The Ben Shapiro Show - December 04, 2023


For The Left, “Balance” Means Shrugging at Sexual Assault

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The White House wants Israel to do a better job protecting civilians in Gaza, but won t even acknowledge the crimes committed by Hamas against Israeli women and girls. Why is there not more international outrage about the rape of Israeli women by Hamas? And why does the White House continue to demand Israel do more to protect its own citizens from Hamas terrorists in Gaza? What is the difference between Hamas and Israel in terms of human rights and human rights violations committed by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians? And what role does the U.S. have in all of this, other than to demand that Israel do the opposite of what Israel is already doing in order to protect itself and its own civilians from Hamas terrorist enemies? The question is, should Israel be doing more than what it's already doing, or should it be doing the opposite? And what are the consequences for Israel if it fails to do the job it s already doing well enough in Gaza and fails to get Hamas on the same page in the long-term? Is there any chance of victory for Israel in Gaza or will it suffer an actual defeat? Or will Israel suffer a strategic defeat in the end? This is a no-win scenario, and if Israel doesn t get rid of Hamas, it will suffer a defeat, then it will be a strategic disaster. by the end of the day, it s going to suffer a "no-win" scenario, which is what it needs to do to avoid a "No-win situation, which it desperately needs to avoid an actual loss in order not only by Israel's enemies, but also by losing a strategic victory. And if it doesn t do anything, it won't do anything at all of its efforts to achieve its strategic victory in Gaza. by Israel does not do it at all, it does not achieve what it can t do, it's going to do any of its goals in Gaza in any way at all and it's not going to achieve what they need to do in Gaza will be left to do it in Gaza without getting rid of a strategic win, it can do anything to achieve anything that it does in Gaza at all at all to achieve a strategic success in any chance it gets to achieve their strategic victory, and it will have to do so much more than it does anything it does it will fail to do anything in Gaza can do to achieve an actual victory in the least they can do, no matter what they do.

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00:00:00.000 There's a famous comic from 2014, during the last major war between Israel and Hamas.
00:00:04.000 It was done by cartoonist A.F.
00:00:06.000 Branko, and it depicts then-Secretary of State John Kerry sitting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of Hamas.
00:00:13.000 The Hamas terrorist has a baby strapped to him with dynamite, and he's holding a paper reading demands. 0.99
00:00:18.000 Death to all Jews. 1.00
00:00:19.000 Kerry is asking Netanyahu, could you at least meet him halfway? 1.00
00:00:23.000 The more things change, the more they stay the same.
00:00:25.000 This weekend, Rep.
00:00:26.000 Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, appeared on CNN, where she was asked about why there hasn't been more international outrage over Hamas' systematic rape of Israeli women.
00:00:36.000 The accounts of Hamas rapes have been legion.
00:00:38.000 Over the weekend, 39-year-old Yoni Sadon told the UK's Sunday Times that he saw at the Nova Festival a beautiful woman, quote, an eight or ten of fighters beating and raping her. 0.98
00:00:47.000 She was screaming, stop it already, I'm going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me. 0.97
00:00:51.000 When they finished, said Sidon, they were laughing, the last one shot her in the head. 0.99
00:00:54.000 Here was Jayapal's response. 0.98
00:00:57.000 Rape is horrific. 0.99
00:00:58.000 Sexual assault is horrific. 0.52
00:00:59.000 I think that it happens in war situations.
00:01:02.000 Terrorist organizations like Hamas obviously are using these as tools.
00:01:07.000 However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians.
00:01:15.000 15,000 Palestinians have been Killed in Israeli airstrikes, three quarters of whom are women and children. 0.76
00:01:24.000 And it's horrible, but you don't see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.
00:01:30.000 Well, Dana, I don't want this to be the hierarchy of oppressions. 0.97
00:01:35.000 That is hysterical.
00:01:36.000 For the first time, Pramila Jayapal now opposes a hierarchy of oppression.
00:01:40.000 Balance, you see, is the key.
00:01:42.000 Balance in all things.
00:01:43.000 Never mind the new reports emerging from hostages about just what they experienced in Gaza at the hands of Hamas.
00:01:48.000 According to the Daily Mail, for weeks they were starved, beaten, drugged, branded,
00:01:51.000 and made to watch footage of Hamas terrorists invading their homeland with weapons pointed to their heads
00:01:56.000 until the moment was right for the terror group.
00:01:57.000 One hostage was operated on by a veterinarian.
00:02:00.000 Many of the hostages were kept with supposed civilians in the Gaza Strip, giving the lie to the hard and fast distinction between Gaza's Hamas members and the civilian population.
00:02:09.000 But still, why can't the Israelis meet their Jew-hating terrorist enemies halfway?
00:02:14.000 Increasingly, this seems to be the logic of the Biden White House.
00:02:17.000 Although, to be clear, they aren't actually asking Israel to meet the Palestinians halfway, they're actually asking them to meet them about 80% of the way.
00:02:24.000 As Israel's offensive against Hamas renews in southern Gaza, the White House has now ratcheted up its absurd and continuous demands for Israel to do a, quote, better job protecting civilians, as though Israel is in the business of murdering civilians the same way Hamas is, or as though Israel isn't already taking insane precautions to avoid the killing of civilians.
00:02:41.000 Israel is actually taking more precautions to avoid civilian deaths than any army in modern history, as Ron Zermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, pointed out over the weekend.
00:02:50.000 We saw the UNICEF director there in Tom Sufi Burrage's piece, and we heard Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say that if that continues, this could be not only humanitarian disaster, but a strategic calamity for Israel.
00:03:01.000 Your response?
00:03:03.000 Well, listen, we're doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harm's way.
00:03:07.000 I want the American people to understand this.
00:03:09.000 This war is not going on thousands of miles away.
00:03:12.000 It's going on literally hundreds of yards away, and it's going on at a time when rockets are flying into our country and we have people running to bomb shelters.
00:03:19.000 I think what the Israeli army has done in prosecuting this war is unprecedented in the history of warfare.
00:03:26.000 When you have an enemy right on your border, and you're doing everything to get the civilians of that enemy out of harm's way.
00:03:33.000 I don't think any other country, including the United States, I don't know if you ever faced a situation like this, would take such great care.
00:03:40.000 Yet Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent the weekend warning the Israelis that the government risks, quote, strategic defeat in Gaza, even if they win a, quote, tactical victory, because Palestinians, he said, might be driven into the arms of the enemy.
00:03:52.000 This naturally creates a catch-22.
00:03:54.000 Israel can't get rid of Hamas without civilians dying, specifically because Hamas wants its own civilians to die. 0.52
00:04:01.000 If Israel does get rid of Hamas and civilians die, by Austin's logic, Israel will then suffer a strategic defeat. 0.64
00:04:07.000 And if Israel doesn't get rid of Hamas, Israel will suffer an actual defeat. 0.81
00:04:10.000 This is called a no-win scenario, and yet the White House seems eager to provide Israel with no-win scenarios lately.
00:04:16.000 Thus, the Biden administration is reportedly encouraging Israel to restore humanitarian aid into Gaza at the same levels as they did during the recent ceasefire. 0.98
00:04:25.000 That's political idiocy. 0.95
00:04:26.000 First off, it removes all incentive for Hamas to come back to the table if the aid is something Hamas wants, since they steal it. 1.00
00:04:33.000 Giving them the aid while Hamas continues to hold hostages is ridiculous.
00:04:37.000 Second, Israel is currently at war.
00:04:39.000 The fuel the U.S.
00:04:40.000 wants shipped into Gaza goes largely to Hamas.
00:04:43.000 Then, of course, the media lie about all of this, leading to awkward exchanges like this one between a Sky News reporter and a spokesperson for the IDF.
00:04:51.000 You're telling people where is going to be targeted next.
00:04:54.000 People don't have power to power up their mobile phones.
00:04:57.000 They haven't got Wi-Fi.
00:04:59.000 Well, I don't know.
00:05:00.000 I mean, I think you and all of your viewers saw our hostages being paraded through the streets as they were released to Israel over those seven nights, and hundreds of Gazans holding their phones, videoing them.
00:05:12.000 So clearly there's enough power to power their phones when they're parading our hostages through our Gaza.
00:05:17.000 Now that same power to their phones will be to get the maps, download the maps, look at the flyers, and don't forget, we're not only... Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so sorry, we are out of time.
00:05:28.000 Reporter is so humiliated.
00:05:29.000 I'm sorry, we're done here.
00:05:31.000 Yes, it turns out there is electricity, which is how all of the terrorists and their friends are powering their cell phones.
00:05:36.000 Then there's the no-win scenario being pressed forward by the White House for after Hamas falls, the supposed option of the Palestinian Authority taking over in the Gaza Strip.
00:05:43.000 Vice President Kamala Harris fresh offered disquisitions on the power of school buses and Venn diagrams and handling the border.
00:05:49.000 Remember that time she was supposed to handle the border?
00:05:51.000 She laid this one out there.
00:05:53.000 We have to revitalize the Palestinian Authority, which means giving the support that is necessary for good governance.
00:06:02.000 Understanding that on the issues that must be resolved as we think of a plan for the day after, it is about good governance which will bring transparency and accountability to the people of Gaza and the West Bank.
00:06:15.000 It's also about what we need to do to recognize there must be some Plan for security for the region and I suspect as a plan develops it will take into account interim and then longer term. 0.69
00:06:31.000 That full-time resident of the uncanny valley putting out the dumbest plan imaginable.
00:06:35.000 Revitalizing the Palestinian Authority? 0.94
00:06:37.000 The PA doesn't even have full control of its citizens in the West Bank, Judea and Samaria.
00:06:41.000 The Arab world thinks Mahmoud Abbas is a joke, because he is. 0.90
00:06:44.000 And so do the people he rules over, by the way.
00:06:46.000 If elections were actually held in the West Bank today, Hamas would likely win. 0.95
00:06:50.000 All of this is silly nonsense, and the White House knows it is silly nonsense. 0.77
00:06:54.000 In fact, because the radical Muslim world perceives the White House's weakness, they are pushing, and they are pushing hard. 0.84
00:06:59.000 According to the Associated Press over the weekend, three commercial ships in the Red Sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen on Sunday, and a U.S.
00:07:07.000 warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hours-long assault, according to U.S.
00:07:11.000 military sources.
00:07:12.000 Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Houthi rebels who are backed by Iran.
00:07:16.000 In a statement, CENTCOM said that the attacks, quote, represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security.
00:07:22.000 They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world.
00:07:26.000 It said the three commercial ships and their crews are connected to 14 countries.
00:07:30.000 According to Central Command, the USS Kearney, which is a Navy destroyer, detected a ballistic missile fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen at the Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier Unity Explorer.
00:07:40.000 The missile hit near the ship.
00:07:41.000 Shortly afterward, the Kearney shot down a drone headed its way, although it's not clear if the destroyer was the target.
00:07:45.000 The drone was also launched from Yemen.
00:07:47.000 About 30 minutes later, the Unity Explorer was hit by a missile.
00:07:51.000 And while responding to the distress call, the Kearney shot down another incoming drone.
00:07:56.000 Central Command said the Unity Explorer reported minor damage from the missile.
00:07:59.000 Two other commercial ships, the Panamanian-flagged Bulk Carriers No. 0.99
00:08:03.000 9 and Sophie 2, were both struck by missiles.
00:08:05.000 The No. 0.51
00:08:06.000 9 reported some damage, but no casualties.
00:08:08.000 The Sophie 2 reported no significant damage.
00:08:10.000 While sailing to assist the Sophie 2, the Carney then shot down another drone.
00:08:13.000 Headed in its direction, the drones did no damage.
00:08:16.000 According to Central Command, quote, we have every reason to believe that these attacks, while launched by the Houthis in Yemen, are fully enabled by Iran.
00:08:22.000 They said the U.S.
00:08:23.000 will consider all appropriate responses.
00:08:25.000 Houthi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Sari, claimed Sunday's attacks, saying the first vessel was hit by a missile, the second by a drone, while in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
00:08:36.000 Sari did not mention any U.S.
00:08:37.000 warship being involved in the attack.
00:08:39.000 Quote, the Yemeni armed forces continue to prevent Israeli ships from navigating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden until the Israeli aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops, said Sari.
00:08:48.000 The Yemeni armed forces renew their warning to all Israeli ships or those associated with Israelis.
00:08:52.000 They will become a legitimate target if they violate what is stated in the statement. 0.77
00:08:56.000 Now, in a normal time, this sort of activity against American warships and against international shipping, that would be an act of supreme idiocy.
00:09:05.000 The United States Navy remains the world's foremost guardian of the freedom of the seas, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which is the place where all these attacks are happening, that is the route by which 10% of all global trade passes.
00:09:16.000 Attacking the U.S.
00:09:16.000 Navy directly is absolutely insane, unless you think the United States is weak.
00:09:21.000 So why would the terrorists do that?
00:09:23.000 Well, maybe because they think the United States is weak.
00:09:26.000 And maybe they think that because the Democratic Party's base is showing sympathy for terrorism.
00:09:30.000 There's no other way to put this.
00:09:31.000 The latest Gallup poll shows 50% of Americans approve of Israel's military action in Gaza, with 45% disapproving.
00:09:38.000 Heavy partisan breakdown in this poll.
00:09:41.000 71% of Republicans agree with Israel's actions.
00:09:43.000 Only 36% of Democrats do, compared with 63% of Democrats who do not.
00:09:49.000 What's more, just 30% of people aged 18 to 34 actually approve of Israel's actions against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, compared with 67% of people who don't agree.
00:09:58.000 Only 30% of people of color actually agree with Israel taking action against Hamas, compared with 64% who do not.
00:10:06.000 55% of Democrats think the United States should send more humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, you know, the same people whose government attacked Israel on October 7th and who are stealing all that aid, compared with just 12% who think more military aid should be sent to Israel in the middle of a war.
00:10:20.000 Meanwhile, domestic Muslims are mobilizing to pressure the Biden administration.
00:10:23.000 According to Axios, quote, Muslim American leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania are expected to meet in Dearborn, Michigan, which is absolutely ground zero for radical Islamism in the United States, to launch what they call, quote, an Abandon Biden campaign.
00:10:39.000 Leaders from the swing states, they say, will work together to guarantee Biden's loss in the 2024 election.
00:10:44.000 It should be noted, by the way, the leaders of this particular campaign have their own ugly histories.
00:10:48.000 According to Jewish Insider, one of the leaders, Hassan Shibley, was forced to step down as a local head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for alleged domestic abuse and sexual misconduct.
00:10:57.000 He calls Israel, quote, Zionist ISIS.
00:11:00.000 Several of the leaders of this rally support October 7th.
00:11:03.000 This is the kind of action that terrorists are looking for.
00:11:06.000 They believe that if they create enough trouble, they'll get Americans thinking twice about supporting Israel in the first place.
00:11:11.000 This is the tactic, and it is nothing new.
00:11:13.000 Of course, it goes all the way back to the Arab oil embargo of 1973.
00:11:16.000 It was also Osama bin Laden's strategy in the 1990s.
00:11:20.000 He believed that America was a, quote, paper tiger, and after a few blows, ran in defeat.
00:11:24.000 According to an interview he did in 1998, quote, Bin Laden believes that what we consider to be terrorism is just the amount of violence required to get the attention of the American people.
00:11:32.000 His aim is to get Americans to consider whether continued support of Israel is worth the bloodshed he promises. 0.94
00:11:37.000 Bin Laden told the interviewer, quote, So we tell the Americans as people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers and American mothers in general, that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews.
00:11:52.000 This tactic seems to be working at least with members of the political left and the democratic party.
00:11:56.000 That's why members of the progressive caucus have to downplay the mass rape of women. 1.00
00:12:00.000 Because they would like to cave in, precisely the way Hamas and the Houthis and Iran wish them to cave in. 0.98
00:12:06.000 But they don't really want to lose all moral credibility, so instead, They can sort of condemn rape, but they have to make sure to retain balance.
00:12:12.000 Cowardice requires balance, after all.
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00:14:36.000 So, if a large part of this game is an intimidation tactic on the part of radical Muslims and the international left that is caving to it and agreeing with it, well, you gotta say so far they're being successful. 0.94
00:14:46.000 Over the weekend, a knifeman in Paris killed a German tourist and wounded a Briton.
00:14:51.000 He said he was motivated by the war in Gaza, according to the UK Telegraph.
00:14:54.000 The suspect is 26.
00:14:54.000 He is a convicted terrorist with a history of psychiatric problems, which makes you wonder, why is he out on the streets of Paris?
00:15:01.000 Why is it that Europe is so damn stupid? 1.00
00:15:03.000 He reportedly shouted, wait for it, wait for it, Allahu Akbar, I know, that was a hard one, before being arrested near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. 1.00
00:15:11.000 Video later emerged of police officers approaching the suspect.
00:15:14.000 He's a French-born national to Iranian parents with stun guns drawn.
00:15:17.000 He shouted he was wearing explosives and was also ready to die.
00:15:20.000 He claimed that France was an accomplice to Muslims being killed in Gaza. 0.94
00:15:25.000 He said, quote, we do not forget your crimes against Muslims, especially women and children. 1.00
00:15:28.000 We will fight you and kill you until the last day of judgment. 1.00
00:15:31.000 Apparently, this meant that he was going to attack a German couple with a knife. 1.00
00:15:37.000 You ask yourself, why would they do that?
00:15:39.000 Right?
00:15:39.000 I mean, sure, they hate Jews, but why are they just attacking random German tourists?
00:15:43.000 And the answer is, to scare the hell out of you. 0.90
00:15:45.000 That is the whole point of terrorism.
00:15:47.000 The whole point of terrorism is to scare you into doing what they want.
00:15:50.000 That's the whole idea here.
00:15:52.000 And that sort of tactic is now being applied pretty much everywhere.
00:15:54.000 So in Philadelphia last night, Quote-unquote, protesters decided they were going to threaten a falafel shop in Philadelphia.
00:16:00.000 What did this falafel shop do?
00:16:01.000 Is the falafel shop involved in making Israeli foreign policy?
00:16:05.000 Apparently, according to these protesters, it is.
00:16:06.000 Why?
00:16:06.000 Because it's Israeli-owned.
00:16:08.000 So they literally gathered outside this falafel shop to threaten the owner of a falafel shop in Philadelphia.
00:16:15.000 I mean, let me think.
00:16:15.000 Is there another population in history that threatened Jewish business owners for the crime of being Jewish?
00:16:21.000 Heart.
00:16:22.000 Oh, yeah, right.
00:16:23.000 I did not see that one coming.
00:16:24.000 In any case, here we go.
00:16:25.000 These are the protesters threatening a falafel shop in Philadelphia for world peace, of course.
00:16:30.000 So Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide!
00:16:32.000 Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide!
00:16:34.000 We charge you with genocide!
00:16:37.000 We charge you with genocide!
00:16:41.000 Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide!
00:16:44.000 Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide!
00:16:47.000 We charge you with genocide!
00:16:51.000 They're shouting, Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide.
00:16:52.000 We charge you with genocide.
00:16:53.000 Goldies is the name of the falafel shop.
00:16:56.000 By the way, the amount of projection here is just astonishing. 0.93
00:16:58.000 These are people who would love to see every Jew wiped off the face of the earth, which is why they are attacking a Jewish falafel shop in Philadelphia. 0.99
00:17:05.000 And certainly they want every Jew in the Middle East killed. 1.00
00:17:08.000 They want those people gone. 0.99
00:17:10.000 And yet, they're the ones charging everybody else with genocide.
00:17:13.000 The amount of projection is always insane from the anti-Semites.
00:17:16.000 Meanwhile, over in Columbus Circle, you had protesters who decided that it was a great
00:17:19.000 time to go shopping, so they decided to break into shops or run roughshod through Columbus Circle.
00:17:24.000 They've now reached Columbus Circle and they are going to run into Columbus Circle.
00:17:39.000 And basically run roughshod through the shops.
00:17:43.000 Again, what's the goal of this?
00:17:44.000 The goal is to intimidate.
00:17:46.000 The goal is to suggest that the only way to stop their bad action is to give in to their demands.
00:17:54.000 And they're running right past security, so security doing an amazing job.
00:17:56.000 Also wildly understaffed.
00:17:58.000 Right there.
00:18:00.000 So, excellent stuff happening all over the country, and this has its predictable effects, which is that the intimidation very often succeeds.
00:18:07.000 So, for example, over in Williamsburg, Virginia, Every year, they have an official menorah lighting.
00:18:16.000 Again, it's that time of year.
00:18:17.000 So, this week, Hanukkah starts.
00:18:19.000 Hanukkah is, in the Jewish calendar, it's a more minor holiday, but in America, it's obviously become a big holiday because of its juxtaposition to Christmas and being part of the season and all of this sort of thing.
00:18:29.000 With that said, it's very common across the country for people to hold Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremonies.
00:18:36.000 The event organizer canceled it.
00:18:38.000 Why?
00:18:38.000 Because apparently, the menorah lighting, which was scheduled for the second Sunday's Art and Music Festival on December 10th in Williamsburg, said that it did not want to appear to choose sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
00:18:49.000 Now, you may say to yourself, wait, what does lighting up a menorah have to do with the Israel-Hamas conflict?
00:18:52.000 And the answer is, nothing.
00:18:54.000 But, again, the idea is that if you even light a menorah, you are choosing sides.
00:18:57.000 Which, by the way, actually is kind of honest, because, let's be real, that is what one side wants.
00:19:02.000 Everyone who would light a menorah they want dead or expelled, that's the goal.
00:19:06.000 The event organizer claimed a Hanukkah celebration would send a message the festival was quote supporting the killing bombing of thousands of men women and children.
00:19:14.000 And, um, they even went further.
00:19:15.000 They offered to reinstate the event if the event called for a ceasefire.
00:19:19.000 So if you mirror the political priors of the people who are anti-semitic, then they will allow you to do what, uh, they will allow you to light your menorah.
00:19:28.000 Which, by the way, is rather counter to the... It's basically the Hanukkah story all over again.
00:19:32.000 The Hanukkah story is about the Greeks basically saying to the Jews they can't light the menorah, and the Jews then leading a massive revolt to stop them from impinging on their religious freedom.
00:19:41.000 But this kind of cowardice, it's becoming common all over the United States.
00:19:45.000 It's certainly happening on our campuses.
00:19:47.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:20:54.000 Meanwhile, intimidation on college campuses is continuing apace.
00:20:57.000 The Columbia School of Social Work is holding a teach-in this week.
00:21:01.000 The poster for this thing is insane.
00:21:02.000 Again, this is the Columbia School of Social Work.
00:21:07.000 Apparently, the poster shows a chain that is being broken by a love flower being fired from an AK-47.
00:21:14.000 I'm not kidding.
00:21:17.000 And a bird of peace!
00:21:19.000 Significance of the October 7th Palestinian counter-offensive teach-in and discussion.
00:21:24.000 Now you might think, what would that counter-offensive be?
00:21:26.000 Oh yeah, that was the mass slaughter and rape of hundreds of people.
00:21:31.000 1,200 people killed, 240 taken hostage.
00:21:34.000 That's the counter-offensive.
00:21:35.000 And they're holding a teach-in at Columbia School of Social Work.
00:21:38.000 So that's exciting stuff.
00:21:39.000 Meanwhile, Cornell students According to Mediaite, protesting against Israel and the university's involvement with companies that do business with Israel occupied a campus building on Friday, holding signs condemning the war in Gaza, chanting from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which of course is a genocidal slogan, and holding a mock trial of the university president when Martha Pollack for, quote, complicity in genocide.
00:22:01.000 Students with the Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation, again, this is the intersectional coalition, organized the protest, which joined many other student demonstrations against Israel with other groups on campus, like Students for Justice in Palestine, which of course is a radical front group.
00:22:14.000 The groups first held a die-in on Thursday on campus.
00:22:17.000 They advertised the event as a, quote, occupation, and then leading up to a mock trial.
00:22:22.000 And then finally, they ended up occupying school buildings, They disrupted studying.
00:22:27.000 They prompted complaints to the dean.
00:22:29.000 They delivered a list of demands.
00:22:31.000 That included that the university take a strong stance against, quote, doxing of students.
00:22:36.000 By doxing, they mean if you take part in a protest and you show your face, that's a form of doxing.
00:22:39.000 Nobody's sending their home addresses.
00:22:41.000 It's now doxing to point out that a person participated in a protest.
00:22:44.000 The group demanded the university divest from Israel and declared that school is implicated in breaches of international law.
00:22:51.000 And then they held a trial of the president of the university and found her guilty of genocide and apartheid.
00:22:57.000 Why?
00:22:58.000 Because Cornell has ties to engineering, aerospace, and other tech companies. 0.89
00:23:02.000 It would be very difficult, by the way, to divest from, you know, the Palestinians because there are no businesses that actually succeed from those particular areas, mainly because they are run by corrupt... corruptocrats. 1.00
00:23:14.000 So, um, that all went particularly well.
00:23:17.000 The administration may end up meeting with them.
00:23:19.000 Probably the administration will end up caving to them because this is what these administrations do.
00:23:22.000 That's exactly what happened over at Brown University.
00:23:25.000 On Monday night last, the Brown University president, Christina Paxson, spoke at a vigil honoring a Palestinian student who'd been wounded in a shooting in Vermont.
00:23:34.000 And then, um, the...
00:23:36.000 The president was interrupted by protesters calling for the university to divest from Israel, of course.
00:23:42.000 Now, what's amazing is that the university published the speech as written on the website.
00:23:46.000 That is not how the speech was delivered.
00:23:49.000 According to the version on the website, she was supposed to say, quote, At a faculty meeting last month, I said that every student, faculty, and staff member should be able to proudly wear a Star of David or Donna Cathia on the Brown campus or to cover their head with a hijab or yarmulke.
00:24:02.000 But after the pro-Hamas students began heckling her, that line changed to quote every student, faculty, and staff member should be able to proudly don a keffiyeh on the Brown campus or to cover their head with a hijab.
00:24:14.000 So, um, there goes the Star of David and the Keepa and the Amaca. 0.86
00:24:19.000 So, yep, caving to all the worst people.
00:24:22.000 Again, that is what the left does.
00:24:23.000 They cave to all the worst people.
00:24:24.000 And you know who knows that is America's enemies.
00:24:27.000 They know this across the board.
00:24:29.000 This, by the way, is why, again, all over the... Why is it that it feels like the world is on fire?
00:24:33.000 Because when the world and America's enemies sense weakness in the White House, they take advantage of this.
00:24:37.000 This would also be, presumably, why Venezuela is now threatening to invade one of its neighbors.
00:24:42.000 According to Yahoo News, Venezuelan electoral authorities on Sunday claimed that 95% of voters in a non-binding referendum approved of the nation's territorial claim on a huge chunk of neighboring oil-rich Guyana.
00:24:55.000 By the way, that sounds like an amazingly free and fair vote in a socialist tyranny when 95% of people approve.
00:25:03.000 Well, that is one of my favorite things, by the way, about these tyrants, is that they will hold the elections in an attempt to show that they are in fact not tyrannies, and then they will stack the results so much that it's like 95 to 5.
00:25:12.000 It's like, guys, if you're gonna hide the ball, like, hide the ball a little bit.
00:25:15.000 Say it was like 65 to 35 or something.
00:25:17.000 But no, it's 95 to 5 that they should go in, crush Guyana, and steal all of its oil. 0.92
00:25:23.000 Maduro, who is the corrupt tyrant of Venezuela, hailed what he called, quote, an overwhelming victory for the yes throughout Venezuela. 0.53
00:25:30.000 Quote, we have taken the first steps of a new historic stage in the struggle for what belongs to us to recover what the liberators left us.
00:25:37.000 The referendum naturally raised fears in Guyana and around the region about Venezuela's ultimate intentions over the contested territory.
00:25:44.000 Maduro hopes the outcome of the referendum will strengthen his nation's century-old claim to the oil-rich Essequibo territory governed by Guyana.
00:25:51.000 The defense minister, Vladimir Padrino, said, quote, Today is a day of ratification of national sovereignty.
00:25:55.000 The people have done it with flying colors.
00:25:58.000 About 10.5 million votes were cast, according to the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso.
00:26:04.000 But the tally stirred confusion because an opposition politician suggested that each voter cast a total of five votes, one for each question on the referendum related to Venezuela's claim.
00:26:13.000 Apparently, it was like two million people who turned out.
00:26:17.000 The Maduro government said it was not seeking justification to invade or annex the huge territory.
00:26:21.000 But, of course, the whole point is a threat.
00:26:24.000 The whole point is a threat.
00:26:24.000 I mean, what they are saying, basically, is, sure, we might invade.
00:26:27.000 I mean, we have an absolutely good claim to, you know, the territory of our neighbor, so we should just... maybe we'll grab it, or maybe he'll sign us a bribe.
00:26:36.000 This is the same sort of shtick that Kim Jong-un routinely does in North Korea.
00:26:40.000 He drops some sort of nuclear test weapon, and then he asks for the West to pay him, said he won't do a bad thing.
00:26:47.000 Venezuela has claimed the huge territory of Essequibo for decades, even though its 160,000 square kilometers represent more than two-thirds of Guyana, and its population of 125,000 is one-fifth of the entire population of Guyana.
00:27:02.000 So, um, good times.
00:27:04.000 Good times.
00:27:05.000 And again, that's only happening... Would that be happening under, say, a President Trump?
00:27:08.000 I have serious doubts.
00:27:09.000 Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to be very bad for the Ukrainians.
00:27:15.000 They tried an all-out frontal assault on dug-in positions.
00:27:19.000 It didn't work.
00:27:20.000 Now, according to Politico, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned the Western military lines should be ready for bad news from the Ukrainian front as Kiev continues to defend against Russia's all-out invasion.
00:27:31.000 Stoltenberg says wars develop in phases.
00:27:33.000 We should also be prepared for bad news.
00:27:35.000 His comments come as Western allies debate over ammo and financial aid for Ukraine and Moscow is boosting its troop levels.
00:27:41.000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday to increase the number of soldiers by 170,000 to a total of 1.3 million.
00:27:48.000 The lines really have not moved very much.
00:27:51.000 Stoltenberg is calling on NATO members to ramp up the production of ammunition.
00:27:56.000 Now The reason that Putin is doing that is because he assumes that the West is going to essentially leave Ukraine defenseless.
00:28:02.000 The West should not do that.
00:28:03.000 The West should provide Ukraine with what is necessary in order to defend its own territory while looking for an off-ramp. 0.88
00:28:08.000 This, by the way, has been true since about two months into the war because it was perfectly clear from the outset of the war that the military goal of pushing Russia completely out of Crimea or the Donbass was not going to succeed.
00:28:17.000 Russia had spent 10 years entrenching itself in these areas and absent providing Ukraine with like F-22s, nothing was going to change in these particular areas.
00:28:27.000 Okay, with that said, Russia is sensing weakness and they are pushing, and they are pushing very, very hard.
00:28:32.000 Meanwhile, the left is concerned with the things that we are almost concerned about, right?
00:28:35.000 I mean, like, we might be concerned about the world being on fire, but what the left is concerned about is fossil fuels.
00:28:40.000 Now, maybe you think that that's crazy.
00:28:42.000 Because it's crazy.
00:28:43.000 But, for the left, You have to understand that the chief moral priority on Earth right now is deindustrialization and redistributionism.
00:28:51.000 This is the thing they care about the most.
00:28:53.000 They believe that the world is on fire not because America's enemies sense weakness and then prey on that weakness.
00:28:58.000 They believe the world is on fire because we're not setting quote-unquote more of an example.
00:29:02.000 And the way that we need to set an example is by deindustrializing.
00:29:07.000 It's by taking green initiatives in order to curb our own economic growth.
00:29:11.000 Now, ironically, the result of that is going to be the impoverishment of many of the countries that require actual economic health.
00:29:17.000 It's going to make those countries more aggressive, not less.
00:29:20.000 Richer countries tend to fight each other less.
00:29:22.000 So, I guess the idea here is impoverish everyone and then the world will become more peaceful. 1.00
00:29:26.000 It's really, really stupid. 0.99
00:29:28.000 So, the UAE climate chief, Sultan Al-Jubeir, he said yesterday, That the fossil fuel phase-out, this thing that's being pushed by the entire international community, is like, this is really dumb and it's not going to work. 0.99
00:29:41.000 He happens to be correct.
00:29:44.000 We do not, I'm not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist.
00:29:48.000 I am here factual and I respect the science.
00:29:50.000 And there is no science out there or no scenario out there that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what's going to achieve 1.5.
00:29:59.000 1.5 is my North Star.
00:30:03.000 And a face down, and a face out of force of yule, in my view, is inevitable.
00:30:09.000 It is essential, but we need to be real, serious, and pragmatic about it.
00:30:16.000 I'm sorry, I do not accept it.
00:30:19.000 I am not accepting this, I'm sorry.
00:30:21.000 I am sorry, I respect you, and I do not accept any false accusations.
00:30:26.000 I've been very clear about my position.
00:30:29.000 This is wrong.
00:30:30.000 And you're asking for a phase-out of fossil fuel.
00:30:33.000 Please, help me, show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development.
00:30:45.000 Unless you want to take the world back into caves.
00:30:47.000 No.
00:30:48.000 Show me!
00:30:50.000 Okay, he is absolutely right about all that.
00:30:52.000 That would be, of course, the UAE. 0.92
00:30:54.000 And he's totally right about all of that.
00:30:56.000 But the West has this bizarre religious vision that if they magically say that fossil fuels should be phased out, then they will just disappear and everyone will retain their level of economic development.
00:31:05.000 Or, sotto voce, they won't.
00:31:07.000 Which is what the Sultan is saying there.
00:31:09.000 He's like, well, no.
00:31:10.000 If you do this, then the economy is going to tank, which of course is true.
00:31:14.000 Nonetheless, Biden climate envoy John Kerry, who went directly from failing in foreign policy to failing on climate change, he is now calling for the death of all coal plants, which is good luck, dude.
00:31:24.000 We'd be transitioning out of coal.
00:31:26.000 There shouldn't be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world.
00:31:31.000 That's how you can do something for health.
00:31:35.000 And the reality is that we're not doing it.
00:31:38.000 So, you know, the measure here is really sounding the alarm bell.
00:31:44.000 I find myself getting more and more militant because I do not understand how adults who are in position of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis. 0.99
00:31:59.000 He is so ridiculous. 0.99
00:32:00.000 How ridiculous is John Kerry? 0.99
00:32:02.000 Article from The Wall Street Journal, quote, wealthy nations are sending tens of billions of dollars 0.88
00:32:05.000 to poorer ones for clean energy.
00:32:07.000 The linchpin of a global strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the developing world.
00:32:10.000 But two of the most ambitious efforts yet in South Africa and Indonesia
00:32:13.000 are now at risk of unraveling, sowing doubts about the rich world's ability
00:32:16.000 to push developing countries away from coal and other fossil fuels.
00:32:20.000 South Africa and Indonesia, among the world's most coal hungry economies
00:32:24.000 are backtracking on commitments they made to burn less of the fuel
00:32:26.000 under agreements known as the Just Energy Transition Partnerships,
00:32:29.000 which offered them $28.5 billion from the United States and other wealthy nations.
00:32:34.000 So they're just ignoring it, and then they're taking the money, and then they're still building their coal-fired power plants.
00:32:37.000 We're paying people to continue to do what they were doing in the first place.
00:32:40.000 When, by the way, the only actual way that environmentalism has become a thing is through the wealth of the West.
00:32:47.000 That is why.
00:32:48.000 But again, the morality of the West is not tied up in reality.
00:32:51.000 These days, it's tied up in absolute fantasy.
00:32:54.000 And there is no better example of this than the current Pope.
00:32:57.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:36:35.000 Again, when it comes to the international left, not only is there no morality, there's no actual realism about the world.
00:36:41.000 That's true on virtually every topic.
00:36:43.000 When it comes to foreign policy, there's no realism because the assumption is that if the West simply goes, hands off, the world will be a better place, which of course is a lie.
00:36:50.000 And then when it comes to things like environmental policy, look, the world has to be super hands-on.
00:36:54.000 We're going to get involved imperialistically with stopping developing nations from developing their own economies.
00:36:59.000 We're going to lecture them, like, a lot, a lot.
00:37:01.000 So we're not going to focus on the things that actually make a person moral.
00:37:04.000 Instead, we are going to, quote-unquote, heal the earth by telling poor people that they're not allowed to use carbon-based fossil fuels, the most efficient fuels known to mankind.
00:37:13.000 A perfect example of this sort of moral disconnect, unfortunately, is Pope Francis.
00:37:17.000 So Pope Francis, I've been very critical of Pope Francis, of course.
00:37:19.000 I don't have a particular dog in the Catholic fight, except that I believe the Catholic Church is strongest and best for Western civilization when it holds to some semblance of traditional values.
00:37:30.000 So, two stories from the Vatican over the course of the weekend.
00:37:34.000 One, Pope Francis did take action against one of his biggest critics, according to The Blaze.
00:37:38.000 This is the second time this month Pope Francis punished an American prelate.
00:37:41.000 Pope Francis punished Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75-year-old canon lawyer from Wisconsin.
00:37:45.000 He revoked Burke's salary and his subsidized Vatican apartment.
00:37:49.000 He was living, like other cardinals in Rome, in his apartment for free. 1.00
00:37:52.000 He received a monthly stipend of about $5,000.
00:37:54.000 He said that he was taking action against Burke because he was a source of disunity, according to an anonymous participant, in a particular conversation on November 20th.
00:38:04.000 Another unnamed source said Francis punished Burke because he was using his privileges against the church.
00:38:08.000 Reports from earlier this week claim that the Pope said of Burke during the meeting, quote, Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I take away his apartment and his salary.
00:38:15.000 Francis denies making those comments.
00:38:17.000 I never used the word enemy or the pronoun my.
00:38:20.000 I simply announced the fact of the meeting of the disaster he had without giving specific explanations.
00:38:26.000 Burke has been very critical of Francis by saying you're focusing on like the environment and you don't seem to care at all about the crucial social issues that are dividing the church today.
00:38:34.000 And in many cases, you're being soft on them.
00:38:37.000 That happens to be right, by the way.
00:38:39.000 The Pope has been unbelievably soft.
00:38:40.000 What he does, he issues these sort of vague exclamations about, say, LGBTQ issues inside the church, or say, about female priests.
00:38:50.000 He doesn't actually cave on them.
00:38:51.000 He just makes really vague statements that seem to open the door.
00:38:53.000 And then when asked for clarification, he says, how dare you ask for clarification?
00:38:57.000 I was perfectly clear.
00:38:57.000 No, you weren't, or nobody would be asking the questions.
00:38:59.000 That's happening on the one hand.
00:39:01.000 And then on the other hand, you've got the Pope calling for the elimination of fossil fuels.
00:39:05.000 Which, by the way, for a church that is seeking new adherence in the poorest parts of the world, it turns out that you know what they actually need?
00:39:12.000 Fossil fuels.
00:39:13.000 I'm sorry to break it to the Pope and everybody else in the environmentalist corner, the single most efficient source of fuel on the planet remains fossil fuels.
00:39:19.000 That's particularly true if you're looking at places like Africa, if you're looking at places like Asia, like South America.
00:39:27.000 This is someone giving a statement for Pope Francis, obviously.
00:39:32.000 He sent a statement to COP28.
00:39:32.000 Pope Francis obviously. He sent a statement to COP28.
00:39:35.000 Instead we should consider the footprint of a few nations responsible for a deeply troubling
00:39:43.000 ecological pandemic towards many others. It would only be fair to find suitable means
00:39:50.000 of remitting the financial debts that burden different peoples.
00:39:55.000 Climate change signals the need for a political change.
00:40:00.000 Let us emerge from the narrowness of self-interest and nationalism.
00:40:07.000 These are approaches belonging to the past.
00:40:11.000 Let us join in embracing an alternative vision.
00:40:15.000 This will help to bring about an ecological conversion.
00:40:20.000 Ecological conversion.
00:40:21.000 I mean, it seems to me that they should spend more time talking about spiritual conversion.
00:40:24.000 I say this as a Jew, and they should be talking about ecological conversion. 0.98
00:40:28.000 But again, this is the new morality.
00:40:30.000 The new morality is not based on anything remotely like social morality or church or family.
00:40:34.000 It's based on all these other ancillary issues that build up a bizarre cult-like morality focused on quote-unquote saving the earth. 0.92
00:40:42.000 It's ridiculous.
00:40:43.000 Okay, meanwhile, closer to home, over the course of the last few days, the Congress expelled George Santos.
00:40:49.000 He currently faces 23 federal charges, including fraud and identity theft.
00:40:53.000 He has pled not guilty.
00:40:55.000 Before Friday's expulsion, which passed 3-11 to 1-14, only five people in history had been booted by the House.
00:41:00.000 Three were removed in 1861 because they actually served in the active Confederacy.
00:41:04.000 The other two, in 1980 and 2002, according to the Wall Street Journal, were convicted of serious crimes.
00:41:09.000 So, Congress moved to boot Santos because he's pretty obviously guilty of all this stuff.
00:41:13.000 However, setting a precedent of booting members before they've actually been convicted of a crime, that's going to open the door to a lot of things.
00:41:20.000 And once you start booting members based on the fact that they've been accused of a crime, welcome to Congress, where half of Congress is accused of a crime.
00:41:28.000 As the Wall Street Journal editorial board points out, said, it's no good to argue that Santos is a fabulous who fibbed his way into office.
00:41:34.000 How is that a distinction with other members of the Congress?
00:41:38.000 What's the rule now?
00:41:38.000 Shortly after Santos' ouster, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman renewed his call to eject Senator Bob Menendez.
00:41:43.000 If you're going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain?
00:41:48.000 He said Menendez, I think, is a senator for Egypt.
00:41:51.000 Because that's the accusation, is that he was paid off by foreign countries.
00:41:55.000 So, yeah.
00:41:56.000 So it may now be that in Congress, an accusation is tantamount to a conviction.
00:42:01.000 And really that started with the anti-Trump movement.
00:42:03.000 Because again, the accusations against Trump based on Ukraine, based on Russia, and all the rest of this sort of stuff, were considered sufficient to push an impeachment inquiry into him.
00:42:11.000 And so now the accusation is going to be tantamount to the actual conviction. 0.94
00:42:15.000 So regardless of what you think of Santos, and I think he's a ridiculous figure, Almost as ridiculous as, you know, one-third of the rest of Congress.
00:42:21.000 But if the new standard is accused equals guilty, then welcome to Congress where there are like five people left. 0.61
00:42:27.000 And meanwhile, Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, that race continues to move forward.
00:42:34.000 House Democrats are realizing that Bidenomics is a giant fail.
00:42:37.000 According to Axios, House Democrats have rejected the White House's months-long campaign to sell Bidenomics.
00:42:42.000 They stopped pushing the term months ago.
00:42:44.000 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC, two key fundraising arms, are avoiding using the term Bidenomics on social media and press releases because they say the tagline is ineffective.
00:42:54.000 In a meeting this past summer, House Democrats stuck with people over politics rather than Bidenomics.
00:43:01.000 Apparently, according to Democratic sources, they're saying that Bidenomics presents a bunch of issues.
00:43:05.000 They say it's tone deaf because there are a bunch of people who don't like the economy.
00:43:09.000 One Democratic strategist said the biggest problem wasn't using Biden, but the term was too philosophical and required too much explanation.
00:43:15.000 So they're going to continue to push Bidenomics policies, they just won't use the catchphrase Bidenomics because they try and fail.
00:43:21.000 And there is some hilarity to that because the reason Bidenomics became a thing is because Obamanomics was a thing and Obama was personally popular.
00:43:29.000 So linking Barack Obama, a personally popular president, with his failing policies made the policies somewhat more popular.
00:43:35.000 Attaching Biden's name to his bad economic policies makes his bad economic policies worse for the American people.
00:43:41.000 So Democrats are running headlong from Joe Biden in the 2024 election, which is not a good sign for Joe Biden, which means the real hope for Democrats is not Joe Biden.
00:43:51.000 The real hope for Democrats is that somehow, someway, people show up to vote against Donald Trump.
00:43:55.000 That is a very dicey proposition.
00:43:58.000 They're basically making two separate arguments.
00:43:59.000 One is that Donald Trump will be a dictator.
00:44:01.000 We'll get to that in a moment. 0.97
00:44:02.000 Plus, they're making the argument that Donald Trump is a criminal.
00:44:05.000 The problem there for Trump is that he doesn't have to be a criminal to be convicted as a criminal in places like Washington, D.C.
00:44:11.000 We'll get to all the updates from court in just one second.
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00:45:17.000 Okay, meanwhile, as Joe Biden continues to fade in the polls, and again, the polls are not good for Joe Biden right now.
00:45:22.000 I'm looking at the latest polls, the RealClearPolitics election polls between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:45:29.000 The latest Messenger Harris X poll has Trump up 52 to 48 on Joe Biden in the polling average.
00:45:33.000 Trump is up almost two points, 47 to 45.3.
00:45:38.000 Biden has led in only two of the last maybe 10 polls.
00:45:41.000 These are very bad numbers for Joe Biden.
00:45:43.000 And again, it's not that his numbers have gone down.
00:45:45.000 They haven't.
00:45:45.000 They've been pretty stagnant.
00:45:47.000 In fact, they're a little bit up from where they were back in June.
00:45:50.000 The problem is that the numbers for Trump have risen pretty dramatically.
00:45:52.000 Why are those numbers rising?
00:45:53.000 Because Trump isn't in the news.
00:45:55.000 Well, Democrats have two ways of putting Trump back in the news.
00:45:57.000 That is their actual strategy.
00:45:58.000 One is, claim that Donald Trump is going to be a tyrant.
00:46:01.000 And the other is, criminal conviction.
00:46:04.000 Those are the two big plans.
00:46:05.000 So, on the Trump is a tyrant side, Robert Kagan, a Post Opinions contributing editor, has a piece over at the Washington Post called, A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable.
00:46:15.000 We Should Stop Pretending.
00:46:19.000 I don't think it's going to play.
00:46:20.000 No one thinks Trump is going to become dictator of America.
00:46:22.000 You know how you become dictator of America?
00:46:24.000 By taking control of the military.
00:46:25.000 Do you think the military is simply going to go along with Donald Trump's plans to completely subvert the Constitution of the United States?
00:46:30.000 Do you think that's the thing that's going to happen?
00:46:32.000 It didn't happen on January 6th.
00:46:33.000 It didn't even come remotely close to happening on January 6th.
00:46:36.000 Trump dictatorship.
00:46:37.000 And what's funny is that the elements of dictatorship that they suggest are all things that Democrats are currently doing.
00:46:41.000 Again, the projection here is super strong.
00:46:43.000 Oh my God, he might take over the bureaucracy.
00:46:45.000 Oh, you mean like Democrats have taken over the bureaucracy for like a hundred years?
00:46:49.000 Oh my god, he might put federal judges on the courts that are conservative.
00:46:53.000 Oh, you mean like Democrats have been trying to stack the courts for, you know, the last several generations?
00:46:58.000 You know, what exactly is it that Trump is going to do that's so insanely dictatorial?
00:47:03.000 Well, according to Robert Kagan, the next phase is about people falling in line.
00:47:09.000 He's talking about how Trump is going to pick up the nomination in all likelihood.
00:47:13.000 And then he says Trump will not only dominate his party, he will become the central focus of
00:47:16.000 everyone's attention. Even today, the news media can scarcely resist following Trump's every word
00:47:20.000 and action. Once he secures the nomination, he will loom over the country like a colossus,
00:47:25.000 his every word and gesture chronicled endlessly. So first of all, that was true of Obama as well.
00:47:30.000 But then the idea is going to be that once he takes power, something terrible is going to happen.
00:47:37.000 If Trump does win the election, he will immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office.
00:47:41.000 Not only will he wield the awesome powers of the American executive, but he will do so with the fewest constraints of any president, fewer even than in his own first term.
00:47:49.000 What limits those powers?
00:47:51.000 The most obvious answer is the institutions of justice, all of which Trump by his very election will have deviled, defied, and revealed as impotent.
00:47:58.000 A court system that could not control Trump as a private individual is not going to control him better when he's President of the United States and appointing his own Attorney General and all the other top officials at the Justice Department.
00:48:08.000 Are you kidding me?
00:48:09.000 So, in other words, because Trump is going to nominate his own AG, this makes him a dictator?
00:48:13.000 I would like to introduce you to Merrick Garland.
00:48:16.000 Or going all the way back to Clinton, Janet Reno. 0.99
00:48:18.000 I'm like, what the hell are we talking about here?
00:48:21.000 Will a future Congress stop him?
00:48:22.000 asked Robert Kagan.
00:48:23.000 Presidents can accomplish a lot these days without congressional approval, as even Barack Obama showed.
00:48:28.000 Um, you mean, what do you mean even Barack Obama?
00:48:30.000 He mainly showed it.
00:48:31.000 It was Barack Obama who started this process.
00:48:34.000 The final constraint on presidents has been their own desire for a glittering legacy, but is that the way Trump thinks?
00:48:39.000 He thinks his legacy will be Napoleon.
00:48:42.000 Will his presidency turn into a dictatorship, says Robert Kagan?
00:48:44.000 The odds are, again, pretty good.
00:48:46.000 What, what exactly, what the hell?
00:48:49.000 What is he even talking about?
00:48:51.000 He says that his administration will be filled with people with enemies lists.
00:48:54.000 A determined cadre of vetted officials will see it as their sole presidentially authorized mission to root out those in the government who cannot be trusted.
00:49:01.000 Many will be fired.
00:49:02.000 Others will be subject to career-destroying investigations.
00:49:04.000 Again, like...
00:49:05.000 This is so tiresome and it's not going to hunt.
00:49:06.000 This dog is not going to hunt, which means that in the end, what Democrats are really relying upon is not scaring the hell out of you about Trump.
00:49:12.000 It's going to be criminal conviction.
00:49:13.000 The bad news for Trump is that criminal conviction is a high likelihood given the latest developments in Washington, D.C.
00:49:19.000 So Andy McCarthy over at National Review points out that over the weekend, Trump was dealt two defeats in Washington, D.C.
00:49:25.000 federal courts.
00:49:27.000 Judge Tanya Chutkin, who's presiding over the criminal case with regard to January 6, 2020, ruled that he is not immune from criminal prosecution.
00:49:34.000 Now, it was unlikely he was ever going to get a ruling in his favor, but it could determine the viability of Trump's 2024 presidential bid, according to McCarthy.
00:49:42.000 According to McCarthy, Chutkin's 48-page opinion rejected the former president's claims that the First Amendment barred his prosecution by the Biden Justice Department special counsel, Jack Smith.
00:49:53.000 Listen, he says, I've periodically spotlighted the immunity issue.
00:49:56.000 It's not that I thought Trump had much of a chance of prevailing.
00:49:58.000 He says, the immunity issue is critical for Trump because it is appealable pretrial and thus potentially a vehicle for delay.
00:50:04.000 And delay is Trump's main strategy, but that just got shot down.
00:50:06.000 So there is no delay.
00:50:08.000 He says, trials are not won by legal claims, which are argued outside the jury's presence.
00:50:12.000 Jury trials are won by factual evidence.
00:50:14.000 A good deal of the evidence against Trump is unsavory.
00:50:16.000 But, but it doesn't really matter because it's a DC jury.
00:50:21.000 He says that Trump recognizes he could be very well convicted in the federal election interference case.
00:50:26.000 He knows that recent polling, which showed him leading Biden on a number of battleground states, indicated a material slice of his support would fall away if convicted in one or more criminal cases.
00:50:37.000 He says that the delay tactic was Trump's best option, and now the delay tactic is probably going away.
00:50:43.000 He says he thinks that the appeal by Trump is probably going to be rejected by the Supreme Court.
00:50:49.000 He says, And let's say that he's convicted.
00:50:50.000 most is this, it is doubtful the former president and current
00:50:52.000 JP front runner will get the delay he seeks in his election interference case. He's very likely to be facing a criminal
00:50:57.000 trial in Washington running from March to May 2024. And defendants
00:51:02.000 are required to be in attendance throughout the entire federal
00:51:04.000 criminal trial. And let's say that he's convicted. He says that he thinks Chudkin would exercise a broad authority to
00:51:12.000 allow him to remain at liberty pending sentencing, which is about three months after travel, that means just that he
00:51:16.000 would be sentenced if convicted May, June, July, August.
00:51:19.000 So in August.
00:51:21.000 So as McCarthy says, if Trump were convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, the default position of federal law would call for the revocation of bail and an order that he be remanded.
00:51:29.000 That presumption could be overcome only if Chutkan made a finding that Trump's appeal raised a substantial issue likely to result in reversal of the conviction, which is probably unlikely.
00:51:39.000 So we may enter the final days of the 2024 election with Trump actively in prison.
00:51:43.000 That is a thing that may actually happen now that Chutkan has basically rejected all arguments to the contrary.
00:51:49.000 That is the plan.
00:51:50.000 And so when Trump says this is election interference, he is certainly not wrong, at least when it comes to that DC case, which is a debacle.
00:51:56.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll get to the new religion of the left with Goddess Beyoncé.
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