Elon Musk and President Trump go at it over the Big Beautiful Bill. Greta Thunberg takes a 3 hour USS Minnow tour to Gaza, Boys are beating girls again at California track meets, and the Trump White House has found a new and hilarious way to celebrate Pride Month.
00:00:55.000And of course, you have people who are fiscal hawks like Senator Ron Johnson, who's been a guest on the show, talking about the shortcomings of the big, beautiful bill in terms of spending.
00:01:03.000Obviously, this bill maintains Biden levels of spending.
00:01:06.000It does not, in fact, cut back to 2019 pre-pandemic levels of spending.
00:01:11.000And then you have people inside the Republican caucus, like Senator Josh Howley from Missouri, who thinks the bill actually goes too far in cutting spending.
00:01:18.000The House bill goes too far by putting work requirements on Medicaid.
00:01:22.000So, as always, you have a fractious Republican caucus, and the question is, what gets through?
00:01:27.000What's emerging right now inside the Republican Party is a fight between the ideal and the pragmatic.
00:01:33.000And neither side is actually wrong in this particular fight.
00:01:37.000So, this has now boiled down to a fight between President Trump and Elon Musk.
00:01:41.000So Elon, of course, recently left the administration.
00:01:44.000He had reached the end of the period of time in which he was capable of holding that office without some form of congressional approval.
00:01:51.000you Over the course of the last couple of days, he put out a tweet saying, quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
00:01:59.000This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
00:02:07.000So that is open war on the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
00:02:11.000Meanwhile, the administration, of course, is pushing forward the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:02:15.000So there's been some speculation about what caused Elon Musk to lose it on the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
00:02:20.000That speculation was handed off to Axios by presumably some members of the administration.
00:02:25.000According to Axios, Musk and Trump remained friends and allies.
00:02:29.000Two people in frequent communication with both told Axios, but they said Trump was somewhat irked by Musk's social media sabotage.
00:02:35.000The sources familiar with the Trump-Musk relationship say there appeared to be four inflection points that led to his caustic attack on President Trump's bill.
00:02:42.000One, legislation cuts the electric vehicle tax credit that helps carmakers like Musk's Tesla.
00:02:48.000Two, Musk was working at the White House.
00:02:54.000Ultimately, White House officials looked at that legally and they said, we can't actually extend you this way.
00:03:04.000Also, Musk wanted the FAA to use Starlink.
00:03:07.000And finally, on Saturday night, President Trump abruptly announced that he was withdrawing the nomination of a man named Jared Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally, to be the NASA administrator.
00:03:16.000And there was some speculation that that was Sort of a slap at Musk by members of the Trump personnel team.
00:03:23.000That Isaacman, who was only nominated to that position, presumably because he was friends with Musk, was now being smacked because Musk was leaving and it was safe to smack him.
00:04:19.000Even if we did, by the way, go back to 2019 spending levels, we were still on a debt crisis trajectory just a little bit slower.
00:04:25.000Because in 2019, we were spending about $4 trillion a year.
00:04:28.000And today we spend $6.5 trillion a year, which is a radical increase, obviously.
00:04:33.000But it is not as though the underlying issue, which is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, was going away even if we went back to the 2019 spending trajectory.
00:04:42.000But on an idealistic level, obviously, this is true.
00:04:44.000And this is why so many conservatives feel torn about the big, beautiful bill.
00:04:48.000Because, yes, it does some good things, and it also does some quite bad things, like keeping in place the Biden levels of spending.
00:04:55.000So then you get to the question of the pragmatic.
00:04:57.000Idealistically, and on an ideological basis, Senator Johnson is right.
00:05:28.000Republicans have, effectively speaking, a three and a half vote majority.
00:05:32.000I say and a half because they have 53 votes in the Senate.
00:05:36.000And J.D. Vance, the vice president, can break a tie.
00:05:39.000That is a very slim majority, just practically speaking.
00:05:42.000You figure that if somebody tried to do the Ron Johnson approach and cut back to 2019 levels in this bill, you would get fallout from Josh Howley in Missouri, from Susan Collins in Maine, from Lisa Murkowski in Alaska.
00:05:55.000You probably get some fallout from other senators in purple states who would feel that their neck was on the line.
00:06:02.000So you probably lose seven, eight senators if you tried to do the thing that Senator Ron Johnson is trying to do.
00:06:07.000If politics is the art of the possible, Then the question becomes this.
00:06:10.000Would you prefer to have the current levels of spending without a tax cut?
00:06:15.000Or would you prefer to have current levels of spending minus a little bit plus a tax cut?
00:06:22.000Those are the two choices on the table.
00:06:24.000And this was the point that was being made by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson when he talked about the mistake that Elon Musk is making in attacking the bill.
00:06:40.000He and I spoke for, I think, more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I extolled all the virtues of the bill, and he seemed to understand that.
00:06:51.000For him to come out and pan the whole bill is, to me, just very disappointing, very surprising, in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday.
00:07:02.000The critics of government spending are feeling a little bit frustrated, but welcome to the party, pal.
00:07:08.000I mean, some of us have been very angry at government spending for literally our entire public careers.
00:07:13.000So many of the sort of newfound budget hawks, I mean, listen, I'm glad that they're there, but let's be real about this.
00:07:20.000When Republicans actually had control of Congress, which they gained in 2010, thanks to Barack Obama's radical increase in spending, and then the Tea Party movement came about, and then Obama got shellacked in the midterms.
00:07:31.000Republicans were never capable of making these sort of significant spending trajectory cuts that would have been necessary to actually fix the problem.
00:07:37.000The last time Republicans seriously attempted to fix the problems with the federal budget was 2005, when George W. Bush, after his re-elect, attempted to move toward what would be the equivalent of health savings account and Social Security, which was called privatizing Social Security, which effectively said to people who are below a particular age that instead of you receiving a defined benefit package,
00:07:59.000instead of that, What you would actually do is take the money you would pay to Social Security, they'd put it in an investment account, and then it would be linked to the stock market.
00:08:07.000If that had happened, by the way, then many of the budgetary problems that we are now looking at would have been solved.
00:08:13.000But everybody didn't like that because this is the third rail of American politics.
00:08:40.000I'm glad the Department of Governmental Efficiency is going line by line through every budget item at all the various departments and looking for places where funds are being misallocated or misspent.
00:09:15.000And then I asked, how much is the federal government slated to spend in 2025?
00:09:19.000What percentage of that spending is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and service on the debt?
00:09:23.000So to answer the first question, Trump era federal spending expansion from 2017.
00:09:28.000Through 2019, according to Perplexity, when President Trump took office, the CBO projected deficits would be 2-3% of GDP during his term.
00:09:35.000The deficit instead reached nearly 4% of GDP in 2018 and 4.6% in 2019, driven largely by the 2017 tax cuts and increased discretionary spending.
00:09:45.000Over his four years, President Trump signed or enacted $7.8 trillion in new initiatives.
00:09:50.000By the way, only $2 trillion of that was actually attributable.
00:09:54.000To the 2017 tax cuts, which means $5.8 trillion was everything else.
00:09:59.000This year, the federal government is slated to spend $7 trillion.
00:12:34.000When it comes to the inability of the American people to actually take debt seriously, certainly for worse, the short-term thinking of the American people will end up biting us directly in the butt when it comes to the national debt.
00:12:46.000Now, remember, a little bit later on in the show, I'm going to get to Greta Thunberg going to the Gaza Strip.
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00:14:57.000As Spencer Jacob writes over at the Wall Street Journal, the package of tax and spending measures sent to the Senate, now officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could act like a budgetary wolf bait.
00:15:07.000It would add around $3 trillion to debt levels over the next decade compared with existing estimates, and $5 trillion if certain temporary features were made permanent, according to the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget.
00:15:18.000For perspective, federal interest this fiscal year already will be more than the defense budget and more than Medicaid, disability insurance, and food stamps combined.
00:15:27.000Moreover, the CBO's estimates assume the bond market will not only tolerate a surge in spending, but become more relaxed about it with lower yields.
00:15:35.000So what if it turns out that with lower yields, people buy fewer bonds?
00:15:51.000And so we will walk our way off that cliff.
00:15:53.000And again, I'm a person who's been advocating literally my entire career for restructuring of these entitlement programs, but you're not getting in the bill.
00:16:00.000So the question is, yes on the bill or no on the bill?
00:16:04.000President Trump spent his weekend attacking opponents of the bill in the Senate, including Rand Paul.
00:16:09.000He put out a statement in which he snapped at Senator Paul, quote, Rand votes no on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas.
00:16:56.000It is hilarious to me that Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, he's out there saying that he agrees on the big, beautiful bill that it's a terrible bill.
00:17:24.000So Elon Musk is angry about the bill because it spends too much.
00:17:27.000Schumer is angry about the bill because it spends too little.
00:17:30.000Just remember, if Democrats are ever in charge, again, which I'm sure they will be, because politics moves in strange patterns, they will increase taxes radically and increase the spending radically.
00:17:40.000Now, meanwhile, there are some attempts to, again, cut around the edges, and we need to be clear about what it means when we look at what Doge is doing, what these House rescission bills would do.
00:17:48.000They are, in fact, cutting, but they're cutting around the edges.
00:17:51.000So according to Fox News, the House Freedom Caucus is demanding The conservative group, led by Chairman Andy Harris of Maryland, is drawing its line in the sand on Monday with an official position on the coming package, which is expected to call for clawing back government funding for NPR, PBS, and USAID.
00:18:26.000Meanwhile, Russ Vaught, who is the head of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, he says the White House is weighing options like impoundment to formalize those doge spending cuts.
00:18:36.000But again, even impoundment of these amounts is not going to radically change the fiscal crisis that America is going to find itself in.
00:19:01.000But because we refuse to acknowledge reality, any politician who tells us we can have all of those things is likely to succeed.
00:19:07.000Now, meanwhile, what President Trump is right is that the big, beautiful bill is necessary to maintain growth rates.
00:19:13.000If we radically increase taxes, which is what the expiration of the Trump tax cuts would effectively do, if that were to happen, The growth curve in the country, the investment, would absolutely collapse.
00:19:25.000The markets already are pricing in the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:19:28.000They believe that the Big Beautiful Bill is going to pass.
00:19:32.000Well, if it doesn't, then you're going to see the markets really, really dumb, especially given the fact that there's already so much turmoil in the markets.
00:19:41.000According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, the tariff regime that President Trump We'll be crimping U.S. economic growth this year and also boosting inflation.
00:19:54.000They said Tuesday they expect GDP to decelerate sharply to 1.6% in 2025 from 2.8% in 2024.
00:20:02.000They previously expected that we would grow our GDP by 2.2%, but they believe that because of the slowdown in global trade, they are going to see a slowness in growth as well.
00:20:11.000They also expect that U.S. inflation will pick up.
00:20:13.000Now, we have seen inflation statistics came out while we were off the air.
00:20:18.000Those inflation statistics for the last month were the lowest that they've been since basically the beginning of the pandemic.
00:20:24.000They were 2.1% year on year, which is basically where you want to be.
00:20:27.000The Federal Reserve is tasked with keeping inflation at 2% annually.
00:20:32.000So President Trump is saying that the Federal Reserve now needs to lower the interest rates and boost spending by making more liquidity available in the markets.
00:20:41.000The problem, of course, is that when it comes to the inflation rate, that is in fact a trailing indicator.
00:20:47.000So, what you may be getting in that lack of inflation is a couple of things.
00:20:52.000Less demand, which is not driving up prices.
00:20:54.000And also, you might be getting the fact that the tariff regime has been in and out and up and down.
00:21:00.000And because of that, the markets are sort of frozen and paralyzed.
00:21:04.000And they're not radically escalating prices yet.
00:21:07.000But the idea is that if the tariffs actually kick into full force and effect, that will increase the inflation.
00:21:13.000And the Federal Reserve isn't going to jump too fast to lower the interest rates.
00:21:17.000Based on an uncertain economic future.
00:21:21.000Especially, I mean, President Trump, at the same time that he's tweeting out that Jerome Powell needs to lower the interest rates, is also saying, quote, I like President Xi of China.
00:21:42.000And you combine that with a very, very weak jobs report in May.
00:21:46.000And what you see right now is an economic freeze-up that is happening because of the amount of uncertainty in the market.
00:21:52.000So is the Federal Reserve, in the middle of all that uncertainty, going to throw an interest rate decrease in the middle of that?
00:21:59.000The answer there is no, because the Federal Reserve believes that eventually the markets are going to get unstuck one way or the other.
00:22:04.000If they wait a couple of months and the inflation stays low and the tariff regime all works itself out, then they can talk about lowering the interest rates.
00:22:11.000What they are afraid of is that they will lower the interest rates, inject, More liquidity into the economy.
00:22:16.000And then you will get price inflation that is basically double what they want.
00:22:20.000They will get inflation based on their injection of liquidity by lowering the interest rates.
00:22:24.000And you will also get price inflation based on a tariff regime that actually does at some point fully kick in.
00:22:31.000According to ADP, private sector job creation slowed to a near standstill in May, hitting its lowest level in more than two years as signs emerged of a weakening labor market.
00:22:39.000Payrolls increased just 37,000 for the month, below the downwardly revised 60,000 in April, and the Dow Jones forecast for 110,000.
00:22:45.000It is the lowest monthly job total from the ADP count since March of 2023.
00:22:51.000So again, this doesn't mean that we are in serious trouble here in the United States with regard to our economy.
00:22:56.000However, it is worth pointing out that, as I've said a thousand times on the show at this point, uncertainty breeds its own form of economic chaos.
00:23:03.000If you don't know what's coming next, you are very unlikely to hire for the future.
00:23:07.000By the way, this includes in manufacturing.
00:23:10.000Goods producing industries lost 2,000 positions for the month.
00:23:13.000Natural resources and mining are off 5,000, manufacturing down 3,000.
00:23:18.000And again, that's not a shock either because one of the things that has happened is that the oil prices have dropped so much at this point that people are not actually ramping up oil production in the United States.
00:23:29.000This means that the big, beautiful bill better pass because if the big, beautiful bill does not pass, then you've got a real problem on your hands.
00:23:34.000Remember, folks, in just a minute, We are going to get to the White House and their take on Pride Month, which is wild and kind of awesome.
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00:26:00.000Meanwhile, we have now entered the month of June, and as we all know, June is the greatest month on the American calendar because it is a month of miracles and happiness and joy, specifically queer joy, because June, of course, is Pride Month, the month when we are all supposed to pretend that the most important thing about any human being Is there sexual orientation?
00:26:20.000And that all of America must celebrate this together.
00:26:23.000That is what Pride Month is all about.
00:26:27.000Well, I have some Pride Month stories.
00:26:30.000It's not going the way that many people on the left were hoping Pride Month was going to go.
00:26:36.000So, for example, the U.S. military has now decided that they are going to rename a ship.
00:26:41.000There is a Navy ship that is called USS Harvey Milk.
00:26:49.000Harvey Milk was not a member of the military.
00:26:53.000Harvey Milk had no impact on military policy.
00:26:55.000Harvey Milk was a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member in the 1970s who was shot to death after 11 months on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and became a sort of martyr for the so-called gay rights cause.
00:27:08.000He also happened to be a guy who was stupping a 16-year-old boy.
00:27:11.000So, you know, he was in common parlance committing a crime.
00:27:19.000He served in the Navy during the Korean War.
00:27:21.000That's literally his only connection to the military.
00:27:23.000That was also true of millions of other people who served in World War II or the Korean War or the Vietnam War.
00:27:29.000The U.S. Navy ship Harvey Milk was originally named in 2016 by Ray Mavis under Barack Obama.
00:27:36.000The idea that we were naming a Navy ship after a man That's ridiculous.
00:27:57.000If you're going to name Navy ships, typically you're going to name them after, you know, naval heroes.
00:28:01.000You're typically going to name them after people who had an impact on military policy.
00:28:06.000You're going to name them after places.
00:28:10.000The U.S. Navy ship RuPaul should not be a thing.
00:28:15.000And it was always ridiculous to suggest that we were going to name our Navy ships after sort of DEI heroes in American life.
00:28:23.000And yet that is what Barack Obama was all about.
00:28:26.000It was deliberately silly by the Obama administration.
00:28:28.000And now that's being walked back by the Trump administration during Pride Month of all times, according to the Washington Post.
00:28:35.000The Pentagon is planning to strip the name from a Navy ship that honors the gay rights icon Harvey Milk, who, by the way, was also stripping a 16-year-old, which is against the law, and could expand the purge to include other vessels recognizing prominent civil rights figures, defense officials said Tuesday.
00:28:49.000Deliberations, officials said, are ongoing after a recent order by Hegseth to Navy Secretary John Phelan with the decision to be announced as soon as mid-June to coincide with Pride Month, which President Trump has rejected celebrating because, of course, typically pride is considered a sin.
00:29:08.000But it is kind of weird that what you're actually celebrating during Pride Month is the sin of pride.
00:29:14.000In any case, it was unclear when or even if any other Navy vessels honoring civil rights figures could see their titles changed.
00:29:21.000Sean Parnell, a spokesperson for Hegseth, released a statement acknowledging a review is underway that could result in the renaming of Defense Department installations and resources.
00:29:28.000In other words, we are no longer going to be painting our bombs with trans pride flags.
00:29:52.000And meanwhile, in other bad news for the advocates of Pride Month, it turns out that Algeria's Imeen Khalif, He was a gold medal winner at the last Paris Olympics in boxing, you may recall.
00:30:09.000I know, that was perfectly obvious by looking at him.
00:30:12.000But it turns out that now, Elite's medical report shows that the Algerian boxer was abnormal, stating, quote, chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.
00:30:25.000I know, we were not supposed to notice that, and it was supposed to be a giant shock.
00:30:28.000But yeah, they covered it up because a man was beating up the ladies.
00:30:32.000Speaking of which, California continues to push forward the absurdity of boys racing against girls while pretending to be girls.
00:30:39.000According to SoapCentral.com, A.B. Hernandez, a transgender high school athlete, has been making waves on social media after winning two events, including the high jump and triple jump at the California State Track and Field Championships as per KCRA.
00:30:51.000Hernandez is 16 years old and from Jerupa Valley, California, and her recent participation under the new rule change has caused a nationwide controversy.
00:31:00.000He, I mean his participation as part of the new rule by the California Interscholastic Federation.
00:31:06.000If a trans athlete earns a top position, the next highest ranking cisgender athlete can also share the placement and also receive a medal as per the Guardian.
00:31:14.000Yeah, but if you put a dude at the top of the podium, and then you're like, yeah, but we'll put like an extra girl at the bottom of the podium so that she can be like, number four and three are kind of tied.
00:31:23.000How does that make the girls feel any better?
00:31:24.000They're still standing there below a boy at the top of the podium.
00:31:29.000Hernandez won first place in the high jump, where she, he, cleared five feet seven inches without any failed attempts.
00:31:36.000He shared first place with two other athletes, Jalene Wetland and Leilani LaRue.
00:31:41.000He also won first place in the triple jump and received a gold medal in second place in the long jump.
00:31:49.000The whole thing is unbelievably silly, of course.
00:31:52.000There was a plane that was flown over the track and field state championship that read, No Boys in Girls Sports.
00:31:59.000The Independent Council on Women's Sports and Women Are Real, which is Riley Gaines' group, were the two groups that took credit for flying the banner during the event.
00:32:25.000One of the groups that has not, sadly, is MLB, Major League Baseball.
00:32:30.00029 of MLB's 30 teams are celebrating Pride Month.
00:32:33.000They're coming to literally every Major League ballpark, apparently.
00:32:36.000Not sure why any of that is necessary.
00:32:40.000The Rangers are the only MLB team that has never waded into the LGBT messaging during Pride Month, according to the Daily Wire.
00:32:47.000In response to questions about skipping Pride Month events, the team said last year, quote, Our long-standing commitment remains the same, to make everyone feel welcome and included in Rangers baseball, in our ballpark, at every game, and in all we do for both our fans and our employees.
00:32:59.000We deliver on that promise across our many programs to have a positive impact across our entire community, which is the way that you actually ought to treat your fans, by the way.
00:33:08.000Six teams changed their official logos on social media to include some version of the Pride flag.
00:33:13.000Another 11 teams wrote a post acknowledging Pride Month.
00:33:16.000It is obviously the most lib cities that decided to go ahead and change their entire logos like the Mets, New York, and Baltimore Orioles, and the Washington Nationals, and Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco, of course, the Giants.
00:33:50.000Disney continues its string of layoffs, according to The Daily Wire.
00:33:53.000According to Reuters, Disney is now preparing to conduct mass layoffs that will affect hundreds I mean, maybe that's because, again, so much of their content has been woke trash for the last 10 years or so.
00:34:11.000Snow White, of course, was a massive bust.
00:34:14.000The live-action remake supposedly cost $115 million based on a $410 million budget.
00:34:21.000It only earned a worldwide box office gross of $195 million.
00:34:28.000The movies that have been doing okay for Disney are, of course, basically remakes of classic Disney without any of the woke involved in it.
00:34:54.000It's one of the reasons why President Trump is in fact president.
00:34:57.000And it's one of the reasons why President Trump has now authorized his administration to stop parroting the woke propaganda for the month of June.
00:35:04.000Okay, in a moment, we're going to get to Greta taking a boat to the Gaza Strip.
00:35:08.000Yes, the most obnoxious person alive going to visit terrorists.
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00:36:18.000Now, meanwhile, in what has to be not only one of the stupidest stories of the day, but one of the stupidest stories ever, we're still talking about Greta Thunberg.
00:36:28.000Now, you recall Greta when she was a not particularly cute child and we weren't allowed to make jokes about her not being particularly cute because she was a child.
00:36:35.000Well, now, She's 22 years old, so I can say whatever the hell I want about her.
00:36:59.000But apparently, he then took her out of school and decided to put her on camera for literally The rest of her life, which is a weird way of doing treatment.
00:37:08.000He actually said, quote, she can either sit at home and be really unhappy or protest and be happy.
00:37:13.000Well, I'm not sure why we are supposed to listen to an unhappy teenager protesting just to make them happy.
00:37:36.000She said that the adults were not doing enough to stop the world from getting warmer.
00:37:40.000She didn't have any solutions, but she could yell at the adults.
00:37:43.000It was her very obnoxiousness that endeared her to the left-wing media machine in the first place, which, for some odd reason, finds small children saying idiotically reductive garbage to be wise and useful.
00:37:54.000So, here she was in 2019, yelling at the adults.
00:38:02.000You can't get this out of your mind once it's there.
00:38:04.000It will be implanted in your brain forever, this obnoxious nonsense.
00:38:07.000How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.
00:38:20.000You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency.
00:38:26.000But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that.
00:38:36.000I mean, the fact that this was ever treated as a serious issue is beyond me.
00:38:40.000But it shows that the left is literally willing to use anyone as their tool, and they particularly like using children, specifically because then, if you say that the child is wrong, like, you're attacking a child.
00:39:16.000This spoiled Brad, who's never held a real job in her life, and will never need to because she'll just be a professional activist forever, getting herself arrested for no reason.
00:39:28.000She's on a boat, a boat reminiscent of the terrorist flotilla from 2010, in which friends of Hamas sent a set of ships to Gaza laden with goods that would have immediately have gone to support the terror group.
00:39:40.000That particular flotilla was offered passage at Ashdod, which is an Israeli port, and they turned it down because they were worried that Israel would confiscate the goods, which Israel would have, because, again, it was illegal.
00:39:51.000Israel had offered, by the way, to coordinate any aid with the UN, that flotilla, Like they brought weapons on board.
00:40:00.000And when the Israelis loaded, boarded the ship to stop it, this is back in 2010, some of the people on the ship even grabbed the weapons of the Israelis.
00:40:25.000So, our pippy long-stocking wannabe heroine has now loaded onto the so-called Madeline ship, which is launched by the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
00:40:34.000This Freedom Flotilla has not called for the freedom of Palestinians from Hamas ever, or the freedom of actual hostages currently being held in tunnels as they are dying.
00:40:43.000Anyway, Thunberg has taken the lead, calling to dismantle Zionism.
00:40:47.000This is her goal, to dismantle Zionism, which just for the record, Here she was just a few months back saying as much to her friends in Stockholm.
00:41:12.000Remember, she garners her happiness from this sort of performative idiocy.
00:41:18.000Well, she is now joined on the magic boat of stupidity by propagandists from the Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera, as well as an actor from Game of Thrones.
00:41:26.000Actually, the right actor, it's the Davos Seaworth guy, so at least he's used to being on the water for fake.
00:41:31.000They say they're trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, even though actually what's happening in Gaza right now is kind of amazing.
00:41:37.000Israel has taken over the distribution of humanitarian aid along with the Americans, and they're doing it directly, which is very good because people are now being fed in the Gaza Strip.
00:41:47.000One of the big problems with the UN is that they worked for Hamas.
00:41:49.000And so all the aid that was going in was being hijacked by Hamas.
00:41:52.000Hamas was then taking it and either using it themselves or they were selling it back to the Palestinians at inflated rates to pay for their terror tunnels and all the rest.
00:42:00.000So what's happening right now is that Palestinians are actually beginning to get aid and it's breaking the Hamas strangleholds over the Palestinian population.
00:42:07.000It's actually creating the possibility of a true Palestinian uprising against Hamas.
00:42:15.000Warehouses storing flour are now being attacked by Palestinians.
00:42:18.000So the Palestinians are now free to actually receive aid without having to worry about Hamas stealing it.
00:42:23.000So what Greta is doing is actually part of a gigantic propaganda effort launched by the exact same pro-Hamas forces that lied earlier this week by claiming that Israel had shot dozens of people at an aid distribution center.
00:42:35.000It was a complete and total lie parroted by the left-wing media.
00:42:53.000So she said, quote, The world cannot be silent bystanders.
00:42:57.000This silence and passivity that we are seeing from most of the world is deadly.
00:43:01.000We are seeing a systematic starvation of two million people.
00:43:05.000Literally, the Israelis have been shipping in trucks filled with aid to the same people who took hundreds of Israelis, hostages, and murdered.
00:43:25.000Again, this is all part of her broader crusade to get herself arrested so she can get attention.
00:43:29.000The same kinds of attention she used to get when she was effectively a child actress.
00:43:33.000But sort of like other child actresses, she can no longer earn a part.
00:43:36.000And so we have now reached the Britney Spears, Katy Perry desperation point of the Greta Thunberg character arc in which she just does increasingly sordid and idiotic stuff in order to get attention.
00:43:46.000So here she was a few months ago just getting herself arrested.
00:44:50.000Why is it we can almost always identify, actually not almost, just literally always, climate change activists as fans of Hamas, one of the least environmentally friendly groups on the planet?
00:45:23.000And whether she is attacking the West by siding with Hamas, or whether she's attacking the West by parroting a bunch of random green environmental nonsense, she's been doing this crap since 2019.
00:45:32.000She released a book in 2019 and somehow incredibly became even more obnoxious.
00:45:37.000At some point, we're going to reach the obnoxiousness singularity.
00:45:39.000With Greta Thunberg, and the world will end.
00:45:42.000She said in 2019, quote, what we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
00:45:49.000It's a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression, genocide, by the so-called global north to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.
00:46:06.000This is a boat full of And that is why they all talk like this at university campuses.
00:46:13.000And this is why the media support them.
00:46:14.000Because this is all part of a broader left-wing rubric that says that capitalism is bad and successful people are exploiters.
00:46:21.000And everybody who is poor and makes bad decisions in life, all those people, all of them, are all exploited by all of those terrible capitalistic Western pigs.
00:46:34.000So, listen, I wish all of these people a pleasant three-hour tour.
00:46:37.000And if they land on the shores of some uncharted desert isle, I hope that they land without the kafiyas so they can see how the Hamas locals treat them without their terror, solidarity, insignias.
00:46:46.000How Westerners are actually treated when they end up among the actual barbarians that they believe they support.
00:46:52.000Meanwhile, again, as I say, this is part of a broader movement that actually is quite dangerous because when the West begins to parrot the absolute lies of terror groups, that has consequences.
00:47:04.000When you continue to say the word genocide, when a genocide no longer and never has applied in this area, then you are fomenting the same language that leads to a raising of the temperature.
00:47:18.000And when you raise the temperature this much, people are going to get violent.
00:47:22.000And this, of course, happened over the course of the weekend in Boulder, Colorado.
00:47:26.000So in Boulder, Colorado, there's a terrorist suspect who, as it turns out, is a radical Islamist.
00:49:35.000I say to my mother, my wife, my children, my brothers, my people, I attest before Allah and before you that Allah, his messenger, and jihad for Allah's sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are.
00:49:53.000I think the funniest thing about the Greta Thunbergs of the world is these people say like everything they believe right out loud, right out loud.
00:50:09.000And yet, we're supposed to believe that actually, this is all because of victimization and the exploitation and colonization and all this kind of trash.
00:50:19.000So, we know exactly who this person is.
00:50:21.000Another failure of our immigration system.
00:50:24.000Remember, it was just last week that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, was before the United States Senate.
00:50:28.000Saying we are going to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests who hate the country.
00:50:33.000And the Democrats are like, no, you can't do that.
00:50:35.000And Rubio's like, ah, the hell I can't.
00:50:38.000The bottom line is if you're coming here to stir up trouble on our campuses, we will deny you a visa.
00:50:43.000And if you have a visa and we find you, we will revoke it.
00:51:37.000Well, now Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security head, she says that the Boulder suspect's family has been detained by Eisenmark for removal, which seems like a pretty good solution.
00:51:46.000Today, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Salman into ICE custody.
00:51:57.000Now, Mohamed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
00:52:02.000But we're also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it or if they provided support to it.
00:52:13.000Okay, now again, when it comes to the immigration policy of the administration, it's totally right.
00:52:16.000But there are two factors that are now happening.
00:52:18.000One is the loose immigration policy of the Biden administration and the Obama administration and other administrations has led to a moment where America is chock-filled with people who hate the country.
00:52:28.000If you want to see the full effects of that, take a look at France, where there are riots in the street constantly by radical Muslims who are just burning stuff all over the place.
00:52:39.000And the Trump administration is doing exactly the right thing in stopping all of that.
00:52:44.000Well, the other thing that's happening is the media's parroting of Hamas propaganda is leading to a radical uptick in left-wing anti-Semitism and left-wing terrorism.
00:52:53.000It is not a coincidence that this sort of thing is happening on the heels of the murder of two people in Washington, D.C., two Jews in Washington, D.C., one of whom was an American citizen.
00:53:07.000Parrot, literally every piece of propaganda.
00:53:08.000Again, the thing that's happening right now in Gaza, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is the distribution of aid designed to get to the people and not to Hamas, is wildly successful.
00:53:31.000They claimed that Israel had opened fire near a Gaza aid distribution center and killed And it was just a lie.
00:53:39.000According to officials from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 31 people were killed and 170 wounded on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians massing near an aid site.
00:53:49.000Now, question, why would Israel possibly do that?
00:53:51.000That'd be the stupidest possible thing they could do, is just start firing indiscriminately at crowds of people gathered to receive aid.
00:53:57.000Legitimately the dumbest thing in history for them to do if they didn't do it, it turns out.
00:54:01.000Israel denied it was behind the attack, and then they released drone footage.
00:54:04.000Of unidentified masked men shooting unarmed civilians near the aid center.
00:54:08.000And they released contemporaneous footage showing that they had nothing to do with any of this kind of stuff.
00:54:14.000The Hamas line was not substantiated, in other words.
00:54:18.000CNN put out a headline immediately, quote, at least 31 Palestinians killed after Israeli forces opened fire near Gaza Aid Distribution Center.
00:54:25.000The BBC went with a similar headline, quote, 31 dead after Israeli forces attack near Gaza Aid Center, says Hamas run health ministry.
00:54:34.000On ABC's Good Morning America, again, they just quoted the Hamas-run health ministry uncritically.
00:54:41.000The Washington Post had to issue a botched retraction.
00:54:46.000They updated their story, changing its headline to read, More than 30 killed by gunfire near a U.S. aid site in Gaza.
00:54:52.000The paper did not add an editor's note explaining why it made wholesale editorial changes to the story.
00:55:10.000Clearly, implicitly, that's what it is.
00:55:16.000And it's being fomented by a media that, again, agrees with the Greta Thunbergs of the world and actually really despises the West in major ways.
00:55:22.000Despises capitalism, is far left, believes that the West bears some sort of blood guilt for its success.
00:55:28.000Caroline Levitt over the White House ripped into the BBC over its report incorrectly.
00:55:33.000The administration is aware of those reports, and we are currently looking into the veracity of them, because unfortunately, unlike some in the media, we don't take the word of Hamas with total truth.
00:55:46.000We like to look into it when they speak, unlike the BBC, who had multiple headlines.
00:55:52.000They wrote, Israeli tank kills 26. Israeli tank kills 21. Israeli gunfire kills 31. Red Cross says 21 people were killed in an aid incident.
00:56:03.000They had to correct and take down their entire story, saying we reviewed the footage and couldn't find any evidence of anything.
00:56:11.000So we're going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium or before we take action.
00:56:16.000And I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the amount of misinformation that's going around the globe on this front.
00:57:05.000We did an entire series last year called The Divided States of Biden, in which one of the episodes we traveled down to the U.S.-Mexico border, it was wide open because of Joe Biden's policy.
00:57:13.000We closed it, and the Washington Post says it's mysterious.
00:57:32.000There is no mystery about why there is a decrease in fentanyl coming into the United States.
00:57:37.000This administration's strong border policies are the reason there has been a decrease in fentanyl trafficking.
00:57:43.000His strengthened relationship with Mexican President Sheinbaum and all of the measures he has been taking to deter illegal human and drug trafficking at our United States southern border is the reason.
00:57:55.000For plummeting fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border.
00:57:58.000There is nothing mysterious about that, and we'd like to see the Washington Post update their headline accordingly.
00:58:03.000This is clearly trying to intentionally manipulate the minds of Americans, and I think the American people understand why there's been a fentanyl drop.
00:58:12.000In our office, responded to this inquiry, we provided a whole host of the reasons that fentanyl seizures at the southern border have dropped and the Washington Post refused to run them, and that's despicable.
00:58:31.000Don't let people who hate the country into the country.
00:58:33.000Arrest people trying to get into the country illegally.
00:58:35.000Maybe keep track of the people who are in the country.
00:58:38.000New ABC News report breaking two Chinese nationals have been charged with allegedly smuggling into the United States a fungus called Fusarium graminarium, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agro-terrorism weapon, according to the DOJ, on Tuesday.
00:58:53.000Apparently, these two characters were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of it at the University of Michigan.
00:59:02.000So they were literally developing a bioweapon, according to the DOJ.
00:59:06.000So what are the Democrats focused laser-like on?
00:59:09.000Not threats foreign and domestic, but on going after the people who stopped the threats foreign and domestic.
00:59:14.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, threatening to reveal the identities of ICE agents.
00:59:23.000ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that.
01:00:26.000Meanwhile, in international news, President Trump is saying the same thing that he's been saying for 10 years and somehow people are surprised.
01:00:31.000So President Trump has been in the midst of these negotiations with Iran via Steve Whitcoff, the special envoy.
01:00:38.000Again, I'm unimpressed, shall we say, with Steve Whitcoff's negotiating acumen thus far.
01:00:44.000But President Trump has now come out and he has said, We will not allow any enrichment of uranium, is what he says on Truth Social.
01:00:53.000He says, under our potential agreement, we will not allow any enrichment of uranium.
01:00:57.000Now, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had also said that.
01:01:01.000But that does apparently contradict a proposal that Witkoff made to Iran on Saturday, the details of which were reported by Axios on Monday.
01:01:10.000Well, if Witkoff is making proposals that are not what the president wants.
01:01:14.000Then he is betraying a fundamental promise made by the President of the United States in both terms.
01:01:19.000President Trump has been very clear on this.
01:01:45.000It's absolute bull and everybody knows it's absolute bull.
01:01:49.000Iran would like an interim deal whereby they have some sanctions removed just to get beyond the period where they can rearm and close the skies.
01:01:57.000The big problem for Iran right now is there's an open window above Iran.
01:02:00.000Israel destroyed a lot of their air defense capacity in the last round of fighting between Iran and Israel.
01:02:05.000And that means that a potential strike on their nuclear facilities is quite real.
01:02:09.000So Iran has been doing a couple of things.
01:02:10.000One is they're apparently digging even deeper.
01:02:27.000Try to simply push the negotiations and push them and push them and push them.
01:02:31.000Apparently, there was a report earlier this week that the Trump administration would propose an arrangement that would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels.
01:02:39.000While the U.S. and other countries work out a more detailed plan intended to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon, but also give it access to fuel for new nuclear power plants.
01:02:56.000Because anything less is the JCPOA, what President Trump labeled the worst deal in American history.
01:03:01.000Anything less is the Barack Obama deal.
01:03:04.000The JCPOA, the Obama deal, allowed Iran to retain all of its centrifuges and enrich uranium to 3.67 percent.
01:03:11.000Any proposal that mirrors anything remotely like that is the Obama-Iran deal.
01:03:16.000It also sunsetted provisions on bomb-making technology so they would have a full-scale nuclear program by 2030.
01:03:24.000It also ignored Iran's missile program, which they have been steadily developing.
01:03:28.000It also allowed them to spend all of the sanction relieved money on as many terror groups as they could, which is how they rebuilt their entire terror network from Hezbollah down to the Houthis in Yemen.
01:03:36.000All the monitoring was being done by inspectors basically selected by the Iranian regime.
01:03:42.000Inspectors from the IAEA were forced to petition Iran's mullahs to visit sensitive sites and then wait over two weeks, which obviously is a way of ensuring that Iran could move around whatever materials they were pushing.
01:03:55.000So again, all of this, all of this cannot be imitated by the Trump administration.
01:03:59.000President Trump Not me, that's President Trump.
01:04:03.000President Trump has said, correctly, that it would be bad for the world for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
01:04:07.000That is the purpose of these negotiations.
01:04:09.000If Iran refuses to negotiate along the lines the United States wants, the United States should simply stand back and say, okay, well, we did what we could.
01:04:18.000And then the Israelis will do what they have to do.
01:04:21.000That is the proper solution if these talks go sideways.
01:04:25.000Now again, the easiest solution, and the probably, Least risky solution if the Iranian talks go sideways, which I assume they will because the Iranian foreign minister keeps tweeting over and over again this morning about how they need their nuclear program.
01:04:42.000If that continues, the easiest solution would just be to fly one sortie over Iran that takes out their nuclear facilities with B2s.
01:04:51.000That would not lead to worldwide conflagration.
01:04:53.000It would not lead to a giant regional war because Iran does not have the resources for that.
01:04:57.000Who exactly would ally with Iran in such a war?
01:05:00.000Russia is a little busy, you may have noticed.
01:05:03.000Russia's had very little interest in defending Iran along any serious lines for the last couple of years, not just because of Ukraine, but because Iran's military is in fact inferior in the region, which is why they've had to use terror proxies.
01:05:15.000But if the United States does not wish to participate in such a strike for whatever reason that I think is baseless, then let the Israelis do it.
01:05:25.000But don't sign a deal just to sign a deal.
01:05:28.000Because that would, in fact, violate the stuff that President Trump has been talking about for years and years and years.
01:05:32.000Speaking of which, the Ukrainians unleashed one of the great military attacks in modern history over the course of the last few days.
01:05:40.000They unleashed them in a surprise attack on Sunday.
01:05:42.000They hit airfields from eastern Siberia all the way to Russia's western border.
01:05:47.000According to the New York Times, they secretly planted a swarm of drones in Russia.
01:05:51.000The assaults had several Russian aircraft on fire, stunned the Kremlin, and dealt a strategic and symbolic blow to Moscow's relentless bombing campaign.
01:05:59.000So, apparently, Russia's defense ministry said on Sunday that Ukrainian drones had attacked airfields in five regions stretching across five time zones.
01:06:07.000Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur.
01:06:11.000Several aircraft caught fire in Murmansk near the border with Norway and also in Irkutsk in eastern Siberia.
01:06:17.000Ukraine said 117 drones were used in the attacks, causing $7 billion in damage.
01:06:22.000The SBU said dozens of aircraft were damaged in the strikes.
01:06:27.000The New York Times verified videos that showed successful strikes at Olenya Air Base in Romansk and Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk.
01:06:33.000The plan was called Operation Spider's Web.
01:06:36.000Drones were planted across Russia near military bases, according to the Ukrainians, and then they were all activated simultaneously.
01:06:46.000And apparently, people who were involved in the attack were withdrawn from Russia before it took place, according to the Ukrainians, and taken to a safer place.
01:07:26.000It means the United States really needs to up our own security because this sort of attack could be carried out by, say, Chinese forces.
01:07:32.000And they're shipping tons of stuff over here all the time.
01:07:35.000And let's just say that our ports are not particularly secure.
01:07:39.000Apparently, there are videos showing drones flying less than four miles from the Olenya airbase.
01:07:43.000The person recording can be heard suggesting the drones had been launched from a truck parked down the road.
01:07:49.000Ukraine said 41 planes had been hit, about one-third of the strategic cruise missile carriers at Russian airbases across three time zones.
01:07:57.000The Times obtained radar imagery from a space imaging company.
01:08:00.000Seven strategic bombers appear to be destroyed, likely four Tupolev Tu-22M and three Tupolev Tu-95 bombers.
01:08:09.000American and European security officials said they estimated as many as 20 Russian strategic aircraft may have been destroyed or severely damaged.
01:08:16.000I mean, you know, points for creativity.
01:08:20.000And one of the goals is demonstrating for the Ukrainians that they are not going to surrender, that they are going to continue to push, and that the best thing that the Russians can do is come to the table, which is, in fact, the proper approach here.
01:08:31.000Vladimir Putin has shown zero, zero compunction about continuing the war so far.
01:08:37.000The Ukrainians are going to have to push him to the table.