Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigns after being accused of anti-Semitism, lying, plagiarism, and a host of other misdeeds. Former President of Harvard University, now the former president, is the shortest-tenured president of Harvard in the university s history, and it goes back several hundred years. Let us all remember just why: because she was a fraud, a crook, a leaker, a plagiarist, a scammer, a fraud who abused her position and got away with it, and now she s leaving Harvard because she s a "martyr" for the leftist agenda she helped advance. The question is, will Americans be satisfied to leave Harvard in place with Deidre Gagon in place? Or will they be left in place in order to join the ranks of those living up to the leftist narrative that Gagon became a martyr because she is a victim of racial and gender privilege? Or is she a victim because she's a grifter who abused DEI, or a martyr who was a victim who was actually a GRIFTER who got screwed over by the DEI contingent? And does that make her a martyr, or is she really a victim? or is it a victim, like Mark Lamont Hill, a grifter who was just as bad as she was supposed to be? Join us in our collective grief at the loss of a good, good, honest, and fair-minded, hard-working woman who stood up for the liberal values and fought for human dignity and human dignity. in the face of racism, sexism, classism and classism and, above all else, a woman who got what she deserved, not just a chance at a second chance at Harvard at least a chance to be a shot at a better life in a better job or not after all, at least a chance for a chance to become a better one at all not a bad one better than the other maybe . more less than a martyr of a better than she deserved but not a better ? more than that , right? less so what? more ? is enough let s right should she get her shot at that at it at the job at all? and
00:00:11.000Lest we forget, here is the president of Harvard University, now the former president, unable to say that calls for genocide against Jews on campus violate the college's policies on free speech.
00:00:22.000And Dr. Gay, at Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment, yes or no?
00:01:06.000Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.
00:01:18.000So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct, correct?
00:01:31.000The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
00:01:35.000These are unacceptable answers across the board.
00:01:38.000Gay made those statements after issuing a weak statement complaining about death and destruction unleashed on October 7th in Israel without any reference to Hamas.
00:01:45.000Harvard students testified about their feelings of unease on campus.
00:01:50.000Unease underscored by actual attempted violence against some pro-Israel students, allegedly including by members of the Harvard Law Review.
00:01:56.000After that insane exchange with Stefanik, after all Harvard isn't exactly a hotbed of free speech, being one of the most restrictive campuses in America on a wide variety of hot-button topics, Clouding Gay came under even more fire.
00:02:07.000The Washington Free Beacon did Pulitzer-level work in uncovering her academic charlatanism.
00:02:12.000By mid-December, the Free Beacon had uncovered dozens of allegations of her plagiarism.
00:02:17.000Then, on Monday night, the Free Beacon revealed even more examples of plagiarism.
00:02:21.000What Harvard euphemistically termed, quote, duplicative language without proper attribution.
00:02:26.000And duplicative language without proper attribution is called plagiarism.
00:02:35.000She, of course, was the poster child for their core philosophy, diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, which suggests that all inequality of group outcome is due to some sort of discrimination in the system that can only be corrected for by forms of actual discrimination in practice.
00:02:50.000To allow that Cloudy and Gay should never have gotten the position she was in, that her academic record was scanty, that she had involved herself in no original groundbreaking work, heavy emphasis on the word original there, would have been to admit that she actually got the job because she was a black female.
00:03:04.000And so the leftist powers that Bee had to maintain that she actually deserved the job.
00:03:07.000The head of the NAACP said that those who wanted Gay to go were engaging in quote, nothing more than theatrics, advancing a white supremacist agenda.
00:03:15.000Dozens of black Harvard faculty members wrote an open letter proclaiming, quote,
00:03:18.000any suggestion that her selection as president was the result of a process that elevated an
00:03:22.000unqualified person based on considerations of race and gender are specious and politically
00:03:27.000motivated. But of course, that is why she had the job, her race and her gender.
00:03:34.000She had the right intersectional qualities to maintain her job.
00:03:37.000She wasn't a black male with heterodox leanings like Roland Fryer, the economist who had debunked notions of disproportionate anti-black police shootings and then got ousted from Harvard over a bunch of specious allegations of sexual harassment.
00:03:49.000She wasn't a Jewish male like Larry Summers, former president, who was ousted after pointing out that the lack of women in STEM fields might have something to do with both skills distribution and desire to enter the STEM world by women.
00:04:00.000Clouding Gay was a far-left black woman, and her immunity was absolute.
00:04:16.000In order to leave DEI in place, the left requires a narrative.
00:04:20.000A narrative that Gay was actually a martyr because either she was a grifter who abused DEI, or she was a martyr, or DEI is itself a grift.
00:04:30.000The left can't call her a grifter because that might open the door on all the other grifters who are members of the DEI contingent.
00:04:36.000Predictably, those race grifters are therefore calling her a martyr today.
00:04:39.000So Mark Lamont Hill, who makes an entire living suggesting that virtually all inequality in American life is the result of inequity, He immediately tweeted, the next president of Harvard University must be a black woman.
00:05:01.000Or, for example, Nicole Hannah-Jones, who's made an entire living off of being an absolutely unqualified hack historian, terrible at her job, hasn't written anything for the New York Times in a couple of years, I believe, keeps getting offered professorial positions despite her complete botchery of American history.
00:05:16.000She tweeted out, well, they got what they wanted from their well-executed plan.
00:05:23.000They, of course, presumably being the white superstructure of power in America.
00:05:28.000Or, for example, Cornel West, who was such a lackluster academic when he was at Harvard University that he was ousted for never having written anything.
00:05:37.000He literally had released a rap album and no papers, and so they got rid of him.
00:05:43.000And then he ended up at Princeton, because this is the way that it works.
00:05:46.000If you have the right intersectional qualifications in American academic life, you fail upwards.
00:05:50.000Cornel West tweeted out, how sad, but predictable, that the same figures and forces enabling the ethnic cleansing and genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, Ackman, Bloom, Summers, and others, push out the first black woman president of Harvard.
00:06:03.000Ah, you see, it's all the Jewish conspiracy to get rid of Cloudian Gay.
00:06:05.000This rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Racism against both Palestinians and black people is undeniable and despicable.
00:06:15.000So Cloudy and Gay goes, and that's racism against...
00:06:19.000I have experienced similar attacks from the same forces in academia, with too many of my colleagues remaining silent.
00:06:24.000When big money dictates university policy and raw power dictates foreign policy, the moral bankruptcy of American education and democracy looms large.
00:06:31.000But we shall remain strong in our fight for truth, justice, loves, as Cornel West, who's been spending his days standing up for Hamas, who love neither truth, nor justice, nor love.
00:06:42.000Oh, you mean because Chris Ruffo reported that she was a plagiarist?
00:06:54.000I'm sorry that journalisming happened to you.
00:06:56.000That's a sad one, that journalisming happened to you.
00:07:00.000Meanwhile, Ibram X. Kendi tweeted out repeatedly on the matter.
00:07:04.000He suggested, quote, Now, I mean, what's weird about this is that Liz McGill, who is the president of Penn, is no longer the president of Penn, and she's a white lady.
00:07:10.000And she was ousted without any allegations of plagiarism because she made the comments that she made in front of Elise Stefanik over at University of Pennsylvania.
00:07:15.000because the person is black. Now, I mean, what's weird about this is that Liz McGill,
00:07:19.000who is the president of Penn, is no longer the president of Penn, and she's a white lady.
00:07:23.000And she was ousted without any allegations of plagiarism because she made the comments that
00:07:28.000she made in front of Elise Stefanik over at University of Pennsylvania. Also, this is not
00:07:32.000the first president of a major university to be ousted over research misconduct.
00:07:37.000Mark Tessier-Levine of Stanford had to resign over research misconduct.
00:07:44.000But Ibram X. Kendi says that, effectively speaking, anytime a black person is called to account for their own sins, which is what happened with Cloudy and Gay, that is an aspect of racism.
00:07:56.000And all the rest of it is basically just for show.
00:08:00.000Abram X. Kendi, who is indeed the DEI grifter par excellence, a person who cannot define the term racism without reference to the word racism.
00:08:09.000He literally defines the term racism as racism is a series of racist policies in pursuit of a racist ideology, which is the most circular definition you could possibly imagine.
00:08:18.000Abram X. Kendi has cleared tens of millions of dollars for being a terrible scholar who lies about America and American history.
00:08:26.000Ibram X. Kendi responded to a tweet from someone saying, quote, we are returning to a colorblind performance-based
00:08:33.000society where we judge people by their character, effort, and achievements.
00:08:36.000And Ibram X. Kendi says, this is the propaganda of history to use WEB, DuBois' term, that they want people to believe
00:08:43.000that we should return to the colorblind performance-based society of mass incarceration, of Jim Crow, of
00:08:47.000concentration camps, of lynchings, of slavery, of settler colonialism.
00:08:55.000The choices were keep Clouding Gay or you're in favor of mass incarceration, Jim Crow, concentration camps, lynchings, slavery, and settler colonialism.
00:09:04.000According to Ibram X. Kendi, again, the reason they are all standing up for Clouding Gay is because once the grift is exposed, it can no longer be used.
00:09:10.000And they require the grift to be used.
00:09:14.000They, of course, are the beneficiaries of the grift.
00:09:17.000This is why all the grifters are out of the woodwork on this one.
00:09:19.000It's why Al Sharpton is out there making his usual grifty statements.
00:09:23.000Al Sharpton, who spent his entire adult life lying about America.
00:09:26.000And by the way, overtly lying about situations including Tawana Browley.
00:09:32.000It's helping to incite riots in New York.
00:09:34.000I mean, that guy who has a show on MSNBC specifically because he is a quote-unquote black leader, though what flock he leads is up to anybody to discover.
00:09:42.000He says, quote, President Gay's resignation is about more than a person or a single incident.
00:09:47.000This is an attack on every black woman in this country who's put a crack in the glass ceiling.
00:09:53.000So question for the black women in the country.
00:09:57.000Why exactly would her being ousted for being a bad president who shields anti-Semitism on her campus and also a plagiarist, why would that have any impact on you?
00:11:09.000Objective standards are in and of themselves racist.
00:11:12.000That is the case that is being made by the DEI grifters.
00:11:17.000And by the way, the DEI grifters exist across methods of American media, like they are everywhere.
00:11:23.000This is true, certainly, in the legacy media.
00:11:25.000I'm going to bring you the AP's headline on this in just a second because it truly is an astonishing example of just how terrible our supposed journalistic outlets are.
00:11:32.000First, the holidays have come and gone.
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00:12:33.000Okay, so how much has ZEI warmed its way into every nook and cranny of American society?
00:12:39.000So much so that here was the headline from the Associated Press.
00:12:42.000Quote, Harvard's president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges, plagiarism.
00:12:50.000Yeah, that's the new weapon, is plagiarism.
00:12:52.000Now, you might say to yourself, wait, isn't plagiarism just an objective standard?
00:12:55.000Like, if I lift entire paragraphs, as Cloudy and Gay apparently did, from somebody's work, and unattributed put it into my own work, wouldn't that get me kicked out of, like, any school in America?
00:13:05.000But the rule here, when it comes to DEI and equity, is that objective standards are themselves racist if the outcome of the objective standard is racially unequal.
00:13:16.000Any objective standard, if the outcome is racially unequal, the standard itself is racist and bad and quote-unquote weaponized by conservatives.
00:13:23.000This is the case that's been made against the SATs, against the ACTs, against any merit-based hiring program.
00:13:40.000So Chris Rufo, who is a friend of the show, obviously a conservative activist, and he helped orchestrate this effort and helped uncover the plagiarism.
00:13:50.000On X, he wrote, scalped, quote, as if gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.
00:14:01.000Scalped is a term that has been in frequent use on the internet for literally the entirety of the internet.
00:14:08.000Nobody is invoking the idea that Chris Rufo is standing over Clouding Gay with a hatchet.
00:14:14.000Also, by the way, scalping not unique to white Americans against Native Americans.
00:14:38.000Quote, Dear members of the Harvard community, it is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president.
00:14:46.000This is not a decision I came to easily indeed.
00:14:48.000It has been difficult beyond words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that has propelled this great university across centuries.
00:14:56.000But after consultation with members of the corporation, it has become clear it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual.
00:15:08.000My deep sense of connection to Harvard and its people has made it all the more painful to witness the tensions and divisions that have riven our community in recent months, weakening the bonds of trust and reciprocity that should be our sources of strength and support in times of crisis.
00:15:20.000Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor, two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am.
00:15:48.000By the way, she's not actually leaving the university.
00:15:50.000She's still gonna be making, apparently, $900,000 a year at Harvard University as a professor.
00:15:57.000She concludes, when I became president, I considered myself particularly blessed by the opportunity to serve people from around the world who saw in my presidency a vision of Harvard that affirmed their sense of belonging.
00:16:19.000Meanwhile, Harvard Corporation also issued a statement quasi-defending Cloudy and Gay, quote, With great sadness, we write in light of President Clouden Gay's message announcing her intention to step down from the presidency and resume her faculty position at Harvard.
00:16:31.000First and foremost, we thank President Gay for her deep and unwavering commitment to Harvard and the pursuit of academic excellence through plagiarism.
00:16:38.000Throughout her long and distinguished leadership as Dean of Social Science and then as Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where she skillfully led the FAS through the COVID-19 pandemic and pursued ambitious new academic initiatives in areas such as quantum science and inequality, she demonstrated the insight, decisiveness, and empathy that all that are her Hallmark.
00:17:00.000While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them, it is also true she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks.
00:17:08.000While some of this has played out in the public domain, much of it has taken the form of repugnant and in some cases racist vitriol directed at her through disgraceful emails and phone calls.
00:17:16.000We condemn such attacks in the strongest possible terms.
00:17:35.000Those people are bad and they shouldn't send you racist emails.
00:17:38.000Also, you're a terrible president who refuses to defend your students so long as they violate intersectional tenets, and you're a plagiarist.
00:17:46.000They say the search for a new president of the university will begin in due course.
00:17:49.000Apparently, the interim president will be a person named Garber, who is the provost of the school.
00:17:57.000That person also shares the DEI mission.
00:18:00.000So I'm sure it will be similarly terrible.
00:18:01.000Honestly, I was kind of happy that Clouding Gay was remaining there, specifically because it is a mask for the retention of DEI to get rid of a few heads of DEI.
00:18:10.000You get rid of Elizabeth McGillipan, that doesn't solve the DEI problem.
00:18:13.000You get rid of Clouding Gay, that doesn't solve the DEI problem.
00:18:16.000In order to solve the DEI problem, you actually have to take on the ideology of DEI.
00:18:20.000But that ideology is incredibly deeply embedded across our society.
00:18:24.000From everything important to frivolous.
00:18:27.000From administration, White House policy, all the way down to entertainment.
00:18:32.000That the best way for America to run is on the basis of group identity to establish intersectional outcomes that are equivalent regardless of individual personal action.
00:18:44.000It has wormed our way throughout the society and that needs to be extirpated everywhere.
00:18:48.000It needs to be cut out like a cancer because it is a cancer.
00:18:51.000ideology is a cancer that destroys institutions, destroys trust, and destroys the country.
00:18:55.000It's destroyed Harvard, my alma mater.
00:18:58.000In a second, we'll see how it's having an impact on the Biden administration.
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00:20:03.000Okay, so the problem with equity is not just that it is the driving factor, the DEI factor.
00:20:09.000It's not just at universities or in the media.
00:20:11.000It is also, of course, In the Biden White House.
00:20:14.000And this was the promise that Joe Biden made on coming to the White House, which was a different promise than what he made during the campaign.
00:20:19.000During the campaign, he said that he was going to be a moderate who governed for all Americans and upon entering immediately, he started talking about how equity would be at the center of everything they do.
00:20:28.000But again, equity and equality, not remotely the same thing.
00:20:32.000That everyone ought to be treated equally.
00:20:34.000That is not the same thing as everyone ought to have an equal outcome, which is what equity is all about.
00:20:38.000Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre, who herself is a DEI product.
00:20:40.000She's terrible at her job, but she was appointed for her diversity quotient.
00:20:44.000Here she is, the press secretary, suggesting that equity is, again, at the center of everything Joe Biden does.
00:20:50.000The president has always, always put equity at the center of every policy he's put forward, every legislation that he's put forward, because we understand that many communities have been left behind, have been left behind.
00:21:03.000We're not trying to do the trickle-down economics.
00:21:09.000Every Biden policy is geared toward this idea of equal outcome, and they will run roughshod over institutions, roughshod over the law in order to get there.
00:21:18.000That's why Karine Jean-Pierre, in the same interview, she's talking about how Joe Biden unilaterally took action on student loans, illegally.
00:21:24.000Because again, the idea was that equity had to be established.
00:21:28.000There is an issue with young voters and I want to make sure, because they have heard from you that essentially this is something the president has tried to do and do you think that over time they start to feel like trying isn't enough?
00:21:41.000No, but what I was going to say, what I was going to finish in saying is that the President, even though his plan was stopped, he was able to take action.
00:21:49.000And we were able to get rid of about $130 billion of debt.
00:21:56.000More than that, for millions and millions of folks across the country.
00:22:09.000Equity suggests, of course, that you don't actually have to work through democratic means of politics because those are all obstructionists.
00:22:14.000All those institutions obstruct equity.
00:22:17.000If you have to run right over them in pursuit of equality of outcome, you do it.
00:22:21.000And this has particular ramifications for the American border.
00:22:24.000So one of the big political conundrums that we are experiencing right now in the country is that the border is wide open.
00:23:09.000The Biden administration could today sign a bill, make a deal with Republicans in Congress and sign a bill that would get them the Ukraine aid that they want and that Ukraine does in fact need.
00:23:20.000Get the aid to Israel that Israel requires in order to pursue its war with Hamas and possibly a war with Hezbollah in its north.
00:23:26.000Give arms protection to Taiwan and also solidify the border.
00:23:30.000And Joe Biden would be able, on a political level, to go back to his left and say, listen, you guys wanted the Ukraine aid?
00:23:34.000I couldn't get that without solidifying the border.
00:23:36.000And then he could go to moderates in America and say, guys, you wanted me to do something about the border?
00:23:40.000I did something about the border, but Joe Biden won't do it.
00:23:44.000Joe Biden continues to maintain an open border position, then gaslight the American people by saying that the border is in fact being taken care of.
00:23:53.000I mean, here's Karine Jean-Pierre doing this yesterday, suggesting that Joe Biden took the border crisis seriously from day one, which, of course, is a lie.
00:24:00.000Now we are having, we believe, a very productive conversation in Congress with Senators on how do we move forward in a bipartisan agreement to deal with the border security.
00:24:13.000Now, what we hope is that when Congress gets back, we'll be able to act and get these things moving forward so we can deal with this issue.
00:24:21.000We've been in touch with some of those mayors that you talked about, governors in northern part of the country on dealing with the issue that they're dealing with on the ground.
00:24:30.000And we have provided resources to them and we're going to continue to have those conversations.
00:25:03.000You believe they're gonna bring a bunch of people in who are undereducated, who don't have qualifications for high-level jobs, who will end up being on welfare once they are, in fact, given legal status by a Democratic administration, and then who will gratefully vote Democrat for the rest of time.
00:25:15.000Look at the California model, and they believe that they can broadly apply that across the country.
00:25:20.000It's a cynical reason, but maybe that's the reason.
00:25:22.000Or maybe there's a cynical economic reason, which is that the Democratic Party, having facilitated policy that stagnates the economy, requires a cheap supply of labor from south of the border in order to keep that economy humming.
00:25:36.000Or maybe there's something even more deeply ideological here, which is the equity argument, which is effectively that America is an unjust, terrible force in the world, and that the only way to pay for its sins is to keep that border wide open.
00:25:49.000Whatever it is, the equity orientation of this administration is leading to some pretty horrific policy.
00:25:55.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration has now asked the Supreme Court to allow the Border Patrol to cut Texas's razor wire.
00:26:02.000So Texas has put up a bunch of razor wire on the border to try and stop people from simply crossing in areas where there is no border crossing.
00:26:08.000And Joe Biden wants the Border Patrol to cut the border wire.
00:26:13.000What would the possible rationale for that be?
00:26:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate federal authority over the international boundary between Mexico and Texas, after state officials won a lower court order blocking the U.S.
00:26:25.000Border Patrol from removing concertina wire Texas officers had installed to deter migrants from crossing a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande.
00:26:32.000The move represents yet another volley in the increasing conflict between Texas and the federal government over border enforcement.
00:26:37.000State troopers and National Guardsmen deployed by the state laid miles of razor wire as part of the state's Operation Lone Star border security effort.
00:26:44.000The operation has spent or allocated more than $11 billion since 2021.
00:26:49.000They've sought to challenge the federal government's sole authority over international borders.
00:26:52.000And now, the Biden administration is literally suing Texas to stop them from putting obstructions on the border to stop illegal immigration.
00:27:10.000So, we won't enforce the immigration laws, and if you do, we will go to court to stop you from enforcing the immigration laws.
00:27:16.000Meanwhile, Kareen Jean-Pierre is out there claiming that it's shameful that migrants are being bused to sanctuary cities, so as long as they are being imported into small towns in Texas and Arizona and New Mexico, it's totally fine.
00:27:26.000The minute you send them to Chicago or New York, that's when all hell breaks loose, according to Kareen Jean-Pierre, morally speaking.
00:27:32.000The busing of migrants, the putting them on flights, it is shameful that that is occurring.
00:27:37.000And instead of, if the governor really truly wants to deal with this issue, he should talk to the senators in his state.
00:27:50.000So the Migration Policy Institute has a good rundown on exactly what Joe Biden has changed in terms of policy since taking office.
00:27:56.000This is just in the first couple of years of his administration.
00:27:59.000According to them, from January 20th, 2021 to January 19th, 2023, the first couple of years of his administration, the Biden administration took 403 immigration-related actions according to Migration Policy Institute, as opposed to 470 the entire presidency of Donald Trump.
00:28:14.000Joe Biden himself changed DHS policy, that's Department of Homeland Security's policy, to target only recent border crossers and migrants who present national security threats within the country.
00:28:24.000ICE conducted just 72,100 removals in fiscal year 2022, compared with 233,000 average annual removals under Trump, and by the way, 344,000 annual removals under Obama.
00:28:36.000So Biden is leagues more open on the border than Barack Obama ever was, like by far.
00:28:41.000According to the Migration Policy Institute, just 28,200 non-citizens in fiscal year 2022 were removed from the interior after initially being arrested by ICE.
00:28:50.000The remainder were border arrivals initially processed by Border Protection, by Border Patrol.
00:28:54.000In comparison, an average of 81,000 annual interior removals occurred during the Trump administration and 155,000 per year under Barack Obama.
00:29:03.000ICE also detained an average of nearly 22,600 people daily in fiscal year 2022.
00:29:08.000That is down from a high of 50,000 in fiscal year 2019, so less than half.
00:29:13.000They recorded nearly 307,000 total bookends, of which 250,000 came from the border.
00:29:18.000The Biden administration has dramatically increased the use of ICE alternatives to detention programs, which track non-citizens through smartphone apps or ankle monitors, Well, their immigration case proceeds.
00:29:29.000So that's where you're hearing about the Biden administration giving people phones?
00:29:58.000I mean, just to break that down one more time for you, that means that in the year 2022, ICE had 320,000 people enrolled in those alternatives to deportation.
00:30:09.000That is up a factor of 15 times over that number from 2014.
00:30:16.000Their non-detained docket ballooned to 4.7 million cases in fiscal year 2022.
00:30:22.000And of course, the Biden administration also designated new countries for temporary protected status.
00:30:26.000That includes Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Myanmar.
00:30:30.000Ukraine, Venezuela, and they re-designated another six countries, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, which means that Biden made an additional 712,000 immigrants already in the United States eligible for TPS.
00:30:42.000You wonder why people think the border is open?
00:30:44.000It's because Joe Biden basically says, if you get here and you claim refugee status, we give you a court date, we release you to the interior, and we never see you again.
00:30:50.000And he's perfectly fine with that so long as you don't get shipped over to Chicago or over to New York.
00:31:02.000And again, what's amazing about all of this is they are so attached to this particular equity position.
00:31:07.000They're even willing to destroy their support for Ukraine aid over it.
00:31:11.000So Senator Chris Van Hollen, who is the Senator Democrat from Maryland, he says that it's been really harmful to tie Ukraine aid to border security.
00:31:26.000The talks have been ongoing with respect to border security, something President Biden has pushed for for a long time, as well as immigration reform issues.
00:31:37.000But linking these two issues, providing Ukrainians the help they need against Putin and the border security issues, I fear, is going to mean that we don't get the Ukrainians the equipment they need No, you're not.
00:32:03.000If you did, you would just give border security.
00:32:10.000I believe that the United States should help provide the support for Ukraine necessary to repel a second wave Russian invasion.
00:32:17.000So where exactly is the conflict other than you are so connected to this ideology that you cannot let go of it no matter what you do?
00:32:24.000You just refuse to let go of that equity ideology over at the Biden White House.
00:32:29.000And that's a disaster area for the country.
00:32:31.000Again, it is rooted in an intersectional view of politics that was built under the Obama administration, that basically America could be broken down between white oppressors, the white oppressive class that had built all the institutions of the country, and the marginalized people who would unite to overthrow that particular institution by electing people like Barack Obama.
00:32:47.000The Democratic Party has been enthralled to that dumb idea for quite a while, not recognizing it can't be replicated by anyone who's not named Barack Obama.
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00:35:09.000It is, in fact, the motivating factor behind so much of the entertainment world.
00:35:15.000A couple months ago, South Park did an episode in which they talked about the complete destruction of the Star Wars universe at the hands of Kathleen Kennedy, who's just been awful.
00:35:22.000I'm a huge Star Wars fan, like the original series, and even the prequel series, which has grown on me over time, especially in comparison to the garbage that has been churned out by Disney.
00:35:31.000Now, Disney's done a couple of things that are right.
00:35:33.000Like, the stuff that Dave Filoni is doing over there, that's good stuff.
00:35:36.000Star Wars Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels is stuff my kids typically like.
00:35:40.000You know, they make a couple of decent Rogue One is good, but Kathleen Kennedy overall has just destroyed the series,
00:36:12.000Uh, yes, Mrs. Kennedy, uh, some of the execs are just expressing that maybe... Well, that maybe we should go a different route than we did with Indiana Jones.
00:36:49.000Well, she's mostly famous for having made a couple of non-fiction documentaries That won Oscars about feminism and anti-feminism in Pakistan.
00:37:00.000Which, that's fine, but what does that have to do with Star Wars?
00:37:05.000What makes you think that you can transition from making a terrific documentary about, say, honor killings in Pakistan, to now you're in charge of the Star Wars universe?
00:37:16.000Well, she then was a director, one of the directors, on Ms.
00:37:21.000Marvel, the 2022 series from Disney+, that literally no one watched, and that no one wanted to watch, and that no one cared about, because it looked not good.
00:37:30.000And they've decided to put her in charge of the next Star Wars movie, which we'll focus in, on Rey.
00:37:37.000She's the star of the last Star Wars trilogy, in which they killed off all the characters you love in favor of characters that no one gave any hoots about whatsoever.
00:37:46.000No one has said the name Poe Dameron in years, because no one cares.
00:37:51.000No one cares about Finn, and barely anyone cares about Rey.
00:37:54.000So, they got rid of all your old favorites.
00:37:57.000They killed off Han, uselessly and stupidly.
00:37:59.000And then they killed off Luke, uselessly and stupidly.
00:38:07.000And then they added beloved characters like Rose, an awful character who annoyed everyone so much so that they literally wrote her out of the third movie, The Rise of Skywalker.
00:38:15.000The failure of Kathleen Kennedy's trilogy has been so dramatic that there's been like a whole new revisionist history set up where Last Jedi is a good movie when everyone knows that Last Jedi is absolute trash from Rian Johnson.
00:38:28.000Just an absolute scrap heap of garbage is the Last Trilogy under Kathleen Kennedy.
00:38:33.000So instead of shifting focus, And again, why don't you just hand the next movie to Dave Filoni?
00:38:37.000Dave Filoni actually likes the series.
00:38:39.000Dave Filoni actually, you know, likes the characters.
00:38:42.000Dave Filoni actually understands what he is doing in the Star Wars universe and what the universe is all about.
00:38:46.000Instead, Kathleen Kennedy has hired this person, who also happens to be not just a documentary filmmaker about the oppression of women in Pakistan.
00:38:54.000Also, she was the first artist to co-chair the World Economic Forum in 2017.
00:39:00.000Well, I mean, those seem like great qualifications for a piece of high-octane adventure fantasy sci-fi entertainment.
00:39:10.000Well, so they asked her about the new movie that's starring Rey, apparently 15 years after the end of Rise of Skywalker, and here's what she had to say.
00:39:21.000So the first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film.
00:40:01.000She's garbage at her job, and in any fair universe, she would have been fired.
00:40:04.000But she's unfireable, because she's a woman.
00:40:06.000Also, the minute someone talks about historic IP, and the first thing they say is, well, we're in 2024, now you know the next thing out of their mouth is going to be the stupidest crap you've ever heard in your entire life.
00:40:16.000Whether it's Rachel Zegler talking about, it's 2024 now, we don't need a woman waiting to be saved by a man, it's a feminist diet.
00:40:24.000By the way, DailyWire, yes, we here at DailyWire will take full credit for Disney having to completely reshoot Snow White because we pointed out that not only that Rachel Zegler was saying this stuff, but then we actually committed to making a rival Snow White film.
00:40:34.000So in an attempt to head us off, a tiny company, by Disney's lights, Disney had to reshoot the entire film.
00:40:40.000Well, they're going to have to reshoot the entire Star Wars universe, probably.
00:40:43.000Because, again, I don't know how you blow IP this way, but again, equity is the only thing that matters.
00:41:12.000The world can be changed by entertainment.
00:41:14.000And this is why you hire directors who have no history of directing anything good in the sphere, and then decide that the way that you're going to do this is by putting them in charge of the single most lucrative IP in probably all of human history.
00:42:02.000And then Hezbollah is located in Israel's north.
00:42:05.000About 200,000 missiles pointed at Israel.
00:42:07.000About 50,000 of them are smart weapons capable of actual targeting technology.
00:42:11.000Much more sophisticated, much more dangerous than Hamas to Israel.
00:42:15.000Hezbollah has been basically prodding Israel at the northern border.
00:42:19.000They've killed a bunch of people at the northern border.
00:42:20.000Many of the Hezbollah terrorists have been killed at the northern border.
00:42:24.000Israel has evacuated, for literally months at this point, some 30,000 to 40,000 of its own people away from that northern border in expectation of a possible Hezbollah attack.
00:42:33.000So, Hezbollah was apparently housing some of the Hamas leadership.
00:42:36.000According to the Times of Israel, Hamas' deputy leader abroad named Salah al-Aruri, wanted for years by Israel and seen as the group's primary orchestrator of West Bank terrorism, was killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyya, according to officials with Hamas and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
00:42:52.000Israeli officials declined to comment.
00:42:59.000Zero civilians were killed in this particular targeted strike.
00:43:04.000Based in Lebanon, Aruri was one of the founders of Hamas's military wing, deputy head of the terror group's political bureau, and considered the de facto leader of Hamas's military wing in the West Bank.
00:43:13.000Which, by the way, not only threatens Israel, but also threatens the vaunted and much lied-about Palestinian Authority, which is in fact also a terrorist group, just not quite as crazy a terrorist group as Hamas.
00:43:23.000Hezbollah, for its part, Is now vowing revenge for the Hamas chief being killed in Beirut, which again is weird.
00:43:27.000Hamas is a different and distinct terrorist group from Hezbollah.
00:43:30.000Now Hezbollah is remarking that it wants revenge on Israel for having killed a Hamas terrorist.
00:43:35.000The possibility of Hamas going hot with Israel, obviously dramatically higher than it was.
00:43:41.000And meanwhile, the West is saying to Israel, you gotta avoid the escalation, particularly in Lebanon.
00:43:45.000Okay, well, here is a good way of doing that.
00:43:46.000What if the West just said to the Lebanese government, which is in fact distinct from, but heavily influenced by Hezbollah, move Hezbollah off the border.
00:43:56.000They're in violation of UN resolution, by the way.
00:43:58.000For those of you who pretend to care about the United Nations, there is a UN resolution that prevents Hezbollah from militarizing the northern border of Israel.
00:44:05.000So they're in violation of international law, if that's a thing that you care about or pretend to care about.
00:44:10.000And yet the international communities like Israel really should use restraint with this terrorist group that is threatening to eviscerate not only thousands, but tens of thousands of Israelis on day one.
00:44:20.000French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Israel to avoid escalation, particularly in Lebanon, following that strike.
00:44:26.000Macron said, and he was speaking, by the way, not to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, but to War Cabinet member Benny Gantz, who served the Prime Minister in waiting.
00:44:34.000He said it's essential to avoid any escalatory attitude, particularly in Lebanon.
00:44:44.000Meanwhile, morons like Bernie Sanders continue to call for an end to aid packages to Israel, even as Israel is engaged in an existential fight against Hamas terrorists who murdered 1,200 people and took another 240 captive.
00:44:56.000There are still dozens of hostages being held in Gaza.
00:45:00.000Hamas could end this war literally on a moment's notice.
00:45:02.000All they have to do is surrender, and probably they'd be allowed to go into exile.
00:45:06.000Surrender, go into exile, and give up the hostages.
00:45:20.000funding for Netanyahu's illegal, immoral, brutal, and grossly disproportionate war against the Palestinian people.
00:45:25.000Again, he's using the word disproportionate incorrectly here.
00:45:29.000Proportion has nothing to do with the number of people killed on your side versus the number of people killed on the other side.
00:45:33.000The proportion is whether you are killing the minimal number of people necessary to achieve your military objective.
00:45:38.000And the answer for Israel is yes, because Hamas has embedded 30,000 to 40,000 terrorists in the middle of civilian populations and continue to fire rockets on Israel even now, months later.
00:45:50.000Also, I love that he says that it's Netanyahu's war.
00:45:55.000If Netanyahu were ousted tomorrow, the war cabinet might be more right-wing.
00:45:58.000Netanyahu is actually an incrementalist.
00:46:00.000The big critique in Israel right now against Netanyahu is actually from the right.
00:46:03.000People saying that Netanyahu isn't doing enough.
00:46:07.000Galant, Yav Galanti, who's the defense minister in Israel, wanted Netanyahu to swivel up north and hit Hezbollah first, and Netanyahu turned him down.
00:46:14.000Netanyahu is actually the moderate force in the war cabinet by many of the reports.
00:46:19.000But Bernie wants no aid to Israel, of course.
00:46:24.000In the name of global equity, naturally.
00:46:27.000So, you know, the usual from Bernie Sanders and company.
00:46:30.000Meanwhile, it is amazing how times change.
00:46:32.000Over in Israel, it's worth noting that the Supreme Court of Israel, which is in fact a tyrannical body, They literally appoint their own successors, the Supreme Court, over in Israel, and there are no limits as to what they declare their own discretion to be.
00:46:43.000They struck down a law that was passed by the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.
00:46:47.000It was passed by a fairly narrow margin in the last Knesset session before the war, and it basically said that the Supreme Court of Israel could not simply, on quote-unquote reasonableness grounds, strike down rulings from the executive or from the legislative branch.
00:47:00.000They couldn't simply just say, we don't like what you did, so we're striking it down.
00:47:03.000The Supreme Court then overruled that law.
00:47:05.000On the grounds that it violated basic law.
00:47:08.000There's no legal precedent for anything like what the Supreme Court is doing.
00:47:11.000But it just goes to show you that's been a sideshow on Israel.
00:47:14.000Because, as always, and this is something we should remember here in the United States, as always, the social cohesion of a nation is significantly more important than the actual governmental workings of the nation.
00:47:27.000A dysfunctional government, but high levels of social cohesion and community, that can continue to work.
00:47:32.000A dysfunctional government and a dysfunctional community, that is almost impossible to work.
00:47:37.000And that's what the United States is facing increasingly right now, which is why it's important to mention that the United States has just crossed 32 trillion dollars in national debt, which is an insane amount of money that has now been spent.
00:47:53.000According to Fox Business, the national debt hit $34 trillion.
00:47:56.000Of course, four decades ago, the national debt was about $907 billion.
00:48:11.000It is exacerbated divisions rather than papering them over.
00:48:15.000And by the way, that doesn't include unfunded liabilities.
00:48:17.000You include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all the rest, you're talking about probably a hundred trillion dollars of national debt here in the United States.
00:48:25.000All of which is a bill that will eventually come due.