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00:00:10.000Meh in the sense that our politics has only gotten more ugly, in the sense that the economy has continued to plod along at best, in the sense that foreign policy is now a complete dumpster fire.
00:00:19.000I had predicted the beginning of the year like a 90% bad year.
00:00:22.000I came in a little low, it was like 96%, so I'm predicting for 2024 like 99% bad, just to be safe.
00:00:25.000Nonetheless, There's some lessons for all of us to learn and remember from 2023.
00:01:09.000Radical progressives believe the only way to create a better world is to rip children away from their parents ideologically, to indoctrinate them in the ways of left-wing social change, to turn them into little activists bent on exploding their parents' values.
00:01:25.000Those progressives have They're not new.
00:01:27.000They've spent generations taking over the schools, the media, the entertainment industry.
00:01:32.000It's the reason why, as we discussed earlier this week, a new Harvard-Harris poll shows 79% of people aged 18 to 24 in the United States believe that, quote, white people are oppressors and non-white people and people of certain groups have been oppressed and as a result should be favored today at universities and for employment.
00:01:49.000It's why 67% of those same young people believe that, quote, Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.
00:01:56.000If you're wondering just why hundreds of thousands of young people, Western leftists, are in the streets chanting for Hamas, that would be the reason why.
00:02:05.000If we're also wondering just why 20% of all young people now consider themselves LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, that is also why generations of children have been hijacked into a neo-Marxist binary of oppressor versus oppressed.
00:02:18.000And it is always better to identify as the oppressed than the oppressor, makes you feel a lot better, and it gives you unending power to do anything you want.
00:02:25.000After all, if you are the oppressed, you can do whatever you want to the oppressor to free yourself and liberate yourself.
00:02:30.000Recruiters for this perverse ideology start really young.
00:02:35.000That is why this week, Cocomelon Lane on Netflix featured two gay dads teaching their son to put on a skirt and a tiara in the name of self-fulfillment.
00:03:21.000For context, Coco Melon's YouTube channel has 170 million subscribers and 173 billion views.
00:03:28.000So yes, the producers of the most watched children's content in human history are coming for your kids too, teaching them gender fluidity and exploding the idea of the traditional family structure.
00:03:39.000Whether it's the educational system, whether it's the media, whether it's entertainment, there are a lot of people who want to change how your children think.
00:03:48.000They're coming for your kids, and you should do something about it.
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00:04:20.000Now, obviously, we are all equal in the eyes of God.
00:04:23.000We all have innate human value, but we certainly do not think the same.
00:04:27.000And the Enlightenment idea that every single person wants the same things at root, that every single person, regardless of culture, regardless of education, regardless of how they are brought up, thinks sort of the same things, That is a lie.
00:04:44.000In 2023, Hamas slaughtered children in their cribs, burned them alive, raped women in front of their husbands, and then killed them or dragged them off to Gaza after shooting their husbands in the head.
00:04:54.000And an entire cadre of Westerners thought, well, it's probably because they were victimized in some way.
00:04:58.000Something must have happened to drive them to that.
00:05:02.000This is why, in this current conflict between Israel and Hamas, when Hamas takes its own children and uses them as human shields, The West, at least the leftist West, decides that it must be Israel's fault somehow, because after all, the people of Hamas, they must think the same way that Western leftists do.
00:05:18.000They must be driven to this sort of thing.
00:05:20.000Well, there's another possibility, and that's because Hamas does not think like you.
00:05:52.000There are a lot of people who prize, for example, religious fealty over freedom.
00:05:56.000There are a lot of people There are a lot of people who prize a lot of different things in ways that you don't prize and that's why you have to understand who they are in order to deal with them realistically.
00:06:08.000This means that we must be realistic about our enemies on the foreign front, obviously.
00:06:13.000Jobs are not going to solve the problems that you have with Hamas or Hezbollah.
00:06:18.000Appeasement is not going to solve the problems you have with the Chinese government.
00:06:28.000That is the best way to understand them rather than simply projecting your own thoughts onto them and then assuming that if something makes them angry, it must be you.
00:06:36.000But it's not just being realistic about our enemies on the foreign front.
00:06:38.000It also means we have to be realistic about many of the people who live with us, fellow Americans, fellow Westerners, many of whom also don't want the same things that you do.
00:06:47.000And what that really means is that we're going to have to have some extremely serious discussions in this country about what holds us all together.
00:06:55.000As the country feels like it's fraying, as it feels like it's coming apart, we're gonna have to figure out what do we hold in common?
00:07:00.000Because if it turns out that people don't think like you in the country that you live in, You have a serious problem, a very serious problem.
00:07:07.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:08:15.000When you take a look at the problem of people in the country who don't think like you, we're gonna have to start thinking pretty seriously about what holds us together.
00:08:22.000Now, the very notion of free speech is not it.
00:08:24.000Because it turns out that free speech, it's an important principle, but it also does not speak to what kind of speech is good.
00:08:33.000A room in which any opinion is held is indeed a room that theoretically has a common value, namely that any opinion should be allowed to be held, but that is not enough to build a society upon.
00:08:42.000You have to have a common vision of the good.
00:08:44.000So what exactly is going to hold us together?
00:08:45.000Is it the Constitution and rule of law?
00:08:47.000Well, it feels like that's falling apart pretty quickly right now when you have the Colorado State Supreme Court that is basically overthrowing the Constitution and the rule of law in order to bar Donald Trump from the ballot.
00:08:56.000Is it gonna be the rule of law from the White House?
00:08:58.000Well, not while they're promoting the violation of law with illegal executive orders and the DOJ being militarized against political opponents.
00:09:07.000And as we'll discuss in a minute, there's gonna be a backlash to that that's gonna be just as ugly.
00:09:27.000Mainline political opponents should be silenced.
00:09:29.000We live in a country in which college campuses will kick you off the campus for saying that men are men and women are women, and then the college presidents will go testify in front of Congress, simultaneously, about how it requires context to truly understand in a serious way whether or not calling for genocide of Jews is bad.
00:09:48.000That used to be something that held us together.
00:09:50.000Well now, there are states that are actively targeting religious practice.
00:09:54.000And as our institutions wane, which was the glue that held us together, because we all used to go to church or synagogue together, we used to have common events, a common culture, what's going to hold us together then?
00:10:07.000We found this one out good and hard this year.
00:10:10.000If America and the West go to sleep on our enemies, our enemies take advantage.
00:10:15.000There's this bizarre notion that has become quite prevalent on the left and on the right, that if America just goes to sleep and retreats into itself, the rest of the world stays exactly the way that it was one moment ago.
00:10:27.000If America abandons the world, the world becomes significantly worse.
00:10:30.000And that has real spillover for the United States.
00:10:33.000Not just in terms of bad things happening all over the world, because you can always close your eyes and pretend it doesn't affect you, it's happening very far away, but also in terms of how you live your life.
00:10:41.000The economy, which you do rely upon, gets a lot worse.
00:10:45.000Your safety becomes a lot more tenuous when it turns out there are a lot more people around your borders who hate your guts.
00:10:52.000If you go to sleep on your enemies, they take advantage.
00:10:55.000That's been clear since Joe Biden decided to ignominiously and cowardly fashion run away from Afghanistan and hand over the country to 7th century barbarians.
00:11:06.000It's also true, by the way, in Ukraine, the reality is that thanks to Barack Obama and prior presidents, including George W. Bush, basically doing very little when Russia invaded Georgia, when Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbass, It turns out that that encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine.
00:11:23.000There's been a lot of talk about how Western militants created Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:11:27.000Now, Western weakness created Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:11:30.000Because if Russia actually felt they were going to get clocked in severe fashion and lose the war, they wouldn't have entered the war.
00:11:47.000Not when it comes to intransigent enemies who don't like the way that you live and have fundamental disagreements about how the world order should be structured.
00:11:54.000When it comes to those countries, only two options.
00:12:52.000The Biden administration went back to appeasing the Iranians, and the first thing they did was get militants on literally every border they have via every single proxy group that they have, from Hamas to Hezbollah in the north of Israel to the Houthis.
00:13:04.000Here, in fact, is a video that the Houthis just released championing their own militants in taking over ships from the Red Sea.
00:15:09.000Every time a mom sees her baby on ultrasound, it's going to radically increase the chance that that baby Okay, again, when it comes to weakness, it breeds aggression.
00:15:21.000Weakness in the Red Sea is going to breed aggression from China.
00:15:24.000China's already making noises about the possibility of taking Taiwan.
00:15:27.000I would say that if things keep going the way that they are, I would say there's better than a 50-50 shot that China attempts to make a more aggressive move against Taiwan.
00:15:34.000For example, attempting to blockade Taiwan and daring the West to break that blockade at the risk of getting into a direct war with China.
00:15:41.000and at the risk of China shutting down the Taiwan Strait or creating such trouble in the South China Sea that the world economy absolutely tanks in advance of an election.
00:15:49.000You could certainly see China doing that while Joe Biden is president because they see that he is weak.
00:15:54.000They see, just as well as everyone else does, that San Francisco is literally a cesspool filled with human feces until the Chinese president shows up, at which point the dictator gets to see clean streets and they clean up the streets for him.
00:16:05.000Appeasement to China is going to breed more aggression.
00:16:08.000This is also true, by the way, with regard to immigration.
00:16:11.000Weakness on our southern border means lots and lots of people are taking advantage, which is why the Biden administration has been seen by illegal immigrants the world over as a patsy.
00:16:21.000It's why you see people chanting Joe Biden's name as they approach the southern border.
00:16:24.000It's why you are seeing hundreds of thousands of people arriving at the southern border every month.
00:16:51.000You shouldn't discriminate between cultures.
00:16:53.000But if you don't stand up for your own culture, you end up importing extraordinary numbers of people who actually hate your culture and undermine your culture.
00:17:16.000I'll give you an example of what bravery actually looks like, because this is just an astonishing story.
00:17:21.000Last week we covered what has been the worst story of the war for the Israelis after October 7th, which was there were three hostages who were taken by Hamas and its civilian allies into the Gaza Strip and these three hostages somehow got loose.
00:17:35.000And they put up a sign in Hebrew that said, we are hostages.
00:17:38.000They apparently were free for three days or so.
00:17:42.000And then they tried to surrender to the Israeli troops.
00:17:44.000They were bare chested and they were carrying white flags.
00:17:47.000And the Israeli troops thought that they were probably terrorists because that looks like a trap.
00:17:51.000This was not an area where hostages are supposed to be roaming free.
00:17:54.000Israel had been dealing with booby traps and bombs on bodies for a very long time in this war.
00:18:00.000And so the Israeli troops, the IDF, shot these three hostages by accident and killed them.
00:19:14.000We want to see you with our own eyes, to hug you, and tell you that you did everything you could, as much as it hurts to say it was the right thing.
00:20:52.000Now, lesson four, what goes around comes around always and forever.
00:20:57.000If you do something to somebody else politically in the United States, the chances are extremely high that that is going to come back to haunt you.
00:21:05.000So when it comes to domestic politics, Democrats seem to be under the weird impression that playing with legal fire has no consequences.
00:21:15.000The prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, which are going to carry well into next year throughout the election cycle, four separate prosecutions, three of which are entirely spurious.
00:21:24.000The New York prosecution of Donald Trump.
00:21:56.000In fact, James Comey specifically went out of his way to change the nature of the law to let her off the hook.
00:22:01.000So all of that wrapped together looks like a political prosecution of Trump.
00:22:06.000And Trump has been making the case that the system is weaponized against him.
00:22:09.000And then the cherry was put on top of that particular sundae by the Colorado State Supreme Court this week, which announced that Donald Trump could simply be removed from the ballot in primaries and the general election as a quote-unquote insurrectionist, despite the fact that there is no definition of insurrectionist in law that Donald Trump has not been convicted of or tried for insurrection.
00:22:28.000Even the cases in which he is currently tried do not allege violation of insurrection law.
00:22:33.000The attempt to turn Donald Trump into the test case for this is totally insane.
00:22:40.000Furthermore, when you issue executive orders that move well beyond the Constitution, when you, Joe Biden, decide that you're going to use OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Hazards Administration, to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans in violation of law, when you use your pen in order to simply relieve student loan debt, When you do those things, you are setting the stage for precisely the reverse to be done to you.
00:23:07.000If you wish for Republicans to abide by the law, you can't break the law.
00:23:11.000If you wish for Republicans not to abuse executive power, you cannot abuse executive power.
00:23:16.000Once you open Pandora's box, the box is now open.
00:23:19.000And the box is open because Republicans seem to think that if bad Democratic behavior justifies Republican reactionary bad behavior, that's also totally fine.
00:23:28.000So things are going to get worse because then Democrats are going to take whatever Republicans add on to the bad behavior and then they're going to add on to that bad behavior.
00:23:38.000Decide that they're going to try to take down Trump post-2016 with a series of lies.
00:23:43.000That justifies Donald Trump lying about the law with regard to the 2020 election and suggesting that the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, had the unilateral ability to simply throw out certified votes.
00:23:54.000And that then justifies Democrats reacting by abusing the law to bar Trump from the ballot overtly or to prosecute him politically to stop him.
00:24:02.000All of which will then justify Donald Trump denying the election results in 2024 if he loses.
00:24:09.000All of which will then justify riots and prosecutions.
00:24:12.000We can see precisely where all of this is going.
00:24:14.000The endless cycle of reactionary politics can only be stopped if somebody decides not to be a reactionary and to be reasonable and to stop.
00:24:27.000Because otherwise, one side is unilaterally disarming.
00:24:30.000And herein lies the problem with our modern politics.
00:24:32.000There is no consensus that both sides need to stop this.
00:24:36.000There are too many Democrats who are out there celebrating barring Donald Trump from the ballot.
00:24:40.000There are too many Democrats who are out there celebrating the political prosecutions of Donald Trump.
00:24:45.000There are too many Democrats who are perfectly willing to watch Joe Biden be dictatorial in his presidency because he's a member of their party.
00:24:53.000And all that's gonna justify is similar but more action from the other side, which will justify similar but more action from the other side.
00:24:59.000The nature of American politics is incredibly reactionary at this point in time.
00:25:03.000What you really need is for both sides to go weapons down, all of which goes back to the second lesson, which is we better find some common ground pretty damned quickly or things are going to get really ugly really fast, a lot uglier even than they are right now, which is why 2024 is shaping up to just be a dumpster fire.
00:25:17.000Okay, finally, lesson number five from 2023.
00:25:30.000Now on the left, that incompetence is coming from the fact that the meritocracy is seen as an imposition of power.
00:25:38.000That somehow, if you are good at things and you are successful, that's not because you're good at things, it's because you exploited someone.
00:25:43.000And so the best thing that we can do is get rid of the meritocracy and then ignore the incompetence.
00:25:48.000The incompetence has now bled through to every area of our government.
00:27:14.000Alejandro Mayorkas, our Homeland Security Secretary, wildly incompetent, leaving the border fully open while maintaining that it is actually closed.
00:27:22.000Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who loves choo-choo trains.
00:27:27.000That dude took off for like a couple of months and no one even noticed, then he came back and none of the planes land on time and trains are blowing up.
00:27:34.000The levels of incompetence are astonishing.
00:27:36.000Democrats in the Senate are wildly incompetent.
00:27:39.000Democrats in the House are even more incompetent.
00:27:41.000They can't even find it in their maimed hearts to somehow condemn the anti-Semitism of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:27:48.000But don't worry, it is not just Democrats.
00:27:52.000Republicans in Congress have decided to engage in an idiotic race to the bottom, ousting a Speaker of the House this year for no apparent reason to replace him with a person who's just fine, Mike Johnson, but who is now incentivized by the exact same structure so they will pass the exact same bills, except that they're probably going to lose Kevin McCarthy's seat.
00:28:08.000So just really smart stuff happening right here.
00:28:11.000Incompetence has been wildly rewarded on all sides of the political aisle because there is something.
00:28:16.000A really sick seed that has been buried in the American body politic in the ground and it's borne ugly fruit.
00:28:22.000And that seed is that if you fail, your failure is someone else's fault.
00:28:27.000This is true in terms of our agencies.
00:28:29.000Our agencies are wildly incompetent on the state level, as evidenced by the Maui fire, where the state agencies not only did not do their environmental work, they then didn't even sound the alarms properly to let people get the hell out when everything was on fire.
00:28:49.000They're filled with people who are abandoning eternal values.
00:28:51.000The only reason you go to church, they're abandoning those eternal values in this bizarre push to fill the pews with left-wingers who don't actually worship God, but worship a weird lawn sign that's multicolored and says dumb crap like, water is wet.
00:29:07.000The amount of incompetence throughout every element of our society is truly a problem, especially because when people are faced with incompetence, they get mad.
00:29:15.000Now, the normal reaction would be get mad at the incompetence and then put competent people in power.
00:29:19.000But we've forbidden that because we've created an entire ideology that bars getting rid of the incompetent people.
00:29:26.000The best example of the day, this is an amazing, it's a wonderful story, so Claudine Gay, who is the president of Harvard, she of course has come under fire recently because she went in front of Congress and she made an ass of herself because she was asked whether in fact calling for the genocide of Jews was violative of Harvard student policy.
00:29:42.000The answer is yes, we shouldn't be calling for the genocide of Jews.
00:29:46.000Now, if she had said, we love free speech here, and then Harvard actually did love free speech, that might be an argument, but they don't love free speech at Harvard, they suck at free speech at Harvard.
00:29:54.000So what she really meant is, you can call for the genocide of Jews, but pretty much no other group.
00:29:58.000Well, this then led to the opening of Claudine Gay's past, and it turns out that she is a garbage scholar who has plagiarized in dozens of instances.
00:30:08.000According to the New York Times, Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over possible plagiarism in the scholarly work of its president, Claudine Gay, said on Wednesday it had found two additional instances of insufficient citation in her work.
00:30:20.000Those issues were found in Dr. Gay's 1997 doctoral dissertation, in which Harvard said it had found two examples of what they called, this is amazing language.
00:30:27.000You know what, you ready for some incompetence covering right here?
00:30:45.000Literally, the definition of the word plagiarism is, quote, the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
00:30:53.000Here's what Harvard is now calling this practice.
00:30:56.000They're now calling this practice, again, the phrase was duplicative language without appropriate attribution.
00:31:03.000Oh, you mean copying someone's language without citing them, which is stealing their language, which is plagiarism.
00:31:09.000But they can't get rid of Cloudy and Gay, because you see, Cloudy and Gay is a black woman.
00:31:13.000The first black woman president in the history of Harvard.
00:31:15.000Mediocrity and incompetence must be rewarded.
00:31:19.000And those who call out mediocrity and failure, those people are really the people to blame.
00:31:26.000So the comment of the year on this particular topic comes courtesy of a person I actually had for contracts when I was at Harvard Law School, Charles Freed.
00:31:36.000He was old then, so he's really old now.
00:31:38.000Charles Freed, I mean, this is such an amazing quote.
00:31:43.000He worked for Reagan, he was a solicitor general under Reagan, so he was one of the supposed conservatives at the law school, but he was never particularly conservative.
00:31:50.000He was always middle of the road, politically, at best.
00:31:53.000Here's what he said, quote, it's part of this extreme right-wing attack
00:32:12.000If you point out the incompetence, but you're of the wrong political persuasion, if you're Chris Ruffo, and you point out the plagiarism, or if you are Aaron Siberian, and you point out the plagiarism, then Charles Freed won't even take it under advisement.
00:32:26.000Because again, the precious must be protected.
00:32:29.000It is more important to protect your ideological leanings than it is to protect any level of meritocracy.
00:32:36.000In fact, we've built entire edifices of ideology to excuse incompetence and failure.
00:32:42.000On both sides, we now find conspiracy theories to undermine the basic idea of merit.
00:32:47.000On the left, if you're failing, it's because, as stated before, you're victimized by the white oppressors.
00:32:50.000And this is a prevalent ideology, particularly among young people.
00:32:53.00079% of people 18 to 24 agree with that.
00:32:54.000That if you fail, If you suck at life, that's not because you've made bad decisions, it's because you're being victimized by some evil cadre of people in the back room who are screwing you.
00:33:07.000On the right, if you are failing, it's also, shockingly, because of a cadre of evil people in the back room who are screwing you.
00:33:15.000Maybe it's the people who love free markets.
00:33:18.000And maybe it's people who want to maximize profits instead of, you know, turning this all over to a bunch of government bureaucrats for government subsidization of particular electoral cliques.
00:33:28.000Understand that the theory of populism, which is, effectively speaking, that your own failures are not under your own control ever, ever, ever.
00:34:10.000The meritocracy is the great American idea.
00:34:14.000The meritocracy, the idea that if you work hard, and if you are smart, and if you make good moral decisions, you will succeed.
00:34:20.000That is a unique, Western, beautiful idea.
00:34:23.000It is the best idea, maybe the best idea in all of human history, because what it suggests is that if you make the right decisions, you can create positive externalities for everybody else.
00:34:33.000See, competence creates great externalities for everybody.
00:34:36.000It makes the world better for everyone.
00:34:38.000Elon Musk being competent at building cars makes better cars for you.
00:34:42.000Elon Musk sucking at building cars would be really bad.
00:34:45.000And the same thing is true in every single job.
00:34:50.000We need competence in our institutions.
00:34:52.000If we don't get competence, things are likely to get worse and worse.
00:34:55.000And then people will blame, ironically, the system and call for more control by people who still have not actually shown any competence in these areas.
00:35:09.000Unless these trends are reversed, unless these lessons are learned and people start to get it through their heads, that meritocracy matters and incompetence should not be rewarded.
00:35:20.000That perhaps we should seek common ground at least with regard to baseline American principles instead of ripping each other apart.
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00:39:24.000According to the Wall Street Journal, as millions of student loan borrowers make payments this year for the first time since 2020, many are grappling with maddening bureaucratic problems.
00:39:32.000Borrowers subscribing, Waiting on hold for hours, trying and failing to get answers from their loan servicers.
00:39:37.000Some receive inaccurate or conflicting information about amounts owed and the status of their loans.
00:39:41.000Others heard barely anything at all, only to be hit with surprise bills.
00:39:45.000The logistical morass, which comes less than a year before the 2024 election, has complicated Joe Biden's efforts to ensure that voters credit him for slashing student debt.
00:39:52.000Biden's initial plan to cancel up to 20 grand in federal student loan debt for people making less than $125,000 a year was struck down by the Supreme Court in June.
00:40:02.000Since then, the administration advanced narrower loan relief.
00:40:05.000They wiped away $132 billion in debt for 3.6 million borrowers.
00:40:09.000And just keep going with the illegality, but it turns out that even that is a bleep show.
00:40:14.000Meanwhile, even the Education Department is noting the risks associated with transferring loans and messing around with all of this.
00:40:20.000The Education Department says these borrowers are returning to a student loan system that is midstream and making fundamental reforms to student loan servicing and borrower benefits.
00:40:31.000It's not going to be great for all those people who are relying on Joe Biden.
00:40:33.000It turns out that when you lie to people and then people discover the lies, they're not particularly happy with you.
00:40:38.000Meanwhile, Jerome Powell is sowing confusion over at the Federal Reserve.
00:40:42.000Again, according to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was asked at a recent gathering what he does for fun.
00:40:48.000He said, quote, for me, a really big party is a really good inflation report, but it doesn't matter because right now it's unclear exactly what the hell the Fed is going to do.
00:40:57.000Officials last week didn't rule out higher rates, but Jerome Powell ignited a market rally when he volunteered that some officials described their own rate cut outlooks, even if that wasn't a central focus.
00:41:06.000So, it's unclear what exactly is coming out from the Fed.
00:41:09.000The markets believe that the Fed is going to lower the rates again.
00:41:12.000The Fed has not made clear whether it's going to leave them or even increase the rates if the inflation continues the way that it has.
00:41:19.000All of this is leading to serious uncertainty.
00:41:23.000Interest rates could still be quite restrictive even if we adjust policy by lowering rates three times next year, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly pointed out in an interview on Monday.
00:41:33.000Also, it's unclear exactly whether the interest rates are going to stay up.
00:42:26.000He says the public interest in a prompt resolution of this case favors an immediate definitive decision by this court.
00:42:31.000The charges here are of the utmost gravity.
00:42:33.000This case involves criminal charges against a former president based on his actions while in office.
00:42:37.000Not just any actions, alleged acts to perpetuate himself in power by frustrating the constitutionally prescribed process for certifying the lawful winner of an election.
00:42:46.000The nation has a compelling interest in a decision on respondents claim of immunity from these charges and if they are to be tried a resolution by conviction or acquittal without undue delay.
00:45:00.000They said there were several dead and dozens of injured around that Faculty of Arts building at the University of Prague.
00:45:05.000Apparently, the presumed shooter had been interested in Killing as many people as possible in a school shooting.
00:45:11.000Apparently was obsessed with school shootings all around the world.
00:45:15.000He apparently shot his father earlier in the day in a small village outside of Prague.
00:45:20.000Police attempted to find the 24-year-old afterward.
00:45:22.000They discovered that he was scheduled to give a lecture at the university on Thursday afternoon.
00:45:27.000Instead, he had what sounded like a machine gun, if you hear the sounds, and he decided to open fire on random innocent people.
00:45:38.000Apparently he was a history student with a history of psychological problems.
00:45:43.000It's an absolutely terrible story, obviously.
00:45:46.000The Czech Republic happens to be a place with significant gun control.
00:45:49.000Very, very strong gun control in Prague.
00:45:52.000There was not much that really could be done to stop him, so he apparently had free reign with a viewpoint above the areas that he was shooting at.
00:46:02.000Students were trying to hide on the balconies.
00:46:03.000It was taking place on a high story of a building.
00:46:07.000You can see pictures of him on the high story of the building
00:46:08.000and students were attempting to cling to the ledge itself.
00:46:12.000Apparently one of the people actually fell from the ledge and was killed in the fall.
00:46:33.000It is a problem anywhere you have people who are mentally ill and have serious psychological problems and violent psychological problems, and you can't obtain guns.
00:46:42.000It is still possible to obtain guns even in places with significant gun control, and there was no one there who could stop this guy because no one there had a gun in response.
00:46:50.000Okay, meanwhile, the Israel-Hamas war continues.
00:46:55.000Revelations every single day about the extent to which Hamas was honeycombed throughout the Gaza Strip, including at the hospitals.
00:47:01.000In fact, Israel released a video of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital admitting that he was a Hamas commander.
00:47:07.000Remember, he was the director of a hospital admitting that he was a Hamas commander.
00:47:11.000Here he was doing just that under interrogation.
00:47:49.000Describe how Hamas uses your hospital to hide military activities.
00:47:54.000Those who are hidden officially, which were coordinated, that I know about, according to rank, they are the senior political officials.
00:48:01.000They are the seniors, the military and civilian officials.
00:48:06.000They had rooms, which they hid in, at the hospital desk.
00:48:11.000They stayed there ten days, then they changed places, to a different place, and then they left the hospital.
00:48:16.000So, yes, of course they were hiding in the hospital.
00:48:19.000And of course, the leadership of these hospitals knew they were hiding in the hospitals, and yet all those leaders of the hospitals have been quoted by the media as excellent sources on the human rights violations that are happening in and around the hospital due to the Israelis.
00:48:36.000Meanwhile, you can always count on small-minded bigots like Joy Reid at MSNBC to completely miss the point by comparing what is going on in Gaza to Rwanda and Darfur, you know, places where actual genocides were attempted As opposed to very specific military operations that have, according to Israel, killed upwards of 8,000 members of Hamas out of the 20,000 dead so far.
00:48:59.000And by the way, a huge number of the people who are not in that 8,000 number are Hamas fellow travelers who are hanging out with Hamas.
00:49:06.000Israel has been more precise in its targeting than any army in modern history, but Joy Reid is comparing this to Darfur and Rwanda.
00:49:15.000President Biden has hitched the global credibility of America to the moral credibility of Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:49:22.000And that's just a disaster for us around the world.
00:49:25.000I think of Darfur, I think of Rwanda, I think of previous cases in which the United States sort of watched seemingly helplessly as people died by the hundreds of thousands.
00:49:34.000And so, you know, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:49:37.000But in this case, unlike those cases, this feels like this is us doing it.
00:49:42.000The human misery is being funded by the United States taxpayers, yet it doesn't seem that U.S.
00:49:50.000public opinion, it's important to note, has shifted a lot on this issue and I think is in a different place than the American political establishment is on this.
00:50:37.000He says that a lot of people have warped minds on Israel.
00:50:40.000He says, I do find it confusing where the very left progressives in America don't seem to want to support the only progressive nation in the region that really embraces the same kind of values I would expect we would want as a society.
00:50:50.000Again, Jon Fetterman, the shock of the year.
00:50:53.000And we have more positive shocks in the coming year.
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