do you help orient the communications of the party toward taking down the opposing party?
00:26:46.000Or, are you directing all of your fire internally?
00:26:49.000Are you spending all of your time giving MSNBC and CNN and The Washington Post and The New York Times exactly what they want?
00:26:55.000Now, there is a difference between how you message and what you message.
00:27:00.000I have said many times on the show that I agree with Liz Cheney's basic take on January 6th.
00:27:07.000I agree with her basic take on how the election of 2020 went.
00:27:09.000I don't think it was decided by voter fraud and irregularity.
00:27:12.000I think that if there was rigging, it was by the media, which lied consistently for years.
00:27:15.000I think that Trump's behavior between the election and January 6th was pretty egregious.
00:27:26.000The threat to the country is not coming from a president who has not been in office for four months, is banned from Twitter and Facebook, and has been relegated to starting a blog and then blasting out emails about how much he hates Liz Cheney.
00:27:39.000Okay, that guy is not the deep threat to the country.
00:27:41.000The threat to the country is an authoritarian left that has taken over every major institution in American life, is on the move at the top of the American government, is creating inflation, unemployment, and chaos in the Middle East.
00:28:13.000We can have any other Republican who's a better fundraiser than you and doesn't spend all their days trying to give Joe Scarborough all sorts of fever dreams.
00:28:22.000Try not to do that if you're in House leadership.
00:28:25.000Okay, so Cheney has been doing this thing where she basically has made herself hero of the republic, strange new respect recipient from the left.
00:28:34.000And she has done so by suggesting that the reason that she's being ousted from House leadership is not because of her lack of what we would call in Hebrew, seichel, or lack of common sense.
00:28:42.000The reason she's being ousted from House leadership is because specifically she took this position.
00:28:53.000She absolutely could survive that position.
00:28:55.000If she did not make her top priority, the consistent weird take that the great threat to the country is a president who is no longer in office and is not widely influential via his blog, okay?
00:29:09.000Like, there are greater threats to the country right now, you may have noticed.
00:29:13.000But Liz Cheney has decided that she kind of went into this thing without an exit strategy.
00:29:17.000She decided she was going to start this fight and she really didn't know how to get out of it.
00:29:19.000So the only way to get out of it is to keep on doubling down.
00:29:22.000So here she was yesterday talking about how today's vote shows where the GOP is.
00:29:27.000No, what today's vote shows, or yesterday's vote showed, is that the GOP does not wish to spend all waking moments talking about a guy who's not in office.
00:29:36.000That if they ignore whatever silly things Trump is saying in his emails and focus in on, you know, the crises facing the country, they'll win back the house.
00:29:43.000But you, Liz Cheney, have spent every waking moment, apparently, dealing with Trump.
00:29:47.000I don't understand why, and no one else does either.
00:29:50.000But this is exactly what the media want.
00:29:51.000What the media want, they know the only way the Democrats are able to retain the House in 2022 is by labeling the Republicans too crazy to be elected.
00:29:59.000To say that the Republicans, they're the party of Trump.
00:30:00.000Now, that's a real bank shot because Trump ain't gonna have been in office for a couple of years by 2022.
00:30:05.000But that's really their only hope because their own record sucks.
00:30:08.000The entire media is looking for this too because they would much rather cover Liz Cheney versus Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans than cover the fact that a doddering old president who doesn't know what the hell is going on is presiding over a bizarrely timed collapse on nearly every front.
00:30:21.000So here's Liz Cheney giving the media exactly what they want.
00:30:52.000Who decides that it's important to answer every single question the media asks you about this sort of stuff and spend 90% of your time on it?
00:30:58.000There are two ways that you're dragged backwards here.
00:31:11.000Okay, but there's another way you're dragged backwards and that is relitigating this thing over and over and over as though it makes a damn bit of difference.
00:31:18.000Well, that's what Liz Cheney's been spending every day doing.
00:31:20.000Kevin McCarthy yesterday, he was specifically asked about this.
00:31:25.000He said, listen, we're not questioning who the president is.
00:31:26.000We just met with him five seconds ago.
00:31:30.000The conference will decide, but I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.
00:31:58.000An internal House battle is not a big news story.
00:32:01.000It's certainly not a bigger news story than the fact that the entire House infrastructure for the Democrats last year refused to condemn Ilhan Omar for open anti-Semitism, so she just keeps being an anti-Semite.
00:32:12.000But the media didn't cover that either in the same way.
00:32:14.000This is blanket wall-to-wall kind of stuff because they need Trump.
00:33:21.000Hey, I think it's a pretty good indicator that you might be headed down the wrong path here when Jen Psaki from the White House is praising you.
00:33:28.000It's disturbing to see any leader, regardless of party, being attacked for simply speaking the truth.
00:33:35.000And as the president said last week, it's hard to understand.
00:33:39.000But our belief, his belief, is that the American people will have to make their own decisions about whether the reaction by the people they elected to represent them should be embracing and elevating conspiracies and attacks on our democracy, or whether it should be standing up for ideals that have historically been owned by both Democrats and Republicans representing the country.
00:34:00.000I'm sorry, being lectured about election veracity by the same Democrats who claim for four years that Trump was a Russian cat's paw, and suggest that Al Gore was president, and suggest that Diebold machines decided the 2004 election, and who keep elevating Stacey Abrams, who still refuses to acknowledge that she was not legitimately elected the governor of Georgia.
00:34:18.000How much do the media love this story?
00:34:20.000The reason that Liz Cheney ain't in leadership is because the media love this story so much.
00:34:23.000How much do the media love this story?
00:34:25.000According to the folks over at Newsbusters, Curtis Hoek reporting, CNN spent nearly three times more time on Liz Cheney in 12 hours than all of the economic crises that are hitting the country right now.
00:34:39.000Very, very clear what exactly the agenda here is.
00:34:41.000Okay, in just a second, we'll bring you the latest from the situation in Israel.
00:34:45.000The rockets continue to fall and rain down on Israeli cities.
00:34:49.000Riots are now plaguing Israeli cities as well.
00:34:51.000And the American and international left have decided the good guys are Hamas.
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00:36:34.000If you are going to school, you're afraid that if you say something that doesn't toe the leftist line, your professor is going to nail you, right?
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00:37:28.000Meanwhile, the rockets continue to fall in Israel.
00:37:36.000Hundreds more rockets fired at Tel Aviv and Eilat.
00:37:39.000Hamas has also been launching what they call suicide drones.
00:37:43.000According to the Jerusalem Post, Hamas launched suicide drones laden with explosives into Israel on Thursday.
00:37:47.000At least one was believed to have exploded in the air somewhere in central Israel.
00:38:00.000The rocket attack came as the Israeli Defense Forces prepared for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
00:38:05.000Plans for a ground offensive are scheduled to be presented to the IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Aviv Kohavi, for approval later on Thursday.
00:38:12.000This, of course, makes perfect sense because the Gaza and Hamas party has been firing, the terrorist group, they've been firing these missiles directly from civilian areas.
00:38:21.000Israel could theoretically bomb all these places into submission.
00:38:25.000They're not doing so specifically because they attempted to avoid civilian casualties, which of course is why Hamas tends to hide all of its weaponry in mosques, schools, apartment buildings, and populated areas.
00:38:35.000They're firing all of their ordnance directly from areas where they can use human shields.
00:38:40.000Meanwhile, after a large barrage of rockets towards central and southern Israel on Thursday afternoon, Abu Ubaidah, spokesman of Hamas's military wing, the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed Hamas was launching rockets toward Ramon Airport.
00:38:53.000After the barrage, the Hevel Eilat Regional Council, located in southern Negev, announced a rocket had fallen in the regional council.
00:39:00.000Meanwhile, the IDF has been destroying government targets in the Gaza Strip, such as central banks and internal security buildings.
00:39:07.000They've also killed some of the Hamas top leaders.
00:39:10.000Remember, all of this was initiated because Mahmoud Abbas canceled an election in the Palestinian Authority, and then blamed the Jews, fomented violence, and then Hamas got in on the act, and now Israel is knocking out a bunch of Hamas leaders.
00:39:20.000Meanwhile, world leaders are calling Mahmoud Abbas, the guy who started this whole routine.
00:40:22.000So Joe Biden said that Israel has a right to defend itself, which, by the way, isn't it kind of amazing that you have to actually say that?
00:40:29.000Israel, which is a sovereign country, has the right to defend itself?
00:41:09.000What state doesn't have the right to defend itself?
00:41:11.000Blanket statements like these with little context or acknowledgement of what precipitated this cycle of violence, namely the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al-Aqsa, dehumanized Palestinians, and implied the U.S.
00:41:20.000will look the other way at human rights violations.
00:41:23.000So it's wrong for her, for the Jewish state to defend itself.
00:41:26.000He's saying that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself from ongoing, consistent rocket attacks directed at civilians?
00:41:33.000Okay, there's a point where being anti-Israel shifts over into being anti-Semitic.
00:41:39.000Okay, and at the point where you're saying that the Jewish state doesn't have the same rights as any other state on planet Earth, you have reached this point.
00:41:45.000Okay, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out, by only stepping in to name Hamas's actions, which are condemnable, when refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence.
00:41:55.000Of course they instigated this cycle of violence.
00:42:23.000I will attribute malice to Rashida Tlaib.
00:42:24.000So Rashida Tlaib is just a malicious pro-terror liar.
00:42:27.000So here is Rashida Tlaib at a rally yesterday promoting the leftist idea, the international leftist idea, that the subjugated of the world are all in solidarity with one another and that the true story of humanity is white people.
00:42:42.000All over, and she counts Jews with whites.
00:42:44.000White people all over who are subjugating brown people all over.
00:42:47.000This is something that Jamal Bowman, who's standing right next to Rashida Tlaib when she says this, also is putting out there.
00:42:53.000It's the reason why Black Lives Matter has in its manifesto, in its program, end the Israeli occupation.
00:42:59.000Because there's a lie that is out there, going all the way back to Frantz Fanon, that basically anybody who has a European way of life is an oppressor, and anybody else is not an oppressor, they are the victimized.
00:43:09.000And so the oppressors of the world have to rise up in anti-colonialist fashion, right?
00:43:14.000So here's Rashida Tlaib suggesting that what the Israelis are, quote unquote, doing to the Palestinians is what the police do to black and brown people.
00:43:21.000I assume that's what she means by they, because if she doesn't mean the police by they, if she doesn't mean two separate terms by they, as you will see, then she's just talking about the Jews.
00:43:30.000So here's Rashida Tlaib suggesting somehow a connection between police treatment of black and brown people in the United States, which, again, she lies about, to Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
00:43:39.000So there are a few things that are wrong with this.
00:43:41.000One, the police in the United States are not systemically racist.
00:43:45.000Number two, the Israelis are not white.
00:43:49.000Okay, this bizarre notion that the Israelis are white ignores the fact that like half of Israelis, more than half of Israelis, by percentage, are from Arabic countries.
00:43:59.000The Jews who have been killed in Israel, there are some from Yemen, there are some from Morocco.
00:44:03.000There are plenty of Jews who are not white.
00:44:06.000Okay, and Jews, technically speaking, were not white until like the last five minutes when they became prominent in American politics.
00:44:13.000Until then, they were considered an out-group.
00:44:15.000Okay, but here's Rashida Tlaib pushing this vile nonsense, this vile racially polarizing nonsense.
00:44:20.000And by the way, pro-Hamas nonsense, because she has nary a word to say about Hamas firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian population centers and using human shields in order to protect themselves.
00:44:29.000Our freedom is interconnected with black, brown, indigenous.
00:45:01.000You wonder about the red, what people have termed the red green alliance, meaning the sort of communist, you know, red, red Islamist alliance.
00:45:10.000The answer is they're aimed at tearing down American institutions, tearing down Western Israel is seen as an extension of that.
00:45:15.000They don't hate America because they hate Israel.
00:45:17.000They hate Israel because they hate America.
00:45:19.000I mean, the basic notion that Rashida Tlaib is connecting the institutions of the United States with what's going on in Israel, in order to conflate all of that, you have to acknowledge that what she's really attempting to do is condemn all of the systems of the West Because there is some supposed underclass that is being repressed by these systems.
00:45:38.000And so she'll make excuses for any level of violence in the same way that members of the Radical Democratic Party make excuses for people burning down cities and murdering people.
00:45:45.000In the United States, they make excuses for Hamas firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas.
00:45:52.000Soumya Santosh is a 32-year-old Indian woman who, in order to care for her 9-year-old boy, found work in Ashkelon caring for an 80-year-old woman.
00:45:59.000And she was blown up by Hamas, like yesterday.
00:46:02.00019-year-old Yehuda Guetta, from Libya, was shot and killed earlier this week by a Palestinian-American named Montaser Shalabi, who was motivated, according to his neighbors, by equal parts Jew hatred and heavy gambling deaths.
00:46:15.000According to Tablet Mag, the basic attempt to conflate American racial politics with the Middle East is not only intellectually dishonest, but has terrible motivations.
00:46:28.000And this is, by the way, why you are seeing Jews getting beat up in different places in the United States.
00:46:33.000Yesterday in Florida, there was a truck that was driving around Jewish rallies saying Hitler was right.
00:46:38.000Okay, the conflation between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
00:46:41.000Not everybody who doesn't like Israel is an anti-Semite, but every anti-Semite is anti-Israel.
00:46:47.000Okay, so it's pretty incredible to see these narratives trotted out.
00:46:50.000Perhaps the dumbest narrative, of course, is the narrative trotted out by Trevor Noah.
00:46:54.000So yesterday, Trevor Noah literally said that Israel should stop defending itself because they're too good at defending themselves.
00:47:00.000Just personally, I cannot watch that footage and hear those numbers and see a fair fight.
00:47:07.000Like, set aside motives and intentions and just look at technology.
00:47:12.000Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
00:47:16.000And I know that people are going to hate me for this, but I just want to ask an honest question here.
00:47:23.000If you are in a fight where the other person cannot beat you, How hard should you retaliate when they try to hurt you?
00:47:34.000As hard as you need to to make them stop hurting you.
00:47:36.000Also, by hurt you, I think that he is making a pretty significant category error here.
00:47:41.000There's a difference between a child trying to physically harm me and a terrorist group firing rockets at people and murdering them.
00:47:48.000The answer is as much as you need to do to stop Hamas's capacity to commit terror attacks.
00:47:53.000But I guess I shouldn't be surprised because the entire American left has also decided that if a black girl swings a knife at another black girl, the cop shouldn't shoot her because of power imbalance or some such nonsense.
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