This week, amidst all of the domestic political hubbubble here in the United States, the World Economic Forum is happening over in Davos, Switzerland. Why exactly is the WEF important? Well, we have a video you should check out for all the background on it, but the short story is this: in 1971, there was an organization that was established by a guy named Klaus Schwab, who is a German engineer, economist, and professor with a James Bond villain accent. He created this organization so that heads of business and heads of state could talk over what he called stakeholder capitalism, a theory he was expressing that essentially suggested that if you owned a company, you ought not to answer to your shareholders. You ought not answer to profit margins, or shareholders, but to every stakeholder in the world, meaning government, meaning people who didn t own stock in your company, meaning everyone. And the answer to that question is: you are answerable to no one. You should be like a king with his own little kingdom. You can pretend that you re acting in the name of the general will, but really what you are is some sort of prophet from on high brought to spread your values. And this was the basis of Stakeholder Capitalism, and this is what you have in common with them: a set of values that suggest that they are responsible for solving all the world problems. Problems like war and peace. They should collude and decide what system prevails everywhere. Problems like intolerance, like the climate, like intolerance. They are capable of seeing and understand what information you are capable in order to see and understand. They do not have ties to traditional ways of life and traditional values. This is what they do. And let's face it: they do not share a strange group of people. This is a weird group of values, particularly in the West. They don t have traditional ways They are disproportionately secular. And they are also seem to have scorn for the culture that actually bore them and instead have embraced a peculiar notion of multiculturalism in which all cultures are equal. And they pay homage to poor people wearing $20,000 watches and breathing on them. We ll get to that in a second. on this one in this episode of Pure Talk. Pure Talk is a show about how to connect with the most important people in your life in your daily life in a way you can get phenomenal coverage and more affordable to you.
00:00:00.000Well, this week, amidst all of the domestic political hubbub here in the United States, the World Economic Forum is happening over at Davos.
00:00:06.000Now, why exactly is the World Economic Forum important?
00:00:10.000Well, we have a video, a fact video over at YouTube you should check out for all the background on the WEF, but the short story is this.
00:00:17.000In 1971, there was an organization that was established by a guy named Klaus Schwab, who is a German engineer, economist, and professor with a James Bond villain accent.
00:00:28.000He created this organization so that heads of business and heads of state could talk over what he called stakeholder capitalism.
00:00:34.000Stakeholder capitalism was a theory he was expressing that essentially suggested that if you owned a company, you ought not to answer to your shareholders.
00:00:44.000If you managed a company, you ought not answer to profit margin or shareholders.
00:00:48.000Instead, you ought to answer to every stakeholder in the world, meaning government, meaning people who didn't own stock in your company, meaning everyone.
00:00:57.000Now, you might ask yourself, well then, exactly who are you accountable to?
00:01:01.000Because it turns out that the rando who doesn't own shares in your company can't actually fire you or sell your stock or change anything about the way you run your company.
00:01:08.000And the answer That Klaus Traub would give is, you are answerable to no one.
00:01:11.000You, as the head of a company, should be like a king with his own little kingdom.
00:01:16.000You, as the head of a company, you should be a lord, and the company acts as your fiefdom.
00:01:20.000And you can pretend that you're acting in the name of the general will, but really what you are is some sort of prophet from on high brought to spread your values.
00:01:29.000And this was the basis of stakeholder capitalism.
00:01:33.000Now, this theory was promoted via what was called the European Management Symposium.
00:01:37.000That's what the WEF was originally called in 1971.
00:01:40.000By 1975, this thing grew so fast that 860 participants, including the CEOs and chairman of the largest European companies, started showing up.
00:01:49.000And that same year, only four years after creation, the European Management Forum, the EMF, was now partnering with the United Nations.
00:01:57.000According to the WEF website itself, after five years, the Forum had gained acceptance at the highest levels of business and government.
00:02:04.000While not advocating policy or strategy, the Forum had become a respected organization that served as a valuable platform for business, government, civil society, and other stakeholders to confer and collaborate.
00:02:14.000In 1987, the European Management Forum changed its name from the EMF to the WEF.
00:03:18.000They are disproportionately of the political left.
00:03:20.000They are people who do not have ties to traditional ways of life and traditional values.
00:03:25.000They are also people who seem to have scorn for the culture that actually bore them and instead have embraced this peculiar notion of multiculturalism in which all cultures are created equal.
00:03:35.000And that leads to this really sort of paternalistic and odd look at the WEF where people are walking in wearing $5,000 suits and $20,000 watches and then They are paying homage to poor Native Americans or natives of Europe or whatever who are showing up and breathing on them.
00:03:52.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:04:52.000Yesterday at the WF, for example, we had this bizarre spectacle of a native woman of some sort with her face painted, breathing on the heads of various company owners, heads of state, top-level bureaucrats.
00:05:36.000How'd you like to have this lady sneeze on your head?
00:05:39.000I thought they all hated COVID, but apparently they love COVID.
00:05:43.000But again, this is all part of the show.
00:05:45.000They care about all of the stakeholders from the most remote natives to you, the people.
00:05:52.000And so these kind of bane knockoffs, except in the corporate garb, They've come up with all sorts of interesting and weird ways to restructure the global system in order to run the thing, in order to control you.
00:06:04.000This is presumably why the WEF and the World Health Organization were talking a lot over the course of this week about something they call Disease X. Now, let's be frank about this.
00:06:13.000Obviously, every government has to have some sort of contingency plan in case the country gets hit by an epidemic.
00:06:18.000Localities have such emergency plans, but the WHO botched COVID-19 so damned badly That the notion they have any sort of leg to stand on when they preach to the rest of the world about how exactly we should deal with a future pandemic, it starts to look less as though they are attempting to create a contingency plan and more like they're sort of wish-casting something like this into existence because they really love the levels of control.
00:06:43.000So here was the head of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
00:06:47.000who by the way basically just works for the government of China as we'll explore in just a moment,
00:06:52.000talking about disease x and preparing the globe for disease x.
00:06:56.000After we started putting a placeholder, you know, the first that came was in the disease x is covid.
00:07:09.000So we have experience now and we are preparing based on that experience.
00:07:13.000A lot of assessment has been done by independent panels and experts.
00:07:20.000And based on the recommendation, we have already started many initiatives.
00:07:27.000And then the other key in order to have better prepared and to address the disease X is the pandemic agreement.
00:07:34.000The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced and all the solutions into one.
00:07:43.000And that agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.
00:08:56.000Department of Health and Human Services by a House committee and reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show, a Chinese researcher in Beijing uploaded a nearly complete sequence of the virus's structure to a U.S.
00:09:04.000government-run database December 28, 2019.
00:09:07.000Chinese officials at that time were still publicly describing the disease outbreak in Wuhan as a viral pneumonia of unknown cause.
00:09:13.000They still had not closed the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, site of one of the initial COVID-19 outbreaks.
00:09:19.000And again, China continued to lie for like a full month that there was no dangerous human-to-human transmission.
00:09:25.000The Chinese researcher who submitted the virus sequence, a Dr. Lily Ren of the Beijing-based Institute of Pathogen Biology, did not respond to an email seeking comment.
00:09:33.000Well, you'll never hear of her again since her name has now been publicly reported in the press and China is an authoritarian, tyrannical government.
00:09:40.000So, WHO did an amazing job, and naturally this means that we have to continue to include them in the world system.
00:09:46.000All the people who botched it last time, we are going to keep them in control.
00:09:51.000So, Disease X is one methodology of control.
00:09:55.000Other methodologies of control, climate change.
00:09:58.000So there's language that people on the left love to use when they're talking about controlling you, and that is the language of war.
00:10:03.000The war on poverty is about controlling income.
00:10:05.000It is about controlling redistribution of wealth.
00:10:09.000The war on climate change is similarly about controlling exactly how you live your life.
00:10:14.000This is why people in politics are constantly eager to use war language because in a war, you get to put your entire population on rations.
00:10:21.000In a war, you get to draft people and put them in barracks.
00:10:24.000In a war, you get to take control of literally everybody at all times, day and night.
00:10:28.000This is why John Kerry is eager to talk about war.
00:10:31.000He compares climate change to fighting Hitler.
00:10:38.000And I'm here again today because I'm convinced that the only way we win this battle is by stepping up exponentially from where we are today and begin to treat this fight almost as if we're in a war.
00:10:55.000I hate the war analogies because we get tired of them and they're probably overused, but unfortunately it's apt.
00:11:04.000In World War II, when we needed to gain control over the skies and of the ocean and learn how to penetrate Hitler's defenses in order to win the Battle of Freedom, it was mid-level techs who made a lot of decisions that actually helped us win the war.
00:11:21.000So again, that sort of language is the lever for exercising power.
00:11:26.000Now there was one wonderful moment during the WEF.
00:11:29.000Javier Mille, who has become my spirit animal, the president of Argentina, who is a colorful and wonderful economist, rock star, and just all around wolfman.
00:11:40.000He was speaking at the WEF and he just laid into them and it was wonderful.
00:11:44.000Do not surrender to the advance of the state.
00:12:04.000Today I'm here to tell you that the Western world is in danger.
00:12:10.000And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.
00:12:25.000Unfortunately, in recent decades, Motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.
00:12:47.000Okay, this is great stuff and good for Javier Mille.
00:12:50.000Going to the WEF and slapping people across the head is precisely what they deserve.
00:12:54.000But it's not just a problem inside the WEF.
00:12:56.000There are plenty of people in the United States who hold the same peculiar globalist vision in which the elites of society ought to construct pretty much everything up to and including the demographic shape of the United States.
00:13:06.000That's the only reason I can think why we continue to futz around over America's southern border.
00:13:13.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:14:24.000Instead, they're proposing a series of changes that would remain extremely soft on illegal immigration.
00:14:30.000Speaker Mike Johnson, to his credit, is refusing to go ahead with any sort of compromise border bill along the lines the Democrats are looking for, according to the New York Times.
00:14:38.000Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday dug in against President Biden's efforts to revive stalled legislation to send aid to Ukraine, saying the Republican-led House would not entertain it unless Democrats agreed to a far more severe crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border than they have been willing to consider.
00:14:51.000He said, I told the president what I've been saying for many months.
00:14:54.000It's that we have must have changed the border substance of policy change.
00:14:57.000We must insist that the border be the top priority.
00:14:59.000Well, Joe Biden had summoned the lawmakers in both parties to lecture them about Ukraine,
00:15:06.000about the importance of repelling Russia's invasion.
00:15:08.000But he refused to actually commit to any serious changes at the border.
00:15:14.000Meanwhile, some of the Senate Republicans are ready to cut any sort of deal, apparently.
00:15:17.000Senate Republicans said they are hopeful.
00:15:19.000Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who's fairly soft on immigration, said the Senate could vote as soon as next week on a national security spending bill combining border measures with military assistance for Ukraine and Israel as well.
00:15:31.000It seems to me that what is being proposed in the Senate is far too weak for Republicans in the House to sign on to.
00:15:40.000So leading Senate Republicans are saying this is the best chance the GOP has had in years to secure serious border policy concessions from Democrats.
00:15:48.000I think that Joe Biden is willing to cave more than he has thus far.
00:15:52.000So what exactly is being proposed at this point?
00:15:55.000Well, it's something called the Dignity Act.
00:15:58.000So, the so-called Dignity Act was originally brought up in 2023 by Representative Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, who I know.
00:16:05.000She's a delightful person, but she's wrong on this bill.
00:16:08.000And other co-sponsors, including people like Veronica Escobar, Democrat of Texas.
00:16:13.000And again, this is a fairly weak immigration bill.
00:16:17.000It includes $25 billion for more border security like barriers and technology, and it does hire and train more personnel.
00:16:23.000But with regard to asylum reform, it essentially says that there would be humanitarian campuses managed by CBP along the southern border where migrants would be held.
00:16:35.000Asylum officers would then conduct asylum interviews and make final determinations on the campuses.
00:16:39.000Migrants would have access to medical staff, licensed social workers, mental health professionals, child advocates, private organizations that provide humanitarian assistance and legal counsel.
00:16:47.000Under that bill, within the first 15 days, the staff would provide an initial screening, including criminal background checks, biometric data, verify identification, conduct medical assessments, and migrants unable to establish a credible fear during an initial screening would be subjected to expedited removal from the United States.
00:17:06.000Then, presumably, asylum seekers would theoretically be held for another 45 days, although it's unclear to me whether they would then be released into the United States, because otherwise things are just going to continue to swell at the border.
00:17:16.000Obviously, one of the big problems here is how do you establish credible fear?
00:17:20.000What exactly does credible fear look like from a migration official with The staff of these humanitarian campuses.
00:17:28.000According to the bill, within 45 days of passing the initial credible fear interview, a trained US Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officer would review the individual's asylum claim and make a final determination.
00:17:38.000Asylum officers must deny, approve, or refer complex or uncertain cases to an immigration judge.
00:17:42.000So basically, you would end up with the same sort of backlog that you currently have.
00:17:47.000For those who are referred to an immigration judge, the bill would then create a system by which asylum seekers would receive a notice to appear and then be released from the humanitarian campus.
00:17:55.000So, this would continue to maintain catch and release, it would just do so in a more delayed fashion than is currently being applied.
00:18:02.000This is the reason why Republicans in the House are not willing to go forward with this.
00:18:07.000It also creates worker status for illegal immigrants who are already here in the country.
00:19:15.000But frankly, we're in an election year.
00:19:18.000And the folks who want to return Donald Trump to the White House would prefer to talk about a broken immigration system instead of focusing on the solutions that are at hand and engaging in bipartisan work.
00:19:31.000But the solutions that you want are an open border.
00:19:34.000Again, they keep saying things like we need more processing at the border.
00:19:36.000But what they really mean is they want to allow more people to use the asylum system to get into the country.
00:19:41.000Until you change the actual rules with regard to who is adjudicated eligible for asylum, nothing is actually going to change.
00:19:49.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:19:50.000First, if you are looking to treat yourself this year, you deserve nothing but the best.
00:21:56.0002, which is a way of solidifying the border, changing the rules with regard to asylum, for example, what you really want to do is destroy the Statue of Liberty.
00:22:03.000This is my favorite stupid rhetoric, is this notion that the Statue of Liberty is somehow coincident with the Constitution of the United States.
00:22:09.000It has some poetry on it, and that's it.
00:22:12.000It does not dictate the policy of the United States being an open immigration policy.
00:23:22.000And the idea of slamming the door when we desperately need these migrants, when we desperately need it, and what we need is an orderly process.
00:23:32.000It's not that we don't need or want folks to come, it's that we actually have to make it easier for these individuals to participate in our economy, Get a job, support themselves, and live the American dream.
00:23:44.000And what this conversation is about, is about defending the American dream.
00:23:50.000The American dream, presumably, is that there be no border whatsoever.
00:23:53.000Now again, countries can have open immigration policies so long as their economies are not giant welfare economies, so long as there is the courage of your conviction with regard to assimilation into your culture.
00:24:05.000You can have open borders under those circumstances.
00:24:07.000That was, in fact, a policy of the United States in the late 19th century, that sort of thing was part of American policy and didn't destroy the country.
00:24:17.000But once you had a welfare state, it changes all the math pretty dramatically.
00:24:21.000And not only that, once you add on to that a multicultural notion that people don't have to learn English, but they don't actually have to learn American customs and ways of life.
00:24:31.000Then, of course, the social fabric of the country is going to fray.
00:24:34.000But AOC doesn't care about any of that.
00:24:35.000She's perfectly happy to see the social fabric of the country fray, because she agrees with the basic premises of many of the people at the WF, that top-down administrative control over nearly every area of life is better for you, and that borders are parochial, borders are wrong.
00:24:49.000Of course, it's the World Economic Forum, not the National Economic Forum.
00:24:53.000Now, there's still some Democrats, or soon-to-be former Democrats, who acknowledge the reality about this.
00:25:50.000And I would implore the President to declare a national emergency and secure our border immediately if Congress can't do something this week.
00:25:57.000By the way, it is worth noting here that immigration is a top issue for both Democrats and Republicans in the upcoming election, which is just another reason why Donald Trump is running so durably against Joe Biden, despite all of his legal troubles, foibles, and myriad excesses.
00:26:11.000Speaking of which, there's a brand new poll out of New Hampshire.
00:26:14.000This is not a C-plus rated American Research Group poll.
00:27:30.000This is what we call a little bit of strength right here with the bouncing of the shoulders.
00:27:34.000That's when you know that she's about to lay one on you real thick.
00:27:39.000What's hilarious about all of this is, of course, if the entire pitch against Trump is leave our incompetence aside and focus in on the fact that Donald Trump is a big, bad, mean, orange man, that's not going to work.
00:27:49.000Jamie Dimon, again, Jamie Dimon is not remotely a radical Republican.
00:27:54.000The JPMorgan CEO, he was asked yesterday about Joe Biden's campaign chances.
00:27:58.000He's like, Joe Biden's in a lot of trouble and demonizing MAGA Republicans is not going to help him.
00:28:04.000And I think people should be a little more respectful of our fellow citizens.
00:28:07.000And when you guys have people up here, you should always ask the why.
00:28:39.000Jamie Dimon is not some sort of wild right-winger.
00:28:41.000He's wearing a Ukraine pin on the air while he's talking with MSNBC, talking about all of this.
00:28:47.000Now, Democrats are banking, again, on Donald Trump's legal foibles to drag him down.
00:28:52.000They're looking at polling, like the polling from Ipsos yesterday.
00:28:55.000That polling found that if Donald Trump were convicted of a felony crime by a jury, that that might ding him in the polls.
00:29:02.000So according to this poll, 59% of Americans say they would not vote for Donald Trump if he were convicted of a felony crime by a jury, as opposed to 25% who said that they would.
00:29:11.000A majority of Republicans said they'd vote for Trump, 52 to 31, even if you were convicted of a felony crime.
00:29:16.000Democrats, of course, split 86-8 against, but that's no shock.
00:29:19.000They split 86-8 against Trump generally.
00:29:21.000Independents are the ones who really shift.
00:29:23.00066% say they would not vote for Donald Trump if convicted of a federal crime.
00:29:27.000If he is currently in prison, Even 39% of Republicans say we're not going to vote for him if he is currently in prison.
00:29:33.00062% of Americans overall say they would not vote for Donald Trump if he is in prison.
00:29:37.000Now, the chance of him actually being in prison by the time we get to the election, I think, are incredibly low.
00:29:42.000Like, very, very low based on appeals, based on the length of time it takes to actually do a trial.
00:29:48.000I also think that some of these poll numbers about being convicted of a felony crime by a jury, I think most Americans don't even know what he's being charged with.
00:29:55.000So the idea that he gets convicted of felony mishandling of classified documents and that a bunch of independents are like, oh, I won't vote for that guy anymore.
00:30:01.000I just don't, I don't see that as being a real huge concern for the Trump campaign, particularly because there are a lot of obstacles that are coming down the pike for these various legal cases.
00:30:14.000So, for example, as Politico points out, There is a case called Joseph Fisher v. United States, which the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in December.
00:30:23.000It doesn't explicitly mention Donald Trump, but it could knock out a bunch of the January 6th charges against Trump.
00:30:29.000At issue in that case is whether prosecutors and the Department of Justice have been improperly using a 2002 law originally aimed at curbing financial crimes to prosecute a January 6th defendant named Joseph Fisher.
00:30:39.000Should the court side with Fisher, it would call into question the use of the same law against other January 6th defendants, including Trump.
00:30:45.000Smith's indictment against Trump, again, carries four charges, four counts.
00:30:48.000Two of those are for obstruction of an official proceeding and for conspiracy to do so, but that's all under Sarbanes-Oxley.
00:30:55.000The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was originally designed to make it criminal to obstruct official proceedings of the U.S.
00:31:04.000Not with regard to, for example, the counting of the vote.
00:31:08.000And of course, Donald Trump taking legal means, like filing lawsuits or calling people on the phone and saying, if you could theoretically get certified as an alternative state elector for your state, would you go and talk about that in Washington?
00:31:23.000First of all, the crime may not be a crime.
00:31:24.000Second of all, the crime in this particular case may be completely in the wrong category, and the Supreme Court could easily say Sarbanes-Oxley was never meant to apply to Donald Trump's January 6th activities.
00:31:36.000As Politico says, the impact of Fisher on the January 6th trial against Trump might not be known until after the Supreme Court wraps up its term in June, at which point it could knock out half of Smith's counts against Trump.
00:31:46.000Meanwhile, the other cases that are currently in play, like, for example, the Alvin Bragg case in Manhattan, that case is a joke.
00:32:01.000Right now, he is up in many of the polls.
00:32:03.000He is in the middle of his second defamation trial with E. Jean Carroll, and he's yelling at the judge.
00:32:08.000I mean, literally yelling at the judge, and no one cares.
00:32:12.000Literally yesterday, there was an exchange between Trump and a judge named Louis Kaplan, in which the judge said, Mr. Trump has the right to be present here, but that right can be forfeited.
00:32:21.000Mr. Trump, I hope I don't have to consider excluding you from the trial.
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00:33:31.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of Joe Biden's economy, story out from the Wall Street Journal today, and it points out that we have a bunch of economic trains coming down those tracks.
00:33:45.000And Joe Biden is a very, very bad Dudley Do-Right.
00:33:48.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the troubling commercial real estate market is bracing for a record amount of maturing loans, boosting the prospect of a surge in defaults as property owners are forced to refinance at higher rates.
00:33:59.000In 2023, $541 billion in debt backed by office buildings, hotels, apartments, and other types of commercial real estate came due.
00:34:04.000That's the highest amount ever for For a single year, according to data from TREP, commercial debt maturities are expected to continue rising, with more than $2.2 trillion coming due between now and the end of 2027.
00:34:15.000Most of those loans have so far been repaid or extended.
00:34:18.000In 2022 and 2023, many owners were able to exercise one- or two-year extensions built into their original loans, but those extensions are now burning off.
00:34:50.000And of course, the problems are mounting for Joe Biden pretty much everywhere.
00:34:53.000They are mounting with regard to Ukraine as well.
00:34:56.000According to Tony Blinken, a ceasefire is nowhere in sight with regard to Ukraine.
00:35:01.000Which is kind of amazing because just a couple of months into the war, a ceasefire was actually on the board and Vladimir Putin ended up backing away after further Ukrainian war action.
00:35:10.000Here was Tony Blinken talking about how there is no ceasefire imminent in Ukraine.
00:35:16.000Are we anywhere near any kind of negotiation, though, for a stable long-term ceasefire?
00:35:27.000We're always open to it, attentive to it, because more than anyone else, the Ukrainian people want this.
00:35:34.000But there has to be a willingness on the part of Russia to engage, to negotiate in good faith, based on the basic principles that have been challenged by its aggression.
00:35:47.000Meanwhile, top NATO officials are warning that things are going to get uglier before they get better in Ukraine.
00:35:51.000According to the Associated Press, Ukraine is now locked in an existential battle for its survival almost two years into its war with Russia.
00:35:57.000Western armies and political leaders must drastically change the way they help it fend off invading forces, according to a top NATO military officer on Wednesday.
00:36:06.000and European Union funding for Ukraine's conflict-ravaged economy held up by political infighting, this NATO general is appealing for a whole-of-society approach to the challenge that goes beyond military planning.
00:36:15.000He said we need public and private actors to change their mindset for an era in which everything was plannable, foreseeable, controllable, and focused on efficiency to an era in which anything can happen at any time.
00:36:24.000Does that sound like a great pitch for Joe Biden's administration?
00:37:25.000Meanwhile, the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdullahian, he's openly threatening the United States, saying that if the United States is too unfriendly, then Iran will be unfriendly.
00:37:34.000I noticed Iran being unfriendly in the Red Sea, in Pakistan, in Iraq.
00:37:39.000In Syria, in Lebanon, in Northern Israel, in Southern Israel.
00:37:43.000I noticed some unfriendliness from the Iranians, actually.
00:37:46.000And meanwhile, the Biden administration is just running around like a chicken with its heads cut off, saying, well, we're just trying to cool the waters, cool the waters.
00:37:52.000Can we put some more pressure on Israel to make some concessions to the power?
00:38:37.000It will be in the favor of the peace and security of the world if the United States would become
00:38:44.000less hostile, would become cooperative instead of confrontational.
00:38:49.000Oh, it's that the United States is confrontational.
00:38:53.000Let it be known, by the way, that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for
00:38:56.000at least 2,000 deaths of American troops in Iraq.
00:38:59.000Iran is the most nefarious force on planet Earth in terms of spreading its terror tentacles everywhere, and they're openly sitting there at Davos and threatening the world.
00:39:07.000It really is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:39:08.000By the way, the West, which is currently attempting to push Israel into some sort of ceasefire with Hamas in the bizarre notion that this is going to somehow buy off Iranian proxies, Hamas is making perfectly clear who they are every single day.
00:39:26.000New tape has now emerged from October 7th of Hamas literally sawing at the necks of dead Israelis.
00:39:32.000Like literally chopping the heads off dead Israelis, ISIS style.
00:39:36.000But don't worry, these are people who should be left in power to fire rockets willy-nilly into the center of Israeli civilian areas.
00:39:41.000Because after all, the Israelis are just too mean in their own self-defense.
00:40:50.000As we buried Adir, I knew I was interring my child without his face, so I had to keep searching for it.
00:40:54.000The grieving father spent weeks searching for a lead.
00:40:56.000I reviewed all videos and eventually found footage of my son missing a critical part of his body, said David.
00:41:00.000Three weeks ago, during the interrogation of two Hamas terrorists arrested in Israel, they confessed that one of them had attempted to sell my son's head for $10,000 in Gaza.
00:41:10.000The IDF then entered Gaza, searched an ice cream shop's freezer, and there, in a suitcase, they found my son's head, which had also been desecrated.
00:41:17.000At least I was able to bury him with the little dignity that remained.
00:41:20.000Yeah, clearly, Palestinian-Israeli peace is just over the horizon.
00:41:26.000And probably that will make the Iranians calm down.
00:41:30.000Again, anything can happen at any time is a very good slogan, as it turns out, for the 2024 Biden campaign.
00:41:36.000Because it feels like anything can happen at any time.
00:41:39.000Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is about to make a very critical decision that will in fact shift an enormous amount of power back to the legislature.
00:41:47.000This is a really big story that is going largely under the radar because it's a little complicated.
00:41:52.000According to the Washington Post, a divided Supreme Court debated whether and how to curtail the power of federal agencies on Wednesday, with liberals urging the court to defer to the judgment of government experts, and conservatives saying judges should not systematically favor government regulators over private companies, industry, or individuals in litigation.
00:42:07.000After more than three hours of argument, it was unclear whether the court's conservative majority would overturn or simply scale back the 40-year-old precedent that is under review in a pair of cases brought by herring fishermen from New Jersey and Rhode Island.
00:42:18.000So, very often, the circumstances surrounding very important cases are really, really small and peculiar.
00:42:25.000Basically, there is a federal rule requiring commercial fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors.
00:42:30.000The court decision, however, is not really about that.
00:42:32.000It is about whether Federal regulatory agencies are capable of regulating huge swaths of American life or whether it turns out those regulations have to stand up to constitutional scrutiny.
00:42:45.000Conservatives have been targeting a framework that was set up in 1984 under a case called Chevron USA versus Natural Resources Defense Council.
00:42:53.000That case set up something called Chevron Deference, which suggested that if the Congress passed a law and the law wasn't specific enough, that basically regulatory agencies could then use their expertise to read the tea leaves.
00:43:05.000They could sit there and Rorschach test this thing and come up with giant books filled with regulations based on the vague language of statute.
00:43:13.000And then, presumably, the courts would have nothing to say about it, because if Congress really wanted to do anything about it, they could pass a new regulation taking that power away from regulatory agencies, but they hadn't, and therefore, basically, the courts could not sit in judgment on anything these regulatory agencies were doing.
00:43:37.000They're never held accountable because if something goes wrong, it's not happening because of them.
00:43:40.000It's happening because of the regulators.
00:43:41.000Regulators get to do whatever they want.
00:43:43.000There's huge amounts of industry capture in the regulatory agencies.
00:43:48.000If you are a regulatory agency and you are overseeing, for example, laws with regard to the sea, major industries are going to get into the woodwork and they are going to start writing those laws for you.
00:43:58.000That's how so many regulations are written.
00:44:00.000And again, congressmen are perfectly happy to kick the can over to the regulatory agencies.
00:44:04.000It is up to the judiciary to maintain the balance of power, the checks and balances that were set up in the Constitution, which is why Chevron deference should die.
00:44:12.000On Wednesday, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, both nominees of President Trump, took turns peppering the Biden administration with skeptical questions, as Solicitor General Elizabeth Prolonger defended the Trump administration initiative and the longstanding Chevron precedent.
00:44:25.000Kavanaugh said Chevron has allowed federal agencies to flip-flop and oppose different rules every time a new administration takes over.
00:44:31.000Leaving judges with little choice but to defer to the changing interpretations of agency officials, which of course is very weird.
00:44:36.000Because if regulatory agencies can take positions that are directly opposed to one another and Congress supposedly authorized both those positions at the same time, how could that possibly be?
00:44:49.000Gorsuch has called long ago for getting rid of Chevron deference.
00:44:53.000Of course, Democrats are very much in favor of it because they believe in a bureaucratic administrative centralized government where elections don't matter so much in the legislative branch, where everything can be done by a powerful executive branch.
00:45:03.000This is a model of government first pushed by Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century.
00:45:07.000The notion of a bureaucratic administrative government of experts who would administer the government on your behalf.
00:45:35.000They should get rid of Chevron's deference entirely.
00:45:37.000The notion that, again, regulatory agencies ought to be unanswerable entirely when it comes to their interpretations of statute by the judiciary hands way too much power to the executive branch of government.
00:45:49.000A restoration, by the way, of checks and balances in government where the legislature legislates and the executive branch executes and the judiciary adjudicates.
00:45:56.000That would be the single best thing that could happen in the United States to restore any level of credibility in our government.
00:46:02.000Is right now we think Congress is incompetent because they don't even do the legislating.
00:46:07.000And then we think the executive grabs too much power and thus is incompetent because they have too much power over our lives and we didn't let say Anthony Fauci who's a bureaucratic administrator.
00:46:17.000And then we think the judiciary just sits there and does nothing about any of this.
00:46:20.000When the various branches of government do what they were supposed to do in the first place, they reestablish their credibility.
00:46:25.000That's why it would be excellent if the Supreme Court did get rid of Chevron deference.
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