With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, less than a third of Americans want U.S. troops deployed to defend against such an attack, a new poll finds. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire this summer, sparking a ton of drama here in Washington D.C. Third, the United States State Department personnel in China are asking for permission to leave the country over COVID prior to the Olympics, and then, finally, Senator Johnson of Wisconsin voices opposition to family policies. All this and more on today s Human Events Daily.
00:02:03.920Third, the United States State Department personnel in China are asking for permission to leave the country over COVID prior to the Olympics kicking off just next week.
00:02:13.860And then finally, Senator Johnson of Wisconsin voices opposition to family policies.
00:02:18.700All this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:02:20.120You know, it's been really weird watching this story as the war drums in the United States have been banging away for war in Ukraine.
00:02:41.920Because it seems like the news media is really interested in this.
00:02:46.440And by the way, that's liberal media and some of conservative media are also pushing this.
00:02:51.720Kind of interesting. Pay attention to that.
00:03:49.980Listen, only 31% want U.S. troops to defend Ukraine.
00:03:55.240With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, less than a third of voters want U.S. troops deployed to defend against such an attack.
00:04:00.460A new telephone survey, an online survey by Rasmussen Reports, finds that only 31% of likely U.S. voters think that if Russia attacks Ukraine, U.S. combat troops should be sent to help defend Ukraine.
00:04:13.06036% are against sending American troops to Ukraine, while 33% are undecided.
00:04:19.120Listen to Tulsi Gabbard, not a conservative, explain what's going on here.
00:04:24.340What we have is, unfortunately, Democrats, Republicans, the mainstream media, the Washington elite, essentially, in the pocket of the military-industrial complex.
00:04:34.500And rather than looking out for what's in the best interest of the American people, our national security, our country, they see dollar signs when they look at Ukraine.
00:04:44.020They see how they can line their pockets, how they can look tough, how they can posture themselves in a position where they personally or politically or financially benefit, rather than actually thinking about what are the costs and consequences of these actions and who pays the price.
00:05:02.900It's the American people and, frankly, the people of Ukraine.
00:05:13.180We broke down the ethnic distribution in eastern Ukraine.
00:05:16.600We talked about the fact that people there, some of them speak Russian, consider themselves Russians.
00:05:21.160You've got villages where 50% of the people think they're Russian, as well as people who also support staying with Ukraine.
00:05:27.520This is a complicated, messy border dispute that's been going on for over 30 years now, right, since the fall of the Soviet Union, and a larger regional dispute that's been going back since literally 900 A.D.
00:05:42.840Moscow and Kiev have always been at tensions with each other.
00:05:46.400Back in 900 A.D., by the way, the Kievan Rus, Kiev, was the medieval power.
00:05:51.960And for hundreds and hundreds of years, Kiev was the medieval power.
00:05:54.760Moscow was some, you know, podunk, like fur-trapping hunting post in the north.
00:06:03.460But you have to understand the history that it is actually complicated, and it's not the way that the Biden administration is placing it.
00:06:11.860But the other side of this is that the American people are sick of foreign wars.
00:06:16.400They just saw what happened in Afghanistan.
00:06:18.740And by the way, President Biden and Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, are out there saying we shouldn't be committing and over-committing ourselves to getting bogged down in places like this.
00:06:46.820Bismarck, none of these people had any, you know, situations where they were trying to go to war with Russia in winter that may have led to some, I don't know, some understanding for us of what's going on now.
00:06:57.660But I really don't even think that's what's driving all of this.
00:07:00.380I think what's driving it is the fact that people here at home know this is the wag the dog strategy.
00:07:05.340They understand that it isn't in America's core interests.
00:07:08.620And by the way, you know who said Ukraine isn't part of America's core interests back in 2015?
00:07:15.020President Barack Obama said that Ukraine is not a national core—
00:08:41.180Because they understood and they saw, by the way, that the way Kavanaugh's appointment in 2018 and the Trump administration really motivated the conservative base.
00:08:50.800And they know because they're facing elections later this year that they're looking for ways to motivate their base as well.
00:08:57.840What can they do to try to stem the bleeding that is most likely going to happen, according to every single report and all the polls and all the numbers that we've seen, come this November?
00:09:08.560Well, it looks like they've decided to set up a Supreme Court fight.
00:09:13.880And of course, so here's what's going on.
00:09:15.860So Breyer is set to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term.
00:10:50.140So what's crazy to me, though, is that so Biden, so there's two aspects of this that are absolutely hilarious to me.
00:10:55.040Number one, when President Biden was running, he committed to saying that he will nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
00:11:03.900However, of course, the problem with that is, isn't that basically the exact same argument that people are making under the affirmative action case?
00:11:15.280That under the 14th Amendment, which calls for due process and which calls for equal protection, then shouldn't it be that there is no race-based or gender-based selection process?
00:11:26.160Shouldn't it be the best person for the job?
00:11:28.080And I understand, look, I'm under no illusions of how this country actually runs.
00:11:34.400And I'm explaining to you each and every day here at Human Events Daily how this country is actually run.
00:11:39.480But what's amazing to me is that on one hand, they will go along with race-based and gender-based selection processes for this and then not pay even any attention to what the actual constitutional amendment, the 14th Amendment, says.
00:11:56.420And, of course, this is all going to come up next year.
00:12:00.800The person who is chosen through race-based and gender-based process will be on the bench to decide whether or not affirmative action is constitutional.
00:12:48.020They followed Sinema into a bathroom while she was using the bathroom at a teaching job at ASU.
00:12:54.300They followed her to a private wedding and were attacking wedding guests and screaming and protesting at this wedding.
00:13:01.080And you idiots, you absolute idiots who don't understand the difference between checkers and chess, you need their votes.
00:13:10.300You can't just go scorched earth on them.
00:13:12.420Do you actually think that Manchin and Sinema are going to go along with one of your radical picks now, especially when they're in states that are, by rights, purple or right-leaning?
00:14:01.720But, of course, you want to snuggle up.
00:14:03.260If you want to be warm, that's why you go to MyPillow.com, use promo code POSO, you get the new bedding, you get the blankets, you get the robes, you get the slippers for when you have to walk around.
00:14:43.400Because it's Xi Jinping's coronation ceremony.
00:14:46.180They don't make any other sense other than a Xi Jinping's coronation ceremony.
00:14:49.940All the athletes are going, no boycotts.
00:14:53.780Western media companies, they're sponsoring it, but they're pretending they're not sponsoring it, or they're only running ads within China.
00:15:00.280We covered the other day at the Wall Street Journal story.
00:15:03.480But now this one, out of CNN, of all places, CNN.
00:15:05.660The U.S. Embassy in China is asking the State Department if their diplomats can leave over COVID restrictions.
00:15:14.540The U.S. Diplomatic Mission in China has formally requested the State Department grant American diplomats authorized departure, allowing them and their families to leave the country and amid increasingly strict COVID-19 containment measures.
00:15:30.780China is what, this blows my mind, that CNN would talk about this.
00:15:35.420China is one of the few places in the world still adhering to a zero COVID strategy, in which it aims to stamp out all cases within its borders.
00:15:45.460So CNN will report this when it's in China, but they don't talk about it when it's anywhere in the West, when it's anywhere in the United States, anywhere within Canada, with the truckers you got right now, anywhere in Europe with the mass protests that we're seeing.
00:15:55.400But listen to CNN when it comes to China.
00:15:57.060Since the arrival of Omicron, authorities have seen several outbreaks across the country, prompting local officials to implement required mass testing, strict lockdowns, contact tracing, and new restrictions on movements.
00:16:11.620In some cities, people caught in snap lockdowns have been forced to spend days inside office buildings and shopping malls until everyone inside has tested negative.
00:16:22.120They're locking you in your office buildings, they're locking you in shopping malls for days until one person, until just one person can test negative.
00:18:34.420It's because Xi Jinping rules the world.
00:18:39.340So Senator Ron Johnson out of Wisconsin, a so-called conservative, was caught on a local interview recently talking about child care policies.
00:18:50.940People decide to have families and become parents.
00:18:55.080That's something they need to consider when they make that choice.
00:19:01.600I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children.
00:19:09.040Now, I've got a bone to pick with the senator because this is a situation, and I've said this so many times before, that if I could submit a software upgrade to the conservative movement, you know, like when your phone pushes out an operating system update and you get that notification that says, oh, you have to upgrade.
00:19:31.040If conservatives really want to win the country back and take the country back, you have to do so through supporting family policies.
00:19:39.520This is so key, and it will obviously work within a generation, but you've got so many people that are completely opposed to it because, and you hear this, and I get into it online if I get into debates or other places, you know, if I'm on stage of getting into a debate, where people will say, but what about the GDP?
00:20:03.700The United States of America has been hollowed out, systemically hollowed out by Western elites getting in bed with the CCP through elite merger, but they look at the stock market as the indicator of the economy.
00:20:44.500So you don't actually have to support mass importation of migrants in order to raise your numbers.
00:20:50.660You could actually just support family policies.
00:20:53.620Poland's government is preparing a new demographic strategy intended to tackle one of Europe's lowest fertility rates.
00:20:58.240The program will be based on supporting families and not migration.
00:21:01.580Speaking to Poleside News, the minister said the plan would soon be adopted.
00:21:05.960It includes measures to help parents combine work with family life as well as housing, care, and financial incentives.
00:21:12.100And it is to help Polish families escape the low fertility trap by increasing the birth rate to one that sustains the population.
00:21:20.700Cited research that shows that 95% of young people in Poland would like to start a family, but noted that this requires stable employment and requires housing.
00:21:30.880So they're actually looking at a whole-of-society approach to this thing because they understand that these are the kind of policies they need.
00:21:38.820We've also seen similar policies in Hungary over this.
00:21:42.160So whether it be parental care capital, whether it be child benefits, whether it be loans that are then decreased by the amount of how many kids you have, right?
00:21:51.260These are lots of things that we've seen.
00:21:52.800And I interviewed, about two years ago, I interviewed the Hungarian family minister talking about all this stuff.
00:21:59.480They were even introducing a way for you to get a child care tax credit, a child tax credit, and a credit for buying a larger car.
00:22:05.920Because as your family grows, you might need to get a bigger car.
00:22:08.240But they're actually looking at all of the different aspects that are required for family formation.
00:22:13.820You should be able to raise a family on a single income.
00:22:18.880If conservatives want to be the movement of the future and if conservatives want to be the movement that captures not just the right but also people in the middle, you've got to come to your senses on this.