The Ben Shapiro Show - October 25, 2023


F*** The United Nations

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres takes the floor of the United Nation s General Assembly to blame Israel for the murder of 1,500 of its own citizens and the kidnapping of another 200. This is an apology for terrorism. It ignores reality. It lays the blame for a genocidal mass slaughter of Jews on Jews. And that is par for the course for the evil organization that is the UN General Assembly. The United Nation is a garbage heap of epic proportions. It is an epic failure of an organization that provides cover for the world s worst human rights abusers and actively foments Jew hatred and Jew murder in the Middle East. The U.N. General Assembly is dominated by nations who hate Israel and care little for human rights, which is why from 2015 to 2022, the UNGA adopted 140 resolutions against Israel. It adopted one against North Korea, one against Venezuela, zero against Iran, zero for China, and zero against the United Arab Emirates. The end goal is obvious: Stop Israel from defending itself. Perpetuate the cycle of violence against the Jewish state. Make it harder for Israel to survive. And a two-state solution with whom? Pray tell? With Hamas? With the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority? Who signed checks to the people who murdered 1, 500 Jews? To Islamic Jihad? Who doesn t matter? And that s the end goal? Which makes sense, doesn t it? Which is obvious? The end-goal is to stop Israel from surviving? And make it hard for it to survive? And to perpetuate the so-called "peace and stability in the region? And a cycle of conflict? And what does that mean, you ask the world? But it means that the world has served as the propaganda arm of anti-Semitism? It means that all over the globe for decades, has been a propaganda arm for Jew haters? And that the U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moyan to declare that the UN has made the world a good ol' bad guy? This means that it has been evil. And it means it has made a great deal of evil. And it has served up anti-Semitic propaganda for Jew-haters, right and bad. . And that has been good at making evil, right, right? And has been bad at it? And it s good at being evil at its job, right here, right there, right at home, right in front of us?

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00:00:00.000 Yesterday, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, took the floor of the United Nations to blame Israel for the murder of 1,500 of its own citizens and the kidnapping of another 200 plus.
00:00:11.000 Here is what he had to say.
00:00:13.000 Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians or the launching of rockets against civilian targets.
00:00:23.000 All hostages must be treated humanely and released immediately and without conditions.
00:00:28.000 And I respectfully note the presence among us of members of their families.
00:00:35.000 Excellencies, It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.
00:00:43.000 The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.
00:00:50.000 This is, simply put, Jew hatred. 0.98
00:00:53.000 Full stop, Jew hatred. 0.99
00:00:55.000 It is apology for terrorism. 0.98
00:00:57.000 It ignores reality.
00:00:58.000 The vast majority of Palestinians live under the direct Palestinian rule, whether Hamas in the Gaza Strip or the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
00:01:04.000 But worse than that, it reverses reality.
00:01:07.000 It lays the blame for a genocidal mass slaughter of Jews on Jews.
00:01:12.000 Contextualizing mass murder, of course, is par for the course for the evil organization that is the United Nations.
00:01:17.000 And the United Nations is, in fact, an evil organization, as we'll discuss in a moment.
00:01:21.000 Gutierrez didn't stop there.
00:01:22.000 He blamed Hamas's perversities on settlements, meaning Jews building homes in the heartland of biblical Israel, Judea, and Samaria.
00:01:28.000 Clearly, this somehow contextualizes mass rape and burning of babies.
00:01:32.000 He then drew equivalence between Hamas's Holocaust-level atrocities and Israel's military retaliation directed against Hamas.
00:01:41.000 Excellencies, even war has rules.
00:01:45.000 The relentless bombardment of Gaza by Israeli forces, the level of civilian casualties and the wholesale destruction of neighbourhoods continue to mount and are deeply alarming.
00:01:57.000 Protecting civilians can never mean using them as human shields.
00:02:04.000 Protecting civilians does not mean ordering more than one million people to evacuate to the South, where there is no shelter, no food, no water, no medicine and no fuel, and then continuing to bomb the South itself.
00:02:17.000 I am deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza.
00:02:26.000 Yes, this is the supposed head of the international community likening military operations to kill terrorists to terrorist operations attempting to kill civilians.
00:02:34.000 All in the name of international law and human rights. 0.98
00:02:37.000 These are lies, and they are disgusting lies. 0.90
00:02:39.000 And that's the point. 0.89
00:02:40.000 If Gutierrez and the international community can somehow equate Israel with its terrorist enemies, they can achieve their actual goal, which is the survival of the terrorist group Hamas. 0.50
00:02:50.000 Once again, that is precisely what Gutierrez called for.
00:02:53.000 To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer, and facilitate the release of hostages, I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
00:03:07.000 Excellencies, Even in this moment of grave and immediate danger, we cannot lose sight of the only realistic foundation for a true peace and stability.
00:03:17.000 A two-state solution.
00:03:21.000 The humanitarian ceasefire would of course benefit Hamas and leave Hamas in place. 0.88
00:03:25.000 And a two-state solution with whom?
00:03:27.000 Pray tell.
00:03:27.000 With Hamas?
00:03:28.000 With the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority who signed checks to the people who murdered 1,500 Jews?
00:03:35.000 To Islamic Jihad? 0.80
00:03:36.000 Doesn't matter.
00:03:37.000 The end goal is obvious.
00:03:38.000 Stop Israel from defending itself. 0.87
00:03:40.000 Perpetuate the so-called cycle of violence.
00:03:42.000 Make it harder for Israel to survive. 0.98
00:03:44.000 Continue the UN's mission to destroy the Jewish state. 1.00
00:03:47.000 The United Nations is a garbage heap of epic proportions. 1.00
00:03:50.000 It's not merely a useless organization that costs the United States over $12 billion every year. 1.00
00:03:55.000 It's an epic failure of an organization that provides cover for the world's worst human rights abusers and actively foments Jew hatred and Jew murder in the Middle East. 0.99
00:04:03.000 The United Nations General Assembly is dominated by nations who hate Israel and care little for human rights, which is why from 2015 to 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted 140 resolutions against Israel.
00:04:14.000 It adopted one against North Korea, one against Afghanistan, zero against Venezuela, zero against Hamas, zero against China.
00:04:22.000 In fact, the entire rest of the world combined merited a grand total of 68 resolutions of condemnation.
00:04:29.000 Israel supposedly merited 140.
00:04:31.000 The U.N.' 's particular hatred for Israel has been a long-running theme.
00:04:34.000 Which, of course, makes sense.
00:04:35.000 Some 56 member nations are also members of the so-called Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the vast majority of which are directed overtly against Israel.
00:04:43.000 But it means that the U.N.
00:04:44.000 has served as the propaganda arm for Jew haters all over the globe for decades.
00:04:47.000 In 1975, at the behest of the Soviet Union, for example, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism, the political movement for a Jewish homeland, racism, prompting the U.S.
00:04:56.000 ambassador to the U.N., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to declare that the U.N.
00:04:59.000 had made anti-Semitism international law.
00:05:02.000 Moynihan added, a great evil has been loosed upon the world.
00:05:05.000 Nothing in the nature of the UN has changed since.
00:05:07.000 The United Nations has an entire department dedicated to forwarding
00:05:10.000 anti-Israel propaganda and terrorism.
00:05:12.000 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was founded in December 1949
00:05:16.000 with the purpose of dealing with refugees from the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.
00:05:20.000 Arab refugees, that is.
00:05:21.000 The 800,000 Jews expelled from Arab and Muslim lands in the same time period, those people were simply taken in by Israel.
00:05:27.000 The Arab nations, of course, took in none of the Palestinian refugees.
00:05:30.000 The UNRWA is, in fact, the only agency at the UN dedicated to one specific population, and it has helped keep that population in refugee camps for 70 years.
00:05:40.000 The UNRWA is almost entirely staffed by members of the Palestinian-Arab community.
00:05:44.000 It is, in fact, a globally-sponsored welfare organization with 23,000 Palestinian-Arab employees and just 100 UN professionals from elsewhere.
00:05:52.000 It is not a UN organization.
00:05:53.000 It is a make-work organization that works very, very closely with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Palestinian Authority.
00:05:59.000 The UNRWA has never condemned Hamas' agenda.
00:06:01.000 It routinely hires members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
00:06:05.000 One of the UNRWA's chief tasks is running dozens of Palestinian schools.
00:06:09.000 The UNRWA, as you might predict, then helps indoctrinate Palestinian Arab schoolchildren in Jew hatred. 0.92
00:06:14.000 According to a March report from United Nations Watch, the UNRWA has overseen the broad indoctrination of Palestinian youths into toxic and vile anti-Semitism.
00:06:22.000 That report names 47 cases of incitement to violence by UNRWA staff.
00:06:27.000 133 UNRWA educators and staff who promote hate and violence on social media, and another 82 educators and staff involved in 30 UNRWA schools who create and distribute Jew-hating content to students.
00:06:39.000 For example, one reading comprehension exercise for 9th graders at Alt-Magazi Middle School for Boys in the Gaza Strip celebrates the burning of a Jewish bus as quote, a barbecue party.
00:06:49.000 5th graders at that same UN school were taught that martyrdom and jihad are quote, the most important meanings of life.
00:06:54.000 This sort of stuff is not uncommon by any stretch of the imagination in Palestinian schools run by the UNRWA, which is why Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, is a UNRWA graduate.
00:07:05.000 So is Abd al-Raziz al-Rantisi, the former Hamas chief.
00:07:07.000 So is Ibrahim Makadama, the mastermind behind Hamas's military structure.
00:07:11.000 UNRWA resources are also dedicated to helping terrorist groups more directly.
00:07:15.000 UNRWA vehicles have been used to transport terrorists and weapons.
00:07:19.000 That includes ambulances.
00:07:20.000 UNRWA schools have been used by Hamas to store weapons.
00:07:23.000 The UNRWA also helps promote Hamas front groups, including the Palestinian Return Center.
00:07:27.000 The UNRWA has been used by Hamas to cover its tunnels.
00:07:30.000 Last November, the UNRWA, in a rare admission, protested the, quote, man-made cavity on the grounds of a UNRWA school.
00:07:37.000 That's the euphemism that they use.
00:07:38.000 Man-made cavity, not terror tunnel.
00:07:40.000 They called it a serious violation of the agency's neutrality.
00:07:43.000 The statement, of course, made no mention of Hamas.
00:07:45.000 In 2021, Hamas actually prevented entry to an investigative team from the UN to a shaft built under a UNRWA school.
00:07:52.000 The whole purpose of this is so that if Israel tries to strike a terror tunnel, it has to hit a school.
00:07:57.000 For all these reasons, the Trump administration cut off contributions from the United States to the UNRWA.
00:08:02.000 Then President Biden, in all of his vast wisdom, restored hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.
00:08:08.000 Much of which undoubtedly went directly to Hamas.
00:08:10.000 Over the course of the last couple of years, the administration gave the UNRWA some 700 million dollars of your taxpayer money.
00:08:17.000 This is why back in February, Representative Chip Roy of Texas called for the defunding of the UNRWA, noting, quote, UNRWA's lengthy and detailed history of promoting antisemitism, violence, and terrorism through educational materials and its continued ties to Hamas should completely disqualify this corrupt entity from receiving any U.S.
00:08:32.000 taxpayer funding.
00:08:34.000 It didn't happen.
00:08:35.000 And so it shouldn't be surprising that after the October 7th massacre, many employees of the UNRWA went online to celebrate the mass Jew murder.
00:08:44.000 So, for example, Principal Iman Hassan, who glorified Hamas' murder of babies as, quote, repaying injustices and liked her friends burn, burn, burn.
00:08:51.000 The burn, burn, burn, of course, was directed at civilians.
00:08:54.000 Or UNRWA teacher Mohammed Adwan, who defended the Hamas massacre, quote, what we do is resistance, regaining our rights, and then eulogized terrorists.
00:09:04.000 Or, for example, UNRWA school counselor Niveen Afana.
00:09:07.000 On the same day of the massacre, she prayed for the murderers on Facebook, quote,
00:09:10.000 Oh Allah, have mercy on the martyrs. Steadfast are Mujahideen. 1.00
00:09:14.000 Grant them victory over the unbelievers and a good ending. How about UNRWA teacher Osama 1.00
00:09:21.000 Ahmad on Sunday morning as Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli towns going to Hillel Nour?
00:09:26.000 He celebrated, Allah is the greatest above imagination.
00:09:29.000 How about UNRWA pediatrician Bashir Khamis Ghanam?
00:09:32.000 Right after the massacre, he shared a post praising the murderers as quote, martyrs of the Islamic and Arab nation who were martyred in defending their homeland and nation.
00:09:41.000 And none of this is a surprise.
00:09:42.000 This is what the UN is all about.
00:09:44.000 It is not an exception.
00:09:45.000 It is not a few bad apples.
00:09:46.000 The UN has been run as an anti-Semitic organization from basically a few years after its inception until right now. 0.97
00:09:53.000 The United Nations is a disgrace. 0.59
00:09:55.000 It has never fulfilled its core mandate.
00:09:56.000 The purpose of the UN was originally expressed in its charter, quote,
00:09:59.000 to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought
00:10:03.000 untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and
00:10:07.000 worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women of nations large and small,
00:10:11.000 and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for obligations arising from treaties
00:10:15.000 and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and
00:10:19.000 better standards of life in larger freedom. The UN has achieved almost none of these goals.
00:10:24.000 The United Nations was established primarily by the United States in the aftermath of World War II in an attempt at creating a so-called family of nations.
00:10:31.000 It has been a full-scale disaster area ever since, serving more as a propaganda tool on behalf of third-world autocracies than on behalf of the Institution for Defense of Democracy that served as its initial mission.
00:10:42.000 The United Nations should be disbanded.
00:10:44.000 The U.S.
00:10:44.000 should defund it.
00:10:45.000 The U.N.
00:10:45.000 building should be fumigated and rededicated to something more useful like manufacturing manure.
00:10:50.000 Never again should anyone pretend that the United Nations has the power of the moral high ground.
00:10:53.000 In fact, it really never did.
00:10:56.000 In just one second, we'll get to the latest on the ground in Israel, and we'll see the rest of the Middle Eastern autocracies again siding with Hamas. 0.87
00:11:05.000 That is one of the things that is happening right now, which is prompting a call for ceasefires.
00:11:08.000 Again, moral clarity disappeared like that.
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00:12:15.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, the state of Israel is still figuring out what to do.
00:12:21.000 For their part, obviously, they are fighting mad at the Secretary General of the United Nations, making excuses for Hamas and suggesting that basically burning babies alive in their beds, that's just the predictable response to land disputes. 0.52
00:12:34.000 That's effectively what the UN is now claiming.
00:12:36.000 Gilad Erdan, who is the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, here's what he had to say.
00:12:42.000 The UN is failing and you, Mr. Secretary General, have lost all morality and impartiality.
00:12:50.000 Because when you say those terrible words that these heinous attacks did not happen in a vacuum, you are tolerating terrorism.
00:13:02.000 Of course, that's absolutely true.
00:13:04.000 That's absolutely true.
00:13:04.000 But of course, what's happening at the U.N.
00:13:06.000 isn't happening in a vacuum either.
00:13:08.000 Meaning the constituent nations of the U.N., the people who actually vote in the U.N.
00:13:11.000 General Assembly, the people who disproportionately comprise the U.N.
00:13:15.000 General Assembly, are in fact nations that are either autocracies or sympathetic to terrorists.
00:13:21.000 And that's just the reality of the world.
00:13:22.000 I know it's an ugly reality for us in the West to contemplate, is the fact that not everybody thinks like us, that people don't agree with us, that we can't all talk it out over a cup of tea across a table.
00:13:31.000 But the reality is that many of the same people who you see, folks, suggesting are rational actors in this region, are in fact dedicated to the destruction of the West.
00:13:42.000 They do not like the West.
00:13:43.000 They think the West is bad.
00:13:45.000 One of those people is the president of Turkey, The dictator of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
00:13:51.000 So Erdogan, who shifted Turkey away from being a secular quasi-democracy in the early 2000s and toward being an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship.
00:14:02.000 Erdogan is a sponsor. 0.83
00:14:03.000 He's a state sponsor of terrorism. 0.82
00:14:04.000 He sponsors Hamas. 0.96
00:14:06.000 You'll recall that, just recently, there were some commentators who were suggesting that he ought to play honest broker between Israel and Hamas, which is a joke. 0.95
00:14:13.000 It's ridiculous.
00:14:13.000 Well, yesterday, he just came out squarely in favor of Hamas.
00:14:17.000 He said that Hamas was not a terrorist organization.
00:14:19.000 Instead, they were a, quote, liberation group, fighting a battle to protect their land, which is weird, because I didn't realize their land included Kfar Azza.
00:14:25.000 I didn't realize that their land included Kibbutz Berri.
00:14:29.000 But apparently, according to Erdogan, it does, because, of course, all of that is Islamic land. 0.81
00:14:33.000 Erdogan then claimed that Israel had taken advantage of Turkey's good intentions, and then he cancelled a visit to Israel because he said that Israel is fighting an inhumane war against Hamas that is rich, coming from the same country that routinely violates human rights, whether it is against Armenians or whether it is against others in the region.
00:14:51.000 He said Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
00:14:53.000 Of course, this is the stuff that he says to his own parliament.
00:14:56.000 One of the big things to understand in the Middle East is that what many of these dictators say to Western media is not the same stuff they say in their own language to their own people.
00:15:04.000 What they actually mean is the stuff they say in their own language to their own people.
00:15:08.000 He then blamed the United States, suggesting that people outside the region were quote unquote, adding fuel to the fire in the name of supporting Israel.
00:15:15.000 Turkey is supposed to be a moderate state. 0.81
00:15:16.000 Turkey, you'll recall, is a member of NATO, which is ridiculous. 0.98
00:15:20.000 The idea that if there were ever an attack on Turkey, that NATO members would be obligated to come to Turkey's defense is insane. 0.89
00:15:25.000 That's totally crazy.
00:15:27.000 It's not, of course, just Erdogan.
00:15:29.000 CNN, last night, had on Queen Rania of Jordan.
00:15:32.000 So, let's be clear about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
00:15:35.000 The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan exists because the West put in- You want to talk about a colonial outpost? 0.99
00:15:40.000 The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a colonial outpost.
00:15:42.000 It's literally a tribal family that was elevated to royalty in a made-up country called Jordan. 0.66
00:15:47.000 If you think that Jordan has, like, a historic basis with Hashemite kingdoms, it does not.
00:15:52.000 It does not.
00:15:53.000 It was created from exactly the same cloth.
00:15:55.000 It was British Mandate Palestine, and then Jordan was carved off, and the Hashemites were given control of the kingdom because there were land disputes over control of Syria, for example.
00:16:05.000 And so in order to placate the Hashemites, they were given control of Jordan. 1.00
00:16:08.000 But the land of Jordan is populated almost entirely by quote-unquote Palestinian Arabs, meaning people who were descended from people who were living in British Mandate Palestine.
00:16:21.000 At the time of the creation of Jordan.
00:16:24.000 Queen Rania is one of them, by the way. 0.94
00:16:25.000 Queen Rania is a Palestinian Arab.
00:16:28.000 But she's also a member of the Hashemite royal family. 0.97
00:16:30.000 If that Hashemite royal family were to cross the population, the population would kill her and her head would be on a pole. 1.00
00:16:34.000 That's effectively how it goes in Jordan. 0.59
00:16:37.000 So, she was interviewed on Tuesday night by CNN.
00:16:40.000 She's supposed to be a quasi-Western moderate. 1.00
00:16:43.000 Here she was, pretending that Hamas didn't commit atrocities. 0.94
00:16:45.000 Now, do I really think that Queen Rania thinks that Hamas didn't commit atrocities? 0.98
00:16:48.000 Of course not.
00:16:49.000 Of course not.
00:16:50.000 But truth does not have quite the same value in this part of the world as it does in, say, the West.
00:16:55.000 And she also knows that, again, if she were to come out against Hamas, if she were to condemn Hamas, there's a good shot that she and the rest of her family would be dead.
00:17:03.000 Again, you want to talk about colonial outposts.
00:17:05.000 Colonial outposts would be the Kingdom of Jordan. 0.95
00:17:06.000 That is a colonial outpost.
00:17:07.000 That is a leftover from the British Mandate.
00:17:10.000 In any case, here is Queen Rania denying that Hamas committed atrocities.
00:17:15.000 I'm not arguing accuracy, Christian.
00:17:18.000 I'm arguing equivalence and double standards here.
00:17:21.000 When the President of the United States is told that, you know, he has evidence, he has seen evidence of children beheaded only to retract because the IDF said that there's no proof of that.
00:17:33.000 That is confirmation bias.
00:17:35.000 Even at your network, Christian, you know, the CNN website at the beginning of the conflict reported a headline of Israeli children found Queen Rania, I just need to stop you right there because there have been pictures shown by the Israelis and our journalists have been down there.
00:17:51.000 Now, my question to you, would you publish such a damning yet unverified claim made by
00:17:58.000 a Palestinian?
00:17:59.000 Queen Rania, I just need to stop you right there because there have been pictures shown
00:18:05.000 by the Israelis and our journalists have been down there.
00:18:08.000 I'm not talking about beheadings.
00:18:10.000 I'm talking about babies' bodies riddled with with bullets and things.
00:18:16.000 Of course, she's standing for Hamas. 0.96
00:18:17.000 Of course she is.
00:18:18.000 Like, just a full-on Holocaust-level denial right there from the Queen of Jordan.
00:18:23.000 That's what this region is.
00:18:24.000 And if anybody pretends otherwise, they're blinding themselves to the reality.
00:18:28.000 We'll get to more from Queen Rania.
00:18:29.000 And just again, she's a Western moderate and we're all supposed to pretend that this is a moderate kingdom here.
00:18:35.000 Moderation is not quite the same thing in the Middle East.
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00:20:46.000 Okay, so again, back to Queen Renia. 0.73
00:20:49.000 This notion that the world is a collection of like-minded nations, you just have to talk it out, is ridiculous. 1.00
00:20:54.000 It's why the United Nations, as a premise, was always idiotic. 1.00
00:20:56.000 It was always idiotic. 1.00
00:20:57.000 Pretending that the United States and China are going to get together in a room and side on world policy is stupid. 1.00
00:21:03.000 It's stupid. 1.00
00:21:03.000 It's always been stupid. 1.00
00:21:04.000 That's the Security Council. 1.00
00:21:06.000 What's even stupider is imagining that the General Assembly is anything but a collection of some of the worst nations on planet earth. 0.98
00:21:11.000 You got like Sudan making world policy. 0.98
00:21:14.000 You got England giving the same vote as like Libya. 1.00
00:21:20.000 It's wild and insane and stupid and the fact that anybody treats this this way is just once again evidence of a cultural ethnocentrism that comes with the West. 0.98
00:21:29.000 One of the great ironies of the anti-ethnocentrism movement from people like Edward Said, who wrote the book Orientalism, suggesting that the West had a dim view of, quote-unquote, the Oriental cultures, and that that had led them to colonialism and apartheid and all the rest of it. 0.99
00:21:45.000 And really, really, that was ignorant, and we should study those cultures from the inside. 0.85
00:21:49.000 Ironically, that has led to a new sort of ethnocentrism in which the West assumes that everybody thinks like members of the West.
00:21:54.000 And thus, everyone can be trusted and treated as moderate.
00:21:58.000 Queen Rania, again, is welcomed in capitals around the world as some sort of moderate while she stands for Hamas. 0.96
00:22:03.000 I mean, here she was yesterday talking about it's a glaring double standard for the world to, you know, defend Israel, defending itself from terrorists.
00:22:12.000 In the last couple of weeks, we have seen a glaring double standard in the world.
00:22:18.000 When October 7th happened, the world immediately and unequivocally stood by Israel and its right to defend itself and condemned the attack that happened.
00:22:29.000 But what we're seeing in the last couple of weeks, we're seeing silence in the world.
00:22:36.000 Countries have stopped just expressing concern or acknowledging the casualties, but always with a preface of declaration of support for Israel.
00:22:46.000 Are we being told that it is wrong to kill a family, an entire family at gunpoint, but it's okay to shell them to death?
00:22:57.000 I mean, there is a glaring double standard here. 1.00
00:22:59.000 This is such trash. 1.00
00:23:00.000 I'm sorry, this is such trash. 1.00
00:23:01.000 And it's obviously morally equivalent trash. 0.99
00:23:03.000 By the way, this is the same kingdom that massacred, that massacred 3,000 Palestinians in 1970 and expelled 20,000 Palestinians just to get rid of its radicals. 0.97
00:23:12.000 I don't see them bring that up ever, ever, ever.
00:23:15.000 By the way, the Jordanian security services are not known for being particularly nice to Palestinian radicals.
00:23:20.000 You know why?
00:23:20.000 Because if they were, they'd be overthrown.
00:23:23.000 But again, it's all fun and games when the West pretends moral equivalence.
00:23:27.000 And that moral equivalence allows them to pressure Israel into, quote-unquote, two-state solutions and all the rest. 0.51
00:23:33.000 Pressuring Israel to bring fuel into the Gaza Strip so that Hamas can use it. 0.96
00:23:37.000 By the way, aerial photos show that Hamas currently has half a million gallons of fuel available to it.
00:23:41.000 It's using all of it, presumably, to support its terrorist operations.
00:23:45.000 Meanwhile, the so-called peace process partners that Israel's supposed to be relying upon, the Palestinian Authority, Wall Street Journal, today, Long before Hamas militants burst out of their Gaza stronghold to massacre scores of civilians with handguns and assault rifles, Iran and its allies had accelerated efforts to smuggle weapons into a different part of the Palestinian territories, the West Bank.
00:24:03.000 Using drones, secret airline flights, and a land bridge that traverses hundreds of miles and at least four national borders, the smuggling operation is raising the specter of a new conflagration in the war between Israel and Palestinians.
00:24:13.000 It poses a growing threat to Jordan, a staunch U.S. 0.99
00:24:15.000 ally which borders Israel and the West Bank and has been struggling to contain a growing flow of drugs and arms.
00:24:20.000 Iran wants to turn Jordan into a transit area for weapons going into Israel, said Amir al-Sabaila.
00:24:25.000 You wonder why Jordan is standing for Hamas? 0.98
00:24:27.000 Because they are also held hostage by Hamas's allies.
00:24:30.000 That would be the reason.
00:24:31.000 And yet at the same time, it's the West promoting the idea that Israel has to make concessions to these same exact people.
00:24:36.000 To the Palestinian Authority, which has allowed all of this to happen, and which pays, by the way, again, they sign checks to the families of the terrorists. 0.86
00:24:43.000 With your taxpayer dollars, by the way, since you're the ones who are sending money, I'm sending money to the Palestinian Authority right now.
00:24:48.000 It's absurd.
00:24:50.000 Meanwhile, Israel continues to fight an existential war for itself, and that existential war is not going to end with the destruction of Hamas.
00:24:56.000 Because that war is going to continue.
00:24:57.000 Hezbollah on Israel's northern border, as I've said before, is a much higher threat to the existence of the State of Israel than Hamas is. 0.97
00:25:04.000 Hamas is dangerous to Jews.
00:25:06.000 Hezbollah is dangerous to the entire existence of the state of Israel. 0.57
00:25:08.000 Because if Israel is stretched so thin that it has to fight a war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and it has to simultaneously fight a war with Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad terrorists in the so-called West Bank, and it has to fight a war with Hezbollah in the north, maybe with Syria, that's an existential threat for Israel.
00:25:23.000 So Israel is facing a long-term battle for its survival here.
00:25:26.000 Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson talking about Hamas said, listen, we at least have to take Hamas off the table.
00:25:32.000 We're not going to live next to a genocidal threat.
00:25:33.000 Here was Bibi's spokesperson, Tal Heinrich.
00:25:37.000 Well, right now we have more than 7,700 rockets that have been fired at Israeli territory since the outbreak of this war that we didn't start, a war that we didn't want, we didn't even expect.
00:25:49.000 We were dragged into it by the Hamas terror organization and we, Sandra, as a nation, we have taken this very important decision that we can no longer live next to an existential, genocidal threat This is the only reason why we are operating in Gaza right now. 1.00
00:26:08.000 And we will bring an end to the Hamas regime in Gaza.
00:26:12.000 Once we are done, they will not have any kind of governance bodies or a military wing.
00:26:19.000 Hamas can simply be no longer.
00:26:22.000 Now, the only question is whether the West is going to actually allow Israel to do that or whether they're going to try to tie their hands. 0.74
00:26:27.000 So far, the Biden administration has been sending a few mixed signals.
00:26:30.000 So yesterday, in good signaling, John Kirby, the NSA spokesperson, he said that the idea of an immediate ceasefire is ridiculous and helps Hamas, which of course is true. 1.00
00:26:40.000 Just now, as you know, the UN Security Council had a meeting.
00:26:43.000 The Arab groups condemned killing civilians, but also said that we should support a peace process instead of sending weapons to Israel, if we want to support Israel.
00:26:54.000 Do you envisage a scenario I couldn't begin to speculate on that.
00:26:59.000 Those are potential steps that haven't happened yet and may not happen.
00:27:02.000 international conference will take place soon?
00:27:06.000 I couldn't begin to speculate on that.
00:27:08.000 You know, that's, those are potential steps that haven't happened yet and may not happen.
00:27:17.000 All I can tell you is we're going to continue to make sure Israel has the tools and the 1.00
00:27:22.000 capabilities that they need to defend themselves.
00:27:24.000 We're going to continue to try to get that humanitarian assistance in.
00:27:26.000 We're going to continue to try to get hostages and people out of Gaza appropriately. 0.99
00:27:31.000 And as I think you've heard us say, a ceasefire right now really only benefits Hamas. 0.52
00:27:40.000 U.S.
00:27:40.000 Secretary of State Antony Blinken also added, but if Iran attacks American forces, obviously we'll respond how we have to respond.
00:27:50.000 And let me say what we've consistently said to Iranian officials through other channels.
00:27:56.000 The United States does not seek conflict with Iran.
00:28:00.000 We do not want this war to widen.
00:28:03.000 But if Iran or its proxies attack U.S.
00:28:07.000 personnel anywhere, make no mistake, we will defend our people, we will defend our security, swiftly and decisively.
00:28:19.000 The question is whether that is going to be true in action.
00:28:22.000 So far, the Iranians have been launching attacks on Americans and American allies throughout the region. 0.96
00:28:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, for more than six months, Iranian-backed militia groups refrained from launching drones or rockets against American troops in Iraq and Syria.
00:28:34.000 That came to an abrupt end when U.S.
00:28:36.000 officials said Iran-backed groups launched 10 drone and rocket attacks against U.S.
00:28:38.000 bases U.S.
00:28:39.000 troops used in Iraq and another three on a U.S.
00:28:41.000 base in southeast Syria.
00:28:43.000 The attacks were carried out between October 17th and October 24th.
00:28:46.000 In one of the attacks at al-Assad Air Base in Iraq last week, U.S.
00:28:49.000 troops shot a militia group's drone out of the sky and then fell on top of an American drone and destroyed it.
00:28:53.000 In Yemen, Iranian-backed Houthis fired five Iranian-provided cruise missiles and launched about 30 drones toward Israel, an attack that was larger than initially described by the Pentagon.
00:29:01.000 Last week, the USS Kearny guided-missile destroyer, which was operating in the northern Red Sea, shot down four of the cruise missiles, while a fifth cruise missile was intercepted by Saudi Arabia, protecting its own airspace.
00:29:11.000 The Pentagon has deployed nearly a dozen air defense systems to countries across the Middle East ahead of Israel's expected land invasion of Gaza.
00:29:16.000 They've moved missile launchers to Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf.
00:29:18.000 According to U.S.
00:29:19.000 officials, the Pentagon is also sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, to Saudi Arabia and Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, in the expectation that Iran goes ballistic if Israel decides that it's going to go in and wipe out Hamas.
00:29:34.000 Hamas, obviously, is an Iranian proxy, and Iran doesn't want to see them taken off the board. 0.92
00:29:39.000 So the question is going to be whether Iran tries to call the U.S.' 's bluff.
00:29:44.000 It'd be the worst mistake they ever made, by the way.
00:29:46.000 I truly believe that even as much as I am afraid of the weakness of the Biden administration, as much as they send mixed signals, if American bases are fully attacked, if U.S.
00:29:56.000 ships are attacked, It'll be the worst thing Iran ever did for itself. 0.99
00:29:59.000 That'd be a huge mistake, which is why, in the end, I think that Iran is signaling a lot, but I don't think they're actually going to do anything overwhelming.
00:30:05.000 Right now, what they are doing is pursuing low-level conflict sufficient to let everybody know that they're upset.
00:30:10.000 They're pursuing low-level conflict sufficient to tie up Israeli forces in the north, for example, and to signal to Hamas that they want them to continue what they're doing. 0.55
00:30:17.000 But, Again, I don't think that Iran is irrational enough to step over the line with the United States in the region.
00:30:23.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration, again, those mixed signals are wild.
00:30:26.000 Yesterday, I played a clip of Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for the White House, absolutely incompetent, terrible at her job, being asked about rising anti-Semitism in the United States, pretending it doesn't exist, and then immediately launching into a speech about Islamophobia.
00:30:39.000 Well, yesterday, she had to walk that back because, again, she's terrible at her job. 0.80
00:30:44.000 I want to make something clear at the top because I understand how important moral clarity is, especially at this time.
00:30:53.000 So, when Jews are targeted because of their beliefs or their identity, when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hatred, that is anti-Semitism.
00:31:07.000 And that is unacceptable.
00:31:09.000 There is no place for anti-Semitism.
00:31:11.000 Full stop.
00:31:12.000 Period.
00:31:13.000 This is important to the President, it's important to me personally, and to everyone in the administration.
00:31:20.000 Following the Hamas terror attacks in Israel, which were the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust, the President has been consistent and clear.
00:31:30.000 We must all do our part and forcefully, forcefully speak out against anti-Semitism.
00:31:37.000 And we must ensure that there is no place for hate in America.
00:31:44.000 Yeah, you know, it'd be a great start would be expelling Rashida Tlaib from Congress. 1.00
00:31:47.000 I still have yet to see any members of Congress actually asked about Rashida Tlaib, who continues to maintain, by the way, falsely, that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza.
00:31:54.000 She continues to maintain that, despite all evidence to the contrary. 0.98
00:31:56.000 It does not matter to her because, of course, she is a pathological liar and a terror supporter. 0.99
00:32:00.000 So that, of course, is no shock at all. 0.98
00:32:02.000 One of the reasons that the world feels capable of slipping back into this ridiculous moral equivalent, the soft, Lukewarm bathwater of moral relativism is because the media do it for them.
00:32:13.000 The media make it super easy.
00:32:14.000 So last night, for example, CNN's Aaron Burnett was talking about the conditions under which hostages are being held.
00:32:20.000 There's still 200 plus hostages who are being held in bondage by Hamas.
00:32:24.000 And again, the world community seems to have far less words for Hamas holding hostages than they do for Israel trying to kill members of Hamas.
00:32:31.000 In any case, here is Aaron Burnett Weirdly praising the conditions under which hostages are being held?
00:32:36.000 I've never heard this before.
00:32:37.000 Honestly, I've never heard a situation in which a hostage is taken, babies, the elderly, and the media are like, yes, but they do have sinks.
00:32:45.000 What the?
00:32:46.000 What the?
00:32:46.000 What?
00:32:48.000 Some things stand out in there.
00:32:50.000 The mundane necessity, right?
00:32:52.000 You're talking about tunnels.
00:32:53.000 We know these tunnels have ventilation.
00:32:55.000 We know that they've been known to have air conditioning.
00:32:56.000 This has all been reporting that we've heard from the Israelis over the years.
00:33:00.000 But the fact that she's saying she was held underground for more than two weeks, that
00:33:05.000 there was shampoo, there was antibiotics, there was a guard per hostage in the experience
00:33:10.000 she had, that there were medics and paramedics, and obviously she is elderly, the other woman 0.73
00:33:16.000 who was released also elderly and had medical needs, and that they had the medicine needed
00:33:20.000 and if not, something similar to replace it.
00:33:25.000 It is pretty stunning because you've got to contrast that with what's happening above
00:33:28.000 the ground, right?
00:33:29.000 Where there isn't water, never mind shampoo, okay?
00:33:33.000 They don't have water.
00:33:34.000 They're using toilet water.
00:33:35.000 There is no morphine for any kind of amputations.
00:33:39.000 Antibiotics, no, right?
00:33:41.000 But Hamas had stockpiled all of that and has all of that underground and that's what we're learning from her. 0.95
00:33:48.000 That's weird.
00:33:48.000 Why are we describing the magic of the tunnel networks?
00:33:51.000 I mean, what she should be saying, Erin Burnett, the logical conclusion of what she should be saying there is because Hamas cares about keeping terrorists and doesn't give a crap about its own civilians. 0.74
00:33:59.000 But, of course, CNN is never going to go quite that far. 0.97
00:34:02.000 Again, moral equivalence to hell of a drug.
00:34:04.000 By the way, in a good move from the other side of the aisle.
00:34:07.000 Florida's university system, working with Governor Ron DeSantis, ordered colleges on Tuesday to shut down a pro-Palestinian student organization, this would be a pro-Hamas organization, the Students for Justice in Palestine, which is leading a lot of these pro-Hamas protests all over the place.
00:34:19.000 Administrators have said that National SJP identified itself as part of Hamas' attack, and it was a felony under Florida law to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
00:34:28.000 So that, of course, is a positive move.
00:34:30.000 I've seen some people claiming that DeSantis is somehow not pro-Israel enough.
00:34:33.000 That is a bizarre statement, considering he's the most pro-Israel politician In America and the most effective on that score by an extraordinarily long shot.
00:34:41.000 And meanwhile, you're starting to see fallout at the university level.
00:34:44.000 So elite universities have always relied on these major donors who've been giving to their alma maters in order to prop them up.
00:34:50.000 Well now, finally, some of the liberal Jews have been giving a lot of money to these organizations are realizing that actually they've been contributing money to people who don't care about the murder of their co-religionists. 0.94
00:35:00.000 Like, at all.
00:35:01.000 And they're starting to pull their cash.
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00:37:00.000 Okay, meanwhile, The interpolation of terrorist supporters in the West continues apace.
00:37:07.000 The reality, which is that there are a lot of people who support terrorism and anti-Semitism all over the globe, That is not relegated to foreign countries.
00:37:14.000 That is very true here in the United States as well, which is why you are starting to see some donors at major American universities look at the universities and realize exactly what it is that they've done.
00:37:23.000 The universities have full-scale embraced the decolonization narrative.
00:37:27.000 That narrative started with people like Frantz Fanon back in the 1950s and 1960s, claiming that the way that the third world was going to decolonize would have to involve violence against Western institutions.
00:37:37.000 Those Western institutions were evil and they had to be done away with.
00:37:39.000 There's going to be a violent movement.
00:37:41.000 There's a lot of sympathy for that in left-wing circles, Marxist circles particularly.
00:37:44.000 That united with the sort of intersectional critical theory movement to produce the idea that decolonization was not just a project for the third world, it was something that had to happen here at home, which is why you see Black Lives Matter united with the Friends for Non-Revolutionaries.
00:37:57.000 This is why you see Queers for Palestine, for example, that's what that is. 0.94
00:38:00.000 And so that is the leading, bleeding edge of the ideological revolution at these major universities.
00:38:06.000 It's why you see mass protests at universities in favor of Hamas, In which you see, again, the local trans group marching.
00:38:13.000 It doesn't seem to make sense from the outside, except that you have to understand this is the quote-unquote coalition of the wretched, the coalition of the oppressed, and they are rising up against the institutions of the West.
00:38:20.000 It's not an attack on Israel, it's an attack on Western institutions, as Western institutions, a lot of people who are sort of liberal hollow men fellow travelers.
00:38:28.000 We're fine with this for a long time because they thought, okay, well, we also, you know, we don't love the institutions and it buys us some street cred with the left wing if we pretend along.
00:38:37.000 The Hollow Men fellow travelers, the people that Tom Wolfe described in a very famous essay written in the Late 1960s, called Radical Chic, that party at Lenny's which was all about Leonard Bernstein, the left winger, who hosted the Black Panthers at his apartment. 0.59
00:38:53.000 And the Black Panthers were telling all the white people that they wanted to kill them and all the white people were patting them on the head and posing for pictures with them.
00:38:58.000 Because that's what they do, because it meant that they were cool. 0.95
00:39:02.000 That sort of attitude has lasted until now, except for at a certain point it actually sets in that these people actually do want to kill you, and they're not joking, and that they're not actually your friends, and that in fact they are perfectly fine with watching your compatriots get murdered.
00:39:14.000 And so you're starting to see liberal Jewish donors in major universities and other liberals who are not happy with this start to pull their money.
00:39:21.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, David Megerman was in Israel celebrating a holiday by dancing with a Torah in synagogue when Hamas attacked the country earlier this month.
00:39:28.000 When his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, put out a statement a few days later that called the assault horrific but didn't explicitly condemn Hamas, he was then sentenced.
00:39:34.000 So he simply pulled his money.
00:39:36.000 Top universities, such as Harvard and Penn, are facing backlash from alumni angry about the school's reactions to the attacks and their aftermath.
00:39:42.000 Some say it was the final straw after years of growing disenchantment with the schools over what they see as a leftward political shift.
00:39:49.000 That includes people like President Larry Summers.
00:39:51.000 He used to be the president of Harvard University.
00:39:55.000 Retail billionaire Leslie Wexler's foundation said that it would cut financial ties with Harvard and a program it funded at the school for Israelis.
00:40:01.000 Wexner and his wife donated more than $42 million to Harvard University.
00:40:05.000 On Monday, a group of prominent alumni, including Mitt Romney and investors Seth Klarman and Bill Hellman, published an open letter to Harvard criticizing the school's leadership.
00:40:13.000 Penn is facing a giant donor revolt from people like Ronald Lauder and Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Mark Rowan.
00:40:19.000 They're pulling their money as well, as well they should.
00:40:22.000 It's beyond time.
00:40:23.000 All the masks are coming up.
00:40:25.000 The only thing that I can say about what has happened in the last three weeks is that all the masks are currently off.
00:40:30.000 Like, all of them.
00:40:30.000 There are no more masks, and that's why the world looks so ugly today.
00:40:33.000 And so you see the West struggling to please put the mask back on.
00:40:36.000 Please put it back on.
00:40:37.000 Let's pretend that everybody's moderate.
00:40:38.000 Let's pretend that the two-state solution is really the answer.
00:40:41.000 Let's pretend that what's happening on college campuses is just another fun aspect of free speech.
00:40:45.000 Let's just pretend.
00:40:46.000 Let's just pretend. 0.99
00:40:46.000 But everybody can tell that it's bullcrap. 0.99
00:40:48.000 Everyone can tell. 0.95
00:40:49.000 All the masks are off, and people are being forced to take sides.
00:40:52.000 And people don't like taking sides, and so again, they're rushing for the moral equivalence, they're looking, they're grasping at straws, begging for any excuse to go back to status quo ante.
00:41:00.000 But guess what?
00:41:00.000 The world was never status quo ante.
00:41:02.000 You guys all got it wrong.
00:41:03.000 And at a certain point, you're gonna have to recognize you got it wrong if you wish to live in the real world and make the real world a better place.
00:41:08.000 It turns out that the world of fantasy and illusion you built up in your own mind, where everybody is your potential friend, and the intersectional coalition, they're all your buddies, and all these people, who have been openly calling for revolution against Western institutions, with Israel as the tip of the spear, that all those people were not lying.
00:41:22.000 They were saying it directly to your face, and you, in your great sophistication and wisdom, decided that they didn't understand their own little hearts.
00:41:28.000 You were more broad-minded than they were.
00:41:30.000 You understood what they really, really wanted.
00:41:33.000 And that was a lie.
00:41:35.000 You were pretending.
00:41:37.000 Some of them were lying to you.
00:41:37.000 Some of them were pretending that what they wanted was a two-state solution in Israel.
00:41:40.000 What they really wanted was a little bit more leeway when it came to criminal justice reform.
00:41:45.000 But it turns out that a lot of those people, they were lying to you.
00:41:47.000 And that's not what they wanted at all.
00:41:49.000 And what they said to their own friends is something very different than what they said to you.
00:41:52.000 And people are starting to realize that.
00:41:54.000 And you know what?
00:41:55.000 Maybe that's the only silver lining to horrifying situations like this, is that reality tends to generate its own solutions.
00:42:01.000 Okay, meanwhile, The Republicans continue to battle over who will be the next Speaker of the House.
00:42:07.000 This battle continued yesterday when Tom Emmer went down to flaming defeat.
00:42:11.000 Tom Emmer, of course, was a Minnesota congressperson who was running for Speaker of the House.
00:42:19.000 He was considered by some people to moderate because he was pro same-sex marriage.
00:42:23.000 Donald Trump tried to torpedo him, but the reality is that he was going down to flaming defeat anyway.
00:42:27.000 It wasn't really Trump that did it.
00:42:29.000 Trump is taking credit for it, but Trump backed Jim Jordan.
00:42:31.000 That didn't put him over the top.
00:42:33.000 But this makes Trump happy.
00:42:34.000 So, according to Politico, just hours after Tom Emmer won the Republican Conference's nomination to be House Speaker on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to deride him as, quote, a totally out of touch with Republican voters' globalist rhino.
00:42:46.000 He then got on the phone with members to express his aversion for Emmer and his bid for Speaker. 0.75
00:42:49.000 By Tuesday afternoon, he said, he's done, it's over, I killed him.
00:42:53.000 And just minutes later, Emmer officially dropped out of the race.
00:42:55.000 Now, again, the chances that Emmer was going to move forward anyway were pretty low.
00:43:01.000 Not just because Trump didn't support him, but because he just didn't have the kind of under-the-table friendships that enough people needed in order to get to 217.
00:43:09.000 So the latest nominee is apparently Mike Johnson.
00:43:15.000 Is Mike Johnson going to get to 217?
00:43:17.000 Who the hell knows?
00:43:18.000 So first, the Republicans had to hold another celebration about torpedoing another nominee.
00:43:22.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene said it's good that Tom Emmer is out.
00:43:24.000 Here she was yesterday. 0.99
00:43:26.000 Had you communicated to him that you couldn't change your opinion, you sort of were locked in on opposing him?
00:43:33.000 I opposed him openly in the conference, in our roll call vote, and that was simple enough for me.
00:43:40.000 There was more conversations that went on in the conference, but he's dropped out now, and I think this is good.
00:43:47.000 Here's what's going on.
00:43:49.000 The GOP conference is changing.
00:43:51.000 And it's changing to reflect America first.
00:43:54.000 And Republican voters overwhelmingly support President Trump.
00:43:58.000 And the GOP conference and the Speaker of the House should do the same.
00:44:04.000 Okay, I mean, that's all well and good, except that McCarthy also supported Trump, and Trump supported McCarthy, and you guys ousted him anyway, so that was weird.
00:44:10.000 Not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who voted against ousting McCarthy, for what it's worth, but there's no question that herding the Republicans at this point, as Republican Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska said, it's like herding meth-ridden cats.
00:44:21.000 Not an inaccurate comparison.
00:44:24.000 Are you interested?
00:44:26.000 I was speaker of the Nebraska unicameral legislature, which, by the way, is officially nonpartisan.
00:44:33.000 It's like herding cats on methamphetamine.
00:44:36.000 And when I got to Washington, I thought, the unicameral followed me to Washington, D.C.
00:44:42.000 No party discipline, no party leadership.
00:44:45.000 It reminds me a little bit of 49 individual state senators running around, but no, I think I need a little bit more than 15 months to do that job.
00:44:54.000 So, yeah, I mean, nobody really wants to j— In any case, Mike Johnson is the guy who's up for the job today.
00:45:00.000 We'll get to his chances of actually being the next speaker, which are better than Tom Emmer's, and apparently Jim Jordan's, and Steve Scalise's, and Kevin McCarthy's.
00:45:08.000 By the way, we're only about, like, 216 members away from getting back to Kevin McCarthy's.
00:45:12.000 We go around the endless wheel of speakers.
00:45:14.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:46:19.000 Politico seems to think maybe the answer is yes.
00:46:24.000 Maybe this long national nightmare for Republicans is coming to an end.
00:46:28.000 Representative Mike Johnson became the latest GOP conference nominee.
00:46:31.000 This time, there was no backbiting, no ultimatums, no snarky comments to reporters, just cheers and an overwhelming sense of relief.
00:46:36.000 It's not over yet.
00:46:37.000 Three lawmakers voted present during a roll call poll of the conference.
00:46:40.000 22 GOP lawmakers were absent.
00:46:42.000 So it's possible there might be a decisive handful of never-Mikes hiding out there, but the lack of vocal opposition and surfeit of genuine enthusiasm that was aired last night on opposing sides of the House GOP Marked a significant shift after three weeks of chaos.
00:46:53.000 Mike is a straightforward leader who can unite us, as Republicans wrote.
00:46:56.000 Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, who's one of the centrists, who has been not voting for some of the nominees.
00:47:02.000 Johnson is the right guy at the right time, says Representative Chip Roy, who is, of course, on the right of the caucus.
00:47:07.000 Representative Ken Buck of Colorado.
00:47:09.000 He said, I think he gets it tomorrow.
00:47:11.000 Johnson was not anyone's first choice.
00:47:12.000 Far from it.
00:47:13.000 On the first ballot on Tuesday morning, he garnered only 34 votes, but he doesn't have a lot of enemies because he's a lot lower profile than a lot of the other Republicans who are in the House.
00:47:20.000 All these other people have made enemies.
00:47:22.000 Johnson, not so much.
00:47:24.000 He's a 51-year-old Shreveport native.
00:47:27.000 He came into elective politics in 2016.
00:47:29.000 So he hasn't been in the House all that long, but he is the chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
00:47:35.000 As the former RSC chairman and current chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee, he's sort of a wonky guy.
00:47:40.000 He doesn't have a lot of outward ambition, and so he's sort of the guy who they came to in the end.
00:47:45.000 He'd be the least experienced speaker in the history of the House.
00:47:49.000 He is in his fourth full term, and he's never served in senior leadership at all.
00:47:55.000 So, he's not like a big fundraiser.
00:47:58.000 Some of the things that are going to come up, obviously, is that he was an organizer of an amicus brief in favor of overturning the certification of electoral votes.
00:48:08.000 But it does seem like the Republicans are finally tired of this and Johnson is the least offensive guy on the block.
00:48:13.000 I'm sure he'll be fine at the job.
00:48:14.000 I'm sure he will because everyone has the same incentive structure.
00:48:16.000 You know who would have been fine?
00:48:18.000 Any of these people. 0.98
00:48:19.000 The one thing that has to change is if he takes the job, he has to get rid of this idiotic rule whereby he needs Republican unanimity in order to go forward. 0.76
00:48:26.000 He cannot continue to be Speaker of the House with the rule in place that any member at any time can call effectively for a no-confidence vote against him. 0.95
00:48:35.000 That needs to stop right the hell now.
00:48:36.000 Here's Representative Johnson last night announcing his Speakership bid.
00:48:40.000 We want to thank all the press for waiting.
00:48:42.000 It's been quite a process.
00:48:45.000 Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system.
00:48:49.000 This conference that you see, this House Republican majority is united.
00:48:53.000 Hey, well, that would be nice.
00:49:01.000 Because it seems like there are some things to do.
00:49:03.000 So, perhaps the Republicans this time will get their act together.
00:49:06.000 And if not, then the endless wheel of speaker candidates will continue.
00:49:11.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:49:13.000 The economy continues to cool down.
00:49:15.000 Again, Republicans have been provided a target rich environment by the Biden administration.
00:49:18.000 You have the world on fire nearly everywhere.
00:49:21.000 You have the economy continuing to overheat despite radically increased interest rates.
00:49:25.000 Right now, according to the Wall Street Journal, we have the highest bond yields in 16 years.
00:49:30.000 Quote, the yield on the U.S.
00:49:31.000 Treasury, 10-year Treasury, touched 5% on Monday for the first time in 16 years after climbing rapidly in recent weeks.
00:49:36.000 That is among many borrowing costs, including for other long-term government debt, mortgages, credit cards, auto purchases, business loans that could slow the surprisingly resilient economy.
00:49:44.000 Rising rates come on top of other potential impediments for the economy.
00:49:47.000 Those include the conflict in the Middle East, prolonged labor strikes.
00:49:50.000 Meanwhile, higher yields lift borrowing costs for the U.S.
00:49:52.000 government amid ballooning national debt.
00:49:55.000 The economy has remained strong over the past year.
00:49:57.000 If higher long-term rates persist, they could increase the risks of a broader and deeper downturn rather than the so-called soft landing.
00:50:03.000 Those higher rates are going to crimp consumer spending.
00:50:05.000 But more than ever, what this means is that it's just very hard to take out new debt.
00:50:09.000 As the bond yields continue to increase, what you're going to see, effectively speaking, is very difficult monetization of the debt.
00:50:18.000 That's weird.
00:50:19.000 Also, you're going to see money that is now being shifted away from the stock market and toward the bond market.
00:50:22.000 When yields are this high and you can secure a 5% yield on bonds, that's a pretty solid yield on bonds.
00:50:28.000 Are you going to bet in the stock market on the other side?
00:50:31.000 The only reason not to is because you think that the federal government is going to raise the interest rates and the old bonds are going to be worth less than they are even now.
00:50:38.000 Which could happen.
00:50:39.000 All this uncertainty is creating enormous friction in the economy.
00:50:42.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's plan is to spend more money.
00:50:44.000 Not just on foreign policy.
00:50:45.000 He is now calling for $50 billion more on urgent domestic needs.
00:50:50.000 This guy just, he has one solution, and it's more cowbell.
00:50:54.000 He just needs a fire hose with money, and he's just gonna fire it everywhere.
00:50:56.000 The proposed legislation will call for more funding for child care, high-speed internet access, natural disaster relief, and firefighters battling wildfires, among other domestic policy priorities, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget Director, Shalonda Young.
00:51:09.000 This is the Washington Post reporting.
00:51:12.000 It's not clear how much funding the president will propose for each program.
00:51:15.000 So, again, the White House just recently unveiled that $106 billion aid package, primarily focusing on funding for Ukraine and Israel.
00:51:22.000 It includes Taiwan aid, it includes some border security stuff, and now he's adding on top of that another $50 billion, because why the hell not?
00:51:29.000 It's not as though if we just keep spending into an inflationary economy, the inflation will continue.
00:51:35.000 That would be crazy.
00:51:37.000 That's exactly what he's doing, by the way.
00:51:38.000 And it is going to continue.
00:51:40.000 Meanwhile, the UAW continues its strike that has now been going on for weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:51:45.000 Unions all over the country are looking at the Biden administration as a patsy and somebody they can play in force into a position of taking an anti-management position.
00:51:51.000 And so more and more unions are looking at the possibility of striking and creating friction in the American economy.
00:51:57.000 Joe Biden's gonna have a rough re-elect road if Republicans don't do what they are so fond of doing, which is jump on a rake repeatedly.
00:52:04.000 Joe Biden has been awful on every available front.
00:52:06.000 It is possible to be awful.
00:52:08.000 So if Republicans could, you know, start to make some moves towards sanity, that would definitely be a welcome change.
00:52:13.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
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00:52:15.000 We'll be joined by Shadi Khalil.
00:52:17.000 Shadi is the president and founder of ICAA, the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association.
00:52:22.000 He is, of course, an Israeli Christian and he's going to give us an update from the ground.
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