In this episode, we take a look back at the 2016 election, and look forward to what's to come in the next election, with the 2020 mid-term elections just around the corner, and the 2020 presidential election, in which Donald Trump is running for re-election against a man who has been accused of being a fascist and a fascist-in-chief, and who is willing to do whatever it takes to get him on the ballot, including delegitimizing Trump as a human being, and using the force of law to delegitimize him, and take him off of the ballot. And we look ahead to what we can expect in 2020, and what we should expect in the years to come, as 2020 becomes the year of the punchline, and in 2024, the year the dominoes begin to fall, and everything begins to fall. Welcome to 2024, and get ready for all the jokes and the jokes that are going to be written about Donald Trump and the Trump administration in the coming years. Get ready to be annoyed. Get ready for 2020 to be a bad year, and 2020 to become a bad decade, and maybe even worse than the previous decade, because that's what we're going to have in store for you in 2020 and beyond, and it's going to get even worse in 2020! the year that was supposed to be good, but it's actually not so good at all. . 2020 is the decade of the set-up, and now we re-up for 2020 and 2020 is gonna be the year, right? and 2020 are the year where we're gonna get it all set up, and we're all gonna get what we need to get it right, and then we'll see all the pieces coming together, and that's gonna be a little bit better than we thought we could ever get it done, and a lot better than that, right, we'll figure it out, we ll see what we all can do in 2020 we'll talk about it, we can all agree on that, we're not going to need to do, we know that, shall we say? We'll get it? We'll see you soon, folks! . . . we'll find out what that's coming, and let's see what's coming in 2020. , and we'll have a little more, we will see you next year, folks. Let's get ready to get annoyed.
00:00:54.000Because Barack Obama got exactly what he deserved in 2016.
00:00:58.000Here he was, this supposed world historical figure, this amazing order, genteel, snazzy, and here was this supposed third-rate real estate mogul slash TV host who was taking his spot, a person who had suggested that he was born in Kenya.
00:01:14.000Everyone gets what they deserve in politics.
00:01:16.000Hillary Clinton got it that year as well.
00:01:18.000Well this year, in 2024, everyone is going to get what they deserve.
00:01:22.000Now that's both good news and bad news.
00:01:25.0002023 felt like the year of the setup and 2024 is going to be the year of the punchline.
00:01:29.000Or, a lot more darkly, 2023 felt like all the dominoes have now been set up And 2024 is going to see all the dominoes fall.
00:01:38.000Watching coverage of New Year's Eve, it was hard not to feel that all the curtains are about to be pulled back.
00:01:43.000That we've been prepped by the warm-up act.
00:03:00.000OK, now, no one was really under the impression that Green Day was part of the MAGA agenda, but this is what it's going to be now until Election Day.
00:03:09.000The left is also going to attempt to use all mechanisms of law to go after Trump.
00:03:13.000This is not just true of the various prosecutions that are taking place across the country in Georgia, in New York, in Washington, D.C., in Florida.
00:03:21.000It's also true When it comes to delegitimization of institutions that could stop them from going after Trump, legally speaking.
00:03:28.000So, over the course of the last week and a half, it turns out that in Maine, they are also trying to take Donald Trump off the ballot in the same way that the Supreme Court of Colorado took him off the ballot in Colorado, suggesting that he was guilty of insurrection.
00:03:39.000That is going to go to the Supreme Court.
00:03:41.000The Supreme Court is then going to have to determine whether or not Trump can be removed from the ballot simply because some state official believes that he has committed quote-unquote insurrection despite the fact that he's never been convicted or even charged with the crime of insurrection.
00:03:54.000Well part of this is an attempt to delegitimize the Supreme Court itself because Three of the justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Donald Trump when he was president of the United States.
00:04:03.000And now, Democrats are suggesting that basically every justice on the Supreme Court who Trump either appointed or who was appointed by a Republican ought to be recused from any case dealing with Trump's access to the ballot.
00:04:16.000So therefore, if Trump is not removed from the ballot, the Supreme Court is illegitimate.
00:04:20.000Here was Jamie Raskin doing this routine, the congressperson from Maryland.
00:04:25.000Should any of the justices recuse themselves if they take this up?
00:04:30.000Well, finally, the Supreme Court has developed what they're describing as a code of ethics.
00:04:36.000It's not binding in the sense that they're not going to anyone else.
00:04:40.000They could have gone to, for example, circuit court justices.
00:04:43.000You could have had state Supreme Court justices on a panel.
00:04:47.000But so they're deciding for themselves, again, whether they're in violation of their code of ethics.
00:04:54.000Anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say, if your wife was involved in the big lie and claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election, had been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to January 6th, that you shouldn't be participating in... So he should recuse himself.
00:06:23.000So many people through the Midwest and the center of the country, Their factors are shipped overseas the last couple of times out, and they're losing hope and faith.
00:06:33.000So we brought a lot of jobs back to the United States.
00:06:36.000People are in a position to be able to make a living now, and they've created a lot of jobs, over 14 million.
00:06:43.000And I guess when I'm, I just feel good that the American people got up.
00:06:48.000They've been through a rough time with pandemic, but now we're coming back.
00:08:06.000If the left believes they have to break all the instruments of government in order to stop Trump, and if the right believes that all of the instruments of government are broken if somehow Trump loses, well, that's not a great setup for 2024.
00:08:35.000Because we all know this election isn't really going to be about the candidates, because nothing is going to change about your perspective on the candidates.
00:09:13.000First, as we head into this presidential election year, one thing you can be sure of, 2024 will be a wild ride.
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00:10:33.000It will likely include record numbers of families traveling with children, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.
00:10:38.000It's also going to contain a bunch of people on the terror watch list because it literally always does.
00:10:42.000They're a bunch of young Males, particularly, from the Northern Triangle, but also from overseas, from abroad, who are unvetted, who are going to be let into the country.
00:10:51.000Because this is the way we have done immigration policy in this country for years, and it has greatly accelerated and exacerbated under Joe Biden.
00:10:58.000According to CBS News, the extraordinary number of migrant arrivals this month is the most dire juncture yet of a three-year-long crisis in the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:11:19.000Border Patrol agents at the Mexican border are on course to take into custody this month a quarter of a million migrants who entered the country illegally.
00:11:26.000Their colleagues at official ports of entry are expected to process roughly 50,000 new arrivals under a Biden administration appointment system.
00:11:33.000Never, ever have they processed this many migrants.
00:11:37.000In the first 28 days of December, Border Patrol agents processed nearly 235,000 migrants who crossed the southern border illegally in between ports of entry, averaging roughly 84 apprehensions every day.
00:11:53.000Because this has been happening consistently under the Biden administration.
00:11:56.000Border Patrol processed 127,000 single adult migrants and nearly 12,000 unaccompanied children during December's first 28 days.
00:12:04.000Now remember, an unaccompanied child is not necessarily an 8-year-old kid.
00:12:08.000It could be a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old.
00:12:10.000Which is a minor, but not quite what you're thinking of when you think unaccompanied minor, like a four-year-old walking up to the border or something.
00:12:17.000But again, look at the acceleration and the pace of monthly migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:12:29.000And as you can see, they were at relatively normal numbers in like April of 2020.
00:12:34.000They started to go up about then, but they didn't truly skyrocket until you hit the beginning of 2021, until you hit the Biden administration.
00:12:53.000Which leads us, by the way, to the single greatest political stunt of all time, without a doubt.
00:12:58.000So, Republican governors Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, in Florida, they started taking illegal immigrants in their states and they started sending them to left-wing polities.
00:13:08.000They started sending a bunch of Illegal immigrants to Chicago and to New York and to Martha's Vineyard.
00:13:15.000And the entire media squawked and squealed.
00:13:28.000Most Americans are fine with visiting Chicago or New York.
00:13:31.000Here are illegal immigrants who are being shipped to America's greatest city centers, we have been told, by the illustrious media and their allies in the Democratic Party.
00:13:38.000And yet, here they were complaining about all of this.
00:13:47.000When everybody's being released in Brownsville, Texas.
00:13:50.000And taking over the streets over there.
00:13:52.000And then being gradually integrated into red states.
00:13:55.000But, when this stuff is happening in blue cities, suddenly, you realize migrant crises They're really bad.
00:14:01.000Again, all the chicken's gonna come home to roost in 2024, and you can see it on the faces of Democratic politicians who are beginning to— Hey, wait a second.
00:14:11.000Here is Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, the male Lori Lightfoot, explaining that by sending illegal immigrants from Texas to Chicago, Greg Abbott is sowing the seeds of chaos, which does raise the question, How did those people get into Texas in the first place?
00:14:33.000So that Texas couldn't force the border.
00:14:35.000And the federal government is suing to stop them.
00:14:38.000In the same way they did when Jan Brewer was governor of Arizona.
00:14:41.000And Barack Obama's administration actually sued Jan Brewer to stop her from enforcing immigration law in Arizona.
00:14:47.000So the federal government has a policy.
00:14:48.000The policy is, we won't enforce federal immigration law, and if you try to, we will sue you.
00:14:54.000But Brandon Johnson, they're gonna try to blame Greg Abbott, they'll try to blame DeSantis, they'll try to blame Republican governors.
00:14:58.000The reason you're having 300,000 illegal entries into the United States in December alone is because of Joe Biden and the federal government.
00:16:32.000Again, it is astonishing to me that New York City, which touts itself as the financial hub, not just of the United States, of planet Earth, is saying, we don't have the resources to pay for illegal immigration.
00:16:49.000What do you need most right now from the federal government?
00:16:53.000Well, first of all, I want to really commend my colleagues, both the mayor of Denver and the mayor of Chicago, because this national crisis is really impacting and it has the potential of destabilizing the financial obligations that we have in our cities.
00:17:09.000And the meeting with the White House, I think much more could be done with all of our national leaders from a decompression strategy to making sure the cost of this is not falling on the laps of everyday taxpayers.
00:17:51.000Well, all we've done is we have turned the possibility of a brief shock in the economy that would have hit bottom and then skyrocketed back up basically into a long-term stagnating cycle.
00:18:02.000It's exactly what happened under the Obama administration.
00:18:04.000The Obama administration had the slowest recovery from an economic crash in American history.
00:18:09.000Extremely slow rates, economic stagnation at very high rates.
00:18:12.000That's what you're about to see from the Biden administration because so much of the growth curve that has been created was created off the back of inflationary policies and government spending.
00:18:21.000Businesses are starting to invest again, but they're starting to invest on the basis that they think that the Federal Reserve is going to cut the interest rates over the course of the next year, making for another round of easy money policies that they think is going to spur consumer spending.
00:18:35.000Which, by the way, could spur inflation again, which is why there may be a disconnect between the markets and businesses and what the Federal Reserve is actually going to do.
00:18:41.000Jerome Powell knows that if he actually lowers the interest rates, there's a good shot that inflation kicks back in Especially if you do have high levels of business spending into that economy.
00:18:51.000We'll get into that in just one moment.
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00:19:56.000Okay, so when it comes to the economy, One of the things that people are ignoring is how much of the economic growth statistics are tied into government spending.
00:20:05.000Alicia Finley has very good piece over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:20:09.000She says, drill into the nation's 3.7% unemployment rate, you'll find a growing welfare industrial complex beneath the seemingly strong labor market.
00:20:17.000Government social assistance and health care account for 56% of the 2.8 million net new jobs over the past year and for nearly all gains in blue states like New York and Illinois.
00:20:26.000Remember, government social assistance and health care.
00:20:29.000Those are all government expenditure programs.
00:20:31.000New York City is spending $394 a day to house and feed every illegal immigrant who's coming in.
00:20:38.000The city has made itself a welfare magnet.
00:20:40.000The homeless population continues to swell as well.
00:20:45.000So many of the statistics that we are seeing in terms of GDP are jogged by the amount of government spending that is currently happening right now.
00:20:56.000Illegal immigration, by the way, in this viewpoint actually helps the economy because if you are trying to increase GDP, what you do is you bring people in, you spend a lot of government services on them, and then you count that all as part of GDP.
00:21:07.000Government spending is part of the gross domestic product statistic that everybody loves to use.
00:21:14.000As Finley points out, President Biden won't admit it, but he has Republican states to thank for the increase in productive jobs in private industry.
00:21:19.000The administration's bet is government spending on welfare and entitlements can continue to power the U.S.
00:21:23.000labor market, even as job growth in manufacturing, tech, retail, and other industry flags, but social make-work projects don't improve American living standards.
00:21:37.000Look at the fact that we have good GDP statistics, quarter on quarter.
00:21:39.000And the answer is, since Joe Biden took office, The American dollar, one dollar, would buy you the same thing in January of 2021 that would cost you almost a buck twenty to buy you now.
00:21:52.000That is a real increase in how much things cost.
00:21:56.000It means you need more money in order to buy the same exact things.
00:22:00.000And all of those growth statistics that are being jogged by government spending, we understand that that's going to come due on the other end in the form of either higher taxes or austerity programs that are eventually going to come due.
00:22:10.000We have trillions of dollars in unpaid federal liabilities at this point in this country.
00:22:16.000The disconnect is between the stats and how people feel, and people are not wrong to feel the way that they do when things cost this much more money.
00:22:24.000Meanwhile, on national security, 2024 is certainly the year that things are going to come due.
00:22:28.000One of the things that's going to come due is the emptying out of the American military.
00:22:32.000We don't have enough recruits for the American military, and the entire style of recruiting for the American military is totally off.
00:22:38.000We've spent in the wrong places when it comes to the American military.
00:22:41.000We still have the most powerful military force on planet Earth.
00:22:43.000We still have the best fighting men and women in the business when it comes to the American military.
00:22:48.000We should all be extraordinarily proud of the American military.
00:22:51.000It is also true that the United States military has been turned into a DEI enclave by a lot of the military leadership, particularly under the Biden administration, where the focus has been on how do we basically use the auspices of the single most important function of the federal government in order to press forward our left-wing agenda.
00:23:10.000This was made clear over the course of the last week by a trans lieutenant colonel named Bree Fram, who now says, at a Fortune, Inc.
00:23:20.000event, Inclusion is a national security imperative.
00:23:24.000Inclusion is a national security imperative.
00:23:29.000We fight today and we are going to fight in the future using brain power.
00:23:34.000And if that brain, who's going to revolutionize the way we fight in space, we fight in cyber, just happens to be in a trans body, you should want them all serving alongside me.
00:23:46.000And for your organizations, it's the same way.
00:23:50.000Those perspectives that we get from a diverse set of individuals, it's been talked about on stage a lot regarding the science behind high-performing teams.
00:23:59.000But it's inclusion that actually drives that.
00:24:04.000Hey, all of this is connected to a broader Joe Biden military policy, which is a policy of appeasement and retreat in many places, or at the very least, a policy of vacillation and wavering.
00:24:15.000So my friend, the historian Neil Ferguson, he had a fascinating thread at the end of the year where he talks about where America stands right now.
00:24:24.000He says future historians are going to marvel at all of this.
00:24:27.000It will seem obvious by 2033, if not sooner, that the Pax Americana, the idea of an American hegemony dominating the globe, faced a well-coordinated challenge from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea in the early 2020s.
00:24:38.000The first move was the invasion of Ukraine.
00:24:40.000The second was the war of Iran's proxies against Israel.
00:24:42.000The third will most likely be a Chinese challenge to American primacy in the Indo-Pacific, perhaps if Xi Jinping is bold, a blockade of Taiwan.
00:24:49.000If, in the course of 2024, Ukraine's position becomes so vulnerable that its forces must withdraw from some contested territory, three immediate consequences will follow.
00:24:57.000First, more refugees will flow from Ukraine to Europe.
00:24:59.000Second, private investors will take their money out of Ukraine.
00:25:01.000And third, European governments will have to get a lot more serious about their own defense spending, with all the obvious political headaches that implies.
00:25:07.000For NATO as a whole, to hit 3.5% of GDP on defense spending would require $431 billion more per year, nearly twice the amount all countries have pledged to Ukraine since last year.
00:25:23.000It was always very likely the overreach of the global war on terror would be requited in this way with a resurgence of isolationism.
00:25:29.000And that's what's happening inside the Biden administration.
00:25:32.000Now, the realist foreign policy that Donald Trump pursued was not, in fact, an appeasement-oriented foreign policy.
00:25:38.000The idea that Europe should pay its own way when it comes to military spending and the United States would still be a muscular player in the world was not a bad idea from Donald Trump.
00:25:47.000The idea of getting rid of NATO entirely was a bad idea, but the idea that NATO should actually be paid for by many of our allies was, of course, entirely true.
00:25:54.000They were relying on us for years to pay the freight when it came to their military spending.
00:25:58.000The problem is Joe Biden came into office And his strategy has basically been to say broad things that don't materialize in the way that he would like them to.
00:26:13.000Joe Biden never made clear what the exact interest was in the Ukraine war.
00:26:17.000Let's say that Joe Biden at the very outset had said, listen, the interest in Ukraine is not to reverse the gains that Russia made in 2014, because those are not reversible at this point, given the state of the war.
00:26:28.000The purpose here is to repel any future Russian invasion of Ukraine, and we will provide military support necessary to do that.
00:26:35.000Even in perpetuity, we'd be willing to do that.
00:26:38.000Right now, the broad-scale perception in Russia would be that Russia is losing the war, because they did.
00:27:21.000No matter how much military aid America provides, unless the United States is willing to start sending over F-16s, if that's not going to happen, there's no way to break the stranglehold that Russia has on those areas.
00:27:33.000And so right now, Vladimir Putin is just waiting out Joe Biden.
00:27:38.000Because Republicans have correctly said, we need to know what the plan is here.
00:27:43.000And Joe Biden is not articulating a plan.
00:27:47.000So over the course of the last week, Putin said that they're going to increase the strikes on Ukraine.
00:27:51.000Putin's bet all the way along here has been very simple.
00:27:55.000I'm going to outlast the United States.
00:27:57.000The history of Russian war making is expend way too much material and way too many men in pursuit of a military goal because the history of Russian military conquest says we don't really care very much about our own citizens and we are willing to throw hundreds of thousands and millions of people at a problem.
00:28:13.000Going all the way back to World War I, the Russians were perfectly willing to sacrifice millions and millions of people charging frontally blocked positions, charging machine gun positions with no weaponry.
00:28:25.000So the idea that they're going to expend lots and lots, like that's actually part of the Russian military mentality.
00:28:31.000The notion that he's going to be pushed off the ball by Joe Biden basically saying Zelensky can make the case here, like that's not going to do it.
00:28:38.000So Putin is going to continue to ratchet up the pressure, which is what he's doing.
00:28:41.000Russian leader Vladimir Putin said moments ago that Russia will increase its airstrikes on Ukraine in the coming days, weeks, and months.
00:28:51.000This comes as Ukraine says that Odessa on the Black Sea coast came under assault from unmanned Russian drones just hours into the new year.
00:29:00.000One person died, at least nine were injured.
00:29:04.000I mean, basically Putin is betting that the West is simply gonna give up on this.
00:29:07.000And the reality is that because of failures to articulate the goals and the strategies,
00:29:12.000the West may in fact give up on Ukraine.
00:29:13.000Now, if that happens, it is much more likely that China is going to become ever more militant.
00:29:18.000China is watching a West in retreat around the globe from powers that should not have the West in retreat.
00:29:23.000Forget about Russia, which is a nuclear armed power.
00:29:25.000When you look at the Middle East, the fact that the West is being basically challenged
00:29:29.000by a bunch of ragtag pirates in the Red Sea is totally insane.
00:29:33.000The fact that the West is somehow hand-wringing over a democratic ally, Israel, trying to destroy a terrorist group, Hamas, that just committed the worst act of Jew murder since World War II.
00:29:45.000And the West is sitting around hand-wringing, what do we do?
00:30:27.000Now remember, the Biden administration delisted the Houthis as a terrorist group when they came into power.
00:30:32.000And right now, you basically have U.S.
00:30:34.000military assets that are sitting out there and having to wait to blow up these tiny inflatables being driven by illiterate morons with badly Program drones.
00:30:47.000Iran's Alborz warship has now entered the Red Sea, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency and Reuters.
00:30:54.000Tasnim did not give details on the Alborz mission.
00:30:56.000They said Iranian warships have been operating in open waters to secure shipping routes, combat piracy, and carry out other tasks since 2009.
00:31:01.000So there's the fear that Iran may be upping its game.
00:31:05.000Meanwhile, what is the Obama and what is the Biden administration doing?
00:31:09.000According to the Jerusalem Post, A U.S.
00:31:11.000aircraft carrier is now being removed from this area.
00:31:14.000So as the challenges are being upped against shipping in the Red Sea, the U.S.
00:31:41.000So Iran is upping its aggressiveness in this area.
00:31:44.000And meanwhile, the United States is withdrawing an American aircraft carrier.
00:31:50.000China is looking on and thinking to itself, man, we're fools.
00:31:54.000If given our current economic situation, we don't make a move for Taiwan again, all the bills are going to come due this year.
00:32:00.000All the bills are going to come due this year.
00:32:02.000And by the way, it's only going to get worse if the United States continues to strain its relationship with Israel over Israel getting rid of an overtly evil terrorist group in Hamas, which has embedded itself in a civilian population, forcing Israel to sacrifice hundreds of its own soldiers.
00:32:18.000And also, if the United States says to Israel that Israel cannot go after Hezbollah to protect its own citizens in the north.
00:32:24.000And weakness is taken in world politics as a sign that you are ready to allow the bad guys to win.
00:32:30.000And China knows this, which is why China is getting more aggressive.
00:32:34.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has now urged his countrymen to brace for more economic challenges in the year ahead, sounding a cautious note as a string of weak readings highlights the many headwinds facing the world's second largest economy.
00:32:45.000He said on the path ahead, winds and rains are the norm.
00:32:49.000Some companies are facing business pressures.
00:32:50.000Some people are running into difficulties finding jobs and in their daily living.
00:32:54.000All of this could easily be the predicate to the idea that the Chinese window is closing and they need to move and they need to move right now while Joe Biden is president, as in this year.
00:33:04.000Don't be surprised if a lot of the hotspots around the globe start to heat up even more.
00:33:09.000We'll get to more bills that are about to come due, particularly for the American left, in just one second.
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00:35:45.000The fact that even the Biden administration, even as it's supportive of Israel, seems unwilling to full-scale condemn the activities of pro-Hamas rioters, and that's what you are seeing across the country, is truly an astonishing thing.
00:35:58.000In fact, over the course of the holiday, police arrested, according to the Daily Mail, pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked entry to New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport and LAX on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
00:36:08.000So first of all, They should have arrested them, like, immediately.
00:36:16.000It wasn't just that they delayed things.
00:36:17.000There were pro-Hamas people near JFK who literally released a giant balloon in an attempt to obstruct air traffic, which is actually dangerous.
00:36:27.000Like, you can crash a passenger jet that way.
00:36:30.000And they did it in an attempt to stop the air traffic.
00:36:33.000In solidarity with Hamas, according to the Daily Mail, travelers were forced to get out of their cars and walk to the airport with their luggage in New York after activists demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked the road leading to one of the country's biggest and busiest airports on Wednesday.
00:36:48.000Police said 26 arrests were made for disorderly conduct and impeding vehicular traffic and the roadway was reopened at 11.50 a.m.
00:36:55.000The police were notified of the protest activity around 11.30 a.m.
00:37:00.000Just ridiculous and insipid, of course.
00:37:02.000The NYPD actively put out a statement, quote, Or, alternatively, you could just arrest people who are obstructing the traffic.
00:37:16.000Or alternatively, you could just arrest people who are obstructing the traffic, like right away.
00:37:21.000You could just do that instead of allowing them to string their dumb banners all the way across the street.
00:37:26.000Fox 11 in Los Angeles declared an unlawful, said that authorities declared an unlawful assembly
00:37:32.000when the pro-Hamas protesters blocked traffic outside LAX.
00:37:36.000Crew at the scene said the group of protesters carried signs that read messages like, ceasefire is not enough and free Palestine.
00:37:43.000Apparently, it turned into a chaotic scene when police arrived around 9.30am and protesters reportedly ran off in different directions while some were taken into custody.
00:37:50.000By 10.10am, a dozen protesters had been detained.
00:37:54.000And, by the way, the Procomos protesters spent their weekend basically ruining everybody else's weekend.
00:37:59.000Here are some Procomos protesters occupying Boston Common over in Boston in anticipation of New Year's Eve activities.
00:38:05.000And just being delightful, as they always are.
00:39:19.000And by the way, there will be consequences to the political party that decides to side with this crap.
00:39:23.000If you are the Democratic Party and you decide that you cannot expel these people from your midst, there should be political consequences to all of that.
00:40:12.000According to the Daily Mail, the Jeffrey Epstein file, set to be unsealed this week, may finally reveal exactly how close that pedophile was with, say, Bill Clinton, and whether or not the former president visited his private Caribbean island, Little St.
00:40:24.000The files, part of the defamation case Virginia Roberts brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, who is of course the procurer for Jeffrey Epstein, could give fresh insight into previous claims by Roberts that Clinton was on Petto Island, a claim later repeated by Clinton's former aide, Doug Band.
00:40:38.000Roberts said she saw Clinton go off into the night with a beautiful woman on each arm, which would be wildly in character for Bill Clinton.
00:40:45.000Clinton has adamantly denied ever being on Epstein's island.
00:40:47.000Roberts made no allegations of wrongdoing by Clinton, nor is there any indication the sealed records contain evidence of illegal conduct by the former president.
00:40:53.000Although, of course, there is a photo of Clinton enjoying a neck massage from a Jeffrey Epstein victim in photographs obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail.
00:41:03.000He is sitting and laughing as a woman named Shante Davies, then 22, And who acted as Epstein's personal masseuse rubs his shoulders.
00:42:22.000Technology is not going to stop developing just because a politician promises you it will.
00:42:27.000And redistributionism is not going to be a mechanism for fixing any of that.
00:42:32.000Government is not the solution to life's unfairness.
00:42:35.000Far more often, it is the cause of life's unfairness.
00:42:38.000We can't keep spending endless amounts of money.
00:42:41.000That redistributionism is not going to solve for lack of productivity.
00:42:45.000If you think the bill is going to come due in 2024, it's going to keep coming due because bills always come due.
00:42:51.000We have been living in the aftermath of the industrial era in which the United States had massive embedded advantages over the rest of the world due to the rest of the world basically collapsing during World War II.
00:43:01.000And the United States jetted far ahead of everybody else.
00:43:32.000Don't worry, we'll always be able to pay for it later.
00:43:34.000Well, 2024 might be the year that we pay for it.
00:43:37.000It might be the year that we pay for it.
00:43:39.000Because we're always going to pay for it at some point.
00:43:41.000Now, meanwhile, it is fascinating to watch as the Republican primaries play out.
00:43:45.000So right now, if you look at the polling data, Donald Trump is well ahead in literally every state.
00:43:51.000In Iowa, the latest results from the polling data have Donald Trump up over his opposition by a significant margin.
00:43:59.000The RealClearPolitics polling average in Iowa has Donald Trump leading his opponents by up to 30 points.
00:44:04.000The New Hampshire primaries, Trump is leading his opponents by upwards of 20 points.
00:44:09.000If Trump wins Iowa, it may as well be all over but the crying.
00:44:12.000Now, remember, Iowa is a caucus state.
00:44:13.000The primary is taking place on the 15th of this month.
00:44:17.000So we now have about a little under two weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
00:44:21.000It is quite possible that the polling results from Iowa are not going to be reflective of the actual results because, again, it's a very weird system.
00:44:26.000The way the Iowa caucuses work is that if your first choice does not make the runoff, then you can switch to your second choice.
00:44:32.000So let's say you vote for Nikki Haley, and Nikki Haley isn't in the top two.
00:44:36.000Your second choice then flips into play.
00:44:38.000So if you voted for Haley and then DeSantis, for example, then your vote would move from one to the other in terms of the top result.
00:44:44.000There's all sorts of weirdnesses to the caucuses that don't really exist with regard to the other primaries.
00:44:49.000Suffice it to say that if Trump wins the Iowa caucuses, it is very difficult to see how exactly he doesn't win in New Hampshire, particularly because Nikki Haley has been making some boo-boos and because Chris Christie is still in the race.
00:45:00.000It is astonishing to me that Chris Christie continues to stick around.
00:45:05.000Chris Anunu, who is the governor of New Hampshire, who's backing Nikki Haley, he says, like, why is Christie even in this race?
00:45:13.000Nikki Haley is the first female minority governor in the country's history.
00:45:17.000She's the one that stood up and insisted, didn't take compromises, insisted that the confederate flag get removed from the statehouse lawn.
00:45:24.000I don't think anyone's questioning her credibility and credentials when it comes to race and equity and equality in this country.
00:46:17.000Over the course of the last week, Nikki Haley came in for some serious criticism while we were off the air because she was asked about the causes of the Civil War and she gave this answer.
00:46:29.000What was the cause of the United States Civil War?
00:46:32.000Well, don't come with an easy question or anything.
00:46:39.000I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.
00:46:44.000The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do.
00:46:47.000What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?
00:46:53.000Now, she was racked up and down for this.
00:46:56.000Now, the cause of the Civil War was indeed slavery, although at the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln said it was not slavery.
00:47:02.000Lincoln did openly say at the beginning of the Civil War that it was about retaining the union of the country, and that if he could retain the union of the country by retaining slavery, he would do it.
00:47:10.000So, slavery was the underlying issue that drove a wedge into the middle of the Union, obviously, and that's why you had the Confederate states that were pro-slavery and the Northern states that were not pro-slavery, and the Civil War effectively ended with the abolition of slavery.
00:47:24.000With that said, what Nikki Haley is saying is secondarily correct, that you did have an argument that was taking place over the powers of the federal government versus the power of state governments, and in which Abraham Lincoln made the case that the Declaration of Independence's guarantees of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ought to be extended to everyone who lived in the United States and should be a citizen of the United States, including, of course, black Americans.
00:47:47.000But this provided an opening for everybody to attack Nikki Haley, which was a boo-boo that she could really not afford.
00:47:53.000She did clarify her statements a little bit later.
00:47:56.000You know, I've done 150 town halls, more than that now, and we shake every hand, we answer every question, and I stay until the last person leaves.
00:48:20.000When you grow up in the South, slavery is a given.
00:48:24.000Like, when you think of the Civil War, you know it was about slavery.
00:48:26.000That's not, you know, that's never been in question.
00:48:30.000And, you know, you look, in fact, I'm a Southern governor who actually asked and got the Confederate flag to come down in front of the Statehouse.
00:48:40.000Okay, again, the fact that she had to defend herself on this, does anyone really believe that Nikki Haley is like pro-slavery or doesn't understand the Civil War?
00:48:59.000This has been the entire dynamic of the primaries is that no matter what Trump does, and I think it's one of the reasons why, for example, DeSantis supporters are almost beside themselves because they're saying, we're more conservative than everything Donald Trump says he is for.
00:49:12.000The big case of that over the course of the last week is that Donald Trump has been calling for the defunding of the FBI because the FBI, of course, has been militarized against him in a wide variety of ways.
00:49:22.000Well, he then said that he wanted a new FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
00:49:28.000He put out a statement saying, quote, The FBI headquarters should not be moved to a faraway location, but should stay right where it is, in a new spectacular building in the best location on our now crime-ridden and filthy, dirty, graffiti-scarred Capitol.
00:49:38.000They should be involved in bringing back D.C., not running away from it, especially the violent crime there was talk about moving it outside of Washington, D.C.
00:49:44.000Fellow Republicans were like, what the hell?
00:49:46.000Like, aren't you the one who's been railing against the FBI?
00:49:49.000Governor DeSantis said Donald Trump failed to drain the swamp, so perhaps it is not surprising That he is seeking to deepen the swamp by building a massive new FBI building in D.C.
00:49:58.000Actually, draining the swamp requires taking power out of D.C., not cementing power inside D.C.
00:50:04.000With that said, is that going to have any impact on Trump?
00:50:06.000It's not going to have any impact on Trump.
00:50:07.000This is why I say that when it comes to the 2024 election, basically only exogenous circumstances are going to change how the election goes.
00:50:18.000Okay, I would be remiss if I did not comment at the beginning of this year
00:50:22.000on a couple of new laws to take effect in my old home state of California.
00:50:27.000I gotta say the dumbest state in America, truly an idiotic state, or at least governed by idiots.
00:50:33.000So California has now announced that they have gender neutral toy aisles mandated in law.
00:50:40.000So in California, if you open a toy shop, you must have a gender neutral toy aisle.
00:50:44.000The law, which went into effect on Monday, stems from a 2021 bill in the California legislature
00:50:49.000requiring toy retailers with a physical location in the state and at least 500 employees
00:50:54.000to maintain a gender neutral section or area to be labeled at the discretion of the retailer.
00:50:58.000California Assemblymember Evan Lowe said he was inspired to introduce this bill by an 8-year-old girl who asked, why should a store tell me what a girl's shirt or toy is?
00:51:04.000So first of all, you should never be inspired by anything a child says.
00:51:07.000Just gonna tell you, not to make political action anyway.
00:51:09.000I'm inspired by my children all the time.
00:51:17.000And my kids ask dumb questions all the time.
00:51:19.000The answer to why should a store tell me what a girl's shirt or a toy is, is the marketing people at the company are seeking to make it clear to parents where they can go for the quickest access to, say, a doll or a Nerf gun.
00:51:33.000Doesn't mean you can't get a gift for your daughter from the boy toys, and doesn't mean the opposite.
00:51:39.000But, like, by and large, my son likes Nerf guns and footballs, and my daughters like girly things, because boys and girls are real things that exist in the world.
00:51:51.000The fact that California is now mandating this nonsense is so ridiculous.
00:51:54.000By the way, of course, they're just targeting the big retailers.
00:51:56.000If you're a small toy store, they understand that it would look really bad to go after, like, mom and pop's toy shop, because they have a girl aisle with dolls and a boy aisle with footballs.
00:52:04.000Her bill will help children express themselves freely and without bias.
00:52:50.000So if you go to the Nordic countries, for example, and all sorts of social welfare programs
00:52:54.000that are designed to alleviate the differences between men and women.
00:52:58.000And so women, because of all those welfare programs, tend to go into fields that women like to go into and men tend to go into, you know, like engineering and stuff.
00:53:06.000That's not the only stupid California law going into effect.
00:53:08.000A new California law will also create an emergency alert system called an ebony alert.
00:53:34.000There's no actual rationale other than the suggestion that black people are being treated in discriminatory fashion by the Amber Alerts, which is just insane.