Learn English with Joe Biden. Former Vice President Joe Biden has been an imbecile on foreign policy his entire career. And now he s in charge of the United States government, and he s putting us on the brink of World War III in not one area, but TWO areas, in one day. That s how smart this guy is. And it s amazing that the left in this country has decided that it s worth it to go nuclear war over Ukraine, in order to know, like, for what? What is it worth it, you ask? And the answer to that question might surprise you: it s a nuclear war. Joe Biden is a smart guy, but he has absolutely no idea what he s talking about, and no clue what he's talking about. And that's what makes him such a dumbass, and it s no surprise that he doesn t have a clue about anything important, like what s going on in Ukraine, or about the Ukraine crisis, or what s happening in the Donbass, or how to deal with the situation in Ukraine. and why it s so important that we should all be prepared for nuclear war, and why we should be prepared to go to nuclear war if it s really that bad, and how to get ready for it in this episode of the Daily Show with John McCain. Subscribe to his new podcast, The Daily Show With John McCain, wherever you get your tickets to his next show. Learn more about John McCain's new book, "The Dark Side of the Hill: How to Think Like John McCain: What's Yours Truly, Not His Most Influential Book, by John McCain? by clicking here. or listen to his podcast on Audible.co/John McCain's New York Times bestselling book, The Dark Side Of It? Subscribe and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts by clicking the RSS feed Subscribe to John s newest book review and review it on iTunes or wherever else you re listening to his book recommendations are available. Subscribe and review John s new book recommendations? or become a friend on Podchronicity by John s Book Recommendations? by searching for John s New Book Review? and more! Subscribe on Podcoin? if you re looking for a copy of his new novel, John s Wordsworth's newest novel, "Noah's New Book is Good at It's Good, Good at it's Good by Goodbyes?
00:00:00.000Deep stupidity has consequences in the real world.
00:00:03.000That is particularly true in the realm of foreign policy.
00:00:07.000In domestic policy, you can be pretty stupid, but we have some pretty solid checks and balances constitutionally from the local and state levels all the way on up to the federal government.
00:00:14.000Stupidity very often can be somewhat mitigated.
00:00:18.000by these structures. But when it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States
00:00:21.000has effectively plenary power. He has extraordinary powers over foreign policy.
00:00:25.000And that means that the stupidity of a president of the United States can put people in the United
00:00:29.000States and our allies in danger of being killed because the president is a dullard. The president
00:00:34.000is an imbecile. Well, when you have a senile imbecile in charge of the United States government,
00:00:42.000He's been an imbecile on foreign policy literally his entire career.
00:00:45.000Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama, said that Joe Biden had not been right on a single foreign policy issue his entire career.
00:01:01.000Getting confused about teleprompters, again, this is the person who is in charge of America's national security, and he has put us on the brink of World War III, in not one area, but two, in one day.
00:01:38.000Wherever is the center of the Democratic Party or the center of gravity in the Democratic Party at any given time, that is where he is.
00:01:45.000And it turns out that the center of the Democratic Party is the editorial board at the New York Times and all of their followers.
00:01:51.000The center of the Democratic Party is the absolute dullards over on MSNBC.
00:01:56.000The center of the Democratic Party is all the TikTok generation kids with the purple hair.
00:02:00.000Those are the people that Joe Biden is following.
00:02:03.000And so that means that he has now put us, as I say, in danger of World War III in two separate arenas on the planet Earth at the same time.
00:02:14.000So thanks to the bizarre and peculiar and insane theory that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 because Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump elected and therefore manipulated all of the voting and paid people off and all this.
00:02:26.000Because of that, Democrats have decided that Russia is the worst threat on the planet.
00:02:32.000Not just a threat to Ukraine, with which I agree, but a deep and abiding threat sufficient that the entire left is unified against Russia, which is weird because back in 2012, which was not all that long before 2016, Mitt Romney was saying that.
00:02:43.000And Democrats like Barack Obama were suggesting that Mitt Romney needed to call the 1980s and tell them that he had their foreign policy or some such nonsense.
00:02:53.000By 2017, Democrats had decided that Russia was indeed the greatest threat to America.
00:02:58.000But not just a great threat, that required an actual counter.
00:03:03.000Russia is a powerful geopolitical enemy of the United States.
00:03:07.000Vladimir Putin is a canny chess player.
00:03:09.000He also happens to be at the head of a country that is willing to undergo significant physical and military sacrifice on behalf of territorial gain that's been true for centuries in Russia.
00:03:51.000So here he was calling for more aid to Ukraine in the face of the West's slow-walking aid to Ukraine in the first place.
00:03:59.000So more than ever, we have genuine burden sharing among the allies, and in the 30 or so years that I've been engaged in these issues, this is probably the best example of burden sharing that I've seen.
00:04:12.000The United States has made tremendous contributions ourselves, but It is imperative that Congress pass the supplementary budget request that President Biden has made.
00:04:24.000I know that Speaker Johnson committed to bring the supplemental to a vote swiftly.
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00:05:49.000It's been the position of the United States and many of the NATO allies that eventually at some point Ukraine would join NATO.
00:05:55.000But the way that Antony Blinken articulated this yesterday, he's making it sound like he wants NATO to accept Ukraine today.
00:06:02.000Here was the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday.
00:06:04.000Because again, Ukraine isn't just a country that the United States has an interest in not seeing fall to the Russians.
00:06:09.000Again, a proposition with which I agree.
00:06:12.000Apparently, it is worth going to nuclear war or threatening nuclear war to stop the current stalemate that has now engulfed the borders of Ukraine.
00:06:24.000The determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid.
00:06:36.000Allies will do everything that they can to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine.
00:06:47.000Okay, so Ukraine will become a member of NATO.
00:06:52.000of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership
00:06:59.000and to create a clear pathway for for Ukraine moving forward.
00:07:05.000OK, so Ukraine will become a member of NATO. If he means like today or any time
00:07:12.000while this conflict is ongoing, understand if Ukraine became a member of NATO,
00:07:17.000literally that day, the United States would be in a shooting war with Russia.
00:07:21.000Because if you allow Ukraine to join NATO in the middle of the war, then this is no longer a proxy war in which you are funding the Ukrainians.
00:07:28.000At that point, Ukraine declares that Article 5 has been invoked and all the NATO allies join in the war on Russia.
00:07:36.000And now you are a direct war with a nuclear armed power.
00:07:39.000Does this sound like intelligent policy to you?
00:07:44.000Again, the policy of the United States with regard to Ukraine, a policy that I support, is fund Ukraine necessary to preserve its independent existence from Russia, while understanding that the chances that they are going to defeat Russia in Crimea or the Donbass region are extremely low, and then look for an off-ramp.
00:08:00.000This has been my position since very early on in the war.
00:08:04.000Vladimir Putin may not be looking for an off-ramp.
00:08:06.000That means you have to continue to fund Ukraine sufficient to push Putin to look for an off-ramp.
00:08:10.000But when you say Ukraine will join NATO, understand that if that were to be effectuated today, you would be in a shooting war with a nuclear-armed superpower.
00:08:19.000So, does that seem like intelligent policy?
00:08:21.000Doesn't seem like intelligent policy to me.
00:08:23.000But if you thought that that was the worst threat of World War III that the Biden administration would create yesterday, you are wrong.
00:08:30.000The worst threat of World War III that the Biden administration created yesterday is the threat that they created in the Middle East.
00:08:36.000So, the Biden administration has decided to completely outsource its foreign policy in the Middle East to Dearborn, Michigan, pro-Hamas activists on college campuses, and the editorial board of the New York Times.
00:08:46.000Those are the people who are currently running the foreign policy of the Biden administration in the Middle East.
00:08:51.000So, lest we forget, on October 6th, there was no war between Israel and Hamas.
00:08:56.000On October 7th, Hamas crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and murdered everybody in a several-mile radius.
00:09:05.0001,200 civilians dead, 250 people taken back into Gaza and held as hostage.
00:09:10.000And today, there are over 100 people who are being held as hostages by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:09:18.000That is happening right now, as we speak.
00:09:21.000And the Biden administration initially took the position that Israel had a right not only to defend itself, but to destroy and defeat Hamas.
00:09:31.000In fact, if you go all the way back to October 24th of 2023, the White House was openly stating that a ceasefire would be in Hamas' interest.
00:10:34.000That thing is the Biden administration.
00:10:36.000You can see the evolution was happening.
00:10:38.000If you fast forward to just last week, here was John Kirby explaining why the United States was abstaining from a UN resolution that separated off the demand for a ceasefire from the demand for a hostage release.
00:10:51.000So, the United States had been pushing at the UN for a UN Security Council resolution that called, combined, for a ceasefire with the release of hostages.
00:10:59.000The United States then decided to change its position and abstain from a resolution that separated these two demands.
00:11:31.000Now, what's really happened here is that the internal pressure inside the Biden administration from the far left, the lies that are being told to Joe Biden about his electoral prospects should he abandon Israel, those have earwormed him at this point.
00:11:43.000He's got his similarly dullard wife, Dr. Jill Biden, whispering into his ear that he needs to, quote unquote, stop the war in Gaza.
00:11:51.000And so, now Joe Biden has made the full turn.
00:11:54.000The full turn is to take the complete pro-Hamas position.
00:11:56.000The complete pro-Hamas position, what Hamas wants more than anything else right now, is an immediate ceasefire, leaving Hamas in place while holding the hostages.
00:12:03.000Yesterday, the Biden administration literally just did that.
00:12:09.000So here was Antony Blinken saying not only that there should be an immediate ceasefire, but also that if Israel does not change its policy, then America would change its policy, presumably conditioning its aid to Israel on a change of policy.
00:12:23.000Now, what exactly would that change in policy be?
00:12:25.000Israel has been allowing in hundreds of trucks every single day.
00:12:29.000The reason the World Central Kitchen trucks were even in the Gaza Strip is because they had been working with Israel for six months to facilitate aid into the Gaza Strip, at the behest of the Americans, by the way.
00:12:40.000And now Tony Blinken is saying that if Israel doesn't change its policy, then they will condition A. He then also suggested that Israel, if it didn't care enough about civilians, becomes indistinguishable from Hamas, which is an insane contention.
00:12:54.000It's the kind of stupid crap you see in a bad left-wing Hollywood movie.
00:12:58.000Where he's like, well, if we kill the bad guys, we'll become the same as the bad guys.
00:13:24.000If Hamas were a legitimate army out in the field, like say, the Russian army is a legitimate army out in the field, If that were the case, the United States would not end support.
00:13:32.000They would increase support to Israel because Hamas is acting more evilly than the Russian army because they are hiding behind their own women and behind their own children.
00:13:39.000And because they're holding hostages, the United States is saying that Israel has to cave to them.
00:13:43.000So the more evil you are, the more the United States will force you to cave to the evil.
00:13:50.000We'll get some more on this in just a moment.
00:13:53.000First, let me tell you, when you look at your house, you just buy a new house, you're repainting, maybe you switch over the floors, whatever you do, the thing people don't look at enough is the window coverings.
00:14:04.000They think, it just kind of looks dingy in here.
00:14:05.000Look at your window coverings, like now as I'm talking to you.
00:15:21.000They're claiming that it's about humanitarian aid.
00:15:23.000The true humanitarian measure here would be to allow Israel to finish off Hamas, and then to transition to some sort of shared coalitional government structure, United States, Israel, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, preferably without the United States even involved.
00:15:37.000Let the Arabs take care of it, for example.
00:15:39.000They don't want to, but let them do it.
00:15:41.000As an American, I don't want America involved, like, at all with anything having to do with the Gaza Strip.
00:15:47.000But the fact is that Tony Blinken is doing the work of... So if you're Iran, you're looking, you're saying, the United States is perfectly fine with, apparently, keeping Hamas in place.
00:15:55.000The United States is currently paying, I'm not kidding you, they're giving money to Lebanon to help relocate people in southern Lebanon.
00:16:02.000Those towns are dominated by Hezbollah.
00:16:05.000The United States is clearing $10 billion a year in money flowing to Iran.
00:16:11.000While this is all happening, the radical Palestinian population in Jordan is now threatening the Hashemite Kingdom, which is an American ally.
00:16:21.000The Houthis in Yemen have not only survived, they've continued to shut down trafficking in the Red Sea.
00:16:27.000And this administration is putting pressure on Israel.
00:16:38.000I mean, all the options are at your disposal.
00:16:40.000There's a lot of talk right now about whether Iran is going to launch some sort of severe attack against Israel over the course of the next 72 hours or not.
00:17:29.000That is so disgusting what he is saying there.
00:17:31.000Of course Israel places a premium on civilian life.
00:17:33.000They've gotten their own soldiers killed in order to preserve human life in the Gaza Strip where Hamas is attempting to murder its own citizens.
00:17:43.000To suggest that Israel does not place a premium on human life?
00:17:45.000By the way, even when it comes to this world aid, this world Central Kitchen situation.
00:17:51.000Israel literally just did a full investigation then fired members of its own military over this.
00:17:57.000Which is something the United States never did when it came to droning an entire family in Afghanistan on our way out.
00:18:02.000Joe Biden still hasn't apologized for that.
00:18:06.000Here is Tony, again, trying to draw a moral equivalence between a democracy that was attacked by a terrorist group and the terrorist group itself.
00:18:11.000Like, is there one word of pressure on Hamas anywhere in here?
00:18:16.000Literally nothing that is happening in the Gaza Strip would be happening if Hamas had not done what it did on October 7th and if they surrendered today with the hostages.
00:18:24.000And so the United States is now under Joe Biden because he wants to win pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan and blue-haired lesbians at the Wesleyan campus.
00:18:32.000Because of that, they've decided that it's imperative U.S.
00:18:36.000that the that the coalitional approach, the queers for Palestine members of the of the
00:18:42.000Biden administration run foreign policy.
00:19:42.000They've got the pressure of the United States on America's own ally.
00:19:47.000That in favor of Hamas, which is why Hamas continues to reject every single deal.
00:19:53.000Hamas knows that if they just hold the hostages long enough, and if they get enough civilians killed, that the United States will eventually declare that Israel must lose the war and preserve Hamas in place while Hamas still holds the hostages, including five Americans.
00:20:08.000And we spent $6 billion and gave it to Iran to get out five Americans from Iran.
00:20:14.000When it comes to Hamas, the United States is perfectly willing to let Hamas apparently hold Americans hostage in terror tunnels because Joe Biden wants to please Chef Jose Andres or something.
00:20:28.000And again, all of this ups the prospects of World War III because an aggressive Iran in the Middle East is going to get more and more aggressive.
00:20:34.000And there will come a point where the existence of the State of Israel is at risk.
00:20:37.000And if that happens, then the bleep really hits the fan.
00:20:40.000Because if you think that Israel has unleashed its military power thus far, you are wrong.
00:20:44.000Israel has used a significant portion of its military power in the Gaza Strip.
00:20:48.000But if there is an existential, like a full-on existential danger to the State of Israel, things are going to get extremely hot, extremely fast.
00:21:01.000The Biden administration's willingness to completely flip on this thing in favor of Hamas is totally crazy.
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00:22:10.000Again, according to the Times of Israel, a senior Hamas leader says Egypt has put forward a ceasefire and hostage release proposal, but it does not include anything new.
00:22:18.000The terror group will not back down from any of its previous demands.
00:22:43.000Because they believe that they can mobilize the editorial board of the New York Times, and the voters in Dearborn, Michigan, and the marchers in New York In order to pressure Joe Biden.
00:22:55.000And by the way, it appears they're right.
00:22:58.000So here is John Kirby forced into the very Unwelcome position of having to defend this insane policy.
00:23:05.000He's asked by Peter Doocy, it seems like you are wavering.
00:23:09.000They want it both ways, which is true.
00:23:11.000They want to say that they're still pro-Israel and they support Israel while totally taking the knees out from under Israel.
00:23:16.000By the way, there's been a lot of talk about Rafah.
00:23:18.000Rafah is the southern city in the Gaza Strip where virtually all the civilians have been shuttled to in order so that Israel can facilitate the killing of terrorists without killing too many civilians.
00:23:27.000That is something, again, that no army in history really has done.
00:23:32.000They've presented plans to the Americans to get the civilians out of Rafah and somewhere else so they can go in and destroy the terror tunnels in Rafah, see if they can rescue hostages, and destroy the last vestiges of Hamas in Rafah.
00:23:43.000The United States has said they want to approve the plan.
00:23:46.000The United States under Joe Biden will never approve any plan in Rafah.
00:23:49.000Joe Biden has made that perfectly clear.
00:23:51.000The reason is because the minute Joe Biden approves a plan in RAFA and Israel goes and implements the plan in RAFA, Joe Biden owns the plan in RAFA.
00:23:58.000He can't afford to own the plan in RAFA because, again, he is too concerned about making sure that the blue-haired lesbians at Wesleyan and the pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan vote for him.
00:24:07.000And if he approves any plan in RAFA and one civilian dies, forget about that.
00:24:12.000If they kill a member of Hamas, the blue-haired lesbians will be angry.
00:24:19.000Joe Biden fed the crocodile piece by piece his foreign policy, and now the crocodile has eaten him whole.
00:24:25.000Here is John Kirby trying to wriggle around like a worm at the end of a hook on this one.
00:24:31.000As I said, and as it says in that readout, we made clear, and he made it clear to the Prime Minister in his call, that our support for Israel's self-defense remains ironclad.
00:24:42.000It's not going to stop, it's not going to waver, but Will there perhaps be some policy changes we might have to make if we don't see policy changes out of Israel?
00:24:53.000The President made it clear that our policies with respect to Gaza will be dependent upon our assessment of how well the Israelis make changes and implement changes to make the situation in Gaza better for the Palestinian people.
00:25:09.000And how much time are you giving them to make these changes, to implement these concrete steps?
00:25:14.000Again, we would hope to see some announcements of changes here in coming hours and days, and I'll leave it at that.
00:25:21.000Okay, so Israel did announce immediately that they were increasing the number of food trucks that were being allowed in from 350, which is already extremely high, to 500.
00:25:29.000That's not going to buy off Joe Biden, because Joe Biden is now captured.
00:25:32.000He is now ideologically captured by his left flank.
00:25:39.000It's even more pathetic from just a realpolitik point of view.
00:25:42.000Like, take off, take away all of the moral questions here.
00:25:46.000Just look at this in terms of pure, realpolitik.
00:25:49.000In terms of realpolitik, look at Ukraine and Russia.
00:25:53.000The United States has an interest in preserving an independent Ukraine, but the United States does not have any interest in getting into a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power.
00:26:01.000He is facilitating the entry of the United States into a NATO pact, including Ukraine, that would facilitate a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power.
00:26:10.000From a realpolitik point of view, this is asinine.
00:26:31.000So from a real policy point of view, absolutely asinine.
00:26:34.000From a real policy point of view on Israel and Hamas, the United States is not involved in this conflict.
00:26:39.000There's an ally of the United States that is attempting to destroy a terror group Meanwhile, by the way, you know who else is in favor of destroying that terror group?
00:26:48.000Despite all of the protestations for the street?
00:26:50.000The Saudi government, the Egyptian government, even the Jordanian government.
00:26:54.000They have to mouth off because they have to demonstrate to all of their radical civilians, their citizens, that they are not in favor of the Jews, but That doesn't mean that Saudi isn't in the corner rooting for Israel to destroy Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy, or that Egypt isn't in the corner hoping that Israel destroys Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy and threatens Egypt, or that Jordan isn't in the corner hoping that Israel destroys Hamas, which again is an Iranian proxy threatening the Hashemite dynasty in Jordan.
00:27:22.000From a real politic point of view, the stupidest thing you could do is hand Iran a victory in the face Of what is an extremely effective military operation in Gaza.
00:27:31.000And that's exactly what Joe Biden is doing.
00:28:52.000Israel has literally fired commanders over it.
00:28:56.000Israel has apologized publicly for it, which is more than the United States or any other Western country does during friendly fire incidents, typically.
00:29:02.000But now, Jose Andres is putting pressure on the Biden administration, and Biden is listening.
00:29:37.000He sees him as a hero in everything that he has done, not just in Gaza, but across the globe in feeding people who are in need, the humanitarian assistance that he provides.
00:29:48.000We have said the op-ed that he wrote is incredibly powerful.
00:29:52.000And he, you know, the first couple of words out of his statement yesterday was outrage and heartbroken.
00:30:00.000He also happens to be a member of the political far left.
00:30:03.000And so he was pushing for a ceasefire literally within about a week and a half of the original attack on Israel, October 7th.
00:30:09.000Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders' wing of the Democratic Party is in the ascendancy.
00:30:13.000Here is Bernie Sanders being absolutely despicable as he always is on matters morally inclined.
00:30:25.000The bottom line is, we are looking at one of the worst humanitarian disasters that we have seen in a very, very long time.
00:30:31.000We're literally, at this moment, looking at hundreds of thousands of children starving to death because Israel is not allowing the humanitarian trucks into Gaza, and especially into the areas where people are in most desperate condition.
00:30:48.000To my mind, Israel should not be getting another nickel in military aid until these policies are fundamentally changed.
00:30:57.000So if, you know, my view is no more military aid to Israel when children in Gaza are starving.
00:31:49.000They've been allowing hundreds of food trucks in.
00:31:53.000Here she is lying, because again, the progressive left is completely disconnected from reality, but they're very much connected to a narrative that suggests that Israel must lose and Hamas must win.
00:32:04.000I think the best we can do here is that we need to all be working together.
00:32:09.000And that's the President, that's people in Congress, and I am hopeful that when the President talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu, he will be making it clear that support for the actions of the Prime Minister are not, he's not helping Israel, he is not keeping Israel safe.
00:32:29.000And that he cannot, cannot continue to follow a policy of trying to starve out the people of Gaza.
00:32:37.000That he loses support all around the world.
00:32:42.000A policy of trying to starve out the people of Gaza as Israel facilitates the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:32:50.000But again, Joe Biden's been convinced by his interior team and by Joe Biden that somehow, if Hamas wins, that will be good for his administration.
00:32:59.000I suppose we'll find out if that's true.
00:33:01.000If, in fact, the American people are very much in favor of Hamas winning at the behest of the Biden administration.
00:33:07.000A point here to John Fetterman, who continues to be the great surprise of American politics over the course of the last, frankly, last decade.
00:33:15.000Here was John Fetterman yesterday saying on CBS that you should stand with Israel when they are fighting, you know, terrorists.
00:33:21.000Again, not one word, not one word from the Biden administration about pressure on Hamas.
00:33:27.000But here's John Fetterman saying the obvious.
00:33:30.000You don't have to agree with every leader's views, but we have an opportunity to stand with Israel in this situation, and that's what I've decided to do.
00:33:46.000If the Biden administration had taken this morally clear position, this war would be over already.
00:33:50.000If the Biden administration had said from the beginning, Israel has to defeat Hamas, we will support Israel, Up to the point where it defeats Hamas.
00:33:58.000In the same way that the United States has done for, say, Ukraine.
00:34:03.000In a situation where victory is not only undefined but achievable by Joe Biden's definition.
00:34:09.000Then this war would have already been over.
00:34:11.000But instead, the United States decided that it was very, very, very important to signal, to virtue signal, to those pro-Hamas necks in Michigan.
00:34:19.000In just one second, we'll get to the administration's China policy, which continues to be a complete muddle.
00:34:24.000First, The Daily Wire has decided to give Matt Walsh a robe of gavel and an all-new series, introducing Judged by Matt Walsh on DailyWire+.
00:34:31.000It appears that an individual in The Daily Wire's ranks deemed it fitting to give the most hypercritical human being on earth the authority of a bona fide judge.
00:34:39.000That's like an actual thing that we did.
00:34:41.000Also, a quick reminder, I'm an actual graduate of Harvard Law School, and Matt Walsh is Judge Walsh.
00:34:46.000Take a look at the official trailer for the new Daily Wire Plus series, Judged by Matt Walsh, right now.
00:34:50.000All rise for the Honorable Judge Walsh.
00:36:52.000There are a lot of things that are making us less competitive as every day goes by.
00:36:58.000And I'm worried that maybe it's that 70 or 80 percent in the middle that is afraid to speak up and is just kind of defaulting to those with the loudest mouth.
00:37:21.000That is Dr. Phil on the Sunday special coming soon.
00:37:23.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to be absolutely discombobulated and confused when it comes to, say, China policy.
00:37:30.000So at the same exact time that the United States will say that we want Ukraine to enter NATO, which again would immediately lead to a shooting war with a nuclear-armed power, The United States is signaling once again to China that we will be conciliatory.
00:37:46.000Now, it has been the policy of the United States for decades that we quote-unquote do not support an independent Taiwan.
00:37:55.000We've had this bizarre strategic incoherence with regard to Taiwan for a very long time.
00:38:02.000Specifically because we believe that if we provoke the Chinese into invading Taiwan, if we say we support Taiwanese independence, that China will invade basically the next day.
00:38:17.000De facto, the United States does not want Taiwan to be governed by mainland China.
00:38:22.000The question is, what resources are we willing to put behind all of that?
00:38:25.000So that strategic incoherence continues to be on complete display here.
00:38:27.000Here is John Kirby yesterday suggesting, once again, we do not support independence for Taiwan.
00:38:34.000I won't characterize President Xi's comments, but I can tell you that President Biden was very, very clear that nothing's changed about our one-China policy.
00:38:43.000We don't support independence for Taiwan, but we also don't want to see the status quo changed in a unilateral way and certainly not by force.
00:38:53.000Okay, so preserve the status quo, but we don't support independence for Taiwan.
00:38:58.000Again, that has been the historic position of the United States.
00:39:00.000The problem is that Joe Biden's weak policies have led China to believe that they can do pretty much whatever they want.
00:39:06.000And again, there will come a point here where if China can't get what it wants by soft power, it will in fact blockade the island of Taiwan.
00:39:14.000They believe that if they can show enough daylight between Taiwan and the United States that Taiwan feels truly threatened, Taiwan will preemptively, effectively elect a pro-China government.
00:39:26.000The last election was a little bit closer than has been the usual over there.
00:39:30.000But with that said, The United States is not demonstrating the naval power necessary to actually break a blockade of Taiwan were that to happen.
00:39:39.000And the real reason that China would like to blockade Taiwan is to get Taiwan to then supply via TSMC sophisticated microchips to the Chinese military sufficient to allow China to actually challenge America's military predominance.
00:39:51.000So what is the Biden administration doing?
00:39:55.000So the Biden administration has taken incredibly soft on defense policy.
00:39:59.000They have cut The military budget effectively?
00:40:03.000They have not built up our military in the face of increasing global threat?
00:40:07.000The Wall Street Journal says, standing on the bridge of a 270-foot U.S.
00:40:10.000Coast Guard cutter, Lieutenant Channing Meyer listed the recent upgrades to the 40-year-old ship, a new deck gun, reliable power connections, an improved electronic navigation system, and better internet connectivity.
00:40:20.000This thing runs like it was built yesterday, he said, a short time later inside a hallway on the Harriet Lane.
00:40:25.000The Coast Guard transferred the Harriet Lane to the Pacific from the U.S.
00:40:28.000East Coast a few months ago, part of the Biden administration's latest move to compete with China for influence in the region.
00:40:33.000officials view the Coast Guard as a potent soft power tool in the Pacific, which is home to U.S.
00:40:36.000military assets and strategic waterways that could be crucial in a military confrontation over Taiwan.
00:40:41.000But the Coast Guard is deploying retrofitted vessels like the Harriet Lane because they plan to build a new class of more modern ships will take years and has been bogged down by delays and cost increases.
00:40:51.000At the same time, the Coast Guard's enlisted workforce is 10% below its authorized strength, one of the largest shortages in its 233-year history, and is expected to worsen this year, according to officials.
00:41:00.000Meanwhile, China has reinforced its Coast Guard with more than 20 former Navy Corvettes, and is increasingly asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Chinese fishing vessels double as a maritime militia.
00:41:11.000Beijing is also actively seeking influence in the Pacific.
00:41:14.000Certain Chinese Coast Guard vessels may have longer-range guns compared with the Harriet Lane, some analysts said.
00:41:19.000So again, the goal here for China is create enough naval power to be able to blockade Taiwan, sufficient to pressure them to elect a friendly government, get the microchips, and then upgrade your military capacity.
00:41:31.000And then China really has the ability to harm the United States in some pretty severe ways, including the closing off of the Taiwan Straits, which is, again, one of the world's chief choke points for trade.
00:41:41.000Now, foreign policy is actually fairly simple.
00:41:46.000In a fifth-grade playground, the biggest bully typically wins.
00:41:51.000The United States, since World War II, has been the biggest bully.
00:41:54.000When the biggest bully decides that it is, in fact, bad and terrible, and that it needs to recede from the world scene, and that it needs to, you know, show the world that it's a kinder, gentler bully, Stops working out.
00:42:23.000It turns out when the United States recedes from its position of world leadership, out of some sort of peculiar sense of self-doubt, all of our enemies are not sitting still.
00:42:32.000There's this weird take on foreign policy that has become incredibly predominant, which is that the United States is the only country with agency on Earth.
00:42:38.000That basically everything that everyone else does is a reaction to us.
00:42:41.000Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if it had not been for the United States doing X. China would not be concerned about Taiwan if it were not for the United States being so provocative.
00:42:48.000Or, alternatively, everybody is playing the same game, and everybody has their own geostrategic interests, and they are going to pursue those geostrategic interests.
00:42:56.000And where they meet mush, they will push.
00:42:59.000Which one of those sounds more likely to you?
00:43:02.000There's a certain arrogance and self-centeredness about isolationist or left-wing foreign policy.
00:43:08.000Sort of Noam Chomsky-esque, the rest of the world just reacts to the United States foreign policy.
00:43:12.000Turns out people all over the world are adults and have agency.
00:43:16.000It would be nice if the United States treated its enemies as though they had agency sometimes and are not mere children who are the playthings of more powerful Western powers.
00:43:48.000Do you know, okay, a bit of a history lesson, do you know that women were not, the women's teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022?
00:43:59.000Think about that and what, that talk about progress, you know, better late than never, but progress, and what that has done, because of course when, you know, I had a bracket, it's not broken completely, but I won't talk about my bracket.
00:44:12.000But you know what, just how we love, we love March Madness, and even just now allowing the women to have brackets and what that does to encourage people to talk more about the women's teams, to watch them, now they're being covered, you know, and this is the reality.
00:44:29.000People used to say, oh, women's sports, who's interested?
00:44:32.000Well, if you can't see it, you won't be.
00:44:35.000But when you see it, you realize, oh, She's so terrible.
00:44:41.000By the way, Barack Obama has been filling out the women's NCAA bracket since 2009.
00:44:47.000Kamala Harris pretending that women are victims in the United States in order to garner political power.
00:45:21.000It's kind of like the Black Little Mermaid.
00:45:23.000Just because racists hate it, doesn't mean it's good.
00:45:28.000And you know I'm right, because every one of you has sat through one of those diversity training sessions and thought, And it's not just you.
00:45:37.000Over 900 studies have shown that DEI programs don't make the workplace better for minorities.
00:45:43.000In fact, it can actually make things worse because of the backlash effect.
00:45:47.000And honestly, I'm not surprised these programs didn't work.
00:47:29.000Meanwhile, the media recognizing that Joe Biden's foreign policy is a complete disaster area, they are now attempting to suggest that Donald Trump is mirroring Joe Biden's foreign policy, particularly with regard to Israel.
00:47:38.000So there was an interview that Donald Trump did recently with an Israeli newspaper called Israel Hayom, in which he was talking about the state of Israel and its foreign policy with regard to Gaza.
00:47:50.000And he basically said Israel needs to hurry up and end the war because the PR disaster is bad for Israel.
00:48:02.000What I mean by that is that we in the West, we like to talk a lot about human rights and humanitarianism.
00:48:06.000The reality is, what the population cannot bear is not bad pictures on RTV, we can bear that, but only for a very short time.
00:48:12.000If it lasts for a very long time, then we start to get upset.
00:48:15.000So, for example, if it's the war in Iraq in 1991 and we see a highway of death, We can do that for like a few days.
00:48:22.000If it lasts a few months, we start to get antsy.
00:48:26.000So if you are an American ally, short and dirty is better than long and less dirty.
00:48:33.000Israel listened to the United States on the humanitarian measures, which is why they were shuttling civilians all around the Gaza Strip.
00:48:38.000It's why they've been allowing in literally tons of food aid every single day.
00:48:42.000The reason that they've been doing that is out of deference to the Americans and also because Israel is a democracy and would like to see civilians not killed.
00:48:49.000But it turns out that when you do that, the press still hates you, and then they seek your defeat anyway.
00:49:15.000Israel is losing the PR war because they fundamentally, again, believe that the American people are willing to look at ugly pictures on their TV if they understand that those ugly pictures are necessary in order to achieve victory.
00:49:26.000But the truth is, the American people don't like ugly pictures on our TV.
00:50:09.000Joe Biden literally just told Israel to stop fighting Hamas because Chef Jose Andres told him that he was mad about the World Central Kitchen disaster.
00:50:21.000Joe Biden is putting every ounce of pressure he can muster on the Israeli government right now to oust the sitting government that was elected and also to force them to preemptively declare a ceasefire while hostages are still being held by Hamas.