On today's show, we have a special Halloween edition of the Spooktacular! Featuring a special guest, Gerald Raffens. Gerald and the boys talk about the recent anti-Semitic riot in the Dagestan Airport, the growing problem of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, and why Mike Johnson is the perfect choice to replace Joe Biden as US Ambassador to Israel.
00:02:10.000So, we have a lot to get to today, and I still have a little bit of a cold that's moved into my ears, so everything sounds like... Cold moved into your ears?
00:02:18.000That's how I feel about today's stories.
00:02:22.000Gavin Newsom, look, you can bring up the rundown here.
00:02:27.000He's in China, you guys know, you know, he beat up a kid, okay, that's kind of funny, but I think it's important...
00:02:33.000To contrast his policy, which is very similar to Biden's policy on China versus Donald Trump.
00:02:40.000If you're not talking about taxes, if you're not talking about Drag Queen Story Hour, if you're just talking about the issue of dealing with China and their track record, you have a very, very clear contrast and a choice to make.
00:02:50.000And that choice is, I leave the choice to you, the people!
00:02:54.000Then we're going to be talking about the Dagestan airport riot.
00:02:58.000Not so much as a riot as, you know, the Dagestanis seeking out Jews to kill.
00:03:03.000Yeah, a little bit different than a riot, and it brings us to a major point that everywhere across the Muslim world, you have people committing gross acts of, I don't want to say anti-Semitism, because that whitewash is anti-Jew, anti-Jew, wanting to kill Jews.
00:03:16.000And we're going to be looking at, you know, is there anywhere in the Islamic world that you would want to live?
00:03:20.000We're not talking about in the United States, where they make a very small minority.
00:03:23.000Anytime Muslims, Islamists in the world, Reach a majority and control government.
00:12:09.000Pence is the first major candidate to leave the race, which continues to be dominated by his former boss, Donald Trump.
00:12:17.000This comes after his campaign for the White House struggled to raise money or gain traction in the polls.
00:12:23.000Now, the mission control can bring this up for me.
00:12:26.000I'm pretty sure that he actually performed more poorly than any former vice presidential candidate since Dan Quayle, I know what you're thinking, but in 2000.
00:12:54.000You must be at least this high to run for office.
00:12:56.000He was worried he wasn't even going to make the next debate.
00:12:58.000He wouldn't clear the hurdles that were basically put in to keep Chris Christie out.
00:13:02.000And he had a great one-liner, he's like, oh, I have that jerk store line!
00:13:05.000So, in honor of Pence's exit, we give him, this is actually rare, we've never done this before, a second edition, because we did it before he ran, predicting that of course he would lose.
00:13:15.000This is a second edition of Time to Close.
00:13:18.000Bias against minorities is a great insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement.
00:14:06.000The time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and join with us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary to give the Iranian people, the region, and the world the peace, security, and freedom they deserve.
00:14:27.000I know that it's time for things to close.
00:14:33.000I know that it's time for things to close I know that it's time for things to close
00:17:27.000But it's hard to imagine this isn't somebody who's sort of waiting and watching and wants to be available on deck if sometime in the next year Joe Biden isn't running.
00:17:38.000Okay, so he has the second best odds of winning the Democratic nomination.
00:17:41.000There are a bunch of headlines out there speculating that he might run.
00:17:44.000He was pressed on the question last month and he kind of gave an answer, but then if you understand what he's doing traveling abroad in China, it's one of those, how often have we heard, I'm not running, I'm not running, I'm not running until they run.
00:17:57.000So this is from about a month ago or within the last month.
00:18:01.000I think we need to move past this notion that he's not going to run.
00:19:21.000He's gone after DeSantis as well, and he's been trying to do some political sort of staging, like he vetoed the trans kid custody bill that we talked about.
00:19:34.000So I definitely think that he's probably, he's in the mix.
00:19:37.000I think if nothing else, he's probably planning on a cabinet position.
00:19:40.000Yeah, there are a number of things that he could do, but look, Brian, to your point, when people look at him and go, oh, he's just preparing for whenever Biden is done in 28, I'm like, this is too early for that.
00:19:50.000He's doing way—like, if he was doing a handful of things over the course of a year, fine.
00:19:55.000He's doing way too many things back to back to back to back to back to tell us, like, hey, I'm trying to do something bigger than just in— Well, for him, I don't know if he knows, but everything is bigger in China.
00:20:23.000But there's like 20 billion of them, so it would just be like World War Z. If there was a world war, they'd just be throwing bodies.
00:20:28.000So Newsom recently, which is not typical of just a governor of Cal, an active governor, visited China.
00:20:34.000Xi Jinping, other CCP leaders. We have a clip.
00:20:37.000There we go. Nice pick. Nice pick. Bam, bam, bam.
00:20:48.000I got you. Tackle it. Basketball's tackle. Sorry, that was him being creepy and harming a child.
00:20:58.000A Chinese child on a basketball court.
00:21:00.000It's obvious he knocked the kid by accident and he was trying to soften it, but if they were playing by their own rules, You know, patting a Chinese kid on the ass who was likely a prisoner of the government three times wouldn't go over very well.
00:22:02.000So let me give you a recap of what he did in his visit, and then kind of show you the concerns that I would have of Newsom, but also Biden with China.
00:22:07.000That's something that's sort of being overlooked right now because of the conflict with, you know, Israel and Hamas.
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00:23:24.000So I don't know if you have that tool.
00:23:35.000He told CNN when talking about China that, quote, divorce is not an option when speaking of the economic relationship between the United States and China.
00:25:09.000So I don't believe in punishing American businesses for needing supplies that cannot come from the United States.
00:25:15.000That being said, there are a lot of companies out there, like Apple, like, insert whatever, Nike, insert whatever factory of the day, and some of them I get are Bangladesh, and some of them are other places, Vietnam, but a lot of them are in China, where they simply want to cut costs and use slave labor.
00:25:30.000California is one of the worst offenders, if you look at the companies who benefit from this.
00:26:49.000So, it's just interesting to me that the guy who did more for the electric car than anyone in modern history had to leave the eco-friendly state of California.
00:28:36.000Yeah, well, our entire lives, my entire life growing up, everyone who wanted to fancy themselves an economist would say, well, you know, the future is China.
00:29:02.000You can't bitch about violations of human rights, for example, in Gaza on behalf of Israel, and say that, you know, our relationship with China is really important.
00:29:10.000Yeah, well that's the problem that I had with the NBA and with Nike and with Apple was that they were doing those things in the United States.
00:29:15.000They were complaining about human rights abuses, they were trying to jump on every woke thing that they possibly could, and then turning a blind eye to what was happening in China where their products are being made or where their services are being sold or where people were watching their games.
00:29:28.000For crying out loud, people couldn't even have signs here in the United States criticizing China.
00:29:32.000But it took a long time to get all that stuff online.
00:29:36.000That symbiotic relationship between America and China is decades in the making.
00:29:43.000So getting off that is going to take a little time.
00:29:45.000I feel like politicians are just buying time.
00:29:48.000China has so many problems, not just a demographic problem, but entrepreneurs and people are leaving China.
00:29:55.000Hong Kong is paying people to have children.
00:29:58.000They're literally saying we'll give you $2,500 for every kid you have and you'll get an apartment faster.
00:31:05.000Two decades later, this theory has been tested and proven completely wrong.
00:31:10.000Not only has China declined to adopt promised reforms, it has embraced an economic model dependent on massive market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfers, and the theft of intellectual property.
00:31:32.000And also, trade secrets on a grand scale.
00:32:39.000He said that to an eight year old, so.
00:32:42.000So this is the contrast here is you have an entire party who is not just saying, hey, we need to be realistic about our relationship with China.
00:32:48.000They want to increase our codependency with China.
00:33:50.000Again, they don't view nationalism as a racist term there, they just view it as being a good Chinese citizen.
00:33:57.000And it's also how you know that their media is entirely government propaganda, because no reporter who looks like that would be allowed in American media.
00:34:06.000He looks like a children's doll who was given a haircut.
00:38:04.000We've talked about this before if you go back to the Quran Challenge.
00:38:07.000And Dagestan is interesting because it's not necessarily what you think of when you think of the Islamic world.
00:38:13.000You can't judge the progression of Islam by minorities in the United States or in Canada, for example, where they are a minority of the citizenship.
00:38:21.000You kind of have to judge Islam as far as its performance historically when the nation Is a majority Islamist and they gain control of the government.
00:38:32.000Maybe you can name to me any place on earth that is a Muslim run government that does not violate human and civil rights to a degree that would be abhorrent here in the United States.
00:38:43.000Comment below if you can think of one.
00:38:45.000Because that's what brings us to something that is not all that surprising to people in places like Dagestan, but in the United States, you might say, oh, I never knew this.
00:38:55.000So, an angry mob of Muslims in Dagestan, Russia, they formed, I guess you would call it, I guess a lynch mob?
00:39:04.000Looking for, and this isn't just a protest, they were actually seeking out an alleged flight of Jews from Israel to try and, well, in their own words, kill them.
00:40:36.000But if I may, I think if you are Jewish and you're caught in Dagestan, because it's not a great vacation spot, but they have nice mountains.
00:40:45.000Their tourism campaign is better than the actual Yeah, and if you want to brush up on your takedown defense or your single leg, it's a good place to go.
00:40:55.000If you are in a situation like that and a mob in Dagestan comes at you and you're Jewish, what you want to do is throw books at them and they will scatter the way mice do.
00:41:05.000I'm sorry, elephants do when they see mice.
00:41:07.000So it's kind of like with the leprechaun, if you throw Shoes.
00:41:45.000And by the way, that applies also in Dearborn, if you're in Lebanon.
00:41:48.000If you're a decent person, even if you're a Muslim, but you don't want to see Jews killed, if they come up like, you will tell me what every last Jew is!
00:42:41.000You made it out and had a wonderful career.
00:42:46.000By the way, they stormed this airport.
00:42:48.000There's other videos out there going up the escalators and this massive crowd looking for people actually out on the tarmac next to planes.
00:42:55.000I think they ended up talking to one poor guy that they thought was a Jew.
00:42:58.000I don't even know if he was or not, but like, this is literally like, hey, we're this, this is Germany in the 1930s.
00:43:04.000More so than I think we've ever seen outside of that time period.
00:43:08.000I understand there's anti-Semitism, I understand there's isolated cases, but when they literally storm an airport, one of the most secure places in a country typically, They are looking for people to kill because they suspected there were people on this flight from Tel Aviv that were Jewish.
00:43:21.000What's really bothersome, what's really weird and ironic is that typically throughout history it was the Christians that killed the Jews and they would go to Muslim countries because the Muslims would give them safe quarter because they were quote-unquote people of the book.
00:43:34.000So that was typical and now with this Hamas stuff, well in recent history it's the exact opposite.
00:43:40.000Yeah, but those usually coincided with wars for land because they also killed more Christians than anyone else, too.
00:43:45.000People don't realize that when you're talking about the Inquisition.
00:43:47.000The same thing is if you look at Islam, though, they just, at a certain point, they want to kill all of them.
00:43:52.000You either convert, you're subjugated, or everybody gets killed.
00:44:29.000That being said, hey, Jews in the United States, are you starting to get the picture?
00:44:34.000When people say, oh fringe, no hold on a second, find me anyone in the RNC, a mainstream conservative, sure there's some neo-Nazis out there, but you're talking single digit percentages of a single digit percentage.
00:44:47.000You have the entire squad And our House of Representatives, not to mention other leftists who simply are espousing anti-Jew rhetoric right now.
00:44:59.000I hope that people do, because I know that Jews in the United States largely vote left, and that's because a lot of them aren't practicing, but around the world, and largely the Islamic world, wherever they are a majority, there have been massive protests in support, they will say in support of the people of Palestine, but I have not seen included massive condemnation of Hamas.
00:45:18.000It's alarming when you see what's happening across the globe.
00:46:29.000There's so many instances of this, but right now one of them is from October 27, pro-Hamas protests forced Jewish students to barricade in Copper Union in New York.
00:46:38.000This is here in the United States that this is happening.
00:46:40.000Cornell right now, I think there was tons of anti-Semitic stuff going on at that university.
00:46:44.000You could look at a timeline where the university is doing really bad things, just like we saw from Harvard where students are saying this, posters are being torn down, people are very pro-Hamas.
00:46:53.000It all stems from Israel defending itself.
00:46:56.000And also, why are people not talking about how Hamas has no interest in a free Palestine, quote-unquote?
00:47:04.000The minute that the Palestinians are actually a prosperous, free people, they're out of power.
00:47:11.000Their power relies, and Iran's power relies, on chaos and the misery of the Palestinian people.
00:47:18.000You take that away, and they don't have anything to fight against.
00:47:21.000So we have this abroad, but let's look here in the United States.
00:47:24.000We have a montage here of Palestinian sympathizers.
00:47:26.000And again, if you listen to some of these, it would be one thing if they were to say, we absolutely completely condemn Hamas and terrorism outright.
00:47:34.000But you never really, I shouldn't say never, you rarely see that.
00:47:37.000They usually go, what do you expect if you're being occupied?
00:47:40.000Also, why isn't Hamas considered an occupation?
00:47:44.000In other words, you can condemn the occupation of Israel if that's how you view it, but it's also an occupation if you look at the way Hamas shoots their own citizens trying to flee.
00:47:53.000So here in the United States are some protests for you to watch.
00:49:26.000So, remember, anyone who calls for a ceasefire, they go beyond that saying, Jews you can't hide, one state solution, they're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:49:37.000What they usually try to say out loud is ceasefire, which means allow the rape, allow the bombing, allow the tunneling underneath your cities to target and bomb record number of innocent women and children, and then ceasefire.
00:49:49.000Anyone who says those words ceasefires advocating for the killing, raping, kidnapping of innocent people and
00:51:43.000In Qatar, remember Clockboy went to Qatar because he couldn't deal with, he sued Ben Shapiro for questioning his Philips alarm clock put in a suitcase and then he claimed that he was being persecuted, so he went to Qatar.
00:51:54.000By the way, they punish sodomy with one to three years in prison.
00:52:08.000And if Muslims have sex and they're convicted outside of marriage, and by the way, I think it's a good thing to wait until marriage, I think it's a good thing to not be a lying whore.
00:52:15.000That being said, I don't believe that, like Qatar, you should be sentenced to flogging or the death penalty.
00:52:54.000That's like when I was a kid and I wouldn't finish and my mom would say, like, there's starving kids in China.
00:52:58.000When they're flogging a guy for committing adultery, they're going, hey, do you know they're There are men in America who have to pay child support for 18 years!
00:53:06.000Yeah, you're gonna use a belt or a branch.
00:53:09.000Yeah, and by the way, women have even been sentenced in Qatar, just to give you an idea, for engaging in premarital sex when they're raped.
00:53:15.000If you go to Turkey, which is supposedly a more secular country, that's what people pointed to for a very long time.
00:53:20.000I mean, I've been doing this on YouTube, for example, since 2006, 2009, more political.
00:53:24.000I remember when everyone used to say, well, there are places like Turkey.
00:53:28.000Again, you just fast forward a few years.
00:53:30.000On Saturday, Erdogan called Israel occupiers and he talked about the fire that they would not be able to avoid in places like... Let me just really quickly, in front of hundreds of thousands of people in a pro-Hamas, they don't split hairs on Palestine and Hamas, a pro-Hamas gathering, he said that they could enter this war at night and Israel would never see it coming.
00:53:52.000This is a guy who is actively riling up a crowd of people who don't need any additional fuel being thrown on that fire.
00:54:02.000So I don't know if in Saudi Arabia, you know what, Mission Control is going to have you do this, I'm going to go by rote here.
00:54:07.000Saudi Arabia, women weren't allowed to drive, maybe they changed that relatively recently.
00:54:11.000Deaths for Christians across the Islamic world, apostasy or subject to dimitude, meaning that if you're not Muslim you have to pay a poll tax, you have a curfew.
00:54:19.000There are certain areas where you're not allowed to visit.
00:54:21.000Depending on the Islamic country, you're not allowed to own land that's waterfront.
00:54:27.000Of course, gays being killed through death penalty, that's a matter of policy.
00:54:32.000Women, of course, in many countries not being allowed to vote, and then they'll tell you that they have a lot of female representatives, or women not allowed to drive, women not allowed to Gosh, there are certain jobs that they're just not allowed to have.
00:54:42.000Things that don't seem like that big of a deal when you compare it to the murder and burning alive of gays.
00:54:47.000But these are standard anywhere in the Islamic world.
00:54:50.000And here you're bitching if there aren't enough scholarships for women to get into STEM programs that they didn't qualify for anyway?
00:54:57.000And these are the same people out there saying, we need affirmative action in the United States.
00:55:01.000Go try and explain affirmative action anywhere in the Islamic world.
00:55:06.000Anywhere in the Islamic world, if there are too many, there are too many Arabic or Persian, whatever it is, Arabic Muslims at this school, and we need more Buddhists.
00:55:22.000Charlize Theron, she really does it for me.
00:55:23.000But my point is, go try and explain affirmative, so you protest, you demand affirmative action here, whereas it is second-class citizenry everywhere, everywhere in the Islamic world that they have achieved the status of running a government.
00:57:18.000I was feeling kind of rapey and now that I got a pamphlet in my hand.
00:57:21.000This article went viral from our website.
00:57:24.000We didn't have the exclusive, we just happened to be the people who covered it at that point.
00:57:27.000We got fact-checked by Reuters, I believe, or by PolitiFact.
00:57:30.000And they said that the leaflets, this was not the first printing of the leaflets, they were used for another event, therefore it was false.
00:57:36.000But they hated out the don't-rape-leaflets in Cologne!
00:57:39.000The very fact that they exist in the first place.
00:58:16.000Divorce is literally, say t'lick, t'lick, three times, boom, done.
00:58:19.000That's also what allows them the loophole to have a temporary marriage and get a whore on the side.
00:58:24.000So this is something, you can look at what happens in Dearborn.
00:58:27.000You can look at what happens in these small pockets in Europe and then, of course, always look to what happens in Islamically-run countries.
00:58:42.000One exception of a majority-Muslim nation that has not committed gross violations of basic human rights, by the way, in a selective manner for non-Muslims, that's lasted more than 10 years.
00:59:00.000I think, just in the interest of being fair before you get criticized, Jordan is pretty moderate because they are essentially, I think, Sufi Muslims.
00:59:07.000Well, they're pretty moderate right now.
00:59:10.000They weren't so moderate when they were attacking Israel.
00:59:17.000I want to go back to something that's a really important term in terms of Hamas, ceasefire, and Palestine, which these people never talk about when they're protesting.
00:59:25.000It's like, we can get into the Islam thing, but do you think, doesn't it count, doesn't it mean something where, you're calling for a ceasefire, when it took them two years to plan what they did on October 7th.
01:00:15.000I don't know, but I'm not holding my breath.
01:00:17.000The reason he can't get a clear answer?
01:00:20.000There are a lot of Muslims who, right, there's taqiyyah, which means they're, and this is not, they're allowed to lie.
01:00:25.000They're allowed to lie, it's a part of their religion.
01:00:27.000Now, some people will argue and say, well, you're only allowed to lie, you're only allowed to lie, and this is in certain sects of Islam, and not all of them, it's not even all of, you know, Shia or Sunni Islam, just to be clear, and sometimes there's some overlap.
01:00:41.000You're only allowed to lie if it's your life at stake.
01:00:45.000But then there are a lot of Muslims, probably to the tally of at least tens of millions, maybe not 198 million who support violence against civilians, we have that poll from last week, but at least the tens of millions who also believe will not only lie for you to not just lose your life but, you know, essential living.
01:02:18.000It includes a whole laundry list of do's and don'ts.
01:02:22.000For people who aren't Muslim, if you want to live in this society.
01:02:26.000And by the way, it's just like someone walking backward and putting down landmines so they can execute you at a moment's notice.
01:02:33.000That is every Islamic nation, at some point since the beginning, now we can point to some Christians, we can point to the Inquisition, we can point to, if you want to point to the Crusades and not acknowledge that they were retaliatory action in the face of what was going on at that point, but you can't say every single Group of Christians.
01:02:51.000You can't say every single place where groups of majority Christians congregated, did they kill everyone who was not Christian.
01:03:40.000Left unfettered around the world, if you truly are a believer, not just nominally Muslim, not just kind of going through the motions Muslim because they're nominal Christians too.
01:03:50.000This is what the natural outcome is, is taking over and basically the only reason that the poll tax goes away is because they finally ban it and you're killed or converted.
01:03:58.000So they take that option away eventually and it's prescribed in their book and it's not God doing it like, oh the Christians!
01:04:04.000God judges because he is righteous to be able to do that.
01:04:07.000Not saying, hey you, Muslim warrior, go and kill the Jew that's hiding behind this stone over here, this tree over here, because they'll cry out and tell you that that stuff is happening.
01:04:15.000That's the problem when we look at these conflicts and try to evaluate them on economic terms, or try to evaluate them on land terms with Palestine.
01:06:36.000You come home, this is the kind of conflict we're dealing with.
01:06:38.000You come home, your house has been ransacked, you walk up to your bedroom and at gunpoint he ties you down to a chair and says, I'm going to come back when your whole family is here and kill all of them.
01:06:50.000I'm never going to stop until everyone in this house is dead.
01:06:54.000You deal with those two people very differently.
01:06:57.000And one is an accurate depiction of how these Islamists believe they are to live, how they are called to act by God.
01:07:04.000It's, I'm coming back and killing every last one of you in the Lipschitz household.
01:07:09.000Then, when I'm done with that, I'm going down to the McDonald's down the street.
01:07:13.000I'm going to their household because they're Christians.
01:07:15.000Once we're done with all of the Jews, Christians next.
01:07:19.000Because it is a worldview, a religion of global When people talk about the doomsday cults of Christians, and they're stupid, where they're trying to invite doomsday, they'll even talk about that with Israel, right?
01:07:48.000But 198 Muslims in the world think it's okay to sometimes kill civilians, and at least 54 million Muslims, according to these polls from Pew Research, say it's okay to kill civilians most of the time.
01:08:00.000You deal with that very differently than a pickpocket.
01:08:05.000So let me ask you, where do you see this going?