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.
00:00:00.000Well, yesterday was a pagan day in America.
00:00:03.000There was a giant solar eclipse, obviously, that moved all the way across the United States over the course of the day.
00:00:09.000And it was pretty fascinating to see the responses.
00:00:11.000The 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.
00:00:18.000So, if you were a normal person, you'd view the solar eclipse as A wonderful example of science at work.
00:00:25.000An 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.
00:00:39.000Traditionally, 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.
00:00:54.000So, human beings would sin, and then God would respond with a solar eclipse.
00:00:59.000Right now, obviously we know better now, we know that that's science.
00:01:02.000The 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.
00:01:10.000The intricate workings of the universe that God created.
00:01:16.000The pagan view is that you sin against nature and then the gods smack you.
00:01:20.000And that is the view that apparently has been taken by a wide variety of people across the United States.
00:01:27.000The most obvious of whom is the signal, unintelligent person, Sunny Hostin on The View.
00:01:33.000So, 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.
00:01:44.000Now, 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.
00:01:55.000That man has sinned against Gaia, and now Gaia will take her revenge.
00:02:39.000I 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.
00:02:49.000Not quite so not at the mercy of climate change.
00:02:54.000And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen.
00:03:01.000It's like watching a bunch of badgers try to understand higher math.
00:03:04.000They'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.
00:03:17.000You don't have to try and solve a problem.
00:03:19.000It'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.
00:03:26.000Instead, it is a sin against the climate.
00:03:29.000And you see sort of this additional move toward paganism across the spectrum.
00:03:35.000It's a weird thing that we are seeing.
00:03:37.000The 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.
00:03:48.000Yesterday, 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.
00:03:56.000You will die if you look at the eclipse and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:03:59.000It is very funny how everyone's mentality changes with regard to the eclipse.
00:04:03.000Like, 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.
00:04:08.000When it comes to the eclipse, we've all become idiots.
00:04:10.000In any case, NASA didn't just have on scientists to discuss the eclipse.
00:04:15.000You'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.
00:04:28.000Let's check in with Joy in Dallas to learn more about indigenous astronomy.
00:04:32.000When people think about science, they might be thinking of Western science.
00:04:37.000So David, how does that relate to indigenous science?
00:04:40.000And what did the total eclipse mean to the Navajo people?
00:04:43.000I think the knowledge on the eclipse goes way back from time immemorial that I'm told by my elders.
00:04:54.000and 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.
00:05:26.000The sun alignment with the moon and also the earth alignment.
00:05:35.000The whole cosmic cycle goes through a regeneration process.
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00:07:53.000Again, we instinctively don't look at the sun as human beings because if you do it for one second, it hurts your eyes.
00:07:59.000Okay, 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.
00:08:09.000Ancient peoples could not even properly chart the dates of solar eclipses because they didn't understand the science.
00:08:15.000So this kind of notion that we have to juxtapose that by, again, that's a government-funded agency.
00:08:21.000These are supposed to be our best scientists.
00:08:22.000These are the people who are going to put us on the moon.
00:08:24.000These are the people who help us get to Mars.
00:08:27.000And here they are interviewing indigenous scientists.
00:08:29.000The kind of reversion to pagan ideology is really bizarre.
00:08:33.000And it does tie into something that has a moral underpinning.
00:08:37.000And 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.
00:08:50.000And 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.
00:08:56.000You could fill it with scientific atheism, which at least has a track record of, you know, scientific progress.
00:09:01.000Or you can fill it with a pagan morality.
00:09:05.000And that pagan morality is what most people tend to fill it with.
00:09:09.000Which is why you see, on The View, Whoopi Goldberg justifying abortion by citing the Ten Commandments.
00:09:14.000Because unfortunately on the left, again, when you get rid of Judeo-Christian religion, what you end up with is new sacraments.
00:09:21.000And 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.
00:09:36.000This is a big difference from the 1990s.
00:09:38.000When I was growing up, safe, legal, and rare at least acknowledged the innate sinfulness and tragedy of an abortion.
00:09:45.000That's why it was supposed to be rare.
00:09:47.000Now the idea is that the Ten Commandments justify abortion.
00:09:51.000Here is moral scion Whoopi Goldberg And it's not mentioned in the Big Ten, I'm just going to say.
00:10:52.000Or we have to talk about all the things that you and I need to do.
00:10:58.000Wait, 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.
00:11:13.000The 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.
00:11:22.000She 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.
00:11:30.000Because this is now a sacrament on the left.
00:14:21.000Sacraments like if you pay homage to the climate change gods, then there won't be an earthquake or a solar eclipse.
00:14:28.000This is the bizarre universe which we now inhabit.
00:14:30.000And it is incumbent on moral people to push back against that bizarre universe by demonstrating some moral clarity.
00:14:36.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:16:13.000Also, the federal government of the United States has delegated powers.
00:16:16.000Those delegated powers typically do not extend into state criminal law with regard to things like abortion.
00:16:23.000The 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.
00:16:31.000Not only that, we have pragmatic concerns.
00:16:33.000about pushing forward a significant piece of abortion legislation in a highly divided country at a time when the country appears to be splintering.
00:16:40.000Thus, 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.
00:16:53.000That it takes time to actually get most Americans to accept a more moral position.
00:16:58.000And that, on a pragmatic level, if you want a more pro-life country, you need to take that time to do it.
00:17:03.000And that is why I'm not supporting an immediate piece of significant abortion legislation because the country is simply too divided.
00:17:10.000But, when the opportunity presents itself, of course, from the executive level, I will do what I can to prevent abortion.
00:17:15.000And 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.
00:17:33.000A 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.
00:17:40.000There's no moral right because it's not like a good thing to say the N-word.
00:17:45.000I 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.
00:17:50.000And 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.
00:18:00.000And 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?
00:18:11.000And 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.
00:18:20.000Now, listen, I disagree with him positionally.
00:18:22.000I think that On a federal level, you could push a piece of 15-week abortion legislation.
00:18:28.000But 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.
00:18:39.000The problem with Trump's statement on abortion is that he takes a relatively morally unclear stance on abortion itself.
00:18:53.000My 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.
00:19:11.000Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that's what they will be.
00:19:19.000At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.
00:19:23.000You must follow your heart, or in many cases, your religion or your faith.
00:19:28.000Do 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.
00:20:23.000Now again, you can make a pragmatic case for the Stephen Douglas position on abortion.
00:20:28.000By 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.
00:20:41.000And so, my job is to help build that moral consensus until we have a political consensus.
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00:21:56.000On a political level, what Trump is doing here is very smart, as I mentioned yesterday.
00:21:59.000On a political level, Trump is looking at the polling data.
00:22:01.000He's looking at what happened in Kansas.
00:22:03.000He's looking at what happened in Michigan.
00:22:04.000And he is saying to himself, you know what I don't feel like fighting?
00:22:06.000This issue all the way up to the election.
00:22:09.000If 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.
00:22:19.000Now, 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.
00:22:30.000Because after all, he could say, listen, I'm not trying to ban abortion early term.
00:23:17.000Graham responded, quote, we should draw a line.
00:23:20.000I believe what I believe, the idea of the Republican Party abandoning the opposition to late-term abortion,
00:23:24.000I think would be a mistake because most Americans oppose late-term abortion.
00:23:27.000And then Trump got more personal in his critiques.
00:23:33.000He 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.
00:23:45.000He 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.
00:23:52.000Again, 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.
00:24:06.000I 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.
00:24:16.000With that said, the job of the pro-life movement has shifted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:24:21.000The 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.
00:24:32.000The 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.
00:24:42.000Now 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.
00:24:51.000And Trump is acknowledging the pragmatism.
00:24:52.000Again, 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.
00:25:00.000Now, 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.
00:25:13.000The 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.
00:25:19.000If 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.
00:25:28.000This 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.
00:25:34.000So yesterday, I mean, it's funny, it's funny.
00:25:36.000Again, Donald Trump's a very funny guy and his campaign is very funny.
00:25:39.000But Donald Trump put out an ad during the solar eclipse in which he blots out the sun.
00:27:06.000Okay, 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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00:29:37.000Joe Biden used to lead in that category by 12.
00:29:40.000He now leads in that category by 11, but he's down to 46%.
00:29:42.000These are bad numbers for Joe Biden, obviously.
00:29:47.000And Biden's most recent favorable rating, according to Gallup, 41% is down eight points from the end of the 2020 campaign.
00:29:54.000Trump's 42% is statistically similar to his 45% in 2020.
00:29:57.000So 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.
00:30:05.000He should try to do that throughout his campaign.
00:31:29.000He's been under polling among young voters.
00:31:31.000In fact, there are some polls that suggest he's losing young voters outright.
00:31:35.000Well now, he's pushing yet another round of student loan relief.
00:31:38.000It doesn't matter if the Supreme Court said you can't do this.
00:31:41.000He is going to buck the Supreme Court and then claim that Donald Trump is the threat to democracy.
00:31:44.000According 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.
00:31:56.000The regulations will be rolled out in the coming months, according to the administration.
00:31:59.000They say they hope the first debt relief will kick in this fall.
00:32:02.000Wait, what's happening this fall? Oh, yeah, it's right before the election.
00:32:05.000So here is Joe Biden announcing new plans to cancel student loan debt again in defiance of actual law.
00:32:10.000From day one, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system
00:32:16.000and making sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier.
00:32:22.000My administration has approved debt cancellation for 4 million Americans through various actions.
00:32:27.000And today, I'm announcing new plans that would cancel student debt for millions more.
00:32:32.000In total, these plans would cancel some or all student debt for 30 million Americans.
00:34:17.000It appears that somebody here at The Daily Wire thought it was a great idea to grant the most hypercritical human being on the planet the authority of a bona fide judge.
00:34:24.000Now, you know, I'm sitting right here.
00:35:58.000The 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.
00:36:07.000Rafia is the last outpost of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:36:11.000There are apparently four battalions of terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
00:36:14.000I remind you once again, there are actual Americans who are being held by Hamas.
00:36:18.000And the Biden administration is putting pressure On Israel.
00:36:21.000Because they don't like the bad images on TV of things called war.
00:36:29.000Which 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.
00:36:38.000And 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.
00:36:48.000It is a moral sickness what we are seeing in the West.
00:36:52.000Think 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.
00:37:06.000Again, the actual math that the administration has now engaged in, because they want to win Michigan.
00:38:07.000That's the entire purpose of things like the Geneva Conventions.
00:38:10.000Well, now the West has turned this completely on its head.
00:38:13.000So 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.
00:38:26.000If, 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.
00:38:38.000Because the duty is to the United States, apparently, and to the West, not to harm the second child.
00:38:44.000Even though you cannot save any future children if you allow the terrorists to remain in place.
00:38:56.000And this is true in most of these countries.
00:38:59.000There's an insane op-ed signed by the leaders of Jordan, France, and Egypt calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
00:39:06.000Now let's make clear exactly what these various countries are worried about.
00:39:09.000Jordan 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.
00:39:20.000That is the reason why they've decided to actively act against what would be in their political interest, the extirpation of Hamas.
00:39:27.000Because they know that if things get really rough, then they might be overthrown.
00:39:32.000This is why you see Queen Rania of Jordan, who is Palestinian herself, talking about Israel's war crimes.
00:39:38.000Not because the Jordan Hashemite dynasty cares deeply about the Palestinians.
00:39:41.000If they did, they wouldn't have killed tens of thousands of them during Black September in 1973.
00:39:46.000Instead, 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.
00:39:56.000The Jordanian dynasty has a really nice life.
00:40:11.000Meanwhile, you have the leaders of Egypt.
00:40:13.000Egypt 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.
00:40:21.000One, there are a bunch of terror tunnels that connect Egypt to Rafah.
00:40:24.000It's right on the border of the Gaza Strip.
00:40:25.000And 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.
00:40:34.000That'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.
00:40:41.000Point number two, they're afraid that if Israel goes into Rafia, there might be pressure on Egypt to take in Palestinian refugees.
00:40:48.000Again, 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.
00:40:59.000The rest of the world will not allow Palestinians to leave, even if they want to.
00:41:04.000And that's particularly true of Egypt.
00:41:06.000Egypt 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.
00:41:14.000So that's why Egypt wants the ceasefire.
00:41:16.000France wants the ceasefire because a very heavy percentage of Paris is Arab Muslim.
00:41:22.000And so they are deeply afraid of the radicals in their own country.
00:41:30.000You can't expect moral courage out of the French anytime in the recent past.
00:41:34.000They have an entire piece in the Washington Post saying, the war in Gaza and catastrophic humanitarian suffering it is causing must end now.
00:41:41.000Violence, terror, and war cannot bring peace to the Middle East.
00:41:45.000So 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.
00:41:52.000This is the stupidest crap I have ever heard.
00:42:36.000We'll completely pull out of the Gaza Strip, and that will be your effective state.
00:42:41.000And instead, the Palestinians destroyed every element of infrastructure that had Jewish imprint on it.
00:42:46.000They 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.
00:43:06.000So anyone who suggests that what Israel really needs to do is concede more to terrorists, what are you even?
00:43:25.000They oriented themselves from the very outset of the administration against the Saudi Arabian government.
00:43:29.000Joe 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.
00:43:36.000Terrible thing for the Saudi regime to do.
00:43:37.000Also, welcome to the Middle East, where terrible things happen literally every day.
00:43:41.000And where the United States is constantly dealing with truly terrible regimes that commit human rights atrocities on the regular.
00:43:48.000Israel is the least of these concerns.
00:43:50.000So, the United States treated the Saudi regime as pariahs.
00:43:56.000The Saudis were ready to normalize with the Israelis day one of the Biden administration.
00:44:00.000The Biden administration tried to cram down a two-state solution on the Saudis.
00:44:03.000The Saudis don't want a two-state solution.
00:44:05.000They understand that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be a terror threat to them.
00:44:09.000It would be an Iranian proxy, another Iranian proxy in the region.
00:44:13.000So the Biden administration is now joining with Jordan and Egypt and France in order to put pressure on Israel.
00:44:19.000So the United States is making fresh ceasefire proposals despite the fact that Hamas is rejecting every ceasefire proposal.
00:44:25.000How do you know that Hamas has the upper hand diplomatically right now?
00:44:28.000Hamas has been completely destroyed in most of the Gaza Strip.
00:44:32.000At least 13,000 to 14,000 of its soldiers are dead.
00:44:35.000Its command and control capacity in most of the Gaza Strip is gone.
00:44:39.000They are relegated to Rafiqah and they are turning down deals.
00:46:01.000The State Department yesterday said they are against any full-scale military operation inside Rafiya, which is the only thing that could actually extirpate Hamas.
00:46:08.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:46:17.000So they're proposing that Hamas release 40 of the more than 100 captives still held in Gaza.
00:46:21.000The problem is, Hamas, under the table, is claiming there aren't 40 alive.
00:46:25.000There aren't 40 women and children that are still alive.
00:46:45.000This is why you have people like Elizabeth Warren trying to declare the Gaza War a genocide.
00:46:49.000This 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.
00:47:02.000The Biden administration has said that the number one goal of the Israelis should be humanitarian aid in Gaza.
00:47:06.000That'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.
00:47:15.000Again, 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.
00:47:43.000Joe Biden once said that he got into the race in 2020 because of Charlottesville.
00:47:48.000And because Mythically, Donald Trump suggested that there were very fine neo-Nazis, which he never said.
00:47:55.000And 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.
00:48:08.000Now he is caving to people who are just as anti-Semitic, if not more, than the Unite the Right folks at Charlottesville.
00:48:24.000Which 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.
00:48:49.000How 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.
00:49:03.000If you look at what he's done, he is totally on the side of the Palestinians.
00:49:07.000And frankly, it's incredible that historically Jewish people vote for Democrats.
00:49:15.000So what he says is a lot of people are still voting out of habit.
00:49:18.000But 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.
00:49:26.000The dirty secret, of course, is that many Jews don't care about Israel.
00:49:29.000Many Jews don't care about Judaism very much, let alone Israel.
00:49:33.000There 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.
00:49:47.000Judaism is both a religion and an ethnicity.
00:49:50.000There 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.
00:50:05.000So 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.
00:50:19.000Apparently, there are two parties to a bizarre car crash case.
00:50:24.000One 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.
00:50:36.000And then she says that it's actually the other guy's fault because he left the keys where she could see them.
00:50:41.000I 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.
00:51:34.000I don't- I didn't- I didn't understand.
00:51:36.000I 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.
00:51:52.000Well, 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.
00:52:02.000You have a gentleman who's dating a woman.
00:52:08.000And he owns the car, and his girlfriend took it without permission and crashed it.
00:52:13.000Now, you might think that that makes it pretty simple.
00:52:15.000However, 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.
00:52:30.000And I'll add one other detail, and I don't want to give away any spoilers.
00:52:33.000But 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.
00:53:01.000It 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.
00:53:14.000I 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?
00:53:21.000Since 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.
00:53:34.000Responses, retorts, all these things do come up in my legal experience as well.
00:53:40.000I can't wait until somebody here greenlights a show with Matt Walsh in which he explains physics.
00:54:10.000In fact, I have so many thoughts about it that it almost is difficult for me to explain what my thoughts are.
00:54:16.000In fact, it would take more time than we have to even go into all my thoughts.
00:54:20.000But 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.
00:54:31.000And on the other hand, you have a group of people that are claiming another thing.
00:54:35.000And 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.
00:54:47.000And it's very, very fascinating, very perplexing.
00:54:52.000But 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.
00:55:28.000In 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.
00:55:39.000that I have here about that particular case that you just mentioned.
00:55:42.000And I'd be happy to share those documents with you, Ben.
00:55:46.000I will tell you that I'm feeling, in this moment, I'm feeling a little bit... I'm feeling quizzed.
00:55:50.000I feel like I'm being quizzed right now.
00:55:52.000I don't even know if these questions are being offered in good faith or not.
00:55:58.000If you really are interested, I could give you... I have stacks of documents where I've written about these cases.
00:56:35.000Well, that is Judge Matt Walsh and all of his Solomonic wisdom.
00:56:38.000Since 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.
00:56:47.000Well, the premiere will be available on YouTube and on Daily Wire and on Twitter, pretty much every place you can find it.
00:56:54.000And then from then on, from henceforth, as we say in the legal realm, you can find all the episodes on dailywire.com.
00:57:04.000Well, 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.