Joe Biden's plan on 9/11 was to fly back to the United States from Vietnam and do a memorial in Alaska instead of going to ground zero, but instead he went to Alaska and did a tribute to John McCain. And then he tried to do the bipartisanship routine, which is amazing considering that he has called half of Americans the kind of people who wish to overthrow the democracy, but sure, sure. Here was the President of the U.S. yesterday, on a day of national unity for 9-11, talking about national unity. And the real thing sticks in the craw is that Joe Biden is not even remotely a unifier. He pretends to care about unity, but the reality is he has pursued the furthest left agenda of any president of my lifetime. And he's botched on foreign policy as well. Plus, he's just an insult. I mean, I have to say... he's an insulting person. And you're nothing but a criminal if you're a Democrat, and you say anything you're against the President. It's the opposite of the opposite. You'll never be used against you, you'll always be used in favor of the President, and the rule is: Nothing you say will ever be used AGAIN against you. by the media against you and you're not going to be used against you by anyone else. in the future, right? Joe Biden's just not a good president, not with it. by Bill Clinton's not a bad president, is he? by Joe Biden? in fact, I mean he's a bad one, and he's not even close to being a good one? What are you going to hold him accountable for anything he says or does or doesn't say or does he do or doesn t do? and he doesn't even give a damn about anything he does or he doesn t even care about anything that s not right or he s just to be held accountable for it? or he's going to do anything right or wrong, right or not to do it right or is he just a bad guy? And the media will never be able to do what he says he does right, right, or he won't even care? ? by me, right and he does it right and I'm not gonna do anything about it, so he's gonna do it, right by him or not?
00:00:00.000So Joe Biden, not a good president, not with it.
00:00:03.000And his plan on 9-11 was somewhat puzzling.
00:00:06.000So he was in Vietnam and he wanted to fly back to the United States.
00:00:09.000Instead of presumably delaying the rest of his 9-11 sort of tribute remarks, he decided to fly to Alaska from Vietnam because it's a shorter flight.
00:00:18.000And then he was going to do some sort of memorial for 9-11 in Alaska, which is really related to 9-11 in, I don't know, there's no relation.
00:00:27.000He was in Alaska, and so he decided that he was going to do an event in Alaska.
00:00:31.000At this event in Alaska, he paid tribute to John McCain, which, again, I mean, that's nice, but I don't know what that has to do with 9-11, per se.
00:00:41.000And then he tried to do the bipartisanship routine, which is kind of amazing considering that he's called half of Americans the kind of people who wish to overthrow the democracy, but sure.
00:00:49.000Here was the President of the United States yesterday on a day of national unity for 9-11.
00:00:54.000One thing I always admired about John was how he put duty to country first.
00:01:29.000Just so you know what Joe Biden was doing during the Vietnam War, he received five student draft deferments.
00:01:33.000First as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, and then later as a law student at Syracuse University.
00:01:37.000And then after a medical exam in April 68, which would have made him eligible for the draft, he received a 1Y classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency.
00:01:46.000So just a quick contrast there between John McCain, who Joe Biden ran against.
00:01:50.000Remember, Joe Biden was the vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama in 2008.
00:01:54.000I know it's now a decade and a half ago, but that's a thing that actually happened.
00:01:57.000And during that campaign, Joe Biden was not super nice to John McCain, but put aside all of the McCain.
00:02:02.000The real thing here that kind of sticks in the craw is Joe Biden talking about national unity because he is not even remotely a unifier.
00:02:09.000He's not somebody who cares about unity.
00:02:11.000He's somebody who pretends to care about unity, but the reality is that he has pursued the furthest left agenda of any president of my lifetime, and that actually includes Barack Obama.
00:02:18.000The stuff that he has attempted to do in restructuring, for example, student loans unilaterally from the executive branch.
00:02:24.000The stuff that he has attempted to do in cramming down vaccines on 80 million people via OSHA.
00:02:29.000The insane levels of spending he has pursued post-COVID.
00:02:33.000The insane amount of money that he has poured down the rat hole.
00:02:37.000of environmental causes while inflating the currency.
00:02:39.000All this stuff is dramatic expansions in terms of the size and scope of government.
00:02:44.000And he's botched on foreign policy as well.
00:03:28.000Even George W. Bush didn't go to ground zero until 914.
00:03:31.000So he's just making things up here because this is what he does.
00:03:34.000And he knows that the media are never going to hold him accountable.
00:03:36.000Because when he was younger, they might have held him accountable when there were other Democrats he was running against.
00:03:40.000But now he's the President of the United States.
00:03:42.000And the rule is that if you're a Democrat who is the President of the United States, nothing you say will ever be used against you.
00:03:47.000It's the opposite of criminal justice.
00:03:50.000Anything you say can or will be used against you.
00:03:53.000Well, I mean, for Joe Biden, once you're the President of the United States and you're a Democrat, nothing you say will ever be used against you in any context.
00:03:59.000Here's Joe Biden just telling lies about 9-11.
00:04:33.000Except for the fact that on the anniversary of 9-11, Joe Biden thought this would be an excellent time to sign a $6 billion check to the Iranian mullahs.
00:04:42.000Now, the juxtaposition of 9-11 and that is pretty awkward.
00:04:44.000Not because the Iranians participated in 9-11.
00:04:51.000But because the overall thesis, which is that if you give money and resources and sukr to Islamic terrorists, that eventually that is going to come back and bite you in pretty significant ways.
00:05:02.000That is one of the big messages of 9-11, if not the biggest message of 9-11.
00:05:04.000And on that date, the president who handed Afghanistan back to Al Qaeda, that's what he did, he handed it back to the Taliban and back to Al Qaeda, is now handing $6 billion to the leading provocateurs in the Middle East, the greatest terror sponsors on the planet in Iran.
00:05:18.000That is what he did on the anniversary of 9-11.
00:05:19.000I mean, just for optical reasons, you would think that he had a brain in his head to think, maybe I should wait a week.
00:05:25.000But no, he had to do it now because Joe Biden wants a deal with the Iranians, a broader deal with the Iranians.
00:05:59.000Joe Biden does not have the best interest of the country at heart when he sends a $6 billion check to people who have been responsible for the death of literally thousands of Americans in the Middle East.
00:06:07.000Remember, during the Iraq War, it was Iranian-sponsored Shiite militias that were killing American soldiers.
00:06:13.000And Joe Biden is signing those people $6 billion checks on the anniversary of 9-11 while paying tribute to the heroes of 9-11.
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00:07:25.000Okay, so what is this deal that Joe Biden apparently signed yesterday?
00:07:29.000According to The Washington Post, The Biden administration has now issued a waiver for banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds without fear of U.S.
00:07:37.000sanctions, a key step in securing the release of five American citizens detained in Iran, people familiar with the matter said.
00:07:43.000As part of the arrangement, the administration will release five Iranian citizens detained in the United States.
00:07:48.000And so, just to make this clear, this is not even a straight-up trade of Iranian citizens detained in the United States because we believe that they are involved in, say, terror activities, for Americans who have been wrongly detained in Iran.
00:08:04.000Joe Biden's record here is looking a lot like the GM of the New York Jets at this point.
00:08:08.000He's trading Brittany Griner for the merchants of death and now he's trading six billion dollars and five Iranians we are holding here for five American citizens.
00:08:19.000What exactly would be the incentive for terrorist groups not to take American citizens hostage at this point?
00:08:24.000You know that the sucker in the White House is going to sign you over the bank if you do.
00:08:29.000The central principle of don't negotiate with terrorists.
00:08:32.000Obviously, there's play around the edges.
00:08:33.000There's certain situations where negotiations are necessary, but one of the key elements here is you don't actually negotiate with terrorists to the tune of six billion dollars plus five detainees in the United States for five people wrongfully detained in Iran.
00:09:05.000It's also expected to come under harsh criticism from Republicans in Congress, opposed to any agreement that allows for the release of frozen Iranian funds, money that's now being transferred from South Korea to Qatar and limited for the purchase of humanitarian goods like food or medicine.
00:09:21.000The Iranians immediately said, no, no, no, you don't understand.
00:09:24.000We're going to use it wherever we please.
00:09:25.000According to NBC News, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government will decide how it will spend $6 billion in previously frozen funds due to be released in a prisoner exchange.
00:09:35.000He said it will be spent, quote, wherever we need it.
00:09:38.000Oh, so you mean you're going to spend it to murder people because that's what you do.
00:09:42.000Because you'd rather that your country be impoverished and your people unhappy than that you actually stop with the terror crap and start building.
00:09:48.000That's what you would rather do if you are the evil regime in Tehran.
00:09:52.000In an exclusive interview in Tehran, Raisi suggested the Americans held in Iran would be coming home soon, saying the U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange deal would be completed in due time and that the American detainees were in very healthy condition.
00:10:03.000Under the arrangement, Tehran will be granted access to the roughly $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues.
00:10:08.000officials are lying, and they're saying, oh, no, no, no, they're only going to use it for food, right?
00:10:12.000If you hand money to dictatorial regimes that hate your guts, probably they use it exactly where you're... If there's one thing you know about the Iranians, it's that we can trust them.
00:10:20.000They've never reneged on a deal, ever.
00:10:22.000If, for example, they say they are developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes despite the fact that they're one of the great oil-producing regions on planet Earth, we probably have to believe them.
00:10:30.000They would never deceive, say, the IAEA.
00:10:32.000They would never ever do that sort of thing.
00:10:34.000I love that Raisi is just saying the quiet part out loud.
00:10:36.000He's just like, yeah, no, we're using it for whatever we want.
00:10:38.000That's how little the Iranians even respect Joe Biden.
00:10:41.000They're like, yeah, you give us the money and then you go lie to your people and you tell them that we'll use it for good purposes like food or something.
00:10:47.000And then I'm going to just say publicly on American TV, I'm going to use it however I want.
00:10:53.000I mean, that's effectively what this is.
00:10:55.000Raisi said Iran would have authority over how the money would be spent.
00:10:57.000Quote, this money belongs to the Iranian people, the Iranian government.
00:11:01.000So the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide what to do with this money.
00:11:06.000So he was asked directly by Lester Holt if the money would be used for other purposes apart from humanitarian needs.
00:11:10.000And Raisi said, quote, I love this, humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs.
00:11:15.000So this money will be budgeted for those needs and the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government.
00:11:21.000Oh, that is like a classic right there.
00:11:23.000That is such an amazingly, I kind of love it because it's so blatant.
00:11:28.000That's like, you give me a credit card and you tell me, I'm working for DailyWire, you give me a DailyWire credit card, you tell me I need to go use it for DailyWire resources, right?
00:11:37.000And what you mean is you want me to go down to the local office depot and pick up like some paper and ink.
00:11:43.000And I'm like, oh, for DailyWire resources, perfect.
00:12:07.000The prisoner exchange calls for the release of five American citizens held in Iran in return for five Iranians under detention in the United States.
00:12:26.000When you have a White House that legitimately does not care what the American people think, and believe that the media will cover for them no matter what.
00:12:34.000They do crap like this on the anniversary of 9-11, assuming that everybody will just shrug.
00:13:11.000We'll get to the fact that, again, Joe Biden is incredibly vulnerable and the defenses of him by his allies are growing weaker and weaker.
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00:14:15.000Okay, so Given the fact that this administration is in fact a bleep show, and most of that bleep is apparent in the foreign policy realm.
00:14:23.000Domestic policy is bad enough, but you can spin domestic policy.
00:14:26.000On a foreign level, what American is in favor of signing giant checks to the Iranians?
00:14:30.000What American is in favor of putting American national security at risk so some person with gender dysphoria can be shot up with testosterone?
00:14:41.000What exactly is the balance there that Americans are in favor of?
00:14:46.000Well, the defenses of Biden are now coming fast and fierce.
00:14:49.000This is something both parties should remember, by the way.
00:14:52.000The Republican Party should remember this with Trump.
00:14:53.000If you spend the rest of the election cycle defending Trump, you're going to lose.
00:14:56.000Because, again, if everybody's talking about how bad your guy is, and you just spend the entire time talking about how he's really not that bad, you're going to lose.
00:15:04.000If you spend the entire election cycle talking about how Joe Biden is not that bad, we all know he is.
00:15:09.000So here's Ana Navarro trying to do work on behalf of the Biden administration, talking about how it's all fake, it's all in your head.
00:15:15.000This is one of my favorite approaches from the geniuses over at The View.
00:15:18.000It's stuff that you can clearly see happening in front of your eyes is not real because Ana Navarro says so.
00:15:24.000This administration has really gotten a ton of very difficult bipartisan legislation through in a divided Congress with a very difficult Senate makeup of 50-50.
00:15:35.000Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Bipartisan Safe Communities Act, first major gun legislation in decades, U.S.
00:15:42.000Innovation and Competition Act, Bipartisan Climate Health Care and Tax Package, Fiscal Responsibility Act, and the list is long.
00:16:15.000Meanwhile, they're trying to clear the field against any potential Democrat who might run against Joe Biden, because again, he's intensely vulnerable.
00:16:21.000Here's the thing that if you were truly a rebel, as for example, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez believes she is, if you're truly a rebel, then you would run at Joe Biden from his left.
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00:18:33.000And it extends, the truth is, before Biden.
00:18:36.000The government's use of its powers to cudgel social media into doing what they want is utterly insane.
00:18:41.000This is something that the Fifth Court explicated over the weekend.
00:18:46.000On Friday, they limited the scope of a district court ruling that restricted communications between government agencies and social media companies.
00:18:52.000But they found that several agencies likely violated the First Amendment.
00:18:54.000This should be, like, top of page news.
00:18:56.000And in an era where the media actually cared about freedom of speech, which they clearly do not at this point, it would be top of the page news.
00:19:02.000When Donald Trump was saying things like, the president is the enemy of the people.
00:19:07.000All we got was, this is an attack on the First Amendment.
00:19:12.000Meanwhile, you have actual government agencies going to social media websites and telling them to shut down fully certain streams of information.
00:19:23.000And the media is like, Because if the mainstream media agrees with a thing, it becomes truth.
00:19:29.000And if the mainstream media disagrees with a thing, it becomes falsehood, and it would be good if that thing were suppressed.
00:19:35.000Making the argument that social media is a private entity and can make its own rules, that carries only so far as the government is not pressuring the private entity into doing the thing.
00:19:44.000Once you are a government agent, you can't do that thing.
00:19:48.000If the government puts a gun to your head and tells you to do a thing, you are now a government agent.
00:19:51.000That means that whatever you do is attributable to the government.
00:19:53.000So the government goes to social media and they say to them, either you regulate the speech or we regulate you, which is effectively what Democrats have been saying since about 2018.
00:20:03.000If they say that sort of thing, this turns social media companies into operations of the government.
00:20:07.000Once they are operations of the government, then the pressure that government brings to bear is in fact a violation of the First Amendment, which is exactly what the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says.
00:20:16.000According to CNBC, the ruling will make it easier for several federal agencies to communicate with social media companies Still, officials who remain subject to the modified injunction, including those in the White House, must remain careful their discussions with the platforms will not be construed as coercive.
00:20:30.000A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the White House, Surgeon General's Office, and FBI likely violated the First Amendment by coercing social media platforms into moderating posts on their sites.
00:20:41.000It also said that the CDC likely violated the First Amendment.
00:20:45.000The appeals court decision says that some federal agencies won't be subject to the injunction, but They did say, and it's a pretty amazing ruling, they did say that the pressure brought to bear on social media companies by the federal government is a violation of the First Amendment, which it clearly is.
00:21:04.000And that pressure is obviously continuing.
00:21:17.000If Al Capone threatened to burn down your bar because you wouldn't pay the protection money, and he did that a year ago, you're probably still going to pay him the protection money even after a court says he really shouldn't do that.
00:21:27.000And that's effectively what's happening right now.
00:21:28.000According to the Washington Post, Threads is currently blocking searches on the topic of COVID and vaccines.
00:21:37.000Instagram's text-based social platform Threads, which is supposed to be the answer to Twitter, rolled out its new search function.
00:21:44.000But not even 24 hours later, the company was embroiled in controversy.
00:21:47.000When users went to Threads to search for content related to COVID and Long COVID, they were met with a blank screen that showed no search results and a pop-up linking to the website of the CDC.
00:21:56.000You want to talk about government pressure?
00:21:57.000How about the government pressuring social media into shutting down actual social media posting and just linking directly to the government?
00:22:05.000Meta acknowledged in a statement to the Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking those search terms and said other terms are being blocked as well.
00:22:12.000The company didn't give a list, but those words include sex, nude, gore, porn.
00:22:23.000Now, you will be directed explicitly to government sources.
00:22:28.000The search functionality temporarily doesn't provide results for keywords that may show potentially sensitive content.
00:22:32.000It's not potentially sensitive content.
00:22:34.000Because, God forbid, you should get the non-government side of the story, since the government was so absolutely honest with us during the COVID regime.
00:22:42.000I mean, they're being so honest with us now, now that you've got the White House promoting masking again.
00:23:14.000So, Republicans always have a way of doing dumb things.
00:23:19.000All the talk right now about how Kevin McCarthy is going to be basically deprived of his speakership, I'm just wondering, what is the upside?
00:23:37.000What if we get rid of McCarthy and then we have no one to back him up?
00:23:40.000What if we just have a random speakership fight so that people can get on TV?
00:23:44.000Like, this sort of stuff is deeply unhelpful.
00:23:46.000According to Politico, Kevin McCarthy is facing the greatest peril to his speakership since he clawed his way into the job eight months ago, with multiple factions of his party feuding and a looming revolt ahead during a battle to fund the government.
00:23:57.000Ultra-conservative members of the House GOP are talking in unsubtle terms about turning on McCarthy if he does not take a hard line in negotiations with the Senate and the Biden administration.
00:24:04.000Now let me just point out here, Joe Biden and the Senate, all they have to do is say we're willing to negotiate and then not negotiate in order to win this battle.
00:24:11.000They made a crucial tactical blunder during the last round of these negotiations.
00:24:15.000Joe Biden pre-committed beforehand to not negotiating.
00:24:18.000That gave McCarthy room to say that he was the negotiator and eventually Biden had to negotiate.
00:24:23.000The rule in these sorts of political brinksmanship situation is that the American public are pro whichever party says they'll come to the table.
00:24:30.000If you say you won't come to the table, they don't like you.
00:24:32.000So, if you're already starting off with, we're not coming to the table, and the unless is something that you're certainly not going to get from the Democrats, well then the Democrats probably win that in the battle of public opinion.
00:24:44.000McCarthy, according to Politico, is a political survivor.
00:24:47.000Even his critics cannot deny his skilled nature as an accommodator, his persistence in winning over even his most dogged critics.
00:24:52.000But interviews with more than two dozen GOP members and aides reveal it would take only a few rogue lawmakers hellbent on his downfall to risk McCarthy's fate in an entirely new way.
00:25:02.000Sending their party spiraling into a new period of chaos, even if those defectors fail to actually eject McCarthy, some of the speaker's confidants privately concede there may be no way to recover.
00:25:11.000According to Bob Goode, who's a vocal McCarthy detractor, he says, Now, let me just be clear about this.
00:25:15.000There is no situation in which a deal is not cut with Democrats.
00:25:27.000Because the president is a Democrat, so is the Senate.
00:25:30.000What is amazing to me is I am more fiscally conservative than virtually everyone in Congress.
00:25:37.000I also happen to live in this world called reality, where you don't get to unilaterally dictate the terms of engagement when the other side holds most of the cards.
00:26:57.000I think pressure from his right is a good thing.
00:26:59.000The point I'm making is that if you start off with a series of demands that are utterly unrealistic, and if there are people in the conservative ecosystem, in the conservative media ecosystem, who suggest that government shutdowns are going to be a way toward political victory here with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, when you know a deal is going to get signed, I don't understand what exactly the upside is.
00:27:19.000All Republicans need to provide right now is a sense of sobriety.
00:27:23.000Is a sense that they know what they are doing.
00:27:25.000So all I'm asking for, as always, is a plan.
00:27:34.000If the impulse is, yell at McCarthy until good things happen, that's not a strategy and it is not a plan.
00:27:41.000If the impulse is, nominate whomever and run them against Biden without any plan for victory, what's the plan?
00:27:46.000If the plan is, shout that the last election cycle was stolen and then have no plans to actually reverse that or explain even how you would attempt to do so, that's not a plan, that's an impulse.
00:27:54.000Impulses do not make for political victory.
00:27:55.000You know what Democrats have continuously?
00:27:59.000So for example, According to Politico, in the past nine days, state and federal judges threw out two congressional maps and helped the Democrats avoid a worst-case scenario in Ohio, kicking off an unusually busy redistricting calendar heading into the election year.
00:28:11.000All told, a dozen or more seats across at least six states could be redrawn, increasing the likelihood Democrats could chip away the five-seat GOP House majority through redistricting alone.
00:28:21.000Democrats could pick up an extra seat, including in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana.
00:28:28.000Republicans could still pick up as many as four seats in North Carolina, but the recent rulings put Democrats in a position to offset some of those losses, and then some.
00:28:36.000So, again, they are finding judges who are overthrowing these districts that are drawn, and then they are basically creating Democratic districts.
00:28:44.000That is what they are doing right now.
00:28:50.000Is this notion out there that Republicans can't play the game because the game is rigged?
00:28:53.000Okay, when it comes to ballot harvesting, yes, Republicans can play that game and they can win.
00:28:57.000That's what happened in Florida during the last election cycle.
00:28:59.000Yes, the judiciary was rigged against Republicans and then Republicans created the Federalist Society and spent 30 years building up an entire bench of judicial nominees and then took control of the Supreme Court.
00:29:09.000So, yes, you can do this, but it requires actual plans.
00:29:12.000I understand that the easiest thing in politics is to think for today and maybe for tomorrow, but never for 10 years from now.
00:29:21.000What exactly do you expect McCarthy to do?
00:29:23.000McCarthy's actually giving us what we want.
00:29:25.000I say us, to conservatives, not in terms of spending, which he's not capable of doing, and no one's capable of doing.
00:29:30.000And by the way, I do find it ironic that many of the same people who are shouting about how McCarthy is not sufficiently conservative on spending are talking about the wonders of, for example, President Trump, who says we should not restructure Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, which are the biggest spending programs in American life, bar none.
00:29:47.000McCarthy is, in fact, moving toward an impeachment inquiry.
00:29:49.000If that's something you care about, McCarthy's doing it.
00:29:51.000According to Fox News, Kevin McCarthy will tell House Republicans today beginning an impeachment inquiry against Biden is the logical next step.
00:29:58.000The House GOP conference plans to hold the meeting on Thursday morning for key committee chairs.
00:30:02.000to lay out their latest findings and the status of the investigations into the Biden family.
00:30:05.000House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio,
00:30:08.000and House Oversight Committee Chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky,
00:30:11.000are expected to lead the meeting. At the meeting, McCarthy is expected to say,
00:30:14.000an impeachment inquiry is the logical next step for the Republican majority.
00:30:18.000So that will obviously launch this into higher gear.
00:30:22.000218 lawmakers would need to support an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
00:30:27.000It's not certain that actually the House Republicans have the votes to do it.
00:30:29.000There are several GOP lawmakers, including Ken Buck and Don Bacon of Nebraska, have voiced skepticism about impeachment, which is interesting because Buck is a fiscal conservative who's also pushing McCarthy from the right in terms of spending.
00:30:40.000So it's kind of some weird bedfellows here.
00:30:43.000But McCarthy is very pliable to his own membership.
00:30:46.000The problem is, if you don't give him any options, he's got no options.
00:30:51.000How about focus on, you know, the measures that are likely to lead to electoral victory so you can actually effectuate change?
00:30:57.000There's been, ever since I've been following Republican and conservative and politics at all, which is like 14, 13 years old, I've noticed an extraordinary tendency among those in the activist base to simply say, over and over and over, that they wish a thing to be.
00:31:13.000And then, if the politicians don't make the thing happen, then the politicians have failed.
00:31:18.000What if the thing that you are wishing for is not possible under the current circumstances, but might be possible with a little bit of actual forethought?
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00:34:23.000According to the Washington Post, Stephanie Heisman, a Northwest Washington event planner, knows she may sound almost absurdly cautious as she describes how, after a regular Sunday dinner at a friend's house five blocks away, she travels by car instead of walking home.
00:34:35.000A year ago, she was awakened by gunfire outside her Adams Morgan apartment building and from her seventh floor window saw a car speeding away.
00:34:41.000In August, after a night out with her friends, her Uber driver couldn't reach her building because police had blocked off a street where bullets had just killed two men and fatally wounded a third.
00:34:50.000On the other hand, I don't want to randomly get shot.
00:34:52.000Violent crime has long been part of Washington life, the worst of it during the early 1990s, when drug trafficking propelled the annual homicide toll to nearly 500, and D.C.
00:35:00.000earned an inglorious reputation as America's murder capital.
00:35:02.000It was actually during this period that Washington, D.C.
00:35:20.000residents are unlikely to ever be a victim of violence, but a sharp rise in crime over the past year, punctuated by reports of homicides, brazen shootings, and carjackings by armed teenagers, is rattling a city already struggling to recover from a pandemic that upended its rhythms and ravaged its once thriving downtown.
00:35:43.000The spike in felonies, homicides, and robberies are up 29 and 67 percent from the same time period last year, according to police stats, is not the only data causing alarm.
00:35:50.000The number of juvies arrested for carjacking has increased slightly since last year, 41 of the 64 charged between the ages of 12 and 15.
00:35:59.000As of August 31st, 81 minors had been shot in the city this year.
00:36:04.000Well, a preponderance of violence occurs where it often has, in the poor neighborhoods.
00:36:07.000Stats show the geography of crime has become more diffuse, with prosperous areas less immune than before.
00:38:16.000Because xylosine is a sedative and not an opioid, it resists standard opioid overdose reversal treatment.
00:38:21.000More than 90% of Philadelphia's lab-tested dope samples are now positive for xylosine.
00:38:27.000It's too late for Philly, said Sean Westfall, outreach worker with Prevention Point Philadelphia, a 30-year-old health services center in Kensington.
00:39:52.000Involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.
00:39:54.000These are actual solutions that require actual funding, and they fix the problem.
00:39:58.000But that might require somebody to actually have the courage to say that in an area where it's not popular, and more than that, it's not about courage by politicians.
00:40:04.000It's about voters coming to grips with reality.
00:40:07.000At a certain point, you can't blame the politicians anymore.
00:40:09.000If we're not cutting our debt, maybe it's because we don't want to cut our debt.
00:40:12.000You can blame politicians as much as you want, or you can blame the fact that people have no capacity to think second order when it comes to politics.
00:40:20.000Alrighty, folks, time for some things that I like.
00:40:22.000Alrighty, well, one of the things we like here at the Ben Shapiro Show is Birch Gold.
00:40:25.000They're one of our biggest sponsors, obviously, and we talk with them every so often about the state of the economy.
00:40:29.000Joining us on the line right now is Philip Patrick, a precious metals specialist from Birch Gold.
00:40:33.000So, Philip, let's talk about the state of the economy.
00:40:35.000I mean, right now, Joe Biden is claiming we have strong economic growth, inflation is coming under control.
00:40:42.000Yeah, I mean, look, you can cherry pick the numbers and certainly make that argument, but I think it's a mistake to focus just on economic growth.
00:40:51.000The real question, I think, is how is the economy working for most Americans?
00:40:55.000And the numbers really don't look good over the last two and a half years.
00:40:58.000Look at food prices at home up 20 percent, electricity up 21, gasoline prices up 72 percent, Let's look at people's biggest expense, right?
00:41:09.000Rent payments rose 25%, median mortgage payments up 85%.
00:41:14.000And very importantly, wage growth has trailed inflation consistently.
00:41:20.000In other words, it's not just our imagination.
00:41:22.000Virtually every essential is more expensive today than it was before Biden got in office.
00:41:28.000And wages just haven't kept up, right?
00:41:31.000Consumer debt has recently hit an all-time high, over a trillion dollars for the first time.
00:41:35.000So I think people are desperately trying to maintain their living standards in the face of by economics.
00:41:40.000And I think that's the reality for most Americans today, despite how we try and dress up the numbers.
00:41:48.000So, Philip, one of the things that they're claiming now is that they've brought inflation under control.
00:41:52.000The Federal Reserve, obviously, has increased interest rates to sky-high rates.
00:41:55.000This is why mortgages are now clocking in at 7-8%.
00:41:58.000Now, the reality is that by historical averages, the interest rates aren't actually all that high at this point.
00:42:02.000But also, the inflation rate is not all that low at this point.
00:42:06.000There's a lot of talk right now about the inflation rate being under control, but they usually target 2%.
00:42:10.000It's well in excess of 3% still, so it's still 50% too high.
00:42:13.000But they're still claiming now that maybe they're going to stop with the increases in the interest rate.
00:42:17.000Yeah, look, lower inflation generally is good news, right?
00:42:21.000But there's a couple of points to remember.
00:42:22.000First of all, inflation is cumulative, right?
00:42:25.000A 10% inflation rate one year followed by 5% next means that everything costs 15% more.
00:42:31.000So easing inflation doesn't mean a return of purchasing power, it's just destroying it more slowly.
00:42:37.000Now, The other side of things, which I think is very important, is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation, which is core PC, personal consumption expenditures.
00:42:47.000They've been more than double, as you mentioned, the 2% target for years now.
00:42:52.000The only thing that's really been driving that headline inflation number down has been energy prices.
00:42:58.000And of course, they're starting to creep up again.
00:43:00.000Oil hit $90 a barrel Uh, just a few days ago.
00:43:04.000It's particularly concerning because I think what it's showing us now that is inflation is becoming entrenched in the economy.
00:43:11.000And I think, you know, this 2% target that the Fed have maybe a pipe dream for the foreseeable future.
00:43:17.000It's proving particularly sticky at the moment.
00:43:21.000Philip, one of the things that's become patently obvious really since 2007-2008 is how much power the central bankers have over the economy.
00:43:29.000There used to be a time, now decades ago, where legislatures really had sort of the chief control over the economy and you could hold them responsible if the policies were bad.
00:43:37.000There was still an interest in some level of fiscal discipline because you couldn't just print dollars willy-nilly and then pump them into the economy or blow the debt off for a couple of generations.
00:43:46.000not true anymore. And that means that the central bankers have been given this extraordinary
00:43:49.000power to control how much your dollars are worth, particularly the ones you've already
00:43:53.000paid taxes on and that are in the bank already.
00:43:55.000Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's absurd. The power that the Federal Reserve have is is really
00:44:01.000showing itself in today's economy. And the reality is, as you mentioned, they're an unelected
00:44:08.000We really can't hold them accountable.
00:44:09.000And this Federal Reserve has a problem as well.
00:44:13.000The tools that they have available, I think, are very limited.
00:44:16.000Their ability to raise rates significantly enough to crush inflation is limited.
00:44:21.000Look at what they did to the banks earlier this year.
00:44:24.000Um, you know, the ability to fix the economy by lowering rates and stimulating also very limited as well.
00:44:29.000So they've got their hands tied behind their back.
00:44:32.000But I agree with you, the Fed as a body, the power that they have over the economy is concerning when they're unelected and unaccountable.
00:44:41.000We're speaking with Philip Patrick, he's a precious metals specialist and a spokesman for Birch Gold Group.
00:44:45.000So, Philip, I get the question all the time that in a really sort of uneasy economy like this, and it really is uneasy, no one knows obviously where to put their money.
00:44:53.000It looks to me like the real estate market is going to have some sort of sell-off here just because the mortgage rates are so high.
00:44:58.000There's a lot of stickiness because people don't actually want to sell their homes because then they'll have to take a new mortgage that isn't going to be at 2.5%, it's going to be at 7%, but at some point people will lose their jobs, they'll lose their savings, then they're going to have to sell those houses.
00:45:09.000The same thing is happening in commercial real estate.
00:45:11.000I've been talking with people in commercial real estate and the occupancy rates are dropping fairly rapidly at this point.
00:45:16.000And that means the underlying value is really going down.
00:45:18.000The Wall Street Journal has widely reported this.
00:45:20.000Meanwhile, when it comes to the stock market, a lot of uneasiness there.
00:45:23.000New IPOs are doing a fraction of what they were doing just a couple of years ago.
00:45:27.000And meanwhile, if you put your money into a money market account, you might be earning the best return.
00:46:50.000Alrighty, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:56.000What's going on in Israel right now is actually quite astonishing.
00:46:59.000The Supreme Court of Israel is claiming that it has the ability to strike down literally any law, including what they call the Basic Law, in Israel for violating the Declaration of Independence for Israel.
00:47:11.000And this has ramifications for the United States because this is the way that the left would love to see courts rule in the future and how the courts have ruled in the past.
00:47:18.000So basically, here's the way it works.
00:47:20.000The United States is, we're really lucky.
00:47:21.000We have a written constitution, which means that the very least you can refer to that document to determine what exactly courts can do and can't do in terms of striking things down while legislatures can and cannot do.
00:47:31.000Israel doesn't have anything like that.
00:47:32.000Israel has a Declaration of Independence, which is not a piece of law.
00:47:36.000It is a statement of broad purposes about how Israel should be Jewish and democratic.
00:47:43.000There's no constitution there because the Israelis couldn't come to some sort of agreement about how exactly the government should work, what laws were in bounds, what was constitutional, what was not.
00:47:51.000So they basically just agreed to disagree.
00:47:53.000That means that every so often they pass what they call a basic law.
00:47:56.000A basic law is a piece of majoritarian legislation that then carries with it an inability to override that law except with sort of a supermajority.
00:48:06.000They've been created throughout Israeli history.
00:48:09.000The Supreme Court of Israel typically has used basic law in order to strike down non-basic law.
00:48:14.000In the same way that the Supreme Court of the United States will use the Constitution to strike down particular legislation, the same thing sort of happens here.
00:48:22.000In Israel, the Supreme Court historically has used the basic laws as a way of striking down non-basic law.
00:48:28.000Now, in the 1990s, there was a seizure of power by the Supreme Court, and they decided that from now on, they could basically just say reasonableness to strike down a variety of executive actions and legislation.
00:48:38.000Well, Bibi Netanyahu's current coalition, they said the Supreme Court has too much power, we don't want them to do that anymore, so now you're going to have to cite something that's not reasonableness, if you want to strike down legislation.
00:48:47.000And they want to make this a basic law.
00:48:49.000They actually encoded this in a basic law, saying this will now be the law of the state of Israel, and it is considered quasi-constitutional.
00:48:55.000So one of the questions, the big question, that's now come up before the Supreme Court, is whether the Supreme Court of Israel can strike down a basic law in the name of, hmm, In the name of, like, again, normally in the United States you use the Constitution to strike down a bad piece of legislation.
00:49:09.000In Israel, the basic law is the quasi-constitutional highest law.
00:49:14.000How can the Supreme Court cite something else to strike down a basic law?
00:49:17.000So the argument that's currently happening at the Supreme Court level is whether the Supreme Court can use the Declaration of Independence to strike down a law.
00:49:24.000Imagine if the Supreme Court of the United States went back to the Declaration of Independence
00:49:29.000and said that because the Declaration of Independence says that you have the pursuit of happiness,
00:49:35.000that means that we can strike down anything we want.
00:49:37.000We'd all go, whoa, who gave you that power?
00:49:40.000That's not like that's a pretty vague sentiment for you to strike down things.
00:49:44.000But that's pretty much what Israel's Supreme Court is now declaring.
00:49:46.000They're now declaring that because they don't like the current legislature of the State of Israel, they have willy-nilly power to strike down anything they want in the name of an incredibly vague document.
00:49:56.000The Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, which is not, in fact, practical law.
00:50:00.000It does not spell out how the State of Israel is supposed to work.
00:50:03.000It does not spell out how the Knesset is supposed to work.
00:50:05.000It doesn't spell out virtually any of these things.
00:50:07.000It has a bunch of sort of baseline statements about what they hope the State of Israel will be.
00:50:12.000Talking about how it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of its inhabitants, and will be based on freedom, justice, and peace, and will ensure complete equality of social and political rights.
00:50:22.000And it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.
00:50:25.000But those are pretty vague statements to strike down a piece of legislation that simply says the Supreme Court does not have the ability to say that something is unreasonable and then strike it down.
00:50:37.000If the Supreme Court were to do this, it's a constitutional crisis in Israel because effectively what they are saying is that elections can be overridden by the Supreme Court at any time.
00:50:45.000A basic law is established, which again is supposed to be as though the Congress of the United States and various state legislatures passed a constitutional amendment to the Constitution and the Supreme Court then stepped in and said, in the name of the Declaration of Independence, we strike down this constitutional amendment.
00:51:02.000That's basically what's happening right now.
00:51:05.000According to the Times of Israel, during fraught exchanges between the court and the attorneys defending the legislation, one justice indicated Israel's democracy was at stake.
00:51:12.000Again, I have to say, the irony of people speaking in the name of judicial tyranny, saying that they're doing so on behalf of democracy is really galling.
00:51:22.000Basically, the Supreme Court right now is arguing there should be no- like, name your limits.
00:51:26.000What are the limits on the Supreme Court of Israel?
00:51:27.000There are none, according to the Supreme Court of Israel.
00:51:30.000And according to many of its supporters.
00:51:32.000They lost an election, they don't like the results of the election, so now they're going to use the Supreme Court to basically establish that there are no limits at all?
00:51:39.000Elon Baumbach is the attorney representing the government.
00:51:42.000He argued that justices are empowered to interpret the legislators' words.
00:51:45.000There's no legal or constitutional basis for them to review basic laws.
00:51:49.000Well, yes, in the sense that it says there should be a legislature, but it doesn't have specific provisions on how lists work.
00:52:31.000Again, the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel is, in fact, A basic document, but that does not mean that it empowers the Supreme Court to override anything in the name of the Declaration of Independence any more than the Supreme Court of the United States can use the Declaration of Independence, which is a far more important document to the Western civilization, to strike down law.
00:52:49.000The Supreme Court almost never cites the Declaration of Independence because there is no purpose to doing so.
00:52:56.000If the Supreme Court in Israel does that, it's going to be a rather large mess.
00:53:00.000Because a huge percentage of the Israeli population is going to believe that elections basically have no consequences at all, unless you're on the left, in which case they just run roughshod.
00:53:09.000And I've railed in the United States against people in the United States doing this routine where if the bad guys win, that means the democracy is over.