The Ben Shapiro Show - August 18, 2021


Forget The Taliban — You’re The Real Threat | Ep. 1321

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Biden’s Dishonest, Cowardly Afghanistan Surrender Proves He Is Unfit For His Office | Ep. 1320 President Empathy Doesn’t Actually Give A Damn | Ep. 1322

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00:00:00.000 President Biden tells Americans in Afghanistan they're supposed to rely on the mercy of the Taliban, America's enemies accelerate their aggressive behavior, and the hard left signals that conservatives are the real Taliban.
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00:01:38.000 Alrighty, so disaster continues to roll out in Afghanistan. 1.00
00:01:42.000 The Taliban are doing what they do best, namely torturing and murdering people. 0.99
00:01:46.000 So video has now emerged of the Taliban torturing translators, for example, and people who had translated on behalf of the American military who was there.
00:01:55.000 And then yesterday, apparently, there are people who are carrying Afghanistan's old flag.
00:02:16.000 You know the non-Taliban flag that was flying over Kabul until just a couple of days ago?
00:02:21.000 And the Taliban did what they do best, they just opened fire into the crowd, according to Al-Arabiya.
00:02:26.000 Members of the extremist group opened fire on the crowd, at least two people dead, at least ten people injured.
00:02:30.000 Here is some of the video.
00:02:31.000 You can see people begging to leave.
00:02:41.000 I mean, this is... It's... For our empathetic president to just walk away from all of this knowing that he facilitated all of this without any plan for transition is really despicable.
00:02:53.000 It's quite despicable.
00:02:55.000 But as we'll see, President Biden, when it comes to this sort of stuff, is pretty despicable in general.
00:02:59.000 Here's some video of Afghan girls begging in the American military to take them with them because they know what's going to happen, which is effectually sex slavery for everybody under a particular age.
00:03:09.000 I remember when people say, well, you know, they're just going back to the lifestyle that They're just going back to what they knew before.
00:03:27.000 Many of these girls have never known this lifestyle. 1.00
00:03:28.000 The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
00:03:31.000 It is now 2021.
00:03:32.000 Girls who are 18, 19, 20 years old have never lived under the Taliban.
00:03:37.000 They do not remember what it is like to live under the Taliban.
00:03:39.000 If you're under 25 years old in Afghanistan, this means you have never really experienced a Taliban rule in a way that you can remember.
00:03:46.000 Because again, the United States took over the country in 2001 and then handed it over to our Afghan allies.
00:03:52.000 So the bizarre idea that this was approved by the Afghan population, generally speaking, particularly in the major cities that were controlled by the United States, like Kabul is quite crazy.
00:04:04.000 It's quite crazy.
00:04:05.000 And you can see the fallout from this.
00:04:07.000 Here, for example, is the first Afghan Air Force pilot who was female.
00:04:12.000 Her name is Niloufar Rahmani, pleading for President Biden to hear her to save the families of people who worked with the United States who are going to get stuck there. 0.86
00:04:19.000 All these women, by the way, are going to get raped. 1.00
00:04:21.000 All these women are going to get sold into sex slavery. 1.00
00:04:22.000 If you're a single woman, you will, by 13, 14 years old, have been Married off to somebody if not raped or you will be married and then raped. 0.98
00:04:30.000 That is the way things worked under the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 when they ran the place and that has come back in spades. 0.98
00:04:37.000 Here is this Afghan female pilot talking about it. 0.97
00:04:41.000 As an Afghan woman, I would like for President Biden to hear me, the government, that please save the families that they need you, the women, the little girls that they always look up to the United States, the great army that the United States brought to Afghanistan, and also please save my family.
00:05:02.000 Well, the good news is that the media are apparently dedicated to the proposition, at least to a certain extent, that the Taliban might be okay. 0.92
00:05:09.000 You're starting to see this theme running through the media.
00:05:11.000 Not everybody in the media.
00:05:12.000 I think there are some people in the media who are on the left and are surprisingly actually doing some honest media coverage.
00:05:18.000 I think that you've seen this from, for example, Richard Engel over at NBC News.
00:05:21.000 I think you've seen this from Jake Tapper over at CNN.
00:05:23.000 There are some members of the media who are still doing some honest media coverage of this.
00:05:26.000 But I think the tendency over the coming days is going to be to suggest that the Taliban have in some way moderated in the same way that the media went along with the narrative that the Iranian regime had moderated and therefore it was time for the United States to make concessions to the malocracy. 0.96
00:05:39.000 I think you're going to get that from the Taliban as well with regard to the media.
00:05:43.000 The Taliban know how to play this. 0.99
00:05:44.000 So the Taliban spokesperson yesterday, for example, said, yeah, you know, women do have rights. 0.95
00:05:48.000 You know, we're going to acknowledge women's rights now. 0.96
00:05:51.000 And then they add the little phrase that makes all of that moot.
00:05:54.000 That comply with Sharia. 0.95
00:05:56.000 If you say that women have rights that comply with Sharia, that means women don't have rights. 1.00
00:05:59.000 OK, Sharia law in the Taliban's interpretation of Islamic fundamentalist law means women do not have rights.
00:06:04.000 But here they are saying what they think the West wants to hear.
00:06:08.000 The question is, what kind of guarantees can you provide for ensuring women's rights? 0.85
00:06:14.000 As I mentioned earlier, we are going to allow women to work and study. 1.00
00:06:16.000 We have frameworks, of course.
00:06:17.000 As I said, as I mentioned earlier, when it comes to, we are going to allow women to work and study. 1.00
00:06:24.000 We have got frameworks, of course.
00:06:30.000 The women are going to be very active in the society, but within the frameworks of Islam.
00:06:38.000 Within the frameworks of Islam, under Sharia law.
00:06:40.000 By the way, this is why women, young girls, are already being sent home from school.
00:06:44.000 Like, already.
00:06:45.000 That is the wonderful Zabihullah Mujahid.
00:06:48.000 I'm sure we'll hear more from the spokesperson for the 8th century barbarian Taliban. 1.00
00:06:52.000 Malala Yousafzai, who you'll recall was hailed the world over for her willingness to fight for women's education in Afghanistan.
00:06:58.000 She now writes in the New York Times, in the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education.
00:07:02.000 Now the future they promised is dangerously close to slipping away.
00:07:05.000 The Taliban, who until losing power 20 years ago, barred nearly all girls and women from attending school and doled out harsh punishment to those who defied them, are back in control.
00:07:13.000 Like many women, I fear for my Afghan sisters.
00:07:17.000 She says, Afghan girls and young women are once again where I have been in despair over the thought they might never be allowed to see a classroom or hold a book again.
00:07:23.000 Some members of the Taliban say they will not deny women and girls education or the right to work, but given the Taliban's history, Afghans' women's fears are real.
00:07:30.000 Already, we are hearing reports of female students being turned away from their universities, female workers from their offices.
00:07:35.000 None of this is new for the people of Afghanistan.
00:07:37.000 She says that she's going to try and funnel money in there, but good luck to her.
00:07:43.000 Good luck to her. 1.00
00:07:44.000 Because the Taliban is not going to allow any of this.
00:07:47.000 And everybody knows that this is the case at this point.
00:07:50.000 The desperation of people attempting to leave is just overwhelming.
00:07:54.000 I mean, there was a picture that was making the rounds yesterday that is shocking, right?
00:07:59.000 This is a picture of a man's legs from underneath the wheel well of a plane.
00:08:05.000 This would be an American jet.
00:08:07.000 Hey, they're above the cloud line.
00:08:09.000 So they are thousands of feet high.
00:08:10.000 This person grabbed onto the wheel well of a plane in an attempt to escape.
00:08:14.000 And we already know, according to Politico, that one man, his body was found mangled in the wheel well of an American C-17.
00:08:19.000 Hey, you know what kind of desperation it takes in order to do that?
00:08:23.000 Some pretty significant desperation.
00:08:25.000 By the way, the Taliban has been shooting at Afghans near the airport.
00:08:27.000 for anybody who is attempting to escape the Taliban's shooting.
00:08:30.000 Joe Biden decided it would be a good idea to hand the country back over to these people.
00:08:44.000 He said this would be a great idea.
00:08:46.000 All it took was maintaining a bare-bones troop presence, 2,500 troops, in a support capacity, fixing airplanes, and he decided, not worth it, let's leave these barbarians in charge of a country of 38 million people. 0.99
00:08:57.000 Probably that'll provide no threat to the United States in terms of an uptick in terror threat.
00:09:02.000 And by the way, subjecting 38 million people to the predations of some of the worst people on planet Earth.
00:09:08.000 There was a time, by the way, when Joe Biden, who is now ardently against nation building, he said there was no alternative to nation building.
00:09:14.000 This is 2003.
00:09:17.000 In some parts of the administration, nation-building is still a dirty phrase.
00:09:21.000 But the alternative to nation-building is chaos.
00:09:24.000 A chaos that churns out bloodthirsty warlords, drug traffickers, and terrorists.
00:09:29.000 And we have, we've seen it happen in Afghanistan before.
00:09:33.000 And I am quite frankful, fearful it may happen again.
00:09:36.000 Ooh, just, um, yeah, well, he's changed his tune somewhat.
00:09:40.000 By 2010, by the way.
00:09:42.000 This is what's so amazing.
00:09:43.000 When you look to your politicians for empathy, you are looking in the wrong place.
00:09:46.000 You're looking in the wrong place. 1.00
00:09:48.000 It is stupid to look to your politicians for empathy. 0.99
00:09:50.000 First of all, I don't think that politicians should operate on the basis of empathy. 1.00
00:09:53.000 I think they should operate on the basis of rational calculation.
00:09:56.000 I don't think Joe Biden does either.
00:09:57.000 I don't think he operates on the basis of empathy or on the basis of rational calculation.
00:10:01.000 But just to remind you, for all those people who believe that Joe Biden is a kindly old grandfather figure, here's what Joe Biden had to say in 2010 about pulling out of Afghanistan.
00:10:10.000 So, Richard Holbrooke, We don't have to worry about that.
00:10:13.000 We did it in Vietnam.
00:10:14.000 Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.
00:10:16.000 F that.
00:10:17.000 Pakistan and Holbrooke asked Biden about America's obligation to maintain presence in Afghanistan to protect vulnerable civilians.
00:10:25.000 And here is what Biden responded.
00:10:27.000 F that.
00:10:28.000 We don't have to worry about that.
00:10:30.000 We did it in Vietnam.
00:10:31.000 Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.
00:10:33.000 F that.
00:10:34.000 Well, man is true to his word. 0.88
00:10:37.000 F that and F those people. 0.88
00:10:39.000 By the way, again, our weaponry is now in the hands of these barbarians. 1.00
00:10:42.000 According to Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, who did just a cataclysmically bad performance yesterday in front of the press.
00:10:49.000 I mean, this is just a catastrophe in terms of public relations.
00:10:52.000 The National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, Rhodes Scholar, genius all the way around, Obama holdover.
00:10:58.000 He says, oh yeah, by the way, billions of dollars of our weaponry is now in the hands of the Taliban. 0.61
00:11:02.000 What happens to the billions of dollars worth of weaponry that the U.S. gave Afghanistan?
00:11:03.000 Does the U.S. have a plan for that or does it remain in the Taliban's hands?
00:11:12.000 We don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
00:11:23.000 And obviously, we don't have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.
00:11:31.000 I'm sorry.
00:11:33.000 We don't have a sense they're gonna re— Of course they're not gonna hand it over!
00:11:36.000 You give them billions of dollars in sophisticated weaponry!
00:11:39.000 Of course!
00:11:41.000 No, they're gonna come up— They're gonna show up with their MRAPs and be like, you know what, guys?
00:11:44.000 We know that you're leaving, and just as a parting gift, we decided to give you back this billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated drone technology.
00:11:51.000 By the way, we are busily trying to scrub any biometric materials that we have in Afghanistan, because the Taliban are going through all of that stuff, and they are finding everybody who worked with us, and then they are murdering those people.
00:12:02.000 So Jake Sullivan was also asked why Biden had ignored intelligence reports suggesting that precisely this was going to happen.
00:12:07.000 And this is the amazing thing.
00:12:08.000 None of this was unforeseeable.
00:12:10.000 It was all precisely foreseeable.
00:12:13.000 I mean, many of us have been predicting this for years, that if the United States pulled out, there'd be absolute chaos in Afghanistan.
00:12:19.000 For God's sake, I wrote a novel in like 2016 or 2015, talking about what would happen if the United States pulled out of Afghanistan precipitously and how the embassy would fall.
00:12:28.000 It didn't take a genius to figure this stuff out.
00:12:30.000 This is the most obvious thing in the world.
00:12:32.000 Many in the intelligence community were saying, yeah, this is going to collapse really, really fast.
00:12:36.000 Jake Sullivan was asked, so why did you ignore all of that?
00:12:39.000 Numerous officials have told ABC that there were key intelligence assessments warning the Taliban could overwhelm the country and take the capital within weeks.
00:12:48.000 Did the White House disregard that intelligence and push ahead?
00:12:53.000 I'm not actually familiar with the intelligence assessments you're describing, but I also don't want to get into specific intelligence products.
00:13:03.000 And one thing I will not do from this podium or anywhere else is talk about what a different component of the interagency did or didn't do.
00:13:15.000 Yeah, I mean, he's committed to the classification process, obviously, and that's why he's not answering the question.
00:13:19.000 Not because the Biden administration completely and thoroughly blew this, but because he has to make sure that classified information doesn't spill into the public sphere.
00:13:25.000 You mean classified information about what we knew about the collapse of the Afghan security?
00:13:31.000 Like, because we can all see it in real time happening, like, now.
00:13:35.000 I don't need a classified report from six months ago to tell me what was going to happen.
00:13:38.000 I can see it happening, like, in the moment, right now.
00:13:42.000 My favorite here is Jake Sullivan saying, oh yeah, no, no, we definitely take responsibility, but by the way, everyone else is responsible.
00:13:47.000 I take responsibility for this, but really it's on you.
00:13:49.000 It's really on sort of everyone, isn't it?
00:13:51.000 I mean, like, sure, a man comes home and he says to his wife, yeah, you know, she says to him, you cheated on me.
00:13:57.000 He says, right, you know, and I take responsibility for that, but really isn't about all of us.
00:14:01.000 Isn't it about the bigger picture here? 0.96
00:14:03.000 Here's Jake Sullivan doing this pathetic routine.
00:14:06.000 He's taking responsibility for every decision the United States government took with respect to Afghanistan because, as he said, the buck stops with him.
00:14:14.000 I am also taking responsibility and so are my colleagues, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the directors of our intelligence agencies.
00:14:23.000 We as a national security team collectively Oh, we take total responsibility for all of our decisions.
00:14:27.000 good decision, every decision that doesn't produce perfect outcomes, that is what responsibility is.
00:14:36.000 Now, at the same time, that doesn't change the fact that there are other parties here responsible as well.
00:14:43.000 Oh, we take total responsibility for all of our decisions.
00:14:47.000 Also, it's them.
00:14:48.000 By the way, speaking of people who are doing excellent reporting, Clarissa Ward over at CNN. He's been getting some flack for no reason, it seems to me, for her reporting on the ground.
00:14:58.000 She's now having Don a burqa in order to continue reporting over there. 0.98
00:15:02.000 She's got the hijab on.
00:15:03.000 She doesn't have the full face covering on because she's in front of the camera. 1.00
00:15:06.000 But if you want to see what has happened in Afghanistan, all you have to do is check her garb from a week ago versus her garb now.
00:15:11.000 And that, of course, is no fault of her own.
00:15:12.000 She's doing excellent reporting.
00:15:14.000 She's reporting that over at Kabul Airport, quote, this is mayhem.
00:15:16.000 This is nuts.
00:15:17.000 It is impossible for an ordinary civilian, even if they have their paperwork, to get out.
00:15:21.000 No way they are running that gauntlet.
00:15:22.000 No way they are going to be able to navigate that.
00:15:24.000 There's no order.
00:15:25.000 There's no coherent system.
00:15:26.000 Evacuation, which was supposed to be the chief priority here, right?
00:15:29.000 Making sure everybody gets out.
00:15:30.000 They're not.
00:15:31.000 According to the Biden administration, on Tuesday, this is the Wall Street Journal reporting, the airport in Kabul was open for both military and civilian flights, but access remains near impossible for the thousands of Afghans seeking to leave Afghanistan as the Taliban strengthen control over the city and a Taliban leader returned from exile.
00:15:46.000 Military flights resumed as the U.S.
00:15:47.000 sent additional troops to secure the perimeter and manage air traffic control and ground operations following two days of chaos while Westerners and Afghans raced to escape the country.
00:15:56.000 The U.S.
00:15:56.000 said it had completed the evacuation of its embassy staff, leaving only a small contingent to process other departures from the country.
00:16:01.000 By the way, the U.S.
00:16:02.000 embassy staff should, if this were an orderly transition, be the last people to leave, right?
00:16:06.000 They have to be there on the ground to process the paperwork.
00:16:08.000 They were the first people to leave because this play, this is just a show.
00:16:11.000 I mean, it's just, it is a bleep show.
00:16:14.000 However, many thousands of Afghans who had worked for Western embassies and organizations remain stranded and unable to reach the airport for evacuation flights.
00:16:21.000 The Taliban erected checkpoints at the entrances of the airport.
00:16:23.000 They're whipping and beating Afghans who attempted to cross even with their paperwork.
00:16:28.000 Plus, by the way, there is no guarantee that Americans who are there are going to be able to get out at this point.
00:16:34.000 So, the NSA's Jake Sullivan again.
00:16:36.000 This is one of the most catastrophic press conferences I have ever personally witnessed.
00:16:39.000 I mean, it's really, really bad.
00:16:41.000 Jake Sullivan was asked, are we going to have troops there past August 31st to facilitate the exit of both Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan and Afghan allies who are stuck in Afghanistan?
00:16:52.000 And Jake Sullivan wouldn't commit to that.
00:16:53.000 By the way, the date as of right now is August 18th.
00:16:57.000 So he's saying, we may not have troops past there 13 days out from now to help people get out.
00:17:02.000 Here we go.
00:17:03.000 Will U.S.
00:17:04.000 troops stay until everyone is out or will they leave?
00:17:08.000 So I'm not going to comment on hypotheticals.
00:17:10.000 What I'm going to do is stay focused on the task at hand, which is getting as many people out as rapidly as possible.
00:17:15.000 And we will take that day by day.
00:17:17.000 So you can't commit to bringing back every American? 0.98
00:17:22.000 And then he was asking, can you guarantee every American is going to get out?
00:17:25.000 And he really didn't have any answer for that.
00:17:27.000 Then he was asked, you know, why exactly didn't we get these people out earlier?
00:17:32.000 We were there for 20 years.
00:17:34.000 Why didn't we facilitate their exit earlier?
00:17:36.000 And Sullivan has no answer.
00:17:39.000 There have been questions raised about whether we should have drawn down our embassy and evacuated our Afghan allies earlier.
00:17:45.000 These are reasonable questions.
00:17:47.000 We did dramatically accelerate the SIV process and move out a substantial number of SIV applicants and their families. 0.99
00:17:54.000 But the Afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave, made a passionate case that we should not conduct a mass evacuation lest we trigger a loss of confidence in the government.
00:18:07.000 Amazing.
00:18:08.000 Amazing.
00:18:08.000 We shouldn't, I mean, like the excuse making here.
00:18:11.000 So the reason that we didn't evacuate earlier is because we were told by the Afghan government, which no longer exists, that if we evacuated earlier, then it might undercut their credibility.
00:18:21.000 Wait a second, wasn't the President of the United States one month ago saying that the Afghan government would not capitulate?
00:18:26.000 That Kabul would not fall?
00:18:28.000 This was not going to be like Saigon?
00:18:30.000 We were told that a month ago.
00:18:31.000 So maybe it was actually your boss, Jake Sullivan, and you who were doing this, who were making sure that nobody got out.
00:18:36.000 By the way, Jen Psaki was asked, can you guarantee that Americans are all going to make it out, that everybody's going to get out?
00:18:42.000 And she mush-mouthed it.
00:18:45.000 Can you offer any guarantee to the Americans and Afghan allies that if they remain there past the end of the month, U.S.
00:18:55.000 troops will help them evacuate past the end of the month?
00:18:58.000 Weijia, our focus right now is undoing the work at hand.
00:19:02.000 And on the task at hand.
00:19:03.000 And that is, day by day, getting as many American citizens, as many SIV applicants, as many members of a vulnerable population who are eligible to be evacuated to the airport and out on planes.
00:19:15.000 And we're going to do that in an expeditious fashion.
00:19:17.000 That is the focus of the President, of our Secretary of Defense, of our Secretary of State, and everybody on our national security team.
00:19:24.000 So that is where we will keep our efforts.
00:19:26.000 You know, they're keeping their focus on making sure that everybody gets out, but they're not guaranteeing that everybody's going to get out.
00:19:32.000 It's kind of awkward, because it's sort of as though they've kept their focus on the border, but they've done nothing over there.
00:19:37.000 In a second, we're going to get to the actual plan for getting people out.
00:19:40.000 It is unbelievable.
00:19:42.000 We'll get to the actual plan for getting people out.
00:19:44.000 A lot of people ain't going to get out.
00:19:46.000 Okay, particularly our Afghan allies. 1.00
00:19:47.000 They're screwed. 1.00
00:19:48.000 They're absolutely screwed. 1.00
00:19:49.000 I'm getting letters from soldiers every hour talking about people they worked with who are just gonna get murdered over there. 0.99
00:19:54.000 We'll get to this in just one second.
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00:20:59.000 Alrighty, so what is the actual plan for getting people out?
00:21:02.000 The actual plan is, we'll trust the Taliban. 0.80
00:21:05.000 I kid you not.
00:21:06.000 This is the plan.
00:21:07.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, the White House confirmed it is relying on the Taliban to help provide safe passage for civilians looking to evacuate Afghanistan as the State Department warns U.S.
00:21:15.000 civilians there to shelter in place until it is safe to leave.
00:21:18.000 Here is Jake Sullivan explaining.
00:21:20.000 Guys, Taliban is not going to stop people who are trying to get to the airport like Americans.
00:21:23.000 Why would they do that?
00:21:25.000 Can you tell us what is it exactly, the commitment that you have secured from the Taliban regarding the safe passage of Americans as well as tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans?
00:21:37.000 The Taliban have informed us that they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport.
00:21:43.000 And we intend to hold them to that commitment.
00:21:48.000 Oh, do you?
00:21:49.000 You're going to hold them to that commitment?
00:21:51.000 Or what?
00:21:52.000 Or what?
00:21:53.000 This should always be the question that comes to this administration now.
00:21:55.000 Or what?
00:21:56.000 What are you going to do?
00:21:57.000 Yell at them?
00:21:58.000 Send them a vaguely worded letter?
00:22:01.000 You want to do something military related?
00:22:02.000 Yeah, I'm sure.
00:22:03.000 I'm sure after you pulled out and after you said, screw all the people who are there, I'm sure that they are quaking in their boots at the notion That this balding Rhodes Scholar is going to somehow threaten them into submission if things go wrong.
00:22:15.000 Yes, clearly. 0.79
00:22:17.000 This doddering old president is going to unleash the gates of hell upon these people if they don't allow Americans out. 0.96
00:22:23.000 Or alternatively, we're going to beg them. 0.97
00:22:24.000 And we're going to plead with them.
00:22:25.000 And then if they don't do what they said they would do, then, you know, we'll just kind of like take it.
00:22:30.000 Well, you know, that's what we're going to do.
00:22:31.000 By the way, it is six weeks since Joe Biden was specifically asked about trusting the Taliban.
00:22:35.000 He said, no, I do not trust the Taliban.
00:22:37.000 Now we are trusting the Taliban to allow all the Americans out. 1.00
00:22:40.000 Sullivan says, by and large, what we have found is that people have been able to get to the airport and present themselves.
00:22:45.000 There have been instances, you know, where we've heard that people are being turned back and even beaten.
00:22:48.000 We're taking that up in our channels with the Taliban. 0.97
00:22:51.000 Oh, well, then I'm sure things are going fine.
00:22:53.000 I'm sure that that is just going great.
00:22:55.000 Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby was asked, OK, so are you actually like sending people out to gather the Americans?
00:23:00.000 Are you sending people out from the military to go into Kabul and pick people up and bring them back to the airport? 0.99
00:23:05.000 And here is his idiotic response. 0.98
00:23:07.000 We're working hand-in-glove with the State Department in terms of supporting their plans at processing these individuals. 0.99
00:23:14.000 But again, that's something that we're going to be doing on a case-by-case, day-by-day basis.
00:23:18.000 Right now, though, I don't want to set the expectation that we are equipped and able to go out into the countryside and physically move people into Kabul.
00:23:28.000 Our focus right now, the troops that we have there, are at the airport.
00:23:31.000 The idea is to make sure we can get the air operations not only have they resumed, but to keep them in place for as long as possible.
00:23:39.000 Oh, okay.
00:23:40.000 Well, then it's all fine.
00:23:41.000 Kirby was also asked about our Afghan allies and whether they can get out.
00:23:45.000 And he's like, well, you know, we're gonna have to check their paperwork.
00:23:46.000 And Clarissa Ward of CNN was having none of it.
00:23:48.000 Again, she's been doing excellent work here.
00:23:50.000 I don't know why people are giving her flack.
00:23:53.000 I'm the one who has to look them in the eye.
00:23:57.000 Can I offer them your assurance that everyone who has worked with American organizations will be got out of this country safely?
00:24:08.000 Clarissa, first of all, thanks for your incredibly brave reporting and the images and the stories that you're telling.
00:24:15.000 We're all grateful and we all know how hard and how dangerous that work is.
00:24:19.000 I would ask you to tell them that there is a process that they can apply for through the State Department to To get onto the list and get onto the manifest, and I would ask them to work with State Department authorities there in Kabul to do that.
00:24:35.000 And if they are through that process, I can assure them, and you can assure them on our behalf, that we in the Pentagon will do everything we can to help get them out of the country over the next couple of weeks.
00:24:45.000 That's what we're flowing in extra aircraft for.
00:24:47.000 That's why we're flowing in extra troops to maintain security at that airport so that we can do that.
00:24:52.000 You'll notice that what he is saying there provides no guarantee that people who should be able to get out of the country get out of the country.
00:24:56.000 You know, they should file their paperwork.
00:24:59.000 And then they should wait.
00:24:59.000 They should wait around.
00:25:00.000 Shelter in place. 0.99
00:25:01.000 Wait around while the Taliban threaten to murder them.
00:25:03.000 And then, you know, maybe after we file their paperwork, we'll find a way to get them out of the country. 0.99
00:25:08.000 These are people who put their lives on the lines on behalf of American interests, by the way.
00:25:12.000 And as I say, I've been getting dozens of letters from soldiers like every day saying, I worked with this family in Afghanistan.
00:25:19.000 I can't get in touch with them.
00:25:20.000 Please, can you do something?
00:25:22.000 Me, okay?
00:25:22.000 I'm a political commentator.
00:25:23.000 I'm not a member of the government.
00:25:24.000 I'm not a member of the State Department.
00:25:26.000 I'm not an elected official.
00:25:28.000 I'm getting letters like this.
00:25:30.000 That's how horrible this administration is at doing what it said it would do.
00:25:35.000 Meanwhile, the administration patting itself on the back, Jake Sullivan says, you know, all of this just proves that we should have left.
00:25:39.000 Oh, really?
00:25:41.000 That's interesting.
00:25:42.000 So I think the argument could then be made that the rise in crime rates in America's major cities in the aftermath of the police pulling back is just evidence.
00:25:49.000 I mean, if people don't, obviously people don't want crime.
00:25:52.000 Defund the police is probably a good idea then, right?
00:25:54.000 If you take away the people who are the protective force and then bad things happen.
00:25:58.000 This just proves that people wanted bad things to happen.
00:26:00.000 So you shouldn't have had a protective force there in the first place.
00:26:02.000 This is so counterintuitive and nonsensical.
00:26:06.000 What has unfolded over the past month has proven decisively that it would have taken a significant American troop presence, multiple times greater than what President Biden was handed, to stop a Taliban onslaught.
00:26:20.000 And we would have taken casualties.
00:26:22.000 American men and women would have been fighting and dying once again in Afghanistan.
00:26:27.000 And President Biden was not prepared to send additional forces or ask any American personnel to do that over the period ahead.
00:26:37.000 Um, no.
00:26:38.000 So that is, um, no.
00:26:39.000 That is not actually what was happening.
00:26:41.000 There was a skeleton force there.
00:26:42.000 None of this was happening.
00:26:43.000 Skeleton force is gone.
00:26:44.000 All of this is happening.
00:26:44.000 It's that simple.
00:26:46.000 Meanwhile, I have to say, it is astonishing to watch.
00:26:49.000 The mind is boggled.
00:26:51.000 Not only the lack of competence, but the lack of even basic decency and honesty from this administration.
00:26:56.000 It really is an amazing thing.
00:26:57.000 All the people are like, Trump violated all norms. 0.97
00:26:59.000 Trump was the worst. 0.95
00:27:00.000 Trump, mean tweet. 0.86
00:27:02.000 Okay, now I've noticed that 38 million people are now living under abject tyranny over there.
00:27:07.000 And also, all of our enemies are on the move globally.
00:27:10.000 All of them.
00:27:10.000 But don't worry, Jake Sullivan says that our allies should actually feel comforted by all of this.
00:27:16.000 If you're Taiwan now under threat from China, if you are Israel under threat from Hamas, then you should feel comforted by America's commitment here because it's not like we just cut and run and left a giant country, a strategically important country that borders both India and Pakistan and also Iran.
00:27:32.000 It's not like we just left that country in the hands of literally the worst people on the planet.
00:27:35.000 Who were responsible for the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001 and the Pentagon in 2001 and the murder of 3,000 Americans in 2000.
00:27:43.000 It's not like we just did any of that.
00:27:45.000 All of our allies should feel super confident given the fact that we are now going to leave our allies in Afghanistan to be abjectly murdered. 1.00
00:27:52.000 I mean, just shot in the street.
00:27:53.000 Our allies should feel pretty comfortable, says Jake Sullivan.
00:27:57.000 We believe that our commitments to our allies and partners are sacrosanct and always have been.
00:28:02.000 We believe our commitment to Taiwan and to Israel remains as strong as it's ever been.
00:28:09.000 Keep in mind that with respect to Afghanistan, we said back in 2011 that we would be out in 2014.
00:28:16.000 We stayed another seven years.
00:28:22.000 Oh, well, yeah, I mean, they should feel.
00:28:24.000 I'm sure our allies will feel very comfortable.
00:28:26.000 They're so comfortable, in fact, that all of our enemies are on the move.
00:28:29.000 According to Reuters, Iran has now accelerated its enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade.
00:28:34.000 A move raising tensions with the West as both sides seek to resume talks on reviving Tehran's nuclear deal.
00:28:39.000 Who could have predicted this?
00:28:40.000 You mean Iran is ramping up because they know that they can now take this administration for all they're worth?
00:28:45.000 So Iran is ramping up.
00:28:46.000 You'll see Iran ramp up its terror activities in Yemen, in Syria, in Lebanon.
00:28:51.000 Because why the hell wouldn't they? 1.00
00:28:52.000 This is a weak, pathetic, mewling administration. 0.99
00:28:55.000 China, meanwhile, held an assault drill near Taiwan after so-called provocations, according to Reuters. 0.95
00:29:01.000 China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country's armed forces said was a response to, quote, external interference and provocations.
00:29:11.000 And so they're now looking at the possibility of military action against Taiwan.
00:29:14.000 They've already threatened and said, well, you know, the truth is that the United States ain't going to do anything.
00:29:18.000 So maybe you should work with us.
00:29:20.000 Meanwhile, the State Department had no answer on why exactly the Biden administration was so sanguine about Chinese prospects in Afghanistan.
00:29:29.000 Remember, the State Department said just this week, they said, you know, China and Russia, they're probably pretty upset we pulled out from Afghanistan.
00:29:37.000 The thing they wanted most was for us to stay.
00:29:39.000 Weird, says Andrea Mitchell, again, shockingly doing an act of journalism here, saying, I've noticed that China are happy to work with the Taliban.
00:29:47.000 China is moving towards recognition of the Taliban already.
00:29:51.000 Well, look- Without any guarantees of human rights or any other guarantees?
00:29:56.000 It just so happens that China, the People's Republic of China, is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
00:30:03.000 So I can tell you precisely what they said when they signed onto the statement on August 16th.
00:30:13.000 But what they're doing today is moving towards recognizing the Taliban.
00:30:17.000 I am going to have to defer to officials in Beijing to speak to what they're doing.
00:30:22.000 I can tell you precisely what they signed on to, precisely what... But what does that tell you about their intent?
00:30:29.000 I'm not here to divine the intents of the PRC government.
00:30:34.000 My God.
00:30:35.000 I mean, their intent is perfectly clear.
00:30:37.000 We know exactly what they're doing.
00:30:38.000 We know exactly.
00:30:39.000 So this is my God. 0.99
00:30:40.000 They're just such liars. 1.00
00:30:41.000 They're such unbelievable liars. 1.00
00:30:43.000 Meanwhile, this administration, let's recognize as far as our allies go. 0.98
00:30:47.000 Right.
00:30:47.000 So if you're an ally of the United States, you have to be feel super uncomfortable at this point.
00:30:51.000 Like, why wouldn't you engage in the real politic of attempting to triangulate by by playing off the United States against, for example, China and Russia?
00:30:58.000 Why wouldn't you be attempting to reach out to other great powers for some semblance of support?
00:31:02.000 Why wouldn't you become more of a free agent?
00:31:03.000 See, the United States, in order to have allies, has to make commitments and has to fulfill those commitments.
00:31:09.000 We have, so far this decade, abandoned the Kurds, abandoned the people of Hong Kong, abandoned the dissidents in Iran, abandoned the dissidents in Cuba, abandoned the entire country of Afghanistan.
00:31:18.000 We're about to abandon our allies in Taiwan.
00:31:21.000 So what exactly is the incentive for anyone to make a sacrifice in order to be an ally to the United States?
00:31:27.000 What is the incentive?
00:31:29.000 The answer is there is no incentive.
00:31:30.000 And remember, this is the same administration that is currently attempting to, for example, legitimize, in large measure, Israel's opponent.
00:31:37.000 Right?
00:31:37.000 So if you're Israel, do you trust the United... If you're Saudi, if you're the Saudis, do you trust the United States at this point to have your back if things get hairy?
00:31:45.000 Why would you?
00:31:47.000 By the way, Hamas, which has been, which was treated by the entire media, not as the provocateur and terrorist group that it is in the last Israel-Hamas conflict, but instead as a sort of victimized power.
00:31:58.000 Hamas is celebrating the Taliban takeover.
00:31:59.000 They issued a statement welcoming, quote, the defeat of the American occupation in all Afghan land and praising the Taliban's, quote, courageous leadership on this victory, which was the culmination of its long struggle over the past 20 years.
00:32:09.000 Definitely people that we should force Israel into negotiations with. 0.97
00:32:13.000 Meanwhile, by the way, there seems to be this idea out there by the Biden administration that all this is going to make Biden more popular, that in the end, pulling out from Afghanistan is going to create vast popularity.
00:32:23.000 Here's the thing.
00:32:23.000 The American people are congenitally isolationist.
00:32:26.000 Americans are not particularly fond of presidents who campaign on the basis of going into war.
00:32:30.000 Going all the way back to World War I, when Woodrow Wilson literally campaigned in 1916 on the slogan, he kept us out of the war, and then proceeded to take us into World War I. So Americans are really not fond of war.
00:32:42.000 We don't want to be in wars. 0.99
00:32:43.000 But there is one thing that Americans hate worse than getting in war, and that's getting our ass kicked by a bunch of savage barbarians from the 8th century. 0.99
00:32:49.000 We are not fond of that look, particularly. 0.98
00:32:51.000 And Joe Biden is feeling that in the approval ratings.
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00:35:18.000 And so many of the folks in the media, they keep pretending that at some point, at some point Biden is going to emerge unscathed from all this, which is what they really care about because here's the deal.
00:35:32.000 We are now, decline is a choice.
00:35:34.000 It is a phrase that Charles Krauthammer once used in a speech, a very famous speech in 2009, where he said, decline is a choice.
00:35:40.000 You know, people act as though the decline of the United States is inevitable, but you actually have to make the active choice for decline.
00:35:45.000 Joe Biden has chosen decline.
00:35:47.000 He has chosen.
00:35:48.000 The bloated, cancerous social democracy ideas of Europe for home, and he has chosen the surrender-first caucus politics abroad.
00:35:56.000 We are a country and a republic in decline, and that decline is in fact a choice.
00:36:01.000 We are not muscular in our own defense.
00:36:03.000 We are not interested in our own interests.
00:36:05.000 We have decided we are going to blow out the debt at home.
00:36:07.000 We are going to spend more money than God or man has ever seen or created.
00:36:10.000 And we are going to destroy our own credibility on the world stage and hand it over to our enemies at the same time.
00:36:15.000 We are watching the self-cannibalization of the American legacy in real time.
00:36:20.000 But the media are convinced that all this is fine for Joe Biden, because if Joe Biden doesn't spend the money on guns over there, he can spend the money on butter here at home, is the idea.
00:36:28.000 So Nicole Wallace is leading this ridiculous group of folks over at MSNBC. 1.00
00:36:31.000 She says, you know what? 0.74
00:36:33.000 95% of Americans agree with Biden.
00:36:35.000 Really, Nicole, do they?
00:36:36.000 95% of the American people will agree with everything he just said.
00:36:44.000 95% of the press covering this White House will disagree.
00:36:47.000 And for an American president to finally be completely aligned with such an overwhelming majority of what the American people think about Afghanistan is probably a tremendous relief to the American people.
00:37:04.000 Okay, so this is what the media are going to turn to.
00:37:06.000 So again, I'm not going to say the whole media because there's some who are honest enough to note what is happening here.
00:37:10.000 But the Nicole Wallace party line here, which is that eventually the American people are going to turn in favor of all of this and be super happy about it.
00:37:17.000 I have serious doubts.
00:37:18.000 Right now, the polls show that Joe Biden has dropped below 50% for the first time in his entire presidency.
00:37:24.000 He is well below 50% actually.
00:37:26.000 His disapproval, which started at 35% in February, is now up to 46.1%.
00:37:31.000 It turns out the American people are not fans of failure. 0.90
00:37:33.000 Joe Biden is an abject failure. 0.62
00:37:36.000 How much of a failure is Joe Biden? 0.93
00:37:38.000 According to Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, Joe Biden, in the process of this entire debacle, has not spoken to a single foreign leader.
00:37:45.000 Remember, this is the great diplomacy first president.
00:37:48.000 This is the man who said on national TV just two days ago that he was pursuing diplomacy ties with our international allies.
00:37:55.000 He has been in Camp David Playing old Atari games and watching Matlock while eating Ensure with a Spoon, while not calling any of our allies, according to Jake Sullivan.
00:38:07.000 He has not yet spoken with any other world leaders.
00:38:11.000 Myself, Secretary Blinken, several other senior members of the team have been engaged on a regular basis with foreign counterparts and we intend to do so in the coming days.
00:38:21.000 Right now the main issue is an operational issue.
00:38:24.000 It's about how we coordinate with them to help them get their people out.
00:38:30.000 We've not spoken to any foreign leaders.
00:38:32.000 And by the way, Jen Psaki was asked, so when does Biden return to D.C.?
00:38:35.000 She was asked this yesterday.
00:38:36.000 Said, well, there's really no timetable.
00:38:37.000 Because remember, he did his little press conference and then he just walked out and headed right back to vacation.
00:38:43.000 The President will return to the White House.
00:38:46.000 I don't have an exact time for you, but tomorrow he will both be doing an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC, and he will also, where he will of course, I'm certain, be speaking to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
00:38:58.000 He'll also be delivering some remarks on COVID as well.
00:39:02.000 In terms of additional portions of the schedule next week, we're still working those through, so I don't have an update for you at this moment in time.
00:39:10.000 Um, so, there is an update.
00:39:13.000 Joe Biden is headed back to the White House today.
00:39:15.000 He's going to speak about COVID.
00:39:18.000 Because it's very important to misdirect away from the complete surrender and abject humiliation of the United States and Afghanistan.
00:39:23.000 So he's going to talk more about COVID.
00:39:24.000 And he's going to yell at Ron DeSantis, I would assume.
00:39:27.000 Well, by the way, quick note on that.
00:39:29.000 The trajectory for the Delta variants in Florida and Hawaii, they're identical.
00:39:33.000 I was just in Hawaii.
00:39:34.000 Hawaii is totally masked.
00:39:36.000 Hawaii has a full regimen.
00:39:37.000 You have to, in order to get into Hawaii, you have to show that you've been vaccinated or you have to show a negative PCR test within the last 48 hours.
00:39:45.000 And Hawaii has the exact same trajectory as Florida.
00:39:47.000 So it turns out the Delta variant is extremely transmissible.
00:39:50.000 People are getting it.
00:39:50.000 It ain't about DeSantis.
00:39:51.000 But Biden needs some talking point to get people to stop talking about the fact that he's an incompetent buffoon. 0.93
00:39:56.000 Even Chuck Todd, who's normally administration cheerleader, he says, uh, yeah, the veneer of competence, that's gone. 0.86
00:40:03.000 I do think the biggest political fallout from this is competency.
00:40:06.000 Joe Biden's greatest strength against Donald Trump in the campaign was the idea that he's been around the block, he knows what he's doing, we're facing this crisis with COVID, we need some basic competency back in government, no more chaos.
00:40:19.000 He's lost the competency high marks that he was getting at one time.
00:40:24.000 That's tough to get back.
00:40:28.000 Um, so yeah, that is, um, it's not coming back.
00:40:32.000 Nobody thinks he's competent.
00:40:34.000 The only question for Democrats is whether they think the people around him are competent.
00:40:37.000 This is the question for a lot of people on the Republican side when Trump was president. 0.59
00:40:40.000 There are a lot of people who are like, Trump is incompetent.
00:40:42.000 And a lot of us would say, okay, well, whatever Trump is tweeting today, the people around him are actually really competent.
00:40:47.000 Look at the policy.
00:40:48.000 Look at the policy.
00:40:49.000 Don't look at the tweets.
00:40:50.000 Look at the policy.
00:40:51.000 Forget about the mean tweets for a second.
00:40:52.000 Look at what he's actually doing.
00:40:54.000 Get record prosperity.
00:40:55.000 We had stability on the foreign, on the foreign front.
00:40:58.000 We were facing up to the problem of China. 0.99
00:41:00.000 We were facing up to the problem of Russia. 0.93
00:41:01.000 We were cutting peace deals in the Middle East.
00:41:03.000 Forget about Trump personally.
00:41:04.000 Okay. 1.00
00:41:04.000 Well, Democrats don't have the ability to do this because the people around Biden are also promoting this idiotic policy. 1.00
00:41:12.000 Biden is not there. 0.99
00:41:12.000 Right? 0.99
00:41:14.000 He's not been there for quite a while.
00:41:16.000 The lights are on, but nobody is home.
00:41:18.000 That attic is missing a couple of boxes and the people around him are doing nothing to facilitate actual competency in government.
00:41:25.000 Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat from Massachusetts, who actually is a former military member.
00:41:30.000 Even he was ripping on the President of the United States yesterday on MSNBC.
00:41:35.000 With the number of people we need to get out and the number of days that we had before U.S.
00:41:40.000 troop withdrawal is complete, they should have been conducting this evacuation for months.
00:41:46.000 This is the first question I asked Secretary Austin when he came before the House Armed Services Committee just two months ago.
00:41:52.000 I said, Mr. Secretary, why have you not already begun this evacuation?
00:41:58.000 All the scenes of total chaos that we saw play out on the TV yesterday could have been avoided if the administration had planned for this in advance.
00:42:08.000 Correct.
00:42:09.000 Correct.
00:42:10.000 Full disclosure, I know Representative Moulton on this sort of stuff, he's terrific.
00:42:13.000 He is correct on this.
00:42:15.000 It's an act of pure insanity what has happened here.
00:42:19.000 By the way, how delusional does the United States remain?
00:42:22.000 So, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield was asked on CNN by Wolf Blitzer about the Taliban violating people's rights.
00:42:30.000 Her answer was, in no uncertain terms, the United Nations would be putting through, quote, a very strongly worded press statement from the Security Council that we expect the Taliban to respect women's rights and to be respectful of humanitarian law.
00:42:42.000 Well, I mean, guess case closed.
00:42:44.000 We're done here.
00:42:45.000 The Biden administration and our allies.
00:42:47.000 Our allies on the UN Security Council, like China and Russia, definitely.
00:42:52.000 That's a strongly worded statement to a bunch of 8th century barbarians who are literally wielding whips. 0.71
00:42:57.000 I kid you not, according to CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, they're wielding whips at the airport to smack any Afghan attempting to leave the country and escape their barbaric rule.
00:43:08.000 If we issue a strongly, a very strongly worded statement, says Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN.
00:43:14.000 If we do that, definitely, they will stop doing what they have been doing.
00:43:18.000 Because after all, they're not 8th century barbarians we just handed billions of dollars in sophisticated military hardware.
00:43:24.000 And an entire country.
00:43:27.000 It'll be fine, guys.
00:43:28.000 It'll be fine.
00:43:28.000 The competence is here.
00:43:29.000 The adults are back in charge.
00:43:31.000 How refreshing!
00:43:31.000 Remember we were told all this in January?
00:43:34.000 Oh, the adults are back.
00:43:35.000 Isn't it nice to have competent governance again?
00:43:37.000 Isn't it nice? 0.87
00:43:37.000 Weird, because when that terrible, incompetent orange man was there, none of this bleep was happening. 0.87
00:43:42.000 Remember that? 0.95
00:43:43.000 Yeah, all you guys were doing was whining about how he was tweeting.
00:43:48.000 And now we've got this.
00:43:50.000 Now we've got this.
00:43:51.000 Okay, but here's the thing.
00:43:53.000 Many on the left are satisfied with this because in the end, their agenda is not about American security.
00:43:59.000 Their agenda is not about strengthening the United States.
00:44:02.000 For many on the left, they're happy that we are redirecting all of our focus from enemies abroad to enemies within.
00:44:08.000 This is a serious, serious problem.
00:44:11.000 There are a lot of people on the left who are far more concerned with the enemies within than with the enemies abroad.
00:44:16.000 This is why you saw the spectacle of General Mark Milley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying to Congress that he was deeply, deeply concerned about the roots of white rage.
00:44:26.000 He had to have his soldiers learn.
00:44:28.000 They had to read Ibram X. Kendi to learn about critical race theory and the roots of white rage.
00:44:33.000 We definitely needed that.
00:44:35.000 We needed Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, talking about how we needed to diversify the military.
00:44:40.000 This was a key priority.
00:44:42.000 The woke-ification of the military.
00:44:44.000 This was key.
00:44:45.000 Not actually winning wars.
00:44:46.000 By the way, who's gonna get fired for this?
00:44:48.000 Anybody?
00:44:48.000 Bueller?
00:44:50.000 Bueller?
00:44:50.000 No one's gonna get fired for this.
00:44:52.000 If you were this incompetent at your job, you'd be fired forthwith.
00:44:55.000 Like, within seconds. 0.97
00:44:56.000 These jackasses have made a mockery, like an absolute mockery of the sacrifices of the brave men and women of the American armed services who sacrificed in many cases, in thousands of cases, their lives, in tens of thousands of cases, their body parts, their livelihoods, their mental health, in order to establish American security on the ground in Afghanistan and provide us a base to fight terrorism from.
00:45:20.000 And yes, to add to the humanitarian values that were in Afghanistan. 0.93
00:45:24.000 Those people have been abjectly betrayed by this administration.
00:45:27.000 I'm getting letters from them all day long, the last several days.
00:45:31.000 And this administration, they were focusing on what really mattered.
00:45:34.000 And that was the threat of white supremacy within.
00:45:36.000 That was the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States. 0.98
00:45:42.000 There are bad people in the United States.
00:45:44.000 They exist.
00:45:45.000 But the incredible conflation, like the left knows what's happening here.
00:45:50.000 They do.
00:45:50.000 The hard left understand that what they've just done is humiliate themselves globally.
00:45:53.000 Like really humiliate themselves.
00:45:55.000 That's what this represents.
00:45:57.000 And so they have to come up with an alternative narrative.
00:45:59.000 And the alternative narrative is that the Taliban, yeah, they're bad, but we've got bad people here too. 0.83
00:46:05.000 The Taliban are really bad. 1.00
00:46:07.000 But you know what?
00:46:08.000 We have an American Taliban. 0.90
00:46:09.000 We need to fight.
00:46:10.000 We need to bring those soldiers home. 0.66
00:46:11.000 Not to, as so many on the right seem to think, send them to the border or redeploy them to the South China Sea.
00:46:18.000 No, the left would like to bring everybody home, focus all of our resources internally.
00:46:22.000 And this is also true with our moral capital.
00:46:24.000 It used to be the United States exported its moral capital, right?
00:46:27.000 We had all this moral capital.
00:46:28.000 We were the most Free country, most powerful country in the history of the world.
00:46:33.000 In the history of the world.
00:46:34.000 The most tolerant and diverse country in the history of the world, by the way, also.
00:46:38.000 And we were exporting that moral capital abroad.
00:46:41.000 Sometimes to great effect, sometimes to no effect.
00:46:43.000 And sometimes to help build nascent democracy in places like Iraq.
00:46:46.000 And yes, at the beginning in Afghanistan.
00:46:49.000 Or, maybe we were doing it unsuccessfully in Afghanistan, but successfully in Germany and Japan.
00:46:53.000 The United States has a long history of exporting our moral capital elsewhere.
00:46:57.000 But now, because the left has decided we have no moral capital, instead, we have to stop interfering in world affairs.
00:47:06.000 We have to let our enemies take advantage of the vacuum that we create.
00:47:09.000 We have to focus all of our moral resources at home.
00:47:11.000 We have to rebuild our moral capital, and rebuilding that moral capital starts at home.
00:47:15.000 We have to make sure that all of our public school students learn about their white privilege. 0.66
00:47:18.000 We have to ensure that America sees its dire history of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
00:47:24.000 We have to rebuild, morally speaking.
00:47:27.000 And that means taking on the real enemy.
00:47:28.000 The real enemy is not tens of thousands of miles away.
00:47:32.000 The real enemy is not in Afghanistan. 0.52
00:47:34.000 The real enemy is not terrorists or China.
00:47:35.000 The real enemy is here within.
00:47:38.000 That's the enemy that we have to fight, according to members of the hard left.
00:47:41.000 So you have the specter of Stephen Colbert.
00:47:43.000 It is unbelievable.
00:47:44.000 Likening Trump voters to the Taliban.
00:47:46.000 This happened two nights ago.
00:47:49.000 American troops cannot And should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
00:48:00.000 He's right.
00:48:01.000 We've had troops there for 20 years.
00:48:03.000 They fought.
00:48:05.000 They sacrificed.
00:48:06.000 Their families sacrificed so that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in America planned in a foreign country.
00:48:13.000 Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan?
00:48:17.000 We've got our own on Capitol Hill.
00:48:20.000 We've got our own on Capitol Hill.
00:48:21.000 You see the people who are outside the Capitol.
00:48:24.000 That was what that picture was.
00:48:25.000 The people who are outside the Capitol building on January 6th, they are the same as the American Taliban. 0.99
00:48:29.000 They are just the same thing.
00:48:31.000 They're the same.
00:48:32.000 Oh, are they now?
00:48:35.000 Fascinating.
00:48:35.000 So if that were the case, and by the way, that's what he wants, right?
00:48:39.000 The idea is that we have to redeploy the American military against people who disagree with Stephen Colbert.
00:48:44.000 That's an unbelievable statement right there.
00:48:46.000 Okay, so by the way, even in that statement, he acknowledges why we were supposed to remain in Afghanistan.
00:48:51.000 To fight terrorism.
00:48:52.000 Because guess what?
00:48:52.000 That threat has not ended.
00:48:54.000 And now it's going to be reconstituted in Afghanistan.
00:48:56.000 But that's a side point.
00:48:57.000 For the radical left, the enemy is not the Taliban.
00:48:59.000 Those are people who are very far away, engaged in a civil war.
00:49:01.000 The enemy is you.
00:49:02.000 The enemy is people who think like you, who disagree with Stephen Colbert.
00:49:06.000 He doesn't mean that we need the American military there to put down actual violent action only at the Capitol building.
00:49:12.000 No, far from it.
00:49:14.000 The left conflates all those people you see.
00:49:16.000 The left is not interested in separating off the people who engage in violent activity and who are duly arrested at the Capitol building.
00:49:22.000 The left believes that everyone who is outside the Capitol is the same as everybody who actually violated the law.
00:49:27.000 They believe that everybody who voted for Donald Trump is the same as the people outside the Capitol.
00:49:31.000 This is what the left does.
00:49:32.000 We have violent terrorists in the United— By the way, you know what happened with that?
00:49:35.000 You know how many people were actually murdered on that day?
00:49:41.000 The answer is that no actual people were murdered on that day.
00:49:44.000 The only person who was actually killed on that day, as in actively killed on that day, was Ashley Babbitt, who was one of the protesters, one of the rioters, right?
00:49:50.000 She was engaging in criminal activity. 0.67
00:49:53.000 And the entire place was cleared within three hours and the government went on. 1.00
00:49:58.000 So if that sounds a lot like the Taliban to you, it's because you're a crazy person. 1.00
00:50:00.000 It's because you're out of your damned mind. 1.00
00:50:03.000 There are also gradations of people doing bad things and believing terrible things. 1.00
00:50:08.000 The people who invaded the Capitol building in the belief that the election was illegitimate are not remotely on the level of human beings in Afghanistan who wish to crowd women back into basements, keep them there as sex slaves for decades on end, make sure they can't go to school, make sure that everybody lives under the most brutal and violent form of Sharia law. 0.71
00:50:28.000 Like, can we make any sort of gradations here?
00:50:31.000 Can we say that even if we think that the January 6th riots were an act of evil, that that is a different level of evil than people who are literally living in Stone Age barbarism and murdering people in order to ensure that Stone Age barbarism rules?
00:50:45.000 Are there no gradations here at all?
00:50:47.000 According to the left, there aren't.
00:50:48.000 And in fact, the people in the United States who did this are much more dangerous to us than the Taliban. 0.77
00:50:52.000 They're much more dangerous, like, because 9-11 never happened, you see.
00:50:56.000 9-11 was a figment of your imagination.
00:50:58.000 9-11, in fact, what happened on January 6th is worse than 9-11 in the minds of the left, because it came from here, even though it resulted, again, in no murders.
00:51:09.000 That is not to downplay the evil of that. 0.99
00:51:12.000 But the comparison to 9-11 itself is idiotic. 0.99
00:51:15.000 But to the left, it's worse. 0.99
00:51:16.000 It's worse than 9-11.
00:51:17.000 9-11 basically never happened, according to the left.
00:51:20.000 So we don't have to worry about threats abroad anymore.
00:51:22.000 Those are done, according to Stephen Colbert.
00:51:23.000 The real threat is you.
00:51:25.000 The real threat is people who think like you.
00:51:27.000 And by the way, if you don't think that they are conflating everybody, if you think that Colbert is just talking about the rioters, you're wrong.
00:51:32.000 Malcolm Nance.
00:51:33.000 Who you'll recall, I debated on Bill Maher, and I pointed out that Malcolm Nance has a really, really nasty habit of conflating the people who engaged in criminal activity on January 6th with everyone who voted for Trump.
00:51:44.000 Now Malcolm Nance has a new theory.
00:51:45.000 His theory is that Trump voters everywhere are going to engage in an actual violent civil war, which would explain why we need to pull out from Afghanistan to activate against those people.
00:51:53.000 Here's Malcolm Nance doing what he does most often, which is claim that he has inside intelligence information suggesting that a massive civil war is about to break out in the United States, led by Trump.
00:52:03.000 These guys view themselves as this fanciful group of patriotic freedom fighters, the second coming of the Sons of Liberty.
00:52:11.000 And there are many of them who are preparing for civil war right now.
00:52:16.000 All the shame that we tried to give them after January 6th, that's gone.
00:52:21.000 There are many of them right now that are ready to fight, and we're seeing politicians in the state houses and the Capitol who are actually, you know, pushing them subliminally to fight.
00:52:31.000 This Doltish Claude, here's what he had to say right before that quote, the Republican Party is more like Sinn FĂ©in and the relationship between Sinn FĂ©in, the Irish Nationalist Party and the Irish Republican Army, provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist group who call themselves freedom fighters and insurgents and had Americans, American congressmen sending them money to buy, you know, heavy machine guns.
00:52:48.000 Okay, so the idea here, again from the left increasingly, is that the Taliban are not bad, Or at least they're not really a threat. 0.71
00:52:56.000 Maybe they're not great, but really should we worry about them?
00:52:59.000 The real threat is everyone who voted Republican.
00:53:02.000 Everyone who voted Trump.
00:53:03.000 Those people are the real threat.
00:53:04.000 Those are the people we deeply have to worry about.
00:53:07.000 Michael Moore made this absolutely clear. 1.00
00:53:08.000 So Michael Moore is a complete buffoon. 0.99
00:53:11.000 He tweeted out, their Taliban are Taliban. 0.99
00:53:14.000 Everybody's got a Taliban. 1.00
00:53:15.000 They're at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.
00:53:18.000 And then he tweeted a picture of the Taliban sitting at the seat of the national government. 1.00
00:53:23.000 And then the buffoonish idiots who invaded the Capitol building on January 6th. 1.00
00:53:29.000 You will note that the people in the upper picture, the Taliban, They're going to murder probably tens of thousands of human beings. 1.00
00:53:36.000 They're also going to retain this dictatorship until presumably the end of time.
00:53:43.000 And the people at the bottom are a bunch of clods in buffalo hats who were cleared out of the Capitol and arrested within three hours. 0.97
00:53:53.000 Those are not comparable.
00:53:54.000 Those are not remotely comparable.
00:53:56.000 But if you can draw the parallel, the left has been doing this for 20 years, by the way, but now it's really kicked into high gear since Trump.
00:54:03.000 If you can draw the parallel between enemies abroad and enemies at home, you can treat enemies at home as we treated enemies abroad.
00:54:10.000 This is dangerous stuff.
00:54:12.000 This is dangerous stuff.
00:54:14.000 Because for members of the radical left and increasingly the mainstream left, if the idea is we rebuild moral capital by destroying the enemies here at home, this is how tyranny happens.
00:54:23.000 This is how authoritarianism happens.
00:54:24.000 If you are justified in treating... I mean, after all, we literally fought the Taliban.
00:54:29.000 We unleashed the drones on them.
00:54:30.000 We've probably killed tens of thousands of members of the Taliban over the years.
00:54:34.000 If there's an equivalent group in the United States to the Taliban, we would have to treat them like we treated the Taliban, would we not? 0.95
00:54:42.000 Members of the left are eager and happy about that, of the hard left.
00:54:46.000 If that sentiment grows, that really is a threat to the future of the country on a broad scale.
00:54:50.000 But we have many threats to the future of the country.
00:54:51.000 We have the radicals on the left who think that everybody who disagrees with them is the American Taliban and must be thoroughly destroyed.
00:54:57.000 We have a group of people on the left who believe that government ought to rule all of our lives on the basis of the slimmest and thinnest of reeds, like at this point, the COVID pandemic.
00:55:07.000 We have people on the left who believe that the pathway back to American moral capital is to completely destroy the American economic system by burdening it with the greatest spending binge in the history of anything, and to destroy America's credibility on the foreign stage.
00:55:23.000 Decline is a choice.
00:55:24.000 The left is choosing it.
00:55:25.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for an additional hour of content.
00:55:28.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Nolans Show.
00:55:30.000 On today's episode, Michael will be talking about Lizzo's complaints over fatphobia.
00:55:34.000 That episode is available right now.
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00:56:07.000 The Biden administration refuses to guarantee the safety of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
00:56:11.000 The ruling class demands we take in millions of refugees. 0.96
00:56:15.000 And New Zealand locks down over a single COVID case.