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00:00:00.000So people really, really, really are not interested in a Joe Biden-Donald Trump matchup for 2024 by every available poll, and yet that is likely, beyond likely at this point, to be the actual matchup going into the 2024 election.
00:00:13.000And by the polling data, people really don't like either one of these candidates.
00:00:17.000According to the Associated Press, President Joe Biden is old and confused.
00:00:21.000Former President Donald Trump is corrupt and dishonest.
00:00:23.000Those are among the top terms American Jews when they're asked to describe the Democrat in the White House and Republicans' best position to face him in next year's election.
00:00:31.000There's a new poll from the Associated Press and ORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
00:00:53.000About 8% offered generally positive comments, like good.
00:00:57.000So the general breakdown here is that when it comes to Joe Biden, 26% of respondents used words like old or outdated to describe Biden.
00:01:05.000Another 15% mentioned things like slow or confused.
00:01:08.000Another 10% gave generally negative comments about the president.
00:01:12.0006% used words like corrupt and crooked.
00:01:14.000Only 6% offered words like president and leader and 5% like strong and capable.
00:01:19.000Even among Democrats, 28% mentioned his age, significantly higher than leadership or strength and capability.
00:01:25.000Trump's negative comments, according to the AP, center not on age, but on his moral standing and conduct, along with things like loudmouth, which was 6% and angry, crazy and dangerous 6%, narcissist 6%, 5% used words like strong and capable.
00:01:40.00062% of Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, which is not a good recipe for winning an election.
00:01:44.00052% say the same thing about Joe Biden.
00:01:46.000Also not an amazing stat for winning an election.
00:01:49.000So once again, we are going to run a couple of very, very unpopular people against one another in the odd belief by both sides that the other guy is way more unpopular than their own guy and therefore your own guy really doesn't matter and you cannot lose.
00:02:01.000Well, here's the problem for Joe Biden.
00:02:04.000So if Joe Biden were somehow to lose to Donald Trump, it would be the single worst defeat for Democrats of my lifetime.
00:02:10.000Like worse than 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton because nobody actually thought Trump was going to win that one.
00:02:15.000But now everybody understands that Trump can win that one.
00:02:17.000So if Biden somehow loses to Donald Trump post January 6th, post his 2020 defeat, post all the rest of this stuff, that'd be the single most humiliating defeat for Democrats in my lifetime and probably ever.
00:02:28.000Which means that Joe Biden's in a little bit of trouble here.
00:02:31.000I mean, if you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average in the Trump versus Biden race, and again, it's very early, so it's not as though it is definitely going to be Trump versus Biden, but you have to look at the frontrunners for both parties right now.
00:02:42.000Right now, Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics polling average is up just one percentage point.
00:02:56.000The reason being when you look under the top line of these stats, very often what you're seeing, for example, there's a stat yesterday that came out that showed Joe Biden just 61% minority support.
00:03:03.000That is not going to be the actual number when the election comes around.
00:03:06.000No Democrat has won less than 70% of minority support for probably four decades.
00:03:11.000But with that said, is this election too close for comfort for Joe Biden?
00:03:26.000he can continue to do the job at his advanced age and kind of allay some of those concerns?
00:03:31.000I mean, look, I appreciate the question. I get it often, as you know. And what I would say,
00:03:38.000and I've said this many times and many of my colleagues have said this, the president says
00:03:42.000this, if you watch him, if you've seen what he's done in the last two years, this is a president
00:03:47.000has had a historic administration in just two years.
00:03:50.000If you look at the 13.5, more than 13.5 million jobs that he's been able to create, if you look at how he's been able to turn the economy around so that it works for middle class Americans.
00:04:04.000Avoid the question, because you can't say he's obviously vigorous, because that's obviously untrue.
00:04:08.000She's pointing to, quote unquote, the accomplishments.
00:04:10.000Well, the truth is that that's going to matter as much for Joe Biden as Donald Trump's accomplishments mattered for him in 2020.
00:04:16.000Donald Trump could have pointed to all the amazing things he did over the course of the first three years of his administration before 2020.
00:04:22.000But in the end, people Yeah, basically voted in a referendum on Donald Trump as a human.
00:04:27.000And the same thing is going to happen to Joe Biden.
00:04:30.000And while she's out there saying that Joe Biden is with it, everything is fine, Joe Biden is like coughing into his hands and shaking hands with people and getting weirdly close with teenagers and just being a generalized elderly weirdo.
00:04:40.000There he goes, coughing into his hands.
00:04:51.000He keeps coughing over and over and over.
00:04:52.000And then he just keeps, you know, shaking hands with the folks.
00:04:57.000We're all supposed to be very worried about COVID, by the way.
00:04:59.000That's something else that we'll get into in just one second.
00:05:02.000Meanwhile, the Hunter questions are not going away.
00:05:04.000The White House is going to continue to ignore them.
00:05:05.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was asked about Hunter Biden again, because remember, the plea deal broke down, which means that now presumably there should be an investigation into where Hunter Biden got all of his foreign money and whether he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
00:05:17.000And if there's anybody worth their salt in this prosecutor's office, which, you know, we will see, I have doubts, then they have to ask the pretty obvious question, which is, he was selling access to Joe.
00:06:15.000So they're just going to continue to not answer questions about Joe Biden being too old for the job and decrepit and bad at it.
00:06:20.000They're not going to answer any questions about the fact that Hunter Biden is pretty obviously money laundering.
00:06:25.000I mean, it's pretty... When you are selling paintings for $500,000 a piece, and the people who buy those paintings are magically getting appointments to daddy's administration, that's a little weird, is it not?
00:06:35.000A little bit weird, but you won't answer any questions about that.
00:06:37.000And it's going to get worse for Joe Biden before it gets better.
00:06:40.000Kevin McCarthy apparently is going to launch an impeachment inquiry in September, according to Breitbart.
00:06:45.000McCarthy has initiated strategies to open a sweeping impeachment inquiry into Biden to
00:06:49.000uncover the depth of his involvement in his family's foreign dealings, according to multiple
00:06:52.000Republican sources, they told CNN. McCarthy previously demanded that Biden come clean
00:06:55.000about his involvement. The president has continued to stonewall and lie about his
00:06:58.000family's business over 16 times, according to the House Oversight Committee. None of this is
00:07:03.000going away. And by the way, September is next month.
00:07:07.000Like, we are in the middle of it right now.
00:07:08.000We're about to hit, in just a few days, all of this.
00:07:12.000So none of this is very good for Joe Biden.
00:07:15.000And so he is pulling out some old standbys, strategically speaking.
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00:08:42.000And in that playbook over the past several years, they've had two big plays.
00:08:46.000Play number one, all of our opponents are racists.
00:08:49.000So they're now attempting to use this playbook with regard to this horrific shooting in Jacksonville.
00:08:54.000Where a a person who's on like a 72-hour mental hold a couple of years ago so obviously somebody with with some pretty significant emotional problems and also happened to be a neo-nazi like put a bunch of swastikas on his gun and then went to a dollar general and shot three black people.
00:09:38.000ACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning black people to use extreme care of traveling to
00:09:42.000Florida. Just three months later, DeSantis is leading his state through the aftermath of a
00:09:45.000racist attack that left three African-Americans dead. Black leaders in Florida and across the
00:09:49.000nation say they're outraged by his actions and rhetoric ahead of the shooting. My story with
00:09:53.000Brendan Farrington. Okay, this is absurd coverage. That's absurd coverage. So because Ron DeSantis
00:09:58.000and his school board said that they were going to put together an educational curriculum free
00:10:03.000of critical race theory, which is not in fact history.
00:10:06.000It is a bunch of anti-American propaganda.
00:10:09.000And because they did that, apparently there was a neo-Nazi who shot three black people in the state of Florida.
00:10:14.000And Ron DeSantis is responsible for that, according to Steve Peoples and the Associated Press, which is an insane take.
00:10:20.000But it is also the take that Democrats are going to start using.
00:10:24.000So here is the NAACP Jacksonville president Isaiah Rumlin saying that the white supremacy in Florida is palpable, that's why you see Trump flags.
00:10:33.000So any state in America that voted for Trump apparently is a hellhole for black people.
00:10:39.000Jacksonville specifically is a breeding ground of neo-Nazism, that they have been tracking this and seeing this.
00:10:46.000I mean, what can you tell me and tell us about the climate there in Jacksonville with these hate groups?
00:10:56.000I think the federal government and the Justice Department are going to have to do a better job in exercising exactly where these hate groups exist.
00:11:08.000I mean, we see these Confederate signs, we see the Trump signs constantly on our streets.
00:11:30.000So if you see a Trump flag, anybody who voted for Trump or who has supported Trump is obviously a racist, right?
00:11:35.000This is how Joe Biden is going to run.
00:11:37.000Whether it's against DeSantis or whether it is against Trump, the rip is always and forever going to be that if you are not in line with Joe Biden's political priorities or the political priorities of the left, then you must be in favor of black people getting shot.
00:11:49.000Charlemagne the God, who is some sort of podcast host, don't really know his show particularly well.
00:12:29.000We probably shouldn't talk about any of that.
00:12:31.000Because some black people getting shot is useful for the media narrative.
00:12:35.000And some black people getting shot is not useful for the media narrative.
00:12:38.000So we only cover the shootings that are useful for a manufactured media narrative.
00:12:42.000Where, by the way, we're on the right side of this.
00:12:44.000I mean, again, name me, the mainstream politician anywhere in America.
00:12:48.000Who is in favor of black people randomly getting shot on the basis of race.
00:12:52.000It's totally an insane accusation, but again, it plays back into how Joe Biden hopes to win an outsized share of minority voters, particularly black voters.
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00:14:02.000OK, so again, this all ties into Joe Biden's reelect effort.
00:14:06.000So yesterday he spent an awful lot of time sounding off about white supremacy as the greatest threat to the American homeland, which I got to tell you, White supremacy is tremendously evil.
00:14:17.000I know because I receive an enormous number of death threats from people who are white supremacists because I'm an orthodox Jew.
00:14:23.000And the FBI has literally arrested people who are white supremacists for threatening my family.
00:14:28.000Also, the notion that the greatest terrorist threat to America is isolated white supremacists is lunacy.
00:14:37.000In terms of what the federal government can, like, what exactly is the federal government also supposed to do about that, presumably?
00:14:44.000This is all tied into a broader agenda item for Biden, as we'll see in a moment.
00:14:50.000The intelligence community is determined, the U.S.
00:14:52.000intelligence community is determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the whole world.
00:15:02.000Okay, by the way, he was also jabbering about his history with civil rights, which is a little bit more checkered than he likes to make it out to be.
00:15:09.000But here he was jabbering nonsensically about how he got Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act, which is weird since he was 21 when the Civil Rights Act passed.
00:15:17.000And Strom Thurmond, I believe, delivered the longest filibuster to date against the Civil Rights Act at the time.
00:15:21.000So, strange story here from an addled old man.
00:15:43.000I don't know what he's talking about, but all of this is tied into the broader Biden agenda of equity in everything.
00:15:49.000So here's top Biden advisor, Steve Benjamin, yesterday.
00:15:52.000He's a senior advisor and director of the Office of Public Engagement, talking about how equity is at the center of everything the Biden administration does.
00:15:57.000When they say equity, what they really mean is racial preferences.
00:16:01.000The administration has, since day one, since the president signed his first executive order on making sure that everything we've done is focused on equity in this administration.
00:16:14.000So that's part of the broader agenda item.
00:16:15.000Now, the real answer to what happened in Jacksonville actually comes courtesy of a Democratic Jacksonville councilwoman named Jacoby Pittman.
00:16:31.000Here she was yesterday saying DeSantis wasn't invited, but there's no reason for him to be booed.
00:16:37.000The governor was getting heckled and you stood up to essentially quiet those people down.
00:16:43.000Yet, Councilwoman, there are critics who say that Florida's governor has enacted policies that created an environment that allowed this kind of attack to take place, whether on guns or on race.
00:16:57.000What's your response to those critics?
00:17:00.000Well, first of all, let me make myself clear.
00:17:04.000I had no idea that the governor was coming.
00:17:07.000And so I just want to make myself clear.
00:17:11.000I wanted the audience to calm down because I wanted him to sit down And I wanted it to be the event that was for the residents and the community that had come together for unity.
00:17:27.000That's what that event was about, not the governor.
00:17:47.000But the media have to manufacture some sort of narrative for Joe Biden to run on, and so the narrative of the day is going to be, Republicans are racist.
00:17:53.000You knew it was going in this direction.
00:17:54.000Meanwhile, Democrats are actually going to try to run on COVID again.
00:17:59.000This is starting anew, which is amazing.
00:18:01.000COVID is such a devastating disease that it arises every election cycle.
00:18:46.000According to CBS News, as doctors warn COVID is on the rise, some Northern California hospitals are bringing back an old COVID-19 requirement, mask mandates.
00:18:54.000The current spike is being blamed on summer travel with more people staying indoors to avoid the brutal heat.
00:19:11.000Meanwhile, the New York Times is suggesting that in order for schools to reopen, you have to install some sort of clean air apparatus.
00:19:19.000Quote, on a Sunday afternoon, in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office.
00:19:28.000The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering.
00:19:41.000And so the idea here is that we're going to have to spend, you know, probably billions of dollars in order to establish better ventilation systems in schools, lest the children get the COVID.
00:19:50.000Again, reminder, very, very, very few people under the age of 18 in the United States actually died of COVID by CDC statistics.
00:20:35.000As we outlined in our new research study released in January, the cumulative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' academic achievement has been large.
00:20:41.000We tracked changes in math and reading test scores across the first two years of the pandemic using data from 5.4 million U.S.
00:20:48.000Average fall 2021 math test scores in grades 3 through 8 were 0.2 to 0.27 standard deviations lower relative to same-grade peers in fall 2019.
00:20:57.000Reading test scores were down 0.09 to 0.18 standard deviations lower.
00:21:04.000The math drops are significantly larger than estimated impacts from other large-scale school disruptions, including Hurricane Katrina.
00:21:10.000And test scores increased between students in low-poverty and high-poverty elementary schools.
00:21:14.000But don't worry, Democrats are going to try to talk you into the possibility of more school lockdowns now, apparently.
00:21:19.000I don't know why they would run on this, but apparently they think that it might be a good strategy.
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00:22:05.000Okay, so Mehdi Hassan, he's trying already to pave the groundwork for the possibility of more school shutdowns.
00:22:11.000Here he was yesterday claiming, it's a myth!
00:22:13.000It's a myth that there was any problem in the classroom.
00:22:16.000Today I want to address this thorny and very emotive issue of kids, schools and COVID because we have seen a blatant and bad faith rewriting of history on this issue from a lot of people who should know better.
00:22:29.000And so I think this today, what you're about to watch.
00:22:32.000is one of the most important deep dives I've ever done on this show.
00:22:35.000Because the myths about children and COVID, that kids aren't really harmed by it, that school closures were a massive and avoidable mistake, that they cause learning loss and mental health issues.
00:22:45.000Those myths, and they are myths, dangerous myths, have endured for so long, become so ingrained, so pervasive, that they're not just something Fox viewers believe.
00:22:55.000I'm sure many of you watching at home have sadly come to accept many of these myths as true.
00:23:11.000As COVID upticks going into the winter, you're gonna watch some Democrats come out again for this sort of thing, which is a hell of a thing to run on.
00:23:17.000So they're gonna run basically 2020 back.
00:23:19.000They're gonna run on COVID lockdowns, and they're gonna run on race.
00:23:24.000That does not seem like a winning strategy to me.
00:23:27.000Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, the Democrats in the judiciary are doing an amazing job of setting up the calendar in favor of Donald Trump.
00:23:36.000So apparently, the trial in the January 6th indictment in Washington, D.C.
00:23:48.000Trump's allies lambasted the timing of the trial, which U.S.
00:23:50.000District Judge Tanya Chutkin announced after rejecting both an expedited timeline from Special Counsel Jack Smith and a request from Trump's lawyers to delay the trial until 2026.
00:24:09.000Trump said that he's going to try to appeal on the basis of this.
00:24:13.000It's not clear if he's going to show up to court.
00:24:15.000The truth is that this is probably going to boost Trump because if the dynamics of the race so far are a reflection of what's going to happen in the future, every time Trump is targeted in court, it seems to boost him electorally.
00:24:25.000But if you look at how this calendar is setting up right now, it's pretty wild.
00:24:30.000Right now you have March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday, for the Trump January 6th trial.
00:24:37.000And then you have the fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
00:24:41.000That's going to go to trial this October 2nd.
00:24:43.000Then you have the defamation lawsuit that is going to go to trial on January 15th, 2024.
00:24:46.000That is the date of the Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus.
00:24:49.000You got the hush money criminal case brought by Manhattan D.A.
00:25:23.000How do you have an indictment that is based almost entirely on the findings of the January 6th unselect committee on Marxist, fascist, and political hacks, when these same lowlives who have been caught lying for years about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, FISA, and the fake dossier, and more, purposefully and illegally destroyed and deleted all the evidence, findings, and proof of the January 6th committee?
00:25:39.000Well, again, that's not going to happen, but he is not wrong to complain about the date.
00:25:49.000Is any of that going to help Trump in a general election?
00:25:51.000I keep asking this question because this is the question for Republican primary voters.
00:25:54.000Not, are you more warm to him now that he's being unfairly targeted by law enforcement?
00:25:57.000I'm more warm to him if he's being unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
00:26:46.000I'm Alright, Tim Scott, who I think is going to be out of the race fairly soon because he doesn't have any electricity, he doesn't have any base support, he doesn't have any momentum, but he said something true yesterday.
00:26:56.000He said, listen, tough and loud is not going to be enough to win a general election.
00:27:29.000As you know, Trey, I grew up in some really tough neighborhoods.
00:27:32.000You've got to be tough to get out of the neighborhoods that I grew up in.
00:27:35.000The question I keep asking myself, is tough enough?
00:27:39.000And for the Republican Party, the answer is really clear.
00:27:42.000We've lost seven out of the last eight national elections and 2022 was a disaster.
00:27:49.000If tough and loud was enough, we'd be winning election after election after election.
00:27:56.000But our results have unfortunately been exactly the opposite.
00:28:02.000He is right about that, which is why I think actually, again, there are a lot of people who wrote off Governor DeSantis for dead in this national race.
00:28:10.000I don't see the evidence that he's dead quite yet.
00:28:12.000The latest polling shows Donald Trump in the Republican nominating race dropping now below 50 percent in some of the numbers.
00:28:18.000The latest Insider Advantage poll, for example, has Trump at 45 and DeSantis at 18 and nobody else with an even remote spitting distance.
00:28:24.000There's some other polls that have Trump up near 60.
00:28:27.000Messenger, Harris X, which has been a poll that's very, very warm toward Trump, currently has Trump at 59 and DeSantis at 14.
00:28:32.000Overall, Trump is ahead of the field by 40 points.
00:28:34.000It also happens to be a very fragmented field.
00:29:06.000AccuWeather meteorologists are rating Edalia as a three on the real impact scale for hurricanes right now.
00:29:12.000And officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders for parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough County in Florida because of the life-threatening conditions anticipated.
00:29:19.000You're gonna see a big storm surge and all the rest.
00:29:22.000Well, this is one area where DeSantis actually thrives is in handling crisis in his home state.
00:29:27.000Here was Governor DeSantis doing his job yesterday talking about the approaching storm.
00:29:32.000Tropical Storm Idalia continues to gather strength.
00:29:35.000It will become a hurricane today, and it is forecast to reach landfall as a major hurricane, a Category 3.
00:29:44.000I think it's important to point out, if we were sitting here three days ago, a lot of people thought it would end up being a tropical storm.
00:29:51.000Then they said, well, maybe a Category 1.
00:29:53.000Then yesterday it was, oh, maybe it'll hit Cat 2.
00:29:57.000Now, there really doesn't seem anything to prevent it from continuing to strengthen.
00:30:02.000And we've seen this before with something like Hurricane Michael that continued to gather strength.
00:30:07.000So this is going to be a major impact and Floridians should expect that this storm will be a major Cat 3 plus hurricane.
00:30:18.000Okay, the truth is that it was DeSantis' crisis leadership during COVID that was really, really excellent.
00:30:22.000He's gonna give an example of how to do that, I would assume, this week and this weekend.
00:30:26.000Yesterday, this is also a perfect example of what DeSantis does really, really well.
00:30:30.000Right, so DeSantis was asked by a reporter about climate change, which is always the go-to for idiot reporters who don't know about hurricanes and how hurricane targets have now expanded because there are a lot more people living in the path of hurricanes and all the rest of it.
00:30:45.000And they keep suggesting hurricanes are more common because of, again, not a lot of evidence to suggest that.
00:30:50.000There's some evidence to suggest that the hurricanes may be more powerful now
00:30:54.000because of the warmer water that they're using to churn, essentially.
00:30:57.000But here was DeSantis being asked about climate change on the hurricanes, and he knows what he's talking about.
00:31:02.000This is where DeSantis is a unique character and very fluid.
00:32:14.000Because you want to win over Democrats and Independents, it turns out being good at your job is one of the things that makes you a better candidate than not being particularly good at your job or not being involved in your job.
00:32:25.000In just one second, we'll get to some more colorful areas of the 2024 campaign.
00:32:30.000First, I gotta tell you about something back in like 2013.
00:32:32.000So back in 2013, I used to do a local radio show.
00:32:34.000It was like a group radio show in Los Angeles.
00:32:36.000And one of our first advertisers was a company called GenuCell.
00:32:39.000And they were making these products for your face.
00:32:42.000They're making to get rid of like the bags under your eyes and make your skin look younger.
00:34:41.000Well, because Vivek, as you recall, he's at the Iowa caucuses, and he wrapped his tune on the campaign trail.
00:34:48.000There's a lot of, like, Vivek is millennial, I believe, just technically speaking, but this is real boomer energy, because Eminem's Lose Yourself, I believe, came out in 2002, so this is a 21-year-old song, which, you know, honestly, is the equivalent at this point of singing a Doobie Brothers song.
00:35:03.000And here is Vivek on the campaign trail.
00:35:08.000Look at all the people in Iowa, like, what is happening?
00:35:12.000One thing you have to say for Vic, at least he's having fun.
00:35:14.000One thing you have to say for Vic, at least he's having fun.
00:35:30.000And Kim Reynolds is standing there like, what is happening right now?
00:35:34.000She's standing on the corner of the stage like, I don't, like, why is this happening?
00:36:29.000So apparently Vivek's team had an agreement with BMI to use some of their music and M&M wrote to BMI and was like, I don't want that terrible man using my music.
00:36:48.000Honestly, all these musicians, I am above all, what is M&M above exactly?
00:36:53.000Seriously, what is Eminem's personal history?
00:36:55.000They're like, this man, this is a man of moral rectitude, whose music... For God's sake, we use Bach in like, in like, Cheez-It commercials.
00:37:06.000We literally, the Cheez-It commercials, it wasn't Bach, it was Edvard Grieg.
00:37:09.000Okay, we use Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for selling like, cat litter.
00:37:34.000I thought Benedict was an excellent pope because I do have a stake as a citizen of the Western world in the Catholic Church actually standing true to its historic religious principles when it comes to morality and ethics because they've shaped billions of people over the course of history.
00:37:47.000Pope Francis is a liberation theologist, pretty obviously.
00:37:51.000He is a person with a Marxist orientation toward economics and a real disdain for sort of traditional Catholicism in terms of social areas.
00:38:03.000I mean, I can't tell you how many times at this point Pope Francis has said something that is in violation of church doctrine historically with regard to, say, divorce or gay marriage or any of that sort of stuff.
00:38:13.000And then his team comes out, oh, he was misinterpreted.
00:38:17.000Well, at a certain point, you got to imagine that maybe he's just the guy we all kind of think he is, which is why the left is very warm toward Pope Francis.
00:38:25.000He made a couple of big boo-boos over the last 48 hours.
00:38:28.000So first, he was speaking by video to a gathering of Roman Catholics in St.
00:38:33.000Petersburg, and he urged them to follow in the path of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, whom he called rulers of a great enlightened empire of great culture and great humanity.
00:38:42.000Which is a weird take, since both Peter and Catherine were wild territorial expansionists.
00:38:47.000It is what they are known for, and they are also the two figures that Vladimir Putin most cites as sort of historical inspirations for his territorial aggressions.
00:38:55.000This, of course, has ticked off pretty much everybody in Ukraine.
00:38:58.000Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, called the Pope's words
00:39:02.000imperialist propaganda, of the kind the Kremlin uses to justify its invasion of Ukraine, quote,
00:39:06.000it is a shame that Russian great power ideas, which are actually the cause of Russia's chronic
00:39:10.000aggressiveness, are voiced knowingly or not by the Pope.
00:39:12.000The leader of Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatolov Shevchuk, said in a
00:39:17.000statement the Pope's words had caused great pain in the church hierarchy and great disappointment in
00:39:24.000The Pope's remarks drew angry reactions on social media from a wide variety of sources.
00:39:30.000And then, of course, the Vatican tried to walk it back, as they've had to do with Pope Francis multiple times.
00:39:35.000They rejected suggestions that Pope Francis might have encouraged young Russian Catholics to draw inspiration from historical Russian figures known for imperialistic and expansionist ideas and actions that negatively impacted neighboring populations, including the Ukrainian people.
00:39:48.000Francis has decried Ukrainian suffering, but he has not condemned Moscow for the war.
00:39:52.000He's been very careful not to condemn Moscow for the war.
00:40:22.000I mean, seriously, honest to God, you want to talk about a Pope who's replaced faith with ideology?
00:40:27.000He keeps writing encyclicals about how we have to stop hurting Mother Earth while at the same time proclaiming the doctrine of social liberalism in very soft form.
00:40:35.000France's comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S.
00:40:38.000Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinary papacies of St.
00:40:44.000John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
00:41:05.000Many conservatives have blasted France's emphasis on social justice issues, such as the environment and the poor, while branding heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
00:41:14.000Which, um, you know, that used to be called just the doctrine.
00:41:18.000So, during a meeting, a Portuguese Jesuit told Francis he had suffered during a recent sabbatical year in the United States because he came across many Catholics, including some U.S.
00:41:25.000bishops, who criticized Francis' tenure papacy as well as today's Jesuits.
00:41:29.000The 86-year-old Argentine acknowledged his point, saying there was a very strong organized reactionary attitude in the U.S.
00:42:02.000He says, I want to remind these people backwardness is useless.
00:42:05.000I got to tell you, like for the Pope to say when he says backwardness, I assume what he means is, you know, the history of his church, which is supposed to be the rock of faith, correct?
00:42:14.000Again, not a Catholic, but pretty sure that's what it is.
00:42:16.000They must understand there's a correct evolution in the understanding of questions and faith and morals.
00:42:32.000By the way, worth noting, the only segments of Catholicism on planet Earth that are growing right now are not left-leaning Catholic churches.
00:42:40.000They're all right-leaning Catholic churches.
00:42:41.000They're people who are traditionalist.
00:42:42.000It's the Latin mass Catholic churches that are still full.
00:42:45.000It's the ones who are moving softly toward embracing The Pope's own soft embrace of social leftism that are emptying out by the bushel.
00:42:54.000Because why would you bother going to church on a Sunday if you can hear the same crap on MSNBC?
00:43:47.000Social Justice Fallacies, Thomas Searle.
00:43:48.000I literally have, like, in my library, it's all of Thomas Searle's books.
00:43:52.000Thomas Searle, one of the great thinkers of the last 50 years in the United States, and it is a pleasure whenever he brings out a new book.
00:43:58.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:44:04.000So, Jake Tapper did an interview with Chris Christie the other day.
00:44:08.000And Christie has been ripping on other Republicans for saying that in a binary election between Biden and Trump, they would vote for Trump.
00:44:13.000And Tapper then asked him a question that a lot of people in the left-leaning media are constantly asking, which is, do Republicans have an authoritarian problem?
00:44:24.000Authoritarianism is not what people in the left media think it is.
00:44:27.000They think authoritarianism is like Donald Trump tweeting things or Donald Trump making efforts that are then stymied to change the results of an election.
00:44:36.000There are many forms of authoritarianism.
00:44:38.000In fact, fascism is an element of both left and right.
00:44:43.000Authoritarianism can just as easily be done by a series of executive orders that go outside the Constitution and radically reshift the balance between people and their government.
00:45:12.000But so many people in your party, and I'm not just talking about people running for president or on Capitol Hill, but I mean voters, Republican voters, don't seem to have a problem with it.
00:45:26.000And I'm wondering, do you think that your party has an authoritarian problem?
00:45:30.000That they really honestly don't have a problem with violently trying to stop a free and fair election from going forward?
00:45:42.000No Jake, I absolutely don't think that we have that problem.
00:45:45.000I think what we have is a Donald Trump problem.
00:45:47.000And that right now what's gone on is that people view Donald Trump synonymously with the Republican Party.
00:45:53.000And that if you oppose Trump, that's somehow favoring Biden.
00:45:57.000And many Republicans don't want to do that for very obvious reasons.
00:46:05.000The rest of it's garbage, but that last part where he says, which is, Donald Trump is seen as synonymous with the Republican Party, and so if you tell people it's either Biden or the Republican Party, of course a lot of people are going to vote Republican.
00:46:15.000But what's insulting to the intelligence is this generalized narrative that the media are constantly drawing, in which they suggest that fascism, or authoritarianism, or tyranny, is an element of the right, and that the left is completely free.
00:46:29.000In fact, we have a YouTube video, a latest episode in our facts series, talking about whether fascism is right-wing, what are the roots of fascism.
00:46:36.000The truth is that fascism as an ideology is closer to the American left than it is to the American right.
00:46:43.000Fascism as an ideology was generalized in response to communism, but it drew from Marxism, it drew from Hegelian politics, it drew from progressive era ideas, which is why many of the early supporters of Mussolini were members of the left.
00:46:56.000Including people who had worked in the Woodrow Wilson administration, who would go on to work in the FDR administration.
00:47:01.000So, again, this sort of media lie, which is that the right is universally authoritarian and the left is for freedom, I don't see any evidence of that whatsoever.
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