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.
00:00:26.000Pramila 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.
00:00:36.000The accounts of Hamas rapes have been legion.
00:00:38.000Over 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.
00:00:47.000She was screaming, stop it already, I'm going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me.
00:00:51.000When they finished, said Sidon, they were laughing, the last one shot her in the head.
00:01:43.000Never mind the new reports emerging from hostages about just what they experienced in Gaza at the hands of Hamas.
00:01:48.000According to the Daily Mail, for weeks they were starved, beaten, drugged, branded,
00:01:51.000and made to watch footage of Hamas terrorists invading their homeland with weapons pointed to their heads
00:01:56.000until the moment was right for the terror group.
00:01:57.000One hostage was operated on by a veterinarian.
00:02:00.000Many 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.
00:02:09.000But still, why can't the Israelis meet their Jew-hating terrorist enemies halfway?
00:02:14.000Increasingly, this seems to be the logic of the Biden White House.
00:02:17.000Although, 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.
00:02:24.000As 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.
00:02:41.000Israel 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.
00:02:50.000We 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.
00:03:03.000Well, listen, we're doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harm's way.
00:03:07.000I want the American people to understand this.
00:03:09.000This war is not going on thousands of miles away.
00:03:12.000It'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.
00:03:19.000I think what the Israeli army has done in prosecuting this war is unprecedented in the history of warfare.
00:03:26.000When 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.
00:03:33.000I 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.
00:03:40.000Yet 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.
00:03:54.000Israel can't get rid of Hamas without civilians dying, specifically because Hamas wants its own civilians to die.
00:04:01.000If Israel does get rid of Hamas and civilians die, by Austin's logic, Israel will then suffer a strategic defeat.
00:04:07.000And if Israel doesn't get rid of Hamas, Israel will suffer an actual defeat.
00:04:10.000This is called a no-win scenario, and yet the White House seems eager to provide Israel with no-win scenarios lately.
00:04:16.000Thus, the Biden administration is reportedly encouraging Israel to restore humanitarian aid into Gaza at the same levels as they did during the recent ceasefire.
00:04:40.000wants shipped into Gaza goes largely to Hamas.
00:04:43.000Then, 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.
00:04:51.000You're telling people where is going to be targeted next.
00:04:54.000People don't have power to power up their mobile phones.
00:05:00.000I 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.
00:05:12.000So clearly there's enough power to power their phones when they're parading our hostages through our Gaza.
00:05:17.000Now 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.
00:05:31.000Yes, it turns out there is electricity, which is how all of the terrorists and their friends are powering their cell phones.
00:05:36.000Then 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.
00:05:43.000Vice President Kamala Harris fresh offered disquisitions on the power of school buses and Venn diagrams and handling the border.
00:05:49.000Remember that time she was supposed to handle the border?
00:05:53.000We have to revitalize the Palestinian Authority, which means giving the support that is necessary for good governance.
00:06:02.000Understanding 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.
00:06:15.000It'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.
00:06:31.000That full-time resident of the uncanny valley putting out the dumbest plan imaginable.
00:06:35.000Revitalizing the Palestinian Authority?
00:06:37.000The PA doesn't even have full control of its citizens in the West Bank, Judea and Samaria.
00:06:41.000The Arab world thinks Mahmoud Abbas is a joke, because he is.
00:06:44.000And so do the people he rules over, by the way.
00:06:46.000If elections were actually held in the West Bank today, Hamas would likely win.
00:06:50.000All of this is silly nonsense, and the White House knows it is silly nonsense.
00:06:54.000In fact, because the radical Muslim world perceives the White House's weakness, they are pushing, and they are pushing hard.
00:06:59.000According 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.
00:07:07.000warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hours-long assault, according to U.S.
00:07:12.000Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Houthi rebels who are backed by Iran.
00:07:16.000In a statement, CENTCOM said that the attacks, quote, represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security.
00:07:22.000They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world.
00:07:26.000It said the three commercial ships and their crews are connected to 14 countries.
00:07:30.000According 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.
00:08:06.0009 reported some damage, but no casualties.
00:08:08.000The Sophie 2 reported no significant damage.
00:08:10.000While sailing to assist the Sophie 2, the Carney then shot down another drone.
00:08:13.000Headed in its direction, the drones did no damage.
00:08:16.000According 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.
00:08:23.000will consider all appropriate responses.
00:08:25.000Houthi 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.
00:08:39.000Quote, 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.
00:08:48.000The Yemeni armed forces renew their warning to all Israeli ships or those associated with Israelis.
00:08:52.000They will become a legitimate target if they violate what is stated in the statement.
00:08:56.000Now, in a normal time, this sort of activity against American warships and against international shipping, that would be an act of supreme idiocy.
00:09:05.000The 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.
00:09:31.000The latest Gallup poll shows 50% of Americans approve of Israel's military action in Gaza, with 45% disapproving.
00:09:38.000Heavy partisan breakdown in this poll.
00:09:41.00071% of Republicans agree with Israel's actions.
00:09:43.000Only 36% of Democrats do, compared with 63% of Democrats who do not.
00:09:49.000What'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.
00:09:58.000Only 30% of people of color actually agree with Israel taking action against Hamas, compared with 64% who do not.
00:10:06.00055% 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.
00:10:20.000Meanwhile, domestic Muslims are mobilizing to pressure the Biden administration.
00:10:23.000According 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.
00:10:39.000Leaders from the swing states, they say, will work together to guarantee Biden's loss in the 2024 election.
00:10:44.000It should be noted, by the way, the leaders of this particular campaign have their own ugly histories.
00:10:48.000According 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.
00:11:00.000Several of the leaders of this rally support October 7th.
00:11:03.000This is the kind of action that terrorists are looking for.
00:11:06.000They believe that if they create enough trouble, they'll get Americans thinking twice about supporting Israel in the first place.
00:11:11.000This is the tactic, and it is nothing new.
00:11:13.000Of course, it goes all the way back to the Arab oil embargo of 1973.
00:11:16.000It was also Osama bin Laden's strategy in the 1990s.
00:11:20.000He believed that America was a, quote, paper tiger, and after a few blows, ran in defeat.
00:11:24.000According 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.
00:11:32.000His aim is to get Americans to consider whether continued support of Israel is worth the bloodshed he promises.
00:11:37.000Bin 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.
00:11:52.000This tactic seems to be working at least with members of the political left and the democratic party.
00:11:56.000That's why members of the progressive caucus have to downplay the mass rape of women.
00:12:00.000Because they would like to cave in, precisely the way Hamas and the Houthis and Iran wish them to cave in.
00:12:06.000But 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.
00:12:12.000Cowardice requires balance, after all.
00:12:15.000In just one second, we'll get to the latest from the Middle East, as well as the latest from the international anti-Semitic problem.
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00:14:36.000So, 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.
00:14:46.000Over the weekend, a knifeman in Paris killed a German tourist and wounded a Briton.
00:14:51.000He said he was motivated by the war in Gaza, according to the UK Telegraph.
00:14:54.000He is a convicted terrorist with a history of psychiatric problems, which makes you wonder, why is he out on the streets of Paris?
00:15:01.000Why is it that Europe is so damn stupid?
00:15:03.000He 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.
00:15:11.000Video later emerged of police officers approaching the suspect.
00:15:14.000He's a French-born national to Iranian parents with stun guns drawn.
00:15:17.000He shouted he was wearing explosives and was also ready to die.
00:15:20.000He claimed that France was an accomplice to Muslims being killed in Gaza.
00:15:25.000He said, quote, we do not forget your crimes against Muslims, especially women and children.
00:15:28.000We will fight you and kill you until the last day of judgment.
00:15:31.000Apparently, this meant that he was going to attack a German couple with a knife.
00:15:37.000You ask yourself, why would they do that?
00:16:53.000Goldies is the name of the falafel shop.
00:16:56.000By the way, the amount of projection here is just astonishing.
00:16:58.000These 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.
00:17:05.000And certainly they want every Jew in the Middle East killed.
00:18:00.000So, excellent stuff happening all over the country, and this has its predictable effects, which is that the intimidation very often succeeds.
00:18:07.000So, for example, over in Williamsburg, Virginia, Every year, they have an official menorah lighting.
00:18:19.000Hanukkah 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.
00:18:29.000With that said, it's very common across the country for people to hold Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremonies.
00:18:38.000Because 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.
00:18:49.000Now, you may say to yourself, wait, what does lighting up a menorah have to do with the Israel-Hamas conflict?
00:18:54.000But, again, the idea is that if you even light a menorah, you are choosing sides.
00:18:57.000Which, by the way, actually is kind of honest, because, let's be real, that is what one side wants.
00:19:02.000Everyone who would light a menorah they want dead or expelled, that's the goal.
00:19:06.000The 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.
00:19:15.000They offered to reinstate the event if the event called for a ceasefire.
00:19:19.000So 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.
00:19:28.000Which, by the way, is rather counter to the... It's basically the Hanukkah story all over again.
00:19:32.000The 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.
00:19:41.000But this kind of cowardice, it's becoming common all over the United States.
00:19:45.000It's certainly happening on our campuses.
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00:21:39.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:22:01.000Students 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.
00:22:14.000The groups first held a die-in on Thursday on campus.
00:22:17.000They advertised the event as a, quote, occupation, and then leading up to a mock trial.
00:22:22.000And then finally, they ended up occupying school buildings, They disrupted studying.
00:22:58.000Because Cornell has ties to engineering, aerospace, and other tech companies.
00:23:02.000It 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.
00:23:14.000So, um, that all went particularly well.
00:23:17.000The administration may end up meeting with them.
00:23:19.000Probably the administration will end up caving to them because this is what these administrations do.
00:23:22.000That's exactly what happened over at Brown University.
00:23:25.000On 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.
00:23:36.000The president was interrupted by protesters calling for the university to divest from Israel, of course.
00:23:42.000Now, what's amazing is that the university published the speech as written on the website.
00:23:46.000That is not how the speech was delivered.
00:23:49.000According 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.
00:24:02.000But 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.
00:24:14.000So, um, there goes the Star of David and the Keepa and the Amaca.
00:24:19.000So, yep, caving to all the worst people.
00:24:29.000This, by the way, is why, again, all over the... Why is it that it feels like the world is on fire?
00:24:33.000Because when the world and America's enemies sense weakness in the White House, they take advantage of this.
00:24:37.000This would also be, presumably, why Venezuela is now threatening to invade one of its neighbors.
00:24:42.000According 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.
00:24:55.000By the way, that sounds like an amazingly free and fair vote in a socialist tyranny when 95% of people approve.
00:25:03.000Well, 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.
00:25:12.000It's like, guys, if you're gonna hide the ball, like, hide the ball a little bit.
00:25:15.000Say it was like 65 to 35 or something.
00:25:17.000But no, it's 95 to 5 that they should go in, crush Guyana, and steal all of its oil.
00:25:23.000Maduro, who is the corrupt tyrant of Venezuela, hailed what he called, quote, an overwhelming victory for the yes throughout Venezuela.
00:25:30.000Quote, 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.
00:25:37.000The referendum naturally raised fears in Guyana and around the region about Venezuela's ultimate intentions over the contested territory.
00:25:44.000Maduro hopes the outcome of the referendum will strengthen his nation's century-old claim to the oil-rich Essequibo territory governed by Guyana.
00:25:51.000The defense minister, Vladimir Padrino, said, quote, Today is a day of ratification of national sovereignty.
00:25:55.000The people have done it with flying colors.
00:25:58.000About 10.5 million votes were cast, according to the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso.
00:26:04.000But 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.
00:26:13.000Apparently, it was like two million people who turned out.
00:26:17.000The Maduro government said it was not seeking justification to invade or annex the huge territory.
00:26:21.000But, of course, the whole point is a threat.
00:26:24.000I mean, what they are saying, basically, is, sure, we might invade.
00:26:27.000I 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.
00:26:36.000This is the same sort of shtick that Kim Jong-un routinely does in North Korea.
00:26:40.000He 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.
00:26:47.000Venezuela 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.
00:27:20.000Now, 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.
00:27:31.000Stoltenberg says wars develop in phases.
00:27:33.000We should also be prepared for bad news.
00:27:35.000His comments come as Western allies debate over ammo and financial aid for Ukraine and Moscow is boosting its troop levels.
00:27:41.000Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday to increase the number of soldiers by 170,000 to a total of 1.3 million.
00:27:48.000The lines really have not moved very much.
00:27:51.000Stoltenberg is calling on NATO members to ramp up the production of ammunition.
00:27:56.000Now The reason that Putin is doing that is because he assumes that the West is going to essentially leave Ukraine defenseless.
00:28:03.000The West should provide Ukraine with what is necessary in order to defend its own territory while looking for an off-ramp.
00:28:08.000This, 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.
00:28:17.000Russia 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.
00:28:27.000Okay, with that said, Russia is sensing weakness and they are pushing, and they are pushing very, very hard.
00:28:32.000Meanwhile, the left is concerned with the things that we are almost concerned about, right?
00:28:35.000I mean, like, we might be concerned about the world being on fire, but what the left is concerned about is fossil fuels.
00:28:40.000Now, maybe you think that that's crazy.
00:29:28.000So, 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.
00:30:54.000And he's totally right about all of that.
00:30:56.000But 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.
00:31:10.000If you do this, then the economy is going to tank, which of course is true.
00:31:14.000Nonetheless, 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.
00:31:26.000There shouldn't be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world.
00:31:31.000That's how you can do something for health.
00:31:35.000And the reality is that we're not doing it.
00:31:38.000So, you know, the measure here is really sounding the alarm bell.
00:31:44.000I 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.
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00:36:43.000When 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.
00:36:50.000And then when it comes to things like environmental policy, look, the world has to be super hands-on.
00:36:54.000We're going to get involved imperialistically with stopping developing nations from developing their own economies.
00:36:59.000We're going to lecture them, like, a lot, a lot.
00:37:01.000So we're not going to focus on the things that actually make a person moral.
00:37:04.000Instead, 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.
00:37:13.000A perfect example of this sort of moral disconnect, unfortunately, is Pope Francis.
00:37:17.000So Pope Francis, I've been very critical of Pope Francis, of course.
00:37:19.000I 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.
00:37:30.000So, two stories from the Vatican over the course of the weekend.
00:37:34.000One, Pope Francis did take action against one of his biggest critics, according to The Blaze.
00:37:38.000This is the second time this month Pope Francis punished an American prelate.
00:37:41.000Pope Francis punished Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75-year-old canon lawyer from Wisconsin.
00:37:45.000He revoked Burke's salary and his subsidized Vatican apartment.
00:37:49.000He was living, like other cardinals in Rome, in his apartment for free.
00:37:52.000He received a monthly stipend of about $5,000.
00:37:54.000He 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.
00:38:04.000Another unnamed source said Francis punished Burke because he was using his privileges against the church.
00:38:08.000Reports 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.
00:38:17.000I never used the word enemy or the pronoun my.
00:38:20.000I simply announced the fact of the meeting of the disaster he had without giving specific explanations.
00:38:26.000Burke 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.
00:38:34.000And in many cases, you're being soft on them.
00:39:01.000And then on the other hand, you've got the Pope calling for the elimination of fossil fuels.
00:39:05.000Which, 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?
00:39:13.000I'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.
00:39:19.000That's particularly true if you're looking at places like Africa, if you're looking at places like Asia, like South America.
00:39:27.000This is someone giving a statement for Pope Francis, obviously.
00:40:55.000Before Friday's expulsion, which passed 3-11 to 1-14, only five people in history had been booted by the House.
00:41:00.000Three were removed in 1861 because they actually served in the active Confederacy.
00:41:04.000The other two, in 1980 and 2002, according to the Wall Street Journal, were convicted of serious crimes.
00:41:09.000So, Congress moved to boot Santos because he's pretty obviously guilty of all this stuff.
00:41:13.000However, 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.
00:41:20.000And 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.
00:41:28.000As 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.
00:41:34.000How is that a distinction with other members of the Congress?
00:41:56.000So it may now be that in Congress, an accusation is tantamount to a conviction.
00:42:01.000And really that started with the anti-Trump movement.
00:42:03.000Because 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.
00:42:11.000And so now the accusation is going to be tantamount to the actual conviction.
00:42:15.000So 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.
00:42:21.000But if the new standard is accused equals guilty, then welcome to Congress where there are like five people left.
00:42:27.000And meanwhile, Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, that race continues to move forward.
00:42:34.000House Democrats are realizing that Bidenomics is a giant fail.
00:42:37.000According to Axios, House Democrats have rejected the White House's months-long campaign to sell Bidenomics.
00:42:42.000They stopped pushing the term months ago.
00:42:44.000The 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.
00:42:54.000In a meeting this past summer, House Democrats stuck with people over politics rather than Bidenomics.
00:43:01.000Apparently, according to Democratic sources, they're saying that Bidenomics presents a bunch of issues.
00:43:05.000They say it's tone deaf because there are a bunch of people who don't like the economy.
00:43:09.000One Democratic strategist said the biggest problem wasn't using Biden, but the term was too philosophical and required too much explanation.
00:43:15.000So they're going to continue to push Bidenomics policies, they just won't use the catchphrase Bidenomics because they try and fail.
00:43:21.000And there is some hilarity to that because the reason Bidenomics became a thing is because Obamanomics was a thing and Obama was personally popular.
00:43:29.000So linking Barack Obama, a personally popular president, with his failing policies made the policies somewhat more popular.
00:43:35.000Attaching Biden's name to his bad economic policies makes his bad economic policies worse for the American people.
00:43:41.000So 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.
00:43:51.000The real hope for Democrats is that somehow, someway, people show up to vote against Donald Trump.
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00:46:05.000So, 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.
00:46:25.000Do you think the military is simply going to go along with Donald Trump's plans to completely subvert the Constitution of the United States?
00:46:30.000Do you think that's the thing that's going to happen?
00:46:37.000And what's funny is that the elements of dictatorship that they suggest are all things that Democrats are currently doing.
00:46:41.000Again, the projection here is super strong.
00:46:43.000Oh my God, he might take over the bureaucracy.
00:46:45.000Oh, you mean like Democrats have taken over the bureaucracy for like a hundred years?
00:46:49.000Oh my god, he might put federal judges on the courts that are conservative.
00:46:53.000Oh, you mean like Democrats have been trying to stack the courts for, you know, the last several generations?
00:46:58.000You know, what exactly is it that Trump is going to do that's so insanely dictatorial?
00:47:03.000Well, according to Robert Kagan, the next phase is about people falling in line.
00:47:09.000He's talking about how Trump is going to pick up the nomination in all likelihood.
00:47:13.000And then he says Trump will not only dominate his party, he will become the central focus of
00:47:16.000everyone's attention. Even today, the news media can scarcely resist following Trump's every word
00:47:20.000and action. Once he secures the nomination, he will loom over the country like a colossus,
00:47:25.000his every word and gesture chronicled endlessly. So first of all, that was true of Obama as well.
00:47:30.000But then the idea is going to be that once he takes power, something terrible is going to happen.
00:47:37.000If Trump does win the election, he will immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office.
00:47:41.000Not 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.
00:47:51.000The most obvious answer is the institutions of justice, all of which Trump by his very election will have deviled, defied, and revealed as impotent.
00:47:58.000A 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.
00:48:51.000He says that his administration will be filled with people with enemies lists.
00:48:54.000A 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.
00:49:05.000This is so tiresome and it's not going to hunt.
00:49:06.000This 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.
00:49:27.000Judge Tanya Chutkin, who's presiding over the criminal case with regard to January 6, 2020, ruled that he is not immune from criminal prosecution.
00:49:34.000Now, 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.
00:49:42.000According 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.
00:49:53.000Listen, he says, I've periodically spotlighted the immunity issue.
00:49:56.000It's not that I thought Trump had much of a chance of prevailing.
00:49:58.000He says, the immunity issue is critical for Trump because it is appealable pretrial and thus potentially a vehicle for delay.
00:50:04.000And delay is Trump's main strategy, but that just got shot down.
00:50:08.000He says, trials are not won by legal claims, which are argued outside the jury's presence.
00:50:12.000Jury trials are won by factual evidence.
00:50:14.000A good deal of the evidence against Trump is unsavory.
00:50:16.000But, but it doesn't really matter because it's a DC jury.
00:50:21.000He says that Trump recognizes he could be very well convicted in the federal election interference case.
00:50:26.000He 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.
00:50:37.000He says that the delay tactic was Trump's best option, and now the delay tactic is probably going away.
00:50:43.000He says he thinks that the appeal by Trump is probably going to be rejected by the Supreme Court.
00:50:49.000He says, And let's say that he's convicted.
00:50:50.000most is this, it is doubtful the former president and current
00:50:52.000JP front runner will get the delay he seeks in his election interference case. He's very likely to be facing a criminal
00:50:57.000trial in Washington running from March to May 2024. And defendants
00:51:02.000are required to be in attendance throughout the entire federal
00:51:04.000criminal trial. And let's say that he's convicted. He says that he thinks Chudkin would exercise a broad authority to
00:51:12.000allow him to remain at liberty pending sentencing, which is about three months after travel, that means just that he
00:51:16.000would be sentenced if convicted May, June, July, August.
00:51:21.000So 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.
00:51:29.000That 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.
00:51:39.000So we may enter the final days of the 2024 election with Trump actively in prison.
00:51:43.000That is a thing that may actually happen now that Chutkan has basically rejected all arguments to the contrary.
00:51:50.000And 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.