Mass shooter in Maine still at large, 18 dead, 13 injured, lives ended, lives destroyed, families wrecked. In America, such events quickly devolve into the usual arguments. Those who argue for gun control blame the weapon carried by the shooter. They point out that he was carrying an AR-15 and that he had a high-capacity magazine. They say that Maine s gun laws are too loose, and that if they were tighter, the shooter would never have been able to obtain the weapon. Gun rights advocates argue that the shooter was mentally ill, that according to the Washington Post, he had been hospitalized and received mental health treatment this summer. In the end, the arguments for and against gun control aren t generally about the efficacy of any particular policy, at least not when it comes to mass shootings. Mass shootings are statistical outliers. Active shooter events constitute a very small percentage of overall homicides. While the media tends to cover large-scale mass shootings like the Lewiston shooting, they tend to ignore mass shootings in cities like Chicago, despite the fact that firearms homicide rate for black Americans is some 14 times higher than that for white Americans. That's because active shooter events are a rare exception, and while the media tend to focus on mass shootings, there is no single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer. No single, single rationale, except profit, except for the one that exists in order to make money for gun manufacturers. None of that has any social redeeming value. None of it has any single, other than profit for it, except by making profits. except by selling you, the consumer. And they make no one needs a semi-automatic weapons, no one actually needs one, except you need one. The idea the idea we still allow a gun to protect yourself, except to fight against evil people who seek to do harm to do something other than you, other people do not need one, you need something more than a . . . except you, you don t need a gun. That s sick, right on principle, right? But is that sick, is it sick, or not sick, sick, just sick, and you don't need a weapon to protect you, right ? it's just sick or . . you need a shotgun? or a 12-gauge shotgun, not a single bullet to protect that s . a double-barrel shotgun?
00:00:08.000In America, such events quickly devolve into the usual arguments.
00:00:11.000Those who argue for gun control blame the weapon carried by the shooter.
00:00:14.000They point out that he was carrying an AR-15 and that he had a high-capacity magazine.
00:00:18.000They say that Maine's gun laws are too loose and that if they had been tighter, the shooter never would have been able to obtain the weapon.
00:00:24.000Gun rights advocates argue, by contrast, that the shooter was mentally ill, that according to the Washington Post, he had, quote, so alarmed people around him that he was hospitalized and received mental health treatment this summer.
00:00:34.000People who knew the shooter told investigators that, quote, in recent months, he described hearing disturbed voices and had increasingly become fixated on the bowling alley and the restaurant where he allegedly opened fire.
00:00:44.000It's unclear where the shooter got his weapon.
00:00:46.000If he did not have a criminal record, a federal background check would not have stopped him from getting a weapon anyway.
00:00:51.000But Maine also has a so-called yellow flag law that requires police to get a medical practitioner to evaluate someone with mental illness and identify them as a threat before the police can petition a judge to order a person's firearms seized.
00:01:03.000If ever somebody would have qualified for use of such a law, the shooter in this case would have qualified.
00:01:09.000In the end, the arguments for and against gun control aren't generally about the efficacy of any particular policy, at least not when it comes to mass shootings.
00:01:16.000Mass shootings are statistical outliers.
00:01:17.000The vast majority of homicides involving firearms in the United States are committed with handguns, not long guns.
00:01:23.000Active shooter events constitute a very small percentage of overall homicides.
00:01:27.000While the media tend to cover large-scale mass shootings like the Lewiston shooting, they tend to ignore mass shootings in cities like Chicago, despite the fact that firearms homicide rate for black Americans is some 14 times higher than that for white Americans.
00:01:38.000Now, the arguments for gun control tend to centralize around one particular argument, the argument that no one, quote unquote, needs an AR-15 or any gun for that matter.
00:01:47.000That's the argument that President Biden routinely makes.
00:01:51.000For those brave right wing Americans who say it's all about keeping America, keeping America's independent and safe.
00:02:00.000If you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15.
00:02:03.000You need something a little more than a gun.
00:02:05.000The idea The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick.
00:03:33.000Pretty much every Jew I know who can obtain a weapon is now attempting to do so.
00:03:37.000And they should, as all law-abiding and responsible adults should.
00:03:41.000Owning a weapon is, in the end, the only protection against the darkness.
00:03:44.000The Jews who were murdered, raped, and kidnapped in the Gaza envelope were largely unarmed.
00:03:48.000Israel has extremely strict gun control laws.
00:03:50.000In the wake of the massacre, tens of thousands of Israelis are now seeking to arm themselves as they should.
00:03:55.000Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly submitted gun license applications.
00:03:58.000Closer to home, the story is the same.
00:04:00.000There are evil people who seek to do harm to innocent people.
00:04:04.000On Wednesday morning, for example, a man was arrested in Studio City, California, after breaking into a home with a mezuzah, that is a scroll on the doorpost of Jewish homes, marking it as a Jewish home.
00:04:14.000The man was screaming, free Palestine and kill Jews, and trying to kick in a door.
00:04:18.000Now New York Jews are being told to stay indoors by security sources over Shabbat, because pro-Hamas protesters decided to descend on Brooklyn on Shabbat afternoon, according to colive.com.
00:04:28.000Jews should avoid walking around Crown Heights, a heavily Orthodox neighborhood.
00:04:31.000According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents have increased by 388% this month, year over year.
00:04:38.000Why wouldn't every Jew want to carry under these circumstances?
00:04:42.000People of decency on all sides do want the same thing here.
00:04:45.000Innocents protected, and the dangerous disarmed.
00:04:48.000The question is, how best to achieve that goal?
00:04:50.000Simple-minded statements about blanket weapons bans are not the answer, and those answers make even less sense, coming from many of the same people who see the police as the problem.
00:04:58.000So no, I'm not going to be giving up my AR-15 because a mentally ill person who never should have had weapons committed a heinous act of evil.
00:05:05.000In fact, that is precisely why I keep my weapons, because evil people doing evil things are not stopped by parchment barriers.
00:05:12.000In just a second, we'll get to the political response to the mass shooting in Maine, which of course has followed all the traditional hallmarks of the debate.
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00:07:30.000Because there was no one on scene who had a gun.
00:07:32.000So they had to wait until a guy was done shooting a bunch of people for the cops to get there and shoot the guy.
00:07:36.000Or, what, are you going to wait there for the guy to commit suicide?
00:07:38.000Like, out of the kindness of his heart, you think that that's what's going to stop this thing?
00:07:42.000The reality is, once again, that every one of these situations involving a mass shooter is a situation in which the person has all sorts of indicators that they should not have had a gun in the first place and somebody dropped the ball somewhere along the way, which really speaks to a lack of belief In the actual social fabric.
00:08:02.000Because if you see somebody around you who should not have a gun, somebody around you who has severe mental illness, you have an obligation, a moral obligation, to report that to the authorities and the authorities have a moral obligation to try to get that person the care they need and remove from them the ability to have access to a weapon.
00:08:30.000The first right any of us have is the right to self-defense and defense of others, obviously.
00:08:36.000Well, whenever one of these shootings happens, obviously emotions run really high, and you see some politicians who decide that they're going to shift their opinions on the political issue, not because new evidence has emerged, but because they are now emotionally struck by the issue.
00:08:49.000I'm not a big fan of this type of politics.
00:08:52.000If your position's changed radically, not because new evidence emerged that debunked your prior position, but because you are just responding more emotionally to the issue, that's not a good reason to shift your opinion on an issue.
00:09:04.000Evidence is supposed to decide your positions on the issues.
00:09:08.000Well, there was a congressperson yesterday named Jerry Golden, Democrat from Maine, who reversed course on gun control.
00:09:13.000Now, Maine is a Democrat-dominated state.
00:09:15.000It has a Democratic governor, it has one Democratic senator, one Republican senator, and it has a Democratic legislature.
00:09:22.000So, here is Jared Golden, who is a main congressperson, who represents Lewiston, now coming out in favor of gun control, which is a politically safe thing to do after a mass shooting, obviously.
00:09:33.000But again, there's no new evidence that's been provided that this would've, that, what form of gun control would've stopped this from happening?
00:09:39.000Guy apparently already had guns, we don't know how he obtained the guns, and we do know that he was literally institutionalized just a couple of months ago, and somehow still had access to the weapons.
00:09:47.000What laws on the books would've changed this?
00:09:49.000Here's Jared Golden, advocating for moral laws anyway.
00:09:53.000The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure, which is why I now call on the United States Congress to ban assault rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing in my hometown of Lewiston, Maine.
00:10:08.000For the good of my community, I will work with any colleague to get this done in the time that I have left in Congress.
00:10:17.000I don't really understand why he's saying it's his responsibility.
00:10:20.000What is the law that he failed to pass that would have prevented this?
00:10:30.000Because that's also the way politics works.
00:10:32.000Even if you reverse position, then the people who reflect your new position will stomp on you.
00:10:36.000Here's Chris Murphy going after him yesterday.
00:10:38.000I don't know Representative Golden personally.
00:10:40.000I know that he's a pretty conservative member of the House of Representatives, and he's coming to the same reality that many others have, which is that these weapons don't deserve to be on the streets of America.
00:10:53.000You can protect people's Second Amendment rights, but just make sure that folks don't have access to the weapons of war.
00:10:59.000But I wish it didn't take members of Congress To have to experience a mass shooting in their own congressional district to come to this reality.
00:11:07.000I'm glad that Representative Golden has made this decision, but why does it have to happen over and over and over again?
00:11:16.000I mean, does he have a solution that would stop this from happening over and over and over again?
00:11:21.000There's some 50 people who were shot in Chicago over the weekend.
00:11:24.000No big news story about it because it's not as spectacular.
00:11:26.000It doesn't grab the headlines in the same way.
00:11:29.000Those were almost invariably with handguns.
00:11:31.000You don't see Chris Murphy talking about any of that.
00:11:33.000And again, this is the easy liar's way out of the dilemma.
00:11:37.000The real argument that people on the left, if they are honest, want to have is that no one should have a gun.
00:11:41.000That's the argument that they really want to have.
00:11:42.000They don't want to make that argument because they understand that it's a losing argument.
00:11:45.000But that is the argument that they actually do want to make.
00:11:48.000So instead, they decide that they are going to sort of reverse engineer an argument where the greatest danger to your life today is an AR-15.
00:11:55.000Well, if the greatest danger to my life is an AR-15 in the hands of a crazy person, you know what the greatest defense to my life is?
00:12:01.000An AR-15 in my hand so I can stop the crazy person.
00:12:05.000Senator Tim Kaine, he's doing the same sort of thing from Virginia.
00:12:08.000He says, we have a sickness in this country.
00:12:15.000This sort of stuff does happen in other countries.
00:12:16.000But if there is a sickness in this country, part of that sickness involves denying sickness, denying mental illness, pretending that mental illness is just different brain orientation, as opposed to what it really is in many cases, a danger to self or others.
00:13:27.000Let's work together to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
00:13:32.000Let's work together to enact universal background checks, require safe storage of guns, and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous individuals who have no business being armed with a weapon of war.
00:13:46.000Okay, but those people have no business being armed at all!
00:13:52.000The weapon is not the... The person, as always, is the issue.
00:13:56.000And again, there is a counterside to this, which is that law-abiding people who are legitimately afraid and should be legitimately afraid of bad people in the night need to own weapons.
00:15:36.000That is the case made by a person named Tyler Austin Harper over at The Atlantic today.
00:15:41.000The title of the piece is How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?
00:15:44.000I saw the gun violence epidemic and my relation to it as a gun owner as an abstraction.
00:15:48.000Then a mass shooting happened in the little city where I work.
00:15:50.000This is a person who is from Lewiston, Maine.
00:15:53.000The entire article is about how this person is a gun owner and how he was always in favor of gun control, but now he's really strongly in favor of gun control.
00:16:01.000choices, the honest truth is that I've always viewed the gun violence epidemic
00:16:04.000as an abstraction remote from my own life choices. Like many gun owners, I had
00:16:07.000always supported stronger gun control. If it requires written and practical exams
00:16:10.000and dozens of hours of training to earn the right to drive a motor vehicle, I've
00:16:13.000never understood why the same it should not apply to firearms. But my views on gun
00:16:16.000control have also been wonkish, academic in nature.
00:16:18.000It's something I care about and have written about but have never felt deeply.
00:16:25.000If you had asked me before yesterday why I own guns, I would have fed you the same line I'd fed my liberal friends and my wife, and above all, myself, for years.
00:16:31.000I would have told you I own guns for hunting, for protection, for blasting clay pigeons out of cloudless October skies.
00:16:36.000I have told you I own guns because I come from a gun family, and guns are some of the only things I have left from the people I love.
00:16:41.000I would have told you about the rifle my holler-born, Great Depression-surviving grandmother kept under the bed, the 20-gauge my grandfather used to bring home at Thanksgiving turkeys.
00:16:48.000I would have told you I own guns because I'm a hunter, and I own guns because I write things that sometimes make people angry.
00:16:53.000But it is only now that gun violence has visited my little corner of the world that I have been forced to confront reality, a truth that has been there all along but that I have refused to admit.
00:17:01.000I own guns because I like them, and because I'm an American, and I'm allowed to, and no one stops me.
00:17:05.000I own guns because gun violence was something that happened anywhere else and not somewhere close to me.
00:17:55.000And the reason it's broader than that is because I can't prove to the authorities that my need outweighs their need to take away my gun.
00:18:02.000I know this because I know this for a fact.
00:18:04.000When I lived in Los Angeles, I was one of the top targets of anti-Semitic death threats in 2015, 2016.
00:18:11.000I used to get death threats all the time.
00:18:14.000I knew fairly intimately the people at the FBI in Los Angeles because they'd been to my house more than once in order to pick up, at least one time, powder from my house.
00:18:23.000Other times to investigate other mail that had come to the house.
00:18:26.000I know the FBI agents where I live here too.
00:18:29.000But the difference is that in Florida, I can get my gun, I can go out, I can train with it, I can get good at it, And I can carry it because it turns out that the threat is not just to me and my home.
00:18:39.000When I was in Los Angeles, let me tell you the process that I had to go through.
00:18:42.000This is why the right is broader than just my need because it turns out that when the authorities define the need, very often it just obliterates the right.
00:18:47.000When I was in Los Angeles, I literally went to the LAPD and I applied for a concealed carry permit.
00:18:52.000Concealed carry permits in Los Angeles are almost impossible to get.
00:19:29.000In fact, I pointed out to them that the FBI had arrested a person who was sending death threats to me and Donald Trump Jr., among other people.
00:20:33.000Your personal information is kept private.
00:20:36.000It felt really good for me to knock life insurance off the list of things I had to do because God forbid something should happen to me.
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00:21:25.000So, when I talk about the threats and the reason that we own guns, the reason why everybody in my neighborhood who didn't already own a gun has bought a gun, why people are buying additional guns, why everybody's getting trained.
00:21:34.000Jon Podhoretz has a piece in the New York Post talking about the situation in New York.
00:21:38.000Quote, a pro-Palestinian protest is scheduled for 3 p.m.
00:21:41.000Saturday in front of the Brooklyn Museum.
00:21:43.000That's a mile from 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of the largest ultra-Orthodox
00:21:47.000sect in the world, the Lubavitch Hasidim. Roughly 20,000 observant Jews live around
00:21:51.000770 in the neighborhood called Crown Heights. Jews should definitely avoid the area,
00:21:55.000says an Orthodox site called COL Live.
00:21:59.000They say a security source told them, quote, there's no intel at this time in which direction the protest will lead.
00:22:03.000Locals should definitely stay away from Eastern Parkway in that area.
00:22:06.000The Jews of Brooklyn feel they are at risk and obviously they feel that they cannot be protected.
00:22:11.000That is not a shock either, considering what has happened over the course of the past week or so.
00:22:16.000We saw a bunch of students at Cooper Union in Greenwich Village who were barricaded inside the library as a bunch of pro-Hamas protesters were outside banging on the doors.
00:22:25.000You've seen this sort of stuff, this sort of threatening stuff happening routinely around the nation, unfortunately.
00:22:31.000In Tulane yesterday, Tulane University in New Orleans, which is a lot of Jews go to Tulane, including my old friend Andrew Breitbart went to Tulane.
00:22:41.000It broke out because somebody decided to basically dress up like a terrorist and then drive through the campus.
00:22:46.000There's a person who decided to wear the keffiyeh around the face, looking as though they are a terror threat, and then attempted to start burning an Israeli flag.
00:22:53.000And a Jewish student presumably tried to take the Israeli flag away from him and got beaten up by the crowd.
00:22:59.000You can see the, for those who can't watch video, you're seeing, you can see the part
00:23:11.000where this guy drove up looking like a terrorist, but he drove up looking like something directly
00:23:15.000out of the Gaza Strip and tried to burn an Israeli flag.
00:23:18.000Somebody tried to stop him, and then this student ended up having to go to the hospital.
00:23:25.000We've been seeing these massive marches all over the United States in favor of Hamas.
00:23:28.000If that doesn't scare the hell out of Jews, I'm not sure exactly what will.
00:23:31.000It doesn't mean the Jews are going to become shy about it.
00:23:33.000Certainly, I haven't become shy about it.
00:23:35.000But it does mean that things are pretty scary out there and everybody is taking precautions.
00:23:39.000Meanwhile, the good news is that the hard left is coming to the defense of Hamas.
00:23:42.000Harvard has now created a task force to support students experiencing doxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel entirely responsible for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
00:23:56.000The new task force will be in operation until November 3rd.
00:23:59.000So, basically, there are a bunch of students who decided to sign a statement in favor of Hamas.
00:24:04.000There's a truck that went around Harvard with their faces on it, showing exactly who had signed this.
00:24:09.000And Harvard, to make sure that everybody's feelings are protected, they created an entire task force to help the students who signed a statement in favor of Hamas.
00:24:20.000According to an email, the Dean of Students Office will lead the task force alongside the Harvard University Information Technology, Harvard University PD, Counseling and Mental Health Service, Office of General Counsel, Mignon Center for Career Services, Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship, and the Office of Undergraduate Education.
00:24:41.000Jews are being threatened all over the world, but we've got to make sure that the people who join the threats, those are the people who are protected.
00:24:49.000On Monday, the so-called PSC, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, posted a letter from alumni to Harvard administration on their Instagram page, saying, quote, And then they call for Harvard to make an apology.
00:25:01.000this writing the Harvard administration has yet to meaningfully criticize or
00:25:03.000condemn the public doxing campaigns threatening students primarily targeting
00:25:07.000marginalized students who are Palestinian, black, Arab, South Asian, Muslim,
00:25:10.000undocumented and or international and then they call for Harvard to make an
00:25:13.000apology so instead they set up a task force in favor of these folks. Yes it is
00:25:33.000The truth is, she should be expelled, considering her support for terrorist organizations.
00:25:37.000But she released a statement, quote, Marjorie Taylor Greene's unhinged resolution is deeply Islamophobic and attacks peaceful Jewish anti-war advocates.
00:25:44.000I am proud to stand in solidarity with Jewish peace advocates calling for a ceasefire and an end to the violence.
00:25:48.000Okay, by Jewish peace advocates, she means radical left-wingers who wear their titular Judaism as a badge to protect them from the fact that they are standing for Hamas.
00:26:00.000I will continue to call for ceasefire, for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, for the release of hostages and those arbitrarily detained, and for every American to be brought home.
00:26:07.000I will continue to work for a just and lasting peace.
00:26:56.000Another adjunct member of the squad, the Ringo star of the squad, she also put out a statement saying Rashida Tlaib is doing what her district elected her to do, advocate for a better, safer, more just world by lying repeatedly about Israel and being a radical anti-Semite, of course.
00:27:09.000Rashida Tlaib has alleged links to the Hamas terror organization.
00:27:13.000According to Canary Mission, they put out a report just this week pointing out that Tlaib has extensive funds tied to the Hamas terrorist group.
00:27:21.000The group says that Tlaib used her Facebook group, PAC-USA, Palestinian American Congress USA, for her congressional campaign.
00:27:28.000That group shared pro-terrorism, anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda content.
00:27:32.000She also hired the founder of the group as chairman of her campaign's finance committee.
00:27:37.000That person is said to have enabled the founder to promote 12 fundraisers across eight states.
00:27:41.000Additionally, according to Canary Mission, Tlaib founded the group Black for Palestine, an organization they describe as the anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-terror hate group.
00:27:49.000The group allegedly works alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a foreign terrorist organization in the United States.
00:27:55.000That group has apparently posted in support of registered terrorist organizations more than 100 times.
00:28:01.000Tlaib has links to at least three Hamas-linked activists, whom she employed to fundraise for her 2018 election campaign.
00:28:06.000Those would be Salah Sarsour, Rafik Jaber, and Abdelbaset Hamayel.
00:28:10.000Sarsour is actually jailed for being connected with Hamas in 1995.
00:28:13.000She co-hosted an event with Tlaib in 2018.
00:28:16.000Jaber has apparently admitted to helping distribute Hamas' propaganda in the United States.
00:28:20.000In 2003, he testified he directed two Hamas front groups to promote the Holy Land Foundation in every way we can and admitting to distributing, quote, pro-martyrdom materials that celebrated the killing of Jews.
00:28:30.000Khamayel has worked for multiple Hamas-linked organizations in the United States.
00:28:35.000So that is Rashida Tlaib, your sitting Congresswoman.
00:28:38.000And meanwhile, the Biden administration is attempting to grasp its way forward with regard to the situation in the Middle East.
00:28:46.000Again, they're sending some mixed signals.
00:28:51.000So John Kirby yesterday, to his credit, the national security spokesperson, to his credit, yesterday he was asked about casualty numbers in the Gaza Strip.
00:28:58.000And he gave one of the strongest answers actually I've ever seen anyone, Republican or Democrat, give from the podium on the lies told by Hamas and its allies.
00:29:07.000The president went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war.
00:29:33.000is the way Hamas is using people as human shields.
00:29:36.000What's harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are.
00:29:43.000What's harsh is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon.
00:32:39.000But instead, Joe Biden is meeting with these American Muslim leaders, and he's also promulgating, again, the entire left continues to promulgate the lie that the only way out of this in the end is going to be a two-state solution, that there are actually millions in the West Bank, in Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria, that there are millions of Palestinians who are just itching for peace, that every government they've ever had actually has betrayed them, every single one of them.
00:33:01.000Which is a weird take because, you know, we have tape from places like Ramallah.
00:33:04.000Here is a protest yesterday in Ramallah.
00:33:19.000And they are chanting, quote, if you have a rifle, you should either kill a Jew or give it to Hamas.
00:33:27.000That's what they're chanting in Arabic.
00:33:30.000If you have a rifle, you should either kill a Jew or give it to Hamas.
00:33:33.000These are the so-called peace partners.
00:33:36.000The West can keep lying to itself, but they are, in fact, lying.
00:33:39.000In action, the West is going to have to respond.
00:33:42.000In action, the West is going to have to respond because, again, you can pretend it away, but then reality hits you square in the face.
00:33:47.000That's what's happening to the Biden administration with regard to Iran right now.
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00:35:47.000Okay, meanwhile, the United States, again, they continue, the Biden administration continues to play this dumb double game where they pretend a thing that is happening is not happening.
00:35:56.000So yesterday, the Biden administration, for some unknown reason, decided to allow the Iranian foreign minister to arrive on American shores and then threaten the United States from the United Nations.
00:36:04.000An institution that should go the way of the dodo bird.
00:36:10.000It's been a garbage organization for decades.
00:36:11.000It's a mouthpiece for third world dictatorships.
00:36:14.000In any case, Here was Iran's foreign minister yesterday warning the United States that if Israel goes into the Gaza Strip, the fire will spread.
00:36:20.000Well, by the way, if they really want to threaten the United States, listen, we don't want war with Iran because it costs time and resources and money and people.
00:36:29.000If Iran started up with the United States, that war would be over in about a millisecond.
00:36:33.000The United States military is not to be trifled with and the fact that you have these tinpot morons who are out there threatening the United States is deeply insulting and speaks to the weakness that they perceive in the American body politic and among our political class.
00:36:47.000Today in New York and the United Nations, I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine that we do not welcome to expansion of the war in the region.
00:37:07.000But, I warn, if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire.
00:37:17.000It is our home, and West Asia is our region.
00:38:16.000I'm not going to telegraph punches here from the podium.
00:38:19.000We have responded and retaliated in the past, quite aggressively.
00:38:23.000In fact, back in March, and as the President said, we will not hesitate to protect our troops and our facilities, but we're going to do it at a time of our choosing and a manner of our choosing.
00:38:34.000And the decision to do it, if we do it, is his as Commander-in-Chief and his alone.
00:38:40.000Okay, so what exactly is that response?
00:38:42.000Well, yesterday we found out a little bit.
00:38:43.000carried out airstrikes, according to CNN, targeting two facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria on Thursday, according to a statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
00:38:52.000Following a series of drone and rocket attacks against U.S.
00:38:54.000forces in the region, the statement said the facilities have been used by the IRCG, that would be the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard, and affiliated groups.
00:39:02.000The strikes were carried out by a pair of F-16 fighter jets using precision-guided munitions.
00:39:06.000They targeted a weapons and ammo storage facility in Abu Kamal near the border between Syria and Iraq.
00:39:12.000Now, Austin is attempting to downplay the conflict because he doesn't want to be drawn into an open conflict here that would cost, as we say, time, money, and blood.
00:39:19.000Austin described the strikes as narrowly tailored in self-defense.
00:39:22.000He said they were different from the ongoing conflict in Gaza, which, of course, is a lie.
00:39:25.000I mean, what's happening right now is that Iran is prodding at Americans in an attempt to get America to tell Israel to stop in the Gaza Strip, which is not going to happen.
00:39:33.000He directly accused Iran, then, of having a role in the attacks on U.S.
00:39:36.000U.S. forces and quote, Iran wants to hide its hand and deny its roles in these attacks against
00:39:42.000So again, the Biden administration overall doing the right thing, pushing Iran off the
00:39:46.000ball, telling them do not do not screw.
00:39:49.000But when the rubber is going to meet the road, that's going to be if Israel goes into Gaza, which presumably will happen over the course of the next week or so by all available information.
00:39:57.000When Israel goes into the Gaza Strip, if Hezbollah opens up a second front on the Israeli border, will the United States stop Hezbollah from doing that?
00:40:05.000Because Hezbollah is an existential danger to the state of Israel.
00:40:09.000It's not just that they have 200,000 rockets pointed at various sites around Israel, threatening tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Israeli lives.
00:40:17.000They also have terror tunnels that presumably strike into Israel as well.
00:40:21.000They have sleeper cells that they've been working with in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:40:26.000If the United States wishes to keep that conflict contained, the United States is going to have to get directly involved, probably, at that point.
00:40:32.000Because if they don't, then Israel is going to go whole hog.
00:40:34.000It's either going to be the United States containing the thing, or it's going to be Israel just devastating its opposition and maybe bringing in Iran, which then may go regional.
00:40:41.000That right there is the biggest problem.
00:40:44.000So, the Biden administration needs to continue to demonstrate a stiff upper lip and a stiff spine.
00:40:49.000If they do, this thing will remain contained, which is in the best interest, certainly, of the United States.
00:40:54.000And meanwhile, Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House.
00:40:59.000Democrats are moving to try to undercut him as Speaker, suggesting that he is an extremist, of course.
00:41:05.000I think they're gonna have a tough time with this because Mike Johnson is a very personable fellow.
00:41:09.000Jamie Raskin, Democrat from Maryland, he is now accusing Johnson of opposing democracy and suggesting at the same time he wants to ban the regulatory state.
00:41:16.000By the way, those two things are in conflict.
00:41:18.000Banning the regulatory state means, in a republic, it means upholding democracy.
00:41:23.000The regulatory state is not elected, it is appointed.
00:41:25.000So, he doesn't even understand the contradiction of what he's saying here.
00:41:29.000New Speaker Mike Johnson, your thoughts.
00:41:33.000Well, you cannot get to the right of Mike Johnson in the MAGA caucus.
00:41:40.000It's inconceivable that you could get to the right of him.
00:41:43.000There are people who are definitely more lunatic than he is, and he's got very good manners, and he's an able lawyer.
00:41:54.000When we say he opposed democracy, we know that from his giving a legal gloss and finish to all of Donald Trump's arguments about electoral fraud and making the independent state legislature doctrine argument, which the Supreme Court fortunately did not bite on.
00:42:14.000Good luck with this argument that Johnson is a wild extremist, but this is the line the media are going to take.
00:42:19.000I don't think that it's going to have very much play.
00:42:20.000Meanwhile, in other stupid Congress news, again, our Congress is filled with dullards, Jamal Bowman has now pled guilty to pulling a fire alarm.
00:42:27.000Remember that time when he claimed that he didn't know a fire alarm was a fire alarm?
00:42:30.000He thought it was going to open the doors?
00:42:31.000Well, now we actually have tape of what he did.
00:42:32.000He didn't even try to walk out the doors.
00:42:33.000Remember, he said he thought that if he pulled the fire alarm, it wouldn't delay the congressional voting or anything, that it would allow him to walk out these doors.
00:44:42.000He says, real GDP jumped 4.9% in the third quarter.
00:44:45.000What's fueling the rise versus what's not speaks volumes about the economy's trajectory.
00:44:50.000The key driver of normal economic growth, which is real private fixed investment, meaning I invest in a business, it's flat since quarter one of 2022.
00:44:57.000The residential side is even worse because real private investment there is below pre-pandemic levels because the housing market shortages are continuing because of the incredibly high mortgage interest rates right now.
00:45:09.000So where exactly is the investment surge coming from?
00:45:12.000So firms see inflation continuing and they're stocking up right now because they don't want to pay twice what they're paying now a month from now.
00:45:17.000So basically you're front-loading all the economic growth into this quarter in expectation that the prices are going to continue to go up going into Q4.
00:45:24.000So again, that adds to today's GDP, but it subtracts from tomorrow's GDP.
00:45:58.000Everybody knows that, which is why nobody's buying the numbers that are coming out right now.
00:46:01.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to pretend that Bidenomics is working out amazingly well.
00:46:05.000Top Joe Biden economic advisor, Lael Brainard, she continues to trot out the old saws here.
00:46:12.000That strong economy is a testament to the resilience of American consumers and American workers supported by President Biden's plan to grow the economy by growing the middle class.
00:46:25.000And real wages are up over the last year.
00:46:29.000Well, I mean, nobody feels that, so there's that.
00:46:33.000Trying to talk people out of the thing is not going to make them feel any better about it.
00:46:36.000Meanwhile, in terms of failed policies that are hilariously coming home to root, so Joe Biden's immigration policy has driven a lot of blue state mayors, governors to actually start adopting right-wing policies.
00:46:47.000Remember that time it was really, really terrible because Ron DeSantis actually just gave flights for illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and this was like the end of the world?
00:46:53.000Politico, today, quote, here's one approach to discourage migrants from settling in New York City.
00:46:57.000Give them a free one-way plane ticket out of town.
00:47:00.000Oh, so it's okay when Eric Adams does it, but it's super bad when Ron DeSantis does it.
00:47:04.000Mayor Eric Adams is ramping up efforts to fly migrants to the destination of their choice, figuring it's cheaper than sheltering them for months on end.
00:47:09.000Remember, when Republicans do this, it's a human rights violation.
00:47:12.000When Eric Adams does it, it's a clever solution.
00:47:15.000He's simultaneously warning those opting to stay in New York may be in for a winter of sleeping outside with shelters full.
00:47:46.000It's just hilarious now that all the Democrats are adopting all of the Trumpian immigration policies, but pretending that it's totally fine when they do it.
00:47:53.000Already, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
00:47:57.000Gidon is the co-founder of an organization called Soldiers Save Lives, an organization in honor of his best friend, David Newman, who was killed in the Hamas massacre.
00:48:04.000They are raising money and resources for people in need in Israel.
00:48:07.000You can go check out their website right now.