The Ben Shapiro Show - April 09, 2024


Blotting Out The Sun

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A solar eclipse that covered the entire United States on August 21st. It was a pagan day in America, and the reaction to the eclipse was interesting to say the least... was it supposed to be a Christian day? Or was it a Muslim day? And is there something to be learned from it? Or is it just another day in the life of a skeptic? And what does it have to do with climate change and earthquakes? And why does it make so much sense to blame the solar eclipse on climate change? All of these questions and more are answered in this episode of Mythology and Mythology Uncensored. This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Tall Tales Productions. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our companies, and do not necessarily reflect those of any corporations, governments, or religious organizations. We do not endorse the views of our employers, institutions, or individuals expressed in this material. This material does not represent the views and opinions expressed by our employees, employers, partners, or any other third parties. Thank you for your support, support, or otherwise, in any way you can manage your own interpretation of this material, and we do not claim any responsibility for its accuracy, impartiality, fairness, or objectivity, or impartiality. It is not intended to reflect the views expressed by anyone else's. in any of it. except that of any other than that which is stated in the material presented here. or its source. is not a reflection of those sources. Copyright 2019, unless otherwise indicated. . by their respective owners. All rights reserved. by the creator or third parties unless otherwise stated. , unless otherwise noted. If you like the work of their work, credit given to a third party or third party source or any third party provider and/or any other person s credit given is also their fair use, credit where credit given, other such credit given in any such credit, etc., etc., such as that of third party provided by third party service etc., , etc. etc. etc. in any other such attribution or such other such thing in this work is credit given or other such compensation is such a thing, etc. Thank you. Thanks for listening and review or review if you have any other feedback or review request.

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00:00:00.000 Well, yesterday was a pagan day in America. 0.55
00:00:03.000 There was a giant solar eclipse, obviously, that moved all the way across the United States over the course of the day.
00:00:09.000 And it was pretty fascinating to see the responses.
00:00:11.000 The reason I say that it was a pagan day in America is because there are a couple of different ways that you could view something like a solar eclipse.
00:00:18.000 So, if you were a normal person, you'd view the solar eclipse as A wonderful example of science at work.
00:00:25.000 An incredible example of the workings of the universe in which the sun is eclipsed totally by the moon and has to do obviously with the rotations of the universe and the solar system and all the rest of it.
00:00:36.000 And that's really cool.
00:00:37.000 That's really neat stuff.
00:00:39.000 Traditionally, traditional religions had always suggested, before they knew any of the science, that things like solar eclipses, which obviously appeared incredibly rarely and were very scary to people, they had suggested that that was celestial movings in response to human sin.
00:00:54.000 So, human beings would sin, and then God would respond with a solar eclipse.
00:00:59.000 Right now, obviously we know better now, we know that that's science.
00:01:02.000 The other way to view it from a religious perspective today would be to say that this is amazing and wonderful evidence of God's handiwork in the universe.
00:01:10.000 The intricate workings of the universe that God created.
00:01:11.000 Okay?
00:01:12.000 All of those are sort of well within traditional monotheistic religion.
00:01:15.000 Then there's the pagan view.
00:01:16.000 The pagan view is that you sin against nature and then the gods smack you.
00:01:20.000 And that is the view that apparently has been taken by a wide variety of people across the United States.
00:01:27.000 The most obvious of whom is the signal, unintelligent person, Sunny Hostin on The View.
00:01:33.000 So, Sunny Hostin was on The View yesterday, and she not only blamed the solar eclipse on climate change, she then blamed earthquakes also on climate change.
00:01:44.000 Now, it may be that Sonny Hostin just doesn't know literally anything about science, or it may be that you are supposed to, in pagan circles, blame everything on man's sin against nature.
00:01:55.000 That man has sinned against Gaia, and now Gaia will take her revenge. 0.99
00:01:59.000 Because this makes no sense.
00:02:01.000 Here is Sonny Hostin yesterday in the most spectacular scientific fail of the day.
00:02:06.000 We've got a solar eclipse.
00:02:08.000 We've got the earthquake.
00:02:08.000 She ran down the hallway.
00:02:09.000 She ran down the hallway. 0.51
00:02:10.000 The rapture is here.
00:02:11.000 The rapture is here.
00:02:12.000 And then also I learned that the cicadas are coming.
00:02:15.000 Cicadas.
00:02:16.000 Cicadas.
00:02:17.000 For the first time in... Cicadas.
00:02:18.000 Cicadas.
00:02:29.000 C Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.
00:02:38.000 In a way.
00:02:39.000 I would say all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that, you know, either climate change exists, or something is really going on.
00:02:49.000 Not quite so not at the mercy of climate change.
00:02:51.000 It's underground.
00:02:52.000 It happens.
00:02:54.000 And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen.
00:03:01.000 It's like watching a bunch of badgers try to understand higher math.
00:03:04.000 They're really an amazing... But there is something to what Sunny Hostin is saying, and that is that if you live in this pagan world where the world takes its revenge on you for sinning against the climate, then you must pay homage to the climate.
00:03:17.000 You don't have to try and solve a problem.
00:03:19.000 It's not a real world problem that the climate is changing over time, and that maybe you adapt to that as human beings, or you try to mitigate particular activities.
00:03:26.000 Instead, it is a sin against the climate.
00:03:29.000 And you see sort of this additional move toward paganism across the spectrum.
00:03:34.000 It's really, really weird.
00:03:35.000 It's a weird thing that we are seeing.
00:03:37.000 The same exact people who will say that monotheistic religion is a bunch of hocus-pocus, those same people are wearing woo-woo crystals and talking about how the crystals are changing their elemental relationship to the universe.
00:03:48.000 Yesterday, my wife and I tuned into the NASA broadcast of the eclipse because we were told by literally everyone, you are not allowed to look at the eclipse.
00:03:56.000 You will die if you look at the eclipse and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:03:59.000 It is very funny how everyone's mentality changes with regard to the eclipse.
00:04:03.000 Like, none of us ever think about looking at the sun because you just instinctively don't look at the sun because, you know, don't look at the sun. 0.99
00:04:08.000 When it comes to the eclipse, we've all become idiots. 0.86
00:04:10.000 In any case, NASA didn't just have on scientists to discuss the eclipse. 0.99
00:04:13.000 Again, it's NASA, okay?
00:04:15.000 You're talking about a government-funded space agency, and they decided that they were going to bring on an indigenous scientist named Dr. David Begay to talk about the solar eclipse.
00:04:25.000 And this is a weird thing, okay?
00:04:26.000 It's just weird.
00:04:28.000 Let's check in with Joy in Dallas to learn more about indigenous astronomy.
00:04:32.000 When people think about science, they might be thinking of Western science.
00:04:37.000 So David, how does that relate to indigenous science?
00:04:40.000 And what did the total eclipse mean to the Navajo people?
00:04:43.000 I think the knowledge on the eclipse goes way back from time immemorial that I'm told by my elders.
00:04:54.000 and uh they knew that uh when you look at the sun directly and so they knew that wow about the danger of looking at the eclipse with the naked eye so people were encouraged to go inside to ensure that people weren't looking up especially the kids so it goes way back and as far as um Eclipses, it's a time of renewal.
00:05:26.000 The sun alignment with the moon and also the earth alignment.
00:05:35.000 The whole cosmic cycle goes through a regeneration process.
00:05:41.000 It revitalizes the process.
00:05:43.000 And so it's a gift that goes on for many years, over and over.
00:05:50.000 It's a cycle.
00:05:54.000 And as far as science goes, there's different definitions of science.
00:06:02.000 No, there aren't. 0.97
00:06:04.000 Okay, and the fact that NASA is promoting this crap is, again, a return to a sort of pre-scientific paganism. 0.96
00:06:11.000 We'll get to more on this in just a second. 0.98
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00:07:16.000 I love that NASA has on this indigenous scientist.
00:07:19.000 Okay, what he's talking about there is not science.
00:07:22.000 It is, in fact, religion of one sort or another.
00:07:26.000 And NASA is promoting that.
00:07:27.000 Now, would NASA have on a devotee of ancient Christian theology or
00:07:33.000 ancient Jewish theology to talk about how man's sins caused the solar eclipse?
00:07:37.000 I don't think so, but they have on the indigenous scientists to talk about how 0.98
00:07:41.000 since ancient times, indigenous elders have said, don't look at this.
00:07:45.000 Okay, so first of all, you don't need indigenous elders not to tell you not to look at the sun.
00:07:48.000 I'm sorry, like that doesn't require an insane amount of common sense.
00:07:52.000 Don't look at the sun.
00:07:53.000 Again, we instinctively don't look at the sun as human beings because if you do it for one second, it hurts your eyes.
00:07:59.000 Okay, but the fact that NASA felt the necessity to do this, and diversity and inclusion apparently means that we have to pretend that quote-unquote indigenous science is the same as Western science.
00:08:09.000 Ancient peoples could not even properly chart the dates of solar eclipses because they didn't understand the science.
00:08:15.000 So this kind of notion that we have to juxtapose that by, again, that's a government-funded agency.
00:08:19.000 That's NASA. 0.78
00:08:21.000 These are supposed to be our best scientists.
00:08:22.000 These are the people who are going to put us on the moon.
00:08:24.000 These are the people who help us get to Mars.
00:08:27.000 And here they are interviewing indigenous scientists.
00:08:29.000 The kind of reversion to pagan ideology is really bizarre.
00:08:33.000 And it does tie into something that has a moral underpinning.
00:08:37.000 And that moral underpinning is that we are supposed to take as wrote the idea that there are these sorts of sacrifices we make to the pagan universe, and then we backfill the rationale for them.
00:08:50.000 And this is why on the left you see that once you get rid of monotheistic religion, you just fill it with some other form of religion.
00:08:56.000 You could fill it with scientific atheism, which at least has a track record of, you know, scientific progress.
00:09:01.000 Or you can fill it with a pagan morality.
00:09:05.000 And that pagan morality is what most people tend to fill it with.
00:09:09.000 Which is why you see, on The View, Whoopi Goldberg justifying abortion by citing the Ten Commandments.
00:09:14.000 Because unfortunately on the left, again, when you get rid of Judeo-Christian religion, what you end up with is new sacraments. 0.92
00:09:21.000 And the new sacraments of the far left Include things like justifying child sacrifice in the sense that you are talking about the justification of the termination of pregnancy and calling it moral.
00:09:36.000 This is a big difference from the 1990s.
00:09:38.000 When I was growing up, safe, legal, and rare at least acknowledged the innate sinfulness and tragedy of an abortion. 0.79
00:09:45.000 That's why it was supposed to be rare.
00:09:47.000 Now the idea is that the Ten Commandments justify abortion.
00:09:51.000 Here is moral scion Whoopi Goldberg And it's not mentioned in the Big Ten, I'm just going to say.
00:10:01.000 In the Big Ten, it is not mentioned.
00:10:01.000 No.
00:10:03.000 The commandments?
00:10:04.000 Yeah.
00:10:05.000 You know, because I figured, God was pretty clear.
00:10:08.000 Here's the stuff that'll make your life better on Earth.
00:10:12.000 Here's the thing.
00:10:12.000 Don't lie, because you don't want people lying to you.
00:10:15.000 Don't mess with somebody's wife, because you're going to be mad if they're messing with yours. 1.00
00:10:19.000 Just, you know, common sense stuff.
00:10:21.000 The evangelicals would say, thou shalt not kill.
00:10:23.000 They believe that.
00:10:23.000 Yes, well here's the thing.
00:10:26.000 I think Thou Shalt Not Kill cannot be used as the block because we allow wars all the time.
00:10:34.000 Yes, we do.
00:10:35.000 Because Crusade was about all these things. 1.00
00:10:39.000 No, you stupid person. 1.00
00:10:41.000 No, no, no. 1.00
00:10:41.000 There is some conversation to be had here. 1.00
00:10:44.000 So you can either use Thou Shalt Not Kill for everybody.
00:10:48.000 Yes.
00:10:49.000 And everything.
00:10:50.000 And everything.
00:10:52.000 Or we have to talk about all the things that you and I need to do.
00:10:58.000 Wait, so her logic is, just to get this straight, that when the Ten Commandments says thou shalt not murder, okay, the word is murder, it's not kill, as I mentioned yesterday on the show, the word in Hebrew for killing, if you were putting it in the Ten Commandments, would be lo taha rog, it's a completely different word.
00:11:13.000 The word in the Ten Commandments is lo tirtzach, which literally means do not murder, which is not the same thing, because you can kill in self-defense, that's not murder.
00:11:22.000 She is basically saying that if you are willing to execute child rapists and murderers, then you should also be willing to excuse the killing of the unborn.
00:11:30.000 Because this is now a sacrament on the left.
00:11:30.000 Why?
00:11:31.000 Let's be real about this.
00:11:32.000 That is why they're now twisting the Bible.
00:11:34.000 By the way, she's violating one of the 10 commandments right there by citing God as authority for abortion. 1.00
00:11:39.000 She's violating number three, not taking God's name in vain.
00:11:43.000 It's kind of a biggie. 0.98
00:11:45.000 The definition of taking God's name in vain, by the way, is not saying, gee, damn it.
00:11:49.000 The definition of taking God's name in vain is justifying evil action in the name of God.
00:11:55.000 That's what it is.
00:11:57.000 And that's exactly what she's doing right there.
00:11:58.000 But this has become a sacrament on the pagan left.
00:12:00.000 On the pagan left, abortion is not just something terrible that sometimes people have to do.
00:12:05.000 It is something that is an affirmative good.
00:12:09.000 And that is perverse.
00:12:11.000 And the sacraments include things like abortion, climate change, as well as, of course, trans ideology, which is why you had 0.99
00:12:19.000 the bizarre spectacle yesterday of the legendary women's basketball coach Dawn Staley, who
00:12:24.000 again is only famous because men and women have different leagues. Here she was yesterday 1.00
00:12:30.000 suggesting that trans women should be allowed to play in NCAA events. Here we go. I'm on the I
00:12:38.000 mean, I'm on the opinion of of if you're a woman, you should play. 1.00
00:12:52.000 If you consider yourself a woman, and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play.
00:13:01.000 That's my opinion.
00:13:03.000 You want me to go deeper?
00:13:04.000 Do you think transgender women should be able to participate in college basketball? 1.00
00:13:10.000 That's the question you want me to ask.
00:13:12.000 I mean, you want to ask, so I'll give you that yes.
00:13:14.000 Yes.
00:13:15.000 So now, the barnstorm of people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me
00:13:23.000 on one of the biggest days of our game and I'm okay with that. I really am.
00:13:32.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out right here that we made an entire movie called Ladyballers about 1.00
00:13:38.000 precisely this problem in which a bunch of men who are really, really too old for this and out
00:13:46.000 out of shape.
00:13:47.000 Play a bunch of women?
00:13:48.000 Hey, let's be real about this.
00:13:50.000 There are a bunch of memes that were going around about Caitlyn Clark.
00:13:52.000 Caitlyn Clark is a tremendous women's player.
00:13:54.000 Historically great women's player.
00:13:55.000 She would not beat a half-decent high school boys basketball player in a one-on-one.
00:14:01.000 She doesn't have the size for it. 0.98
00:14:03.000 She doesn't have the body mass for it. 1.00
00:14:05.000 She can't dunk. 1.00
00:14:07.000 I'm sorry, this is so stupid. 0.99
00:14:09.000 But again, the reason that Dawn Staley is saying this is not because she actually believes this. 0.99
00:14:12.000 She's saying this because you have to repeat the Nostrums of the pagan left. 0.58
00:14:15.000 It is very important.
00:14:16.000 These are all sacraments.
00:14:17.000 Sacraments like men can be women. 0.91
00:14:19.000 Sacraments like abortion is holy. 0.98
00:14:21.000 Sacraments like if you pay homage to the climate change gods, then there won't be an earthquake or a solar eclipse.
00:14:28.000 This is the bizarre universe which we now inhabit.
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00:15:35.000 And herein lies my problem with Donald Trump's message on abortion.
00:15:39.000 So President Trump, y'all know that I'm a supporter of President Trump's.
00:15:42.000 I've given money to his campaign.
00:15:44.000 Donald Trump is taking a position on abortion that is eminently politically pragmatic.
00:15:49.000 His position on abortion is that this is a state's issue, that this should be delegated to the states.
00:15:53.000 Now, you could say two things about this.
00:15:57.000 One would be moral, and one would have a real moral problem attached to it.
00:16:01.000 The one that is moral is to say, yes, abortion is wrong. 0.63
00:16:06.000 Yes, abortion is a great sin. 0.98
00:16:09.000 Against God, against man, it is a terrible thing.
00:16:11.000 Abortion is horrific. 0.70
00:16:13.000 Also, the federal government of the United States has delegated powers.
00:16:16.000 Those delegated powers typically do not extend into state criminal law with regard to things like abortion.
00:16:23.000 The Supreme Court has kicked this back to the states and has made fairly clear in its own decision making that it does not want the federal government sounding off on this.
00:16:31.000 Not only that, we have pragmatic concerns.
00:16:33.000 about pushing forward a significant piece of abortion legislation in a highly divided country at a time when the country appears to be splintering.
00:16:40.000 Thus, for pragmatic, not moral reasons, for pragmatic reasons, we wish to kick this back to the states so that there can continue to be a building of a coalescence around a stronger abortion position federally.
00:16:53.000 That it takes time to actually get most Americans to accept a more moral position.
00:16:58.000 And that, on a pragmatic level, if you want a more pro-life country, you need to take that time to do it.
00:17:03.000 And that is why I'm not supporting an immediate piece of significant abortion legislation because the country is simply too divided.
00:17:10.000 But, when the opportunity presents itself, of course, from the executive level, I will do what I can to prevent abortion. 0.93
00:17:15.000 And of course, I am personally pro-life and hope for a time when the American people are ready to accept an elected government that would, in fact, ban abortion.
00:17:22.000 Right?
00:17:23.000 That would be the moral position.
00:17:24.000 Because that distinguishes between two different types of rights that we've talked about a lot on the program.
00:17:29.000 One is a moral right and one is a legal immunity.
00:17:32.000 Those are not the same thing.
00:17:33.000 A moral right is the idea that, for example, in the United States, I do not have a moral right to say the N-word, to take an obvious example.
00:17:40.000 There's no moral right because it's not like a good thing to say the N-word.
00:17:44.000 It's a bad thing.
00:17:45.000 I do have the legal right to say the N-word because you don't want to delegate to the government the ability to crack down on speech.
00:17:50.000 And any government with the power to crack down on somebody saying the N-word also has the capacity and power To crack down on things that actually are good, necessary and truthful.
00:18:00.000 And when you're talking about delegating powers to the federal government, you have to be very careful about which powers get delegated to the federal government, including in the realm of criminal law, right?
00:18:07.000 That would be the distinction.
00:18:08.000 So abortion can be extremely wrong.
00:18:11.000 And also because of the extraordinary diversity of the United States and the internal fissures of the United States, it is difficult to pragmatically find a piece of it.
00:18:20.000 Now, listen, I disagree with him positionally.
00:18:22.000 I think that On a federal level, you could push a piece of 15-week abortion legislation.
00:18:26.000 This is Mike Pence's proposal.
00:18:27.000 He happens to be right about that.
00:18:28.000 But if Trump wanted to make the pragmatic case for why he is doing what he is doing, you could do that and still do it morally because you'd say you actually distinguish between the moral and the pragmatic.
00:18:39.000 The problem with Trump's statement on abortion is that he takes a relatively morally unclear stance on abortion itself.
00:18:49.000 And that's a problem.
00:18:50.000 So here's his statement yesterday.
00:18:53.000 My view is now that we have abortion, where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote, or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land.
00:19:06.000 In this case, the law of the state.
00:19:10.000 Many states will be different.
00:19:11.000 Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that's what they will be.
00:19:19.000 At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.
00:19:23.000 You must follow your heart, or in many cases, your religion or your faith.
00:19:28.000 Do what's right for your family, and do what's right for yourself, do what's right for your children, do what's right for our country, and vote.
00:19:37.000 So important to vote.
00:19:39.000 At the end of the day, it's all about will of the people.
00:19:42.000 That's where we are right now, and that's what we want, the will of the people.
00:19:47.000 Okay, so this is the part where I have serious moral differences with President Trump on this matter.
00:19:50.000 Okay, when President Trump says it's about the will of the people, no it really isn't.
00:19:54.000 It really is not about the will of the people.
00:19:55.000 That is a bad answer.
00:19:56.000 That's a bad answer because if the will of the people...
00:19:59.000 Were to enshrine slavery in a particular state, obviously we would not allow it.
00:20:03.000 This was actually a position taken by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
00:20:08.000 The position of Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates prior to the Civil War was what he called popular sovereignty.
00:20:13.000 The idea was that if a state wanted slavery, it could vote to enshrine slavery.
00:20:17.000 And if a state didn't want slavery, it could vote to not enshrine slavery or to ban slavery.
00:20:21.000 That is a not good moral position.
00:20:23.000 Now again, you can make a pragmatic case for the Stephen Douglas position on abortion.
00:20:28.000 By simply saying, this is the structure of the federal government, and until such time as we have a full-scale consensus at the top level of American government, it's going to be very difficult on a pragmatic level to push any significant abortion legislation.
00:20:41.000 And so, my job is to help build that moral consensus until we have a political consensus.
00:20:47.000 Right?
00:20:47.000 Daddy could say, is the moral relativism in the position?
00:20:49.000 That's the problem.
00:20:51.000 Hey, that's my problem with it.
00:20:52.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:21:56.000 On a political level, what Trump is doing here is very smart, as I mentioned yesterday.
00:21:59.000 On a political level, Trump is looking at the polling data.
00:22:01.000 He's looking at what happened in Kansas.
00:22:03.000 He's looking at what happened in Michigan.
00:22:04.000 And he is saying to himself, you know what I don't feel like fighting?
00:22:06.000 This issue all the way up to the election.
00:22:09.000 If this turns into a battle over abortion, in which Joe Biden is running to enshrine abortion, and I'm being characterized as wanting to ban abortion across the board, then that's going to be a problem.
00:22:19.000 Now, I think he could draw, again, that same pragmatic middle line with regard to 15 weeks, because that would force Democrats into the unenviable position of having to promote late-term abortion.
00:22:30.000 Because after all, he could say, listen, I'm not trying to ban abortion early term.
00:22:34.000 You're talking about four months.
00:22:35.000 That is a very, very late-term abortion at this point.
00:22:39.000 He could make that case, but he's not making that case.
00:22:40.000 I understand why he's doing so politically.
00:22:43.000 But again, my problem is the moral imprimatur that he is putting on a relativistic perspective to abortion.
00:22:49.000 But what he's doing politically is he's trying to take himself out of the battle.
00:22:54.000 And so when he is slamming Lindsey Graham politically, He's not wrong.
00:22:58.000 So Lindsey Graham is pro-life.
00:23:00.000 And Lindsey Graham said that he respectfully disagreed with Trump's stance.
00:23:05.000 He reiterated his own support for a 15-week ban.
00:23:08.000 And then Trump responded, quote, many good Republicans lost elections because of this issue.
00:23:12.000 And people like Lindsey Graham that are unrelenting are handing Democrats their dream of the House, Senate,
00:23:15.000 and perhaps even the presidency.
00:23:17.000 Graham responded, quote, we should draw a line.
00:23:20.000 I believe what I believe, the idea of the Republican Party abandoning the opposition to late-term abortion,
00:23:24.000 I think would be a mistake because most Americans oppose late-term abortion.
00:23:27.000 And then Trump got more personal in his critiques.
00:23:33.000 He said, I blame myself for Lindsey Graham and urge the South Carolina Republican and Marjorie Danensfelser, who is the president of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, who expressed disappointment with Trump's stance to quote unquote, study the constitution.
00:23:45.000 He said, when they do, they should proudly get on with helping Republicans to win elections rather than making it impossible for them to do so.
00:23:50.000 It's an interesting political play.
00:23:52.000 Again, I think that morally speaking, Lindsey Graham is correct and Trump is wrong, but it's an interesting political play by Trump because he's basically saying to his Republican base, trust me on abortion.
00:24:02.000 I want to take it off the table.
00:24:04.000 Just trust me.
00:24:05.000 I think it'll work.
00:24:06.000 I think most Republicans, because after all, he did, in fact, nominate the justices who ended up overturning Roe v. Wade, are going to give him a lot of latitude on this particular issue, including pro-life Republicans.
00:24:16.000 With that said, the job of the pro-life movement has shifted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:24:21.000 The job of the pro-life movement is, in the states where they can, to promote pro-life legislation, which they have been doing, to the extent that they can gain long-term wins.
00:24:32.000 The pro-life movement, in other words, could fight a purist battle in terms of overturning Roe v. Wade because it was a simple yes-no question.
00:24:40.000 Should it be overturned?
00:24:40.000 Should it not be overturned?
00:24:42.000 Now the job of the pro-life movement is to craft a pragmatic political response to the left-wing idea that all abortion should be enshrined in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:24:51.000 And Trump is acknowledging the pragmatism.
00:24:52.000 Again, the moral problem with what Trump is doing is he is pretending that the pragmatic position is the moral position, which is not quite the same thing.
00:25:00.000 Now, what's weird about what Trump is doing a little bit is that Donald Trump always has this sort of, he has good political instincts in the sense that he kind of knows what is somewhat popular with the American public and what is not.
00:25:13.000 The thing he needs to do and what he's trying to do with the abortion issue is to take it off the table specifically because it elevates him.
00:25:19.000 If the abortion issue is front and center, then it becomes a referendum on Donald Trump and abortion, the election, as opposed to a referendum on Joe Biden's terrible presidency.
00:25:28.000 This is why, even though it's funny, I think that it's bad politics to, for example, put out commercials of Trump blotting out the sun.
00:25:34.000 So yesterday, I mean, it's funny, it's funny.
00:25:36.000 Again, Donald Trump's a very funny guy and his campaign is very funny.
00:25:39.000 But Donald Trump put out an ad during the solar eclipse in which he blots out the sun.
00:25:44.000 Here it is.
00:25:45.000 He says, the most important moment is a giant picture of the sun.
00:25:59.000 In human history.
00:26:03.000 And then it's a bunch of people looking into the sky with their shades on.
00:26:07.000 Looking at the eclipse.
00:26:08.000 It says, is taking place in 2024.
00:26:11.000 Spoiler alert, it's not, but it's okay.
00:26:16.000 Many more important points in human history.
00:26:18.000 Okay, and here comes what looks like the moon in front of the sun, but it is not in fact the moon.
00:26:18.000 And mention of fire.
00:26:25.000 It is in fact The giant profiled head of Donald Trump emerging to blot out the sun.
00:26:32.000 I mean, like, it's funny.
00:26:36.000 Again, Donald Trump is a very funny guy, and his campaign is very funny.
00:26:40.000 Also, if you want this election to be about Joe Biden, do you want an ad of your head blotting out the sun?
00:26:46.000 I don't understand the post.
00:26:48.000 We will save America.
00:26:50.000 And it's a picture of Donald Trump's head blotting out the sun as people celebrate below looking up at the sun.
00:26:58.000 Again, oh my gosh, that's some strong stuff right there.
00:27:02.000 Okay, make America great again.
00:27:06.000 Okay, President Trump needs to decide if he wants to be at the center of the campaign or if he wishes to be at the periphery of the campaign and let Joe Biden be at the center of the campaign.
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00:28:16.000 Political advice.
00:28:17.000 Okay, now back to the pragmatic side.
00:28:19.000 Don't be at the center of the campaign.
00:28:20.000 Let Joe Biden screw it up.
00:28:21.000 It's fine.
00:28:22.000 Just let him screw it up.
00:28:23.000 He will.
00:28:23.000 I promise.
00:28:25.000 Speaking of which, brand new Gallup poll is out showing that Americans have serious distrust issues with Joe Biden.
00:28:32.000 So, there are six different characteristics that are pulled between Trump and Biden.
00:28:37.000 And here's where they stand.
00:28:39.000 Can manage the government effectively.
00:28:41.000 Donald Trump currently leads by 10 points.
00:28:44.000 Can manage the government effectively.
00:28:45.000 That's how much people dislike Joe Biden.
00:28:48.000 Donald Trump now leads on that.
00:28:48.000 49-39.
00:28:50.000 Is likable.
00:28:51.000 Joe Biden leads Donald Trump on that one by 20 points.
00:28:54.000 Still, he used to lead by 30, now he leads by 20.
00:28:57.000 This is why Donald Trump needs to go to the side.
00:29:00.000 Because people in America look at Donald Trump and they don't consi- His base likes him, his base thinks he's funny.
00:29:06.000 The vast majority of Americans, by polling data, not huge fans of Donald Trump on the personal level, they just liked his presidency.
00:29:12.000 Displays good judgment in a crisis.
00:29:14.000 Donald Trump now leads by 5.
00:29:16.000 Is a strong and decisive leader.
00:29:19.000 Donald Trump now leads by 19 points.
00:29:22.000 19 is a strong and decisive leader.
00:29:24.000 Cares about the needs of people like you.
00:29:26.000 It's a big shift here.
00:29:29.000 Donald Trump is now down in that category by about six points, but Joe Biden is below 50%.
00:29:35.000 Is honest and trustworthy.
00:29:37.000 Joe Biden used to lead in that category by 12.
00:29:40.000 He now leads in that category by 11, but he's down to 46%.
00:29:42.000 These are bad numbers for Joe Biden, obviously.
00:29:47.000 And Biden's most recent favorable rating, according to Gallup, 41% is down eight points from the end of the 2020 campaign.
00:29:54.000 Trump's 42% is statistically similar to his 45% in 2020.
00:29:57.000 So in other words, when people focus in on Joe Biden, they don't like Joe Biden, which is why Donald Trump is trying to get out of the way on abortion.
00:30:05.000 He should try to do that throughout his campaign.
00:30:06.000 Get out of the way. 0.53
00:30:07.000 Let Joe Biden be the center of attention.
00:30:09.000 Let Joe Biden's head blot out the sun for a change.
00:30:12.000 Because nobody wants that.
00:30:14.000 Let people think of Joe Biden's head blocking out the sun.
00:30:17.000 That would be the way to do this, politically speaking.
00:30:20.000 Now, meanwhile, Joe Biden is out on the campaign trail and he is doing a couple of things.
00:30:23.000 Making a fool of himself and promoting programs that specifically cater to targeted segments of his voting base. 0.81
00:30:32.000 So making a fool of himself, Joe Biden is the effective president of the United States. 0.89
00:30:37.000 Joe Biden, as was recently reported, basically convinced Joe Biden that Hamas needs to be re-established in the Gaza Strip. 0.84
00:30:44.000 That's how powerful Jill Biden is in her massive intellectual achievement. 1.00
00:30:50.000 I mean, it is hard to think of a less intelligent power couple than Joe and Jill Biden.
00:30:58.000 Very, very power couple.
00:31:00.000 Not a huge number of IQ points between them.
00:31:02.000 In any case, here was Joe Biden saying that he gets instructions from his wife.
00:31:06.000 I know, we all believe you.
00:31:09.000 I get instructions from my wife, who's a school teacher.
00:31:15.000 Oh no.
00:31:16.000 We know you do.
00:31:17.000 We know.
00:31:18.000 Edith Wilson over there signing all the bills.
00:31:20.000 So that is piece one of his campaign is him being senile and doddering around and instilling zero confidence.
00:31:25.000 And the other piece is he's just going to try and buy off particular constituencies.
00:31:28.000 He knows he needs young voters.
00:31:29.000 He's been under polling among young voters.
00:31:31.000 In fact, there are some polls that suggest he's losing young voters outright.
00:31:35.000 Well now, he's pushing yet another round of student loan relief.
00:31:38.000 It doesn't matter if the Supreme Court said you can't do this.
00:31:41.000 He is going to buck the Supreme Court and then claim that Donald Trump is the threat to democracy.
00:31:44.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration is proposing a sweeping initiative to slash student debt for nearly 30 million Americans, a plan likely to face legal challenges from Republicans, who helped kill an earlier White House attempt at large-scale loan cancellation.
00:31:56.000 The regulations will be rolled out in the coming months, according to the administration.
00:31:59.000 They say they hope the first debt relief will kick in this fall.
00:32:02.000 Wait, what's happening this fall? Oh, yeah, it's right before the election.
00:32:05.000 So here is Joe Biden announcing new plans to cancel student loan debt again in defiance of actual law.
00:32:10.000 From day one, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system
00:32:16.000 and making sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier.
00:32:22.000 My administration has approved debt cancellation for 4 million Americans through various actions.
00:32:27.000 And today, I'm announcing new plans that would cancel student debt for millions more.
00:32:32.000 In total, these plans would cancel some or all student debt for 30 million Americans.
00:32:38.000 It's so old.
00:32:39.000 When combined with everything we've done so far.
00:32:42.000 My favorite thing about every Joe Biden video is the cuts every 2.7 milliseconds.
00:32:47.000 Because he cannot get through a full sentence.
00:32:49.000 He then bragged, by the way, about ignoring the Supreme Court.
00:32:50.000 Remember, Donald Trump is the threat to law and order, not Joe Biden, who literally brags about defying the Supreme Court.
00:32:57.000 Tens of millions of people's debt was literally about to get canceled.
00:33:02.000 But then some of my Republican friends and elected officials and special interests sued us.
00:33:07.000 And the Supreme Court blocked us.
00:33:09.000 But that didn't, well, that didn't stop us.
00:33:14.000 I love that.
00:33:18.000 The Supreme Court said no, but it didn't stop us.
00:33:21.000 Don't worry, Donald Trump is the lawless one.
00:33:23.000 But again, the campaign of Joe Biden, he's trying to redux 2012.
00:33:27.000 as always, this is the entire democratic campaign strategy, cobble together corners of the weirdos,
00:33:32.000 various constituent groups, cobble that together into a big coalition
00:33:37.000 and then attempt to win based on that coalition.
00:33:39.000 So he's gonna pay off various constituencies.
00:33:41.000 So there we see him trying to pay off young people by canceling student loan debt in violation of actual law.
00:33:47.000 And of course, he's trying to buy off, as we've been mentioning, his actual pro-Hamas base,
00:33:51.000 which is morally disgusting. 0.82
00:33:52.000 Trying to buy off people who chant death to America, who believe that the West is evil,
00:33:58.000 who hate Israel specifically because it is an outpost of Western civilization
00:34:01.000 in the Middle East, who are actively standing for a terrorist group 0.98
00:34:06.000 is totally insane.
00:34:07.000 But that's precisely what Joe Biden is doing.
00:34:09.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:35:14.000 Has anyone told you you're the worst negotiator that's ever lived?
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00:35:57.000 Okay, meanwhile.
00:35:58.000 The Biden administration, in an attempt to pay off its pro-Hamas voters in Michigan particularly, is now putting pressure on Israel to literally leave Hamas in place in Rafia.
00:36:07.000 Rafia is the last outpost of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:36:11.000 There are apparently four battalions of terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
00:36:14.000 I remind you once again, there are actual Americans who are being held by Hamas.
00:36:18.000 And the Biden administration is putting pressure On Israel.
00:36:21.000 Because they don't like the bad images on TV of things called war.
00:36:21.000 Why?
00:36:24.000 War, it turns out, is really ugly and really terrifying.
00:36:27.000 And lots of people die in wars.
00:36:29.000 Which is why you shouldn't start one with a militarily superior country by killing 1,200 of its citizens and taking 250 of them hostage.
00:36:38.000 And the fact that the West now believes that the moral stain is on Israel in defending itself and attempting to kill off Hamas While gaining back its hostages is a moral sickness.
00:36:48.000 It is a moral sickness what we are seeing in the West.
00:36:50.000 Forget about the impact on Israel.
00:36:52.000 Think about the fact that the United States is now telling a Democratic ally it cannot extirpate four battalions of actual terrorists knowing precisely where they are because it might be too mean on the TVs.
00:37:06.000 Again, the actual math that the administration has now engaged in, because they want to win Michigan.
00:37:12.000 It's perfectly cynical.
00:37:13.000 They just want to win Michigan.
00:37:14.000 But the actual math for the future of combat for American troops in future conflicts is going to be very simple.
00:37:20.000 If you are a bad guy, here is what you do.
00:37:22.000 You do something really bad to America.
00:37:24.000 Then, you go and hide behind women and children. 0.81
00:37:27.000 And then apparently, it's like when you're playing tag and you're a kid and the tree is safe.
00:37:31.000 If you go and hide behind women and children, which is a war crime, then the idea is you have some sort of immunity. 0.64
00:37:37.000 So Hamas now has immunity specifically because it is acting worse than a normal army.
00:37:43.000 So the Geneva Conventions were designed to incentivize people to not engage in terrorism.
00:37:47.000 This is, for example, why you're allowed to treat people out of uniform differently than you treat people in uniform.
00:37:52.000 If you capture someone in uniform, they become a prisoner of war.
00:37:55.000 If you capture somebody out of uniform, they're now an enemy combatant.
00:37:58.000 And they get treated differently by the law under international law.
00:38:01.000 Because the goal was to convince people not to engage in terroristic activities that endanger civilians.
00:38:01.000 Why?
00:38:07.000 That's the entire purpose of things like the Geneva Conventions.
00:38:10.000 Well, now the West has turned this completely on its head.
00:38:13.000 So if, in fact, you're fighting in an army with a uniform on, then we all understand you can be drawn from above, you can be killed using any form or fashion of military largesse that can be brought to bear.
00:38:26.000 If, however, you dress in civilian clothing, murder a child in a kibbutz, run back into Gaza, and hide behind another child, now you're immune, according to the United States.
00:38:38.000 Because the duty is to the United States, apparently, and to the West, not to harm the second child.
00:38:44.000 Even though you cannot save any future children if you allow the terrorists to remain in place.
00:38:50.000 It doesn't matter.
00:38:50.000 The West has turned.
00:38:52.000 Because Joe Biden is attempting to please his left-wing radical base.
00:38:52.000 Why?
00:38:56.000 And this is true in most of these countries.
00:38:59.000 There's an insane op-ed signed by the leaders of Jordan, France, and Egypt calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
00:39:06.000 Now let's make clear exactly what these various countries are worried about.
00:39:09.000 Jordan is worried that if Hamas is not left in place, and if the war continues, That the ticked off Palestinians who are pro-Hamas in Jordan will overthrow the Hashemite dynasty.
00:39:20.000 That is the reason why they've decided to actively act against what would be in their political interest, the extirpation of Hamas.
00:39:27.000 Because they know that if things get really rough, then they might be overthrown.
00:39:32.000 This is why you see Queen Rania of Jordan, who is Palestinian herself, talking about Israel's war crimes.
00:39:37.000 Why?
00:39:38.000 Not because the Jordan Hashemite dynasty cares deeply about the Palestinians.
00:39:41.000 If they did, they wouldn't have killed tens of thousands of them during Black September in 1973.
00:39:46.000 Instead, what they are doing is they're attempting to buy off their own Palestinian population by yelling at Israel so they themselves don't end up with their heads on pikes. 0.90
00:39:56.000 The Jordanian dynasty has a really nice life.
00:39:57.000 They get to jet set around the globe.
00:39:59.000 They have zero connection with their own population.
00:40:02.000 70% of the population of Jordan is Palestinian Arab.
00:40:05.000 The Hashemite dynasty is not Palestinian Arab.
00:40:08.000 So what are they really afraid of?
00:40:09.000 They're afraid of being killed.
00:40:11.000 Meanwhile, you have the leaders of Egypt.
00:40:13.000 Egypt wants Israel to cease fire because what they are afraid of is that if Egypt continues to put pressure on Rafah, Then two things will happen.
00:40:21.000 One, there are a bunch of terror tunnels that connect Egypt to Rafah.
00:40:24.000 It's right on the border of the Gaza Strip.
00:40:25.000 And they're afraid that Egypt's terror tunnels in that area are going to be uncovered, and it's going to make for some very uncomfortable political days ahead for the Egyptian regime.
00:40:34.000 That's why they don't care if Israel went into Gaza City or into Khan Yunis, but they really, really care if Israel goes into Rafia.
00:40:40.000 That is point number one.
00:40:41.000 Point number two, they're afraid that if Israel goes into Rafia, there might be pressure on Egypt to take in Palestinian refugees.
00:40:48.000 Again, right now, understand that the rest of the world is forcing Palestinians who are not in their homes right now because Israel has had to try to extirpate Hamas in these areas and destroy terror tunnels and destroy terror bases.
00:40:59.000 The rest of the world will not allow Palestinians to leave, even if they want to. 1.00
00:41:03.000 Even temporarily.
00:41:04.000 And that's particularly true of Egypt.
00:41:06.000 Egypt will not accept one Palestinian even temporarily into a refugee camp south of the Gaza border because they are afraid that that will increase terrorism in their own state.
00:41:14.000 So that's why Egypt wants the ceasefire.
00:41:16.000 France wants the ceasefire because a very heavy percentage of Paris is Arab Muslim. 0.99
00:41:22.000 And so they are deeply afraid of the radicals in their own country. 0.94
00:41:26.000 They are cowards, in other words. 0.97
00:41:29.000 Plus, I mean, France. 0.98
00:41:30.000 You can't expect moral courage out of the French anytime in the recent past. 1.00
00:41:34.000 They have an entire piece in the Washington Post saying, the war in Gaza and catastrophic humanitarian suffering it is causing must end now.
00:41:41.000 Violence, terror, and war cannot bring peace to the Middle East.
00:41:43.000 The two-state solution will.
00:41:45.000 So in other words, if Israel were to hand over governmental control to an unspecified terror group in Gaza and the West Bank, that would magically create peace in the Middle East. 1.00
00:41:52.000 This is the stupidest crap I have ever heard. 1.00
00:41:55.000 You know how we know that's not true? 1.00
00:41:56.000 Because it's been tried.
00:41:57.000 Multiple times.
00:41:59.000 From 1948 to 1967.
00:42:01.000 Jordan controlled the West Bank.
00:42:03.000 Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip.
00:42:04.000 You know what happened?
00:42:05.000 A war in 1956, a war in 1967.
00:42:07.000 Then Israel controlled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
00:42:12.000 War in 1973.
00:42:14.000 War in 1982 on the Lebanese border.
00:42:16.000 Intifada number one in the late 80s.
00:42:19.000 Then Israel decides, you know what? 0.76
00:42:20.000 We'll try it your way.
00:42:22.000 We will concede large chunks of the West Bank to an arch terrorist, Yasser Arafat, as well as the Gaza Strip.
00:42:29.000 Mass terror attacks in 2000, 2001, in the second Intifada.
00:42:33.000 Then in 2005, Israel's like, you know what? 0.71
00:42:35.000 We'll try it even harder your way.
00:42:36.000 We'll completely pull out of the Gaza Strip, and that will be your effective state. 1.00
00:42:41.000 And instead, the Palestinians destroyed every element of infrastructure that had Jewish imprint on it. 0.99
00:42:46.000 They destroyed greenhouses, they destroyed pipelines, they destroyed infrastructure and then they took every bit of aid that poured into the Gaza Strip and turned it into the biggest network of terror tunnels in human history and proceeded to use every dollar in order to upgrade the military capacity of Hamas at the behest of Iran as well. 0.66
00:43:06.000 So anyone who suggests that what Israel really needs to do is concede more to terrorists, what are you even?
00:43:10.000 It's bull.
00:43:11.000 You have other interests at heart.
00:43:11.000 It's bull.
00:43:14.000 You don't care about, quote-unquote, peace in the Middle East?
00:43:16.000 Which is why, by the way, you want to talk about the insane Biden administration approach to the Middle East?
00:43:21.000 So the Biden administration oriented itself from the outset against the Saudis.
00:43:24.000 Forget about the Israelis. 1.00
00:43:25.000 They oriented themselves from the very outset of the administration against the Saudi Arabian government.
00:43:29.000 Joe Biden made a big deal over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a Muslim Brotherhood associate who quasi-journalist was killed by the Saudi regime.
00:43:36.000 Terrible thing for the Saudi regime to do.
00:43:37.000 Also, welcome to the Middle East, where terrible things happen literally every day. 1.00
00:43:41.000 And where the United States is constantly dealing with truly terrible regimes that commit human rights atrocities on the regular.
00:43:48.000 Israel is the least of these concerns.
00:43:50.000 So, the United States treated the Saudi regime as pariahs.
00:43:56.000 The Saudis were ready to normalize with the Israelis day one of the Biden administration.
00:44:00.000 The Biden administration tried to cram down a two-state solution on the Saudis.
00:44:03.000 The Saudis don't want a two-state solution.
00:44:05.000 They understand that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be a terror threat to them. 0.76
00:44:09.000 It would be an Iranian proxy, another Iranian proxy in the region.
00:44:13.000 So the Biden administration is now joining with Jordan and Egypt and France in order to put pressure on Israel.
00:44:19.000 So the United States is making fresh ceasefire proposals despite the fact that Hamas is rejecting every ceasefire proposal.
00:44:25.000 How do you know that Hamas has the upper hand diplomatically right now? 0.64
00:44:28.000 Hamas has been completely destroyed in most of the Gaza Strip.
00:44:32.000 At least 13,000 to 14,000 of its soldiers are dead.
00:44:35.000 Its command and control capacity in most of the Gaza Strip is gone.
00:44:39.000 They are relegated to Rafiqah and they are turning down deals.
00:44:43.000 Why?
00:44:43.000 Because they know they have the get out of jail free card.
00:44:45.000 The get out of jail free card is Western weakness. 0.84
00:44:49.000 Show enough ugly pictures on the TV, and Joe Biden will flip and suddenly endorse Hamas remaining in power in places like Rafia. 0.69
00:44:57.000 They'll provide Israel with no alternatives. 0.90
00:44:59.000 Israel has upped the aid, it doesn't matter. 0.81
00:45:01.000 The United States is saying, well, you know, we still don't think it's enough.
00:45:04.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:46:01.000 The State Department yesterday said they are against any full-scale military operation inside Rafiya, which is the only thing that could actually extirpate Hamas.
00:46:08.000 Meanwhile, CIA Director William Burns is presenting a new proposal to help advance a deal between Israel and Hamas to end a six-month war in Gaza and release the remaining hostages.
00:46:17.000 So they're proposing that Hamas release 40 of the more than 100 captives still held in Gaza.
00:46:21.000 The problem is, Hamas, under the table, is claiming there aren't 40 alive.
00:46:25.000 There aren't 40 women and children that are still alive.
00:46:27.000 Most of them are already dead.
00:46:28.000 They've already killed most of them, or let most of them die, or put them in positions where they would be killed by Israeli ordnance. 0.90
00:46:35.000 The United States is pushing these deals.
00:46:36.000 Hamas is rejecting everyone.
00:46:38.000 Why?
00:46:39.000 Because again, they know they have the upper hand diplomatically.
00:46:42.000 That is what is happening right here.
00:46:45.000 This is why you have people like Elizabeth Warren trying to declare the Gaza War a genocide. 0.96
00:46:49.000 This is why the United States welcomed an uptick in humanitarian assistance, according to the Times of Israel, that entered Gaza over the weekend, but reiterated it was reserving judgment until the amount of aid increases further and is sustained over a longer period of time.
00:47:02.000 The Biden administration has said that the number one goal of the Israelis should be humanitarian aid in Gaza.
00:47:06.000 That's not... There has never been a war where the number one goal is the humanitarian aid to the civilian population of an enemy party.
00:47:15.000 Again, pick any war, any war that the United States has ever fought, not a counterinsurgency, an actual war, in which the number one priority was providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population that supports the enemy. 0.82
00:47:27.000 That's ridiculous.
00:47:28.000 But that's what the United States is. 0.96
00:47:29.000 And again, do I think that that's coming from a good place?
00:47:32.000 No, I think it's coming from a very bad place.
00:47:33.000 I think it's coming from political calculation for Joe Biden.
00:47:37.000 And I think it's coming from an anti-Western place for a fringe of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden is trying to win.
00:47:43.000 It's amazing.
00:47:43.000 Joe Biden once said that he got into the race in 2020 because of Charlottesville.
00:47:48.000 And because Mythically, Donald Trump suggested that there were very fine neo-Nazis, which he never said.
00:47:55.000 And because of that, because Donald Trump's rhetoric was confused and discombobulated on the Charlottesville rally, white supremacist rally, and Antifa counter-rally and all of this, and because of that, he couldn't stand still for anti-Semitism.
00:48:08.000 Now he is caving to people who are just as anti-Semitic, if not more, than the Unite the Right folks at Charlottesville.
00:48:15.000 People who chant Death to America.
00:48:17.000 People who openly want a terrorist group to remain in power in the Middle East.
00:48:22.000 And he's catering to those people. 1.00
00:48:24.000 It's pathetic. 0.99
00:48:24.000 Which is why Donald Trump is totally correct when he says that Jews who are voting for Joe Biden, obviously Israel is not a top priority for them. 0.99
00:48:31.000 He's right about that, obviously.
00:48:33.000 They don't want to talk about that.
00:48:34.000 They don't want to talk about the attack of October 7th on Israel because Biden is no fan of Israel.
00:48:42.000 Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel.
00:48:46.000 And frankly, it should be spoken to.
00:48:49.000 How a Jewish person can vote for Biden is, or a Democrat, because they are on the side 100% of the Palestinians, and he doesn't know how to get out of it. 0.90
00:49:01.000 He's stuck.
00:49:02.000 But he is.
00:49:03.000 If you look at what he's done, he is totally on the side of the Palestinians. 0.99
00:49:07.000 And frankly, it's incredible that historically Jewish people vote for Democrats. 0.96
00:49:15.000 So what he says is a lot of people are still voting out of habit.
00:49:18.000 But if you're a Jew and you're voting for a Democratic Party that is providing shield and sword to actual terrorist supporters, He's not wrong. 0.95
00:49:26.000 He's not right now. 0.88
00:49:26.000 The dirty secret, of course, is that many Jews don't care about Israel. 0.88
00:49:29.000 Many Jews don't care about Judaism very much, let alone Israel. 0.87
00:49:33.000 There are a lot of people out there who claim that they, who will do the as a Jew routine specifically because it allows them to not be white.
00:49:42.000 As a Jew, I'm a minority too.
00:49:43.000 I'm part of the intersectional structure.
00:49:45.000 No, you're not.
00:49:46.000 No, you're not.
00:49:47.000 Judaism is both a religion and an ethnicity. 0.91
00:49:50.000 There are a lot of people who are ethnically Jewish, who are not in any way, shape, or form ideologically or religiously Jewish, which is why the Orthodox community in the United States is going to vote almost 100% for Donald Trump, particularly after Joe Biden's pathetic immoral showing in the Middle East right now.
00:50:05.000 So Trump's going to take a lot of flack from this, particularly from left-wing Jews who go to shul once every year for half the day and break for lunch on Yom Kippur. 0.80
00:50:15.000 But he ain't wrong.
00:50:17.000 Meanwhile, big case out of Tennessee.
00:50:19.000 Apparently, there are two parties to a bizarre car crash case.
00:50:24.000 One party is claiming that another party named Guzman took his car but he was uninsured without his permission and then she crashed the car and she refused to pay for the damages.
00:50:36.000 And then she says that it's actually the other guy's fault because he left the keys where she could see them.
00:50:41.000 I don't even understand how this is a case, but joining us on the line to discuss how it is a case is Matt Walsh, who is a judge for some reason because of his legal acumen and law degree and because obviously I'm not in charge of this company in any way, shape, or form.
00:50:59.000 Judge Matt Walsh.
00:51:00.000 Do I have to call you judge or can I just call you Matt?
00:51:02.000 What is it?
00:51:02.000 Your Honor?
00:51:04.000 Your Honor.
00:51:05.000 Your Honor.
00:51:06.000 Your Honor will do just fine.
00:51:07.000 Okay.
00:51:09.000 Your eminence could also work, if you'd prefer that.
00:51:14.000 Okay, not gonna do any of that.
00:51:15.000 So Matt, so what happened in this case?
00:51:20.000 Why did it come before you?
00:51:21.000 And what was your, I can't believe this is a real thing, and what was your judgment?
00:51:27.000 Are you talking to me?
00:51:28.000 I didn't hear my, are you talking to me?
00:51:32.000 Oh, good lord.
00:51:34.000 I don't- I didn't- I didn't understand.
00:51:36.000 I don't know who you're talking to because I didn't hear- I didn't hear my name so I don't know- I'm not sure who's being referred to right now.
00:51:43.000 Alright, alright.
00:51:44.000 I'll use your chosen pronouns.
00:51:44.000 I'll humor you.
00:51:47.000 Your honor.
00:51:49.000 What happened in this case?
00:51:49.000 Yes?
00:51:52.000 Well, you know, this is a very interesting case, because as you summed up, you have, and this will be featured in the premiere episode of Judged, my new court show.
00:52:02.000 You have a gentleman who's dating a woman.
00:52:05.000 His car was taken and crashed.
00:52:08.000 And he owns the car, and his girlfriend took it without permission and crashed it.
00:52:13.000 Now, you might think that that makes it pretty simple.
00:52:15.000 However, what you don't realize is that, as she points out, while she has a habit of stealing things, he knows that, and yet he's left the keys on the counter in full view of her.
00:52:30.000 And I'll add one other detail, and I don't want to give away any spoilers.
00:52:33.000 But as you know, and what I do is I, people come before me and we talk about these cases and we bring out all the different details, even details that maybe to a lesser judge would seem totally irrelevant.
00:52:45.000 To me, nothing is irrelevant.
00:52:47.000 So it later comes out that...
00:52:49.000 This man perhaps had not been faithful to the woman, and so does that in some way morally justify the act of theft and vandalism?
00:52:58.000 Very, very interesting.
00:52:59.000 It's a very dense legal case.
00:53:01.000 It might be something that, Ben, you might have some difficulty following it, but what you can be assured of is that at the end we arrive at the right conclusion, of course.
00:53:14.000 I will admit that we did not cover cases quite like this one in my torts class at Harvard Law School, your honor, but... In your what class?
00:53:21.000 Since you are commenting, yes, in my... Yeah, it's called torts, but in any case... Retorts, well, you know, retorts are really important in the courtroom.
00:53:34.000 Responses, retorts, all these things do come up in my legal experience as well.
00:53:40.000 I can't wait until somebody here greenlights a show with Matt Walsh in which he explains physics.
00:53:44.000 This is, like, wow.
00:53:46.000 Okay, so, Your Honor, since we have you in the chair over here, I did want to get your take on some other pressing legal matters.
00:53:54.000 Like, did you have any opinions on Chevron deference?
00:53:59.000 I know this is coming up before the Supreme Court very soon.
00:54:02.000 Chevron deference, which has been the law of the land since, like, 1984.
00:54:06.000 Any thoughts on Chevron deference?
00:54:09.000 I have many thoughts.
00:54:09.000 I do.
00:54:10.000 In fact, I have so many thoughts about it that it almost is difficult for me to explain what my thoughts are.
00:54:16.000 In fact, it would take more time than we have to even go into all my thoughts.
00:54:20.000 But what I'll say about Chevron deference is that, you know, in this case, what I have found, it's really interesting, is that on one hand, you have a group of people who are claiming something.
00:54:31.000 And on the other hand, you have a group of people that are claiming another thing.
00:54:35.000 And they're both going before the court with different perspectives, different, you might even say different facts that they're bringing before the court, different, what we call them, arguments.
00:54:47.000 And it's very, very fascinating, very perplexing.
00:54:52.000 But anyway, I could go on and on and on about it, but that's just sort of a summary of my thoughts on that particular case.
00:55:00.000 Wow.
00:55:01.000 I mean, I'm blown away by that analysis.
00:55:04.000 Absolutely blown away.
00:55:06.000 Again, folks, if you ever needed better evidence that I have nothing to do, with, you know, the actual decision making around here.
00:55:13.000 This would be it.
00:55:14.000 Maybe you have an opinion on Marbury versus Madison.
00:55:18.000 I mean, that's a pretty important legal case.
00:55:22.000 So, well, do you have a, is that a quill?
00:55:24.000 Is that like an actual quill that you're writing with, Judge?
00:55:28.000 I do have a quill pen.
00:55:28.000 In fact, I was, usually when I get these kind of legal questions, I can write down, in fact, I've written extensively with my quill pen on my scroll.
00:55:39.000 that I have here about that particular case that you just mentioned.
00:55:42.000 And I'd be happy to share those documents with you, Ben.
00:55:46.000 I will tell you that I'm feeling, in this moment, I'm feeling a little bit... I'm feeling quizzed.
00:55:50.000 I feel like I'm being quizzed right now.
00:55:52.000 I don't even know if these questions are being offered in good faith or not.
00:55:58.000 If you really are interested, I could give you... I have stacks of documents where I've written about these cases.
00:56:04.000 I could share them with you.
00:56:05.000 But what I will say about that particular case... What's the case again?
00:56:10.000 Marbury versus Madison.
00:56:11.000 Kind of an important case.
00:56:12.000 Yeah.
00:56:13.000 And that's a tough one.
00:56:14.000 Look, that's a tough one.
00:56:15.000 It's a very difficult one.
00:56:16.000 Again, that's one where you have multiple arguments.
00:56:19.000 And what I've found is that both sides present their arguments, and what we do is we analyze them and we think about it.
00:56:26.000 And what I've found is that there are arguments on both sides.
00:56:30.000 But here's the thing.
00:56:31.000 Only one argument is right.
00:56:34.000 Wow.
00:56:35.000 Well, that is Judge Matt Walsh and all of his Solomonic wisdom.
00:56:38.000 Since you have such deep thoughts on those cases, maybe at least you could tell us where we can view your brand new show, Judged, by Matt Walsh.
00:56:47.000 Well, the premiere will be available on YouTube and on Daily Wire and on Twitter, pretty much every place you can find it.
00:56:54.000 And then from then on, from henceforth, as we say in the legal realm, you can find all the episodes on dailywire.com.
00:57:04.000 Well, that is judged by Matt Walsh, and as you can see, if you're looking for brilliant legal analysis and in-depth knowledge of case law, you could find no better jurist than Matt Walsh.
00:57:19.000 All right, Matt.
00:57:20.000 Or, sorry, Your Honor.
00:57:21.000 I'll see you later.
00:57:25.000 Alright guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
00:57:27.000 We'll be getting into Joe Biden's China policy.
00:57:29.000 Again, discombobulated.
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