Happy 4th of July! Joe Biden celebrates Independence Day from the White House, a white powdery substance is found in the West Wing, and Kamala Harris and her husband celebrate the holiday with a photo of them barbecuing. But why do people celebrate July 4th? Is it because they re proud to be an American? Or is it because it s another excuse to burn an American flag outside of somebody s house on Independence Day? What's the difference between being proud of being an American and being proud to live here in the United States? And why is it that so many Democrats don t celebrate Independence Day, even though they re in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives? Well, maybe it s because they don t feel the same way about it as other Americans do about their country's birthday. And maybe it's because they're not proud of the country they re living in. Or maybe they re not even proud of their own country. What do you think about it? Do you think it s a good thing that they don't celebrate it the way other countries do? We'll find out on this episode of Veep, where we're talking about America's birthday! Happy Independence Day and may God protect our troops. God bless you, and may you live in peace! -Eugene Sanguine - Logo by Courtney DeKorte Music by Ian Dorsch Theme by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 40 , 39, 42, 43, 44, 47, 45 , 45, 46, 47 , 47, 48, 45 45, 47 , 46, 48 , 47 , 48, 49, 50, 51, 51, 54, 56, , & 55, etc., , etc., etc., , etc, etc. etc. , etc.. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. Thanks so much to everyone who sent us your support and your support. Thank you for all your support!
00:00:00.000flag outside of somebody's house I just automatically assume you racism almost definitely but we thought that way for years like I'm 51 and even as a kid we knew it was understood if there was an American flag at their house they some racist ass white mother that's just just what it was I thought everybody thought that or knew that it's funny to see that they're saying it now and it's like it's kind of new but no Yeah, been thinking about that.
00:00:36.000So yesterday was Independence Day, and the Democrats celebrated as they typically do, with a bunch of sloganeering and empty jingoism, because the real question is, why exactly people celebrate Independence Day?
00:00:46.000I mean, I understand why I celebrate Independence Day, because I think the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the principles that were established by the founding of this country, are in fact the greatest principles ever set for the founding of a country.
00:00:57.000But I do not think that a lot of Democrats feel the same way.
00:01:00.000And this raises some serious questions as to why exactly certain people celebrate that holiday.
00:01:35.000There was also apparently some serious celebration over at the White House.
00:01:38.000According to the New York Times, a small amount of a white powdery substance was found in the White House on Sunday evening.
00:01:43.000According to a person familiar with the episode, an initial test by emergency response workers determined it was cocaine.
00:01:49.000President Biden and his family were away at Camp David when a uniformed Secret Service agent found the substance during a patrol of the West Wing around 6 p.m.
00:01:55.000on Sunday, prompting a brief shutdown of the White House while they tried to figure out exactly what it was.
00:02:19.000Someone at the White House may or may not have left a note saying, if you find a powdery white substance in a bag, please return it to Hunter Biden.
00:02:29.000So celebrating the 4th of July in style, Kamala Harris also decided to celebrate the 4th of July with a picture that is very clearly staged of her and her husband barbecuing somewhere.
00:02:39.000I do not think that they are barbecuing.
00:02:49.000Happy 4th of July, says Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:02:51.000Well, again, this is all just to lead up to a big question, which is, why do people celebrate July 4th in the first place?
00:02:56.000Well, it turns out that every year there are these polling stats that come out with regard to how many people believe they are extremely proud to be American.
00:03:06.000And this massive partisan gap has existed in America for literally as long as I've been alive, but it has grown wider and wider in the United States.
00:03:13.000So, there is a Gallup poll, and it shows that today, 60% of Republicans say they are extremely proud to be American.
00:03:20.000Only 33% of Independents say they are extremely proud to be American.
00:03:23.000Only 29% of Democrats say they are extremely proud to be American.
00:03:27.000Now what's amazing about those stats is that right now Joe Biden is the President of the United States.
00:03:31.000Right now, Democrats are in control of the United States Senate.
00:03:35.000And actually, if you look at the polls, what you see is that Republicans are consistently more proud to be American than Democrats are.
00:03:40.000This was true throughout the Obama era, even during the Obama era, when Democrats were so proud of President Obama because finally they had shown that a black person could be president of the United States and all that.
00:03:50.000They still weren't exactly proud of the United States.
00:03:53.000The stats during the Obama era, something like 75 to 80% of Republicans said they were proud to be American.
00:04:00.000And only about 50% of Democrats, 45% of Democrats said they were extremely proud to be American.
00:04:05.000That, of course, plummeted the minute that Donald Trump was elected.
00:04:08.000When Donald Trump was elected, that dropped well down into the 20% area for Democrats.
00:04:13.000Independence being proud of America, that's been on a steady state of decline since essentially 2001.
00:04:21.000In fact, if you go all the way back to 2001, more Democrats than Independents said that they were extremely proud to be American.
00:04:26.000But the bottom line is there's this massive partisan gap in who exactly is extremely proud to be American, and it's been existing for a very long time.
00:04:32.000In fact, there are studies that demonstrate that attendance at a 4th of July parade is a pretty good It's a pretty good indicator.
00:04:40.000It correlates very highly with Republican identity.
00:04:46.000Well, because they actually like the founding of the United States of America.
00:04:49.000They think that the country was founded on proper values.
00:04:52.000They think there is something here worth conserving because they are, in fact, conservative.
00:04:56.000And if you're on the left and you feel that America is basically a terrible place filled with oppression, racism, genocide, xenophobia, homophobia, and all the rest, what exactly is it that you are proud of?
00:05:08.000Well, the decline in generalized patriotism in the United States is across the board.
00:05:13.000So if you look at even the Republican stats, back in 2000, some 60-some percent of Republicans said they were extremely proud to be American.
00:05:21.000That jumped all the way up to about 90% in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.
00:05:25.000And it took all the way until now to hit 60%, again, to drive all the way down to 60%.
00:05:30.000That is because there is tremendous feeling that the country is coming apart.
00:05:35.000Right now, according to an Axios poll, This is actually from Gallup.
00:05:43.00074% of Republicans say that the state of moral values in the United States is poor.
00:05:49.000So, when you correlate that, you would think, okay, well, that would mean that Democrats are extremely proud to be American, no?
00:05:54.000They think that the state of morality in America is great.
00:05:57.00062% do not think that the state of morality in America is poor.
00:06:00.000Meanwhile, only 26% of Republicans think that the state of morality in the United States is not poor.
00:06:05.000So why exactly are Republicans proud of the country and Democrats are not?
00:06:08.000The answer is, Republicans are not proud of how the American people are acting right now, but we are very, very proud of what the country was meant to be and what the country is all about.
00:06:16.000Democrats are not very proud of what the country was all about and what it was meant to be, but they're very, very proud of how people are acting right now.
00:06:21.000So I ask you, Are you proud of the country or are you proud of how people are acting right now?
00:06:26.000Because I gotta tell you, I'm not real fond of how people are acting right now.
00:06:29.000It seems like they're acting pretty badly.
00:06:31.000And the polls demonstrate that we should believe that they are acting pretty badly.
00:06:36.000We'll get some social science stats in just one second.
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00:07:59.000When it comes to values, like family, or like God, when it comes to the values that Americans hold dear, those have been in a state of steep decline in the United States.
00:08:09.000Which again, answers exactly why it is that Republicans are proud of the country, but not proud of the American people and how they're acting right now.
00:08:15.000Democrats are very proud of how the American people are acting right now, and I just ask you, why?
00:08:19.000What about how the American people are acting right now makes you proud of your fellow Americans?
00:08:23.000And the answer is, That you're really not all that proud of your fellow Americans.
00:08:27.000You're proud of your fellow Americans who think like you.
00:08:30.000And this is resulting in tremendous political polarization.
00:08:33.000Now, I think that political polarization, actually, in this arena, is not a bad thing.
00:08:37.000I think you should live near people who generally think like you, especially for raising kids.
00:08:41.000It's very important that you raise your kids around values that you actually agree with.
00:08:45.000The big sort that's been happening in the United States demographically, I think is actually quite a good thing.
00:08:49.000In fact, there's an entire piece in the Associated Press today all about conservatives moving to red states and left-wingers going to blue states as the country grows more polarized.
00:09:00.000That'd actually be a very good thing if we could all understand the federal government should then take a light hand, and then you should be allowed to live in a red state that does red state things, and if you're in a blue state, you should do blue state things, and everybody should leave each other alone.
00:09:10.000That's the only way they're going to maintain any sort of coherence as a country at all.
00:09:15.000Because otherwise, if the federal government just becomes a war of all against all, and whoever controls the federal government gun points it at the people they don't like, things are gonna get real ugly real quickly.
00:09:25.000According to the Associated Press, Colorado and Idaho represent two poles of state-level political homogenization.
00:09:30.000Both are fast-growing Rocky Mountain states that have been transformed by an influx of like-minded residents.
00:09:34.000Life in the two states can be quite similar.
00:09:36.000Conversations revolve around local ski areas, mountain bike trails, and how newcomers are making things too crowded, but politically, they increasingly occupy two separate worlds.
00:10:08.000Cori Bush, who is a Democratic Black Lives Matter Congresswoman from Missouri.
00:10:13.000She literally was a member of Black Lives Matter.
00:10:15.000She was a spokesperson for it before she was elected to Congress.
00:10:18.000She tweeted out on Independence Day, quote, The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn't recognize black people as human.
00:10:25.000Today is a great day to demand reparations now.
00:10:44.000July 4th is about how evil the United States is.
00:10:46.000Jamal Bowman, another radical congressperson from New York, So first of all, this dude makes a fairly decent salary as an elected congressperson in the richest country in the history of the world.
00:10:55.000So I notice that his life is pretty good.
00:10:57.000But again, the message is America is really bad.
00:12:12.000She said they're very bad for the environment.
00:12:14.000They release a lot of toxic chemicals.
00:12:16.000This year she is skipping the holiday altogether, opting instead to travel with her church youth group to visit a Navajo Nation community in Arizona, but the trip was cancelled because of a COVID outbreak.
00:12:25.000Some Americans, especially younger people, are rethinking whether they want to celebrate Independence Day.
00:12:29.000A survey by YouGov found that only 56% of American adults plan to join in the festivities this year.
00:12:36.000Marissa Vivori, 29, a tech product manager in Manhattan, remembers the last time she celebrated the 4th of July a few summers ago.
00:12:42.000She was going to the Hamptons, she said, on the most packed Long Island Railroad train she had ever been on.
00:13:51.000America is a place where I can say the things I want to fundamentally transform the United States into a place that does things that I want it to do.
00:13:58.000It's not that America is worthy of upholding whether or not you win.
00:14:26.000I believe in the system even when I don't get the outcome that I like.
00:14:30.000And I don't believe that if a law is legally passed in the United States, that I just get to disobey it.
00:14:37.000The reason that people believe in the authority of a system is not because they agree with every decision that's made by the authorities in the system.
00:14:43.000It's because they believe that the system is better than any alternative.
00:14:46.000They believe that there is no alternative system that is going to operate better than that, and that change has to come, if it's going to come, from within the system, not from without the system.
00:14:55.000Now Democrats, even progressive Democrats, used to believe that.
00:14:58.000But I don't think that's the case anymore.
00:15:00.000Democrats now seem to believe that the only time that the system is justified in any way, shape, or form is when they're in the White House.
00:15:05.000When they are in control of the levers of power.
00:15:08.000That's not the way that loyalty works.
00:15:10.000That is not the way that patriotism works.
00:15:11.000And no country can actually be upheld if you only believe in the system when it gives you the things that you want.
00:15:17.000In the same way that no family can be upheld if you only love your parents when they give you the stuff that you want.
00:15:22.000If you only love your spouse when your spouse gives you the things that you want.
00:15:25.000You have to believe in the institution of the marriage in order for a marriage to last.
00:15:28.000It can't just be, you're not giving me what I want right now, I'm out.
00:15:32.000I hate my marriage because I'm not getting exactly what I want at this particular time.
00:15:50.000As central banks in countries like China, India, and Australia look to potentially transition to digital currency, the Federal Reserve has been contemplating the same possibility for the United States.
00:15:58.000With a digital currency, the government could track every single purchase you make.
00:16:01.000Officials could even prohibit you from purchasing certain products or easily freeze or seize part or all of your money.
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00:16:44.000They're in even more control of your dollar.
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00:17:09.000The American flag on its own is a bunch of principles that stand for the robbing of indigenous people and the enslavement of black people and Jim Crow and mistreatment of gay people and all the rest of it.
00:17:19.000Only if the American flag can be used as sort of a stepping stone towards something better is the American flag worth upholding.
00:17:28.000This is why, for example, Jen Psaki, she was talking about the fact that there are a lot of Muslims in the United States who have decided they are not in favor of the LGBTQ agenda.
00:17:37.000This upsets her because the stepping stone of the American flag is all about the diversity of the American people.
00:17:42.000The diversity of the American people is all about overcoming the white male heterosexual privilege that is implicit in the American flag.
00:17:50.000It's about stepping from the American flag to the Pride Progress flag with all the BLM stuff on it.
00:17:55.000So she's very upset that Muslims are now coming out as obviously socially conservative, which they are.
00:18:02.000It must be that the evil white Christians are somehow manipulating the Muslims or something.
00:18:07.000Because again, the intersectional coalition is what it's all about for the Democrats.
00:18:11.000During his campaign for president in 1968, the Republican Party made a concerted effort to reach white Southerners who used to vote for Democrats by playing to their fears of African-Americans and the civil rights movement.
00:19:25.000In fact, Natasha Cloud, who, again, I've mentioned more WNBA players on this show in the context of their politics, certainly, than have ever been mentioned in the context of their WNBA play.
00:19:34.000I've never heard of Natasha Cloud until she tweeted out something unbelievably stupid over the weekend.
00:19:38.000But here's what she tweeted, quote, Our country is trash in so many ways.
00:19:42.000And instead of using our resources to make it better, we continue to oppress marginalized groups that we have targeted since the beginning of times.
00:19:48.000Black, brown communities and LGBTQ+, man, we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate.
00:20:05.000It's not about America being a great place.
00:20:08.000America was never great in the words of Democrats.
00:20:11.000Now it's really about America being, again, that stepping stone toward a utopian notion of what America can be.
00:20:16.000Something very different from America.
00:20:17.000A place where not all men are created equal.
00:20:19.000Where we can judge people by their race.
00:20:21.000Where we can give people special privilege by their sexual orientation.
00:20:24.000Where we can make sure that freedom of speech no longer applies.
00:20:26.000And, as it turns out, where the federal government can use its extraordinary powers in order to compel social media companies to do exactly what it wants.
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00:21:36.000Okay, so all of this brings us to the demand that the rights that are embedded in the Constitution
00:21:42.000of the United States and that are implicit in the Declaration of Independence, the natural
00:21:45.000rights that the founders talked about, those are actually bad unless they are utilized
00:21:49.000in favor of the things that the left wants.
00:21:52.000Which presumably is why the Biden administration used its power to cram down on social media companies throughout the early days of the administration a bunch of censorship.
00:22:01.000Well now, in a devastating blow to the Biden administration, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled on Tuesday the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by censoring unfavorable views on social media over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, calling the efforts Orwellian.
00:22:14.000District Court Judge Terry Dowdy issued a sweeping preliminary injunction barring numerous federal officials and agencies, including the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and all employees of the DOJ and FBI from having any contact with social media firms for the purpose of discouraging or removing First Amendment protected speech.
00:22:34.000The ruling and order from Dowdy, who's an appointee of President Trump, are the latest developments in a long-running lawsuit spearheaded by Republican-led states alleging the administration pressured social media companies to remove posts containing purported misinformation about the coronavirus, election security, and other issues.
00:22:48.000Dowdy wrote, During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the U.S.
00:22:53.000government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ministry of truth.
00:22:59.000According to the judge's decision, there were a wide range of topics that were all suppressed on social media at the urging of administration officials, including opposition to COVID vaccines, masking lockdowns, and lab leak theory, opposition to the validity of the 2020 election, opposition to Joe Biden and other officials' policies, and a statement claiming that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden.
00:23:57.000It prohibits these government officials from meeting with social media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social media platforms.
00:24:08.000Specifically, flagging content or posts on social media platforms and or forwarding such to social media companies, urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression or reduction of content containing protected free speech.
00:24:20.000Urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any manner social media companies to change their guidelines.
00:24:25.000So it is a sweeping order from this federal judge.
00:24:59.000Like 10-15 pages of content all about how they were essentially prohibiting Facebook from amplifying any sort of material they didn't like?
00:25:07.000But this sort of stuff doesn't bother the left whatsoever.
00:25:10.000Again, because the principles of freedom of speech are mere platforms.
00:25:13.000They're not actual principles that are worthy of being upheld.
00:25:15.000See, the question on whether you believe in a principle is whether when your opponents exercise it, you believe that the principle should no longer apply.
00:25:20.000So, for example, your opponent exercises free speech.
00:25:25.000So, if you believe in free speech, the general answer is no.
00:25:29.000Everybody has a right to speak freely.
00:25:32.000I've never called, for example, for the deplatforming of people who explicitly attack me on social media because, again, that's their prerogative.
00:25:42.000The left believes that free speech is merely a tool of power.
00:25:46.000So when they control it, free speech is good.
00:25:47.000When they don't control it, free speech is very, very bad.
00:25:51.000This is also presumably why the left is so all-fired angry at that Supreme Court ruling last Friday that suggested that if you are a person who designs websites, that you must not be forced to actually design websites that you don't agree with.
00:26:07.000That if you're a conservative Christian who designs wedding websites, you can't be forced to design a same-sex wedding website.
00:26:14.000In fact, the left is so angry about this, they're now trumping up an entire narrative trying to reverse the case on the basis of nonsense.
00:26:21.000According to NBC News, the Supreme Court's recent ruling in favor of an evangelical Christian web designer who refused to work on same-sex weddings didn't hinge on what now appears to have been a request from a fake customer.
00:26:31.000So what they're saying is that the case cited a request from a customer suggesting a same-sex website and then a lawsuit was filed.
00:26:40.000And it turns out that the customer didn't exist or something.
00:26:43.000Does that change the ruling in the case?
00:26:45.000The New Republic published an article On Lori Stewart, who was the web designer, who had said in a previous court filing that someone named Stewart had reached out to her in 2016 about putting together a website for his marriage to a person named Mike.
00:26:57.000The narrative was thrown into question after the New Republic published an article on Stewart who denied ever having reached out to Smith.
00:27:02.000Apparently, he was a web designer who'd been married to a woman for years.
00:27:05.000That revelation led to complaints on social media.
00:27:07.000The case shouldn't have made it to the Supreme Court, but legal experts reached by NBC News disagreed.
00:27:12.000Carolyn Shapiro, professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, said, I think the Supreme Court opinion is misguided in many ways, but she has standing.
00:27:18.000Because this is a pre-enforcement challenge, meaning there was no actual demand made and the law didn't even crack down on it.
00:27:23.000But the left is trying to do anything it can do to avoid the ramifications of even-handed law.
00:27:28.000This is why they're attempting now to create policies that go around the affirmative action ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:27:34.000That's why they're now going to try to craft laws that still crack down on religious people in places like California.
00:27:40.000And then, of course, their claim is that if they lose, authoritarianism has won.
00:27:43.000So Hillary Clinton, one of the more authoritarian figures in recent memory, she said that if Donald Trump wins, it will be the end of democracy in the United States.
00:27:52.000What would happen if Trump won, first of all, in Ukraine?
00:27:55.000What would happen to the Ukraine situation?
00:27:59.000Look, if Trump wins, Which I do not believe will happen.
00:28:03.000Let me just quickly say that if in some scenario that were to happen It would be the end of democracy in the United States It would be the end of Ukraine it would become a you know We he will pull us out of NATO if he wins again And just like he pulled us out of the Iran deal he pulled us out of the Paris Accords He will pull us out of NATO So, he's an authoritarian.
00:28:27.000He's a terrible, terrible person, says Hillary Clinton, whose campaign literally laundered, via the DOJ and the FBI, the Steele dossier into public view, and then essentially launched a four-year investigation into the elected president of the United States, and before that, his actual campaign.
00:28:43.000That was done by Hillary Clinton while she was simultaneously destroying documents.
00:28:46.000Now, of course, Hillary Clinton is out there posing in Butthurt Emails hats.
00:28:50.000While chortling that Donald Trump might, in fact, go to jail for mishandling of classified documents.
00:28:54.000The rule for the left, when it comes to even issues like authoritarianism, is authoritarianism is great for us.
00:28:59.000We wish to cram down on social media what we wish.
00:29:01.000But if you guys get elected, that's the true authoritarianism.
00:29:04.000And that goes back again to the idea of patriotism.
00:29:06.000Republicans, conservatives, they're patriotic regardless of whether a Democrat is president or whether a Republican is president.
00:29:12.000They may not like the results of an election, they don't become less patriotic generally because of it.
00:29:16.000However, Democrats are deeply ambivalent about the United States and its founding documents and its founding principles, which means they're only enthusiastic about the country when they get what they want.
00:29:26.000I mean, Michelle Obama said this pretty clearly back in 2008.
00:29:28.000The first time she was ever proud of her country is when her husband was nominated for the presidency.
00:29:34.000After spending a lifetime benefiting from the magic of the United States, going to Princeton University, Harvard Law School, and then getting a cush job at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
00:29:43.000That was the first time she was proud of the country.
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00:31:31.000Also, Whether it's changing the definition of words or trying to convince you 2 plus 2 actually equals 5, it sometimes feels like the current culture is doing its best to make you into an idiot.
00:31:39.000When wokeness permeates every aspect of your life, it's hard to know where to turn for guidance, but we have good news.
00:31:43.000Our friend Dennis Prager is back with additional episodes of PragerU Master's Program.
00:31:48.000We released the first five episodes earlier this year.
00:32:07.000It's available right now for Daily Wire plus members with new episodes coming out.
00:32:12.000Meanwhile, when it comes to the 2024 race, the big question for Republicans, I keep asking it, is whether they actually would like to win this race or not.
00:32:30.000If he does, I would like to see it at some point.
00:32:33.000Apparently, his belief is that Joe Biden is such a terrible president that people will automatically resonate back to his side.
00:32:38.000I've yet to see data that actually supports that.
00:32:40.000Republicans are going to have to outwork Democrats along every possible parameter in this election cycle.
00:32:46.000And simply being upset is not a parameter of success.
00:32:49.000Upsetness may get you to the polls, but you're going to the polls in all likelihood anyway.
00:32:54.000The real question is, how do you win over independents?
00:32:56.000How do you win over people in the middle of the country?
00:32:57.000How do you make sure that you are doing the Well, there's a reason why Democrats are increasingly, I would say, enthusiastic about attacking Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, widely perceived as the chief obstacle to Donald Trump winning the nomination.
00:33:15.000They spent pretty much the entire weekend attacking DeSantis.
00:33:18.000And they're doing so by doing worse than Trump.
00:33:21.000They're now doing the worse than Trump routine.
00:33:23.000That combined with the generalized attempt by the media to suggest that DeSantis' campaign is over before it's begun.
00:33:48.000Here is CNN political analyst Laura Baron-Lopez suggesting that Ron DeSantis is trying to take away the rights of minority groups.
00:33:56.000It's interesting that Scott says that because seeing the moves that Ron DeSantis has made in recent weeks, he really appears laser-focused on Trump and trying to appear more conservative and to the right of the former president.
00:34:10.000We've seen him issue immigration policies where he mentions the word invasion multiple times.
00:34:16.000We saw recently this video that his campaign promoted that was just staunchly anti-LGBTQ, anti-transgender, And he is essentially trying to say that he, not Donald Trump, is someone who is going to take away rights from these minority groups, and that he will do it more effectively than the former president.
00:34:43.000Worse than Trump has started very early at this point.
00:34:46.000PBS's Anna Nawaz is doing the same thing.
00:34:48.000She says DeSantis is trying to demonize immigrants.
00:34:50.000Clearly this is at least partially being done with an eye towards 2024.
00:34:55.000And Trump as president, as candidate before, he obviously made immigration one of the most hotly debated issues.
00:35:01.000Will it be this time too, do you think?
00:35:04.000I think if Governor DeSantis has anything to say about it, it absolutely will be.
00:35:08.000This is part of a pattern in terms of steps that he's taken to, in many cases, demonize arriving communities and undocumented populations.
00:35:16.000We have to remember Governor DeSantis was the force behind the flying of recently arrived migrants to Martha's Vineyard and we know some of those moves are under investigation as well by local authorities there.
00:35:31.000So, again, the idea here is that DeSantis is extremely, extremely dangerous.
00:35:35.000CNN went out of its way to interview a quote-unquote pro-DeSantis mom who's upset about his six weeks abortion ban in the state of Florida.
00:35:43.000I have greater concerns about the six-week abortion ban.
00:35:48.000You know, I think if he made it clear that he's a states' rights person and that he's not looking to kind of pass a national law in this regard, I would be less concerned.
00:35:59.000Not everyone in their Twitter orbit agrees on his tactics, but these three do think Florida's new six-week abortion ban is bad.
00:36:28.000It may be that they get Donald Trump nominated, or help to get Donald Trump nominated, and then Donald Trump suddenly wins, which would be the worst nightmare to come to life.
00:36:35.000And it would be highly amusing, for a wide variety of reasons, including the fact that there is, in not insignificant possibility, that Donald Trump may actually be convicted of a crime at that point, and he may have to pardon himself, it's a federal crime, which, I mean, Talk about great writing for season seven of Trump.
00:36:52.000But the attacks on DeSantis are very clearly geared by the media in order to sink him in the polls and in order to jack up Trump in the polls.
00:37:40.000What can DeSantis do to turn that around?
00:37:41.000If you're somebody in the Republican Party, right now Trump is polling in the national primary vote somewhere around 45 to 49 percent.
00:37:48.000So there's about 50 percent of the Republican Party that is not totally sold on Trump and even many of the Trump supporters are not necessarily totally sold on Trump.
00:37:54.000They could theoretically switch their vote over to someone else.
00:37:57.000What does DeSantis need to do to revive what appears to be a flagging campaign at this point?
00:38:02.000I mean, the answer is he needs to actually go into enemy territory and start throwing some punches.
00:38:06.000So DeSantis, I think, was banking on the idea that he governed really well in Florida and that people would have a memory long enough to remember when he was throwing punches at the national media during COVID.
00:38:14.000The biggest problem that DeSantis has is that people don't want to talk about COVID.
00:38:18.000His biggest pro, his biggest plus, is his handling of the COVID pandemic.
00:38:24.000By the stats, even on our social media channels, anytime I talk about COVID, people tune out.
00:38:30.000And the reason they tune out is because it was an uncomfortable period, people didn't enjoy it, people don't like talking about it, and people don't like thinking about it.
00:38:35.000Also, it happens to be a thing that for the vast majority of people who like DeSantis, COVID and its various oppressions essentially ended, I mean in the state of Florida that he ran, it ended like fully three years ago at this point.
00:38:49.000So the question really for DeSantis is going to be how can he reinvigorate Republicans to recognize that he is the best person to be pugilistic, not just with regard to Joe Biden, but really with regard to a media that is going to launch a full-out assault on him.
00:39:03.000This has always been the key feature of Trump is Trump is unbelievably pugilistic against everybody, right?
00:39:08.000Against his friends, against his former employees, against his enemies, against literally everyone.
00:39:13.000I mean, like literally everyone comes under Donald Trump's fire at some point, which is why over the weekend when Donald Trump was literally retruthing F Biden, a lot of people in the in the sort of Republican Party are not super upset about that.
00:39:26.000Not only are they not super upset about that, they actually see something to it, meaning he's so pugilistic that he's willing to basically do or say anything.
00:39:34.000And it's the pugilism that a lot of Republicans are looking for that, under the impression that, again, hangover from 2012 when Mitt Romney was not pugilistic, that Trump's pugilism in 2016 set him up for victory, even if his pugilism in 2020 did not avail him.
00:39:48.000So when Trump sends out these retruths, or these truths, that are, you know, all caps messages about massive prosecutorial misconduct, or when he tweets stuff like this out, right?
00:39:58.000He tweeted this out on July 4th, quote, as my poll numbers go higher and higher,
00:40:01.000the communist Marxists and fascists get more and more crazy with their ridiculous indictments
00:40:06.000and election interference plans and plots, all controlled by an out of control
00:40:22.000Right, so for people who watch politics professionally, like me, it's like, well, that doesn't actually get anything done.
00:40:26.000But for people who are voting or supporting candidates based on just a generalized perception of who fights, who fights is always the question.
00:40:34.000And the truth is that DeSantis, during this campaign so far, he has not actually put himself in a position to fight.
00:40:41.000What DeSantis needs to do, and I would say forthwith, is he needs to go on a show like Meet the Press and he needs to get very combative with the anchor when the anchor starts asking nonsense questions.
00:40:48.000DeSantis obviously needs to get more active because otherwise, reality of realities, Trump is going to run away with this thing.
00:40:56.000We could be watching the unfolding of something truly disastrous in Ukraine.
00:41:00.000Russia and Ukraine are now accusing each other of plotting an imminent attack on a nuclear power plant, which is just wonderful.
00:41:06.000When you have Russia accusing Ukraine, Ukraine accusing Russia, what that's basically setting up for is, you know, the thing blowing up.
00:41:11.000According to Reuters, Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday accused each other of plotting to stage an attack on the Russian-held Zaporizhia nuclear power station, long the subject of mutual recriminations and suspicions.
00:41:21.000Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron about Russia's dangerous provocation at the plant in southeastern Ukraine.
00:41:28.000Russian troops seized the station in February of 2022.
00:41:31.000Each side has since regularly accused the other of shelling around the plant and risking a major nuclear mishap.
00:41:37.000Renat Karcha, an advisor to the head of Rosonergoatom, which apparently operates Russia's nuclear network, said Ukraine planned to drop ammunition laced with nuclear waste transported from another of the country's five nuclear stations on the plant, which is a pretty wild suggestion.
00:41:49.000Zelensky then tweeted that he had told Macron in a telephone conversation the occupation troops are preparing dangerous provocations at the nuclear power plant.
00:41:57.000Now, this obviously would be, you know, people would ask, why would Russia bomb a plant that was under its own control?
00:42:05.000The answer, theoretically, would be to up the ante such that everybody begs for an end to this conflict because nobody wants to see a nuclear meltdown.
00:42:13.000So if the thing blows up, it's still going to be very much in question who actually blew it up.
00:42:16.000Was it the Ukrainians or was it the Russians?
00:42:19.000The bottom line here is that things are likely to get worse, not better in Ukraine.
00:42:24.000I know that after the attempted coup, the abortive coup against Vladimir Putin, there's a lot of thought that maybe this thing is drawing to an end.
00:42:30.000I think that Putin is so far in at this point that based on the sunk cost fallacy and the fact that he has so much of his own legitimacy arrayed around this particular war and invested in this particular war, he doesn't have the power to basically stop this thing at this point.
00:42:45.000And that means that it is very likely that the ante gets upped.
00:42:50.000I've been saying for a long time that some sort of off-ramp for Putin, if Putin was willing to take it, would probably be the best solution.
00:42:54.000That's not just me, it's Henry Kissinger.
00:42:58.000The allies and Ukrainian forces should continue pressing militarily against the Russians until the point when the Russians actually come to the table and make a deal.
00:43:05.000Also, there has to be some deal that's offered on the table right now.
00:43:08.000Zelensky is saying that until Crimea is completely free.
00:43:11.000Crimea has been in Russian hands since 2014.
00:43:12.000And until Crimea is completely free, there won't even be an election in Ukraine.
00:43:19.000Meanwhile, Israel and the Palestinians are at it again.
00:43:22.000When I say at it again, I mean the Palestinians are launching a terrorist attack.
00:43:25.000Israel goes in to clean out the area that is replete with terrorists and then everybody gets mad at Israel.
00:43:29.000That's the way that this idiotic There's been a radical uptick in the amount of Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians over the course of the last two or three years has been particularly true over the course of the last year since the election of the new Israeli government and the breakout of mass protests in the streets.
00:43:46.000There's been a feeling among Iran and its allies That there was weakness internally in the Israeli system, and so if they just put their thumb into the wound and they started killing Israeli civilians, this would bring down the government.
00:43:56.000Well, Israel a couple of days ago launched a major incursion into Jenin.
00:43:59.000Jenin is a major Palestinian population center.
00:44:04.000They call it a refugee camp, but it's not a refugee camp.
00:44:06.000A refugee camp, theoretically, is where refugees live, not people who have been living there for four generations.
00:44:09.000In any case, the Palestinian city of Jenin It has been a hotbed of terrorism for a very, very long time.
00:44:18.000It's a population of approximately 39,000, somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:44:23.000And it is indeed a hotbed of terrorist activity.
00:44:26.000It's been a hotbed of terrorist activity for a very, very long time.
00:44:34.000And so Israel launched an incursion in which it was targeting terrorists.
00:44:38.000It killed a vast body of terrorists in very specific attacks.
00:44:41.000Naturally, this meant that the international community got very, very angry at Israel for the great sin of trying to kill terrorists.
00:44:46.000Meanwhile, the amount of outrage from the international community over a Palestinian terrorist literally driving a truck into an Israeli bus stop in Tel Aviv and wounding at least eight people.
00:44:56.000That has gotten, you know, not nearly the same level of outrage.
00:45:00.000Hamas, which is a terrorist group, funded by Iran, in control of the Gaza Strip, called on terrorists in the West Bank and Jerusalem to strike Israel by all available means.
00:45:08.000By Israel, they don't mean Israeli soldiers.
00:45:10.000They mean strike Israeli civilians by all available means.
00:45:16.000When you grant terrorists the legitimacy of pretending that their attacks on civilians are equivalent to military attacks against terrorists, you end up incentivizing terrorism.
00:45:23.000It's something the world press does on the regular.
00:45:27.000Really, particularly only with this conflict.
00:45:28.000I'm not aware of any other conflict on planet Earth where the press treats terrorist attacks on civilians the same way as military attacks on terrorists.
00:45:37.000It wouldn't apply to any of America's other allies.
00:45:39.000It wouldn't apply to France, it wouldn't apply to Britain, it wouldn't apply to literally any other place.
00:45:43.000But apparently it still applies to Israel because everyone's going to continue to play the stupid double standard game where when Jews sitting at a restaurant in Shiloh, which is in Judea and Samaria, the historic heartland of Israel, now called the West Bank, and when Jews are sitting in a restaurant get murdered for sitting at a restaurant that is somehow the same as a 17-year-old Hamas-inspired terrorist shooting at Israeli soldiers and then getting shot.
00:46:10.000Speaking of shootings that are being covered in precisely the wrong way.
00:46:15.000So there is a bad situation over in Philadelphia.
00:46:20.000And the situation in Philadelphia is likely to be disappeared by the media in very short order.
00:46:25.000So there are a bunch of mass shootings over the weekend.
00:46:27.000But as we know, mass shootings stop being covered the minute we find out that the perpetrator is not a white dude who backed Donald Trump.
00:46:35.000The shooting in this case was a shooting in Philadelphia.
00:46:38.000A rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia.
00:46:45.000Here is the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, talking about the shooting.
00:46:50.000As the investigation into this tragic incident continues, I kindly ask for your patience and your understanding.
00:46:57.000Our investigators are working tirelessly to gather and analyze all available evidence, ensuring a thorough and comprehensive investigation.
00:47:07.000It is crucial that we allow them the time and resources necessary to uncover the truth, which includes the why.
00:47:19.000What happened last night in our Kinsex neighborhood was unimaginably disgusting and horrifying.
00:47:26.000On what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual wreaked havoc.
00:47:35.000The shooter is a 40-year-old man who is trans, apparently.
00:47:40.000This person posted two pictures of himself wearing a bra, a women's top, and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting.
00:47:47.000He also regularly posts about supporting Black Lives Matter, including supporting workers who protested in the strike for Black lives in July of 2020.
00:47:54.000So we're not allowed to talk about this anymore.
00:47:57.000This person is the kind of person who posted a video on his Facebook page of a burning Philadelphia cop car that had been daubed with graffiti including ACAB.