The Ben Shapiro Show - Did Ukraine Just Try To Assassinate Putin?

00:00:00.000 Well, the most insane breaking news of the day is that Russia is now suggesting that Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin, that of course is sort of the capital building in Moscow, with drones in a move designed, they say, to target President Vladimir Putin.

00:00:12.000 They've actually released footage of what it looked like when the drone flew directly over the capital dome of the Kremlin.

00:00:19.000 It really is kind of amazing footage.

00:00:21.000 You can see a drone that is flying over it, and then it explodes.

00:00:25.000 It's sort of taken down, and the top of the dome is on fire.

00:00:29.000 And the Kremlin says that retaliation in some way, shape or form is likely.

00:00:38.000 Color me somewhat skeptical.

00:00:39.000 The reason I'm somewhat skeptical is because, again, everybody lies in these conflicts.

00:00:43.000 Ukraine has lied about some of the things that have happened during this conflict.

00:00:46.000 They lied very early on about all of their soldiers being killed off of Snake Island, for example.

00:00:50.000 And Russia lies routinely when it comes to conflict.

00:00:53.000 They throw people out of fourth, fifth-story windows, and those people fell to their deaths.

00:00:57.000 They poison people they don't particularly like abroad. 0.99

00:01:00.000 Russia is quite famous for dissembling about the stuff that it does on a military level.

00:01:04.000 And the idea of them actually staging some sort of false flag attack, for example, and then using that as an excuse to bomb the living hell out of Kiev or to target Vladimir Zelensky, which they've been trying to do since the beginning of the conflict, that's not out of bounds either.

00:01:17.000 But as we say, it is very difficult in the fog of war to know who is lying and who is not.

00:01:21.000 After all, we still don't know who bombed the Nord Stream pipeline.

00:01:25.000 At the very beginning, it was suggested that Russia had bombed its own pipeline, which made no sense at all.

00:01:28.000 And then you had Seymour Hersh, who's kind of a weird journalist who sometimes gets it right and sometimes gets it wrong, suggesting that it was Ukraine that had bombed it and then the United States that had bombed it.

00:01:36.000 So when all this stuff happens, you first have to say to yourself, I don't know anything.

00:01:39.000 So I don't know anything.

00:01:40.000 I don't know whether Ukraine actually tried to fly a drone directly over the Kremlin.

00:01:44.000 In an attempt to kill Vladimir Putin, which by the way, seems like the least effective way of attempting to kill Vladimir Putin.

00:01:51.000 Because from the video, it looks like a couple of drones that are not laden with enough explosives to actually damage the building sufficiently to kill Vladimir Putin.

00:01:59.000 Like how do they know where he is in the building?

00:02:00.000 They'd have to have pretty good intel in order for that to occur.

00:02:04.000 By the same token, could they have tried something just to get the Ukrainian public excited about the war some more because they've already lost something like 150,000 people in the Ukraine war?

00:02:12.000 Sure.

00:02:13.000 What this does mean is escalation.

00:02:15.000 To me, what this probably suggests is, if I had to guess, and again, it's all guessing at this point because nobody knows anything.

00:02:21.000 If I had to guess, what I would suggest here is that Putin is looking for some sort of negotiated settlement.

00:02:26.000 He is looking for a way out of this conflict because it is not going well for him.

00:02:29.000 It was supposed to be a cakewalk into Kiev with Vladimir Zelensky hung by his neck until dead.

00:02:33.000 And none of that happened.

00:02:34.000 And so now what he is attempting to do is probably ratchet up the tensions so the United States will come in and broker something.

00:02:40.000 So if he can portray Ukraine as the aggressor, then presumably the West will come in and say, listen, guys, we got to cut this out.

00:02:45.000 This is this has gone too far already.

00:02:47.000 We can't have people attempting to assassinate each other's top leaders.

00:02:51.000 Again, it's not as though Russia has not attempted to assassinate Zelensky.

00:02:55.000 I mean, it was literally one month ago that Russian lawmakers were calling openly for the assassination of Vladimir Zelensky.

00:03:02.000 Lawmaker Mikhail Delyagin said the only normal response last month was the immediate elimination of Zelensky and the Ukrainian commander-in-chief, a guy named Valery Zaluzhny.

00:03:11.000 And several Kremlin-connected military bloggers had called for Ukrainian leaders to be assassinated and wiped out like the quote-unquote Chechen terrorists.

00:03:17.000 Again, this is all well within sort of the boundaries of the sort of stuff that Vladimir Putin does.

00:03:23.000 But could it be the Ukrainians actually attempting something? 0.99

00:03:25.000 Sure, it could be.

00:03:26.000 I'm not suggesting that they couldn't do it.

00:03:28.000 I'm just suggesting that in a situation like this, where no one knows anything, the most obvious question is who stands to gain?

00:03:35.000 Who stands to benefit?

00:03:37.000 And the answer, in a case like this, of who stands to benefit, just like Nord Stream, who stood to benefit?

00:03:42.000 Putin clearly was not the answer.

00:03:43.000 Because if Putin wanted to just shut off the oil to Europe, he could do it.

00:03:46.000 He could just turn that spigot, the oil is shut off.

00:03:48.000 So the who stands to benefit question about Nord Stream cut in favor of the idea that it was either the Ukrainians or the Americans or Ukrainian-American allies who had blown up the Nord Stream pipeline.

00:03:57.000 In this case, the question is, who stands to benefit?

00:04:00.000 Who stands to gain?

00:04:01.000 And the answer in the failed drone attack on Vladimir Putin, the who stands to gain here, is Putin.

00:04:06.000 Because now Putin gets to claim that he is the victim of an assassination attempt on the international stage, and this justifies all sorts of outsized action, and it also justifies, again, the notion that the West has to come in and broker some sort of deal before this thing spirals out of hand and a nuclear-armed state starts pointing its missiles directly at Ukraine.

00:04:24.000 So we will continue to bring you updates on the situation as it develops.

00:04:27.000 Again, the footage is really quite stunning.

00:04:30.000 It looks like something out of a movie, honestly.

00:04:34.000 Okay, we'll get in just one second to the United States military and the problems that we're having with the United States military.

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00:05:43.000 Okay, so meanwhile, the United States military were facing down an increasingly dangerous world

00:05:48.000 in which Russia is significantly more erratic than it has been any time in the recent past.

00:05:53.000 China is getting more and more aggressive on its own borders.

00:05:55.000 China's building up its military.

00:05:57.000 China, because of its economic and demographic shortcomings, has to get aggressive very, very soon.

00:06:01.000 Their window for success is basically closed at this point.

00:06:04.000 They're now in a demographic death spiral.

00:06:06.000 They're just not producing enough young people to support the bulwark of this massive communist state.

00:06:12.000 Their military, while it is very, very large, is Developmentally defunct.

00:06:19.000 Defunct is too strong a word.

00:06:21.000 It's developmentally behind.

00:06:23.000 They don't have the sophisticated microchips that are necessary to fight a long-lasting war with, for example, the American military.

00:06:28.000 They just don't.

00:06:29.000 And that's largely because, again, Taiwan's TSMC, which is the leading producer of very sophisticated microchips on planet Earth, has all sorts of sanctions against China because Taiwan, of course, does not want to give China the military attack that China could then use to take over the island.

00:06:43.000 And so China is going to have to get aggressive sometime soon.

00:06:46.000 All of this would require, you would think, a buildup of the U.S.

00:06:49.000 military.

00:06:50.000 It turns out that whether the United States likes it or not, since we are the most powerful economy on planet Earth, since our Navy basically guarantees the freedom of shipping throughout the world, since it is America and our hegemony that has essentially kept the world somewhat peaceful since the end of World War II, The U.S.

00:07:08.000 retreating from the world scene is really, really bad, and that means that you actually need to be able to recruit for your military.

00:07:12.000 Well, one way that you recruit for the military, typically speaking, is you actually pitch the idea of patriotism.

00:07:16.000 I know, this has become passé, which is really weird.

00:07:20.000 As patriotism dies, it's harder to recruit for the military.

00:07:24.000 Typically speaking, the people who tend to join the military are young men, from patriotic backgrounds with military parents and grandparents.

00:07:31.000 Those are the people who tend to join the military.

00:07:33.000 You know who doesn't tend to join the military are people who are not patriotic.

00:07:36.000 People who are only there for, for example, the college handout.

00:07:40.000 Like that.

00:07:40.000 There are some people who do that.

00:07:41.000 But the vast majority of people who join the military are joining the military because they want to join the military.

00:07:45.000 And the chief draw of the military is that it stands for the American flag.

00:07:48.000 It stands for all the things that we're all supposed to stand for together.

00:07:50.000 So as the social fabric frays, and as we have less that we agree on, And as patriotism begins to be seen as something polarizing, it's not surprising the military is having a tough time drawing people.

00:07:59.000 You combine that with the fact that all the young people in America are apparently fat and unhealthy, and this makes for a very bad recruitment pool. 0.99

00:08:06.000 And this is precisely what's happening with the United States military, which has decided, instead of steering directly into this, instead of counter-programming social media and saying, no, patriotism is awesome, come be part of the fighting force that makes the world safe.

00:08:19.000 Come be part of the fighting force on behalf of American freedoms and rights, Come fight the worst people on earth.

00:08:24.000 Instead of doing that, the U.S.

00:08:26.000 Army has decided to recruit along the base of, why don't you find your personal fulfillment in the Army? 0.99

00:08:29.000 Now, this is the dumbest pitch you could make. 1.00

00:08:32.000 Truly the stupidest pitch you can make. 1.00

00:08:34.000 The purpose of a military is not diversity. 1.00

00:08:37.000 The purpose of a military is not for you to find a subjective sense of personal fulfillment.

00:08:41.000 That is not what the military is for.

00:08:43.000 It has never been for that, which is why during times of serious war, a draft happens where people are compelled to join the military.

00:08:50.000 There are many countries on earth where this is still the case.

00:08:53.000 And then, the idea is that in order to be molded into a fighting force, everybody sort of gets broken down, and then they get built back up again as part of a community in which everybody is a series of interchanging parts.

00:09:03.000 It's one of the reasons why, by the way, why so many people on the left are constantly talking in terms of war when it comes to their other part.

00:09:10.000 When it comes to actual war, they don't like the army.

00:09:12.000 But when it comes to, for example, economics, then they like wartime powers.

00:09:15.000 Then they like the militarization aspect of the army.

00:09:19.000 They like the idea.

00:09:19.000 They can organize from top down.

00:09:21.000 Everybody's an interchangeable part.

00:09:22.000 This is why they call it the war on poverty, the war on climate change, the war on bigotry.

00:09:27.000 All these things are wars because wars allow you to deprive people of their rights in pursuit of a higher communal goal.

00:09:32.000 Well, the army does deprive you of your individualism in pursuit of a higher communal goal.

00:09:36.000 And so the pitch has to be something like brotherhood.

00:09:39.000 The pitch has to be something like patriotism.

00:09:41.000 That has to be what it's aimed at.

00:09:43.000 But instead, the army has decided that they are going to fall down the bizarre Adamistic individual, black hole, rabbit hole of trying to recruit this way.

00:09:54.000 It's like, come to the army and find yourself.

00:09:57.000 Come to the army and find yourself.

00:09:58.000 The hell kind of pitch is that? 0.85

00:09:59.000 Well, it's the kind of pitch that gets you drag queens in the Navy. 1.00

00:10:03.000 That's the kind of pitch.

00:10:04.000 According to the Washington Examiner, in an effort to increase recruitment, The Navy has now invited a drag queen who's an active duty sailor to join its pilot's digital ambassador program because nothing says join the Navy quite like a dude dressing in drag and gallivanting around.

00:10:20.000 Now, I know all the jokes about the Navy, guys.

00:10:22.000 I know all those jokes. 0.92

00:10:23.000 But you're not supposed to recruit based on the ridiculous joke. 0.51

00:10:26.000 That's not that's not like the recruitment pitch. 0.96

00:10:30.000 Come join the Navy, where you can hang out with drag queens on a submarine. 1.00

00:10:33.000 Like, that really is not the recruitment pitch here.

00:10:36.000 According to the Washington Examiner, as America's military faces a historic recruiting crisis, the new tactic is intended to broaden the Navy's reach of potential recruits through digital and social media platforms, according to a report.

00:10:45.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:10:46.000 You will draw, like, two drag queens, and every young, masculine, patriotic American is gonna look at this and go, wait, your pitch is that I will be on a submarine with this guy?

00:10:57.000 That's your pitch?

00:10:59.000 Yeoman second-class Joshua Kelly, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, made an announcement about becoming one of the first Navy digital ambassadors. 0.94

00:11:06.000 Here is what this pathetic nonsense looked like. 0.94

00:11:12.000 Aw, dude. 0.99

00:11:13.000 That's a dude, and he waves a flag, and suddenly he's dressing in drag.

00:11:16.000 This Navy sailor is also a drag queen. 1.00

00:11:19.000 Ah, and there is a man dressed as a woman and blowing kisses to the camera in heavy makeup and a wig.

00:11:25.000 24-year-old Joshua Kelly.

00:11:30.000 performs under the alter-ego Harpy Daniels, and here he is doing splits wearing fake breasts aboard a navy ship and kissing the camera.

00:11:40.000 While serving as his squadron's administrative supervisor, Kelly's shows are part of the lip-sync competitions.

00:11:49.000 Wow, and here is presumably a gay member of the Navy dressing in women's... It's designed to boost morale, guys.

00:11:57.000 Do you feel the morale of the U.S.

00:11:58.000 military boosting?

00:11:59.000 Kelly hopes to inspire people all over the world.

00:12:01.000 Yes, that is what the Navy is for. 0.73

00:12:03.000 That is what our ships are for.

00:12:04.000 They are not for making sure that the seaways are clear for shipping.

00:12:09.000 They are not to make sure that the Chinese Navy does not take over the South China Sea.

00:12:13.000 They are to inspire people all over the world with a dude wearing makeup and a bunch of sticky diamonds on his face and a wig and making kissy face at the camera.

00:12:24.000 A post from Harpy Daniels reads, I am Joshua Kelly, currently second class petty officer in the U.S.

00:12:28.000 Navy.

00:12:29.000 Heart emojis.

00:12:30.000 I identify as non-binary.

00:12:32.000 Ah, congrats to the Navy.

00:12:34.000 This has been an unbelievable experience since I've joined the Navy.

00:12:37.000 From joining in 2016 and being able to share my drag experience on my off time with my fellow sailors has been a blessing.

00:12:42.000 This experience has brought me so much strength, courage, and ambition to continue being an advocate and representation of queer sailors.

00:12:48.000 Okay, so we're...

00:12:50.000 We're literally doing now the village peoples in the Navy, but as a recruitment pitch.

00:12:55.000 That's literally what we are doing now.

00:12:58.000 Come follow me on this journey, says Harpy Daniels, and see where we go next.

00:13:02.000 Heart emoji.

00:13:02.000 Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity.

00:13:04.000 I don't speak for the Navy, but simply sharing my experience in the Navy.

00:13:07.000 Hoo yeah!

00:13:08.000 And let's go slay. 0.93

00:13:09.000 Fire emoji.

00:13:12.000 Apparently, he says that he wants to be an advocate for those who were oppressed for years in the service.

00:13:17.000 The Navy says it does not compensate Kelly or other digital ambassadors.

00:13:21.000 The Navy is now evaluating its effectiveness and future implementation of such brand ambassadors.

00:13:26.000 Apparently, the fiscal year recruitment for 2023 has been missed by 8,000 recruits for the Navy.

00:13:34.000 That is according to Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti.

00:13:38.000 She said, in fiscal year 23, we expect to miss our active duty recruiting goal, 8,000 sailors, short of our 37,700 goals.

00:13:45.000 So that is not just missing by 8,000 sailors.

00:13:47.000 Just do the math there.

00:13:48.000 That is missing by over 20%.

00:13:50.000 Additionally, we expect to finish 3,000 sailors short of our 10,330 recruiting goal for the Navy Reserve.

00:13:56.000 So 30% short on that one.

00:13:57.000 We are using all available levers in fiscal year 23 to increase recruiting while maintaining our standards.

00:14:02.000 Well, I mean, you didn't maintain your standards.

00:14:03.000 Your standards are now dudes who wear dresses and gallivant around doing splits in prosthetic breasts in front of other men.

00:14:11.000 Do you wonder why the world is becoming a more violent and chaotic place?

00:14:14.000 Maybe it's because people aren't all that intimidated by a navy that recruits using Harpy Daniels.

00:14:18.000 Maybe that would be one of the reasons.

00:14:20.000 Maybe it's that other countries look at us and they laugh because of that.

00:14:24.000 And the only thing that stands between that laughter and that aggressiveness is the sophistication of our military tech.

00:14:30.000 But we literally do not have the people to staff our current ships and we need more ships.

00:14:34.000 We do not have the people to staff the army. 0.92

00:14:36.000 And again, our institutions, like serious institutions, caving to the stupidity of atomistic individualism and sexual identity as like the core component of the army and navy. 0.99

00:14:47.000 You know how crazy that is? 1.00

00:14:48.000 That is so crazy.

00:14:52.000 I struggle to even come up with an equivalent.

00:14:54.000 The Army is the example par excellence of a communal organization that is oriented in the direction of a single goal in which people give up their individualism in pursuit of that goal.

00:15:06.000 I mean, literally, the Army and the Navy are about go to this place and risk your life to do this thing without thinking twice about it.

00:15:13.000 Like, the most individual part of you, namely your life, you need to take that hill.

00:15:17.000 And you are going to take that hill.

00:15:19.000 And we don't care if you are afraid. 0.81

00:15:20.000 And we don't care if you get a leg blown off.

00:15:21.000 You are going to take that hill.

00:15:22.000 And now we're like, well, we're going to still tell you to take the hill.

00:15:24.000 You need to take the hill.

00:15:25.000 But before you do, I need you to dance around a little bit and do some splits and maybe wear a thong. 1.00

00:15:30.000 Because you need to feel your, like, individualism is the core of the army.

00:15:33.000 Individualism, what in the, what in the actual, what?

00:15:36.000 Say what, and then recruitment is down.

00:15:37.000 Yes, of course recruitment is down, because you can't pitch people opposite of what the pitch is.

00:15:41.000 You can't tell people, join the Navy to find your inner drag queen, and then expect that a bunch of patriotic men are like, in, let's do this thing.

00:15:49.000 And by the way, there ain't enough guys who want to be drag queens to staff the Navy. 1.00

00:15:52.000 There aren't.

00:15:54.000 It's an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity.

00:15:57.000 And when you pile on top of that, the fact that all the young people aren't fat, apparently, well, this is what you get.

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00:17:10.000 So as I say, it's not just a problem of we are recruiting using drag queens to the military, but also the Army is missing all of its goals. 0.84

00:17:17.000 According to military.com, literally yesterday, the Army does not expect to hit its ambitious recruiting goal of 65,000 new soldiers this year as the pool of young Americans eligible to serve continues to shrink.

00:17:27.000 We're not going to make that goal, said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.

00:17:30.000 We're doing everything we can to get as close to it as possible.

00:17:32.000 We're going to fall short.

00:17:34.000 The Army fell some 15,000 activity records short last year of its goal of 60,000 new troops.

00:17:39.000 So that means, again, they're missing by 25% their goals.

00:17:44.000 The Army National Guard is in a seemingly deeper hole, facing an uphill battle bringing new soldiers in, while simultaneously seeing retention issues with part-time soldiers heading for the exits as units struggle to juggle domestic and overseas missions.

00:17:54.000 Most other military branches are also at risk of missing their recruiting goal.

00:17:58.000 The only one that's an exception is Space Force.

00:18:00.000 Why?

00:18:01.000 Well, it's the smallest.

00:18:02.000 It also relies on transfers from the Air Force.

00:18:03.000 And guess what? 0.96

00:18:04.000 Also, because Space Force is not about Be a gay astronaut. 0.95

00:18:07.000 Space Force is not like, perform drag in orbit.

00:18:12.000 Space Force was launched by President Trump and still had that patina of, you're doing something cool in the United States military.

00:18:18.000 Army leaders say the issues with recruitment are an amalgamation of barriers getting applicants into the ranks, topped by the high percentage of Americans in prime recruiting age simply unqualified for service.

00:18:26.000 Army planners estimate only about 23% of 17 to 24-year-olds can meet the service's expectations, with many applicants failing the military's SAT-style entrance exam or being too overweight to serve. 1.00

00:18:37.000 So everyone is fat and stupid and mentally ill. 0.99

00:18:40.000 And so that means 77% of all 17 to 24-year-olds cannot meet the service's expectations. 1.00

00:18:46.000 Can we be clear about this?

00:18:47.000 Joining the American military does not require you to get a 1500 on your SATs.

00:18:52.000 Joining the American military these days does not even require you to be able to do, like, 50 push-ups.

00:18:57.000 So far as I'm aware.

00:18:59.000 And you might have to do that after, like, basic training.

00:19:02.000 And they still can't staff.

00:19:04.000 In August, to combat the worsening recruiting trends, the Army started the Future Soldier Preparatory Course.

00:19:08.000 There, applicants who came up just shy on the body fat or academic standards attend a pre-basic training course for whichever of those two standards they didn't satisfy for enlistment.

00:19:17.000 But that program can only help with part of the worsening recruiting picture.

00:19:21.000 Now again, as society disincentivizes performance, as American society basically becomes fat positive, for example, body positive, you don't actually have to be healthy, as American society says, you demonstrating mentally disordered behavior is not a mental disorder, it's a sign of your emotional health.

00:19:39.000 It's a sign that you are just bucking the trends.

00:19:41.000 And then, as the military starts recruiting directly into those things, It turns out that it's a really shallow pool.

00:19:47.000 The Navy is diving headfirst into an empty pool, the military is diving headfirst into an empty pool, and it's paralyzing the American military. 1.00

00:19:54.000 These are the wages of a society that cripples an entire generation of people and makes them fat, stupid, and mentally ill. 1.00

00:20:02.000 What you end up with is this. 1.00

00:20:04.000 Like, there is no pool for the military.

00:20:06.000 And then when you recruit on the basis of precisely those same ideologies, you end up with nada.

00:20:10.000 You end up with nothing.

00:20:11.000 So good luck to the American military in this way.

00:20:13.000 Honestly, like, I get questions all the time in the mailbag from people who were thinking about joining the military, and they're like, with the way the military is now, with the wokeness and the diversity, equity, inclusion, with the focus on teaching us that men can be women, women can be men, like, should I even join up?

00:20:27.000 And my answer is, I can't make that decision for you.

00:20:29.000 I don't know.

00:20:30.000 I mean, it's an amazing thing if you do.

00:20:32.000 People who serve are doing more than I am, but that doesn't mean that the way that they are approaching the service, in the service, is the right way to do it, obviously, when you're falling short of your recruitment goals by leaps and bounds, and that affects all of us.

00:20:42.000 This is literally the fundamental function of the federal government, is to protect and defend the United States of America, and they can't even do that properly because they're too busy recruiting using a dude wearing fake breasts. 0.53

00:20:54.000 Amazing stuff there from the United States military.

00:20:55.000 Just slow clap for the geniuses at the top right there. 0.99

00:20:59.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we'll get to the crisis in America's southern border, which continues to be a time bomb waiting to explode first.

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00:22:07.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is now deploying 1,500 troops to the southern border.

00:22:11.000 But wait, I thought there was no emergency.

00:22:12.000 Why would he do that?

00:22:13.000 And I don't understand.

00:22:14.000 If there's no emergency, why do we need 1,500 troops on the southern border?

00:22:17.000 According to CNN, the Biden administration is making plans to send an additional 1,500 active duty troops to the US-Mexico border in anticipation of an influx of migrants.

00:22:26.000 When the Title 42 Public Health Authority expires next week, according to sources familiar with planning.

00:22:31.000 The U.S.

00:22:31.000 military has long provided support to the Department of Homeland Security on the border, and a surge of personnel to the area is not unprecedented, says CNN.

00:22:37.000 Currently, there are approximately 2,500 National Guard troops on the border, so they are increasing this by a factor of, what, 40% there?

00:22:43.000 As they've done before, the troops would serve in administrative roles and not perform law enforcement function.

00:22:47.000 The assistance is intended to free up other resources at DHS, so that Customs and Border Protection can go and do their job.

00:22:55.000 On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder confirmed that Lloyd Austin's Defense Secretary had approved the deployment.

00:23:00.000 Apparently, it will be a 90-day deployment.

00:23:03.000 Well, I wonder why they could be doing this.

00:23:05.000 Well, CNN actually did some reporting on what things are like in El Paso.

00:23:08.000 The answer is that there are literally hundreds of illegal immigrants who are just camping on the streets of El Paso.

00:23:13.000 So, again, the Biden administration is doing an amazing job of destroying all integrity in the United States.

00:23:19.000 Cultural, economic, border integrity, gone.

00:23:24.000 It's difficult to describe, Jim, with words, so I want to walk so you can walk with me and just see the magnitude of the number of individuals who are around this church here.

00:23:37.000 A lot of these individuals you'll see are males, adult males.

00:23:43.000 A lot of the women with children are actually in shelters and a network of shelters throughout El Paso.

00:23:49.000 As you mentioned, the city of El Paso, under a state of emergency, they declared a disaster because of the influx.

00:23:56.000 Because they know that once Title 42 lifts, that there is going to be a greater influx of migrants.

00:24:06.000 I mean, that's just, that's incredible.

00:24:08.000 When even CNN is forced to cover the fact that before Title 42 is lifted, there are so many migrants on the streets, they're just crowding street corners at this point.

00:24:16.000 And you can see the pictures.

00:24:17.000 I mean, it's largely young males who presumably are coming for work or because the drug cartels are ferrying them over or whatever.

00:24:24.000 When even CNN is reporting on that.

00:24:26.000 That shows what a crisis this is.

00:24:28.000 And it really is a crisis.

00:24:29.000 Meanwhile, the White House is just playing.

00:24:31.000 They're just pretending that none of this is happening.

00:24:34.000 They're trying to do the Obi-Wan Kenobi old Jedi mind trick right here.

00:24:38.000 You're not seeing what you're seeing.

00:24:39.000 These are not the illegal immigrants you're looking for. 0.97

00:24:42.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary yesterday, saying, you know, Joe Biden's goal on immigration is to do things differently.

00:24:47.000 Do you think?

00:24:48.000 Well, he's doing things differently.

00:24:49.000 All right.

00:24:49.000 He has achieved a decades long high in illegal immigration and encounters at the border in the United States.

00:24:56.000 It's amazing.

00:24:57.000 Great job, guys.

00:24:58.000 The President understands that we need a system, an immigration system, that needs to meet the moment, that's modernized.

00:25:05.000 And one of the things that he's been very clear about, he wants to do this in a humane way, and do it differently than certainly than it was done in the last administration.

00:25:15.000 Oh, they want to do it differently, do they?

00:25:17.000 Well, I mean, they've achieved that, certainly.

00:25:19.000 They've achieved, again, a record number of border crossers in their first couple of years.

00:25:23.000 Meanwhile, Corine Jean-Pierre is accusing Greg Abbott of playing politics by sending illegal immigrants to Democrat-run cities. 0.66

00:25:29.000 Now, I noticed, actually, it's kind of fascinating.

00:25:31.000 They don't seem to care about illegal immigrants being in a Democrat-run city like El Paso.

00:25:36.000 El Paso has a Democratic mayor.

00:25:37.000 They don't care that those cities are flooded by illegal immigrants because they're in Texas, man. 0.98

00:25:42.000 And who cares about Texas?

00:25:43.000 They only care when Greg Abbott sends them to particular Democratic-run cities.

00:25:47.000 So just to get this perfectly clear, if Ron DeSantis sends illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, end of the world.

00:25:52.000 Horrifying.

00:25:53.000 People being sent, being trafficked and ferried to one of the most beautiful places on planet Earth.

00:25:58.000 Terrible.

00:25:58.000 Horrifying.

00:25:59.000 Unthinkable.

00:26:00.000 If Greg Abbott sends people to New York or Chicago, end of world, super bad, very bad.

00:26:06.000 El Paso, Texas is run by a Democrat who currently has declared a state of emergency.

00:26:09.000 They got nothing.

00:26:10.000 They don't care.

00:26:11.000 It doesn't matter.

00:26:11.000 A Democrat getting inundated in Texas is fine.

00:26:14.000 A Democrat getting inundated in Chicago is not fine.

00:26:16.000 I will let you explain the difference.

00:26:17.000 Here's Corrine Jean-Pierre.

00:26:19.000 What is the administration doing to help State and local governments prepare ahead of the expected influx of migrants.

00:26:27.000 So look, it's unfortunate that Governor Abbott continues to play politics with migrants and with the American people.

00:26:36.000 Because what he's doing, that's what it looks like.

00:26:37.000 It looks like a political stunt instead of trying to address the situation or maybe get the congressional members and senators that are in his state to actually ask them to work with us on truly dealing with a problem.

00:26:53.000 You are the federal government.

00:26:54.000 This is your job.

00:26:56.000 This is your job.

00:26:57.000 And again, they don't care about El Paso having to deal with it.

00:26:59.000 It's a Texas problem. 0.62

00:27:01.000 When it goes to Chicago, it suddenly might become a federal problem.

00:27:03.000 Now, Corinne Jean-Pierre the other day just lied outright.

00:27:06.000 Again, she's terrible at her job. 0.91

00:27:07.000 She just lied outright.

00:27:08.000 She was asked about illegal immigration.

00:27:09.000 She said it was down like 90%.

00:27:10.000 And Peter Doocy was like, uh, I'm gonna need you to explain why you lied.

00:27:17.000 When it comes to illegal migration, you've seen it come down by more than 90%.

00:27:22.000 Where did that number come from?

00:27:24.000 Because CBP is telling us the number is... I hear you.

00:27:27.000 I'm about to answer.

00:27:28.000 ...136,000 people more this fiscal year so far.

00:27:30.000 I'm about to answer you.

00:27:32.000 If the dramatics could come down just a little bit.

00:27:34.000 What's dramatic about asking a question about... Okay, I'm going to answer.

00:27:44.000 Okay, first of all, why is she allowed to say that to people? 1.00

00:27:47.000 Serious question.

00:27:49.000 If that were Kayleigh McEnany saying to a Democratic reporter, I'm going to need you to calm down.

00:27:53.000 I'm going to need you to calm down just a little.

00:27:55.000 People would be like, why are you tut-tutting reporters?

00:27:58.000 A reporter is supposed to ask questions.

00:28:00.000 But apparently she's allowed to do it.

00:28:01.000 She's intersectional.

00:28:02.000 Peter Doocy is not.

00:28:02.000 So she's allowed to say, why the dramatics?

00:28:04.000 There's nothing dramatic about the question other than why are you lying?

00:28:07.000 She was lying.

00:28:08.000 She had no basis for that statistic.

00:28:09.000 She just made it up.

00:28:11.000 Then Peter Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre, why are you sending 1,500 troops if everything is totally fine at the border?

00:28:16.000 If the border is secure, as the administration has said, then why would we need to send 1,500 active duty U.S.

00:28:23.000 troops down there?

00:28:25.000 Because we need more work.

00:28:26.000 We need more work needs to be done, Peter.

00:28:28.000 We put forth a comprehensive immigration legislation, and Congress and Republicans in Congress refuse to act. 0.87

00:28:38.000 It's ridiculous.

00:28:39.000 I'm sorry. 0.76

00:28:39.000 It's not about Republicans in Congress refusing to act. 0.76

00:28:40.000 You guys controlled Congress until five seconds ago.

00:28:43.000 You got nothing done on illegal immigration.

00:28:45.000 So, get ready for the time bomb.

00:28:46.000 It's about to explode.

00:28:49.000 Millions and millions and millions of people have already crossed the border under Joe Biden.

00:28:52.000 Again, we have at least 1.3 million gotaways, just people we know got away and are already in the interior.

00:28:58.000 And we've had, since Joe Biden took office, I've seen estimates ranging from like five to six million people who've been accosted at the border and either turned away or then processed and sent into America.

00:29:08.000 These are massive numbers, and that's before Title 42 ended.

00:29:10.000 Title 42 was the provision of law that allowed Border Patrol to just turn people away saying you might have COVID.

00:29:15.000 Now Title 42 no longer applies.

00:29:17.000 We are anticipating at least 10,000 people a day showing up on the southern border.

00:29:22.000 10,000 every single day.

00:29:24.000 10,000 a day.

00:29:26.000 Okay, just to put that in perspective, if you did that for one year, If you did that for one year, 10,000 a day, you would end up with 3,650,000 people crossing the border in one year.

00:29:40.000 In one year.

00:29:42.000 That's insane.

00:29:43.000 And this administration has no plan for it.

00:29:44.000 None.

00:29:44.000 None whatsoever.

00:29:45.000 The only thing they could do is embrace exactly what Donald Trump was doing, but that's exactly what they say they will not do.

00:29:51.000 Again, the priority is pretty obvious.

00:29:53.000 It's why people, you know, when you look at this policy and you say to yourself, why is this happening?

00:29:57.000 There are only two possible explanations.

00:29:59.000 I always say this when it comes to politics. 1.00

00:30:00.000 I like to attribute things to stupidity rather than malice because people are typically stupid rather than malicious. 1.00

00:30:05.000 However, when you have years on end of the same policy being tried over and over and over, You have to start wondering, is the policy failing? 1.00

00:30:13.000 Or is the policy succeeding?

00:30:14.000 Because they wish lots and lots and lots of illegal immigrants to enter the country. 0.99

00:30:19.000 They wish to incentivize people to cross that southern border. 1.00

00:30:22.000 At a certain point, you gotta stop thinking it's stupid. 1.00

00:30:24.000 Like, if it's stupid over and over and over, maybe it's not stupid anymore. 1.00

00:30:27.000 Maybe now it's just malice. 0.99

00:30:28.000 Maybe you guys would like to bring in a bunch of illegal immigrants to the country, undercut the labor base in the United States, by the way, not maintain that border, out of some sort of perverse belief in a borderless world that ends with the destruction of American culture. 0.89

00:30:41.000 Because if you get rid of all borders, then you get rid, inherently, of the culture that exists inside those borders.

00:30:47.000 There's no other way to see that.

00:30:50.000 So what else am I supposed to think when the Democratic Party is attacking American ideals and culture inside the United States and then pretty much opening the border wide to millions of people crossing from south of the border and people disproportionately from areas of the world that have heavy government interventionism and they're used to heavy social benefits.

00:31:11.000 I don't know what else to think of that.

00:31:13.000 Are we supposed to pretend it's not malicious?

00:31:15.000 I need another explanation.

00:31:17.000 Give me an alternative explanation other than malice.

00:31:20.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to more malice this time with regard to the economy.

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00:32:30.000 Also, if we're all made in the image of God, it means there's an ethical and spiritual infrastructure.

00:32:34.000 We're supposed to behave according to the God who made us in his image.

00:32:38.000 These are the sorts of ideas that we discuss in the series that Jordan Peterson just did with a bunch of us on Exodus.

00:32:44.000 Here is a little bit of the trailer.

00:32:46.000 And isn't there's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, The very foundation for that equality in Western culture, the idea that human beings are made in the imago dei, in the image of God, has been lost, of course.

00:33:06.000 So it's almost as if, because of the erosion of this foundation, The drive for equality is stressed all the more.

00:33:15.000 That's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, particularly in Beyond Good and Evil.

00:33:23.000 He said that would be an inevitable consequence.

00:33:27.000 It's a great series.

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00:33:44.000 Now again, when we are looking at the Biden administration and we see that they are achieving a certain result, And it's pretty clear that their policies are achieving that result.

00:33:51.000 And the result is not something that we want, but they keep doing it.

00:33:54.000 You have to start thinking, well, maybe they are achieving the results that they want.

00:33:59.000 The lie of American politics over the course of the last 20 years is that we all want the same thing.

00:34:04.000 This is when I was growing up, this was the line.

00:34:05.000 When I was growing up, the idea was we all wanted a prosperous America that was stronger in the world, that protected its citizenry, and provided you every pathway to opportunity, right?

00:34:13.000 We all wanted that thing, we just disagreed about how to get there.

00:34:15.000 Well, that doesn't seem like that's the case anymore.

00:34:16.000 Certainly, it's not the case on illegal immigration, where the left has facilitated an all-time record in terms of border crossings.

00:34:23.000 It doesn't seem like it's the same thing with the economy either.

00:34:26.000 So, there is a balance to be drawn, obviously, between environmental policy and economic growth in certain areas.

00:34:32.000 There's certainly cases in which there's a tragedy of the commons, where you could theoretically allow, for example, a corporation to pollute a river, but that would really be bad for everybody downriver, and it would be bad for the environment generally, and so you don't let the corporation do it, even if it's profitable.

00:34:46.000 But when you have the Biden administration actively stopping

00:34:50.000 basic industrial development from happening, because of really attenuated environmental damage.

00:34:58.000 Environmental damage they can't really even name the extent of.

00:35:03.000 You have to start thinking, well, maybe they actually don't want the economic development.

00:35:07.000 Maybe the Biden administration sees economic development in certain areas of the country as a completely tertiary priority.

00:35:13.000 It's just something that doesn't matter to them.

00:35:14.000 Economic development matters in Silicon Valley, where all their donors are, or New York, where all their donors are.

00:35:18.000 But economic development, you know, in the boonies, where people are doing fracking, or mining, or people do heavy industry, we don't care about those people.

00:35:25.000 Those people vote for Trump.

00:35:26.000 It's very hard not to see that in the way that Joe Biden is pursuing economic development versus environmentalism.

00:35:31.000 This came to a head yesterday when Josh Hawley was doing a hearing with Deb Haaland.

00:35:34.000 Deb Haaland is Secretary of the Interior.

00:35:36.000 And the question of jobs and the economy came up.

00:35:40.000 According to Mediaite, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday.

00:35:46.000 Josh Hawley grilled her.

00:35:48.000 He began his questioning by saying, I want to come back to this trade-off between energy security and the radical climate change agenda you've endorsed.

00:35:53.000 And then he pointed out, you know, you seem to suggest that we should not be mining for things like lithium ion battery materials, but it's China that's producing that stuff.

00:36:03.000 And it turns out that the global environment is indeed global in nature.

00:36:07.000 And so if there's pollution in China, that still affects everybody in the United States as well.

00:36:11.000 Like the globe is all a sphere, as we have learned.

00:36:15.000 And so why are you doing this?

00:36:16.000 Here's the exchange in Howley and Halland.

00:36:18.000 Yes, near the Boundary Waters, which is an iconic place and, of course, a very valuable ecological system to many plants, animals, species.

00:36:35.000 Let me just say this, though.

00:36:36.000 Jobs for blue-collar workers in this nation are valuable resources.

00:36:43.000 The livelihood and well-being of American families are valuable resources.

00:36:48.000 Why should those things for millions of Americans be sacrificed in favor of your agenda for radical climate change?

00:36:58.000 Senator, I know that there's like 1.9 jobs for every American in the country right now, so I know there's a lot of jobs.

00:37:07.000 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:37:09.000 You're telling me...

00:37:11.000 You're telling me we've got too many jobs in the country?

00:37:13.000 And so Helen tries to say, no, no, I just mean that there are a lot of open jobs. And Helen's

00:37:18.000 like, yes, but not the jobs for the blue collar people.

00:37:20.000 Like, are you trying to pretend that we have a surplus of jobs in blue collar areas? And then he

00:37:25.000 talks about the fact that we've offshored a lot of those sorts of jobs specifically because of the

00:37:29.000 environmental regulations pursued by the left. Helen then suggested that

00:37:33.000 that she had opened all sorts of mining applications and he said,

00:37:35.000 you're moving backward.

00:37:36.000 You're shutting down and denying permits for mines in this country

00:37:38.000 where we can develop our own resources.

00:37:39.000 You're shutting down oil and natural gas permits.

00:37:41.000 You're approving taxes and royalties that deliberately suppress

00:37:43.000 American energy development in favor of a climate change agenda.

00:37:47.000 That of course is exactly right.

00:37:49.000 That's exactly right.

00:37:52.000 But again, that is the agenda.

00:37:53.000 That's just something that we are all supposed to go along with because the environmental agenda, the global agenda of this administration is very clear.

00:38:01.000 There are certain types of economic growth, certain types of economic prosperity that Joe Biden is fine with, namely his friends in the banking industry.

00:38:08.000 There are certain types that he's not so okay with.

00:38:10.000 That would be like people in the mining industry, people in the natural gas.

00:38:13.000 What would be the difference between those two groups of people?

00:38:15.000 Could it be the political orientation of the people at the banks?

00:38:17.000 And that many of those people are working hand-in-glove with the government in a way that natural gas and mining producers are not?

00:38:23.000 Then maybe the people who are most in the pockets of the Democratic Party are the people who Joe Biden is most likely to help?

00:38:29.000 I mean, right now, there is the consolidation in the banking industry that is happening as a direct result, a direct result of the inflationary policy followed by the interest rate increases of the Biden administration is leading to mass bank consolidation under the auspices of major organizations that tend to work very, very well with Democrats in power.

00:38:47.000 According to CNBC, yesterday, regional bank stocks fell sharply.

00:38:51.000 Shares of PacWest fell nearly 28% on Tuesday.

00:38:54.000 It was on track for its fourth straight negative session.

00:38:55.000 The stock was halted for volatility multiple times.

00:38:59.000 The California-based bank was not the only regional lender under pressure.

00:39:01.000 Shares of Western Alliance dropped 15%.

00:39:03.000 SPDR, S&P Regional Banking, sank 6.3%.

00:39:07.000 Now, remember, the JPMorgan Chase purchase of First Republic that was facilitated by the federal government, it was supposed to end all these sorts of runs on the banks.

00:39:14.000 It's not doing any of that sort of stuff because everybody instead is saying, wait a second.

00:39:18.000 I've noticed that the federal government is only filling in the big players.

00:39:21.000 So if you're a smaller player, the federal government will not fill you in.

00:39:23.000 They'll just facilitate your sale.

00:39:26.000 The reason for Tuesday's declines were not immediately clear, according to CNBC.

00:39:29.000 JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday the initial phase of the regional bank crisis was over.

00:39:34.000 Well, I noticed that it isn't.

00:39:35.000 I noticed that it isn't.

00:39:36.000 And one of the reasons it's not is because we have to keep hiking those interest rates.

00:39:40.000 So again, at a certain point you have to ask, is the Biden administration incompetent?

00:39:44.000 Or are they achieving what they seek?

00:39:45.000 Namely, they inflated the currency.

00:39:47.000 By inflating the currency, they got to pretend that the economy was going great guns, even though it was actually stagnating under their watch.

00:39:53.000 But inflation masks that.

00:39:55.000 And then they had to raise those interest rates.

00:39:57.000 The Fed had to raise the interest rates in order to cramp the inflation.

00:40:01.000 And in the process, it's bankrupting regional banks.

00:40:03.000 And that's leading to precisely the sort of consolidation of the banks that Joe Biden and company are actually quite fond of.

00:40:10.000 Meanwhile, other members of the Democratic Party are saying that we actually have to stop those rate hikes.

00:40:14.000 So here's Brendan Boyle, Democrat of Pennsylvania.

00:40:16.000 He says, you know, the Federal Reserve is raising rates again.

00:40:17.000 He says, nah, we need to stop all this.

00:40:19.000 We have to stop raising the rates.

00:40:20.000 Well, if you stop raising the rates, then the inflation runs away.

00:40:23.000 They've put themselves in a box of their own making, but it does achieve certain long-term goals for them, namely consolidation of industry in fewer and fewer hands that you can then use government to help facilitate and manipulate.

00:40:38.000 And it leads to, again, more government control of the currency, which of course is the goal.

00:40:41.000 Here is Brendan Boyle yesterday.

00:40:44.000 I did.

00:40:44.000 By their own measures.

00:40:44.000 that the Fed should back off now, given all the other countervailing pressure?

00:40:49.000 Or should you guys butt out of what the Fed has to do, it believes, to stop inflation?

00:40:53.000 By their own measures.

00:40:56.000 They are going to cause unemployment as a result of what they're doing, an increase

00:41:00.000 in unemployment for which they have no real response.

00:41:04.000 So I believe a pause here is appropriate.

00:41:06.000 We still, as we've been reminded today, don't know the full extent of the banking crisis.

00:41:12.000 So I think a pause would be a wise decision.

00:41:15.000 We do not want to have a mistake of going so extreme in the rate hikes that we end up bringing about a recession that is completely unnecessary.

00:41:26.000 So, again, it's all about the control.

00:41:28.000 Speaking of the control, you know one thing the Biden administration could do to bring down inflation?

00:41:33.000 You know one thing they could stop spending?

00:41:35.000 They could cut a deal to lower the amount of spending that they are injecting in the American economy that would help bring down inflation.

00:41:40.000 Are they doing any of that?

00:41:40.000 No!

00:41:41.000 They won't even negotiate over the debt ceiling.

00:41:43.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden came out and he said, he'll talk about the budget with Republicans, but he's not going to negotiate over the debt ceiling.

00:41:48.000 According to Reuters, Biden will not negotiate over the debt ceiling during his meeting with four top congressional leaders on May 9th.

00:41:53.000 He will discuss starting a separate budget process to start talking about spending priorities.

00:41:57.000 So in other words, I'm going to demand that you increase the debt ceiling today, and then I'm going to pretend that we will talk about lowering the budget, but I'm not lowering the budget.

00:42:05.000 Biden on Monday summoned the four Senate and House representative leaders to the White House next week after the U.S.

00:42:09.000 Treasury warned the government could run short of cash to pay its bills as soon as June 1st.

00:42:13.000 And then White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, she said the only practical path forward is to suspend the debt limit unconditionally, which again means really forever is what they would like.

00:42:22.000 They don't want to have this fight over and over.

00:42:24.000 They just want to be able to spend whatever they want to spend without ever having to go to Congress for permission to borrow more money.

00:42:30.000 It is Congress's constitutional duty to prevent default.

00:42:34.000 This is not an issue that we will negotiate on.

00:42:38.000 The debt limit was increased three times under President Trump.

00:42:42.000 It should be no different this time.

00:42:44.000 Given the limited time Congress now has, it is clear that the only practical path to avoid default is for Congress to suspend the debt limit without conditions.

00:42:59.000 Well, I mean, that's amazing.

00:43:00.000 So in the middle of an inflationary spiral, and you will not even negotiate on the possibility of lowering spending in exchange for a debt ceiling increase.

00:43:07.000 And then they have the gall, by the way, to tell us that this is about not being deadbeat.

00:43:10.000 You are deadbeat.

00:43:10.000 You keep taking out further credit cards just because you have the ability to keep taking out further credit cards does not mean that anyone thinks that the United States is creditworthy in 30 years.

00:43:20.000 And all that's going to happen here is that we'll keep taking out credit and credit and credit and credit until we hit a cliff.

00:43:24.000 It's happened with pretty much every country that runs up their credit card too high, whether you're talking about Greece, whether you're talking about Spain.

00:43:30.000 It's going to happen in the United States, too.

00:43:31.000 It's just a matter of time.

00:43:32.000 But here is the White House's Heather Boushey, who is on their Council of Economic Advisors, saying that the U.S., we have to stop this.

00:43:39.000 We cannot.

00:43:40.000 We cannot become a deadbeat nation.

00:43:43.000 Heather, there have been cases in the past when Biden was a senator that spending reduction reforms were enacted by Congress that were bipartisan, they were attached to legislation that raised the debt ceiling, and Senator Biden voted for that four times himself.

00:43:58.000 Well, certainly.

00:43:59.000 And, you know, Speaker McCarthy voted three times under the prior administration for a clean debt limit.

00:44:04.000 Where this economy is right now, and given where Congress is, the President continues to believe that that is the right course of action.

00:44:11.000 It is what he has called for.

00:44:13.000 As he has said repeatedly, the U.S.

00:44:15.000 should not become a deadbeat nation.

00:44:18.000 Oh, deadbeat nation.

00:44:19.000 Yeah, so we'll just keep spending.

00:44:20.000 That's the best way to avoid becoming deadbeat, is to keep spending.

00:44:23.000 That's really the issue.

00:44:24.000 So speaking of the debt limit, the fact is that Congress is given the power of the purse and they are supposed to control how much debt the United States can take out, but the Biden...

00:44:33.000 Administration, they are now considering the possibility of simply saying that the debt limit itself is unconstitutional.

00:44:38.000 According to the New York Times, a standoff between House Republicans and President Biden over raising the nation's borrowing limit has administration officials debating what to do if the government runs out of cash to pay its bills, including one option that previous administrations had deemed unthinkable.

00:44:50.000 That option is effectively a constitutional challenge to the debt limit.

00:44:53.000 Under the theory, the government would be required by the 14th Amendment to continue issuing new debt to pay bondholders, Social Security recipients, government employees, and others, even if Congress fails to lift the limit before the so-called X date.

00:45:03.000 That theory rests on the 14th Amendment Clause stating, the validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection and rebellion, shall not be questioned.

00:45:14.000 Well, what that meant is that the states could not question the validity of national debts incurred and then refuse to commit and then refuse to remit taxes to the federal government.

00:45:23.000 That's what that meant.

00:45:24.000 And now they're trying to say that Congress doesn't have the power to prevent the executive branch from simply taking out more debt. 0.94

00:45:30.000 That's ridiculous.

00:45:32.000 Top economic and legal officials at the White House, Treasury Department, and Justice Department have made that theory a subject of intense and unresolved debate in recent months. 0.62

00:45:38.000 So, if it comes right down to it, we'll do what we always do in this country, and the President will just do whatever the hell that he wants.

00:45:44.000 Meanwhile...

00:45:46.000 Kevin McCarthy may be making some headway with some congressional Democrats.

00:45:49.000 Maybe some are in purple districts and they are kind of concerned about their futures.

00:45:53.000 Maybe they don't really wish to vote down a debt ceiling bill that makes fairly minor cuts.

00:45:58.000 I mean, we're talking about cuts back to 2022 levels, guys.

00:46:00.000 We're not talking about cuts back to 2005 levels.

00:46:01.000 In 2022.

00:46:05.000 According to Politico, McCarthy has put forward a few proposals that could peel off a few Democrats.

00:46:09.000 One of those would be an attempt to streamline permitting rules on energy, which obviously would be aimed at lawmakers in places like Michigan or Pennsylvania or West Virginia.

00:46:20.000 Also, the House Republicans have put in their debt ceiling bill work requirements on food assistance programs.

00:46:27.000 There are certain people like Joe Manchin who are warm on this.

00:46:29.000 When it comes to spending caps, The House Debt Limit Bill would cap spending at $1.47 trillion for the upcoming fiscal year, rolling back the clock by two years on federal funding levels, and then, for a decade, funding would be allowed to grow by 1% every year.

00:46:42.000 A slew of moderate Democrats keep pretending that they're for fiscal restraint, this would actually call them on it, and they would end student loan relief.

00:46:48.000 Manchin, for example, is a supporter of ending the student loan relief, but There is no solution in the Senate, according to Politico.

00:46:57.000 Apparently, congressional leaders are digging in ahead of next week's White House meeting on the debt limit.

00:47:01.000 House Democrats are prepping a Hail Mary.

00:47:03.000 Republicans wait on Joe Biden to meet them at the table.

00:47:06.000 House Democrats are apparently going to attempt an end-around.

00:47:10.000 Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, told his caucus in a Tuesday letter he's pursuing a so-called discharge petition on a standalone debt limit hike.

00:47:18.000 That petition allows any bill to come to the House floor with the signatures of a simple majority of members.

00:47:22.000 That would mean that Republicans would have to defect.

00:47:24.000 Good luck on that one.

00:47:24.000 It's not going to happen.

00:47:26.000 Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer says he's not going to negotiate.

00:47:29.000 He's just going to sit there and do nothing, apparently. 0.95

00:47:32.000 Now, of course, that's ridiculous. 0.99

00:47:33.000 He should sit down. 0.95

00:47:34.000 He should talk.

00:47:36.000 But this is a risky business and Schumer apparently thinks that his reliance on the media to get them through it will win.

00:47:41.000 Now, let's assume that the debt ceiling is hit for a second.

00:47:43.000 Let's assume that we got there.

00:47:45.000 Are the American public going to blame the Republicans for saying we wish to lower the spending by this much?

00:47:49.000 Or are they going to blame the Democrats for saying we can't lower the spending at all in the middle of an inflationary spiral?

00:47:54.000 So, I think this is one of those rare times where if Republicans who have put forward what seems to be a fairly realistic bill in the House, if Republicans hold to their guns and they say, listen, We need you to cut something.

00:48:05.000 Like your position that you will not negotiate at all is unreasonable.

00:48:09.000 I think the Democrats pay the price.

00:48:10.000 It is Joe Biden who is the president.

00:48:11.000 It is Joe Biden who will be held responsible for a failing economy.

00:48:15.000 People are not going to turn on a Republican Congress for Joe Biden failing to actually negotiate at all.

00:48:20.000 Which is why I think, in the end, Joe Biden will negotiate.

00:48:23.000 Nobody's gonna get what they want.

00:48:25.000 This bill will not end up being what Republicans want it to be, but Democrats are very likely to end up at the negotiating table because, again, if Joe Biden's position is, I'm not negotiating at all, nada, I think the American people blame him.

00:48:36.000 I think that's how this goes.

00:48:37.000 You know who knows that math?

00:48:38.000 It's Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader.

00:48:40.000 He says, I'm backing Kevin McCarthy in this play.

00:48:43.000 Are you ruling out getting involved at all?

00:48:46.000 What I'm saying is, The conditions for reaching an agreement change depending upon the nature of the bodies.

00:48:57.000 Many people point back to 10 years ago when President Biden and I were involved in reaching an agreement.

00:49:03.000 That was a different set of players than we have today.

00:49:06.000 It should be clear to the administration that the Senate is not a relevant player this time.

00:49:11.000 They have got to have a measure that can pass the House.

00:49:15.000 How does it pass the House?

00:49:16.000 It has to have the support of the Speaker, and I'm behind the Speaker.

00:49:22.000 So the reason McConnell is saying that is because, of course, he knows that the blame is going to rest with the Democrats for failing to negotiate at all.

00:49:28.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to wander around the world, not knowing where he is.

00:49:32.000 Yesterday, for some odd reason, he told a White House guest to hush up, boy.

00:49:35.000 I don't know why he would do this, but neither does he, so that puts us in the same boat.

00:49:39.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday.

00:49:41.000 Hey, Judge, how are you?

00:49:45.000 I don't know why you wanted the job, man.

00:49:49.000 I appoint all those federal judges, but, you know, thank you for serving.

00:49:52.000 I'm not kidding.

00:49:55.000 You want to come and make a speech?

00:50:00.000 Hush up, boy.

00:50:00.000 As my mother would say.

00:50:05.000 I like how he tries to fill that back in.

00:50:07.000 As my mother would say.

00:50:08.000 Because he realizes that saying, hush up boy, to people of minority status is a little, a little racist. 1.00

00:50:14.000 Meanwhile, again, Joe Biden continues to just be a garbage bag of a candidate. 0.98

00:50:18.000 There's a piece from Politico that is truly astonishing today. 0.95

00:50:21.000 It's called, How Joe Biden Helped Joe Get to Yes on Running for Re-Election at 80.

00:50:25.000 She is the not-so-secret weapon behind her husband. 1.00

00:50:26.000 And unlike four years ago, she didn't have reservations before he chose to run.

00:50:29.000 So there are two ways to read this story.

00:50:31.000 One is, Joe Biden loves her husband so much that she really just wants him to continue being president.

00:50:35.000 The other is, Joe Biden's the actual president, and she can't be president unless Joe Biden is president.

00:50:39.000 She's Edith Wilson.

00:50:41.000 The Politico story, despite its attempts to make Jill Biden into the heroine of this story, reads a lot more like the latter.

00:50:46.000 Quote, Four years ago, Jill Biden was hesitant about her husband making a White House run, fearing the toll it could take on him and the family.

00:50:52.000 In the months before Joe Biden formally announced he'd make a re-election bid, she had no such reservations.

00:50:56.000 Privately, the first lady encouraged her husband to run again, while giving him the space he needed to process the decision in the way he traditionally does, with extensive deliberations, consideration of the burden it would place on his family, and a classic bit of Biden hemming and hawing.

00:51:08.000 She was involved in all high-level discussions around the decision, giving counsel when she felt it was necessary.

00:51:14.000 She's usually in the room when senior campaign staff are presenting strategy to her husband.

00:51:17.000 She will ask questions, but she never weighs in on the decisions, said a former senior Biden advisor.

00:51:21.000 Uh, no, she definitely does. 0.92

00:51:22.000 Her gentle encouragement of her husband's re-election run comes as she's relishing her role, hanging out at the Super Bowl and the Women's Final Four, actively posting on social media.

00:51:30.000 There is nothing secret about the role she's playing!

00:51:32.000 Yeah, I noticed, because she's actually the president at this point. 0.98

00:51:35.000 Joe Biden is not capable of going to the bathroom alone.

00:51:38.000 Now Hunter Biden, he put in his parental support documents, he's trying to ditch his four-year-old daughter, the one he had with the stripper.

00:51:45.000 He's trying to pretend that she doesn't exist, and he's trying to cut down on his child support payments.

00:51:48.000 And he's claiming that while he was in Ireland, he slept in a cot in a room with his dad.

00:51:52.000 There are two ways to read it.

00:51:53.000 Either he couldn't afford a room for himself, or the Biden family is putting somebody in the room with daddy because daddy can't handle himself.

00:52:00.000 That may be one of the issues here.

00:52:02.000 Meanwhile, speaking of Hunter Biden's kid, this is pretty amazing.

00:52:04.000 Remember Joe Biden?

00:52:05.000 He's a genteel elderly fellow who really loves kids.

00:52:09.000 I mean, maybe sniffs them a little bit weird and too much, but loves kids.

00:52:13.000 Remember Joe Biden said they're all our kids?

00:52:15.000 There's one kid who's not his kid, and that would be his grandkid.

00:52:18.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre asking questions about Hunter's kid, who has been basically thrown out of the family.

00:52:23.000 I wanted to ask about the trial going on in Arkansas with Hunter Biden and the child support.

00:52:27.000 Are the president and first lady monitoring that?

00:52:30.000 And how come they haven't acknowledged the seven grandchild?

00:52:33.000 I'm not going to speak to that from here.

00:52:37.000 And then she's so irritated.

00:52:38.000 I'm not going to speak to that from here.

00:52:39.000 I'm not.

00:52:39.000 Well, maybe Joe should speak to it.

00:52:42.000 I mean, he literally is unpersoning his own grandchild.

00:52:45.000 That doesn't seem like a very compassionate and wonderful thing to do, to be honest with you.

00:52:48.000 Okay, well, you know, this is a person who could be beat. 0.97

00:52:51.000 His policies stink.

00:52:53.000 In order to beat him, you have to run a candidate who's going to win.

00:52:55.000 I can't emphasize it too much.

00:52:56.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then we'll get to some things that I hate.

00:53:00.000 So, things that I like today.

00:53:02.000 I do love that the Biden administration pretends that they have standards, and then they immediately violate the standards.

00:53:06.000 It's really fun.

00:53:07.000 So remember, there was a guy named T.J.

00:53:08.000 Ducklow.

00:53:09.000 He was, um, ousted from the White House after he made threatening and abusive remarks to a then-Politico reporter.

00:53:16.000 Now, he's back.

00:53:18.000 Because there is no exile in Washington, D.C.

00:53:20.000 of a Democrat that will not end at some point.

00:53:22.000 According to Politico, T.J.

00:53:23.000 Ducklow is on the cusp of officially re-entering Biden world in a senior communications role on his re-election campaign.

00:53:28.000 More than two years after he resigned under pressure, after he abused a then-Politico reporter, many of his former colleagues are rallying around him.

00:53:34.000 They praise him as a loyal, talented operative who's paid for his mistake.

00:53:38.000 Others, however, are not.

00:53:39.000 Michael La Rosa, former press secretary for first lady Joe Biden said,

00:53:42.000 it's hard to believe that in the post-MeToo anti-bullying world we live in,

00:53:45.000 the president's team would be this tone deaf.

00:53:47.000 If true, represents a stunning lack of judgment by those whom he entrusted to

00:53:50.000 responsibly staff his re-election campaign.

00:53:52.000 But of course, it's not shocking at all coming from Joe Biden.

00:53:56.000 The simple fact of the matter is that all the standards that Joe Biden purports to uphold with regard to gentility and decency, he is willing to ditch at the first available opportunity, and T.J.

00:54:04.000 Ducklow is just the latest example of this.

00:54:09.000 So, again, I root for reality, and reality is now setting in in San Francisco, where Nordstrom is planning to close both of its downtown San Francisco stores.

00:54:17.000 It's not renewing its lease obligations in Westfield Mall.

00:54:20.000 It's also going to close a second nearby downtown Nordstrom Rack, as according to the San Francisco Standard.

00:54:24.000 The retailer confirmed the closures on Tuesday.

00:54:26.000 Why?

00:54:26.000 quote, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past

00:54:30.000 several years impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.

00:54:35.000 What exactly happened?

00:54:36.000 Well, it turns out that there's a deteriorating situation in downtown San Francisco.

00:54:39.000 quote, a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions

00:54:43.000 for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues

00:54:47.000 are preventing an economic recovery of the area.

00:54:49.000 The Mo owner went on to say it had expressed serious concerns

00:54:51.000 to city leaders for years and, quote, urged the city to find solutions to the key issues

00:54:55.000 and lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity.

00:54:58.000 So here is a list of Union Square area store closures since 2020 alone.

00:55:06.000 May 2023, Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack sacks fifth off.

00:55:10.000 April 2023, Anthropology and Office Depot.

00:55:12.000 March 2023, Amazon Go and ArcDirect.

00:55:15.000 February 2023, The Real Real.

00:55:17.000 January 2023, CB2, Banana Republic, and Athleta.

00:55:19.000 Okay, that's just since January.

00:55:22.000 All of those are closing in the same area.

00:55:24.000 Why?

00:55:24.000 Well, maybe it's because the city of San Francisco refuses to crack down on crime and homelessness.

00:55:29.000 And the result is that these stores are no longer profitable.

00:55:32.000 So, slow clap for the geniuses in San Francisco.

00:55:34.000 So tolerant of everything up to and including crime.

00:55:37.000 Not so much of business.

00:55:38.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:55:44.000 So the rule when it comes to protest these days, or riots, you might call it, or trespass, or insurrection.

00:55:50.000 If you're a leftist, engage in an insurrection, by which I mean a storming of a state capitol building in violation of the law.

00:55:56.000 If you are one of those people, then you are a hero of the republic.

00:55:59.000 So trans activists have now made it their business to essentially occupy pretty much every state capitol in which legislators are attempting to stop the genital and hormonal mutilation of children. 0.73

00:56:08.000 Trans activists did this most lately at the Texas state capitol.

00:56:10.000 Here's some video.

00:56:11.000 Here are the trans activists occupying that upper part of the chamber.

00:56:25.000 you.

00:56:26.000 They're about to be removed.

00:56:29.000 And there they are.

00:56:32.000 Just a wonderful group of humans.

00:56:36.000 Their sign says, why are you obsessed with me?

00:56:39.000 No one cares about you.

00:56:41.000 No one's obsessed with you. 0.91

00:56:42.000 No one wants you mutilating children.

00:56:44.000 That seems to really be the question.

00:56:46.000 But the way that the media treat this stuff is, this is heroism.

00:56:48.000 Again, it's heroism when Democrats do it, when Republicans do it, it's insurrection punishable by years in jail.

00:56:52.000 Okay, other things that I hate today.

00:56:54.000 One more thing I hate.

00:56:55.000 According to Yahoo News, a transgender state lawmaker in Minnesota introduced a measure that would remove language from the state's Human Rights Act that currently declares pedophiles are not included in protections based on sexual orientation.

00:57:08.000 The proposed language has shocked and bewildered Republicans.

00:57:10.000 The bill's author says this doesn't weaken pedophilia laws.

00:57:12.000 It's something called the Take Pride Act. 0.68

00:57:14.000 It was introduced earlier this year by State Representative Leigh Fink, a member of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party and the first transgender legislator in Minnesota House history.

00:57:21.000 The bill would amend Minnesota's Human Rights Act, which is described by the state as one of the strongest civil rights acts in the country.

00:57:27.000 The current Human Rights Act protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation,

00:57:31.000 defined as, quote, having or being perceived as having an emotional, physical, or sexual

00:57:35.000 attachment to another person without regard to the sex of that person, or having or being perceived

00:57:38.000 as having an orientation for such attachment, or having or being perceived as having a self-image

00:57:42.000 or identity not traditionally associated with one's biological maleness or femaleness.

00:57:47.000 And then there's a specific carve-out saying, sexual orientation does not include a physical

00:57:51.000 or sexual attachment to children by an adult. Finke wants to remove that.

00:57:56.000 So now, presumably, sexual orientation could cover physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.

00:58:04.000 Well, that's creepy and weird.

00:58:07.000 Finkie said that this would just update outdated language that incorrectly ties pedophilia to a person's sexual orientation.

00:58:12.000 It's precisely the opposite.

00:58:14.000 It specifically says that sexual orientation does not include pedophilia.

00:58:17.000 And you want to remove that.

00:58:19.000 So, um, that's weird and strange and creepy.

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