Joe Biden's trip to Vietnam and the September 11th memorial in Alaska. Joe Biden's lack of preparation for the Vietnam trip, and his failure to show up for the 9/11 memorial event in Alaska, and the fact that he was asleep by the time he got back to the White House after his Vietnam trip. Also, Joe Biden says he's going to bed, which is a good thing, because he needs a good night's rest to be able to do the job he's been tasked with doing for the past 24 hours. Joe Biden is not capable of doing the job, and it's time to get a grip on it, because it's not just the job that needs to be done, it's the person who has to do it, and Joe Biden isn't up to the job. And that's why he's not up to it. And why he needs to go to bed. The problem is that Joe Biden has no idea what he's doing, and no idea where he is going to be going, and he doesn't seem to have a plan to do anything about it, so he's just lying there and not doing anything at all, and that's not going to help the country any of the Americans need to know what they need to do, because they're going to have to do something about it. Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, folks. It's a good one, and I hope you enjoy it! and tweet me what you think of it :) Timestamps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 34. Intro Music: "Good Morning America" by Ian Dorsch (feat. John Singleton ( ) 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 45. 44. 46. 47. 48. Theme Song by Ian Somerhalder ( ) Theme Song: "Old Town Road" by Fountains of Alexandria ( ) by Ferell ( ) & Other Words ( )
00:00:00.000It's very easy to get caught up in the horse race and because, again, we are in a presidential pre-year.
00:00:06.000The presidential year used to start in like 2024, but now it stretches the full year beforehand.
00:00:10.000It's only September of the prior year and we are already in full horse race mode, but it's It's easy to forget that the presidency actually matters.
00:00:18.000It's not just about all of the lights and the whistles.
00:00:22.000It's also about, can you be the president of the United States and do a good job?
00:00:25.000And Joe Biden continues to prove that he is not capable of this.
00:00:28.000So over the weekend, Joe Biden went to Hanoi, Vietnam.
00:00:32.000His strategy in Vietnam was to apparently attempt to create some sort of division between Vietnam and China.
00:00:37.000It was essentially a containment strategy.
00:00:39.000And this is a strategy that has been pursued in bipartisan fashion by every president for the last 10 or 15 years.
00:00:46.000The basic idea is you get Japan and South Korea and Vietnam and all of the countries that surround China to basically create a counterweight to China and box them in such that America has allies surrounding China in pretty much every direction.
00:01:01.000And that requires some delicate diplomacy because the fact is that China is a very aggressive country and under Xi Jinping, an increasingly aggressive country.
00:01:08.000It would also require that the Chinese, you know, have a little bit of fear that the American president is actually going to stand by his word, that the American president is actually somebody.
00:01:17.000Who's going to stand up for a particular line.
00:01:20.000And if a line is drawn and that line is crossed, that the Americans are actually going to do something about it.
00:01:24.000Well, that is rather undercut when the president of the United States is feeble.
00:01:30.000So his entire team put out a schedule of his events yesterday, today.
00:01:35.000He apparently was going to be in Vietnam yesterday and over the weekend, he flew there and he had a bevy of events and he got on a plane and he headed to Alaska for the September 11th memorial event.
00:03:22.000Anyway, I just think that there are other things on leaders' minds, and they respond to what's needed at the time.
00:03:30.000And look, nobody likes having celebrated international meetings if you don't know what you want at the meeting, if you don't have a game plan.
00:04:03.000Very encouraging stuff there from the President of the United States, who apparently is capable of allowing a sound to emerge from his mouth only once every five or six seconds before he has to tell people that he is ready for his beddy-bye, his warm cup of milk, and a big, big hug from his night nurse.
00:04:26.000It's not just that he is physically feeble, which he is, or that he is mentally feeble, which he has kind of always been and he is just more so now.
00:04:33.000The problem with Joe Biden is that his policies are garbage and we have aggressive enemies.
00:04:49.000And that if you don't have a little bit of foresight, the consequences can be disastrous.
00:04:52.000Now, the foresight we did not have in the 1990s is that if we did not stop Al Qaeda in its tracks in 1998, when they bombed the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, that that would come back to haunt America as Al Qaeda grew and metastasized, and it would end with the death of 3,000 Americans on 9-11.
00:05:06.000Okay, what we're talking about right now is orders of magnitude larger.
00:05:12.000If you don't stop the Chinese government in its tracks when it comes to its aggressive
00:05:16.000instincts, we're not talking about, you know, 3,000 Americans dead, which was the worst
00:05:22.000tragedy on American soil since the Second World War.
00:05:26.000You're talking about like a full scale conflagration with the largest physical army on planet Earth.
00:05:32.000America has the best army on planet Earth, the most technologically advanced army on planet Earth.
00:05:36.000But if you don't stop the Chinese, people bumble their way into war because of misinterpretation.
00:05:41.000They think the other side is weaker than it is.
00:05:43.000Most wars in the modern era get started exactly the way the war between Russia and Ukraine got started.
00:05:47.000Russia misinterpreted signals from the West that they wouldn't do anything if Ukraine was invaded.
00:05:52.000And they misinterpreted Ukraine's military strength, and then they invaded.
00:05:55.000And now we are now in year two of a long war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
00:06:01.000Those sorts of misinterpretations are created by failures of communication.
00:06:09.000And meanwhile, Xi Jinping is becoming more and more aggressive.
00:06:12.000His entire strategy with regard to China is quite frightening.
00:06:16.000Not because it's bound to be successful or make China stronger, but because it is bound to make China actually weaker and thus more aggressive.
00:06:24.000We did a YouTube video you should check out in our series, Fact, where I talk about the big problems that China has, but they include things like demographics.
00:06:30.000China is completely demographically upside down.
00:06:32.000They do not have enough young people to actually provide the labor force or the earning force to pay for all of the debt they've taken out.
00:06:38.000Speaking of which, their debt is extraordinary.
00:06:40.000If you actually take into account all of the public and private debt that they've incurred, and there's no such thing as a real private sector, everything is backed by the government over there, you are talking about a country that is up to its eyeballs in debt.
00:06:50.000And you are talking about a country that has now cut off the only mechanism for economic success that was available to it in capitalism.
00:06:56.000So at least prior regimes in China were moving more toward a sort of bizarre backdoor capitalism, where Hong Kong acted as basically a way to flush money into the system.
00:07:07.000They would allow corrupt capitalism to corrupt their little, their wonderful regime of communism, just to support it.
00:07:13.000But now Xi Jinping, he's actually an ideologue, and he's like, no, we're not doing any of that.
00:08:29.000Xi Jinping is getting more and more aggressive.
00:08:31.000Article today, from the Atlantic, the world's most powerful leaders gathered in New Delhi for this year's premier diplomatic event, the G20 summit.
00:08:37.000But China's Xi Jinping deemed it not worth his time.
00:08:39.000His absence sends a stark signal China is done with the established world order.
00:08:43.000Ditching the summit marks a dramatic turn in China's foreign policy.
00:08:46.000For the past several years, Xi has apparently sought to make China an alternative to the West.
00:08:50.000Now she is positioning his country as a full-on opponent, ready to align its own bloc against the United States, its partners, and international institutions they support.
00:08:57.000Xi's break with the establishment has been a long time coming.
00:08:59.000His predecessors integrated China into the U.S.-led global order by joining its foundational institutions like the World Bank and the WTO.
00:09:05.000For much of his tenure over the past decade, Xi has kept a foot in the door to the Western order, even as China's relations with the U.S.
00:09:28.000He's promoted competing international forums like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose membership includes Russia and Iran.
00:09:35.000He's going to stick around at the UN because obviously he thinks he can militarize it, but the G20 is not one of the places where he is actually flexing his influence because he would like to undercut the G20.
00:09:46.000The map controversy suggests Xi's nationalist pursuit of global power could undermine his push to lead a new bloc against the West because he is ticking off, by the way, the Indians, for example, but He sees the United States as his chief global opponent.
00:10:01.000This is being high-lit over the weekend by the fact that China went on high alert after U.S.
00:10:04.000and Canadian ships went through the Taiwan Strait, according to the Agence France-Presse.
00:10:08.000China said on Saturday that its troops were on constant high alert after two ships belonging to the U.S.
00:10:12.000and Canada transited through the Taiwan Strait, according to a military spokesperson.
00:10:16.000This, by the way, is one reason why the United States cutting back its military budget, particularly on the Navy, is idiotic in the extreme.
00:10:23.000It is true the United States has the world's most powerful navy by a long shot.
00:10:25.000It is also true that the United States requires the world's most powerful navy because many of the shipping lanes that are easy choke points for our enemies are very, very far away from us.
00:10:35.000China doesn't require a deep water navy in order to challenge the United States.
00:10:38.000All they require is what they call a grey water navy in order to ensure that they can basically control the Taiwan Strait.
00:10:48.000The Taiwan Strait is right in their backyard.
00:11:07.000Why would you not want to contain China?
00:11:09.000I understand that we're sort of pussyfooting around this whole issue with China, but the reality is the G is not.
00:11:13.000And taking a more aggressive posture toward China saying, listen, The way that your regime is currently attacking the rest of the world with its soft power and sometimes with hard power is not acceptable to the United States.
00:11:27.000We're going to build up our military and we are not going to allow you to use your expansionism to threaten American interests, which do include places like Taiwan.
00:11:35.000What's weird about Biden is that he's taking this completely confused approach.
00:11:38.000So from time to time, he will say things like, if Taiwan is attacked, America will defend.
00:11:42.000Which, as I've said before, is actually not a terrible thing to say.
00:11:46.000I think it's actually the right thing to say.
00:11:48.000But it would require an actual dedication to a military budget capable of supporting that kind of brash talk.
00:11:54.000Biden's talk on foreign policy is generally empty words, followed by very little else.
00:11:59.000And this creates very sticky situations, as we'll see when it comes to Ukraine in a second.
00:12:03.000Here is Joe Biden saying he doesn't want to contain China.
00:12:17.000OK, so I mean, all of that, he doesn't want to contain China.
00:12:22.000I don't know what he thinks he means by that.
00:12:25.000I really don't. So he was in Vietnam specifically to contain China.
00:12:29.000We should note here. He that's why he's there.
00:12:34.000Biden said at a news conference, today we can trace a 50-year arc of progress in the relationship between our nations from conflict to normalization.
00:12:41.000He was talking to the General Secretary of the Communist Party in Vietnam.
00:12:45.000He says, this is a new elevated status that will be a force for prosperity and security in one of the most consequential regions in the world.
00:12:49.000There's only one problem, of course, which is that Vietnam is also aligned with the Russians.
00:12:54.000Literally over the weekend, Vietnam is chasing a secret Russian arms deal even as it deepens American ties.
00:13:00.000In order for America to have a big umbrella, America has to have a very strong umbrella.
00:13:03.000That strong umbrella has to include things like making sure that if we think that Vietnam is actually going to be weaponized against China, it doesn't buy its weapons from the Russians, who are allies of the Chinese.
00:13:16.000All this would be a lot less complicated if the United States actually took a muscular approach to the world.
00:13:20.000But Joe Biden doesn't have a muscular approach to the world.
00:13:21.000He says he does, but then he doesn't fill in the gaps.
00:13:24.000This is also true when it comes to Ukraine.
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00:14:33.000Okay, so when it comes to Joe Biden's foreign policy confusion and mixed signals, the same thing holds true with regards to Ukraine.
00:14:38.000So just to spell out what the United States should be doing in Ukraine, it has been perfectly obvious since nearly the beginning of the war that this thing was going to end in a stalemate.
00:14:47.000Because it was going to end in a stalemate, it made a lot of sense for the United States to basically go to the Russians and say, you're going to keep Crimea, you're going to keep parts of the Donbass, we're going to give security guarantees to Ukraine, and everybody's going to go back to status quo ante.
00:15:01.000That was always what the deal should have been.
00:15:03.000It was always what the deal was going to be.
00:15:06.000The United States does have an interest in degrading the Russian military.
00:15:09.000And the truth is, the money that we've spent in Ukraine, contra public opinion, that money has actually been money fairly well spent.
00:15:15.000We've degraded the Russian military dramatically.
00:15:16.000They no longer have the capacity to cross other countries' borders.
00:15:19.000Their threat to NATO has been tremendously mitigated, which is good for our allies in the region.
00:15:23.000And by the way, a lot of the money that we've spent is in fact coming back to us, because proof of the use of those weapons on the battlefield means, for example, that over the weekend, Poland announced that it was going to spend about $10 billion in terms of buying American military armament.
00:15:35.000All of that can be true and still there needs to be an off-ramp here because hundreds of thousands of people are dying in a war and the borders aren't moving very much.
00:15:43.000And everybody keeps talking about a Ukrainian breakthrough.
00:15:44.000Okay, when it happens then I'll believe it.
00:15:48.000One is you arm the Ukrainians to the point where they are capable of actually defeating the Russians throughout Ukraine.
00:15:56.000Which would mean presumably giving them things like F-16s.
00:15:59.000Or you're not going to do that, in which case you should be looking to cut some sort of deal.
00:16:03.000But instead, the United States and its allies have cut sort of this halfway measure where they say, Zelensky is going to lead the negotiations, which means no peace because Zelensky is incentivized by his people, correctly so, not to give back an inch of land.
00:16:15.000And meanwhile, the Russians have no incentive to leave because they're not being physically forced out of Donbass or Crimea.
00:16:23.000And so this thing is just going to go on and on and on.
00:16:26.000Meanwhile, the longer it goes on, the less support the United States is going to have for this thing going on for prolonged periods of time.
00:16:33.000So, Russia, for example, which is part of the G20, they hailed the G20 as a success.
00:16:38.000According to CNN, Russia on Sunday deemed the G20 summit in India's capital of New Delhi an unconditional success, a day after the meeting's final declaration stopped short of explicitly condemning its invasion of Ukraine.
00:16:48.000Speaking at a press conference at the end of the summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the summit was a success not just for India, but for all of us.
00:16:54.000The final group statement said, quote, all states must refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition, but it didn't single out Russia.
00:17:01.000The statement acknowledged, quote, there were different views and assessments of the situation.
00:17:06.000Ukraine then criticized the G20's final declaration.
00:17:08.000Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesperson wrote on Facebook, Ukraine is grateful to its partners who tried to include strong wording in the text.
00:17:14.000At the same time, the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the fact that Russia's aggression against Ukraine continues.
00:17:19.000Obviously, the participation of the Ukrainian side would have allowed the participants to better understand the situation.
00:17:24.000The principle of nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine remains as key as ever.
00:17:28.000Meanwhile, Antony Blinken is trying to pretend that this watered-down statement is actually something positive and good.
00:17:33.000Here's Antony Blinken trying to explain this to Jake Tapper.
00:17:36.000That is significantly weaker language than last year's joint statement, which called for Russia's, quote, complete and unconditional withdrawal, unquote, from Ukraine.
00:17:47.000agree to a watered-down declaration that does not even condemn Russia by name or explicitly call for Russia to leave Ukraine?
00:17:59.000Jake, the G20 countries in this statement all stood up for the importance of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and that's very clear.
00:18:08.000I was in the room when all the leaders spoke today with President Biden, and it was very clear from everything that they said.
00:18:15.000Uh, that, uh, not only do they want to see this war end, but they want to see it end on just and durable terms.
00:18:20.000And it was also very clear that the consequences of Russia's aggression are being felt throughout, uh, the G20 countries and throughout the developing world.
00:18:55.000Now, there could be negotiation within that framework, but the framework was, you are our enemy.
00:19:00.000And we are going to aggressively confront you in this sphere until you bend.
00:19:04.000When it comes to China, we refuse to take that view because, again, we've integrated our economy with theirs, which is one of the world's worst measures.
00:19:12.000By the way, you can actually understand why we were doing that from the 70s up through 89.
00:19:15.000But after Tiananmen Square, there was no excuse whatsoever for the West trying to integrate its economy with China.
00:19:21.000The economic liberalization of China, which was partial in the extreme, never amounted to political liberalization of China.
00:19:28.000And meanwhile, with regard to Russia, we're sending mixed signals as well.
00:19:30.000So on the one hand, we're not providing Ukraine the support necessary to actually win in Ukraine, but at the same time, we're telling them, you're leading the negotiations.
00:20:26.000And those are also the only wars America prevents.
00:20:28.000It's where we make clear to everybody, if you cross X line, we will smack you so hard, you will be living in the Stone Age.
00:20:34.000And then you can negotiate within that framework.
00:20:37.000But we're not going to even come close to that line.
00:20:38.000If you come close to that line, we're going to knock your head off.
00:20:42.000Diplomacy is always the velvet glove, but if there's no iron fist inside the velvet glove, what does it matter?
00:20:47.000And when you're vacillating, and when you're wavering, when you're being deliberately unclear, or maybe not deliberately unclear, what exactly is everyone supposed to take away from your behavior?
00:20:55.000In just one second, we'll get to the area where Joe Biden believes he actually does have international unity and international leadership.
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00:22:52.000It's a convenient way of him bashing his domestic political opponents because he's not going to say this directly to the Chinese.
00:22:57.000The Chinese will just lie and continue doing what they're doing.
00:22:59.000Here was Joe Biden talking about global warming over in Vietnam.
00:23:02.000The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20, 10 years.
00:23:21.000Again, when you are in doubt and you have nothing else left to go to if you are on the left, the place that you go is global warming because it is an unbeatable enemy.
00:23:29.000And the real enemy that you're attempting to beat is your political domestic opponent, which is why Joe Biden, again, he's so out of it.
00:23:46.000I mean, it's amazing, this is the same party where it's like, our foreign policy isn't stuck in the 1980s, your president is stuck in the 1880s.
00:25:50.000You're trying to cram it down on Americans for no apparent reason.
00:25:53.000Which, by the way, is going to end with more economic turmoil.
00:25:56.000As Fox News reports, President Joe Biden's administration finalized plans for a program it argues will further reduce air pollution from heavy-duty engines and vehicles across the United States.
00:26:05.000Truckers argue that the proposed standards will crush the supply chain and put the American food supply at risk.
00:26:11.000The new emission standards put forth by the EPA are significantly more stringent.
00:26:14.000They cover a wider range of heavy-duty engine operating conditions compared to previous standards.
00:26:18.000The rule officially went into effect March 27th of this year.
00:26:21.000It's going to be implemented for new trucks sold after 2027.
00:26:25.000But truckers are saying that the new energy standards are going to make it way, way, way more expensive to ship all of your foods.
00:26:49.000This is not an option, especially for the food supply chain of America.
00:26:53.000These changes were also made without checking the supply chain challenges that we have.
00:27:01.000They just decided without, you know, consulting with the truckers or the supply chain.
00:27:06.000The supply chain has a safety stock, but the rule's always been, especially with food, you know, the less stock, the less of No, the more profit they make.
00:27:17.000So the food supply stock is super thin.
00:27:21.000To give you an idea, if all the trucks stopped in America, we would run out of, you know, stores would start running out of food within 48 to 72 hours.
00:27:29.00048 to 72 hours, it would be very quickly.
00:27:43.000The American Truck Dealers Association says it's $42,000 per truck.
00:28:01.000So while Joe Biden is jabbering to the Vietnamese about how his political opponents at home are climate deniers, he's ready to cram down on you exponentially higher food prices, all to make himself feel better because, again, it's not going to mitigate global warming in any real way.
00:28:15.000All that global warming is happening right now, if you believe in man-made global warming, thanks to China and India.
00:28:20.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden's economy continues to exist right on the threshold of a major, major problem.
00:28:25.000At the very least, we are now in a period of economic stagnation.
00:28:28.000You're seeing this in the size of the IPOs that are currently happening.
00:28:31.000So, initial public offerings are very often a measure of the durability and sort of the explosiveness of the American economy.
00:28:37.000Well, right now, all of the IPO valuations are dropping.
00:28:40.000So, Instacart is currently targeting a valuation of roughly $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion in its IPO.
00:28:48.000In 2021, it was raising money at a $39 billion valuation, Instacart.
00:28:54.000Now, part of that is because 2020, 2021, a lot of people were buying via Instacart because of COVID and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:28:59.000But part of this is because there's just a lot less loose money lying around.
00:29:03.000I know a lot of companies have been thinking about IPO-ing and now they're looking at the market and they're saying, I'm not going to IPO.
00:29:08.000I'm not going to go public because I just can't raise enough money in the public markets to make that worth my while.
00:29:14.000The company's stock market debut, according to the Wall Street Journal, is a bellwether for the IPO market, muted for much of this year and last.
00:29:19.000It will be closely watched by investors, bankers, lawyers, and traders.
00:29:22.000It will follow the highly anticipated offering by British chip designer Arm Ltd, whose shares are expected to debut this week in the biggest U.S.
00:29:31.000And again, Instacart is an excellent company, and my wife uses Instacart all the time.
00:29:35.000The fact that excellent companies are now lowering their IPO expectations by a factor of four over the course of the last two years, that should tell you something about the state of the market.
00:29:44.000And meanwhile, when it comes to Joe Biden, all the Hunter Biden stuff is still lingering over him.
00:29:48.000Because the reality is that the Hunter-Joe relationship is extremely corrupt.
00:30:02.000Earlier this summer, President Biden was feeling hopeful.
00:30:05.000His son Hunter's lawyers had struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors on tax and gun charges.
00:30:09.000It seemed to the president the long legal ordeal would finally be over.
00:30:11.000But when the agreement collapsed in late July, Mr. Biden, whose public image often belies a more mercurial temperament, was stunned.
00:30:18.000He plunged into sadness and frustration, according to several people close to him who spoke on condition of anonymity.
00:30:22.000Since then, his tone in conversations about Hunter has been tinged with a resignation that was not there before, his confidants say.
00:30:29.000Now, as the Justice Department plans to indict Hunter on gun charge in the coming weeks, White House advisors are preparing for many more months of Republican attacks and the prospect of a criminal trial in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.
00:30:39.000Republicans have cast Hunter's troubles as a stew of nepotism and corruption, which the Biden administration denies.
00:30:45.000But there's no doubt the Hunter case is a drain politically and emotionally on his father and those who wish to see him reelected.
00:30:56.000He just wanted to be a delightful father.
00:30:58.000He just wanted to be a loving father, which is why he was sending his son to foreign countries to pick up bags of cash and then getting on the phone with foreign oligarchs in order to help him achieve those bags of cash.
00:31:08.000According to the New York Times, as his father and brother showed a talent for public service, Hunter envisioned himself as the financier supporting the family business of politics.
00:31:14.000For a time, it was work that made him proud, because it made him feel needed.
00:31:17.000Decades later, though, he was known to complain about the responsibility.
00:31:20.000A person close to Hunter said those complaints were exaggerated, expressed at a time when Hunter was feeling bruised.
00:31:25.000Of course they're going to say that, because if you point out that Hunter actually texted his own daughter that he pays half of Pop's bills, that sounds a little more corrupt.
00:31:33.000The whole thing, of course, this whole article is about how terrible it is for Joe Biden that his son is really so screwed up.
00:31:40.000President Biden tries to keep his son close.
00:31:42.000When Hunter accompanied the president on a trip to Ireland in the spring,
00:31:45.000he traveled on Air Force One and slept on a cot in his father's hotel room.
00:31:48.000When Hunter flies to Washington from his home in Malibu, who stays at the White House,
00:32:43.000Coming up to shield the old man as he stumbles off the stage.
00:32:47.000This administration is a disaster area.
00:32:49.000In just one second, we're going to get to the situation in New Mexico where apparently the governor of New Mexico thinks the Constitution doesn't apply to her.
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00:33:58.000Well, meanwhile, apparently the governor of New Mexico is under the weird misimpression that the constitution does not apply in New Mexico.
00:34:04.000New Mexico governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Has now announced that she has issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of gun violence.
00:34:19.000This is according to the Associated Press.
00:34:21.000She said she expects legal challenges, but she was compelled to act because of recent shootings, including the death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.
00:34:29.000Lucian Grisham said state police would be responsible for enforcing what amounts to civil violations.
00:34:35.000But the Albuquerque police chief is already saying, like, I'm not going to enforce that.
00:34:56.000And that is, if there's an emergency, and I've declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers.
00:35:06.000No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.
00:35:13.000There are restrictions on free speech.
00:35:14.000There are restrictions on my freedoms.
00:35:16.000In this emergency, this 11-year-old, and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not, in an emergency, we can create a safer environment.
00:35:33.000Because what about their constitutional rights?
00:35:37.000So, um, this is, when people say political fascism, this would be it.
00:35:42.000Okay, when a member of the government simply declares, via emergency order, that they can violate willy-nilly constitutional rights, like full-scale constitutional rights, based on no actual emergency.
00:35:52.000Okay, we're not talking here about a tornado that's hitting the state.
00:35:55.000We're not talking here about there's some sort of giant earthquake.
00:36:08.000She could say, listen, we have a national epidemic of hate.
00:36:10.000You've seen this, by the way, in places like Chicago, where the former mayor, Lori Lightfoot, tried to declare that racism was a public health emergency.
00:36:17.000You could see somebody like this idiot governor saying, racism, hate, they're a public health emergency, and I'm declaring an emergency.
00:36:24.000Therefore, you are not allowed to say the following words in my state, and then just list them off.
00:36:30.000That'd be a pretty significant First Amendment violation.
00:36:33.000Or she could go even further, presumably.
00:36:34.000She could just say, you're not allowed to use the internet because the internet obviously has facilitated so much violence.
00:36:39.000So you're just not allowed to use it anymore.
00:36:41.000I've decided in my state that you're not allowed to use that.
00:36:44.000Not on the basis of any sort of elected legislative session, but on the basis of her own judgment that an emergency has now been constituted because she doesn't like the thing that's happening.
00:36:53.000Well, if all of your rights are simply dependent on one lady deciding that she really doesn't like the things that are happening in the world, That is tyranny.
00:37:01.000And it's amazing that you would try this, but it was always going to happen.
00:37:04.000I mean, the minute that we shut down everything in the world for COVID, and then we maintained that for two years, even as the data emerged that it actually wasn't the sort of national emergency that was being suggested, it was only a matter of time before Democratic officials tried to do something like this.
00:37:44.000And then even David Hogg, who is one of the world's larger idiots, and got into Harvard University on the basis of his movement about gun control.
00:37:53.000Even David Hogg, who's been wrong about nearly everything, ever, he says, I support gun safety, but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S.
00:38:04.000I mean, I'm glad that they're starting to realize that.
00:38:07.000Now we'll see how broadly they apply it.
00:38:08.000Because again, if this is the new way that Democrats make law, then you could do it on the basis of anything.
00:38:13.000Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats have declared that climate change is the greatest emergency facing humanity, period.
00:38:19.000It's greater than COVID, than nuclear war, than anything.
00:38:22.000The greatest emergency facing humanity is, according to them, that the planet is getting warmer by a few degrees.
00:38:27.000And thus, what couldn't they justify in the name of all of this?
00:38:31.000Well, the New Mexican governor, Lujan Grisham, she is saying that violators could face civil penalties and a fine of up to $5,000.
00:38:38.000Under the order, residents can still transport guns to some private locations, like a gun range or a gun store, but the firearm has to have a trigger lock or some other container or mechanism, making it impossible to discharge.
00:38:50.000There is no way this remotely stands up in court.
00:38:55.000It remains amazing to me that the same people who declare that rule of law is deeply important to them, many of them are going to ignore this and look the other way and pretend that it doesn't matter.
00:39:02.000That January 6th was an assault on the rule of law, that it overthrew constitutional norms.
00:39:06.000Well, I mean, how about just ignoring the Constitution entirely as the New Mexican governor is doing pretty amazing stuff over there.
00:39:12.000Okay, meanwhile, Donald Trump was in Iowa back to the horse race.
00:39:15.000So Donald Trump was over in Iowa over the weekend, so was Ron DeSantis.
00:39:19.000And it was sort of mixed reactions, I would say.
00:40:21.000Wow, Trump's doing some retail politics, which, you know, good for him.
00:40:25.000He also went to the Iowa football game, and there was a bit of an online controversy that broke out over whether he was being booed or whether he was being cheered.
00:40:31.000So here is sort of the raw footage and as you will hear the answer is some of both.
00:40:47.000This is when he went down into the stands.
00:40:48.000He spent most of the game not in the stands.
00:40:50.000He went, he was in sort of a luxury box.
00:40:51.000People were flipping him off and all the rest of it.
00:40:53.000But you can see there are a bunch of enthusiastic people there in Iowa as well, which of course is not a shock.
00:40:57.000He did win Iowa in the last election cycle.
00:40:59.000The latest polls from Iowa are showing Trump up big time.
00:41:02.000The Iowa state civics poll that was released Just a few days ago, has Trump up 37 points over the rest of the field?
00:41:09.000The NBC News Des Moines Register poll has Trump up 23 points over the rest of the field in Iowa.
00:41:16.000You'll recall that very rarely has the Iowa caucus winner actually been the person who went on to win the nomination.
00:41:21.000In fact, the last time that an Iowa caucus winner in the Republican Party went on to win the nomination was 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Steve Forbes 41-31.
00:41:29.000In 2012, it was Rick Santorum, who of course was not the nominee.
00:41:32.000In 2016, it was Ted Cruz, who of course was not the nominee.
00:41:37.000Trump is more vulnerable in Iowa, but it's not going to be enough for anyone to defeat him in Iowa.
00:41:41.000Maybe that creates the impression that the God bleeds a little bit, but that's really not where all of the heavy lifting is going to be done.
00:41:46.000The same thing, by the way, is true in New Hampshire.
00:41:49.000So New Hampshire also has a spotty history of actually nominating presidents.
00:41:52.000So in 1996, Pat Buchanan, you'll remember, won the New Hampshire primary.
00:41:56.000And he didn't end up winning the nomination.
00:41:57.000Bob Dole ended up winning the nomination.
00:41:59.000In 2000, John McCain won the New Hampshire primary, throwing a scare into George W. Bush.
00:42:03.000In 2008, McCain, who's very popular in New Hampshire, won.
00:42:06.000Mitt Romney did win in 2012, and Trump won in 2016.
00:42:09.000But it's a bit of a spotty record in New Hampshire.
00:42:12.000If somebody wins Iowa and New Hampshire, that's going to throw a scare into Donald Trump.
00:42:15.000But really, Trump's last stand, if he were to show any vulnerability, and right now this is all speculative considering he's leading by leaps and bounds in both of those states, Would be South Carolina.
00:42:24.000South Carolina has been entirely predictive of the Republican nominee every year but 2012.
00:42:37.000So, again, right now, it's kind of a moot point because Trump is leading in all of those states.
00:42:42.000With that said, if he is going to show vulnerability, obviously the place you're going to first see it, not only in terms of calendars, but in terms of polls, is going to be Iowa, where other candidates are spending an awful lot of time.
00:42:53.000Speaking of the Republican hopes in 2024, according to Nate Cohn over at the New York Times, one of the problems for Republicans is that the supposed electoral college advantage that Republicans enjoy, which is the way that they've won a few presidential elections, 2016, 2000, those electoral college advantages, meaning that there are certain states where by winning a slight majority, they're able to pull off a narrow victory.
00:43:42.000Over the last year, state polls and a compilation of New York Times' Siena College surveys have shown Biden running as well or better in the battlegrounds as as nationwide, with the results by state broadly mirroring the midterms.
00:43:51.000In other words, the purple states are getting more purple.
00:43:55.000It's not that purple states are red and blue states are more blue, which is how you actually win these narrow elections.
00:43:59.000It's that purple states are getting more purple to blue, and that red states are just getting more red.
00:44:06.000Again, when you look at the battleground states, they voted more similarly to the United States in general in 2022 than they did back in 2020.
00:44:16.000So for example, in Wisconsin in 2020, overall, they voted at a D plus five rate in the 2020 election.
00:44:28.000And then in the House vote, they voted almost even, Republicans and Democrats.
00:44:32.000So the popular vote did not reflect exactly the sort of electoral vote.
00:44:36.000But that gap is basically shrinking now.
00:44:38.000And you're starting to see that over and over and over.
00:44:41.000That's a real problem for Republicans.
00:44:44.000As he points out, Democrats held their ground in battleground states, allowing them to retain the Senate and nearly hold the House.
00:44:48.000Nationally, Republican House candidates won the most votes by about two percentage points.
00:44:52.000The margin was almost identical in the presidential battlegrounds, like Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where Republican House candidates also won by a couple of points.
00:44:59.000So in other words, sort of the national numbers are more reflective, are more reflected now in the battleground states.
00:45:03.000That's not something that's going to help Trump, obviously.
00:45:05.000Now, it's possible that could be false, but you're banking against whatever numbers you have.
00:45:18.000And so it is worthwhile taking all of that into consideration.
00:45:21.000I've been looking at a lot of the polls recently and some of the polls that are very positive toward Republican contenders are relying on a couple of things that I think are very likely to not materialize during the actual election.
00:45:30.000One is minority voters coming in at 54-38, for example, for Biden.
00:45:36.000Republicans are considering that means, hey, look, that means Biden is gonna win only 54% of the vote.
00:45:40.000No, what it means is Republicans are only gonna win 38% of the vote.
00:45:43.000The ceiling on Republican support is in that poll.
00:45:46.000It is not that the rest of that support is going to go to Republicans.
00:45:51.000Because, remember, once again, 54 plus 38 is 92.
00:45:56.000That's 8% of the vote still outstanding.
00:45:57.000That's not gonna split 4-4 Republican-Democrat.
00:46:01.000Which means that the gap is gonna be much larger.
00:46:03.000The other gap that I think is gonna be Much rectified is a lot of these polls right now are rooted in lack of Democratic enthusiasm.
00:46:13.000That's true, because they're very unenthusiastic about Joe Biden.
00:46:16.000It is also true that once Donald Trump is on the ballot, after we've had 12 months of coverage of his supposed criminal foibles, Democrats are going to crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump.
00:46:25.000He gets out turnout for Democrats, he gets out turnout for Republicans.
00:46:28.000Ideally, if you're a Republican, what you want is to lower turnout for Democrats and increase turnout for yourself.
00:46:33.000Donald Trump increases turnout for both.
00:46:36.000So, right now, for example, the recent CNN poll that showed Trump and Biden dead even had the Democratic enthusiasm at 61% and the Republican enthusiasm at 71%.
00:46:46.000I do not think that maintains for the entirety of the election cycle.
00:46:49.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:39.000Does one decide to do it and the other decides not to?
00:47:42.000What happens if there is some sort of magical medicine that is created that reverses aging and how does that impact life?
00:47:48.000It's a wildly creative and really interesting book and is all rooted in the secular modern notion that the only thing that matters on this planet is sort of the life you have on this planet.
00:48:01.000In other words, higher purpose can only be divine by you.
00:48:04.000It's only something that is internal to you.
00:48:07.000And you can see how that doesn't work out to really any advantage throughout the course of the book.
00:48:13.000Like the one chapter that Lionel Shriver didn't write, because Lionel Shriver isn't a religious person.
00:48:17.000She's quasi-conservative on a bunch of issues, but she's not a religious person.
00:48:21.000Lionel Shriver never writes the chapter where the couple actually finds religion.
00:48:26.000How does that impact their decision-making process?
00:48:29.000But it is a fascinating book, and it spells out a lot of these sort of qualms that secular modernism faces.
00:48:36.000Jokovic, Novak Jokovic, the tennis player, he is the greatest of all time, there's no question.
00:48:41.000It is not just that he is an amazingly skilled player.
00:48:45.000You can make a case that Roger Federer was a more skilled player in a lot of ways than Novak Jokovic.
00:48:49.000But, Novak Jokovic is the most determined player I've ever seen maybe in any sport.
00:48:53.000He has like Jordan-esque levels of determination.
00:48:55.000There's an amazing thing that he does, if you watch his matches, where there comes a point where he almost just hones in and he's like, I'm just done here.
00:49:02.000I'm not going to allow the other person to win.
00:49:04.000So he won his 24th major at the US Open over the weekend.
00:49:10.000Novak Djokovic, that guy would have at least another three majors were not for the fact that he was banned from participating in majors for about a year and a half for not taking the VACs.
00:49:19.000And why should he have taken the VACs?
00:49:20.000He's 36 years old and he's in the best shape of any living human being.
00:49:24.000It's absurd to think that he was going to be killed or significantly injured by COVID.
00:50:50.000Three days of mourning have been declared nationwide, according to the Washington Post.
00:50:55.000The buildings basically all just collapsed.
00:50:57.000In the small town of Amismiz, buildings were still collapsing on Sunday afternoon, nearly 40 hours removed from the Friday night quake.
00:51:03.000And one home traces of its former inhabitants, according to the Washington Post, could be glimpsed in the ruins of a second floor ceiling, velveteen blankets, suitcases, rugs, a sagging mattress.
00:51:10.000Survivors had moved to higher ground, pitching tents on stretches of flat, dry land.
00:51:14.000Eight is trickling in, but it is a full-on disaster area, obviously.
00:51:20.000It is a good reminder that we are extraordinarily privileged to live in a first world country.
00:51:25.000Living in an extraordinarily wealthy country means that when a disaster hits, very few people die.
00:51:31.000I remember being in California during the Northridge earthquake.
00:51:34.000And the Northridge earthquake of 1994 was a large earthquake.
00:51:48.000That was almost three decades ago at this point.
00:51:51.000And still, again, that is the privilege of living in a first world country where people
00:51:56.000actually build for the possibility of disaster.
00:51:59.000And it's a reminder that when disaster strikes countries that are much, much poorer, the consequences are much more significant to life and limb.
00:52:05.000All right, you guys, the rest of the show continues right now.