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00:00:27.000So, I think before we get started here, I think that we ought to set the frame.
00:00:30.000So when it comes to the reaction to the second attempted assassination on Donald Trump inside eight weeks, the reaction is sort of astonishing.
00:00:37.000The left-wing media, the legacy media, the Democrats, but I repeat myself because of course they are all one big Borg, they have decided that the real problem here is Donald Trump's rhetoric.
00:00:48.000So if somebody tried to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, God forbid, the problem would be Donald Trump's rhetoric.
00:00:53.000And if somebody attempts to assassinate Donald Trump, the problem is also Donald Trump's rhetoric.
00:00:58.000And underlying all of this is a feeling that some on the left have actually sort of let slip.
00:01:04.000Which is that it would be much better if Donald Trump just went away.
00:01:07.000If something very, very bad happened to Donald Trump.
00:01:09.000Now many people on the left are not going to say they want Donald Trump to get shot in the head or something as graphic as all that.
00:01:14.000There are a few who will sort of let that slip from time to time.
00:01:17.000But there's a feeling that Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous figure.
00:01:21.000Which is why you've seen every major Democratic politician say precisely that.
00:01:25.000They are always coming out and suggesting that Donald Trump is somehow a unique danger to the Republic.
00:01:30.000And for those who don't have an institutional memory of politics, because of course there was a politics before Donald Trump, Democrats used to say the same thing, believe it or not, about Mitt Romney and John McCain and George W. Bush.
00:01:42.000They've said it more with regard to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is out of the box and because Donald Trump defeated their chosen candidate in Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:01:51.000However, there's always this feeling that there's almost an assassination mania among folks on the left when there is a right-wing president.
00:02:00.000There's an entire movie that was made while George W. Bush was president of the United States called The Assassination of George W. Bush.
00:02:24.000And people on the left tend to see people on the right as evil, as actually morally deficient in some key respect.
00:02:31.000But people on the left also have another viewpoint that makes it hard for them to sustain that.
00:02:35.000People on the left believe that human beings are inherently good and that right-wingers are evil, which is kind of conflicting.
00:02:43.000If you're on the right, you tend to believe, typically speaking, human beings are capable of both good and evil.
00:02:48.000And because human beings are capable of both good and evil, many people who are doing bad things are not doing so because they're innately evil.
00:02:56.000They're doing so because they've made bad decisions.
00:02:59.000Weirdly enough, a belief in the imperfectibility of mankind leads to a forgiveness-oriented nature toward your fellow man.
00:03:07.000If you believe that human beings are not perfectible, if you believe that all human beings struggle with sin, that means you're actually significantly more likely to be forgiving with your neighbor, because you struggle with the same problems.
00:03:17.000You also have trouble making decisions.
00:03:19.000Sometimes you have a problem discerning between what's good and what's bad.
00:03:23.000However, for the left, the idea is that all human beings are created absolutely good, innocent, and decent.
00:03:30.000And so they have a very difficult time understanding people who don't think like they do.
00:03:34.000Those people, there must be something defective about those people.
00:03:40.000Well, if you're a conservative, you tend to think that leaders of left-wing movements have popular backing.
00:03:47.000And you don't find it all that hard to understand that that's generally true in a democracy.
00:03:52.000That people who disagree with you, they might be wrong, they might be misguided, the things they believe might be evil, but they have a popular movement behind them.
00:04:00.000And thus, when it comes to horrible things like assassination, removing a leader does not change the nature of the movement.
00:04:09.000Nobody actually believes, on the right side of the aisle, if God forbid something happened to Kamala Harris, natural or otherwise, if something God forbid were to happen along those lines, nobody believes, on the right, that the movement that backs Kamala Harris would just dissipate and go away.
00:04:26.000Many people on the left believe that Donald Trump, as a quote-unquote right-wing leader, because people are naturally good, and because Donald Trump is a moral defective leading people astray, that if somehow Donald Trump were removed from the scene, then that would mean that everything would go back to normal.
00:04:46.000That there would be sort of a reversion back to the innate goodness of humanity.
00:04:52.000That's the only way I can find to sort of explain the tepid response to an attempted assassination against a political figure in the United States.
00:05:21.000And anybody who even attempted such a thing, that'd be a grave act of evil.
00:05:24.000And by the way, a useless act of evil, even from a politically conflicting perspective, because getting rid of somebody on the other side of the aisle doesn't change the nature of the political conflict in general.
00:05:39.000There are big differences between how the right thinks about the left and how the left thinks about the right, but here's something everyone can agree on.
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00:06:47.000On the left, there is this weird idea that if something happened to Donald Trump, the world would just be a better place.
00:06:53.000And it's unmistakable in their rhetoric.
00:06:55.000Now again, they're not going to say out loud that they wish Donald Trump would get shot.
00:06:58.000Many of them are not going to say that out loud because I think that they would have a hard time facing up to the possibility that they actually believe, many of them, that the world would be better off if Donald Trump just disappeared.
00:07:08.000But the reality is that the rhetoric that they are constantly expressing with regard to Donald Trump is not of like kind to the rhetoric expressed about Kamala Harris or Joe Biden by the right.
00:07:19.000People on the right, when we talk about Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, we say that he's a horrible president, she's a horrible vice president, they're doing terrible things for the country.
00:07:26.000But nobody actually believes that they are such single important figures That there isn't a popular movement backing them.
00:07:35.000If Joe Biden were to pass away tomorrow, he may pass away during a debate, but if Joe Biden were actually to just disappear from the public scene, if he were to retire tomorrow, the movement behind him would be exactly the same.
00:07:45.000If Kamala Harris had not been the nominee, it would have been somebody else.
00:07:49.000Everybody sort of knows this inherently.
00:07:51.000The left does not believe this about Donald Trump.
00:07:53.000They believe that he is a single font of evil in the modern world.
00:07:59.000And the corollary to that is if you keep saying over and over and over that Donald Trump is, in fact, not only the apex of evil, but a sort of weird evil magician who can whip people into a cult-like frenzy around him, then removal of this figure would change the trajectory of history.
00:08:15.000And all it takes is one nut to take that message seriously, to pick up a gun and sit in a tree for 12 hours and wait for the president of the United States, former president, to reach where he is on a golf course and then shoot him.
00:08:27.000By the way, that latter detail is apparently what happened.
00:08:29.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the gunman in this particular case, the suspected gunman, was hiding near the former president's Florida golf course for roughly 12 hours before a secret service agent spotted him and opened fire.
00:08:42.000He was near the perimeter of Trump's golf course, according to cell phone records, from 2 a.m.
00:09:03.000He assumed that Trump likes to golf when he goes to his hotels or his properties.
00:09:08.000And so, if he waited long enough, Trump would show up.
00:09:11.000At about 1.31 p.m., the Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of a rifle poking out of the tree line and fired at least four shots.
00:09:19.000The details revealed in the court document charging the alleged shooter with federal gun crimes suggest some level of advanced planning by the suspect who had a long history of criminal convictions, including possession of a weapon of mass destruction, That would have barred him from owning a gun.
00:09:34.000The problem is, as always, criminality.
00:09:36.000In addition to charges of possessing a firearm despite being a felon, he was also charged with having a firearm with wiped out serial number, a wrinkle that has made it difficult for law enforcement to determine how he acquired the gun in the first place.
00:09:48.000Investigators are trying to restore the serial number so they can trace it at this point.
00:09:54.000Now again, these are back-to-back assassination episodes.
00:09:57.000It is insane that the President of the United States has not authorized a full security detail for Donald Trump.
00:10:04.000What we do know about the alleged shooter is that he was a left-wing activist.
00:10:12.000He hated Trump presumably because of that.
00:10:16.000He had said that he voted for Trump in 2016, but then by June 2020 was critical of him, and he said, quote, I and the world hope that President Trump would be different and better than the candidate.
00:11:10.000authorities were warned about the suspected Trump gunman in advance.
00:11:15.000Apparently, It was his time in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal, where he traveled shortly after the Russian invasion of 2022, hoping to join the fight, where his tumultuous life, full of failures and brushes with the law, seemed to spiral further downward and to alarm those who came in contact with him.
00:11:29.000Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with the alleged shooter in Kiev, Ukraine in 2022, said his threats of violence worried her so much that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs and Border Protection officer in an hour-long interview at Washington's Dulles Airport in June 2022.
00:11:44.000Well, she told the officer during the interview, which took place after she returned to the U.S., that this person was, quote, among the most dangerous Americans she met during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine.
00:11:53.000She showed the officer a notebook listing more than a dozen names of Americans and others whose actions had alarmed her.
00:11:58.000Under the heading, overall predatory behavior or antisocial traits were four names, and this person's was at the top.
00:12:05.000When the officer noticed that there were a lot of names, she said, of all the people on there, this person is the number one.
00:12:11.000CBP did not immediately respond to inquiries about the meeting.
00:12:14.000And of course, this person's behavior had been flagged to the FBI before.
00:12:17.000A tipster told the FBI in 2019, this person had a firearm despite being a felon.
00:12:22.000When questioned further, wouldn't verify providing the information.
00:12:25.000An FBI official said Monday, the bureau passed the information on to authorities in Honolulu, where this person was living at the time and closed the investigation.
00:12:34.000The alleged shooter was well-known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as a fraudster and kind of a whack job, according to Sarah Adams, former CIA officer, who helped run a network linking 50 aid groups to share information coordinating humanitarian and volunteer efforts in Ukraine.
00:12:48.000He claimed to be working with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters, but he wasn't actually doing that.
00:12:53.000And apparently Ukraine's International Legion had no ties with this person.
00:12:56.000Didn't stop him from being interviewed by places like Newsweek or the New York Times.
00:13:01.000Okay, so it is very clear this person was a radical.
00:13:05.000It is also very clear that, yes, raising the temperature of rhetoric, suggesting that Donald Trump is a unique, outsized threat to the Republic of the United States, and that his supporters are sort of duped and bewildered followers, they're sort of, they're orange shirts, you might call them, that that's really what this is.
00:13:23.000Of course, that's going to lead people who have a bizarre hero-villain view of the universe, like this person does, Again, you keep upping the rhetoric and this is what you get.
00:13:33.000and try and take out the president of the United States.
00:13:36.000Again, you keep upping the rhetoric and this is what you get.
00:13:40.000Now, President Trump says this, of course, and the entire left denies it.
00:13:44.000While, by the way, maintaining that he is in fact an outsized threat to the republic,
00:13:48.000who it would be better off if, you know, if he weren't around, so to speak.
00:13:53.000Trump calls out left-wing extreme rhetoric.
00:15:26.000Our borders must be closed and the terrorist criminals and mentally insane immediately removed from American cities and towns, deported back to their countries of origin.
00:15:33.000We want people to come into our country.
00:15:35.000They must love our nation and come in legally and through a system of merit.
00:15:45.000Trump had also blamed Vice President Harris and President Biden for the assassination attempts in a conversation with Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman earlier in the day saying, quote, their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.
00:15:57.000When I'm the one who's going to save the country, they are the ones destroying the country, both from the inside and out.
00:16:03.000JD Vance gave a speech yesterday in which he specifically discussed the problems of rhetoric.
00:16:08.000Here he was yesterday at the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition talking about this.
00:16:14.000I do think that we should take this opportunity to call for a reduction in the ridiculous
00:16:21.000and inflammatory political rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics.
00:16:28.000Look, we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, but we cannot tell
00:16:37.000the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected it is going
00:16:45.000We cannot, as a As a person affiliated with Kamala Harris has said, that we need to, quote, eliminate Donald J. Trump.
00:16:53.000A New York Democratic Congressman has said that in the past.
00:16:56.000If you tell the American people that this person is the end of democracy, if you tell the American people that this person needs to be eliminated, most of them, thank God, are going to ignore you, but some crazy person is going to take matters into their own hands and actually listen to the crazy rhetoric that you're putting out there.
00:17:16.000Now again, what's funny about what Vance is saying here is that the left has been saying this about the right for legitimately decades at this point.
00:17:22.000And they said this about Sarah Palin and Gabby Giffords.
00:17:24.000They suggested because Sarah Palin put out a map, There's now, back in like 2008, that because Sarah Palin put out a map with targeted districts for a midterm election, and one of those districts was Gabby Giffords' district, that that meant that a nutjob had shot Gabby Giffords at a campaign rally.
00:17:42.000It turns out it had nothing to do with Sarah Palin.
00:17:45.000The way that it works on the left is that if a right-wing figure is attacked, it must be because of right-wing rhetoric, and if a left-wing figure is attacked, it must be because of right-wing rhetoric.
00:18:07.000Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for inflaming political rhetoric, but the former president's own words seem to be increasing the threat of political violence in Springfield, Ohio.
00:18:17.000That's where a false and ugly accusation against Haitians, thousands of whom are legal permanent residents, is impacting everyday life.
00:18:26.000Remember, the problem with bad rhetoric is Trump.
00:18:51.000But the reality is, the political violence in 2016 was almost entirely left on right, not right on left.
00:18:58.000There were full-scale Trump rallies that got shut down because of violent left-wing agitators outside arenas trying to beat people up.
00:19:06.000The left's rhetoric, politically speaking, has caused insane levels of violence in the United States.
00:19:13.000Not least among them, the $2 billion in property damage and enormous human toll of the BLM riots of 2020.
00:19:22.000Or, for example, if you're going to link the scale of rhetoric to actual violent shooting events.
00:19:28.000A Bernie Sanders fan shooting up a congressional baseball game.
00:19:31.000Or for example, a Black Lives Matter fan shooting up Dallas police officers while Barack Obama was president ripping on the police.
00:19:37.000Now, as I've said consistently here, this does not mean that people speaking politically are responsible for those who then take those words and twist them or misinterpret them or use them as an excuse for violence.
00:19:48.000However, if you do keep ratcheting up The heat on the stove, it shouldn't be a shock when the water occasionally boils over.
00:19:55.000But the way that this works for the left is everything bad they say about the right is totally justified.
00:19:59.000Everything bad they say about Donald Trump in particular is totally justified.
00:20:02.000And remember, it's not just words that they have about the right generally speaking or the right's political perspectives.
00:20:08.000They have decided that because Donald Trump is in himself a uniquely evil figure, they can say whatever the hell they want about him.
00:20:36.000The guy had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on the back of his car.
00:20:39.000I have very serious doubts about whether Donna Bash would be saying the same thing if somebody with a Trump Vance sticker on his car tried to take a shot at Kamala Harris.
00:20:46.000I have a feeling that the conversation might be wildly different.
00:20:51.000There's absolutely again no basis in fact that they were behind this at all.
00:20:57.000We don't know much about this guy yet at all other than he was somebody who was trying to find a way at in his mid to late 50s go and and serve on the front lines of Ukraine and he obviously had some anti-Trump posts but That has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
00:21:20.000It has to do with the fact that this is his political belief and obviously this is a very disturbed individual, this alleged suspect.
00:21:27.000Well, the media can be relied upon to cover up for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and all of their rhetoric.
00:21:33.000But I'll tell you what, you need to rely on your mattress.
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00:22:46.000In fact, right now, they're literally attempting to blame Donald Trump and J.D.
00:22:50.000Vance for hoax phone calls in Springfield, Ohio, because of the eating cats and dogs remark.
00:22:55.000So apparently, the rhetoric of Donald Trump and J.D.
00:22:57.000Vance is so all-fired powerful that when Donald Trump says in a debate, they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, this means you can directly blame him for bomb threats, hoax threats, very often coming from abroad, apparently.
00:23:08.000You can blame them for that sort of stuff happening in Springfield, Ohio.
00:23:11.000But when Donald Trump is shot at, the entire Democratic media complex They bear no responsibility whatsoever for their own rhetoric.
00:23:57.000In America, we resolve our difference peacefully at the ballot box, not at the end of a gun.
00:24:03.000Okay, that's all fine, and that's all well, and that's all good.
00:24:06.000But in the same speech, you went and said that we're in a battle for the soul of America.
00:24:09.000The implication being, of course, that if his favorite candidate, Kamala Harris, who forced him aside, loses, then apparently the soul of America is lost in some way.
00:24:18.000Well, it turns out that when you tell people that if your opponent is elected, the soul of America will be gone, maybe someone might take that seriously.
00:25:06.000Here's MSNBC's Nicole Wallace yesterday saying political violence is antithetical to our republic unless you're burning down half the cities in America over George Floyd.
00:25:16.000Political violence, regardless of any motive, any method, or any target, is antithetical to our democracy, to a healthy and vibrant democracy anywhere on the planet.
00:25:28.000Our system of government, our very way of life, depends not on bullets, but on our political opinions being carried out and expressed at the ballot box, in the ballot box exclusively.
00:25:43.000Okay, but I don't believe you guys, because here is the thing.
00:25:45.000You guys use language that is so unhinged and outside the norm that it's almost impossible to link it with total nonviolence.
00:25:53.000So, for example, Hillary Clinton, who has just become a morning drinker at this point, she appears on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow.
00:26:00.000She has another memoir out, because you needed to know what she's been doing for the past few years.
00:26:28.000You know it's kind of dangerous saying that over and over and over?
00:26:32.000And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
00:26:41.000You know, the late, great journalist Harry Evans, you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity.
00:26:53.000And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object.
00:26:56.000Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country
00:27:39.000And also, I don't think they're very important political figures in and of themselves.
00:27:43.000I think what they stand for is quite important, but I don't think that they in themselves are like grave threats to the future coherence of the republic.
00:27:53.000And what that means is that anytime there's an attempt on, say, Donald Trump, it turns out it's his own fault.
00:27:58.000Now listen, the leaders of the Democratic Party, it is not that they in their very personages are grave threats to the Republic, it's that the movement that they represent thinks a lot of bad things.
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00:29:55.000That's one more reason he should never be president again.
00:29:57.000The New York Times doing the same routine.
00:30:00.000They have an entire news analysis piece, which they used to just call this opinion, but they can't do that anymore, so they call it news analysis.
00:30:05.000Quote, Trump outrage in the modern era of political violence.
00:30:10.000The latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by him and against him.
00:30:18.000Within days of former President Donald J. Trump vilifying immigrants on national TV with false stories about Haitian migrants eating pet dogs and cats in an Ohio town, someone began threatening to blow up schools, City Hall, and other public buildings, forcing evacuations, and prompting a wave of fear.
00:30:33.000Days later, authorities said a man who described himself online as a disaffected former Trump supporter Made his way with the semi-automatic rifle to the former president's Florida golf course, evidently looking to take a shot.
00:30:43.000He was thwarted only when an observant Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire first.
00:30:46.000By the way, look at that horrific coverage there by the New York Times.
00:30:50.000If you read that, you would only believe that this was some sort of right-wing disaffected Republican.
00:30:54.000This guy is a nut job, career-long left-winger who the only indicator that he was Republican at all in any way, shape, or form is that he said he voted for Trump in 2016.
00:31:25.000But according to the New York Times, quote, in the space of less than a week, the once and possibly future commander-in-chief was both a seeming inspiration and an apparent target of the political violence that has increasingly come to shape American politics in the modern era.
00:31:37.000Bomb threats and attempted assassinations now have become part of the landscape, shocking and horrific, and not so much that they've forced any real national reckoning.
00:31:49.000In fact, Biden and Harris are the good guys in Peter Baker's narrative for the New York Times, quote, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both issued statements condemning the latest incident, but the campaign continued uninterrupted.
00:32:01.000Barely four hours after Mr. Trump was hustled into a motorcade away from the golf club for his protection, his finance team sent out an email to its fundraising list with a button to click to make a donation.
00:32:10.000My resolve is only stronger after another attempt on my life, Mr. Trump said in an email.
00:32:14.000Harris's fundraising emails continued as well.
00:32:18.000So again, the idea here is that Donald Trump is the cause of everything.
00:32:24.000Which, again, lends itself to the very narrative used by would-be shooters.
00:32:29.000If Donald Trump is the locus of all evil, both against him and on his behalf, then removal... I mean, that... I don't know how you avoid the implication.
00:32:43.000So, it's very difficult to make that narrative work, right?
00:32:46.000The narrative that Donald Trump's rhetoric somehow boomeranged on him, and that is why, in the space of eight weeks, two separate people have tried to shoot him, two separate times.
00:32:56.000Very difficult to explain how that narrative works.
00:32:58.000How it isn't, in fact, that the people who did this were driven by, you know, Donald Trump's opponents.
00:33:03.000That maybe it has more to do with people hating Trump, and then radical whack jobs who hate Trump, listening to the people who hate Trump, and then going and doing evil things.
00:34:00.000None of these had any validity at all.
00:34:06.000Okay, and he would go on to say that many of those hoaxes were driven by foreign sources, that the calls were actually coming from outside the country.
00:34:13.000But according to the left, this is the worst thing happening in American politics today, not the attempted assassination of one of the major candidates and the former president.
00:34:20.000The worst thing happening is that Donald Trump said a thing about the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio.
00:34:28.000That the residents of Springfield, Ohio, who are Haitian, are eating the cats and eating the dogs.
00:34:32.000That evidence has not yet come to light.
00:34:34.000What I have seen is a lot of social problems in Springfield, Ohio.
00:34:38.000I'm not a big fan of trafficking in stories that are completely unverified or just based on anecdotal evidence.
00:34:45.000I tend not to take them super seriously until there's been some sort of confirming evidence.
00:34:51.000With that said, the idea that the big story of the week, after someone again tries to shoot Trump in the head allegedly, that the big story of the week is that Trump and Vance said a thing about eating the cats and eating the dogs, and that that's the true source of American political violence, is pretty wild.
00:35:07.000But that's exactly what the Democrats are trying to retail.
00:35:10.000So for example, here is former Alabama Senator Doug Jones.
00:35:15.000Saying, you know, look what's happening to that poor town.
00:35:43.000He says, you know, the political violence that Trump is talking about, it's coming from him because of the eating the cats and the eating the dogs.
00:35:51.000Republicans want to get into a back-and-forth to check the record on who's raised the heat on the violent rhetoric more than the other party.
00:35:58.000I think they're in a bad position there.
00:36:00.000But to your point about creating stories, that's just a nice way of dressing it up.
00:36:05.000What they're saying is, we lied about it.
00:36:08.000We lied about it in order to bring something that we think is a good political issue for us, and a consequence of that is what we're seeing now, which is just what you're talking about, violence.
00:36:17.000They're having bomb threats in schools over a story that they, quote, created, that they lied about.
00:36:23.000So they're the ones, I mean, that's an exact example in Springfield right now, of them raising the rhetoric, raising the heat on a false story, on a lie, that's created a bomb threat at schools.
00:36:35.000You don't have to look too far to see where the problem's coming from.
00:36:39.000Now, again, what this comes down to is what I said at the very beginning of the show.
00:36:42.000For people on the left, or people who hate Trump at this point, anybody who disagrees with them is an emissary of evil whose brain has probably been thwarted by Trump, which means your opposition to their policy agenda puts you in that camp.
00:36:55.000You know, talking about ramping up the rhetoric and creating massive divisions in American society, that's precisely how to do it.
00:37:03.000So yesterday, Joe Biden, who, believe it or not, is still the President of the United States.
00:37:06.000It is astonishing to me how the biggest story in the country is not that we have a senile man as President of the United States, the most powerful person on Earth, does not have a functioning brain at this point, and everybody's just kind of going about their business.
00:37:17.000So I gotta say, well done by the founders for constructing a system so uniquely durable that we can put somebody fully brain-dead in the presidency and everything kind of keeps going.
00:37:27.000Joe Biden was speaking at the National Historically Black Colleges Conference, and he suggested that talking about what's going on in Springfield, Ohio puts the values of DEI under attack.
00:37:40.000But today, affirmative action and the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack like not long since I started as a young civil rights guy.
00:38:15.000It's part of a broader attack on our values, the soul of America, and it must be stopped.
00:38:21.000The problem is if you keep saying that over and over and over, someone might take you seriously.
00:38:24.000But there is one type of rhetoric, of course, that the left really doesn't like, and that is pretty much anything they disagree with is now in the violent matrix that justifies any action on their part.
00:39:30.000So remember, according to the left, Rhetoric from the left, totally fine, no matter how violent, no matter how suggestive, all of that is totally fine.
00:39:38.000Rhetoric from the right, inherently bad, inherently evil, and probably requires some sort of government activity.
00:39:45.000So, the other day, Elon Musk tweeted out after the second assassination attempt.
00:39:50.000He tweeted, and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden and Kamala.
00:39:54.000Now, it wasn't a call for an attempted assassination against Biden or Kamala.
00:39:57.000He was just pointing out that the perceived threat of Trump is higher than the perceived threat of Biden and Kamala because they are a continuation of the status quo.
00:40:05.000That's obviously what he meant by the tweet.
00:40:10.000He responded to one request to reconsider his comment saying no one has even tried to do so is the point I'm making and no one will.
00:40:17.000And then he responded to another request to delete and he said fair enough I don't want to do what they have done even in jest.
00:40:23.000I mean, again, it is very clear what he was attempting to say there.
00:40:25.000What he was basically saying is that the reason that they are trying to kill Trump is because he's a threat to the system, Biden and Harris aren't a threat to the system, so no one's trying to kill them right now.
00:40:37.000The White House immediately issues a statement on that.
00:40:39.000So the White House, which has been complicit in every Attempt to link Donald Trump with violence.
00:40:44.000Every attempt to treat Donald Trump is uniquely dangerous.
00:40:47.000The White House, which is behind the messaging that Donald Trump is a threat to the very fabric and soul of the United States of America in a unique way, not as part of a broader movement that has different priorities, but as part of a broader movement that wishes to tear away the entirety of the United States, turn it into a tyrannical theocracy.
00:41:04.000This White House, which is literally behind that effort, is very angry at Elon Musk.
00:41:08.000Quote, as President Biden and Vice President Harris said
00:41:10.000after yesterday's disturbing news, there is no place for political violence
00:41:13.000or for any violence ever in our country.
00:41:15.000We must all do our part to ensure this incident does not lead to more violence.
00:41:18.000Violence should only be condemned, not encouraged or joked about.
00:41:40.000will have to take the necessary steps to expropriate, with fair market compensation, the national security assets Musk has acquired through government contracts and subsidies, or exercise oversight necessary to safeguard American national security.
00:41:51.000Too many examples of his using those assets to provide aid to adversary states.
00:41:56.000So, Josh Marshall using this opportunity to suggest that the national government of the United States expropriate the property of Elon Musk.
00:42:03.000For a tweet, a tweet that is not calling for violence against Biden-Harris, it's pointing out that the levels of threat to Biden and Harris are lower than those against Trump for a reason.
00:42:13.000Again, the way that it works, if you are just non-left, Elon Musk is not a right-winger in any traditional sense.
00:42:32.000And yet that is the continued narrative from the left today.
00:42:36.000How two attempted assassinations against the former president of the United States somehow turns into a referendum on the person who is the victim of the assassination attempt is beyond me.
00:42:47.000I mean, truly, you gotta hand it to them.
00:42:48.000And it demonstrates what an insane bubble they live in the middle of.
00:42:59.000It has nothing to do with what you do every day.
00:43:01.000It has nothing to do with MSNBC going on air every single day and declaring that Donald Trump is basically Hitler without the mustache.
00:43:07.000It has nothing to do with Joe Biden getting up there and giving speeches for years on end about how Donald Trump is the gravest threat to the American Republic.
00:43:14.000It has nothing to do with the suggestion that Donald Trump is a revolutionary insurrectionist who attempted to overthrow the government of the United States and came within a hair's breadth of doing so on January 6th.
00:43:24.000Which is not actually what happened on January 6th.
00:43:27.000Donald Trump laid out a bunch of specious legal theories that were rejected in court, and then he laid out another specious legal theory that ended up being overridden by Republicans in Congress.
00:43:38.000And yet, somehow, when Donald Trump, again, twice in eight weeks, is victimized by attempted assassinations, the story is, of course, of course, of course, about right-wing rhetoric.
00:43:49.000I get the feeling that you don't actually care too much about the assassination attempt.
00:43:52.000All you care about is silencing your opponents.
00:43:54.000That's the thing that I get the sense of if you are in the Democrat media human centipede.
00:43:59.000The goal of that media Democrat human centipede is to indoctrinate.
00:44:03.000It is to make you think in a certain way.
00:44:05.000But the things they want you to think are not actually consonant with reality or decency.
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00:45:47.000Meanwhile, on the foreign front, Venezuela has now detained three Americans.
00:45:51.000Why, shocker, it turns out that when you negotiate with terrorists and when you cut really bad prisoner swap deals, as the Biden administration has repeatedly done, you're incentivizing America's enemies to take Americans hostage, which is precisely what the government of Venezuela is now doing.
00:46:05.000After a prisoner swap with Venezuela's regime last year, Biden administration officials celebrated and said they had commitments from President Nicolas Maduro's regime not to detain more Americans.
00:46:15.000Nearly nine months later, Maduro's authoritarian government says it has locked up three US citizens, including an active Navy serviceman, on allegations of coup plotting in a case highlighting the short-lived returns from last year's hostage exchange.
00:46:27.000Over the weekend, Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello in a news conference said three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech national have been arrested for conspiring on behalf of American intelligence services.
00:46:52.000It turns out that America's enemies have now decided that because the Biden administration is weak, they're just going to willy-nilly take American citizens hostage.
00:47:03.000Meanwhile, in more international news, Congo, which has had an ongoing civil war for years and years and years at this point, has become the victim of a massive epidemic caused by radical Muslim insurrectionist groups in Congo.
00:47:18.000This receives pretty much zero attention ever, despite the fact that apparently in one area of the country, something like 80% of the women have been raped.
00:47:28.000They're attempting to go to areas where there are food.
00:47:31.000There's a camp around Goma that hosts about 500,000 displaced people.
00:47:35.000Apparently 80% of the women have been raped, including girls as young as 8.
00:47:39.000And they're being raped by Muslim radical groups.
00:47:43.000This is not worth any sort of media attention.
00:47:47.000What is worth media attention, obviously, is Israel defending itself.
00:47:50.000That obviously is the thing that is worth media attention.
00:47:53.000It's the thing we all ought to have eyes on, is the supposed plight of the Gaza Strip.
00:47:58.000And I say supposed because it is at the hands of Hamas, not at the hands of Israel.
00:48:01.000So the United States right now is trying to warn Israel against escalating its fight with Hezbollah.
00:49:45.000So, if you wonder what the hell Nature Magazine has to do with politics, you're not the only one, but they did this back in 2020.
00:49:52.000What it ended up doing was not actually moving votes toward Joe Biden, it just ended up making people believe that Nature is a politically motivated magazine.
00:50:26.000And by the way, they did conduct a poll as to how that impacted how people view Nature Magazine.
00:50:34.000And it turned out that people don't like Nature Magazine as much because they're like, wait, I thought you guys do nature, not politics.
00:50:40.000But unfortunately, the scientific community has engaged in politics more and more while ignoring some of the biggest issues on the planet.
00:50:45.000Only now, for example, are scientists beginning to investigate just how much crap there is in our bodies thanks to, for example, all of the wrapping materials that are used on all the foods that we eat.
00:50:56.000According to the Washington Post, researchers from Switzerland and other countries have discovered that of the roughly 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging, 3,601, or about 25%, have been found in the human body, whether in samples of blood, hair, or breast milk.
00:51:10.000Those chemicals include metals, volatile organic compounds, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, phthalates, and many other materials known to disrupt the endocrine system and cause cancer or other diseases.
00:51:26.000Apparently all this stuff is unregulated.
00:51:28.000The chemicals leach out of the packaging.
00:51:31.000According to Jane Monk, the Chief Scientific Officer for the Food Packaging Forum.
00:51:36.000By the way, some of the worst things for food packaging?
00:51:39.000Recycling paper, cardboard, or plastic for food packaging.
00:51:42.000Apparently it makes it much, much worse.
00:51:43.000It leaches much easier into all of the materials.
00:51:46.000Why is it that we are only finding out about this now?
00:51:48.000Why is it that we all spent our entire life eating out of these sorts of packages?
00:51:52.000And only now has the scientific community decided to actually, you know, check it out.
00:51:56.000The truth is, the scientific community has spent a very long time Doing politics instead of actual scientific exploration.
00:52:03.000We sat down a little bit earlier this week with my friend, Dr. Marty Makary.
00:52:05.000He has a brand new book out called Blind Spots, to talk about the scientific community, what they're ignoring, including issues of, say, food security.
00:53:09.000Sperm counts are down 50% over the last five decades.
00:53:13.000We have the earliest age of puberty than any other country years before, and no one has been talking about this epidemic.
00:53:21.000We can keep throwing good money after bad after this problem, but we have a sick population with an epidemic of chronic diseases that no one has been talking about.
00:53:32.000Only The system is talking about medicating and operating on these conditions.
00:54:47.000Pesticides have hormone-like binding properties.
00:54:51.000They have estrogen-like binding properties.
00:54:53.000And they're changing the microbiome, that is the gut health, the lining of bacteria that normally digests food and trains the immune system in our body.
00:55:03.000It's being altered by these chemicals in our food supply, by antibiotics that are given unnecessarily 60% of the time, by C-sections that are unnecessary 40% of the time.
00:55:16.000So we've ignored these giant blind spots of health and we've got to start talking about them.
00:55:22.000The NIH has not been funding this stuff.
00:55:24.000They're too busy funding bat coronavirus research in Wuhan and other things.
00:55:30.000This is where we need our research funding.
00:55:32.000Actually, one of the questions that has come up sort of in our personal life, my wife got very into, she's a family physician, she got very into looking at You know, the materials that people use to eat on, paper plates, you know, the sort of, you know, plastic plates that you get at the grocery store or whatever, and she became very concerned about microplastics.
00:55:50.000There was a study recently that came out that suggested the microplastics are now becoming ubiquitous in American bodies, that actually a certain percentage of people's brain tissue is now microplastic.
00:56:14.000We're changing the body's physiology in ways we don't appreciate.
00:56:18.000It may also change the microbiome in one's gut health.
00:56:21.000And what happens is, Ben, when you take in a foreign chemical, something that does not appear in nature, be it a derivative of seed oil, microplastic, or a pesticide, or an engineered food ingredient, The body rejects it because the gut has an immune system in its lining.
00:57:05.000You know, Marty, this is such, it's so troubling to hear all of this, obviously, because you're talking about a decades-long entrenched problem at this point.
00:57:14.000And many of the figures who have been out there talking about this stuff, I mentioned again, RFK Jr., you know, I don't agree with a lot of RFK Jr.' 's prescriptions for this, right?
00:57:21.000Obviously, he's been widely anti-vaccination, not just anti the mRNA vaccines, He's not just questioned the vaccine schedules.
00:57:27.000In many cases, he's gone further and suggested that, for example, the uptick in autism, massive uptick in autism, is due to vaccinations, a proposition that I see very little evidence of.
00:57:36.000But it becomes so difficult to distinguish what is true from what is false in this sphere because very few Americans have actually gone to medical school.
00:57:44.000Even the ones who have gone to medical school are apparently spewing kind of what they've been taught very often by a system that is promulgating these things.
00:57:50.000How is a normal person going about their daily life to actually determine what's healthy and what's not?
00:57:54.000And it's exhausting to think about, you know, going to the grocery store and having to think about, like, what do I eat that doesn't poison me?
00:58:00.000And to prioritize health priorities, for example, is avoiding microplastics the most important thing?
00:58:07.000So look, I tell people, eat organic foods.
00:58:43.000People need some guidance, and that's why a group of doctors and I have said we're going to go directly to the public.
00:58:49.000And that's why I wrote the book Blind Spots, to educate people that we have got medicine terribly wrong when it came to saying opioids were not addictive.
00:58:59.000We ignited the opioid crisis, the modern-day peanut allergy epidemic.
00:59:03.000We ignited that by giving people bad advice.
00:59:07.000And the food pyramid ignited the obesity epidemic.
00:59:11.000So, ironically, sometimes medical establishment causes or hastens many of our modern-day health crises through medical dogma.
00:59:20.000Marty, one of the things you talk about in Blindspots, and we've talked about it a lot before, is you mentioned the NIH, you mentioned medical research.
00:59:26.000And when it comes to the medical research, medical research, you're always rewarded
00:59:31.000You're never rewarded for debunking something old.
00:59:34.000If there's a well-established body of medical opinion and then you come along and you disrupt that
00:59:38.000and you say, this is just not true, there's no reward structure in medicine for doing that.
00:59:42.000And there's certainly no reward structure in sort of the medical research field
00:59:45.000for even going back and trying to do a confirming study.
00:59:49.000So a huge number of studies that have been done are thrown out there.
00:59:52.000And then there is no mechanism for people like, why would you pay for somebody to duplicate a study?
00:59:56.000The study is just assumed to be good until further notice.
00:59:59.000And then it turns out 20 years later, it turns out the study was crap,
01:00:02.000but we based an entire field of medicine on it or something.
01:00:04.000We need good research on the microbiome.
01:00:07.000We need to repeat clinical trials that were only done once before we create entire guidelines.
01:00:13.000Sometimes up to 40% of everything we do in medicine gets reversed when a second study eventually gets funded.
01:00:20.000But pharma is not interested in a second repeat study if the first study shows some marginal benefit.
01:00:26.000And the old guard dinosaur professors at the NIH are set in their ways.
01:00:31.000I mean we saw a little glimpse of that during COVID.
01:00:33.000A group of doctors in their 70s and 80s deciding what's going to get research and what's not and it turns out there was no research funding for natural immunity or vaccine complications or actually study the effectiveness of cloth masks or even require a clinical trial on COVID vaccine boosters.
01:00:51.000So they weaponized research and it's a much bigger problem beyond COVID.
01:00:55.000I don't talk about COVID much in the book.