The Ben Shapiro Show - A Generation of Bin Laden Fans

00:00:00.000 Osama Bin Laden was evil. 0.93

00:00:02.000 I know this should be rather obvious. 0.98

00:00:03.000 Bin Laden was an arch terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans.

00:00:07.000 Unfortunately, to an entire generation raised on the idea that success equals oppression and failure equals being oppressed, it's not obvious at all that Osama Bin Laden was evil.

00:00:16.000 In fact, He was apparently in a grieved victim with a shockingly cogent case against the West.

00:00:21.000 That is according to a bevy of new videos trending on TikTok of TikTok generation Americans reading Osama bin Laden's letter to America.

00:00:28.000 That letter was released in November 2002.

00:00:30.000 It essentially makes the same case that radical Muslims and radical leftists now make in favor of Hamas.

00:00:35.000 The West is evil and aggressive, and Westerners, including Jews, deserve what they get. 1.00

00:00:40.000 It is Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hassan Albana, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, all rolled into one. 0.92

00:00:45.000 Here are some of the reactions of young people reading bin Laden's letter for the first time.

00:00:50.000 I need everyone to stop what they're doing right now and go read.

00:00:53.000 It's literally two pages.

00:00:55.000 Go read a letter to America.

00:00:58.000 And please come back here and just let me know what you think, because I feel like I'm going through like an existential crisis right now.

00:01:03.000 And a lot of people are.

00:01:05.000 So I just need someone else to be feeling this too.

00:01:08.000 What exactly is that existential crisis?

00:01:10.000 The existential crisis is that a lot of these people agree with Bin Laden.

00:01:13.000 Now, if you find yourself in large-scale agreement with Osama Bin Laden, 0.71

00:01:17.000 one of the most evil people to ever live, you might want to pre-examine your own biases.

00:01:21.000 But instead, people are starting to think that maybe Bin Laden was good. 0.91

00:01:25.000 Actually, Bin Laden had some points.

00:01:28.000 You're seeing a lot of this on TikTok.

00:01:30.000 In fact, so much of this is happening on TikTok that The Guardian, the UK Guardian, which had the entire text of the letter posted, had to take it down from their website because they say that they didn't want their top trending piece to be Osama Bin Laden's 2002 letter talking about the evils of the West.

00:01:45.000 Here's some more of these TikTok reactions.

00:01:47.000 Best friend, I just read a letter to America. 1.00

00:01:49.000 How you read that shit? 0.97

00:01:50.000 If you haven't read it yet, I think if you go on the internet, it's not there because the US government is trying to remove it because they don't want us to see the letter to America. 0.99

00:01:56.000 Why don't they want us to see a letter to America?

00:01:59.000 A letter to America is a letter to America written by Osama bin Laden, basically explaining why he attacked on 9-11.

00:02:08.000 Now don't jump me.

00:02:09.000 I know 9-11 can be quite triggering, but let's ask the question that Osama bin Laden asked America.

00:02:16.000 Why did they attack on September 11th?

00:02:21.000 And Osama was kind of chewing the girls up a little bit. 0.57

00:02:24.000 He was kind of spitting. 0.99

00:02:25.000 Osama bin Laden basically said in a nutshell, not only do you keep f***ing with us, but you keep f***ing with everybody. 0.99

00:02:32.000 You're dropping bombs on people and it's fine, but when we do it, we're terrorists. 0.98

00:02:36.000 And I'm not here to defend anybody, but I am here to say we got to do some f***ing algebra here. 0.93

00:02:40.000 If we're going to call Osama bin Laden terrorists, so is the American government. 0.75

00:02:46.000 And that is the point.

00:02:47.000 That is the point.

00:02:47.000 We have taught an entire generation of young people that Osama Bin Laden has a point.

00:02:52.000 There's been a lot of talk in the aftermath of Hamas's October 7th attack about why is it that young people in the West, Americans, Members of the European community, why are so many young people siding with Hamas?

00:03:04.000 And the answer, of course, is because we, as a civilization, have taught them to side with Hamas. 0.88

00:03:08.000 We have taught them that the West is inherently evil or at the very least morally equivalent with terrorists on the other side of the equation.

00:03:15.000 And they've imbibed from that well.

00:03:16.000 They've been taught that for years and years and years.

00:03:18.000 So when they read Osama bin Laden's letter, you know, there are a lot of people who are wondering, if 9-11 happened today, how would young people react?

00:03:24.000 And the answer is a lot of people would be pro-Osama bin Laden.

00:03:26.000 They are now.

00:03:27.000 Here's some more of this.

00:03:29.000 Bin Laden was right, guys. 0.97

00:03:30.000 These TikTok videos are everywhere.

00:03:32.000 I mean, it's a full-on trending topic on TikTok.

00:03:33.000 in 2011, we got him celebrating.

00:03:35.000 2020, 2023, reading his letter to America and knowing he was right,

00:03:42.000 knowing he was right, Bin Laden was right, guys. 0.99

00:03:44.000 Can these videos are everywhere?

00:03:47.000 I mean, it's a full on trending topic on TikTok.

00:03:49.000 Again, here are some more.

00:03:51.000 No one in America ever really was given the information of why did this happen?

00:03:56.000 Why did 9-11 happen?

00:03:57.000 And also, why did the 93% at the World Trade Center happen?

00:03:59.000 Like, the American people were never actually given logical reason. 0.56

00:04:03.000 It was just that these people hate us because of our freedom, and that was the propaganda fed.

00:04:06.000 It's Western freedom.

00:04:08.000 It's their Western ideals of freedom, whatever that means.

00:04:12.000 And so, it's freedom for white people. 0.77

00:04:16.000 Okay, again, oppressed versus oppressor.

00:04:19.000 And the more unsuccessful you are in this matrix, the more evil you are in this matrix, the more you're not evil, the more you're oppressed.

00:04:25.000 Because we have to see your side of the argument.

00:04:27.000 And again, you being an oppressed person, you have the ability to stand up and then destroy your oppressor.

00:04:32.000 So of course, these people are pro-Hamas today. 0.85

00:04:34.000 They're pro-bin Laden yesterday.

00:04:36.000 Here's some more of this.

00:04:38.000 Okay, let me get this straight.

00:04:40.000 Let me get this straight.

00:04:40.000 I'm not saying anything, I just want to make sure that all my facts are in order.

00:04:45.000 Not saying anything, just... just want to make sure I'm correct.

00:04:48.000 In a certain... shlutter to shlomerica, which was taken down after allegedly being on the Guardian website for 20 years, in which...

00:04:57.000 Osama Bin Laden defends his mass killing of civilians by saying, hey, you Americans, you take such pride in your system of democracy, you pay your taxes, you elect your leaders, that's why I also hold you accountable, and that's why I killed American civilians, right?

00:05:16.000 We define that as terrorism here in America.

00:05:18.000 But when the same argument or a similar argument is used that it's okay that we level Gaza or allow Israel to level Gaza because they elected Hamas, mind you 20 years ago and 50% of their population is minors, and We elected a leader who didn't do everything they said they were gonna do and doesn't represent everything they said they represent. 0.61

00:05:39.000 Wow, how can we as Americans possibly empathize with that?

00:05:42.000 But that's a valid argument for Israel leveling Gaza, right? 0.99

00:05:46.000 They elected Hamas. 0.87

00:05:48.000 Nobody, including the Israeli government, is quote-unquote leveling Gaza by targeting civilians.

00:05:52.000 But this is the whole case.

00:05:53.000 Again, the whole case here is a bunch of people who hate the West.

00:05:55.000 That's what this is about.

00:05:56.000 Now, let's go through some of the Bin Laden letter excerpts.

00:05:59.000 Here's what they say.

00:06:00.000 And again, you can see the matrix that Bin Laden was trying to create in 2001, 2002, and in the 90s. 0.89

00:06:07.000 And you can see it now materialized on the streets of Paris, of London, of Washington, D.C., in New York.

00:06:12.000 Here's what Bin Laden said.

00:06:13.000 This again, back in 2002.

00:06:15.000 Why are we fighting and opposing you?

00:06:16.000 The answer is very simple.

00:06:18.000 Because you attacked us and continue to attack us, right?

00:06:20.000 They're victims.

00:06:21.000 Bin Laden was a victim.

00:06:22.000 You attacked us in Palestine. 0.95

00:06:24.000 The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. 0.99

00:06:26.000 It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine as was promised to them in the Torah.

00:06:34.000 Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-Semitism.

00:06:38.000 It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses. 1.00

00:06:41.000 And so, notice here that he shifts, Bin Laden does in 2002, from the argument that Palestine must be established to Israel must be disestablished and there is no Jewish right anywhere there, right? 0.97

00:06:52.000 He's in favor of the destruction of the state of Israel and the murder of all the Jews.

00:06:56.000 And all these people in the streets today, they agree, this is why they are chanting, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free.

00:07:03.000 Bin Laden continues, under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries, which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis. 0.75

00:07:10.000 These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Sharia, using violence and lies to do so.

00:07:16.000 So again, Westerners, particularly Western leftists, they read that and they say, oh, well, there are a lot of tyrannies over in the Middle East.

00:07:21.000 But Bin Laden is calling for the establishment of Islamic Sharia.

00:07:24.000 He's calling for the establishment of an Iranian style theocracy.

00:07:29.000 Does the Western Left care about that?

00:07:30.000 Of course not, because again, what the Western Left holds in common with Bin Laden is a hatred for the West. 0.70

00:07:35.000 That is the thing that matters.

00:07:36.000 Bin Laden continues, Here's that matrix.

00:07:42.000 The oppressed, oppressor matrix that all of this is dependent on.

00:07:45.000 Do not await anything from us but jihad, resistance, and revenge.

00:07:48.000 The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their government and even to change it if they want.

00:07:53.000 The American people cannot be innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and the Jews against us, which is his excuse for killing massive numbers of civilians in the World Trade Centers and at the Pentagon. 0.97

00:08:03.000 That is the reason why bin Laden did that. 0.95

00:08:06.000 He says, it is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind. 0.90

00:08:10.000 The Jews have taken control of your economy. 1.00

00:08:12.000 You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other in history.

00:08:16.000 Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto Agreement.

00:08:18.000 That, of course, at the time was bin Laden's attempt to cudgel the proto-Grenadinburgs of the world into line. 1.00

00:08:25.000 Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people who hold sway in their political parties and fund their election campaigns with their gifts.

00:08:31.000 Behind them stand the Jews who control your policies, media, and economy. 1.00

00:08:34.000 You'll hear echoes of that.

00:08:36.000 On both the entire radical left, the AOC wing of the Democratic Party, and in the isolationist right.

00:08:42.000 Bin Laden says, you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history.

00:08:45.000 The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for the white race only. 0.99

00:08:49.000 That's the appeal to Black Lives Matter.

00:08:51.000 Proto-Black Lives Matter, because this is 20 years before that. 1.00

00:08:53.000 What happens in Guantanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your face, you hypocrites. 0.99

00:08:59.000 What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty? 0.98

00:09:03.000 So, what's the appeal of all this?

00:09:04.000 The answer is really obvious.

00:09:06.000 Bin Laden is expressing the ideology of the current barbaric coalition dedicated to destroying the West. 0.82

00:09:10.000 Which is why the current barbaric coalition dedicated to destroying the West, on stumbling on Bin Laden's writings, is finding a new hero. 0.79

00:09:16.000 Why wouldn't young people love his words?

00:09:18.000 They've all been taught his precepts at their universities. 1.00

00:09:21.000 All of them except the part about Sharia law and killing all the gay people and not being able to have sex with whoever you want. 0.99

00:09:26.000 But they can put all that aside because, you know, anti-Western solidarity is the important thing. 0.99

00:09:31.000 The oppressed class must come together to destroy the oppressors.

00:09:34.000 That's what's behind the TikTok trend.

00:09:36.000 China, of course, is pushing it because China hates the West.

00:09:39.000 And China is, of course, running TikTok.

00:09:40.000 And young people are pushing it because we have trained in the West an entire generation of young people to despise their own civilization.

00:09:48.000 That is on us as a culture.

00:09:50.000 Should we then be surprised by the barbarians inside our own gates? 0.99

00:09:53.000 We'll get to those barbarians in just one second because they were out in the streets again last night. 1.00

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00:12:15.000 Okay, so you can see the barbarians in the street. 0.82

00:12:16.000 So last night, Massive protests outside the DNC headquarters in Washington.

00:12:22.000 The goal here, of course, is for the radical left to try to push the more moderate left into mirroring their pro-Hamas position.

00:12:29.000 And the way they're going to do that is by, again, playing the oppressed.

00:12:32.000 Remember, in the leftist matrix, the more angry you are, the more evil you are, the more criminal things you do, the more this is evidence that you are oppressed.

00:12:40.000 Now, in reality, it's the opposite.

00:12:42.000 The reality is that actions of evil, criminal actions, for example, violent actions, they tend to make you poorer.

00:12:49.000 They tend to make your life worse.

00:12:51.000 But because the left doesn't believe in personal responsibility at a core level, they believe that basically life is a thing that happens to you.

00:12:57.000 Because of that, when they see somebody who is poor and angry, It's that the poverty is causing the anger, not that the anger is causing the poverty.

00:13:05.000 And so when you have protesters in the streets who are getting violent, the left's almost immediate response very often is to say, well, those people must be angry for a reason.

00:13:13.000 And the reason is because we need to make concessions to those people.

00:13:16.000 That is the purpose of having these violent protests.

00:13:17.000 So last night, according to the Associated Press, police and protesters clashed outside the DNC headquarters.

00:13:23.000 During a demonstration for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

00:13:26.000 The latest reflection of boiling tensions over the bloody conflict.

00:13:29.000 By the way, the only boiling tensions are coming from one side.

00:13:32.000 And literally the day before, there was a giant 300,000 person rally on the Washington Mall.

00:13:38.000 Pro-Israel rally.

00:13:39.000 Peaceful.

00:13:40.000 Loving.

00:13:41.000 American flags.

00:13:42.000 Zero violence.

00:13:43.000 Zero.

00:13:44.000 That was not a boiling crowd.

00:13:46.000 The boiling crowds are the ones in London who are assaulting police officers.

00:13:49.000 The boiling crowds were the ones last night who were assaulting police officers.

00:13:53.000 I'm old enough to remember when that was considered a bad thing, like on January 6th.

00:13:56.000 Now, it's considered, you know, just kind of de rigueur.

00:13:59.000 Scores of Democratic representatives and candidates, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, were inside the building for a campaign reception when it was interrupted by chanting outside.

00:14:08.000 Protesters said they wanted to block entrances and exits to force politicians to encounter their candlelight vigil.

00:14:13.000 However, the situation swiftly evolved.

00:14:15.000 Capitol Police said about 150 people were illegally and violently protesting in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington.

00:14:21.000 Protestors then blame police for the violence. 0.88

00:14:24.000 Here is what it looked like as these crazed leftists and their radical Muslim allies 1.00

00:14:28.000 decided that they were going to attack the front of the DNC building. 0.97

00:14:32.000 This looks kind of insurrectionary, doesn't it?

00:14:40.000 Right here?

00:14:41.000 No?

00:14:41.000 Nothing?

00:14:43.000 Doesn't matter?

00:14:43.000 Totally fine?

00:14:46.000 Just going to point out at this point that this is not covered pretty much at all in the mainstream media.

00:14:52.000 It is buried in the mainstream media.

00:14:54.000 Now, if you imagine pro-Israel protesters outside the DNC calling for more support for Israel, attacking police officers, do you think that might make the front pages literally everywhere?

00:15:04.000 The answer, of course, is yes.

00:15:05.000 When you see a violent protest outside the DNC and it's by left-wingers, it's considered normal.

00:15:10.000 Because again, that oppressor-oppressed matrix is so strong, they have no systemic immunity to it at all.

00:15:17.000 The Capitol offices ended up having to go into lockdown.

00:15:20.000 And again, this is just the latest example.

00:15:23.000 Over in Berkeley, for example, left-wingers were throwing money at city council members.

00:15:28.000 The implication, of course, being that it's Jew money that is responsible for the lack of a ceasefire. 0.95

00:15:33.000 Which, of course, is insane. 0.65

00:15:34.000 Here are these anti-Jewish protesters in Berkeley throwing cash at city council members.

00:15:41.000 You can see again, there they are.

00:15:52.000 Delightful human beings.

00:15:54.000 Meanwhile, 40 groups at Columbia University have now proposed to push divestment from the state of Israel.

00:16:00.000 They call themselves the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for the collective liberation.

00:16:08.000 That's right, Hamas is the vanguard.

00:16:11.000 So is the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group.

00:16:12.000 groups, so is Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

00:16:14.000 Quote, we are a continuation of the Vietnam anti-war movement and the movement to divest

00:16:18.000 from apartheid in South Africa.

00:16:19.000 We support freedom and justice for the Palestinian people.

00:16:22.000 We know that true collective safety will arise when everyone has access to clean air, clean

00:16:25.000 water, food, housing, education, health care, freedom of movement, and dignity.

00:16:29.000 Now, never mind that Hamas has deprived its people of literally all of those things for

00:16:32.000 the last 20 years while building terror tunnels and shooting rockets at the Jews.

00:16:36.000 Doesn't matter.

00:16:36.000 The students at Columbia have decided to face down the quote-unquote Zionist project.

00:16:42.000 According to reports from the WHO, a Palestinian child is killed every 10 minutes.

00:16:46.000 These attacks are explicitly connected to Israel's attempts to annex and ethnically cleanse more Palestinian land. 0.94

00:16:51.000 Again, historically ignorant and ridiculous, Israel literally pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005 because it didn't want anything to do with this area. 0.95

00:16:58.000 It doesn't matter. 0.98

00:16:59.000 The entire agenda here is an anti-Western agenda.

00:17:01.000 It is not just an anti-Israel agenda.

00:17:03.000 How do we know?

00:17:03.000 Because they say so.

00:17:04.000 Quote, we believe in liberation.

00:17:05.000 All systems of oppression are interlinked.

00:17:08.000 The fates of the people of Palestine, Kurdistan, Sudan, Congo, Armenia, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Korea, Guam, Haiti, Hawaii, Kashmir, Cuba, Turtle Island, and other colonized bodies are interconnected.

00:17:18.000 There's some things on this list that are rather interesting.

00:17:20.000 So apparently, they want Hawaii to be turned over and Korea, to whom, I assume they mean South Korea, like turn it over to the Norks? 1.00

00:17:27.000 Like what exactly are they talking about there?

00:17:30.000 We are committed to creating a multi-generational, intersectional, accessible space dedicated to fighting for abolition, transnational feminism, anti-capitalism, and decolonization, and also to combating anti-blackness, queer phobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism.

00:17:42.000 Now, again, rational people look at that list and they go, what the?

00:17:47.000 They look at that list of demands from this Columbia anti-apartheid coalition.

00:17:51.000 They go, um, I noticed that you have a few things here that conflict with one another.

00:17:56.000 Like when you say queerphobia and Islamophobia back-to-back, it's weird. 1.00

00:18:00.000 Because let's be real about this, radical Muslims hate gay people and try to kill them. 1.00

00:18:04.000 So that's strange, but that's not the point. 1.00

00:18:07.000 The point is, it is coalitional.

00:18:09.000 It's all coalitional strategy.

00:18:10.000 We keep each other safe.

00:18:11.000 We do not believe that prisons, police, profit over people, militarism, war, colonialism, or imperialism will keep us safe.

00:18:18.000 We reject the U.S.

00:18:19.000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's weaponizing of the United States' racist immigration laws to prevent our international comrades and peers from speaking up.

00:18:27.000 They believe in open borders.

00:18:30.000 We believe in the right of self-determination, land back, the right of return from Palestine to Turtle Island.

00:18:34.000 I noticed, by the way, none of these people giving up their land to Native Americans.

00:18:38.000 We believe in solidarity and the power of relationship building.

00:18:41.000 We believe in collectivity.

00:18:43.000 That is the, that is the, That is the shtick here.

00:18:47.000 It is a coalitional strategy.

00:18:48.000 And again, that coalitional strategy sounds an awful lot like Osama Bin Laden. 0.72

00:18:52.000 This is why Osama Bin Laden was doing the Kyoto Protocol routine way back when. 0.96

00:18:55.000 It's why he was doing the anti-colonialism routine way back when.

00:18:59.000 Now, by the way, there has never been a more colonizing religion in world history than Islam. 1.00

00:19:03.000 Ever.

00:19:04.000 Islam is a colonizing religion by nature. 1.00

00:19:07.000 If you think that Arabic peoples were native to, like, Spain, you're out of your mind.

00:19:11.000 The reality is that virtually all religions have at times been colonizing.

00:19:17.000 But the Arabian Peninsula was completely dominated by Islam since the 7th century. 0.97

00:19:23.000 And pretending that there was no colonialism inherent in Islam is just historically ignorant. 0.97

00:19:26.000 Of course there was!

00:19:28.000 It's why they still consider, in radical Islamic circles, the world to be divided between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb, right?

00:19:33.000 The idea of the world governed by Islam and the world not governed by Islam, and the idea is that eventually everything is going to come under the dominion of Islam. 0.90

00:19:41.000 So when you have this group pushing against colonization, obviously there's a lot of double-think right there happening.

00:19:47.000 But that's not the point.

00:19:48.000 It doesn't have to be internally consistent.

00:19:50.000 It has to be externally consistent, meaning its enemy has to be consistent.

00:19:54.000 And that's the idea.

00:19:55.000 And that's why you see this coalition building happening.

00:19:57.000 In just one second, we'll talk about how far this has gone in democratic circles to the point where, obviously, they not only are quite supportive of some Hamas forces, they are perfectly willing to cover for Congress people like Rashida Tlaib, who is pretty obviously in league with Hamas supporters.

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00:21:14.000 Congressman, do you regret using the phrase from the river to the sea?

00:21:17.000 It's used by terrorists to call for the genocide of the Jewish people. 0.97

00:21:21.000 Pretty damn far. 0.73

00:21:22.000 Rashida Tlaib is still a well-respected member of the Democratic caucus, despite being censured 0.73

00:21:26.000 by Congress.

00:21:27.000 She was asked yesterday five straight times if she was anti-Semitic.

00:21:30.000 She ignored the reporter, obviously.

00:21:32.000 Congresswoman, do you regret using the phrase, from the river to the sea, it's used by terrorists

00:21:38.000 to call for the genocide of the Jewish people?

00:21:41.000 Do you regret using it?

00:21:44.000 The White House says that phrase can be anti-Semitic.

00:21:46.000 Are you anti-Semitic, Congressman?

00:21:48.000 Oh, it's the fake phone call routine.

00:21:49.000 One of my favorites.

00:21:50.000 Are you anti-Semitic, Congressman Tlaib?

00:21:52.000 She's walking to an elevator and pretending she's on the phone.

00:21:53.000 Are you anti-Semitic, Congressman Tlaib?

00:21:55.000 And strangely, she's talking to no one.

00:21:57.000 Are you anti-Semitic, Congressman Tlaib?

00:21:59.000 And into the elevator.

00:22:00.000 That's not a surprise, particularly, given the fact that according to the New York Post,

00:22:06.000 Tlaib is a member of the Facebook group, Palestinian American Congress,

00:22:10.000 whose founder, Mahar Abdel-Kadar, has referred to Israelis as not real Jews

00:22:15.000 and questioned whether the Holocaust really happened.

00:22:17.000 That Facebook group, which Talib joined six years ago, has posted several images of Hamas fighters following the terror group's brutal assault that left at least 1,200 dead across southern Israel.

00:22:26.000 A member of the Palestinian American Congress posted on October 12, quote, we don't want to throw you in the sea.

00:22:31.000 We want you to ride it back from where you came, sharing a picture of an elderly Israeli woman identified as a Holocaust survivor held hostage by Hamas.

00:22:38.000 Another post on that same Facebook group showed a Hamas terrorist alongside a list of achievements reached by the resistance in northern occupied Palestine.

00:22:46.000 Tlaib, of course, fully in league with all of this.

00:22:50.000 Not a great shock.

00:22:51.000 So is AOC.

00:22:52.000 The Hamas caucus rides fully within the Democratic Party at this point.

00:22:56.000 Yesterday, she tweeted out the Jew money shtick again.

00:23:00.000 AIPAC has said that they are going to dedicate a lot of money to getting rid of Congress people

00:23:05.000 who are aligned with Hamas. And she thinks that that's truly just a reflection of bad Jew money. 0.80

00:23:12.000 Well, criticism of the Israeli government is virtually non-existent in US politics,

00:23:15.000 but apparently that's not enough. Gotta spend $100 million to unseat the few who believe in

00:23:18.000 Palestinian human rights and a ceasefire that most Americans already support. The acceptable 0.99

00:23:22.000 level of dissent is zero. Well, that's weird because I see that AIPAC is actually not launching

00:23:26.000 primary challenges against the vast majority of Democrats, like virtually all Democrats.

00:23:32.000 They're only targeting the people who actually are members of the Hamas squad.

00:23:34.000 But again, the idea is it's that corrupt Jew money that AOC is really upset about. 0.55

00:23:39.000 Speaking of which, 24 members of the Hamas caucus have now signed a letter to President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken expressing deep concern about the intensifying war in Gaza and calling for a ceasefire.

00:23:51.000 They then commit the moral sin of equivalence between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces.

00:23:58.000 That, of course, is signed by all the usual suspects, all the people who you would see.

00:24:02.000 Again, no shock there.

00:24:04.000 The British Labor Party, experiencing similar convulsions.

00:24:07.000 Kira Starmer is suffering a major labor rebellion in Britain over a Gaza ceasefire vote.

00:24:13.000 56 of his MPs voted for an immediate ceasefire.

00:24:16.000 10 of the party's frontbenchers, those are people who are sort of spokespeople for labor, have left their jobs over the vote, including eight shadow ministers.

00:24:24.000 So, and the left is tearing itself apart over all of this because again, the left has no systemic immunity at all to the Osama Bin Laden intersectional crusade.

00:24:33.000 They have no immunity to that because they too believe that the West is so inherently flawed that it must pay a deep and abiding price.

00:24:39.000 And so that battle is just going to get more and more pitched.

00:24:43.000 It is stunning to watch it play out in real time, but again, this is the wages of a West that is apologetic about its own existence for decades on end.

00:24:52.000 Now, meanwhile, the media are targeting where they think the anti-Semitism is.

00:24:56.000 The media have been very, very generous toward Hamas and its acolytes. 0.94

00:24:59.000 The media have been granting every ounce of credibility they can to the Gazan Ministry of Health.

00:25:05.000 They've been granting every piece of credibility they can to every lie coming out from Hamas. 0.70

00:25:10.000 They've been stamping for a ceasefire and claiming that Israel is committing war crimes in defiance of all facts on the ground.

00:25:17.000 The media love that sort of stuff.

00:25:18.000 So they are doing Hamas's work. 0.97

00:25:20.000 I mean, really, Hamas's propaganda work.

00:25:22.000 But they think they know where the true anti-Semitism lies.

00:25:26.000 The true antisemitism apparently lies with, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, Donald Trump.

00:25:31.000 Now, the other day, Donald Trump made a rather intemperate comment during one of his speeches.

00:25:35.000 Now, that's nothing new.

00:25:37.000 We should not be shocked by this.

00:25:38.000 Everybody clutching at their pearls is tiresome.

00:25:41.000 As I've said many times before, Donald Trump's epitaph may end up reading, Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, he said a lot of stuff.

00:25:50.000 But in any case, here is what he actually said that set the internet ablaze.

00:25:53.000 Here was Donald Trump the other day.

00:25:56.000 The great silent majority is rising like never before.

00:26:00.000 And under our leadership, the forgotten man and woman will be forgotten no longer.

00:26:06.000 You're going to be forgotten no longer.

00:26:07.000 With your help, your love, and your vote, we will put America first.

00:26:12.000 And today, especially, in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out The communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible, they'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.

00:26:46.000 Now, he's reading from a teleprompter there.

00:26:48.000 I mean, that is actually part of the speech.

00:26:50.000 And it's not the best use of language.

00:26:51.000 The use of language like vermin, it's, you know, redolent of bad things. 0.90

00:26:55.000 It's ugly.

00:26:56.000 But the media weren't just content to say that that's ugly language that is redolent of demagoguery of the past.

00:27:03.000 They immediately went all the way.

00:27:04.000 They went directly to Hitler. 0.83

00:27:06.000 And then you just go to Hitler. 0.74

00:27:06.000 They went to Hitler like 51 times. 0.74

00:27:08.000 This is their favorite thing.

00:27:11.000 Trump, because he said the word vermin, is just like Hitler. 0.73

00:27:14.000 Here we go.

00:27:15.000 Here is your beloved media. 0.94

00:27:17.000 Of course it's Trump is a Nazi time again. 0.88

00:27:20.000 Let's deal with Hitler, okay? 0.99

00:27:22.000 I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that.

00:27:24.000 I mean, that is Mussolini-Hitler-like language. 1.00

00:27:26.000 Trump's affinity for Hitler was always covered under an umbrella of his stupidity. 1.00

00:27:31.000 Echoing Hitler's words. 1.00

00:27:33.000 Listen to this.

00:27:33.000 Well Hitler was duly elected.

00:27:36.000 Echoing the hateful rhetoric of Adolf Hitler.

00:27:40.000 It echoes Hitler. 0.95

00:27:41.000 That's the kind of language Hitler used in Mein Kampf.

00:27:44.000 About vermin and Hitler and Mussolini. 0.77

00:27:47.000 That's a horrifying clip. 0.87

00:27:49.000 That's a fascist clip. 0.80

00:27:50.000 Just going full on Hitler. 0.91

00:27:51.000 From Hitler's Germany. 0.83

00:27:53.000 We just need to say for the record that the term vermin And it goes on like this over and over and over and over, right?

00:28:13.000 I mean, this is the shtick.

00:28:15.000 Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. 0.77

00:28:15.000 Okay, now, let it be said, at this point, Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. 0.77

00:28:20.000 Not only isn't Donald Trump Adolf Hitler, he is the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish president in American history, bar none.

00:28:26.000 But herein lies the true insanity.

00:28:28.000 Many of the same members of the media tone-policing Trump as Hitler have been simultaneously pooh-poohing the actual Nazis of today, Hamas, and their supporters.

00:28:36.000 You got Mehdi Hassan and the rest of the hosts at MSNBC who seem to have made it their life's mission to downplay Hamas' evil in order to establish moral equivalence with the Jewish state.

00:28:44.000 And they are the first on the bandwagon to sniff out Hitlerian references.

00:28:48.000 Except for the people who actually love Hitler, of course.

00:28:51.000 The people who actually love Hitler, well, they just have some legitimate grievances.

00:28:54.000 Some of the same dynamic has been striking Elon Musk over the course of the last 24 hours.

00:28:57.000 So, Musk made a rather large Twitter boo-boo last night.

00:29:00.000 somebody on Twitter posted the following message, quote, Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of 0.93

00:29:05.000 dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I'm 0.84

00:29:09.000 deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest bleep now about Western Jewish populations coming 1.00

00:29:13.000 to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country 1.00

00:29:18.000 don't exactly like them too much.

00:29:19.000 You want truth said to your face?

00:29:20.000 There it is.

00:29:21.000 So that was the tweet.

00:29:22.000 Musk then tweeted, you have said the actual truth.

00:29:25.000 And this set everything ablaze.

00:29:27.000 So, it is true, obviously, that certain Jewish organizations have bought into and promoted things like diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:29:35.000 Which are gross distortions of the American dream.

00:29:37.000 Nobody hates DEI more than I do.

00:29:39.000 There are certain Jewish groups that are liberal in orientation who have supported that sort of stuff.

00:29:43.000 Many of those groups have also pushed for open borders. 0.99

00:29:46.000 It is also true that some of those organizations are now realizing post-October 7th that actually open immigration for people who hate Jews on an intersectional basis was pretty stupid. 0.98

00:29:56.000 The problem with the original tweet is that it labels Jewish communities en masse. 0.96

00:30:00.000 So my community, for example, Pretty Jewish, has always opposed DEI and open borders.

00:30:05.000 In fact, most Orthodox communities do.

00:30:08.000 Presumably then, Musk was reading the term Jewish communities and instead seeing the letters ADL.

00:30:14.000 And indeed, that's exactly what Musk then clarified.

00:30:16.000 He said, quote, the ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority

00:30:20.000 of West supporting the Jewish people in Israel.

00:30:21.000 This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who

00:30:25.000 are their primary threat.

00:30:26.000 It is not right and it needs to stop.

00:30:28.000 And then Musk continued, you are right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities.

00:30:32.000 It is not just limited to the ADL.

00:30:34.000 That's a much more specific point and it's certainly true.

00:30:37.000 There are a lot of liberal Jewish organizations that supported a lot of the same policies that have now imported a lot of people who really hate Jews and Westerners into the West.

00:30:48.000 And a lot of the very same people who are pushing DEI intersectional politics are now realizing the wages of that.

00:30:55.000 That's true.

00:30:56.000 The original tweet was wildly overbroad.

00:30:59.000 But a huge number of people in the media decided now was the time to link Musk and the alt-right and the so-called Jewish question and support the notion that Musk is some sort of crypto-Nazi.

00:31:09.000 Now, it's not a coincidence again that a lot of the people doing just that are happily calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas.

00:31:15.000 See, very often anti-Semitism becomes a political football.

00:31:18.000 When you can hang the label on Donald Trump or Elon Musk and you're on the left, you do it.

00:31:22.000 However, when you're forced to denounce pro-Hamas protesters shouting, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free, suddenly you get a little shy.

00:31:29.000 Thus, the same media, leaping on both Trump and Musk, has been downplaying the open Jew hatred and massive pro-Hamas protests around the globe, instead propagating lies about Israel's supposed human rights violations.

00:31:39.000 Instead, they're focusing in on their political enemies, like Trump and Musk, and deeming them the acolytes of Hitler.

00:31:44.000 Meanwhile, the actual Hitler acolytes who are out there waving Mein Kampf, they're like, those people, I mean, they are a Preston Brown.

00:31:50.000 It might have more bite to hit Trump and Musk for supposed anti-Semitism if these people actually spent some actual time talking about the people who actually like Hitler on planet Earth, who are right now holding some 240 Jews and others hostage in Gaza and killed 1,200 people and have subjected the Gaza Strip to complete hellish tyranny for the last 20 years.

00:32:09.000 But a lot of these same people are totally silent.

00:32:11.000 In one second, we'll talk about their silence because their silence is absolutely deafening.

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00:34:20.000 So, let's talk about the deafening silence from the celebrity class.

00:34:23.000 So, we all remember back in 2014.

00:34:25.000 There was an Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram.

00:34:28.000 And they kidnapped 276 mostly Christian female students in Nigeria.

00:34:32.000 And the celebrity class sprang into action.

00:34:34.000 Something like Michelle Obama.

00:34:37.000 Ellen's generous.

00:34:38.000 Queen Latifah.

00:34:39.000 They all held up signs reading, bring back our girls.

00:34:42.000 Remember this?

00:34:42.000 Hashtag bring back our girls.

00:34:44.000 Many of us are like, that hashtag ain't gonna do bleep.

00:34:46.000 And it didn't work, by the way.

00:34:47.000 A hundred plus of those girls are still missing.

00:34:49.000 But that's not the point.

00:34:50.000 The point is, the celebrity class was up in arms over the kidnapped girls, as they should have been.

00:34:56.000 Right?

00:34:56.000 Hashtag bring back our girls.

00:34:58.000 That was the thing.

00:34:59.000 All the big celebs, all of them, universally, Question.

00:35:03.000 Have we?

00:35:03.000 I mean, look at this.

00:35:04.000 Have we seen any, any of these same celebrities holding up bring back our baby signs for Americans being held hostage in Gaza, like actual Americans?

00:35:14.000 And for all the talk of people about America first and this and that, I'd just like to point out, there are currently dozens of Americans being held hostage by Hamas right now.

00:35:23.000 But we have seen members of the media, like Gayle King, lecture a Jewish father whose eight-year-old daughter is currently being held by Hamas.

00:35:28.000 This is what the media do.

00:35:29.000 So the media aren't holding up those signs for this guy's kid, but they are attempting to cudgel this guy.

00:35:36.000 They're attempting to get this guy, whose daughter is being held by Hamas, to say that Israel should stop trying to kill members of Hamas.

00:35:44.000 But now this seems to be all about politics.

00:35:46.000 What do you say about that?

00:35:47.000 You know, you have innocent children, Palestinians who are dying, innocent Israeli children who are dying.

00:35:55.000 And no one seems to be able to say, enough, stop that.

00:36:01.000 I'm not interested in politics at all.

00:36:05.000 My only concern is getting Emily back.

00:36:09.000 This is insane.

00:36:10.000 The media are literally trying to push a man whose daughter is being held hostage by a terrorist group into saying that Israel is doing the wrong thing by going after the terrorist group.

00:36:19.000 Not seeing that sign from Gayle King right there.

00:36:21.000 That bring back our babies sign.

00:36:22.000 Not seeing it.

00:36:23.000 So here's the thing. 0.95

00:36:24.000 There's tons of Jew hatred on planet Earth. 0.94

00:36:26.000 Plenty to go around. 0.55

00:36:27.000 Anyone who's spending their days going after Donald Trump and Elon Musk for anti-Semitism while leaving Hamas untouched is pretty obviously concerned about something very different from Jew hatred. 0.52

00:36:37.000 Pretty clearly.

00:36:38.000 Okay.

00:36:38.000 Meanwhile, with regard to the latest in this war, Joe Biden is playing both sides.

00:36:45.000 That's the only way to read this.

00:36:47.000 So Joe Biden just greenlit $10 billion being handed over to Iran.

00:36:53.000 Late on Tuesday, the Secretary of State sent to Congress a recommendation for a 120-day waiver allowing the Iraqi government to transfer $10 billion in frozen funds to the Ayatollahs in Iran.

00:37:02.000 The capital is earmarked as payments for Iranian electricity, but is being held in an escrow account.

00:37:07.000 The administration says the waiver was necessary to preserve Iraq's electricity supplies, but that means that they're just going to use all that money for terrorism because that is what they are doing. 0.96

00:37:15.000 So the United States has been under attack from terrorist militia groups throughout the Middle East.

00:37:19.000 Mostly controlled by Iran.

00:37:21.000 On 56 occasions, US positions in Iraq and Syria are now under attack from the Iranians. 0.95

00:37:26.000 59 US service personnel have been injured in those strikes.

00:37:29.000 And Joe Biden is signing waivers to transfer billions of dollars to the Iranian government.

00:37:34.000 Even as the Iranian government is weak, the Iranian government has been tremendously weakened.

00:37:37.000 There was a report yesterday out of Iran International English that actually the Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, one of the Ayatollahs, he delivered a clear message to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

00:37:49.000 He said, we weren't warned about your attack and we love you and you're our best friends, but high five as you drown.

00:37:57.000 Which makes perfect sense.

00:37:58.000 I mean, as I've suggested since the beginning of the war, the most plausible explanation for what actually happened is that Iran greenlit an attack from Hamas in an attempt to scuttle the Saudi peace plan that was being put on the table between Israel and Saudi Arabia, brokered by the Biden administration.

00:38:11.000 They wanted to kill that deal.

00:38:13.000 So they said to Hamas, do an attack, kill a bunch of Jews, hope that Israel goes in strong, and that will scuttle the deal. 0.92

00:38:18.000 But what they didn't count on is Hamas being successful enough to kill 1,200 people and take 240 hostages, necessitating the complete obliteration of Hamas. 0.90

00:38:25.000 They just figured Hamas would live to fight another day.

00:38:27.000 There'd be another ceasefire.

00:38:28.000 Hamas would continue to maintain its power in the Gaza Strip.

00:38:31.000 So instead of Iran gaining the death of the Saudi peace plan, they got that, but they also lost one of their biggest pawns on the board in Hamas. 0.55

00:38:40.000 And then the question became, do they wish to lose other pieces on the chessboard?

00:38:43.000 Because the unspoken reality of this current Middle East conflict is that the actual serious threat to Israel is actually not Hamas in the Gaza Strip right now.

00:38:51.000 It is Hezbollah on Israel's northern border, which has 200,000 rockets pointed at Israel, including 50,000 highly sophisticated rockets capable of geo-targeting, which means can hit towers in Tel Aviv. 0.84

00:39:01.000 Not the dumb rockets that are being fired by Hamas.

00:39:03.000 Smart rockets that are being fired from southern Lebanon into Israel. 0.93

00:39:07.000 So as we've seen, deterrence doesn't really tend to deter terrorist groups when push comes to shove.

00:39:12.000 And so Israel at some point is going to have to go after Hezbollah. 0.63

00:39:15.000 The question is whether they're going to do it right now.

00:39:17.000 Iran doesn't want them to do it right now because if Israel were to swivel and hit Hezbollah right now and take them off the table, That's a real problem for Iran. The forward operating base

00:39:25.000 against Israel for Iran was Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north. Hamas has

00:39:30.000 been taken off the table. If Israel takes Hezbollah off the table, Iran that has no projective 0.99

00:39:35.000 capability in terms of actually being able to destroy Israel, they can certainly make trouble on 0.99

00:39:39.000 the northern border. They can certainly create problems in Judea and Samaria, the so-called West 0.72

00:39:43.000 Bank.

00:39:44.000 They can certainly do all those things, but they don't have an existential threat on Israel's border if Israel takes out Hezbollah.

00:39:49.000 So, Iran basically is interested in containing this thing because they do not want Hezbollah to go down alongside Hamas. 0.70

00:39:56.000 So, as Iran is in a weakened position, it's very weird the Biden administration continues to fund Iran.

00:40:02.000 Like, what exactly is the theory there?

00:40:03.000 That they're going to be nice if you give them money?

00:40:05.000 That has not worked well in the past.

00:40:07.000 Meanwhile, Israel has been taking over the Al-Shifa Hospital.

00:40:12.000 Again, it is truly incredible to me, truly incredible, that the United States, the rest of the world, continue to put pressure on Israel with regard to human rights when Israel is literally sending in Arabic speakers and medical workers into a hospital run by Hamas and being used as a base of attacks against soldiers for the IDF?

00:40:28.000 And then the question is whether Israel is being humane enough.

00:40:31.000 There has never been an army that has been forced to do anything remotely like this.

00:40:34.000 The United States, when it came to ISIL, bombed hospitals.

00:40:37.000 We did.

00:40:38.000 And you know what?

00:40:39.000 We weren't wrong to do so when they were being used as bases by ISIL. 0.90

00:40:43.000 And yet it's the same exact people who are now like, oh man, I hope that Israel is bringing 1.00

00:40:47.000 in sufficient fuel to these hospitals. The Hamas is turning down while they shoot the soldiers.

00:40:51.000 In any case, Jonathan Kongrekes, who is the spokesperson for the IDF, he walked people

00:40:56.000 inside parts of Al Shifa Hospital and showed it's a military base because it's a military base.

00:40:59.000 We're now, as you can see, in an MRI room. I don't know when this was used the last time.

00:41:08.000 I don't know when it was used the last time, but it is definitely an MRI machine.

00:41:13.000 And if you follow me behind the MRI machine, I'll show you what our troops exposed just minutes ago.

00:41:21.000 In military terms, this is a grab bag.

00:41:24.000 Grab and go of a Hamas combatant. 0.50

00:41:27.000 And if you zoom in, and we get some light over here, what you will be able to see is military equipment.

00:41:34.000 There is an AK-47.

00:41:36.000 There are cartridges, ammo.

00:41:39.000 There are grenades in here.

00:41:41.000 Of course, uniforms.

00:41:42.000 And all of this was hidden very conveniently, secretly, behind the MRI machine.

00:41:50.000 Well, I mean, obviously this is a medical facility.

00:41:52.000 I mean, why would Israel possibly be going into a medical facility?

00:41:55.000 I mean, obviously not a medical facility, but that's the entire idea here.

00:41:59.000 So the media, which are focused, again, on creating moral equivalence between a group that is literally using its own blood, resources, soldiers' lives in order to protect civilians on the other side of the conflict, many of whom were involved in the actual October 7th attacks.

00:42:14.000 They're trying to create more eloquence between those people and the people who hide AK-47s in MRI rooms.

00:42:18.000 That's what the media have been dedicated full-time to doing.

00:42:21.000 And meanwhile, they are targeting Laserbeam, the anti-Semitism of anyone they perceive as a supposed right-winger. 0.98

00:42:29.000 This is their shtick, and it's really obvious, and it's really quite pathetic. 0.90

00:42:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is meeting with Xi Jinping. 0.85

00:42:38.000 What Joe Biden hopes to get out of this is beyond me.

00:42:39.000 I'm not sure what his actual agenda even is.

00:42:41.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:43:44.000 Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden is meeting with Xi Jinping, and, um, totally unclear exactly what Biden is even hoping to get out of this, other than a grip and grin with the Chinese president.

00:43:55.000 The Chinese president, of course, who's a dictator, is hoping to get concessions out of Joe Biden on things like trade, and presumably on military matters as well.

00:44:04.000 Well, Joe Biden really didn't know his message to China.

00:44:06.000 He was asked what exactly was the message he was trying to convey to China yesterday.

00:44:09.000 He just walked away from the question.

00:44:13.000 President Biden, what's your message to China today?

00:44:18.000 Well, bye.

00:44:27.000 Walking inside.

00:44:29.000 Yeah, I'm sure that those negotiations went amazing.

00:44:31.000 What exactly did they do?

00:44:32.000 Journal. We made real progress, said Biden in a tweet. The talks, he later told reporters,

00:44:35.000 were some of the most constructive and productive conversations we've had. What exactly did they do?

00:44:40.000 Well, they agreed to resume communications between the militaries so that they don't

00:44:44.000 end up firing on one another. Cooperate on choking off fentanyl production.

00:44:47.000 Yeah, I'm sure that's gonna happen.

00:44:48.000 I'm sure China's gonna stop the giant cash revenue stream that is fentanyl production and begin a dialogue on the risks of AI.

00:44:55.000 Yes, that's what we need.

00:44:55.000 We need the Chinese involved in the direction of artificial intelligence.

00:44:59.000 Probably that won't go wrong, given what they've done with TikTok by weaponizing it against the West.

00:45:03.000 Remember the thing about TikTok?

00:45:05.000 TikTok in the West is not the same as TikTok in China.

00:45:07.000 TikTok in China teaches kids to do math.

00:45:09.000 It's a little different.

00:45:11.000 So yeah, China involved in the AI discussion, not super hot on that.

00:45:15.000 The outcome is likely to face pressure in coming months with disagreements over an election in Taiwan and the Chinese Navy's harassment of ships from the Philippines, a US ally.

00:45:23.000 US and China have differed sharply over the Israel-Hamas war.

00:45:26.000 Biden also faces political risk at home from Republican politicians who argue he's going easy on Beijing.

00:45:30.000 Here's the thing, there actually is a pretty wide bipartisan consensus that China is the bad guy.

00:45:33.000 A lot of Democrats agree with this.

00:45:35.000 Representative Mike Gallagher runs an entirely new Committee in Congress dedicated to Chinese relations and it is well attended.

00:45:44.000 I mean, Democrats are largely on the same page in terms of believing and being correct that China is a nefarious force in the world. 0.93

00:45:50.000 Rare area of bipartisan agreement.

00:45:52.000 So what exactly is Biden, what deal is Biden going to cut this time?

00:45:57.000 The agreement's reached Wednesday.

00:45:59.000 Give Washington and Beijing more time to steady ties.

00:46:01.000 They've been on a downward pitch for years.

00:46:03.000 Well, sure.

00:46:04.000 Sure they do.

00:46:05.000 Except that when the United States shows weakness, China tends to pick up the baton and go. 0.53

00:46:10.000 I'm old enough to remember when Hong Kong was not a Chinese-occupied territory.

00:46:14.000 I'm old enough to remember when Hong Kong still had a level of independence, and now it's completely run by China, and the West just completely surrendered the thing.

00:46:20.000 The Xinhua account, which is the official Chinese media, quoted Xi as saying, That is a lie.

00:46:24.000 quote, China has no plans to surpass or replace the United States and the United States should

00:46:27.000 not have any plans to suppress and contain China.

00:46:30.000 That is a lie.

00:46:31.000 China does have plans to surpass or replace the United States, obviously.

00:46:34.000 And that's particularly true when it comes to international relations.

00:46:38.000 The senior administration official said the leaders had a substantial exchange about Taiwan

00:46:42.000 and that Biden had responded by saying the longstanding U.S.

00:46:45.000 position is a determination to maintain peace and stability.

00:46:48.000 Biden urged Beijing to respect the electoral process in Taiwan.

00:46:52.000 Xi appeared to push back at the White House's view that relations with China are defined by competition, saying that he rejects the idea of a major country competition.

00:46:59.000 So it sounds like some pretty words.

00:47:02.000 But how's this going to materialize?

00:47:04.000 I have my doubts.

00:47:06.000 Joe Biden, again, speaking a lot of those pretty words yesterday, said, we have to work together.

00:47:09.000 We have to work together with the Chinese.

00:47:11.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:47:13.000 We also have a responsibility to our people and the world to work together when we see it in our interest to do so.

00:47:23.000 OK, so we will see what that working together looks like.

00:47:25.000 Last time Joe Biden worked together with China, at least the big guy got some money.

00:47:29.000 So there is that as well.

00:47:30.000 OK, meanwhile, The Republican Party continues to be a party in disarray.

00:47:37.000 Politico has a piece today all about the House GOP and how Mac Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, avoided a shutdown.

00:47:44.000 He avoided a shutdown by putting into law a continuing resolution that basically is a continuation of what McCarthy would have done.

00:47:52.000 And many members of the House GOP are like, we don't even know what the hell is going on, and that is correct.

00:47:56.000 No one knows what the hell is going on, because you have no sense of solidity or incentive structure, as we discussed yesterday on the program.

00:48:02.000 According to Politico, Republicans cannot agree on basic policy priorities or even fund the government without a majority of Democratic votes.

00:48:08.000 Individual lawmakers are going rogue on the House floor with theatrical efforts to censure colleagues and impeach members of the Biden administration.

00:48:14.000 A growing number of lawmakers are choosing to retire because they feel it's impossible to get anything done.

00:48:19.000 Well, yes.

00:48:20.000 That is correct. 0.65

00:48:22.000 Representative Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota said it's the same clown car with a different driver.

00:48:26.000 We don't have the majority, essentially.

00:48:28.000 I mean, that's right.

00:48:29.000 Chip Roy is saying the same thing from the conservative side of the aisle.

00:48:31.000 He says, I don't understand, like, what do we do for a living?

00:48:34.000 I do like Chip a lot.

00:48:36.000 Here's Representative Roy.

00:48:38.000 We would not leave town without forcing Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden to the table because Republicans control this chamber.

00:48:45.000 Or at least they say they're Republicans.

00:48:50.000 For the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something.

00:49:06.000 Allegedly stands for reducing spending.

00:49:09.000 Allegedly stands for eliminating debt.

00:49:12.000 Securing the border.

00:49:14.000 Strong military.

00:49:16.000 Ending the wokeness that is killing and corrupting our schools and our kids. 1.00

00:49:20.000 And then do nothing about it!

00:49:24.000 One thing!

00:49:26.000 I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing!

00:49:30.000 One! 0.96

00:49:31.000 That I can go campaign on and say we did.

00:49:34.000 One! 0.96

00:49:36.000 Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats.

00:49:52.000 I mean, he's right about that, obviously.

00:49:54.000 But, that's the nature of the game right now.

00:49:57.000 The Republican Party has a lot of independent agents, and those independent agents are not working together to actually craft anything that remotely resembles solutions.

00:50:05.000 And so, they're losing.

00:50:06.000 And they deserve to lose.

00:50:07.000 That's not a leadership problem, per se.

00:50:09.000 Again, replacing McCarthy with Johnson doesn't change the math.

00:50:12.000 It's an incentive problem, as I've been saying for a very long time.

00:50:14.000 People like getting on TV.

00:50:16.000 People like the purism tests in Congress, because it makes them look better than their colleagues.

00:50:20.000 It means that they get to yell and scream a lot.

00:50:22.000 The reality is, if you want to get something done, you're actually going to have to, at some point, get together as a caucus.

00:50:27.000 Democrats get things done because they do stay together as a caucus.

00:50:29.000 That is for sure.

00:50:31.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll jump into a bombshell exclusive from The Daily Wire regarding a leaked NSA document that shows just how woke they've gone.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 16, 2023

A Generation of Bin Laden Fans

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